skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about social, cultural, and civic life and public services? These depend on density, scale, and networks.

> "a densely packed apartment complex in the middle of a noisy city"

I dispute the notion that dense urbanism is not necessarily unpleasant. What you describe is a consequence of thoughtless architectural and urban design. I live in a four-storey apartment building with a garden in a quiet, bucolic neighbourhood in a core urban district in the Randstad — a dense megalopolis of over 8 mil people in The Netherlands. Density makes cycling, public transit, and walking feasible. This greatly reduces car traffic. Reduced car traffic requires less urban space to be spent on road and parking surfaces — urban space that can instead be spent on green and public spaces. Reduced car traffic in turn means less urban noise. It is a virtuous cycle.

To preempt the expected protests that this kind of urbanism is only achievable by centuries-old cities: it is true that it is much easier for old cities to achieve this, but it is possible for car-centric cities as well. Rotterdam — its centre razed in WW2 and rebuilt to be car-centric — managed the transition. Old cities have many modern districts: see IJBurg of Amsterdam.
*the people that have three billion available would not do it, because their interest is making more of those billions.

Anyone with any inkling of morals to their characters would say yes and make the apple. Anyone valuing society even the tiniest bit would.
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That's still just enforcement of intellectual property.

No, in German law, this is a completely different criminal offence.
The main building at Bryant Park is a research library.
It's beautiful - but it doesn't have much circulation, just items of interest for researchers.

The Mid-Manhattan branch is a HUGE circulation library.
It's across the street from the main library but confusingly enough - it's in the middle of being renovated so, for now, its colocated in the basement of the main library and a subset of its collection is available. It is _very_ browsable.
Was this part of Vince Cerf's "Interplanetary Internet" project? He's spoken about that at NASA Goddard a few times.

I once toyed with the idea of using "in flight" data as mass storage, where data would be kept in a ring the size of a planetary orbit, with satellites stationed along the orbit to receive and re-transmit the data. You'd need a lot of redundancy...
Yes there is: "I don't have an Instagram account."

Bam.
"Have you ever heard of a banana shortage crisis or a jeans shortage crisis in the US?"

No, but I've heard of gruesome conditions for child laborers in sweatshops and I've heard of banana monoculture that has resulted in disease and threatens extinction of the crop.

We should all push for better and more adaptable regulations that aim to minimize the damages caused by capitalism and enhance its benefits. But regulations as a concept is not the problem, only the implementations.
Sound money is the surest route to destroying capitalism.

The middle class didn't disappear because of Weimar. (It was a mixed bag, because the hyperinflation wiped out a lot of debts.) They disappeared because of the Great Depression. Sound money caused that.
Compare that to a rail system that's actually useful: 472 stations, 36 lines, 850 miles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Subway
I heard it from a spokesman for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP).

I can't find it but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8yYJ_oV6xk is from the same organization and is well worth watching.
>> in North America it's also expensive and heavily subsidized by those who don't use it.

That's exactly how I feel about cars

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2013/01/23/drivers-cover-just-51...
yup, several, and those who did speak english often did it poorly, while their esperanto was fluent.
yes. Imagine public shuttles using uber based technology. So the shuttles come pick you up and drop you off at your destination.

They can do transfers to other shuttles or other public transit on fixed routes to optimize the routes.

The govt would never come up with rideshare type algorithms.
The point is, they wouldn't be cheap, if we created regulations around them. For instance, let's say, for environmental reasons you decided that all jeans must use the wool of a canadian sheep that's hard to grow. Now the price of jeans triples needlessly. This sort of thing happens all the time in housing and nobody ever realizes it.
Related to methane reduction from ruminants: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/gamechanging-pink-seaweed-re...
Yeah, this is much speedier!

