skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Opening up every document for editing by anyone over top-down control of documents."

Does anyone want to comment on this? I don't feel qualified to judge, but isn't this throwing the baby out with the water? Can't privileged access be managed remotely by some network authority, i.e. access granted, revoked and logged?
When you're doing tiles, you need to simplify to highest resolution actually discernible in that tile. So, for each zoom level, generate bbox tile bounds, and then simplify or cluster everything in each tile for the pixel resolution you want. That way you will never have 1.5GB tile. After all, all that data is wasted space if it can't be seen.

I've done this for GeoJSON tiles for a long time, before the MVT tiles. The MVT tiles pack way more data though, but are not a solution to the O(n2) problem.
The sudo-less operation of homebrew bothers me greatly too :/

But I just want to say thank you very much to The Homebrew team, if you're reading this, I really appreciate your efforts.
I learned Vietnamese in my mid 40s. I think it’s just a matter of persistence and patience. As adults we’re less willing to be novices for an extended period of time.
ClearlyDefined: Putting license information in one place
If you set the \XeTeXgenerateactualtext=1 option in a Xe(La)TeX document, the resulting PDF will include ActualText annotations to support searching even in complex scripts with ligatures, character reordering, etc.
Google News and Leo Tolstoy: Visualizing Word2Vec Word Embeddings Using T-SNE
Gifted classrooms are funded by a budget and have a certain number of seats available. In must be a percentile selection (mixed with subjective judgments, diversity, etc)
I'll usually try these kinds of searches if it's someone with a common name:

John Doe <profession>
John Doe <name of city>
John Doe <name of employer>

Is that not common?
IsometricSass – Sass library to make isometric 2D without JavaScript
Making a Product Plan for a Startup
Out of choice, seeking growth, which provides value by way of equity.

The point being that, at least on its own platforms, Amazon's interest is in sales generation, not ads turnover. Direct comparisons between Amazon and Google ads misses the point.
Ask HN: I want to see your bookshelf. Take a photo and post in the comments
I'm always on the lookout for new books to read, and thought it would be cool to see photos of Hacker News user bookshelves!
Basic Cyber Hygiene: Does It Work? (2018)
> Current release: TeX Live 2019 is available over the Internet and on DVD. It was released on 29 April 2018 ...

Wait was this released yesterday or a year ago yesterday?
> I think that the idea may be that guilds had a social/religious obligation to provide for the poor and generally be a positive force in the community.

How could a group of people who monopolize on a trade "generally be a positive force in the community"? Just because they "provide for the poor" (on their terms)?

> On the other hand, America has adopted the belief that large corporations are only obligated to maximize profit for their shareholders and they are too large and decentralized for social forces to effectively hold them accountable.

Those corporations are also obligated to actually pay their employees, who are obligated to pay taxes. What does the state do with all that income? Fund welfare programs and infrastructure. People may believe the those corporations get "all the money", but on the average corporate profits[1] account for far less money than public spending[2].

[1] https://b-i.forbesimg.com/timworstall/files/2013/05/cp_gdp.p...

[2] https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/960x0/https%3A%2F%2Fblogs...

Those who have paid attention to history understand that there's a fine balance here. Too much taxation and the economy collapses, making everyone poor. Too little taxation and the infrastructure and social system suffers unnecessarily.

Those who understand nothing keep complaining about corporate paper profits and wealth inequality, as if those were the measure for actual welfare.
You are allowed to objectively criticize the Iraq war any more as it's been endorsed by both major political parties at this point.

It's sad that the major news outlets are complete propaganda machines at this point. Nobody is taking the government to task for it's continued wars in the Middle East. The only angle I ever see is how some 'atrocity' has taken place and how we need to bomb them even more.
The biggest difficulty, apart from the aging difficulties (which I think are smaller than people think) is that you don't have time to immerse yourself in the learning experience.

