skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the place where I live (Austria, town with 30k residents), the Fußgängerzone in the center is currently dying. Shops close left and right, and migrate to the three big shopping centers. This town is a strange mix because almost everybody needs to own a car (bus system is underdeveloped) to take kids to school or shop groceries, but the town itself is not that big (a lot of places are reachable by bike). Most people rather use the newly rebuilt, comfortable malls with free parking and major brand chains over the harder-to-reach-by-car town center with parking fees and mom-and-pop stores.

The administration is taking desperate measures now, trying to keep shops from closing by promising funding etc, but it turns out the big malls made exclusive deals with brands and there’s not much anyone can do.

I guess Fußgängerzonen only work with an intact public transport system that people can rely on and that won’t take you thrice as long to get there.
Browsers do have memory leaks, and sandboxed processes without same page merging duplicate a lot.

Web browsers are nice, you can view anything a web browser can display in them.

If it were up to me, I’d just have a local web server, running a reddit clone that refreshes every five seconds.
Star Wars game developed with HTML5
That's an interesting stance, I haven't noticed that pattern but the composition of colleges varies greatly.

In any case, I get around the whole "grade grubbing" issue by having my policy of "extra" work spelled out, also up front on the syllabus. No one gets anything extra just for bugging me about it. Basically it amounts to allowing homework assignments to be re-done (once). A single quiz grade can be replaced by doing some fairly difficult extra problems. No makeups on the midterm and final, but a research project can be done to get up to 5 points on their final grade. Beyond that I hold office hours and happily spend them further helping students with anything they're stuck on.

Short of (provable) extenuating circumstances, that's about it. I even ask for a police report for students claiming "car accident" for things like missing a quiz. (In one case, a student told me there wasn't one because it was just a minor accident that scratched the side view mirror... I pointed out that an accident like that wouldn't have prevented them showing up to class, even if it was a few minutes late.)
Any kind of float trying to prevent the content to be fully displayed on the screen. Any distraction, ad, even recommendations.
Probably both... I've worked with a lot of people from Bangladesh; idealistic stated goals, paired with deeply cynical actions is a good, succinct and fairly generalisable summary in my experience.
And some user just opened an issue titled "Where are the tests?" and nothing else. Sure that's a valid concern, but that's the kind of attitude that would make me disable or lock GitHub issues in a project altogether (I have no relationship at all with this specific project).
Send matches securely to anybody in the world, you say?
Good point. I think that by their logic selling "enthusiast" versions of anything will almost always be classifiable as a practice that "preys upon the mentally ill".
Why? I have access to it anyway by clicking on their name and can cut-and-paste by hand. And they are people who have agreed to share this kind of information with me specifically.
"When Friendship suggested that the ship be scrapped at PHP shipbreaking yard in Chittagong, Bangladesh, GPI could have said no. But it did not."

Pure speculation: This sounds like a decision they may have been forced to make due to whatever alternatives may or may not have existed. They made the "bad" choice and immediatly followed it up with an "oops, sorry" apology in order to preempt any negative press from opposition interests.
Ideally, people live near transit (not so common in this country, but Transit Oriented Development near transit stations is becoming more popular), so they don't necessarily need to drive to the station.

But even when they do, it's easier to handle traffic spread among dozens of stations spread out over 100 miles of track than to have all of those commuters drive to the city center.
It all depends on where you are. Some areas will be like a nursing home with no work to do, others will be high energy and often doing interesting work.

You need to be able to suck it up and deal with the Byzantine bureaucracy and thought process.
Initech is back
What approaches to develop-ability are you looking at?
really what happened.
https://liteblueusps.online/category/tracking-number/
Labor is the principal value of a currency. I'm guessing you are a libertarian. Maybe you should learn about how commerce, financial instruments, and debt work before saying money has no intrinsic value. Otherwise, if money has no intrinsic value then why work for it? Maybe we should go be communists. As Labor is the principal value of currency, so is debt the obligations of its members. When you get a loan you are not just getting money for interest over time, a group of loans can be packaged into bonds and the bonds can be sold by the lender as a lien against the debt. You get money, the bank gets interest and the bond holders get a percentage. Tell me, where can I get a loan for bitcoin from a FDIC lender? Someone I know who will be honest and not Gox me. Is spent compute the same as labor? Can a thing that computes a thing that stores a thing that hashes a thing that shows that a transaction for a thing happens have a value greater than the things I do for my career? Because to me blockchain is a waste of energy and Energy used for Compute, aka Entropy, has no value.
No. I'm saying

> that "we rely on the brain without understanding it and that works out fine" is not a good argument.

It wasn't my idea to bring cars into it particularly.
16-Year-Old Set to Graduate from Kansas High School and Harvard University
>" that cost is passed on to people who pay with any means. If I buy a TV with cash, or credit card, it costs the same."

