skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is another reason for building rail systems. The routes are fixed. It is easy to change a bus route by moving the stops around and issuing a new map. It is, as you say, expensive to change a rail route.

Because rail routes are fixed, that means that developers can count on their longevity, and therefore they develop real estate to match it. A rail line can greatly gentrify the neighborhoods it runs through, given a decade or two to get started. This is a big reason why many neighborhoods will protest and block and vote against any rail lines being built near them, because they know it will start the timer on rising property values, rising rents, new neighbors, and the destruction of low-income and affordable housing.
How does mandatory single family zoning and parking minimums factor into your "feature?" When people want to live somewhere dense, and that's illegal to build, they're forced into suburban living even though that is not their preference.
You know how long the waitlist is for section 8 is, in say, New York? All poor people don’t just go out and ask for section 8 or rent stabilized apartments and instantly get them.
You raise interesting points.

We’ve actually discussed that a bit. We will never let them get to the point where they have to worry about eating meals, or worry that their academics have to suffer to make ends meet.

We even considered for example giving them a living allowance so they have more flexibility in picking jobs, but aren’t desperate. But it’s important to me that they understand and intelligently approach the first large financial decision of their lives.

It’s also important (to me) that my kids work during college, whether it’s waiting tables in a restaurant, or a retail job, and understand the value of money and the value of serving lots of customers (including angry customers). Those experiences never leave you. You have more empathy for someone waiting tables or taking longer or making mistakes when you’ve done it yourself.

We are pretty well off right now and our kids have a very nice life. It’s important that they learn that it isn’t the default, and that it is a result of working hard. They’re already good kids. You’re right, our job parents is not to let them hit a point of desperation. But at the same time we also want them to learn the value of hard work, juggling priorities, and having the pride of having paid your own way through college.

These are all the additional lessons outside the classroom.
Euphemism means using softer words. Getting shellshock from a machine gun is not an euphemism
That's not true anymore. Pymc4 switched backend last year.
https://www.pymc.io/blog/v4_announcement.html#v4_announcemen...
I had a jr dev connect and typed 'flushall' because he thought it would refresh the dataset to disk.

thankfully it was on a staging env, I think he's at google now.
I feel as though this isn't that surprising when you realize that for most municipalities police forces are revenue generators. Meaning that their main job is in increasing the funding of the precincts they belong to by issuing tickets to traffic violators. You could go a step forward and say they are systemically incentivized to target specific groups due to them being perceived as outsiders but I think a lot of police precincts still enforce broken window theory.
This explains a lot. You're entitled to your opinion, and I'm sorry you had a bad experience, but you're extrapolating what you saw to the entire military based on the experience of one junior enlisted member, which is . . . not going to lead to an accurate viewpoint.

The infantry is its own beast. But most of DoD is not the infantry.
I don’t remember where exactly I read that originally, but I just now learned it was a RAND employee acting privately.

> After I joined RAND in 2013, I was pleased and surprised to learn that I now shared another connection with “Star Trek,” because a RAND employee had been involved with the show years before the first episode aired on Sept. 8, 1966.

> RAND researcher Harvey Lynn had served as a consultant to series creator Gene Roddenberry, brainstorming technical issues and contributing insights that helped shape such “Star Trek” signatures as the Enterprise's computer (he suggested that it talk, in a woman's voice), the sickbay (he suggested outfitting the beds with “electrical pickups” that monitor the body) and the transporter used for teleportation, series star William Shatner later recalled.

> “Gene wanted authenticity and Harvey helped deliver it,” Shatner wrote in “I'm Working on That,” a 2002 book about the link between “Star Trek” scientific fact and fiction. An Air Force colonel who knew Lynn to be a “creative scientific thinker” had connected the series creator with the researcher, who consulted for “Star Trek” as a “private citizen, not as part of a RAND project,” a fact noted in the FAQ about RAND.

