skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the interior of the first church more than the exterior. I feel that it manages to capture the spaciousness and lightness that you expect in a cathedral, though I wish it had more of the ornamentation that you see on the older cathedrals. I've always felt that minimalism was less valuable in architecture than in other mediums like print, because one's relationship with the medium is different. With print, you already have a lot of detail for the viewer parse (in the form of text) and the viewer wants to understand it quickly. Ornamentation gets in the way there, but with buildings, there is usually nothing to parse quickly and people have all the time in the world to slowly get used to it.

Churches are an even more relevant example because they traditionally served a didactic purpose all by themselves. The buildings and the art inscribed into them served as means of propogating the culture through the generations and people going to the same cathedral every week would be surrounded murals and statuary of all sorts. They don't have to take it in all at once, they have the rest of their lives to do that and so increased detail is better.

I think that is one of the unexpected failings of the more minimal modern styles of architecture, brutalism included. At first glance they are quite striking but as time passes, they seem bland, sterile, or merely impossing.
Chinese Man Guilty of Defrauding Apple Out of 1,500 iPhones
Sorry but this is a very uninformed comment.

1) there's no one "taxing" anyone
2) this is not a judgement, its the start of an investigation into rule violation
3) this investigation was launched after a formal complaint by another company. If Google finds others in violation it can equally file complaints
4) it's not the EU doing the investigation, but rather the Irish data protection authority.

Please read the information closely rather than just assume it confirms whatever preconceptions you bring to the table.
Low unemployment rate only improves savings if incomes rise as a result of the increased demand for labor. Though wages have ticked up a little bit, we haven't seen the expected rise in incomes that would be expected for our historically low unemployment rate. I'm not sure anyone knows exactly why, but I've been led to understand that the rosy picture painted by the unemployment rate is undercut by the copious amounts of underemployed americans, as well as leftovers from the great recessions that never re-entered the workforce. There is also the current trends of automating the workforce, and the gig economy, both of which suppress the value of labor.
Indian PM Narendra Modi’s reelection spells more frustration for US tech giants
Really? Censorship? And here in the US, people are trying to circumvent censorship too. So what? Doesn't mean we are going to side with china over the US. Also, there have been articles of china's demise for decades now. If you enjoy cringe, look up gordon chang and read some of his stuff.

But I agree with you about nobody wanting to be kept under anyone's heel. Do you know any chinese history? Do you know whose heel's they think they've been under for 200 years? The west's heel. Nationalism and economic growth is how the chinese government maintains power and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

As for the "concentration camps", I'm guessing the support depends on how it is framed. If the chinese government frames it as punishing separatist terrorists, I'm betting it will have as much support as japanese internment had in the US.

Also, the authoritarian communist party is their government whether you like it or not. Considering the economic growth that china has experienced, I'm betting the party and the government has enormous support amongst the population. And in any confrontation with a foreign government, the people almost always rally around their government - authoritarian or not.

Finally, "some" in china might want their government to "bend to the sanctions", but I'm guessing the vast majority of chinese don't. Also, historically, governments tend to fall when they appear weak, especially in relation to a foreign power. Also, you are conveniently ignoring the fact that there are "some" in the US who think we should "bend to their sanctions".

If you think that chinese people are going to side with a foreign government against their own ( authoritarian or not ), then you really don't know history or human nature.
Facebook: Another three billion fake profiles culled
Plans are way more complex to say what a $400 bill is in relation to the quality of the plan.

Example:

1. My plan could cover squat of the first $400 for the year... but cover EVERYTHING after $400 of out of pocket costs for the year. If you've got a family, that's a hell of a plan.

2. My plan could cover squat of the first $10k ... that would suck.

A single $400 bill doesn't tell you much as far as what a good plan in the US is or isn't.... and we haven't even gotten into what the premiums are per month.