On my machine, for the original command I get:

created 56 symlinks in user environment
real 0m 25.64s

For your command I get:

created 56 symlinks in user environment
real 0m 4.39s
> sit in the middle of transactions and collect rent

This is already a cottage industry, drop shipping. You make a shopify store, put up some marketing of people in sunglasses in front of brick walls, and sell cheap crap like fashion watches. Then when someone buys one, you go on Aliexpress and order it directly to your customers' address.

If you're a real expert in arbitrage, you don't settle for making a couple dollars at a time. You charge people thousands of dollars to "teach" them how to make their own drop shipping stores.
Appreciate this point of view, but it isn't just about over-stress. Varroa mites are a real problem. As a hobby apiarist myself, the influx of varroa mites has wreaked havoc on my bee colonies. Having read much of what is being done at the University of Sasketchwan, I am excited about a varroa mite-resistant breed. http://www.saskatraz.com/articles/New/The%20Saskatraz%20hybr...
To be fair I don't think I've found the exact book I was looking for in any library before. As book dispenseries libraries are inherently inferior to just downloading off of Libgen. However they do function very well as a place for you to physically sit in while you're on Libgen.
Again though I would say house prices are locally decided, not nationally. San Francisco house prices aren't influenced by $cheap_area_across_country
Related: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5569
No they cannot. The new zero tolerance policy means all illegal crossers are charged and forced to remain until court proceedings are concluded. There is no option for voluntary repatriation anymore.
Exactly! I don’t see how anyone can justify permanently altering a human life like this, in the absence of a clear pathology.

Wouldn’t it be better to simply not have a child?
LA has a lot of rail. Its just a wide city so it need far more.
I work in automotive parts (ASE Parts Specialist Cert.) and Amazon carries all the same substandard automotive goods Autozone and the other Mexican car parts stores have. Valuecarft line is dangerous Mexican made remans, duralast same crap. Most the time you go to one these Mexican car parts stores to get hard parts your getting something marked up 200% and searching it on amazon gets you same identical part. Your right it's amazing that even more people don't die from crap parts.
Ergonomic molecular design & simulation
I'm surprised to see Toyota doing this again. I bought a 2010 Camry for my wife and the dashboard started melting into a shiny puddle of sticky mess within a year. It took 18 months to get the replacement because of the same sort of backorder. This was a few years after the whole "stuck accelerator pedal" hoopla relating to floormats. I resolved to never buy a Toyota vehicle again after that.

I wonder what happened to their whole Kaizen philosophy?
Except when air is red, pink, orange, grey, green, violet...

I found Walter Lewin's explanation of Rayleigh scattering to be pretty clear.
I think for the consumer who is willing to put in the effort, it's not hard to find the true artists. Sometimes they may be on the billboard 100, but chances are most of them are not. There's a rabbit hole of art to consume and pontificate over. I don't think the tragedy is that more people aren't aware of great artists. I think the real tragedy is that even if they were aware of it, they wouldn't give a damn.

Perhaps a solution should be engineered for that consumer who is looking, and that would be an art to avoid the mainstream bloat that would come with producing a mechanism like that.
You are wrong. Even in terms of emissions ships are the most efficient way to transport goods, in terms of km-tonnes.
It may also be worth considering how value is created by the intermediaries. In the case of, for example, a hit single it's not obvious to me how much of the financial value came from the music itself and how much from the promotion of it.

Which only makes me wonder further if the underlying IP is really valuable or not.
They're in the data analysis business. Your government is in the mass surveillance business. If ICE fed the data into Tableau instead would that be any different?
>>> all you need to do is to start injecting dense cores in the middle of the sprawl.

It might be better to call it a "destruction of utility", in the sense of economic "utility maximization". Many people are living in the sprawl partly because they DON'T want to live in a "dense core". Injecting a dense core into their neighborhood might be considered a significant loss in quality of life.
And the HTTP protocol gives you and your users a way to negotiate a fair and mutually-beneficial deal. In it's usual implementation, it's called auth, or more commonly, a (pay)wall.
Presidio: Customizable data protection and PII data anonymization service
That is not the point. The point is that anything scatters and absorbs the light in a particular way, and we cal this phenomenon the "color" of the object. "Vegetation is green because chlorophyll is green" is deemed a correct answer. The same for the sky and for anything else.

