skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're probably just thinking of Times Square. The vast majority of people that live even in Manhattan do not live in horribly suffocating/overcrowded neighborhoods. To give you one example, I live in Stuyvesant Town, which has a population density of 200k/mi^2 (which is greater than the overall population density of Manhattan at 170k/mi^2), and yet Stuyvesant Town feels positively residential. It's full of parks, playgrounds, trees, green spaces, walking paths, etc., and it certainly never feels overcrowded. If anything it feels like a respite from the parts of Manhattan that do get super-crowded, which are inevitably the commercial/tourististic hubs.

It takes population densities of greater than 1M/mi^2 to truly feel overcrowded, and even in NYC you only see such densities in localized incredibly high-traffic spots, like Times Square and Herald Square. The vast majority of Manhattan is never so crowded as to feel suffocating.
I made it crop the image if you make a selection while holding Ctrl. It's not how it's done in any version of mspaint, but I considered it useful enough.
I remember having to follow this guide when I needed
to flash some cRIOs using some garbage Win32 flasher
program with an Acer ICONIA A500 running a barely-functional
build of Arch... I hope they've managed to automate this step in the
Android APK build process in Wine 3.0.
I recently discovered that Microsoft literally will not sell you Office for a computer not connected to the internet. You cannot buy this product, I tried very hard, lots of escalation, etc.

Needless to say, LibreOffice works very nicely in an offline environment, and it's very rare that I find a file it does not handle well. (The only example I have — a Word document with Track Changes enabled, heavily revised by multiple people, multiple times over many days. L.O. seemed to lose track of the changes and showed a wrong document. I imagine for most people this is pretty rare.)

And you don't have to worry about malware (for those tempted to pirate Microsoft Office).
I just derive some perverted pleasure from seeing Scandinavians hitting themselves in the name of their self-righteousness.
However, I disagree about the lack of a connection between ORNL's work on MENNDL and scientific discovery. I'm going off of what ORNL told me, but according to them, using DL has been hard for scientists and this could make it easier. I am a writer, not an engineer, but here is how ORNL explains it: "Because scientific data often looks much different from the data used for animal photos and speech, developing the right artificial neural network can feel like an impossible guessing game for nonexperts. To expand the benefits of deep learning for science, researchers need new tools to build high-performing neural networks that don’t require specialized knowledge."

Their news release has more technical detail than I could put in my blog. https://www.ornl.gov/news/scaling-deep-learning-science
Very nice! I've been considering attempting to port an OS that I've been writing to an ARM device like the Pi, but I've never really looked into it much. With that said, I'm surprised the booting portion is so easy, I was under the impression that for the Raspberry Pi (And ARM devices in general) it was more complex. I suppose though, this is started after the bootloader that's normally on the SD card correct? I would imagine that makes things a fair bit simpler if that's the case, since the bootloader would take care of all the secret sauce.

Do you have plans to implement paging eventually?
Normal people are definitely able to afford a car. Maybe not a car as nice as if they lived elsewhere, though.

The number of cars per capita may be the lowest in Western Europe but it is not so far from the UK figures, for example:
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...
Here's a really cool story about a mall that has almost all local retailers.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/scenes-inside-houst...
> so that 1 hour (or longer) commutes via car are not the norm.

Is this really the norm in the states? Is this just home -> work route or does it include dropping off kids, shopping,...? Genuinly curious...
5 More Gotchas of Defer in Go – Part III
Dane here. Most people can adford a car if they want one. Normalt you get a loan and pay a monthly rate over the lifetime of the car. Most people who don’t need a car however would rather save the money and use public transport or bike around. I bought a car at the inflated prices, an I wouldn’t want them lowered. I do however feel that the lower fees for electric vehicles was a good thing.
> using general fund money to build highways

You're forgetting about trucks (and other service vehicles), and though trains are better, you can't have trains everywhere

> providing free/underpriced parking in every downtown in the US

Downtown is predominantly paid parking, and not underpriced either
I don't know. Why do we push files to production on a Friday evening? Why do we snipe hot-fixes into production via FTP? Because we are all crazy & lazy bums, I would guess.
Chromium can work directly with Wayland afaik. Do a "fake" Wayland implementation and Chromium will happily think it's drawing crap
Where is my textbombattack.com website and cute logo?
INS Ecosystem Hits TOP-10 Crypto-Exchanges Including Binance, KuCoin, OKEx
> Figuring out how to cure disease with CRISPR. Editas, Intellia, Crispr Therapeutics, and The Broad Institute, all just in Boston.

Hopefully, all that innovation might go some way to improving the health of US citizens which is frankly shocking when compared to the amount of innovation that is apparently going on.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
Plenty of people don't talk down to 5 year olds. That's an assumption you've made regarding 'explain like I'm 5'.

