skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's always fascinating how people here generalize an entire continent's major cities by anecdotal evidence from one city. This can also be observed by comments from people clearly living in SV or NYC - none of those apply to suburb-dwelling me in the South.

I used to live in a ~350k city in Germany. It has public transport - given the college in town, probably also one of "average" quality. Unless you live very close to a tram, you are bound to use a bus which will get you into the city center (~3 mi, 10 min by car), which was scheduled every 30 mins and took another 30 mins. From there, you might get a train (or another bus!), often times scheduled in such a way that you'd have to wait another 30 or so minutes for it.

For me, getting to see a friend in the next town over (~15mi) would take me 25 mins by car, including traffic, and 1hr to 90mins by public transport. Going to work, a solid hour by car due to really bad traffic, took 90mins to 2 hrs using public transport (~30 miles).

Not to mention common trips that take me from store A to B and back home - every single stop requires you to wait for a bus and often change lines as well.

Don't get me wrong - I'd love more public transport in the US (we have some, but it is horrendous where I live). But even for Europe, saying you don't need a car is a very narrow-minded outlook.
Are you sure? Because the first thing I Googled seems to say otherwise
Thank you. Still a little unclear on how the code maps to actual x86_64 assembler though. There's generally no "return" value - so I'm curious what the machine code would cmp on.

I suppose one puts the value to write in a registry, then if the XCHG succeed, the "return" value will be in the registry. And the only way to detect success is if the value has changed (which is OK, overwriting a value with the same value... Is a logical noop...).

I suppose I could try something like the above, or:

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/atomic/atomic/exchange/

And look at the output...
Like being forced by the gods to do nothing but repeatedly push a boulder up a mountain for all of eternity?

The Myth of Sisyphus is the name of Camus’ book about suicide, and Sisyphus’ plight is its central metaphor.
I don't believe signalling is not needed for bike-only infrastructure. I don't know of any cities that have signals where bikes are separated from cars.

Bike infrastructure is cheaper in other ways. You need a much smaller surface for the same amount of traffic, and paved surfaces degrade at a much slower rate with lighter traffic.

You also don't need the sliproads, the same levels of crash barrier, and so on. It's just not a serious comparison.
Separately from including python, I've always thought it would be nice if TextEdit had some built-in syntax highlighting, that activated automatically for the right file extensions.

I'm generally against bloating simple apps, but you'd never see this unless you opened a .py file (or .sh, .rb, etc), and if you open a .py file, you probably want syntax highlighting.
I had "run flats" on a Honda minivan years ago. When it came time to replace them, I was presented with the option of new run flats for $800+, or traditional tires for less than half that. If the replacement cost of these tires is exorbitant, they will fail in the marketplace.
Today, you can buy tires in varies tread wear rating. You CAN buy tires which will last you a really long time; their traction though will be correspondingly lower.

Tire design (and purchase, for an informed consumer) is a compromise between price, grip, wear, and conditions (temperature, rain/snow/mud/etc).

My friend buys tires that last him ~7+ years, which for him is a lifetime of the vehicle.
But if a kid ever jumps in front us on the street, I'll rather be in my summer performance tires that last me ~3 years (or less if I have fun:).
Tuition was never the main revenue source for universities, hence why students are paying such a high burden
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I had no idea Airdrop is this popular. Do we have numbers on this? Does it have competition? How is the competition doing?
The alternative to CFCs as a refrigerant was Sulphur Dioxide and Ammonia etc., using it saved lives (With obviously unforseen consequences that we now know about)
Detailed overview of spaCy: the NLP library built for production
I know you are joking, but this already exists. I can get a cheap table mount for two monitors for $40 from Amazon, or I can get a really nice one for anything from $500 to $2000 (HumanScale's configurator has some great options [1])

1: https://www.humanscale.com/products/mflex-m10-monitor-arm-co...
India set to order Uber, Ola, other taxi aggregators to go electric
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I remember when I first moved to a city with real public transport. I was interested to try commuting by train/bus/bike. But I had lived my entire life up to that point in car-dependent areas and pictured the experience of getting to work without my portable metal shelter to be very close to what you're picturing, a battle with the elements. I figured it would be challenging and may be a bit crazy to live without a car.

To my surprise, it was a total non-issue. Hundreds of thousands of people got to work without a car in my city and still managed to get to work looking perfect. The vast majority of days, an extra 20-30 minutes outside was a blessing. The very few days it wasn't I kept an extra shirt and pair of shoes in the office. And if I got a little wet on the way to work, so did everyone else. And this is was in a city with rain, hail, snow, wind, heat, and humidity. It just wan't a problem and there was no way to justify owning a car while I had 2 working legs.

