skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buffet, someone that says they don't invest in technology because they lazily "don't understand it" then advises clients not to invest in it. Also misses big run ups. Techs are on the top billionaires list for a reason.
I know, I know, down vote me because it’s not PC to point out that leftist thinking is racist.
The UK doesn't require ID to vote.
The recent coverage of considerations of the efficiency gap by the Supreme Court would be available here. The illustrative graphs provide a bit quicker of an introduction to the measure.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/courts...
Total nonsense. While it's true that in a liberal democracy the judiciary is supposed to be a check against the power of the legislative and executive branches, its mere existence doesn't give them carte blanche to ignore basic principles of sound democracy.

These people are representatives. They are supposed to represent the interests of all their constituents. Deliberately redrawing the electoral map in an attempt to help voters only of their own party is a gross violation of basic democratic norms. It is putting party before country in the worst possible way.
That's because it's a major city center, and even then people usually have a lot of complaints about Seattle's public transportation.

Go an hour south in your state (or over to the eastern half) and you'll see what GP means.
So they are already starting to use automation to address the labor shortage from a decreasing population.

This should be the way forward rather than importing foreign populations, because a gradual decrease of human populations is necessary for preserving more our natural resources.
I went looking for a house about four years ago. That was in 2013, a full 5 years post recession. I was surprised to see how many foreclosures were still on the market. I asked my realtor to show me, despite his misgivings about possibly buying a foreclosed property.

It was pretty much exactly how the article described it. I looked at about five or six lower priced large houses (5-6 bedrooms, 4-5 bathrooms, in the 4-5k ft range) and all were the same. They were all totally run down. Gutters falling off, carpets destroyed, holes in walls, kitchens in total disrepair. All kinds of stuff were left behind like there was a fire and the owners just fled.

My realtor also pointed out a few of the houses where the workmanship of the house was way below where it should be. The houses were built quickly for the boom. Corners were cut and it was clear even after five years, the houses would need a ton of work.

One other thing the article didn't touch on was the huge availability of retail and commercial space. There's a bunch of suburbs around where I live where businesses went under during the recession and nothing has filled those buildings yet. Retail is the same thing. There are businesses that either moved out or closed shops and those spaces remain empty, almost ten years after the recession.
A similar fee already exists for NJ Transit's Newark Airport station. Trips with that station as a terminus have an extra fee attached, which in turn pays for the train that takes people from the station to the airport terminals.
> the majority Republican legislature truly reflects the state as a democratic-republic.

The governor race in 2016 went 49%-48.8%, yet 2/10 representative sent to Washington are Democrats. Why do you think this is representative?
Yeah, paying for BART in the bay area is like: property taxes go to BART. BART uses it to pay gate agents $150k+ and do no infrastructure improvements. Another measure goes on the ballot because BART desperately needs money to fix infra. Bond is approved. BART employees strike for more money, get it. Infra improvements never happen.

I guess we gotta pay those gate agents the big bucks to stand there and watch people walk through the emergency exit gates instead of paying the fare. Seems like a six figure job to me!
Hmm, perhaps there's a difference in magnitude, and a hook maybe isn't that bad? The images I seem to recall were, I think, from larger scale fishing, where fish that were mostly bycatch were writhing on the dry, or fish that were cut open were writhing.
The model uses 48 tokens at a time to make the next prediction. As long as it can keep track of where it is on the design image, it’s not a problem. In the final version, it has roughly the same accuracy (~97%) on short and long websites.

The tougher part is integrating JS or adding hover effects in CSS. In theory, this can be done with an attention layer, but I haven’t seen any papers on it.
A little feedback - it seems a bit mixed up. If I put in "Node" it assumes I want suggestions for files that you'd typically ignore on a Node project. That's useful. But if I enter "Web" it gives me a list of web file types to ignore (*.html etc). Rather than assume I'm working on a web project (as it does for Node) it's doing the opposite of that, and making suggestions to ignore all the "Web" files.

Clearly this isn't a huge problem as your project is doing really well, but it jumped out at me a bit.
and we all believe this is a leak because it's on scribd, right?
I live in one of the communities this article is talking about in Las Vegas. I am 10 minutes from Downtown Las Vegas, and 20 by bus. I wouldn't even call it a "suburb" like most people think of it, just the normal city of Las Vegas.

What the article is really about is how when 3/4 of the houses in my community went up for foreclosure they were all purchased by real estate investors. In my neighborhood these investors were almost 100% Chinese.
The person I bought my house from owns 7 houses on my street, and he has never even visited the United States. He is not a great land lord obviously, and the renters who live in these houses don't keep them up and the area is very different than it was before 2008.

