skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not entirely sold on the idea of cramming the vast majority of the world's population into the subset of countries that are relatively wealthy and well-run. In practice, the cramming continues within those countries into the most favoured cities.

If we are thinking of pie-in-the-sky ideas like open borders, then why also try to think of a way to spread good government and wealth across all parts of the world?
I.e., spread the best practices so they become universal.

Some ideas in the past, like Europe colonising and controlling much of the world, are obviously out of fashion today. Yet ironically many people have voted with their feet (or would like to, if given the opportunity) and moved to Europe.
This is a wholly inaccurate picture of NASA’s organization then and now. The centers in Alabama, California, and Houston were all subsidiaries of NASA headquarters in Washington, and remain so today. Control was never held by the Alabama center, nor was it transferred to any of the other field centers. Von Braun was the director of Marshall (the Alabama center) throughout the Space Race until well after LBJ.
No. The bug was when using the "Scan to PDF" function. It happened on all quality settings. Copying (scanning+printing in one step, no PDF) was not effected.
Extremely recommended!!!
Wait, by sewing pattern industry, do you mean the fashion industry?
Which is the case in most urban centres, where most people are.
I like the Burgin and O'Connor translation, personally.

They have a postscript per chapter about "all the references you probably missed", but don't add distracting markup to the text itself to call them out. It's a nice balance, and the language is pretty good.
Beautiful, but it took a long time (~7 seconds) to paint when viewing it in Brave on an Android Pixel. I'm on a 4g connection. This is a lot to ask of users, for a page that ultimately tells you there's nothing to look at. I haven't experimented with skeleton loading placeholders for SVG heavy presentations, but it may be suitable here.
4.8% https://www.fxstreet.com/news/atlanta-fed-q2-gdp-estimate-ri...

4% https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/15/goldman-sachs-model-now-poin...
Echoing what others have said in their replies, it is remarkable, the difference when you get somewhere that really has substantially less light pollution. Not just 10 or 20 miles away -- hundreds.

Also, there is nothing between you and it. This is something a picture doesn't fully convey: You are a part of it, in the midst of it, right now -- and every moment of your life, if you could only see it.

It seems trite to say it, these days, but there is a very fundamental component of perspective.
“If enough of them came, they might vote for an Islamist government...”

Given the rate of expansion of islam, i would say when not if.
George Lucas Would Have Set Third Trilogy in ‘Microbiotic World’
What do you mean with "HDVoice"? On landline connections this usually means G722. G711u/a is definitly not "HD".
A Burger Joint Where Robots Make Your Food
Self-Hosted Developer Bliss
>Also why no one really appreciated ISDN over here in central Europe.

Except Germany. Which had probably the best telephone system in the world when they deployed ISDN nationwide.
Breaching the Public Trust: Facebook Is the Beginning
It's also your choice to not write your own gaming console that is DRM-free. What's stopping you? If you need money, go to venture capital and make your pitch about a gaming console that asks people to pay, but allows trivial copying and sharing of titles.
We are comparing US and Canada. If person already has a degree a similar degree can be chosen that will require 1+/- year of study at a cost below 10K. The spouse can work during this year and the student can work halftime. This will be enough to get PR. In US the spouse will not have right to work the student can work on campus the minimal cost will be in 30K range, after getting the degree the former student (if the degree is appropriate) can work for 1-2 years in US if employer applies for H1B and the lucky former student wins the lot. he will be able to continue working and US employer can apply for GC (subject to far more req than in Canada) minimum time to GC in US in this scenario will be 4-5 years (realistically 6-7 provided the student was not from China or India) and in Canada about 2.
Perhaps it's either not worth fixing at all or not worth fixing yet. So far as I know, nobody has proposed a way to "fix it" that passes cost-benefit analysis with a decent discount rate.

