skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they are purchasing data from other providers about your search history, site history, etc.
>One of the coolest things about cryptocurrency right now is the insane amount of money being invested in decentralization.

All this money is invested in "get-rich-quick" hopes. Few would care, or invest anything, if it was just for the decentralization aspect (case in point, all the failed aspects of decentralized social networks and other such efforts).
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Can't github do that by itself already with Github projects?
Well, the article says so, but they actually measured icmp response. All major domains are in DNS cache anyway. If you look at Yandex result you see it performed very poorly. Why does it resolve popular domains so slow? The reason is it has one server and it is located in Moscow.

So i would say icmp is good proxy to actual performance.
We may not be there yet, but there's certainly going to be a day where online advertisers know a woman is pregnant before she does based on the changes in her behavior.

I'm not sure if that counts as a dystopia or not. Is there a good word for "Weirdtopia"?
The locale is the country and the language.

American English is not equivalent to Australian English or Canadian English.
> Opinions vary for those who were exposed to privileged side only.

That's completely opposite to my experience in the GDR. Neither my aunt nor my grandparents had to wait "decades" to move into their Plattenbau apartments and I can assure you neither of them had been on the "privileged side", their Stasi files make that pretty clear.

For my grandparents it was a giant step up in terms of living conditions, previously they lived in an old house that didn't even have running water in the toilets.

In contrast to that, the Plattenbau apartments had very modern design and interiors, they are still living there happily to this day.
But that is the basis of all the new fusion startups. It didn't really explain what is unique about this one.

http://csef.ru/en/nauka-i-obshchestvo/direction-topics/obzor...
Building costs are negligible next to land costs.
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And they will continue to handle it with ease right up to the moment when they hit another cyclist.

What makes you so confident that the mere two years of running the program is enough to reliably calculate that number, when drivers like the one in the article managed to last more than a year until they got fired?
If you want to do it on your local linux system, it's pretty easy: you just need to install bind9 and use `nameserver 127.0.0.1` in your /etc/resolv.conf

Bind9 has a poor reputation because of how difficult it is to use it to define zones (manage a domain name), but if you want to use it as a resolver, it's basically plug'n'play.

Huge bonus included : if you want to flush the cache, you just need to run `sudo rndc flush`, so you don't have to wait for TTL timeout to test your newly configured domain name when you setup a website (you still have to restart your browser, because most of them do their own dns caching).
How about April Fool's Day so we don't dump its long history and eliminate a bit of fun (mostly) from life.
It is reasonable insofar as the regulations are not set-up to protect the incumbents. With a little lee-way for regulations not being that needed for the new business model.

However, it seems clear to me that requiring turo renters to enter the VIN of their car to check for recalls is just reasonable regulation.
The same goes for having the cars be inspected yearly.
Now, any laws for the actual pick-up process are a different beast, but non of those are mentioned in the article.

Note that the example of turo wanting to make it illegal for car-owners to register cars with a recall seems like they are just trying to push these costs away.
In the end, it is the responsibility of the rental company that their cars are safe. If the company deems signed statements from car owners sufficient due-diligence, that is their choice. If they do not trust such statements, the solution is to demand more in your due-diligence, not to make it illegal to 'lie' on these statements.
That presumes that turo already has it in their TOS for car-owners that cars are required to be un-recalled. If not, adding that should be their first step. Immediately going for legislation when you can just amend contracts is a massive over-reach.
It's not just 'nowadays'. pg a decade ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

> I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement.
> The reason housing is such an issue in the richest parts of the world is because zoning policy is set at the local level.

Don't assume US insanity has sway everywhere else. Continental EU zoning models are similar to Japan's, Germany and France zoning are national/federal policies and non-exclusive zoning.
I am Greek and no it’s not , gg , is pronounce as g in gamma, and one g is pronounced as y in yellow
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It is a lot more than that. I have spent last month doing quite a bit of sporadic rentals and it is a pain in the neck.

(a) pricing is not transparent what so ever. I can get estimated price but I cannot get the total out of the door price. It makes zero sense in 2018.

(b) i can never get a car that I am "ordering". I fail to understand why a Zipcar can do it, but neither Hertz nor Enterprise nor Budget can. If I'm getting an Tahoe, which is expensive which you claimed you have, I'm baffled why the barely coherent employee thinks that a minivan is a "similar vehicle".

(c) daily insurance scams - luckily it does not apply to me because $25/trip premium insurance via Amex is easy, automated and just pure awesome but oh my god people who do not know about it are just getting screwed.

(d) And finally... why is it that I still cannot search all the locations within a certain area for the cars and prices that I need? Why do I have to repeat the searches for the twenty Hertz in NYC when with a Zipcar or Maven i can just scroll through the map or get a list?