All that to say, I know where you're coming from. I've been in that head space myself. But if people in NY, London, and Paris can deal with a little weather and still make SVP, so can you.
Do you think they're incorrect to frame this activity as predominantly performed by teens?
If the defect rate is the same across languages then you're not measuring the defect rate of the programming language. You're measuring the defect rate of the developers!
The Prefect open source workflow engine
And putting them deep in a shelf like that ... I mean, anyone who cared about sound reproduction could hear that hollow resonance sound ...
The whole story smacks of simply not taking aviation seriously. The use of a Ford Pinto is laughable on its own, but that bad welds caused the airframe to fail reeks of a sloppy attitude.

To look at it, you can see that the car's shape is going to fight the airflow it flies through, and that the distribution of weight is being dealt with as an afterthought by the very nature of the design.

If it failed at weld points, you have to figure the the stress and fatigue of modifying the flight to deal with turbulent buffeting probably played a role.
Which common vegetables? Can you be specific? At my local WF, not only do I feel their vegetable section to be complete, but the quality is much higher than other regional/national chains.

>I get the impression it caters to people for whom cooking for themselves is a special occasion and not a daily thing.

I'm really confused, you think WF caters to people who don't cook for themselves, but you feel like it's missing condiments and sauces? That's weird, people who cook for themselves probably aren't looking to smother their food with ketchup.
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Australia is a globally influential country with high per capita wealth and emissions. Australia has the capacity to show leadership to other similarly-sized countries, by incrementally addressing (potentially at economic cost to itself, a wealthy country) a global challenge for which everyone is responsible, regardless of the size of the country they live in.
worthless to who?

seriously, who decides what I value? Should I decide for you what is worthless?

don't dismiss this is as a flippant comment because people with this belief will walk us straight into the hands of the political class who will jump at the opportunity to tell us what is and what is not.

You can be damn sure they will use all the marketed tested FUD to have people climbing aboard. Punch all the right buttons, have the correct statement to any challenge, and next were back the day of where the message is wholly managed. We already see regimes which operate this way but many just laugh it off "THAT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN HERE", well this is how you get there , by giving the power to decide to someone else.
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The data from the article is surprising even after taking this into account, since public transport is generally a lot faster than walking. However, I suspect that people who are driving will normally start and/or finish well outside central London thus making the journey worth it.

I had a play around with some travel times in London on google maps (using the look-ahead function by one day):

Shortish journey (Waterloo to St Pancras)

- Drive: 12-35 mins

- Walk: 46 mins

- PT: 27 mins

Longish journey (Wimbledon to Arsenal)

- Drive: 50-120 mins

- Walk: 4hrs

- PT: 56 mins
If you mean the link in my comment, there is no paywall.

It's called "The Hand Licking Incident." If you search that, my article should be the first result. You may also find it copied elsewhere. One of those copies is with permission and proper attribution. Some others are without permission/attribution.

It was discussed on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18842009

See also tips on what you can do on your end to correct a 403 error:

https://www.ionos.com/digitalguide/hosting/technical-matters...
Good!

It's a worthless rag full of content designed to get a rise from its readership, with scant regard for the truth.
I personally don't think it's that black and white. Not everyone has the same training in best practices for software engineering, and this tool looks like it places some constraints on the anarchy that can result, without requiring huge amounts of front-loading.
I think Sandybridge or Skylake, made this exact optimization that in turn speeds up execution of vtables and interpreters by reading through a pointer so it might indeed be faster on some architectures.

Your point stands though, that linear array access will have similar performance everywhere. Where as LL will have a wider envelope due to speculative loads.
Ditto, but it's a dramatic photo of a duck.
Abusing SHA-1 collisions for Chromium updates
Shout out to CorsixTH making theme hospital wonderful to play.
I'm going to hold myself back from writing a long post about Rupert Murdoch and Newscorp in Australia.
Generally Australia is pretty free, even without explicit freedom of speech. The military is very competent and retrained in its actions, however in my life I've only seen an increase in nationalism related to the military. The right wing love to drape themselves in the flag and related militaria.
I think the afghan war crimes by special forces should be of genuine public interest to Australians. And I think the application of Top Secret to government documents about these matters is the real problem.
Its a problem for the public and democracy when you can use something like a Classification as way to cover up misdeeds.

