skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you. In the case of LA metro area, it is just too spread city = badly designed.

If you imagine even fast public transport, to get from one side of LA to the other side, it would still require a lot of stops in the low population density areas. Let's say every stop would cost you 5 minutes which means that even a car could be faster than public transport.
The big gotcha is that meaningful mitigation of ZombieLoad on affected chips requires disabling Hyperthreading (the hyperthreading-based version of the attack cannot be fixed in microcode or software) but Intel has taken the position that this isn't actually necessary on normal consumer machines. So when Intel say that they have hardware fixes for all this stuff it's not clear whether they mean they've actually fixed it.
Even so, rich people don't seem to be "driving" them. They can afford overpriced Rolls Royces or Bentleys but don't see them buying flying cars. Wondering why, given that the technology has been around for a while.
This is the sixteenth "Show HN" submit for this site.
I’m hugely in favour of this approach: basically it affords users ownership of their data and relegates the “platforms” to accessing and displaying that data. This would re-enable competition in the social network ‘space’ by compelling platforms to display the data in the least obnoxious manner possible and by eliminating their (future) ability to profile their users.

Of course it leaves unaddressed the “create a POD containing all your current data” aspect: some kind of creation tool that assembles such an item out of automated Facebook, Google, & cetera download tools would be very handy in this regard.
Marginalised and poor voters exist in Europe and they have an ID card like anybody else. Having yours done could be free, if you're so inclined.
In a lot of European cities kids walk and bike themselves to school.
Surely Ryanair takes that crown, an airline which has never had a fatal accident, and which is an order of magnitude larger than Finnair (~130,000,000 passengers annually vs ~13,000,000).
Exactly. If chain of custody is broken, it's not in the pile. People from all sides of the electorate should be able to observe every box at all times if they wish to follow it.

Mail in voting is similarly exceptionally easy to game. Oops, lost 1% of that zip code... bummer...
Only one, but we moved to the city to the country (massively lower CoL) and having to strap the damn kid in to the car every time we go anywhere is pretty annoying. We really miss being able to walk places.
We are afraid that our effort on bamboolib will be wasted if there is no real interest in bamboolib, which is why we set ourselves the ambitious goal of 10k subscribers. We only want to build software that people REALLY want. Also, we developed edaviz.com and thus have opportunity costs.

The 10k subscribers is a soft goal, so we may still develop bamboolib if we are somewhat close to it, but the 10k give us a clear threshold. Also, if we decide not to do it, we will delete all mails. So you don't need to be afraid that your mail gets abused.

Also please note that our landing page is just online for a couple of hours and we have already hundreds of signups, so in my estimation, getting at least close to 10k is very feasible.
This depends of course on whether people who really need bamboolib share it with others who also really need it. And we are glad that we already found some people who would save between 20-40h per month. However, the big question is: are we able to find more people like those and are they able to find us. So, this is the challenge :) However, the challenge is big and therefore, we need support from others who are willing to share bamboolib if they really need it
HPE advances its intelligent data platform with acquisition of MapR
No, just not 'that operation' afaics.
The most reasonable application for the solar roof tiles is when a roof is beeing built or renewed. I wouldn't expect them to be cost efficient when replacing an existing roof in good shape. As with electric cars, you buy them, when you would buy a new car anyway.

And of course, they are great whereever people are hesitant to put solar panels onto their roof for esthetic reasons. What else is keeping people away from putting solar onto their roofs?
"yeah, now imaging you have two of them going to two different schools, each 40 minutes walking distance from home"

How old are these kids? Can they not walk themselves?
The latest version of Elements has supported this for several months, if not longer (I think they'd made it work for High Sierra at least, but I could be wrong about the exact timing.)

I use it for both Caps Lock -> Escape/Control and Return -> Return/Control and it's indispensible.
> No public health care? That isn’t true either. Medicaid and Medicare are public health care.

I think you know that "public healthcare" was referring to universal healthcare in this context. US is the only western democracy without universal healthcare.
Here is one such product that I think might interest you - https://www.freshworks.com/agile-project-management-software...
The elephants in the room are Chromium and Firefox. They turned the job of displaying an HTML page into a cpu and memory inefficient nightmare. The display of 4KB of information, that is the informational weight of a typical webpage, must not take up 400.000MB of memory and millions of cpu-instructions. Look out for simpler HTML plumbers e.g. Dillo and w3m and help refine their table rendering.
While traveling outside the US, I have found many people think Americans are cold and heartless and just let people die. It is an understandable conclusion the way people talk about the US system in the media and internet, but it also isn't true. The US has dysfunctional, public healthcare but it isn't so dysfunctional that you just die if you fall or get an ear infection without insurance. So saying the US has "no public health care" is not only incorrect but it is also overly dramatic.
I hardly can imagine situations when the OOM killer needs to be tuned so much. On my systems (notebooks/workstations/servers), it was always a user process which allocated much more memory then available. In such situations, OOM killer works perfectly, and on systems without swap, it is a questions of seconds when the system is back to stable. (With swap, it takes minutes to fill the swap before OOM killer activates)

