skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Welcome to the world of, by some measures, "too many" people having too much disposable wealth. There are obviously worse problems to have. But overtourism is a problem that's only going to get worse.

This even affects Mount Everest where people are literally dying just to say they stood at the top of the world. And Everest simply can't support the number of climbers now.

You see this in US national parks where the obvious ones (eg Yosemite) are arguably oversubscribed while others you could probably go days without seeing anyone.

There's a certain lack of imagination here. Some of it is convenience. Take Everest. People climb it because it's the tallest and people know what it is. There are ~14 other peaks over 8000 meters. Are any of these qualitatively worse experiences? Probably not. But... bragging rights.

Solutions to this fall into a number of buckets:

1. Making it more expensive: some will complain only the rich can go and this is unfair.

2. Quotas: you have to book far, far in advance and no doubt this is unfair to some people.

3. Lottery system: this is really a variation of quotas but probably fairer.

So I've been to Paris like 4 times. I like it but my God the touristy places are a nightmare such that I basically never went to any. Honestly the best part for me was the bread. The sandwiches you'd buy on the street were unbelievably good.

Anyway, I honestly don't understand this need people have to jam in with 100,000 other people just to see some famous building. Maybe that's just me.
elegant: "the quality of being pleasingly ingenious and simple; neatness."

definitely less subjective than beautiful. and it's not arbitrary - i've alluded to an argument that can be made. i'm not going to spell it out because as usual no one on here is receptive anything that doesn't valorize stem.
Why worry when according to alarmist politicians in the U.S. we only have “12 years left”.

I find these claims, and those similar from “activists” like Greta Thunberg, wholly unproductive both to steps taken to actually curb climate change and legitimate science.

Society isn’t going to cease growing and moving forward just because of climate change. It is unfortunately a reality that must be dealt with by creation and not regression.

Even as someone who supports the idea that climate change is a very real challenge for humanity.
Doesn't "best" matter for your use case? Are you trying to watch your country's geo-locked media while traveling? Are you protecting your data as you go around your daily activities? Are you making a private connection between machines for your business? Different providers can do different things better or worse.

I say this mostly because I'd love to also know what VPNs folks have found that stand out in specific areas around, say, ease of use (ala Tunnelbear), ability to work around geo-blocks (like Netflix refusing to let me, a paying customer, watch some things when I travel), etc.
What's coming is an Americanized version of the Chinese social credit rating which takes into account not just your history of making payments but everything else to build a psychographic profile to determine how much of a credit risk one is. This will pose many problems from inherent bias, conclusions based on faulty assumptions, and unanticipated consequences far beyond the initial design scope. Yes, it will allow for efficient FinTech business processing but at the cost of our humanity and possibly much more.
I live in a city that has had an explosion of tourism in the last 10 years. I don't benefit from it financially (if anything, the rents have shoot up considerably because of it), but it looks to me like it has been the main reason why the city doesn't feel empty and dead after 21h. I'm not sure I would be living here were it not for the side-effects of tourism.
The value of the structure does often decrease over time. The land might be a different story, if it’s a neighborhood where people want to move. Location, location, location. You can get property that decreases in value too, just move into a neighborhood in decline.
Which surely only works for older kids who've had the experience of earning money with hard graft.
I have mixed feelings about this. I used to live in El Raval, and during August I dreaded even leaving the apartment because I knew I would have to fight crowds even to go to the corner and buy milk.

I agree with your general premise, that restricting freedom of movement has not historically been a good thing, but I do also think it's a tragic when a beautiful and interesting place gets absolutely overrun by tourists and as a result gets less beautiful and less interesting, and far less livable for the people who stay there year round and don't leave after a couple days.

I think tourism can be seen as a problem of negative externalities, much the same way as pollution can: for a few businesses in the community, it's a huge net positive. Hotels and restaurants, for example, make big profits off of tourists in popular destinations, but everyone else has to deal with more litter, crowded streets and higher prices, but doesn't see any of the benefit. Just like we regulate pollution, I think it's possible to find ways to regulate tourism to maximize the collective good.

I also think there are ways to regulate tourism without beckoning the "slippery slope" you worry about. For instance, I have been on an island in Thailand which can only be accessed between 8AM and 8PM, does not allow outside plastics of any kind, and charges a modest fee to enter. Measures like that, or increased taxes on accommodation for example, can make it just a little bit harder to visit a popular destination and will probably result in less visitors on average without imposing a quota.
It is absolutely true, even after ESNI is implemented. Pornhub does not share their IP with anybody else so encrypted SNI doesn't help.

So we've transitioned from telling our ISP that we're visiting Pornhub, to telling our ISP and some American corporation. Great move.