I think the neighborhood will recover eventually, but people don't realize it will take decades before the owner occupancy rates return to what they were. The investors aren't bad people, but they profited from a bad situation so much that even their investments aren't exactly what they thought they were anymore. The investors thought they were investing in super safe bonds of the "American Dream TM", and now they own a majority of the shares in "New Suburban Ghetto Inc".

What they didn't realize is that real estate isn't like another stock you can own anonymously. It's value depends a lot on who owns it. The market can absorb some amount of real estate investors without changing much, but the consequences of crossing a certain threshold will completely change what the investment is.
Proportionate representation.
> the shared host did nothing wrong as well

I'm not so sure about that. Is it really a good idea to let customers configure security settings (e.g. the TLS cert used) for domains they don't own?

I suppose as long as they're only doing it for invalid domains it shouldn't be an issue, but what if a customer were to set a cert for sitea.example (which they don't own) and then later the real owner of sitea.example comes along and wants to set up their site on the same host?

Just doesn't seem like good practice to me.

Maybe the solution here is to make the domain name sent by the SNI challenge a subdomain of the domain being validated? If a shared hosting site allows customers to set TLS certs for subdomains of a _completely different customer's_ domain name, that's most definitely a security issue regardless of whether or not TLS-SNI validation exists.
But that's the problem - people are excited about building a new station on top.

But people aren't excited about rebuilding the 2 highly damaged tunnels underneath the river (or build some new ones).

Stuff like that is hard to sell because it doesn't capture people's imagination or attention - nor does it provide for great photo-ops. :(
Decentralization of bigger cities is one of the key things where govern should take action in the foreseeable future. I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which receives 2 million workers every day. Govern should pass laws to incentivize companies to move out of the city, banks to give credits on underdeveloped areas, and heavily invest of public transportation to those areas. We are reaching a level bigger cities are not capable to scale any longer.
it would be relatively trivial to simulate a null distribution -- generate 10^n quasi-random maps which then give you the null distribution of voters across districts. Compare that null distribution with an actual map and if it sits beyond the x-th percentile you can call it 'gerrymandered'.
If you block your TV's MAC addresses at your firewall, all the intrusive "smart" features stop working.

Or have DHCPd map them to static IPs and block those.

Either way, most people on HN can do this... and most TV purchasers aren't even aware that it's an option.
Last year, I clocked in at 565 days spent in World of Warcraft (since February 2006). I have since stopped playing that game, unrelated to the time spent. I do not regret a single minute spent playing that game with my friends and family.
I think vbuffers/ibuffers/textures are a red herring here - the browser equivalent there would be re-requesting CSS files or images every frame, which nobody has ever suggested. And yes, reusing unmodified GPU command buffers is a very old technique.

The interesting thing here seems to be the equivalent of selectively patching a command buffer without rebuilding the whole thing, and I wasn't aware of any game-engine precedent there. (Though I haven't really followed graphics closely for years.)

> Anything dynamic is usually handled on the GPU-side

That mostly only applies to cosmetic stuff, e.g. particle systems or bone-weighted skinning. For anything where the output has to feed back into CPU-based logic like collision physics or AI or even coarse frustum culling, it gets messier. I believe there are async readback APIs these days so that you don't have to stall the whole pipeline to get anything out, but it's still tricksy.
The NYC airports are strange because certain terminals are fantastic at all three airports, and other are glorified Greyhound stations.
Shouldn't cities grow and fade though? If whatever attracted people is lost, it should shrink. The problem is it's really hard to shrink concrete. In Louisiana after Katrina, the main solution was bulldozers. Think of them as the macrophages of the urban immune system.
Having your 'team' win at all costs is a problem both parties share. Here in Oregon both parties are telling me, who is non registered with either party, to vote for or against Measure 101 because the "other party doesn't want me to".

You saw it too in the last presidential election, where people rallied behind either giant douche or turd sandwich because they would never vote against their team.
As I understand it, there are primarily four things that cause a submission to fall in ranking: flags can affect ranking before enough accumulate that '[flagged]' appears; the "overheated discussion detector" which I believe looks at rate of comments and votes can, when triggered, cause down weighting, though given the paucity of both for this submission I suspect it's unlikely; a mod can down-weight it if they feel it's not appropriate for the front page; it's a natural result of its motion relative to the action on other stories. The first three are active, which is likely what you're getting at. From the outside, hard to say which are contributing in any given case.
Official post from Let's Encrypt:

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/2018-01-09-issue-with-tl...
@post_break posted this link which is a good explanation (try to ignore the overly dramatic music and narrator's voice):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSI-NVD1who
> The GOP

really?

Bernie's primary & the Clintons, for starters...

