skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The publishing company hosting the article is headquartered in London. I wondered if the location might have something to do with the languages found in the abstract. The languages are an odd selection. If they were going for penetration, why no Chinese or Hindi? I tried to find guidance on their website if the presented languages were mandatory but could not. Other journal articles had the same 3 languages in the abstract so it appeared to be a convention for that site. I did find translation services, for a cost which explains why the article was not translated into those languages.

Edit: PS had an incredibly slow Sunday obviously :)
One of those is a crime, and one of those is an internal problem. One of those results in extensive fines and jail, one results in finger wagging from the authorities.
So... you don't want it to become Vancouver in other words.
"Toxic" in this context just means negative or harmful. There are many ways in which something can be negative or harmful, not just one.
Today it's possible to buy a laser-guided sleep-o-matic superbed that walks your dog and cures your back pain.

You can also buy a basic bed that's pretty nice and reasonably cheap.

15 years ago, you might have had a high-tech bed that didn't leave you sore in the morning.

1,500 years ago you had a bed of straw with fleas and bedbugs, but at least you had a place to sleep.

150,000 years you slept in furs on dirt by the fire, breathing smoke and aggravating your sciatica. Your bed was basically free, but since your livelihood depended on your full mobility, sleeping there was slowly killing you.

All these beds provided the feature of "sleep." So why would anybody need a sleep-o-matic, a bed worth more in 150,000 BC dollars than the yearly economic output of your continent? Why should we accept the massive waste of resources it represents?
Primates living in futurist cages will still be primates. Its time for us to realize that we are moving towards possible futures devoid of real progress. More sensors, cameras, fasters connections, unlimited entertainment will not help us become happier and prosperous society.
We need to discuss real radical ideas and implement them:

1. World without political boundaries, weapons, pollution, carbon emissions.

2. Cheap or free healthcare.

3. Sustainable technologies.

4. Better Education.

5. Heal racial, political, class divides.

Where is that future?
Sergey Brin says Google 'failed to be on the bleeding edge' of blockchain
The specifics of the test don't really matter regarding selling a vehicle with fraudulent specs.
The "anaphora" in "anaphoric" typically refers to how it binds the variable "it" automatically, without having to specify the variable name. Since if-let and when-let require you to explicitly specify the variable name, I don't think most people would consider them anaphoric macros. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphoric_macro

If you want actual anaphoric macros in CL, here they are: https://www.common-lisp.net/project/anaphora/
You can't prescribe how language is used. Toxic culture now means this. Changes in usage happen over time.
The e.GO Mover offers a bus for our time
I ready a very interesting book about Alexander's logistics during his campaigns that calculated he could never have had more than 4 days supplies. Imagine spending years pressing further and further into dessert and jungle not knowing where to get food for 40000 people after a few days
Interactive Database of 700,000 Artifacts from Dutch Canal Excavation
The rules and guidelines which essentially subsidize auto ownership with public space that could be better utilized. The current state of scooters probably falls too far on the "unregulated" side of things, but I'm bullish on solutions which reduce the need for curbside parking which will lead to additional transit / bike / other more productive uses of street space in urban areas.
I hope you're right. But I do kind of trust Waterfront Toronto. Them and the city's parks have been doing a great job. For instance, the revitalization of the area beneath the Gardner expressway. The city seems keen to make sure they're heard throughout this project as well. I hope that continues.
If you max out smiling and beard, the result kinda looks like Tim Meadows. Granted, that could be just me being yet another annoying white person. I'll ask my wife about it later just in case.
Either way it is a crime in most jurisdictions.

For example, in DC there is fraud in the first degree and fraud in the second degree, as well as false promise to future performance: https://code.dccouncil.us/dc/council/code/sections/22-3221.h...

>(a) Fraud in the first degree. — A person commits the offense of fraud in the first degree if that person engages in a scheme or systematic course of conduct with intent to defraud or to obtain property of another by means of a false or fraudulent pretense, representation, or promise and thereby obtains property of another or causes another to lose property.

>(b) Fraud in the second degree. — A person commits the offense of fraud in the second degree if that person engages in a scheme or systematic course of conduct with intent to defraud or to obtain property of another by means of a false or fraudulent pretense, representation, or promise.

>(c) False promise as to future performance. — Fraud may be committed by means of false promise as to future performance which the accused does not intend to perform or knows will not be performed. An intent or knowledge shall not be established by the fact alone that one such promise was not performed.
The Explorable Explanation “Game” Jam – explain an idea through play
> I've always understood race as a person's genetic background and ethnicity as a person's cultural background

I've heard that maybe once every 20 years. It just isn't the way the language is used. It may not be anyone's fault, but the conflation is the way it is AFAIK.
They haven't been around for long enough for users to develop culture/etiquette around parking them. Automobiles had the same problem when they were introduced, I believe.
US Software Patents are back with HR 6264 section 7
That's makes it merely expensive, not impossible.

