skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I echo your concerns about judgements I stated him as a perfect example of what agitators of anti-gentrificationists are.

Let's not loose focus of my main argument here: How are people claiming the moral highground on who should become a new tenant, if they themselves where new tenants very recently?

How can you call yourself an "activist" on the good side of democracy or morale in general, whilst being an office-holding politician, without even being elected into that office?

And regarding your admiration for him for living in a 2-room Kreuzberg apartment

... I grew up the same way, where is my medallion for that ? Do I get extra points for not getting to choose to live that way, like he did?

... as a housing councilor of the city rest assured he's not poor, makes 7.533,07 € a month [1], 2.3 times the median Berliner income

... and wasn't poor before that, indicated by the fact that his family used to travel frequently between homes in Barcelona and Berlin

[1] https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/berliner-bezirke-stellen-...
Few years ago read a transportation studies guy that also mentioned that most people think their gas taxes pay for the roads. Really that only pays for a bit less than half. General taxes and bonds pay for much of it.

My feeling is if you wanted to reduce the number of cars it would be better to just impose an excise tax on new car sales. Why tax gasoline over 15 years when you can get all the revenue up front via an excise tax.

Assume 30mpg, expected life 200,000 miles, that's 6666 gallons of gasoline. At $0.7382/gallon that's $4920.

Seriously why not just impose a $5000 excise tax and be done with it.

https://frontiergroup.org/reports/fg/who-pays-roads

On the other hand saw someone else mention their city used license plate readers to look at who was using their urban streets and turns out about 80% of the users weren't locals. That poses a big conundrum. Particularly in California where urban commercial property tax revenue is limited by Prop13. I think where I'm going with this is one shouldn't get too attached to the idea that things be 'fair' because that's simply impossible.
Abolish copyright and patents. Many other laws also can be reduced, to have more freedom. It isn't anarchy, but minarchy, which is minimal law system. Some law is still needed, such as environmental protection, and a few others. But, no world government; instead you can have separate governments but freely to move between them instead of being blocked everywhere by the border.
Sample of one, but I would be willing to pay roughly $20 per year for this service if it were updated a few times a month.
As I recall correctly, when the technician typed too quickly a subsystem crashed. There was no training for that and no obvious feedback mechanism.
It's a basic unit test: if it's possible to lose inputs due to natural usage, the it's a bug.

Where I come from, data corruption is the worst severity of bug. If you see an input selection as data, this is clearly a data corruption severity.
Was it, though? If I remember correctly, Algol 68 had facilities sufficient to do everything the author describes, and just as neatly.
This is Fox News-like hysteria coaxing.

"Is it possible that Hillary is the anti-Christ?"

"We're not saying she is, but we're just asking the question, is it possible?"
Here is yesterday's discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18304894

To me the takeaway is to not even install software that you don't need for a particular purpose. It's easy to do a complete installation, including X Window, for OpenBSD. But a firewall doesn't need X. So don't install it.
I think it might help if a configuration in UNIX systems to program the minimum unprivileged port number; if 1024 then it is like many UNIX systems already are and if 0 then there is no limit. It might even be a per process setting. But, more specific settings than that probably is not useful; you shouldn't make a mess by adding everything into the system, but instead just to add one or two thing.
sorry, I meant in the git background section 6.2, it briefly mentions BitMover as the developer of BitKeeper, but that's all needed to know about it
I run my own mail server (using Exim) and use Heirloom-mailx as the user interface. I find it is better than other stuff I have tried.
I think that's a fallacy. Just because it works somewhere (and not great, as every bit of software has its own damn arbitrary format only it can parse) doesn't mean it works here.

It is conceptually a bit simpler, however that doesn't mean it is better.
As someone that grew up in Wisconsin and drove mostly in that state, my take away about driving on Chicago is: go out of your way to be an asshole, turn signals are not allowed, use your horn unnecessarily and excessively.

A few months ago I was on the highway and saw a Porsche cayenne driving safe and actually using turn signals. Honestly that is like spotting a unicorn.
My old iPad 4 (iOS 10.3.3) just asked for a reboot in order to apply timezone changes.
Where's the -evidence-, as opposed to theories, that short sellers are actively and illegally manipulating the stock price with demonstrably false statements?

False statements like "I've secured funding to take Tesla private", for example...
i was particularly into building 3d worlds with opensimulator for a time and i built a directory for them because there was absolutely no way to find other people online (http://opensimworld.com). It grew to a fun community over time that i still maintain. Then i built a farming game on top of it which eventually became an open source project thanks to contributors who came out of the blue (https://satyrfarm.github.io).

