skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I consider the US economy and military expenditure to be such a special case that I do not consider the GDP to be a useful measure of anything. As such, claiming that we have reduced spending when actually it has increased by nearly half a trillion in real terms is ludicrous. What has actually happened is the rest of the economy has expanded in excess of our military. Does that mean that we need to make our military four times as large? No. That would just be a plain stupid thing to say as it’s clearly unnecessary.

You seem to be quoting me as saying that I consider all military spending to be wasteful. No, I consider the wasteful military spending to be wasteful, such as when they spend billions of dollars develop an aircraft that never functiona, needlessly pollute instead of disposing responsibly, which requires billions of dollars of clean up, or lose track of $2 trillion. Would you say those things are not wasteful, or are necessary for national defense?

Next, the figures you’re talking about don’t include the cost of wars.

Also, you are comparing to the times that we had a serious hostile geo- political rival that was considered to be our equal, and engaged in a military spending contest. Of course relative military spending has decreased since the 1960s - the USSR outspent us at times, now China, our closest rival, is at 25%. A GDP relative decrease does not mean it is not still excessive, and I don’t care whether it is “out of control”.

You seem to have some concept that we need to compare to the past to determine whether the present is acceptable. I don’t see why that makes any sense.
i use ublock origin with default settings and the end-user browsing experience the same as ABP. click install and never touch it again.
Show HN: Integrate any service to Slack without writing code
How many Takedowns of Tweets Talking about other tweets, can be strung together in perpetuity before twitter realizes somethink is amok?

I dont do twitter myself, but i would like to hear the results if someone wants to conduct an experiment.
how long will a tweet about the veracity of the takedown request for a tweet critisizing another takedown of a tweet talking about a takedown of a possible infringement.
I considered it, but it seemed like Austin would be a difficult person to work with (even if "work with" is limited to developing software within his app).
That makes his wealth seem pretty small, to me.
Not having a HOA is a luxury? This is an absurd statement. HOA are associated with wealthy neighnorhoods...
How do data scientists log their workflow/process?
How do I track how much time I'm spending on each part of my workflow (i.e. cleaning, experimenting, etc.)
Where's the Roomba when they needed it ?
Keep in mind that 8 of the last 20 years were the historically scandal-free Obama presidency. See eg. https://fivethirtyeight.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/atd-I...

The Obama presidency wasn't completely scandal-free, but there wasn't much opportunity for Pulitzer level investigative reporting against him specifically.
There's some progress with EU bug bounty programmes and a recent commitment to publish under CC-BY for content. The shift clearly goes that way. But running a large administration with largely non-technical staff on open source can be hard. Paying for Microsoft to provide a full functioning system is in the end cheaper than hiring an army of engineers to choose, adapt and run a system. You could still make a political decision to make this shift anyway and put resources into it, but it's a risky strategy - if things go wrong/too slow you can't just stop lawmaking, statistics, funding programmes, etc for a few months.
Good to know. Thanks for posting.
It takes ~9 days for kids tastebuds to adapt to new food IIRC
As Notre Dame Burns, Crowd Appears at Second Life Recreation to Mourn
We still haven't finished fixing the cathedral of Reims that was heavily damaged during World War I...

Hopefully things will move faster with Notre-Dame de Paris, but it'll take at least decades.
If the number of 64,000 employees is correct, even that $3B seems like a pittance. One commenter wrote their wage jumped by $100k the year after this settlement. $3B / 64k ~= $50k per person, less than half that number[1]. In the end they only had to pay an amount that was < $7k per person. What a joke.

My guess is the executives who orchestrated this got a big bonus as a result. And why wouldn't they? They optimized for the corporation's good. How do we collectively start incentivizing not being evil like this?

1. Sure it's only one data point to extrapolate off of but anecdotally hearing that people were paid $100-150k in SF while this was going on is a substantial amount of wage suppression given that those same people employed now would be making $300-500k at those same companies without blinking an eye.
Interesting, I didn't know about the ten years. The relevant rules seem to be here:

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/expa...

He mentioned it in 2013. So he's probably not affected anymore, but he still tends not to spend a lot of time in the US.
CLI integration available to all without a human step, but requiring approval to show up in the UI when adding integrations? I'd like that solution
If you know, you can sum it. Should be easy if you criticize it in abstract
The Dark Mode of Usability and Accessibility
So are you saying that our present environmental problems are not due, to at least a significant extent, to capitalism?
they are not just cosmetic..

* no search (big one for me)

* no web client ( another big one)

* app gets stuck in "retrieving message..." if there is a poor signal like travelling under a tunnel

and there are many cosmetic ones like the ones you pointed out.
It'd be nice if the people adversely affected by malfeasance got compensation, but the more important part, as far as utility goes, is that the perpetrators suffer significant penalty to disincentivize the behavior.
I love blowing electrolytic capacitors up. I still do that today.
Regarding the example of not being able to download music from the cloud to the device, on iOS and Android:

Apple's music app can stream music from the cloud or download it to the device for offline playback.

