skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started in 2013 to have a yearly trip to Miami for a cruise at the beginning of February. For a solo traveler, taxi had been rather expensive unless you managed to pool with someone right at the airport, so I was glad to find the shuttle operators sitting next to the taxis right at the curb, and I could just walk there and get a ride. Nice low barrier to entry. Especially after realizing that indeed, public transport of the kind typically found at international airports in most other countries (trains, buses) was almost non-existent there.

While I clearly see how Uber and Lyft can provide an identical or better service (because of less drop-off stops) I still think the higher barrier to entry of a) having to know about them and b) having to download an app and open an account is a significant downside, especially for foreigners who haven't been in the US yet. It's another slightly weird thing that you have to know about and prepare for in advance.
I also dislike the giant trackpad on current MBP's - I keep brushing it with my hands/arms/body/everything and it's causing all sorts of problems.
Seems to me that it's largely also just luck.basically can you break laws for 30 hours straight. Roll of the dice both on public safety (ie risking others without their consent) and just the jail part. Hard to condone that.

The technical aspect as per article is interesting but I don't think this deserves the positive publicity its getting
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But they say explicitly

> If you are setting up your own tile server, we recommend that you use Ubuntu Linux.
Green Book won the award for Best Picture last year. It was not made by Netflix.

I do think Netflix has made a lot of good (and less good) content. But that statement is simply untrue
It's funny how experiences can differ so much -- academia really varies a lot. There's all this talk about what a PhD really means as a credential, while I've never thought about it that way.

In my corner of physics, a PhD just doesn't work as a credential: it cannot be used to impress anybody in industry because my field has no near-term applications. What matters is the PhD process, a period of relatively stable funding where you can focus on learning and research without interruption. Some people even fight their advisors to get their PhD degree later, because it marks the end of that stable period and the start of the rat race for postdoc and faculty positions.

In other words, the value of the PhD is entirely in the space it gives you to think about something you love. Bickering over who deserves the title of PhD seems to miss the point.
> Voluntary military service was also male only, so I'm not sure why you are focusing so much on conscription.

Most worlds armies are conscription, and even the US army had conscription during the American Revolution, the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. It culturally defines the military.

> This perfectly illustrates my point.

No it does not. Men as a group did not keep women out of conscription so men alone could get the privilege of being conscripted. It not a privilege. A better claim is that society pick which ever demographic is most expendable and force them to pick up arms during major conflicts. Young men, especially men of color, is consistently seen as expendable. It is racism, sexism, ageism, and a bunch more isms, and part of it favor women over young men.

During world war 2 almost all nations involved used prison population for conscription purposes. It is the most obvious place to find a lot of expendable people.

Voluntary military service still carries with it that culture and non-expendable people tend to not be near the front line.
Link shorteners are also used to ubfuscate tracking urls. E.g you can hide https://fb.com/?utm_source=hackernews&other_tracking_paramet... behind a nice looking bit.ly/fb url.

In my research I also found that it is a quite nice thing for phishing to fool you into opening a shady website.
Stand by for a smashing Anglosphere trade deal.
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Funnily enough I only ever see women using the phrase to shit on other women for not staying in line. Woman actually likes tech/cars/whatever and doesn’t like makeup and fashion? Ugh, she thinks she’s “not like other girls”, she’s looking down on us, she’s just trying to impress men.
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unshort.link has a browser extension for chrome & firefox, you find it on the site.

If you directly want to get redirected without showing the url you can activate that feature in the plugins config.

Or you can send the shortlinks to http://unshort.link/[http://short.link/sd] and it will directly redirect you
I like it. How did I miss this most obvious and simple solution?
Yes, HN should take a stand here: all links should point to the open web. I realize that there is lots of interesting content that is not on the web, and that's fine. It's just that HN links should not point to it.

We are losing the concept of the open web, and I thought HN would be the community that would understand the problem.
The UK has always been a reluctant partner holding back EU ambitions of ever closer union. The EU will now be much freer to pursue federalism. The UK will now be a friend and partner, but no longer in the dysfunctional relationship.

It's like how divorced couples can often have a more positive relationship after the divorce than during the unhappy marriage.

Not as close a relationship, but a more healthy one.
TBO you would never know, that's why the project is open source and if you want to be really sure what happens here, run it yourself.

The browser extension can be easily (in the settings) tweaked to use your own server instead of unshort.link
“delta’s solely in certification”

I agree with all of your comment except this. Peer review and any formal standard of research is missing from this persons work. Their work stands alone in that regard. That’s not necessarily better or worse, but it is different.

