skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Highways can have lights blocking traffic in the UK, is there a different meaning in the US?

Superhighways and quietways are being merged and rebranded Cycleways soon.
Couple things

1. I assume that processes or advancements related to the patent actually do improve the business function or process, that alone probably makes the pay out worth it. I know a few companies that have process improvement programs where employees can earn more than the person in this story if they successfully submit an idea that does something to improve the companies process, reduce costs, etc. has nothing to do with patents

2. The value of software patents today is NOT to litigate against other companies, companies fill out their software and other IP today to protect themselves FROM litigation, if a company finds themselves on the wrong end of a litigation their own patent portfolio is ammo both offensively (counter-suite) and defensively
What I’ve noticed about lawns:

From looking at pre-1990s houses in the suburbs, I have noticed that lawns typically comprise a large percentage of the lot size. It seems to me, back when those houses were built, a desirable quality of a suburban home was having a ‘lawn where the kids could play around’. Lawns also were (and still are) a personal show of accomplishment, so people took interest in their lawns and the lawns of others. (If you watch 80s and 90s movies with suburban shots - like Donnie Darko - it also shows “the American lawn” in the suburbs).

In newer houses built after the 2000s, I’ve seen house size comprise more of the total lot size, and lawn size reduced. I figure this is a sign of the trend to have a big house over a lawn. It’s fairly economical today to build a template-style cul-de-sac or subdivision of “large” homes built closer together (thus smaller lawns) to capitalize on the land. Plus, if someone is spending a lot of money on a house, then I suppose they want to get their money’s worth in amenities (2 car garage, 3+ full baths, nice kitchen, big living room, etc), which means more house is needed. There’s also less reason to care about having a lawn if it’s going to get less use out of it. On speculation, maybe 70% of the lot is house, with the remaining 30% of the lot being a small front yard and larger fenced back yard.

Aside:

As for having natural lawns that are more locally ecological friendly as opposed to manicured grass, I think the main impediment is people’s perceptions and fear of “pests”. Either neighbors get pissed off or they complain about property values, local ordinances, HOA bylaws, etc to some local government about “non-standard” lawns that promote ecological cohabitation.

It’s kind of weird so many people in the suburbs have this view. Like they are actually afraid of having nature next to them, when the suburbs are a place outside the city built right next to nature and rural land.

I used to live close to a small park, and I would leave out unused food at night on ocassion for deers, rabbits, and stray cats that would wander around, instead of throwing it away. My neighbor saw me doing that and threatened to call the cops on me, and report me to the health board and animal control. If animals were wrecking havok on neighbors yards I would understand, but neighbors like these are so protectionist of their yards, they will blow up a petty thing to huge proportions and find a way to get “the law” on their side to make life miserable for someone. As if I am putting them in grave danger because a deer ate some berries in my backyard. I don’t understand why people would buy a house next to a park if they really needed to be so fenced off.
No. RPython still supports unicode strings. It now also supports utf8 string classes for things like regular expressions and ffi calls. PyPy just uses the non-unicode rpython apis.
They feel such things can't happen in the United States... and the example they give to contradict that is Trump? I merely ask how it is comparable to Nazi Germany. I still find it amusing merely asking my question rewards me with downvotes. I don't care about my own HN karma, but it's a shame to see comments in general getting downvoted for this. It's a ridiculous comparison.
I'd add a 'so far' as a caveat. This isn't over yet, unfortunately and typically the venom is in the tail.
Neat. I think it would benefit from having a traditional keyboard/chromatic layout alongside the hex lattice. Sometimes I want just one note that would easier to grab off the keyboard than get from switching keys/scales.

Although perhaps I'm not the target audience.
> anybody who can do that is going to get frustrated by guard rails and just want to do ‘real’ programming eventually

I think that's the property which is worth fighting for. If those people would not try programming at all otherwise, providing them with a dumbed down ramp leading to frustration and graduating may actually result in non-programmers turning into programmers in greater numbers.
Congratulations on the 1.0 release, but...and I hope you don't take this the wrong way...why would I ever want to use material design if I don't have to? IMO everything made using it is a UX nightmare, looks awful, and treats the user worse than not using it.
Great work, thank you so much! I was looking for PyPy vs C-Python 3.x speed comparisons on the site and not finding any. Do you publish them?
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Why do you avoid mutexes and locks? Are they just hard to make bug free when you start scaling them up?
> Why do journalists continue to compare American cities to Copenhagen or Amsterdam when it comes to bicycle infrastructure and safety? I argue it is primarily the climate followed by size.

Because they're the world leaders and something to aspire too
Quite - the expectation and predictions were that accident rates would, understandably surge and there might, potentially be chaos. That the reverse turned out to be true seems to show, that everyone was being hyper-aware of their surroundings.

