skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s hard to put a value on what lowering ambient sound levels in a city might be worth. Or overall even how many lives it could save. Or productivity and wellbeing increases due to lower stress levels.

A minor noise from moving cars? How about this horrifying little marketing piece from Nissan [1] about their new “Canto” noise they are going to emit?

Besides, these noise levels are calibrated to be loud enough in a bustling city at high noon. They are not dynamic based on time of day, or location, or actual ambient sound levels. So, in other words, they will be loud and obnoxious, particularly outside of the city, where ambient is almost 20dB lower.

[1] - https://youtu.be/p4cjPk8mqEM
I want perfect security, but I don't want perfect "security". Please allow me to explain.

I find it particularly frustrating that in conversations about security it's difficult to differentiate between the different uses of the word.

There's user security against other users (same system), criminals (remote), criminals (physical access), large entities (ie governments and corporations), and probably a few others.

Then there's owner (or admin?) security, for example IT vs employees who do dumb things and other similar scenarios.

There's also vendor security against user control of devices. Sometimes this is to protect a walled garden, but other times it's just a cheap way to prevent damage to their brand if clueless users do dumb things and then publicly blame the company for their own negligence.

Arguably the first category (user security) is a good thing, but those designing the devices fall almost exclusively into the second two (I would argue mostly bad) categories.
I see this from a high-level.

There's a power-struggle going on where one body is taking an action another body feels they should have control or at least input into.

That this power-struggle occurs and especially that it happens in public is healthy, IMO.

But ArbCom should really be looking itself in the mirror right now. The fact is, under their watch Fram was free to be a huge asshole to contributors for some 15 years. ArbCom suggests that someone should have told them they needed to do something. But that seems like a very weak excuse for the senior conduct body. You are the ones who need to be setting and enforcing the rules that allow for contributions!

IMO no organization should tolerate assholes, so they got the result right but clearly did not do it the right way. I think ArbCom needs to handle these cases, at least a decade quicker than in this case.
It's like playing an MMORPG-style videogame where the developers keep raising the level cap. The higher the cap, the worse off people who are just starting are (and why in those games developers keep having to provide a "catch up mechanics", like a scroll to rush you to level cap, or making stuff easier to obtain. In the real world that's a lot harder to do though).

Probably made worse by the vastly higher amount of dual income household, so someone with just 1 income is proportionally worse off.

A single unskilled worker vs a couple of high skill workers, competing for supply & demand against each other...yeah, the former's not gonna have fun.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20315086
Nvidia is still not supported. Probably not anytime soon either.
Which parts of the article aren't applicable to Firefox? It seems like most of these idioms should give advantages to SpiderMonkey (if it's still called that) and V8.
>Because the low-wage jobs that left here are considered really good jobs in China. We’ve lifted a billion, two billion people out of poverty over the past 30 years.

This sort of shit is the worst. People in China doing well is not our problem, just like people in Germany doing well is not our problem, and there is something deeply racist at the root of this suggestion, as if poor people in China are stealing wealth that rightly belongs to Americans. This is not how productivity works. The people stealing from Americans are rich Americans.
Living standards have gone down and life has become much more economically insecure for most working people as a result of the policies that economists recommend. This includes globalization, free trade, low taxes, destruction of labor unions, and the like. The authors support these policies. These changes have been accompanied by a political system that no longer represents the left behind. So of course the losers are not compensated; that is by design, not accident. I think we have the choice to either become more equal or face increasing political instability and viciousness - and the latter is more likely, witness Trump, Brexit, etc. I have lost respect for economic analysis because it has been so out of touch with political and social consequences as to be hugely destructive to the fabric of society. Much more of this and I hate to see what will become of our society.
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I don't disagree, but the point is that you can. With closed source, it's not about convoluted or not. There's a point in which you just cannot proceed debugging.
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I feel when something becomes so ubiquitous, even though it's obviously inferior, it takes a bit more push than one patent - especially if the patent is mainly about encoding, and barely incidentally about typography. And I don't think it's the case that nobody knew capitals were hard on the eyes. The whole reason why lower case letters exist is because roman allcapswithnospaces are horrible.
I don’t think you fully understand comparative advantage then.
@downvoters: you're right, despite i was annoyed by seeing the same article submitted 5 times in a few days: it wasn't noticed by the community and as such it counts as a new submission.

Thanks for the feedback!
presumably this darknet service to decrypt RSA is being used for nefarious purposes. i suppose you could prevent yourself from having access to the stuff people are decrypting and hope some kind of safe-harbor law would protect you.
Da Nah na Nah, 'Da 'Nah 'na 'Nah - Duuunnna dun dun. Love it. EDIT: Could someone reply with anything, suggest 'your drunk' or something. It's just that some people are saying I'm marked as dead whatever that means. I'm rather hoping that it's HN that's done that and not anyone else!
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Exactly.

