skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's exactly that in action:

- https://openmaptiles.org/languages/native/#0.88/0/0

- https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/06/28/interactive-maps-now-i...
For me as a 13 year old playing the original Animal Crossing on a gamecube, it was a harmless escape from life. At the time I was dealing with the loss of my older brother and was very depressed.

Animal Crossing is a simulation game sort of like the Sims (not the city building sims) or Harvest Moon. The difference is the time in Animal Crossing is the same as in real life. On Christmas if you turn on Animal Crossing, the town in the game is celebrating Christmas (well actually "Toy Day" to be politically correct). The game followed real life seasons as well. This makes playing the game for a little each day rewarding as there is something new every day for at least a year. My favorite aspect of Animal Crossing is how there is no absolute goal or achievement you strive for. The game is about doing what you feel like at your own pace. The soundtrack is one of the most relaxing soundtracks of any game I have ever played and the tunes change by the hour. For example, you can get lost in the game for hours fishing trying to catch the rarest fish in the game. This game was therapeutic for me as I was young and dealing with some rough stuff in real life.

Heres an example of some of the music you'd hear in the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryyPW754sJQ&frags=pl%2Cwn
I mean, if someone is shot, you can still surgically intervene without them having to participate. It’s true in psych that you have to help yourself, but it’s also true that’s probsbly a valid critique of the art rather than science that is psych. Talk therapy has more in common with spiritual guidance or shamanism than medicine, except where the actual medicine enters the fray in the form of drugs and surgery. If you’re willing to help yourself, talking to someone is often helpful, but that’s been known for thousands of years.

A real intervention doesn’t require someone to help themselves; an appendectomy doesn’t require patient participation and motivation.
I think the reasons are as follows:

1) The supply of the miners are usually delayed by a month or two in some cases. So people buying miners when bitcoin was 18,000 to 12,000 in Jan, would be receiving their miners in March or later.

2) Prices of miners have fallen because of the price of bitcoin. You can buy an s9 miner for just USD 600 right now (https://shop.bitmain.com/product/detail?pid=0002018062817430...) which might have resulted in people increasing their investment in miners, increasing the hashrate.
The southern states were counting 3/5 of each slave. Without the 3/5 Compromise and the EC, the North would have dominated Congress and the WH.
Amazon's email service is called SES, simple email service. Since these names are quite similar and could cause confusion, you are probably infringing on their trademark.
My first year of university (and then associate degree when I failed univ) was spending my nights raiding in Everquest...Ahh those all night long 8pm-6am raids in VT.
I watched the video but I didn't notice any argument against the practice, unless I synthesize "one should always feel bad about participating in consumerism", is that it?
The reverse proves something different. If you walk, you've proved that you CAN walk. Not walking is not a proof for lack of ability. It does however give a possible counter example to the assumption "If you can walk, you will walk"
That exists. This blog post explains how to add Welsh names: http://cardiff.theodi.org/2018/02/23/mapio-eich-milltir-sgwa...
I think this actually already happens (at least the criteria part) for Facebook ads. I just went to Facebook and went to the "..." menu for one of the ads that showed up and clicked "Why am I seeing this?". It said this:

"You're seeing this ad because Freshly wants to reach people ages 18 and older who live or were recently in California. This is information based on your Facebook profile and where you've connected to the internet."

So my impression is that Facebook already allows you to see the exact targeting criteria that went into any ad that shows up. Maybe if this was more prominent, especially in cases where the filter seems suspiciously like microtargeting, the trick wouldn't have worked.
The everything-is-a-file principle – Linus Torvalds
This would be more like Windows batch jobs or Powershell scripts. I honestly think it just cannot handle duplicate names at all, and they wait until they get a complaint. When we were acquired, we had a person on our team receieiving emails for a different user with the same name that previously existed in the company that acquired us.
I mean, if someone is shot, you can still surgically intervene without them having to participate.