Shared streets seem to work on similar lines - removing right of way for traffic, and the assistance of lights, signs, markings puts drivers in a higher state of vigilance almost by default. Personally I'd like to see them far more widely adopted.

Things like lane assist, ABS etc seem to come with a cost. Increasingly for the vulnerable outside the ever more reinforced and protected vehicle.
Interesting yeah. I just came across the following items:

"why did Sun and most other minicomputer oem's turn to RISC?

the relatively low cost accessibility to semiconductor fabrication using gate arrays. Chip manufacturers who needed high volumes to recoup their capital investments of hundreds of millions of dollars (now billions) had figured out a way of producing standard product families of chips called gate arrays, which were identical except for the last few steps of the production process which defined the interconnections. This enabled computer systems companies to buy state of the art fabrication by effectively buying batches of wafers on a time-share basis from a few thousand dollars upwards, instead of the millions of dollars required previously."[1]

I'm somewhat unsure or gate arrays themselves would have enabled this though as I think of gate arrays as alternative to a microprocessor. Might you know?

Also it seems that SUN had their prototypes built down at USC's Viterbi School FAB:

"MOSIS has prototyped more than 50,000 chip designs for businesses, government agencies and universities, including the originals of many now widely used commercial chips, such as those used in Sun Microsystems SPARC and SGI’s MIPS systems."[2]

Also it appears that the rise of CAD also helped usher in the era of producing RISC chips for these vendors as well:

"the deskilling of the chip design process by sophisticated computer aided design (CAD) tools enabled computer systems designers to design, test and simulate most of the design stages at their workstations, without needing knowledge of the underlying manufacturing process parameters. The software enabled designers to work at a logic function-block level without having to worry too much about the realities of interconnections, datapaths and process variations. This revolution in hardware logic design was akin to the invention of high level programming languages which enabled programmers to write their applications in terms of the problem, rather than needing to know exactly how the computer was built or wired together."[1]

[1] http://www.sparcproductdirectory.com/history.html
[2] https://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2005/2005_05_23_mosisstude...
I use Ctrl+D to close a terminal, Ctrl+Z does not do that. Or does it and it's always been prevented for me by clink?
One of the coolest programming based games I've ever played. I hope to see more like it!
Surely you could open it in a separate tab in the same window and then drag the tab out into a new window?
Vi is part of POSIX, nano is not: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/vi...
I think the first comment in the article explains it.

Its basically an IV, getting in fluids when they can't be administered orally.
Did not know about that one. Another reason not to waste my money :)
Tikz: don’t do that. Either use an editor that spits out a Tikz snippet (https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/80418/list-of-tikz-e...), or draw your figure in Omnigraffle or something, export to PDF and insert the figure that way.

Multiple languages: \usepackage{babel}
Most of the companies that did not survive did so because they did not innovate, they did not change with the times, that did not respond to market pressures or changes

Do you honestly believe these companies failed because they innovated too much?
I met a maintenance supervisors/leader type for United Airlines last weekend. He said that the grounding of the 737 Max was annoying, but manageable. Their are all sorts of tricks companies can use to keep up with hiccups in aircraft availability. For example, not all of an airlines planes are flying at once. An plane sidelined for maintenance can be serviced more quickly, and returned to operating status faster than it was initially scheduled to be back in the air.
> Before the Suicide Act of 1961 it was illegal to kill oneself.

That's certainly interesting. I wonder if it carried the death penalty..
Here the opinion of one of the Veracrypt authors on this topic:

> https://github.com/veracrypt/VeraCrypt/issues/419

Highlight:

"This leads me to think that maybe there is another interesting possibility: the designer of Streebog and Kuznyechic are aware of new type of algebraic attacks affecting modern ciphers and hash functions and they wanted to ensure that these algorithms are immune against this attack without revealing anything about the attacks they are protecting against!

This may seem to be far fetched as it would mean that someone has made a breakthrough cryptanalysis but history tells us that this is in the realm of possibilities.

For example, people were suspicious of the SBoxes forced by the NSA in the 70s for the DES encryption standard and everybody was saying that they were backdoored. But more that 10 years later, we discovered that actually the NSA was aware of Differential cryptanalysis before it was discovered by academics and they designed the DES SBoxes to resist it.

So, if history is repeating it self which is often the case, what we are witnessing here is like the discovery of a cure before the illness is even publicly announced. In which case, we should really worry about existing ciphers like AES and Serpent."

---

TLDR: existing ciphers might contain a weakness that was fixed in the design of Streebog and Kuznyechic.

EDIT: Why the downvote?
I'm guess its like knocking up (a clyster)... Which doesn't mean getting it pregnant.
Not that hard :).
Add this as a tampermonkey script for a simple version.

Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName('comment')).forEach(x => {if (/Trump/.test(x.innerText)) { x.innerText = 'Trumped' }})
Why do they think deleting another one's chat log is the right to privacy?

