skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, one post is of course an obsession...

I think this will turn into a pointless debate quickly unless someone nails down what defines the importance of a city. I don't personally think GDP is a defining factor. DC is a prime example against that.

For the record, I'm not putting Chicago far down on that list - it's probably around #5 (behind NYC, DC, SF, and LA). But I think this discussion came from the very casual assumption of someone to put Chicago #3 which I do think is interesting to see where that came from.
AWS was working on UDP load balancing last year. [1] So, maybe 2021 GA.

[1] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=264282
Most monitors don't have to cool the heat from an entire computer so it's probably not surprising that the iMac display has more thermal issues than regular displays.
Chickenpox can be deadly: https://www.cdc.gov/features/preventchickenpox/index.html

Please read up on diseases before you try to infect your children with them.
I grew up in Waterloo and it's become way too expensive for the lifestyle I want. I want to find a city that's Waterloo 25 years ago. No luck so far.
I agree about it being one sided.

At one point an ex-partner of mine felt like she did way more than half the household workload. I felt under-appreciated because I was basically the only one to "fix" things if something needed to be done in the house.

We decided to set up a simple task manager for ad-hoc tasks, with some alternating recurring tasks like doing the washing. This worked quite well, as it gave some objective facts to balance our feelings and allowed us both to easily pick up our half of the work whenever we had some time.
This post groks QUIC. The most important thing about QUIC is it frees applications from the tyranny of the kernel TCP state machine. Today all TCP sockets (at least, on Linux) are subject to the same system-wide parameters of the TCP state machine, none of which are appropriate for any particular application. With QUIC we will finally have each application in control of its own retry timers and other parameters. That is going to be quite beneficial, especially on mobile where packet loss is so common.
No power brick is a huge plus to me. It’s one of the reasons my entertainment center has a 2014 Mini hooked up to it and not a NUC or something like that.
Maybe it's good now but it certainly wasn't a great place to live during the crisis and OP left for a reason.
I am not defending anything. I find the trend of accusing others of defending something simply because they refuse to join the mob quite worrying.

I am just stating simple facts in a dispassionate way.

Considering the distorted way any country (and especially China) is represented in the media and in some comments I read here (including yours, which close to hysterical) the best advice is indeed to withhold strong opinions if you have no direct experience and knowledge.

I don't deny the drastic restrictions in force in China regarding Rights with a capital R, but again in practice they do enjoy as many practical rights as we do in daily life and Chinese society is in fact much less 'oppressive' than, say, Japan.

The way you keep track of my comments and your ad hominem attacks could be construed as bullying and harassment, by the way.
Actually, I'm going to stand corrected.. While I stand behind the jurisdictional argument I've made per the Territorial Scope of GDPR (https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/) -- however, in this specific case, Forbes does, in fact have an EU operation -- many in fact, (https://www.forbes.cz) as an example.

However, the question might now be -- do visitors to the Czech site have to agree to the same conditions and tracking as do visitors to the US site. If they're doing the same shenanigans on their Czech site as they are in the US, then of course, they are potentially violating GDPR.

However, if the Czech site (as an EU example) IS following GDPR but the US site isn't, then there could be a strong case made that they aren't violating GDPR since the main Forbes site would clearly not be intended for EU consumption; GDPR, while applicable to the EU-side of the Forbes business, doesn't provide a blanket requirement for GDPR compliance across Forbes's non-EU properties.

As far as EU citizens vs. residents, that concept ought to be clear: an EU citizen doesn't have protection of EU laws when outside of the EU just as an American banking in France isn't protected by US banking laws. The passport of a complainant isn't relevant, but their physical location. An EU resident American who is visiting the US isn't protected by EU consumer protection laws for example, during a visit to the United States.
This is _exactly_ the reason why we wanted our kids to get chicken pox!