Spotify's music app can stream music from the cloud or download it to the device for offline playback.

Google's music app can stream music from the cloud or download it to the device for offline playback.

Amazon's music app can stream music from the cloud or download it to the device for offline playback.
I wonder if stabilization tech is worth their time and trouble.
There's a difference though - in the US those wheels never really grind, so, I was assuming nothing would ever come from this... Apparently Germany actually likes justice and laws though?
especially religious biases
ZeroCater (YC W11) is hiring a Full-stack engineer in SF: Must love food
I agree with what you've said, but there's not much that individuals on here can do about it. I'm just trying to convince readers here not to willingly participate in reducing their own wages for the benefit of insanely rich business owners.
Rectangles too, any four corners played at once.
It's because the sensors are horizontal and vertical stripes of velostat, so every individual stripe can only sense pressure, the location is gather by combining the information of the overlapping stripes.

from their webpage [1]:

> If 3 note pads are pressed that are 3 corners of a rectangle, presses to a note pad that is the 4th corner of that rectangle will be ignored.

[1] http://www.rogerlinndesign.com/ls-specs.html
Right, the entire point of the question is to find out what people are willing to pay.
The latest news said that the structure is mostly saved.

Looking at some aerial pictures (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D4OFOKMWkAEEHsz.jpg), it looks like the vault is holding except maybe for the section above the transept area (where the spire collapsed), but it has probably suffered, if not from the collapse of the roof, the heat has probably weakened it.

But yes, one or two decades of restoration is a realistic estimation, it's roughly what it took for other cathedrals to be restored (Rouen, Reims) after the World Wars (hopefully Notre-Dame will be in a better state after the disaster)
> It’s hard to compile on your own

It was pretty easy to compile your own desktop version. I had to change some colors because white was hurting my eyes and i was able to do it easily.
Gun owner here. I've owned guns for 5 decades, my father before that, his father before that. Not once have we shot at a human being. We're sporting mid-westerners.

If the technology is electronic, no thanks. Guns are fascinating mechanical marvels. The way the actions work, the trigger pulls, etc. is like a fine watch. I don't want any electronics involved.

But if the lock were mechanical-- say a 4-or-5 digit (or alpha) roller lock-- then I could see it. Your fearful types ('Keep it loaded!') could even set off just one tumbler, it'd still be very very difficult to crack.

My opinion, anyway. I don't see the appeal in the electronic version.
These companies still routinely conspire against their own workers to slightly increase profits by reducing benefits, salaried roles, sick pay etc.
Better than burning gas or oil, though
>how much is the Catholic Church still involved? But I would assume the French state to be somewhat generous.

Nowadays churches in France belong to the city, not the Church. Which has led to many tragedies recently, with town halls (usually Communist) intentionally neglecting churches until there was no choice but to destroy them. I don't have any faith in the French state these days to be consistent with monuments.
The authors of the slide either lacked the ability to analyze problems, or lacked the ability to communicate their opinions, or were intentionally obscuring their opinions.

Which of these is the more likely explanation?

I've seen experienced engineers incapable of expressing their thoughts clearly. But I've also seen well-established organizations that encourage hiding your opinions behind a wall of bullshit.
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No, what they want is the dopamine rush they get from it. Something it seems they were trained to like, similar to lab rats.
One of the finest movies for me too. Perfectly depicts our society.
Oh, sorry, I was joking initially and misinterpreted your remark about it being too hot. You meant that the required temps are too hot for the circulator, which is obvious in hindsight. Thanks for setting me straight. :)

I'd still argue that a sous vide type circulator with a slight modification, a liquid with a higher boiling point, and a container for the board that doesn't involve vacuum sealing, would be better than the raw, unreliable oven in the OP. I bet it would end up costing about as much as a better solution, though.
No, but folders on my computer are in English.
Notre-Dame Cathedral Is on Fire. Here's How Google Is Responding in Real-Time
Doh, of course. He actually needs >100 °C which would be impossible with the average sous vide circulator. Oops.
Financial system setup by those ideologically opposed to current regulatory regime suffers from the same problems the current regulatory regime was designed to mitigate. Report at 11.
> It’s insufferable enough to have my landlord give me crap for vacuuming my car out in my parking space

Why did you not flatly refuse to buy into that particular form of idiocy?
This has already happened, and quack doctors are already using this to peddle fecal transplant cures on local autism groups.
Yup. In fact, I venture a lot of stories like this border on eliciting emotions of despair or reduced self-worth for a subset of the readers, something along the lines of "so and so did x/y/z and they're n years (younger|older) than me, what have I done that's worth anything in my life?"
The statues on the roof had been taken off for the restoration works.
You say "best", except a long list of events and facts has no predictive power, no way to infer what the future will be, only describes what the present is. The whole point of a model is to be able to predict the future. So in that sense, a long list of all events and facts is the worst description.
> But that doesn't mean the PPT slide is at fault.