Of course this also goes to show how much of a pain health insurance in the US is ...
Moving Camera, Moving People: A Deep Learning Approach to Depth Prediction
I have netflix, hulu, hbogo, and prime, and I pirate stuff that's in the catalog right now as there is no guarentee it will stay in the catalog. Netflix in particular lost a ton of content over the years. Ironically, I even get better quality streaming with piracy over legal channels.
This is one reason why people use strings for IDs in JSON, even if they are actually integers.
This is the bigger thing.
"Go to the movies, buy Netflix, buy Amazon Prime" etc etc etc. There's so much more things the financially illiterate feel compelled to buy these days.
Fully agree with that. And that's why I love github that much. I got two sponsors from github-as-official-company already. It's apparently easy there to get that microbudget approved.
The article's claim is almost entirely bullshit. The reasons why are nicely outlined here: https://twitter.com/p_millerd/status/1118071142311288838

This "can't cover a $400 expense" makes for a nice narrative, and we can all insert our perspectives about the world into this narrative, and walk away feeling good about it.

Quotes from the above twitter thread:

> I was curious about this because it seemed low. After some digging I found the 2016 appendix (again, 2017 not to be found). Only 12% of people couldn't actually pay the expense and a smaller amount would have to borrow money (keep in mind this could be double counted)

Another survey question not highlighted actually gives some direct clarity on this question. It turns out only about 15% of people would not be able to cover a $400 expense.

update: clarify uses of "this" and "it".
The people working in the sharing economy because they don't have other options for income get counted in employment statistics. The PhD working at starbucks gets counted in the employment statistics. People who are not actively seeking employment don't. The unemployment rate might be low, but the labor participation rate has been hovering around 63% since 2016. It was above 66% for most of the 90s through the early 2000s, until the financial crisis. Employment statistics are, at best, useful for comparing last year to this year, or last quarter to this quarter. They say little about the overall structure of the economy.
OK you should also get a part of that. Donations are very non commital for both sides. You aren't expected to do what your donors tell you to. It will help you spend more time on your projects. Like it's in the interest of the users to give you money.
How does that make any sense?
The crazy workarounds are maybe bad designs, but an airframe design that's still in demand after 50 years and been built 10,000+ times isn't a crappy design.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone familiar with aviation agree that the 737 is a poorly designed airframe...
Not OP, but I'm against all forms of intellectual "property". So yeah, I'm not against "stealing" GPL code, from a legal standpoint.

I know I'm an extremist though(statistically speaking), even in this forum.
IF you're an enthusiast, big media fan. I get that, there's not enough.

For me we've reached a level I'm ok with, but it is very much based on usage.
The rational case is that it's absurdly expensive to make artistic content in term of people's time, as well as the cost in things like location, filming, and support. This isn't saying there isn't unneccessary costs...part of the need for a publisher is to keep costs under control! But things like building sets, special effects and more really ramp up the cost and fast.

You are supporting an army of workers to make a decently budgeted film, for multiple years.
Isn't this anyway their own tokens? So no matter whether the providers do have an own account or not, if they don't cash it out then there's no cost to brave. So its.just that they were incorrectly giving the impression that someone is getting paid?
Don't pay it! You negotiate with healthcare providers! Don't tell them you have the money.
The education system does do a poor job of educating people on financial matters, however.
There was just a post on HN the other day about how the top priority for Millenials and Gen Z is travel, so I would say that the younger generations are not significantly better at financial literacy and in fact may have expectations even more out of line with their financial reality than other generations.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19963476
>Almost 40% of Americans Would Struggle to Cover a $400 Emergency

Let that soak in for those in the US (and on HN) who insist that the economy is great, unemployment is low (and measured properly), the middle class has no problem, etc...
Damn right. Frickin' entitled americans think they have a right to fix their body parts when the obvious solution is to just yank it out/chop it off to save cash.
The GPL is hijacking IP to create a consumer right to repair that should exist but doesn't.

