skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the property tax obtained per acre would need to increase.

And it would, because property tax is assessed not just on the land but also on the structures. For condominiums each unit is assessed separately.

In addition, the greater the density the lower the cost of infrastructure. I don't think people, especially suburbanites, appreciate how ridiculously expensive roads and sewers are to build and maintain. Mostly because suburbanites tend to move on long before needing to rebuild, leaving behind broken, decaying landscapes. But that game can only last so many decades before society will be forced to deal with the consequences. The consequences are slowly coming into focus across the U.S. but are often couched in terms of affordability in more urban areas (because fewer places to move on to) and the broken finances of municipalities in more rural areas (because they're stuck with what turned out to be inherently unsustainable infrastructure costs).
chinese corp claims it can complete matching the whole population in 1 second but it's china so who knows what it's actually doing

http://www.atimes.com/article/surveillance-system-can-scan-c...
Standard comment on zstd: The "zstdcat" program (equivalent to "zstd -cdfq", I think) is capable of reading a few other compression formats, including .gz and .lz4 (apparently .lzma and .xz are available too), if support is built in at compile time. Unbelievably, zstdcat is 1.5x faster (in my experience) at decoding .gz files than zcat / gunzip / gzip -d. I dare you to try it.

Anyway, this should ease transitions away from legacy compression formats.
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Not all families are Parents & little Children. A couple is also a family. Parents with their adult children are also Family.

And whether their splitting-algorithm is expliciet splitting up families, or simply splitting up ALL groups, we don't know. We don't even know whether it's splitting on purpose, or just taking the first free seats, often resulting in a split.

But it's more likely that some lazy programmer just choose to use the solution which involved the least amount of work and complexity.
I don't think that to the extent "crossovers are much larger" is meaningful, that it is accurate. Crossovers and non-crossovers come in all sizes, but we can look at the most popular.

One of the most popular mid-size crossovers in the US is the Nissan Rogue. Compared to the VW Golf (which I assume is one of the most popular hatchbacks in the place you consider normative), the Nissan is: 1.6 inches wider, 16.9 inches longer, and has 16.3 cu ft more cargo space.

The Rogue Sport is the smaller cousin of the Rogue, and compared to a Golf, is 1.5 inches wider, 4.8 inches longer, and has 7.4 cu ft more cargo space with seats down.

There is also a Golf wagon, which I think is in between the Rogue and the Rogue Sport in length.

The only substantive characteristic that defines a crossover these days that I know of is a few inches in ride height. Subaru has gone so far as to sell a crossover that is virtually a twin to a hatchback, with nothing more than a suspension lift (CrossTrek vs Impreza).
I'm not positive about anything from google because I can't see how it works. All I know is he is on the same network and we see recommendations about stuff the other has watched
The New York City subway was built in the era of Boss Tweed

The NYC subway system wasn't fully public-operated until 1940.
Surely there was an open procurement process, where they considered the available options for web-based version control, and came to the conclusion that GitHub was justifiably better than its competitors.

They wouldn't just have picked someone's favourite service without thinking, because fair competition is a fundamental ingredient of a well-functioning capitalist market economy.

Right?
>Great let me know when Linux can run the apps I need for work and I can reliably install it on any hardware and expect it to work without issue.

About five years ago? More?

I've definitely had more issues installing Windows than Ubuntu on random hardware in the last five years.
You specifically mention Popper. Poppers criteria of falsification states that it is not enough that a theory can explain everything. He observed that a lot of pseudoscience (astrology, marxism, freudian psychology at the time) really could be used to explain everything and couldn't really be disproved by any observation. Real scientific theories on the other hand could be used to make predictions which could be verified or shown to be wrong.
No, because if I receiver does not know the starting state of the compression algorithm, no matter what the algorithm is, then it cannot decompress.

Basically the trained dictionary can be thought of as a generic "context" for a compression algorithm. The process of compressing a symbol in any compression algorithm can be summed up with a function: compress(Context, Symbol) -> (New context, Bits[1])

Decompression is always then decompress_symbol(Context, Stream) -> (New context, symbol).

The important thing is that to be able to decompress a symbol, the decompression engine needs to know the exact state of the compression algorithm at each point. It should be obvious why this is necessary. if it's difficult to see why, imagine your entire compression algorithm is trivial: allocate a number to each word in a dictionary, and your compression algorithm is simply to replace each word in the input with the assigned number, it's then obvious that the dictionary the decompression engine uses has to be identical. This is a simplification, but the same logic applies to every compression algorithm. Even a static Huffman table for instance has this semantic - the result of compress(context, symbol) is going to have the same context, but that requires transmission of the static table before any decompression happens.

The illogical extreme for an algorithm is to include a specific entry for specific inputs - for example the "honest" algorithm at https://nerget.com/compression/

1. Note that for some algorithm Bits may technically be a whole number of bits
I see a nanodegree or coding skills for that matter as an addendum to your existing skills. The branches to your 'T' shaped skilltree.