Or at least that is the story we have all been told. I know personally at least 3 elderly people that have had shingles (or do right now) that had chicken pox as kids.
No, Sacramento is pretty insignificant in terms of population and economic power compared to SF and LA (and cultural aspects). Political power is also tied to population - LA and SF decide who sits in power in Sacramento. DC is an exception because it draws lobbyists and politicians there; state capitals usually don't.
> Importance determines population.

Does it though? You still have provided no supporting arguments for that. People live in places for reasons beyond importance. In fact, "importance" really isn't a factor people consider when they decide to live somewhere at all really in my experience.
> But somehow, in the US one unvaccinated child is a risk to a school full of vaccinated children? This doesn't make sense.

You're misunderstanding who is at risk in this scenario. It is not the vaccinated who are at risk; it is the unvaccinated.

The unvaccinated are protected by the "wall" of immune people separating them from the sick. The fewer and farther between are the at-risk, the decreased likelihood of transmission.

You might say "but those people took that risk on their own"; but thats not the case for many people. i.e., Newborn infants, Individuals who are immunodeficient due to HIV/AIDS, lymphoma, leukemia, bone marrow cancer, an impaired spleen, chemotherapy, etc.[1].

Essentially, those who cannot become immune are only protected by herd immunity. And every additional non-immune person in that pool increases the risk to all the others. So everytime someone chooses to remain immune they are hurting that whole pool, some of whom cannot choose.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity#Protection_of_th...
Isn't Definers owned by Sherly Sandberg?
first of all, you are definitely right that it is silly to pay $200 more when all you care about is the extra 4GB ram. if i were in that position, i would buy the 4GB laptop and immediately upgrade the ram. the problem is that not everyone is comfortable upgrading ram themselves, and many modern ultraportables have the ram soldered in anyway. 4GB is honestly okay as a bare minimum for 2018, but it will rapidly become the system bottleneck in the coming years.

> why do basic computers need 8gb these days? Tablets do about the same workload, but only need 3-4gb max...

mobile software is still designed pretty differently than its desktop/laptop counterparts. take the browser for instance, probably the most widely used software by light users. while i type this post, firefox is taking up over 1GB just to have five tabs open, and it seems to use 100-200 MB more for each additional tab. that's a lot of memory, but the upside is that each tab is fully loaded in memory and can be switched to in an instant. on my phone, firefox uses way less memory, but only the current tab (or maybe a couple recently viewed ones) is actually loaded in memory. switching tabs on mobile triggers a page reload from disk or over the network, orders of magnitude slower than the desktop experience. certainly there are some lazy devs out there that waste our memory, but at the core there is a intrinsic tradeoff between memory usage and performace. it's always faster to load from memory than to read from storage. i doubt you would want to trade desktop/laptop class performance for mobile class memory footprint on your main device.
It's pretty interesting to see that even after all these advancements in technology and better-than-ever animated movies, the best way to tell a story to a child is still through a good old illustrated book.
Why are they not GDPR compliant?
> And you can get a yearly subscription, giving you all-inclusive usage of the services for 1€/day, billed monthly.

This kind of thing is key - make it easy to use transit and lower the marginal cost of doing so. Yearly subscriptions are good. London's approach—unify almost all modes under the same payment system with automatically calculated caps and discounts—also works quite well as you don't have to think about buying passes, individual tickets, etc. Just tap and go and the system takes care of it for you.

Not many places in the US have this level of integration yet. For instance, the NYC Ferry, NYC Subway, LIRR, Metro North, PATH, and regional Amtrak service all use disjoint ticketing methods. It'll slowly get integrated over the next decade, but it greatly increases the mental effort needed to hop on transit. Perhaps the closest in the US is the Bay Area's Clipper Card - they managed to shoehorn over a dozen area agencies onto the same payment method - but it's still not quite as good as something like London's Oyster.
It’s pretty good IMHO. Greek symbols are all obvious. \Omega and \omega for upper and lowercase omega etc. Super and subscripts with ^{} and _{} also work with \sum and \int for indices and intervals.