Ref: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1818:_Rayleigh_Sc...
I hear Porsche has a pretty nice EV in the works.
Fair pricing would mean everyone is charged the same price. Sellers could easily accomplish this by refusing to “discount”, but they don’t. So the current situation must be to the advantage of sellers.
In addition to taking hours, the Windows update is terrible opaque. Between the 'old' update & new update interfaces, the time spent 'looking for updates' can range from a minute to over an hour which means it's obviously doing more than just querying a server for available updates. During the 'installing' updates phase, the percent complete will stall & jump at random intervals without any indication of why it suddently went from 15% done to 25% done.

And at the end of this long and ardouous process, you only have an updated OS and still have to manually (or use a tool like Chocolatey) update your non-MS software.

It baffles me that this as considered acceptable considering these issues are still present even in domain environments with local WSUS servers.
Pieter Abeel on Potential Deep Learning Research Directions
Noticed this direct shipping years ago, the first time it took weeks for a small part to be delivered. I think the absurdly low cost reveals just how much you can jam into a shipping container for the current flat rate.

Weirder when you think about it from a fuel efficiency perspective; it probably takes a few drops of diesel to move a t-shirt 5000 miles.

Edit: NOTE- if you still buy stuff on ebay, be sure to check the feedback page on bulk "US based" sellers. Currently some of them actually ship from china even though their location is set to the US/canada.
>Bolsonaro will consider $40M G-7 Amazon aid package - if Macron apologizes to him

https://www.foxnews.com/world/brazil-amazon-fires-bolsonaro-...

What is this kindergarten? These are the type of people running countries.. this is sad. What a dckhead! People are suffering, large parts of country is on fire and someone wants an apology? sigh
Because capturing and viewing those is not legal, and not simple. Have no doubt that the legality matters, since it incentivizes making the viewing simpler (imagine popcorn time having devs who could openly work on it without fear of being legally prosecuted).
Very nice visualizations. I used to build lots of little game-type simulations like this and I remember working my way through a very similar progression as I figured out how to draw circles and position things based on angles.

This summary was a nice refresher for me but if I were just learning it (i.e. looking for a tutorial) I would probably want more in-depth explanation along the way.
Hi Show HN, I'm really excited to share what I have been working on the side since late November last year.

I am a one-person team and this project has allowed me to harness and grow from my few years of experience working as a software engineer. I was also able to flex my design muscles a little bit, while learning some marketing along the way.

Stack:

* Node.js w/ Typescript backend

* React + Semantic UI w/ Typescript frontend

* Bull for Redis queues

* Postgresql for database

* (soon) Flutter for mobile app

Lunch Money is a personal budgeting tool with native multi-currency support. This 100% grew out of a need to expand and improve the spreadsheet we had been using for about 1.5 years prior to starting development on this. My main goal was multi-currency support but also to rethink certain aspects of budgeting. Check out the website for more details & screenshots!

If this looks interesting, I encourage you to try it out, especially if the multi-currency aspect is useful to you. Thank you and open to any feedback.

Side story: I started this project while living abroad in Fukuoka, Japan for a few months. I did a whole write up on that journey here: https://lunchbag.ca/lunch-money
> Trustworthiness of content (text and soon photo and video) is and will be a fundamental problem. This is the basic attack vector for national and global politics in the last few years. Anyone with a good solution would help the world immeasurably and have their pick of customers.

SOS HN: Set up live early warning system for spoofed/deep fake news feeds

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20748195
You seem to be completely overlooking the fact that it is way cheaper to ship an item from China to a specific location in the US, than it is to ship the same item from within the US.
Well, of course. But limiting design to just open source fonts is really restrictive.
That is cool, thanks for sharing.
You are missing out the bit where you ordered the widget from China and then the US tax payers subsidised the Chinese companies delivery cost.

