skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was living in Chengdu for a year and I remember that I was surprised by the almost total lack of birds. In Hong Kong, where I am at the moment, there are more birds, but seems less than what we have back home in Northern Europe.
Yet more accurate language: bad-behaving people from good-behaving people. I realize some would say it‘s the same thing, but I always like to make the distinction.
It is so annoying when people tell me their genius idea, putting solar panels on a Tesla. Why doesn’t Tesla already do this, they wonder? Because the amount of energy captured by such a minuscule surface area would barely recoup the inefficiencies of the added weight... That, and a Tesla is sexy in a way that a vehicle plastered with solar panels would have a hard time replicating.

BTW, if you take the ferry to Alcatraz, they will try to impress with you solar panels and a helical wind turbine on the ferry itself. But pay attention, and they admit it doesn’t do anything more than power the loudspeaker. The boat runs on diesel. Because of course it does. If a few panels could power a ferry, we'd have gotten off oil long ago!
I don’t know what kind of corporate culture you are dealing with but I personally believe in Open,Honest,Direct approach to solve my problems.
"Sweeping changes" is mentioned in the first line of the article but nowhere else. What exactly are they planning to change?
Why would you expect people to ship a compiler though? Like: when I want to do runtime code generation on .NET, I don't concatenate strings containing C# and run them through a C# compiler... that would be madness!!... instead I use the APIs provided to do IL generation, which have been extremely amazing essentially since day one and provide unbounded flexibility over working with any specific textual language. If I really really wanted a compiler at runtime, maybe I want a different one, and I can then use differently models like F# or a Lisp variant... things that are much harder if someone insists I translate everything into some silly specific language :/.
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> He is also deeply into monetizing Navy-UFO conspiracy.

A lot of these otherwise sensible warfare blogs are getting heavily into this. I don't understand it.

But clearly it attracts a big audience and they've always been a niche blog topic so I guess they like the attention.
That tech sheen is really starting wear off and we are grappling with just how beholden/vulnerable we are. As a society and as individual tech worker we are living with these massive cooperations that pretend they have everyone's interest in mind. If the article is accurate (which I have no reason to doubt) then I truly appreciate these individuals doing the important work of pushing this topic further into our collective understanding. I just wish things had gone differently for them.
And I thought it would be about https://store.steampowered.com/app/815560/Dead_Reckoning_The...
> In Amsterdam for instance, most trains/trams/busses would have a dedicated place where to put bikes

Does that include city buses? In Denmark, it's about the same, except city buses have no room for bikes. Coaches - i.e. buses between cities - do.
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That's really not an issue when done for you. std::string does it just fine.
Leave the lock at work, locked to the rack or a fence. That might not work for brunch.

Most people use either old or fairly cheap (<€500) city bikes. We only lock the rear wheel; if you want to you can pick up the bike and walk off with it.

Some people do have nicer bikes, and they chain the bikes to something solid. I did this for 6 months when my city bike was new.
It looks like you've been using HN primarily for political and national battle. We ban accounts that do that because it's not what this site is for. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended?
> This is something we need more of in our leaders, though I agree that it reads weirdly (partly because it's so unusual).

I think we need more transparency if it comes with accountability. There was much transparency in the Aaron Swartz debacle and that just frustrated me because there were no changes made by MIT and the same leadership is in place and, I think, would make the same decisions today as then.

As a big fan of transparency and it’s usefulness for collaboration, it annoys me when it’s used as some strange salve for fuckups. The annoyance is that it works.
Thanks for taking the time to respond. You insights and advice have helped me understand better what is going on. I also feel better about myself in that I am not the only one who has gone through similar stuff. Something about opening up to strangers on Internet :-).
I wish they fixed the recurring “enable desktop notifications” prompt in the browser as well. It’s beyond annoying to use Slack in a browser these days because it, especially if (like myself) you only go in for a few minutes every hour and close the tab afterwards.
The problem with this is that we need more parking garages than open air parking lots.
There are a lot of political and national security concerns involved in that. The Air Force wants to maintain three aviation vendors in the industry as a matter of policy, otherwise Boeing and Lockheed are equally capable of making bombers.

Awarding the JSF to Lockheed two decades earlier had similar connotations. Boeing could maintain its aviation capabilities and expertise on the back of its commercial business. For Lockheed, losing the JSF would have meant the end of its aviation unit which the USAF deemed critical for national security.
In Copenhagen's Metro, bikes are not permitted during rush hour. They are at other times of the day, but require an additional ticket. The S-Train, which spreads out into the suburban area, bikes are free to bring aboard, and allowed during all hours of the day. Except one train station (Nørreport) during rush hour.