That said, you do have to adopt a non standard route to getting a job from a nanodegree. You can't apply like average graduates; you have to network, hustle, and build up a stronger portfolio than your graduate peers
Yes. For reference:

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

https://www.terena.org/activities/multiling/ml-mua/test/kbd-...
That's like saying "many people won't meet someone in the desert and sell drugs for cash after being burned by a shady deal." That is very true, but how is that relevant? Some people will still want to meet in the desert to sell drugs for cash, away from prying eyes and ears, despite the risk. The fact that many people still want all the conveniences of modern transactions doesn't change the fact that some people don't.

I'm not even really sure what all these posts are arguing for. Someone asked what problem cryptocurrency is supposed to solve, and the GP answered it with a good and succinct answer:

>It's trying to solve the problem of having to involve a 3rd party in on-line transactions.
yes i want a random dude who thinks asian people are just naturally bad drivers to judge my traffic fine
It's not surprising that Planck's constant is important here, but this seems to have much more to do with crystallographic vacancy "holes" than anything even tenuously related to black holes or cosmology. I'm no physicist though.

> In cuprates, a perfect T-linear resistivity as T → 0 has been observed (once superconductivity is suppressed by a magnetic field) in two closely related electron-doped materials

This is pretty cool nonetheless.
https://www.zhihu.com/question/303671507

Looks pretty bad.
Although it has some content, this article is generic enough to make me think is is a SEO strengthening article from ahrefs for certain keywords...
If you find this topic interesting, I highly suggest read The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. It covers a number of the issues that are touched upon in this brief article.

(I'm only part-way through the second book, but it's been a very interesting read up to this point)
Urban speed limits aren't set by what speed your car is safe to drive at, but rather what speed is safe that you're less likely to hit pedestrians and other cars.
LTS (Long Term Service) versions of Linux OS' are now breaking even, or even sometimes ahead, of Windows. Office is easily on par (actually better IMO). You can have the UI exactly as you want it to be. You have GIMP. The home of Apache/PHP, and many other improvements!.
Let me control the zoom.

Sometimes I want to see my whole route. Sometimes I want to see city streets. Sometimes I want to see as far as the next big city. Only I know which of these I want to do.

But you know what I never want to see? A beige screen with a blue line across it representing the 50 feet either side of my car.

That, however, is what every modern satnav insists that I see for the entirety of my trip. If I dare zoom out, it'll either zoom me right back in after five seconds, or stop tracking along with me so that the little car icon drives off the side of the map and I see a little "recenter" button that will zoom me back into that "1m = 1m" view that it loves so much.

It's maddening.
> No replica of PageRank exists. Period.

> But there are a few similar metrics around, one of which is Ahrefs’ URL Rating (UR).

There you have it folks, the article in a nutshell. While somewhat interesting and still vaguely informing, the primary goal is to sell you something. TLDR: "Pagerank as a single metric to track your sites ranking for Google is dead. Use my single metric to track your sites ranking for Google"
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That hasn't been strictly true since the tilting APT ran commercially in 1981. It was designed for sustained 160mph on 100mph line-curves.

The patents for the tilting mechanism were bought by FIAT who debugged the technology and it's now common on UK railways in the Pendolino trains.
I called a friend and she gave the right address. I drove there and had my meal.
Even tough it's a plug, it's a nice one and the content IMHO is pretty good...
Their Linux solution wasn't perfectly working, but the problems mostly weren't of the kind that would be solved by moving to Windows. I reviewed the report back when the decision was announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13643182
First of all: when using a mouse 'a click would open a directory or a file just the same'.
A mouse/trackpad has pretty much one button (or equivalent) dedicated to interaction, so it is expected to overload some functions on it. Besides, "navigation" with the mouse is a different thing: you don't need to "move" the selection so opening is a clear voluntary decision, decoupled from navigation.

But focusing back on keyboard operation...
It is true that many text based file managers do this 'open file on right navigation move'. In my opinion that doesn't make it right: I personally consider a bad thing that can lead to startling, unnecessary and potentially sensitive application launches; a separation between movement (hjkl, arrows) and opening (obvious choice here, <Return>) is a sensible design.

Another point of view: the unwanted file-open-by-mistake situations are a form of involuntary file previews. As nnn's own 'design considerations' state [0], previews are to be avoided: "previewing ... is a wastage", potential "slow/faulty ... access makes the experience very painful" and "Users should see only what they explicitly want to see".

Lastly, there is an important aspect that mitigates the problem for 'most file managers': customization.