On a productive and reliable system, I would rather invest in more RAM or load balancing then putting my time in fine tuning OOM killer...
Google spreadsheet with the names of all APTs (state-sponsored hacking groups)
The comment I was replying to was referring to the word's definition in economics, not the current legal standards of specific countries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW2LpFkVfYk
I am living in Prague now and you really don't need a car here. The same applies to Antwerp that I visited this year. I am not sure how well you know Europe, but there are many cities where you don't need a car and public transport is even faster (often it can be harder to find parking lot than just walk from the metro station).
My own son had this period where he was obsessed with playing on the XBox. When I tried to limit his time, he became agressive. So I said "Wow, if XBox has this influence on you, maybe you should stop completely. What do you think?". His smart reaction was to show that he could play a limited time, and be good afterwards. Now I don't have any problems with him.

The thing with kids is that you will not be there all the time, especially when they get older. So banning something they like, doesn't seem like a good solution to me. They will have to handle such impulses themselves. So if you can let them handle their own impulses, that is way better.

For example I will never tell my kids that they cannot smoke, because that will be out of my control anyway. But when we walk to a hospital, there are always patients outside smoking (who obviously look sick). Then I tell them "look at those smokers, how sick they are. And it really smells bad too" etc. When I ask them about smoking, they have very negative associations with it.

So if your kids are doing inappropriate things to play, maybe talk to them as if they are adults, and make a reasonable deal. And show them how their decisions will impact them.

Raising kids is not about enforcing rules, it's preparing them for the real world where they need to make their own decisions.
What the Seas Will Swallow on the US East Coast
The French have the RIB system, wherein you can send a snapshot of what your account details are, and the bills are automatically deducted from there. In practice, that means you need to use cheques MUCH less frequently than in the US. What's worse, the US doesn't have an easy way to transfer money electronically between banks! Thus requiring even more cheques.
I remember people arguing which one of them two games in the title invented the meme "oof". It turns out now Roblox is winning.
It's Karabiner Elements on the Mac.

On Linux you can get it to do the same thing with a combination of xmodmap, setxkbmap and xcape (but it's fiddly) and on Windows with AutoHotkey (but it's fiddly) — neither are as easy to use as Karabiner Elements, but they do work.
And force your users to buy extra CPU*

Development time may be more expensive than hardware if you're developing internal software for a small-ish company, or something extremely niche, but less so when the bloat saves some time for your relatively small team in exchange for bringing massive pain to the thousands/millions of your users.

I personally refuse to use "bloated" software even when there's no alternative, but it's a drop in the ocean. Some of the folks I know can't take the same stance simply because they don't know that a text messenger doesn't have to eat half of your machine resources and slurp the battery to zero in half an hour of usage. For them it's just something you have to deal with.
Recaptcha had a good run but it’s time for it to die imho.
It comes in a number of versions and some of them fit in with the American McMansion style.

There are a lot of examples in this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVIf8UMg7Zg
If you look at the surface area of the world, a tiny percentage of it is taken up by people's heads. Like, probably <.01%. Unless you'r eat a large gathering (where right now it's illegal to fly drones.)
The question isn't how the solar tiles compete against adding panels to an existing roof - the panels are not going to be beaten in this comparison. The question is, how do the tiles compare to building a roof from scratch. And then possibly adding solar panels to the roof in addition. And of course, for all the cases where people don't want (or even are not allowed) to put panels onto their roof.

And, at least in Germany, most home owners wouldn't be able to put solar onto the ground for a lack of real estate.
This is both really interesting, and excellent advice.

I've been working on exactly this myself, and while I'm lucky enough to have found an initial handful of customers from the classic blind selling of my product, it's ridiculous how much I've learned & reevaluated things using the actual feedback & conversations with those customers.

For other people wrestling with this, one thing I'd suggest is reading The Mom Test: http://momtestbook.com/. Great intro into exactly how to handle those feedback conversations, who to talk to, and how to talk to them, even if you don't have any product at all.
> There is public health care in US. Medicare for old people, Medicaid for poor people, and anyone without insurance can go to the ER. It may not be great, but it does exist.

There is some public healthcare but no universal healthcare.

ER is not healthcare. You do not get treatment for chronic diseases, cancer etc. ER only treats you for the life or health threatening consequences of not getting treatment.
“Rakaste" is the superlative of the Swedish rak, meaning straight. It is not a Finnish word.
I could understand getting that worked-up over a science with some kind of objective basis, but this is psychology we're talking about! Might as well get mad at a Tarot reader for pulling the cards in the wrong order.