In my experience, that works out well.
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It’s funny that the president thinks incompetence is better to display than sex offender affinity (or whatever the flaw is). Signing letters without understanding them is incompetent. Being mentally absent from staff meetings, or presiding over meetings with inaccurate minutes, is incompetent.

I wonder if this means he thinks his risk of firing is less from being incompetent in minor matters than from supporting sex offenders.
I find integrals even more magical. Just by evaluating the antiderivative of a function at a single point we get a summary of the behavior of the function everywhere between that point and minus infinity!
It’s amazing that a supposed technical crowd is so hostile towards technical analysis on this front. I actually DON’T THINK most of us know much about climate science past headlines we see. Franzen is a lazy fatalist and people are calling him out. Totally warranted.
Why?

The purpose of a patent is to grant a monopoly for an invention that would not be obvious to someone skilled in the art.

These business methods should not enjoy patent protection that prevents someone from independently discovering and implementing same solution. There is a finite number of ways to efficiently implement wayfinding for a self-driving car.
That’s what countries do! Right? Everybody spies on others. Pretty sure the US and the UK are spying on each other too despite both being five eyes members.
You can't take bikes on buses, and only a very small number of teams allow bikes too, and that's in off peak times.

I don't see why someone would take a bike on bus/tram because, you could ride all all the same thanks to the flat roads.

Those ferries north of central station are free for everyone and you can take bikes for free too.
https://sci-hub.tw/https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4323... (anti-paywalled)
More like, Joi did deceive the integrity of the institute for one by entering such a deal.

For another there were at least 2 types of epstein donations made to him, one of which was for “personal usage”.

Dude, before vindicating folks u gotta read the entire story plot.
> since their length is indeterminate

in the software world 20 years is almost as bad. by the time the patent expires the patented algorithm may no longer be relevant
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Which state is 2000 miles in size? This article is about state prisons.
Yea, if you've got a 15 minutes commute then you charge your Leaf2/Zoe/Ioniq not twice a month but once in three weeks.
> You remember what it was like to be emotional, you empathize, but decisions must be strictly non-impulsive.

Bruce Sterling called that group "Zen Serotonin" in his novel Schismatreix[1] about posthuman ideologies. They enforced their "strictly non-impulsive" zen-like calm with biomonitor-regulated sci-fi drugs. They advocated strongly for social order and slowing the rate of social change.

My username ("pdkl95") is based on the opposite ideology. It is another sci-fi drug from Schismatrix, used by another ideological faction to force (often destructively, as brain damage) a change in perspective; it forces someone out of the comfortably familiar paradigm that Zen Serotonin tried to maintain.

This "clear delineation" between groups will eventually happen. All species eventually fracture into separate daughter-species. Instead of finding different ecological niches, human will speciate into different ideological niches.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schismatrix#Ideologies
Inmates today. They talk and information spreads very quickly into prisons via family members and other visitors.
I'm afraid I have to disagree. The key ingredient is unusually high IQ, not money. If I had a choice between being born with a very high IQ or in a moderately wealthy family (10s of millions), I'd choose the 1st without thinking. The family money rather reduce chances of striking success because they make people lazy from childhood. A 12 month trip to SV gives exactly nothing by itself. We could randomly select 1000 college grads, give them 100k and send them to SV for 1 year. The success rate will be 0.0%. What really helps on the SV path is (1) very high intelligence and (2) real industry experience. If you have the former, you can get the latter by joining one of the few known firms and spend there a decade. Then use your savings and connections to try your own idea. I don't see how family money help to skip that decade of experience or how they help to become smart.
Though it’s probably the most commonly used definition for complex exponentiation, e^i pi=-1 is not an axiom— it is derived from the basic rules of integer arithmetic expanded in scope until they make a closed system.

And from this, we can derive all of the trigonometric functions using only algebra and no geometry.

(See http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_22.html , particularly section 22-5)
No, the inequality always holds, your vote has always larger weight in society than your union membership.

I think it seems counter-intuitive to you but you cannot articulate why. I was also surprised when I realized it.

Or think about it this way: All citizens in democratic society are free to enter any number of associations that advocate for their interests. For example, unions. But membership in these associations doesn't "add up" to more power, in particular, it doesn't affect the "one person, one vote" principle of democratic elections.
Agree, you need something like the below to make it work, but it'd be a revolution in transport!
http://www.bike-intermodal.eu/

Note that the A-bike falls into this territory, bar the tiny wheels
http://www.abikecentral.com/index.html

Edit: I'd forgotten about another type, the monowheel, though they do require some skill: https://www.airwheel.net/home/product/X5
> How can you write this stuff with a straight face.

It is the people who cannot relate to others and/or have never had to deal with a serious illness themselves or of a close family member.

