skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had more than one landlord that insisted on stopping by once or twice a month. "stopping by" was usually hanging around outside the property, sometimes just knocking to "make sure everything is OK". And weirdly enough, I've never had this while living with a man - only when I was living alone or with another woman. It makes me feel unsafe and like I had no privacy in my private home.

And my problems were pretty mild. The places I lived in were fairly well-kept. Lots of folks have issues with roaches, leaks, and a slew of other issues that fall on deaf ears. Lots of folks are actually unsafe. Lots of folks get overcharged for things that come out of a security deposit (oh, a nail hole... that'll be $300 plus paint - nevermind that we'd paint anyway). And so on.

This is, of course, because in many areas, there is little to no oversight of landlords and no one really to help a tenant with issues. Decent folks being landlords are the exception, not the rule.
Amazon does not have a shop in three out of the four European countries I lived in, including the current one.

Edit: technically, it operates in two of them, having both some warehouses and R&D offices, but does not have a storefront for them.
Someone who can't handle going 5 km/h under the speed limit (aka maximum) shouldn't be trusted to operate a motor vehicle.

Sadly, that describes all too many drivers. Enforcement and normalization of slower speeds through a critical mass of slower vehicles could change things.

Ultimately, people have shown that the need to be "tamed" while driving cars.
> What kind of power does a 15 year old have, exactly, to influence it though? A scooter has improved my mobility when I was 15. Going on the internet and saying that the lack of public transport is at fault would have not.

True, of course.

But it's not about the individual 15 year old scooter owner who makes an individual decision to get a scooter, when they live outside the city, in a situation where it benefits them greatly, etc etc.

It's about the systemic impact of legalising a class of vehicles and thus adding hundreds of thousands more vehicles to the road network. People in situations where they could have happily stayed on public transport instead move to driving these small vehicles, which aren't as bad as full-sized cars but still consume resources and occupy valuable road and parking space. Fewer public transport users means fewer voters who care about public transport, and more who care about roads. That's not a step in the right direction.

(I grew up in rural Australia, I understand why you need private motorised transport to get around - but plenty of the customers who are going to be buying this Ami vehicle are going to be in extremely dense urban areas.)
I may be missing some context but can't it be done similar to how we handle data from outside world in TS ?

A runtime type guard that asserts that the shape of data conforms to a particular type and from that point forward compiler will trust the guard and assume that the message is of particular type.

In a dynamically typed world, I doubt one could do much better.
> you reach a limit with people getting in and off in the stations, the whole system slows down with trains waiting their turn to enter the station, so real throughput decreases drastically.

Yes, and this would be an even bigger problem for your proposal, that's the point.

> Also, there is a more fundamental problem with reaching high thoughtputs with mass transit: you need to force people out of optimal routes from their distributed destinations and origins, into enforced stations. This makes sense for point to point links like LA to SF, but it's very inefficient when trying to cover a 2D city: the more routes and stations you add, the less you are likely to reach peak capacity of any one link. If you are going for city-wide subway, you will pay much, much more to build large, expensive tunnels that will stay mostly idle at the perifery of the system.

You're hugely exaggerating the problem. You get some inefficiency yes - if we imagine a grid system then many journeys require a change of line and the average journey is 1.27x longer than an ideal path between two points, assuming people don't change their actions at all (e.g. living on the same line where they work). But that's outweighed by the efficiency gains of mass transit - in a city with a decent subway system that longer journey with a change will still be significantly faster than driving.

As for tunnels sitting idle at the periphery of the system, in the real world that's really not the issue you make it out to be, for a number of reasons; housing concentrates along commuting corridors, the places where the population thins out are, by the same token, the places where land is cheap and the train line can run on the surface, and if necessary then trains can turn short or split/join. If you look at the usage levels that subways actually achieve, they're incredibly cheap for what they do.
In which way should the law reflect reality? Allowing bikes on pavement if there’s no money to build bike lanes? Good idea; I agree. Telling bikes to screw off and you have to walk your bike along the sidewalk because there’s no money for bike lanes here and we only allow cars on pavement? Not getting my support.
They have but is not taught as science. Physics 101 does not study Aristotles ideas as part of physics. Not because they are wrong but because they are not scientific. They start with Galileo and Newton.
I don't think you're right about Portugal. It's 14 for 50cc, 16 for 125cc.
> emacs has two main contenders for "fuzzy search" - ido-mode and helm.