The Reproducibility Project got a long way on a modest budget. They replicated 100 studies, got similar results on only 35%, for $15M. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducibility_Project.
I found an interesting article that breaks down some of the potential problems with this process and the risks involved with heating plastics and trying to differentiate between plastic and PVC (they release different compounds when heated, both potentially problematic). https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/heard-about-miracle-pl...
The problem is that everybody wants to live in a different city. So you'll end up with a compromise, or something like Brasilia if you let the planners get away with it.

Nice cities grow organically, they're not planned at all, and it takes a long time for them to get that organic feel.
I'm wondering if this city will actually be designed to host engineers, with an office campus on site so they can get to work easier without the hassle of traffic and having to lay on buses and the inevitible protests
Did he say he wouldn't do it again? Or did he only say he was sorry?
The article is a year old and parrots some of the talking points from the F-16 vs F-35 exercises that definitely didn't reflect the full capabilities of the two aircraft.

The F-35 at the time was flying with its flight envelope restricted by software, and the test pilots involved were not really doing an all out dogfight but were instead working on determining the F-35's flight envelope and how it responded to different tactics.

In general the article just does the same thing as others, repeats stuff from blogs and so called "experts", people who have probably never even touched and F-35 much less flown one.

It does seem to be a fun topic for clickbait though.
Hook Local Startups, Not the HQ2 Whale
That's always my first thought when I read anything about slime molds!
The difference is how that surveillance is used. Right now you my not have any personal contact with China, so you might not care what the do to their own citizens. I might have taken the same stance in 2001 before meeting the girl who would later become my wife, who was a Chinese citizen. Since then I’ve travelled to China for work, completely independently of any family connection. A relative, child or grandchild of yours could work in China, marry a Chinese partner. I could go on.

Even aside from that, China is actively exporting their political and economic model all over the world. They are using economic investments and financial grants to companies, institutions and cultural organisations as leverage to stifle criticism, and silence factual reporting of events in China all over the world, and almost certainly in your own country too.
my perception is that it was much closer to that in the past

(EDIT: On a second read of our discussion, we may even be just talking about slightly unrelated things, in that you're unhappy there's more politics period, and I'm trying to justify that by saying "it's the same subject matter, politics is just necessarily more a component". One could justifiably not care about that distinction; it just strikes me as meaningful)

I don't think you're wrong persay, and while I've only been here over the last 6-7 years I've read the first hundred posts thousands of times due to HN being my defacto "social scraping test", and with a sampling of the first 10 stories, I'd stand by my assertion that unfortunately politics has been taking a heavier hand in things that previously may have seemed uncorrupted.

to give some concrete examples (from the first 10 posts):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4 (Real estate costs in NY, still a common topic, but nimbyism/zoning is a central focus, largely political)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5 (Big-co aquisitions, now when discussed come alongside concerns re: consolidation, antitrust, etc)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6 (Forecasting software; while not specifically based off of private data, the discussion nowadays would likely pivot to that due to topical relevence)

tl;dr, I don't necessarily agree with how much you may be implying the content has shifted, I just think politics plays a much stronger role in said content, or in our awareness of it, but again, this is perceptual and I'm not going to tell you "you're wrong" in having been there yourself.

The site will ultimately be what the community makes it.

Yup, and I try to limit my corrosion of this to trying to sway opinion softly. This all comes down to, for me, being more scared about LACK of attention/action, than if some threads go sideways.
To expand on this, the 2003 Z really did usher in an interesting period for Nissan. The early Infiniti G series based on the same platform and sharing the VQ engine was lauded. Even the Sentra got a cool SE-R Spec V (albeit awkwardly named!) But... then design got weird (Cube, Juke, later Rogues, all the angles on Nissan/Infiniti sedans). They threw away the G and M names and moved to the generic Q naming. They replaced their steering with an electronic system, dispensing of all driver's feel. What happened to "Nissan. Driven."?? Of course, this is all from a car person/driver perspective. But they never reached Toyota/Honda levels of reputation for a great appliance vehicle, and they let their "fun to drive" reputation dissolve almost overnight.
It's right around the corner. There are just a few minor roadblocks in the way of getting there: money in politics, a couple of hundred years of vested interests and very large corporations that would fight that future tooth and nail.
Michael, how do you avoid deluding yourself into thinking that you DO have a market fit when you actually do not?
I have found this news interesting to follow because of that book. It was a fun listen, but focusing on success stories seems problematic.
I seem to recall that asphalt may be ripped up and recycled -- I wonder if this stuff can be recycled the same way.
I haven't given up. You've still refused to acknowledge that my very first post talked about where I think the promise is coming from. Universities and young programmers who have learned and embraced functional programming.