Okay, this is clearly not what we were talking about. Sorry I was not more specific in my statement to generalize to all scenarios, ever.

Edit: I think it is also a pretty fair assumption that if someone is shot or their appendix is about to burst, they would want help. The key difference here is that someone who is shot is not capable of helping themselves - with regards to many things people go to therapy for, the only way to fix your problems is going to be taking some actions yourself.
Propaganda also may try to get things out of people: consent, votes, etc.
I use Library Genesis. Not sure if linking it would be against the rules, so please google; it's worth it!
> Is this an IT thing, or is this phenomenon known in other areas, too?

This phenomenon is certainly known in fashion and, looking at the boom of populist and nationalist politicians around the world, most probably in politics too. I would even risk saying it's imprinted in human nature.
Elon Musk revealed as one of the largest donors for a House Republican PAC
Who said they should be printed from the same substrate? Color printers is a thing, right?
Fascinating read. My hypothesis why the scammer knows intimite/non-public quirks of impersonated people: The scam seems to be a larger operation, e.g. local people in Thailand surrounding the victim. So why shouldn’t they also have inside people in the industry working near those impersonated people? The spies relay everything to the shared scam database/wiki and the scammer on the phone plays his role and pretends to have experienced it first hand.
This is a tricky issue. The correct thing to do would have been to increase parking rates to something sane, which the private company did, but would have been politically difficult for the city. At the rates the city was charging before, and assuming there was no political way to raise them, it's possible it may have been a rational choice. Ideally it would have been a shorter timescale though...
Harder to Report Than to Find Security Vulnerabilities – Portuguese Government
How Slack's search finally got good
>It doesn't tell you why the theorem is true; only that some assumption was wrong.

A proof establishes truth, it does not typically explain. And yes, some assumption was wrong. The assumed premise was wrong. A system which is consistent, available, and partition-resistant does not exist. The truth of the theorem that no such system can exist is proven. I imagine it's not the proof you dislike, but the article about it which you wish had more explanation which is reasonable. It would be a different matter to discuss which solution is "best possible", though, as that would vary greatly on the application. If you're running a bank, you would never want to sacrifice consistency. If you're running a blog, availability and partition-resistance is probably more important.
This is why I left Facebook.

The feasible subversion of democracy is pretty frightening.
Multi-car parking areas (garages, e.g.) could be compressed somewhat if humans no longer need to be in the space. (When the car drops you off and then goes and parks itself.) There's space used for fault tolerance, and just opening doors, that would no longer be necessary given a "perfect" driver. I bet you could get another 20% usage spacewise. And there might even be other efficiencies to take advantage of. Even now there are parking garages where cars are stored on top of each other using some kind of mechanical lift.
I always wondered who actually pays for the bills in OSM? Who pays all the servers, all the traffic, etc...?
First, lidar is not a silver bullet and are still very cost prohibitive. Look at Mobileye and Supercruise which are both pretty good and only use radar, cameras and HD maps.

Second the camera is for the vision system and comma.ai hooks in the car via CANBUS to interpret the OEM radar signals.
Open Street Maps is great as a data source, but the front end client apps for using it are somewhat lacking. On my iPhone, I use Maps.me when I travel to Cuba and Google Maps almost everywhere else. If I was building an app, I'd definitely use OSM and probably Mapbox.
I suspect that might have something to do with it coming back to the ‘cool kids’ corner’. I’m a designer, and a) being interested in ML / AI enough to the point that I needed neural nets running, b) and VR kits not struggling so I can keep an eye on that emerging market were the first two things in more than a decade that made my hardware feel just not up to snuff. The last of such ‘I need real hardware’ feeling was the jump to Core 2 Duo that made every developer seemingly assume overnight that they had access to multiple processors.

I haven’t even owned a Windows-based PC in 10 years and I’m on the market for a liquid cooled GTX 1080Ti and AMD Threadripper — guess what is old is new again. Fun times!
Two really:

(1) Group identity (race, religion, culture) superseding individual identity.

