skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like most articles on this topic, this one also ignores the most basic question, which is whether a goal of 'zero deaths' is desirable. Any such goal must be considered against the tradeoffs. Life in general, is not safe. If someone desires perfect safety, they would need to shelter themselves aggressively, avoid people, avoid activities, and minimize risks from all angles as much as they can. This is of course, unrealistic and undesirable for most people. Everyone is assuming risks all the time for purposes they think are worth the risk. The Vision Zero goal of 'zero deaths' isn't a more virtuous balance between risk and reward than any other goal.

Now onto the tradeoffs: Cars have many advantages over walking, cycling, and public transportation. If you avoid the tipping point of building too much density, cars are simply much more convenient and faster. You don't have to build your life around public transportation schedules. You don't need to wait for a bus or train to arrive. You don't need to plan walking time to/from the bus stop or train station into your schedule. You can avoid the harassment, filth, and hazards (like uncapped needles) that come with public transportation. Cycling has its own inconveniences from dealing with steep slopes, to arriving sweaty at your destination, to weather exposure, to rampant bike theft, and more. In terms of raw speed, cars are are simply much faster than either public transportation or cycling unless the city has purposely made driving significantly worse (with poor road design, by eliminating parking spaces or lanes, building too much density, setting artificially low speed limits, etc.).

Another element that I often see ignored is what life is actually like in the pedestrian/cycling-heavy Northern European cities that are so often painted as utopias. As someone who has spent lots of time in these cities/countries, I have to disagree with the notion that quality of life is somehow better there. Self-reported happiness surveys are not good evidence. Life there felt boring to me. It feels like you have a playpen within which you can move around and live, but that's it. If you want to have full/productive days where you can visit friends, go out of town for a hike, do your shopping, shuttle kids to a game, and so forth - it's simply not possible. Any travel outside the playpen (city centers) is difficult and inconvenient, and you simply don't have time to go do things to the same extent you would in many US cities. In part due to transportation choices and city design, but also due to other things that add up to "culture", life there is distinctly less social and more introverted relative to American cities.

This doesn't have to be your set of values and preferences, but I feel it's important to recognize why many of us value cities and countries that have great infrastructure for cars. Often times, I see comments that express incredulity that others may value these things and bemoaning the slow adoption of [their preferred modes of transportation]. The reality is that many of us simply value different things.
How could I establish if my employees, aka human beings with a brain and set of vocal chords or functional equivalent, use a given tool?

I know what you mean but if that's satire, it's excellent.
Watch GeoWizard. He’s pretty much the same.
>> exchanged a dozen terrible fish puns last week

seems you have a sofishticated sense of humor
There was a line of ThinkPads with two screens. I'm not really sure who they were aimed at.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r0ZlmLBCjQ
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Your comment is in wild and incredulous disagreement with widely published results and my own ~10 years of industry experience doing ML professionally in ecommerce, quant finance, education technology and quant advertising.

In fact, I’ve always found even just plain cost per unit service goes down with the introduction of more complex ML models. Their greater training complexity and compute costs are much more than amortized by improved performance, easier ability to train and deploy new models (it’s much harder and labor intensive to adjust a rat’s nest of custom business rules than a black box ML model, even in terms of transparency).

Just reduction of operating costs alone is usually a reason to favor ML solutions, even if they only achieve parity with rules systems (though usually they outperform them by a lot).

Your comment makes me feel your methodology for assessing business value and comparing with rule systems is deeply flawed and probably biased to go against ML solutions for preconceived reasons.
Critical race theory is so obvious its just boring. The boogeyman the right makes out of it just feels dumb.
Yesterday night:

An homeless immigrant being thrown from his tent https://twitter.com/RemyBuisine/status/1330979314272178185

Then, the journalist who made this shot (Remy Buisine) is beaten by the police https://twitter.com/Marco_cgr/status/1330997295618416643. He was assaulted three times in one hour (https://twitter.com/RemyBuisine/status/1330993051263791104)

And the government is currently passing a law that will allow the police to arrest anyone filming their intervention (journalists included).

The direction taken by France is indeed really concerning.
Ask HN: Embedded Finance
It's a fintech hot topic right now. Embedded finance should unlock many new opportunities in the fintech space.

What do you think about it ?

Do you have in mind startups that offer embedded finance solution ?
Interesting- they mention an example of adding a return type if you've "identified a slow part of your code". How would you identify that the complier is struggling in a particular area?
That sounds highly prejudicial. The Texas approach sounds far more sane and equitable.
For sure, and I appreciate that! I just wish everyone would go nix, or everyone would go stack, or whatever.
Why my YCombinator Company Failed
Hi Hackernews, I launched a podcast called “Lessons from a failed startup” which focuses on the experiences of YC founders who have since shut down their companies. The goal is to help reduce some of the survivorship bias out there and help prospective founders learn from the experiences of those who have tried and had to shut down for one reason or the other.

