skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The web is becoming more and more fragmented. I wonder where this will lead to. Europe seems to fall behind the US at an accelerating pace.

During the last two decades, Europe already failed to take part in building the internet. Now Europeans all use US services. Amazon, Ebay, Facebook, Google, Dropbox, AirBnB, Uber...

This was due to the culture of Europes entrepreneurs which is often "bureaucracy first, product later".

Now lawmakers seem busy putting another burden on top of that. Laws that put Europe behind the rest of the world in how easy it is to build online services.

Where will Europe be in 20 years? Will it become a developing continent of the digital area? Or will German Engineers somehow make up for innovation via assiduous execution? I find it hard to see how that could work.

Politicians might think 'Now that we have the web, lets regulate it'. But I wonder: Now that we lost the web, how will we avoid the same with AI? AI will have orders of magnitude more impact on our lives then the web. How will we avoid losing crypto? In the age of crypto, people might freely chose what currency to use. Do we want the worlds currency to be owned by a US company? How will we avoid losing biotech? Will the same happen to our bodies that happened to our data? Will they be owned by a handful of US companies?
Dude, major spoiler!
The still-coherent culture that is the United States
I routinely buy my liquor in ml, though I refer to them by non-imperial measure (“a handle”).
> the major issue with SVG animations is that Microsoft doesn't plan to ever include support for them in Edge.

And here I thought the Edge team left behind the mistakes of IE.
I’m curious about why they aren’t using robotics to driver food - seems like it would be safer than having human divers go back and forth
To back up what the other comments are saying, recent studies find that students from worse secondary schools with worse grades end up outperforming students from more selective schools with better grades once in medical school.

So, if you want the cream to rise... take it from the bottom.

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The relationship between school type and academic performance at medical school: a national, multi-cohort study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5589012/

What is the effect of secondary (high) schooling on subsequent medical school performance? A national, UK-based, cohort study. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29792300
Economists worry we aren’t prepared for the fallout from automation
I think the parent's comment was more about the literary tastes of a teenager / young adult verses an adult / older person. That isn't to say your point isn't valid, just that it seems orthogonal to the parent's point.
Tesla Compared to Theranos After Report Musk Halted Critical Brake Test
>extremely dense urban population centers. As in Manhattan everywhere

Sounds like hell to me.
I thought that wikipedia was made for the use of the public, but it is using the public (denying access to the encyclopedia to it) to promote the political agenda of a smaller group (the wikipedia community) instead. If the role of the internet is to concentrate resources, to put out of business alternatives, to command and conquer the masses, it's better to legistlate it away. I want my encarta disks back.
Good for them. Hopefully the message will be heard.
Would you mind linking one, or giving some pointers?
>What on earth are you on about? It genuinely seems like you're arguing that the only difference between the literal famine of the cultural revolution and modern China is... I dunno, attitude or something.

Who said modern China is what's needed or that it's a sustainable model? I, for one, didn't.

You can avoid famine without having "modern china". They could avoid famine even in the "great famine" era -- as long as they didn't have the stupid bureaucratic policies that created its conditions (forced migrations, mismanagement, agricultural regulations, etc).
>i think i issued the format c: command within days of the first PC arriving in our home back in the day

I did the same thing!- good thing we had some OS floppies lying around
how does opening a thread to gripe about those things harm anyone? but if it persuades enough people, they could collectively have the influence to make it better.
No, but the dent in the universe requires obsession. If you think you can be balanced and accomplish this you don't know the source of that quote.
Sure. I'm not saying it should be left out. Just that nobody should expect that users have read the privacy policy.
Why not just return empty datasets to extensions that ask for too much? Empty history, empty address book, white noise for camera and microphones, etc. Then it would be possible not only to ‘accept’ what it does or uninstall, but seamlessly deny what you don’t want.
You sound nice.
You can't compare to USA migration (esp. what happened in the past). Because there was no social security for the immigrants. So you were quite free to enter the country and work, but you had to take care of yourself.