What's your solution to this? Put every website behind Cloudflare?
My uBlock Origin contains over 100k filter rules, and I pay zero for it. I doubt a company can't sell a list of open DoH servers for a reasonable price.
I'm guessing from this book?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama_II_(novel)
Maybe if the source countries of the tourists could realize that if they liberalized their own country, their citizens wouldn’t dream of leaving so much just to walk around high.

But I have my doubts.
I'm guessing the feature list has grown over time. Each time more features are added, 58 clients need to be checked.
Fastboot for Linux [pdf]
You don’t stop it you can mechanically extract energy form it you just slingshot swag out of the solar system.
Which ones don't?
Wondering if this might explain similar spying around the Canadian parliament...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-csis-cell-surveillance...
This year has been a real turn around for me, I'm feeling great. I think R U Ok is a great initiative, quite a contrast it seems to America where mental health is more stigmatised. It would be great if something like R U Ok spread elsewhere. Even though a single day might seem shallow and mental health issues develop over a longer time, I think awareness helps. I didn't feel like the reason I didn't speak to anyone else was partly due to stigma.
You'll excuse me for not wanting to test that.
> [...] in Barcelona, where 'overtourism' is a much bigger problem than in Norway IMHO [...]

We do have quite a lovely but challenging nature here. We have lots of tourists who come here unprepared and some would likely been severely hurt or even died had it not been for volunteers from red cross etc helping them.

As the number of tourists increase, we're likely to see more of these unprepared tourists. So it's not just about the numbers, but what they do when they're here.

A recent news article (in Norwegian, Google Translate does a decent enough job): https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/gar-hardt-ut-mot-uvitende-t...
You have been successful in calling me cheeky on The Internet :)
Show HN: OffScreen – Less Phone, More Focus
Has anyone attempto'd to combine this with state machines in a way that you could specify rules in an english-like way, with a computer checking that you've resolved all ambiguities?

For example, a system that starts and stops based on observing parts of another system, but also allowing a user to input explicit start/stop commands would require additional rules:

The system is stopped if the subsystem is in state A.
The system is started if the subsystem is not in state A.
The system is stopped if the user sets the stop flag.
The system is started if the user unsets the stop flag.

Error: ambiguous state if subsystem not in state A and user sets the stop flag.

There's some real value here in allowing non-programmers to work through all the edge cases of a system, while simultaneously adding tools to convert standard English to ACE (eg: identifying ambiguous English and asking them to rewrite pronouns or split sentences up).
1) the father and mother had sida so the child would have had too.
2) it does not matter, improving a baby maximize baby happiness and does not affect negatively anybody else, such trivial utilitarism shouldn't be dismissable without solid arguments.
That scientist is now in prison for making us closer to go beyond our pathetic human condition (e.g ageing)
Someone has to work for society to function. And you're taking those people's money, often against their will, and giving it to people who don't want to work. You see nothing wrong with that?
I feel like the idea of time travel, teleportation, and eternal youth would improve my quality of life as well, but they are just as likely at this point as living on another planet. I certainly don't let the fact that I won't ever have any of those things get me down.
Package and infrastructure ecosystem development and maturity. It's debatable whether Haskell is the right language for such a package, but it's not debatable that a fully-fledged deep learning framework and the linear algebra + GPGPGU infrastructure it would rely on would be significant undertakings of hundreds of thousands of combined man hours and many millions (maybe even billions) of dollars of resources, not to mention community adoption.

In order for a newcomer to beat the incumbents, it would have to be an order of magnitude better in some way -- perhaps ergonomics, perhaps performance, and it would have to do so in some way that the incumbent couldn't just conceptually backport. That's not to say that Haskell or FP won't eventually find usage in these domains or is theoretically unsuited to it. But, I do think that from a practical perspective, it's a risky choice.
Python also has a bytes type that’s the same as python 2 strings. Why would you want your strings to not be Unicode?
iPhone 11 pro – from appel apple iPhone 11 pro price in India – की पूरी जानकारी
Russia Attacks Zoe Quinn, While Russians Have No Access to Running Water
That's for upstream queries, I think we're talking about the connection from the devices to the PiHole.
U.S. EPA to eliminate all mammal testing by 2035
Nah, I was assuming it'd take 111 years to send the minds there. It's really not a very long time when we have digital immortality.
That is assuming this only is a measurement of new questions posted for a language. I have no idea, is it?
To be polite, the article shows how little they understand the topic they are writing about.
I see them as souped-down virtual machines or the new vServers but with a decent interface. vServers (a bunch of hacks to separate users as if running different Linux instances) were pretty awful.
I think stratechery has some good analysis, but too much of it is framed from an Apple fanboi perspective. It reminds me of what a grown up, financially focused, version of RoughlyDrafted would look like. And after having been an Apple fanboi for a few years but not anymore, it’s hard for me to read.

