skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine a time where citizens kind of get fed up with being tracked and start tracking back. We could set up webcams facing the street so any time a police car was to drive by we could detect it and report their location. Undercover police car, first pass of a persons dash-cam and they are added to the database and instantly detected next time. Then if everyone participated in this network there would be no more surprise run ins with an officer. Someone would even build an app so that your map would drive you to your location with the least likely chance of running into an officer. I am a law abiding citizen. I have the highest respect for good officers risking their lives. But I don't want to be tracked ever.
> definitely miss a debugger

gdb works well with Go: https://golang.org/doc/gdb
If you live in a place where residents have no say in what's built next to them, sure.

(Which I think you've addressed in your comment.)
Both Dell XPS 13 (and 15) and Lenovo X1 Carbon are super repairable with screwed in batteries, standard SSDs and easy to remove and cheap to replace keyboards and touchpads.

You are really wrong to assume that thin and light can not be repairable. It's what Apple wants you to believe, but this is just not true.
> No-one wants to live in a block of flats unless they're too poor to afford a house.

That’s a pretty extreme. Appartments have a ton of advantages; whatever one values in an independant house can be turned into a disadvantage.

For instance an appartment is easier to secure, maintenance fees can be split, commodity fees can also be split which makes it very affordable to have good infra (high speed internet, central heating, automatic post boxes etc), concierge services become an option. Then superb views, lack of surrounding noise, clean air are advantages on the higher floors.

I say that as a kid who grew up in houses and wildly prefer appartments as I moved away.
And my cats don't chew on the Anker cables. For some reason, it seems a lot of cats just love to chew on Apple branded cords - specifically. I guess they smell/taste good to them. I've worked in electronics a good part of my life and have hundreds of all sorts of different types of cables, but the cats ONLY seem to love Apples cords for some reason. I have to warn guests when they whip out their chargers lol.
The English word for the blue of the sky is "azure". Or sometimes "cerulean".
>new taxes and public works that make larger cities livable

I thought people are moving specifically because large cities are unliveable. The article actually cites a more lax regulatory and tax environment as one of the reasons for why people and businesses are moving.
I don't understand why there was no standardization effort equivalent to ATX for the classic IBM ThinkPad-era designs.

A standardized form-factor allows easy replacement of motherboard, CPUs, screens, keyboards. Desktop PCs still use ATX cases, ATX power supplies, ATX motherboards.

Desktop PCs can be upgraded while keeping the monitor, keyboard and mouse: the entirety of a high-end gaming PC upgrade can consists of a new motherboard, CPU, RAM and GPU.

There's little reason laptops couldn't have went down the standardization path in the late 1990s. The chassis of a 1998 IBM ThinkPad should be able to components from 2019 without much effort. Just like an ATX desktop case.
There are many ways in which Japan is more civilized than Sweden is.

Speaking as a Swedish native who lived in japan for years
Link for convenience: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Error-Return-Trace...
Private transactions are not the default behavior, which makes transaction analysis more feasible than with private-by-default currencies like Monero.

Also, zcash has the trusted setup issue, which requires that you trust the developers were not compromised or did not store data during the setup, or they might be able to print infinite coins without detection if the data were to be recovered. For some, this makes it a non-starter, despite the efficiency of SNARKS over Bulletproofs which Monero now uses.

Don't let that deter you though. Zooko only pays himself a $300,000/mo salary. He will struggle to get by without the crowds of new adopters.
I used to work at a grocery store, and actually don't feel the way OP does. Honeycrisp are fairly different, in my opinion. A fair bit tarter, and they have an almost fluffy light crisp texture. They even have a different cellular structure than your average apple, IIRC.

Though I agree that more apple varieties would be good, OP is underplaying the differences between the widely available apples. Growing conditions have a great effect in flavor and texture as well.
I'm obviously simplifying. Luxury apartments downtown are different to the sort of monstrosities you see in suburbs.