Also Ivy.
So scale the other aide up too. Just imagine what it's like on 22.
100 days of deleting features from the Python language
There's many things wrong with Vice. In addition to the story in the sibling comment, they have a consistent track record of misrepresenting their reporting to sources, heavily editing interview responses to change the meaning of what the interviewee said, and in at least one case I directly witnessed inventing the entire content of an interview that never happened and publishing it. I would simply consider anything they write at least misrepresented and possibly entirely fictional.
Many of us were old enough to have lived during a time where smartphones did not exist. My thoughts are... it is nice to have access to a great pocket-sized camera and communication device, though it is also nice to turn it off once in a while.
Astrologers proclaim the week of Lua. Amount of Lua-related posts doubles!
> you need to write better job descriptions

Tech job postings are the absolute worst. Anyone who's having trouble with hiring in any way needs to start there. Everyone in tech knows that job postings are a joke, which is why you're told to apply to jobs even if you're not qualified, and then companies complain about the applicant pool. It's their own fault!

The "excuse" is almost always "HR". But this just tells the applicant your company is a bureaucratic nightmare that few sane applicants would want to join.
I don't think elixir existed when they were first creating whatsapp
Is the USLC always updated with the latest books?

What would be the legal background of using their index?
The famous videophone scene from Kurick's 2001, from 1968:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWwo6JpMceg
[Assuming good faith despite some inflammatory language.]

In smaller teams everyone talking to each other and building a shared vision can be quite sufficient. It's indeed common to have startups that have very flat organisation, they might have a designated CEO that's in no actual way above the others. They can be plenty capable of producing amazing results despite the small team size.

However such a small group can't handle larger challenges, like designing and building a commercial jet, they will need many more workers. 1000 workers can't just come together and agree on a shared vision, even ignoring the square law of communication paths just giving each person 10 minutes to present their view would take weeks. Hence, in the very least we will need some communication hierarchy to allow workers to do their job while still synchronising with relevant other teams.

However, just communication is not sufficient, coordination is also important, if the jet is going to have the appropriate range, fuel tanks, engine efficiency and packing density needs to be designed to provide that range. Again, this would take quite some time if everyone should be involved in the process.

This is mostly in the leadership side of course, but covers those who are attentive to the trade off between security and deadlines. It's not reasonable for the individual engineer to be solely responsible to make that tradeoff. In particular, a sloppy engineer might think security is not important at all, and another engineer might think that no risk at all is acceptable to the point where nothing can ever be produced to achieve their standards. It's leaderships role to make sure that standards are aligned between engineers so we don't get a ten year delayed jet with some key parts made out of brittle plastic.

Now, managers can also have a people management role, and tom me those are the ones responsible to keep me as a worker happy and productive. They are also there to detect when some area is understaffed and find solutions to such issues, eg. talking with other teams for assistance, recruiting, decreasing scope, etc. If they weren't there, this job would fall on each individual worker, who would have to go out hunting for support instead of focusing on their actual tasks at hand.
People’s lives, especially the adolescent phase thereof, are short. I don’t blame them one bit for maximizing their mobility.

If you want public transport adopted, make it effective and reasonably efficient and people will use it. Crimping people’s mobility in the meantime to garner support for better public transport at some time in the distant future is not likely to work well.
True but driving slowly because you don't feel confident enough to drive faster is equally dangerous.

Slow drivers need to learn how to drive safely without pretending that their insecurities become everyoneś problem.

Especially in large cities where there are a pletora of alternative ways to move around.

> That's really the root of the safety problem that is big powerful cars.

It is not.

In Rome, where there are around 27 thousands car crashes every year, the number one cause of accidents is distraction.

Most of them happen at low speed.

The second is driving under the influence.

The third is road conditions.

Last comes speeding.

Driving under pressure because you don't feel confident behind the wheel is like DUI, you make mistakes and cause crashes.

Too many people obtain the driving license without having the necessary skills to handle the traffic flow of a large city.
Not sure, still unfolding for a lot of companies, but as remote become the norm, these issues may have higher chances of being circumvented
> Sorry, do you expect him to run out of court and not be stopped by the bailiffs? Do you expect him to cause danger that requires the use of bulletproof glass after already being searched for weapons inside and out?

Well, the baliffs wouldn't be in position to catch him since they're in the dock. Because that's where the prisoner is. And prisoners do bolt out of courts, they get ane extra sentence but it does happen.

> Do you expect him to cause danger that requires the use of bulletproof glass after already being searched for weapons inside and out?

I said AT danger, not BE A danger. So the bulletproof glass is there to protect HIM.

> Oh, well. In that case. I'm sure if they did complain their complains would be given the utmost priority.

You know people complain to each other, right? They bitch about this and that. Like they would complain about the tea being crap, etc. And complaints were treated fairly, that's why if you complained you got shit from the guards, your mail would take 2 days longer, your requests for a form would take longer, etc.

You seem to be completely disconnected from reality.