Ironically, that's what makes 'explain like I'm 5' so useful - it takes away the assumptions people have in their heads and forces them to use simple language and explain things from first principles.

It's quite powerful really. Richard Feynman was famous for being to explain physics in a way a layman could understand. Neil deGrasse Tyson does the same and people love it.
Some of Trump's advisers are not to be underestimated. Their brilliance is in using Trump -- who has off the charts emotional intelligence -- as a president. They frame the issues, he taunts and captivates the press.

I would point to the incredible power struggle in the white house as a product of the undue behind-the-scenes influence.
The thing is - 100% tax on cars is libertarian. You charge car owners something closer to the costs they cause to society. Compare that to the USA where we heavily subsidize car ownership.
It depends on where you live, but things like infrastructure are almost supposed to be paid for by drivers in the form of fuel excise taxes[0] or paying road tolls. Paying for parking isn't uncommon either. I agree that pollution is something that needs to be addressed, though.

If taxes on cars were to increase for infrastructure, it would feel like the government is double dipping. Not to mention the general benefit in infrastructure for society as a whole. The benefits for economy can't be understated, not to mention the increased taxes you get across the board.

It's actually quite uncommon to see free government-owned parking lots where I live and when you do see it it's usually a loss leader to encourage people to visit local retailers (where the government will make its money back through sales taxes, income taxes, fuel taxes, encouraging jobs so unemployment, etc).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_Australia
I understand the viewpoint that less cars = better cities. But worse cars? Because this heavily penalizes buying better cars. I understand the need to segment the tax burden by income level, but it seems reasonable to make the maximum tax level so that, e.g. you pay flat €50k in taxes if your car costs more than €50k. You can play even the safety card here: more expensive cars have more advanced automation and safety features, so their use should be encouraged.
Probably because collateralizing with the thing your borrowing is kind of pointless, yeah?
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trumps-top-9-accomplishmen...

http://blog.dilbert.com/2017/11/13/president-trumps-2017-rep...
And let's not forget asbestos, which is a naturally occurring mineral.
Coding My Growth Mindset: A Self Reflection
I'm a smart leader, and I am disliked. And it's this exact tone that they dislike most.

They feel I lack empathy, but empathy is why I do it.

And when someone likes me, I know they know we know what's up. That's also why I do it.

I find those who work hard to be liked creepy. I also find managers and supervisors who are paid to be your friend disingenuous. And I'm not going to butter someone up before I tell them they made a mistake. The last thing I want is to spoil them or keep them in a bubble. But I'll also tell them to focus on the problem, and not themselves. Don't be part of the problem.

Being liked is work in business. In our private lives it's personal preference, but you can also choose your friends. Professionally, it's a strategic decision, because it will inevitably involve people you may struggle to like personally.

The prevalent anti-intellectualism does intellects injustice more than anything else. Many would rather be spoiled than informed. They'd rather protect their ego than gain competence. They'd rather be forgiven than corrected for their mistakes. And they'd rather be paid for being who they are, than be told they need to work or put in the work.

No one is paid for being who they are, not even celebrities. We're all being paid for our work. Our image is part of our work, even for non-celebrities.

Anti-intellectualism is also at the root of anti-professionalism. And it's a huge issue in America.

Out of pragmatism, out of optimism, and out of empathy, I am sorry, but I choose to be unapologetically professional.

I am the apologetic asshole.

And that's what's up.

(didn't expect this comment to turn out this way, but I'm submitting it anyway)
he means philosophically, not literally/technically

i actually think it's a pretty good simile

its bringing a new tech development to the masses in a very clunky way - just what AOL did.
Rust and QML: a timely example
At least of a similar range level yeah. Withing comfortable distance instead of an uncomfortable or insurmountable one.
T-Mobile Identified an Industry-Wide Phone Number Port Out Scam
It's totally overrated skill. After school you are never forced to stay where dumb people are. You can just move. Average people are easy enough to deal with even without suffering dumb people on daily basis for ten or so years while dealing with your own process of growing up.
Half of Hong Kong's population lives in public housing, as does 82% of Singapore's population:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Hong_Kong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Singapore

Which probably reflects that people are more willing to be exposed to market fluctuations when their basic necessities are met by the state.
The "glitch" css animation on the title of this article is sweet.
These are very common in the East Bay (they are called "inlaw" units). They haven't solved anything but allowing property owners to live for free, while desperate renters pay their mortgage to live in a garden shack. Many have highly inadequate or nonexistent heating/electrical/plumbing and yet charge equally or more than a brand new apartment. You don't get a mailing address or any utilities in your name either, which makes it impossible to establish residency. I honestly question how the practice is even legal.
This has been my simpler workaround at times. Use VPN for intranet specifics and do rest of work from Linux with shared folders just in case on the Windows side. Though we're not forced to use Windows for our VPN but I only ever got it working on Windows first, recently on Ubuntu, hopefully I can export my settings somehow.
Yes. Different economy, different drivers, but a similar global economic decision logic consequence I suspect.
> I used to use massive amounts of crawled web data to accurately forecast earnings announcements months in advance.