If we keep thinking about it, perhaps somebody will come up with better options in the future, but they simply haven't done so yet.
What if engineering itself is a part of the ‘problem’?
I modern chip design, simulated annealing is used for placement of parts to minimize the length of routes and optimize parasitic effects.
Just a word of warning to any insomniacs on here thinking of reading Matthew Walkers book, Why We Sleep: it is probably one of the least helpful books I have ever read in terms of helping you sleep well. It mostly explains the many ways you are damaging your health by not sleeping well, and reading it while I had insomnia just made me anxious and made it more difficult to sleep. The one good thing that came out of reading it was a suggestion for CBT for sleep, and I would highly recommend that as that did actually help me sleep.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply the story was a secret. It was the murder of Michelle O'Keefe, for which Sgt. Raymond Jennings was wrongfully convicted.

I wrote about Ray's exoneration in the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-jeff-sessions-ca...

There's more details in a prior post on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12010760

NBC News also did an episode of Dateline about it: https://www.instagram.com/p/BMnDkslA3wi/
>The selectivity of Wikileaks' leaks

What GOP documents did Wikileaks receive that they didn’t release?
It invites or raises the question rather than begs it, but your point is understood.

Hmm. I admit it's tenuously implied, but my thinking was that it does beg the question! Because what we're talking about is the ostensible resolution of Ted Nelson's dilemma of wanting 'generalized paper', but then observing that what people actually use it for in practice might lead us to question some of his original assumptions about what people need computers for after all. But OK, maybe this isn't quite correct usage of the term.

Thanks a lot for pointing that out about The Master Switch, which I should probably read.
Ask HN: Why do managers get paid more than individual contributors?
A manager in this context is one that has direct reports and does not directly contribute to the work.

It is not to say that what managers do is not important. But, I am not yet convinced that as a manager you should get paid more because you have direct reports and have people management responsibilities.
Yes, but baked in. Bouncers are horrible UX and a huge obstacle to onboarding.

"this service is only usable on your phone if you also sign up for another service" pretty much makes it a non-starter.
Made me think of this [0] directly relevant XKCD.

[0]: https://xkcd.com/460/
I'd suggest a tiny pinch (<0.05g) of dry herb in a vaporizer, a couple hours before bedtime. Recurring costs are <$20/month in a legal state.

The immediate effect is quite interesting: routine tasks become less-accessible while imagination becomes more-accessible, so you think more about what you're doing, which often spawns new ideas (e.g. the desire to exercise or play an instrument, understanding both as a cyclical muscle control problem.) Afterward, the transition to sleep feels trivial.

Large doses are generally not beneficial.
Spend guilt free – without making a detailed budget
> Making food less expensive is bad?

Making equivalent food lower cost is good. Reducing food quality to reduce price is bad.
"Workers become far more productive when they move from a poor country to a rich one. Suddenly, they can join a labour market with ample capital, efficient firms and a predictable legal system. Those who used to scrape a living from the soil with a wooden hoe start driving tractors. Those who once made mud bricks by hand start working with cranes and mechanical diggers. Those who cut hair find richer clients who tip better."

Like hell they do.

In the first two scenarios, the hypothetical worker is almost certainly not qualified to be operating any sort of heavy machinery. In the third, stylists/barbers tend to require certification.

I'm sure this paragraph wasn't meant to be taken literally, but it does nonetheless betray a gross underestimation of the costs of actually training someone to be an effective and safe worker in a new, more technologically-driven environment.
as a rule of thumb, you probably get better mileage out of always looking for other jobs, even when you have a decent one --- than say, working long hours without paid overtime, or so on.

remote-only could be great. https://www.remoteonly.org/
Royce here, the hacker building InOutOver.com.

I'm developing a personal finance tool that doesn't sell my data, helps me see my daily spending habits, and tells me where to cut back and lean in. I got the idea after my wife and I spent the last 10+ years budgeting with an excel sheet, financial statements, and a rough financial independent game plan.

The thing is, I don't trust free financial services with my data. And I'd much rather pay for a tool that listens to what I need, don't need, and build it. Because I'm a hacker by trade, I decided to start building.

