skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's just a coincidence, my Northern European country sounds a lot like the parents description, but our roads definately aren't easy to drive on and drivers are very agresive which doesn't help.

Speed limits are seen more as a recommendation; if you leave reasonable space between you and the car in front someone will cut in; we have a lot of three lane roundabouts, and large interchanges which are fun in the middle of winter when you can't see the lane markings (or when they decide to resurface it and paint lines a few weeks later); oh and I see plenty of people using their phone while driving every day.

The roundabouts thing is interesting actually. We have a lot of large roundabouts, which I assume stems from Soviet times. In more Western countries they would have traffic lights, but here they are basically a free for all - I think adding traffic lights wouldn't actually help traffic flow as it blocks the traffic further down, in one case there are two large roundabouts ~800m apart, and the road between is always crawling in rush hour.

Last year they repainted all the lines so each lane corresponds to a specific exit or two. When you enter there are signs showing which lane you should be in, then you just follow that lane and don't need to worry about crossing into another lane (plus the lines are solid so you can't, legally). In a lot of cases they have reduced roundabouts from three to two lanes, but the traffic flow has actually increased.

That has caused another issue in that because it's easier to drive on roundabouts, people now drive faster, so getting on is harder if there is a steady stream of traffic. This year they have experimented with adding speed bumps before each entrace (reducing your speed to 30kmh or less) which seems to have alleviated that.

Since they introduced these changes I can't actually remember seeing any accident on roundabouts, where as it was a common event before.
ctrl+b, pageup is enough to start scroll back so you can skip [
Does it help in crafting a rap song ? If yes, what are the process ?
Shameless self-plug for something similar in the market: WebFPGA (https://webfpga.io/kickstarter). This service actually exposes the full FPGA and allows you to synthesize Verilog remotely (or offline).
Well, given the feature set of API Gateway compared to a Load Balancer I think it should be expected that it costs more. But that’s also beside the point which is to use managed services to do the heavy lifting. Eg. if you need a PubSub service for IoT, that shouldn’t go through API Gateway and Lambda, there is a specific AWS service for that.
Every symptom there suggests you have an autoimmune condition with a dietary trigger.
> It's more like the notion of open source, where the source may be viewable but isn't necessarily available for redistribution.

I think you misunderstand the distinction between open source and free software. Open source software also needs to be available for redistribution. The main practical difference is Free Software also requires that if you make any changes to the software, those changes must _also_ be released under the same licensing, whereas open source may or may not have such provisions.
As well as many of their people...
One of the biggest improvements in my tmux productivity came when I changed my prefix (default Ctrl + b) to backtick (i.e. to `) I am a heavy user of tmux and spend a lot of time switching panes, switching windows, entering visual mode, detatching etc. so this really feels faster.

# change prefix to backtick
unbind-key C-b
set-option -g prefix `
bind-key ` send-prefix
Regarding the question if Apache Pulsar or Apache BookKeeper for me it's not so clear which of both to use. I think it adds a lot of value if you add the WAL to the public API. Forgot how it's called, I think change data types (CDTs) without searching on google!? So basically you have the stream of events and expose these for use by applications :-)
Not bizarre in absolutely any way. The free software movement is a real thing that lobbies for you and me. Unlike silicon valley products, GPL and its siblings actually made the world a better place and to not recognise it is to be ungrateful. Even if making all software free is a dystopia, it's a good dystopia to strive towards.
Ehm care to cite some sources for your well generalized and arbitrary claims, especially regarding "root events"?
A lot of this debate is unfortunately centered around irrational arguments. People are (rightfully) concerned about microplastics in our oceans but jump to conclusions when it comes to single use plastics being a main cause for that.

This guardian article https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/22/tyres-an... breaks it down nicely. Single use plastics are a source of this type of pollution but not a huge or dominant one. If you think about it, if you dispose of your single use plastic the appropriate way, it is extremely unlikely to ever end up in an ocean. I live in Berlin. That's a few hundred kilometers from the sea. Most waste plastic here ends up being garbage collected and probably incinerated. Fish aren't exactly choking on plastic in the single river that runs through this city. Apparently it's quite clean these days.

On the other hand, anything driving on the German autobahn is probably dumping tire particulates by the kilos per year on the road, straight into the sewer and into the water ways. A kilo in tires is just normal wear and tear. A kilo in plastic bags is an enormous amount of plastic. Also that road you are driving on is being ground to dust by anything driving over it and that is quite nasty stuff as well.

I still think getting rid of single use plastics is a good idea but for me the primary reason would be reducing our dependence on the fossil fuels used to produce them and the dirty energy used to produce and transport them. Paper is biodegradable and can be made from sustainable stuff (trees). The energy used to do that is still a problem. So, single use paper bags and cups are not much of an upgrade here.

