skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the business model interesting. It is difficult to make a living as a content creator. Setting a limited number of subscribers on an exclusive illustration series will probably work better than giving illustrations away for free and then hope someone will hire you.
Setting a quarterly subscription of $57 will give the designer $5700 a month if he manage to get 300 subscribers.
I am sure this model can be duplicated by other independent content creators, and not only illustrators.

When it comes to the art itself I happen to like this artist's pen. That is a matter of taste and opinion of course. However, the business model is generic.
Or with this one: he is deeply associated with a portuguese club that despite being cronically linked to corruption during last decades, was 'randomly' spared and its rival teams were strongly persecuted.
I dunked my xz1 compact underwater the first day I got it just to see if it was actually waterproof or not. it has a headphone jack and its still working perfectly to this day
Focus on the task not the tools (unless you are building a tool/language/library). Whatever you are trying to build is always going to involve a very small fraction, of all the capabilities every language/library/tool provides. So focus on the capabilities you need. Don't fill your head with stuff that you don't use.
Also, with such high costs it'd be better to just kick the "offending" passenger out. Or lock the doors 10 minutes prior to departure (i.e. plan to depart 10 minutes after the official departure time, but not let new people in during that window).
The tech behind building an independent, internet radio station
Carry on bicycle service is available on only a few trains and even then there are very few spots. You can easily run out and there's nothing you can do with your bike at that point.

If you really look into it you'll discover that the notion that checked bikes are available on most trains is a lie. There are so many exceptions. Just because it's available on a train, doesn't mean it's available at your station. Only the bigger stations allow them and you have no way of getting your bike off the train otherwise. So if you want to go somewhere nice to bike around, you're mostly out of luck.

I'm not going to deal with taking the handlebars and pedals off all the time in a train station.

What am I going to do with that box? I ride my bike to the station.

The checked bike thing is horrible even if you're willing to deal with all of this insanity.

> Amtrak is not the best, but still better than air travel for cyclists. For the cost of a flight + bicycle baggage fees I can get a room on Amtrak.

Air travel is far cheaper than Amtrak in the Northeast. Checked bicycles are about $40 to fly with if you pick the right airline and $20 on Amtrak. But what's even cheaper is travel by car. Just rent a car for the day and you don't need to deal with any of this.
But you must understand that lots of games are able to make this work. Call of Duty, for example, uses Lua for its UI scripting and is able to hit framerate. WoW uses Lua as well. Its not impossible or even impractical. There's plenty of reason to use a higher level language even if your core loops are hand optimized.
I think one has to accept that some of these nostalgic things will inevitably retire, like the record player. We'll eventually get new things though, maybe dining cars in autonomous vehicles, who knows. We're currently in an awkward transition where old things are gone and new things aren't here yet, so being human is shitty.
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>Eg you pay 29 EUR minimum for a Hamburg-Berlin ride, compared to 9? for a bus.

Long distance bus are much cheaper, but also much less comfortable and less reliable. DB gets a lot of flak for one hour delays on the first snow, my bus was delayed 3 hours at the start of winter. In general delays seem much more frequent with the bus. The concept of connecting to a different bus also doesn't exist (probably because of unreliable travel times), meanwhile with the train I can travel from anywhere to anywhere.

I would love cheaper trains, but they are already cheaper than traveling long distance by car and much more enjoyable and reliable than long distance bus. They lose badly to cheap flights though.
> In my opinion, which is worth nil: Why not both?

Because for a start the source is tainted, and nothing ensures that the alleged evidence used to extort Rui Pinto's targets was not entirely made up.

Secondly, although the accusations deserve an investigation, accepting prejudicial info release by criminals following a botched extortion campaign ends up validating extortion as a business model.
We know from history that voter fraud is, very generally, something that can possibly happen.

However, the available evidence suggests that at present, voter fraud in the US (at least of the type that voter ID would prevent) is extraordinarily rare. [1] It's so rare that any measure that even slightly decreases turnout rates will likely cost at least an order of magnitude (if not multiple) more legitimate votes than illegitimate ones, meaning that the overall accuracy of the voting results will be reduced.

There's plenty of time to change course if and when there's an actual uptick in voter fraud, as opposed to an uptick in evidence-free allegations from politicians.

[1] https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/analysis/B...
IAGO

Good my lord, pardon me:
Though I am bound to every act of duty,
I am not bound to that all slaves are free to.
Utter my thoughts? Why, say they are vile and false;
As where's that palace whereinto foul things
Sometimes intrude not? who has a breast so pure,
But some uncleanly apprehensions
Keep leets and law-days and in session sit
With meditations lawful?