Another fun project was a cryptocoin price directory that looked for coins that are "pumping" every few minutes (https://coinzaa.com), but unfortunately my bank forced me to shut it down.
I don’t understand how a 4K Blu-ray movie with 4x the pixel data can fit on a disc that’s only 2x a 1080 Blu-ray. They must compromise the bitrate? HDR must add overhead also?
IMO the problem is two pronged: a) hardware changes too much too fast creating a constant hamster wheel of driver hacking which puts GNU, Illumos, and BSD at a disadvantage, and b) that hardware is nowhere near significantly documented enough to make driver writing quick and painless. (a) can be fixed by having platform standards where the interfaces and commands are the same between device brands, but I think the better solution would be to fix (b) by using force of law or taxation to make device manufacturers fully and publicly document their hardware so that there are no "magic" or secret instructions, allowing FOSS hackers the ability to write open drivers. Ideally solution for (b) would be wide enough to include firmware and microcode, and penalty (tax) being both heavy enough (50%-200%) and applied at the customer purchase point of the chain (tax is on the final MSRP of the computer/phone/game-console/microwave/vehicle and not simply on the price of the noncompliant internal component[s]).

(b) can be done with a proposition in the State of California and a few million spent on a very convincing ad campaign ("Vote yes on Proposition 42 to take back total control of your computing devices! Don't let advertisers and data leeches control and dictate your life from behind the curtain!"). California because it's home to a big chunk of Big Tech, and because it's a market too big to simply ignore and not sell into.
Also see

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nuclear-bombs-made...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight

Blindsight is an amazing phenomenon with its implications for intelligence without consciousness and a great book by the same name.
It doesn't on Linux (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210726 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594876).
Oh dear and me wrongfully thinking there was a huge amount of money at stake!
Daz Studio uses the same approach with better quality: https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/

This approach doesn't work very well because simple linear morphs don't account for all the correlations and multidimensional variations of an actual human body shape, resulting in similar or unrealistic body shapes. It's like nudging a face in a photo editor. Different characters in Daz Studio are still hand-crafted in a separate 3D modeling software, and just adjusted with the morphs.
I think it's more that it requires it in many cases, due to the lack of generics.
Compare the images used for eigenfaces to those that GANs synthesize: different angles, facial expressions, glasses vs no glasses, etc.
I went to court a year or so ago to contest a ticket and the judge started the session by saying: “I don’t want to hear any excuses about financial hardship or special circumstances. We are all created equal” I think he is pretty replaceable by an AI.
Hopefully it will be good, because other web browser is full of stupid stuff.

I dislike "If the user does not supply a protocol in a URL, https will be assumed." But I also dislike assuming http too. I think if the user does not specify the protocol it should be treated as a relative URL.

Jump to heading look like good idea though. History tree look like good idea too. But about buffers, I would like to have a "duplicate buffer" command.
It really depends in regards to bikers. I see a lot of them safely run red lights. Which they shouldn't do of course. But I also see great restraint when some tourist is in the bright green and clearly bike lane. A bike ride swerved and nicely said "You almost got hit"
See my edit, they have to petition to change their time zone.
PHP: Good 4->5 transition, they almost made the Python 3 mistake with PHP 6, but sanely dropped it and the PHP 5 -> 7 seems to be going along nicely...

JS is looking a lot like the C++ story. Totally different language.
"Getting funding" from government sources is an entirely different game than getting funding from private sources. The former is about politics, and the latter is about making money, and what the funding is for can therefore be entirely different.
Touche. It's not as general as the lisp example though.
I love these projects.
I did a related project where I created a single, solid object that has 4 different silhouettes/shadows from 4 different angles in the same plane. Using more view angles than dimensions makes the problem much more complex. I suspect it is not possible to do this purely programmatically so I did it by hand had to smudge the letters to get everything to work out.

https://i.imgur.com/n1btEHG.mp4

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2111419
ARCA's revolutionary aerospike engine completed and ready for testing (2017)
Ask HN: Is possible to rebuild hnews like lobste.rs?
I ask because lobste.rs use a big font and is even better to reading on pc. Or at last add on our profile a way to use a different font size.
Yeah, that's the paper cited in the original PageRank publication.

But a lot of his other stuff is pretty interesting. He has done a lot of work that you can broadly classify as applications of graph theory to the social world.

That includes the HITS paper, but also work on small world networks, social networks, and several other papers on links and information flow related to the web.
I think it depends on your interests. For example, Wall Street Journal articles seem quite popular on HN.

I used to pay for WSJ online. But I stopped many years ago. The WSJ, like most other publications, offers discounted or promotional subscriptions to various subgroups. At the same time they invariably increase prices for existing subscribers.

I hate price discrimination. I refuse to be the sucker paying hundreds of dollars a year while they offer cut rate subscriptions to everyone else. I hate it enough that I now don't pay them a nickel.