You can join me by requesting an early invite at inoutover.com. The first 20 signup get the product FREE forever.

I'm always interested to get feedback; feel free to discuss here. I'll be available.
For a very well written and detailed description of the principle of evaporative cooling, you can’t beat Feynman.

Section 1-3

http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_01.html
It is difficult to celebrate historical achievements of our ancestors, when we read about them, passages similar to this.

".... Other Mesoamerican cultures also engaged in human sacrifice and built tzompantlis. But, "The Mexica certainly brought this to an extreme," says Vera Tiesler …."

"...
Gomóz Valdás found that about 75% of the skulls examined so far belonged to men, most between the ages of 20 and 35—prime warrior age. But 20% were women, and 5% belonged to children.

Most victims seemed to be in relatively good health before they were sacrificed. "If they are war captives, they aren't randomly grabbing the stragglers," Gómez Valdés says. The mix of ages and sexes also supports another Spanish claim, that many victims were slaves sold in the city's markets expressly to be sacrificed.

…"

But, yet, we do. And I guess, we are the descendants of the survivors, and in our chromosomes -- especially the ones inherited from the paternal lineage -- we have the 'winners' of the wars of the past...

I still can not comprehend, how a grown man can do stuff like this, especially to a woman or a child, staring into their eyes...

May be the people who performed these things, had to medicate themselves to alter their own consciousness of some sort. Otherwise, how could they?
BlackBerry KEY2 with the Perfect Keyboard Setup
This article (and the comments) seem to focus on migration from poorer to more developed areas.

But what if people could migrate from the developed world to resource rich regions (like Africa and South America) and have the chance to unlock the potential of those regions? All that potential wealth which is currently held back by corrupt governments and non-progressive cultural habits could be unlocked.

Wait, that happened before and was called colonialism and wasn't good for the natives. But neither is uncontrolled inflow of third worlders into industrialized nations. Is growing global wealth more important than effects on local populations?
Of course it's by design. And sure, I've considered paying for it, but I don't. Does that mean my complaints about the free service are somehow invalid? I'm still a customer, just a different kind of customer, and if they make the experience bad enough for me that I avoid it in some circumstances, that's relevant to their interests. If they didn't want free-tier customers, they wouldn't be offering the free-tier service.
Same happened to me when I switched insurance. Caused me to break down and miss three months of work. They denied half of the disability claim.
American football has a similar problem. If the score is tied in regulation, then there is a coin toss. If the team that gets the ball first scores a touchdown, then game over immediately. The other team doesn't even get to try to score.

Don't like that? Well, then play better in regulation.
Your shoe size
yes I think you're referring to https://www.pyret.org/
That’s exactly what we are using jsonnet for at my company. Introducing jsonnet in our CloudFormation work has given great results with almost zero up front cost (compare with other CloudFormation DSLs). This reminds me I should finish writing that blog post about it :)
Off topic, I had posted an ask HN thread, it does not seem to be appearing , does it take a while to trend please?
Thanks
When I read "You get AV flags for business reasons on the AV vendor's behalf, not because of malware." I pretty much became convinced they have gone to the dark side. I've seen enough shady business that this pattern really jumps out - as soon as people start claiming everybody is conspiring against them for monetary reasons, or out of envy, etc. with no proof - it is a very strong sign that the person is not to be trusted. There are false positives but the sign is very strong.
This really hit home with me. As a kid I hacked Microsoft and leaked some Windows Longhorn (the precursor to Vista) builds.

One of those kids was wondering around the exact floor where my desk was. I got a job and career out of it, these kids got jail time and one suicide. Geez.
$1.5B “No Strings Attached” Stock Award for Xiaomi CEO
It is if there is some central root user for the whole thing. I doubt they'd be dumb enough to do that, however.

