skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
European here, living happily without a driver's license.

Could someone please explain the gentrification argument? How is public transport supposed to make it worse?

Assuming gentrification occurs when one area is much more desirable to be in than others, then with good public transport it can be reached more easily. People can live outside the center (or the nice district) and still get a good experience, work or spend time there. The desirable area expands. It seems to me that if anything, this should work against gentrification.

Also, living in cities means giving up some freedom. We share it, we have to make some kinds of compromise: keep the noise down, take up less space for our private use and use the public more (like parks instead of own gardens). In my opinion this also means limiting the use of cars, so that city centers don't have to accommodate wide roads and parking space and could become more walkable and generally pleasant. I appreciate that most major European cities seem to develop in that direction.

Want freedom - go live away from people, no one will restrict you then.
Doesn't uTorrent have ads? I use deluge because I like having a headless back-end part.
FreeBSD was used in 1999 to render The Matrix on 32 Pentium II boxes because the software in Linux Compatibility mode on FreeBSD was faster then natively on Linux, that is a fact:

https://www.freebsd.org/news/press-rel-1.html

FreeBSD can be several times faster then Linux when it comes to network stack:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzFfTSRUQAATwaq.jpg

But often Linux is faster, you just need to find benchmark that favorites one or another, both are fast in general.
The GAU-8 was designed to punch thru 76mm armor at 300 meters. [1] The Russian T-90 tank has armor thicker than 500mm. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAU-8_Avenger#Specifications

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-90
Not likely: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Competitiveness_Repor...
They are, but ever since [1] they only do so at night.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Khafji
and Robert Newton can be thanked for turning it into the pirate voice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Newton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Country_English#Social_st...
Well, I guess they can stop seeding now.
I got a burner phone at wal mart with no info recently.
The car saw the obstacle and detected a collision, but did nothing, presumably due to the high false positive rate of such things.
I think we do see a lot of this today: Uber and Lyft already have incorporated ride sharing and I use that option every time -- when I'm in a city I frequently have another rider or two. I'm curious to see how this will increase as ride sharing density grows.

I think people avoid public transit because it is necessarily slow due to the multiple stops. They may also avoid it because it is too accessible. Sharing a vehicle with other commuting professionals is a vastly different experience than what you'll find on most public transit.
I own my car for pretty rational reasons: to commute to and from work, and to run other errands in and around the medium sized city I live near.
Sorry to hijack the thread slightly, but is only to introduce some visibility to the fact that this particular issue is nothing to do with the EU, or content ID, or anything like that.

Google is blackmailing the Blender foundation to try and get them to enable adverts.

https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blende...

edit - and Blender have now got https://video.blender.org/ in testing already. I didn't think they'd be the ideal people to issue ultimatums to on video hosting, given their technical specialities.

A situation like this triggered the development of git, (after the licence to use bitkeeper was withdrawn from the linux kernel team) so I will be watching the fallout with interest.
Those clones weren't too bad though. And IIRC, Power Computing did way more to evangelize the Mac platform at the time than Apple did. Their ads were great.
Woudn't anyone really into IP latency optimization be using something like DPDK on Linux? If you want high-performance networking, then using the kernel isn't the best idea IMO.
Only by "shouting" about it and comparing it to a more benign addiction I can individually bring focus to that issue.
Why don't you get a decent laptop and put Linux on it?
>And I am not against free trade (well, with reservations), but I think this idea has been proven wrong historically. I think countries that try to do a bit of everything, be self-sufficient, and perhaps specialize only in some very specific areas are generally more successful.

Oh? Which countries have been successful as you describe?

>Just look at the U.S. as an example - if they followed Smith's advice, they would still continue to trade cotton. This advice will never let countries to build up an industrial base. (Or funny you mentioned LG - they were originally a textile corporation but the government forced them into electric industry.)

Wrong. Smith's advice isn't arguing for static stagnant maintenance of the status quo. Economies, markets and products are always evolving. There's always opportunities to grow and change. That doesn't mean there's always an opportunity at every moment to outcompete a dominant foreign manufacturer.

>In my view, a country should have as many diverse industries as much it can

Countries do this already. If it's a capitalist economy and there's opportunity people will give it a go. I think you're grossly oversimplifying this and don't really understand how huge the market is and the number of industries there are.

I think you'll find it's much harder to manage your fantasy in reality than you imagine.

>It's great if you e.g. produce agricultural machinery and you can talk directly to the farmer, who is going to use it. If you sell this machinery to people on the other side of the planet, with a cultural barrier, this gets much trickier.

And yet people do sell all sorts of things on the other side of the planet, all the time, because while it may be "trickier" it means they have a much larger market, and greater opportunities for revenue and growth.

