skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So when I last visited Perth, I bought a bicycle and rode around a lot. Google Maps was helpful here in showing where the bike paths are. While other people might feel fine riding in traffic I never have and probably never will. Honestly I just don't trust drivers, particularly in this era of smartphones.

Anyway, there are vast differences in what people view as a bike path. Take Reid Highway as an example [1]. Those strips on either side of the road are the bike path. This is a highway with a speed limit of 90kph (~55mph), which probably means people are really going 120kph on what is essentially the hard shoulder.

There's no way in hell I'd ride on that. Personally I considered something like this stretch of Morley Drive [2] to be a good standard of biking infrastructure, for several reasons:

1. Wide bike path separated from the road

2. The road has a wide median strip. I can't tell you how much this helps in crossing busy roads.

3. The bike path isn't right up against the walls of residential properties. This can be a real nightmare for visibility of cars pulling out.

4. Bike paths shouldn't be clogged with pedestrian traffic either as in if it's a busy pedestrian area, have a separate pedestrian path.

Personally I just like to find long residential streets with minimal busy road crossings. You can fly down those things and don't have to second guess what cars are doing most of the time.

As for America in particular, I've said it once and I'll say it again the most anti-cyclist (and anti-pedestrian) rule is the ability to turn right at a red light and it's almost universal in the country. Even in places where it's technically illegal (eg the five boroughs of NYC) you have people who either don't know or don't care (eg once I told some driver fairly calmly after they did it and stopped at the traffic 50 feet down the road that it was illegal in NYC they told me to go F myself).

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/MfLB58HyZHJ2

[2] https://goo.gl/maps/wAnsF4HUqPA2
"innate" is another word for natural; they have the same root. That doesn't even matter for the question of whether homosexuality is beneficial or moral. Completely orthogonal questions.
It's not about all-white for the most part. It's about having a "good" school that does the most for your kid. The racial profile is an artifact of many other social issues.

If we want to solve racial issues in our society we have to stop demonizing people for wanting good things for themselves and their families as being racially motivated, when the racial correlation is almost purely incidental.
Don’t forget the 60,000 strong force that is allowed to stop anyone within 100 miles of a border, ask for papers, and put anyone they like, including American citizens in jail without trial or normal legal process, sometimes for years.
You need to reread what I wrote. I very explicity acknowledged that the US has problems with freedom of speech. Just the other day an executive order was signed in an attempt to restore free speech at public universities.

The US constitution is very clear in its wording on free speech: "Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech". It is unfortunate that our judiciary has chosen to turn a blind eye to this and many other affronts to the rights of American citizens.
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You might at least be interested to know that you can also wrap those last(two or more) words in <span class="nobreak"> with the nobreak class using "white-space: nowrap;" so that your solution works across all languages, rather than just those where the non-breaking space doesn't looking horrendously out of place.
If you want real typesetting via CSS, you can use PrinceXML. It does great hyphenation, column breaking, and has some extensions to CSS to allow similar controls as you'd get from LaTeX's column options.

[0] https://www.princexml.com/doc/11/hyphenation/

[1] https://www.princexml.com/doc/11/floats/#float-extensions
Qualtrics did too, but SAP bought it literally right before it IPO’d.
> parental control features

This is control by an authoritarian state, not by parents. But you already knew that, didn't you?
You don’t have to go very far down the rabbit hole to write papers. If you can draw a commutative diagram, and insert a PDF graphic, there isn’t really anything much more complex than that.
Someone needs to tell the homeless guy that with the right doctored up resume he'd be perfect for a Fortune 500 CEO position. The skills are the same.
Best description I’ve seen! Can sometimes see it in the bimodality of the types of comments too.
It adds considerable value if the goal is not more than getting some words on the screen" but rather "how is the best way I can possibly present this textual document."

Personally, I find a very small proportion of text to fall into the latter category. But for those that do, clean presentation is huge.
It's well known that netflix is serving low quality bitrate. What they sell as HD is approaching the 480p from youtube from years ago.

It's marketing bullshit and cost savings, slapping the word HD on everything to lure the customers. Cut the bitrate to save on bandwidth costs.