If rental car companies were to fix this 99% people like me won't be likely to use "peer-to-peer" because there's nothing worse than driving someone's non-standard, modified, coolant-gauge-may-not-actually-work car.
Oh, so you just go bankrupt. That's a good system then.
True. But then even the limits are somewhat fuzzy. I find with an experienced or well led team, that if you don't take on much at once it works itself out. Otherwise it can get micromanagey when working cross-projects. With physical machines the can exactly work on one thing at a time, people might be optimal between 1 and 2. Technically you're still task switching one at a time but without the cognitive overhead of thinking about updating the tracker for multiple mid-day switches.
Slightly off-topic, but if you genuinely think that there's no such thing as high-end wine, I feel a little sorry for you. Surely you can tell the difference between the Budweiser/Calsberg-type beer and beer from an independent brewery? If so, then surely you can imagine the same might be true of wine? I get that the fact that some bottles cost thousands may offend some people's sensibilities, but this hardly covers the wine mainstream and is usually down to intangibles that go beyond the wine itself, just like a piece of art.

It's certainly the case, of course, that while there's a big gap between a $10 and a $50 bottle of wine, naturally the gains for price points above that get incremental pretty quickly in much the same manner as TVs — is a TV that costs $9,000 over four times as good as a $2,000 model?

Wine experts often stumble on double-blind tests, sure, but then again, so do audiophiles trying to differentiate lossy and lossless audio.
What is left in such a binary? 800K of code seems on the high side even for a http framework.
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Hey thanks, didn't know about these updates.
I've bought a few things after reading their reviews, but since found a select few youtubers who seem more genuine (e.g. RocketJumpNinja for gaming mice).
You can just move to Oslo. Norway doesn't have a functioning rental market. It's because of big tax advantages for homeowners and social stigma for renters. The grass is always greener on the other side. I prefer German cities.
There can never be enough jobs for everybody with 'free markets'. Structurally there can only ever be 95 jobs for every 100 people. Inflation is controlled by an unemployment buffer - because matching people to jobs doesn't clear a market in a world with full time jobs.
I'm not 100% comfortable with the idea that n/0 retains the sign of n, 0 is neutral - not negative or positive.
Although a division by a positive infinitesimal would retain the sign of the numerator, with zero I'd expect a result that was either both positive and negative, or neither.

As far as I got into the paper, the proofs seemed somewhat circular and no significant value (from a mathematical standpoint) was covered.

The comparison to the use of a negative square root was unreasonable - since even if i is not a meaningful value, it still can act as a useful intermediary, whose weirdness goes away at the end.
Consumers are a lot less discerning about TVs than you think. Most consumers only care about size and maybe resolution. The TV market is dominated by low end brands.
Taking on a CARtel will never be an easy process.
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I wouldn't call this free to play though. It's a free trial, so to speak.

Even the most decidedly non-hardcore "regular" WoW players would reach Level 20 in a month easily, whereas there's enough content to keep you occupied for years even if you started just now.
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Fair enough, but most users won't care enough look it up and use 9.9.9.10 instead of 9.9.9.9 if they want better performance in exchange for allegedly lower privacy.

It appears 1.1.1.1 also does not pass client-subnet, atleast not by default. Queries to my authoritative from Google always includes client subnet, OpenDNS required request for whitelist. For Cloudflare its unclear.
The map is largely inaccurate. Things got very divergent in the last decades with the rise of computers.

There are hard limitations in hardware and software that people have to live with. A keypad only has a dot key.
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Well...
I installed onto my moto g lte and it's running (after it d/w pak0) nicely, where are the touch controls?

If I restart the app it just goes into demo mode on one of the levels.

EDIT: Good job btw on the game speed!
There are to reasons airports need to charge rental companies if we ignore 'they are abusing their local monopoly'.

The first is congestion due to the pick-up process. Clearly, this affects both the new players and the old players.
The second reason is land-use by the parking lots in which available cars are stored. This doesn't affect the new players.
Now, airports might be charging for both, and simply be afraid that the cash-cow of charging reasonably for the land-use of parking lots is going to disappear.

For a real answer, you'd need to actually compare the difference in cost between congestion and land-use.
There's been some rumours that SWTOR might be axed soonish, although I hope it's not true.

You're also kind of glossing over the fact that SWTOR is still (rightfully) ridiculed in MMO circles for its initial F2P offering (click here to buy this additional hotbar!).

IMHO the most healthy MMOs are still subscription-driven: WoW, EVE, and FFXIV.
The call is coming from inside the data center! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkcGm-pWwsQ
Not at the moment. I enjoyed making it so much I could see carrying it on.