There is no reason if someone not making an effort won't learn a language when they depend on it. Sure, they won't get all the grammar details, and will have an accent, but they will learn to be conversational on it.
Well, actually, it's the government with your money that does bad things.

You are subscribed to the government and won't do anything about it. So, it's actually mostly your fault (society).

Until people decide this is not the way of life, this circle will continue until extinction.
The only thing Russia is interested in invading in Europe are the beaches and Gucci stores.

Even the French have a larger and more modern military than the Russian Federation...
No, such behavior does not make technical sense, any more than bits can be coloured. Yet... https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
I despised French a bit (my own native tongue), as I grew up with a little fondness for English, and spent most of my time speaking English (probably Engrish at times). Then I got.. say bored of casual (tech/web) English, and started to feel happy again with French, even accounting for all its odd rules and twists and everything. I felt it was a lovely bag of varied multitudes and shades that were very good for painting pictures with higher levels of colors and not being strictly informative or factual. I guess it's a question of desire and maturity .. at times you want easy and predictable, and maybe later you want to play a little more with words. And this might not be a French-only case, I'm just giving my 2 centimes ;)
I think this is one of the biggest points. Kids spend all day in school being forced to learn, they come home and do homework, and everything they're doing day to day is exposing them to something new. Every little thing they know feels like a huge accomplishment.

Adults are generally getting paid to do things they can already do and when we get home, we tend to piss away our time with things we know we'll like and aren't too unfamiliar. We can spend a week learning something, but in terms of our gross knowledge, it's comparatively nothing at all.

I'm not quite middle aged yet, but I'm working on learning my third language and started just a few months ago. I'm setting aside a solid hour a day + small 2-5 minute intervals throughout the day, and I'm learning faster than my second language due to the effort I'm putting in. I won't deny that it does get harder to learn completely new concepts as we age, but one benefit we have over kids is we know how to learn effectively and we have exposure with wide arrays of topics. Try to find ways to apply your other accumulated knowledge and discipline to new topics and you can learn faster.

And I mean, shit, you ever see kids try to learn Spanish or French in middle school or high school? Most can barely put together a basic greeting at the end of 1 or 2 years. A 30 or 40 something who reads a phrase book during lunch break and watches some 5 minute grammar practice videos at night 4 days a week will learn faster than 9/10 teenagers.
It is an Opinion piece, not a news article. Why did you think it was news?
I agree. Plus the classics are too often talked about like this one homogeneous corpus.

But they span on over 2500 years, with huge objective, quality and target audience differences.

I can appreciate Seneca and at the same time don't give much credit to Kant. You could reflect deep into To kill a Mockingbird and see Flaubert as dry and over hyped. And you should be able to say that in class without being threaten with a bad grade. Even if you were hypothetically wrong, if such an absolute is possible in this field.
For any given activity X, there will be people for which X is not a reasonable thing. That doesn't mean X isn't a good thing, it just means it isn't for everyone.
Being able to write an interesting comment in response to a particular topic that frustrates you is not at all the same thing as having spontaneous interesting thoughts about enough topics to make a personal website/blog about it.
Me too. As there are only around 602 000 results on Google I suspected it was only used in specific areas and according to the dictionary ("Petit Robert") it originates from Lille.
These are not run of the mill hobbies.
Yubikey guide for Git Signing, SSH Auth, U2F 2FA, and 1Password (2017)
If you just want to compile a TeX document without drowning your hard drive, I heavily recommend Tectonic (https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/), which behaves more like a typical development tool.

On macOS:

brew install tectonic
tectonic mypaper.tex

This will automatically download the exact set of packages needed to compile the paper, and cleanup any intermediary files generated during compilation. And it's trivial to upgrade and uninstall.
Sounds interesting! I had a look, but couldn't find out what sigma does. This is not quite the same level as, say, the PostgreSQL documentation:

http://www.categoricaldata.net/help/instancesigma.html

Is there somewhere i can go for a worked example of using sigma?
My quotes file recently reached 1MB of plain text, 160,257 words.

