skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, Amsterdam also has it. No diesels from before 2001 I think is the rule. It's going to be implemented in other cities in NL as well. My dad got kind of screwed because he converted an old van into a camper, for traveling around, and now he won't be able to use it to get into cities anymore.

Of course it is objectively a good thing, especially when they implement the export restrictions so they won't all simply be offloaded to Africa.
Dart will stop within a few centimeters due to water resistance (unless it is very long and dense, like a metal harpoon, but you can't make such a thing).

Poison will dissolve and drift away within moments of applying to a projectile.

Nothing to make the tube out of.

You don't have lungs (water respiration doesn't work this way in any creature I know of), so you can't "blow" anything.
Tenure is a pretty artificial condition intended to prevent controversial research from being eliminated out of fear of losing your job. It seems in the corporate world execs do something controversial, get fired and get paid off. I believe average length of tenure in c-suite positions is actually decreasing, so moving in the other direction without any law limiting it.
Agreed, but its not obvious to me how you would bridge that gap without a lot of custom code.
Perhaps it is not that difficult to learn how to ride a bike as an adult and lack of previous experience is hard to measure.
>The other reason it is there is that the contingency plan for a Nazi landing and invasion of the East Coast was to retreat behind the Rocky Mountains.

That's the first time I've heard of that plan. Would love to read more about that if you have any resources for it. A quick cursory search online wasn't too successful. Retreating behind the Rockies would leave a huge amount of space and resources available, and presumably the majority of the citizens. Would places like steel mills or other industrial facilities be sabotaged so they could not be used by the opposition?
I expect that, given the reporters have already made the information available to the public, that they personally would not have been unamenable to giving it out when the situations you mentioned arose; and that even in the case they were, the existence of the information would make it easier to collect from the department itself and that in any case, the reporters could be subpoenaed for the information. That some evidence can be excluded as immaterial in a different context is largely irrelevant.

I also expect that, even in the worst case you are trying to imply, I would feel the same way about publishing the names for the same reasons. I think you are either trying to get me to admit that–which I do freely–, or you are simply uncomfortable that you and I have a different position on the tradeoffs.
Stop enabling the destruction of journalism?

That's an entirely serious suggestion. I'm not arguing that what you're doing is illegal. I have all sorts of qualms with copyright and its enforcement myself. If I were "copyright czar", movies would get three years, and newspapers maybe a week.

But if we wish for copyright-holders to respect the rights of internet users, it would seem to be a winning proposition to maybe not actively work against their attempts to find a compromise.

And a "soft paywall" that allows you to read a dozen or so articles per month without subscription seems to be jus that: a compromise, and a reasonable one at that.

What do you expect to be the long-term outcome of bypassing such mechanisms? I have trouble of thinking of anything but "soft paywalls" turning into "hard paywalls". Then, we'll be left with the maybe one or two publications we subscribe to. How can such an outcome be in anyone's interest?

I know you can bypass these schemes. Yes, they are laughable. I know ads are sometimes annoying. I know large swaths of the press have earned your scorn because they, like, use the wrong JS framework. Or something.

But I still don't understand this attitude that appears to go even further than just "I want it for free" to an almost gleeful appreciation of vandalism destroying the foundations of democratic societies.
You're referring to MIT's championship football team?
That's why subscription drugs - pardon, prescription drugs- are so profitable
Nuclear proponents have promised "limitless energy" since WWII. What they've delivered, however, is quite different: Three Mile Island, Fukushima, unfixable waste all over our country, the Santa Susana facility in CA on fire, and billions of dollars in decommissioning costs when plants are shut down. Nuclear isn't the answer to our energy problems.
Pretty normal older suburban neighborhood in the midwest, no HOA or covenants or anything like that. I expect some busybody neighbor called local 311. Most front yards are just mowed grass. People do plant trees, shrubs, and have flower beds for annuals. I read online that people get around it by making the plants look more intentional. Next spring, I'll frame the milkweed with boxwoods and put a sign with something like
"our neighborhood butterfly garden" or something.
Hm. Apparently my Phys101-level understanding of electronics has caught up to me.
Most Dutch cities have automatic gates, so that kind of traffic, we call it 'destination transport' for some reason, can use a remote control to open the gates and enter the city. For example police and ambulances can also enter the city.

Of the moderate size cities I've recently been to only Amsterdam still allows regular traffic in its center, and I think that's because it has such a large center for a Dutch city. You can't really park at the edge and then walk in.
^ THIS! I don’t see how the situation is in any way more complicated.
Real-world analogies can get pretty squirrelly but it would be quite literally like the following.

Man standing on the sidewalk outside a store yells into the store at the shopkeeper “hey there, can I have some free fish?”