Software like Latexit and Mathpix also help a lot.
Those: https://www.plugies.com/products/plugies-magtech-usb-c-to-ma...

Got them for 2 for 35$ on MassDrop.
> How could EU law apply to a US publication?

Via business partners, treaties, subsidiaries, sister companies, and the restriction on the freedoms of individuals from those countries.

> Would US law apply to EU publications?

Yes, in exactly the same way. Whether one has to worry about it relates to the dependence of the two countries on each other and their relative military might.

> Is a representative from the EU going to show up in New York and serve Forbes a summons? I am genuinely curious how a US publication with no legal domicile in the EU have any obligation to follow EU laws.

Each relevant body in each EU state can act independently,
and they would presumably serve them a warning in any European office first, but for a US only company they would likely employ a US legal firm to deliver the letter for them. However its unlikely to be a summons, more likely a request for information followed by the penalty that is going to be imposed - there will probably be some opportunity for mediation and it could be escalated to a court.

> If a California resident goes to an EU insurance website, will that EU company have to comply with California insurance advertising laws?

Depends on Californias laws, but presuming the site was intentionally serving Californians then yes, it should, and would, be at risk of penalties in California.

> I think that there is a lot of wishful thinking about GDPR and a lot of ignorance on how jurisdiction works, especially internationally.

Undoubtedly

> GDPR has no jurisdiction over companies without an EU domicile or physical presence. And EU citizens aren’t protected unless they are actually resident in the EU.

The bodies that enforce the GDPR can recover their penalties by engaging any of many different legal apparatus, where they deem it appropriate (which will be rarely, if ever, as they have to convince other internal organisations to back them). It is harder, but by no means impossible, to recover money from abroad or to stop money transacting with a foreign entity.

Anyone present in the EU is 'protected', residence is not required.

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Forbes media have offices in Paris, Milan, and London. They regulary engage in both high value financial transactions and on the ground reporting in the EU. If they were prevented from operating inside the EU it would cause them severe operational issues, and their place as an authority in Western media would disappear overnight.
This is were time-triggered architectures [1] can kick in! You divide your program into tasks and messages passed between tasks, and can then assign each task to a separate processor with a precise execution time. Same goes for messages.

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[1] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8e26/a95a24569b284271a54397...
I never meant so, I state that things are turning progressively sour for companies like Crossover.
You can do so relatively easily with Vim digraphs. For example, the alpha symbol can be obtained by typing

Ctrl-k a Shift-8
I have to say I have had thoughts about something similar. It came to me because I worked for a number of managers who weren't very technical yet got paid more then me to basically just make sure I turned up to work and competed projects.
I started to think surely their job can/will be automated.
Maybe this is just the first step or 0.1 beta
Surely if it hit the bottom and the cable fell on them it wouldn’t be able to go anywhere? Not sure that I could diagnose that from within the lifts I use though.
Healthy young people should not be condemned to economic poverty to maintain sick people.
>The unvaccinated are protected by the "wall" of immune people separating them from the sick.

Are you saying that _only_ unvaccinated kids get sick? And that they are _only_ protected by "space" made by vaccinated kids?

Newborn infants are protected by colostrum, look this one up if you are unaware of it.

Other sick people I addressed in my initial point, they seem to be a threat based on your logic, not someone who needs protecting.
AFAICT you file it with the relevant authorities in your country.

For example, if you live in the UK, you should contact the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) according to [0].

[0]: https://www.entrust.org.uk/privacy/privacy-and-data-protecti...
I had chickenpox as a kid and I would never wish it on my children. Besides being absolutely miserable for a week and having to sit in a tub or shower all day to avoid the itch, it left lifelong scars on my forehead and other areas.
Sure, but thats what the situation is.
This was chickenpox. Imagine if it were rubella. Or polio.

