skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure, minority groups and riders of limited financial means might see some initial benefits from free travel and reduced fare enforcement—but aren’t they also entitled to protection from criminals and the chronically homeless or mentally ill increasingly terrorizing urban transit systems? And even if fare recovery is unimportant to the advocates, where is their concern for the safety and security of their constituents?

The answer of the article which you can guess by following Betteridge's law of headlines is “No” and the argument is along the lines “but won’t someone think of the children”

I find this line of thinking either incredibly shortsighted or presented in bad faith.

If the only thing protecting law abiding citizens from criminals and the mentally ill is a fare then we’re in a bad shape. And If you take a ride on the public transit in LA you’ll notice that a fare doesn’t offer the promised protection.

I’d like to rename the title of the article to “Should we continue paying fares for public transit?” and rewrite the article to answer that question accordingly.
> They don’t have enough time after working and chores to investigate which assets to purchase on the stock market, which is why banks existed before the central bank destroyed the savings market.

There's plenty of roboadvisors with no minimums like Betterment or Wealthfront. There's Acorns. There's all sorts of technology to solve this problem. Heck how much time does it take to hit "buy" on SPY in RH once a quarter? I'm pretty busy but somehow I find the time to day-trade /NQ futures.

What do you mean "destroyed the savings market" -- remember when interest rates were 12% poor people couldn't really afford much house. How much good is a savings account when you can't afford anything? I suspect they'd be more than willing to trade a 2% mortgage interest rate for having to download a second app on their phone.
you can remove it like so: https://lifehacker.com/find-and-remove-the-new-silver-sparro...
Yes, But the important question is: How efficient is that transfer?

It's most likely to be not a cost-effective procedure.
What I don't understand, please correct me if I'm wrong but don't the journalists, news agencies etc upload their own news content or links to news stories to the Facebook platform? Should they then get paid for that? Anyway, I'm into about day 6 of my feeble attempt to delete my Facebook account.
I won't assert to know Tesla's motivation for open patents—and there is no doubt some goodwill involved—but do consider that it is not absent strategic advantage.

First and foremost, it's a form of deterrence. The presumption is that others will utilize Tesla's patents to compete, which in turn guarantees that said competitor can't sue Tesla for infringing on their patents. (Such activity is denied in the open patent promise.) It's kind of an informal, de facto patent sharing.

Depending on your opinion of mutually assured destruction, this is either a good thing or a bad thing. Good, perhaps, because of accelerated progress. Bad, perhaps, because this advantage is imbalanced towards Tesla. (They get to use any other company's patents—those that also use Tesla's—but those other companies do not by default get to use other competitors' patents.)

I mention all this free of ethical opinion. Just want to clarify that it is almost certainly not just a simple act of goodwill. Despite this, we can all—at least for now—benefit from such generosity.
I don't expect the average person to be fully appreciative of every Science! thing that I find interesting. But I do think that an important goal of education and of a polity is to communicate and inculcate the value of intellectual inquiry for the common good.

That gets lost when we treat private gain as the only valid goal. It's not just a matter of getting people interested in something they might otherwise not care much about, but of overcoming the BS and outright lies put out by people who set out to attack institutional infrastructure and deliberately mislead the public.

We just had an example with the big freeze in Texas where various news commentators and political figures chose to lie to the public about why the electricity had catastrophically failed. And we've been seeing for the last year in less obvious form with people deliberately downplaying and misrepresenting the risk factors around coronavirus. Fraudsters and propagandists are literally willing to kill other people for political and fiscal gain by creating negative information externalities.

We need a better response to this than just shrugging and saying 'oh well, that's just how things are.'The Way Things Are is serving us poorly as a society.
For what exactly? The future sales?
The story and narrative is everything. It isn’t a business plan competition, no one cares about the business plan. They want to feel like they are participating in something potentially legendary. And maybe they are. There is artistry to it, you are a performer.

This is how investment decisions are made. Few investors care about your three year financial projections. You still need to seriously know your stuff, but that is not enough ipso facto. The first cut will be your ability to spin an engrossing narrative.

I can go deep into the financials but no one asks me to if the story is exceptional.
> If the poor don't have cash, and their wages keep pace with inflation

Their wages don't keep pace with the inflation of assets, so they are continually unable to save or invest their way out of poverty.

> (they do)

Consumer goods and assets don't appreciate at the same rate.

> then how are they harmed by inflation?

for the umpteenth time, they are paid in depreciating units while the real value of assets appreciates in nominal units; creating a problem where in order to save they must invest, and they continually have less real income to invest, because the paychecks are getting smaller (in real terms) and the assets are getting pricier (in nominal terms).
The dsi XL is the ideal system for playing ds games on. The lite is far too small and the 3ds like you said, leaves games blurry.

