skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't have to be, people just want numbers on the paper showing how great everything is, until you move further north / west of the city to see the reality of the other 90%
Newbie mistake, just try to spent enough time the first time. So you are sure they understand, be less helpful the 2nd time.
In the ideal scenario of lane straddlers, everyone trying to enter a particular lane at a particular point has to do so at the end of the line of people already waiting to enter. The right hand lane is completely unused and therefore the length of the line is double what it needs to be, possibly so long that it interferes with other intersections.

In the ideal scenario of zipper merging there is no free right hand lane to shoot ahead in: it is completely filled with people that are alternately taking turns with the other lane to enter the merged lane. The queue is half the length in this case then the prior case. The lane straddler doesn't feel taken advantage of since everyone is entering the queue in the first available location (left or right).

Lane straddlers perform an illegal maneuver (I assume intentional driving in two lanes is illegal in most countries) to pre-empt the more efficient usage of the road. Their righteousness is unjustified: the person that would otherwise pass them in going to the front of the lane would be increasing the utility of the road. They would be more considerate by entering the lane they are blocking and going to the front themselves.
It’s not that Google doesn’t patch vulnerabilities, is that between the phone manufacturers and the OEMs that the patches sometimes never reach the older phones or sometimes no update reaches the phone.

As far as “batterygate”. Batteries degrade over time. Either Apple slowed the phone down or the phone shuts off.
I would like to add the Wikipedia portal Current Events to the list of alternative news sources in this thread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

FWIW sharing my primary global non-tech news source while we are at it: The Financial Times to me is all the important news without the fluff and very much worth the subscription price. Obviously there is a heavy focus on economic news (but not exclusively).

I especially like the News Briefing which I can listen to conveniently with a "Hey Siri, play the FT News Briefing" while doing my morning routine. These podcasts as well as Alphaville (https://ftalphaville.ft.com) are actually free.

I delved into FT last year through exploration of the Media Bias Chart for the US:
https://www.adfontesmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Med...

I probably should read more widely but I had been disappointed by traditional outlets like the BBC or The Economist for a long while now. It also feels like the world's balance of power is shifting heavily at this time so I'm not sure where I can get high quality global news without our natural western bias (our perspective increasingly feels like wishful thinking to me).
Ask HN : How to sort the comments by time or date?
How to sort the comments by time or date ?
I'm looking to sort the comments on the "Who is hiring " posts which have a lot of comments (700+) and after I've applied for a few positions, there's no easy way for me to sort the comments so I can start looking at only newer posts.

So, how do I sort the comments by date/time ?

Thanks very much.
Is it possible to connect Mastodon and Matrix somehow? For example, can one start a chat on Matrix with a friend they have on Mastodon in a convenient way?
Nice to see an article by Devesh linked here.
You mean trouble growing like Google? You know Google is a pirate, right? Protected by the dmca.
Other than VSCode I don't have any other Electron based on my computers, hardly anything to displace.

Give it a couple of years and Electron would be as common as MSHTML, HTA, XUL apps.
French lawmakers do not decide.

EU legislation passes through majority support.

This is not a national issue so let's not try to make it one.

> One of the reason we have had riots every single week for the last 3 months is because of their inability to make smart and pragmatic regulations

Except that many rioters want a rollback on pragmatic measures for purely ideological reasons, of course.
The reality I know is that the people who wrote their apps on Windows XP left the company some years ago, but the apps live on: perfectly functioning, but unable to make requests via anything more secure than TLS1.0 and forcing other people to run servers that continue to accept TLS1.0 years after it was deprecated by everyone else.

https://blog.pcisecuritystandards.org/migrating-from-ssl-and...

(That's the PCI announcement in 2015 that despite everyone knowing about problems with TLS1.0, they would continue to allow it through 2018 because of all the companies who deferred their technical debt in the manner you seem to be advocating.)
"yet it continues to be an attractive place to live for many"

That is the exact opposite of what the average Brit wants. And that is the attitude which brings itself "hate". This is also a very London/SE England centric view of how they view the state of the union to be in, that everywhere must be like London because London is so great and prosperous.
Oh poor poor big content, let me shed a tear for them
Having a country-wide 1% must pull it down in some cases.

For instance in the UK if you bought the $4.1m London home on a 25 year, 3% mortgage, with a 25% deposit you'd pay about $170k per year. But after tax your $290k "top-1%" income would be about $185k -- only just enough to even cover your mortgage, forget about school fees.

I wonder what the London, NY, LA etc 1% numbers are? Surely that's a fairer comparison to e.g. Singapore anyway, since it's a city-state.
In Italy it is mandatory, thanks to a great law https://medium.com/team-per-la-trasformazione-digitale/open-...