>https://www.rand.org/blog/2016/08/star-trek-at-50-how-the-tv...
Absolutely not true historically. We were brilliant in the early 80s, largely thanks to Mrs. Thatcher.
Regardless, PTSD is a terrible term because it's non-descriptive. It also makes it more difficult for a person to be empathetic to a sufferer of PTSD because it's not an on/off switch and more of a spectrum. A term like "shell shock" illustrates the actual trauma and enables people to be understand better why a person might act the way they do. It is often easier for a person with PTSD to describe themselves as a "victim of X" or "experienced Y" because the term is so disconnected from actual meaning. It belongs in medical textbooks, certainly, but in spoken language it's worthless. A perfect example of jargon.
Shell shock is just the outdated term for what we now recognize as combat-induced PTSD. Before that it was deemed cowardice or malingering.
Who would have guessed... the problem is that police and especially police unions became behemoths in themselves, effectively being ungovernable and unauditable. And you can't even change that because police can simply refuse to do their job without any repercussions and have done so multiple times [1].

Under the current set of rules, ACAB until proven otherwise. Police, in terms of the institution police, the theories behind policing, and its staff, need to be torn down completely and replaced by something entirely new, based on an actual legally defined purpose which was democratically decided and with clear metrics, transparency and accountability on all levels. No charlatans like Dave Grossman ("Killology") and his ilk should be allowed anywhere near a police precinct.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/what-can-mayors-do-when-t...
Perhaps when those things have a benefit to society, we should invest in infrastructure to make them more pleasant, rather than browbeating people as lazy if they don't brave urban arterial roads to walk to a grocery store?
> I often find myself trying to explain to people back home just how miserable and even humiliating the pedestrian experience is here.

Same. I’ve lived in Los Ángeles and Amsterdam, and it is impossible to explain to my friends and family just how awful the quality of life is in LA precisely because of the difference in attitudes and priorities over cars. Perhaps some have “nicer” (aka bigger) houses in LA than they would have in Ámsterdam, but once they leave their front door everything is objectively worse
This depends on the individual piece of wood. Bog oak can be incredibly tough as the fossilisation process has started and the minerals from the water deep into the wood.

Replacing the water with resins isn’t needed as the original shape won’t be retained (unlike a ship or relic). Care must be taken during the drying process to avoid warping though.

I grew up in the Fens and it every few years a farmer would uncover a piece of bog oak and leave it at the edge of a field.
I would be amazed if Screen Time worked reliably for more than 50% of users in the kid control use case.
A movie about Oppenheimer's life should be about... the immediate fallout of the bomb on the Japanese population?
> I was making a valid point and offering an opinion.

An opinion about what? The problem is that it was an opinion about me.

Criticize ideas all you want, but getting personal and criticizing other commenters is not something that should be happening here at all. "You had a choice" is not a productive or desirable line of conversation. Even if I open up and offer an insight into my personal feelings about myself and my own experience, as I did in my original comment, that's not an open invitation to be a target for personal criticism.

> It's your choice to interpret it as negative.

This is just more of the same "You had a choice" handwaving. How about taking some responsibility for your own words and replies and how they might be perceived by others? That's how conversation works. "I can't control how other people perceive my words" is a gross falsehood. Ask professional writers about that. Of course you have a great deal of control over it. You had a choice too.
A small balcony unit is unlikely to surpass the electricity demand of the household. If it doesn't, your meter would never be "asked" to run backwards.
If you spend timing considering how to use LLMs as part of another product or system you realize quickly that there are a lot of interesting things that you just can safely do because you can't control the LLMs inputs or outputs. I have personally examined use cases for products that would be used by children and I cannot use LLMs as it currently stands because I have no way to ensure the content generated is age appropriate.
Unfortunately trees are often seen as a danger to car drivers on roads over a certain speed limit so traffic engineers dislike them.
DOE has no “track record.” It just funds things based on government policy.

