skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The unfortunate part about Aurora is that it is "optimistic" only in the context of all of the Red Mars trilogy, and 2312, and really only in the last chapter, where...

SPOILERS below

the characters go "well, eff it, I guess we have to make it work here on Earth". It seems to me that, in the arc of KSR's work, Aurora is the effective acceptance that humans will have to make Earth work for them, for better or worse, even as they collectively wrecked the planet. And that seems a nice segue into New York 2140.
WAZE is interesting as is Google Directions. In effect they have enabled side roads to 'absorb' the increase in car use without having to deal with actual shifting people out of cars into other modes.

In the WAZE Driver Satisfaction survey, the Netherlands came out on top. I'm guessing this is because so many people can choose not to drive to work/school/shops/etc. https://www.waze.com/driverindex

The Netherlands also have the happiest children in the world with the best child travel independence. I'm guessing creating a world where active travel (walking and cycling) is built into your environment from the getgo sets you up for life to be active. Their diet is bloody awful. ;)
I never understood the whole obsession with running applications fullscreen. The whole point of a multitasking OS is to run multiple apps at the same time. If you need to run your apps fullscreen you probably need a bigger monitor.
Having gone from a 1hr commute to about 15min/30 by bike, I can say just the difference in psychological impact is well worth it.
I don't think this is true, I think you are just overestimating the abilities of even the most advanced chatbot technologies. You get presented with a traditional conversation interface and you are expecting the level of communication you would get with an actual person, but all current consumer chatbots (including Siri/Google Assistant/etc.) fall horribly short in offering a seamless, fluid conversation. The result is a really unpleasant experience made worse by high expectations.

We are just way, way off technologically.
ActivityPub Rocks
It seems to me like the model should be able to scale beyond just HN to improve the quality of discourse elsewhere on the web...right?
Not sure one data point signals a "systemic" issue within Google.

Nor do I fully appreciate, as a reader, the unnecessary connection to Uber's sexism complaints as an editorial addition to portray sensationalist chaos in the Valley.

I don't work for Google or Uber, or anywhere in California - I am just frustrated at how bad tech journalism can be at times.
I wouldb't call social conservatism bad nor "national pride" good. And I wonder if poverty isn't behind the wealth
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Everyone and their mums has a rifle.
Why not use https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed ?
We built a simple web app which helps plan group activities which normally end in chat hell (find a date, a place to meet, how brings what etc) and discovered that the mechanisms required solve a problem of current collaboration tools just as well:

No more searching for important info, URLs or whatnot - a simple mix of Slack Group Chat and Post-Its get the job done for us.

URL: https://jaypad.de/

Screencast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLQxPaM5Jao
I wonder, are these subs blocked for users from e.g. Germany and Austria, where the swastika is still banned?
I have a project idea that might be useful for someone to learn about audio processing (and maybe neural networks?). I like to listen to audio and watch video of podcasts (and lectures and other human speech) at faster speeds. Sometime, especially if I'm trying to "skim" to see if the media is worth listening to carefully, I'd like to listen at 3x or faster. Very often, the limiting factor is the intelligibility of the actual words rather than mentally parsing them.

Some software already removes complete silences, but this is a 10% effect and I think this could be taken much further. I would love audio software that could manipulate high-speed human speech to improve intelligibility by preferentially compressing parts with low information content (like vowels and "ughs") and uncompressing, or even "repairing", info-dense parts like sequential consonant sounds.

I've looked around and haven't been able to find anything like this. Could make a nice stand-alone app, or a library to sell to a podcast player.

http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/27175/video-...
I would assume LTS and rolling releases align for some people due to impact on the user. LTS gives a long time between impacts, rolling releases spread the impact out over time. I could see every-n-months releases to hit a bad spot of too frequent for the size of the impact for some people.
An app to let people tell their mind ...
You download the app , and there is two role one listener and one that talk. Then a meeting is arranged beetween the two and one can tell what he have on his mind and the other listen.

Then they will never meet again.

And each time , listener and talker are randomise.

It s just to let people talk what are on their mind with a total stranger.

problem :

A lot with server side problem , and app developpement and mainly time and money.

I would love to be on full time on this but it's a free project ...
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Apple's Mac business is the most profitable PC business in the world, they make more profits from Macs than the rest of the PC makers in the world. They are 7% worldwide by units, about 17% by revenues (ASP around $1200 vs. industry $500) and margins of 15% vs. industry 2-3%.

It's a $25B business that's steadily taken significant market share from Windows/Linux over the last decade.

