skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can also display man pages in vim by default:

export MANPAGER="/bin/sh -c \"col -b | vim -c 'set ft=man ts=8 nomod nolist nonu noma' -\""
Windows 10 May 2019 Update Feature Focus: Light Themes and Sandboxes
thats a huge time variance.
In the US, creating and sharing an image of a gun part would never meet the same level of harm criteria of creating and sharing an image of child pornography, thus allowing 1st amendment protection.
> If I saw that line, I would immediately turn around.

Not if you were £30k in the hole for the trip!
I use torrents a lot, but it's not a perfect solution.

For one, P2P is mostly a myth — most people (myself included, I will admit) are pure leechers that only seed at very low bandwidth while downloading. Seeders are either altruistic downloaders who rent a dedicated seedbox, or some servers in Russia whose incentive structure I fail to comprehend (or more honestly: haven't looked into).

Number two: because of this, the catalog is not amazing. Even popular recent shows have issues. Case from very recently: I gave up on finding 1080p versions of The Good Place season 1 & 2 (on public trackers at least). Anything not in English? Try your luck but mostly forget it.

It's worse for music — the system doesn't incentivize a lot of small uploads but rather grouping them. So finding rare tracks/b-sides is very hard. Back in the day, Kazaa and eMule were vastly better with rarities.

This is not an indictment of BitTorrent — it's still the best we have. But I wish we had better.
Sydney-Melbourne is indeed no brainer. It is one of the busiest air route in the world.
Democratic values? As in, the one who receives the most votes will win the election?
To put numbers on that statement in case anyone else ends up wondering:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century

> Estimates of the number of slaves today range from around 21 million to 46 million, depending on the method used to form the estimate and the definition of slavery being used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular_trade

> According to research provided by Emory University as well as Henry Louis Gates Jr., an estimated 12.5 million slaves were transported from Africa to colonies in North and South America.
It's already $60k. So arguably only 0.00001% of the people in the world can do it already.

I assume the reason you react is that you identify with somebody who could potentially do it (by saving a lot maybe), but couldn't anymore with the new price.

Thinking it's something everybody could do if fit is not realistic.
And no doubt millions of people will use this "service" and without realizing it (or caring about it) hand over even more of their very personal and private information to a company that is primarily responsible to its shareholders and not its users.

We already have an censorship resistant world currency that works over a communication channel like for instance the internet. One that can not be de-based by printing an infinite amount of it. It is called bitcoin.

As usually most people don't know and or don't care. Sad.
I hope they make a ton of profit from this and set an example of how our capitalist system can let you do great things for the human race if you navigate it strategically.
Which shows that the initial statement "all the people expelled for hate speech in EU could gain asylum in US" is false: expelling foreigners for breaking hte law is not persecution in itself, and of course pro-ISIS advocates would not be illegible for asylum in the US.

I suspect the GP had EU far right dudes in mind, but most such 'hate speech' is often basically "slander and/or harassment that happens to be also racist" and typically ends up with a fine: hardly 'persecution'. And even if we go from "all the people" to just "a handful of ideologues": why would the US say no to ISIS but yes to Nazis?
This is how they manage alligator tags in my state, and I've heard of similar systems in other states for scarce wildlife tags, so that type of method for preservation of resources isn't at all unheard of.

Each year you pay some fee ($10 for this gator tag), are entered into a lottery. If are not issued a tag you receive a preference point. If you are issued a tag you get the tag, go back to 0 points. Some states use points as tickets in a drawing system, and some use the points as levels, e.g. all 5 pointers get tags, then 4 pointers, and so on until you run into the first "less tags than people" level at which point you do a drawing.

I love the idea of adding in a volunteering component to help improve the area.
"Roll off the production line" triggered me a number of times in the article. Perhaps "glide off" would be a better phrase?
Can you give more information on this, links, ...?
Isn't it a breaking change? Using WITH subqueries to fence off query planner seemed to be a thing, right?
The bit of heat produced in a power line isn't a huge deal. The more important applications will be in electronics and electromagnets. For instance, it would make nuclear fusion reactors cheaper and easier to build.
Money goes where it's treated best. Why don't you go where you're treated best. You obviously have a good command of the English language. So you're not limited to France, Quebec, ...
We have a Jeffrey Koons original in the lobby of my office building in New York so I'm very used to winding my way through tourists to get to the elevators :-)
Probably Switzerland as well, although EU and US seem to erode that sovereignity.
Uphold our liberal western values and insist on the rule by law and compliance with treaties, leveraging all the soft power available to ensure it.

In China, there is no freedom of speech or expression (only what's tolerated by the state). Laws only exist for convenience and are ignored when the state finds it inconvenient or if they decide to punish and individual or group of indidviduals.

