skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who are curious, the building age data comes from the Dutch government (as others already said). It was imported into OpenStreetMap about 5 years ago by a few dozen volunteers including myself.

The data contains addresses and buildings (outline, building started date, and an identifier to make updates easier). This means we removed all existing buildings and addresses in the country, which felt really risky, but because the import was done manually and only tool-assisted, it seems we managed to get it right. Took a few months, but once enough volunteers hopped on, it went quite fast. If I remember correctly, once you got the hang of it (your third import or so), an average municipality took about 2 hours (we have 350 municipalities).

For the Dutch speakers among us, more info about the project can be found here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NL:BAG

I am not sure where Mapbox' height data comes from. In OSM, you can give a "levels" tag to indicate how many levels a building has (from which the height can be estimated), or a height tag in meters if it is known, but the buildings don't have that. Perhaps it is just assumed that large buildings are a bit taller and building=house is an average house height unless otherwise noted? Or maybe they use the Dutch AHN, which is a very accurate height scan of the Netherlands. Some people made it into a 3d picture, e.g. https://snipboard.io/Sq6C38.jpg (this only uses AHN data, not OSM, so it only has the tops of objects as points, but that's still quite an accurate outline).
Using != abusing. Camping in a public space means taking part of it for yourself, permanently. In other words, you're taking away the right of the rest of citizens of using that part of public space.

Defecating is a public health issue, too.
It's probably blacklisted because it is only a single typo away from reddit.com.

You can expect domains like revddit.com or hotnail.com to get blocked by anti-phishing filters.
Definitely, since Julia has the same approach as Python of allowing quick and dirty solutions for data analysis/modelling, but with a much larger scope even when you don't have complete library support. In a few hours you can make a functional pytorch clone (and just using special GPU arrays you get it running on GPUs) with similar performance [1], and within a day (given a very good understanding of the language) a method that compiles the gradient directly from unmodified Julia code [2]. Plus native matlab-like goodness such as multi-dimensional arrays, so you don't have a separate library for fast operations and you can just use normal loops or whatever you want.

But while Julia targets Python fast and concise (while not compromising speed or power), it does not target the slower but more correct (though there is a culture of testing, which is quite important for math-oriented problems since the type system will not catch the most subtle and troublesome problems). There is space for a language to do exploratory/research work that can be quickly deployed in a fast iterative cycle and another for the new Spark/Flink or critical production areas that needs to take the extra effort (like self-driving cars), which could be Rust (or Scala, or Haskell, or Swift or stay with C++/Fortran).

[1] https://github.com/MikeInnes/diff-zoo

[2] http://blog.rogerluo.me/2019/07/27/yassad/
"In fact there are a near infinite variety of reasons for being homeless"

Near infinite in the sense that there are near infinite ways of dying. You could be hit by an asteroid. You could fall off a cliff. But that obscures the fact that most people die from some sickness or disease.

I've done volunteer work with the homeless. There are 2 major causes of homelessness: mental illness and drug addiction. Everything else is insignificant in comparison.
As a professional resume writer I'm seeing a lot of clients now asking for more design on their resumes (including many senior clients with solid accomplishments) and it's a disturbing trend. I think part of the blame can go to the handful of companies that have gone viral with highly visualized 'mock' resumes for tech celebrities (Elon Musk and Marissa Mayer - example https://enhancv.com/resume-examples/famous/marissa-mayer/).

These resumes certainly "look good", but they aren't useful. Obviously, it doesn't matter what your resume looks like if you're Elon Musk - you're getting the interview anyway.

With visualized resumes, the user is sacrificing the ability to provide a more robust list of accomplishments, or perhaps to provide additional details and context for the accomplishments they have listed.

If you are junior level and don't have many accomplishments to mention, a visualized resume might get their attention. For senior level candidates or even mid-career folks who have already done a thing or two, these resumes look like an ill-fitting suit.

Don't distract your reader with fancy formatting. Using a simple format allows the reader to focus entirely on what is important (your body of work) without being distracted.
> using the opportunity to denounce current status

Err that sounds like more spin not less?
No. There is a very large number of people in the US who are (for whatever reason) against universal health care.

I have family who can't afford health insurance. And those same people would vote against a president promising universal healthcare.

I don't understand it. But a lot of people don't agree with universal health care (even many low/middle income people)
> The TH3 test harness is a set of proprietary tests

https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html#harnesses
Leak Database – Find passwords for any email or username
JSON has JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE), compare that to XML-Dsig and XML-Enc. It has OpenAPI/Swagger, which is close to SOAP/WSDL. It has JSON-Schema, which is close to XML-Schema. It has OpenID Connect, which is literally SAML, but with JSON instead of XML.