Total IP abolition in combination with a strongly enshrined right to repair, which would necessitate access to source code of binaries given, would be perfectly in the spirit of the free software movement.
Usually very old buildings (at least the ones that have survived) are extremely overbuilt, with solid walls many times thicker than what we would use today.
" intelligence being correlated with ethnicity is a plausible hypothesis"

No it's not, it's flat out racist.
Thank god all the games exist on Steam.
Yes. But I would not be at all surprised if large steel temporary shoring beams were soon placed inside to brace the columns against inward forces. Very common in California after earthquakes.[1]

[1] http://construction911.com/emergency-services/shoring/
hah! I saw this article, came here to post the same twitter thread.

Good eye, /u/gojomo.
I think Yelp should do something similar. To be fair, I don't know how, but I think giving a review without having tried a good or a service from a business on Yelp seems misleading. Same thing for Amazon (e.g. verified reviews only).
Rich, the creator of the Phaser framework, does something like this (I haven't dug into it much): https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser/issues/3390

It appears they leverage Bountysource (not familiar with it).
The facade was designed to evoke the surrounding terrain...

Hallgrímskirkja:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/Reykjavik%27s...

Basalt formation at Reynisfjara Beach:
https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/Iceland/Rework-lightroom/i...
A difference I've noticed between myself and many of my friends is that I view savings as "Money you don't touch", whereas they view it as "Money you haven't spent yet"

That difference in perception leads to me having a constantly growing bank balance, while they have developed a habit of saving then splurging, repeatedly. Which isn't really building wealth, but more buffering for large pre-planned expenses.
IIRC TBC never announced any "fantastic new tech", in spite of the marketing effort. It seems they have COTS tunneling equipment, a knack for ignoring basic establish practices, and a enthusiastic PR team.
Kinda weird how speech about entirely legal activity gets deplatformed, but TPB whose core competency is theft has all the courts wringing their hands about freedom of speech.
I've included a definition of racism here for you: "prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior".

Given that there is no prejudice or antagonism present, your accusation of racism is nonsense. In fact you're doing something as equally poisonous as racists, except in reverse: pretending that there is no race, no ethnicity. Erasing the heritage of people with a sponge in order to depict a so-called utopia that nobody except extremists wants.
You probably referring to FreeBSD man, OpenBSD is slightly different:
https://man.openbsd.org/wc.1
Or more relevant to HN, a new phone or tablet. And paying $15 surcharges to get lunch delivered. And multiple entertainment services at $10-20/month.
I still think about this article. I was hoping to see some affordable product to come out of it, but haven't seen anything yet.

Although... 2017? Hmm. I thought I remembered reading about it 5-10 years ago. Maybe an earlier step in the research?
Wikipedia takes Turkey to European human rights court
For me, having to put it on a credit card is effectively not being able to cover it, so the numbers do check out, from this perspective. Again, we are talking an emergency, not a mortgage.
Being a large fan of the Dune novels, I'm looking forward to the day a manufacturer creates a real world Stillsuit
When you know someone who is $400 away from absolute ruin, it's reasonable to ask them whether this is due to personal failings or external forces.

When 40% of your population is dealing with it, you have an economic problem that needs to be addressed on a policy level.
> Moody’s downgraded Equifax from a “stable” to a “negative” outlook

> Lawsuits and investigations have cost $690 million in the first quarter of 2019 alone

> And the lawsuits will keep coming: In January, an Atlanta judge denied Equifax’s attempts to dismiss class-actions filed against the company.

Looks like there are real consequences to losing data on half of all Americans
I think we can sustain some deficit spending. But $2 trillion annually would triple the deficit.
The LEGO patent ran out a few years ago, anyone could make these. But they didn't, plus it has taken decades for this Braille teaching aid to come along.