This is really interesting. Was it using sentiment analysis from news-like sources, or tracking prices/releases, or some other information?
That is incorrect. You need to be a permanent resident or citizen to be considered for in-state tuition.
>I'm assuming most normal people are unable to afford a car then

They can actually. A new "normal" car would probably range between 60,000-150,000 DKK ($9,600-$24,000), but you could easily get an old used car for around 13,000-20,000 DKK ($2,000-$3,200).

Now don't get me wrong, I certainly am not happy with the fact that we have to pay that much extra, but it is not a problem unless you want a really fancy car. For what it is worth, Danish salaries are quite competitive for normally low paying jobs. Take for example flipping burgers at McDonald's full time, would be around $19/hour, around $2,700/month (before tax[0]). Or when I was younger I worked at a gas station night shift for around $3,500/month.

>The same applies to alcohol etc. Let people be free to decide and do what they want to do.

Heh, funny you should bring that one up—Denmark is waaaay more lax with alcohol than the US, and even its neighbour countries, Norway and Sweden.

[0] Tax calculation would go roughly (all in DKK):

- 17,000 (salary) - 5,400 (tax-free) = 11,600 (taxable)

- 11,600 - (11,600 * 0.38 (normal tax)) = 7,192 (after normal tax)

- 7,192 - (7,192 * 0.08 ("work" tax)) = 6,616 (after ~all taxes)

- 6,616 + 5,400 (the tax free) = 12,016 (final payed out salary)

EDIT: As an addendum I should probably add that the public transportation system works really well in Denmark, and if you live in the city, you don't need a car, you'd either go by train/metro/bus or bike.
> Instead you begin feeding plausible, but wrong data (like, add a random number to price). This will usually cause much more damage to the scraper than blocking would.

Honest question, would this open the site up to legal liability?

You can never identify a bot 100%, so if you intentionally provided false information to an otherwise legitimate user, and that user is harmed by your false information, isn't that a breach of contract that would make you liable for damages based on the harm your bad data caused?

What if the user claimed that the site was acting maliciously, providing lower prices to cause a market reaction ala what happened to coinmarketcap? How would you prove that you were only targeting bots or provide statistics that your methods were effective instead of arbitrary. That stuff matters when money is lost.

You'd have to have a clause in your terms of service that says "if we think you are a bot then the information we give you will be bad", then users could (and probably should) run far away, since they have no way of knowing whether you think they are a bot or not, and thus can't trust anything on your site?
Interview of the IIT Roorkee Team Qualifying for ICPC World Finals
Here's an interesting thought: That is is not true that "the business of government is business", as President Coolidge said, but more that the business of government is the regulation of business. A well-leveled playing field can accommodate the free market, assure fair competition (which will in turn assure more competitive pricing), and will protect against unwanted side effects, like a poisoned environment, or use of slave- or underpaid labor.
Never been to Western Europe, but although Eastern European building probably look dull, but they are not low quality, at least not compared to what they built in the US; you need also to keep in mind that the Eastern Block was poorer. I do not think there is not enough communal spaces in general, but there are problematic areas, true, but in observation, all the problems in urban development started appearing mostly after the fall of the USSR. Today they are building up with little regard for proper urban planning.
More importantly they're worried about status rather then listening or being curious.

If someone's verbiage goes over your head you ask them to define it for you.
Last I heard (informally), the price of 2nd-hand bikes has fallen through the floor in China, and it is no longer economically viable for thieves to steal bikes due to risk and high opportunity cost, which led to a sharp reduction in bike theft.
Charisma: if you like it, it's charisma, if you don't it's a sense of entitlement.

Metaphors: they're cooked up in the moment.
The most crufty part in both mozilla's code base and libreoffice code base is essentially equivalent in that it tries to solve essentially same set of problems (cross-platform UI and object model), but the implementation is significantly different, because in mozilla's case this layer of cruft was introduced 20-ish years ago as a complete rewrite of the thing (and most of the really ugly hacks have to do with sub-par C++ compilers and support for classic MacOS), while there was no attempt at a major rewrite of the staroffice codebase until libreoffice (and it is quite obvious that the way libreoffice's rewrite proceeds is at least partially motivated by experience from how the netscape->mozilla rewrite suffered heavily from second system effect and in the end failed at least from the bussines standpoint).
> Kids have excellent bullshit detectors

I don't think that's particularly true, moreover...