If you're missing anything out of WS-* in JSON, you can be sure somebody is working on a spec for it.
If you are at the point where you need to handle more IO, throwing additional memory onto a file origin will not in my experience do much because filesystems's idea of what to cache is vastly different from user's requests. Not doing any disk IO for hot files is vastly preferable than to doing some. This has been demonstrated in spades at LiveJournal which extensively stuffed files into memcache before Varnish became a thing.
OK, I'm sold. Let's all learn Chinese.

> Your people living today may lament losing their native language, but your children and their children will not, at least not as much.

I haven't read something that arrogant and condescending in a long time.
> “spin aficionado, dog lover, foodie, outdoor enthusiast.”

I don't know about marketing, but if I received a CV with this I'd most likely throw it straight in the trash. I don't want CVs to be unique, I judge people based on merit. The more basic the CV the better in my opinion. Just the other day I was slightly upset when someone showed me a candidates LinkedIn profile containing quite a non-professional picture because it immediately put me off a bit.
It's quite easy to compute:

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

2019 - Epyc ROME: 32B transistors
2009 - Six-core Opteron 2400 - 0.9B transistors

(32/0.9)^(1/5) = 2.04, so it seems that Moore's law is actually working well.
Norway will be the canary in the coal mine for the fossil fuel industry. With half of new car sales electric they'll be the first place where we can observe at what penetration gas stations start to close.
> they say that the media should take these stories as opportunities to discuss pressing social issues instead of skating around them

That does happen sometimes and as a result the poor do-gooder that was just minding his own business and trying to help a family member or friend ends up being vilified and receiving threats.

Even just saying hey here's a person that did a nice thing brings out haters. It gets much worse if the action is associated with a political viewpoint that significant numbers of people oppose for any reason.

I would never ever ever want any of my good deeds to be highlighted in some media article. It would be no end of trouble. Don't talk to cops. Don't talk to reporters.
Indeed. Private sessions do not make you untrackable, the only difference is nothing is saved from the session. But many people misunderstand what private/incognito mode does.
This is a 19th century view of the workplace. Don't work for employers who ascribe to this workforce philosophy.
There was a comment on a good news story today basically suggesting there should be a minimum percentage of good news stories.

I guess these are the types of stories we'd get!
They literally would pay you to use it, if you would go to the trouble of taking it off their hands. There are legal restrictions on those gas flares now, so they can't just burn all of it like they used to.
Was browsing [1] the web and stumbled on this, thought it was interesting enough to submit on HN.

UPDATE: A friend just told me about spycloud [2]

[1] https://github.community/t5/How-to-use-Git-and-GitHub/HaveIB...

[2] https://spycloud.com
You can't. In a cashless society, your purchases (and all the things one can infer from that: interests, location, day patterns) are surveilled 100% of the time.
Where do you draw the line? Sitting or sleeping on a public bench all day sure, and i don't think that is what anyone is complaining about. But a tent? a city of tents? all the trash and waste meaning the park is unusable by anyone else?
Exactly. People defecate in the woods all the time, but they have the decency to at least dig a hole and cover it. Just because it's natural to take a shit doesn't mean we should be stepping in it.
This is actually a really good point. The more information you give in general just creates more vectors for unwanted biases.
Obviously CV design depends on the position you apply for. If it's design, marketing or something like that, then I'd say cool design is a big plus. For a technical position it's just distracting and off-topic.
> They rely on others to help them

I'm an employee in a large organisation, I rely on other people doing their job to get my job done and they rely on feedback to know what to prioritise. I can't just work on something else because I have schedules & deadlines, and clients don't care that something is late because the expert at database replication checked their email at 5:30pm, after I had to leave.
They've been brainwashed.
What is the role of an architect nowadays?
ColorForth has a color-blind mode, but I do not remember the details.

The main idea is to change visual representation instead of using delimiters. Different fonts or text sizes sizes or cursive/inverse/underline are also valid ways of displaying different "colors".
Wow, so maybe instead of a node_modules folder, npm should use a node_modules.db?
Laws of Showrunning (2016) [pdf]
Content is always king... Design follows
The alternative isn't to criticise the HD employees, in fact, guess who can change said national attitude? How about people whose reporting are read by millions?

They can highlight what the employees did, but at how insanely broken the system is, that this needs to be done. Maybe ask their representatives for an opinion, and writing "The area's congressmen and senators did not respond when we contacted them" is enough of a wake up call, to make the public see...
Show HN: Console-badge – Create simple badges in the browser console
This reminds me of whenever someone creates a Gofund me for health reasons. It seems a bit alien to me still as a European that people need to go beg on the internet in order to not be financially ruined by healthcare costs. :-(
Show HN: 90s Style Vlog/Blog Website
New York State has a constitutional right to shelter. Perhaps that helps.
What company is using Kaspersky? Aren't they on US security blacklists?
> That's not really how alphabets work

Might want to have a look at the story of Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets before speaking so categorically.
Typo for "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs"?
It's terrible everywhere but seems especially bad in California. We're hardly immune. Our boro president was celebrating a lawsuit blocking a new 5000(!) unit development as if it was a victory for housing justice.

