skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traffic engineer here. The purpose of the landscaping in the center island of a roundabout is to block the view across the roundabout and to stop people from driving directly over the central island.

The purpose to blocking the view is to make traffic flow better. There are many people that will wait for any vehicle in the circulating lane regardless of that vehicle blocking their path. By blocking the view across the central island, those entering the roundabout can only see so far upstream as matters to their flow.

Stopping people from traversing the central island may not be a large issue in an urban environment but in rural settings that is different. The state I live in is very rural and we have some roundabouts that are not near a water supply for irrigation. As such the state DOT tends to use just a mound of gravel (roughly 3/4 to 1 inch aggregate.) It is very common to see tracks going right through the central island, likely lifted trucks thinking it is awesome. Having landscaping in the central island ads something to hit.
>Facebook gave Amazon extended access to user data because it was... partnering with the social network on the launch of its Fire smartphone.

So is this yet another case of the media being incapable of distinguishing between transferring of data to third parties and displaying data on devices as an agent of the user, i.e. for the purpose of providing an integrated facebook experience? Until the media shows itself to be capable of making that distinction, I can't take these articles seriously.
> This leads to the odd sight of female office workers wrapped in blankets in the summer, while their male colleagues wander around in shorts.

Won't you have a problem either way, then? Unless you can climate control individual offices based on biological sex of the occupant, you'll either have shivering women or sweaty men.
How? It justifies telescopes on Moon, not people on Moon.
> Zuckerberg said that when his tiny website was open to his classmates and a few others, and hasn’t been representative of how the company functions.

How can you claim that in the context of the revelations from this article? Seems like the company functions exactly like we're all "dumb fucks". And why do you think his attitude would change to be more egalitarian as his success and power increased?

Edit:
> I seriously cant believe that it’s still a meme people use to justify their hate for Facebook.

It's not a meme. It's the founder and CEO of a company that holds the private data of >2B users telling us exactly how he feels about his users' expectations of privacy. Since then Facebook has only experienced growth and success. What event in Mark Zuckerberg's professional life could have significantly challenged this attitude do you think? It's been all positive feedback loops until recently.
Buildings of this age are better thought as palimpsests, mutable structures repurposed over generations. The building survived wars, revolutions, renovations and neglect. The spire that toppled was itself a modern addition that after a century is now mourned as canonical.

The building will be restored and revised and will be beloved again. Some will complain it's not the same, some will swear it's as good as it was and some will celebrate "improvements." I just hope the acoustics survive, though IMHO there are other, smaller churches that sounds better.

There's plenty of hideous stuff in Paris as well but I won't name names because what I consider dreadful some celebrate -- and perhaps we're both right.

(former Paris resident, though I wouldn't call myself a "Parisian")
Smaller than kickoff dot.
I worked on this problem during my masters. I created both a deep and KNN model for early breast cancer detection, but I think the performance (accuracy and speed) is most impressive for the latter.
Code:
https://github.com/jszym/pprecogg

Thesis:
https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~jszymb/thesis/260528685_Szymborski...
http://longnow.org/events/02008/sep/09/anathem-book-launch/
That's probably making the assumption that "a little more off the beaten path" is on most people's selection criteria. The evidence suggests it's not and the Internet (and cheap flights) just makes it so easy to pick the obvious "best" places. And, if anything, social media like Instagram probably increase the desire of people to visit the iconic places so that they can share them online.

TBH though, for a lot of places like Paris, going outside of peak times--assuming you have the flexibility--go a long way towards decreasing the crowds factor, at least away from the "must see" sites.
soon PHP8 with JIT...

It's come a long way since PHP5.
or Presidential brothers.
So how does that work when I'm in a park taking pictures to share on my public Instagram? Do I need to get a model release from each person that walks into my frame? What defines monitoring?
Yes. Technically speaking, it does what the Mozilla author proposed.

You’ll end up getting a lot of ads for apps and services you potentially already own, which is the “downside”.

FWIW: Worked in mobile ad tech for five years so I know this space.
fwiw here's a picture of the attic above the vaults:

http://manuelcohen.photoshelter.com/image/I0000l4VZKzgXgcI
The Book on Marx That Arendt Never Finished
Do you have recommendations for exposing/introducing/teaching some kind of cursive to an American home-schooled 15 year old?

On the one hand, he's in college chemistry & physics on the side... on the other hand, we have funny gaps like this that we know we should do something about.

