skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"cough prop 13"

It's getting old. People seem to have no idea how it was before. Yes--counties has more money. And they spent that money on so-so many pet projects.

(I live in Marin County. All of west Marin (where George Lucas built his castle) was rezoned in the 70's to 1 home per 100 acres. The late supervisor Gary Giacomoni freely admits without that war chest he wouldn't be able to rezone. I was young, but the money was wasted on so many instances.)

I didn't have to read I'm Mad as Hell, by Howard Jarvis to understand my father literally tearing up when that property tax bill was opened at the dinnner table.

I guess people will need to revisit history on order to understand the pain? Or, Prop 13 is just a easy target?

I won't be back to defend my post, but if you want to debate, please state if you were alive during the money grab.
Hmmm, I wonder if the Scary Devil Monastery still exists...
“Not a promotion” except that you get more money, respect, influence...
In the SF Bay Area, Caltrain is aboveground and is more than quiet enough to call into meetings. Think NYC's MetroNorth, there's no reason you wouldn't be able to make a call until you get into the tunnels near Manhattan. On the other hand, BART is underground with signal repeaters just about all the way through - but it's very noisy so you could call in and listen but probably not contribute.

If your transit system is underground without repeaters though, I agree that you're out of luck. I can't imagine trying to take a call on the T.
Does this remind anyone else of The Minority Report? At least in that book/movie people were aware of the predictive policing.
Goldman Sachs, Adviser to the Elite, Wants to Be Your Local Bank
This isn't about adblock. this is cloaking. If someone is employing filters/adblock, their code won't reach the victim. If someone isn't, they can reach out to coinhive directly.

They just need to hide coinhive from the ad platform, which is what they use the random domain for. When the ad platform fetches the ad code from the domain to inspect it, the random domain serves harmless code. When the user fetches the ad code, they get the miner.

The solution is for ad platforms to disallow external resources and custom JavaScript, and for publishers to be held responsible when their sites serve malware (whether directly or because they used an ad platform that sold the space to another ad platform that sold the space to another ad platform that sold the space to a bad guy who was able to serve a custom script because each of the platforms along the chain let everyone include arbitrary scripts).
>Is this supposed to be alarming? When I was that age my peers might have said NBA player or Hollywood actor

The difference is that the feedback of your success or failure on those tracks is usually quite rapid. If you've hit a certain age you know whether you're going to be a professional athlete or not.

People who think they might make it on youtube are facing an audience that might as well encourage them to keep on even if they are not making a living. Add to this the idea that youtube and other platforms market themselves to people in this way. ("ditch the old gatekeepers, they're keeping you back!")

People might be able to build up false realities for themselves much more easily in virtual spaces.
I hear what you're saying, and it's true to some extent with projects, like say, opencv.

> Communities are great for incrementally evolving a project, but not as much for answering fundamental existential questions about what the project is, like "Are types good?"

However, kotlin, rust and go all offer counter points to your argument with regard to languages.

That simply isn't the case; the community is full of people who have things to say about this... if you're prepared to listen.

...this just sounds like an excuse to avoid engaging with the community, and a flip off to the very smart people out there who have meaningful things to say about this stuff.

> The past couple of years (and some org changes) have helped improve that, I believe.

Well, if it has, you have some serious work to do to communicate that to community, because it doesn't feel like it to me.

This kind of comment from the Dart team (aka. community has nothing to offer us) is extremely irritating, and just makes me, personally, not want to even bother to try what you've built.
USB-C's situation is so bad that you have to know which of the identical ports have certain features. Your bridging argument is just a red herring.

I can plug two devices together locally over Ethernet and expect them to work. I can't expect that of USB-C. Do you not see the difference?
Here's my pop-culture theory:

1/ US is left relatively unscathed after WW2 becoming the remaining superpower.

2/Unearned power without the corresponding sense of responsibility led to unsoohosticated methods of locking in interest. Domination oriented. Assassinating other countries leaders.

3/To rationalize the disproportionate wealth and actions due to innate "just-world" beliefs the culture evolves to dehumanize others.

4/The dehumanization revolves specifically around democracy and hard work. Hard work due to puratinical bsckground.

5/When wealth is abundant the externalities can be external. However when the rest of the world catches up much of the population has no competitive advantage.

6/The only well off people are those maintaining existing moats. Entrance requires strong status signalling.

7/The same people are already indoctrined into a fend-for-yourself culture and are in a bubble where they don't sense they are lucky. The residual programming is too successful.

8/new "good stuff" is reserved for the deserving. The undeserving are punished more to goad them to be more successful.

Also, a contrarian thought. It's not the rich who are the problem. They actually tend to create ecosystems that generate wealth for others because the capital seeks use.

