skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Road damage disproportionately comes from freight vehicles, not consumer vehicles.

Yes, but we need substantially wider roads and more roads when cars are a primary commuting method. It's often the case that trucking is simultaneously the largest source of wear and not the largest contributor to road budgets.

> it’s people in cities who need to truck in all their food and stuff.

How are rural areas any different?

Those peaches from the Walmart in northern WI were probably grown in the exact same Georgian fields as the peaches from the corner store in Chicago. For manufactured goods made in $asian_country, trucking stuff out to Montana from the coast is going to cause a lot more road damage than hauling it from a barge to some store in the bay area.

The amount of road wear&tear probably correlates more with your distance from the major ports than urban/rural. That can go either way.

Unless you live in Iowa and your diet consists mainly of corn and ethanol and you furnish your home with Amish furniture^1, you're benefiting from trucking routes at least as much as anyone in "the city".

There are very few "self-sufficient" communities in the USA. The closest you get .

[^1]: This is a joke :)
What’s Gotten into the Price of Cheese?
This is true, but perhaps you could do that passively by placing candidates in a re-sample queue and seeing where they work and for how long.
Facebook wrestles with advertisers’ demands as boycott escalates
Incompetence or compromise, I think. Hanlon's razor.
The UDHR is not nationalistic.
Read it, then ban me.
“300 landlords who own more than 10,000 apartments”

Wow, that’s allot of concentrated wealth. Anyone have some insight on these fine folk?

If each landlord owns 100 apartments renting for $4k each(average) that’s $400k a month gross. That’s allot of potential venture capital money to capture monthly, over $20M in five years.
This explain why you can't charge iPhone with "cheap cables".
There are two sides to the housing equation. Supply and demand. Demand has been high for quite some time, so the only way to alleviate it was to increase supply (aka change the zoning).

But now demand is down. Lower demand will probably be temporary until things open up again. May people live in SF for the cultural aspects (bars, clubs, theaters, restaurants). Once those open people will want to live there again.
At my office (working in tech in downtown SF) about 30-40% of employees have moved out of the city. Many plan for it to be temporary (why pay SF rent for the months we are all remote). Some are clearly hoping it will be permanent, but I think the chances of that are slim. I think we are on track to offer a lot more remote options than we did in the past - but I think that in 2021 a decision to stay remote will mean a huge pay cut.
>> When I worked on the USS Carl Vinson we used to discuss what it would be like in some post apocalyptic scenario where we were left on the ship. We didn't like the idea. Of course, while the ship could have power and fresh water for years, the aircraft couldn't operate long without more fuel and the people on board would run out of food pretty quickly.

> Presumably, with power and fresh water, the flight deck could be converted into a rather sizable garden. It even has access to sunlight and protection from pests.

You'd need dirt too, and lots of it.

In such a scenario, it'd probably most practical just to anchor or dock the ship somewhere safe near land, and use its facilities to jump-start a settlement. I'm guessing with the maintenance possible in such a scenario, all the ship's systems would break down within a decade or so (and it'd need to be refueled with enriched uranium at about that point, too), so you really wouldn't want to stay dependent on it for too long.
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Pull requests intensify
They're not same!
This was marketed as an exclusive quarantine initiative, with distribution help from Night Shift. If it's not temporary, I'm happy to be wrong.
Capabilities are better, thanks to WebGL and modern JavaScript - and no proprietary tooling is needed, but the overall barrier for entry now is much higher: during the heyday of Flash any teenager could put together something silly, adapt, learn, improve, and beyond. You can’t do that anymore because there is no good, well-supported, code-free way of making art and animations without writing any code for HTML5+Canvas.

None of the kids that got started by making silly animations in Flash back in 1999-2007 could do that today: there is no paintbrush tool for the web.
I think there are valid technical and usability reasons for demanding that all products within a store all conform to the same billing policies. For Apple, providing a consistent user experience is absolutely paramount. They want all apps to act the same and bill the same. If the baseline/standard experience is sub-optimal, then they would say let us fix or improve the baseline experience for everyone, not deal with it piecemeal and leave the user guessing how an app will end up billing them.

In this case I think some users are looking for a double opt-in in the case of a free trial, or at least a native reminder in the iOS user interface that a trial is ending and the first subscription charge is about to be run.

For example, if the day before a trial expired, you could receive a push notification from Apple notifying you that the trial period is about to expire, and how much you will be billed if you do not cancel before the end of the day. Alternatively, the push notification could require active user consent before allowing the trial to convert to a paid subscription.