That said, the YIMBY message seems to be making headway. I hear a lot more pro-housing chatter than I did ten years ago, so at least that's something.
Atlantic cod was overfished years ago:

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

When will humans learn?
Plastics are bad news for your own health, the environment, and ecology generally. I've been cutting out my personal exposure to estrogenic items (a good list here, check the guy's book if you're interested in the gritty details: https://www.ajconsultingcompany.com/estrogenics.html), and it has, as a result, lead to less plastic use overall.

Depending on where you live, it can be pretty hard to find non-plastic alternatives for some products; for example: unless you have a butcher that will give you meat served in butcher paper, your meat is probably stored in plastic. However, many things are easy to eliminate, such as low quality cooking oils stored in plastic. It's easy to find olive, avocado, coconut, mct, and other cooking oils in glass containers and to use those (and butter) instead of canola, soy, or vegetable oils.

Do what's reasonable personally for your and your family's health, and advocate for bans and restrictions on environmental plastics in your countries, as that's really the only long-term solution.
Show HN: Audkite – Fastest way to discover giveaways across universe
Hi Gilbert here, co-founder of Audkite(https://audkite-app.firebaseapp.com).
Audkite is an app that helps users find massive one-time giveaways through 15-second audio, play and directly connect to the brand through a call or text all in one app.

Cold calling is a painful and annoying experience we consumers face when we are sold to something we don't want or never intended to purchase.
And what happens when you need to purchase anything and want to have an actual feel with the brand or seller? Of course, you would use
craigslist but often you may fall into trap of a scam.

In other scenarios, you receive a call from a product you signed for e.g Front.app and you're from Cape Town, the brand is from Paris, you can't easily get back to the brand because its costly to make international calls.

Audkite removes all those barriers by letting consumers decide for themselves through AI-powered recommendations and later scheduling direct calls to the brands. Brands have central channels just like slack or a chatroom and consumers can reach out back and forth through texts or phone call.

We also protect users' privacy by making giveaways last only 24hrs plus anonymize user's identity by making calls or texts through the app.

For any questions or feedback, feel free to reach out!
Gordon Moore himself is quoted in 2015 as saying that the transistor count interpretation of Moore’s law will be dead within 10 years, in the Wikipedia article on Moore’s Law.

If something changed and it’s not dead, I’d love to hear more about the new processes that are making more transistors possible. Working at a chip maker now, but I’m a software guy. My understanding of the problem is that we’ve reached the optical limits of resolving power for the lithography processes. Trace widths are a tiny fraction of the wavelength of light, and chip area is so large we don’t have lenses than can keep the projection in focus at the edges. While there is theoretical potential to get smaller due to gates being many atoms across, actually building smaller gates has real physical barriers, or so I’m told.

I’d love to hear more about the manufacturing processes in generally, and more specifically whether something really has changed this year. Does TSMC have a new process allowing larger dies or smaller traces, or is this article mostly hype?
There was a Federal lawsuit and consent decree that forced NYC to house homeless people.

It had a lot of negative impact on poor people in general. Mentally ill homeless people skipped the line for subsidized housing and had an outsized impact on crime and quality of life issues in public housing.

Recent policies to guarantee housing has made NYC something of a magnet. If you live upstate, you may need to wait a year (or more) for a Section 8 voucher, or you can show up in NYC and have interim housing in 48 hours.

Most of the visible homeless related issues are a result of the elimination of involuntary commitment. Without supervision, people won’t take the medications they need because the side effects suck. It’s an impossible problem with no solution.
It is the Europe + the Commonwealth + a few other countries. In my mind "geopolitical Western" usually means Europe + the Commonwealth, so I do not see it as much of a Northern thing.
I stayed with a friend in Houston in November and December. We went to a farmers market selling plenty of produce, nuts, etc that we put in our bags we brought. I spoke to one of the farmers a bit and he gave me some free vegetables. I find that pattern happens a lot.

I was full of envy because by that time of year, New York, where I live, has mostly cabbage for greens. Your local farms had a variety of greens in season (meaning plentiful and cheap). I'm pretty sure I could eat cheaper in Houston than here.

We also went to a store called HEB with a huge bulk section. We filled bags we brought with us.

We ate delicious, healthy, nearly package-free at low cost.

I'm not sure what you tried, but I find experimenting for a week or two doesn't give enough experience to learn to cook from scratch fast and cheap. For example, learning to cook beans from dry in a pressure cooker is fast, simple, and very low cost. Here are reviews of my famous no-packaging vegetable stews that resulted from my experiments: http://joshuaspodek.com/food-world-reviews.