Again, no evidence that this recycling is happening at scale. And given the enormous complexity of the problem, something no one has even bothered analyzing, it seems unlikely to be solvable anytime soon.

At this point, I can just proclaim that plastic recycling is 95% effective with the same amount of evidence. You’d have no choice but to believe me on this since you already believe the same thing about li-ion batteries.
Shellshock => Battle Fatigue => Operational Exhaustion => Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

https://www.thoughtco.com/soft-language-euphemism-1692111
I disliked the anarchism erasure of portraying the Spanish civil war as a "communist party" cause (the authoritarian vanguardist type of communism that the movie focused on)
I've worked with impoverished Cape Verdean populations in specifically those neighborhoods and lots if not most do not have a car.
PTSD is more than a layer of indirection, it’s a bed for the current direction of research focused on trauma. Shell shock isn’t a good term for home abuse for example, but the current dogma is that similar neurological mechanisms underly these different kinds of trauma, thus joining them all under the term PTSD.

The benefit of this umbrella term is, or course, contingent on there actually existing such a universal neurological pattern of PTSD, which I don’t think can yet be decisively established.
I fucking hate that argument.

Induced demand is a sign of success: it allows more people to move comfortably between points, and it increases the overall economic activity by inducing more trips.

The only reasonable part of that argument is that lane expansion doesn't increase the average _speed_. And this is indeed true. Instead of lane expansion we ideally should just increase the interconnectivity by building new roads.

In the case of the Puget Sound, I-605 that would bypass I-405 bottleneck is sorely needed.
Military leadership has a great deal to recommend it.

For one thing, their principal mission is to deal with the unexpected, and come out on top.

That's nothing to sneeze at.

In the civilian world, first responders and mobsters are probably analogous, as most corporate leadership is about consistency and predictability.

First responders, however, only have goals to stop the unexpected, or repair damage. Mobsters figure out how to take advantage of the unexpected, and maybe make some hay from it.

I suspect you could relate.
Hah, that reminds me of the time I worked for a company that had 2m accounts all with plaintext passwords. I ran a script out of curiosity to see what the most popular were.

1) trustno1

2) 12345678

3) 12345

4) 123

5) a

(they also had no password rules...)
California should pursue a "reimagination of community safety". The rest of the country can watch the results play out. Either way we'll learn something.
Hey! This is my project :D Would love to talk with anyone curious about it, especially old users and Datahand employees! -- come check out the Datahand/Svalboard/lalboard Discord here:

https://discord.gg/DnGcHM4Rg8
I don’t see too many cars mounting sidewalks as I do bikes and scooters do (daily occurrence, not to mention 220+ pound guys who ride around on cheap underpowered scooters in the street), but yeah anecdotal data.
Actually, DNS the protocol is a horribly complex beast with various compression mechanism, tricky encoding rules, workarounds for MTU limits, etc. Most people "learning DNS" never even attempt to learn the protocol.

What is reasonably easy is a high-level understanding of e.g. "given this question, this is what one expects an authoritative DNS server to respond" in the human-friendly form, covering the basic kinds of questions (A/AAAA/MX/TXT/CNAME).
Why should buses EVER be a part of any solution?

They are terrible, and always will be. It's simple math: buses have to either have long intervals, or be horribly wasteful (and thus too expensive).

At the moment, the most realistic solution is to just wait 10 years for the self-driving cars to mature and then build infrastructure around them.
Ah, let us look at the data. In reality, only rich (and white) folks can afford to live in areas that are not car-dependent.

https://granfondodailynews.com/2020/01/17/is-north-american-...

> From 2001 to 2017 the number of people cycling increased the fastest among high income, highly educated, employed, white men between the ages 25 and 44.
This is the same logic as arguing cats are bad at rodent control because they spend very little time each day catching mice.
most of the stops are pointless, other than inconveniencing citizens [..] that ended in warnings

Such actions are most emphatically NOT pointless, they are preventative: informing someone that their bad behaviour is noticed is often enough to keep well-meaning citizens on the right side of the law. What's your proposed alternative? That every interaction with the police must result in a fine?
More like American scientists killed themselves.
As a tech person I long for the days of limited choices.