Contrast to eg. Denmark where immigrants can enter the country and do absolutely nothing, and get a full upkeep with free housing, schools and health care.

And here the problem is that some of these people like it that way and don't even try to get a work and teach their children how to get work (eg. by learning the local language and other social norms, like that women are considered equal).
> The US property tax system with almost no transaction taxes is far, far better

Many U.S. states have real estate transaction taxes. In my county in Maryland, for example, recordation tax + transfer tax totals about 2.2% of purchase price.
"4) He is partnering with capitalists to try to achieve an anarchist vision. This is a contradiction in terms. Capitalism is about competition for the working class (i.e. users), domination and centralization."

Or maybe the fact that he is doing so demonstrates that your terms and assumptions are incorrect.

At the same time, the fact that other capitalists are partnering with government agencies maybe shows that the Rothbard quote doesn't reflect the full picture.

Could be that capitalism and freedom are orthogonal concerns.
Did you compile it using '-std=c11 -O1' ?
I'm this person right now. I'm living in a world of disappointment, always trying to encourage people to communicate, collaborate, work together, do things better together. It seems I'm always doing it in places that don't appreciate it.

I've learned the hard way that you appear to be right, one can't change this alone and doing so is maddening, depressing and frustrating. Especially when the verbal outward presentation by people is that they want and value the things I mentioned, but the actions don't match up.

I think I need to change, but, I can't help feeling cynical, like I'm giving up and running every time I see such a situation. And then I wonder, if everyone follows the same pattern, how are we actually improving the situation on a bigger scale?

I guess a question is, is it better to stand whatever ground you are on to help encourage positive growth and values, or just find new ground, as you seem to be saying.

I'm getting older and I still haven't figured it out. I think you might be right, but it seems depressing to me to accept it.
Do you think Algorithm Design Manual is better to read than Introduction to Algorithms for preparing for programming interviews at the big companies?
Except weve constructed systems if evaluation that disproportionately benefit some groups over others. This is an attempt to fix that.
1.2% annual property taxes aren't out of the ordinary in the US (I pay ~1.5%), but having a sales tax (more or less) of 6% on homes is completely unheard of.

Closing (transaction) costs in the US are in the ~$5k range.
Not a rule to apply in the first two years of undergraduate compulsory classes!
Glass is the logical zenith of the smart watch. Having to give up a hand to look at your wrist almost defeats the purpose of having the mirrored notifications. It's not the AR revolution the media hyped it up to be, but I'd bet money that's where wearables go as the tech gets better and people forget about the whole affair.
Yeah because who wants to keep the equity they build up while building the house and making it nice. As soon as it's paid off, let's take out a loan against it! That's the answer! "Tap" into the equity my ass, that line of thinking is the problem and why we are constantly over-spending as a civilization.

Property taxes means the government owns both your land and anything you have on it and you are merely renting from them. This is not OK in my opinion, and I believe all property taxes should be abolished as it requires people to continue paying rent to the government forever. My dad had to step in to prevent my 85 year old grandmother from being evicted and having her house auctioned off due to years of overdue property tax because (shocker) she didn't have any money. So let's evict this little old woman we should be taking care of and make them burdens on their families because her breadwinner spouse died years earlier and she couldn't afford to continue paying rent to the government who did nothing but bleed money from her and her husband their whole lives. Really considerate of us as a society. Luckily she had family to pick her up. What if she didn't.

I'm sorry but the government has done fuck all to make my land better other than be a pain in my ass when I want to make it better and force me to pay them in order to do any construction ON MY OWN.
i am not sure what it is supposed to do. is it just a textbox or does it do something i'm not seeing?
> Here's a counter-argument. Keeping property taxes means that old people have to pay yearly rent to the government to simply keep their house.