Whether you agree or disagree with their position, they're not Wall Street style, short-term optimizers.
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There are already so many Dockerfiles out there and guides based on them. Plus you get filesystem layering, the cgroups, process limits ... I have a feeling it would be possible to build a container system that's Docker API compatible, but uses zfs and jails under the surface. I think that's what the old "unmaintained" port did a few years back.
You're correct, the Soviets outproduced Germany as well as being willing to run much higher losses. E.g. in the Battle of Kursk, the Soviets outnumbered the Germans by x2 in just about everything (tanks, planes, men). They won, but lost x2-x4 in tanks, planes, men.

In either case, terrible times that we should be thankful not to have been born into.
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From the article, there seemed to be multiple instances where users reported that they were harassed by Fram across the site after having a dispute with him.

That goes well beyond merely being blunt or rude.

>BU Rob13, a former member of ArbCom who recently retired from administration, said that Fram’s behavior toward him, including “taking shots” at him in an edit summary and following him to unrelated cases, felt like harassment.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/wikiped...

The statement the powers that be released would seem to bear this out.

>In a statement to BuzzFeed News, the organization said it had leveled the ban to maintain "respect and civility" on the platform. "Uncivil behavior, including harassment, threats, stalking, spamming, or vandalism, is against our Terms of Use, which are applicable to anyone who edits on our projects," it said.
Gyroplanes (autogyros) are regarded as a relatively safe and stable type of general-aviation aircraft.

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/46103/what-are-...

There was quite a discussion on rotary forum about safety.

https://www.rotaryforum.com/threads/gyrocopter-safety-and-re...
Their inventor died in a Douglas DC-2.

The instability causing most of the crashes is now understood and prevented by construction. They are now considered no more dangerous than other light aircraft. That means that to be safe they must be operated by a well-trained pilot in safe weather conditions.

Some frequent causes of fixed-wing aircraft fatalities, such as engine failure, are much less worrisome in an autogyro, because they can land unpowered at very low speed.
Weird question considering the title of this news forum.
> Morse code, which has no lower case.

Sure, but Morse code doesn't have upper case either. It doesn't have case! It just has one set of letters and numbers and punctuation marks, it doesn't specify what case the letters should be represented in when they are not written in Morse code.

In my own case (pun intended) I used to copy Morse code by writing it down in my own weird mix of lowercase letters and semi-cursive writing.
In an April speech in New York, FBI director Christopher Wray described the reason for the scrutiny of ethnic Chinese scientists. “China has pioneered a societal approach to stealing innovation in any way it can from a wide array of busi­ness­es, universities and organisations,” he told the Council on Foreign Relations. Every­one’s in on it, Wray said: China’s intelligence services; its state-owned and what he called “ostensibly” private enter­prises; and the 130,000 Chinese graduate students and researchers who work and study in the US every year. “Put plainly, China seems determined to steal its way up the economic ladder at our expense.”

This has been going since long before the Trump administration, probably all the way back to the Clinton one.
This reminds me of Nazi era exodus of Jews. Strategically, it's not smart to marginalize or eliminate a large portion of your engineering/scientist class. It certainly contributed to Germany losing the war. Escaped German and European European scientists and engineers were crucial to the Manhattan project and later to ICMB and NASA rocket development. Indeed, without their Jewish and non-Aryan scientists, German nuclear efforts were almost comically bad. We couldn't have done it without the Nazis...

Discrimination of Chinese scientists could have the exact opposite effect of preventing supposed Chinese IP theft. It risks pushing out top Chinese talent who will return to China and develop atomic bomb- level breakthroughs.

Much better alternative - offer them top jobs with excellent pay and recruit from top Chinese university programs.
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The article tell us: "You had the same thing with the Industrial Revolution that concentrated more and more wealth into the hands of capital. "

So, your identification of causation with the end of the gold standard it's not at all clear.

In a way, inflation can be re-distributive because is good for the debtor and bad for the lender.

Maybe, is time to accept that wealth accumulates, money call money, and the leveler are wars and disasters or some kind of political action. In other words, the system is not stable.
All caps means no ascenders or descenders, so actually less vertical space per line.
> Wouldn't it [have] been better than instead of a strike that they had a statement with a hashtag that all those striking people posted that day and that was all.

This is, in essence, how the action will go down.
All things in balance.

The problem with strict democracy is that everyone ultimately votes to give themselves a raise.

Truly competing oligarchs (ironic, given article) are certainly more democratic than Russian-style oligarchy.