Just brainstorming, but at this scale, you could have a separate encryption network built in to the hardware so that users request data only in gigabyte blocks, then read it on hardware that asynchronously requests the key and does JIT decryption via a secure network that IS locked down in the Pentagon somewhere. Hell, it could even be airgapped and just hire a grunt to walk to a file cabinet each time to unlock it. So that even if you exfiltrated their whole datacenter, you'd have nothing without the keys (that's a given regardless).

The keys could be hot-rotating so that if the key center was hacked (and they detected it), they could shut off the cloud, re encrypt everything with new backup keys, and keep running.

But that's sci-fi level shit. In all likelihood it's some crappy instance of azure outsourced to Bozo Hamilton
Well yeah it's a react app... here's a link to the raw svg file on our cdn - https://cdn.astronomer.io/app/img/astronaut.svg
Regulators investigating the case of the missing ‘4’
whats the comparison between hammerjs and this?
On Loneliness and Solitude
Read This If You Think You're an INFJ
Remote GIT repositery with Visual studio
I'm in that space, link in my profile (not that it is recognizable as a hyperdata system yet, nonetheless it is). Why do you ask – are you?
I sometimes wonder whether integrated-circuit manufacturing wasn't sent to us by time-travellers from the future. Our ability to manufacture useful things, on such tiny scales, to such high precision, doesn't seem to match up with our comparatively-poor capabilities in other areas of manufacturing.
Think of WASM like you think of assembly code for the desktop. C, C++, Delphi, etc....All with their own libraries and frameworks to do the same thing...namely, not write desktop apps.

a common compile target makes it easy for developers and companies. Languages and frameworks should never be the common denominator for solution building because it is inflexible.
This again links back to the Finish system. It doesn’t stand alone by itself. All the other social services are also in place.
Why use the Wayback Machine? Joel’s blog is still up: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
It'll never be fixed so long as the primary talking heads advocating change are all giant energy consumers.

Who wants to listen to Leonardo DiCaprio, Al Gore, etc. as they jet from continent to continent, play on mega yachts, own 10,000 square foot homes-- then the listeners are supposed to live like monks?

No, that won't work. When they get real, concerned voices speaking-- people who put skin in the game-- then the idea might get traction.
> a conscious effort to stick with a portable subset of SQL.

Or perhaps just a validation tool. Since you mentioned testing, it might even be enough to use a stripped-down parser from something like SQLite. Granted, integration could be tough if these don't already exist.

> It is much easier to have an ORM do that job for you.

> For complex applications, that is very difficult, yes.

I was hoping for more than the bare assertion. What makes it so difficult? What makes an application "complex" in this context?

> Some of the earlier Java EE ORM:s were truly garbage.

So modern ones are all (or mostly) well-written?

> For example, in C# Linq is already used for functional list processing. Using them for SQL is just a change of backend.

This sounds very much like an application developer treating the database as merely a dumb datastore, which I suspect (and I admit I'm speculating here) the OP would consider an anti-pattern.

Perhaps that's the real source of the OP's question, the perspective of someone who's well-versed enough with RDBMSes and their ability to manipulate/process data before it even reaches the application, even with only portable[1] SQL.

Hopefully the OP, or someone who responded with a "me too" to the OP can chime in to support or refute my speculation.

[1] I would expect the intersection of MSSQL, Oracle, and Postgres to be suitably powerful
Details? I dont know a german to ask!
“The next 50 years: A personal view” [of AI] by Patrick Henry Winston
Selling Surveillance, Championing Privacy
Finding Judea Pearl's text "Causality" sitting atop the reading stack, I began looking for some way to avoid reading it. So I was delighted to pick up this older (2012) but extremely timely paper by Patrick Henry Winston, which gives his take on several topics:

- the retreat of AI to statistics,

- Brooks subsumption architecture and some pitfalls,

- the limited efficacy of neural networks and

- even a brief discussion of Pearl's previous book("Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems") and work, which provided just enough information to send me in a new direction!
nice haha
Professional Videogamers Get Their Own Stadiums
Interesting, will have to look into that... the file itself is only 27kb. So a normal placeholder while it downloads wouldn't do much. I'm not sure if there's a way to set a loading placeholder while the svg paints? ie is there an event for when it's finished painting?
The USA is the size of a continent, so perhaps a fair(er) comparison would be to add all the immigrants in Europe. That's ignoring the fact that most people don't migrate to the USA because it's immigrant friendly but because of other factors such as proximity, language, and economy, and ease of access. Living in the USA as an undocumented immigrant is not that great. The balance is also tipping at the moment (e.g. more people are leaving the USA than entering the USA, currently).