[Or maybe not...]
U.S. tech giants' eastward expansion – chances of cooperation with China
Not really. That just encourages as much looting as possible while they're in control.
The new spillway may outlive the life of the containment structure its designed to protect.
Also relevant: https://archive.org/details/infocomcabinet
If you're just looking to play the games, they are in the internet archive's software library in many versions. At the very least the DOS version and Amiga version, probably others too, are playable through the online emulators.
You bring up a good point with .NET Core potentially increasing the use of C#. I would love to see new languages coming out for the CLR as well. It seems like there was a bunch in the first few years but it has dwindled to only a few non-Microsoft CLR languages with some of those no longer maintained (Boo and Nemerle).
We think so. There are a lot of people who practice different historical building methods scattered around. We think the knowledge exists, but it is only a think - some of it was passed on for craftsman to craftsman and who knows what changed over the years. In some cases the pass on step was lost. In both a lot of history research happens which helps us think we have figured out how it was done but we cannot ever be sure.

I know a lot of people who leave their day job in high tech to practice some low tech old method. There are also a few who work at museums who show the old methods. Getting these people to leave there day job for a few years is probably not affordable. For example I know how to plane by hand boards just like they did - but for my time you would have to pay me $100 to make a 2x4- or you can go to Home Depot and buy the already planed 2x4 for $3. (Note that my 2x4 would be made to fit, while the home depot the rest of the building is designed to fit - this means the architects verifying that everything is strong enough can actually work with a 2x4 in advance, but my made to fit board needs to be measured after to make sure it doesn't change the calculations of something elsewhere in the system)
I don't disagree with anything you said here.
For me it's not about speed at all. I've used ack and loved it because it automatically ignores everything I want ignored (with a .ackrc file).

I just tried ripgrep and like it even more because it automatically follows .gitignore, which is huge. To me, that's the killer feature.
Here's the Servo pull request that came from formal verification of Rust code:

https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/22458
I'm trying to find the tweet again, but I read that they've been "farming" the oak trees required to replace all of the wood in Notre Dame at Versailles for the last 150 years or so.

Paris seemingly has good contingency plans for events like this.

EDIT: https://twitter.com/_theek_/status/1117895531563372544
You could argue that @dsfu404ed's reply was actually way "nastier", as nonchalant as their attitude was, in the sense that it downplays the effects of "nasty" pollution in general.
> Anyway trying to convert people from twitter to mastodon is sorta hard.

That's because going from Twitter to Mastodon is a downgrade in pretty much every concrete way and only an upgrade in less concrete more esoteric terms.

From most people the main benefits I've seen cited are censorship resistance (how many people encounter significant censorship on twitter today?) and decentralization (which only really matters philosophically, to the user on the site the decentralization gets hidden).

On the downsides though there's plenty right on the surface for users: limited users (like all social networks if the people you want to interact with aren't there it's useless), mediocre default layout (the 3 column default doesn't make good use of space and give equal importance to everything cramping the main thing you want to see the toots) and discovery (the main way I've found people to follow on Mastodon? finding them on twitter where I already follow them and seeing they're on Mastodon too).

To a random user who doesn't really encounter censorship on twitter or care about decentralized/federated networks it's just a sub-par version of Twitter with a worse interface, a sparser social graph and longer handles.
> But such practice is widespread in some Christian and Jewish sects! I'm not making stuff up.

I agree, and I think it counts against them to the rest of us. For example, many of us do not think highly at all about cultish Christian sects.

> Because defending the disparity is defending racism.

Indeed. What I'm trying to do here is model how the notion can come about, simply by being ignorant and not by any directed racist thought against any one group. That is, even if the only discrimination we receive from our environment about the various communities were our frequency of interaction with these respective due to proximity and integration, we are inclined to this notion. The post I was responding to was in general attitudes for the general population; and I assume that people are generally ignorant about religious communities in their own country and in other countries. Hence how this ignorance leads reasonably to a notion.

In addition, I don't think it is necessarily racist to have such an opinion, especially if one also understands that it is likely to be horribly misinformed and comes from ignorance. It becomes racist only if you choose to act on the notion, or communicate it without also communicating that the opinion comes from ignorance. Rather, the responsible thing to do is to perform adequate due diligence to form an educated opinion on it once your opinion on the matter becomes of importance to anything.
In the US we call this ramp metering. It is usually a dynamic system that monitors the upstream traffic density and only allows as many vehicles as can be added to reach a maximum density. We usually allow only 1 car per green signal. There have been some attempts to use them on roundabouts too.
> but if someone crosses you, respond with all out force

How do you do that with Amazon? Stop buying from this one seller? Report them? But chances are you were not going to buy anything else from them anyway and I am not sure how much of a problem a report is. And you are not doing anything about the other bajillion bad sellers, so your next buying experience is like ly to turn out just the same.
MySQL High Availability Framework Explained – Part III: Failover Scenarios
Weakening core culture.
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (steam powered trains): 1830.

Daimler (internal combustion cars): 1892.

Wright Flyer III (plane): 1903

Apollo 11: 1969.

