skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually a very American misconception of public transportation. If you're in an area with excellent public tranportation (London, Barcelona, Montreal), it's actually much faster (I've traveled to these places and tried it).

Even in SF, there's some places where public transportation is faster. But in very very limited situations because SF transportation is horrible. But an express Caltrain is often much faster than driving MTV-SF if there's any traffic. With all the (super delayed unfortunately) infrastructure projects going on (new SF subway being installed, Caltrain electrification), things will hopefully get better...
The map is made with www.carto.com, a pretty sweet mapping solution!
I’m not sure you can lump all of IH together into one big undesirable thing. All platforms have bad apples but there’s plenty of good information if you look closely.
Rental housing has price floor that distorts the market. Once a property diverges from the requirements of housing subsidy programs, it usually gets abandoned.

In most places new supply is high end and is making more housing available for people who don’t lack access.
Even in a software dev environment where you'd think this would be common sense, I get a lot of over optimism.
Not the judge being personally biased, per se, but in a frivolous lawsuit the defendant is made a victim of otherwise unnecessary legal fees and process, which is a bias in the system. It seems more fair that in a case where there's a high chance the lawsuit is frivolous and the plaintiff party can reasonably part with the money for a time, putting in a provision like this helps even things a bit.
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I tried out a relative's Subaru on a 6h drive over the holidays. I really liked the adaptive cruise control for following behind folks who were not keeping a consistent speed. I just set it to a reasonable value at the maximum following distance and stopped worrying about my speedometer.

However, at one point the guy in front of me turned off onto a small side road. It was at night, and I don't think the car realized he had moved into a turn-off lane. It slammed on the brakes. I probably went from 90kph to 40kph before it realized I was not going to hit that car.

I completely failed to react to the situation. I was worried my erratic braking would cause an accident behind me, but in the moment, I didn't know how to stop it. That was not a type of emergency I had considered or prepared for.
In the 1990's, NeXT had a demo of their threading capabilities, and you could select a bunch of different sorts to run in parallel. Doesn't seem to be much still "live" on the net about it though: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22SortingInAction%22
Seems like a gimmick more than some sort of proof of passion. This is the type of thing I would expect from the same sort of company that is going to hand me lots of busy work.

I mean if they know ahead of time that you are going to ask them to regurgitate these numbers, then they are just going to memorize them right before the interview. What does that really prove? Certainly doesn't prove passion IMO.
Digitally, they're _the exact same thing,_ represented by the exact same code point:*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen-minus

The figure dash _literally_ serves the same purpose as the hyphen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Figure_dash

ASCII was limited, compromises were made, and "dash" and "hyphen" became interchangeable.

Most style guides accept both under the term "dash":

https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/H...

* Unicode has changed this somewhat, though not perfectly.

Bonus:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/...

Hyphens are a form of dash (-) which we use between words or parts of words.
I like that the related Quanta articles are linked from each concept. The idea of teaching maths as an ontology of concepts and tools is very appealing because it creates a "why," for each aspect. It's as though code did for math what the blues scale did for music, where suddenly a lot of amateurs could string a few ideas together and make something useful and good.

I'm working through "Content, Methods, and Meaning" now and what makes it great is it starts with what necessitated the invention of methods. The model in the Quanta map has a lot of potential.
Mostly worth it for the team. Its good to be working on opensource project full time.

Also as an internaly, explaining this project have N star buy you political capital and facilitate access to extra funding to pursue the project longer.
Yes, but if you're trying to rebut me then you're mixing up the causality. "Brown" has more hits because people think about it differently (e.g., it's very frequently in their environment). The existence/prevalence of the name "brown" didn't cause people to think about it differently.
You are eliding two different kinds of goods here: units of housing, and land. The average price of the former would presumably decrease. The average price of the latter would presumably increase, since loosened restrictions on development would make it possible to build more units of housing on a given lot. For current owners of single family houses, it's likely that the land price effect would outweigh the unit effect, although there will be exceptions (the dynamics of exurbs will be different from those of central areas, for example).
The presentation of facts can be misleading, and you're right that comprehending the world isn't easy. But that doesn't mean we reject truth or stop aiming for a true view of the world.

The commenter didn't say our collective belief in something holds the world together – they said our collective being in facts (i.e. not fictions). You're failing to comprehend, yourself, and writing as though the comment endorsed tribalism when it did the opposite.
Good point. My apologies and thanks for the correction. I did not intend to mislead.

So, the fraction of existing stock that is being developed is about 2% rather than 1%. Although, I don't know how many of these proposed units replace existing units, so perhaps the estimate was also too generous in the other direction.
It's very much an art. Gotta have the right paper, printer, and temperature application, and there's no good way to know until you have a feel for it. Plus finding a laser printer is a hassle now.
Just to clarify- I very much do not mean "liberal" as "the opposite of conservative", here.