Edit: To the knee-jerk, I ask what the alternative is? Create a government-adjudicated omni-system to prevent democratic meddling, without loophole and completely impartial?

I personally think Citizens United should be repealed and caps put in place, but let's not kid ourselves that would solve the problem.
Your argument against minority rule is to invoke... the courts? "Majority rule is great. Except when it does stuff I don't like, in which case I'll lean on minority rule by an infinitesimal number of unaccountable dudes in black robes to override it."

Constitutions are not enough. This isn't an academic question. Throughout the country's history, majorities have consistently trampled the rights of minorities. To me, majority rule looks an awful lot like rampant injustice. Minority rule looks like defense.
The term wiretap is a term of art and as such is bound to be used imprecisely by people who aren't experts in that particular domain. Getting upset over somebody saying 'wiretap' instead of 'pen register' really exemplifies the worst aspects of socializing with engineers and lawyers.

As you allude to, seeing the forest instead of the trees reveals that people who are upset don't care how any of it works and they don't care which terms are assigned to which concepts. They care that their privacy is being violated. And no, they certainly don't care about court opinions concerning metadata not being data or call records not deserving privacy. The distinction between wiretaps, pen registers, and any other bullshit they dream up is not important to most people, so dragging the conversation into the weeds over the differences between the terms is not productive because it's a distinction without a meaningful difference (unless you're inclined to hassle privacy advocates.)
> In other words, inflation is a policy choice to combat sticky wages, which (if you think that's a problem), the solution is to, apparently, screw labor by devaluing their wages from under them.

This is complete misunderstanding of how this works. Inflation does not increase the real return from stock markets. Inflation erodes also capital. Capital must work just to stay still.

Inflation or not, the wages reach equilibrium. You can't improve the aggregate sum of wages by deceasing inflation. If nominal wages are too high the equilibrium is found trough periods of unemployment. Small inflation keeps unemployment and friction in job markets in check.

Small inflation keeps income inequality in check.

https://www.cepweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/CEP_WP_Inf...

>Inflation and Income Inequality in Developed Economies

>We find a U-shaped link between long-run inflation and income inequality. Low inflation rates are associated with higher income inequality. As inflation goes up, inequality decreases, reaches a minimum with an inflation rate of about 13%, and then starts rising again
In the real world those are called "redistributive policies" and work quite well, especially for the economy as a whole.

http://www.levyinstitute.org/publications/can-redistribution...
Part of the issue is the trend of integrating parts that used to be easily replaceable. My first phone/laptop each had batteries that could be swapped in under 10 seconds with no tools. My latest do not.
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Among natural-looking programming languages, my favorite currently is ArnoldC: https://github.com/lhartikk/ArnoldC

https://i.imgur.com/XGB5oLG.jpg
Different source
This may have been a mistake by Ricardo, but not one that points towards less trade as optimal. Indeed, export-led development (implying more trade openness) is the one reliable way we know about of going from the "coffee beans" to the "microchips" stage of development.
This has to be the worst headline I've read in years from a large tech blog. Makes me question the site's overall quality control.

Should it have been, "You know whose kit for 5G is better than Huawei? Go on, have a guess, says UK mobile player Three"
The explanation I've always heard was that writing "god" with a lowercase G would have been unacceptable in the 1850s. To a lesser extent, writing personal names without a capital is still seen as a bit odd and potentially an insult.
I posted both, hoping to get someone at Microsoft’s attention. I live with this problem every day at work.
So the posting is right on time
> Total electricity use in America, for example, has been essentially flat for almost a decade. For decades prior to the Great Recession plastics consumption in the US grew more than 50 percent faster than the overall economy did, but since 2009 the situation has reversed, with plastic use growing almost 15 percent slower than the economy as a whole.

For most other natural resources, the rate of consumption growth hasn’t just slowed down; it’s actually gone negative. Year after year, America is now generally using less total steel, copper, gold, fertilizer, water, cropland, timber, paper, and other physical building blocks of an economy.

Does this trend stay if you look at global data instead of only the USA? The most obvious cause of the lowered resource need would IMO not be dematerialisation but outsourcing to other countries.