Consequently, when WSJ articles are posted here, I enjoy "free" access via the inevitable archive.is link that usually appears in the comments.
thanks very much for your answers. I appreciate it very much!
Good video description of this type of engine here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4zFefh5T-8
So you are just going to do this now in every Erlang/Elixir thread?
>In high school, you could just sit down and crank out some homework while watching Youtube videos and chatting with friends.

I see this kind of distraction as introducing complication. When I was in high school about all I could do was listen to the radio on my boom box and even that was using too distracting.
Dear god. Incredible.

You are completely and utterly wrong. Yet you continue. Amazing.

And you're not the first to distract with claims that it is someone else's ignorance.

The P20 Pro does image stacking. Period. That is exactly what this new Pixel mode does. In actual results the P20 Pro is better.
I basically agree with this opinion on SICP:

Many of the illustrations are based on mathematics and a lot of problems require a decent amount of mathematical maturity to tackle. I think it’s a great book for anyone decently mathematically competent but for people who don’t really know what to write when asked for a proof, I think it’s a lot more difficult.

Apart from the mathematics based examples, a lot of the way things are explained is not very related to actual machines and relies a lot on abstract symbol manipulation, something that is easy not to notice if one is used to mathematics, but is often very difficult if one is not.
I can make it happen. What would you give?
Empty skies after 9/11 set stage for unlikely climate change experiment (2016)
As cool as Berlin art is, so is a Google campus for tech people and business in general?

If I picture a gentrification activist I think about a purple-haired kid that wouldn't get a job if his life depended on it, making people that might be interested and have the skills to work at Google miss an opportunity.

On the other hand, Google could have picked another spot instead of giving up?

How is it..?
First, alternative schools are 100% part of the "system", and are often have a far more "institutionalized" feel than their mainstream counterparts.

Second, in most districts, alternative schools really are a strictly inferior experience for students who do not have special intellectual, behavioral, or emotional needs.

I'm sure there are exceptions, but this is definitely the rule. E.g., how many alternative schools offer Calc BC?

Alternative schools are great, but in the case parent described, they're probably the strictly inferior option.
No it is the opposite! It is refuting the stance of Neo-Nazi's and White Nationalist from trying to make an improper stance on history and specifically Ancient Greece.
Yeah, I think that's really the heart of it.

I get why that's the default for the large majority of people, but it's almost never what I personally want.

I'm willing to accept that my preferences are different from those of the majority, but I'm not sure I want to live in a world filled with smart devices that are always getting in my way.
>You can see this in how ArianneSpace and ULA are trying to get to their next generation of vehicles (which won't be competitive in terms of re-usability)

Arianespace is a company run by bureaucrats. Incredibly frustrating environment. If you ever thought space was exciting, Arianespace will suck the life out of you. Even the areas where the top management know they need deep and impactful change, they'll bring in an outsider or two to bring "a new vision", then tell the outsider to keep working with all the old people who've built their mini-empire around methods that make no sense and keep them in a perpetual state of "irreplaceable ball and chain" on the company.
I like having both notations at my disposal. For example, F#'s forward pipe operator[0], or pipes from a unix shell.

[0]https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-refe...
I thought the video added a bit to the characterization of the agitator, which you had started ;)

I didn't admire his living conditions, I think you misunderstood me here. He is indeed not exactly poor^1, maybe unable to pay for decent housing for a family in a Kreuzberg with rising rents. But he would certainly be able to pay for a decently sized apartment in a less hip quarter. It looks as if he is not willing to for reasons we can only speculate about.

1: You added the numbers, and this is certainly enough money for much better living conditions even in the hippest quarters of Berlin.
"Bobby fixed a crash" - A crash relating to what? This changelog is awful, who approved this?
If you put a Windows 3.1 user in front of a 95 machine they'd have been very confused. Exactly as confused, as it happens.
We need a federal law that outright bans voting machines for all federal elections that Congress has control over (it'll get rid of them entirely in practice, because no-one will want to waste time and money by maintaining parallel systems).

That will solve all the immediate issues. Think of it as the equivalent of taking down a compromised server.

Then, companies that make those things can go back to the drawing table, actually think about what they're making this time, and try to convince us all that they did it right. It'll take a lot of convincing, and that's exactly how it should be. For starters, I'd want to hear about the exact problem being solved.

What would it take to make this happen? It feels like something that would carry more weight if the initial push came from the IT industry. People will listen better to something like, "I'm a software engineer with 20 years of experience, and in my educated opinion, electronic voting should be banned."
The simple answer? Money and jurisdiction.

There's an article[0] with a powerful quote on the subject: "There is no one election in the United States, there are thousands of independent elections. ... They’re run with their own policies, and their own processes, and, frankly, in a lot of ways, their own vocabulary."

