skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Quality of life is absolutely awful in Shanghai, where is the blue sky? where is the clean air? Traffic jams happen all the time

Two of the three points that you've mentioned are in regards to air pollution, as of recently China is actively working on reducing air pollution with definitive timelines [0]. As a side note, during the high growth era of the US (and presumably other currently developed countries), US cities had significantly higher air pollution than what is observed today [1].

Obviously the argument to be made here is not that Shanghai checks off all boxes for a "perfect" city today, but that it is as the author of the article suggests as the capital of the "future", primarily due to the continued high growth at the rate mentioned in the article.

[0] https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/10711-C...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/Vintage-EPA-photos-reveal-wh...
Before you let the hyperbole train run it’s course there’s are many distributed databases out there. Vitess+MySQL which runs YouTube, CockroachDB, YugaByte, faunaDB, bedrockDB etc
“Interesting that drivers are still interested in gas even though its is trending downwards”

Nobody complains about cheap gas except speculators on the wrong side of the market

Cryptocurrencies are fuel to write to their respective databases

Get on the right side of the market
This is misinformation: assert() is disabled if NDEBUG is defined, which is usually done on the command line.

In sane build systems the command line is visible by default.

Non-sane build systems display wrong percentage numbers instead, but that is a different topic.
> Hmm. I keep getting warnings about responding to quickly. Perhaps my account is under attack.

I've been getting those too, lately. I thought maybe that my touchpad finger is developing tremor ;)
See https://uk.pcmag.com/news-analysis/120580/how-a-vpn-review-s... for discussion of major trickage.
we will make mistakes

Completely understandable.

What I don't understand: why aren't these false positives sent to the recipient's Spam folder? Why else does that folder exist?
In my neighborhood I know of multiple restaurants that are on UberEats, Postmates and Amazon Restaurants. For example, Pick Up Stix has their own delivery service and they're on UberEats.
It seems like DDG is getting lots better :)
Why use uber? Just take a bicycle...
Since Webster's dictionary is out of copyright, it was used as a source for many entries on Wiktionary. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Webster%27s_Dict...

There's a category for entries that were imported mostly unmodified, with 26,433 pages. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Webster_1913
There's really a need for IM interop. These fragmented islands stall the network effect (Metcalfe's law) that is needed to sustain and grow communities.

I guess the best thing for the current situatio would be a headless service that would connect to your IM identities, and buffer messages, from many different IM identities and protocols. You would then have intermittedly connected web or terminal or mobile apps as its clients. Does something like this exist?
Verizon names 20 more U.S. cities where customers will get 5G Ultra Wideband
Of course the ecosystem is smaller than big names such as Python, but saying that you have to write every lib is exaggerated and simple not true.
I feel pretty shallow for saying this but I was hoping for information on perfectly adjusting one's backpack based on their anatomy/measurements.

Who has time for literary beauty when so many dumb things occupy one's mind :D
It also had an 8x8 mul with 16 bit result.
Downtrending? Power outage? Do you even solar panel? Gold is safe? It doesn't seem like it's growing? What? Get rich scheme? Rebellion? You seem to be a victim of fake news, trust in your government, and or just don't know how actually big the crypto space is.

Haven't you heard? Bitcoin is the new Gold. It IS a genuine financial disruption, hence the absurd Bitcoin bubble which has not popped...

The last recent Bullrun to 20k was merely just a peek of it's future price, and an introduction to the mass of the new technology & products that will be used in the upcoming fourth industrial revolution that is around the corner along with Elon's self landing space rockets and auto-driving vehicles.

A company/project can now put their valuation on a Coin (with a specific supply amount) and skip the whole government printed fiat regulatory process. Tell me how that's not a game changer in this corporate world.

People confuse Cryptocurrencies for a get rich quick scheme because of the Scammers. But, They are also the same people who can't envision the next, Xerox, Amazon, or any other megacorp. Do you know what happens when you invest into these companies/coins before they go big? You Get-Rich-Quick!