Even steam powered trains were almost inconceivable to the average person living in say, 1700, just imagine what that person would have thought about Apollo 11! Heck, I imagine even Napoleon in 1821 couldn't really imagine the mechanized world awaiting just 50 years in the future.
The advancements of industry were accelerated by a limitless supply of cheap slave labor. And of course, the natural resources that were plundered from the colonies.
Amusingly, I suppose that war, and the urge to beat the Soviet Union, is what even got people to the moon in the first place. Without it, I sincerely believe we still wouldn't have been there.

If the Cold War was still raging and Russia decided -today- to colonise Mars, it'd immediately go from a "someday/maybe" to "within the next 5-10 years".
How does one contain neutrons in a "bottle"?
Sarcasm or wishful thinking?

Both are valid points one could argue for, depending on underlying values that are not necessarily rational.
Whoever said that we need to do the entire road network?

A few geofenced areas, like a dozen-blocks in Manhattan, would probably be profitable. Start with the densest cities, 90% of the profits with only 10% of the effort. Write an Uber-like app so that people would know whether or not their starting-location + destination are within the fence, and you're basically done.
Interesting article, but don't men invent and build a lot of things, so they do so with a certain male frame of reference?

And this reminds me of a time when I built a work bench in the garage. My wife needed to use it for a project she was working on one weekend. She got aggravated and asked why I made it so tall.

I didn't have a real good answer for her so I just chuckled and went to work on something else.
Amazon employees’ climate proposal is rare sign of worker dissent
>> architects and planners knew it would not be completed in their lifetime, and yet they progressed for a greater cause

> pissing away our society's resources on monuments to hubris

Is it impossible to imagine a cause that transcends vanity or hubris?

Must every collective effort be corrupted by selfishness?
To call the KMT "pro-Beijing" is ignorant to the point of being laughable, frankly.
TicTocTrack Smartwatch Flaws Can Be Abused to Track Kids
Everything is available for a price. Has anyone actually contacted NCsoft about a price? My sense is there are enough people who would contribute to a purchase, given enough organization.
Gordon Ramsay's new 'authentic Asian' restaurant: cultural appropriation dispute
> I never had any of the non-problems problems which ripgrep is trying to solve

That's OK. Not everyone has the same set of problems, and not every tool that is built must be used by everybody. I document pretty clearly what ripgrep does in the README, so if it doesn't target your use cases, then obviously you just don't need to use it. But also, just as obviously, it should be clear that plenty of other people do fit into the use cases that ripgrep targets. It turns out that a lot of people work on big code bases, and as a result, running the default grep command can be quite slow compared to something that is just a little bit smarter. It gets super annoying to always remember to type out the right `--include` commands to grep. I know, because I did it for ten years before I built ripgrep. I mean, this is the same premise that drives other tools like `git grep`, ack and ag. ripgrep isn't alone here.

See also: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/FAQ.md#pos...

> And personally I would consider an antipattern to skip the gitignore contents per default.

Then use

alias rg="rg -uuu"

and you'll never have to worry about that specific anti-pattern ever again. ;-)
Supreme Court declines nuke subsidy cases, clarifying state energy jurisdiction
The Life and Death of a Wildly Popular Baby Sleeper
You're right, it's their property, it's their legal right what to do with it. I just feel it's like destroying art, which they can do, but I can still be angry at. I get that it's not financially viable, but what does it cost them to release the source code years later?
Raising an intersex child: 'This is your body. There's nothing to be ashamed of'
You can't just elide the verb there... The comment says the author "treats two related problems" in the paper, one of them being the integration of data. Is that not true? The paper certainly covers that topic.
The Eisenhower interstate system took decades to build and is still receiving incremental improvements. We will probably continue to use it for centuries.
"GLFW is an Open Source, multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES and Vulkan development on the desktop. It provides a simple API for creating windows, contexts and surfaces, receiving input and events."
From https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/: "Bug reports and feature suggestions for gawk should be sent to bug-gawk@gnu.org."

Maybe try sending an email? I agree that reporting to the Debian packager often works, but in this case it's possible they just have too many things to triage appropriately.
Most of these things are very hard to analyze. Let me give you a real-life example.

This winter, my driveway developed some major cracks from the snow melt. How can I solve this problem responsibly?

Not fix it? Then I have to park on the street and drive my car unnecessarily to keep it out of the way of the plow. I will end up with craters and mud slide in my yard, a useless garage, and I'll probably have to fix it anyway if I want to use/resell my property.

Move to a warmer climate? Then someone else moves into my house and we've wasted resources just shuffling people about.

So what I will probably do is go to a company that does driveway repair and have them fix it, because then the space is usable and I don't have to change my whole life or live with a dangerous/ugly pit in my yard. But I can't tell you if they will do it efficiently. They're the experts, so obviously they know more than I do.