Then there are companies who make algorithms like this, that can "predict" to your boss if you will be calling in sick substantially [apparently totally legal, too]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11118120
Also, with SPIR-V the browsers are simpler, thus less likely to be buggy, incompatible, or have widely different performances.

All in all there's waaaaay more reasons to use SPIR-V.
To be precise, this has nothing to do with insulin. The mentioned small molecule was first synthesized to improve insulin delivery in 1938.
E-Mails typeset in TeX sounds amazing! Right now you'd have to compile
your TeX code to PDF/PS/DjVu and send that, which is far from perfect.
If you you want “affordable rents,” you have two options; high density or long commutes. And high density means large buildings. There’s just geometrically no way to supply a SF/NYC/Boston level city primarily through detached homes.

It’s on cities to solve the problems you describe, usually through housing inspection and tenant rights law.
If transport can be "free", surely other important things like food, education and healthcare can also be "free".

I for one welcome our new communist overlords.
Something that isn't intuitive about our monetary shift is that as we debase the USD, we also debase the most desperate/marginalized of our population.

It is a feature of our system that is only accelerated by income inequality and labor price suppression.
I get these ads from LinkedIn saying “check out who is in your meeting before you meet” and think they are optimistic on the usefulness of information they would give me (eg, “Jane Doe claims to be the CTO of a revolutionary company”), but in this situation it would be helpful to check and see if a sex criminal was in an upcoming meeting.

The dystopian version of the future would give us warnings of meeting participants likely to do something cancelable in the future that is likely to create and cancel wave that could impact meeting with them now.
Ok, I believe you that that was your intent. But "you" is a personal pronoun. If you use that pronoun and sling pejoratives, people are naturally going to interpret it as a personal attack, as I did. If you don't want to be read that way, the burden is on you to disambiguate that.
> He got his Phd from Cape Town Uni and probably grew up there.

Yeah, I couldn't find anything on his site about that. Where did you find that info?
I'm appalled by this attitude. Monoculture plantations are the very reason we are losing biodiversity at a rate that is going to collapse the food chain we depend upon. Animals and plants do not know boundaries, they try their damned hardest to live and repair the network of organisms we are tearing apart.

In the time it takes a forest to grow it will be home to many species which we utterly fuck up when harvesting the forest, once again putting one more nail in the coffin of our own food supply.

The forest tending of Scandinavia is a good example. The "plantations" are not entirely monoculture and can never be in fact. Healthy forests are anything but only trees, there are so many other species required for a healthy forest.

Please read this for more information about the devastation we cause for some lumber:
https://earthroots.org/index.php/clearcutting-item
How so? Aren't they more difficult to ride and maybe more dangerous?
Healthcare and education are free in most of the developed world.
I agree it's a lot of money for some! If you have a RSA (min revenue without working for our international friends), you already don't pay for transport anyway...
Please check https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratuit%C3%A9_des_transports_e... if you can read french.
Nonetheless that’s exactly what we blame Russia for. Obviously many countries actually do try to monitor and influence. But of course there is a difference between friendly-fire and enemy’s fire.
>The housing market does not follow a standard supply-demand curve for a number of reasons.

That would make it the first in history. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

>Rent control has helped a lot of people find stability in a time of need

So has the lottery. Doesn’t mean it’s not bad overall. The massive portion of people that don’t hit the rent control lottery (I.e. anyone who has to move) get screwed and the whole middle and upper class gets screwed by a poorly incentivized supply.

>Is this a real effect that you can measure in the real world?

Yes. Look at any place where there is rent control and you will find it still has unaffordable prices often far above the national average. It has never been a net good for society. It doesn’t increase housing supply and the pigeon hole principle should be simple enough for you to understand what that means.
Yes, I've been wondering this too - especially the economic part of it.

How is it that the same dynamic could be happening in so many countries that are ostensibly so different from each other?

I am inclined think that this is because of technological disruption, but how, exactly? Is this because of automation, globalization, or perhaps technology breaking governance systems somehow?
> If these algorithms were able to be patented globally, it would be a large benefit to the entire industry.

How so? The company is under no obligation to allow others to use the algorithm, and now it can sue anyone who uses it, even if they arrived at a similar solution independently. And by the time the patent expires, there may be a better solution, or the problem the algorithm solves might not even be relevant anymore.
Not buying it. I’m on the backend. My house is paid off in 18 months. Even with my average 5-7k per year of maintenance I’m paying a lot less than a crappy two bedroom rental in my top20 metro area on the US and my property is already worth triple+ my initial cost for a reasonable 1800 sq ft plus basement. I did get a place that was waaaay less than banks wanted to qualify me for because I understand the cost of maintenance. A pool would be an albatross around my neck for instance - never would buy a place with one bc of the maintenance.
Of course, the ever relevant (but in this case somewhat strangely worded) xkcd: https://xkcd.com/622/. Mathematical proofs in the form of poetry are always fun to read.
I'm not a mathematician but I assume there are functions with infinite number of derivatives. For such you cannot know all the values of the function by knowing the values of all derivatives because you would have to know infinitely many numbers.