Unfortunately the law does not include any sanctions if one does not act accordingly :( but it's sure better then nothing
rich kids of instagram/the internet already did this(and has been very much coopted). they didn't rank people but you know what they were doing
(It's the other way around -- "liberté égalité fraternité")
Maybe it's good to have an extra confirmation popup after 5 times clicking "make more logos" when the page refreshes, thanks.
Bloomberg could at least once publish more than a few regions when using "Around the World".
I do agree it hits diminishing returns, but I do also still think the difference is quite stark. Each level up it affects which things you have the freedom to just do vs. which things you need to plan. You still hit those barriers where you have to plan and budget as a millionaire for things that are relatively within what regular people might dream of.
> French lawmakers do not decide.

No, but they influence enough that they highly correlate with the outcome.
That would be news to me. Since when is the traffic leaving the exit node encrypted?
(how could it be?)

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/tor-users-do-not-expect...
Apple’s new Safari privacy settings threaten web-based VR and AR
The Twist to Making a Möbius Strip (2017)
3 reasons:

- they are too big now. No one care, no one is paid to care, and no one has any incentive to change that.

- they are too big now. Tpoo many customers, with too many dumb problems. Just sorting out the real ones from just the idiots would cost too much. It's more economical to just reject in mass, and loose a few clients, when you have the monopoly.

- they are an easy legal target for huge sums of money. If they tell you why they blocked you, you can fight it in court. If they don't, you can't.
> This is not a national issue so let's not try to make it one.

Why not?
It's funny because it's not entirely a joke.
>started watching (rather listening to while I work) BBC Parliament live

Sounds like compiling a list of sources like this, Oyez, and others (for people who just don't know these things can be found if one looks) could be of immediate practical benefit to society.
Simplifying Environment Configuration in Go
When I realized that "the news" have much more influence shaping mine and my friends opinion, I was shocked. It passively or they actively distract you from things that really matter in your life [0] (availability heuristic [1]).

And given that 80% of its content is written by PR agencies [2] you can be sure, that every possible cognitive bias will be applied to keep you busy.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-ro...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/nov/17/mondaymediasec...
> just as Git is better than SVN (even though they're based on the same underlying algorithms)

Please explain this. Git is a content-addressable object-store. SVN is not. SVN’s architecture uses a diff as the basis for versioning which ties you to a particular diffing system, git uses snapshots and diffs can be generated using any algorithm because they aren’t part of the object-store; so what common “underlying algorithms” are you referring to?
'The day I went to prison, I got my life back'
IBM and McCormick Are Putting a High Tech Twist on Spices
It's super simple: https://saveyourinternet.eu/act/

Choose your country, it'll open your mail client and then you can let them know what you think.
RISC vs. Cores and SoCs
I'm not sure that understanding how the EU Commission and Parliament relate to each other will help convince people the EU is democractic. In particular, the president of the European Commission is currently chosen by some really weird ostensibly-democratic insider political trading: https://www.politico.eu/article/spitzenkandidat-jean-claude-...
GCC's Potential GSoC Projects Include Better Parallelizing the Compiler
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I am not lazy, but cannot quit Facebook, as it is a valuable resource for events and keeping contact with people, both close and far.
How to get IPv6
In France they did ask.
In 1992 there was a referendum about Maastricht, where the 'yes' had a tiny lead over the 'no'. In 2005 the French people voted a resounding 'no' to the European consitution , so did the Dutch if I remember well.
EU then modified minor things and renamed it the Lisbon treaty, which has been ratified by parliamentary procedure.
So even when people opinion is being asked, it's completely circumvented.
It is very clear that EU has never been about building a democracy, those that believe that are very naive.
I don't get it: why not just put all the cars on one lane then ?
Cryptocurrency customers unable to access their coins after Canadian CEO's death
Teaching is difficult because everyone is different. I had an intern once and completely messed it up by giving them the perfect environment for a younger me. I think what I learned is that constant communication is critical, and that you shouldn't assume the way that you learn is the way everyone else learns.
They have learned. 2 decades worth of learning from the failed dmca, which basically granted Google immunity from copyright violation.

Why should companies like Google be allowed to profit off content creators' work without complying with those content creators' licenses?
Font Fingerprinting
Depends on who you are and your perspective - it definitely is working for someone - just that someone is not representative of EU population.
Ubuntu's Work on New Desktop Installer Continues, Evaluating ZFS Desktop Support
The Three Body Problem is famous mainly because it criticizes the Chinese government. it also suffers from a poor translation to English.
>EU legislation passes through majority support.