I suspect this will sell well to adults who have fond memories of playing with LEGO and have got bored of fridge magnets.
Thanks, we've updated the title from “NYT Tracks Reddit Conversations Around nytimes.com Content” to that of the article with a more mechanical shortening.
Your former comment doesn't address my point. The "pay" as such is almost irrelevant.

We're all competing with others in our local market for housing.

Perhaps we could go on a massive building spree.

The fact remains though, that a big old semi in London is in limited supply. A ton of people are still going to compete over it.

If one ten hour job means I get to live in a flat share and a forty hour job means I get a semi-detached house, I'm going for the latter.

Empirically so, since I work 40 hours as it is whilst not having to.
RMS himself is against the idea of intellectual property; it's just that copyleft is the closest you can get in a system that supports IP.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.en.html
Some of the vaulting did not survive (notably, the section that the spire crashed through, and I think one other). The vaulting is what pushes the walls out while the buttresses push them in. (To my understanding, the roof, by comparison was a lot less structural—knowing that fires happen all the time, the 13th century engineers designed a roof that would burn away without destroying the underlying stonework.)
In the Bay Area at least, this is pretty understandable. 40th-percentile income in the Bay Area is $66k [1]. An income-tax estimator puts after-tax pay for a family of 4 on that salary in California at $55k [2].

I live in the Bay Area, and my family of 4 lives fairly frugally by choice. Even so, we spent more than $55k last year and squeezing even our modest lifestyle into that budget wouldn't have been easy.

[1]: https://statisticalatlas.com/metro-area/California/San-Franc...

[2]: I put a household income of $65k with a family of 4 (married filing joint) into the tax estimator at https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes#WF5trlFESC
Javascript isn't just a frontend language though, is it?

> I'm not applying ML strategies to hundreds of thousands of data points

Maybe you aren't, but the folks over at tensorflow.js [1] certainly are, as well as Andrej Karpathy's ConvnetJS [2].

[1] https://www.tensorflow.org/js
[2] https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/convnetjs/demo/class...
Anything less than the current "infinite" would be a pleasant change.
Can someone explain to me how this is possible? America is among richest nations in the world. Plus its citizens have access to all amenities of life. How come they don't have enough for emergency expenses? Is it because of wealth inequality? Or is it that its a mature capitalist society, so most things are priced such that people have very little disposable income?
Probably less about a chip, assuming the plugging material no longer causes cancer and more about having a home that is remotely monitored and controlled by others.

The water dispenser at my work place requires internet to serve water. Internet down? No water for you! Now apply that insanity to a house.

Let me take a moment to predict the future. You get home from work. You are tired. You sit down and your TV starts calling you because advertisers know you just came home at your regular schedule. Some people love the idea of that future. I do not like those people.
>> Let's say you put $400 on a CC that has 18% interest rate

Wow, that's a hell of interest rate. In Poland there's regulatory law that caps interest rates for credit cards (and all types of consumer credits, really) at 11%, or 4x base interest rate set by Polish central bank. Applying the same logic to US would give you what, 9% interest rate? But I guess Americans would see that as messing with free markets :)
GPL "abuses" copyright to prevent conveyors from closing off software from its users. make the provisions of GPL the law, and copyright of software can go.
> It's not a computer science language, which emphasizes theory.

"Modern" type theory has been around since the 70s but aparently that's still too academic for Go.

But perhaps Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics are still the more pragmatic approach!

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5penft/parallelizing_...
> The late 90’s and early 2000’s were a weird time where the hardware was improving so fast and taking software along for a free ride that a lot of software was good enough.

Would you say that wasn’t the case during the past 20 years (2000-2019)? Or do you consider all that period to be “early 2000’s”?
Instead of spending more money on Notre Dame, just demolish the damn building and re-allocate all of the reconstruction funds collected thus far to "rebuilding the lives" of all those who have been abused by the pervert priests.
This is the right approach. A healthcare provider would prefer $10k (<- arbitrary number) now over the potential to get $20k while also having to deal with debt collectors.
~36% of the voting power comes from top 20 institutional/mutual fund holders and about 14% of the vote comes from Jeff Bezos himself[1]. The board of directors recommended all holders vote against this. Even if every shareholding employee of Amazon voted for this, there's very little chance it would've made it past the institutions voting along with the board recommendations.