I feel sorry for the guy going down for the leaks.
Where do you see it was they were gaming the system? Their site was clearly popular. From what I see they were targeted based on the perception of that content’s value.
Hmm, seems to me using both is optimal

horrible psuedocode follows...

cryptchoice = len(username) % 3

switch cryptchoice:
case 0:
pepper = pepper[1]
salt = email

case 1:
pepper = pepper[0]
salt = creation_time

case 2:
pepper = pepper[2]
salt = username

bcrypt(salt+password+pepper)
As a looker customer seeing this news makes me very uneasy. We have invested a ton in their platform by building three of our core products on their embedded version. The thought that our future relies now more in Google's product decisions is scary.
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Those items really don't seem like grocery items to me, I think you might be confusing grocery and supermarket?
google does. thats literally the point of pagerank, was for them to decide. thats what differentiated them from other search engines, was evaluating link quality differently.

I know they have taken over the market, but it used to be, if a search engine didnt do a good job of sifting and ranking information, people would move to a new one. infoseek, webcrawler, yahoo, lycos, altavista, hotbot, ask jeeves, msn, alltheweb, teoma.

Youre arguing against the business model itself, which is that the company is RANKING content. It CANT be unbiased.

Think about it not as pushing things down, but choosing what to surface to the top. Hopefully cream. They have two tasks, find good content bring it to the top, and detect bad content impersonating good content and punish it for fraud.
APS battery fire highlights safety risks, lack of knowledge
I'm not sure I understand your contention. Pan-Germanicism was about uniting ethnic Germans. Are you implying that there's no ethnic difference between a German and an Ashkenazi Jew or a Romani?
Apparently you didn't bother to read it.
The extremely salinity of the dead sea also could be a byproduct of those bacteria that lived there in past. Eventually these micro organisms may have died after consuming their primary resource they lived off.
That's not correct... Wildfire and Adometry are two examples of products on the ads and analytics space that were killed after acquisition.
How would this work? As far as I know neither of them owns the vehicles in their “fleet”.

Do they just provide incentives for drivers to buy electric vehicles? Or is the government actually expecting them to put company-owned electric vehicles on the streets?
Location history is one of the areas where Google has employed dark patterns.

For example:

>Ways that Google tricks users into sharing location

Android users are pushed through a variety of techniques:

Deceptive click-flow: The click-flow when setting up an Android device pushes users into enabling “Location History” without being aware of it.

Hidden default settings: When setting up a Google account, the Web & App activity settings are hidden behind extra clicks and enabled by default..

Misleading and unbalanced information: Users are not given sufficient information when presented with choices, and are misled about what data is collected and how it is used. Information about location data being used for advertising, for example, is hidden away behind extra clicks.

Repeated nudging: Users are repeatedly asked to turn on “Location History” when using different Google services even if they decided against this feature when setting up their phone.

Bundling of services and lack of granular choices: If the user wants features such as Google Assistant and photos sorted by location, Google turns on invasive location tracking.

https://www.forbrukerradet.no/side/google-manipulates-users-...

More alarmingly, when users attempted to turn off location tracking:

>In a wonderfully clear example of “dark patterns” designed to mislead users and retain control over their data, Google continues tracking your location even when you turn off Location History and are told that “the places you go are no longer stored.” Google says it tells users, but its disclosure is the bare minimum and users are discouraged from further interference with data collection.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/13/google-keeps-a-history-of-...
To be fair to LookML, it does some great things (kind of like SASS vs CSS). It's great defining constraints in a single variable and then being able to reuse those constraints in any query. It's also wonderful being able to set both default and global constraints: the first can be overwritten, but the second can't.

I was once part of a project where we had certain users and payments we would flag as invalid (for fraud or other reasons). We wanted those records in our data warehouse for very specific reports, but never wanted anyone who was consuming reports to be able to include them in final counts. A global constraint in the LookML definition was a perfect answer. I could still run specific reports directly against Redshift, but there was no concern that a less technical manager would get confused.

I'm not associated with Looker in any way, but have really enjoyed working with their product. I was really hoping they'd stay on the path of independence and IPO, but I can't fault them for taking billions of dollars and calling it a day...
A good looking Markdown app with syncing and clients for macOS, Linux, iPhone and iPad? I have been looking for this for years.
geekhack.org has a section called 'making stuff together' which is helpful.
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Collection of Deep Learning Models for TensorFlow/PyTorch in Jupyter Notebooks
Gotta wonder how many airdroppers are sharing photos with Exif data.
The Mirror, Star, Express, etc used to be the 'awful' lower-class newspapers.

Times change. Or perhaps there's some kind of 'class inflation'.

But really, today's Mail is all celeb ad-photorials(tm) and drivel.
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It's impossible not to avoid "limiting the reach" somehow because a search engine cannot simply deliver to the user the list of all pages that it has crawled which contain the search words, in an arbitrary order.