All that is happening is that subsidy is being removed.
License: MIT

Demo: https://presidio-demo.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com/

Documentation: https://github.com/microsoft/presidio/blob/master/docs/index...
What’s an example of a non-stressful programmer role? Asking for a friend.
> It's interesting you think JVM support is just marketing

I never said or implied that. I think maybe Dart is a liability from a marketing point of view because I saw many negative comments on HN which had more more to do with Dart's popularity than its technical merits. I was not talking about the JVM.
Otoh, smartphones dumbed down technology. Research in new interfaces got limited to touchscreens, and content got limited to whatever fits in a feed. I think smartphones took us back. We re still typing out thoughts through keyboards
5G will probably bring in another wave of smartphone and IoT innovation. Imagine what can be done when sensors/cameras can transmit 10x the amount of data per second that they can now. I'm especially interested in how this might enable low-cost high-quality telemedicine.
Evolutionary changes are virtually solipsitically beneficial, by definition.

They may be a local optimum, or adaptations to circumstances which existed at one time, but no longer, or be the result of a long chain of path-dependencies (effectively: multiple local optima jumps, a/k/a "the adjacent possible"), or even non-heritable benefits, such as "don't be under that big sky rock when it comes down" (luck plays a selective role, but features little if any heritable characteristics).

All that said, I'm not making any argument for or against meat eating, other than to note that the evolutionary support of it suggests that it was certainly useful at least at some point in the past.
ReactGate Timeline Document
The creative part comes when you keep on doing the job and then you'll creative part kicks in. Dr robust automation to quickly place the dishes. That's what life's made og, IMHO.
Firefox or chrome has been updated is a much better experience than “your brother printer software has updates” every time I opened my computer.

I just updated the printer! Nope it’s the update checker that’s needs updating, ok. Nope still not up to date, now the installer needs updating.
I don't think anyone disagrees with you. My point (again) is that this land can't be sustainably farmed for vegetable/cereal crops, so cattle is the only industry that the land could be used for. I would prefer there were some sustainable ranching practices, but I don't know enough about Brazilian agriculture to comment on how that land is managed after it's cleared.

I guess the million dollar question is - who has the moral authority to tell Brazilians that they don't have the right to utilize their land and natural resources like China, USA, India, and every other industrial nation?
I've read (and experienced with my Carnolians) that oxalic acid treatments can sometimes take more toll than the mites themselves. Any thoughts about this? Have you had any causalities with its use?
Heart disease is America's biggest killer. There is a lot of data that eating cholesterol effects disease rates including heart disease, cancer, etc.

If you study disease rates for those eating cholesterol and those replacing it with a plant based diet, eating cholesterol is higher.

While you have a particular point about eating cholesterol, measuring cholesterol, and related disease rates - are you suggesting people's health is not negatively affected by eating cholesterol?

Here's a simple study eating an egg versus not, it compares stopping eating cholesterol to stopping smoking. [0]

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21076725
The Sinister Face of Neutrality
> Also as a programmer i'm not sure how i'd go about doing a live show :-P

I think the best-fit to the analogy here is when you make an app for one particular customer instead of for the general public.
Indeed. There's a wealth of technology and science generated in academia. It's clear there are technical solutions to basically all our climate challenges. But they need to be deployed in business (and, of course, policy is required as well) so people can actually use this.
Other points seem to be mostly covered in comments, so I'll address this:

> Privacy legislation like GDPR has strengthened incumbents like Facebook and Google, and made it more difficult for challengers to succeed.