History should have thought us a lesson that appeasement does not work with authoritarian regimes as it will be interpreted as a sign of weakness.
History is full of people who faced severe consequences or even death instead of lying. What you said was literally (emphasis mine):

> that's what you and all other humans would do if they got into the same situation.

Which is literally false if history books and court records are to be belived.

As for religion, people can both be honest and mistaken.

Honesty is about intent, not about being verifyable true.

So while two must be technically wrong, honest Muslims and honest Christians might very well co-exist with honest Atheists.
so google is pretty much oracle?
> Someday they’ll probably replace their 19,000 miles (soon 25,000) of high-speed rail with maglevs.

Not necessarily and definitely not soon. Maglev isn't strictly better (unless it's also suitable for cargo trains or China doesn't use their high-speed rail for cargo at all -- not even at night). Replacing high-speed rail by maglev means that you're basically replacing high-speed rail with somewhat higher-speed rail at the cost of (almost[1]) completely new infrastructure. And during the transition, you basically have two independent railway networks. It's like having two railway gauges in a country, but even worse. Every piece of rolling stock can only run on one network. That's inflexible, increasing costs and/or reducing reliability. It also necessitates additional transfers.

[1] You can reuse station and other buildings, maybe platforms too. I can't think of anything else.
As long as you can root it and put LineageOS on it we're good.
The Beijing–Shanghai HSR train averages 300 km/h over an almost 5-hour ride, two years ago they upgraded it to peak at 350 km/h.
>It’s possible that Google cutting off Huawei will actually backfire, because it makes having a viable alternative to Android a MUST HAVE instead of just NICE TO HAVE.

I got the impression that the United States forced their hand.
I think if you cant fit a single data set on the biggest commonly used hard drive is another good metric.
Neal Stephenson Responds with Wit and Humor – Slashdot (2004)
Fujifilm now offers a medium format camera for a price close to the full frame cameras of its competitors (sometimes cheaper).
Climbers have tons of ethical norms that are precisely about not ruining anything for those after and not changing things that exists in nature. Regardless of how few people climb up there.
The train the OP mentions has a maximum speed of 420 kmh, I'd say the Chinese did a hell of a job to build this train which supposedely can reach 600 kmh, there's no train in Europe that can reach that, not even the French TGV. As someone else mentioned bellow only the Japanese are close to building a similar train. Which is to say that this is a hell of an achievement by the Chinese.
It's not just cultural heritage getting lost in today's post-standards IT era, we're also risking the loss of everyday documents (legal, medical, personal, political, educational documents, photos, and other media).

> So are you going to [put in the effort and preserve media]? Well, neither am I.

I can honestly say I've personally put a lot of effort into tech for long-term preservation of digital text [1], and so has a whole generation or two of markup experts. I just whish we could overcome the staged anti-establishment (anti-POSIX, anti-SQL, anti-XML, anti-everything) attitude towards established IT standards millenials and up get spoonfed by self-serving big media and copycat blogs.

[1]: http://sgmljs.net/blog/blog1701.html
The inefficiency/losses depends on the distance, the voltage, and a few other things. In practice, losses are about 5% in the USA.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission#...
Reasonably competitive? The competition is non existent in most of the inhabited world. In addition I have a friend on a farm in the US who can’t get a reliable internet connection in spite of the Sprint fiber that runs right in front of his house. This would be a no brainer for a lot of the population. Starlink could have more customers than ATT and Vodaphone combined.
I have both an S9 and a BlackBerry Q10 on me every day. The BB10 OS, even though its now defunct, was designed in a way that it is FAR easier and more practical to use. I really, really hate the Android interface as a result.

1: BlackBerry hub is a lot nicer to view messages

2: Smart use of Bezel gestures makes it much easier to actually interact with the phone:

-If you want to access the hub while using an app, you take your thumb from the bottom of the screen and swipe up and to the right. The interface is very forgiving of where you swipe, you can do it without even looking, yet you wont accidentally do it either. If you don't want to fully enter the hub and just take a peak without leaving your app, just do a partial swipe.

-If you want to view all your running apps, you swipe up from the bottom of the screen to the middle of the screen, and voila , you get a tile arrangement of your running apps (easier to view than a Rolodex), as well as phone and camera access. And you are also less likely to lose track of what windows you have open. I find lots of peoples android phones have like 30 windows open - this is a fault of its interface.

-If you want to access your apps, swipe up from bottom bezel (shows running apps), and then swipe left, now you can view all your other apps.

-Every app is expected to have its settings menu accessible by swiping down from the top bezel.

There are no silly little cumbersome function buttons at the bottom like Android has (the back/home/apps buttons). Smart use of bezel gestures make this unnecessary.

Everything can be accessed easily in a simple, comfortable gesture with your thumb. As a result, it is a lot faster to use day in day out. And it is not as cluttered as Android.

