skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Glasgow council is selling land like its going out of fashion to developers

Guessing the sentiment here is that this is bad? Why exactly? Is Glasgow not growing and ever more people needing roofs over heads?

I've never once heard a person hate on farmers for producing too much food for consumption but the moment developers come even close to meeting demand for housing they are considered on par with criminals.

Both are essentials for life. Yet an abundance of one may reduce an individuals personal wealth.

In my country developers are banned from political donations, bikie gangs (organised criminals) are not.
I think it's fair to blame the marketing mistake. Bitcoin was built for the purpose of making convenient payments. However, it turned out to be an ingenious alternative to gold.

I wish it were labelled cryptoasset instead of cryptocurrency.

In the long-term, the objective nature of Bitcoin should prevail and we'll assess its benefit by whether it is a successful store of value.
Ah, the straw-person in its natural habitat.
This is terrible. I read the article and thought “wow this would really work for Vilnius”. Something I’ve thought for last year matter of fact. Initially ai thought some car traffic could be replaced with e-scooters, but cobbled roads wouldn’t work well for it.
Turns out Vilnius (old town I presume) is already “””car free”””. In reality there’s about 3-5 streets that mostly take tourists and locals around. There are no good reason to keep them open. I really hope one day this changes. It would make city so much quieter and nicer.
Ask HN: When do you think smartphones will become obsolete?
Sure, sure, my basic assumption is that you can't have privacy for certain acts only. If the idea is that somebody watches and completely ignores all legal behavior but steps in when they witness illegal behavior, that's not privacy, it's something else.

Privacy means that nobody watches, so if you want to build tools for privacy, you'll always end up also enabling people to use them for illegal things. We (as Western societies) have mostly decided that general privacy is so valuable to citizens that we accept the collateral damage of crime being possible. I've not heard a lot of arguments against privacy in general, the arguments tend to be "I don't need privacy in this particular part of life, so it better be removed".
I concur, my same reaction as well. Every place I've worked at where there was a line drawn in the sand like this, showed a huge amount of dysfunction, chair spinning and finger pointing.
Right? I regularly play Hollow Knight, Civilization 6, Terraria and some other stuff via Steam.
Haven't updated to Catalina yet...
Yes, but think of all the meetings you can’t have if people aren’t at the office!
Centuries, indeed.
Links to related discussions:

* Dapr: an open-source project to make it easier to build microservices:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21272098

* Announcing the Open Application Model (OAM):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21272082
I am not trying to be flippant, but maybe you are misunderstanding what Algoia provides?

Let's say I have an eCommerce platform. The search provided by the framework is slow and I want to put together an instant search feature. It's too slow, and I don't have a search specialist to speed it up. So I add the Algoia plugin to the platform, sync my products and the work is done. Literally, real world example, install the plugin and suddenly my archaic eCom platform has instant search. Not only that, but I can manage the search result weigths and preferences from within Algolia with no special experience. My existing search couldn't do that.

I am not sure where you would need an ML specialist in any of this, certainly not a whole team. For most people Algolia out of the box is plenty.
It's only dissonance from the homocentric position of thinking we're the dominant form of matter in the universe. As it is all the parts of the universe relevant to us are tiny flecks of rounding error in the universe, now we seem to be finding the same with stars. Just like the familiar universe is mostly boring hydrogen and helium in stars, that's now being dwarfed by even more boring matter. It's like when we went from a geocentric view of the universe to a heliocentric one only to discover that the sun wasn't the center of the universe either.
That's probably because of injustice, it goes without saying that people who lived 'back then' didn't have functional brains and they were all racist automatons.

Most steerage passengers spent about 3 hours being screened at Ellis Island, and most of that was waiting in line. This is not dramatically worse than a typical wait at customs at any international airport at a peak hour. To this day they still let First Class passengers off the airplane first so they get to be the first in line at customs.
I have definitely observed physicists opining about machine learning and biology, especially biology in embarrassingly clueless ways.
Agree. This looks to me as if the audience is traditional enterprise who haven't yet adopted DevOps and to make kubernetes more accessible. But those are likely better served by either a PaaS or serverless solution.

It doesn't inspire a great deal of confidence that the Azure CTO promotes this development model - if he isn't quoted out of context that is.
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Well, thanks for the spoilers mate.

This was my next book in the pipeline.
IOW, they fixed their congestion by building more roads (the AP-9 highway).
>Neither party seems to want to acknowledge that the other party's model works just fine within its domain of applicability.

There are two very different points here.

Yes you can make most of your daily actions with a "flat earth" model. Actually, this is even an overkill model for most daily actions. A first person video game generally don't include such a model, so you can extrapolate that a "sight sized box model" is enough, and that any concept of earth is superfluous.