I'd also suggest picking up one of those flashcarts on ebay for a few dollars so you can load roms on to it. Or installing twilight menu so you can do it off the sd card slot.
Yup. Car market moves slowly and requires massive infrastructure. I've never bought a car that was less than 7 years old and I drove it for about a decade. Average vehicle age is 12 years and 1/4 of vehicles on the road are older than 16 years. New cars are only 6% of the market and cars are lasting longer every year, since quality and durability keeps increasing. Really they keep getting better and better.

My best guess is that in 30 years, the majority of cars on the road are still going to be ICE. But in 100 years? Who knows, we might get a fantastic battery breakthrough or perhaps we'll be driving fusion powered cars :P
All of those are SUVs. You can escape the trend when it comes to SUVs/trucks because you've basically given up on the idea of efficiency but when it comes to regular cars - you can't escape the shape...
> The point is that an inflationary fiat currency offers maximum flexibility by not forcing anyone into treating it as more than a medium of exchange. The OP is demanding the creation of a new class of thing, which is designed to preserve wealth, with no risk.

Thank you for the complement but I didn't invent banking.
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Deplorable behavior
The "Eaten by a grue" podcast had been on a mission to replay all Infocom games for 2 years now. The co-hosts are very funny and you do not need to play the games to enjoy listening to them, try it!
Here is the one dedicated to The Hitchhiker Guide: https://monsterfeet.com/grue/notes/16
I don't think it's just a matter of philosophy - I think a major problem is that modern macroeconomics has a number of counter-intuitive properties that do make sense, but only after studying it for a while and doing thought experiments. But because the system is complex and often counter-intuitive, people often over-estimate their ability to reason it out from first principles (especially common on HN, which is full of smart people but without any particular economic focus).

To give some examples of how it can be counter-intuitive (I'm not an expert, so hopefully this is all correct):

Unlike a household, if you look at the economy in total everyone can't save up money at the same time (unless more money is printed). Most of what people think of as money (checking accounts etc) is bank credit that was created by people taking out loans. In fact, savings and debt are basically two sides of the same coin - savings are forgoing current consumption for the future, and debt is a promise to forgo future consumption.

People can try to all save money (by reducing spending) at the same time, but since everyone saving at once isn't possible what actually happens is that reduced spending causes incomes to drop, and people have no more savings and less income.

It's easy to say things like it should be easy to save, inflation should be zero, interest rates should be high, etc. But there are certain mathematical limitations to what can happen. If most people have high savings (promises for future consumption), that's basically the other side of a debt (promises to forgo future consumption). Who should hold that debt? Should the government run a big deficit? There are similar issues with inflation / interest rates etc.

Unfortunately the discussion in some of the other comments here has gotten a bit heated. I'm sympathetic to how frustrating it must be to people with more formal economics training than me though - it seems like every economic discussion immediately devolves into to people (with supreme confidence) arguing against economics 101.
If you want to try for more interactivity, keep an eye out for Chestnut-backed Chickadees [1]. They are pretty common in the Puget Sound area.

I've found that those little guys will land on my hand for food [2]. They are the only bird species that has done that for me.

[1] https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Chestnut-backed_Chickade...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShPgZhSbxU0
Let's say Bob insults me and I punch him in the nose. Did Bob cause me to punch him in the nose? Of course not. Just like the Terminator, I scrolled through a list of options, and selected "punch him in the nose". I could have selected "your mother is a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries." I could have selected "do nothing".
All of the above should be prosecuted if it can be shown that they are not fully backed or cannot be fully redeemed as claimed.

https://breakermag.com/tether-now-admits-its-not-fully-backe...
"Moral abomination"? The fed controls interest rates. Lower interest rates are handed out to everyone. Credit card holders. Mortgage refinance. HELOC. Just who do you think is disproportionately benefitting in a way that's causing you to throw up the moral white flag? With sources please.
Been there, done that: https://github.com/nanoscopic/ujsonin

"JSON" parser in both C, Perl, and Golang. All three support "JSON" with or without commas as you desire and comments.
I don't know how limited someone's choices can be if they consider working for Apple to be a real possibility.
That's a good point. I can't think of an interesting (modern) car design that isn't an SUV. Perhaps the Fiat.
This page is extremely correct about how extremely under-documented linker scripts are. I wish I could learn more about them since you can do a lot of C/C++ magic.
Is it possible to use alternate linkers with Rust? Anything that helps Rust compile faster is pretty cool, especially if it allows better multithreaded scaling.
There is an exclusionary side to housing. But there's also a stock component to it. If I can buy the same iPhone as you it's because Apple is willing to build more iPhones to follow demand. Cities don't seem to follow housing demand (for a reason or another) hence the shortage and the high prices.