As an example, this article itself justifies Apple’s 2016 keynote as being innovative because accessories revenues have doubled since. Doubling of revenues could mean and imply many things, but innovation is hardly one of them.
Which programming language helps with organization of large code-bases?
Why would "we" do anything?

Why do opponents of UBI and welfare assume that people being able to misuse the money somehow constitutes an argument against those programs? Why is this theoretical mother of 4 "blowing all the cash" under UBI, but not blowing her food stamps or benefits?

Irresponsible people can be irresponsible under any circumstance, but I don't see anyone arguing against capitalism because poor people could spend their paychecks on junk food, booze and lottery tickets. It's only people under welfare who seem to need a paternalistic moral guardian.

Give people the money they need to live and let them make their own decisions, accepting that there will always be a limit to what governments and society can do.
This was a joke.

Tim Ferris still promotes a “life hack” of paying other people to read books for you and provide a summary. Of course, this entirely detracts from the entire reason to read a book or any complex piece of information that might affect people differently depending on biases and past experience (so anyone who’s interested enough to read said information / content).
Before going to sleep I use to check my wardrobe to see what is available for the next morning. I spend less then 5 minutes mentally selecting the combination I will use.
Let's look at the article:

>Surging visitor numbers are threatening Norway’s reigning principle of allemannsretten—the freedom to roam, a concept popular across all of Scandinavia. The thousand-year-old government policy states that individuals, as long as they are polite, can legally walk through any piece of undeveloped property and camp for one night without first obtaining the owner’s permission. This right has worked well for centuries, but in recent years, communities across the country are increasingly suffering from littering, human waste, and overzealous Instagrammers.

So allemannsretten is threatening to be extinguished because it's a concept that doesn't scale. This is the threat of tourism, experiences which cannot scale are extinguished or priced out of reach of the average person/family. I think if tourism actually was good in the sort of utilitarian sense you're endorsing you wouldn't see pushback.
In California, the picture is incomplete unless you include the effects of proposition 13. It has been in effect since 1978 and strongly encourages municipalities to prioritize commercial real estate over residential. Commercial real estate provides a tax base that can be increased over time with the value of the property, and does not represent as large of an infrastructure investment (residential requires schools and so on).

It isn't only prop 13 that is to blame for the bay areas particular housing crisis, but encouraging towns to not approve residential starts cannot help.
MIT Media Lab and 'Sugar Daddy Science'
They are not using the host for link juice, they are using the host for lead-gen. Their PDF document in S3 links to their low-ranking spammy site, but the PDF itself ranks high. Same for medium posts, github pages, quora questions, etc.

Search google for "biology 10th edition free pdf" and see what I mean. Some top-ranking hosts are: Quora, Pinterest, and DailyMotion. The parasites are the videos/PDFs/questions/images (user generated content) that link to the low-rank spam site.

In some cases like Quora, the link juice is there, because it's not on a subdomain. For subdomains like S3, it's about the traffic/lead-gen, not the pagerank.
APM Companies say: AI and machine learning is the future of APM
This is an Ad. For tourism.
Values are about personal preference. "Killing each other is not super nice" isn't a value in any real way due to the dilution words you add.

Take the following thoughts:

Killing people is a bad thing.
During wars, soldiers kill people.
Soldiers are virtuous people.

Do you believe/know that someone could think they believe all 3 of these things? If yes, what are their values?

Everything is situations. It's context. It's why philosophers play with so many variances of the trolley problem. Nothing is clean and easy, everyone is a hypocrite, nothing matters, stuff happens, and trying to rule a group by trying to worry about individual beliefs instead of aggregate beliefs shared among a majority (a slight difference from your statement that I took as "minimal set of shared values" which I assumed you meant applied to literally everyone).

Point is once you get a group above a certain size, there's only ever going to be majority favored ideas, not universally shared.
This is really cool, nice work. I especially like the bit about putting a REPL statement in a source file to have it drop into bic. Seems like a quick and dirty way to debug without having to fire up gdb and such. Somewhere in between print statements and full on debugging.

Thanks for sharing.
There is a real lack of mentoring and apprenticeship in software so new developers relearn the lessons of the past.
“On the other hand, guess what we do in Tel Aviv?”
Doesn't zoning fall under the same category as high permit prices when it comes to roadblocks for new units? Even when you say

> It seems to me rent control and eviction restrictions of this type increases the expected profits for new construction

Zoning and high fees will still be a problem, new units can be rented/sold at a premium but then we have the issue of it being affordable in rent or credit. My guess is that the new rule protects(temporarily) whoever is already in the game, any new comer will still get screwed.
Computers' stupidity makes them dangerous
We have https://thelounge.chat/ running.

I don't miss anything.
Loot boxes for tradeable items move away from this. My kids want to open cases in CSGO because they think they'll win a skin they can sell for a lot of money. Winning money is the motivator.
Written information clearly benefits from bold, italics, ordered and unordered lists, section headers, etc. Normal people don’t really understand text surrounded by underscores or asterisks (I never receive messages with those constructs from non-technical people).