I started this file 17 years ago!

This is enough to fill three average sized novels!

One day... I might have a go at weaving a narrative through it.
World's biggest cake
See the video how they made and how it looks
https://howto105.blogspot.com/2019/04/worlds-biggest-ice-cre...

Very funny video of 2019
Just watch and try to control your laugh
http://bit.ly/2IVEv1j

Cute dog walking like humans
http://bit.ly/2VpFTQB

See the video of Cute dog skateboarding even humans can't do this easily
http://bit.ly/2IXS2Wj

World's most highest truck jump
Even you can't believe this
That's not a movie scene it's real
http://bit.ly/2VuUme7

See the video of
Cute dog walking at rope
Even humans can't do this
http://bit.ly/2VupwSQ
>The inescapable truth is this country ( and before if we include the pilgrims ) was subdued with conquest and series of genocides.

Any sort of large scale immigration is going to cause friction. That doesn't have to take the form of wars and ethnic cleansing though.

The Pilgrims showed up in 1620 and occupied land that had formerly belonged to a tribe that was wiped out with smallpox and generally had peaceful relations with the natives.

The Puritans started their caliphate (I'm unaware of a corresponding Christian term) in 1630 and shortly thereafter got into wars with the natives, engaging in literal witch hunts and were generally so disagreeable that they provided the motivation for people to settle further and further west (away from them) further encroaching on the natives. Everybody tends to white wash this because they had high literacy rates and treated women better than most at the time.

The early pre-US settlers varied widely in their relations with the natives. The French had a pretty darn good relationship with the natives until they sold out to the US but they didn't do much settling (which probably helped).

>The only reason Andrew Jackson is being targeted by the establishment today is because he was the most anti-central bank president we've ever had.

I agree this is definitely a large part of it. If Jackson was a highly regarded president for other reasons people wouldn't complain about his mistreatment of the natives but instead he opposed central banking which does not make people hold him in high regard today.
Intresting, though wave power is a minusculy small overall altrnative energy source with massive capital feqirements. There are better options to pursue.

Pumped hydro is ... after a fashion ... a vastly more appropriate hydraulic accumulator, as is CAES.
Inferring religious beliefs from fitness data
I'd add another factor. Young children love communicating. They (no offense) have nothing better to do than trying to find ways, sounds and words to exchange. My theory is that this level of mind/brain engagement toward language is unmatched after 4 yo. You have other center of interests later on that would make a kid go mad if they tried to learn them.
This is a well-written comment from an interesting point of view. That's all you need to write a blog article.

Writing HN comments is much easier than writing blog posts because the inspiration is the story that's been linked to; for a blog post you don't have that starting point, you just have a blank page. That's a heck of a barrier for most people when they're starting out.
> carryforward losses from years when the company was not profitable

The idea of carrying forward losses in general is sound, but I'm beginning to wonder if there should be an exception. If the loss is intentional, using investment instead of profit to drive growth, I'm not so sure those losses deserve to be carried forward. Probably an unpopular opinion here on HN, but I think denying reductions in those cases would be beneficial not only in terms of tax revenue from the larger companies but also in terms of reducing the VC-fueled ""unicorn or bust" mentality among the smaller ones.
Show HN: Kvmapp – A Simplified VM Manager for Linux
I would have been impressed with anything functional, but to me this actually looks nicer than the vast majority of commercially produced smart watches. Awesome!
Floating Cell Towers Are “A Potential” Next Step for 5G
leaving un secure stuff open is not the same as a damn backdoor

BUT, being lax in rigour concerning what ports, etc are left open and the security reasons why is just at some point a question of are they an unknowing asset of China Gov...

Both are equally important
> some

I'd call that a success.
A weapon is absolutely doable. The US military have dolphins trained both in mine detection and removal, and in mine placement - they attach a magnetic submersible charge to the harness, and the animal then rubs along the vessel, attaching the charge. The same technique is used for attaching tracking beacons, listening devices, and anything else you might want to affix to a target vessel.