In this age of extreme abundance, we have lost the ability to just daydream, people watch, etc. I’m not glamorizing being bored. I used to hate waiting for 30 mins for the bus.

Sorry this is something I lecture my kids about a lot! :-)
Or in Germany, see §44b UrhG.

[1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/__44b.html
> Civilian leaders have to actually balance keeping people happy and getting things done.

I have seen civilian managers actually succeed while having both unhappy teams and failed projects. I don't know the military enough to make a viable comparison, but I would certainly not say that most private companies have a good control of their management system.

That being said, I have seen good managers too. But even then, their organizations (and, sometimes, themselves) had a lot of trouble replicating this success.
Hmm, they keep making phones more expensive and taking away features that you used to get for free, like access to SD card and headphone jack so you have to pay more to them for a worse experience. I really want the fold, but it's still way too fucking expensive, even as a business expense, I just can't justify it, and the outer screen sizing was never fixed, so it's gimped. Do I need a folding phone? Not really, but I want one. I want something different and cool and a bigger screen on demand seems awesome. I played with 4 at Best Buy and was blown away. But yeah, priced stupidly. I'll just have to keep plugging away on my S9+ with the replaced battery that still supports my expensive wired ear buds and my free memory expansion.
There are two main advantages of having two sensors:

a) Data quality: You can detect if one sensor fails as the two readings will start to deviate and then replace the faulty one

b) Extend the life of the monitor: The PM sensors with the laser and optics have a limited life. By having two inside, you can alternate the measurement and put them in sleep mode inbetween. Thus extending the life of the monitor.
Thank you! OP's view is a naive outsider's view. Anyone who actually lives in the US knows you need to be rich enough to not be car dependent.

https://grist.org/cities/black-chicago-biking-disparities-in...

In reality, only rich (and white) folks can afford to live in areas that are not car-dependent.

https://granfondodailynews.com/2020/01/17/is-north-american-...
> From 2001 to 2017 the number of people cycling increased the fastest among high income, highly educated, employed, white men between the ages 25 and 44.
I'm not the person you're responding to, but I interpreted their comment as, "doesn't the argument against having protobuf check for required fields also apply to all of protobuf's other checks?"

From the linked article the post: "The right answer is for applications to do validation as-needed in application-level code. If you want to detect when a client fails to set a particular field, give the field an invalid default value and then check for that value on the server. Low-level infrastructure that doesn’t care about message content should not validate it at all."

(I agree that "static typing" isn't exactly the right term here. But protobuf dynamic validation allows the programmer to then rely on static types, vs having to dynamically check those properties with hand-written code, so I can see why someone might use that term.)
Santa Monica, Hollywood, Burbank, Los Feliz, Downtown, Pasadena, Long Beach, are all rather walkable.
No these aren’t the same risk calculations and in fact use different measurement language - this is important because it’s an actual argument that is fallacious and regularly used.

This is the same poorly argued version of: “Milk is a gateway drug” when we’re evaluating a claim like “x% of y users used z drug before starting y, therefore z induces y” but actually irrelevant when asking for causal precursors.

That is a completely separate type of claim and argument.

“Risk to health” increases with abstention of water, the direct opposite of the mechanism for alcohol.
Pretext stops don’t generate ticketing revenue. They’re used in the hopes of finding more serious (by law anyway) crimes once they’re able to get a closer look.
Anyone reproduced that output? Seems a little bit picturesque given this paper.
> X Corp., formerly known as Twitter,

So this wasn't a joke? Musk is really rebranding everything as 'x'?
After 9 or 10 PM that's exactly how it is here in TN, USA. Dine in is closed and the drive through won't take you on foot or on a bike. I think most franchises have a blanket policy against serving people without a car to intentionally exclude... Certain People.
Of course, which is why gzip is a good baseline for "better" compressors that do have semantic understanding.