Also I'm not too well read on dual licensing. How can you merge contributions on an opensource license, then not have tainted your commercial offering?
Thanks for this. Could you explain (c)? I don't understand what you mean.

Regarding the rest, it sounds like they got used to offering a poor service because they don't have enough competition or something. You might have a point there, but for a competitor to take advantage of that they just need to execute better on those points. They don't really need to source their cars from average Joes...

I'm not saying that Hertz isn't shit, I'm just saying that I don't understand how where the cars are sourced from is a real differentiating point. EDIT: I just re-read your last line and it seems you agree.
Soviet housing worked by building a huge number of small and medium cities while trying to limit number of people moving into capital and other desirable cities.

Guess what? After collapse of communism, housing in small cities depreciate rapidly, while housing in capitals skyrocket. There's much many more small cities than there's economic demand for, hence not enough jobs in those.

EDIT: Even when new factories are built by capital, they are usually not in small cities in the middle of nowhere with limited worker pool, but on outskirts of medium-to-large cities in comfortable distance of capital/large city (think Tesla Factory). This makes small cities unfit for anything other than eco-tourism.

Of course it applies more to large countries, since small ones (like Montenegro) just never had the quantities of population to form too many extra cities.
I've been using Spring and now Spring Boot for years. I'll I say is thank God for Maven heh
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-series_of_preferred_numbers

One interesting thing about E-series is how it includes rounding in its definition. If we take E192 as an example, naively thinking the 186th value should be 10^(185/192) = 9.19479 which rounds to 9.19. But instead it actually is 9.09*10^(1/192) = 9.19967 which rounds to 9.20 (!). I haven't been able to figure out how you would come to that figure without needing first to calculate all the preceding 185 numbers.

edit: I just noticed that the E-series tolerances do not actually match the series in the upper end; for example for 2% tolerance, E48 actually leaves gaps in the range and would be more suitable for 2.5% tolerance. For 2% tolerance hypothetical E60 series would make more sense (and kinda also mirror E6 ~ 20% series). Same applies for E96/1% and E192/0.5% where E120 and E240 (or 1.25% and 0.625%) should have been used instead respectively. I suppose it doesn't matter for practical engineering, but it does tarnish the elegance a bit.
Honestly, isn’t Unbound a better shout if you’re not going to be fiddling with it? Just install, run, and edit /etc/resolv.conf to point at 127.0.0.1.
After looking up a couple images -- that game appears to use Wang tiles. They're also sometimes used for terrain textures in video games to make seamless mosaics with less obvious repetition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_tile
A handful of people might be "super tasters" and be able to tell the difference.

I suspect most people in a properly run double blind test would be able to tell you what they like, but that wouldn't be repeatable over time and it wouldn't correlate with price.

Your last sentence about audiophiles is odd, because everyone knows audiophile hifi is full on nonsense.
Ditto.

I also use the Slack email app/integration to give each user in my org an address, and then pipe GitHub notifications to their own `#gh-username` channel. This brings GitHub comments out of email, with minimal disruption.

I'm hoping ZenHub adds a tasks feature that would let us assign/receive/track issue-based tasks. That's an important workflow tool we're currently lacking, but we're reluctant to add another tool to our chain.
The step from one language to two is much, much larger than the step from two to three or beyond. I did this seriously for the first time when I was 21/22, and it was initially difficult to get used to the concept of thinking not in terms of the temporal order in which words are introduced (i.e. the syntax of the language in which you are speaking) or at least shifting your process to generate sentences on the fly in a new order. In my experience (native English, learned German) I had a relatively smooth transition but even so it was difficult not to construct sentences as I spoke in the typical English construction. Once you get comfortable with shutting off that reflex to formulate thoughts according to the syntax and vocabulary of your own language, learning language becomes a lot smoother. This reflex is of course more strongly burned-in the older one gets due to the decrease in neuroplasticity as we age.
I think this is referring to WordPress-themes and other "design your website without coding"-offers.
BTW, has anyone been getting 502 errors? I suspect it was the browsers unsolited fetching of /favicon.ico. I just gave it one. Will check nginx config after.
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Tesla doesn’t handle it for you at all, and a full range of replacement parts is available, although sometimes they can take a long time to arrive.
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a) I'm a faculty member :P
b) I meant you no personal affront, there are good an bad actors, but indisputably the career incentives are firmly directed at irresponsible ruinous growth in student/postdoc populations. At the very least professors should be removed from papers in which they contributed less than 10% of the effort.
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Which ISPs are so bad that you want to use external services, which are further in distance than your ISP, for speed? When I test with my ISP, they beat all of these services (both IPv4 and IPv6). They're simply closer to me in terms of hops.