Shopkeeper yells back “sure!” and tosses a fish to the man on the sidewalk.

Add more yelling back and forth for TLS handshake.

At this point, the man on the sidewalk can do whatever he wants with the fish. It was freely given.
NSAIDs were counterindicated for my surgery, as they'd increase the risk of internal bleeding. I had to avoid them for 10 days before I went in and come off paracetamol/acetaminophen 3 days prior. An uncomfortable few nights.

I think the US is much more liberal in terms of regulation, so it's very much up to the doctor. Mine is an expensive orthopaedic surgeon in NYC, he wouldn't have seen me as an addict with drug-seeking behaviour. Afterwards he gave me a prescription for the lowest-dose hydrocodone; I think I wound up taking it for about 3 days and then I didn't need it any more.

I was in pain, so I appreciated having the painkillers there to help. But I also appreciated that I don't want to form a habit, so I came off as quickly as I felt I could.
Solid 3. The absolute arrogance of walking into a market as a complete amateur with low margins, admitting that he will "learn about marketing" while the product gets set up in the store is honestly laughable.

There are hundreds of thousands of people thinking about what the next niche to attack in online sales is. The work is on that end, not this silly, already done, repeatable, novel process of drop shipping.
There is always reason to doubt predictions about the future. Maybe we are coming up with the ultimate renewable energy source in terms of both externalities and economics, maybe we are rich enough to take preventive measures against the negative effects, maybe we geo-engineer or way out it, maybe the current climate models are completely bogus. I don’t know.

You don’t know.
> But I'd interested in seeing firm numbers on this.

From Regehr's blog post that you linked:

> An issue with mitigating integer UBs is the overhead. For example, they cause SPEC CPU 2006 to run about 30% slower.
Raly all your users to bug Mozilla about unbreaking side-loading. If addons really isnt supposed be a walled garden as they claim, they should be willing to open a discussion with the community about how to open things up so we can avoid legal bullying like this.
Rename the plugin and change the description. The message from Mozilla states that the problem is the intent of the plugin. The technological measures it actually takes are not illegal per sé, but are illegal when used to circumvent paywalls (of course IANAL).

If you present this as a plug-in that allows you to view websites as the Google bot views them, for educational and debugging purposes, there is no problem. You can give the fact that it won’t see the paywall as an example. It’s actually useful for that purpose: you are not lying. It’s just that most people will install the plugin for its ‘side effects’. Their use of it will still be illegal, but the intent will not be illegal. Cf. Firearms, crypto, drugs, ...

(I say this as someone that pays for various journalistic sources and I encourage everyone to pay for at least their three favorite sources)
> [...] but the lack of explicitness about casting exact types (Integer, Rational) to inexact types (Int, Float) has led to many bugs and confusions for me.

What do you mean? As far as I'm aware, you always have to explicitly convert exact types to inexact types in Haskell (using "fromIntegral" and "realToFrac").

> Coupled with the fact that so many standard functions (like length, for example) want to return an Int rather than an Integer, it just leads to me spewing ((fromIntegral ___)::Integer) all over my code.

Indeed this is rather annoying. It's this way because of legacy reasons (see https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/60u10b/do_function...).
I have a few responses to this, but the most basic is: Please dont tell people what to do on their computers.

If your business model is not supportable except by other people willfully hiding information on the client computer, your business model is not good.

"Avoiding a paywall that's only half implemented" is not "the destruction of journalism."
>>> I actually am surprised that services like Steam, the Apple App Store, and Google Play are able to command as high a margin as they do for sales commission.

What makes you think that they have high margin? It's not like each game creators could run a worldwide distribution and payment operation with just a few percent more of revenues.
ha! ya got me.

imho, "compute" is ok if a true technical person or nerd says it because it makes them sound cooler. and they usually need as much coolness as possible.

but ad people use "spend" to make it sound like they have a specialized, impenetrably cool language, one which alienates and excludes the rest of us. but, the thing is, ad people are already cooler than the rest of us. that's how they got their job in the first place. also "spend" is a dumb choice for that because anyone can guess what it means.

that's my lame theory and i'm pretty sure no one else buys it.
That factoid is from this book:

The Corporation : A Centennial Biography of United States Steel Corporation, 1901-2001 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1887969128/

To answer your other question, there were plans in place to evacuate most of the capital via rail behind the Rockies as well. The Soviets did this tactic for real during the German invasion and were quite successful at it.
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See also https://codesearch.debian.net/research/bsc-thesis.pdf if you’re interested in details.
You are moving the goal posts. The issue I take is with "threat actor". If a threat actor wasn't detected you have no idea if they exist. Only windows crapware tries to make the warped perception that what it doesn't know doesn't exist and priority obviously goes to where exploits provably exist. But insecurity is being attackable not being aware you are attackable (and certainly not knowing you are attackable but seeing no frequency of attacks).