(2) The idea that knowledge and even fact can be culturally relative or in its softer form the idea that it's impossible to think objectively about such things separately from your cultural identity.

#1 gave us resurgent white nationalism, since if my identity is "white" before my individuality it's the natural next step.

#2 gave us neo-fundamentalism, science denial, and "alternative facts." What if its just not my culture to believe that excess CO2 causes climate change? Who are you to force your cultural values on me?

If we are all groups and our only truths are group-truths, the next step is for all groups to declare war against each other to determine whose group truth is superior. "Triumph of the will" etc. Nothing is true, so there is only power.

These are not liberal ideas. They are fascist ideas. For some weird reason a subset of the academic left is marketing them as such.
7 things learned about Apple's self-driving car project from FBI investigation
Thank goodness for adblockers :)
Just another example on why marketing and advertisement is a scourge upon society, it is far to easy to manipulate from the background without oversight or any ethical or moral considerations and is known to be highly effective at making people act against even their own self interests.
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/05/29/pegatron-to-make-arm-ba...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-02/apple-is-...

https://www.techradar.com/news/more-rumors-emerge-of-apple-w...
>The men scared away from courting by the #metoo movement are exactly the kind that should stay out of the dating pool until they are ready to respect women.

You're so wrong.

There is plenty of 'collateral damage' from folks that just want to avoid litigation more-so than they desire a relationship.
I'm not sure what this has to do with giving an Uber/Lyft driver a 1-star rating for reckless driving, but I'm glad you could share a story.
Is it not... something?

One could always not give tuition money to a few poor kids. That fails to solve anything too.

I really dislike the knee-jerk, blanket dismissal of people who are trying to do small but good things.

"If nothing we do matters then the only thing that matters is what we do." - Joss Whedon
Most universities with computer science have courses in networking, which usually includes programming a router. I’m sure some courses are available online
The Openstreetmap Foundation[1]. They publish financial info too [2].

1. https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Main_Page

2. https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Finances
Are LED lights making us ill?
> The whole point with "everything is a file" is not that you have some
random filename (indeed, sockets and pipes show that "file" and "filename"
have nothing to do with each other), but the fact that you can use common
tools to operate on different things.
I don't understand how a regular compass will tell you which way the stairs going up are. A dip needle would point towards the stairwell.
It's completely obvious, you're right, but you are missing my point to some extent. It's nothing to do with personal entitlement. I'm guessing you've never been in a European office when the national team is playing an important World Cup match. Probably around 90% of people are not working at that point. Its like a public holiday. Consider the reaction if someone asked all the support staff to come into the office on a Sunday because they felt like getting some work done.
On Android, Osmand works very well.
STO is the New IPO
"Although better than most other U.S. states, I don't have access to the services that Norwegians do. But my taxes are also very low here."

CO State taxes are (roughly) 5% which puts it right in the middle of US states (between 0% in places like Florida and 10-ish percent at the (non CA/NY) high end).

Then factor in (roughly) 35% federal + local taxes ... let's call it 40%, give or take. Let's just forget property taxes for the sake of this discussion.

Why should I think of 40% as a "low" taxation rate ?

Why shouldn't I expect a high level of government services in return for 40% taxation ?

(FWIW, I live in CA so you can add 5-8 more percentage points for my own tax burden ... same questions apply ...)
https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Finances

https://hardware.openstreetmap.org/thanks/
I want to look into adding support for sniffing and forwarding the 802.1x packets that the AT&T fiber modem/gateways use to authenticate. This is done to bypass the crappy performance and insecurity of their device. There are some hacky implementations of this but I want to do it in Go. I've gotten as far as sniffing the packets using gopacket under FreeBSD. Unfortunately, FreeBSD doesn't seem to support VLAN 0 so I was unable to implement this for PFSense. Perhaps router7 would be a better option for me.
Those people generally don't put it on their resumes, having Facebook on your resume is now something that makes it end up in the trash.
In many instances, such as here, they don't make you verify an email sign up. Always worth a try. For grins I always make up an email address at the site's own domain.
Isn't it more an argument that you should ensure that you ensure information you act on comes from credible sources.