Instead it's the middle class who can't deal with the guilt created by seeing the less well off. In their hearts they know they are living off moat surplus. Their internal rationalizations create systems that make them feel good instead of doing good. the "punish the wicked" mentality especially creates disastrous consequences. (e.g war on drugs)
>> make it possible to train deep learning on small datasets

Looks like Baidu's new voice cloning tech is able to do tricks like make a British man sound like an American woman with just a few seconds worth of audio to train on. Apparently the previous version needed at least half an hour of audio to train.

https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2018/02/26/ba...
I've been pirating everything I can for as long as I've been watching TV. My wife and I still have a box of CD-R's labeled in marker with our favorite late 90s - early 00s movies on them. Back in the day we've leeched off private FTP servers. Now we run a torrent box in EC2. Weirdly enough, AWS neglected to send us warnings in almost a decade.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I'd pay $10k to figure out what exactly is wrong with my body. I've had constant injuries or issue with my shoulder, knee, and back for the past 5 years. Feels like I'm falling apart due to old age but I'm not even past 25 yet.
If you stay on your toes and keep growing they will buy you. Then they will slowly chip away at it until they can delete it and replace it. CreateSpace vs KindleDirect being a prime example.
Is Potcoin Dead?
They distribute/track/convert shares/options to employees on behalf of the companies that pay them.
First Version of Falkon Web Browser Released
I read through a copy of "Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy" when dealing with this and would agree CBT is good at characterizing the sort of cognitive fallacies depression tends to exacerbate. Realizing that I simply could not trust my own instinctive thoughts and had to rationally challenge them more than ever was a big help when I was in the midst of depression. For what it's worth, I also did not stop working towards life goals and generally being busy in the midst of it and though that may have slowed my recovery it was also beneficial for me in the present. Hope you can get better soon.
Most interesting apps tend to use custom Android views, layouts and behaviors to create a unique, but consistent look and feel.

Flutter can do the same. There is not much difference, except that Flutter strives to do the unique part better.

On the Windows desktop your application must be coherent with other applications, since they share a big screen, or rather a workspace.

Either way you want to adhere to the design language of the OS, because it tends to work better than what you can come up with, and also provides familiarity. On Android you don't have to use the prebuilt widgets to adhere to the material design.

Flutter also comes with widgets that look and feel very similar to the Android and iOS ones, so you don't have to reinvent the whole wheel.
"in development soon"?

For comparison the Vulkan project began July 2014 and was released 19 months later. That released on multiple GPU vendors and OSes at launch, which Metal did not. So let's say Metal took 2 years from conception to release, even though it only targeted one platform and one GPU (and likely took less time as a result)

That means OpenGL was abandoned on OSX roughly 3 years before Metal existed as a project at all.

The timelines of Metal vs. OpenGL on OSX just don't line up at all to be any sort of API redirection effort. It just doesn't mesh.
Or how far FOSS is for the rest of the world tbh ... so many 1960s practices in foss world it makes me sad :(
That would be impossible to enforce well and be very manual, which google hates.

I'd expect them to simply integrate patreon like functionality into youtube itself. They have most of the infrastructure for such a system in place already and could add things like patreon exclusive content.
I'd suggest that you research why it's necessary for companies to cram so much demand for housing in a few areas.

It's seems absurd in this day and age that we're still concentrating business to such an extent in places like the NY Metro Area and the Bay Area. IBM in the olden times leveraged locating facilities in nowheresville as a competitive advantage. I'm surprised it isn't catching on now that engineers are being so highly compensated.
ML more accurate than humans at detecting sexual orientation from facial images
I did read it all. Your background sounds far less privileged than mine. Good on you for overcoming that by choosing to make sensible decisions.
Really? I’ve had better customer experience with AWS than Azure or GCE... Even their SDK devs are responsive, I raised a bug for the SDK for their queues and went to bed, woke up and they had published a new SDK with the fix after 7 hours of raising the ticket...

There is a lot to dislike about AWS but from my experience customer server isn’t one of them...
It's definitely a "marketing page" in that it's only purpose is to convince people to support sb-827.
Metal predates Vulcan. It is also nice in someways in that its not a pure c api iirc.
How Tom Tryniski digitized nearly 50M newspaper pages in his living room
How can I avoid a 404 for non-existent pages and serve a default page instead?
Instead of returning a 404 error for a non-existent page I want nginx to serve a PHP script that returns some dynamically generated content and return a 200 as if the page existed normally, is this possible?
I'm not sure how to calculate it accurately, but the top 1000 usenet servers page maintains statistics based on the number of articles each server listed has seen [1]. The contributors list for the previous month [2] shows the server names along with the number of articles they've processed that month (I believe).

The eternal-september news server which only serves text newsgroups processed 7,029,191 articles. usenetexpress, on the other hand, processed 1,654,703,028 articles (since it serves both text and binary newsgroups). Assuming that the text articles are a strict subset of the total number of articles, the text traffic is about 0.4% of total traffic.