(Othello 3.3.135-141)
People only have so much attention to give to operating their democracy. Which is why in most instances, the more local you get, the less efficiently government operates. Participation in local elections tends to be a complete joke, and as such those local government bodies tend to only represent a very narrow set of interests.

In any case, this form of direct democracy wouldn’t solve the problems the parent is talking about. To achieve that, you’d need to vote on every decisions made by every public official ever.
what would be the financial benefit of this though? taking away the headphone jack meant that people would buy said phone manufacturers bt headphones but would they be selling here? will apple be selling a button dongle?
I love the idea of disrupting the for profit credit reporting industry. I don’t know that the government would do any better, but knocking the other guys off the map is a great start. It’s been decades since the FCRA was passed (specifically to reign in Equifax which operated more or less like the everyman’s TMZ at the time and would even pay for people to go through neighbors garbage) and it has had little impact. The big three credit bureaus are constantly sued and reprimanded and they just ignore it. Let’s try something else.
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I assume they must work to some degree, or they wouldn't do it.

The people doing it must believe it works. That's not the same as it actually working. People do things that don't work believing that they do all the time.
Also, because everybody who tries optimizing a GC language for games fails, badly. And, GC language developers know that if they promote their language for games, any game developers (temporarily) taken in will hate them forever, and bad-mouth their language.

Languages not used for anything anyone cares much about don't attract much bad press. There are reasons why games are written the way they are. It is not masochism.
Please stop this 'underrated comment' millennial bullshit. This isn't YouTube or reddit
Maybe meditating will be relatively easy for you. That means you would be able to naturally get into a state of very pleasant joyful relaxation. Once you learn to focus on the breath you start to notice some spontaneous feelings of wholesome pleasure which you can then expand to become immersive. It's called jhana/dhyana practice in Buddhism and you can get more detailed instructions in books like these:

https://www.amazon.com/Focused-Fearless-Meditators-States-Cl...

https://www.amazon.com/Right-Concentration-Practical-Guide-J...

https://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Bliss-Beyond-Meditators-H...
I think it's a good way to serialize the self-reflection. I do a lot of self-reflection and most of it isn't really healthy - more of just a circling anxiety over various feelings. Having to write it out means I actually have to think about it and put everything somewhere in a context, which really helps. Writing is different than thinking, just like how sometimes speaking is different than thinking, and you say things you would never have come up with just in your own head.
Is it super cheap and will save the company a lot of money but is a terrible experience? Claim millennials will love it. That's the best way to sell it shareholders and the media. If you look closely, you'll see this pattern over and over.
If you need your system to never dynamically allocate memory, an opaque 3rd party binary blob which might still do that doesn't seem like a valid inclusion.
I used to play Kung Fu Chess by shizmoo games years ago. Their four player mode was intense!

Not sure what happened to it but here is the wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung-Fu_Chess
CppCon 2019: Speed Is Found in the Minds of People [video]
Yeah, I think this is the best clue of how the sputh africans tested their nukes.

A weird nuclear policy that one: build and test in secrecy, never tell anyone you have them unless things are really dire, and only then do a public reveal. Explain that one with deterrance theory
> The problem isn't GC per se.

In other words, the problem is GC, full stop.
So it's made by Mozilla. It is going to the implementation of HTTP/3 in Firefox?
Student succeeds at failing to start work on his summer homework
Assuming someone's job is easy, without knowing much about it, and therefore believing they must lazy isn't a good look.
Very good question. The article I'm reading says "Today, most independent researchers believe that the 1979 flash was caused by a nuclear explosion" What does yours say?
I really suggest against building a database from scratch. It's just too annoying, and there's so much code to write (parser, storage, indexing, query planner, connections). If you're interested in internals, I'd say look at the sqlite codebase instead: https://sqlite.org/src/doc/trunk/README.md . If anything, reading code that works is probably more useful than writing code that almost certainly won't without months and possibly years of effort.

A lot of the more complex database things are only really learned by having a large database system. Performance, distributed databases, and complex schemas come to mind here. Most of the times with simple examples, you'll do something wrong performance wise, but you'll never know because of the scale (such as forgetting an index, or doing a bad join).

Many times, you don't need to know that much about database other than some basic SQL.
Not to say, but historically, the only parties against unions are fascist and nazy, two far right mouvements. As such, they didn't be concerned so much with workers status and wellbeing than the corporate interest financing their parties.

The only reason a member of the working class to be against union is because they are either paid to be so or because they have been brainwashed by anti-union messaging.