If you think you have the right answers to change a globe full of programmers and to make businesses focus more on software quality, then by all means you should go on to prove to the world you are right.

I'll continue to assess the situation realistically and do my thing. I've never once failed to point out to management when I think things are being done poorly. I'm often the new guy on the team who starts measuring and reporting tech debt to management. You're super quick to judge a stranger based on a few comments in a forum.

When I put the concerns of the company first (instead of being idealist and obsessive about quality as the only goal that ever matters) management takes what I say seriously. So when I do speak up about quality they listen. That's my path. Fine that yours is different.

Maybe if you asked more questions and attacked less you'd find that those who you think are your enemies are actually allies and just have a different idea about the best way to improve things.
https://www.arm.com/-/media/global/company/arm-risc-v-infogr...

The article is not fake
Azure Storage: How fast are disks?
Many even publish iCalendar files ready to import. I actually ended up writing a custom scraper for my HS[1], after which the LMS provider actually wrote their own exporter fairly quickly.

I guess they weren't too happy one of the kids had to keep a database of all of their students' passwords... :P

[1]: https://github.com/teozkr/schoolsoftsync
Building Serverless CRUD Apps with Netlify Functions and FaunaDB
This fitness app lets anyone find names and addresses for thousands of soldiers
There's probably a social critique to be made about how Google is going all the way to Canada to build a city when there's so much that could be done to improve the urban situation in Silicon Valley. If they're going to do the Omnicorp Detroit thing, they could at least benefit the communities where the bulk of their employees work and live.

Yes, yes, the Bay Area's politics are inherently intractable and Google has been active in shaping the future of Mountain View. But it still looks like that they chose Toronto because it'll give the highest chance for squeaky-clean marketing graphics, instead of doing something really bold and trying to disrupt an urban crisis.
Tragic how tobacco killed off a visionary like Disney. These uncommon people who actually make a difference dying before they're done contributing is one of the greatest tragedies.
> We let a lot of good people go and doubled down on generating the advertising dollars we needed to stay alive.

And then

> We even took all of our employees to Hawaii to celebrate

This is an interesting juxtaposition within the same paragraph. I hope I'm not out of line for reading this as, "Let's celebrate our thriftiness that led to people becoming suddenly unemployed by splurging on an extravagant vacation!"
See Peter Kovac's book-length rebuttal to Flash Boys:

https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Insiders-Perspective-High-...

Lewis' book is not well-regarded.

At the point where you've argued that using a Bloomberg terminal means you're front-running everyone who doesn't have one, I feel like I can end this unproductive discussion by asking: "what's a definition of front-running that would be persuasive to someone who doesn't believe that simply owning a Bloomberg terminal is unfair?"
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/01/wdc_risc_v_edge_str...
Can someone explain to be like a I'm a five year old why these planes cost much more than say a commercial airliner and the differences apart from the obvious speed, agility and missiles?
I want to like fast.ai more, but in my opinion their code quality is just not good enough. Everything is badly named, badly explained / not explained at all, and if you need to adapt any of their code to work in different domains, you are going to have a bad time.
actually! at my old job there was a project where the frontend webpack build was running in a docker container..
Why laziness matters
> You're locked away from all your stuff!

No, that's not how it will go.

It will go like this: one day you come home to your apartment, it's locked and won't accept your AUTHENTICATION_METHOD.

The noise causes the door to be opened and the new tenant asks you to be quiet in the hallway. Your stuff was moved out and disposed off, after your digital media were scanned for patentable ideas (you really should have read the fine print).

Your cat has been uploaded and is fortunately still available as a construct so you really have nothing to complain about (that was a courtesy).
Bloomberg's Crypto Outlook
Ask HN: Is anyone using GraphCool or Prisma in production?
How to Analyze Billions of Records per Second on a Single Desktop PC
Most maybe grow that way, but it seems like most are preserved through intervention. Architectural review boards with emphasis on preserving historical features, etc.
Okay, I watched the vid. The guy is an über-pessimist. Also, he seems very confident that the position the US has is unassailable, I think he's showing a bias to the place where he's from.

I personally see Russia, China, India, and the EU forcing the US to disengage militarily around the world and I see the US-led unipolar world transforming into a multipolar world with more just global governance.