Machines are usually bought by local jurisdictions. Some states cover the costs for all elections; some for only some elections; over 6 cover nothing. In any case, local jurisdictions are faced with a conundrum: do we spend money for something that's used only a couple days a year, or fund more immediately beneficial programs (roads, aid programs, etc.)? Budgets can't even keep up with replacing equipment, let alone thorough code and security reviews. Assuming the administrators even recognize what kind of work needs done. It's outside their experience, and when you start considering the kind of attack vectors that freaking nation states can literally create, even the best efforts of well-intentioned election officials are going to be wholly insufficient. And when nation states that are willing to put in the effort are the threat you're protecting against, everything changes.

Individual states are unlikely to try and setup the kind of review that you're looking at. Or--possibly--even realize that they need to. It's expensive, and the people they're relying on to inform them about these matters are often the people selling the machines. Worse, you're looking at at least 50 separate efforts to secure voting machines. They may, or may not, somehow wind up coordinating with each other. The federal government could, but states guard their control over elections fiercely: just look at how almost all of them told the Obama administration to go pound sand when DHS warned them of potential hacking attempts.

Unless there's a major, undeniable breach, I don't expect much to change anytime soon in most states. Even then, we'll probably see a shift to paper ballots rather than the sort of hideously expensive expenditures needed for the sort of rigorous IT security efforts we now know are necessary for electronic voting in the current threat environment. Otherwise, we'll be lucky to see piecemeal incremental improvements when individual states get around to them.

0. https://www.propublica.org/article/election-security-a-high-...
When I sometimes buy BDs (mostly foreign titles from my native country, not available for streaming from usual sources), I'll rip them raw with MakeMKV[0] decrypting the video TS files in the process. Then I use MKVtoolnix[1] to wrap original video/audio/subtitles to MKV. Generated .mkv goes to a local NAS from where I can play them with Xbox using Kodi or VLC (storage requirement is ~10GB and up / movie - you're essentially grabbing the movie as is from the BD).

This has the benefit that they are now available without having to find the disc, and also this process gets rid of annoying menus and extras and just gets you to the movie. This will also prevent kids from using your BD discs as frisbees.. ;-)

Only downsides I can think of are that last time I checked, VLC/Kodi didn't support Dolby Atmos soundtracks on Xbox and some amount of time that goes into extracting them.

I haven't tried archiving any UHD titles yet, so don't know if this would work for them. I'll hazard it would. Only take more storage.

[0] https://www.makemkv.com/
[1] https://mkvtoolnix.download/
Having someone say that, for example, “from tomorrow all your health data will be in Google Docs!” is likely to generate caos and harm people. Democratic government must operate on scales measured in decades, not months, and make sure to be as inclusive as possible (remote island with satellite internet? Probably will oppose any solution with 80mb of single-page JS. Etc etc). This makes for slow progress. It’s just how it is. Add to that the continuous jockeying of vendors, and poor training of administrative elites (a very underestimated problem in many countries)...

Modern society is just big and complex, no matter how hard we wish that weren’t the case.
The codec moved from h.264 to h.265, which is a big boost in efficiency, plus the extra pixels don't require as much information to describe as the original ones. 128mbit seems pretty good given that
Storing medical records on an immutable multi-party blockchain is not only a terrible idea but also clearly illegal in the EU (of which Estonia is a member).

So most likely it's a regular database -- and then we're back to my original comment: where's the use case for "custom blockchain" over PostgreSQL?
Mail bombing suspect repeatedly threatened Democrats on Twitter
They tested having students study in a sunlit classroom. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5536284/
When they relabel Sharepoint as Github for Business - then you'll know we are screwed.
Continued Emissions of the Ozone‐Depleting Substance CCl_4 from Eastern Asia
Does anyone know if David Drummond, Alphabet's Chief Legal Officer, was sacked? He was prominently featured in what Sundar Pichai called a "difficult to read" NY Times article.

If Drummond is still working there, then Pichai's email is nothing but self-serving bullshit.
Liberal Radicalism: Breaking Down Buterin, Hitzig and Weyl’s Paper
> Hand counts aren't particularly accurate.

Citation? Hand counts are as accurate as you want them to be. Just keep counting.

The problem with any form of voting that allows you to verify your vote was counted correctly, is that anyone can verify you voted 'correctly'.

The only way to ensure a fair election is to vote by paper ballot and have the count executed by anyone who wants to participate.
I'd prefer going into the direction where it would be preferable to replace most of our filesystems with databases. I imagine that, if we didn't have to serialize stuff all the time to send over the network we would already be there ages ago.
Although there are differences, many keyboard commands are the same, and some other stuff is also similar. Double clicking the icon to the left of the title closes the window, and double clicking the title maximizes the window, in both versions of Windows. ALT+F4 still closes the window, too. DOS commands are mostly the same (although Windows NT changes this somewhat, but still it is closely enough that you may be able to use without too much difficulty). All of this despite they move all of the menus around everywhere to make that stuff confusing.
I'm glad that they removed the god bullshit.