And speaking of election data, I'm sure Seth Rich has something to say about this.. oh wait.

Perhaps one party might be slightly more extreme than the other but hardly to the point of singling anyone out..
I only see the HEVC mention for Germany and France. I'm not really seeing how it's "mandatory for Europe."

Anyways, for the countries that did make it mandatory, this is why it's stupid to mandate a protocol or specific technology into law. Haven't they learned from South Korea's IE/banking mess?
For anyone outside the very rich, housing is not a consumer-driven market.

When you're looking for housing, your choices are basically to move into something that exists, or living in a van by the rive. You don't get to put a construction crew to work to build your dream home.

So when millenials move into the burbs, that's not an indication that they want to. Suburban housing exists in enough quantity. Urban housing does not.
I don't think it will be possible to predict the future value of a cryptocurrency either, but gold seems to be the proxy for the direction, if not magnitude. Gold isn't significantly controlled by governments, but due to hoarding, the intrinsic value of gold (by actual consumers of gold) has been outpaced by the trade value of it for decades, if not centuries. As long as inflationary currencies inflate, deflationary currencies will be around. And I would assume that a mathematical guarantee of fixed supply would be more valuable to those people than monetary policy by gold miners.

Not that I think bitcoin and others are truly deflationary, as the presence of derivatives and fractional reserve deposits means that overall they could still be inflationary, in the same way that M0 could experience deflation while M2 experiences inflation.
not GP but in both India and Signapore, instant settlement with little or no fees is the norm for nomimal amounts like rent etc.
You mean the election-proof Republican majority will be allowed to staff the courts with Republican judges who will look the other way at their gerrymandering? Brilliant!
It was never that bad. Yes they were overused, but the ones overused were not useful for humans so resistance isn't actually a factor.
It’s odd and telling to me that you criticize the repeal of voter ID laws without actually mentioning why they were declared unconstitutional. They were repealed after North Carolina Republicans were shown in court to have investigated the ways in which minorities voted, the types of ID’s they carried, and then issued laws with ‘surgical precision’ to affect said voters, then went on to brag about their effects on the ‘Obama coalition’. If you are having a hard time understanding why they were declared unconstitutional I’d encourage you to read the court decision that declared them so, it does a good job of laying out the steps North Carolina Republicans used to specifically target and disenfranchise minority voters.
There is this thing I was thinking about:

Single homes ought to be owned, and multi-tenant apartment buildings ought to be rented.

Why? One case you are observing in the article. Renters of home don't care about keeping up their house. Spending any kind of money on it is just not their priority. The only one who can keep up the house is owner, but as you can see in this case they'll just choose to pocket the rent.

But there's a different angle. Imagine an apartment building where every apartment is owned. Some of them by elderly, some of them by poor. Now the common areas and house territory would deteriorate, because apartment owners don't have incentive to spend on either one. You could try to roll these charges into their utilities bill, but they will fight tooth and nail. Poor will say "we don't have money for this", elderly will say "we don't care and also don't have money", the rest will say "we're not paying for the aforementioned if they're not".

This is becoming a problem in countries where owned apartments are a thing. The city has to pay from its pocket for the upkeep of territories around such apartment blocks.

Naturally when apartments are rented out, landlord is interested in its state because they have to maintain steady number of new tenants to replace people moving out. Bad upkeep = no more tenants = lost money.
As a landlord (I don't like that name, it kinda has a negative connotation) I can see first-hand in dealing with new potential properties the lack of care most landlords have towards their investments. They approach it as an entirely passive income without ponying up the relatively small amount for someone to actually maintain it (Since they're too old or bothered to do it themselves).

I think a major windfall could be had with better regulations and rights renters could have protecting them from abusive landlords.

The rental regulations in my city are laughable and I have to deal with it almost every time we look at a potential property when I "assess" how much care has been put into its structure, mechanical, appliances, etc. That's even assuming the previous owner permitted the property for such use.
You're right about that. Waiting for 2 weeks was well worth all the paperwork i'll avoid this year :)
Good summary. I don’t think many 3D artists would disagree that ‘Redshift’ is slightly ahead of the small pack of GPU renders available, but switching has repercussions and limitations throughout the production. These CPU renderers will handle anything you throw at it.
Do you know of anyone running an Atlas corporation in Sweden and how it works in conjunction with the Swedish tax system? I've been curious on the concept ever since I first read about it on your blog (which over all is a great read).
> But when he buys, he either buys all of a company, or enough of it to have some level of control over it, and that's only possible these days if you're wealthy as he is.