* This is a guy who skipped bail and avoided arrest for years. And you're againist him sitting in a dock.

* A guy who realistically, people want to kill and you're againist him being behind bulletproof glass.

* You want people to be dealt with humanely but againist basic things required to keep them safe. All the things you're againist, the only countries that don't have them are corrupt, dangerous places.
Maybe is the time to build a pond between the house and the forest. And using fire retardant species of plants will not do any harm.
Marines Assist in Firefighting Above Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton
The author complains that it is "impossible" to find books on Goodreads. Simply adding the author's name to any query will always take you to the book you are looking for. Don't just rely on a title. Which should be common sense (if you were at a bookstore you would always tell the clerk the author's name and not just say "Do you have Holiday Heart?") but apparently isn't.

The author complains that searching for 'holiday heart' didn't show Margarita García Robayo's book in the top hits. But searching for 'holiday heart robayo' does.

As for the rest of the piece...the belief that algorithmic recommendations are going to be easy for some shoestring budget startup run by a single person in their spare time is somehow going to do a good job simply isn't credible.

People still complain about Netflix recommendations and they've spent tens of millions of dollars, possibly over a hundred million dollars, on it and are one of the most valuable companies on the planet with one of the best engineering teams on the planet.

Why do people think algorithmic recommendations are easy? Or even desirable?
IMO the challenge with marketing is the very high budget and lack of (visible) returns .

Marketing will want to launch marketing campaigns: adwords, facebook, ads in the tube, sponsoring events, sponsoring personalities, TV ads...

The smallest ad here and there start at 100k each. It's very quick to burn millions of dollars. It's unbelievable how quick money can go down the drain. Besides, the more they spend the better for their resume so marketing is really enticed to go big.

When the founder wants to start marketing. He's probably budgeting to hire a couple people and do some things but he doesn't comprehend the costs. One or two years later, when the founder sees the bills and the lack of returns, he's pulling the plug on marketing.

In that sense marketing is like software projects. When your CMO/CTO shows up with a 200 pages spec software / $500k ad project, the answer is to say no. Both type of projects tend to spiral out of control quickly and fail.
Former NSA chief joins Amazon's Board of Directors.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/9/21429635/amazon-keith-alex...
The improvement lays in the flexibility of the system. In the financial district, you have a large station with similar costs and restraints as existing systems, and with multiple paralel lanes to handle the trafic, merging etc.

When you fan out throughout the city, you can build, for the same price of a single subway tunnel, multiple links, and you can build much more micostations, close to where people need to go, with very short ramps and deceleration and acceleration handled cooperatively with the other vehicles, since throughput is no longer critical.

And finally, on the last mile, the vehicles goes outside and drives to your suburban home on the existing road network, in areas of low density where no people mover will ever make economic sense.

It is this flexibility that makes self driving vehicles a very practical proposition for future cities.
Isn't it location specific you are thinking about? EU norm is 30km/h for mopeds and bikelane only, and car drivers-license for 45km/h on the road. 45km/h on a moped would cause a fine if the police sees you. Unless it is in a country not following the EU norm of course.
My work requires a smartphone for multi-factor authentication and to unlock the office door (if we ever go back to the office)
Incredible.
Been using this stack for an year and I'm super excited for the future. Lately I also do see multiple new companies picking it up for different workflows and applications.

Though it may not reach Ruby levels of popularity, it's still just fine. Learning curve is favorable, performance is stellar, and the toolkit that comes with the language is quite featureful.
I see other languages borrowing elements from Elixir - especially LiveView and Pattern Matching.

The only hiccups I faced where when I had to roll out my own solutions for a few things (a background job processor, error manager, a mocking module for unit tests, etc.)
Even with all this, I'd still say Elixir is worth it, given the performance gain and the patterns it enforces. It all just makes the code easy and understandable.
Yes.

I just don't get why its accepted or somehow morally ok to silently manage information for others.

The key word is: 'silently'. A mod should be able to manage the conversation, kick people off, delete comments etc, fine - but there should be a note to indicate how whatever bit was impacted. Otherwise, moderators are able to act like gods over a conversation or a forum, accountable to no one.

Well, I suppose they will have to judge themselves, but I don't think they are really going to take themselves to task!

If people are acting in good faith, they may present information that may be true AND unpleasant to accept or not per consensus opinion. The scientific method should accept the various viewpoints and converge to a better picture of reality. But that can't happen if dissenting voices are closed down.

It always surprises me that scientific thinkers, such as there are on this site, are not strongly in support of lots of voices. I don't mean that HN should become a popularity contest or something, but that honest sharing of curiosity and personal experience should be encouraged, not silenced.