Everything about cryptocurrencies makes it the perfect hedge from it being a borderless asset, decentralized and a 24/7 market. Trading cryptos IS the new thing on wall street, If you have not noticed already.
> sexist biases in other cultures

> sexism

> Likely

You're assuming that you know that "school girl/boy" is a demeaning phrase everywhere in the world. Are you sure? I doubt you should be. For us, "school girl/boy" is archaic and sounds patronizing, but in other places it may simply mean student. In many languages "school girl/boy" is the standard term for "student, but not yet in university", while "student" is used only for university students. If that was the meaning here, the submitter probably used the word to highlight that Britney Crystal Gallivan accomplished what she did while still in school. Imagine if that were so, and then they meet with a nasty rebuke and accusations of sexism. Does that help make HN the welcoming place we want it to be? How would you feel in that position?

If you look upthread to that aggressive snapback response, it flat-out declares "That designates an elementary or pre-teen woman, not someone 17 years old." That is almost certainly wrong. Had the author added "Where I come from", then it would be true—and it would also be clear why they were wrong to be aggressive, rather than inquisitive, about the word. Similarly, your comment says "high school males would more likely be described as XYZ...and that is a double standard". That's even more relative to your particular language community, which I'm guessing the submitter does not belong to. Most likely, crossed language wires created an insult where there wasn't one. At a minimum, prabhupant deserved the benefit of the doubt from you guys—and the site guidelines require that you give it (please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Alas, how difficult it is in practice to actually do.

Why dwell on this? Because conflict on HN frequently arises between people who don't realize how they're talking across cultural/national divides. On the internet, people assume the other person belongs to the same group as they do, which makes it easy to interpret others as assholes when they say X—where X is outrageous on my side of the divide. But it's a mistake to assume a universal meaning. A lot of this misunderstanding comes, ironically, from how well HN users all over the world have mastered English. In person, once we hear an accent or see differences, interpretation recalibrates. But on HN, where that data isn't present, we default to assuming that the other person is not only a native speaker, but lives in the same region as we do. Then we get mad because they sound like an asshole of our tribe, rather than a decent person from another.
Towards AI-based only biosignal analysis pipeline
I wrote a short reply to this, and then HN for whatever reason flagged it as spam and wouldn’t allow me to post.

I think that provides a great meta-comment supporting my stance on not allowing too much central control and censorship.
Except if you have some leverage like an offer from another company, then sometimes you can make your current employer to almost match the offer. Once I improved some workflow greatly because I took extra time for it (it was about some Lua debugging, I don't really remember the circumstances), I was told that this is part of my job, so no raise. Now I don't expect raises for things like that but I only invest extra time if an issue annoys me and even then I open a ticket first. Long build times are annoying.
With all the talk about Google results not being satisfying anymore to a growing number of users, I'm surprised we haven't seen more sites pop up that would allow users to display the results of multiple search engines of their choosing either by mixing (eg all 1st results then all 2nd, etc) or by seeing them side by side... while stripping ads and cards and the like.
Some of these are worse than useless: they hijack real businesses support phone numbers by presenting a high cost number that gets routed to a call center, that then connects you to the business. It's a huge scam.
The past year has had a ton of papers that center around unsupervised 'creativty'. I'd say this solidly falls into that category.

Semi-related note, if you don't already watch Two Minute Papers, start now for great summaries of usually AI work. https://www.youtube.com/user/keeroyz
Looking through Mozilla's IRC quote collection [0] also shows very little recent activity. Not sure if that's because their channels are less active nowadays, or just because fewer people are submitting new material.

[0]: http://quotes.burntelectrons.org/top
So, what should I use instead of jQuery these days? The task at hand: set up PhotoSwipe for a completely static list of images.
Google SketchUp works really well for me. I've done it for the last 2 apartments I've lived in, and even shared the file with the tenants moving in after me.

