skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> in each "state" there would immediately be calls to split each of them vertically to reflect the legitimate schism of "blue"-coast/"red"-valley.

The new “California” in the proposal is purely coastal counties.

What you suggest might, I suppose, be an issue in the new NorCal and SoCal (though Imperial County and some other inland counties in the south, and those on the I-80 corridor from Sacramento west, are pretty reliably blue, so the “coast”/“valley” split, aside from missing that not everything off the coast is valley, is quite oversimplistic.)

> There is legitimate polarization in California - only the coastal areas are reliably "blue"

Well, the densely populated parts of the coast, plus the I-80 corridor inland about as far as Sacramento, plus Imperial County.

> the three-state proposal does nothing to address that and only seeks to create more Democratic Senators.

The three states would be, basically, two blue one red, which would add one blue- and one red-leaning state, keeping the expected absolute difference between Democratic and Republican votes in the Senate the same (what matters for simple majority votes), but narrowing the ratio of Republican structural advantage (which matters for supermajority votes.)

> California-split-in-three would also create an eventuality most liberals would likely want to avoid - Texas as the eventual "superstate" acting as power broker.

Well, and New York. (CA, TX, and NY all play that role to a degree now.)
This is where I start to like Scala's traits. Being able to declare a class "with logging" and automatically get a pre-configured loger handle with no extra ceremony needed, is really convenient.

It's also unprincipled as heck, from both an object-oriented and a functional perspective. I think my alignment in the logging department might be chaotic good.
Was GDPR so terrifying that they had to sell it off?
Harvard student voices objections to discriminatory admissions policy
Do you think enterprises can even profit from adapting to SAP‘s structure (streamlining etc), or do you think this does not matter anyway?
Slightly different but spotify’s algorithmic recommendations have been great. I’ve found some really amazing stuff through “discover weekly”, “new releases”, and “related artists”. Same with Bandcamp. (Maybe the problem is easier for music?)

For content, I also find that user curated lists can be far better than automated systems. They give me an upfront sense of the curator’s tastes and define niches that algorithms would never recognize
Crazy girls
Hey wiretap, do you have a recipe for pancakes?
The Best Prime Day Deals for 2018
Those things are not as accurate as they seem since sellers can apparently opt out of allowing their price to show on the api used (or possibly Amazon does it automatically). It should work for this kind of thing with prices above normal, but I've seen multiple instances (out of not that many times I've looked) where deeper sales are not reflected in the price trackers (and not shown as missing data either).
Improving the usability of multi-selecting from a long list
ATM, property taxes only have limited rollout in Chongqing and Shanghai on second properties. See https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2018-03-08/don-t-b....
I recommend consulting CamelCamelCamel before making any purchases on Amazon today to verify that there wasn't a price hike before the drop. CCC lets you see the pricing history on any of the items on Amazon.

It even has a Chrome extension.[1]

[0]https://camelcamelcamel.com/

[1]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-camelizer/ghno...
Opener Blackfly: yet another startup reveals a planned personal aircraft
I recollect reading about the UK GDS in Tim O'Reilly's book from last year "WTF: What's The Future And Why It's Up To Us". In the chapter "Government as a platform" he's got a small, amusing anecdote about the service.

Having looked up the relevant part, let me transcribe it for you:

> "One of the first things that struck Jen and me as we entered the GDS office on an upper floor of an old office building high above a busy London street was a large sheet of butcher paper covering the picture window in the lobby. In the paper was a small cutout through which you could see the people on the street below. The cutout had a large arrow pointing to it, labeled "Users", reminding everyone when they walked in just whom the unit was meant to serve."

I found it really drove home the service's users-first approach. Following that anecdote he elaborates on the service's "10 commandments" (the 10 GDS Design Principles). They're also quite interesting, but I'm sure a search engine lookup can help you there. I really recommend the book if you want an optimist's outlook on the future of technology, government and economy.
My mistake.

Your mistake was thinking that an article with the word "Tesla" in the headline means you talk about anything Tesla-related that suits your fancy. This article is about roll-over safety, and has nothing to do with Tesla's production abilities now or in the future.
anyone knows details about the threats?
HTML will wrap the text to fit the page. PDFs don't do that.
So have you tried the service? :)
Some of them also do Q&A. Fighting game streams have that a lot.
That's a non-sequitor if Ive seen one.

Sure theres no argument with someone who aims at pre-pubescent children. But those laws have themselves been perverted so that even a single picture between 2 17 year olds is this horrible felony that ends up ruining 2 lives.