As I said sometimes, far right leaning workers have traded their social rights in order to piss off black people and the jews.
I have this feeling that the article focuses on the positives, and also doesn't help with the question "which one you should choose".
It would be very helpful if someone could point to a good source (or just share their experience) how to make a good decision between the two.
I studied Shannon entropy like any CS student back in University, so I'm not an expert in all interpretations of Shannon entropy, but I don't think Shannon entropy tells you anything about what or how much information you are lacking about the system.

It may be used to this end, but it's not what Shannon entropy directly gives you.

There is no way to reduce the entropy of a totally random system by knowing more about it, unless your hypothesis is that true randomness doesn't exist in the universe
I remember some tweets from DJB.

https://twitter.com/hashbreaker/status/709314886384427008

> Fun game to play: Take statements from Comey et al. Replace "smartphones" with "brains"/"memories"/"thoughts". Technology will get us there!

> "Everybody is walking around with a Swiss bank account in his brain if government can't get in. You cannot take an absolutist view on this."

> "How do we solve or disrupt a terrorist plot if law enforcement can't access the memories and thoughts inside suspected terrorists' brains?"

Both funny and scary.

Time to rewatch the TV animation version of Ghost in the Shell [0] again. Released in 2000s, it portrayed and predicted our world remarkably well, and it'll give you a lot of inspirations of what would the future society look like when everyone uses an electronic brain.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Stand_Alon...
That's not totally true, train can be cheaper depending on when you buy your tickets and compete with low cost airlines. If you also add the fact that you always arrive in the city whereas some airports requires a train or a taxis to get to it (which increase the overall price of your journey).
At least that's the case in England and France where I often take the train.
I mean it depends on whether you are doing anything with the pages and if they’re followed up on. As someone who has been on various oncall rotations for a decade I would describe that as a pretty heavy paging load for an average rotation.

The key criteria for me and paging are:

1. Was the page actionable? Did I need to do something to restore the system to functioning or prevent it from going down.

2. Can I prevent this page in the future and most importantly am I empowered by leadership to do that? If your app is paging me because it’s poorly made and I am not authorized to change it that’s a leadership problem that’s extremely common.

3. Are we auditing the pages? Often alerts in technology are designed in response to a particular problem and then never removed. Paging is, to me, a very serious action for a system to take. It means it is impossible for the system to naturally recover and all automation has failed. So every time we page someone we should as a team review those pages to ensure they’re actionable and actually impossible to naturally recover from.

These criteria have served me well for years and caused me to turn off the vast majority of the alerts of my services.

But you seem to have a culture that accepts this as normal and tbh these rarely change. Just know that it isn’t normal and it’s not acceptable.
I suffer of macular degeneration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macular_degeneration , so I am having issues reading texts , I am using TTS and Zoom features for most applications but the big issue I have is with video games. For open source game engines I can patch them to have the text pushed to my TTS scripts but for closed source game engine OCR or zoom is the only solution but it has a lot of issues.

1 my zoom follows the mouse but this is broken is nome games where the trying to move the zoom area to the edge where the text is would move the camera in game , pausing the game is a solution but some games would put a Pause screen on top of te text I want to read.

The OCR has issues when games use fancy fonts, old games use some pixelated fonts that are impossible to OCR, other games use more artistic fonts that are also hard to OCR, other games use text over semi transp[arent background and it makes hard to separate the text from the background.

For DirectX I am thinking if I could maybe intercept the draw text calls, I am considering making a Stack OVerflow post but I am a bit anxious that I am not sure what the correct title and tags should be and I could get the off topic and the question closed.
Wow, thoughtcrime is ceasing to be fiction. Even in the original 1984 novel, they could only be detected when those thoughts manifested as actual words and action. This goes further.

I fear for how much restraint we will show when we become technologically able to detect thoughts that are deemed reprehensible in current society. Some ideas that were considered reprehensible in the past have become part of ordinary norms in the modern day; I still don't consider ourselves today to be infallible in always making those decisions correctly.

For now, even having ideas currently considered most heretical/reprehensible is still legal, as long as it never leaves your head - but I'm not quite confident it will stay that way in the face of mounting pressure.
Current laws would make it even simpler. In the US at least, an agency could simply have subpoenas approved by a judge, and then require the disclosure of whatever brain info any number of companies have for a person. The companies could of course sue to not disclose, but there'd be enough firms that would comply as to make access trivial for whichever agency wanted the info.
I was on both sides at RedHat. It differed team by team. My last interview was just a discussion about past experiences :)
For people like me who wondered what QUIC was:

QUIC is an entirely new protocol for the web developed on top of UDP instead of TCP.
UDP has the advantage that it is not dependent on the order of the received packets, hence non-blocking unlike TCP.