Frankly if your vision was at all workable it would have been settled upon by now.
My favourite Wireshark link: https://danlebrero.com/2017/04/06/documenting-your-architect...

Generating a sequence diagram of a running system w a bit of Clojure code and PlantUML mixed in.
Because right now, this class of service is broken up in ad-hoc service companies, none of which have been incentivized to become a regional rental pool.

Consolidate taxi/minibus/event bus/medical&elderly ride/mass transit into a pool of vehicles available 24/7 with resources for surge times/maintenance/cleaning etc, and this will become the norm easily enough.

Then it's just a question of who operates and at what cost?
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> Crashes are a regular thing and most of the physical "improvements" outside of compactness and weight have been unwanted.

I feel like the 3D touchpad is completely underrated but it really is amazing. It does everything that the mechanical one was doing except better. 2 years after getting it, I still can't believe it is not mechanical.
If I understand you correctly, the bad issue is tests by drilling for drilling sake. I agree with you but follow me on this:

Am I wrong to say that he as one person is in no position to change the process?

What I mean is that his choices are either to just go through the hoops and reject to the drills because they are not representative for his ability, or accept this testing but not stamp negative results on his quality as a person or developer.

In the end he is not defending the process too strongly; is seems to me that he simply wants a formula to navigate it.
good luck debugging and modifying the c++ code via the chrome dev tools.
My wife runs a small little shop in the creative space too: the margins can be quite high for nice, high quality stuff and customers are easy to draw in for multiple purchases.

(also it helps I do the tech side of things and there is so much open source, free or cheap stuff available tech-wise)
Its a signature phrase. TV characters tends to have one.
Technically children do have to pay taxes.
As far as I remember, the default VGA font is stored on the graphics card ROM and copied into the video memory by that same onboard ROM, not the motherboard BIOS, so no I don't believe so. I may be mistaken.
This is wonderful. By "S.W. Foss" as well...
Depending on who you're talking to "senseless" isn't as objective a term as you seem to imagine.
Because if Microsoft is going to finally "play nice" with the open source community, we are going to have to nitpick every single interaction to nip any bad behaviors in the bud, lest we see a repeat of "linux is cancer".

Now that they are toying with open source, it's been fun seeing how little power Microsoft has to deal with public outcries on open platforms like GitHub. Alas, we will see if it stays that way now that they have bought the damn platform. Still, it is our responsibility to steer Microsoft in the right direction, and not tolerate anything even slightly bad if we have the power to complain about it now that they care about developer PR (to the tune of $5 billion).
I do not mind your opinion or way of life, but if I consider other things to be relevant, why can't I use my time to improve in them? Just as you do with the things you consider relevant? As long as the activity doesn't infringe on anyone's liberty why should you be branded as defective for engaging in it?
Besides, it is hard to pinpoint what a better future state means. Doesn't it mostly depend on what you consider important to improve?
Original report from Variety: https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/bittorrent-acquisition...
If you focus on the crash itself, yes, this semi-autonomous murderbot failed to alert the human.

But the failure that killed Elaine Herzberg happened well before then, when the decision to disable the emergency brakes was made. It appears they disabled other safeties as well.

I don't disagree that playing a little loose with allowing new tech makes sense. We need to understand what we don't understand about them, accidents of course will happen, etc. But this looks a lot like foreseeable negligent homicide to me.
What's the purpose of this Rude Goldberg's machine if you could do keylogging instead?
I don't understand why Google/Uber are live testing with lethal SUVs instead of polystyrene golf-carts that could only hurt someone if they tried to eat it. We could be getting acclimatised to near disposable pizza delivery carts earning the algorithm enough trust for 2 tons of metal and a passenger.
Why would that trust be necessary? It very clearly isn't. Which is not the same as arguing that trust can't be valuable or critical in international relationships depending on the context.

China has gone from a $1 trillion to a $13 trillion economy in 20 years, with vast barriers to trade (into their country) and extreme domestic protectionist policies (eg barring majority domestic business ownership, and most foreign acquisitions).

China is the greatest one-way mercantilist economic result in recorded history. There's very little trust in any relationship with China, they do literally whatever they decide fits their nationalist aims, whether that's annexing territory, stealing corporations (Ant Financial), forcing technology transfers, blockading foreign ownership, whatever it takes to buy time until China is impossible to resist. China is already buying up Eastern Europe, and buying votes within the EU (eg bribing Greece for favorable voting). Is that a premise of trust? Of course not, they're using their increasing might strategically wherever they can, and it's going to get a lot worse.

The fact is, all nations should pursue their self interest. When the US decides to act as everyone else does and pursue its economic self interest, it's denounced. And there's China parroting that they're in favor of free trade, while being aggressively against free trade in practice, and hardly being called out for the hypocrisy internationally.