On top of that, the average size of a text article may be around 3 kilobytes and the average size of a binary article is about 750 kilobytes, the percentage by size is even lower than that (about 0.0017%).

[1] http://top1000.anthologeek.net/

[2] http://top1000.anthologeek.net/participants.txt
Modern genetics would not be possible without the humble fruit fly
The only info I have to go on is their about page. The second sentence of which is "We fight anti-Semitism and all forms of hate."

Perhaps you're thinking of some other organization with the same name?

Anyway, the core point of my comment was that I liked getting some background on the drivers that led to the 2nd amendment.
Yeah it might look this way if you never used graphics APIs... truth is it has never been possible to write code against OpenGL for all platforms without extra platform specifics ... it’s also never been anything but trivial to wrap graphics so that the backend is switchable. Metal, mantle, Vulcan, dx12 have done nothing to change that
Thank you, that means a lot. I'm happy to hear you were able to get better too, and that you were able to keep pursuing the things that were important to you. And I can see how working towards life goals would be helpful in the midst of depression. From what I've read, setting goals (even small ones) and trying to achieve them can be helpful too.
A city government is not the current decision maker when it comes to title of real property. Title of real property is complex and can be contested in court. There are various types of deeds involved in title and even then, you have to purchase title insurance in case some heir of an old estate comes out of the woodwork to claim title of said property. It's just not that clean cut.
It's quite likely that your commute will get longer than 23 minutes as autonomous vehicles remove the barriers to driving and encourage more people to drive, thus increasing congestion.
Since someone already suggested acting, I found playing tabletop RPGs (like Dungeons & Dragons, Legend of the Five Rings or Mage: The Ascension) helpful too.

They have a strong collaborative storytelling aspect (unless your group only likes to slay monsters), and it puts you in the shoes of a character with a life completely different than yours. A lot of problem solving and diplomacy situations are involved too. I recommend trying out a personality/background different than what you are used to.
Does Amazon not respond to torrent notices for illegal downloads? Do you periodically rebuild the instance to get a new IP?

I’ve considered setting up a torrent box but ruled out EC2 before even looking further into it. Figured it would need to be something overseas.
Because a browser can't distinguish between a CPU-intensive app, game or simulation that you want to run in your browser, a cryptocurrency miner that a website runs in your browser after it explicitly asked you and you agreed, and a cryptocurrency miner running in the background.

Of course, they could start asking for permission before letting a site use more than X CPU, or before letting the site execute JavaScript at all, but most people don't want additional popups like that.

Someone said that Firefox warns you when a site uses a lot of CPU but I couldn't trigger that warning (maybe I didn't run it long enough or the feature is in a newer version).
I grew up in Appalachia and the biggest thing in my opinion is the lack of economic migration. After I spent a year teaching computer science remotely in Eastern Kentucky I decided we need to not spend another $ on building up the area but instead help people move away.

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do you think it's a better user experience to have to say out loud "windshield wipers faster" / "windshield wipers slower" every 30 seconds compared to subtly clicking the control on the stem? How well will it work with music on and while you're having a random conversation with your passengers? How well will it discriminate random voices on the radio telling your car things like "driver seat recline angle flat" or "driver seat position full back"?

Voice control is a good things for services but not for driving related controls, it's a QOL increase to be able to tell your car "set the a/c to 67 degrees", but let's leave the driving related functions (lights, wipers, cruise, ...) to hardware buttons/dials on the stem where they belong.
And they'll continue to work if nobody changes them.
The biggest problem isn't really lowering overall consumption but lowering peak consumption. There's typically enough capacity during the night, but not on summer afternoons. Some power companies will pay you to install a device to cut off your AC for ~15 minutes during peaks (controlled by them, of course).

Nest has a program that gives the power company a small amount of control, in return for which you get a bill credit (and a free or discounted Nest).

https://nest.com/energy-partners/#rush-hour

And, of course, there's peak pricing, which is more what you're suggesting. But power companies are a regulated monopoly, so there are typically restrictions on how much they can increase the price. If they can lower peak consumption within their regulated prices, they can defer on infrastructure investments and thus save money.
Consoles don’t use OpenGL.... even when they say they support it ;)
Postgres version 10 support added to Amazon RDS
> relatively inexpensive, costing as little as $1,500 per unlock

That's not be good. Since we're bound to have that cost-of-unlock war anyway as new workarounds are found, it should at least be higher. I'd hope for $50k+ so if it's really needed, it goes through several levels of approvals.
Most mobile users who matter (revenue).
I haven't, but would consider it. But I wasn't talking about a house.