So what? It's not like old people don't continue to use the roads, police services, etc. If they had kids, then they're also paying off what it cost to educate those kids (the property taxes they paid while their kids were in school covered only a fraction of the annual cost per student).
According to this comment Texas has that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17450640
Ice Poseidon's subreddit is also drawing absurd engagement numbers for a subreddit devoted to a single person: https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/1004387299273027584
> I read to be educated

Evidently not...
Maybe they looked at their Alumni and realized most of them are product managers and programmers at a FANG....in other words while they have fine careers and are making "positive" contribution to society they are not doing anything that they couldn't if they'd attended a less renowned institution.
It's really frustrating. I'm an anxious, big person with a naturally loud voice and poor perception (not due to bad hearing, but due to being very easily overwhelmed). Talking in open spaces makes me really self-conscious, and, conversely, trying to be "moderate" is about as efficient as not speaking all — which is the option many of my coworkers choose.
The government shouldn't regulate the Internet.

Every time they try to regulate it, it's a complete nightmare.

I'm sure they have very good intentions.
Why Can’t We Find Planet Nine?
> family’s ability’s to pay their tuition in full, cash.

There is an argument in favor of this. It lets the poor kids connect with the rich kid's network.
I remember reading about a guy giving away 1 BTC to interested people (when it was 7 USD/BTC).
My first thought was poor guy, he sure regrets that he gave so much money (in retrospect) away. But at a second thought his remaining BTC probably gained more value by actively spreading the adoption rate of BTC in this early stage.
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We're building a 6-meter diameter telescope on a mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert to learn more about how stars form, the nature of dark matter and dark energy, neutrino masses, and the big bang.

The telescope will be shared by multiple instruments,
and our group is building the joint software infrastructure: services for controlling
the telescope, moving data around, monitoring, alerting, logging, etc.

Stack is still being decided but likely a mix of Go, Python,
Redis, Postgres, etc. The telescope site is remote and hostile -- altitude of
5600m in the driest desert on Earth -- so we're focused on fault-tolerance.

The ad should be posted in a couple of weeks,
email jobs@ccatp.ca and we'll let you know when it's up.
Then you're showing a lot of favoritism. It's hard to universalize the idea that we should show favoritism. For example, historically we favored handicapped people. This was to their detriment. We paid for their subsistence living since we excluded them from having real jobs.

It's not a fallacy if you think people own land. They shouldn't have to pay a yearly fee to keep the government from taking their property. Think about applying the same thing to laptops. Laptops are tools, or at least may be tools, for production and income. Why not tax all laptops owned by software folk as we tax other business goods?

In general, this argument seems to come down to "the society provides so much, pay your damn share." How about no, I don't want the society to pay for so much? As a result, I want to pay less.
In our case, the business value was that it was a contractual clause with a customer. The idea was that keeping a million dollar customer and spending weeks refactoring was cheaper than losing the customer and getting sued for breach of contract. So we're probably in a similar boat as block chain like you mention.

However, I think you underestimate the value of open source. Besides being the right thing to do (respects freedom, allows developers who built it to use their code later in line with license agreement, allows others to learn by contributing or at least reading, plus many other benefits) it can be a powerful recruiting tool. There's real business value in getting good hires.
If you only want to receive mail at aliases it's easy: just setup an email catch-all on your domain ;-) To send is another matter; and unfortunately, I haven't found a way to easily do this with fastmail.
How can I debug a networking issue? VM, possible firewall, and port fwd
4 days of learning networking and VM, I'm still stuck figuring out where to look. Goal is to have a public(or at least network) server.

>Vagrant's Homestead is producing a working website at 192.168.10.10(host only) and 192.168.1.17(bridged).

>This is accessible by my windows 10 computer which runs the VM.

>My cellphone cannot find either link. Ive also checked :8000 where it may be portforwarded to. (NAT is default 1st network).

>Ive portforwarded 192.168.1.17 to 80 and 8000. (no change in availability)

I cannot tell if this is a crummy firewall issue with windows, a crummy firewall issue with my home network, or virtualbox/vagrant/homestead install.