A lot of that is simply that he now has too much money to be able to efficiently buy bits of companies. His early career was still based on value investing, but mainly consisted of regular stock purchases. Berkshire Hathaway still has decent-sized chunks of Coca Cola and various other companies on its books.
I suspect perhaps that the AI community were used to (for decades) solving _no_ problems. Now that _some_ problems are solved in their field (e.g. facial recognition for social networking purposes, playing pong, playing chess) the thinking is that now all problems are going to be solvable. I think we are going to learn that this isn't the case. Perhaps there is just a threshold of problem hardness beyond which we can't get yet at any particular point in technology-time, or perhaps there's a hard barrier waiting to be discovered beyond which current approaches just can never take us regardless of cleverness or hardware speed/density?
To quibble with your logic, if the legislature were to consistently pass laws that directly concerned the democratic process (i.e. voting) and those laws had to be overturned as unconstitutional, then their actions could certainly be construed as a disregard for the democratic process.

That another element of the democratic process (the courts) intervened to correct the legislature's disregard does not exonerate that disregard.
I think I did send photos to Signal groups?
The new Dust. Get your MVP built for $20/hour
It seems crazy that we elect representatives based on geography. Can't we elect representatives based on some other grouping? Why is there an assumption that my interests are aligned with people in geographic proximity to me?
> People would complain a lot less about the ID requirement if the ID was equally easy to get for all voters, which it isn't.

This is the nub of it. The way to disenfranchise people "legitimately" is to

1) insist on the voters having an Id and

2) make it hard for some people to get the necessary Id.

Longer discussion here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHFOwlMCdto "these restrictions tend to disproportionately impact African-American and Latino voters"
Corresponding article: https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-is-the-data-snapchat-does...
Because that doesn't work on chrome for mobile, as far as I know.
Jumping in here, but I use a 55" curved 4k Samsung as a monitor (per recommendation of my optometrist). I stand around 40" from the center of the screen.
> If the legislature passes a bill that's unconstitutional, then it's up to the judicial branch to rectify that.

I don't really agree with that, nor do I think does the Constitution. The legislature may not pass laws which are inconsistent with the Constitution; the executive may not execute actions which are inconsistent with the Constitution and the law; the judicial may not render decisions which are inconsistent with (firstly) the Constitution and (secondly) the law.

As a practical matter this means that the judicial branch often is reviewing the law, but it doesn't absolve the other two branches of obeying their oaths of office.
>I understand your comment as the details of the usefulness are buried pretty deep. I had to dig down to the 2nd half of sentence #2 to get the answer

Now, now...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article.
I'd love to see the results of the following survey given to a representative sample of cryptocurrency investors.

1) If you want to invest in cryptocurrencies, you should understand them. (true/false)

2) Most cryptocurrency investors don't understand cryptocurrencies. (true/false)

3) I understand cryptocurrencies. (true/false)

I would guess each question would have 80%+ true responses.
Practicing alignment-based hatha yoga has helped me be more mindful of my posture in my daily life.
That isn't quite true -- Raleigh (Wake county) is pretty reliably blue as are large parts of northeastern NC (which is about as rural as it gets). Also, a gentle reminder that square miles don't get to vote -- people do.

Voter ID laws are consistently shown to disadvantage poor minority voters -- especially when coupled with the strategic closure of DMV offices and an increase in fees -- as surprise we've seen here in NC.
The evidence is in the market, I don't see many people buying and selling rocks. What I do see is people buying and holding an asset that has gained hundreds of thousands of percentage points since its inception and could very well continue that trend.

The real revelation came when someone decided to purchase bitcoin from someone else, from that point on bitcoin had value and it always will.

But you go ahead and try to sell some rocks you picked up off of the ground to someone and then report back here and let me know you did.
I don't follow this at all, what are you saying?

First off, there are two pictures in the article, so the idea that "looks matter" as pertains to selfishness, whatever that means, is in question.

Secondly, the idea that "looks matter" doesn't make sense. She seems rather regular looking, not picked out specifically because of her looks.

Lastly, spending money on your children to me is far less selfish than paying off your personal debt, which did not get a photo.
Do you have any idea how many laws have been overturned because they were unconstitutional? It's U.S. Government 101.
You're betting around 30 will survive? What would be the reason for survival of so many?
As far as I can see, putting most of the state changes off-chain, without compromising security, is literally solving the blockchain scaling problem. If it can be applied to a game, it can be applied to e.g. Bitcoin (and used for payments).

I’m not saying it’s impossible, of course, just that a lot of really smart people have been working on this problem for almost a decade, without having a production-ready solution yet.
Aren't you assuming one display list per leaf element, which kind of negates the whole benefit of batching?

If DOM node X hasn't rotated but one of its grandchildren has, a display list representing the whole of X will definitely need updating!