Seriously, apart from some crap sites (eg 4chan), where can the 'unthinkable' be raised and discussed sensibly nowadays? I don't think there is anywhere.
> Do you think executives at Apple look at this feature request and spin the entire ship around so that you and I can hack a phone?

Yes, because of what happened with HKMap.live. This is incredibly important for free expression.

It’s only used by a tiny number of people until one day when it suddenly becomes essential.
Haha--yes, Thanks.
The linked article soon goes from criticizing Goodreads to hyping The StoryGraph as a Goodreads competitor. However, all the great new features of The StoryGraph seem targeted towards only one portion of the Goodreads membership: people reading fiction or the most pop-sci-type nonfiction and who want recommendations for new stuff to read.

My own bookish, nerdy Goodreads subculture is very different: we already have more books on our to-read list than we could realistically get through, we don’t really need auto-generated recommendations for more. We review a lot of serious non-fiction, not just the mass-market stuff, and genre tags like "dark" or "edgy" don't seem relevant, while being able to add "trigger warnings" misses the point.

Yes, GR users like myself are probably a minority, but we’re a very established and recognized minority. We're the sort that keeps some independent booksellers alive, for example, so any new site that aims to maintain a culture of books and reading ought to take us into account.
If you want to progressively add static types to Lua, decent IDE support, and not worry about transpilation; then you may be interested in my little project:

https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/IntelliJ-Luanalysis/

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/14698-luanalysis

It's essentially Flow for Lua. It's not at all trying to be its own language, but rather been built out of my own needs to write maintainable code in environments that only run Lua.
They don't delete the comments. You can see the [dead] comments if you enable "showdead" in your profile.
There are plenty of charities willing to do that.
Yes, because it offers no answers. You’re left with all the same questions and more about the designer.
But PayPal specifically isn't under banking laws which is how they cover their ass normally (like if you have money at PayPal and they terminate your account you never get your money , which there are thousands and thousands of cases of PayPal doing which would be illegal for an actuall bank), so banking law has nothing to do with PayPal.
For what it's worth, my last several landlords in Canada have accepted Interac E-Transfers (free instant domestic transfers up to $3000) for rent instead of post-dated cheques when I asked, and many of my friends say they do the same thing.

I've only rented in America once, but in that case the property management company had their own online system that accepted (slow non-instant) bank transfers or (with a surcharge) credit cards.
> The above is satire for now, but it'll happen if we let it, guaranteed.

Man am I excited for the Handmaid's Tale America!

edit: I'd written a more cynical and satirical comment than this, yet unfortunately dang asked me not to write in the ways i have written before - so i've had to file it in my notes instead. if anyone knows a place or community for 'radical leftists' like me to talk about things like this, please do let me know
> Because it renders them liable.

Yep.

This is how you tell the difference between financial crime that the authorities don't care about and financial crime they do.

Look for personal liability.
Show HN: Onepanel – Production scale, Kubernetes-native vision AI platform
We are not landfilling that stuff we are burning it.

And it doesn't matter thats not the issue. The issue is, that plastic is used every single day and its not reused/recycled it gets burned. This not sustainable at all.

the 'big overreaction' comes from the fact, that the weather is changing due to co2 emissions and we are far far away from any sustainable setup while already seeing the impact it has.

Its the 3th year of a draught in germany. Where i never encountered a drought. It is a green country and the trees around me have damages from the drought. When they are dying of, a tree which was growing for 30-40 years will be gone.

The co2 reduction of corona was around 8% and we would need to have 7% every year to combat climate change. 8% was doable with a lot of inconvienience. It doesn't give me a lot of hope when we are not able to recycle fucking plastic.
Hey HN,

I am Rush, one of the makers of Onepanel. Onepanel is a Kubernetes-native deep learning platform for computer vision with fully integrated components for model building, semi-automated labeling, data processing and model training pipelines.

We built Onepanel to significantly reduce the complexities with infrastructure and disparate tooling so teams can be productive at every step of their workflow but at the same time have the flexibility to change them and bring their own tools.

Under the hood, we integrate our own and other best of breed open source components [0] to provide a seamless user experience. We also try to abstract some of the complexities of Kubernetes by deploying cloud provider specific components for networking, network policies, automated TLS certificates, logging, GPU plugins and more [1].

Our near future goals are to add serverless APIs for inference and VNC enabled workspaces [2] so teams can also run simulation environments inside of Onepanel.

We're excited to share Onepanel with the HN community and would love to hear your feedback! And of course we welcome and encourage any contributions [3].

[0] https://github.com/onepanelio/core#acknowledgments

[1] https://github.com/onepanelio/manifests

[2] https://github.com/onepanelio/templates/tree/master/workspac...

[3] https://github.com/onepanelio/core#contributing
Is there a presentation to go with this?
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