The reason the US is denounced, is because the export gravy train is coming to an end, the easy exports into the US that many other large economies have enjoyed are going to get more expensive going forward. If that wasn't the case, all of these other nations wouldn't be upset about the US change in behavior: they all know the US is an immense global consumption engine that powers their domestic production.

Responding to psergeant's comment below:

> I wonder if you could help me understand Trump trying to rescue ZTE in terms of what you’ve just said?

The US got China to immediately sign off on the Qualcomm acquisition of NXP in exchange for the ZTE deal. That's an extremely valuable acquisition for the US tech industry.

Simultaneously the US has received $2.2 billion in fines from ZTE over time for their violations of US sanctions. Further on top of that, the US is getting even more compliance pledges from ZTE.

It's a substantial self interest win for the US. The US gets to eat one of Europe's valuable tech companies (of which they have relatively few), which then reduces Europe as a tech competitor over time. I'd call the ZTE deal a win, win, win, win arrangement.
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There's always http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml (and also kernel-lt) so you don't have to compile things yourself. But things like VMWare and various proprietary device drivers will break.
We use a similar product, and it works great for async "standups". Solve a problem well (I peek at our standup channel - I don't have to screw around with logins or config screens or dashboards), solve it simply (don't try to be Basecamp), and keep it cheap enough - there's a ton of opportunity there.
It would be heartening if someone from Apple at least said they were hearing the complaints. Number one, IMO, being this idiotic keyboard. Then the ports, then the touchbar fiasco. Stagnation is not nearly as big an issue as those issues. As others have said, change in technology in general has stagnated. If I HAD to buy a new laptop today, I might buy a Macbook, but I'd have a hard look at the state of the competition's trackpads first. Then probably go with the older MBAir with the better keyboard....
If you want a painless process, you've basically got to go through the compatibility lists and find a laptop that is easily hackintoshed. More often than not, it's not the laptop you have or want to buy.
Sad to tell, lads, but basically we've been all fucked up.
As a friend of mine's song tells, they simply "sold us the view from the hill".
I was born in 1972 and probably I've witnessed the early steps of the Internet since it came in the country where I live (Italy), which was never too keen at up-to-date techs.
There was a very different kind of people who used to inhabit the cyberspace 20-30 years ago rather than now.
In the early years of the century Internet was something dedicated to geeks. Set up an Internet connection was something thougher than today and people who managed then had a superior medium education than contemporary ones. Netiquette was something never codified formally but well know to everybody and - above all - always respected.
The numer of times I've seen the Netiquette fucked up by Internet dwellers in a whatever social network are countless.
First of all everything started getting worse, IMHO, when some people realised that the Internet could become a way of business, and then that you could make money on it. It's a common law that money has the power to spoil everything and everyone and the Internet was no exception.
The Internet is a powerful platform, if only people would be educated (yes, educated) to the use of it. We could really use to gather consense for battles to fight for the humanity's sake, but at last we all go wrong in the opposite way.
One of the stronghold of the communication itself is the capacity of speakers not just to speak but to LISTEN too. Internet dwellers today don't want to listen: they simply use the Internet to abuse the famous "quarter hour" of a self-named celebrity to tell whatever is passing through their head, and they don't want to listen at any other reason than their own.
I'm getting sick at this like many other people stated here. As a technician I'm used to have a pragmatic approach to conversations: if we debate about a problem I'm supposed it's because we're trying to find out a solution. If you don't care about the solution because you just want to impose your view of the matter, communication in any way is simply useless and I'm not interested to.
Social networks fucked us up. They have become the idiots' garbage collector and it's useful to keep us good as idiots believe that problems could be solved spreading out their rage on Facebook.
People has often a schizofrenic attitude to social networks: protected by the anonimity of a screen they experience the power of telling people things in a way they'd never use to talk if you meet them on the street. Even the finest people you can meet in real life, behind a screen can express themselves in the worst way you could imagine them. And you're there reading and asking yourself if they were acting when you met them or now that they're writing to you.
Sometimes it seems that the "Idiocracy" prophecy has been fulfilled, maybe in a more disastrous way that fiction could imagine that.
The complaint was that main site is advertising that VS Code is "Free. Open Source." which apparently is different from "Free and Open Source Software".
I love cryptocoins, I think tokens are kinda interesting and I've read a bit about some of the token/blockchain/storage offerings. But I honestly don't see anything radically distinct among Tron/Storj/MaidSafe/LBRY/etc.

IMO these services could perhaps be a backend for some user-friendly storage broker. But people just don't like the idea of encrypted data where they're the only ones who have the key. "Who do I call if I forget/lose/destroy my passphrase?"
One really useful tip for Wireshark that's not as obvious as it should be.