Any suggestions on the process to debug this?
I guess entry level Dacias would probably be your best bet?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/motoring2/2015/12/03...
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It doesn't end well, they just don't turn up
The Rise and Fall of CrossFit’s Science Crusader
How do you find developer beta users?
I thought it's just because it's way too easy to spy on the screen.
Basecamp HQ has a policy like that, 'library day'.
This is an awesome prototype, that I think not only has a lot of potential in terms of growing it into something people would play, but I think it could be a very useful tool for people learn languages and improve their skills.

It's inspiring, seriously. Good work so far, and I hope you continue to develop it and are successful for whatever your definition of "success" might be :)
Then I'll say this: I'm pretty sure Jurassic Park was bad science fiction when it came out too.
> There are already apps like Citymapper that help commuters figure out the best way to navigate between two points in a city. But Lyft and Uber have the advantage of actually running some of the transport networks that can be used to make those trips happen, and would like users to never leave their platforms.

Citymapper is starting to run it's own transport in London. It has/had a smart bus and now operates a smaller version
I was told by someone high up in IT, 99% of wealthy mainlanders all use V-P-N. Not going to fool or pull wool over eyes of the intelligent with big money.
Visolie betekent meer voor je gezondheid dan alleen maar afvallen
Check out my great state of NJ.

https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Cresskill-NJ/pmf,pf_pt...

A house listed for sale for $1,350,000.

Annual property tax of $35,700.

I've seen annual property tax bill upwards of 6 figure for $3 million house.

Other houses with hilarious price tags nearby.
https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Alpine-NJ/pmf,pf_pt/23...
I'm a huge Python fanboy and I've been so happy to be able to use it professionally for the last decade or so, but I think the BDFL may have lost his touch. Or he just doesn't care anymore. If I hadn't already decided to stick to Python 2 (likely in the form of the Tauthon project, but there are lots of Python 2 runtimes out there. Lots. (Everybody always forgets about Stackless, for example)), I say, if I hadn't already decided to stick to Python 2, this would be the camel-back-breaking straw. We're trucking in footguns from C now?

These examples in the PEP, they all seem bad to me, written to be too clever by someone who doesn't think well.

E.g.:

filtered_data = [y for x in data if (y := f(x)) is not None]

How about:

filtered_data = [y for y in (f(x) for x in data) if y is not None]

Or just?

filtered_data = filter(None, map(f, data))

(If f() can return non-None "Falsey" values then this would require a predicate function. But maybe f() is badly designed?)

Or this:

if any(len(longline := line) >= 100 for line in lines):
print("Extremely long line:", longline)

What's wrong with the "old-fashioned" way?

for line in lines:
if len(line) >= 100:
print("Extremely long line:", line)
break

Of course, in the bad old days when loop variables leaked I think you could just write:

if any(len(line) >= 100 for line in lines):
print("Extremely long line:", line)

But I'm not sure, and in any event leaking loop vars was fixed at some point. (Good. It was useful but bug-prone. Just like this PEP!)

To me this is also a mess:

results = [(x, y, x/y) for x in input_data if (y := f(x)) > 0]

It should be:

results = [(x, y, x / y) for x, y in zip(input_data, map(f, input_data)) if y > 0]

Maybe all the examples are just poorly chosen, but I don't believe that. I think this PEP is just a bad idea. Badly bad.
We're All Subsidizing People Who Use American Express
OpenSSHd Security Configuration Checker
Having moved from the US to the UK, I really hate stamp duty. I believe it actively discourages mobility which in turn limits housing supply and restricts job opportunities etc..
This type of deployment is a perfect fit for NixOS. Immutable deployments with zero configuration drift, easy rollback and options to both push and pull the system configuration updates. It's also easy to customize the system to the hardware unlike CoreOS or Rancher while providing pre-built binaries of all the dependencies.