The podcast is here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1426819. I would love to have as many YC founders (and non YC) with inactive companies share their experience so if you’re interested, please reach out to me at via twitter (@perry_ogwuche) Or you can simply fill out this form: https://tinyurl.com/y3pqphm2 and I'll be in touch.

I believe there is so much to learn from the experiences of founders and companies who had to shut down their companies and I would love to learn from and share those experiences with the larger community. Talking about failures can be a scary thing to do, but those experiences could be really valuable to someone else. My number one goal is to educate others and tap into knowledge that is not frequently tapped into.
The only person/people who will know who and when put it there are some NSA emps who are most likely rewinding satellite feed from one of their spy sats right now...
That's a very loose analogy.
This doesn’t answer my question though.
> People don’t give the United States enough credit for how well we have assimilated our Muslim immigrants

Maybe because they are way fewer, having higher burdens for immigration (even given the geographical distance) and comimg from more tolerant generations/timeframes.
Sure it does -- Apple's effective worldwide tax rate is ~25%. Like every US multinational, Apple structure themselves to optimize their tax burden, but it's not like they "have a history of not paying taxes".
A little note: If you don’t already have a verified YouTube project, or an old Google APIs project, you will have to ask your project to be whitelisted or your uploads cannot be made public: YouTube API Compliance Audit Request Form: https://support.google.com/youtube/contact/yt_api_form
So it comes down to something like this

1. Comcast cable internet - $65
2. Uncap monthly limit - $30
3. Fast VPN service[0] - $10
4. Netflix subscription - $15

[0] Comcast is known for injecting HTML/JS into http traffic

So about $120/mo not too far from paying for cable 10 years ago.
I don't want to see tools built for surveillance, although that's a lost cause at this point.

But the tool doesn't force managers to use it, and the absence of a surveillance mechanism, someone who seeking an excuse will invent a metric for the purpose.

The only cure I've found for toxic culture is to remove someone from it. Usually me.
My guess would be not collecting data on users.

Google's entire model is collecting massive user data which they can then use to train their models.

It's a lot harder to do that kind of thing when privacy is a big part of your brand (thankfully). I prefer the tradeoff of Siri being behind the others if that's what it takes.
I agree that Amazon isn't good for competition, and some of their business practices are troubling. I'm just tired of seeing some of the points you made pop up in every Amazon topic.

> I haven't had a prime subscription for over 2 years now because every time I order something its a 50/50 that I will get a shitty ripoff from China.

Were you ordering expensive sneakers and purses regularly? You'd think if this was the experience of even a minor fraction of their customers (beyond the HN commenters who claim this is wide spread in every Amazon topic), they wouldn't be breaking record sales every quarter.

> This isn't even scratching the surface on how they treat many of their employees. Who is working in an amazon warehouse right now and actually having a good time of it?

Who is doing manual labor of any form and having a good time of it? Amazon to their credit gave a minimum wage of 15 USD to these workers, often ahead of the states they're located in, and the workers get full health care and benefits. I'm not saying they can't be paid more or shouldn't be paid more, but I'm going to acknowledge their agency. Over 800k of them picked Amazon over say Walmart or Costco or some other warehouse job.

> Amazon could easily automate away many jobs they never wanted in the first place, but sacrificing lower-skilled humans do the last mile of messy pick & place turns out to be more friendly to margins.

Companies hire people to do work if it's profitable is the essence of this objection? There are complex systems that lead people to accepting these jobs -- America's failing education system, the lack of upward mobility and opportunity for many citizens, lack of focus on trade / manufacturing jobs in school, etc.. You take the easy route of blaming a corporation doing corporation things.
"It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Flaybooz.”
I think you could safely outlast the battery, but you might lose circulation from the weight.
Many years ago I got banned by a moderator on a sub for answering someone's question. I did have a product but didn't pitch it directly except in paid ads on the sub. My username was the website.

I emailed the mod for clarification as to what line I crossed because it seemed arbitrary. She never replied.

So be careful with your metrics. What happened to me was definitely not cool. And, I quit my paid advertising there to boot.
I lurked for weeks, did not try to sell anything and definitely learned how the community typically communicated before I made my first comment. Reddit is definitely not Hacker News which can be harsh but mostly fair.
Isn’t there anyone decent working at Microsoft these days?

I mean, multiple teams had to OK this... so many people collectively deciding it’s ok ...
I wish the video there included the post-capture flagpole. Did the guy actually replace it with an American flag? Don't leave us hanging!
You're assuming that it's art. Maybe it's a critical piece of the machinery inside the earth, the one small probe that needs to be exposed to the atmosphere. I wouldn't want to break it and send the whole planet hurtling into the sun.
I tried that strategy for a little bit.