Edit: saw the video on the site, ok with SketchUp I just draw the floorplans, but it does have IKEA furniture in its online library which I can import, so I can try layouts on screen instead of in real life.
Correct; usually the installer instructions will say to wire the hardware so it disables the starter motor. This means that the engine won’t stop, but rather be prevented from starting.

Some of the cheaper (AliExpress) hardware installation instructions say that the relay should be wired to the fuel pump.

I wonder if the starter vs. fuel pump is a regional difference? Perhaps in countries where vehicle theft is more prevalent/violent installers would lean towards cutting the fuel pump?
As I understand the market target is the non-professional home builder. Products for this market are not new and never seemed to be successful.

By the other hand, if you try to capture professional (or even semi-professional) market share, the quest is not easy also: Sketchup with a multitude of plugins is hard to beat. Where I see opportunity is on VR software for drones that could make plans/3D models with minor human input.

Disclaimer: I'm an architect and not in the US, I might be biased.
There's even a book published in 1986:
https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Sets-Introduction-Monogra...
A checksum’s typical use is to detect transmission errors. A cryptographically secure signature is what’s needed.
"if the situation becomes so bad that government-issued money is worthless"

For a real-world example of this, look at Venezuela now. Its inflation was recently estimated at 1,300,000%.

And what do people want? Yes you guessed right: food, groceries, medicine. They are selling gold to afford these necessities. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas...
Well, this looks rather strange. As expected, settings the variable causes large changes as it removes a lot of lstat calls and also removes the color codes from the writes. So there seems to be no obvious explanation, why it becomes slower when doing less...

# du -sh logfile_nfs*
1.7M logfile_nfs
668K logfile_nfs_exported

However, the strace -c output looks kinda different:

Without modifying the variable: https://bin.disroot.org/?149fa91c08b27312#0w9O6BAWNEEC4SUXEb...

With setting the variable: https://bin.disroot.org/?149fa91c08b27312#0w9O6BAWNEEC4SUXEb...
Anyone else having trouble opening this pdf?
If I'm reading this correctly, the main problems they have with IRC is that it's too "old"/obscure, and too open — simultaneously too difficult and too easy to access. Hard to control who gets in and what they say.

I haven't seen much spam or harassment on IRC, but I haven't been to Mozilla's server.

As for newbie accessibility, doesn't a web gateway solve that? You could change the font family from monospace to Lato and it's instantly 20 years more modern :)
Agree, it's terrible if you just want automatic builds.

I almost gave up on automatic Docker image push on one of my projects [1] earlier this year, when GitHub services were deprecated.

Luckily I found a way to have Travis push the image instead [2]. It involves giving Travis my Docker Hub password (encrypted), but it's certainly better than granting some service full access to my GitHub account.

[1] https://github.com/mpolden/echoip

[2] https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/docker/#pushing-a-docker-ima...
You’ve identified one of the reasons for having nice cars, which is the relative low cost of the car as compared to buying the licence. The others are that they are only paying about 50% of the cost of their cars (as the installments are deductible from gross income), they get subsidised diesel (hence the ludicrously overpowered v6 German engines when the rest of the world is running on Japanese hybrids), and most importantly they get to use the vehicle as their personal car when not working...
Elon Musk reaches deal over tweets
Yep, definitely http://www.fuzix.org/ . It works on a whole lot of 8 bit machines.
I always kept hearing that elastic search was a great product, helped to solve some difficult problems and was open source. However, when I wanted to use it I quickly found out that some important features are paid only. And the licenses cost a ton. It felt very disingenuous for it to be called open source when there are things I cannot use for personal or commercial use. Amazon enabled me to use this stack the way I wanted and now again I think elastic search is a great product. Reputation wise I think Amazon's move will only help them. Not sure business wise
Potentially the Deutsches Wörterbuch started by the Brothers Grimm: http://woerterbuchnetz.de/DWB
SETL has an interesting lineage and part to play in the history of computing:

The original SETL was implemented in a language known as LITTLE, Dave Shields noted in an email: "SETL was implemented in LITTLE, a language based on FORTRAN that had fixed=length bitfields as a fundamental data type."