So yeah, its time to quit this Scarlet Letter for most "sex crimes" - cause its a gross miscalculation of justice and law.
and now i have the mental image of a stereotypical terrorist, with a black ski mask and a kalashnikov on a strap on his back, hunched over his pink-and-purple barbie typewriter. amazing. thank you
With the end solution, a passenger is only one car length from a toilet (which would be the case if toilets are at the end of cars for structural reasons anyway) and they only pay for toilets in half of the cars.
Which is not very profound. The thought that looking at a ball being kicked and kicking a ball activates similar neural pathways sounds incredibly obvious.
I should double check, but last I knew anything you've put on a wish list shows the % change in price since it was added to the list, so if there are specific items you are interested to see if change/you want to grab if they are on sale, worth putting them in a list to track the price shifts relative to when you added.
> Scapegoat as a Service. I wonder just how common this is in practice.

Common enough that they made a book and show (kinda) about it: House of Lies :)
"Screw all of you, I've got mine" seems like it shouldn't be a winning policy argument.
Yeah this is close to what I do as well. I have a few people that i've found on twitch and like to hop on for a little while to say what up. The only time i seriously watched twitch for hours was when hob was doing the dark souls trilogy no hit run. I was watching for hours lol my wife really grew to hate that haha.
The entire ASMR sleep community is built around this premise as well, fwiw.
As a visually impaired user, this is my single biggest gripe with PDFs. Its also annoying that zooming on many websites completely breaks the layout, often overlapping text or pushing important elements off of the screen. I find this particularly sad, since HTML largely supports a separation of content and presentation.
rats had been there from the start and are a good (imo) explanation for what happened-- the tree and their seeds were preyed upon.

[This explains explains it from an academic standpoint.](https://www.amazon.com/Questioning-Collapse-Resilience-Ecolo...)

Saying that they killed all the trees to help the moai get into place (or similar) is ridiculous.

In addition, the first reports from the 1720+ timeframe (first contact and there abouts) estimated the population at a few hundred iirc, no trees, toppled moai.
It's a story as old as the world: trying to get noticed while doing essentially the same thing as the successful kids, but lacking that essential element of luck or genetics, that last second on the chronometer, that "in" preexisting social circle.

It's the life of all those trying to enter into high risk, highly coveted careers that afford celebrity: authorship, sports, politics, music or film. The field might be changing but the game remains the same: humans mostly value what other humans happen to value, the other 99.99% comparable but unknown products are simply discarded.
This might be an overgeneralization in this case...

While generally true for developing be developed countries, are you actually familiar with China's infrastructure development practices? If one thing is for sure, it's that there isn't a shortage of bridges, trains, airplanes, and roads... The Chinese government uses infrastructure-building programs to ensure it meets its centrally-planned GDP targets and to make sure everyone has jobs. Economists are actually concerned that the infrastructure is so overbuilt that the costs of future maintenance may make the return on many new infrastructure projects negative.

Meanwhile the US is notorious for crumbling infrastructure...
And the HPV vaccine used to cure the malignant skin cancer on a 97 year-old woman recently.
Tens of Thousands Go Without Home Internet; San Francisco Wants to Fix It
Can AI predict how new beer varieties will taste? Carlsberg says “probably”
Seems a little tautological. I mean the web is certainly an interlinked set of documents but nothing really says they have to be HTML. I mean people around here link to arXiv all the time and that's essentially just a repository of PDFs. Browsers just get you to the content, doesn't mean it has to be able to display all of it.

I don't think it's that people don't want to change, you're still going to need print designs regardless and it's much easier to host a print design than it is to convert a website into one.

> Everyone that can design a PDF can learn to design a nice HTML document.

I mean I wish that was true. I think people can learn to write content in a web compatible way but a designer that spends all their time in PS and ID isn't going to suddenly be able to crank out high quality web pages.
yes, I have listened to some of them. There are some gems in there.
Writing software requires applied logical thinking, but that doesn't make it a fundamental skill. Your reasoning is akin to suggesting that solving a Rubik's cube is a fundamental skill because it requires logical thinking to solve.

If the total number of senior engineers on the market increased 10,000% overnight, the value of programming as a skill would instantly plummet, given the same scenario for rates of literacy, the value of literacy would remain the same or perhaps even increase. This is because literacy is a force multiplier in all aspects of career advancement while software programming simply isn't.

If you glance anywhere outside the IT echo-chamber to examine the value of literacy vs programming the point I'm making becomes very obvious. Nearly every high prestige profession (lawyer, doctor, scientist, architect, author etc) is amplified by literary skills whereas this is obviously untrue for programming.
> It’s great until you spend literally 4 hours at the DMV and “appointments” are available two months away at a minimum.

In case you (or anyone in this thread) is unaware, AAA ("Triple-A") is a fantastic way of circumventing the DMV. I've never waited more than 15 minutes (no appointment), and the staff is quite adept at helping with more complicated situations.
As a once-moderator for a smaller stream, I can definitely confirm that there is gold in them Twitch chat hills. Community shaping is important and often overlooked, and it really does help to have a moderation team that cares! It helps that my streamer is more of a variety streamer than someone who sticks to a single game or two, so he has a large core of viewers who are there for him and his friends, not just for the game at hand.
Hah! I've spent the last several years studying dementia at UCSF actually, and I'm well known in the building for compulsively making puns CONSTANTLY...