If all your factories are moved to China, you can certainly get yourself stellar environment ratings in the USA. However, this won't actually help the planet in any way.
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That really was weird. I just read the post and this comment and couldn't figure out what the point was. I used an Atari that also had the double quote on the 2 and completely forgot that's not where I type them now.
Moral panic.
I was also quite impressed by the construction of Dell's 2-in-1 devices.
Exploiting Google's SEO was the plan from the very beginning. They just did an excellent job of it.
All: the theme is divisive, but this is a substantive and interesting article and therefore on topic for HN. If you comment, take care to do so in the spirit of the site: thoughtfully and curiously. And if you haven't lately, would you mind reviewing the site guidelines to get a refresher? We've raised the bar a notch or two. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I hate to post these admonitions, but there has been an uptick of nationalistic flamewar everywhere, and that's a problem for HN. It's unwelcome here, unnecessary regardless of your views, and we ban accounts that post it, so please don't.
What features in a human language would make it the optimal basis for a computer language?
My brother is a med student on the south side of Chicago, and he has been tell me about how much of a real shock it is to see how far behind some of the children are even by age 8. This isn't a lack of summer camp. It is illiteracy, completely stunted intellectual development, that is so far behind, it is obvious at the age, the child has 0 chance of competing in the US economy.
The French Nuclear eventually needs replaced by something, either more nuclear or renewable, as it's bearing its end of life.

That makes them not too different from any other nation, and they've made the same decision as every other nation, which is that nuclear is too expensive and slow to be considered.

So I agree that other things should be done as well but unless someone has some secret method of building cheap nuclear that they're not sharing then France will spend 120 Billion to replace nuclear with renewables because the alternative would cost even more.
Wernher von Braun and the 1600 Germans who were taken out of Germany by the US in Operation Paperclip to do 'ICMB and NASA rocket development' were also (and it seems you're implying exclusively) 'Jewish and non-Aryan scientists'? That's not what I'm seeing in the wiki, correct if it's wrong instead of downvoting please.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
Expect the part where Fram explicitly harassed a member of the community. Linus might be an asshole, but he didn't go around following a specific comitter and making their life harder for it.
By convention on Stack Overflow and other Stack Exchange sites, voting works differently on the meta.* sites.

On the main sites, downvoting means "this is a bad question or answer" or "this answer is incorrect".

On the meta sites, downvoting means "I disagree with this".

https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/270/167210
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Probably it was the false friend "hasard" which, in French, means: chance, randomness.
Wow, that really is absolutely horrifying [1]. The people advocating for this must have no idea the hell they will be putting us all through. Or they work for the oil companies.

Advanced pedestrian avoidance systems would prevent more injuries than this joke. This regulation shows such a complete lack of vision or respect. So glad I got my EV before this became mandatory.

[1] - https://youtu.be/QaxykqCkCjg
I haven't used Confluence Question, but I use Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket every day, and search is also the limiting factor of all of those product.

Jira search is useless, you have to use filters and memory of dates to get a set of issues small enough for you to search manually.

The search in Confluence can best be summed up as "Here's a PDF". For some weird reason Confluence can search PDF sort of okay. It's typically not what you want, but because Confluence can search PDFs better than normal Confluence pages, PDFs are what you get in 75% of your searches.

Atlassians continued failure to deliver a half decent search feature in any of their products is fascinating. I honestly don't mind their products, they're fine for our needs, except you can't depend on search.
The people doing professional book design or handwriting long letters and the people designing systems for transmitting occasional short messages long distances had different priorities.

A telegram is a short enough message that being hard to read isn’t really a bottleneck. If it costs a day’s wages to send a couple sentences, the recipient is going to be able to spend a couple minutes on figuring out what it says. People weren’t sending novels around by telegraph.
I haven't been very active on there in years, but I might put it more simply. SO was more fun 10 years ago. As it got more popular, average question quality went down. This gives too much room for the primary purpose to be a site to criticize the quality of the question.
It says non-English but more specifically the spellings are American for the most part.

At least the one’s I’ve used, apart from BBC BASIC, and ZX BASIC
Underwhelming to say the least considering the financial power of the two funders. Washington is full of think tanks already churning out policy papers that end up as little more than a citation on a grad student's dissertation.

America's permanent war-time footing exists because of the lobbying practices of interest groups and horse-trading among members of the Congress and Senate. And, although it goes without saying, the knock-on effects of the US' previous military campaigns. As long as the influence and non-transparency of Super PACs is not addressed, nothing will change.

Nice to see that they've both thrown in $500k each. That's only 1/1000th of what Super PACs and dark money groups spent in the 2016 election [0]:

[0] https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2016/11/1-4-billion-and-cou...
Regarding card-based layout on the new reddit, you can change from card based layout in the top left corner on the new site.
Use a gui if you don't know your way around the shell. I'm pretty sure Debian provides one.
>The thing that annoys me most on Windows is Windows itself. After using Linuxes for almost two decades now, the notion of the OS taking tens of minutes to self update when all I wanted was to quickly reboot it is unbearable.

I find the same thing with electric cars. Eight hours to charge when I've spent two decades filling in minutes is absurd.