Then you have the part of you that seek to find a model of the world through concordant items of evidence, be it for practical reasons or simply for the matter of trying to make sense out of them.

You can use a GPS without any specific opinion on physical models. But you won't even send a satellite in space with an attitude stuck into a "my flat earth model is true" belief. That doesn't mean physical models that are used to put satellite on orbits are true, but at least they proved accurate enough to lead to that kind of exploits.
Posts without URLs get penalized, so you should make a new post that points to your site, then post your text as a first comment in the thread. If you do, email hn@ycombinator.com so we can make sure that it doesn't get flagged.
You might also include the backstory of how you came to work on this and explaining what's different about it. That tends to seed discussion in a good direction.

Edit: I took a quick look at www.aesthetic.com and it appeared to be a signup form rather than something users can directly try out now. If that's the case, it would be better to wait before reposting your Show HN: see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
When I run it:

1. The "c", " belle", and "poems" categories do not turn green when solved. Furthermore, none of them are counted solved on the leaderboard. This is probably why the leaderboard scores are bimodal.

2. Poem 4 is fundamentally misleading. It doesn't want the letters arranged in any sort of cross shape, it just wants a word like the others; producing the cross shape is impossible with the commands available, because the cut command does not accept ranges.
Yes runtime is the better word and the JVM was a bad example anyway. There are much worse offenders when it comes to throwing away CPU power.
I don't think your description is correct. The situation is we have a reasonably exact theory that assumes that most of the matter in the universe is neutral in the sense of only interacting gravitationally. But that interaction can be calculated quite readily in certain circumstances - for example, we can observe the "dark matter halo" in galaxies through gravitational lensing.

This is the dominant theory, it's not in contradiction with observations, it's just, a little weird. Why things are like that is the mystery but that's it for dark matter.

Sure, this stuff is invisible. So is electricity but we deal with that.

(Dark Energy I don't enough to talk about).
This is akin to the idea that you don't need privacy unless you have something to hide. Freedom of speech is important, but at the same time, so is the responsibility of a person to his team and community to maintain a minimum level of politeness and empathy. That entails understanding that some people are affected by some political issues significantly more than others, and that it might be intimately tied to their working situation.

A person's privilege to speak out about issues facing them in the course of their work is to be protected, irrespective of it being offensive.
This is not true. I used to be a professional market maker in Bitcoin. This year, Bitcoin market is relatively calm in at least half of the time, meaning 12 hours out of a 24-hour day, longer than most established equity market. Under these normal conditions, trading $1m worth of Bitcoin moves the market by less than 0.01%.
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Apart from the clever .d directory support, doesn't this mirror bash (in theory)?
UK mobile network Three having major outage
Network down, website offline, usually social media channel quiet.

Downdetector shows people reporting issue since late last night, [1] and even the BBC are not getting any responses [2]. Top it all off the main website is offline too [3].

Anyone else experiencing issues?

Edit @ 09:14 BST - Looks like everything is coming back up and online again. Wonder if it is linked to the 5G release that happened last night? curious

Now on the BBC website [4]

Will be interesting to see what they say is the cause.

[1]: https://downdetector.co.uk/status/3/

[2]: https://twitter.com/BBCBenThompson/status/1184715964828569601

[3]: http://www.three.co.uk/static/html/site_unavailable/unavailable_threeuk.html

[4]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50080876
Do you mean if the same house is moved to a new location on the same lot? I'm finding this difficult to imagine.
Water ape theory doesn't suggest humans have to be great swimmers to survive at waterside areas. There's a lot of stuff to eat where the water is shallow as well as probably a ton of fruit on the trees near the coast. Bi-pedaling would help in spending a lot of time standing in the shallow waters looking down at river bottom. Humans nimble fingers help with finding and dealing with various shellfish that were probably crawling around in the bottom sludge.

The bulk of our hair is on the top of the head - the only place that would be burnt by the sun if you stay all day standing in shallow waters.

The shape of our nose (nostrils directed down) are made convenient to stand vertically without getting water into airways.

What is the picture of a paradise? A beach with a white sand, sun shining, clear blue water, lots of palm trees near the coast. This is because its our natural habitat. Not deep forests, not savannah. It's tropical beach!

If I was to be left alone and naked on an inhabited piece of land I would definitely choose a tropical beach out of all untouched locations on the planet, because it is the most likely place where I would be able to survive.
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Indeed, what should we do about the other 99%?
In Israel the orthodox are 12% and growing rapidly, in 30 years they will constitute about 30% of Israeli Jews. In the u.s they are tiny and insignificant. Like the Amish.
3 our estimate of the age of the universe or of these stars need to be improved.
Have a look at stellar.
Ok, I doubt there's really any significant number of people who care to deny these things but I'll rephrase:

If your identity requires acceptance by others for you to consider yourself valid then it's not really your identity at all. If that sounds strange then replace gender identity and sex orientation with religion. Nobody needs to accept your faith for you to have one. You remain fully independent and capable of having whatever identity you want.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9812010
For one they created the dataset that Pokémon Go uses and that game is massively profitable.
Not sure why you're getting down voted. All fair points.
The problem is, the current law isn't match the pipe analogy. If it's a private communication, they can be a pipe. But they are publicly present the information as soon as it gets to the pipe.