They should give this up, why?
In episode 5 or 6 (hard to keep track during a binge listen) Brian Reed has a brief moment in which he describes his reasoning for digging into parts of the subject's life. I'm realizing as I'm writing this that I can't echo all of them as it would be a major spoiler, but he ends very poignantly.

I think there's a big difference between S-Town, which to my ears was masterful and balanced, and Missing Richard Simmons which crossed some ethical lines of privacy and respect.
> The GPL is a much-needed defence. [...] We need to bring back the rebellious attitude of the late 90s and early 00s.

Open Source has been commodified into free-as-in-beer stuff to build the next product - that will spy on us.
It happened to me about a hundred times during the course of reading that article on an iPad with latest IOS. Very difficult to make it to the end.

My guess is bloated active content in support of advertising.
Drug developers have a strong incentive to overstate what they spent developing a drug. Since they are the source of these numbers, I suspect they are inflated. If you were to take all of the drugs a company developed during some time period and add up their reported development costs the total would likely far exceed the companies total expenditure.
This reminds me that I used to do my Dad's Tax return preparation with MONEY.BAS (QBASIC) for far longer than we had any right too.. definitely in the 2000s.
Also there is a lack of youth going into the trades. Welding, electrical, plumbing, appliance repair etc. We have devalued those careers and now they just don't have enough apprentices.

I'm a fan of what Mike Rowe is doing to raise awareness around the trades. http://profoundlydisconnected.com/foundation/
Just for fun: https://www.playnesta.com

100% JavaScript NES Emulator... loaded with about 35 games. USB Gamepad support, Save Game/Load Game, etc.
Well that's better than most IoT projects. The hardware is the special part anyway, so it seems fairly reasonable to have backend servers that are easily replaceable with open source software, or are open source themselves.
This article is more about systemic state corruption though and not petty street crime. There's still gangsters in Singapore and Hong Kong, and if you worked at a newspaper writing about them and their connections to politicians you would have problems. If you decided to start writing about the prostitution racket in Dubai you could disappear pretty quick too.
Missed that too, so i installed an app "metamove". Sort of works fine!
It's crazy to think they should "get out" of easily the most profitable and successful PC business in the world.
I'm using a large corpus of Powershell scripts, mostly written by enthusiastic Microsoft consultants, and even if I know exactly what they do I cannot stand the mysterious imports, the sequences of script invocations and bare statements that leave the session with the desired invisible state (and, conversely, closing and reopening the session after every major command just in case), the automagical option handling, and so on.
Like Ricochet (https://ricochet.im/)?
They often have the most challenging problems around scale, security and performance. The "moral" aspect is a continuum and there are tens of thousands of engineers working in fields that some would call questionable (adtech, intelligence/surveillance, copyright enforcement, credit rating, hyper capitalist companies like Uber etc.)
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@mehdi2017
Mechanical and civil do at the very least. I generally find the electical engineers are more like programmers than other engineers.
It just doesn't seem what the H1B was meant for.
Erwin Schrödinger, “What is life?” (1944)
> Nowadays I'm on a Xubuntu box, and I've managed to have zero system-wide configuration.

That's awesome.

In most cases, you don't even need to customize much.

I was arguing about the ability to customize that's just not present in OSX and W10.

Knowing that you can always change things is liberating.

I do believe that people go overboard sometimes, but that's not the fault of plaintext configs at all.

I've been running XFCE on Arch with just a handful of visual tweaks for 3 years now. For the most part, everything just works.
Has music streaming killed the instrumental intro?
car flow improved when 42 traffic lights zonked out in beverly (east yorkshire, UK, the earth)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3266133/All-FORTY-TW...

(kind of amusing that the number is 42)

Related conclusion is that crowdsourcing decisions works when a few conditions are met (all related to decentralized information). More here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds#Four_elem...
Can you point to all the things you have modified in programs where you do have source access?

I don't find the argument that users will go around making changes and testing them on OS level code to be a credible reason for open-sourcing anything. If you want to say, that having the code helps in other ways for development, or debugging then sure..
Dubai is plenty safe unless you're a woman getting raped aka enjoying sex outside of marriage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecution_of_Marte_Dalelv
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The most crowded co-living situations I ever saw were in Amsterdam, a place with a dramatic shortage of affordable rental housing. They were a mix of students and newly working people.

> Who perpetuates this system?

Low-cost rental housing generally isn't a good financial proposition.
Public employees in most other developed countries seem to do a pretty good job, though. Why do you think they succeed where America fails?
I agree with you, and not with the article. I'd also like to add though, that I believe this podcast to be what John B wanted all along. He wanted to leave this behind as some form of legacy.
First they came ...
Not surprising at all, in Italy Naples is infamous for being the city where things disappear unless they're well nailed down.
Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent.
I can't believe someone would look at the forecast and say "Oh no, it's slightly above room temperature today, way too hot to go for a hike!"