Here's a quick glance at the players in this text-fm arena:

- ranger and vifm, the larger managers: a cursory look in their help/configs hints that they can be heavily customized
- out of the box ranger displays a preview of the selected file; that acts a big visual hint that you don't need to 'navigate' further; however I agree that default previews are bad
- ranger and vifm remember the position along the path, so you don't get shunted moving back down
- noice has about the same behavior as nnn (nnn was forked from it), but at least it has a standard suckless style config.h header allowing customization by recompiling
- speaking of suckless style, a last resort solution is to do just that with nnn, making your own fork: its header largely keeps the structure of the original

And here are examples that work more along the lines I prefer:

- rover has the best behavior IMO: it can be similarly configured using environment variables, but by default it uses hjkl simply for navigation and NOTHING ELSE; it has separate, dedicated keys for open, preview or other things
- midnight commander has the same separation: arrows (actually just up/down) strictly for navigation (in local dir ONLY, no less); explicit directory navigation and opening with <Return>; there is no implicit 'file open'

[0] https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki/nnn-design-considerations
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> e.g. in China people may soon wish they still had a decentralized payment system.

As there will be no way back from a bad social score, this is coming.

The key problem to solve is how to create an exchange that the authorities can't shut down.
It's a huge failure.

It's difficult to use, it requires always-on nodes, there appear to be multiple failure modes where funds can be lost to the counterparty with no recourse, and it requires the commitment of large amounts of currency to fund its channels and make the system work.

It's basically a joke at this point.
Academics, I have a proposal/question and was curious if such a system would work for you. Here it goes:

Take a P2P program similar to Kazaa or BitTorrent to share paper pdfs and datasets.

Next to these files also share indexes, derived data for searching.

Next to that, also share user generated review comments and endorsements to implement peer review and quality filtering.

Finally, digitally sign all these data to guarantee provenance and credibility of the data found on the network.

Let me know what you think of it. I’ve been loosely working on a prototype application that does all that for a while.
I think the author's point is that it is still a metric that Google use, so still potentially something worth optimising.
1. If it works, you'd need to wait 50+ years until most of your population was immune. You'd have to hope that in that time HIV vaccines/cures aren't developed.

2. HIV would make a terrible bioweapon. It's difficult to spread, takes a very long time to incapacitate people, and there are generally effective treatments.
The concert NSFW set is amazing. The network just replaces people with giant penises. There's some real art somewhere in there.
I feel like I find fewer interesting (or odd) little websites these days through Google..Either they no longer exist, or Google ignores them. It is strange and disheartening.
> Unless a literal city council thinks

Doesn't seem likely.

Seriously, I'd imagine they treat it as “someone else's problem” — like backups.

If GitHub gets hacked, I imagine their plan is “be affronted, and sue”. When GitHub's lawyers point out that the terms of service don't guarantee anything, the plan says “be even more publicly affronted that GitHub refuses to take responsibility, while taking no responsibility”.
What are, if any, the reasons these have to exist alongside the traditional structure other than the fact only specific reputable traditional journals are recognized as valid publication places by universities boards and other relevant institutions?
I don't know if I agree with that.

Some theists believe that we shouldn't tamper with God's perfect creation, because everything happens for a reason (including miscarriages, birth defects, and genetic diseases.) Atheists might believe that natural selection has got us this far, so it must be a pretty good process. A scientist shouldn't change anything, because they will be adding unnecessary risk to the natural process of evolution.

But you have to think about the "baseline". Natural selection is actually a brutal and horrific process where genes are just mutated at random. 50% of all pregnancies end in a miscarriage. Birth defects occur in 3% of all live births, and they account for 21% of all infant deaths. Nature is already a mad scientist that runs random experiments on babies.

I read that humans have about 30 genetic mutations per generation [1]. So imagine if a scientist picks 1 gene at random, and they use CRISPR to randomly change that gene. Now the embryo has around ~31 random mutations. Isn't that basically the same result as natural selection? You probably wouldn't even be able to tell that the scientist had changed anything.

Is that an accurate way of looking at it, or am I missing something?

[1] http://www.cs.unc.edu/~plaisted/ce/genetics.html
Calling this a lisp is a bit of a stretch. S-expressions aren't lisp if they don't have lisp semantics.
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UPDATE: I've finally checked the "Allow Chrome sign-in" configuration switch and it seems working.
As a country, take care of your disadvantaged people, the jobless, the homeless, the troubled. Enforce a proper minimum wage, scaled as a proper living wage for a given area. Enact single payer healthcare. Stop persecuting minorities, and end the ridiculous war on drugs. Enact gun control.

In the longer run, abolish (crony) capitalism, abolish lobbying and "campaign donations" (bribes) and break the military-industrial complex. Make the wealthy actually pay their taxes and give back to the society that they built their wealth on top of. Increase equality.
Sure, but something about the echo of the sound of salesmen makes the whole thing a measurable deal worse. At least, enough for me to be put off by it - if only a tad. If the sole aim was to educate and inform, leaving the sales pitch off would have been better.
"The Lightning Network" had been the BTC advocate's fallback excuse for years now. So far it appear to be an overcomplicated, untrustworthy affair that's failed to deliver. I'm not surprised it gets ignored.