[1]: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMZN/holders?p=AMZN
People not saving for pension is a ticking economic bomb. The economy might be prompt now but I am afraid to think about what happens when the current working generation retires.
IIRC $2k for the z114, $1 for the z800 and a few hundred for a one way moving truck rental I moved it myself, and maybe a few hundred for the ds6800 which I got lucky when it was FICON enabled the auction did not specify. There are three off-label mainframe support companies in the US that broker machines and parts for companies trying to bleed out their machines due to some transition plan or whatever. I've made acquaintance with one of them so I got the z114 for a great price because it wasn't suitable for any of their common customers and they were able to move it quickly from decom to me.

For the HMC I recall reading this in a manual or hearing it from a mainframe professional but I can't quickly cite it. It may be for some things that a home user doesn't necessarily need, like remote access. Can you access the z/OS System Console from the SEs, that is the only critical thing I can think of.
Is there a "laptop shell" type of product that one could put in a pi and be done with it?

Something like,

1. Buy laptop shell, pi, portable battery

2. Open the shell, put pi in, connect it to the laptop shell's keyboard, trackpad, display

3. Put in the battery, connect to battery

4. Close the shell

5. It's a laptop.
RAMCloud isn’t popping, but it did give us RAFT.
> Let that soak in for those in the US (and on HN) who insist that the economy is great, unemployment is low (and measured properly), the middle class has no problem, etc...

Everyone in the country could be making $100k a year, if their savings rate is 0% they'll still struggle with a surprise $400. IMO it's a problem with spending frivolously...
Facebook Curbs Incentives to Sell Political Ads Ahead of 2020 Election
> Since its founding, the PRC has only fought two foreign wars, the last one being in 1979

That's true only for unusually large values of two or unusually narrow definitions of “foreign war” (Korean War, Burma border campaign, Sino-Indian War, Vietnam War, another war with India, a separate China-South Vietnam War, and then a China-Vietnam war.)
It should also be noted that london's postal service also deployed 2ft-wide tunnels to cart mail through the city, which was launched in the late 1920s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Post_Office_Railway
Flickr has been down for two days now
Bleah - government shouldn't be the default actor in a space unless it's absolutely necessary. It's actually a good thing if community problems can be solved by smaller organizations which don't need tax money or coercive measures to get things done.
This is as disingenuous as the Fox News graphic citing a study that 99.6% of "poor" households own a refrigerator. Growing up poor impacts a lot of your future decision making priorities; poor financial literacy is often a symptom, not a cause.

The personal finance "industry" (racket) preys on the anxious and blames the victim:

https://slate.com/business/2016/05/the-latte-is-a-lie-and-bu...
Flickr's scheduled maintenance hasn't gone according to plans
Music is acceptable. Spotify/apple music is a one stop shop, and the only reason why I'm on spotify over apple music is the education discount; the services are otherwise identical in my eyes. Legal limewire.

With video, its awful. Networks and production companies are all to eager to cancel licenses and pull their content off of a service. The golden goose is that every network and production has their own service that they milk customers for $9.99 a month for (like Disney's B.S.). The end result is instead of you paying $100 a month for cable, you are paying $100 a month for 10 different services to get the same coverage. Back to piracy it is.
Congrats on managing to live frugally with a family of 4! Certainly an accomplishment.

Out of curiosity, how much of that $64k is housing?
Forms are almost always purged. Had it happened with Google Forms.
Billionaire Behind Victoria’s Built His Version of the American Heartland
(not op) I'm not necessarily saying they should but I also think it could be really cool looking and still hold to the spirit of the building if done well.