That, and SMPY isn't a particularly compelling example. 1972-1997 is prime-time for computing, megacorporations, cold war military-industrial complex, and college educations all-around. Hard to imagine a more provident time to be a mathematically precocious youth! Looking at this in a broader slice of history, a comparison to the lives of men like Ramanujan or Heaviside would be more fitting.

Perhaps the "Inappropriately Excluded" from the article just haven't lucked into their own personal force-multiplier yet. Gates and Buffet were having some discussion on how well they would have fared under more primitive circumstances. Gates's answer was something along the lines of "lion food". I think that is a fair answer.

edit:

> "sheer intellectual dishonesty in service of poisonous self-pitying"

If this article set you off, I can only imagine how you deal with politics. ;-)
Maybe. But I just program cake face for myself!

But seriously, if programmers hadn't several software levels to rely upon, a simple software tool would cost millions and would require an army of engineers or a few years to be completed.

Programmed a scroll bar for an UI toolkit once. That isn't as trivial as it seems and takes a while. A scrollbar...
that is outrageous. it looks like the trump administration's paranoia about politics in science is taking a toll
Indeed it doesn't work in stock KSP, but it works using a mod called Principia[1] which implements N-body physics!

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[1] https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/162200...
...so why is the right to live an absolute right? What does it mean for a right to be absolute? (e.g. if someone kills other people to save himself, was he entitled to do so on the basis of his right to live?) Who gets to decide what rights are absolute and what rights aren't? Whose responsibility is it to enforce these absolute rights (and thereby to impose corresponding obligations on other people)?

The logic of "absolute" rights requires an over-simplification that doesn't reflect how rights work in practice.
I lived in France in the south in a small town. The school was a 5 mile drive away. The grocery store was 2 miles away. My young kid went to one school, the older one to another and they were in opposite sides of the commune. In the south of France, everyone has a car. I also spent time in a small town near Bremen, Germany.. A bus game every hour. Things were far apart and yes, there, most people have cars. Suggesting “Europe” is just like Amsterdam is stereotyping and doesn’t represent reality for millions of people who don’t live in larger cities.
Don't forget we also spend less on feeding ourselves than anyone else in the world[0].

[0]https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/12/this-map-shows-how-mu...
What should be the maximum salary of an MS-CRM consultant
> Market mechanisms encourage monopoly/cartel price/payment fixing that benefits shareholders/owners through strong-arming of downstream businesses

Not market mechanism, governments protecting big biz. Without legislative protection a monopoly doesn't last long, as Standard Oil example shows.

A typical cycle of crony-capitalism is: build big biz on a new market -> lobby heavy regulatory framework and a set of monopoly rights which make entering impossible for any new competitor -> push your shills in some agency like FAA, FCC or FDA -> enjoy your unconditional domination.

> The only two things that can break the logjam are government action to split up monopolists

This factoid has failed so many times it's astonishing it keeps being repeated. A century of anti-trust failures without a single example of a decent outcome, yet people still bring this up.
Huh, I hoped these test-NDA were a thing of the past again. But yeah, tests would probably not be conclusive in that case.

Still the topic that would interest me most compared to CPU performance.
Nope. You never can audit most of it. Especially the hardware and firmware at vote time.

And that's a false arg anyway, even if you could "audit" it (ask the hardware nicely to not lie to you:), it's still a (really) bad idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI
Re: 2. I've heard there's a huge surplus of vacant/dilapidated homes selling for a dollar in the rust belt. Is it really a problem of housing supply, or lack of demand, i.e. desire to live in, well, undesirable locations?

I find it hard to believe it's an economic matter of not meeting a certain low-cost customer segment of demand if all these empty houses are sitting around. The deeper issue may be structural unemployment, which isn't going to get any better.
As someone from the UK I'd love to have trains like the ones in Germany.

I live a 40 minute drive from London but it costs £45 for a day ticket on decades old, cramped trains.
If the guy in the linked article's install cost $100k, I can't imagine how much the house shown in that video cost.

Elon truly is the pied piper.
Windows will never overcommit memory. As a result on my PC unless I dedicate a substantial (over 20%) fraction of my drive to swap (most of which will never, ever be touched) I will 'run out of RAM' far before even half of the physical RAM in my PC has been used. This seems extremely wasteful.
Men don't pee in public because they need to. They do it because they can. And because they make behavioural choices (drinking too many pints of beer before the pub closes/football match ends, and not going to the toilet while they have the opportunity, for example) that increase the likelihood of them "needing" to make otherwise pleasant public places filthy and disgusting. If public-toilets-everywhere was a basic human necessity, there would be many more women peeing in the streets. Toxic masculinity thrives because we allow it to; peeing in the street, in the vast majority of cases, is an example of this.
I can understand this. I literally lost interest in moving to Düsseldorf when I realized that for a higher price than I currently pay I would get just a 60 Mbps down / 5mbps up internet connection, whereas I can get a 1gpbs down / 200mbps up FTTH connection.
Comparison of Regular Expression Engines
I have it set up in Keyboard Maestro. It's useful, as if you also use Keyboard Maestro's app switcher (Cmd+Tab), you can set that up to never show certain apps in the switcher - apps like Spotify and Tweetbot that I always have open, but clutter the switcher.
> When people say Germany is expensive to the rest of Europe I think they need to check the salary levels in the rest of Europe. German internet and cell is probably cheaper going by percentage of average income.