Formatting lists or indented quotes (also common in “normal” email usage) using white spaces and other semi-arbitrary characters is tedious and brittle.

The “rich text” features of HTML email definitely improve readability and understanding when used with restraint.
National Cyber Centre website security check
How is this possible? If space outside the solar system is empty, then the probability of 2 extrasolar comets should be 0 during my lifetime.
The images are VERY similar, so I guess the implication is that the filer of the takedown request copied and tweaked/edited the EFF image?
I agree with the response that there are a few "gotchas" with python, like with any language! I have gotten caught up with a few type problems when dealing with sending raw binary data over serial and things like that - but luckily python has great unit testing frameworks to help with this.

My main beef with python is that it is harder to deploy projects to other people, without them setting up a virtual environment or things like that. I know that there are some tools to help compile but they aren't easy to use.

Also, it is hard to create GUI applications vs languages like C#!

Other than that I love using python and I think it is a great tool to use in embedded development along with c/c++.
There are still old country bumpkin types with rotary phones..
Show HN: Pet project update – translating emojis into URLs
Maybe that's a good idea. Is charging more the solution? Effectively you're making tourism more robust in the area, because it becomes the main source of value for what you can do there (as in, the more expensive it is, the weaker other non-touristic options become, because they attract less profit).
Wow, jumping right to slavery. Next, Nazis?

My mother-in-law lived thru the invention of the 'minimum wage' in the US. She saw the damage it did, the thousands out of work because their job wasn't worth minimum pay. The temporary jobs disappearing, part-time workers fired. And full-time workers working double-jobs to do the work of the missing low-paid workers.

It was indeed a hard time. Better times came after the minimum wage. But to cavalierly dismiss jobs with "these companies shouldn't exist" sounds a lot like "let them eat cake".
> Nothing about this article seems untrustworthy.

You got it reversed. What about it seems trustworthy? Russel's teapot and all that, the one making claims has to prove it, not others have to disprove it.

> Politico is a highly trustworthy paper

Trust-proof should be per-concrete-article, not per publication.

> Your comment seems out of place.

[Citation needed] :-) -- Seriously, I don't see anything wrong. Okay, you dislike the opinion, I get it.
Last week I had the idea of offering emoji support for URLs in a website. It was pretty well received - some people had suggestions for emojis, others requests for features like customization.

Today I had a pretty interesting request of translating emojis from URLs into text, so I wrote a couple scripts, built a data set, and implemented a proof of concept for it.

Examples:

yoursite.com/<BAT_EMOJI><MAN_WALKING_EMOJI>

translates to: yoursite.com/batman-walking

yoursite.com/<FIRE_EMOJI>-in-the-️<HOLE_EMOJI>

translates to: yoursite.com/fire-in-the-hole

The feature is included in emoji-express 1.1.1
With fine-grained parallelism, programs don't tend to start new threads per bits of work. Instead there are a bunch of worker threads that get work delegated to them in various ways. It's this way in parallelism libs for all languages.

The Clojure example uses pmap, which also uses an existing pool of threads. (source to pmap shows that it's backed by futures: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/clojure-1.10.0/src/c... - futures are amply documented to be backed by thread pool)
Uplift from SCCS to Git (2014)
Do you have a model number or something that I can use to search for?
Hold my beer....

Back in the early 2000's I worked with a SQL specialist who managed to cram the functionality of a whole web app into a SQL database...UI rendering, business logic, the whole shebang. It sat behind a rudimentary Classic ASP app that just made calls to stored procedures.
I actually expected some elaborate work about the imperfection of Python.

What I got was a list that started with at least three points that are already obsolete, because only valid for Python 2, which is already declared obsolete.

Every language with some history has its humble start and is evolving. To carry the errors of the past is just not fair. You could of course drag along the first Java version and conclude that Java is bad -- but you would really invalidate your own opinion.
Few markets are really free, and that’s a good thing. Free markets tend to be very ugly in reality.
Meaningless as written.
Revisiting the Global Decline of the (Non-Housing) Labor Share

We identify two undocumented measurement challenges affecting corporate sector labor shares outside the United States: the inclusion of dwellings and the inclusion of self-employed workers in the corresponding sectoral accounts. Both issues have become more important over time, biasing corporate labor shares downward. We propose two methods to correct for these challenges and obtain `true’ non-housing labor share series. Contrary to common wisdom, the corrected series exhibit stable labor shares across all major economies, except the US, where the corrected labor share declines by 6 percentage points since 1980.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RMTqNNJFUSxeMx9UsObAgqUeb3H...
Steel: A Concurrent Separation Logic Framework to Scale Up Verification in F*
Trump Administration to Finalize Rollback of Clean Water Protections