Trying to map the high-dimensional "vector space" of political views onto a 1D line is very, very lossy, and definitely not useful outside of the very narrow context of general elections in a two-party system.
You can actually hire Germans to run your trains.
> some kind of pod rail network, i.e. self-driving four-seater trolleys

If you go that far, the problem is already trivial right? Just making roads specifically for self-driving vehicles would make the problem trivial. What the companies are trying to accomplish is self driving cars in current conditions.
That's not universally true though. Many times new development will block a view, or it might run the risk of bringing in "undesirable" groups which would lower property values. There is definitely a long-run argument that values will go up if you increase the power of network effects...but it's always better if the locality next door does it, and not you.

Unfortunately the incentive problem here is real, and there isn't a super obvious solution to it. At least, not to me. Trying to shift the culture and convince people to vote against their own economic incentives is great and all, but I don't think it is destined for success at any significant scale.
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Eh, I could argue that "purple" is just dark magenta, or "teal" is just dark cyan.

And the difference between "pink" and "brick red" is that both are just desaturated reds at different levels of lightness.
See also:

• Chrome's "throttling" feature: https://helpdeskgeek.com/networking/simulate-slow-internet-c...

• Whole-computer "make my network stack worse" utilities:

• • macOS's Network Link Conditioner: https://nshipster.com/network-link-conditioner/

• • clumsy (for Windows): http://jagt.github.io/clumsy/index.html

• • dummynet (for Linux): http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/dummynet/

• A naughty SOCKS5 proxy (multiplatform): https://github.com/Shopify/toxiproxy
The name is somewhat ambiguous.
Does it mean to ask the user to "confirmCloseAllTabs"? Or does it mean the act of the user setting the value of this setting to true means to "confirmCloseAllTabs"?

I find your interpretation slightly preferable over what was actually implemented in this case.
Each party is deriving a benefit from this as in any agreement, but nothing "of value" is being exchanged between the two parties. That's my point.
The thing is - reporting “the facts” means different things to different people. It’s very possible to write two contradictory articles that each contains only facts.

The trick is to only select certain facts that support your point of view and omit facts that don’t. Lying by omission isn’t really a detectable or punishable offense. It gets even more complex when “the facts” are based on a previous narrative which itself isn’t investigated for truthfulness.

This phenomenon is easy to see if you compare two ideologically opposite media websites, like Vox and Fox. I’m not sure if there is any solution other than to read multiple news sources, which unfortunately just feeds the media machine even more.
How can it be a pump and dump if they’re not public companies and generally rely on subscriptions?

Indiehackers is a great community that produces a lot of useful content for other bootstrappers. Sorry that you think it’s all a fraud, but I suspect you’re throwing out the baby with the bath water.
No, division just isn't a total function.
So you're saying we need to program our driverless cars to occasionally go on road-rage rampages if they're cut off too many times?
In the case of 1. I'm certain a whole bunch of it is people getting high on their own supply; aka pay a marketer to hype your thing, your competitor does same, then you become afraid of all the progress your competitor has made (which is imaginary marketing hype). I've actually seen this dynamic at work in "AI" land; it's gotten me work.

I've even seen it happen within the same company: marketing dude talks to engineer, gets it all wrong and exaggerates capabilities; then CEO demands to know why the capabilities in his sales literature don't exist in the product.

I call it "human informational centipede."

Hypesters and scammers always around; excepting in Theranos type cases, they mostly don't really push the needle. Pretty sure Irene Aldridge didn't change perceptions of HFT much, for example.
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>Having two browsers render the same HTML in completely different ways would be very odd

Or completely normal? Why shouldn't I bump up my minimum don't size to help read text and reduce eyestrain? Ditto for fixing low contrast text.
That's fair, but this was about virtualization not emulation. Similar but different, but that's certainly a solution too.
How very strange. Why should they be censored?
Could each box have a short lived leaf certificate signed by an Apple intermediate/root?

Also they could just be signing content at the application layer like APT does, and the transport is plain HTTP.
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I'm wondering if there is any site providing a service to compare say AWS, Google Cloud, digitalocean in terms of price per unit (vCPU, memory). Terms of service come into play as well, but for smaller enterprises the price per computing unit may be the primary decision driver.

I'm imagining something where you can enter your desired setup in terms of vCPU, memory, SSD space, required (managed) DB type like Redis or PostgreSQL etc., comparing the various options by price.
"positive"

That's subjective. Something that sounds nice and upliftung may not actually be positive in the long run while something that sounds negative may indeed be necessary.

