skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Trump's ignorant, hap-hazard way of "negotiating" has alienated foes and made the world re-evaluate why it is playing the US agenda."

What's much worse is that he has allienated friends (specifically when they refuse to kiss his ring, but I digress) and mostly for no good reason at all.

The US squandered their advantage of having been respected as a (mostly) reliable partner to a definite CAN NOT BE TRUSTED! in not even two short years.

You may argue that who cares? "We're America, Bitch" [1] But I really don't see any sustainability and long term gains in the current model for the world in general and especially for America.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/a-senio...
"...nor do bikes ride that close together."

https://bicycledutch.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/amsterdam.j...
I suspect it's a little deeper than being against "raising taxes". If we say that way, we are hidden the real meaning.

The Koch brothers are, in my opinion, against any kind of redistribution. This is not surprising, I suppose, being them one of the richest people.

This narrative of "markets give everybody what they deserve" it's old like the world. Before markets the status quo was the will of God.

It's not about raising taxes, is about "should the community invest in itself?" or even "there is such thing as a community?".
> nobody wants to use the "B" word

... except everyone, all the time
MTR in Hong Kong was making $2B per year in profit. The model they use is largely the same one being tried in Florida where real estate projects are integrated with the rail system.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/30/news/hong-kong-mtr-subway-pr...
Thank you for the insightful reply. Very much appreciated!
Wow. The example images displaying results of the different compression formats are JPEGs.
It absolutely kills me to argue against the F-14 especially after reading that every single one of them were turned into scrap to keep parts out of Iran. However... Tomcats had a long full life, were maintenance hogs, and had outlived their mission. Ouch, it hurt to write that, but it's probably true. The Rhino's (Super Hornets) are very capable.
One usability issue I noticed with both this and the original inspiration is that it's hard to keep the globe in the usual north-south orientation. I feel the map would be easier to stay oriented in if the the north-south axis were restricted to the YZ plane (i.e. on screen vertical/directly toward the user normal to the screen).
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The argument that Switzerland provides a model for high tariffs creating wealth is... especially ironic. Switzerland is one of the least tariff-encumbered economies in the world, reguarly topping out various free trade indicies [1]. And in Switzerland's case, that's almost certainly causual. Average salaries in Switzerland are so high because of the disproprtionate role Switzerland plays in EU and global banking -- a role that wouldn't be possible if Switzerland didn't embrace free trade.

So, if we're going to follow Switzerland's lead, we would roll back tariffs.

Switzerland is more akin to the EU's version of Massachusetts or New York, and Zurich is the EU's version of Manhattan or SF. It's the sort of economic zone that will always exist in a large economy like the US or the EU. The population is disproportionately made up of citizens from one or two cities/metro areas, and those cities have a high concentration of highly educated and highly paid individuals typically focused on one of a few industries. Consequently, even those employed outside of these high-paying industries make more than average compared to the rest of the country/bloc.

Situating ourselves similarly to Switzerland requires placing the US very high in the global value chain while maintaining a global order of very low trade barriers. Which has always been the neoliberal agenda, at least ostisibly.

In other words, if we want to emulate Switzerland, we have to do exactly the opposite of the Trump plan -- continue offshoring anything lower in the value chain, continue insisting on low trade barriers, continue dominating everything higher in the value chain. Obviously, even if this strategy works for the country in aggregate, it's going ot have definite losers in a country as large as the US.

On a (very!) related note, the US and Switzerland currently have basically the same PPP.

[1] https://www.heritage.org/index/country/switzerland
The key to x86 assembler/machine code was avoiding the software interupts as they were painfully slow. Sure, when you are dealing with a 512byte boot sector you are better of offloading as much code as you can to software interupts, but for everything else the battle was to come up with something faster than the software interupts.

In many cases some basic routines used in qbasic was actually faster than their counterparty interupts in asm. A grand example of this would be using mode 13h (320x200) and interupt 10 to set all pixels on a screen to a single color, which could take up to 2 seconds using machine code and bios interupts (as it verifies vertical and horizontal refresh prior to setting the pixel). Using interupts however is relativly painfree as the author pointed out.
5k/week was already the goal. He's just reassuring investors that it hasn't changed. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/01/tesla-delivers-1550-mod...
Fixing League of Legends on KVM/QEMU
I don't share your absolutism, but you're absolutely right that at least lately, Musk has been sending a lot of signals that he's becoming unhinged.

I wonder if, in trying to compete with people like Bezos, including by trying to become more macho, that he has overdosed on testosterone lately.

He used to be circumspect in his public comments. Now he seems to be increasingly paranoid and grandiose in his thinking, and bitter towards the "fake news" media that made him a celebrity in the first place.

And his proposals and estimates are likewise getting more detached from reality. He claimed rockets could be a good form of intercontinental travel, and his video showed a rocket outside a city with passengers boarding.