I am surprised at how few people see that using such a complicated set of hacks to attempt to fix BTC shows just how flawed BTC is...
How about fine based on a small fixed amount plus an increased income tax rate for some time?
You mean cash?
Your point? Obviously not everyone can take care of a dog.

Also I admit to inconveniences, but when did I dismiss it?

If I admit to inconveniences it means I am trying to present a view that covers both the downsides and the upsides.

I'll say one thing though. I'd rather have a human develop a friendship with a dog then develop a friendship with a robot toy. One relationship is healthy and humane the other is not...
> but consider that you'll likely get more quality visitors with ads and engagement with fbook, snap and others.

Was there not a recent scandal of Facebook metrics being inflated, and erring positively in their favor?

top of mind example: https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/17/17989712/facebook-inaccu...
Stallman doesn't want to take government out of money, so the sorts of privacy guarantee that are provided by things like monero are not what he wants.

Government, to him and many of the rest of us, is a useful joint endeavour that allows us to have many if the nice things we have in our societies.
I wish there was a guide for "proper" SO questions; my impression is, the only ones are super-detailed questions about some super-particular APIs.

Also interesting how this disconnect is still going on after so many years, mostly unaddressed - despite the many essays Jeff Atwood writes about true purpose of SO, people still want to use it differently.
Very few people donate because they feel benevolent. Most Patreon type donations come because companies either want to sponsor further development or need a maintainer for the critical OSS components in their stack or both.

If you are only looking for couple of hundred $ per month then you can probably still find it via benevolent donations. But if you're serious and want to spend more time on the project then move to freemium model. See RescueTime for motivation.

Best is to keep all existing features as free and think of one solid new feature you could build that can be sold as premium. In your case that could be "sync reading progress across devices". If I'm super user of Polar, I would want to access progress on my phone and get some reading done while commuting. Just saying.

Lastly, if you only convert 5% of current users to premium then it's 100 paying users right out of the gate. Not a bad start eh. So stop relying on donations & think of capturing the value you are creating.
how is returning colours to a monochrome photo misleading? if it's done to restore actual colours then this doesn't feel like a fantasy universe - quite otherwise.
Not sure, I tried doing it myself once and it was a rabbit hole of scripts and changing obscure settings in the command line.

After somewhere between 12-18 hours of solid work there was still so much left open, and I came to realize it's simply impossible to have a copy of Windows 10 that doesn't spy on you in some way.

For example, hardware profiling. Attach a printer to Windows 10, Microsoft will receive the hardware ID. Sell the printer on craigslist. A political party uses it to print propaganda that is considered illegal. Don't be surprised when the police are at your door in two weeks.

With support for Windows 7 Professional ending in 2020, I'm not sure where to go from here. I can just hope that VR and similar recent tech is fully realized on Linux or Linux+Wine in that time.
This reminds of an interesting story from Robert Caro's great biography of Robert Moses (The Power Broker). Very paraphrased from memory, but:

Robert Moses built large parts of New York City, including a lot of its roads/infrastructure. When Moses was growing up, cars were very new, and a luxury item. Driving through a scenic route was a very fun experience for most people. Therefore, Moses built the roads to emphasize these scenic routes.

This later became problematic, as he kept doing it well into the age when being in a car was considered a nuisance, rather than an attraction.
The implications of this are pretty hard to grasp right now. While I think it's clear this was more of a when than an if situation, the way this was carried out seems incredibly unethical. The choice of gene alone undermines claims that this was anything more than a grotesque experiment on two human subjects who clearly have no ability to consent. One can only hope that these children don't suffer from the hubris of the narcissists responsible for this. It's probably beyond hope that this isn't the start of a race to a very deep, dark bottom.
While I used IQ as a proxy for intelligence, intelligence is obviously still poorly (or conveniently restrictively) defined. But surely some form of "being smarter" would have been advantageous at any point in time in a society? It's not just science and engineering that needs intelligence right?

Oddly enough this reminds me of a clip from the show Young Sheldon where the twins display extremely different, yet equally admoyable manifestations of intelligence: https://youtu.be/nvQkKS75M2o
Ya, I'm dubious there. accuracy rate "up to" 99.8%? What does "up to" mean?

This article paints a much more realistic view of what face rec can do, which jives with my 10 year dated experience in this field:

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-facial-recognition-lim...

Impressive for sure, but nowhere at the ability of scanning the entire country (which in addition to no algorithm being capable of doing that, you also have the problem that you lack data to even match against the entire country)
The rapid rise of self-diagnosed "gluten intolerance" for instance.