I'm in my early 50's and would (and do) gladly go for a 6 hour bike ride in that weather...
New England, New Jersey and parts of New York start with a 0.

http://www.mapsofworld.com/usa/zipcodes/images/usa-zip-code-...
> The other thing this author tried to make this about was politics.

I think there is something to be said about politics, here, but it's not about specific countries, ideologies, or personalities - it's about the nature of how we do politics.

In order for anything interesting of scale to get created, it required multiple users cooperating. In some cases, this means convincing them to abandon the project they want the most, in favor of the group project.

Also, as an art project grows, it necessarily ran in to border conflicts with its neighbors. How these conflicts were handled - whether through overwhelming force, negotiation over borders, compromise, or other means, says a lot about how people deal with conflicts in general.

i.e., the fact that the board ended with so many intact artworks, with intact borders, is notable.
Is this condominiums/highrises? When I was looking for my apartment here no one ever asked for that. But I also didn't really look at places that had a leasing office either.
And, as a counterpoint (without spoiling anything), if it starts to feel uncomfortably invasive and exploitative to you, you should just stop listening, as it only gets more and more so.
Check out nbdime[0], it might be what you are looking for.

[0]https://nbdime.readthedocs.io/en/latest/vcs.html
I had the easiest commute I've had in a while yesterday, complete with the miracle of traffic moving just fine on 285. It reminded me of one of those days where there are flurries is some mountain town and so everybody in Atlanta stays home.

On the other hand, Friday evening was one of the worst Atlanta traffic jams I've ever been in, so I don't know what the new normal is.
This is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Older people will absolutely use bikes if you have a good cycling culture and infrastructure. And the ones who can't will have fewer street lanes, but also much less traffic.
Problem: It's hard to configure Vim/Neovim to work like an IDE, and the terminal UI isn't the same as something like Atom, Sublime, or VSCode. Vim plugins for those editors never quite hit the sweet spot for me in terms of using the muscle memory I've built up.

Project: Oni (https://github.com/extr0py/oni), a Neovim front-end with out-of-the-box IDE functionality (right now, supports JavaScript & TypeScript).

Cool to see what everyone is building!
In San Francisco this is called the "Burning Man rapture".
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blame it on chomsky
That's a great idea, like the ban the box campaigns to prevent discrimination against ex-con's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_the_Box
http://bantheboxcampaign.org/

I bet some sort of uncollege[1] labor group that calls out and rallies/lobbies against discrimination would be effective too.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/UnCollegeNetwork
This is a great point and I wonder if JetBrains released a free IDE for individual programmers it would help adopt their technologies wherever these programmers work.

Yesterday I took a look at their tools and they are all absolutely great but I didn't download a single one since they are all 30-day trial and I am as poor as fuck.

So tease me, convert me, let me use your tools for years and when the time comes I am ready for an enterprise I'd take my knowledge with me, and my tools.

JetBrains are you listening?
Same. Linux on a P50 with 64GB ECC ram, Xeon. Battery life isn't hot, but I'll suffer this compromise for the power and flexibility it gives otherwise.
Nice!

Lately I have been looking into javascript grid components and have not found a good solution.

What would be a good javascript grid component that satisfies the following:
1. Integrates easily with Vue
2. Has sorting
3. Has grouping
4. Has inline editing (formulas are not required)?

OTOH I would be happy with a software that is basically a web frontend for Postgres that can be customised in a way that a client can only see and edit specific fields based on assigned rights.
Drawball
Cast aside the revolutionary rhetoric for a moment and reconsider what you are saying. Isn't that the same rationale of spree killers, rapists, and other violent low-lives?

A few in recent history have been moderately wealthy, but their poverty lies not in the economic but rather sexual market. Society has denied their right to reproduce, and did not arrange a marriage for them which could have prevented their killing spree. Were they morally justified to harm others?

You are saying that gives them a license to kill. Society denied them something, so you are saying that a justifiable response is to lash out at others. You see there is no point negotiating with people like that, that's when violence is justified.
Yes, me too. Admins were fine with a hammer and a sickle and an LGBT flag, though. We all have biases, after all. ;P
That would explain why some of us in Atlanta are saying it's worse than usual and some are saying it's better.
In the UK it is less of an issue, because the industry is well-regulated and gambling (esp sports betting) is seen as an acceptable pastime akin to social drinking.