Google is just responding to what people want; the search engine has taken a lot of flak over the years for being spammed, and alternatives have been cropping up. Though "to google" has become a household word, Google cannot rest on their laurels and take that entrenchment for granted.
I've been using an ergo infinity for a few years but this is the first time I've seen a "gergo". I just bought one! I like that it gets rid of all the keys I don't use on the ergo. Namely, the num layer and the far reaching thumb cluster keys. Everything else is on a layer anyway.
In my experience productivity is strongly correlated with the quality of frameworks and libraries that are available to a language. Java as a language might be fine but batshit insane frameworks like JSF really drag your productivity down. There are also solid libraries available but they are often too complicated and hard to use. Languages built on top of the JVM often have very very thin wrappers that increase the usability hundredfold.
Do you make a separate account for every comment?
> Is it a processing solution? Not really, since it suggests you can offload the heavy lifting to an engine, eg. spark. An orchestrator? Apparently not, because that's a complementary product. So... it's like, a configuration management tool?

I actually had the same questions when I was first introduced to Kedro! In my case, I didn't understand the value proposition over something like Apache Beam. After using it, I feel like Kedro provides:

1. a consistent structure across analytics pipelines. It's easy to start and pick up other Kedro projects after you've
used it once.
2. convenient and consistent I/O via the data catalog. The fact that we can configure and swap out data sources at ease
is a huge plus, and we also rely heavily on data versioning.
3. easy integration with existing frameworks (PySpark, vanilla Pandas, Dask, Airflow, Luigi, etc.)

Additionally, it aligns well with standards we have internally, like data layering. (edit: Apparently this is also part of the FAQ: https://kedro.readthedocs.io/en/latest/06_resources/01_faq.h... Who knew!)

> Personally, I feel mystified why you would use something like this rather than a more mature product like say, Spark, that natively supports clustering, etc, which is what I would really like to see in the FAQ.

I'd say 80-90% of projects at QuantumBlack use (Py)Spark, so we've built out `SparkDataSet`s, `pandas_to_spark` and `spark_to_pandas` utility decorators, etc. There's a brief integration tutorial here: https://github.com/quantumblacklabs/kedro/tree/develop/kedro...

Full disclosure: I'm a data engineer at QuantumBlack (if it wasn't obvious already!)
Why doesn't the system automatically pass core files to someone who knows how to deal with them. I work on an embedded system and our system to get core files back from the users has meant a lot of crashes go from "no idea what happened, closed" to "found the bug and fixed it".

Of course there are security implications. Developers are not allowed to see core files from real customers unless the customer agrees. However our test department and our beta tests agree to this. I don't think anyone has ever looked into a core file to see sensitive data not related to the crash but the possibility exists.
This seems a lot like the “personal responsibility” talk from Republicans when informed that many people are struggling. Well they made their choices!

Hmm, could it be that the system is set up in a certain way that most would make these choices? And does that benefit society?

If DailyMail had not made those choices but someone else did, then THEY wouls be the subject of the news.

Unless you are saying that there is absolutely no reason why there is a monopoly in those areas.
It would limit their fleet sizes to 2.5x the number of electric vehicles. Depending on electric vechile adoption they might not need to do much. Presumably they would pay x$/month to EV owners in their fleets, deduct some fees from IC car owners, and or simply require higher customer approval etc.
I really enjoy the “Overlooked” series of obits [0]. It’s interesting for some of them to go back and see who the NYT printed obits for on the day/week of the death. It’s not as if the sections are full of even more famous (if not accomplished) persons — on an average day, it seems that there were plenty of obits for people who were just relatively well-known in high society. Such that if the NYT had a better focus on science back then, a few of the overlooked women would have gotten at least a brief (though not the many who were overlooked or ignored by their own field at the time.)

I think Turing is probably the most famous in his own time to have been in “Overlooked”. Charlotte Bronte also has been featured but she died in the 19th century.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/overlooked
Ethanol too. That's why you need to be careful if you have an older car and live in one of those states that does E85.
Thanks! I'm new to HN and I totally missed your comment. The idea really was to keep the codebase as small and easy to read as possible so it could be modified as needed for more complex games. Definitely took inspiration from puzzlescript, but yeah their codebase is massively complicated.

The level editor right now is really lacking, a nicer UI would indeed be pretty easy to do. I'll look into improving it, or if people want to contribute that would be cool too.
With the amount of censorship going on these days

We might have to do IP over pidgon
and BBS mail
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Technically yes but datastudio is also listed as a cloud product. Datastudio actually lives in an intersection between GMP, cloud and gsuite
Isn’t the default “contacts only”?