Increasingly often, what you need to debug is a TLS connection. However, that can make debugging more difficult as the contents of the connection are encrypted.

However, if you can access the server key, whether you have access to the production server, or are working in a development environment, or you MITM yourself with mitmproxy, or you're working on some product that ships the same default server keys with every install, you can load the key into Wireshark and then decrypt all of the TLS traffic.

To do so, go to Preferences > Protocols > SSL, and click "Edit" next to "RSA keys list". Then you can load private keys in, and associate them with a host and port, and when you have a TLS connection on that host and port, Wireshark will decrypt the traffic and you can see the inner protocol.

https://wiki.wireshark.org/SSL

Note that this doesn't work if you use a cipher suite with forward secrecy, though it looks like there is support for that as well if you enable logging of ephemeral keys in your client or server (https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/35639/decryptin...)
"But since the financial crisis, the national government has cut police funding by 25 percent"

I think this is the key point, government spending has been under severe pressure since 2010. The excuse is the financial crisis although I suspect it has more to do with political ideology.
Look up the vscode-go extension. It adds/removes unused imports automatically and thus removes most of the friction.

Regarding unused variables, the only solutions I am aware of involve renaming to underscore, commenting out or passing to a function like fmt.Println.
Yes... that is the point.
Transmission is great but they lost a lot of trust when they started distributing malware from their website.
Hey! Can you add a feature to predict results using the machine learning?
Public transportation is vital especially for low income families who may not have enough money to buy a car. It should act as a cheap alternative to owning an automobile. This can also help in reducing traffic as well.
> If you want up to date software, you should just run Debian testing (or some other distribution/OS).

Telling people to run a new OS in order to get an updated version of Wireshark is crazy.

If people only want a single updated package, then it is perfectly fine to include the updated PPA.
Great link, clear cut answer which ought to settle the whole question.
Similar camp here. My 2012 MBA has been a lovely ultrabook but now that it's showing its age and I'm looking to replace it this year, I've decided to move away from the OSX ecosystem and am currently waiting for the next Surface pro to launch.

The current lineup is just so unappealing.
I agree and have the same feelings, but there should at least be an option for people who don’t want to prioritize size over performance.

Apple is the worlds biggest company, they can do better than ‘one size fits all’. Yes, that mantra is also part of their design philosophy, but it needs to be executed intelligently not blindly.

There’s a long but diverse tail of professional use cases, and there’s definitely not a single box that can hold all of them.
Thera are existing mechanisms and professes to deal with trade disputes. US has successfully used them before. Trump is lashing out from ignorance an incompetence. His apologist's from ignorance.
Sure, I don't have much data for either problem - how NVMe works out in practice is also interesting - I've found some benchmarks for SATA-SSDs - https://www.thomas-krenn.com/de/wiki/SSD_RAID_Performance-Te... but I guess if you want or need to squeeze out the max performance on RAID5 you need to test your own system and run different benchmarks with different RAID configurations...
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I never understood how to intercept another device's TCP packets. Do you connect some sort of device in between the device and the network as a node or is the only requirement is to be connected in the same hub? Does anyone have reading material on how to do this?
In 2005 or so, sure. Now...not so much?

What privacy erosion/easier tracking are you talking about that wasn't remedied by the very wide deployment of RFC4941 (IPv6 Privacy Extensions) in operating systems?
GNU really missed an opportunity here:

ubuntu@ip-10-0-0-252:~$ make it so
make: *** No rule to make target 'it'. Stop.
That is complete and utter nonsense.

That's not even how tariffs work in the first place, I'll go ahead and give you a little primer.

Tariffs like NAFTA are removed, allowing companies to move to new locations with cheaper resources, so they do.

Tarriffs are introduced, oh no it's no longer profitable to be outside of the country, companies move back.

Perfect example: Foxconn building plants in Wisconsin for Apple.

Is this thread being shilled? how is anyone buying this nonsense when it's so transparently incorrect?
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Service Workers, probably.
To be fair, his special case just works on IPv4, but not on IPv6. So it’s a regression in functionality without the right prefix size.
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This sounds like an absolutely horrifying state of affairs. I did not know what a bullet I dodged by opting for the non-touchbar 2015-Mac that still has those regular old USB-A and HDMI/Mini-DP ports.

> Many Android phones support Qualcomm’s Quick Charge over USB-C, which is different — usually — from the official, better, newer USB-C Power Delivery (PD) standard. Apple products, some Android phones, and the Nintendo Switch use USB-C PD. Quick Charge devices don’t get any benefit — usually — from PD chargers, and vice versa.

... and this is just a small sample.
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