There are many expressions you can't publicly present by law. For example, copyright infringement, privacy infringement, pornography, national/personal/organization secret, fraud, malware and all. You may argue some of them are ridiculous, but there are some expression you agree to be supressed. Like the fake news of you committing the crime.

Yes, In an ideal rule of the law world, you should take the court order to censor that expression. But it takes time. The current law is, if you knowingly publish the material that is obviously illegal and ignore the censorship demand, you are responsible for that.
Underground isn't an infinite space. Power, Sewers, basements, vaults, foundations, and existing tunnels.

In London, building a new tunnel for crossrail involved threading a TBM through a gap with 80cm clearance (that's less than 2 cubits).

The deeper you go, the wider the problems above, the more existing infrastrucutre is effected, not to mention the issues of how to return to the surface.

Build decking over all the existing surface streets, only allow electric vehicles on the (current) underground streets, don't allow anything larger than a pushbike on the top.
Dark matter sounds super intuitive as for me.

Let's assume we observe a system of planets and we have a good theory to describe its behavior.
Then with better tools and more observation we found an orbit deviation. Patch it by assuming additional yet unobserved planet? Or patch it with much more sophisticated mathematics?
This still doesn’t add up. For one, now it’s saying that when the universe was .4 billion years old we were already 2.6 billion light years apart, so now you have to explain that first.
I absolutely agree with regards to voters in total not being stupid, though I'm not so sure they're manipulated.

Imho, "the voters are stupid" is an easy way to explain why "my side didn't win". They cannot not agree with me, they must be stupid. Assuming that they are being manipulated is similar, I believe.
> A car is just easier, assuming light traffic, short drives, and good parking

And that’s precisely the problem, because cars don’t scale well. Suburbs surrounding large growing urban areas in the US are often clogged with traffic. Just look at the Bay Area.

You could say the solution then is to decentralize and make it so everyone can have the light traffic car commute. Aside from possible environmental impacts (Who knows, there might not be any with all the reduced traffic from this scheme), I don’t think this is realistic right now; humans have clustered around cities for literally millennia.

Edit: I live within a few minutes’ walking distance from several grocery stores. Typically I just buy a bag’s worth of groceries at a time. Physical ability differs, of course - but that’s another argument for reducing car use in my view, so you can clear the roads for the people who truly need the car.
It's not because they are the same ethnicity... It's because they were potentially brought up with very similar values and culture, and that shared background can manifest itself as similar attitudes to the behavior of their government. Notice how this is not even remotely controversial or racial, but because you have already decided what to believe on this politically loaded topic, you will blow your whistle and signal your virtues.

The Chinese government is known to own the media and pump worldwide propaganda to its citizens and ex-citizens living abroad. These are facts, and they are only related to race because they apply to Chinese people. Please stop with the bullshit. It's embarrassing.
Doing that for oneself is pretty simple I would think,

and doing this for other people, so they find what they are interested in, in cities far a way or in other countries, is pretty hard, I think.
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> If the public wants corporations to not interact with certain countries

I dont believe most democracies really represent the public. They do on paper, in theory, but in practice there are lobbies that lobby for big biz and their main owners. They have much more influence in political decisions. Hence I dont believe the "public" wants sanctions on Iran/Syria/Cuba/etc, but that it is merely convenient for big biz to have those sanctions.
Horses have an even number of legs. Behind they have two legs, and in
front they have fore-legs. This makes six legs, which is certainly an
odd number of legs for a horse. But the only number that is both even
and odd is infinity. Therefore, horses have an infinite number of
legs. (from fortune).
>> Micromanging employees minutes is an ineffective distraction to reaching that goal of delivery.

i would say that it is a very quick way for employee to reach towards a new company.
No - if you are considered likely to become dependant on state or federal aid you can be denied. https://www.uscis.gov/greencard/public-charge
That's fine. We were finding food in shallow waters, 1-2 meters deep.
Political emails often are spam but not all of them.
I subscribed to few newsletters from various political parties and I don't want google to block them from me.
Personally, I am going to pass on digital assistants until the privacy issues are addressed.

With that said, it is scary how good Google and Amazon are in this area compared to the competition.
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Related from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17436958
> I agree gender is irrelevant here

Ah, if that's what you're getting from what I'm saying, then I don't think you getting what I'm saying.