We should focus on producing and using things that are recyclable or at least sustainably produced and disposed off. E.g. germany has an awesome bottle collection system where people pay a deposit when they buy a can or bottle and get back that deposit when they return it to the store. Dumping plastic or glass bottles on the street here is a form of charity. Plenty of people around interested in collecting those. I usually leave my bottles in a visible/convenient spots.
I think this is what you're looking for: https://github.com/pragmagic/karax
I was curious about the 911 call the article mentioned, if anyone else is, here's a transcript.

http://www.aintnowaytogo.com/911Call.htm
There is no agreement on what is sensible and what is not, the defaults are no more or less sensible than any other suggestion.
I'm British, fyi.
Surprised to see Nim that slow, typically it ranks much higher in benchmarks. But without looking at the code and compiler options its hard to tell if it is simply the problem or the implementation that's to blame.
If all goes well, Google may be the last company. They'll just gobble up everybody else and become Skynet.
30 years might be enough to become a popular retreat from technology. They just need proper online marketing.
You joke, but CCP is Communist in the name only.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there are still some die hard communists around that’d love to seize the power.
"Production-ready" can mean a lot of things. They do have over 30,000 trips logged in Vegas so far: https://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastianblanco/2019/01/29/apti...

Based on the CES demo videos, the loops they're doing are pretty easy, so having something "production ready" by next year if only for those loops probably isn't out of the question. Definitely nowhere near "True Level 5," but something that can generate (even modest) revenue.

Aptiv is a truly huge conglomerate (140k+ employees), and the self-driving team (e.g. Nutonomy) is just a few dozen and distributed all over the US. It's easy for investors to look at Aptiv and see a disconnected Lord of the Flies. However, this announcement shows Aptiv wants to be seen as more of a unified Aurora-like start-up and thus warrants billions of external investment. Given how much mileage they've accumulated, I'm surprised they didn't raise more money.
As a new user of AWS services, I was planning to to migrate the website &app to Lambda services, does it mean the platform will get slower? Thanks for the feedback

But, I love to work in NodeJs for it’s easy scalability , using GraphQL will disrupt the process. What do you think about that ? Thanks
I believe Feynman originally asked the QC question many many years ago. What an exciting milestone and a great FAQ.

"Always naysaying! Everything I create!"
Types of Heels Every Woman Should Know
I once encountered someone who was contemplating jumping from a bridge. My immediate response was to keep him talking, no matter what, because I just didn't know what else to do? Everything I said agitated him more, to the point where he actually ran across the road to the other side of the bridge to get away from me.

Fortunately, I managed to flag down a passing ambulance and a paramedic intervened. This seemed to calm things down for a while until the police arrived.

However, one of the officers had the same effect as I had and the situation became quite desperate. His female colleague intervened though and that's when the situation turned around.

I ended up sitting in the ambulance with the paramedics while the drama unfolded. Eventually, the policewoman came over and said the guy was willing to get into the ambulance so long as 'that man' is not there (meaning me). So I bid my farewell to my new paramedic friends and left the scene.

I doubt he was going to jump initially but I wonder, if it was left to just me, whether the outcome would have been more tragic?
The Great Commission
Cool, do we think this will this work with unity?(the game engine)
stallman.org
"...yet, I think that the move by the current government to scrap it completely - instead on making the effort of fixing the problems - was utterly stupid..."

Yes, they should have tried to improve the program. But they didn't, the current government it just marketing. They really disappointed people.
China's success proves that democracy is not the only way. These guys just cannot accept this simple fact. LOL
Wish you'd asked for a citation for the whole dang comment. It's the exact kind of "sweet tasting" vitriol that has been sending people with a certain kind of persona into a feeding frenzy in countries all over the fucking planet. This phenomenon is a testament to how susceptible our collective amygdalae are to narrative manipulation. Doesn't matter how many historical precedents are exemplified, our species falls for it every time.
Interestingly, Mathematica does evaluate the integral successfully, but unless you add the constraint that alpha is real, it outputs a truly hideous looking result.

This expression:

Integrate[Log[1 - 2 \[Alpha] Cos[x] + \[Alpha]^2],
{x, 0, \[Pi]},
Assumptions -> Abs[\[Alpha]] >= 1
&& \[Alpha] \[Element] Reals]

Required 33 seconds of CPU time @ 4 GHz and outputs the short and neat expression in the article. Slow, but successful.

This is a symptom of Mathematica's symbolic engine being written with the "everything is a complex number" assumption deeply ingrained in it. Simplifying assumptions are treated as an afterthought. Conversely, it's not able to generalise to number spaces such as quaternions, matrices, or noncommutative algebras in general.