If you look at the figures for net migration per 1000 inhabitants[1], the USA and Germany are pretty much the same for the period between 2007 and 2012: 15.94 per 1K and 15.54 per 1K respectively. For 2017, the USA sits at 3.9 (Canada 5.70).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migra...
https://www.reddit.com/r/WebAssembly/comments/7wlmjt/will_wa...
It's not so bad once you figure to create a new <g> tag for every animation. But yeah, there's a lot of trial and error to it (as with any design work)... unless you want to really mentally nail down the coordinate system.
Oh, well, probably not 5 years. More like 20 years away for human-level AI, according to everyone I've read since the 80s. Fusion power will be coming online right around then, too, so that's good. And the true value of the blockchain will finally be evident in about 20 years, too. Which is really good, because that's around the time we are likely to discover the secrets of immortality.
the statement you're replying to was probably intended for users (ie the people who use ftp in some capacity all the time). they should absolutely stop using filezilla. sure, in the general sense there's no reason the project couldn't be productively forked, but the immediate concern is the fact that FZ presents itself as a modern open source client when in fact its stuck in 1998 and bundles f*ing popups
I don’t think that would work. The pressure on the two sides of the leak will eventually equalize if the water can’t escape. Your cling wrap probably can’t contain that pressure. If you can’t turn the faucet on full blast and have the wrap stay, it won’t be able to contain the leak either.
The original WaveNet repeated a lot of computations; with caching/dynamic programming, it became a lot faster. Other optimizations were also doable. In any case, that was eventually made moot by using model distillation to train a wide flat (not deep) NN, which is 20x realtime: https://deepmind.com/blog/high-fidelity-speech-synthesis-wav... (This was necessary to make it cost-effective to deploy onto Google Assistant.)
Archive.org has a couple old versions available:

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Oregon_Trail_The_1990
> why not charge them more for visas,

Because illegal immigrants do not use visas. So you would be hurting law-abiding people and encouraging circumventing the law - if you can't afford the visa anyway, the question of "should I just through the hoops to get legal visa or try illegal immigration" becomes moot.

> make them pay extra taxes

Why would they pay those taxes? They'd just work on black market and report zero income and apply for welfare. High tax burdens reliably breeds avoidance and lack of compliance, especially in population that is kinda on the sidelines of the law as it is, as it often happens with migrants. And of course it would also sell awfully in the press - imagine an article of how a migrant from Guatemala pays a higher tax rate taxes than a billionaire born in New Jersey - how that would look in next congressional debate?

> restrict their access to welfare benefits

You can do it, but then you'd get exactly what welfare benefits are created to remove - a large population of people who do not have access to basic services, and thus have high level of disease, crime, misery and human suffering. If you accept the idea that welfare benefits are necessary because we should not have too many people like that in our society, then denying people in the country these benefits because they were born in wrong place contradicts this idea. Gating the access to this system on immigration status contradicts the whole premise of having the welfare system. I don't think there's a logically consistent model of welfare state with open borders at all - unless we somehow postulate that welfare spending has a reasonably low upper bound, which I haven't seen proven anywhere.

> Such levies could also be used to regulate the flow of migrants,

Of course you could, but why charging lots of money for visa would be more effective in solving problems we have now than any other method that's been used?

> thus avoiding big, sudden surges.”

Big, sudden surges usually happen due to wars, famines, economic collapses and other such events, in which case I seriously doubt visa prices are going to change anything.