The first option could be done by Apple with zero required action by developers, but since it's definitely going to increase the cancellation rate, probably developers aren't going to be very happy. It is customer-focused which Apple claims to be, but it's also messy/cluttered to be getting billing notifications

The problem with the second option is that it opens up a new state in the state machine, and three new transition functions. Going from trial -> pending approval is a mid-state which would require some sort of shutting off functionality in the app or even preventing the app from opening, or reverting back to the unpaid / non-trial state. Now the user is in a new limbo 'pending approval' state. Then from there somehow the user has to either approve the charge or indicate that they do in fact want to cancel, so going from pending -> unsubscribed or pending -> subscribed are new transitions that would have to be coded for every app.

The current solution is to simply provide a centralized place to see all your subscriptions and when they will renew and how much they cost, and making it single-tap simply to cancel them. I'm not sure a better way they can surface the Subscriptions UI other than within the App Store settings. That top option within 'Settings' always seemed misplaced to me, it looks more like a header than a button, and especially as it is encompassing "Apple ID, iCloud, iTunes & App Store" it's kind of a jumble. They added it into the App Store app as well on the top-right profile-picture button which leads to 'Account' and then 'Subscriptions'.
World's smallest violin plays for all the landlords and homeowners who may no longer benefit from the Bay Area's absurd restrictions on new housing

In all seriousness, while I welcome the new openness to remote work, what I'd love to see is a push towards something in the middle: distributed offices.

Rather than having to choose between moving to ridiculously expensive SF, or working from home in their current city, employees could go to their local coworking space.

They'd get the benefits of an environment more conducive to productivity, away from the distractions of home, and the mental health benefits of social interaction. I don't think that making a huge shift to working from home is good for the already prevalent issue of loneliness.

Plus, having coworking spaces spread out within the city itself means that even if your company is headquartered in your city, you don't have to make the long commute to HQ if there's a closer coworking space.
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Transformers only work with alternating current. You would be better off using a direct buck-boost conversion scheme, rather than DC->inverter->xformer->rectifier->DC.
Syndicated version:

https://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2020/07/01/facebook-...
I've been casually looking on zillow. I have not seen rent go down in my neighborhood (NoPa)
> You can't mandate that people should buy bratwurst, or read Horace

of course you can. Do you know why the Breton language in France is reduced to 200k speakers and the Académie française gets to determine how French is spoken? Because the state stamped out every regional language during the creation of the Republic, and that was that.

Are the native cultures of the new world almost gone because they're worse cultures? No, it's because they were defenseless. Did Chrisitanity and Islam spread because they "worked?" No, they were spread by sword or settlement.

China's experiment isn't new, it's not even an experiment really. how do you think the Romanization of large parts of the old world happened, or the Russification of much of Eastern Europe? Is Finland 'idiotic' for defending its culture? Are they actually just living in a worse culture and haven't realised it yet?

What a terrible might makes right logic.
Europe is far too big a geography to pin down beer, it's mostly concentrated in the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and Czech where you find the right climate for the ingredients and hence the beer culture (of course you find beers in France, but they have a larger wine culture).

The differences between them are also huge with Irish dark stout, British pints without collar, German lager only made from basic ingredients, Belgian specialty beers, etc.

The effect of tradition and culture makes almost every beer in those regions taste perfectly decent and some very good, while in the US most are piss-water and some might indeed be very good.

With Bud Light still having the biggest market share, I believe the piss-water jokes still stand today.
NPM is a pretty awful build tool really. In the only NPM project I work on we write a Python script as the build system, and the NPM scripts call that.
Looks nice. I didn't see a price there, but this second-hand smaller one from 2006 is EUR 350k (USD 390k). Might get a second hand boat and plane instead.

https://www.unicat.net/en/info/TC51hallround-MANLE142804x4CC...
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Fantastic to fugly: All the new app icons in macOS Big Sur
> Browser based games are better than ever.

I disagree, browser based games took a very hard hit after Flash was killed and the infrastructure that was built around these games died. Newgrounds might be still limping around, but pretty much everything else, like Kongregate now, has died and nothing replaced it (most of the sponsors that funded these games moved to mobile, but very few of the actual developers did and mobile games are very different than the more raw/brutal flash games you'd find on pretty much every flash gaming site out there).