I am sad the whole world chose Android. It's a crappy interface.
Of course it is relevant. I'm just saying it isn't the decisive factor that makes this an absolute necessity, as evidenced by the fact that much the backbone of the largest software services in the world is Java. There are lots and lots of tradeoffs in runtime design, and it's important to look at the whole rather than at one decision in isolation and point out that it's important. As a whole, the criticality of value types for Java is relatively recent.
It takes a lot of energy to heat/cool stuff. How much cooling could such battery powered device provide? Is it even better than a cheap usb fan?
and only a few months later, this happened: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/appsblog/2013/aug/15/...

After August 2013, there was never an official YouTube app for Windows Phone.
The Beijing-Shanghai line was designed to operate at 350km/h with the plan to upgrade to 380km/h, it was downgraded to 300km/h after the 2011 Wenzhou accident in which 40 people killed.
That's being too generous. Other than spacex, essentially every rocket that reaches space does so "for the first time". The title is intentionally misleading
> libc++ random is actually decent.

I disagree. It does not include a contemporary RNG, and seeding the only decent one correctly is ridiculously difficult.
This might be excellent: fully implemented MERGE in other RDBMS seemed to be highly unreliable. Given Postgres' focus on quality, not on number of features, not implementing MERGE fully might be a great choice.

Just imagine how many permutations we'd need to unit test the implementation of full MERGE. Sounds scary. Better develop a frequently used subset, the UPSERT, and stop at that.
I agree, but the benefit/interest in HN isn't just in comment threads... for me, it's my primary source of interesting relevant information (e.g. as opposed to news sites, which are mainly interesting but irrelevant (in the grand scheme of things) information)... and sometimes, that's in comments, other times it's in the articles posted.
Isn't it time to lay off the "thieving slit eyes" narrative?
It's doubtful that the Obama admin would have gone this route. There have been quite a few stories that they shied away from such a drastic extension of the definition of 'Espionage'.

Pardoning Manning also doesn't quite with the idea of the (previous) US admin being too invested in punishing Wikileaks.
I recently looked at 1" sensor compact cameras, including several generations back, since they are still sold today. Main improvements in the sensor was backside illumination (same as in phone sensors, maybe phones were earlier) and sensors with DRAM attached as a cache for those 4K @100500 FPS insane videos. And technically, just attaching DRAM doesn't mean that sensor itself has changed. You can see in the same model lineup how manufacturer puts same exact sensor for several generations in row, improving other stuff. I guess in general sensors are at a limit, unless some breakthrough will happen. Phones improved extremely fast recently but still small optics are dark and AF is usually not great.
Gotta ask -- how did the next few weeks/months pan out?
“Statistics is a broad concept so don’t get too bogged down in the details of each of these videos. Instead, just make sure you can explain each of these concepts at the surface level.”

Lol, well now, there’s a recipe for success right there.
Are you suggesting "approximately zero people ever go" to Everest under an article about how Everest is overcrowded?
It’s part of their battle against sugar and type 2 diabetes.
The benefits (and costs) of corporate open source
When it comes down to it, we're not paid to code. We're paid to solve problems with code and if paying you $75/hr as a contractor to build me three webpages with CI/CD capabilities is it, then off you go.
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School climate strikes expected to be largest yet
US grid: losses are 5%. EU grid was in the same ballpark. The wiki page [0] is the source and was pretty much the best summary i could find when i was looking for it a while back. I'd love to read better material about it. Btw, losses seem to include theft. Wonder if much of a thing that still is.

> In general, losses are estimated from the discrepancy between power produced (as reported by power plants) and power sold to the end customers

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission#Lo...
He's weaving it in because the parent called it "a success", which is only true from your individual perspective, but not from a societal one. And some people want more from what they're doing than just personal gratification.
To me, what you mentioned is pretty obvious. A short conversation with someone can usually fuss out if they're making things up or reading a script they've memorized.

It's far easier for the interviewer and the interviewee. Instead, it's all about covering yourself as the interviewer so you adopt the new garbage industry standard and pretend those are sound metrics. When the metrics are not that telling if a new hire is bad, you have an out that it's the process, not your mistake.
> How would a nation state block access?

Make it illegal to enter your country with an unauthorized receiver like India does for Iridium and various satellite phone services.

Make a deal with the network and make it mandatory to use a local service provider or register SIM cards for visitors like Russia does for Iridium.
Well, interesting note, because on the last trip in Sri Lanks I was in just another Buddhist temple, and I remember almost nothing of it.
But then I was eating in a McDonalds nearby, and it was a really interesting. They had totally different menu and tastes, chairs and tables, peoples and ads, also no WC so I found it only at horse race track nearby. Not a mundane experience in any way.
Churches, temples and mountain views are all the same after a while. Small details in everyday people's life always different and makes yourself to take a fresh look at your daily life.
>”corpora of peoples faces have been insufficiently stocked with a particular racial group, in such cases people's faces might not register as faces..”