Moving from a family home in a suburb into the city =/= moving from a family home into a block of flats on the same street. The latter is what I am calling a 'strict downgrade'.

> maintenance fees can be split, commodity fees can also be split which makes it very affordable to have good infra

This is all cost-based argumentation. If you own a family home with a garden you've already solved that. Maintenance costs in London are utterly trivial.
Very interesting. Can we see an example heatmap of yours from any week?
You're missing the point (as are the moderators, apparently): trust is a factor only when it comes to proprietary software. If you have to "trust Apple" to deal with Apple software, then you've lost any reason to trust them as they've already shown that they ought not be trusted -- both in principle (by distributing proprietary software) and in specific examples as per https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.html (only some of which aren't Apple's fault but merely run on Apple-made OSes, and some of which include bad business practices by Apple). Buying into claims ought not be needed and isn't needed except for proprietary software where such trust is apparently often misplaced. You can't tell if "the T2 chip is perfectly secure for this use case" because you don't know what runs on it. Apple claims a lot of things and one had good reason to believe Apple wouldn't, for instance, leave a remotely-exploitable vulnerability in iTunes unfixed for years after being notified about that vulnerability while governments exploited that vulnerability. But according to http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8912714/Apple-iT... that's what Apple did.

If Apple distributed free software trusting Apple wouldn't enter into the discussion. We could inspect what Apple distributed, we'd be allowed to change what we don't like about the software Apple distributed to us, and we could distribute improved versions of that software to help others. No need to buy into uninspectable code we're not allowed to change or distribute further.

And the answer to the question you didn't answer which the original poster asked -- do you need a chip to do this task -- remains "no". Purism's hardware is proof by existence. With Purism's hardware switch there's no software involved to accomplish this feature and they (as far as I know) distribute a free software distro called "PureOS" (a GNU/Linux system) which also happens to have earned an FSF-approved distro entry.
Having lived in a home and in high density high rises I couldn’t disagree more about the perspective that it’s a downgrade.

24/7 doorman means someone to sign for packages.

A community of people who presumably are in your socioeconomic class will be living with you. These are folks you can interact with and depending on your stage in life you may potentially do business with, befriend, start children’s play groups with, or even date/marry.

Big communities tend to have nice amenities that you’d only find in a country club all inclusive.

Maintenance of the high rise unit is often included in the fees or rent.

These communities tend to get better access to interconnect technologies like fiber.

There will tend to be more options for healthy foods, increased opportunities for walkable restaurants and other forms of entertainment as the population density of the area increases.

And more...

Basically, my preference 10/10 times would be to live in a high density tall building over a single family home in a neighborhood.
Sure, and then the realization that cities need to pay for things like infrastructure and transit to support their growing (and increasingly dense) population, and either way a a possibly unlivable situation develops. High taxes/high rents, or low taxes but zero infrastructure or support. No US city has managed to figure out the formula. That low tax situation has only lasted because there was previously no need for real serious spending.
Among its many other offerings, Google does still sport a quite serviceable search engine. Perhaps the commenter simply meant to convey that that was how they found the article?
> If you own a decently sized family home with a garden you're just not going to give it up and move into a block of flats. It's a strict downgrade in every sense of the word, even if the square footage is the same.

I appreciate that this is probably true for the majority of people (at least in the west?) but it certainly doesn't apply to me, nor some of my friends.

I like not having a front/back yard to maintain (I don't enjoy gardening). I like the views that you can only get from higher floors, especially city views. I've even come to rely on some of the conveniences, like having a mail room with someone that'll sign for packages while I'm away.

And that's not to mention the many benefits of living in a higher-density neighborhood, which would be impossible in a place full of semi-/fully-detached houses.

> No-one wants to live in a block of flats unless they're too poor to afford a house.

I almost have the opposite view to you, which is that I wouldn't give up my apartment lifestyle unless I was priced out of the city, and could only afford a house in the suburbs.