The PhD dissertation is about externally validated novelty and significance. I know people who spent 6-7 years doing masters level work and weren’t allowed to pass their PhD defense. So doing research != PhD.
"Jurassic Park" anyone? Ok, this particular dinosaur wouldn't be particularly awe-inspiring, but still... :)
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No I do not play to make it runnable on Apache/Nginx/ISS as there is more logic in it, than just the redirect.

The js/html assets are in the subfolder server/static/ for your use
Fair. Removed.
You can add them yourself :D
Just unshort them on unshort.link (not the browser extensions) and the service learns that it found a new shortlink service and it will be deployed right away.

After the next browser restart also the extension knows about that new service. (No updated required)

You can see if your updated worked if e.g. wapo.st is listed in https://unshort.link/providers
Neovim was started pretty explicitly to be a community project. There's a main maintainer but there's no BDFL. Vim has Bram as BDFL.

I'd say that for (Neo)Vim, which is a mature project with a clear design, the BDFL approach is ok but there are risks, illustrated by the half decade where Vim stagnated. Neovim has a less risky approach to project management, I'd say.

Of course, we need to revisit this topic in a decade or so :-)
> Apple published HyperCard in 1987, six years before Mosaic, the first web browser

Mosaic was the first Mac and Windows web browser (1992-93) but the first UNIX/NeXT web browser was WWW, 1990-91.

Bill Atkinson (and HyperCard) are awesome though. Imagine a networked HyperCard ushering in the web in 1987; or Intermedia for that matter in 1985; or much earlier in the 20th century a la Vannevar Bush (1930s) or Ted Nelson (1960s); or if Netscape had focused on Gopher, WAIS, FTP, and/or NNTP and dropped HTTP as being superfluous.
The engineer also wouldn't wait until the next day to test again.
Quite a hostile move by Intel.

Just throw it on a separate archive domain, plaster the thing full of scary legal disclaimers and call it a day
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I only remember their Vans leaving SFO driving very slowly on 101 , which seems to match what people is commenting
I'm not affiliated with either product, but FlatGA uses OAuth so you're not "handing over Google credentials." The app requires explicit permissions to: (1) view your configuration information, (2) view your reports, (3) view your Google email address. You could revoke access at any time.
Nice Mainframe form factor :)
> the women naturally feel alienated

Why “naturally”? Is it really natural for men and women to alienate each other just by existing?
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Indeed, since the psychological phenomenon of the denial of mortality is the result of evolution at work.
How would they obtain this information? The car insurance company (presumably) didn't have it, so the researchers would have to get in touch with each individual in their dataset and have an awkward conversation along the lines of "we're working with your car insurer, please tell us your race and religion". That's not going to go down very well...
Roma did not win the Oscar for best picture, but it did win other 3 oscars: Directing, Cinematography and Best Foreign Language Film.
Half a decade ago I researched starting a fractional trading platform, and I gave up on the idea because I decided it was illegal.

Now in this thread people are saying multiple such platforms exist. Did I make a mistake or get something wrong? Or are they applying some kind of workaround? I can't remember why I thought it wasn't allowed.
And how’s that relevant?

Another example would be the closed source VMWare ESX, which is definitely not GPL-compatible.
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One point that confuses me a bit: The study initially used experts (no word on the experts?) and later only selects four experts for the subsample because their kappa is moderate. Is that a common approach?

If there are two raters in a sample of six that disagree with the four others, I would argue that the IRR is an issue. Otherwise one could always run studies with n experts and only select a subsample of those raters that have a high interrater agreement, or not?

The Fleiss kappas are already relatively low..
"Team of underpaid workers" also falls under the AI umbrella in many, many companies who over-play their 'AI' secret sauce.
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It really sucks to be an expert but then not be able to get others to take your expertise seriously. We can do a lot of things on our own, but we're all social beings who do need to interact with others around us.

It does really suck to be an expert but then be ignored or shunned by the people you consider your peers.
Does the word Live translate poorly or something?

There is no "almost live" when you've got a chat box running.

Half the streams start with "can you hear me" - are they just gonna wait 3 mins for an answer?

Its just not practical
All of these have happened, in some degree at least. And yet it's still a mess. e.g.