> because a.) they haven't been socialized to keep their mouth shut when they see bullshit and b.) they don't have incentives to keep their mouth shut when they see bullshit.

Neither of those indicate that they have excellent bullshit detectors, nor are they plausible reasons why they would do so; instead, those are reasons why “kids generally provide third parties with more transparent insights into the output of their own bullshit detectors than adults generally do”, but the fact that adults are more circumspect in announcing that they have detected bullshit than kids are does not mean that adults aren't fat better than kids at detecting bullshit. (Being circumspect is also defensive mechanism against bullshit; a bullshitter who knows that they have triggered your B.S. detector will fine tune their approach to in response.)
jspaint has a special shortcut, you can hold Ctrl while making a selection
Aside from the question of fairness, it has driven Copenhagen to have more bicycles than cars on the streets, and massive improvements to bicycle-friendliness of streets to accommodate this. It's surely an improvement from a congestion, pollution and population health/fitness standpoint.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/nov/30/cycling-revol...
A smart leader need more than technical/logical intelligence. They need emotional intelligence and charismatic/social intelligence. Who cares if you can repeat all the numbers of PI when you are not able to look a crowd in the eyes and pick up subtle social cues?
Collapse of EV sales in Norway? Quick, someone needs to call Tesla about that..

https://electrek.co/2017/12/19/tesla-breaks-new-records-norw...
The socialism playbook is to blame capitalism "foreign economic sanctions" and "economic warfare". It's what the Russian premieres did, what Castro did, what Chavez did, and what Maduro is doing.

Also they claim that domestic capitalists are hoarding and causing the system to collapse.
Same argument can be applied to labor conditions in the factories 100 years ago. It was wrong then, and it might be wrong now.
Sorry. I meant to express that Google represents a company that has been successful at centralizing a lot of data, wealth, and engineering ability. Others include Apple, Amazon, Facebook, etc.
these days, i wonder if the dynamics of 'word of mouth' is still operationally the same. the internet is isolating and alienating in it's own way, so i'm uncertain how well the 'old ways' (circa all of ~20 years ago) still function.
Usually cargo or charter operators in Africa, or the like.
I'm not sure what part you're referring to as FUD - the cost?

I definitely agree with the rest of the comment. It's a good solution. I inherited a software product that worked like this at a past job, and it was great. (And now I'm trying to convince my current job that we want to move to this model for normal servers in datacenters, very much not IoT.)

A couple of complications:

- You should think about the fact that this means your root partition changes. Either you want to structure your system with separate read and write partitions and bind-mount the relevant directories from the write partition, or you want to make it completely read-only / stateless. Remember that /var/log is traditionally on your local disk, so if you don't do anything special, you'll even get two /var/logs on each device, which may or may not be what you want.

- You do want a management server, as this document suggests, to track which devices have actually updated and which haven't, so you can manually send people after devices that are just behind a terrible internet connection.

- You want some mechanism for detecting if the new version doesn't work and rolling back; this is basically as simple as setting a "I just tried partition X, if it doesn't work don't try it again" flag in the bootloader on boot, and clearing it once userspace is up (and when the partition gets rewritten with a new version).

- The updates should be signed etc. as described in the document. Depending on your threat model, you might want to prevent replay attacks that cause an attacker-controlled downgrade by giving it a higher-versioned filename; either use HTTPS to an update server you control, or use signed metadata files with timestamps.

The fact that you get image-based deployments instead of dealing with apt upgrades from arbitrarily-old versions (and thus inevitably slightly drifting configs on devices installed at different times) is fantastic.
To be clear, I'm optimistic about Quebec. It's growing rapidly, unemployment is low, and there's an increasing energy visible in the streets.

But, I think it would be crazy for an american, anglophone company to place a second HQ here. It would dramatically cut the talent pool.

Also, apologies for the triple comment on this thread. It seems each edit of my top comment added a comment.
This is false. This whole process has been huge news. It's front page on sites like Washington Post, Philly.com, and the IndyStar and I've just checked multiple non tech forums where it's one of the busiest topics today.
> in some cases the app will run faster in Wine than it does on Windows.

How is that possible ?
I guess you were lucky. 1965 was a top year for USSR after all. I used to live in the flat like that in Moscow, everything you listed was there, but it was kinda frustrating there was nowhere to buy fresh bread or eat out in the walking distance. I may sound grumpy at that, I guess. You could walk 25 minutes for a mall with multiplex.

Now I'm living in apartment in historic Saint Petersburg borough, and that makes for a huge difference. I have maybe 20 bars & restaurants in the walking distance! A few farmers' shops too. I can walk to three different cinemas and a theatre! I live next door to an university!

So I think that european-style urban cores should continue to be The Thing.
Love this video and highly recommend. Love the idea also of the slides via a barcode.