I also tried the strategy where I prioritized hitting all the metrics (which usually takes very little work relative to your job) and then did my job.

The second strategy led to better reviews, faster promotions, being more well liked by my boss, and an overall more pleasant work experience. I recommend the second strategy.
Printer ink then ;-)

On a more serious note, Rhodium fits the bill: super expensive, hard, durable, silvery and corrosion resistant.

Using the 7,700 lbs estimate elsewhere here, and a price of Rhodium I randomly found on the internet of $16,100 per troy oz, the material of this structure, if made from Rhodium, would cost about $1,749,005. Which is actually not bad, for a very rich person. I guess they'd have to build an even larger one. Or make it hollow and fill it with printer ink.
Don't be silly. There are no leopards in Alpha Centauri.
Open Source libraries get used all the time in popular gaming systems, what makes this one so interesting?
There are also ocean floor methane klathrates. As the water warms those will also release vast amounts.
That's just one person's model. It may be an interesting model, but it's not necessarily "true" in the sense of acceptance. Type theory is also a model, not a definition. It's useful in the practical sense, but that doesn't necessarily mean it defines "types". Competing models may be developed.
I don’t think anyone is dismissing symbolic AI. As far as I can see, it’s just not beating current SOTA results of NNs? It’s not really about ideology, it’s about what currently has superior performance. Model interpretability is not always a requirement.
Do you though?

I think there is dramatic irony if you become what you hate which makes it feel unexpected and important and memorable, but I would push back against the idea that you more likely to become something if you hate it, without further evidence, or at least some kind of exploration of why that happens and in what kind of circumstances.
It is a fine line between tastefulness and crap. Even here there is a 50/50 between folks who like it and folks who think it's just screwing up the landscape. And this is a fairly tasteful piece.

If there were a blanket "Leave it alone, it's art" policy, I can see junk popping up everywhere.
> If someone creates a derivative work (e.g. crazy colors), that new person does own the copyright in the new "crazy colors" version, but they don't own the copyright to the black and white version.

I don't think that is true at all - as far as I know, copyright on a derived work belongs entirely to the copyright owner of the original work.

If I create and sell prints of a Game of Thrones character, I am infringing HBO's copyright, and any money I make are owed to HBO legally. If you then create T-Shirts with my print and sell those, you are also infringing HBO's copyright, and all the money you make is also HBO's legally - you don't owe me 1 cent, since I had no right to copy HBO's work in the first place. If HBO wants to sell T-shirts with my print, they don't owe me anything.

However, patent law does work like you mention - you can have a patent on a technology, and I can have a patent on an enhancement over that basic technology. I can't create a product based on your base technology if you don't want me to, but you also can't create a product based on my enhancement if I don't want you to.
Can a tool make API development process smooth
Is it even possible to streamline the API development process in a way where things are smooth and effortless in terms of design and development of an API?
>I had to add $30 to my bill

>It’s $25 to use their modem and router

Honestly this is the biggest farce of the whole caps situation.

Forcing people to overpay to rent their crappy modems because it's $5/month LESS than using your own equipment which doesn't get benefits such as particular customer support or replacements. (If something is wrong with your service they'll likely blame your equipment)

Doesn't cost any more to turn off data metering on your own modem, it's just an incentive to kill the market of people having their own (often better) modems which otherwise would cost less in the long term.

I suspect it's just so they have a higher chance of padding their "xfinitywifi" network spamming more than anything.
Some comments were constructive and helpful even if they were negative. Most were not. I failed for other reasons.
He introduced me to the site! He’s a great content creator
Ask HN: Where are the Beautiful clean HTML/CSS templates?
Everytime I start a new project (i.e. weekly) I go looking for a clean and beautiful html template. It's always sooo hard to find some. What's your go-to for clean html template?
I think the issue with this can be when the metrics are being consumed by people you don't directly work with
1) I don't think it lets him park there, but it's hard to write a ticket without a plate number.

2) Agreed. This story makes no sense, although there is a picture of his car in a handicapped spot, so maybe he just did it once?

3) Lots of brilliant and successful people are assholes. Most people admire the first two qualities and not the third.
I forgot a "This "... "This Chrome extension ...".

Forgive me HN.
Everyone important in the Bay Area already got theirs. If you're important enough, eventually you will get yours too.

NIMBYism is great if you're a somebody.
1. At the moment it's restricted to NotePlan's folder in your documents folder in "On my iPhone/iPad". This is due to the sync and having different external folders on iOS and Mac. I'm not sure how this should be handled. But I plan something around that.