If your theory is that biological factors drive differences in behavioral outcomes, then I'm saying you should measure those biological factors, and you should do so on a more detailed level than genitals. I'm not arguing that sexual dimorphism isn't a thing. I'm arguing that a simple m/f measurement of it is insufficient, particularly if you're trying to correlate it to behavioral outcomes. As for your science paper request, I'll just go with this, instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_dimorphism_measures

If your theory is that gender (how society treats you) affects this, then measure /that/; which itself is more complicated than a simple binary. A masculine woman and a feminine man are treated very differently by society than a feminine woman and a masculine man. Although it's a lot more reasonable to go with a binary here, since basically all of society will put people into that binary, I'd definitely want some measure as to how well or poorly that category fits the person in question. It would make for a much more compelling case to see that the outcome isn't affected by that second measure.
This always gets trotted out, but it isn't ironclad proof of anything. Everything about the Bullet Cluster is conjecture based on secondary observations. They're not measuring "mass", they're measuring light, from which they're inferring mass. The galaxy collision is an unusual case, being at relatively high velocity, so the models may not even cover it well.

They're also assuming that the majority of the mass is in the gas, not the stars or invisible brown dwarvf stars or even black holes.

It's layers of assumptions a mile deep being used as irrefutable proof.
In today's time of rapid change I erroneously imagine the past to be stable and reliable. Could not be wronger. Stories like this reveal how at risk people throughout history were to all kinds of upheaval.
sure, pulling the plug is perfectly valid mechanism for terminating a loop, albeit an external one :-)
Yep, I'm having the same problem.
Great way to turn that 30 minute task into 8 hour task.

If employee is getting extra works as a reward for being efficient guess what will happen.
They are looking for dark matter, obviously.

It is still the most parsimonious explanation that there is some kind of gravitationally interacting stuff out there that we just cannot detect with our current measurement methods. It is the simplest hypothesis that can explain all of the available observations without adding too many epicycles to our otherwise well tested theories.
Not an exhaustive list, but important differences off the top of my head:

- End-to-end search:

Algolia's offerings span both front-end (InstantSearch drop-in widgets) and back-end (actual search API). Simple applications can be built without ever talking to Algolia API at all because their widgets do it for you.

Atlas is all back-end - just a DB service with FTS on the side; left to you to integrate front-end.

- Configuration:

Algolia's dashboard GUI is where a lot of the configuration is done. Some configurations are not available at all via APIs. It's relatively simple.

Atlas requires more JSON-type configuration entries, and some knowledge of Lucene internals.

- Text analysis:

Algolia text tokenization pipeline is mostly a black-box but works fine most of the time. It exposes only a few settings like ascii-folding. It's fine for normal dictionary words, but has problems with domain-specific text (for example, people/place names, scientific terms, etc).

Atlas exposes many aspects of Lucene's analysis pipeline, but it does require knowledge of Lucene.

- Multilingual support:

Algolia supports all its features for ~70 languages.

Atlas analysis has to be configured separately for each language.

- Query syntax:

Algolia defaults to simple queries but the API supports a more complex query syntax with boolean operators and such.

Atlas has its own JSON query DSL that's related to Lucene's query syntax capabilities.

- Faceting:

Algolia faceting configuration and API are far simpler than Atlas's DSL.
I think this mocking of their intention and problem statements is misplaced.

> So your model used a many-to-one relationship when you really wanted a many-to-many?

In many schema discussions you’d be right, but in the case of payments systems it’s not the case. Payments and payouts are separate transactions and only loosely related. The allocation of credit from one leads to an increment in the settlement of the other, but there’s no structural relationship in the journal itself.

> Preventing inconsistencies by enforcing constraints is a key point of an RDBMS. This is literally why people use SQL DBs

The inconsistencies in question relate to the domain model of accounting, not referential integrity or other (normally) easily enforced database invariants.

> You mean, like a NOT NULL constraint? Or, if you mean zeroed out, an appropriate constraint and/or before update trigger protecting the amount?

When you want to archive off aged records, or constrain across db shards, this is a serious issue. Taking the piss doesn’t make it go away. But in that particular paragraph I believe they’re referring to the payout itself become void e.g. due to a reversal, and having designed around similar issues I understand their concern. It’s exactly where single-column ledgers become a huge pain in the audit.
You cant self host algolia
Canonical didn't have the resources. Neither did Motorola.

But Samsung is doing this now with some moderate success.
> a hardware failure or natural disaster

This is generally something that large "Internet" companies are handling well. A hardware failure or natural disaster wiping out a datacenter will generally not affect data that such companies want to keep.
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No, it is like triaging bugs by looking for the most plausible origins first.