Would you want your electric company to use these products knowing that another country will attack with 0 frequency until war is declared?
Yeah but the ethical backlash against being able to cure but not curing will be immense
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18582578 and marked it off-topic.
Monopolies often charge around 30%. Google ads, App store, Play store, cell phone billing for subscription numbers, etc
Thanks for the link. Installed without problems.
No, the investigation is performed in order to decide if there is sufficient evidence to recommend an indictment.

The investigation is the part in which they collect the evidence, witness statements and perform a review of the case.

Then they pass their recommendation for a judicial review which would review the case and take into consideration the recommendation of the investigators and decide if there is sufficient evidence to proceed with an indictment or not, then it goes to the state attorney which has the final say.

If indicted the PM can appeal to the parliament within 30 days to request immunity, however an immunity as far as I know never been granted and over the past few decades Israel has indicted and prosecuted several high ranking politicians including former PMs so their judicial system seems to work pretty well.

The statement was referring to the claim that the recommendation text was leaked prior to the investigation being completed apparently the text was very simmilar to some leaked documents form 2 years ago.

Essentially over the past few years every month or so there was a leak that said an indictment will be recommended sometimes accompanied by the text of the recommendation, but this time it was an official recommendation.

Likely they had the legal text recommending an indictment worked on before the investigation was completed as it likely would demand quite a bit of work and approval to meet the legal nuances required for such a document.
When we’re talking about the payment card data that was exposed, I thought there was a mechanism to charge companies on risk. My understanding of PCI DSS is that you have regular audits, and if you fail those, the cost charged by card companies goes up.

IME, you can get away with quite a lot during the audit. You don’t have to be perfect, you just have to have a plan to fix what was found. I would guess that breached app was incorrectly classified as not in scope. PCI audits suck, and so there’s a huge incentive to classify your app/system as not in scope.

Do agree that the fine structure is what will get action. GDPR has raised the interest of making some improvements in how PII is managed.
I'm aware of that, but I'm yet to find one that I like personally. I made this primarily for my own benefit. Appreciate it's still a work in progress, however
Not the GP, but I contribute to the Git project. I think your some of your critique of GitHub Enterprise is correct (although don't you need to also "resolve discussion" if the lines change, or is that just GitLab?), just commenting on the "why not ML" aspect of this.

> With the email based workflow, my email client has a built in index of all the comments made[...]

The reason for why E-Mail based workflows like those used by Linux and Git didn't win over "just host on Git(Hub|Lab)" is because this requires a lot of setup & technical expertise from your contributors that just using a web UI gives you out of the box.

Right off the bat you need to have been subscribed to the list for a significant amount of time to do what you're describing, or if you're lucky (e.g. in the case of the Git project) use some E-Mail archive[1]. You're already looking at maybe a week of setup time for someone who's never used E-Mail in this way (which applies for most devs these days) just to get to the point you'd get in 10 seconds with a search box on GitHub or GitLab.

Does it pay off in a lot of ways? Sure, but at the cost of losing a lot of potential contributors. It's not a big deal for projects like linux.git or git.git whose contributors are by definition at the tail end of the competency curve when it comes being comfortable with setting up this sort of thing, but good luck running e.g. some popular WordPress plugin this way.

1. https://public-inbox.org/git/
Beware the Attach API
I'd love to see the rest of these. I grew up in the LA area, my mom worked in aeropspace, while there were shades of this Los Angeles left in my childhood, most of it was swept away by the shovel of progress and growth that happenened post war.
The reason Google and Apple are able to command such high commissions, it's because they are monopolies in their own markets. Most people who want iOS can only buy iPhones and use the app store. Most people who want to use Android, tend to buy Android phones and don't switch to iPhones.

As such, Google and Apple's app store's don't really have strong competition against each other. Plus, most developers pretty much have to build apps for both anyway. Their respective markets are huge enough.

Steam, on the other hand, although it had its own monopoly of sorts in terms of "central gaming repository", it's always had high competition from game developers releasing their games outside of Steam, and more recently GOG has become a direct competitor, and EA and a few other huge gaming companies started their own central repositories and keep their games off of Steam.

This is what forced Valve to make this move now. Competition virtually always favors the consumer (the companies, too, in the long term, as they are forced to improve their products, but that's another issue and most companies are too short-sighted to see that by themselves), and we're seeing yet another example of that.
Ask HN: Kinesis Advantage2 keyboard programmers please share layout
Any Kinesis Advantage2 programmers out there?