Which proves the point that opposition to online political advertising is not rooted in some deep and profound moral principle, but is merely a response to one's favored "side" being outmaneuvered by opposition candidates' deft use of online tools and advertising.

Moral shallowness is masquerading as righteousness on the Left, but many have convinced themselves that the masquerade is genuine.
> "these numbers a pretty high, do you thing self driving cars will lower them?"

My answer would be no: the opposite, if self driving cars work out, people will probably just drive more! The only traffic gains would come from 100% self driving cars that could then be optimized somewhat globally.
Yes, harder than hype and deluded optimism expected. Plenty of people have seen through the hype and delusion for years now. Level 5 requires AGI. AGI is probably nowhere close to being realized - humans may well be centuries away from reaching the necessary technological level. Humanity might never get there at all. In any case, if humanity ever developed AGI, it would revolutionize the world. Self-driving cars would be one of the most boring and mundane applications.
I really liked their pseudo localization trick.

https://netflixtechblog.com/pseudo-localization-netflix-12ff...
Except that's basically what happened to WhatsApp. And this is always a risk of any centralized/propriety network.

Some further reading for perspective: https://homebrewserver.club/have-you-considered-the-alternat...
I've seen hobbyists use JLC PCB in the past for low quantity runs and the quality always seems astounding with relatively quick turnaround times (several days). https://jlcpcb.com/

Looks like they do SMT mount now too which wasn't the case last time I looked at their offering.
Here is more the equivalent of "Here is a coupon to redeem 100,000 USD from me", which is essentially currency / debt already
Ideally? Sounds like a clusterf- waiting to happen, far worse than anything we've got now.
> you'll find no shortage of people arguing that they're just around the corner

Ya, but around the corner no one thought that would be 2020. The strawman is always to place around the corner as tomorrow, but many people just mean in a decade or two.
With a few exceptions, I find news to be an area where you get what you pay for. The incentives are far better at publications that make money from monthly subscriptions than channels that are incentivized by clicks and Neilson ratings.
I have some confidence we'll get there on limited access highways because there are a lot fewer of the things that you describe there. That doesn't really help the people who want to be driven around everywhere. But it would actually be a really nice feature for the majority of people who own and drive cars.
> Once a driver knows the car next to them isn't driven by a person it changes their behaviour.

If the car next to me isn't driven by a person, but is bristling with high resolution cameras that will immediately upload footage of my face to the authorities if I collide with it, I would indeed change my behavior.
> No website is as good as a good book

Good (and often forgotten) advice for more than just C...
In my ~20 years of experience, the only way to get good at something that is incredibly complex like kernel development, you will need to actually try to build the thing. Over and over and over. It doesn't matter what those reference manuals or books say. The computer doesn't give even the remotest feasible shit about the implementation reference or some particular author's opinion. Your tools do not know you are a noob trying to become a master. There is no gradient to follow that will allow you to meet this challenge in a fair way.

Many times, this frustration just boils down to cleverly-disguised subconscious procrastination. For me, the fear of trying to do the hard thing and failing at it is ultimately what keeps me from engaging certain things. This is a good sensibility to have so you don't bash your head against the wall, but sometimes you have to override it, start writing code, and accept that you will make some horrific mistakes. There is a light at the end of the challenge tunnel, that is if you actually begin to overcome it. This is one of the most addicting sensations I have experienced and I find it can carry me the rest of the way to mastery. That feeling you get when the browser actually loads your first web application, or when the ipsec VPN tunnel you've been fighting for days actually connects and you can ping both ways. Finishing a YouTube video or a chapter in some C kernel development book will never give you the same result.
As mentioned in the comments, housing/shelter has a different meaning depending on your perspective (renter/owner, single/married, young/old or import/local resident).

Unless we define housing types/building codes for specific subsets, it'll most likely be just more of the same development/investments.

With many major metro areas bursting at the seams, I think they need to break ground on new 21st century cities and identify a way to lower the populations as a solution/initial step, rather than adding more deck chairs to the ship.

This gives the economy a new canvas to work with and the opportunity to move forward 100% with sustainable priciples without being encumbered by the pre-existing conditions plaguing NIMBY strongholds.

With desalination and autonomous vehicles becoming a bigger part of the modern economy, California could build horseshoe/teardrop shaped autonomous highways from the coastline cities hundreds of miles inland that allow modern logistics to fillin the gaps with public transportation and servicing basic needs (water, sanitation, public services) and accomodate new suburban models to house an ever-growing population. Outside of the earthquake zones, the can build the high-density housing they need to solve a good portion of the social crisis.