You need a place to live. A fancy car as opposed to one you can buy outright? Not so much.
You mean gcm? PSGL is the ps3 OpenGL implementation afaik
Sudden vision: you request Amazon home delivery -- the delivery person comes to the door, holds up a smartphone showing a nonce QR code, the Ring doorbell checks the nonce with Amazon, says, "Checks out" and unlocks the door.
Note Holodomor was actually a subset of a general attack on peasants in all of Soviet Union -

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932%E2%80%93...

[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan_famine_of_1932%E2%8...

Between 15% and 42% of the entire Kazakh population died in this same fell swoop. Essentially, grain silos that the (Ukranian, Russian, Kazakh, [insert peasant population and Republic]) peasants had reserved to feed themselves during a year that had poor crop yields had been previously taken by force to feed people in cities. When the very harsh winter of '32-33 came, that meant death of starvation for all these peasants, of all these nationalities. The breadbaskets of USSR (Ukraine and Kazakhstan) had a particularly high concentration of peasants, and therefore, particularly high death rate.
After months of devkits with the real api ...
That doesn't mean anything.

You can charge more for more users, there's nothing wrong with that model. The more resources you require, the more you pay.
Many small business cards are issued to the owner not the business.

Talking 3 man business, not 4000 person enterprise.
I was about 27 years old, it was a combination of very bright LED signs on the freeway being unreadable, and not being able to read the aisle signs at Bunnings (a home improvement store, like Lowes).

I definitely had perfect vision somewhere earlier in my 20s, so it seemingly deteriorated rapidly relatively to my -1 on both eyes that I am now.. but slow enough that I didn't notice for quite a while. I had basically decided things just get blurry further away and not really noticed.

Probably does not help that I am in front of a screen 12 hours a day like most :)
And here's the top 500: https://socialblade.com/youtube/top/trending/top-500-channel...

Even semi popular channels I watch have 15M views per month.
IIRC someone demonstrated mining via WebGL but I don't know if it was practical/more effective than CPU-mining.
We already comply with age of consent laws. GDPR changes the law and adds lots of edge cases around users transitioning from valid user -> invalid user as I described above.

I'm not complaining. I'm just saying it's not basic or simple. I often see the attitude that, "Oh that should be easy" when someone hasn't implemented something.

This essay covers it well:
Reality has a surprising amount of detail
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16184255

It reminds me of people who have taken the programming 101 class telling me, creating Amazon is easy, its just a webpage. Or I could completely run Twitter off of just 4 machines.
Glad you're happy with it. I went with BorgBackup which I'm also happy with. AFAIK it also does dedupe, encrypt, checkpointing, and can throttle upload speed (don't know about the rest).
Every time I see this posted, I ask about noise. Dense housing near rapid-transit, particularly rail, has led to lots of people getting exposed to massive volumes of noise, even at night. This is the type of long-term negative that get people to move out to the suburbs (e.g. self-defeating the policy) or call for more construction such as sound walls. You can see Reno for a perfect example of this. Everyone moved out to the burb, traffic sucks, then they ended up just building sounds walls anyways.

Does any piece of this legislation deal with the inherent problem of rapid-transit noise + dense housing?
I don't know the timeline that the graphics team at Apple follows, so the best I can provide you with is a guess as to what I think the reasons are behind their release schedule. Maybe the team was reorganized?
Just be aware we are awash in guns. We have open carry, suppressors, full auto, no magazine capacity limits. There are AR15s everywhere.

The state has overridden cities' ability to regulate shooting on large properties (over 10 acres). If you are anti gun you definitely wont like it.
This is really a very good prize for the setup. The last NAS I setup in 2010 was an ITX Atom, 640GB HDD, 2GB RAM, in total 165EUR, quite comparable when extrapolating the specs towards today. I personally think it is total waste to run a 290 Watt powered device 24/7 for personal reasons only (please think about utilization twice and then think about global warming) and would go for a SoC solution nowadays.
And from the photon's frame of reference the photo itself doesn't move at all.
Deploying Palantir Gotham in New Orleans [pdf]
Anybody know why logical replication isn't supported in Aurora Postgres, or if it's on the roadmap?
You might be interested in Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

It is essentially a framework that relies on the simple idea you posted. No individual must be forced to acquiesce to supposed "needs" of their culture.

Think for yourself. Know that you are right in your own thoughts, but that others are right in theirs. THOUGHTS being key; he was no moral relativist.

The utilitarian needs of humanity, aka what society should be about, must be openly debated and decided by inclusive dialectic.

He uses his homeland of Brazil to describe how European forms of government were "imported" and forced on the will of the public.

I'll argue until the end traditional values haven't gone anywhere. We still expect social conformity, it's just not towards the Bible. Get a job, start a business, and only do what's profitable.

The very opposite of being free.
I certainly don't create a long living policy document for my own personal data though. There seems to be additional paper and process requirements above and beyond the technical aspects, at least according to the article.