Subversion and deception are everywhere online now and we live in a perpetual psy-ops nightmare.

By which I mean leaving facebook is a start, but there's a lot more to protecting yourself against false information.
Exactly, but the FBI (or whoever) has to recognise that the billion crimes are connected and to do that you need record keeping and some keywords/criteria applied to each case/report. Just wondering if they do that...
Wow, just one short leap from cars to a kids-these-days rant about Tinder?
Is it a problem that he has also donated money to Democrat PACs?
The article starts with:

> U.K. archeologists are crediting...

And spends the rest of the article citing a researcher from University College Dublin.

Ireland is not part of the U.K.
> Tuition free education to everybody in the World

Wait what? If this is true, why is not everyone studying in Norway?

> At this point in time, the University of Oslo only offers bachelor studies where Norwegian language proficiency is a prerequisite to be qualified for admission. Applicants who can document that they are already proficient in the Norwegian language, may apply for bachelor programmes at the University of Oslo via NUCAS (Samordna opptak).

> — https://www.uio.no/english/studies/admission/bachelor-progra...

Ah! That's why. You need to know Norwegian before applying (at least at UiO).

I wish I knew about these international study programs when I was younger.
'A goldmine': mummies' secrets uncovered in Egypt
And if you can't use OSM, try Here maps.

They are easy to download for offline use. Following the suggestion of friends, I have repurposed an old phone as a "travel phone" with maps of the whole world (or at least the parts I can download!)

Not perfect, but when I catch a plane, I don't have to worry about local networks.

Fun story: recently in Europe, Google Maps stuttered. Now and then, there was a networking issue. It is almighty wiseness, Google Maps was then showing a white page instead of showing me the previously downloaded maps. This was irksome, especially in navigation mode. I was litteraly following my way on the screen, when it turned white in front of my eyes. Several times. I turned white too.

After that, I decided I would take a chance with the backup plan. I turned off the phone and used the travel phone instead. No network, so no lookup of business names, but Here maps offline with street addresses did better than Google Maps online.

I called that a learning experience. I later was told Google Maps lets you download some tiles, but it is not as convenient as having litteraly every continent saved. I do not want to plan what part I may need. Just "down it all"!
There are neighborhoods in America that are walkable and have small shops including grocery stores, but they are very trendy and desirable to wealthy aging baby boomers. After creating the malls and mega retail centers in their working years, they now find that they don't want to live and shop in the environment that they created. So like most other things they touch, they bid the price up on their preferred lifestyle until nobody else can afford it.
East Germany was a totalitarian system - people were coerced their entire lives through it. Definitely athletes as they were a major tool of foreign policy: 'Superior athletes' were to be a validation to the world of the 'superior system' they had created in E. Germany and the Soviet sphere of influence.

When you're nabbed by the state at a young age and raised to do one thing, wherein there are zero prospects beyond the role given to you, and the real possibility of retribution - you do as you're told in all manner of things. It's not just 'doping' , it's basically a submission to the system on most levels.

'Doping' would have been one of the many things those people would have been effectively required to do as a function of their responsibilities, aware of it or not.

In America, you could argue children are coopted by their parents, but by the time of adulthood, it's entirely reasonable for people to break free of that. Even most children have the ability to rebel on some level. Tiger Woods seemed to love Golf long after he was good. Michael Jackson obviously didn't fare so well ...

Lance Armstrong made a choice, but any athlete in such an authoritarian system is not making many choices.
Can you describe where you find maps.me on iOS to be lacking?
Dirty spammer hack: include 50% of recipients as addresses you control, and that won't ever bounce, complain, or unsubscribe. That pushes SBUR down, likely below threshold.