Early SETL was used by Robert Dewar's team to implement the first validated Ada implementation, known as NYU Ada/Ed. This implementation worked as an interpreter.

We have a printed copy of the original SETL based NYU Ada/Ed but we are still to find the original SETL implementation. Maybe somewhere in the Courant Institute or their alumni there is someone with an original magnetic tape from the DEC VAX machine that ran these implementations.
It’s all fun and games until the robots fashion a shiv.
Is text non-spam growing exponentially? I have a hard time believing so.
That would duplicate X
Any form of limiting speech is
an attack on the principles of a healthy nation. State-wide censorship is never reasonable.
> They are selling gold to afford these necessities.

They are probably using anything that there is available as a currency replacement. I would bet that mostly physical USD, but also gold, bitcoin, cigarettes etc. I don't think gold is the main replacement when national currency starts hyperinflating, just a tool among others.
Maybe I’m not forward thinking enough, but I’ve yet to hear any compelling new use cases for 5G. I’m doubtful it’ll be of much use for self-driving cars or robotic surgery, and 4G is more than fast/low latency enough for my phone needs and the needs of most people. I really don’t see how 5G is going to add anywhere close to $12T to the economy.
> The way I see, to care for vacant property,

The way I see it; an added tax will just be an encumbrance on the budding entrepreneur, who worked two jobs, and begged to get the financing on that property. She has dreams, passion and a vision--she rolled the dice and will be bankrupt if she doesn't execute and have a bit of luck.

> which is one of the best functions of government

In a free society, perhaps the best function of government (which is nothing more than a random collection of random people) is to be as invisible as possible, and not to try to ram their (here again--this random collection of random people) agenda down everyone else's throat, every single chance they get.
The dictionary linked in this post has some formatting issues, so a kind soul improved upon it (Mac Dictionary.app dictionary):

https://github.com/mortenjust/webster-mac
If you're interested in the same sort of beautiful, interesting dictionary for French, there's the classic Littré. It's not that the definitions themselves are colourful, but the quotes used as examples always are.

https://www.littre.org/
Just what we don’t need.
We were convinced by the research and arguments presented in the book “Sweet Sleep” that we could bedshare without a significant risk of SUID given our circumstances (breastfeeding, non-smokers, no alcohol or medication that would induce drowsiness) and the proper preparations (firm mattress, light bedding, packing towels between the mattress and wall to eliminate gaps).

We initially planned to use a side-car crib (we had a convertible crib with one wall removed, pushed up against our bed with the mattresses at the same height so it formed an extension of the sleep surface) but our son was such a barnacle baby that he refused to sleep even a foot away from me. Not all babies are that clingy, so it’s definitely a good option for a lot of families.

Bedsharing allowed both me and my husband to avoid sleep deprivation, even with a newborn. Our son would wake up and start to squirm and make tiny noises, which was enough to wake me up so I could nurse him, but never reached the level of crying that would wake up my husband, who was able to sleep a normal 8 hours and get up for work feeling well-rested.

I was also able to get rest equivalent to 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep; it just required staying in bed for 12 hours in those first few months because of all the partial wake-ups for nursing.

I can’t imagine how much more difficult our lives would have been without the high-quality sleep we were able to get due to our choice to bed-share.

We’re in the process of transitioning our 2-year-old to his own bed to make room for his little brother who is due in a few months. The transition is going very smoothly. We could have done it sooner but bedsharing was working well for all of us so we saw no reason to make a change.