We can't put rocket ships outside of cities. His proposed BFR system would have about as much explosive potential as a Hiroshima nuke, and there'd be constant sonic booms and extremely loud engine blasts. One mix up, and you could incinerate Manhattan.

I do like his present goals of electric cars, reusable launch vehicles, solar power, and cheaper tunnels. But maybe take a chill pill. Ease up on the steroids or whatever.
That is wrong. The Munich public transport system has been turning a profit for at least 15 years out of the last 17. For the two missing years, I did not find numbers or sources, but it's probably the same.

Pretty sure there are others that run successfully.

BTW only road systems where you pay for every mile you drive (see e.g. motorways in France, Spain, Italy) turn a profit. All others are, basically, just a waste of taxpayers money ;-)

It's usually failed policies and nincompompous administration that make public transport systems fail.

Sources:
>https://translate.google.de/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pre...
>https://www.swm.de/dam/swm/dokumente/unternehmen/swm/geschae...
That’s especially true when rich ideologues attempt to defund or block every project that comes along. In Seattle’s case for ST1, at least half of the problem was that every plan was litigated to near-death by opponents whose only goal was to cynically create delay.

Couple this with idiotic fantasy projects (like monorails that go nowhere - the self-driving car of the mid-aughts!), and you have a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Well as long as the site has HSTS and the user had visited it at least once before the MiTM attempt.. But yeah a gazillion corporate sites won't have HSTS configured
Mr Jumbo/PHP doesn't use an elephant logo. Is it the color you're concerned with? Mr Jumbo reminds me more of Bing Bong from Inside Out.

Foxy/Gitlab logo is _very_ close.

Moby/Docker is a stretch but I can see it a bit.

Steps/Webpack isn't that close. It looks closer to the old Windows Registry icon to me.

Fall/Endomondo seems like an obvious ripoff.

Apple I see no problem with (conceptually, at least. I wouldn't personally use something with an apple in the name/logo for obvious reasons.

Cosmos/CircleCI ehhhh, it reminds me more of the Colorado stickers I see all over, even using similar colors.

Watchbob/Datadog in no way are close aside from having dogs. Datadog has a very distinct, happy puppy look to it. It looks more like some sort of Jenkins clone in dog form to me, but it's distinct enough.

Most of these are more of a stretch to me than anything, although two of them do seem to be almost clones.
> It's not the comment that's dumb, it's the strategy.

Really? Based on what, the failure of the Soviet Union? If you were to look a little closer, you may discover the Chinese aren't executing an identical strategy. The world is extremely complex, using blunt comparisons like the above won't yield very accurate results. At the very least, you would probably benefit from having a more open mind.
We've seen plenty of people going all in building their business on a platform they don't control, then getting mad when the platform they depend on changes how things work.

With that said, are you guys also targeting other platforms than Slack?

I'm sure MS Teams, Discord, etc provide the same foundations for an even larger reach?
> Although I don't know what happens when the battery runs out

What you'd expect- you lose any unsaved progress. Some games have autosave, though, so it's not like you usually lose a huge amount. Also, the battery life in suspend mode is pretty long, IME. Generally several days at least.
That scene is only a slight exaggeration. Rural West Country accents can be almost totally unintelligible to users of standard English.

https://youtu.be/WjTIFkWJctY?t=40s
> 30x173mm can no longer kill what it was meant for killing

The GAU-8 can no longer kill top-line Russian armor? Source?
Is it just me or is the graph reversed? If you want super cool latex documents dont use ipynb-tex that often?
Facebook feels like a hall of mirrors where people share their views and moments based on what others are sharing. What we have now is a culture of buzzfeed articles and witch hunt movements that make a lot of people afraid to be human. see a lot of one-upping, political rants, humble brags etc. I like HN and Reddit for the authenticity.

Even instagram is breeding mental instability in millions of people around the world. It may not be you or me. It’s a real phenomenon.
You mean like someone who has the freedom to go where they want, do what they want?

Indeed, they would probably be sitting on the beach of their own private island sipping cocktails made by their butler.

They would probably not be using public transport.

And thus, the rhetorical trick they used works.
Nice!

But it'd be nicer with earth's rotational axis staying in the same place.

In app.js, switching from THREE.TrackballControls to THREE.OrbitControls will make it behave like this:

https://threejs.org/examples/misc_controls_orbit.html
The first time I used this command to monitor traffic remotely on a headless device it felt like magic. Incredibly useful.

You can achieve the same under Windows using putty/plink:

plink.exe -ssh -pw password root@host "tcpdump -ni eth0 -s 0 -w - not port 22" | "C:\Program Files\Wireshark\Wireshark.exe" -k -i -

Of course you need to have tcpdump as a command line executable in the host.
Why is physical activity important for people with arthritis?
Very nice.