The behaviour that has been described for this whale ("tries to rub the straps off") is absolutely in line with this training.

So, no, the whale wasn't kitted out to have a Vulcan cannon mounted on it, but explosives, potentially.
I still think it is weird to be that bad after 15 years in the country.
Counter point — I think it was French ambassador or someone from diplomatic corpus who impressed me in their interview on the radio. I think they have been in the country for half a year only and spoke amazingly well. And I mean it. It was not amazing in the way bear dancing is amazing (e.g. it dance terribly, but the fact itself is amazing). She spoke genuinely very well. And Lithuanian is a very very difficult language.
Some CDNs, you put the content on them and link to it. Some reverse proxy back to your ‘origin’ server(s). Some, like Akamai, offer both.
> but as someone else pointed out the portrait of Andrew Jackson hangs in the Oval Office for exactly the same purpose. How to avoid "feeding" that one?

Easy. Don't get pissed off by it. When an action is obviously taken for no other purpose than to piss you off getting pissed off over it is just stupid.
(Going back over a decade) I guessed Google was under-monetizing, and then they could just keep slowly turned the knob, and the indicator was when they couldn't turn that monetization knob any more.

Google's Ad platform is at this point now. It has turned in to this jumble of UI anti-patterns and dark patterns. Each successive rollout of a new feature is basically, add more text we can test and relinquish your bidding control to us. At a slow, incremental pace this works. Eventually, however, they max out either what the advertiser can budget, or remove enough of the advertiser's ROI that it doesn't work any more. Then the risk becomes, rather than failing to grow revenue, that they actually collapse it.

One of the things that stuck with me the most, was many years ago Yahoo would go in and change the text of your search. That was egregious on many levels. The non-self service display ad networks would make you jump through a bunch of hoops to run a campaign and then make it as hard as possible to stop the campaign without it being fraud. Adwords, on the other hand had none of these problems. It worked fantastically. Not anymore.
Saudis Fugitives Get Help to Flee While U.S. Officials Look the Other Way
I think it's one of those articles that gets upvoted because people like the topic. I'm getting old - what do. Same as random stuff regarding privacy, depression and google killing its projects.

So here we have generic discussion number #72, where we talk how neurogenesis stops at a certain age but not really and how stuff can improve your cognition but only if you're a mouse.

Also a good place to recommend The Brain That Changes Itself[1].

1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/570172.The_Brain_That_Ch...
Wrong. A system language should at least build shared objects for other languages. Nim can, Go cannot.
That may work with a system where the consumer has a choice. Basically clients don't and end up overpaying and getting the run around by private insurance.

Best is a balanced system with a mixture of private and public with public providing most of the infrastructure.

US life expectancy is lower than most northern European countries (plus Canada) or Northern Asian countries and costs are higher.

That said some EU countries like Switzerland have mostly private systems.

The only downside of government healthcare is generally taxes are added to unhealthy foods, tobacco and booze.
Good to hear they do. :)
I'm guessing they are talking about the whale being a weapon, and Russia has admitted to training beluga's.

>a 2017 report by TV Zvezda, a station owned by the defence ministry, revealed that the Russian navy has again been training beluga whales, seals and bottlenose dolphins for military purposes in polar waters. In the past three years, president Vladimir Putin has reopened three former Soviet military bases along its vast Arctic coastline.

>The recent research and training was done by Murmansk Sea Biology Research Institute in northern Russia on behalf of the navy to see if beluga whales could be used to “guard entrances to naval bases’” in arctic regions, “assist deepwater divers and if necessary kill any strangers who enter their territory”.
Also just signed up for the beta. :) If I can choose, I'll pay for a project that allows self-hosting rather than pumping my pictures into the cloud. I'm doing the same for Bitwarden, my go-to password manager.
You could say the same about English: 'pulse'? Do you mean an unconscious person needs to eat more legume?