These are often addresses created manually by 'click farmers' so they don't have obvious patterns which could enable an email service provider to identify them. (I'm still working on figuring out ways to detect this...)

Or, send spam to a new address via another service, then only use SESS to send to the ones who had opened or clicked on the other service. This is known as 'waterfalling'. Using this method, bounce rates can approach zero, and complaints/unsubscribes are likely to stay below 1% each - but make no mistake, ISPs can and will often still detect the email as spam.

You will need more complex ways to detect approaches like these, as well as other forms of spam/abuse. I would suggest starting with looking at thresholds for bounces, unsubscribes, and complaints independently - sometimes complaint rates of 0.1% can be a strong indicator of spam.

Related - don't limit your contractually-defined recourse to just SBUR rates. I would recommend including terms that allow you to ban or suspend users for any form of spam or abusive activity, "in the sole judgement of SESS.EMAIL" or similar. (I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.)
>None of these built-in safety systems is design to work without a human driver having the actual responsibility

You are exactly right! which is why NEITHER comma.ai, Tesla's Autopilot, Nissan's Propilot, and GM Supercruise are being marketed as such i.e. only as L2/Partial Automation at the moment.
I think in the UK both waterfalls and beaches are in short supply.
The Rise of Adblock Shaming
leany?
I quite like https://maps.openrouteservice.org/ as a UI for OSM that has sensible search and routing.

The routing has many different cycling modes, and you can also click the little leaflet icon on the right and switch the view to "OpenCycleMap" to get a more cycling-oriented map view.
Well, Google can "correct" your spelling and take you to the correct city (let's say it's not a big deal), but mainly Google Maps rules for multiple points navigation A->B->C->... I think it allows 10(-ish) intermediary points.
Fake advertising for the purpose of creating discord is as old as political advertising.

I had a friend run for state legislature in the 1990s, his opponent sent people around targeted neighborhoods passing out fake flyers for my friend's campaign. They used his name and photo, but attributed positions he did not hold to him.

I imagine before cheap printing, it was gossip. I'm sure it's been the case since democracy started.
Northern Ireland is a part of the UK
Folks on this board might be familiar with Valco, a mall which has been dying for thirty years. Smack in the middle of Cupertino, which no-one would describe as less-affluent or more-rural.
I'm obviously not the parent commenter and have no inside knowledge of the HPC world, but my guess is the main open source supercompting projects would be from NASA, the US national labs, and CERN.

You might search HN for the recent announcements about new clusters, especially top500, and look for the comments discussing using MPI (versus something custom, I think?), as my recollection is that those topics would yield further pointers to the actual examples you're looking for.
This won't detect a catch-all address, but will almost always detect a catch-all domain: send email to [long random string]@domain. Does it bounce or is it accepted?
This problem seems tame and uninteresting compared to the real-life 3D case.

Last christmas, I was moving a sofa on my mother-in-law's home, and it was stuck in the corridor. She told me "i seem to recall that you have to raise this side a bit". I replied something to the effect "no way, i am a mathematician and there's no way that this can possibly make a difference".

Of course she was right. I could only move the sofa by rotating it in 3D just so, so that the slightly protruding arm and leg could pass one after the other.

So the real question, not dealth with in the wikipedia page, is: what is the largest sofa that we can move through a unit corner, allowing it to rotate in 3D ?
I've been impressed that microsoft has actually managed to keep pushing on onenote without abandoning it.

It's taken a while but it seems to have built some community and happy users.

But, yeah, I don't think open standards or longevity probably factored too much into the storage implementation or features.

I would think something built on top of annontated pdfs would get some of the features and flavor of onenote but I haven't seen anything attempt it.
Hey, thanks for the points. Will be sure to factor these in.
Strawman. Neurosurgery is being practiced today but the context is entirely different.
You can do all these things in D.C., however so they are not the exclusive rights of states.