In the end it's up to personal preference, and you're certainly welcome to prefer a house. But don't assume that everyone has the same preference as you.
"So if anyone tries to convince you that Commons Clause is wrong because it doesn't meet all the requirements of the Open Source Definition, you should ask them if proprietary is better."

"Freedom for others to commercialize your software comes with starting an open source project, and while that freedom is important to uphold, growth and commercial pressures will inevitably force some projects to close."

https://commonsclause.com/
There a great Asimov story on these lines. Its called 'The fun they had'. Highly recommended. I read it aeons ago as a kid, and its stuck with me ever since.
I kept trying to login from my mac to find my lost iPhone but the connection would repeatedly time out. The same thing is happening right now to my new iPhone. It may be that there is congestion because Apple is not provisioning enough iCloud servers for unpaid users in my region.
> lack of surrounding noise

in an apartment. can't speak to the US but most apartments in western europe are really poor when it comes to sound.
neighbours above/beside/behind all making noise/water pumps/washing machines.

near impossible to get a moments peace.
I'll clarify, thanks for the feedback. The fee gives you access for a month, but there's no recurring charge.
Repeating my post from below:

I'm obviously simplifying. Luxury apartments downtown are different to the sort of monstrosities you see in suburbs.

Moving from a family home in a suburb into the city =/= moving from a family home into a block of flats on the same street. The latter is what I am calling a 'strict downgrade'.
It's dead, and I'm pretty sure all of the cash has been spent.
Taxes in California are funding public employee pensions, not supporting infrastructure (as evidenced by countless remedial propositions)
This is the truth!

I am native or Sweden and I hate, from the bottom of my heart, having to use my bank card for visits to restaurants, stores, etc. It is better when staying staying away from Stockholm, Göteborg, & Malmö.
This is definitely interesting and I will spend some more time checking this out. This tooling looks more advanced than pretty much anything else out there, but from what I can tell it is a server-side driven approach. I have been trying to imagine what tooling that is client-side first looks like. It should not matter _how_ a server implements something, such as Siren, only that it properly follows the semantics of the Siren protocol.
US has a sizeable renter population. Rent tracks housing prices pretty reliably, and when people complain about being priced out they mean 'rent went up again.' And historically, banks didn't lend to black people or black neighborhoods.

> those that own property as of N years ago are permanent residents, and will never really sell their properties, so it's just full.

In theory, property taxes should nudge people. In California, those are severely capped via ballot initiative Prop 13. People that should be paying $20k a year in tax on a $1.8 million dollar home are paying perhaps $2k. Long term residents have won some sort of cosmic lottery that they probably would have cashed in on and left town with if not for Prop 13. Or, if they value the community and services, would have found a way to borrow against the property appreciation, instead of effectively defunding state and local government.

> No-one wants to live in a block of flats unless they're too poor to afford a house.

Some of this is driven in the US by tax policy. Owners get a variety of tax breaks renters do not. In effect there's a sorting process by which people who cannot afford a downpayment rent by necessity, and the well off who want to avoid poor people for as neighbors can buy a home. This effect of paying to buy "good" neighbors is self-perpetuating and reinforcing -- people might be okay with having one sketchy neighbor but not be okay being the only non-sketch. It's a classist (and often racist) attitude, but is probably a decent model of the american population.
Remember seeing it back in Ukraine growing up; the premise was so outlandish to me that it was pretty much sci-fi. And it seemed to be especially impossible as Internet was becoming the norm.

Boy was I wrong. There are so many alternative realities out there now that soon it'll be hard to find two people living in the same one.
Too bad then.
I agree, I'll also note that it seems with all of the modern communication tools that satellite offices in secondary and tertiary markets wouldn't be as big of a deal now as it would have been 20 years ago.
> The govt is still run by the people for the people here, so most people aren't worried about totalitarianism.