If QUIC is used, the TCP/TLS/HTTP2 stack is replaced to UDP/QUIC stack.

According to Wikipedia:

> As improving TCP is a long-term goal for Google, QUIC aims to be nearly equivalent to an independent TCP connection, but with much reduced latency and better SPDY-like stream-multiplexing support.

> If QUIC features prove effective, those features could migrate into a later version of TCP and TLS (which have a notably longer deployment cycle).

So basically, QUIC wants to combine the speed of the UDP protocol, with the reliability of the TCP protocol.
Indeed, if you have a noticeable number of shared pointers, you are Doing It Wrong. A few here and there at top level are harmless, but if they have leaked into public interfaces or low-level infrastructure, you might better pitch the whole codebase and start over.
How so?

But yes, I do see that Atlas Obscura does do that. On their privacy policy page, I find:

> The Website is hosted in the United States and is intended for and directed to users in the United States. If you are accessing the Website from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that differ from United States laws, please be advised that through your continued use of the Website, which is governed by U.S. law, this Privacy Policy, and our Terms of Use, you are transferring your personal information to the United States and you consent to that transfer.
Revealing that you have a weapon as strong as the nuke is the stupidest thing to do for a military force
>when they're compelled to be scanned on arrest

I choose to plead the 5th. The wording is "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself" which obviously covers brain scans.

Of course the police will say I have the right to remain silent and they have the right to lock me in a jail cell. And TSA will absolutely do brain scans. I guess the right to remain silent is successfully getting eroded.
Who will win the rugby world cup?
GDPR applies regardless of whether you're doing business, and IIUIC applies to _people_ from the EU rather than just people currently in the EU.
Well, people voting for republican party are a good example... When you observe their policies, always intended to help corporate interests, you understand their voters are more interested in pissing of black people and the poors than improve their own condition.
Huge support of Sanders.. I love and hate this idea...

Love the idea of a totally open credit bureau that values privacy and does not use medical loans against us. And has full transparency....

I do however not trust the government as we've seen w/ Trump it could easily swing from leftist egalitarianism to rightist fascism in 1-2 election cycles. Then they could use credit scores as a weapon.

I think instead the government should create a regulation platform for credit agencies where they must follow certain principles to be allowed to operate as such including:

* No medical debt.

* Full transparency on how credit scores are scored -- perhaps even being required to use a government sanctioned algorithm.

* Free credit reports to consumers and other tooling.

* Must provide free counselling and support to consumers.

* May make profit from government grants + charging businesses for report access.

* Must offer ways to notify consumers when their reports have been accessed, by who, and when, and allow consumer to revoke and remove access at will.

* Must be protect privacy EVEN from government agencies, to ensure highest level of security for consumers.

Edit: a nice addition would be if they did have more integrations with government programs though, so say every citizen in the credit system is an automatically registered voter in their most recent locale.
They don’t. Maybe OP is thinking about postpaid plans?
> Keep in mind that European trains are typically more expensive than flights even on richly priced air routes

I have a lot of experience taking trains all over Europe. In almost no case was a train cheaper than flying once I included transportation to the airport. The few times a train costs more the difference is marginal and you'd end up flying Ryanair or Easyjet --- no thanks.

> And then the profitability of short distance routes is a direct product of the density of population.

Not a problem in the Northeast in the US. Only Amtrak can fail to offer a service that works everywhere else in the world.
I still believe that C++ is great because you can "use the good parts".

To me the STL containers are good enough. It's always a balance between how much time you save, and how much performance you lose. C++ is good enough with this. The only lacking thing would be an object pool.

The author writes

> but so simple it's not too hard to learn to use it carefully.

I would really love a replacement to C++, or an subset of C, that have the best of both languages. I can't use C because it becomes hairy very quickly, since you don't have things like STL containers.

I don't like Rust for the exact reason I quoted the author. The learning curve of Rust is too step, and its syntax if to distant from C. C is great because it's easy and fast, but it's also lacking many modern features that makes the programmer's life easier, without stomping down on performance or customization.

It's true that C++ is very complex, but I still believes it's very very usable, and the standard is improving a lot.
Can't read the articles on mobile, it hides and asks for login.
I don't know about the iss specifically, but was stunned that taking a handheld photo with my huawei mate p20 pro - I could capture bright city lights, the aurora and a few bright stars shining through the aurora - in the same frame.

I'd be hard pressed to manage the same with my (old) dslr.
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Bad code is bad code, in any language.