Whereas if there are a fixed number of derivatives then at some level the derivative is constant and thus you can intuitively think that based on those derivatives you can then "draw" the function.
While owning is always combined with upkeep, renting is always taking money out of your pocket and putting it into somebody else's. At least in this economy (Western Europe) it's not exactly considered wise to never buy property, and makes sense in the long term for very few.

And to further the analogy of server's, pay a worker to do the upkeep if you can and would rather spend your time otherwise. There are people who'll take care of your bugs, crumbling infrastructure and beautification needs for a small token.

This really reads a rather petty complaint.
Disagree with the nice point unless we disregard all the externalized costs.
Uranium is... not nice stuff. I wouldn't classify it as "not particularly toxic". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2819790/
There was a short bit about dead reckoning in the story, but I’d assume the title is more of a play on “dead”.
There’s a fantastic recent special on the history channel about the Skunk Works, Kelly Johnson, and the development of the SR-71

Secrets in the Sky: The Untold Story of Skunk Works:
https://www.history.com/specials/secrets-in-the-sky-the-unto...
Probably written just before Ethiopia planted those 350m trees.
But this is the case for the polynomial approximation to just about anything. The individual terms yield wildly different numbers that cancel each other out, and individually they approximate the desired function poorly.

As a joke, a few years ago I created a polynomial approximation for Fibonacci.

fib(9) suddenly goes beserk and calculates the answer to life, the universe and everything!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14331627
I got taught waterfall at university and included iterations and being able to go back the way. The only real change with Agile is less specification (not necessarily good) and more frequent iterations (good).

Though as I have said on here before no one can actually agree on what Aglie actually is, so maybe whatever you are doing is working for you, so that's good.
I think France is kind of odd because yes, they do strike a lot, but usually the public approval of the striking is quite high. So it is less antagonistic in this sense.

I live in Europan country with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartism, and that's one option how to make things less antagonistic. There is lot of negotiations going on before the strike happens, and it mostly gets averted.
Yeah and also that an exponential is a turning function, or that you can even take an number to an imaginary power in the first place, or that turning the right amount just happens to take the power of e (and not, say, 2)
Nowhere near as convenient as a scooter.

Closing the last half mile on a trip on scooter is a breeze. Sometimes the nearest bike docks at start and end total half a mile distance. Dockless bike? They are generally quite sparse where I am.
Biological pest control has always been practiced historically. It's always good to have frogs in the paddy fields. Insect eating birds for the most part tend to be omnivores, hence dangerous for crops as well, unfortunately. I'm not aware of any existing solutions that benefit both birds and farming. I would love to be proven wrong about this statement, but under most cases Farming and Birds are antithetical to each other.
Brb, I'm gonna go commit a bunch of non-violent crimes so that I can live on this island paradise.
Yet no serious commentator advocates shutting down tourism out of concern for spread of disease, and it's long been found that the key to preventing infection outbreaks is to have a well-functioning medical system.
> Are you suggesting you would rather these UIs devote an unknown amount of screen real estate to various bulky OS scrollbars? That makes concise and predictable design for complex applications very difficult.

In all likelihood, I probably would. I chose my OS and one reason was those conventions. Especially on the web, developers seem to make very poor decisions on when to override things like scrolling. It's reasonable if, like you said, the UI is very complex and if I'm going to spend hours using it. In practice, they mess up conventions on a single scrolling page I'm spending 2 minutes on and it's usually a clue to avoid that site in the future.

> Those are the ones who need custom scrollbar solutions, and the way to get that done now is obtuse, brittle and hard to maintain.

That /has/ to be expected if you're stomping on the conventions. If you're changing the scrollbar, you're likely significantly changing the whole UI.
Totally not another side channel. Waiting for WebPCI and WebDMA.
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Thanks, this sounds nice.

Complex things,
us humans...
This person has owned a home for a year. Ve has experience and obviously an authority on this subject.

Seriously though, servers do not appreciate in value. If they did and were scarce it would make a lot more sense to run than cloud out.

There are downsides to home ownership and significant risks, but I think it’s the most tangible path to wealth for the middle class. Not everyone is fit for home ownership as they move or value flexibility, but for those who can plan and own a home in thirty years it zeros out for the costs of maintenance, taxes, etc. It’s not quite like getting a refund check back for thirty years of rent, but it’s similar.