I will export and backup telegram data routinely from now on.
Ad paywall. So annoying
Did anyone noticed that date at the top right is 2018?
The 2 replies under your comment dispute this, but does it make it okay if "both sides" dit it? It's still fucking evil. Obama continued the policy of drone terrorism/murders, that's not okay either.

Man oh man, America "the shining beacon of freedom and democracy". "But what about the infants being torn away from their parents?" "Don't worry, the other side did it too, so we're not the bad guys here!"
Corporatism was about corporations taking over the government at least as far back as 1925 in America.
I follow 1-2 angry conservatives on Twitter just to get a peek into that bubble, and I get to hear about a few definite anti conservative hate crimes most weeks.
This is lithub buddy - the photos are in your mind...

;)
The reason is there isn't much special about his use of shaders. The first two slides cover shader specific details (write to a 1D render target where each pixel is a 44khz sample). The audience is people who are familiar with fragment shaders, and specifically familiar with shadertoy, but with limited exposure to additive synthesis.
In the context of the original article, and the current world, it appears that far fewer are willing to bring personal risk than in the past.

My guess - and it is a guess - is rather than signing an online petition, forwarding a meme, or attending a demo, in the past direct action, civil disobedience, underground networks and activism was more often used. I suspect that in today's world many of those would be viewed as terrorism or at the very least imprisonable.
It seems to download the original source files, not PDFs, as described in https://arxiv.org/help/mimetypes
True, although it's still the case that the really effective, immediate ways to help can get you arrested. Plenty of places are criminalising helping refugees.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-europe-migrants-greece-mar...
Does this do minimal updates, or does it rerender the whole window every frame?

And does it use old-school stateful components, or new-school "reactive" components?
Do you have evidence they worked, short or long-term? Are there any substantive differences between the two programs?
Can you speak at all as to what skills are in most demand for robotics? It’s such a broad field it’s hard to know what to focus on in order to be marketable.

Do you think your education matters? Do people want to see a masters/PhD or is gaining more experience the important thing for landings these sorts of jobs.

Thanks!
The side closest to you should be higher. Microsoft’s ergonomic keyboards come with removable risers that achieve this.
Meh. All tech produces waste. Radioactive waste is small, compact and isn't released into the environment.

Solar panels produce 300x more waste than nuclear. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/12/23/solar-panel-waste-a-d...
Was it almost pure price discrimination on the part of Boeing?

Probably.

A $4 light/buzzer for equipment, wiring and firmware already present, but only wired in for clients willing to pay an extra $10k per plane for the safe version?

Nope, EICAS literally a warning message which is just text on the LCD.
The weakening of patents plays a big part in this. Early stage funding in Silicon Valley once was aimed at a working model and a patent. Angels could afford that. If you have to compete by buying market share, it takes much more money upfront.
I remember CD burners were like this. You could turn a 2x burner into a 4x with a firmware upgrade.

Overclocking brings up similar circumstances: The market may have been 50/50 for the low-speed and the high-speed versions of a chip, but the yield may have been 70, 80 or even 100% for the high-speed, but the manufacturers still wanted to create a low-end and a high-end market.
Southwest is in the process of moving all of its MAX8s to the Victorville, the airplane graveyard in the desert. I doubt they'll scrap them but it smacks of long-term parking.
Dupe (a few minutes earlier) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19478149
> And yet loads of people employed by companies work on open source software, write blogs, ... [snip] ... Is it something like companies legally may be able to assert ownership

For open source software and blogs, is it feasible to argue that they are a form of free speech thus cannot be owned (or in practice restricted accesses) by companies?
Someone please edit the title. Meant to be:

Microsoft's new Chrome based browser leaked to Chinese forum.
> but once again according to FactCheck, he did order that families be kept together as long as possible

That order came in pretty late. Thousands of children may have been separated before that order was put out:
https://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-BL-18-00511.pdf
Sometimes the $9 expense lead to a +$100 value, but not for the private partner operator of the facility.
Perhaps, but I can't imagine any. By the way, did you know simply adding "banned" to a video title in YouTube immediately attracts more views? Banned commercials (I can't imagine myself voluntarily watching an advertisement if it was not banned), banned TED talks, books and movies banned in some countries (I've first learnt about some books and movies I've read/watched right from these lists). I probably wouldn't even ever try drugs if these were not prohibited (I'm not an addict but I'm really glad I had some psychedelic experiences and the ban was what made me curious initially). Of course this doesn't mean I would do something really bad like robbing people just because this is outlawed, it's more about knowledge and experiences. I don't know why does this work but knowing you are not meant to know something but actually can learn about it creates urge hard to resist and I only care to actually resist it when it's about other people's personal privacy or business ethics (so I never read other's emails although, being a system administrator, I can).
Yeah, about that. Speed.pypy.org is having problems updating, the seven year old fork of codespeed needs refreshing. The benchmarks there are python2, so we would need to rework them for python3.