> A 2000 sqft house in the middle of nowhere in Wyoming might cost $200k. In SF you'll get far less for the same money. People want to be in SF, because there's more to do, but also because the better paying jobs are there. This uplifts the entire area, but also makes things like housing more expensive.

Of course people follow the jobs and other things coming from there being many people around. Hence why the house in the middle of nowhere is cheap, no one wants to live there. It's a self-reinforcing feedback loop.

But would less people want to live in SF if somehow tomorrow there would be X% more housing units available on the market such that the price would be drastically lower? Of course, there being more housing would have to have other consequences which could (and probably would) effect the desirability of the city. I'm not familiar with SF, but for example in Paris that would probably mean replacing older buildings with newer, taller ones.

That would of course change many things, the first of which is its "visual character". Which would make it look more like say NY (because of the tall buildings) than it currently does. People would try to prevent that (if for no other reason than because people are sometimes against change) but, in the aggregate, would that bring less people here? I doubt it.

However, that would probably create more jobs in the city, which would bring in even more people, and so on. After all, today's big cities all started with a bunch of shacks, right?

My hope, as has been discussed in other threads, is that with remote work gaining traction, at least some people will leave the cities. I know many people who would like that because they don't particularly enjoy city life. This would allow, of course, some other people to come in who couldn't afford it but wanted it, but maybe, in aggregate, city population would be lower. I, for example, would gladly go live further out in the suburbs if I only had to come in the office once in a while (say no more than once, maybe twice a week).
Technically CN is a private company and was at that time. https://www.cn.ca/en/news/2020/11/cn-proud-to-celebrate-25th...

Wikipedia mentioned https://web.archive.org/web/20071219233116/http://cnlines.ca... which says there was a third train in the area also.

https://www.haya.qc.ca/storm.htm The following quote is from halfway down the page there’s a first-hand account with some more details than I saw on Wikipedia. Not sure if French sources would have more:

> There was an interesting phenomenon - a locomotive used as a generator. Railway locomotives use a diesel engine to drive an electric generator and this power in many cases is AC. A 2000 horsepower CN locomotive was taken off the tracks in Boucherville and literally driven down the street to the Boucherville town hall. With the locomotive sitting on the street out front the generator is providiing power to the city offices. The locomotive is set to the third notch on the throttle which sets the engine speed such that it will provide 60 hertz power. At this speed it will generate about 500 horsepower or 375 kilowatts of power - enough for several buildings. There is a second locomotive parked on the street near the grade crossing which is held in reserve. It was supposed to be used to power the shelter further down the street but an intervining overpass which would not support the 260,000 pound locomotive ended that idea. Nonetheless this is an interesting way to solve a problem.

> In an interesting discussion on the internet on this subject it was mentioned that on the Devco Railway on Cape Breton Island there are four locomotives specially designed to act as generators in an emergency. Emergency planners may, in the future, wish to look at these locomotives since they could be quite useful in large scale emergencies.

> With a friend I went to Boucherville On January 17 to see this spectacle and met some other friends there. There were folks coming from as far as Sherbrooke to see the sight which is most unusual. It was fun to see folks having their pictures taken in front of the engine. There was a soldier in the cab at all times to make sure no one got too close to the electrical connections or otherwise got themselves in trouble. I doubt that anyone is likely to steal the locomotive!
A well fought for and earned humiliation. They went the extra mile.
By “Specifically targets M1 chips” it seems they mean: the malware distributors compiled their old botnet code again but with a new version of Xcode.
Yeah, the latter. The PSP kit is the same way.
I came here to write this too. I've had success building proof of concept apps and deploying as a Dash/Plotly app. Bokeh is also worth a look for a solution supported by the open source ecosystem [0].

A particularly useful example of Bokeh is the dashboard which gives visibility into how Dask is running your distributed compute job [1].

[0] https://bokeh.org/

[1] https://docs.dask.org/en/latest/diagnostics-distributed.html
The low performance cores of the M1 go anywhere from useless to actively harmful in critical multi thread workloads.

When you are doing serious work, the M1 is really a four core CPU and nothing else.

M1 cores have higher IPC, yes. They are also bigger and slower. Larger reorder buffers and more flexible memory models mean bigger cores which mean slower clock speeds at the same power consumption.

The M1 also doesn't have SMT, which is an easy +20% IPC.