They should, it's just stupid not to care about democracy and your own freedom.
Why so? We use a frozen requirements file and so far its been decent. What bothers you and how would you like it to be improved?
"I don't have stats but I'm incredibly confident that almost no users want hardware switches."

How "incredibly confident" can you be about this claim without published stats?

I would like hardware switches ala Purism's laptops but I see that Hacker News prioritizes steering discussions away from these switches (such as down-moderating the grandparent post for making a similar claim with no pointer to evidence but leaving your evidenceless post relatively highly moderated). I'm not sure if other people would have thought about having such switches therefore I'm not sure if they would value them or even consider asking vendors to include such switches.
You're right. Maybe epistemic closure is a better term. And maybe I need to take some time to evaluate the evidence in context of my own biases before I make baseless accusations. You have to understand that I've internalized articles over a number of years about class action lawsuits against yelp as well as my own experiences dealing with valid 5 star ratings locked behind a Not Recommended filter. But it may be the case that I am wrong and I ought to reconsider the complexity of the situation. Thanks for the input.
WOW! 42 BPM, what's your exercise regimen look like?
Been trying this for a few hours but it can be quite glitchy. For example, web viewer for Instagram is has pieces of pictures jumping across posts
Rocket Lab’s Modest Launch Is Giant Leap for Small Rocket Business
That's not true, the largest slices of California's state budget goes to healthcare, with education next in line. Pensions are 3rd and account for 18% of the state budget. I'm not denying pensions aren't a significant chunk, but the "your taxes do nothing" argument is getting pretty old.

https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/california_state_spendi...
> In theory, property taxes should nudge people

We don't have property tax in the UK.

I'm frankly quite glad that we don't. If it were instituted at anything other than a token rate I'd leave.

If someone buys a home and lives in it, they should not have to care a single jot how it's valued externally. It is their home and their castle and they have every right to live in it.

The idea that, say, my grandmother should just get kicked out of her hometown that she's lived in forever, that she bloody _built_, because a bunch of kids decided they like her city is completely absurd.

Financialization needs to end somewhere. Let people earn their opt out.
2-pane iPad support is on my big list. My app’s user base is almost entirely iPhone so it’s not that high of priority.

I agree with the color choices in the ‘add comment’ interface. I will change the colors in the next release.

As for the new articles in a category, I’m not sure if the HN API supports that. I’ll look into it.

Thanks so much for this feedback!
Ah, I see.

Looking at the source code https://docs.rs/crate/failure/0.1.3/source/src/backtrace/int..., "failure" uses https://docs.rs/backtrace/0.3.9/backtrace/struct.Backtrace.h... which is the callstack at a single point, not a trace of how an error was propagated.
Understanding JavaScript Scope
Do you agree both sets are countable? If so, any two countable sets can be put into bijection by composing their bijections to the naturals.
Well, is someone keeping you from claiming the credit?
> I'm incredibly confident that almost no users want hardware switches.

I'm incredibly confident that almost everyone does. They'd explain it as the ability to turn off the microphone or camera without someone else having the ability to turn it back on without asking you, but it amounts to the same thing.

One thing I know nobody is asking for is microphones and cameras that can be turned on without their consent after they've explicitly turned them off.
Well there is the Free Usage tier just like AWS's. Though Google's egress limit is 1GB compared to AWS's 15GB.
> a bracelet is less likely to get lost or stolen.

You meant 'more', right?
A Generative Model for Discovering the Unknown
It’s almost the same in Norway, but I think/hope it is easier for foreigners. You link your VISA to use Vipps, where you can pay is most bars, restaurants, taxi etc.
One reason that Vipps (came before Swish?) is not booming in Norway could be because we have almost 0% fee on our cards. This is because all the banks have come together to make BankAxccept, just to avoid the fees that VISA and MasterCard use.