They can't be physically or economically coerced by a government because of the religious exemption, so far that's the law of the land as the Supreme Court conservative shift gave us the Hobby Lobby case. So there's nothing to do about it legally in the near term, short of something so horrific that even the conservative court reverses itself somehow.

But I wonder to what degree insurers and businesses could affect the decision making: if you're not immunized, we won't cover your hospitalization; and refuse to hire people who's immunizations aren't up to date.

I've been an employer, and if I'm the one paying for a majority of health care premiums, I'd absolutely be on board with discriminating in hiring people who think immunizations are some b.s. conspiracy. That sort of paranoia is a hiring risk even aside from the loss of herd immunity.
I wonder if superconducting induction machines would be a useful research direction. They would be strange, since the flux through any particular loop of superconductor would be a constant.
TimeDoctor has offered similar software for years.
I guess the question is what do you find ‘important’ because your ‘ranking’ doesn’t map to anything.

The backbone of San Francisco’s economy is tourism. If you find tourism important then I guess your list could make sense.
Only vaccinate the kids you want to keep.
While an entertaining thought, in practice that would be ridiculous as that lawyer would then be subject to EU taxation which would negate any advantages for acquiring EU residence. That lawyer would then also be subject to US taxes as well since the US taxes worldwide income regardless of country of residence, while most EU countries tax income earned while a resident of that country. Despite tax treaties, some taxes, such as Social Charges in France, aren't covered by treaties, thus subjecting that lawyer to an entirely new world of pain in terms of taxes. Not to mention that if that lawyer were practicing law in the EU, he'd have to get credentialed in the EU or face arrest for the illegal practice of law.
No, but I haven't lived in many cities on that list. No, it's not a perfect assessment but the assumption that "X city is top and anyone who disagrees clearly hasn't lived there" is a perfect example of the attitude I'm talking about originally.

I may not have lived there but I have spent a good deal of time in many cities. I have explored various neighborhoods in these cities (Chicago included), regularly use their public transit, looked at COL numbers and done apartment searching in them to see prices, etc.
> one unvaccinated child is a risk to a school full of vaccinated children?

No. That child is at risk from the vaccinated children. The vaccinated children can still carry the virus but it may not have much of an effect on them. It will, however, have full effect on the unvaccinated child, which can then infect those who are too weak to get vaccines, such as elderly and the very young.
> If you believe voting changes how government operates, you haven't been paying attention.
The powers are entrenched and voting does little to change anything in government anymore.

I agree with you there in the context of the US. What desperately needs changing is campaign finance. Lobbying, Citizens United, etc has completely ruined politics in the US.
The short answer is that not enough people want that. The argument seems to be that they would if only they knew how awesome it was. But that argument isn't sticking, so the political will to make it happen is not there.
Never mind. I get the same problem with the version that comes with the bundled version of TKE. I appreciate the information!
Curious to know where the 1billion ns/s came from. No idea how I would have determined to use that in the fft code.
How do you handle Slack and vacations? Not sure I understand what the issue is.
I've noticed that Germany has an unusually high amount of smooth rounded fonts (my friends don't see it and call me crazy). But I just searched for it, and guess what: it's all because of Volkswagen!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAG_Rounded
I guess it depends on the meaning of "saving"? iPhone unit sales have been essentially flat but revenue has been rising because of unit prices and increases in services revenue. Six Colors has a great set of charts to show the trends: https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/11/reminder-apple-financial-...

I'm pretty sure "just keep raising prices" is not Apple's long term strategy. They'll keep releasing a mix of products, and push the high end with more refined features.

AAPL right now is at $172.82, giving it a PE ratio of 14.57. Apple is currently valued way below the S&P 500's PE ratio (21.58), so it's like people expect Apple's forward earnings to tank despite having had 20% revenue growth last quarter and 31% profit growth. It's not clear to me that Apple's future prospects are that bleak.
Because there would be nowhere to go. Imagine building a rail network in New York. Where would it go? How often do people need to get from NYC to Syracuse? And if you built a train to Syracuse, what would you do once you got there (without a car)? The city is the centerpiece of a region with a million people, less than 1/6 of whom live inside the city?
If it works for you, that is great. It doesn't work for me.
> if you're not immunized, we won't cover your hospitalization; and refuse to hire people who's immunizations aren't up to date.