1) That panel exists in a variety of forms. The problem is, how do you nicely estimate land value in an economy were real estate transactions are few (which is happening for the last 10-12 years or so)? In many places it's impossible to estimate due to the above, so the alternative is to rely on very old values which are going to be out of date and don't reflect reality. And you can't put 0 for the land value as that would mean 0 taxes and the state financial situation does not allow that
B) That is happening. Dispute is problematic as it takes years for the courts (yes, with the exception of blaring mistakes, the state has no incentive to accept that a land value estimation is wrong, so courts it is) to come up with a decision (never mind the fact that it will be appealed anyway so even more time and money spent on this), but it is happening.
C) Again, this is problematic due to the same reason as 1). There aren't really that many real estate transactions to accurately estimate land values. Everything went into a pause for years in a row.
Exactly! But that was the point made, right? Regardless of your credentials you should be able to convince people that you are an expert in a field. If you can prove your expertise only through credentials and not actual expert knowledge that is the "false positive" mentioned in the comment.
It wasn't wrong, but it also betrays that OP wasn't really a senior either. Just an older junior.
> No there are no systems that can deal with the $1e-10 you will need to pay for the usual packet.

You don't need packet-level accounting. You need, for example, to be able to charge $0.02/view for a video while getting to keep almost all the money, so that a creator with 10,000 views/day can make a decent living. Then you offer viewers a deal -- no charge if you host the video. Only a small fraction of the viewers take you up on it ($0.02 is not a huge incentive), but a few have unlimited data and are happy to get any price for something that costs them nothing, or it makes them feel like good supporters to be distributing your work, and that's all you need in order to have unlimited scalability and negligible hosting costs.

> You don't care if someone scams you a thousand times, you do care when someone scams you a few billion times, or when you're talking to millions of people.

This system isn't supposed to be a savings account, it's for small transactions. If there's significantly more money in your account than you typically spend on small transactions in a month then you're doing it wrong, and the amount in your account would be the upper limit on what you can get scammed out of.

People would still keep the bulk of their money in a traditional financial instituion that knows their name and can reverse transactions. But a payments system that works differently than that should be able to exist.
Surely does different DNA leads to different thinking. But when interbreeding is possible, differences might not be great ... much smaller than the cultural differences
Asserting that a gender balanced field is less sexist than a gender imbalanced one isn't very interesting. The interesting part is that law and medicine used to be just as gender imbalanced, and then steadily became less so.

This is the crux of the issue that you're avoiding grappling with. Saying "well I don't care about the history" is irrelevant, it's still the most important part whether you personally care or not.

It's like looking at which countries are desirable to immigrate to without grappling with patterns of development, despite the obvious fact that the biggest thing that makes countries more desirable is being rich/developed.
> In November, Lyft, Uber and taxis were relegated to a pickup lot next to Terminal 1; travelers can either walk there or wait for an airport shuttle to ferry them.

I really hate cities that do this.
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Can we have a new rule on HN please that if you submit a paywalled or loginwalled article you have to post the full text in a comment? "Web" link not working.
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Thing is, an “address” could be much more than an address. One example is the CHERI hardware capability stuff and its Arm counterpart, Morello: sizeof(void *) is 16 there.

And yeah, getting real world software, such as Postgres or Nginx, to work requires some fixes, but it’s really not that bad.
Really sorry to hear that. Did you ever experience anything related (like mushrooms)?
Okay, that is fair. I honestly appreciate you spending your time, convincing me. To be honest I did not need much convincing. I am sold on Lisp already and CL is just a matter of time for me, personally. But I still think it's not a good introductory Lisp for those who still need convincing. Maybe after using it a bit my opinion changes, but I know several former CL devs, they share the similar opinion.
This is ridiculous, changes in the 60's led to a more gender balanced field, which obviously made for less sexism. Pretending that root causes don't matter isn't helping your case.
This seems to be the default low cost construction option the world over. I've seen this all over asia as well. I've had a (second) house built that way and it generally works fine (and looks fine with some plaster on it as well). The only thing is the insulation is atrocious, but that matters less in the right climate.
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FWIW, AmigaOS had full preemptive multitask in 1985.
On a related note:
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No, that's not true. The reason that was done was because of a regulation that forced the electrical grid to treat church grid connection in an expedited manner. So one would built a house with a tiny church and would file papers for expedited connection to the grid. That was happening in places that were sparsely built and the cost of the grid to reach a house was great.
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I had a similar problem on my previous car. It would start again without issue after stopping if the pause was shorter than 15min or longer than half an hour but there was a spot in between where the car had cooled down too much and not enough at the same time to start. It's nice to see it was not just a fancy from an old car and to know the reason.
I think this thing is the key:

> "As an independent researcher, you don’t have those constraints, so you can focus on creating whatever artifacts you think will best reach your target audience (which might also mean academic papers, by the way!). I was mildly afraid of GitHub when I started, but I learned that open source developers use GitHub repositories for discussions, so I published some of my work that way. (A few other examples I like: Nicky Case publishes her ideas as games, and Michael Nielsen and Andy Matuschak are writing about quantum computing in an interactive readable format designed to improve retention.)"