If people start charging less when paid via methods that have less chargeback risk will you reassess?
Raising Awareness is the contemporary 'last refuge of a scoundrel'. Greenpeace lost any broad credibility as a maverick campaigning organisation a long time ago, it's now just another MOTR 'charitable' org that overspends on admin, salaries and PR.
This is only possible if school is no longer a physical place (i.e. everyone does school online). So long as school is in a physical space, it needs to be one relatively close to you, and then you're not close to giving everyone the same experience, as prosperity and educational attainment differ in granularity by more than a school bus can travel every day.
Show HN: Bro, a project bootstrapper
Two decades after Columbine, Parkland educators and police still weren’t ready
Show HN: Clamping multiline text with ease
Yang2020 Presidential Campaign and How Not to Accept Cryptocurrency
I've had a $400 bottle of scotch (37 yr McCallan over 15 years ago), and it was significantly better than the 18 yr old you could get at the time for about $120. Was it worth it? Yes-once. I wouldn't do it again, but I enjoyed that bottle over a 3 month period.
I'm confused, what is the purpose of the automatic lottery ticket tied to a sales receipt?

I've spent time in Portugal and was never asked if I would like to participate. Is it only certain types of store or receipts?
Yes, sir its part of my Matchchain Bullshit Tech. I can't say that you won't get Goxed though.
One of the guys in the article actually did have someone use an oscilloscope to measure the interference from his neighbor's appliances.
Over half of older US workers are pushed out of longtime jobs before they retire
As what do you work in the audio industry? Marketing? Sales? Engineering? Programming?
>Is it more presumptuous to make people install a language you used than to make them install a library you used?

A C compiler is also required by POSIX.

>There is a small set of scripts that needs to be portable and be written in a shell-like language

I reject the assumption that the smaller of the two sets is the set which should be portable.

Your Racket-based shell requires a supported Racket platform, which is honestly a pathetic group: Linux, macOS, and Windows, on x86_64, i686, and ARM(?). Maybe if your software is written in Racket in the first place this makes sense, but otherwise it doesn't. It's not about you: it's about everyone. I have a RISC-V machine on my desk and if I wanted to get your stuff working on it I'd have to start by writing a new JIT for Racket. On the other hand POSIX & C runs just about everywhere. You mentioned using these for your personal scripts - fine, whatever floats your boat. You'll regret it if you ever think about playing with BSD, POWER9, or the platform of tomorrow (spoiler: I guarantee you that platform will support POSIX and C).

It's funny that everyone in this thread who's come out against POSIX shell in one breath is pushing their own shell in the next ;) maybe when those shells start to number their users in the double digits, we can talk.

>easy interactive use

A comfortable interactive shell experience is a good thing, and has nothing to do with POSIX.
Perhaps more profound are games like Combat Mission or Graviteam Tactics, which try to simulate battalion and smaller level engagements. Even with save scumming, it's not uncommon for over 30% or even over 50% of your forces die or get seriously injured. It puts the realities of symmetrical warfare in context.
I don't understand the numbers. A typical highschool teacher is on campus from 7am to 3pm minimum. That is 40 hr/wk. That allows a 30min break for lunch and typically one hour "planning period" that is insufficient for handling all lesson planning, grading, and assessment stuffs. I'm left questioning the validity of the responses to the ATS. Multiple teachers I've talked with report earning less than minimum wage after counting all the everything they do. For the ATS responses to be counted, the "households that have completed all eight months of the Current Population Survey (CPS)." That feels like a pool of respondents that will self select out very busy people.
Ouch, that's rough. If you've graduated college, you can learn the high school level material on your own; no need to be taught it explicitly. But not to cover classroom management and lesson planning?? One of my friends is an elementary school teacher and that's basically all she does. She's been at it for most of a decade now so she's good at it now, but I was living with her during her first years of being a teacher and being thrown into the deep end of that was rough.
Sure, and in school, even within the confines of the flexibility I offer, there's still a drop-dead deadline: the end of the semester, and test dates. I don't give infinite chances, but I do set up a system that prioritizes maximum learning opportunities over strict cut offs for when that learning occurs.
It's been a while since I've used it, but have you tried GnuCash? http://gnucash.org/
No. But I remember those tests, where they actually could!
>"It works in curbing tax evasion,..."

How does it curb tax evasion? Is the idea that if a customer requests the lottery entrance that the sale will be reported? Do most people opt for the lottery ticket in practice then?
The problem isn’t with the parent paying for tutoring, but with the teacher receiving pay for tutoring. It creates a perverseincentive for the teacher to grade students harshly until/unless they pay up for tutoring.
Personally, I find the idea that the photographer has more right to a photo than the subject ethically repugnant.

my own photos are published with an explicit license given to the subjects of an image, because i agree.

i should be in 100% control of what happens with my likeness.

this also applies in the case of tattoos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18769227

if someone gets a tattoo, they should not be prevented from using pictures of themselves in whatever way they like.
Hmm I suspect that was the case. anyway, what I do now is type to myself, then copy and paste the response.
Asking for browser notifications.