I think it's a bit of poetic license to say that the PPT is at fault. But didn't help. Many mistakes lead to an outcome like this one. But this PPT is one of those mistakes. The basic information is there for a very significant point--we know penetration can happen with a sufficiently large or sufficiently fast-moving piece of foam, and this piece of foam is 600 times bigger than anything we tested before. Had this PPT clearly conveyed that point, the chances would have been higher that some decisionmaker would have realized its significance.
Most people would disagree with you. Many would act at risk of their own lives to save treasures that they feel are part of their national identity or human civilization.

Just because you don't feel that way doesn't mean they're all wrong.
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And don't mind missing a ton of vital nutrients (Vitamin A, D, Calcium...)
It may start off that way, but after a few years, that crabgrass may decline or die off entirely due to competition from native species. Around these parts, if you let the local squirrels have at it, you may wind up with a forest instead!
I find it abhorrent that people cannot place into the same realm physics with 'poetic reflections'

Tiring is the limiting of mind and creativity such that one thinks that science and reflection are not, intrinsically, the same thing.
My observation from having tested the three most common isomorphic systems with PC keybindings is that the Janko-style mapping(which I believe is the default mapping of Chromatone) is the most familiar to piano players, and the least disruptive in terms of playstyle. Harmonic Table is at the other extreme - it minimizes note distances to the point where ergonomics for traditional playing are hampered - chromatics are downright uncomfortable, but you can easily reel off huge jumps around the scale that would otherwise require virtuosic technique. Wicki-Hayden sits somewhere in between those two.
Why would you install different Mastodon servers when you can go to twitter.com instead?
yes, you are right. The images were saved in reverse order. We will add a configurable param to change spin direction
Soo... the problem is what exactly?
Gene Wolfe (1931-2019)
The Sunday Boston Globe in 1998/1999 -- every week there were literally over 100 pages of help wanted ads, a large percentage of them software-related. (Some weeks the Help Wanted section was 150+ pages.)
Alphafold
Transitioning to ISRG's Root
Depends on the amount of money involved, doesn't it? I don't care how you pay me, as long as the amounts involved make it worth my time.
Not arguing the moral point. The parent poster said the threshold of the treatment becoming torture wasn’t crossed, you are saying torture is banned by the agreement. It needs to be torture for you point to have standing
To the best of my knowledge (i.e. not updated since C++14), C++ is no longer a strict superset of C as of C99, and there are C99 features that are not available in C++, so I'm not sure that's the case. But plenty of overlap, for sure.

Here's a community wiki answer on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/47526708/revisions

Extracted portion of relevance:

> The following C99 features are not supported by C++:
>
> * restricted pointers
> * variable length arrays
> * flexible array members
> * static and type qualifiers in parameter array declarators
> * compound literals
> * designated initializers
Market makers aren't agents/brokers. They do not have clients.
It kind of is, at least it is 80% there. What is your problem eith it? Having to handshake almost everytime?
If your budget is $1/day I doubt that supplements are in the cards, and it's obviously not sustainable, as part B of this nutritional plan is "get a better job".
...what Microsoft really owns is Github! Each editor appeals to a different class of users. As long as they make sure they both integrate better with Github than with competition (GitLab, Butbucket etc.), then they bring and keep users to their GitHub platform!

But if some of Atom's "hackability spirit" would spill over to VSCode we'd appreciate it ;) It may be significantly more usable, but it lacks that "man, it feels just feels hackily good, like an Emacs for the 21st century" of Atom.
Definitely a little bizarre, but I could justify it if needed:

Atom caters more to the lightweight editor crowd (along with Sublime)

VSCode will continue to deeply integrate with intellisense and typed languages to become a 'new' Visual Studio. It's more of an IDE (like RubyMine)

I find myself wanting VSCode for some specific tasks or projects, but I am not close to considering switching to it as my primary editor.
I'd imagine there are a few problems with approaching this as a solution. This is all just speculation on my part.

The weight itself being a problem first off, as it could cause further damage and even make it easier for the fire to spread.

The rate of sublimation would be a problem too, as the outgassing could actually act as an insulating layer, preventing the heat of the fire from actually increasing the release of CO2 at a useful rate to displace the oxygen that is enabling the fire.