The tech, from a purely technical and capabilities perspective, is better sure. But the ecosystem and tools are much worse.
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Yep, I think the vast majority will. Many companies are allowing remote work for the rest of 2020 with no change in compensation. Once that ends, I'd expect people to come back. I think probably another driver of the decreased rents are the recent college graduates that had no reason to move to SF once the virus hit and everything closed. I'd expect them to move to the city once things get back to normal
Somehow Playstation 4 has flown under the radar, it is the most finicky!

I should probably turn its voice control off
Lysander Spooner is not taught in public schools civics courses, as far as I know.
> Red Hat supports Fedora well, in many ways. But Fedora already works closely with, and depends on, upstreams. And this will be one of them. That's an important consideration for this proposal. The community has a stake in ensuring it is supported. Red Hat will never support Btrfs if Fedora rejects it. Fedora necessarily needs to be first, and make the persuasive case that it solves more problems than alternatives. Feature owners believe it does, hands down.

I guess the dynamic here is that Fedora wants to convince Red Hat into supporting Btrfs by adopting it themselves.
What invocation dance?

This works:

"ssh -oPKCS11Provider=/path/to/opensc-pkcs11.so user@host.com"

Or you place that in your ~/.ssh/config

Host *

PKCS11Provider /path/to/opensc-pkcs11.so
The report referenced in the article is here: https://www.zumper.com/blog/zumper-national-rent-report-july...
> I file it under "perfect being the enemy of the good"

This is 100% how you should think about it. But what I'm trying to say is that we already have substantially better methods, so why not use them? Perfect is the enemy of good, but if I have the choice of eating acid, a bowl of oatmeal, and chocolate pudding, I'm going with the pudding. Perfect is the enemy of good when we don't already have the choices sitting right in front of us.

> [IRV] still represents an order of magnitude improvement over FPTP at capturing political preferences

And here's where I'm disagreeing, but only slightly. It is definitely better, but not an order of magnitude.

> Approval voting

I love approval voting. It is great because of its simplicity. That's why they use it in systems like Netflix. Easy to collect and gather results from. Honestly I use it all the time. It is how I solve the "where do you want to eat" problem with friends. You just list things until you get a unanimous vote or if you exhaust your list you just take the most approvals. Simple and easy.

The reason I don't like it for elections is that it makes tying easy and I do not believe it has enough precision. The interview I linked Arrow talks about this so I'll deffer to him (he's clearly smarter than me). In elections you need a clear winner.

Why I like score voting (and Condorcet methods, like RP, which is again RCV) is because I actually hate party systems, but I recognize that they can't be destroyed. But these methods drastically reduce their power (I don't think IRV does).

And I highly encourage you to dig more into the subject and am happy to provide links. I also highly suggest looking deep into everything that the Fair Vote chart discusses, mainly because I believe you will be as frustrated as me (and others, like Condorcet proponents) when you learn what each of those topics are. Everyone I know that is well read in the subject is frustrated by Fair Vote's mischaracterizations.
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Not affiliated with them, I just think it's dope and I wish I had a place to plug it in and an excuse to spend that much money.
I don't know this guy, but he refers to himself as Jerry in the video...
It actually isn't true at all in practice. The inflation pressure and contact pressures vary dramatically even for a static tire due to curvature, tread depth, and many other factors. See e.g. https://www.sensorprod.com/news/white-papers/tcp/wp_tcp.pdf
An abandoned cart reminder email sent a few hours later has a ridiculously high conversion rate - around 15% in my experience. Online vendors aren’t going to stop that practice, especially when the big e-commerce platforms make it easy to do.
The proven natural reserves is higher than at any point in history. Massive amounts of oil exist which accumulated for millions of years and we are nowhere near depleting those reserves. And no, contrary to the fear over mild warming, CO2 has many fantastic benefits for plant life on this planet. In recent years, this has caused the total plant leaf surface area to increase by 25-50%:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...

Photosynthesis quite literally depends on CO2. Thank goodness we're restoring the CO2 back to the atmosphere from which it originally came from. It was buried under ground as an accident of history. Plants evolved to thrive at CO2 levels more than 3-4x what present-day levels are.
Thank you for the well thought out answer. This is why I asked.

This was brought to my attention working on a new project. This is the first time I've done rails 6 on heroku. Heroku out of the box with this app gives me a ~360mb buildpack; this exceeds their soft limit of 300mb. Historically not been an issue for me but I guess now with webpack, I need to customize the buildpack to cleanup the node_modules after compilation.
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Can't you just pass "--no-webpacker" to the "rails new" command to skip the npm packages? I haven't tried it myself.