Curious:

Most web browser maps translate my Mac's trackpad scroll events to zoom actions. Infuriating.

Only Apple's new MapKitJS does not do this.

I thought to make workaround using GreaseMonkey overrides, or whatever people do these days, but I don't do frontend stuff so would have start from scratch.

Maybe someone else has a better idea.
Isn't this the plot in one of the episodes of Billions? If you are short a stock and a billion dollars is on the line, there are people you can pay who will "ensure" that a company fails and you win your B+ bet.
> But also relatively outdated graphics drivers outside the NVIDIA proprietary drivers (yes, I know that there is a branch with Linux DRM drivers).

This was true until drm-next-kmod and drm-stable-kmod ports appeared. Now you have very similar Linux and FreeBSD graphics experience.

> This also means relatively limited support for Wayland, so you have to use X11, which is insecure.

Wayland is enabled by default since recently.

As we talk about security...

* Linux - Vulnerabilities (2103) - https://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/33/Linux.html
* FreeBSD - Vulnerabilities (368) - https://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/6/Freebsd.html

About 7 times more on the Linux side, do not mix X11 into that :)

FreeBSD as every system has its limitations, that is for sure, but as I track its developments of the span of 15 years its just getting better and better, in all aspects - including desktop.

Of course there are 'environments' where its all or nothing like 'mobile', Linux has most of the market here with Android while FreeBSD has nothing.
> The "non-tariff barriers" are important - all kinds of environmental and safety standards could be considered as these, and they can be far more difficult to deal with than simply paying an import duty.

I'm glad the US has environmental and safety standards and enforces those (to some degree) on imports. Those actually accomplish some good and have positive externalities.

It's also worth noting that other countries have significant non tariff barriers as well, perhaps more significant than the US, and ones with less positive effects. Some Chinese examples are the Great Firewall (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/08/business/international/ch...) and fact that a large part of the Chinese economy is still state-owned (and could be politically directed to avoid importing American products without any need for a tariff).
This is really awesome work.
I believe you're referring to the USA's "aggregate sales surplus," which measures both direct trade and sales of multinational companies--a headline making rounds on the news this past week.

These numbers include items made in China, by Chinese jobs, using Chinese components, under a US company name. It uses total sales, and not net revenue, which would change the picture by a great deal.
USA will not be able to play this card for long. Trump already expressed doubts about whether USA would defend eastern EU countries. Trust is almost gone already, so USA is losing "benefits" what to offer to allies quite fast.

What would be the point to sell products to USA with huge tariff on top of it to the point that local products would be way cheaper? Nobody would buy it.

What's the point to expect partnerships in military with USA when for example South Korea is left cold without any discussions about it?
Technology is changing HR in companies
Android Emulator Andy Users Use GPU Miner Trojan for Mining
Yes, I did notice that the comment looked different after I replied.
I love Wireshark. It's a very useful tool for anything network related. Sometimes I like to boot it up and just look at arp requests being bounced around the network, it's hard to resist the temptation to boot up Metasploit and engage in some script kiddy fun while I'm doing it.

The one problem I have is that usually when I discover I need to use Wireshark, I'm not able to download it as I don't have an internet connection.
That seems fine considering all the wars the US has fought in the last 50 years or so have been ridiculously asymmetrical. The USAF has to prepare for a war against technologically equivalent countries, but it also needs to do a much better job at preparing for the wars it's actually fighting right now.
Qatar Airways boss apologizes for remarks on women CEOs
Even though I am strongly in favour of public transport it's hard to compare Europe to the US. For one thing our populations are much more dense than the US, more than ten times as high in the case of the Netherlands.
"Remember, we can build physics models based on, say, Loop Quantum Gravity that excludes strings and may seem to predict the universe correctly, but that does not logically prove that there are not also strings in the universe." - from just the previous sentence.

Incidentally, that post gored some oxes, apparently. Despite the firm mathematical foundation I stand on with great confidence for the entire post, it's sitting at -2. Seems a lot of people have a very emotional reaction to hearing "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" is untrue.
One aspect could be crime recording. A 99% conviction rate says two things for me:

- High risk of false positives

- Only straight forward cases are being tried, so presumably police are memory holing cases that they can't clean up quickly.
Serious question: would the penalty for sabotage be greater if it came with a short-sale payoff? Is sabotage somehow considered insider trading? I can see some kind of vague fraud charge, but is there a specific law that punishes sabotage more harshly if one financially benefits from it?
Virtlet vs. KubeVirt comparison: which is better?
The minimum breaking distance between cars grows quadratically with speed. When roads are saturated they have higher thoughtput at lower speeds.
Very impressive!

For someone outside normal corporate culture who is actually paying for Slack bots?

Middle level managers who have to administer daily meetings?