Additionally, normally it is recommended to work with dry ice in a well-ventilated environment. CO2 is toxic, and also displaces oxygen, creating a significant risk of asphyxiation. With very large volumes such as this, you cannot effectively ventilate, so this could cause risks for those in the surrounding environment, and also makes it impossible for firemen to work in the area. They can't exactly run in with masks and have tanks of oxygen strapped to their backs.
Come be my indentured servant and work 24/7. What I’m saying is that if you love what you do then you enjoy the hours.
What is the appropriate response to the illegal and inhumane acts that precipitated the executive branch’s own misdeeds?
Did you feel any need to engrave your own names for the next inspectors?
We Asked IKEA to Sponsor Angular Malaysia Conference. Here Is What Happen
There was significant reporting of his administration's spying on journalists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_articles_about_the_Depart...
Mastodon is great. snouts.online is one of several furry instances. We boop snoots instead of boosting toots, but it talks to other instances just fine.
> Just because the math is pretty doesn't mean the universe actually works that way.

Interesting thought ... is mathematics really orthogonal to the universe or does it "result from" or fall out as a result of the universe within which it was described?

Getting philosophical, I know, but if you follow, then perhaps the degree to which you don't have to twist mathematics to describe the universe might suggest you are in fact on the right path....
It was meant to be a better PGP web-of-trust replacement.
You are mixing things up a bit, the alternatives you want are z3, cvc4, spass and e. Coq and TLA+ are proof assistents / formal specification languages, not smt solvers/theorem provers.

And actually in my experience with using the sledgehammer tool in Isabelle, Vampire does not fare very well when it comes to real world problems.
I have a Kaossilator myself, and while it's definitely fun (especially when you first get it), its sound can be improved tremendously with some effects pedals.
This will probably be an unpopular opinion, so let me first start by saying I certainly mourn the loss of history, the loss of a beautiful structure, and that which was inside.

However, as I watched it burn, the thought uppermost to my mind was the nearly 200 years it took to build, and therefore 200 years worth of sucking money and resources from the local (and probably some non-local) populace. And this during a period of history when many lived in abject poverty. How much more might have been added to society if those resources had been used to better effect?

It reminds me of how, even in modern times, the Catholic church has done much the same. My father grew up in the north eastern US in a poor urban area. His family was dirt poor and struggled to get 3 basic meals a day. Yet the local parish pressured, guilted, shamed, and instilled fear in the parishioners to get them to give 10% of their income to the church.

So yes, I mourn Notre Dame, but I can't separate it in my head from the financial predations of the church on its followers.
Notre-Dame Cathedral Fire
> Basically implying that the American system which allows for cruelty abroad and then also allows revealing expsoses of that cruelty is well designed for maintaining international power.

Except that the U.S. is losing out to China which builds out physical infrastructure-- everything from highways to supplying the digital chips, devices and firmware that provide internet access and control electrical grids. That system is vastly superior for asserting international power than OP's alleged system of U.S. "do-cruelty-then-expose-cruelty." (It's also more sustainable in the long run as evidenced by the Iraq war vs. say, China's current influence in Africa.)

Given that reality, such journalistic exposés are perpetuating a system that causes the U.S.'s sphere of influence to decrease relative to another superpower. At the same time, the dominance of the U.S. "do-cruelty-then-expose" system in political circles makes it difficult to adapt and use soft power where it would be more efficacious geopolitically.

The more exposés we get, the faster this vicious cycle diminishes the ability of the American system to use cruelty to gain power.

Therefore I must conclude that OP supports these exposés as a way to decrease the reach of the U.S.'s cruelty.

I don't necessarily support this cynicism train-- was just curious where it went.
Apple Maps on iOS will actually display the ongoing navigation on the lock screen. That's what the user is asking of for Google Maps but currently it's restricted to Apple Maps. The main advantage is saving battery life since the screen isn't on in the lock-screen mode except preceding a change. Also, if a passenger is using the phone (e.g. changing the music) and accidentally locks it you still have access to navigation.
Great explanation! For an in depth and relatively formal (and mathematical) look at this from an economist I recommend https://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/eric.budish/research/HFT-Fr...
Because it was 1995.
You mean, ones that block spam farms and troll infestations? If so, that would leave a tiny little awful network. There's a reason that Mastodon is more pleasant than Twitter, and it's largely because its federation model penalizes both ban-happy and completely unmoderated peers.
They're incredibly important, but they shouldn't be touted as facts until there's some consensus that they are facts
The old spire was taken down after the Revolution because it was in bad state and in danger of falling over the structure. A new one was built in the big mid-19th restoration of Viollet-le-Duc. Source, the chief architect of the current restoration works in this very interesting video tour (in French): https://www.facebook.com/lemonde.fr/videos/10155299594692590...
Related HN thread from 8 months ago (602 upvotes/463 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17661995
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93United_States_r...

The Israeli state at large is massively subsidized by the US govt., which is politically palatable under the auspices of "National Security", whilst subsidizing science and research in the homeland is increasingly decried as "socialism" and other such conservative scarewords. In recent years the amount of direct US aid to Israel (a nation with 3% the population of the US) has been half the budget of the NSF.