Can this also apply for alcohol drinking, unhealthy food habits, lack of exercise?
The Domesday Project – an 80's update of the 1086 book
setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVTIMEO, ...)

setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDTIMEO, ...)

?

I'm not dismissing QUIC, but it is in your control to redefine those defaults. Maybe in 2020 we'll be grappling back toward [sane] defaults.
Facebook users can't boost their own posts, only a Facebook page owner can boost a post made as the page.
>national service

>treats human beings with dignity and humanity.

Anyone who's been to the RMV knows you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Writing up a lengthy article about a person's accomplishments in a prestigious mainstream magazine, especially with a title calling them "mysterious," is definitely in the vein of hoisting the person up onto a pedestal.
This is an interesting comment.

As a Londoner (have lived both centrally and in the suburbs) I think you're right that it's one or the other.

If you design for cars (e.g. M25, UK motorway network and roads, towns like Swindon and MK) then cars are the uncontested king.

In an area like London, it almost becomes an emergent phenomenon. The suburbs have car use because they're not very dense and it still beats sporadic bus routes.

In the centre there's just no space. Forget parking, Uber might be slower than the tube in a no-congestion scenario simply due to traffic lights and giving way.
Facebook: An unprecedented international grand committee meets in London
Trying out new technologies isn't "chasing fashion". It's an indicator of intellectual curiosity, drive for self-improvement, and openness to new ideas.

Blindly adopting everything new and claiming it's the best thing ever is "chasing fashion".
Terrorism kind of is a foreverwar. Restraint can be exercised. I am not afraid of terrorism and I won’t give up freedom to fight it, but, I am an outlier among liberals in how I view the application of violence. Let’s just say I disagree with Chomsky and pacifism. Until there is evidence we live in a better world than the one we have now. It’s also important to not lose sight of the scale of the violence in the world. The worst day in the battle of the Somme was 10 times bloodier than the entire Iraq war. We have the luxury of carefully scrutinizing much of what goes on in the world but news does not convey the decreasing scale of violence in our armed conflicts. They will slowly wind down. I won’t disagree at least some of what we are taking about are 1984esque war is peace propaganda, but there are also genuine bad actors in the world and they are only emboldened by a lack of action. I have a lot of concerns about violence in the world, and the US role in it, but I am not so cynical to reduce the war on terror to “bullshit”. Expansion of executive power under Bush is and was troubling. I have to believe that guys like Obama genuinely acted with high moral character and only made the choices they made because it was the obvious moral choice for our national interests. Maybe not, I admit you could be right and it could all be bullshit.
No, it does not "transfer immunity". It simply makes the environment of other potential carriers much safer for children who are unvaccinated, not yet vaccinated (e.g., for age reasons), or whose vaccination is not completely effective (vaccinations can fail).
The Egyptian presence in Yemen is simulated at best [0]. They have no troops there, they haven't fired a single bullet and nobody has even seen them after the first few days.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_armed_groups_in_the_Ye...
You misunderstand. Shingles are a resurgence of chickenpox when you're old and your immune system is too weak to fight it off. Chickenpox is herpes. It hides in your body, but as long as you're healthy, your immune system doesn't have much issue fighting it off. When you get old, then it can come back and be potentially deadly.
Logically speaking someone with AIDS is a "free-rider" from this logical perspective. How is this person different from a healthy person that chooses not to vaccinate?

The logical argument seems to be that "intent" determines if you are a threat or someone to be protected?

Again, by the same logical arguments people with AIDS can't go to a foreign country that doesn't vaccinate?
What better way to persuade than to pay for it.