Many homes don't have the 8+ Mbps required to stream high quality videos, they couldn't get HD even if they wanted to.
I'll be real, it sounds like you're giving the generic "I just Googled how to get a job" advice and in my personal experience - this kind of advice rarely accomplishes anything and leaves you more distraught than before.
Hear what a genderless AI voice sounds like–and consider why it matters
First impression: I like the nuanced control over where hyphenation happens, but can't help but wonder whether giving the browser control over the intraword hyphenation candidate points is a good idea. Don't we have soft hyphen characters in Unicode for exactly the purpose of letting authors precisely specify hyphenation candidate break locations?
Why not just make this algorithm a non-default option (like hyphenation) and accept that when it's enabled floats may not be optimal?
Just pad the end of the list with 0s, but keep the original size of the list.
Installing Clojure/ClojureScript on Termux would allo you to run those languages on your device. No Network connectivity required either.
Build the study and I’ll find someone to fund it. No one ever said, “we have too much good data”.
Boomers aren’t the only owners of housing. Pretty much becoming an owner (whatever stratum) puts you on the other side.
Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good
"He then taught himself how to use editing packages such as Premiere Pro and After Effects, and borrowed a camera from a neighbour. "And with that I started""

But how was he able to afford the expensive adobe products?

Joking ... probably the same way most of his audience sees his work.
I was totally interested in watching this, but this youtube is complete garbage, and does not belong on HN.
This is arguably the main problem. That said, in some urban areas, renters are the majority. For example, in 2010, 52% of housing units in the City of Seattle were occupied by renters[1], and that’s not counting townhouse/condo owners and supportive home owners.

If renters voted the same way on an initiative, they’d set policy. If everyone who doesn’t own a single-family home (renter or not) did so, it would be a landslide.

1: http://www.seattle.gov/opcd/population-and-demographics/abou...
Sure, the meat of what I thought interesting was the initial email. I thought it was concerning that the NZ police were looking to get IP/email addresses of people merely conversing about the attacker.

The rest of the thread is just funny because the police respond in the best way possible to the site operator's freakout.
I pay for Premium because I have zero tolerance for ads. I think PBS Eons, Kurgesacht, Rogan podcasts and random searches for stand-up are worth their weight in gold. I'll pass on insurance and web design ads, thanks.
> this slope is so slippery only being offended by trifles can save us

Nice strawman. Chinese government censorship is not a "trifle".

> a relatively free society (which of course China isn’t)

You said it yourself.
Maybe making this particular product more repairable or more recyclable isn't going to save the planet, but the status quo is that consumer goods are disposable and short-lived, and that's the real problem.

Keep in mind, the cost of waste of a product is not only the product itself, but also its packaging, marketing materials, etc.

Companies know they can make products that will become waste in a short period of time, which increases profitability because people will have to buy things more frequently. The cost of disposal gets pushed onto society, with companies taking little or no responsibility for it.
Oh they get it, they’re just looking out for themselves. Property owners account for 72% of the voting block and have strong roots in the community where renters tend to be more transient [1]. In America, as a property owner, your home is probably your largest investment. The perception here for better or worse is that more housing means less demand for yours, so you lose money.

It’s like wondering why the foxes don’t vote for razor wire around the chicken coops. Not in a malicious way, it’s just not in their interests.

For what it’s worth I own, and am fine with new development because I think it’s not nearly as detrimental as it’s made out to be. I think the community benefits both directly with diversity of people and indirectly as it supports more jobs but I feel very much in the minority.

tl:dr; it’s because renters don’t vote and voters don’t rent.

[1] https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/renters-and-voting...
Hands on with Chromium-Based Edge
People like sex. They don't accept public obscenity usually due to common sense objective realities, i.e. children being present.

So there is this.

And there is some more: as a dominant bdsm heterosexual person for some reason I don't feel an urge to present my sexual preference to the whole world all the time and demanding the public to accept it. Or even having it recognized as part of my "identity". Sex is sex, happens in bed with my wife and is between us. Why in the world I would have a need to demand my friends, family, co-workers to have them accept the reality that I like to see blood on my wife's butt before I slide between them --- this is silly. Isn't that this piece where homosexuals are just so oblivious that they simply don't recognize that the whole world doesn't neccessarily care about them putting the thing in another guys anus? Why do we need to have parades about that? Why do we need special laws for the condition? Am I going to get treated differently during employment process next time because I'm into bdsm? I mean that are idiots who say yes, bdsm is just another sexual preference. So I would be sexual minority. And would be need it so much more at places like Google or Apple to fullfil some idiotic quota. Good job America you guys are beyond hilarious! Anthropologist in the future will have bunch of a good time looking at you! And please don't downvote that would be pure nazism. I mean where are we going with this?
Meeting with the Russian ambassador can indeed be a crime under the Logan Act. Private citizens don't get to make foreign policy, and none of Trump's team was in office at that point.
I lurk Reddit with JS disabled. It used to work perfectly, but recent changes made it so that you have to enable first-party scripts to see all the comments in threads with lots of comments.
I actually miss the good old days of cable with few ads. Turn the TV on, view your favorite channels, and you know the shows are going to be good, especially during prime time.
This article seems rather premature. The Mueller report has not been released yet, and we know that the Justice Department prohibits indictment of a sitting president. We also know from court filings that President Trump personally directed his lawyer to violate campaign finance laws.