We can redefine progress. Current academia is conservative, at least when it comes to what counts as work and progress, what as a distraction (sadly, almost all didactics and outreach counts as "distraction" for researchers).

Personally, after (kind of) leaving academia, I can focus much more on various media that wouldn't be recognized.
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The irony is, on the other end the inverse is true - filesystem cache hit ratio on Netflix servers isn’t particularly high.
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> From the README's notes on emoj "not a fan of npm (has 1862 dependencies)", I'm actually tempted to try that just to find out if it is true ;)

That's the number "npm install" showed after it was done (which took quite a while too), so I assume it's accurate?
If this is the low-cost design, what would be high cost? Steel and glass?
Have you tried opening the "Web" link in an incognito or private browser window?
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Latency is generally considered a bad thing on Twitch. The lower the better. 5 seconds is good. ~10 seconds is acceptable, 20 seconds or more starts to become intolerable.
You can have Google blur your house on Street View if you are so inclined. No idea in what kind of insurance profile bucket that will shunt you, but it's something to consider for the privacy conscious among us.

Click on 'report a problem' in Street View and centre the viewer you will see on your house, select 'my home' from the options, and add the address for good measure in the comment area.
it's not about linking you to a specific google account, it's about personally identifying you with a unique phone number at any given time
Bypass Paywalls for Firefox works for me, not sure why it's not in the official Mozilla addon repository though, you may want to inspect the code before using it:

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox/blob/m...

Edit: reading the code is interesting on it's own, to see what each of the sites need to work (set user agent to Googlebot, referer to coming from facebook, etc.)
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>Most worlds armies are conscription,

Yes, but so what? The gender requirement on front-line service has never been limited to conscription.

>It not a privilege.

This is a well-worn argument. When women wanted to vote and join the workplace, they also got told that these things were terrible burdens that they ought to be glad not to have to bear.

Clearly, there are women who do want to join the military, just as there have always been men who want to join the military.

In a modern context, in the US and Europe, the question is not about whether women should be forced to serve in the military against their will, but whether they should have the same right to volunteer for service as men, and the same range of opportunities subsequently.

Until recently, the men in charge thought that they should not.
It really seems to be very interesting and relevant work:

One of the authors vas a coauthor of the 2015 paper that was now disproven about its “it can’t be dank matter” claim:

"My hope was that this would be just the first of many studies of the galactic center region using similar techniques. But by 2018, the main cross-checks of the method were still the ones we'd done in 2015, which made me pretty nervous that we might have missed something."

And the whole article about this new paper is informative.
One of the aspects of math that I find beautiful is the deep connection between often seemingly unrelated topics. Connecting PDEs, which is a branch of analysis and what I consider "continuous" mathematics to something that seems to me like a discrete number theory problem is beautiful. The bit of intuition for why this might be the case in the article is nice:

> With a PDE, you plug in some values, get other values out, and repeat the process — all to understand that future state of the system. For any given PDE, mathematicians want to know if some starting values eventually lead to infinite values as an output or whether an equation always yields finite values, regardless of the values you start with.

> For Tao, this goal had the same flavor as investigating whether you always eventually get the same number (1) from the Collatz process no matter what number you feed in. As a result, he recognized that techniques for studying PDEs could apply to the Collatz conjecture.
Yes, this is what I mean. Of course in that case I would speak as well. And probably most would, without lawer as time matters.

One idea of the police was to be servants of the people and not a power tool of the elite.

The "never speak to the police" paradigm would mean to me that police is all evil intended.
And that would be the case, I dont think the solution is just more lawers.
Reminds me of how streamers in Germany are getting broadcast licenses even though some of them only have 3 viewers.

I'm wondering how long it will take until you need one for a skype call.
This story comes up once every few months if we get a really, really weird bug request from support. Issues like „the customer says, the app automatically buys something while he is sleeping. Please investigate where our app has automatic buying“ and we just sit there and stare at this in awe
Neat, though I'm a bit skeptical about its utility outside of rural areas. Particularly in the US, the problem with housing affordability is mostly in booming metros where people want to live in already developed areas, the most expensive part is often the land, instead of the house, so you really need density/verticality to make a dent in affordability.
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Well none of them are/were Usenet users, so no, but yes I did inform the two most predominate offenders specifically so they know they have to get my attention in other ways when addressing me directly.
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