Setting up a single-node kubernetes is basically adding one line to the system config:

services.kubernetes.roles = ["master" "node"];
NYC is also the most densely packed city in the US. There are places in the city where the sidewalks get so dense during commute/tourist hours that people cannot fit, pushing pedestrians out into the streets and bike lanes. 8th Ave north of Penn Station at 5:30pm is a prime example of this.

There's simply no room to have lots of discarded dockless bikes/scooters in such an environment where there isn't even enough room to walk, and they would be treated poorly. Docks/exclusion zones for the most congested foot traffic areas are necessary.
The Dangers of Train Yards, Through the Eyes of Railroad Employees
Do they have the capacity to back down fast enough in an Easter Of Discontent situation? Unlike the eponymous Winter, the UK government will need to make agreements with other governments to prevent or reverse it, and those governments may choose to extract a high price for rapid cooperation — if they are even capable of rapid action themselves.
No more pesky switching to Lynx!
There are other ways to tax for that. I pay for garbage and water, both provided by the city. I pay for $133/year for fire and police as a separate tax item. I pay a 1% sales tax for all non-food items to pay for roads. I also pay property tax. Itemize a tax. Don't have a property tax.

I could happily do without all those things. Create a free-living zone where I could move with little tax. https://la.curbed.com/2015/3/13/9980908/slab-city-going-legi...
Such a nice map! I was surprised that for Sweden and Belarus the biggest export was fuel as the countries are not known for fossil fuel reserves. But they export a lot of refined petroleum products from oil they got from Norway and Russia.
I have been putting together my own google glass as a side project at home for a while now. At the time, I didn't look much into AR displays, but I did order a VuFine: https://www.vufine.com/ - a head mounted 720p screen. This is coupled to a raspberry pi + pijuice UPS

This, coupled with a raspi night vision camera attached to my head, fakes "AR" since I can see in the vufine what the camera sees (though AR was not really the goal for this version, but eventually). I am using SDL to render items on top of the video feed (for instance, using opencv to find and put boxes around faces).

Additionally, I want to get a range sensor and place that looking behind me, and render something in the display to give me an idea of what items are behind me, and how close. I am thinking about rendering a circle from metal gear solid 4 [0] to give me an impression of where things are behind me, and how close they are (greater amplitude to indicate how close something is)

I definitely want to get an AR setup, as I feel like that would be best. I will check out what options are link in this thread.

[0] https://media.moddb.com/images/games/1/52/51310/ps3_mgs4_118...
Oh yeah I've been there as well. I've also seen upper management insist on adding more infrastructure monitors on the walls for the same reason: clients think they look cool!
Because then the government doesn't own your land and can't take it from you when you don't pay them off. Property "tax" is their way of forcing you into agreeing that they own your land and they sell it as giving you better schools in the area or some crap. And if people feel they REALLY own something and it can't be taken away from them then they will fight for it. We can't have people fighting for their land when the government comes to auction their house off to the highest bidder.

We have been moving more and more toward a Capitalist Communism where the government owns everything and you are merely renting from them (this is just straight up how it is in China, they don't even pretend), but we still sell it as Capitalism because businesses aren't owned by the government.

This is not the way life should be and all property taxes (i.e. government owned property rentals) should be outlawed.
> That's why := is just syntactic sugar; there are no new semantics.

There seem to be new semantics in the interaction with comprehensions, which is one of the main sources of controversy in the discussion these linked as the OP.
Except that the seller typically pays around 10% (would be $40k for my house).
The people who are suing Uber would disagree:

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/nyregion/uber-disabili...
California high court: Yelp can’t be ordered to remove posts
Maybe you should let people decide for themselves where they want to live?
Can't they run an oxygen hose to the place? Or perhaps bring a bunch of oxygen tanks, which could be used until they figure it out?
I like the way Texas does it. We should encourage ownership of a modest home as residence and subsidize that but multiple home ownership should be made expensive.