It's a pity the Mathematica engine has not had a revamp, it would be great if they did a major update to bring its capabilities in line with modern group theory and category theory.
I like Nim very much, however I do not think it will solve the 2 language problem. One of the things I lean on heavily in Python when experimenting and researching is the dynamic nature of the language. I believe this is also a strong factor for others.

For me, Julia completely addresses the 2 language problem. In practice I think it now simply needs a stronger ecosystem, better static analysis, and bug fixes, but I am very happy with the language design.
> But others, including my good friend Gil Kalai, are on record, right here on this blog predicting that even quantum supremacy can never be achieved for fundamental reasons. I won’t let them wiggle out of it now.

Here is Gil Kalai's post from yesterday: "Quantum computers: amazing progress (Google & IBM), and extraordinary but probably false supremacy claims (Google)." https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2019/09/23/quantum-computers-...
> You assumed that my call to moderation in this debate is because of

Did you read the same comment I did? They're baffled and they asked you about several different possibilities to figure you out. That's the opposite of assuming. "Your apathy" was conditional, based on the previous question.

> I'm disappointed, to be sure, but no amount of whinging, no matter how vociferous, is going to change this, so I'm pragmatic about it.

Losing money and being disappointed doesn't sound 'great' to me!
Thanks, good find, I fixed it.
Work at Epic Games – DailyCodingChallenge – Creating a Sequence in C++
The girl in the box vs The girl in the barrel
As the others have said it should be possible. Nim is already pretty good at cross-compiling, but it is also able to just spit out the C files it generates and allow you to play with those.
Assuming good faith, I’m old enough to remember not only 2009, but also the 1990s.

This tacky joke wasn’t considered to be in line with the best advice at either time. While you may need to take my word for 1990s, the very fact that there are multiple contemporaneous articles about the inappropriateness of the 2009 skit, is evidence of that. I will concede that the tolerance for the tacky joke may have been a bit higher in 1990, or even 1999, than it was 2009. Also, to reiterate, I do not think that it is RMS’s intention to offend, but offend he none the less does.

I am confused by the line of thought about someone that may not have been considered a good feminist in 2009, but in 2019 may be considered a good one. People are always welcome to change and adapt their behaviors and opinions to be more inclusive. Furthermore, it is especially welcome to acknowledge past behavior that doesn’t rise to one’s current standards. That is the expected outcome of education, growth, and maturity. To steadfastly refuse to change behavior when it is brought to their attention that is inappropriate, and perhaps not in line with their professed ideas, seems suspect to me. Is there something I’m missing, or perhaps you accidentally got the years reversed, and I misinterpreted?
Yeah true. I was hoping the only thing of value people would see in communism is the egalitarian attitude towards the distribution of wealth. Communism is a political ideology, applying it to a corporation or business is going to lose it's political edge.
Dramatic political reforms, similar to what happened in 1991 when the Soviet Union "collapsed". Corruption would skyrocket, Oligarchs would emerge from the state owned enterprises, HK would declare independence, inner Mongolia, Tibet, Xinjiang, probably Yunnan would follow. Flows of money, including taxes, would be interrupted, people wont get paid. State owned enterprises would not be able to pay their people, the banking system would collapse (as all major banks are state owned - and dont forget, 5 of the 10 largest banks on this planet are Chinese). Shanghai Composite (their stock market index) would plummet. As there are many micro investors, this would radiate into the housing market. hundreds of Millions would lose their homes.

Such a collapse would bring China back to the 1980s, increase poverty by hundreds of millions of people, disrupt global supply Chains (50% of the global electronics are shipped from the Pearl River Delta, 50% of all ACs and fridges are made there, Daimler, BMW and GM source 20-30% of their parts from China).

Western factories would reduce production as parts are missing. Western companies that export to China would have to reduce output (Volkswagen, GM would have to cut production by 30-40%, Airbus and Boeing by 20-30%). Western stock markets plummet, housing crises emerge, poverty surges, unemployment increases dramatically.

All in all, this would not be a great thing and a lose-lose situation. The Soviet Union was not integrated into the global value chains. China is. A collapse would make the 2008 crisis look like a cute little girl on a pink bicycle and bring the global economies back into the 1990s.
This is great! I know ZERO about CSS grid, but this taught me something and very straightforwardly.
For these cameras (and speeding cameras, too) to be effective at all, you either:

A) need a huge volume of them so people assume they will certainly get caught if they use their phone even just once

B) place them at critical spots and make them very clearly visible e.g. via adding signs

Otherwise, they're just hidden and rare enough that nobody actually changes their driving style. Now neither A nor B are the case. So what's their use besides making money?

Also, why take money only? Off the top of my head, why not something like each time you get caught, you get a "buffered" 1-day driving restriction and once it adds up to some amount it's applied? Currently you can just speed all the time as long as you're not grossly over the limit. All you need to do is pay a little money which might be trivial for some people. A driving restriction might not be.