It is amazing that being outside the corporate loop you were able to hit such a pain point.
There is still a push for using X, at least in Spain. The argument is that of course "La Ministro" is a patriarchal, so we should use "La Ministra", or "Consejo de Ministros y Ministras" etc etc
One way to solve this is to at least treat dragging near the center of the screen as a simple rotation around the axis perpendicular to mouse motion. When dragging the mouse by the side of the screen (up-down near the side or left-right near the top/bottom), do the same but also gently rotate the previous rotation axis itself too. I've also noticed that the rotation does not exactly follow the mouse when the globe is zoomed in to show all the small airports in Europe.
I wonder if a front panel could be developed to work in conjunction with an emulator. As it was explained to me, the few systems that you can’t play with are mostly because they’re easy to mess up and hard to reset.

It sounds like you have some expertise in front panel operations? If you have the time and inclination, maybe you could offer to help them out. At the very least, an email explaining your thoughts might inspire one of their engineers to create something.
That's what's so interesting about modern times, both the leaders of incumbent countries as well as the citizens seem not only not worried about threats from rising countries, but in many cases determined to defend and assist them in their endeavor to dethrone the current incumbents.

I wonder if history has ever seen anything like this before, at least on such a widespread scale.
I use a similar setup to yours and it has been a joy to work with. Your jz scripts are a little different to mine, I think I might borrow some ideas from them!
Higher speed actually translates into less throughput. Cars take up more than just their physical space; there is also a gap that is needed to stop safely in time--and this gap grows according to the square of velocity.

(You can argue that people don't usually leave sufficient space to stop, but I will point out that self-driving cars, which prompted this discussion, are going to be following those basic safety rules)
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And the point of my comment is that those given authority frequently do stupid, destructive things with it, and I believe in reducing the number of stupid, destructive things that happen.

You appear to believe that authority deserves deference simply because people call it 'authority'. I don't. There exist legitimate and illegitimate forms. The illegitimate forms are dangerous, and sometimes stupid, and deserve to be opposed.

And who decides? I do. I am arrogant enough to believe individuals don't need those in authority to make moral judgements for them.
Would sabotage qualify as insider trading? Has it happened before?
The very old Russian Su-25 looks very similar too and still seems to be doing well in the Syrian skies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-25
I don't wholly disagree with you. It's partly that the true service upgrades for flying--even if you just talk commercial--are priced at a completely different level from economy even though they maybe cost about 2x more per passenger.

That said, if you have Pre-check, airline status, airline club membership, maybe pay a bit more, etc. in practice you get a bit more legroom, early boarding, (usually) fairly fast security, etc. So, in that sense, there is a mild upgrade option relative to barebones cheapest tickets. (Depending on the airline.)
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It's getting pretty intense, too. Michigan and Ohio are both passing rules to limit Medicaid eligibility in counties with low unemployment rates.

In both states, those high employment counties are counties with big suburban job clusters and big cities with high unemployment. Now, those city residents will be denied Medicaid because they live "near" lots of jobs which they cannot reach without public transit, which Michigan and Ohio are strangling.

This is seriously getting sick.
Hello all! I built Posthook as a simple solution for web applications to schedule one-off tasks. It lets you schedule a request back to your application for a certain time, with an optional JSON payload.

It can be an alternative to running your own systems like Sidekiq, Celery, or Quartz and the operational overhead that comes along with them. Cron jobs and cloud provider tools like CloudWatch Events are also used for job scheduling but lack observability and may force you to frequently make expensive queries to your data store just to see if there is any work to do.

Questions and feedback are greatly appreciated :)
Developers seriously need to work to incorporate designers in OSS more. Even just basic UX would go a long way for many projects. Maybe some sort of better issue templates, or perhaps a more custom solution is necessary?
>There’s been class warfare for the last 20 years, and my class has won

- Warren Buffett
Like a frickin' ad.
> "There are some 'BSD-inspired' networking improvements to Linux starting with the 4.16."

By "inspired by BSD" do the author mean the code has been copied and pasted from FreeBSD to Linux, something which cannot be done in reverse because of the encumbrance of the GPL?
The behaviors she describes are exactly what I've witnessed occurring with any and all overly political/identity groups at tech companies.

People who attach their identity to immutable traits, rather than accomplishments, are losers. Losers are haters. Ethno nationalists, incels, radical feminists, all part of the same virus.
You have five or six revolutions happening all at once. Self-driving isnt going to revolutionize car ownership. People own cars for irrational reasons (fashion etc). Nor will self-drive suddenly make carpooling cool.

>> reasonably dense self-driving vanpools and small busses pop up.

Utopia much?
They're not against raising taxes. They're for using taxpayer money to support their industries (see: roads, highways, cars, trucks, etc) but against using taxpayer money for things that might cause their industries to make less money (see: public transit).