This is as contrived as the example of the article's author.
It never seems worth the effort in my testing, as you have to come up with your own loop to do the truncating, and the benefit is marginal. In this case he’d have 1.2gb file, I doubt that fixes the problem.
It could make sense, but I would definitely not do it the way he did. He left a family behind, and his business, and no explanation for his decision.

I talked to some local people about it, and it seems his disease was treatable. I don't know if he was in pain, but I do know he was still working as usual until the day he took his life.
Democratic Taylorism: The Toyota Production System at Nummi
> I think it's easily one of the greatest inventions in all of history.

Really? I'm surprised you rank it above inventions which allowed the agricultural, industrial or transport revolutions to happen.

Personally the Internet as an invention would rank way below the automobile, wheel, plough, spinning jenny, telegraph, telephone, broadcast television, aeroplane, etc.
Depends on your area of business certainly, but for us (all remote social) it’s a huge time saver. There’s version control and a culture of editing in “suggestion mode” to save us if something goes wrong. But having to wait x hours for someone to get into the office because they’re in another time zone so you can edit what you need can be a real time waster.

At the least you often lose the train of thought or edit is never made, which can be even worse than losing the time.

HR and other sensitive docs excluded of course.
Yes, the BBC article (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48090616) referred to the beluga as a spy rather than a weapon which seems more accurate to me.
That'll be our punishment for wasting so many resources on discussing tabs vs. spaces, the merits of Java vs. C++, OOP and everything else that revolves around personal preferences about syntax and new FoTM languages.
There is a library called flann that does approximate nearest neighbors using a kd-tree and best bin first method. It is typically used not only for nearest neighbors but finding them in higher dimensions.
It's not hard to them to make this mistake: "le", "la", "les" is all "the" for english natives, while verbs and adjective don't change according to plural or gender.

A lot of my mistakes in spanish comes from me trying to call masculine something that is not and vice versa.

French is a difficult language to learn:

- many letters are useless relics from the past, twisted, accentuated or silent.

- conjugations, plural, gender requires a lot of memory.

- rich and complex system to explain the chain of though or events. It's powerful to use, but it's surely hard to learn, and even harder to master.

- we like have a name for everything. Unless you know your latin, guessing meaning is not natural.

- verbose. If you a used to go to the point, well...

- similar sounds can be made by so many different combinations: au(x), eaux, ot(s), o(s), ô, oh... And we don't even agree on how to say it, rose is not said the same way in Paris, Toulouse or Nice.

- way less fun easy original french video content than in english (spanish is terrible in the same way). Not saying we have nothing, I like to advice "un gars, une fille" for french noobs, it's easy to get, and light. But learning english on Netflix is a treat.
"I rarely see negative threads about the US on hackernews,"

You must not be looking, then.
Philly Wisper
Mark wrote a great article for my newsletter a couple of months ago and I found his passion really showed through. I think a big part of it is that he's put so much work into his own site.

We need more of this! Especially in 2019.
Love of animals with humans
Just see their love
Even you will feel amazed
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6eexa2

World's biggest truck jump
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x76ptz4

Cute dog doing shopping and lots of other acts like humans
https://dai.ly/x76vl8s

See the video of Fish walking with legs like humans
https://dai.ly/x76wkpu

Twins sisters married with twins brothers
See how they are looking together
https://dai.ly/x76wkig

Lol very funny dog dance
Just try to control your laugh
https://dai.ly/x770n1f
If you think you want to use a Hilbert Curve for cache locality (on a square grid), you might want to check out the Z-Order Curve instead - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-order_curve . It has less ideal locality properties but can be computed more efficiently.
Plan for the worst, hope for the best? I don't think the people planning for nuclear waste containment are ignoring the possibility of an inhospitable Earth in storing nuclear waste- it just makes good sense (to me at least) to make sure that a radioactive substance be as well-marked and stored as possible for whatever comes next.