Feels like I can get used to the regular character keys positions.

However, all of the Ctrl, Alt, Option, Cmd, Shift combination became really hard an unnatural to do.

I'm mostly using Intellij IDEA for development.

I'm looking for other developers with the same keyboard that maybe could share their experience and methods for using this keyboard for writing code.
One unfortunate aspect of many of these new popular SDRs is that they do not operate at lower frequencies, so you are going to miss all the HF/MF/LF fun, and part of VHF spectrum. For example the 6 meter amateur radio band is not directly accessible with this SDR.

I wonder what it would take to make a DC to VHF (300ish MHz) SDR to complement these UHF SDRs
That was the initial reason for the protest, yes, right now it’s a more general thing. And about London, afaik public transport is expensive as hell and once you get outside the M25 we’re talking trains and such, if I’m not mistaken, which are even more expensive and with a lot more time delays.

So my point about this being a regressive tax stands, because it would be way cheaper for a blue collar English guy to commute using a 1000 pounds beater Vauxhall than to pay hundreds of pounds each month for public transport passes. But the current tax system prohibits this because that beater Vauxhall Corsa also pollutes the air breathed by the rich guy who pays 20 million pounds or more for a London condo, and it’s at that precise moment that you can hear that rich guy remember about “externalities” and “the tragedy of the commons”, but when his wealth manager invests in some copper company listed on the LSE that feeling about needing to cover for “externalities” totally goes above his head. Marx would have had a field day with the current political and societal situation in the West, it screams hypocrisy and “schizoid way of being” from a mile away.
Trigrams are of three characters, not tokens.

This is not the obvious search strategy for code, lacking semantic structure, though apparently it suits regex searchable indexes.
Again that is my point, most companies don't. The small amount that do will have to. There is a huge amount of companies that will never target Europe. They will never do business or have a presence there. The regulations are irrelevant for them.

I've noticed this persistent attitude that somehow eu regulations are globally applicable, in reality they are not.
Quite a few young people without a degree or other good secondary education that do not have a lot of money make their living as couriers. Because courier companies are in a powerful position compared to their couriers everybody is classed as 'independent contractor' and they are required to bring their own vehicle.

They can't afford new ones so they end up buying older ones, and as couriers they drive a lot so they end up buying diesels, which, given the form factor of their cars (small delivery vans) is usually the only option.

At their income level the only cars they can afford are the older diesels, which are now no longer legal to drive in the cities where they have their work.

Effectively these rules put a whole slew of kids out of a job.
You're willing to wage an awful lot on the proposition that there is another business model, even though both you as well as thousands of now-bancrupt publishers have failed to find it.

Also: your own business model of "living" is just held up by the completely artificial rule of others not taking everything you own. Just because "it's on the internet" doesn't make "might is right" a true proposition.
I wonder if a future c standard can fix this in some way. Say by promoting unsigned types to unsigned int instead of int...
Introduction to asynchronous networking programming with go
I’m not against types. In fact I mostly prefer typed languages.

I’m just stating that there is nothing fundamental about code-refactoring which ties it exclusively to the domain of typed programming-languages, something I consider fairly self-evident.

I mean obviously one can refactor terrible code in any language to help improve its structure right?

That this remark would cause such sub-thread defending types in general (I never said they didn’t have value) has me honestly quite surprised.
Let him come to you after a break up
Me: That's a Sony Fricken Walkman and intellivision!

Son (9 years old): Blank stare wondering how long this 'conversation' will last and he can resume watching game videos on YouTube.
This appears to be the source paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-018-0258-1

... and NREL press release: https://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2018/nrel-identifies-where-n...
> Stop enabling the destruction of journalism?

My two cents is that advertisement is what is killing journalism.

YouTube, for example, can show advertisements for well known companies in videos about Anti-vaccination, far-right conspiracies, etc. without consequences.

Why is that? Because all that happens in the privacy of your own computer. Usually any newspaper that publicly have printed such bullshit in their pages will be dead. Public will react to it.

What is different? Facebook, YouTube, etc. are personalized. You are shown what you are interested in without public accountability. Niche radical content gets a lot of views for its own controversial nature. Views and money.

Who wants to investigate, hire good writers and expend the money that it takes to write a good article when you can hire some one without ethics for a fraction of the price and get as many or more views as radicalization grows?

YouTube, Facebook and others say that they are not responsible of the content they offer. I think that it should be true for things like comments. But for the monetized content they are 100% responsible of incentivizing that radicalization and killing good journalism in the process.
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Criminals also just want to survive. That doesn't make their immoral business model legitimate.
Richard Branson launches $3m challenge to reinvent the air conditioner