I’m not sure this is s good argument against the technology because there is a solution to this objection: they’ll improve it and ensure every face type is comparably recognized. It should be rejected on more basic principles.
Ronnybrook Dairy sells milk and milk products in thick glass bottles which you can return and get the 2 dollars back.
I still cannot believe how bad British trains are. They seem to ignore that functioning train systems exist, and just do it their own (broken) way.
> so google is pretty much oracle?

No. They play an entirely different league of evil. Google is orders of magnitude more evil. Hint: it is very easy to live without oracle.
> If you still needed a reason to spend money on a compact camera, it would have been for zoom reach, as even the best smartphone cameras could not provide usable zoom image quality beyond a 5x factor. This has now changed with the Huawei P30 Pro and its innovative zoom system that uses folded optics and a super-resolution algorithm, which finally makes usable 10x zoom on smartphones a reality. The zoom on its own will make the new Huawei an extremely tempting option for many mobile photographers, but the camera performs very well in almost all other areas as well.

To enable up to 10x usable (!) zoom, this phone has three lenses, the longest of which is positioned vertically along the body of the phone, with a mirror reflecting light to a sensor that is positioned perpendicular to the screen, at the bottom of the phone:

___
/ \
| / |
| /<----- light
| /| |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | | ^
| | | |
| | | lens focal length
| | | |
| | | v
| | |
| | |
| | |
| v |
|=====| sensor
\___/

The advantages of this phone's camera are rooted in physics, not software.

--

EDITS: (1) adjusted the diagram to make it a bit nicer-looking; (2) replaced the word "optical" with "usable" in the second paragraph (in my mind, the two words have been interchangeable for describing zoom lenses, until very recently).
Tripadvisor crawler to generate kml with images
I really wish they’d include some idea of how much it’ll cost to purchase the service.
Few western countries have a majority votes takes all system, that does not necessarily make them undemocratic. Both Spain and Norway that I know we'll have proportional systems where the number of votes are not necessarily aligned with the number of seats in parliament. A vote in one region might be worth more than another.

Proportional systems are designed from what I understand to balance the power between the populous cities and the country side.
This is sort of a grey area. If your images are low-resolution & your book is educational, I don't think anyone will sue (although Oracle might if they don't like you for some other reason, & a couple other vendors have a history of doing the same).

If you want to be very safe, either get permission or redraw the interface by hand in a way that removes any trademarkable icons.
You’re vastly underestimating what the significance of what this is part of. High Tc superconductivity was thought to be essentially dead. Extremely few significant new results for decades. Now this and magic angle twisted graphene and some other stuff. It’s really really cool. It’s like we’re watching an entire field thawing and lurching forward.
HSR on the coast are dedicated passenger lines
It's also cyclic because fewer women that the CEO has to interact with will be hired.
A well-tested, regularly audited web browser that is subjected to hacking competitions with monetarily significant rewards.

However, at this point I think we are WAY off the original topic. :-)
Well, we can disagree about when AOT and value types became critical for Java (and I would argue that they clearly weren't back then because Java has done spectacularly without them), but Java is getting both soon.
My read of Nadella's early changes to Microsoft was that they were pretty unpopular at first (Really? We're going to put cloud tech ahead of Windows?) and also that he made no bones about letting go of people who didn't get in line with his vision.

I do think he's doing the right thing, but I could also see an argument that he's "ruthless" when it comes to driving Microsoft in the way he sees best.
I have zero interest in auditing cargo.
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Perhaps the tone of JdeBP wasn't great, but they had a point. On the other hand, eropple's comment tone wasn't ideal either and they consistently miss the original point of systemd requiring dbus. Unfortunately, I am unable to check this since JdeBP post's have been censored.
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> So the banking system is a free market in the sense that theoretically participants could choose to leave if they wanted to. However, there is also a very overt layer of government decision making and control. The government putting a finger on the scale in a very fundamental way.

You say this as if China were innocent in manipulating banks to control their banking system. This is not true. [1]

>The US government is hamstringing the ability of its own economy to organise around profitable ventures. Instead it is encouraging Ubers and Lyfts.

I disagree with this. I believe the Ubers and Lyfts (and Teslas) are caused by investors wanting to get in on the ground floor of the next Apple. To support your argument, please explain how the US Government is preventing its own economy to organize around profitable ventures. You may use citations.

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/22/china-banks-record-lending-s...
That's a good point, wonder if they can even open the side windows to look out?

I think the windows on trains generally serve to give situational awareness at the station, once you are up to speed reacting to unexpected impediments isn't so time critical since the train isn't likely to stop fast enough anyway.
It's fine for any low volume stuff like conversation. My guess is that it has a fixed mic gain that does not adjust for loud environments. Not sure though.