I once told my boss, who studies sociopaths, that I have "sociopuny" ... and she facepalmed harder than you can imagine .... This one wasn't intentional. I have a problem.
Or maybe a Hello, Kitty AR-15:

https://www.cnet.com/news/a-hello-kitty-assault-rifle-that-a...
Not sure this question is serious, but just in case, obviously choosing a book solely on online reviews is not a good strategy. If in doubt, choose a book that is old yet still popular, because it means it has kept its popularity through all the fashions and trends, so it most likely provides some deeper value.
>this shit is wayyy too fucking cool....next snapchat!

>-8 sentiment, gailees 5 years ago in reply to "Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets"

Like that?
I think the nice thing about this is you can adjust usage/payments - like if you travel a lot, just stop paying for a month or two. Not sure you can do that with regular leased cars? I also like the free <5km taxi and free public transport rides with this
> takes no extra time

> invested heavily

pick one.
Yes... CD Baby: https://sivers.org/hi
Tools in the Basement
Eh, the issue is not thay the US is good/bad whatever but this article frames most dialog on CO2 % change. There are a few issues:

C02 is only one greenhouse gas of which others, particularly methane from cow farts, are substabtial contributors to global warming. Americans love their red meat...

As absolute numbers, the US per capital contributions to global warming are crazy high.

If you integrated over time, the contribution of the US to global warming on a per capita basis since the industrial revolution, it is quite clear the US is an enormous driver of climate change.
I kind of lost it at this point:

> Kent C. Dodds claims that integration tests provide the best balance of cost, speed and confidence. I subscribe to that claim. We don’t have empirical evidence showing that this is actually true

And

> There is the claim that making your code unit-testable will improve its quality. Many arguments and some empirical evidence in favor of that claim exist

Why rely on evidence when conjecture an opinion are so much easier?

So here's my own limited evidence to toss on the other pile. Our team has started to unit test everything, 100% coverage. We don't take this approach to testing lightly, it is a holistic approach that includes the code itself, focusing on architectures that enable testing and testability. Doing so has vastly improved code quality in measurable ways.

Code reviews are faster and easier as a starting point. It is easier for another person to understand quickly what each component does and what it is expected to do. Code is composed using small autonomous functional components that are uncompleted and easy to reason about and test. These make debugging easier because they can be isolated to simple components and tests. Bug fixes are faster to implement and test since the test infrastructure is already in place and does not need to be remediated in later.

Yes, we do also write integration tests. They tests the end-to-end scenarios we are designing the system to support. But unit testing is still the primary approach to how we design, while integration provides support by verifying complete scenarios.

However our approach admittedly doesn't have "Lean" in the name, so that's one downside I guess.
Awesome! I'm a huge fan of gambling and hope one day I'll win a cash prize too. I've already found info about most reliable Swedish casinos here https://www.apnet.com/natcasino/med-snabb-utbetalning/ so I'm going to practice my gaming skills in the near future.
Background Info for users outside of Europe: Instapaper has been geoblocked for European users for the last two months.
Nice work. There are several competitors in the automagic Postgres REST/GraphQL space, and you're nailing documentation and ergonomics here. Your site and the Hansura Console sets your project apart from the rest.
It's.. inaccessible. Try any screen reader you like. If you are lucky you will get most of the text out with some characters randomly broken. Columns often don't read in the right order, tables and maths are both unreadable.
Is aspiring to being a top Twitch streamer any different than those aspiring to be a top musician, artist or actor?

You'd have to be fantastic at your particular game or whatever they stream on Twitch (I know absolutely nothing about this platform) and great at self promotion. Not unlike wanting to be a rock star or movie star.

I fail to see how it's any more like a lottery win than being in other forms of media, other than it's a very new platform (in the grand scheme of things).

It wouldn't be for me but I'm sure plenty of people are making plenty of money and Twitch has its own Justin Bieber/Miley Cyrus (or whoever is the pop star of choice today. Yeah, I'm getting old).
Russia: yes.

China: not so clear.

As far as climate goes, what matters is the total amount of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

The amount in the atmosphere is a function of the history of emissions, not just a function of recent emissions. Here's a chart showing cumulative CO2 emissions 1900-2002: https://timeforchange.org/cumulative-co2-emissions-by-countr...

If we were to figure out that total maximum acceptable CO2 in the atmosphere to keep the climate from warming to much, and divvy that up between countries based on nearly any fair allocation method, how much of their quota each country was using would be something like this:

700% US
650% Germany
600% UK
470% Canada
450% Russia
320% France
260% Japan
220% Italy
30% China
12% India

One could make a decent case that as long as a country is below 100%, it is OK for it to choose growth and development even though that increases emissions.