In the meantime, the python perf and performance packages are driving speed.python.org, and I started trying to get pypy3 runs reported there, but we need to provide a warmup parameter for each benchmark so that too will take some time.

The best benchmark of course is your use case, try it out and let us know where we are slow
It’s OK, you’re not on Reddit anymore.
How have patents been weakened?
"Episode 3: Three Robots – A genuinely funny short about three robots touring a post-apocalyptic world trying to understand what humans did with things like cats and hamburgers before they went extinct. Solidly written."

Uh, yeah. This is your mileage in the act of varying. I found it not funny and not very well written, which was somewhat unexpected---it's John Scalzi's.
Is this a thing people do? I think I like the idea of it, but haven't heard about it before.
I like it.

But as a new user I have some feedback: For a GUI framework, I hardly see any screenshots, videos, list of widgets and so on. I want to see how deep the GUI framework goes compared to my other choices. I think it fails to answer the most pressing questions any first timer would have. Even a FAQ would be really useful.

The list of features is quite information-free, nothing specific from a developer's perspective.

I know focus is on the code here, but would greatly appreciate some more visual documentation before anyone dives into the code :)
The guy in the original article forging passports almost exactly matches the criteria for human trafficing, except he didn't ask for payment.

(consensually getting someone across a border is widely criminalised)
You're assuming Linux. BSD distributions don't install nano by default. vi is a mandatory POSIX utility, nano is not.
"Edutainment" sucks donkey balls.

One of the things I'm forever resentful for is the way my life was ruined by not learning things in a structured and rigorous way in childhood. Re-learning (and learning to learn) in adulthood is a pain and is never quite as good as doing it right the first time around.

Thankfully, my own kids are spared of this horror.
I love the chapter on fibonacci numbers. So colourful!
https://mathigon.org/course/sequences/fibonacci
Every generation thought the same.
Really interesting discussion. I would add a guess that living a long life has become so normalized and expected that risk taking behaviour has become more eschewed.
I always fight to have these clauses reworded in my favour. I'm always prepared to walk away if they don't. The one time I didn't get my way, the wording was very ambiguous, and I got their (okay, sufficiently narrow) interpretation in writing.
Australian bank (ANZ) “rips apart” blockchain
> something that learns your interests

It's not rocket science, a mole rat could figure out that kids want to play video games and eat candy all day long.
Ugh, for 1,5 months I've been trying to find a way to duplicate flow based programming in c# ( like node-red does). If anyone has some ideas on how to create the "engine", please contact me..

Tried everything I can think of. Currently, not much luck.
> assured me really terrible things couldn’t happen in the US

Guess they're leftists who didn't know their history. Or weren't aware somehow of what Black Lives Matter is all about.
Thank you.

Doesn't look like something has been sold though...
The "luxury" housing that gets built in the Bay isn't actually special; it's just expensive because it's in high demand, and because being new means it isn't run down. The only axis on which housing ever really has much of a premium is square-footage, and the larger units just end up with more people living in them.

It's sort of like the market for cars: poor and middle class people buy used, moderately wealthy people buy the same kinds of cars except new, and only a tiny fraction of the market is premium on any axis other than newness.
Baby Boomers are SICK people.
Say what you want about our country's current state but stories like this is what makes America great (minus the fact the kid and his family was homeless to begin with). It's not who you know but your talent (and some luck) that get's you recognized and can change your life. Sure, this sounds naive and a lot times, this doesn't play out. But these stories are still aspiring and reminds me of the American dream we once had.

E: I kind of enjoy watching the fluctuation of the rating on this post between positive and negative. Shows the drastic difference in mentality here.

Am I saying the US is perfect? No. There is a lot we can improve, and my political (social or economic) tendency leans pretty left to begin with. But you are very wrong if you think there is no mobility or opportunity here in the US, even with the current political environment. I am an anecdotal data point, but as a first generation immigrant that grew up in poverty here, I am pretty certain I would not be in the lower middle class if it wasn't for the American dream. Every single relative within my generation that immigrated to the US are now heavily educated and work decent jobs to provide for our families.

There is a lot of social policies we can borrow from other countries to improve our social justice within our country. But the fact that many people here are not even reflective with the possible opportunities here currently is kind if of saddening to me.
But, Holocaust did not happened because devil or supernatural. It happened because humans. It was entirely and fully human affair. Some of people who were kids at the timead seen it are still alive. Nazism is not bogeyman from yesterday, it is living ideology, altrought not in power.

Alao, ISIS acts are contemporary and we might find they are comparable.
Yes ... a sinusoidal sound wave has an RMS amplitude based on the peak amplitude regardless of the frequency.
Textbooks aren’t just for children. (Adult education is woefully underoptimized.)
Just how expensive is the full AWS SDK?