Which is hugely influenced by top dog states and their behind the scenes talks.
Also from 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6894244

And from Aaron Swartz (2006): http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
QEMU can use dynamic binary translation.
A surprising percentage of what is up as news is placement. You'll see an interesting article about the Boer War, then a couple of days later you'll see another, which is a bit strange, and then a couple of days later you'll see an ad for a movie with a couple of big name stars that is set in the Boer War. Then you realize that you've been tricked into an ad campaign. That's discouraging.
Glad to see lane design mentioned, it's a key component. In most zipper merge opportunities there is a predominant lane and another lane that is ending, leading to the idea of a 'right' and a 'wrong' lane which precludes intuitive zipper merging. If lane design (even just the markings) were such that both lanes were equal prior to the merge, zipping together would seem the most natural thing to do whether signposted or not.
I find it hard to understand how anyone can think this law is a good idea.

Who exactly are they claiming to protect?
I think they are revealing the underlying character of how they were educated into ‘smartness.’
Yes I understand. But take my CNC example, you design on a computer, a computer cuts out the pieces. If it's mass production, a robot could put the pieces together. This doesn't digitise anymore of the process.

I can understand the use of 'digital' to refer to a novel use of computing, such as your digital photography example. But that's a transitory use, digital photography is now just photography. But again though this doesn't seem to go any further than a CNC or 3d printer.

So I'm here confused as to why they've used that word, because it doesn't seem to add anything, which suggests it was probably the wrong word (or I'm misunderstanding something).
Would a solution to Facebook's monopoly be allowing other companies to interface into their systems and databases as it's more of a public good than a private one people can reasonably opt out of?

So I'd expect something like a company coming out allowing you to do everything Facebook does and use the same data with events and everything, but that does not ask you to give away your data.
pandas-datareader can pull data from e.g. FRED, Eurostat, Quandl, World Bank:
https://pandas-datareader.readthedocs.io/en/latest/remote_da...

pandaSDMX can pull SDMX data from e.g. ECB, Eurostat, ILO, IMF, OECD, UNSD, UNESCO, World Bank; with requests-cache for caching data requests:
https://pandasdmx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#supported-data-p...

The scikit-learn estimator interface includes a .score() method. "3.3. Model evaluation: quantifying the quality of predictions" https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/model_evaluation.htm...

statsmodels also has various functions for statistically testing models:
https://www.statsmodels.org/stable/

"latex2sympy parses LaTeX math expressions and converts it into the equivalent SymPy form" and is now merged into SymPy master and callable with sympy.parsing.latex.parse_latex(). It requires antlr-python-runtime to be installed.
https://github.com/augustt198/latex2sympy
https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/13706

IDK what Julia has for economic data retrieval and model scoring / cost functions?
I'm not sure this answers the question I asked. I'm already aware Electron has been trying to achieve release cadence I was curious as to why they've been having trouble doing so vs e.g. NW.js
What Is the Average Cost of Surrogacy in Georgia?
The average cost of surrogacy in Georgia ranges between $20000 to $540000. The complete breakdown plz visit.
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I believe Pijul branched from the Darcs codebase.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darcs
Pretty cool stuff. On a somewhat related topic, is anyone aware of a tool for adding efficient instrumentation to X86-64 binary code (e.g. to add simple checks to every memory store/load)? I'm aware of e.g. BAP, but I'm not sure whether there are better alternatives.
This guy designs junk.
gRPC and Protocol Buffers as an Alternative to JSON REST APIs SmoothTerminal
Maybe they feel the right lane is only for people turning right?
What's discouraging me more is that people that do this find it harmless. It says a lot about the state of our society: we still think a little bit of bad is ok, forgetting what happens when everybody is doing it.
Going to be pretty interesting if/when there's enough climate disruption to force those in the north to migrate southward. How would that fit into your 'logic'?
In a case of a highway it might not be as beneficial, but imagine a city with lots of road intersections. If you put cars on two lanes and merge, you have half as long line of cars. In case of one lane scenario, the cars might block the previous intersection for other cars.
A Guide to Transfer Learning with Real-World Applications in Deep Learning
> If you’re running node x.x on your own backend, you can choose to simply keep doing so for as long as you want, regardless of what version the cool kids are using these days.

What do you mean by your own backend? Your own physical hardware, your own rented hardware, your own EC2 box, your own Fargate container?

What if you get an office fire, a hardware failure, a network outage, a required security update, your third party company goes out of business, etc.?

There's no such thing as code that doesn't need to be maintained. Lambdas (and competitors) probably require the least maintenance of the lot.
Google has quietly dropped ban on personally identifiable web tracking (2016)
I can only consume so much information, and most of the news is presented as low-quality information or information pollution.