> If it really, truly cost less to go without plastic, poor people would do it, they do any and everything to save a dollar on food.

I suspect causality goes the other way, at least in part, that eating habits, prompted by poor education and predatory marketing, contributes to them being poor. As I understand it, your logic would suggest that poor people wouldn't drink alcohol, but I see lots of alcohol stores in poor neighborhoods.
> but at the point where you're switching between multiple masters in a split brain from your client, all bets are off

CRDTs handle split brain fine. They eventually converge. You just don't want your clients flapping in the meantime by resyncing tons of data. That's where a distributed sync algorithm would help keep things working in the interim.
We don't even prioritize homes for taxpaying citizens. There's an off-putting mentality that having a roof over your head is some kind of "flex" in California. In San Francisco, there's even a strange pride people have that homeless are on the streets ("look at us, we don't hide them away, aren't we great?!").

Although the weather does play a role, in the sense that if we had bad weather and homeless were freezing to death on the streets, I think sufficient shelters would go up immediately.

I keep pushing for us to follow Utah's lead on this issue: https://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chroni...
Rust isn't challenging anything for ML workflows, let's be serious.
Food stamps recipients don’t pay the bag tax, which would make me less inclined to believe that theory. But I don’t know how many of these people are on EBT.
The problems with the Chinese economy did not begin in the 1950s, this is quite a misunderstanding of history.

To fully understand China's economic path, you would at least need to study the economic terrain/decisions/outcomes starting in the 1750s-1800s.
> Remember that BigCorp is not price sensitive.

BigCorps are very price sensitive in the sense of minimizing cost per value and aggressively leveraging their size to do that.

They aren't price sensitive in the sense that if something has a value proposition that justifies the cost (even if it's not a short payoff, and even if it's a large absolute price) they have an easy time finding money.

They may also sometimes seem but to be price sensitive in the first sense because they tend to have lots of small fiefdoms where exceptions to aggressive optimization can survive as long as their shake is not too big and/or the right authorities have bought in, but that's an exception to the general rule and isn't going to cover a massive aren't of remote workers at each BigCorp.
Something similar exists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN6IwNriwHc
> it is happening and it is killing us

While the "it is happening" part has good amount of supporting data and is almost certainly true, the killing us part is much more questionable, most predictions agree that if we do nothing it will cause <10% gdp loss in 2100 compared to the scenario where it did not happen. So we need to make sure that whatever we do to prevent climate change doesn't cause more economic loss than climate change itself, and mostly invest in developing new technology and helping poor countries to become richer.
In the examples the article presents, it looks like the pendulum has swung from “dry” to “overdone” (c.f. 80s era web”). That being said, it’s a net positive that richer media are now emerging as options. It’s like research papers: from plain text to hyperref urls to full on promotional webpages (I’m looking at you Google AI).

Some might say that constraints force a pithy communication, but I’ll take a tasteful GIF over a static diagram or dense prose any day.
Not just streaming video. The same storm is brewing in gaming. Google, nvidia and MS are all launching game streaming platforms. Actual...think sony too
Your not supposed to talk about ‘not reading the article’, because HN doesn't want people to catch on that HN knows if you read the article. it’s a remarketing/cookie thing. HN knows what you did last summer.
I’m not sure which trend I dislike more, this one, or the general throwing out of the “two pages or fewer” guideline. I regularly get CVs which are four or five pages long, listing everything the person has ever done back to high school. Learn to tailor your CV people, I don’t care that you worked at Subway for six weeks when you were nineteen. I would however love to hear more than a list of technologies used about the three years you spent working in a similar sector.
Funny thing, to me Russian sounds like Bulgarian with a Portuguese accent.

Try the Bulgarian alphabet. Not only they invented Cyrillic, but it is also more phonetic than the Russian version.
Were resumes ever really useful for more than sending very specific signals? I suspect they probably never were. Hiring managers just put them all into buckets "Ivy League, good college, has professional experience," and unless there were obvious red flags, just called everyone on the list that they wanted to hire and let the interview process sort them out.

If you needed more vetting on the inbound, then it's easier to just source candidates another way than to try to read the resume tea leaves.
This submission currently on the front page would suggest that wouldn't work out as planned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20730324
These sound like the same thing.
> It is a ban of plastic bags from supermarkets.

It's a ban of free or single-use plastic bags from supermarkets; bags must be reusable (with specified strength standards for plastic bags), and there is a minimum charge.
Having worked in big enterprises and government, it would probably be more effective to do something like that or even random selection for some jobs.
Doesn't that already exist? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch_(app)
If the legal implications matter to you, hire a lawyer. Indeed if you are likely to be called to testify after leaving the company, it's probably worth hiring a lawyer independently of the email issue.