Is this an optimistic view? Maybe. But there is a chance that because nations have got used to trading rather than warring that nations might actively protect trade routes rather than go to war over resources. If Steven Pinker's last two books are to be believed large-scale great power hot conflicts are a thing of the past.

What I think Trump and Brexit show is that Europe got complacent about the military umbrella the US provides so I think the EU along with India and China and Russia are going to have to start policing the highways and seaways of world trade. That's a scenario pessimist Zeihan fails to imagine – that peace rumbles on and China and India rise to provide counterweights to the US, Russia, and the EU. Where the UK fits into all of this is anybody's guess – they may support the EU from a distance but they may fall even more into the sphere of US power.

Anyway, on the strength of the vid, whatever Zeihan is selling I'm not buying. I think the world is far more complex than great plains, river basins, and demographics.
That wouldn't be too difficult, and I think some cities have done that. The problem is that it's difficult to enforce and there isn't much incentive to try; are they going to give out tickets for poor scooter parking? Who would they ticket? Bird/Lime, the user, or the unknown person who moved it afterwards?

I think docking stations are the better solution. Portland has docked shared bikes and they work well. It prevents the littering problem almost entirely, and it could provide a way to keep these scooters charged.
Defense contract gravy train.
What would be the equivalent gate from Series A to Series B?
I have gone without many meals as a kid, you don’t know what you are talking about.

Try living on less than $80 a month. We made it work and I got a good education.
Airport Delay
Understandably, a lot of people are balking at the idea that simple might come before correct. Code that is simple but not correct is not a solution. But the OP is not asserting that simple, incorrect code is a superior solution to complex, correct code. Instead, I think the assumption is that there is a solution that is simple (enough), correct (enough), and fast (enough), and that you are not going to stop until you reach such a solution.

Correct comes before fast not only because you should make it correct before making it fast, but because you should not sacrifice correctness in order to make it fast.

Similarly, simple comes before correct because you should not sacrifice simplicity in order to make it correct (or fast). Instead, you should continue looking for different ways to make it correct while maintaining simplicity.
The top advice from all startups that ‘survived’ seems to be, ‘don’t hire, be lean’, when almost all of them did hire and then lay off employees to get over bad times. In my view ‘not hiring good people’ during rosy times is an impossible thing to do.

Things like these are self evident only in retrospect.
I'm surprised that so many folks here (obv not everyone) have so readily accepted the word "brutalist" to apparently mean "simple, functional, and minimal", because that's definitely NOT what brutalism entails in the architectural world!

I really like a lot of brutalist architecture, but much of it is far LESS functional/useful/practical than other styles. Brutalism was an aesthetic, largely a reaction to existing forms--many of which were characterized by their utility! A lot of brutalist architects were rebelling against the bourgeois notion of a building as merely (as they saw it) "a place intended for humans to live, work, and play", and instead asserting the notion of a building as an artistic form in its own right, which often meant intentionally disregarding or downplaying the importance of the building's utility for the humans who interacted with it! Anyone who has lived or worked in a brutalist building can aver this truth: if the building served its function w/r/t humans, it was often DESPITE its artistic intentions, which prioritized almost everything else instead.
Gmail Outage
http://downdetector.com/status/gmail/map/
https://outage.report/gmail

Google's own dashboard doesn't indicate any issue.

https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status
It supports any type of filtering you could need. It hides the complexity of what I assume behind the scenes are table joins. It's not for quantitative reporting but rather for retrieving manageable lists of relevant issues out of a data base of hundreds to hundreds of thousands. What sort of query would you want to run against an issue tracker that you don't see supported there?
A Tale of Four Components
I hope not, or it is an epic fail

0.25x24x30.5=183

For 100 Eur, or about $120, you can get a 1080 inside A DEDICATED SERVER (!!) at Hetzner: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex51-ssd-gpu?co...

I guess I have a business idea then: charge 0.5/h to rent the 1080, pocket the $63 difference per month and call it profit, undercutting Snark by 33% without even doing any crypto mining or anything on the side.

Or, just call it step 1 for mega profits! Step 2: resell the CPU computing power, step 3: resell the SSD storage space, step 4: resell the bandwidth, etc. (not sure you can resell the unused RAM, but that's another "innovative business" waiting to happen!!)

Compared to renting servers and properly configuring them (anycast, geoip, etc) I often fail to see the value that "distributed" or "cloud" offer provide besides fast scalability.

It is nice to be able to put 4x more GPUs online in a few hours instead of a day, but I am not sure it commands a 33% premium except in very specific marginal cases.