Trump cannot be indicted. We knew that from day 1. In addition, "collusion" is not even a real crime. The question is whether the Mueller report discovers sufficient evidence of crimes for Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings, the real mechanism for removing Trump from office.

However, I do agree with the author. The coverage of this issue has been relentless and actually did reach witch hunt proportions. The bias was there and everyone knew it.
>Ultimately, homosexuality in humans is fine not because it's natural, but because we should, by default, let consenting adults do what they want together.

I think most are on board with that - they just can't agree on when that default should be overridden (either by making certain activity legal or more commonly by simply subjecting it to social disapproval). Such areas of contention include way more than homosexuality, e.g. prostitution, quid pro quo sexual harassment, incest, large age / maturity gaps in relationships, mental disability, bdsm, threesomes, masturbation, and porn use.
More ppl = more commerce, more jobs, higher property prices.

Same reason to support h1b visa.
You don't need to go that far:

julia> 1e16 + 1 == 1e16
true

julia> 1e19 + 1000 == 1e19
true
Because everyone on the right would bring up the Cold War, for some reason.
Would you please not cross into incivility and personal swipes, regardless of how wrong someone else is or how strongly you feel? Your comments have been increasingly breaking the site guidelines in this thread.

I know this is an issue on which views are both polarized and fixed. But that's why the guidelines say that comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sex is personal, visceral, and highly emotionally charged, while the other concerns you mentioned can easily stay abstract. There's no mystery there, people are just obsessed with sex. It's another side of the phenomenon by which any idea at all can be made into a sexual innuendo. It's where our mind goes.
Only hyphenate: auto has, and only in Firefox. Chrome didn't add support until 2 years ago.

In my experimentation hyphenate: auto doesn't give good results; you need all the other hyphenate rules to get that, which aren't widely supported yet.
What do you use to keep track? I should probably start doing too.
> If you can draw a commutative diagram, and insert a PDF graphic, there isn’t really anything much more complex than that.

Not true. I know what I am talking about since I work in mathematical research (I like math, of course, but I openly admit not to like LaTeX).
The cheaters are probably victims too. They learn that cheating is their best way to survive, so why wouldn't they? If they see no future, if they see nothing ahead of them, why wouldn't they cheat?
> Please try to be aware that the path you've chosen is not the only right one. Some people have different goals....[snip]

I am old enough to have family, friends and acquantances from plenty of different ages and wage brackets: minimum wage hospo, the retired poor, sickness beneficiaries, young and unemployed by choice, successful land-banked hippies, successful founders, successful artists etc. I support my friends and family, even when they are making lifestyle choices.

Your reply comes across to me as condescending.
Happened in the Midwest, too. Though my parents may have just been a tiny bit weird...
Ask HN: Why do email clients display bogus addresses?
Just about everyday my Hotmail account receives phishing e-mails coming from addresses that looks like the following:

"support@apple.com" <noreplymail-accountidnumber93498@connectthingsdone.com>

I don't understand how that could get through the spam filter. It's so obvious. Even if one wish to avoid false positives, it'd seem reasonable to not show the name portion when it resembles an e-mail address.
User intervention is (occasionally) needed in TeX only at its default settings, which are optimized for “rather than typeset any paragraph with a too-loose line, just give up and warn me loudly so I can take a look”. This makes sense for Knuth and his original goal of producing books. But it's not inherent; a combination of \tolerance=9999 (the default is 200) and \emergencystretch=\maxdimen makes it so that TeX will try to produce the best paragraph possible without requiring the user to intervene and rewrite the words. (Another alternative is to increase the stretchability and shrinkability of the interword glue.) And there will be no overfull boxes unless of course there's a single unhyphenatable word that by itself is longer than the line width. (LaTeX has a shortcut called \sloppy for achieving basically this, but the name scares people who don't understand the TeX algorithm.)

Sometimes I think this should be the default: definitely the worst typesetting I've seen is in documents produced by people who ignored all the overfull box warnings; even the greedy algorithm of Word etc would be vastly preferable to that.)
Ok, well I personally find them a bit jarring, after years of mostly reading on the web where they are extremely rare.

I remember typing papers on manual typewriters and having to think about where to hyphenate (as well as just when to do a carriage return), and it was awful. Admittedly now it is more of an aspect of reading (since an algorithm can do the actual hyphenation), but still. I would prefer we just abandon it.

Could explain why it matters more on a printed page that on a monitor? I don't see any relevant differences.
> Proof is the essence of mathematics.

Proof may be essential, but it is not the essence of mathematics. Like many things, the essence of mathematics is beauty.

In this mad world, of which academia is a part, we only seek to measure things. And how can you measure beauty? You cannot, or, at best, it is subjective. So, in place of beauty we have big complicated proofs, that no-one understands.