Extending cities with autonomous loops may not be the best answer, but the existing city planning models need more pioneering strategies if they want to seed future growth.
My point was an economic one:

• cities can afford to "change the problem" to fit the solution (as they already have huge transit-system and other public-works budgets, and extensions to cities are mostly centrally-planned.) Some cities in Europe have already entirely banned cars.

• everywhere other than cities—e.g. small rural towns only connected via roads—doesn't have the resources to "change the problem." (But also, roads are optimal in this resource-constrained context, anyway: you can spend very little laying down massively-long stretches of road, pushing the costs onto the people who wants to drive on it in the form of vehicle maintenance.) But "everywhere other than cities" also doesn't pose nearly as complex a problem in the first place as cities do (at least in AI judgement terms, not in sensor-requirements terms.)

Thus, it makes sense to choose a hybrid solution, where cities gradually de-car themselves, while self-driving cars get licensed to work everywhere except cities.
Respectfully, it sounds like you've only read about driving and have never been in or driven a car.

People are _terrible_ drivers. Cars are safer than they've ever been. The number of deaths is not the right metric to evaluate driver quality.
>Also a homeowner, and I'm a YIMBY (or PHIMBY) for selfish reasons as well. My neighborhood is mostly old white people, because they bought their houses years ago and stayed put.

Hmm, here I am thinking I don't really care about the skin color of my neighbors. It's none of my business. But, I try and not judge people on immutable characteristics like color and age.
I hate seeing my teammate with headphones all day long, fully agree with the article.
Are we still allowed to have heroes? It's risky, sure.

Moxie is one of mine, for all that I'm sure our politics are very, very different. He seems to have integrity. I really hope I'm not being deluded there.
How do you even think this stuff gets upgraded in the first place?

What happens, in every city, is that more housing gets built, then the infrastructure system starts to get closer to capacity, and then the infrastructure gets upgaded.

Saying that they should upgrade all the infrastructure first, before there is any demand, is the same exact thing as saying that it should never be upgraded.

Because the infrastructure isn't going to be upgraded if there is no demand for it yet.
Every "good" example you cite is a publicly funded entity except DV which caused a teacher to kill himself in 2006 with an unverified story about child abuse[0].

I think you may have inadvertently bolstered OPs claim.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DV_(newspaper)
I used to get a few books on the topic and skim between them and flick between the books (in large time chunks - hours or days) and practice things (like C). I have found myself just watching videos now, there seems to be a video or two on everything, made by the experts in the fields. Watching one from Udemy right now - $10 (wait for them on special), they mightn't have the very technical details but enough to get you started so you can find the details out.

I remember first watching Gilbert Strang's videos on linear algebra and thinking back to my days of sitting in lecture theatres watching my lecturer teach the same content. I became very envious of "kids these days" :-).
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recently I started working on a module for nginx and have developed a full-blown crush on the module loader and its relationship with core functionality. haven't seen anything else quite like it, in C, that is. major newb talkin'

also plan9, its nice to read some kernel code that hasn't been tortured by practical requirements for decades.
Remember the Front Page license.

Originally, Front Page had a four page license. It specified that if you use Front Page to create a web site, you cannot disparage Microsoft, Expedia and a list of several other Microsoft owned properties.

So with a license like that, I can't assume that any site created with Front Page is unbiased when it comes to a list of various Microsoft owned properties.

After the slashdot effect (long ago) Microsoft removed this from the license.
> In most places new supply is high end and is making more housing available for people who don’t lack access.

In most places, new cars are more expensive than used ones, but if you stopped providing new cars, the price of the used ones would shoot up as everyone started competing for a dwindling supply of cars.

Same goes for housing.

Also, it's a longer term process with housing, but 'filtering' is a real thing: https://oregoneconomicanalysis.com/2016/05/25/housing-does-f...
Right, in most cases, whatever side of a comms link that is hooked up to mains power isn't going that much about power usage. But there are limits on broadcasting power from the towers so as not to cause problems with farther away towers that want operate on the same frequencies. It's like how you usually want to not be on the same Wifi channel as your neighbor. It's going to take either more RF power to overcome their signal or take more time getting data through due to a less than perfect signal quality. Cell towers occupy a certain geographic cell so you want some overlap in signal between neighbors but you don't want it to extend much further than what it takes to leave enough time for someone in a car, for example, to have their conversation handed off to the neighboring tower. Cell tower operators might want to boost their signal power if they are bordering an area with low coverage but it's going to begin to interfere with cells outside their intended range. The FCC sets these limits for different applications and frequencies. An FM radio tower is going to have a massive output power as compared to a personal FM transmitter for your car and for good reason, no else one wants to hear your shitty music.