Here’s the link to the book “Sweet Sleep” Even if you’re not comfortable bed-sharing intentionally, it’s important to have a safe sleep surface set up because of how common it is for parents (especially breast-feeding mothers) to fall asleep accidentally with their babies. Much safer for accidental co-sleeping to happen in a prepared bed vs. on a recliner or couch where the risks of suffocation are very high. https://g.co/kgs/jCrdAX
The problem is beliefs aren't homogenous. If 99% the world that tesla was worth $0 and 1% thought it was worth $100, then without short sellers the price would trade much closer to $100 than 0. But if there are short sellers than the beliefs of the market start to average out more.

Also there is empirical proof short selling matters because during the banking crises they banned short selling which causes certain bank stocks to jump up, and then when they allowed it again the prices fell like a rock.
In the UK at least HSBC and Barclays need a hardware token device to set up new payees and perform certain transactions.

HSBC recently allowed (and encourage) moving that token to the mobile app but they do NOT support using your phone number.

Santander uses your phone number to send OTP by text for such purposes, and Monzo, the "modern bank" doesn't have a website, everything is done by app.

Out of those Banks, Monzo is the only one that will allow you to run their app on a rooted phone.
I've switched to deepl.com recently for my translations.

It has far fewer languages, but the translations of those it has, are far better in my opinion. Allthough I am also no linguist, just an average non-English speaker.
It seems likely that, in the next 50 years, instead of actually curing cancer, we will just get really really good at early detection and prevention.
If you enjoyed this article, you might also enjoy the novel The Great Passage by Shion Miura, a wonderful quiet novel about the creation of a Japanese dictionary.
If the majority of users cannot figure out how to type /nickserv register do you really want to talk to them? Consider it a filter
> It’s done because private industry in most circumstances, does it better than government can, and at the end of the day it can be significantly cheaper and less of a boondoggle than if government did it all themselves as government likes to do.

But we have to keep in mind the only way to have citizens reap the benefits from this efficiency is by competition of the services offered. If for any reason competition cannot arise, outsourcing the task away from gov makes little difference while giving away a lot of the control/accountability we had.
Holy shit this is a crazy attack vector.
Will multi-account containers be included? The most useful feature on Firefox Desktop is the ability to isolate different browsing sessions using containers (e.g. Facebook-only, HN-only).
So part of this is all about you, but not in the way you wanted. You're not just a reader in this; you're part of the ensemble; did you see yourself as you read?
Full-blown government collapse is quite far-fetched scenario. Infrastructure in venezuela still works at some level, however poorly. Bitcoin works in places pretty well where goverment is crappy but still not that crappy, that you have electricity, internet, etc.
i dont but i see it differently, if i felt i was good enough it would remove the feeling that i need to get better, the people around me tell me im good enough regularly so i guess i must be doing OK but i wont let that make me feel comfortable as thats when ill start getting lazy

what youre experiencing is "imposter syndrome" you feel like those around you are good at what theyre doing and youre just sort of faking it/winging it and dont belong there when in fact you do. its a wild guess but i suspect youre someone who in younger years didnt really have expectations of great success and youve done better than you expected you would. this is especially common among the self taught and those who have had skill for a long time but only recently been picked up for a technical job.

i personally have been able to code and work with hardware etc since a very young age but im entirely self taught so until nearly age 30 i worked in bars, warehouses and shops for min wage, then suddenly im a key player in a tech role which leaves you feeling slightly like you dont belong especially when those around you have been in the industry for years and have countless qualifications

battling this isnt easy as generally someone else telling you isnt going to stick or change anything, its something you have to find ways to come to terms with yourself
Many package managers that support git as source allow to pin to a specific commit sha. That's as far as I can see a quite secure way to keep using an uncompromised/verified version. It's not the most popular feature but people do it every now and then, probably it should be done more.

I wonder if docker allows this and on the other hand if that's even feasible for say application images, given that applications must be updated a lot for security reasons. Of course if the Dockerfile's parent reference is not pinned, that does only help to some degree...