The whole idea of an autoencoder is conceptual compression. You take a concept (say: human faces) and create a compressor that is so overfit to that concept that when given complete goobldygook (random seed data) it decompresses that to something with semantic meaning!
I bought one recently (it’s great) and found the source here https://github.com/airgradienthq/arduino
or skip the preface, and start at intro n TOC:

http://catb.org/jargon/html/pt01.html
One time during my internship years ago I took down a production server because of a command I ran on it that I didn’t fully understand.

Since then I treat any prod server terminal like I’m entering launch codes for a middle system.

Anything outside of ls or cd I’m very careful, read the command a couple times before executing, etc.
I don't see Reels being anywhere close to that. YouTube Shorts seems to be a more successful TikTok copy.
> Personally, I'd just open my laptop or plug it into the desktop monitor.

Most of the world doesn't have a laptop and are not interested in getting one. Even more so when it comes to a desktop. But they would be thrilled about a device which is as easy to carry as a phone but can have as big a screen as an iPad when watching Youtube or reading news or doing a video chat. I can immediately think of at least 5-7 family members who would love this kind of device.
The company has already officially been renamed. https://sfstandard.com/2023/04/11/twitter-is-now-called-x-co...
Apologies, I was basing my take there on having biked through most neighborhoods and witnessing the worst traffic by far in those areas, so it certainly feels as though the car density is the highest. (It's also the only place I've ever been hit on a bicycle, and then had someone behind me get mad for being in the way while I was picking myself back up)
Don't miss the $15k "Spyder" with "outboard motor" and separate plinths for up to 4 tone arms at once.

As art, these things are lovely, and worth what people will pay for them.

As an enthusiast for recorded music, whose hearing surpasses the perceptive abilities of normal humanity to the point of being a handicap... Why would one ever go to wax? Analog up to mixer outputs, fine and dandy; but from there we have high rate FLAC now.

There's gotta be better ways to do Conspicuous Consumption.
I'm just out of prison. The authorities warned me that I cannot sleep on the same bench more than three times in a year or it would be classified as my permanent residence and I would have to provide utility bills to prove I lived there. This also applies for any subway train I was told - you can sleep on the same line three times in one year, but you have to switch between the lines every three days until you have exhausted all the lines. You cannot sleep in a tent in one position for more than three days unless you can provide documented proof of residence. If you sleep in your car note the street address of the nearest building to where you have parked. You can only sleep at that address for three days.

They were deadly serious about this. Obviously you can lie to them about where you have been, but you have to tell them under penalty of perjury, so now you're committing a different felony which carries 5 years in prison.
But bikers are not a large reason people aren't pedestrians.

I agree that a certain level of abstraction 'feel' is important, but we shouldn't legislate by 'feel' about how people 'feel' about bikes, that is one level of 'feel' too many.
> Roughly three out of every four hours that Sacramento sheriff’s officers spent investigating traffic violations were for stops that ended in warnings, or no action, for example.

And we wonder why our roadways are among the most dangerous in the world, especially for people not in enclosed motor vehicles. On rare occasion when people are stopped it's for racist reasons, they're not ticketed (because the cops were looking for drugs and guns, you know Real Police Stuff) so motorists learn there's no consequences to dangerous behavior.

Things aren't much better on the other coast, with NYPD issuing the vast majority of bicycling tickets to non-white riders: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/01/04/nypds-racial-bias-in-...

This is the real icing on the cake:

> The new data follows similar reporting by Streetsblog, which revealed that police issued a whopping 99 percent of tickets for jaywalking to Black and Hispanic New Yorkers during the first quarter of 2020 — a stat that worsened after Streetsblog's initial expose. A City Council bill to decriminalize jaywalking was held up in committee, and would have to be resubmitted by a new council member.