Missing functions in the mobile site.

Too much white space. (Ie new reddit)
If you dig into the actual report, you can see that the data is PPP (purchasing power parity) adjusted as is typical for these types of comparisons.
The ethical considerations of self-driving cars choosing who dies
In Booming Oil Field, Natural Gas Can Be Free
Houston and Dallas have pretty extensive toll highways, so a lot of the funding comes from there on top of all the normal taxes.
It would seem that Walter is not so Bright.
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If privacy is the higher priority, the answer is USB hard disks, in a locked box in your home.
You realize that other sources are free to take the facts from any article they read, and write those same facts (without doing any expensive, confirmatory investigation of their own) into a new piece, without paying any sort of a license for rebroadcast of those facts, or for creating a derivative work from those facts, right?

You realize that 99% of the journalism you read, watch, or listen to every day is this kind of secondary "remixing" that deprives the original journalist-investigator of "their" reward for doing said research, right?

You realize society is perfectly okay with that, for the same reason we're okay with e.g. used book stores depriving the original author of a sale, right?

So then—having realized those things—what's the ethical argument in favor of avoiding a secondary source that happened to just plagiarize its text from the primary source, in favor of one that plagiarized its research but wrote its own paraphrase of the text? What does that get you, ethically?

(Note that I'm not trying to equivocate these things in service of making plagiarism seem less bad. The conclusion I hope you to reach here is that society is seemingly perfectly okay with certain types of plagiarism, and that that's weird and shocking and terrible and people should really be more angry about it than they are.)
As a trained EE, non-practicing, I would think it would be far easier to install filters/conditioners on the line to normalize the voltage and current (e.g. performing phase correction). Also, if you had a local AC->DC->AC conversion, could probably get a more uniform power source frequency. Not sure, been a long time since ive studied this, but I think a lot of thw high-end audiophile stuff is snake oil. I've been able to listen to a couple of high end audiophile installs. The electrostatic speakers are amazing, but I'm not going to appreciate enough to justify a $120k install over my $2k commodity home theater sound.
This is a creative metaphor, but like most metaphors, not all of the novel properties of the original system were preserved in the metaphor.

If you want to improve the metaphor find a way to make it so that as a holder of matches I can have very high confidence that there is an upper limit of N matches that can exist at any given time extending far into the future.

Also add some way for me to transfer my matches to another match holder in ten minutes (or an hour, or whatever reasonable interval) regardless of the physical distance between us.
We’ve built cities before, we can do it again. Infrastructure is cheaper with economies of scale than in sprawl. Remember, the people you don’t house still exist and live somewhere.
> The elephant in the room is the transition to proof-of-stake, an “environmentally friendly” way to secure the chain. (If this was the plan all along, why create a proof-of-work chain first?)

Well, how would they do an ICO and get the money if they first developed it (and did it like Bitcoiners did - "for free")?

Sell that ICO, pump dat bxxx, exit in a low tax jurisdiction.
A Cyclical Theory of Open Source
Right: you don't get infinite chances at work, and what I'm talking about isn't infinite chances either. If you want to compare school & work, then consider what I offer students to be a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP).
Er, you are clearly failing to take into account unforeseen circumstances. Perhaps the pupils knowledge actually warranted an A grade but he or she had a cold and weren't able to perform at top level during the exam? Maybe he or she misunderstood some task description? Etc.
HDMI cables used to be a great example, but now there are something like 8 different levels of certification and only the highest have the bandwidth to carry a 2160p, 60fps, 10 bit, 4:4:4 signal. And as far as I can tell, they are all passive so your source or sink can't warn you that your cable isn't compatible. You'll just get artifacts.

The AmazonBasics cable will do 18Gbps, so it can do 2160p, 60fps, 10 bit, but only with chroma subsampling (which is fine because most video sources have chroma subsampling). The Amazon cable may work with a 4:4:4 signal, but it's not certified for it. There's a level above that for 48Gbps cables.

I totally agree with the general idea, though. As long as a cable for a digital signal meets the specifications set by the standards body, you're good.
Articles like this never come as a surprise to a Gatto fan:

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

https://archive.org/details/WeaponsOfMassInstruction

https://archive.org/details/DumbingUsDown-TheHiddenAgendaOfC...
Go pretty much assumes decent editor support, which should inform you of the type of err as you use it. It's not perfect, but it hasn't been a problem for me in practice, so far.
Yes, but when when there's signal degradation in an HDMI cable it shows obviously, not as a subtle video quality change. If you can see an HDMI signal with white blinking dots everywhere, you can be confident that the cable is not altering the signal in any really detectable way.
It was even funnier when I saw a friend’s sister kept opening up a chat box to see my profile picture without ever saying a word ;)
>"Like many libertarian leaning people I used to be a fan of "Austrian" type economics."