The nordic countries have higher salaries. It's really against the trend: Pretty much everything is more expensive in sweden and denmark, except Internet connectivity.
Disagree. "Absolutely positively absolute rights" are taking decent heuristics and turning them into thought-terminating clichés.

Let's go with the "right to live". Consider questions such as:

- Who has that right? You, or your body? If you don't want to live, should you be forced to? What if you're suffering so badly it's debilitating, and this state won't improve until you eventually die? Is living in a state of endless torture better than not living?

- How do you trade lives for lives? Imagine you have a crazy shooter killing people left and right. There's no fast way to get to them except a drone strike, and each minute you hesitate, they kill another person. Do you pull the trigger and save innocent victims, or do you wait for the armoured police to arrive and safely incapacitate the shooter, honoring their right to live at the expense of many other people? What if it's you facing the shooter alone, and they intend to kill you? Will you shoot first, or give your life for their right to live?

- What if probabilities get involved? The shooter is cornered, and a police sniper has his head in their sights. You can either take the shooter down now, or have a team of officers incapacitate them. The latter has a X% of chance ending in a police officer dying. At X=100%, you're trading life for life. At what X do you decide to have the sniper take the shot? What if there's a risk of more than one police deaths involved? At what threshold in the probability density function is it worth to take that risk?

- What if money gets involved? The most complicated variant, an extension of trading lives with probabilities. You have me sitting in front of a button, pressing which will immediately wreck the economy of a small country. You can't get to me, but see my head through the scope of your sniper rifle. I'm about to press that button. Will you pull the trigger? And before you say, "obviously no!", keep in mind that wrecking the economy of a country is bound to result in many, many deaths.

"Absolute rights" are good as heuristics. But like all heuristics, they hit corner cases. These corner cases need to be thought about explicitly.
This is good story to recall whenever someone says that governments, organizations, and other big groups of people can't keep secrets. This was kept secret for 27 years (1987 to 2014)! I imagine that the pilots told their wives, friends, and other pilots all about it. Nobody was even asking them to keep it secret. Probably hundreds of people knew what happened, but the public and the Finnish Transport Safety Agency didn't find out for decades. Whenever I hear some incident that's made the news, I wonder about hundreds or thousands of worse incidents that same day that didn't make the news for whatever reason.
You never had someone in your introductory course show you some problem where you have e.g. a big water tank filling up, and you relate the flow rate with the volume of water in the tank, describing the relation as either sum(flow) = volume or diff(volume) = flow?

That’s quite depressing, since this is really the whole point of calculus.

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Calculus really should be introduced with as much emphasis on physical modeling as possible. Differential equations are at the heart of the past several centuries of science, and understanding the basic ideas involved is crucial for everyone doing any kind of technical work, if not every citizen.

I like this version, which uses discrete computer simulation to cut down on some of the obscurantism of a formal heavily algebraic treatment, and lets students jump right into ideas which are significantly delayed in typical university math curricula. http://www.math.smith.edu/~callahan/intromine.html
Add in a shift and it logs you out too.
How the jet stream is changing your weather
Good question, that was just an assumption. I thought that the improved manufacturing process would limit power consumption and was the reason for the decreased clock. But yeah, there could be completely different reasons for that.
DLP projection has a lot of advantages, the area projection is one of those. For large area beamers are moved; see moving light technology by prodways https://youtu.be/1AQJaqdrzzE . There is no longer a real difference then.
Lasers can go below 200 nm using dual photon (nanoscribe) or sted lithography.
The bit I don't understand is how the tiles are reliably connected electrically?

Making the tiles is one thing, but unlike the larger panels (which are now translucent so can kickout ~500watts in place of 330) they 10x the number of external connections.

That must have a large impact on efficiency
I live in Europe (in Prague right now) and I never needed to own a car here. I would say it depends on the city in Europe. However, if you occasionally happen to be outside of the city center where only cars go you would call Uber. I am fine with that when 90% of my daily transport is covered by public transport.
Yeah that's what I meant. Too late to edit comment!
> What are you talking about? We can and do arrest, charge, and convict "evil islamic imams" that "preach radicalization", and don't let them operate mosques.

Indeed, you arrest the single imam, you don't shut down the whole mosque. That's the point.