I believe that this is why most international climate agreements include aid for developing countries. We recognize that even if they put extraordinary effort into it the US, Germany, Russia, etc., would not be able to get down to 100% until long after it was too late, and so we need to convince developing countries to agree to stay well below their fair 100%.

But the way a country normally goes from developing to developed is by exploiting cheap, but environmentally unfriendly, resources. It is only after a country becomes a rich, developed, country that it can afford to exploit clean but expensive technology. If we just ask the developing countries to stay well below their fair 100%, we are in effect asking them to stay poor. They are not going to agree to that.

Hence, developed countries need to pay to build up developing countries to the point where developing countries can become developed countries without needing to exploit cheap but dirty technology.
Hey in the land of the free it's completely A-OK :)

This has been done for a while and it's extremely effective.
> lab grown meats, vertical farms

Sorry to burst you bubble, but at least these two are a disaster for the environment and potentially for our health as well. And it’s pretty tragic how we tell ourselves fairytales in the face of evidence to the contrary.
When I do my next Show HN, and the negativity gets too much to take, this will be a good resource to turn to, in order to feel a little better about myself (unless, of course, I end up at the top of your list)!
I honestly thought that average was 60/80k
From what I’ve seen this is usually what happens when the parent company wants to close the service down. First they spin off the service into its own company then the company shuts down because of a lack of income.

Is that what’s happening here? What’s the name of this process?
I always have a hard time explaining why I enjoy Twitch but I think you just encapsulated it.
OpenERP is not Django based IIRC, but they basically thought the same thing and went at it with some good success.
> When it comes to sitting on your butt and watching something, the traditional TV show is moving to an on-demand model.

Just b/c it's moving that way doesn't mean that behavior is going to go away. People watch CNN/FOX for hours straight (usually not attentively watching it mind you). This is no different.
Realtime UHD (or "realtime" in this case - the UHD feed was about 1m40 behind BBC1 HD) still seems a tricky thing to do. It will get there, I remember a collegue saying about 10 years ago "software encoding SD in realtime is fine, but you won't be able to do it reliably in HD"

VOD is relatively easy -- you can spend an hour encoding a 1 minute piece, it's not a problem.

Has anyone done any similar analysis of similar live UHD feeds (they've been quite common for a long time in Japan I understand).

What do UHD recorders do to record UHD material -- just massive iframe only codecs?
It's ad hominem if you say that the study must be false because the source has a history of sponsoring fabrications which suit it's ideological biases, and that the result here is one which suits those biases.

It's not, OTOH, ad hominem to point out the same fact, for instance, as a caution to those who might uncritically accept the conclusions offered by the source.
What would you recommend for an iOS app written in Swift that has to optimize images drag-and-dropped on it by the user?
It's not at all fixed. It's slightly better than it was, but anything non-trivial (tables, columns) is often still unreadable.
There is only one thing I have found code coverage is good for.

Code coverage can tell you what code is not tested at all.

Now, this is very useful. But:

Code coverage can't tell you what code _is tested_.

Code coverage can't tell you how _well_ code is tested.
You could replace this title with "Programmers who spend years creating a SAAS app that no one uses" and it would be the same article.

All of these streamers who are bothered by not having an audience seem to have started for the wrong reasons. If all they care about are subscribers and viewers, then you're going to get really burnt out when that doesn't happen. Most of the popular streamers who I've come across do it because they enjoy it.

The same can be said for the people who create successful SAAS apps. It's a mix of enjoying what they do, combined with making something that no one else has yet. It's not to get rich quick.
Actually, word produces PDFs which contain markup for screen readers, which make them much more accessible to blind people.
If an employer* in NYC or Seattle tolerates one employee persistently and intentionally referring to another employee by the wrong pronoun, it violates their local discrimination laws just as much as in Quebec, with enforceable penalties to boot.

No, it's not criminal in either place, if it's not coupled with more. Another poster replied with a link debunking this myth as applied to Canada.

And yes, laws aimed at preventing a hostile work environment, even speech-based ones, have been held to be constitutional in the US.

For a US federal example, repeatedly targeting someone with racial slurs within a workplace* will also get you into punishable trouble.

*Yes, I know certain employers, like 2-person companies, are excluded from these laws. Doesn't change the general point.
Publish a book.
You've been breaking the guidelines a lot. Please stop doing this or we'll ban the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> You can divide the video into chunks and encode the chunks in parallel.

What about live encoding?
> and then maybe 750 grand a year for the staff salaries.

That is completely unrealistic, it arguably won't even cover the operations teams that you need to have in place for keeping it running and the teams for maintaining and updating the software are going to be a lot more than that.
Is it still blocked? It works here, but some geo DBs locate me in Russia because my ISP bought the IP address I use from there recently.