What would you do? What would anybody do? How am I supposed to both identify an environmentally-friendly alternative and muster the courage to act on it?
The parent isn't saying it is bad practice.
Open sourced tools for binary analysis and rewriting
Contract 0 (this contract authorises a public key to represent another)
I think it's kinda like an intermittent bug in some application. You don't even know if it's an actual problem or just a user with a bad internet connection. That is, until you find out that it only happens after a period of inactivity.

Suddenly you are "on the way to pinning this down." Instead of "Flailing madly in the dark with wild theories."
> A new wall doesn’t contain [traces of its original craftmanship], even if it looks exactly like what once stood. “Do we clean it up and make it all look unified, or do we try to let the memory remain?”

I am very unhappy that Notre Dame burnt. Having said that, I don't see it as "oh no, history has been destroyed" but rather as "this is the history of the Cathedral". If it's still standing (and it seems like it will be), people will talk about this fire for hundreds of years, the same way we talk today about how it survived the French revolution.

Douglas Adams has a great quote on how a building its more than its materials, which you can read in [1]. If we use 3D scans and modern technology to reconstruct the Cathedral to the way it was, I wouldn't see it as "Disneyland" (as the article puts it) but rather as an example of how far we have come and what we can do when we put our minds to it, and how the story of our civilization is written not by design, but rather by accident.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/742883-i-remembered-once-in...
The interior under the vaults would be suffering from water damage rather than being burnt & collapsed, so it's (hopefully) going to be restoration job over a complete rebuild. I'm not sure what the best thing to do about the internal roof framework would be though; making the unseen structural parts historically accurate seems to invite more risk than its worth.
How to trick people into eating more vegetarian dishes?
> "We don't really have projects like that anymore."

See Gaudi's Sagrada Familia for a modern day equivalent. Under construction for 137 years and counting. Current estimate for completion is in the 2030s, if all goes well.

(I highly recommend the guided tour if you're ever in Barcelona. The history of it's engineering and construction is fascinating even if you're not that into Gaudi, or cathedrals.)
>Or horrible (in my opinion) paid solutions like McAfee...

It's not just your opinion. Mr. John McAfee himself, the guy who started the company and whose name it still bears, has publicly stated that McAfee software is "the worst software on the planet"!

If that isn't enough for people to avoid a brand name, then I don't know what is. But apparently, countless businesses are so clueless they keep using McAfee software even though its own founder says it's trash.
Wasn't Lewis more of a pit bond trader? When I read Flash Boys, I read it with the understanding it was kind of like reading a book from a Horse Drawn Carriage salesmen after Henry Ford released the Model T. He has a bone to pick, and his bias oozes into every word of the book. Are some of his problems with electronic trading valid? Absolutely! Is he horribly biased and lets that show in his writing to make a more "shocking" story? Absolutely!

There used to be a finite number of spots in the trading pits. If you didn't get into the pit, you couldn't be in on the trading and potentially millions that were made. Now the trading went from the speed of human communication to the speed of electrons moving over fiber optics. However, instead of a limited spot on the floor, literally anyone can buy space in exchange co-located datacenters. You and I could chip in and buy some servers to put in the Weehawken, NJ datacenter used for NYSE and it would be affordable. Electronic trading brought a lot of changes, some good, and some bad, but it is arguably more "fair" now than it has been for a very long time.
He makes an interesting statement:
"Science advances when we’re wrong or surprised or both."
I hate the Chinese regime more than you do. The problem here is by exaggerating Chinese power, right-wing rhetoric in the West is singing a war song against China, which usually carries a racist undertone. And the dictator in China would stupidly believe China is indeed powerful. That's how the trade war between Xi and Trump started.
When I was working as a sysadmin, MySQL was popping up with errors in Nagios. I thought to myself, OK, I'll just restart the MySQL server to see if the errors go away.

Turns out, the client was using MySQL in a non-standard way and they were storing the last day's data in memory. Whoops.

I was fired from this position.
I suppose you could split the difference.
That’s right. If they’d cut down that one tree in time we probably would still have the original spillway.
But is bing the first search engine you've ever chat to???
> Interesting article, but don't men invent and build a lot of things, so they do so with a certain male frame of reference?

Yes, which is why if you are building something you need a diverse viewpoint on your team.

> And this reminds me of a time when I built a work bench in the garage. My wife needed to use it for a project she was working on one weekend. She got aggravated and asked why I made it so tall.

In a professional environment this would be illegal
I'm sorry that your father's family grew up on the border between needing charity and giving it (that's always hard). But have you considered that maybe they chose to give 10% because they had discerned they could make do with the 90% that was left and they wanted to bestow charity like the widow with two mites? Simple is not foolish, though it may appear so. Your dad may not have understood what their thought process was, though he could see what appeared to be coercive external pressures. (That which is coerced is not charity and if that was going on it should have been stopped.)