These cameras obviously aren't implemented with safety as a priority. It's about money first and foremost. Safety is just a pretense. Same thing for govt surveillance and so on. It's surprising to me that the same excuse can be used over and over effectively.
The increase in pork prices is due to a swine fever epidemic that started in Liaoning province.[1] SCMP has a reasonably good article.

China's huge boom is starting to level off. Down from 10%/yr to 7% a year. The US is under 3%/yr. That happened to all the "Asian tigers", as they caught up to the developed world. Its a long way from a recession.

[1] https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3020488/c...
Ah, I didn’t realize what the PDB was, sorry.
I bought a copy of the book a few months back (and haven't yet found time to read it fully, I can write a lot of programs just after reading a first few chapters), will Manning upgrade it for a newer version for Nim 1.0 ?
Everlasting soap?
NGOs are nothing compared to American interference in the 1996 presidential elections in Russia.

Yanks to the rescue: The secret story of how American advisers helped Yeltsin win.

http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19960715,00.html
Procter
Whether you're browsing HN or farming wild jackabees off the grid; there is no escaping the political news machine.
I generally have one per user per server if its a Production machine, this is where ssh/.config really helps to keep things organised. This private key never leaves this device.

If it is my own stuff I tend to just have one across most things for ease of use.

I might start looking into some services to manage them but its just easy to be paranoid about moving them off the devices - opens up opportunities!
I was really excited when I saw V for the first time. Then as I was checking the claims one by one it turned out the author was only half honest. That was bad, really bad. I don't feel like visiting this website again and wonder if any of these claims are true or just a kind of strange marketing in order to collect donations.
Oh, yes there are.

C-b is terrible for your wrist, especially in conjunction with the following commands.

Choosing C-a isn't as much about preference as it is about not-terrible ergonomics. Now people are right to prefer anything other than C-a or C-b but C-a is objectively a much saner default than C-b.
Hate to say it but it's already happening and getting more clear day by day. I start to suspect all of this is intentional, including all of those trade war "failures".

You have a threat (The trade war with USA, well and maybe South China sea etc) and a slowing economy. Now many Chinese companies are in need of help from the CCP government, and the help is not for free.

In Zhejiang, their government want to send "Government representatives" to private firms[0] to "help" them on site. I will not be in total surprise if one day all of those companies turn themselves to "State controlled".

[0] https://www.voachinese.com/a/China-To-Send-Officials-To-100-... (Chinese, but the URL already told the story)
The most effective way to prevent people from looking into something is to poison the well. Attach the thing to something else obviously false, bonus points if evokes a negative emotional response.

Example; if someone decides to research 911, and instead of seeking out published papers and original sources, they go on yt and start watching videos about it, they will in short order hear a number of false things; holograms, lasers, nuclear weapons, missles, etc. Stuff that the average person would instinctively know is false.

The goal is not to convince the person that any of those examples is true. It's to associate them with other information and to game confirmation bias.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/video/prete... (win users might need videolan.org)
I might be missing something but how do you input character ` as is (in vim inside tmux for example) if it's bound to prefix?
Signs That You Are Dating a Mama's Boy
You have to understand that democracy, even the idea of it, is not native at all to Russians. I was there earlier in June. What struck me the most was how much reverence the Russians still have for all their erstwhile Soviet era dictators (Lenin and Stalin in particular). The former Tsars are particularly venerated.

The Russian people called Tsar Nicholas "little father". The assassination was an anomaly; the revolutionaries had to work very hard to hide the bodies because they feared the people would start worshipping the dead Tsars (which is exactly what's happening today).

Even with religion, 70 years of Soviet oppression and Russia is now as religious as ever.

So when you criticize Putin for crushing dissent, you have to understand that what might be oppression to us is perfectly normal for Russian people.

At this point, I have to ask: why do we assume that we know what's better for Russians (or any other nationality) than the Russians themselves?
Absolutely! TMux is pretty great by itself, but it doing its own internal scrolling and copy-pasting, though essential, is a usability frustration.

Tmux + iTerm2 is a fantastic combo that takes all of Tmux's pwer and removes all the downsides.

I searched if anything else used Tmux's Control Channel on Linux to replicate iTerm2's features, and I'm sad that I found nothing.

(Frankly, it's kind of stunning to me that one terminal app on macOS has more useful features than the plethora of me-too terminals on Linux)
> and memory from one thread's heap cannot be referenced by another thread's heap without use of unsafe pointers

Are you sure about that? Your statement seems to conflict Nim's manual, which says

> Each thread has its own (garbage collected) heap and sharing of memory is restricted to global variables.

This does suggest it inherits all of C's memory (un)safety characteristics.