Occasionally people expressed disquiet, but since the main alternative in London is working for banks, there wasn't a great deal of choice. Personally I don't see the excessive advertising we are subject to as much better for society than gambling being available, but hey.
While some users might feel that way, I'm not sure how an image (which is a collection of pixels on a screen that has many different historical interpretations) would threaten, harass or bully someone. Or incite it.

Of course, these days ad networks are hyper-sensitive about this topic, so from an advertising perspective it does make sense.
Do you have children?
> I don't think there is anything actually political on the final /r/place piece other than country flags.

There are various flags of different anarchist movements, very long trans* flag, LGBT flags here and there. IMO, all these count as "actually political".
I am working for data engineering consultancy company and I noticed that we often need large datasets for various reasons, but it's hard to find those. So we started building open source tool which allows us to quickly generate large volumes of data. The idea is to create DSL for describing the data and allowed values and the generator should generate the data set based on that.

https://github.com/smartcat-labs/ranger/blob/master/README.m...

Any help and ideas are more than welcome.
I would love to see a ridesharing company weigh in on how trip volume / average trip length / average trip duration / average street road speed has been affected by the collapse. They are the only party I can think of that would have accurate data on this subject.

This article focuses on local traffic congestion, which I honestly don't think is helpful in assessing the true effects of the bridge collapse.

While at first, it may be surprising that traffic isn't 10x worse without a segment of a major highway, traffic is the flow of individuals who are aware of traffic conditions, much like traffic on the internet.

My predictions for what is currently happening in Atlanta:

* Less trips are being taken (telecommuting / not going out for dinner)

* Mandatory trips average length has increased

* Mandatory trip average duration has increased

* Average speed on street-level roads has dropped
I don't think that argument is easy to defend, considering how big the internet is and that this is just a copy of existing ideas that have been done before.
It seems that given the restrictions on how often a single user could actually visibly change the image, coupled with the sheer volume of changes, no, the reverse is almost certainly not true.
I was replying to a comment about crime in Mexico City, not the article.
> History creates lock-in, and history is really hard to move around.

It doesn't need to be. For example, I moved my email between IMAP servers multiple times simply by dragging & dropping a swath of messages in Outlook. That Outlook (of all programs!) is the only tool that I know of that makes this easy is not a problem with the decentralized nature of email but simply with mediocre client implementations.
"A common misunderstanding is to interpret Gödel's first theorem as showing that there are truths that cannot be proved."
I've heard it stated that confusing way so many times in popular media. And then often follows quantum mechanics, and geniuses going mad, and the world is just your imagination... forever.
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This rings completely false to me. I went to college the first time in 2000. At that time, it was common knowledge that a liberal arts degree was a portal to either grad school, professional school (law mostly), or a low wage job, unless you distinguished yourself and made your own way. Law school was already flooded, and graduate schools were already overproducing phds.

I chose to go into graduate school in philosophy, but along the way I also decided to not take out any debt, go to a public university, and to work my ass off. Why? Because I knew I couldn't afford debt of I didn't make it, and I knew I'd have to be summa cum laude with killer letters of recommendation to make it.

How did I know all that? It seemed like common sense to me, but I probably did some research and talked to people. And of course my grandmother wanted to know how I was going to make a living.

And I did make it, but I dropped out of the phd program, took out some loans, and got a freaking csci degree that paid the loans off with a signing bonus, because I discovered that I can't stand academia. Go figure.

This was just... Common sense to me. Don't burn money to do something with low returns. Do burn money to get a valuable degree with returns. Above all, think.

At the time, as now, I feel a great deal of contempt (an ugly, evil emotion to be sure) for people who take out massive debt to be molly-coddled at a private liberal arts college with a sticker price approaching MIT and no connection to the real world, or who fund their entire college degree with loans and no work (i worked through both degrees). I try to convert that into compassion or sympathy, but I haven't found success yet.
I recall seeing articles a few years back about SF neighborhoods petitioning google to stop showing cut-through routes that increased the traffic on their side streets. I don't think it went anywhere but google does occasionally bend to this kind of thing (see the Hollywood sign controversy)
I, too, thought that was a big part of the fun! I liked the competition of it all. I'm a bit surprised to learn this wasn't a popular sentiment.
I had an idea for a deal aggregator, put together an MVP to test it out:

https://www.swipe.sale
Interesting that they allow the hammer and sickle.
Well, 5 years ago it was in the middle of crisis, but 10 years ago it was way richer and better place than it is now, i don't know what development do you mean. Then, Brits left, real estate prices collapsed, and it became much worse.

It's easy to see that Cyprus GDP is now lower (both nominal and real terms) than 10 years ago.
If one.js changes but two.js doesn't, then two.js should come from the cache. Only one.js should be fetched from network. Sticking all assets in an /assets/v2 folder invalidates everything.