That's not a bad thing. We don't need a thriving, innovative adtech market. We need adtech to die.
The Linux kernel is unfortunately pretty far from UNIX nowadays but if you want to understand the basic concepts behind UNIX I think Lions' Commentary on UNIX is still the best resource out there:

https://www.amazon.com/Lions-Commentary-Unix-John/dp/1573980...
I think the coolest aspect about Unison, is that they're trying to reify the concept of a codebase (http://unisonweb.org/2016-09-17/editing.html) into something more than just a collection of lines of source code. You can think of it more like a well-defined object that can be transformed in coherent, strongly-typed ways. Unison identifies everything by a hash, so if you "change" a function definition, you're not actually mutating any state in the codebase, you're introducing a new function with a new hash.
The anemic ecosystem, for one.
And that's a totally legitimate point - but does it support your contention? You seem to be arguing that it is too expensive to raise meat. But food is driven largely by economics. Replacing the integrated farm with the sort of separation of duties you're talking about here is succeeding because it's cheaper.

If you're talking about thermal efficiency.. what you're saying is true but irrelevant. Whether my food is the optimum use of sunlight is not a real concern.
Missouri lawmakers responded by lowering, to 20 percent, a cap on the proportion of general operating revenues that could come from minor traffic violations.

Previously the limit was 30% and before that it was 35%. That higher limit was imposed to deal with Macks Creek, MO, a village on a US highway in a valley between two steep hills. That village was coated in brake dust, until the legislature decided it doesn't really need police. I'm pleased at the progress we're making in this state.
I'm willing to believe that, but it always sounds like nonsense to me. Normally, I hear people use it to describe the basic economics of a demand already greatly in excess of supply. If there's not enough food to go around, providing a little more food just means people will eat that additional food and they will still be hungry. We don't conclude that induced hunger is a thing.

Going back to traffic as the example, if I want to drive downtown to see a ballet but decide against it because traffic is bad, then they add more lanes and next year I do decide to drive to see that ballet, then I'm creating more traffic because they added more lanes. That demand wasn't induced -- it just transitioned from unmet demand to met demand.

If induced demand isn't nonsense, then I must be oversimplifying it. What am I missing?
Maybe for you, but there are use-cases and situations where this adds up, and has monetary effects. Container builds, or CI pipelines that run often would be one example. Sure, the things you mention are important, but all other things being equal, everybody would prefer faster installs to slower ones, right? So it's a fair thing to worry about, me thinks.
Cerebras Debuts AI Supercomputer-on-a-Wafer
Excellent!!

This may have a highly desirable side effect of cleaning a lot of junk/fake products on Amazon.

This will also impact Etsy, and perhaps Shopify and eBay.
Always strive for excellence. For something as fundamental as this, it's a bit shameful that mainstream package managers are so unnecessarily slow.

Let's say there are 30 million Linux users who are wasting an hour every year on slow package managers. 30 million hours means 3424 years wasted every year or the total average lifespan of 48 people. Package managers kill 48 people per year. ( /s )

(There's some related Steve Jobs quote here somewhere.)
Note that the program described there, ePacket, is now profitable for the USPS. It took them a few years to scale up but it's been profitable for years now.
How difficult that is depends on the framework(s) your app uses and how reliant on system APIs you are.

There are quite a few cross-platform frameworks in a number of different domains.
I am friend of Mark Bartel and helped him a little with the "wire trees" that he custom molds. I made many suggestions along the lines: "Why don't you just..."

He constitutionally can't - he is the definition of uncompromising. I don't play guitar, but I want to buy one of his amps because of how it is made. Take a look at this:

https://guitar.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/bartel-amplifi...

And every one is exactly the same because he writes and then follows explicit directions for making every connection.
Last time I checked ThreadReader is an indie app developed by one or two developers. I've had no issues with them in the past.
Exactly physical land exists, and the only "labor" required for it to be property is for people to agree on it being property. How does this constitute real labor or improvement?

Intellectual properties are generally more creative based endeavors and should be protected as such IMO
https://crosscut.com/2019/08/seattles-microtransit-experimen...

Maybe just an exception to the rule, but still worth pointing out.