If you measure the performance per core and the power consumption per core, and of course I'm talking only high performance cores, then last gen x86 laptop CPUs are right there despite higher performance.
I don't know Newsom. If Newsom came here writing same thing as person I reacted to, I would react with same thing. I was not looking at username.
Back in the days of Visual Source Safe you could roll your system clock forward and check something and it wouldn’t go into effect for everyone else until their clocks caught up. For example, 6 months after you leave the company.
I lived a vegetarian diet for over 30 years but eventually the effects of health problems caused by nutritional deficiencies were impossible to ignore. We evolved as omnivorous animals, to deny this history for philosophical reasons seems good and just for a while until the physical reality of our biology kicks in. If you can do a diet like this for 40 or more years without health problems you're better at it than I was, but I'm dubious that its very common.
That governments act more in the benefit of business owners than workers was observed by Adam Smith and is still true today. Further that’s a sociological fact and not a “conspiracy theory”, but I don’t have time to write ten sentences to refute your single sentence of bullshit so I won’t bother.
From my readings of history, the death rate from Covid is not enough to cause an economic collapse, even if everyone contracted it.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3028.Economics_in_One_Le...
Assuming you're down to mod it:

- Positional audio is built in, just play a sound relative to the coordinates of the player
- Video screens is harder, you would have to figure out taking the video stream and rendering it to a surface in the world. I imagine you wouldn't want to make new blocks for it, so you could just tinker into the renderer to draw a surface with the video on it somewhere in the world. The rest is just coercing LWJGL to render it
"Dreams come true" - Inception
I didn't delete my FB account. Instead I restricted the permissions to make my profile barely visible and prevent people posting on my wall and then simply stopped using it.
Interesting design. For vertical takeoff it first stores extra rotational energy in its rotor.
>Rather than leave town

The concerted effort to smear Ted Cruz for going on a preplanned vacation before a winter storm (no one could have predicted the fallout, this was effectively a black swan) feels really cheap. It also bothers me to see it shoehorned where it isn't actually relevant. There's a serious media problem in the US.

And that's bad for everyone - regardless of whether you personally agree with the usual slant, the fact that about half the country has lost trust in media because of this transparent, deliberate bias, should concern everyone. It is a failure on the part of news organizations.
Seemingly misunderstood it though. It was never a risk-free return. Nobody that offers you 12% APY is offering you a risk-free return :) that's a good rule to live by.
Would you please stop doing ideological flamewar on HN? This one was just over the top.

You've posted a ton of these and it's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"The tech giant drew a wide backlash from Australian users."

This is patently false, the only evidence of backlash has been from reports in mass media, we were all loving the new newsless Facebook.

On this particular issue Facebook is clearly in the right, it is straight up insane to expect them to pay for links to news that users choose to share.
> I think it is a bit disingenuous to think the Christians at the time misinterpreted reality,

Given the rather high volume of exchange between Christian, Jewish, and Islamic theologians historically, it's implausible that there was genuine misunderstanding on this point; OTOH, there were outright libels that were largely wartime propaganda for the Crusades.

> So if the Christians, by definition only follow the words of Jesus Christ

That's...definitely not how Christians (either generally now, nor specifically in the Middle Ages, defined themselves.)
Propeller efficiency decreases at high altitude though.
It tends to work in practice anyway. Competitors that stoop that low aren't likely to actually contest it. I understand there's a legal liability there, but again, if you research who is doing it, the risk can be very low. And if you focus just on google SERPS, they often don't notice their pages got yanked from the index.
That's OK. Take a break. Relax. When you can think clearly, come back and we can finish our discussion of why "everything is a cell in the human body" is still, in fact, a bad analogy.
Engine technology has improved substantially, so I don't think you need to adopt 1960s horsepower in order to get 1960s quality body design. Aerodynamics takes a hit, so maybe that powerful engine wont hit 140mph, but it will have plenty of power and acceleration with a modern engine. And even for non-boxy cars, look at some of these streamline designs:
https://1u4we0207ruc34o1s412c2ca-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...
There's another post that used a term I'm going to appropriate for other conversations: homo economicus. We aren't that species. We don't have perfect information. We don't have infinite capacity or attention span to continuously micro-optimize everything.

It's why people buy products and services rather than vertically integrate everything in their lives. I don't want to live Texan Power Simulator any more than I want to be mining my own bauxite or replacing my driveway. Buying a product or service is granting the supplier a profit in exchange for them worrying about and executing the business. But you don't buy power any more. You buy access to a dynamic marketplace in which you probably didn't really want to participate.

What if there were real time pricing per byte coming down from your ISP and you had to sit and stare at your screen waiting for an affordable moment to check your email? Or what if you had to stop mid-shower to avoid spending five figures to rinse the soap off? I can't imagine being happy in those cases, I don't know why I should be happy about it for electricity.
ComputeSharp, Run C# on the GPU
Forgot the term, there are words that show up only in a specific phrase. Like suicidal ideation or running amok.
Which ISO-8601 format though? There are a variety to choose from. You want the date-only format? or the date+time format? you want the T separator or space? Is time zone represented?

All these are allowed according to the ISO standard.