2. There is no separate preview, but most of the markdown is being rendered, so you don't see it. To be specific: Headings and tasks are rendered properly without markdown characters. But tables are not supported yet.
Festivus [1] for the rest of us! We find tinsel distracting.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX55AzGku5Y
> I don’t know anybody who has signed up for this $3,000/month service from AWS… it’s called AWS Shield Advanced. The big value of this service to us is that we have access to some of the world’s best DDoS mitigation experts. In the event of an attack, we can page them, and they’ll help us mitigate the attack, creating firewall rules, identifying bad actors, and offering advice. So instead of just two of us responding to DDoS attacks, we have genius engineers we can speak with, and that feels good.

Just amazed at the amount of money and time that people are willing to give AWS so that they don't manage dedicated servers themselves, I mean, paying $36k/year just to have someone manage firewall rules that's plain laughable... not to mention this is happening on "hacker news".

> They're competitors of ours and it's just not a good fit.

I sincerely hope that AWS doesn't start an analytics product and become a "competitor" because that sounds like you're going to have to rewrite all your software outside of AWS, and it sure seems extremely locked in ...
Just checked the pricing in Fremont, California (East Bay Area) - all require a 2 year agreement and some of them go up after the first year:

35 Mbps - $69.95/mo
100 Mbps - $109.90/mo
200 Mbps - $134.90/mo
300 Mbps - $164.90/mo
1 Gigabit - $499.95/mo

Seems significantly more expensive than residential service.
Best Alternatives to Postman?
What are the best alternates for postman and why, if you guys can help.. :)
That’s a major part of it, but not the whole story: https://www.fpri.org/2016/04/us-doesnt-muslim-problem-europe...

> My uncle was an educated and a skilled worker who climbed the ranks of German’s fledgling space agency to hold a senior scientist post. While he was professionally successful, his children, who were both born in Germany, struggled. They still feel they are outsiders, not quite German but definitely not Pakistani — a feeling that is repeated as they have children of their own. This experience juxtaposed with that of my father shows a clear difference. Even though I was raised in a predominantly white New York City suburb, I was never considered anything other than American. It is treatment that is extended to my children who, like the subsequent descendants of immigrants, are only aware of the ethnic roots as a distant fact. This is the fundamental difference between European and American Muslims: the ability for American Muslims to assimilate.

Note that while the US doesn’t take as many Muslim refugees as Europe, unlike Canada or Australia it has an immigration system based on family reunification, not points. So while the first person in a family may immigrate based on say an H1-B, siblings and other family might immigrate significantly lower on the economic ladder. (This was true of for example my uncle, aunt, and cousins, who came over on a family reunification visa sponsored by my dad, who himself came over with a white collar job under an H1-B.)
IRS Could Search Warrantless Location Database over 10k Times
It is interesting to note though that despite all his faults Jobs had very long, sometimes decades long, extremely fruitful work relationships. Woz, Andy Herztfeld, Joanna Hoffman, Avie Tevanian, Bertrand Serlet, Phil Schiller, Jony Ive... etc. And at Pixar too. Such high caliber people wouldn't stay around if it was so terrible or there was no redeeming quality.

The linked post by Blaine Garst is _glowing_ proudly of having worked with Steve Jobs and the all star team he assembled. Quote: "great minds collaborating and challenging each other to succeed. With the best CEO on the planet."
The "challenging each other" maybe the important point. If you are a normal dude it is easy being intimidated by a big ego. But if you are an A-player you can hold your ground?

Maybe it was even the case that engineers, who are focused on objective technical details/goals and having a thick skin, dealt best with Jobs?
That is rediculous. Your model assumes that all freedom is freedom from legislative restrictions.

If I have universal healthcare, then I am free of the worry of medical bankruptcy. Being free from things is a significant source of freedom.
On point, but I'd like to add that business people also tend not to know what is hard (for you to do) and what is easy, so they will NOT ask you to do things which would be useful for them and easy for you, and instead ask for things which are the opposite of that. This means you have a harder time creating value for them. The better you understand their work, the more likely you can say "I could automate that, it would be pretty easy", when they have no idea that it is the case.
It used to be the same about France (France has been on this slope for a decade), but now the French political situation has become more than just “something creepy or authoritarian”, and is becoming really scary even by American standards.

In a law proposal discussed today, facial recognition via drones will be deployed and filming the police will get you in jail for up to 48h without seeing a judge, and your phone/camera will be taken from you for up to six month, again without judge intervention.
On the other hand the US is very much responsible for escalating the Arab Spring, just look at Syria and Libya. It's easy to bomb a country 6.000 miles away and then just watch what happens later. That was one of the biggest mistake of the Obama administration no matter what, admitted by himself too [0]. Illegal immigrantion to Europe wasn't that bad before 2010.

0, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36013703
I think the parent comment meant that typescript is a static checker, which means it's not exercised at run time but in a prior step. Therefore "performant typescript" means to shorten the time it takes to perform these static checks, not the time it takes to run your code. In contrast, when people talk about optimizing C code they most often (but not always, of course) mean to write code that runs fast.