John Conway, later on in life, decided to quit being a "real mathematician" and focus instead on trying to understand mathematics. His student Borcherds came up with a proof of Conway & Norton's moonshine conjecture, but Conway himself never accepted it. Why? Because it was too complicated, it couldn't possibly be the right explanation for moonshine. What a dude.
Non-invasive brain stimulation, and specifically a family of techniques called transcranial electrical stimulation (tES). These use electrodes, placed right on the intact scalp, to generate weak electric fields around the head. The hope is that (some of) it passes through the skin, skull, and CSF and affects the electrical activity of the neurons beneath.

While people have gone crazy trying this for every sort of problem (basic science experiments, clinical conditions, performance enhancements), it's been unclear how tES works—or, indeed, if it works at all.

The human data is a mess: some of it reports dramatic effects, others find nothing at all, and many of the experiments are...not the best to begin with. Animal data has mostly come from isolated tissue or rodents, which have very different brains and heads (the mouse skull is paper-thin, for example, and the brain is smooth, which makes it easier to get an electric field in there).

To address this, we apply tES to awake monkeys playing "video games" (boring ones, but still). Monkey anatomy is pretty similar to humans, as is their behavior, but we can also monitor neural activity via tiny implanted electrodes.

To my immense surprise, tES appears to have effects on both brain activity and behavior. In our 2017 study, we used direct current and looked at effects in areas on the brain's surface. Someone wrote a nice blog post about it here: https://hackaday.com/2017/11/13/shockingly-darpas-brain-stim... (which also has a copy of the paper). More recently, we managed to find some effects on individual neurons and in deep brain areas that are often targeted for neurostimulation (twitter thread here: https://twitter.com/prokraustinator/status/11026751895638220...).

Never would have gone down this road without DARPA, but it's been fun (and exhausting). I do like that it's got some fairly obvious clinical applications, unlike my PhD stuff.
The A330 had some weird pitch down incidences due to a faulty ADIRS, and obviously AF447 due to faulty pitot tubes and the completely idiotic issue where the control sticks aren't synced and the inputs are averaged out before being sent to the plane. There were some considerations given to grounding the fleet, whether or not Airbus wanted to admit it at the time.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-plane-denial-sb/ai...
I'm curious, do you think without your disclosure, people would have read your post differently?

Occasionally (both online and in real life) I feel that whatever I say tends to be interpreted in the binary: "are you with us or against us". This makes it hard to have a thoughtful discussion. Clarifying that I'm loyal to whatever cause the audience supports helps to some degree.
Sure, an opt-in may be possible. But it requires some spec work and isn't something browsers can just do right now. As gsnedders points out, we'd probably have to spec the entire algorithm to avoid causing compatibility problems in the future.
I'm not sure what the point of your comment is to be honest. Transportation choices are made between different modes of transportation all the time. There's no universally good option.

Take NYC where light changes happen about every 45 seconds. This is necessary for pedestrians to be able to get anywhere and because the blocks are fairly narrow (in the north-south direction) in Manhattan.

I've visited the Bay Area many times and it's a nightmare as a pedestrian. You need to cross, say, Castro and El Camino Real and you might be waiting 3+ minutes for the light change to cross those 6 lanes of traffic (and you probably have to be on your guard for inattentive drivers turning right at red lights even when you have right-of-way.

I used to walk back to Mountain View from the Google campus along Shoreline in the afternoons. That's where the on ramp is onto 101 South and it uses a light-less system (I don't believe it's a full clover leaf?). Crossing that on ramp to continue down Shoreline was essentially an exercise in waiting for some driver to take pity on you to let you cross.

Clearly a choice has been made in favour of cars.

Urban planners also go out of their way to restrict traffic to 20mph in pedestrian-heavy areas by narrowing lanes and decreasing distances between lights because there's a huge increase in injuries and death to pedestrians by going 30mph.

So a choice is made in favour of pedestrians here.
Does "6 DSP Cores" imply only 6-note polyphony if developing tone generators?
Yikes. You're a great HN contributor but please don't do this here.
btw... I think this comment is very flamebaity ;) ban yourself?
I think you may have ignored both the post I was replying to, and the 95% of my post you didn’t chop into sentence fragments and choose to respond to.
While I respect your dislike of the guy, I think that the fact that you consider his words so bad compared to what other recent leaders have said or done is a direct example of this propaganda machine. I mean what's the word he's said? Hillary said ~1/4 of Americans are deplorable, and also made the sexist claim that women are the primary victims of war. Bush put us into a nearly 20 year war entrapment. Clinton had unsavory sexual relations with an underlying.

Trump saying some bad things isn't enough for me. Unless you're also dissatisfied with the character of most presidents, I think your stance is the result of the propaganda machine.