My router is another story though. The Fritzbox (>200eur router) adds 6ms of latency, and that's what is advertised over DHCP. (Might still be fine, since cached queries are faster than the ping time to the ISP.) Note that my tests were all with uncached queries (random subdomains of a domain), so it always had to go out and ask an external server (though it could cache the NS record for the domain).
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Any particular reason you want wood? I've found the folding metal frames you can buy on Amazon to be fantastic. Cheap, easy to assemble, super stable, no creaking, minimal profile, lots of under-bed storage, easy to move.
> Hydro will be a large part of this where geographically practical

[From the article] For France, storage needs to be able to provide 55GW, which is 2.5 times bigger than the Three Gorges Dam, and way higher than the total hydro potential of France as a whole (which has one of the biggest in Europe). Controllable hydro is almost maxed out (or at least 80% maxed out) everywhere in Western Europe : remind it has always been the cheapest source of power since the beginning of electricity. We did all we could to harvest the most of it. The US is probably an exception among developed countries because it's enormous country with a tiny population in comparison. But yet, I'm not sure it's doable even in the US.

> I think electric cars will be part of the solution

[From the article] Even with Tesla Model X (which has the biggest battery currently) you'll need 260 millions car to provide enough storage for France, which is 6.5 times the number of cars in circulation there. If you take a more affordable car, you need 1 billion cars (25 times the existing total). Maybe storage will improve in the next decades, but I highly doubt we'll get batteries 25 times more efficient even in the next 20-30 years. We already know what progress we can expect for the next 10 years (it's already in the labs nowadays) and we are light-years away from that (we're talking about double digit percent improvements, not multiple times).
But US unemployment is at historic lows [1], and US manufacturing output is at historic highs, so why now? It's also notable that tariffs are one of the few policies that economists are almost in universal agreement about [3].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE
[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OUTMS
[3] http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/steel-and-aluminum-tariffs
I work in games, so I have to keep relatively up to date.. I’m usually one - two versions behind...
Meanwhile, German universities are teaming up for joint negotiations with journal publishers. Their first target is Elsevier. My university came close to losing access to Elsevier journals as a part of this move.
Social media and Bluetooth played a role in the Arab Spring [1]. Your average spy movie or series (I am currently watching The Americans) contains loads of [fictional] examples. Some other examples: SSH over Tor to get around firewall(s). USB sticks in concrete as a means of a drop point.

And what is fiction, might become reality. Just a matter of how far you wanna look. Snow Crash pretty much described Second Life or MMOs with the Metaverse. Plus, I remember around 2000 a joke IIRC called the iBrator. It was a remote, internet controlled vibrator. Back then it was an April Fool. Look where we are now? You can pay to make a person's (most likely a woman) vibrator vibrate, live, over the internet. You can call that an unintended consequence of the internet, USB, video conferencing, javascript, or what not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring
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This something only a government could really do.

Housing is nowhere near a free market. Public decisions control what can be built/rebuilt & where, essentially dictating "supply". It's also public infrastructure, services and wider economic policies that determine the value of that supply to consumers.

A quasi-laissez faire housing market can work. The US has many of them, in the geographically unrestricted cities like phoenix or.. lots of cities. The city/country builds roads. Land gets parceled into 1,000 - 5,000 sqm blocks and cheap houses are built on them, starting at $100k + taxes and land which are cheap relative to europe.

This can produce almost unlimited (given unlimited space) housing. Infrastructure is very basic: roads, sewage, etc. They usually don't have sidewalks, nevermind trams. They also produce low-density sprawl. As things get tighter, more and more burden is on cities to plan, provide infrastructure. Rights compete.

In theory, land efficiency and shorter transit distances should balance this out. In practice, land prices (enriched by infrastructure & proximity) generally outpace these efficiencies so house prices are higher anyway. Governments also limit supply in dense areas, because they can't keep up with the infrastructure requirements.

Truly revolutionary projects out of scope for private investors. First, horizons are too long. They can't wait 15 years for the value to emerge. Second, the governments' parts in the game (infrastructure & planning) is more important than private money's. Third, the money is too big, even for today's giant piles of cash. A small city (100k people) would cost 10bn to build, at least.
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Ever since The Great Comcast DNS Outage of 2010, I've had the OpenDNS IPs burned into my memory from telling so many people.

I like the fact that you can sign up for OpenDNS and customize some of the filtering (ads, spam/malware, etc.) They used to have crappy handling of nxdomains (by default) redirecting you to a website with ads, but I believe that's no longer the case?
Posting this for a friend who has currently some issues with his HN account.
I pretty much acknowledge that in my second paragraph.