I see no need for using Vipps or ApplePay. I place my bank card on the terminal and it is paid, with no fees. If it is over $20 I have to enter the pin. Super simple.. Me and my wife actually laught when we find coins in old jackets, because we haven’t seen coins in months. Almost forgot how they look and feel.
Makes me think of all the code lost to poor storage. Like all my C64 related code from the 80s and 90s. I had hundreds of programs typed in regular notebooks.

The code for this game is really readable and easy to pick up after all these years of not doing any 6502 coding. Any 6502 wasm targets?
> Not owning a car is wonderful.

When you are single.

But if you have children, it gets a lot more complicated. Possible, certainly, lots of people do it, but much more complicated.

And the larger you family, and the younger the children, the harder not having a car is.
Assembly is so beautiful.
It is worth noting that the article describes how private sector decisions are crowding out cash, how the government (specifically the central bank) is concerned about this, and considering to deliver a solution (namely digital cash issued by the central bank).
> Pink is not "light red". No adjustment of the saturation of red will ever make it pink.

Can you tell us what you think one has to do with the other?
San Diego is tending toward car-free living anyway, so this is in line with that trend. Downtown we have scooters everywhere, as someone else mentioned. We have free public transit in various forms, for individuals and families alike.

Parking is generally not included in rent, that is a separate charge normally, so in essence it's already "no parking space" and you're just getting a better rate than outside, even when you park under/beside where you live. You're really _also_ getting security, not just parking. That's the real issue, if you have a car downtown, which I do.

All this being said, parking is generally very difficult here compared to other places with less concentrated downtown environments; more in Little Italy than in the Gaslamp Quarter, and more difficult in Gaslamp versus East Village. But again, cars are becoming less of a thing, and people are adapting.

What I hear in the comments so far is a misunderstanding of what a metropolitan area is. It's not designed to be the same as a suburban area. In the suburbs, you need "large vehicle" transportion, versus downtown where you need what's called "last mile" ... like scooters. Any other people need to do their research and see we even have FRED which is _free rides_ ... so you could park somewhere that isn't oppressively priced and get a free ride ( not even pay for an Uber/Lyft or scooter or bike, etc ) and be totally fine.

It's the problem of taking a suburban attitude into a downtown environment that's causing people to miss out on the actual purpose of the space and the infrastructure we already have.
Ask HN: What excites you most about Neuromorphic Hardware?
I just finished https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.06963 and was pleasantly surprised at state of neurotrophic computing. Specifically, the use of organic materials to build robust, low power networks that get past the von Neumann bottleneck and allow us to incorporate new levels of sensing into our environment and lives seems extraordinary. TPUs and chips are obviously interesting for orgs like google, but what about synthetic clusters of neurons integrated into our environment? How significant could that be?
There was also that (Asimov? Clarke?) story about a space ship which has its computer knocked out by a meteoroid and can't navigate back to Earth until someone on-board turns out to know how to use an abacus.
Great well heres [1] some data. Between 2001-2015, 48 have died to domestic terrorism vs 26 to foreign born terrorists. Hope to see you lobbying for drone strikes and military patrols in the US and your hometown soon.

1 - https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/us/tally-of-attacks-in-us...
Swift: Space invaders clone game source code
> A day pass is $5 to $12

If you are a family with 3 kids that's $25 to $60 just to go downtown (are there child discounts?)

Much cheaper and easier just not to go places that don't have free parking.
> "you should ask them if proprietary is better [than Commons Clause]."

Neither is better, because they are the same. Commons Clause is proprietary.

If a piece of FOSS that I used became proprietary, I would fork (or use a fork) based on the last FOSS version. Just because the Commons Clause kinda looks like it's FOSS if you squint, doesn't make it any different.
Outline: https://outline.com/KzcRSa
Wouldn't the cost of infrastructure scale with the increased tax revenue from the increased population? I would also assume that infrastructure is actually cheaper per capita if population density increases, which would imply lower tax rates.