Can you elaborate? What exactly are "Austrian" type economics? I'm not familiar with this distinction.
Just thinking about the first anecdote in the article - you can't have a fetus be a life when you want and just some tissue mass when you don't want.

If a drunk driver runs into my pregnant wife and only minorly injures her but kills the nearly-born baby, what should the punishment be? I think it would need to be similar to if a drunk driver runs into a woman and injures herself and kills her nearly-born baby.
Even as a native speaker, the way people use the language still surprises me.
You're forgetting the BART strike. That is just unacceptable. Nothing comparable shuts down all the roads.
Interesting. I wonder if they have some kind of automated system to reupload images after an infringement takedown, because I recall checking the ASIN maybe 20 minutes after I received that email and it was still there. The infringer did not seem very sophisticated at all so I'm not quite convinced, but that is certainly a possibility I had not considered.

Also, I grabbed the thread from the OP in case you were interested: https://imgur.com/a/L1gFAqy
Change your public image by publishing to IEEE?
Here is the BIG elephant on the road. Why road consumption is different than all other consumptions:

We don't pay for road usage!!!

Anything useful that is handed out to consumers at the cost of $0.00 will be overused and develop a shortage.

This is so ingrained that it can be hard to think about.

Anyway, if we had to pay to access roads, depending on the traffic load, traffic could always flow at full speed, road investments could pay for themselves and a lot of things would be healthier in society.

I know this argument doesn't convince a lot of people... I think we just have to wait for some society to implement it first and the the rest of us can wonder at the miracle and slowly copy it. Perhaps the Chinese? The seem keen on innovating, for better and for worse :)
I can see where the problem is, "best military in the world" if by "best" you mean the creators of ISIS for destabilizing a middle-east country or violating every human right on Vietnam, or torturing people in guanmo. The blacks arming themselves was a response of whites already being armed for centuries, bla bla you can say that everybody you dislike has not a factual argument, it means nothing as well.
Some of the actions taken at Parkland were unacceptable.

One thing I want to point out though is that in the US we have, not surprisingly, the quickest and best active shooter response of anyone in the world.

I would encourage you to look at 2011 Norway Island Attack (which they are in the process of making a movie about).

Things that happen:

1. Bomb goes off in downtown Oslo, killing 8.

2. No national emergency is declared, the Oslo police do not request assistance from any other department, federal gov, etc.

3. The public is not advised to shelter in place and business continues normally throughout the nation officially.

4. 90 minutes later a call comes in from a small island about 40 miles from Oslo.

5. Oops! Police don't have any helicopter to reach it, because the single helicopter Norway police has is having a maintenance issue that day and was already grounded.

6. Police drive to the town right by the island and grab a boat and go to Island.

7. Oops! Wrong island.

8. 90 minutes later they reach the island. Even with the water barrier, US response would have been in the single minutes.

9. 77 people were killed. Of the 69 who were murdered, the bullets were filled with liquid nicotine to also poison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks

This saddens me so much I can't even bear to watch the movie coming out about it: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/10/22-july-netflix...
Mark Zuckerberg posts year-end reflections on 2018
Nice post...covers some good use cases. I wrote a book all about SSH tunneling and port redirection use cases in depth...primarily for penetration testers. "The Cyber Plumber's Handbook" (https://cph.opsdisk.com/) is free (already given away 250+ copies) for students that have an educational/student email address. Simply send an email to cph-student@opsdisk.com and I'll send you a discount code to download it for free.

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C++20 is a clusterfuck to put it mildly. And that comes from someone who loves C++11/14 to bits.
The supply of people who can reliably turn time at a keyboard into code that solves problems people are willing to pay to have solved is wildly outstripped by demand. You're just continuing to see that in a world where most other industries don't have a supply problem.

Also, as rationale people will be happy to tell you, buying my employees lunch is a screaming deal.

An employee going to lunch takes at least an hour: walk to takeout, wait in line (everyone gets hungry at the same time), walk back and eat. I can recover at least 30 minutes by paying to have lunch delivered every day. Plus, for better or for worse, it costs me roughly $16 pp per day but it would cost me probably $25 to pay an employee $16. I didn't write the tax rules, but I can optimize within them.

Note there is also not a single person in my company who makes less than $32 (16*2) per hour. So I'm very happy to pay $16 to recover, on average, 30 minutes of their time.