The 24/7 news cycle makes the quality problem even worse.

Here are two more similar links:

http://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/five-things-you-notice-when...

http://www.dobelli.com/en/essays/news-diet/
This is not really specific to Germany. Zipping is also used in e.g. in The Netherlands and Belgium. It's been required by law in Belgium since 2014 and has been campaigned in The Netherlands since 1989 (apparently).

Also, having lived in Germany for five years and having been in 'Stau' for many times, Germans are also not terribly good/efficient at it. Typical problems: people switch to the lane that is supposed to zip when traffic is going faster, which is obviously counterproductive; and not leaving openings for people to zip.

It's probably still better, but it would be far more effective if all drivers would actually cooperate.
Marx predicted that it would take capitalism no longer having more markets to expand into causing further competition to hit labor costs to start throwing capitalism into crises. Whether or not he was right about that part, he also severely under-estimated how long it would take for capitalism to fully expand into every corner of the globe. Continued expansion has allowed for offsetting a lot of cost-cutting.

It's not so much that the system has incredible resilience, as it is that the after-shocks of feudalism and colonialism are still incomplete: we still have dozens of countries shacking off the post-colonial conflicts and building basic infrastructure that allows for rapid initial growth in commerce.

We'll find out once the last groups of developing countries start seeing growth drop back to the levels of developed countries. That is likely to be decades still, as many parts of Africa in particular just entered the steep growth over the last decade or so.
Ketamine Could Soon Be Used to Treat Suicidal Ideation
I like how it's short, to the point and reflects events worldwide uniformly
Micromobility: the prose and poetry of the scooter faithful
Nobody seems to have written an ActivityPub bridge for Matrix yet, which is a shame as it'd be quite easy and really fun. (For instance, it could be implemented as a backend for https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-bifrost - our next-gen bridge framework).

https://gitlab.com/ma1uta/mxtoot is a basic ActivityPub <-> Matrix crossposting bot tho.
In the context of signalling theory, this comes down to honest vs. dishonest signalling.
I wasn't trying to imply that the money is being misspent, FWIW. I was just illustrating how inflated numbers become in the distortion field that is San Francisco.

As to your points:

- Sure, preventative measures make complete sense. Of course, even low income, subsidized, budget housing is still stupidly expensive in SF, compared to the vast majority of the US. And of course, even just being virtually anywhere on the BART lines to SF/Bay Area are notoriously expensive. [1]

- Again, totally agree. Health care costs be high, yo. But we can agree that they're only artificially high because of systemic issues in the healthcare system of the US, right? :) [2]

I understand that lucrative career opportunities exist in concentrated industry meccas like SF/NY. Even still, I can't but help shake my head when I try to fathom the orders of magnitude that folks in the SF reality distortion field deal with. Especially when compared to ... well, pretty much anywhere else in the world, really!

[1]: https://venturebeat.com/2016/04/04/this-bart-real-estate-map...

[2]: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/health-costs-how-the-us-...
1. I see no difference. Git effectively works as differences. A commit can for all intends and purposes also be considered a "patch" (that just happens to also point to the parent it is meant to be applied to).

That git works as a blob store internally (through tree objects) is, to the user, an irrelevant and hidden implementation detail.

2. So does git. git checkout treeish -- pathspec

Pijul does not solve a three-way merge. In fact, it does not seem to mention how merges are dealt with at all. Its model does nothing to even remotely affect the situation from what I can tell.
It has been a couple of years that I only read news after having my lunch.

My only rule is to not start and finish my day with news. I do it right after lunch because I'm still distracted.
Any reference to the book you wrote?
The Earthsea series is outstanding, and has roughly the same broad appeal as Tolkien / CS Lewis / Rowling.
Nextjournal: Environments
Then it would be a right turn only lane...
I have been wondering about the translation — I actually accidentally started The Dark Forest a month or so ago, before realising it was the successor to The Three Body Problem and putting it down again. There's a different translator and whilst some of the dialogue felt a bit clunky, I was quite swept up by it — I'm looking forward to taking it back on and comparing!

Thanks for the note about the criticism of the state — it's very evident and I did find it a bit surprising. I'd simply assumed it was perhaps 'allowed' to criticise Cultural Revolution-era China as such great strides had been made since then.. but now I think about it ‘Tiananmen Square’ and contemporary censorship hints otherwise. Interesting, thanks — particularly as another of Cixin Liu's works appears to be have been made into a bombastic blockbuster movie, presumably with State encouragement ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8LAwozrXPo )