skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft practically built a whole suburban town far from Seattle and made it its headquarters. It subsidizes suburbia because it is suburbia.
In most towns, education is a huge chunk of the budget. In my semi-rural Massachusetts town of about 7,000, 62% of the budget goes to the town's elementary school and its share of the regional high school. Public works is only about 8% and public safely is a bit under twice that.

As far as I know that's pretty common--in fact, I expected the educational spend to be higher, which it probably is in some places. (Per student spend for the regional high school is about half the spending in Cambridge for example.)
Great effort! Often thought about creating a blog for such things but never progressed further.
New paid path to NBA is threatening to make NCAA basketball obsolete
> And note that this slowdown would have to apply to every pointer operation in your program because

No, because I think that on x86 the instructions are the same for aligned and unaligned up to, and including, 64 bits (quadword). The only slowdown that would occur is due to missed compiler optimizations, and the author proposed disabling them as an option.
I don’t think he’s arguing for HOW to regulate, only that dogs SHOULD be regulated. You’re both correct imo.
Directly from the article. It’s the lower-bound estimate for confirmed to infected found by the study.

You should read it before commenting.
subgroupExclusiveAdd is part of the subgroup extension, and expected to be implemented in hardware. Best place to read about that is here:

https://www.khronos.org/blog/vulkan-subgroup-tutorial
Shoot it.
Consider the threat model for a moment. You have an airgapped machine, users who use that airgapped machine, and data that must get loaded onto the airgapped machine through some means. You need to land your malware on the machine so you need to understand the security posture of it to tailor proper evasions and which also align to your goals. Can you run with a simple recompiled Mimikatz or do you need to craft a custom multi-stage post-exploitation toolkit?

The malware needs to be deployed via existing trusted means of data transfer so you need to understand what that trust model is and search for weaknesses you may exploit. Is data transfer as simple as plugging in a USB stick or are there multiple gating functions like signature verification, etc on adjacent systems before you can move to the primary?

The data transfer is usually executed by a human being who must plug in some media with your malware on it either wittingly or unwittingly. The former requires working that human as an asset over a long term blackmail or HUMINT campaign. The latter involves compromising the supply chain that ends with executables being copied to the media vector.

These are concentric circles of controls between you and that airgap - but each has a weakness. There are entire agencies and organizations who live, breath, and execute targeted searches for those weaknesses. So yes, in my opinion these are real threats IF an adversary that has the capability, time, and funding to perform the above falls within your organization's threat model.
Wearables get their killer app: saving you from killer viruses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Spiegel#2018_fabrication_s...

Literally Lügenpresse.
does SetApp show ads? what is the difference between business and personal pricing? they seem to be the same.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/13/who-officials-say-its-unclea...
Language Design: Use 'ident: Type' not 'Type ident'
Thanks so much for writing this! Added to my list :) https://gist.github.com/cellularmitosis/1f55f9679f064bcff029...
Outline.com is bypassing the paywall:
https://outline.com/gvLNek
It's because GP cherry-picked a paragraph from the History section of that article and ignored the actual present per-capita homelessness rates.
Relevant https://xkcd.com/927/
what do you mean, do you think over time people are going to stop being clever?
I think the issue is we’re trying to explain something irrational (a fear that something might happen) with logic. Judges make similar judgements in protective/restraining order cases. They would rather err on the side of caution, because as someone else mentioned, the downside to allowing the invocation of national security has a perceived minimal downside (minor inconvenience), vs. the downside of a terrorist attack taking place is much more catastrophic. Anyways, don’t think anyone is wrong here, just some theories.
Good thing no one on HN would ever reuse a password, right?
They're not though.

GC mentioned "total factor productivity", which is not just an assumption that things will stay the same. It's a measure that value (productivity) actually is increasing, all the time.

And the other rebuttals were pointing out flaws with GGC's arguments, none of which relied on "the status quo works".
Please don't use Nazi slogans like this.
Please don't take HN threads into generic ideological arguments. They're all the same, therefore tedious, therefore off topic here.

They also get dumber and nastier as they go along, so we end up with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22904776 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22904923.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The annoying part about all this is that I want to buy some SMR disks (HM ideally, but HA will do) to experiment with storage tech. I know that there are lots of devices out there that are SMR internally, but because of vendors hiding the information, I can't actually buy what I want.

(On that note: if anybody has a disk that supports ZAC or ZBC and wants to get rid of it, I'll happily buy it off of them)
Governments are far from optimized for the well being of all it’s citizens. It’s optimized for the majority. Just like the “War on Drugs” turned into “treating it like a disease” when drugs started hitting “rural” America.

France passed a law to make the Burkini illegal - targeting Muslims. This isn’t just the US.
You clearly have never handled an aggravated Chihuahua
I live in downtown Chicago with a Whole Foods, Trader Joes, and a Jewel Osco all within 3 blocks of me. I'm not sure what makes you think there is a lack of access in this area. I live here because I love how accessible everything I want to do is.
Between the very serious claims that deficits don't matter and free money going around, I think we are seeing the nation change.

There will be a working class, and a leach class. It will forever define politics in the United States. What starts as good intentions will be what causes the end.

Our small business couldn't really afford to pay 15$/hr for a secretary, now with free money as a competitor, I imagine the cost of unskilled labor will only go up.
Making illegal states unrepresentable: Types as compiler-enforced documentation
Using Postico for long time, great so far and is also cheaper.
Are you under the impression the USA is the only country in the “developed world”?
http://archive.is/6WHB8
I think we are deep in 'it depends' territory here.

Albedo is about how much of the light is absorbed at all or bounced straight back into space. For light that is absorbed, altitude (the amount of greenhouse gases between them and vacuum) matters.

Dust or clouds in the upper atmosphere might absorb or reflect more light than the surface, but some of what they do absorb will re-radiate out into space. Dust clouds and real clouds are three dimensional, cloud density is limited by air temperature, and dust availability generally limited by rainfall. That's gonna be some pretty complex math, so I wouldn't be surprised if models disagreed.
Private development funds public infrastructure though. So if you build really expensive public infrastructure, you need a corresponding amount of private development in order to pay for it. Really dense and valuable development like in downtown Manhattan can support much more expensive public infrastructure than a smaller town could.
The Coronavirus in America: The Year Ahead
You mean the cute pets (property) destroying the local biodiversity? The uneutered and unspayed pets (property) running away to breed? The pets (property) people frequently abandon or set free?

Perhaps the liability associated with poor ownership should bear a higher cost (fines) to deter bad behavior.

This problem didn't present itself as a significant issue to me until my family lived in Hawai'i. The cat issue on the islands is absolutely devastating to the native species. It's a massive issue people discount because of their inane degree of attachment and personification of pets.

[0]: https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/hisc/info/invasive-species-profiles/...
Is there a way to distinguish one organization registering 100000 domains (possibly using sub-entities) to get 100000 votes versus 100000 real separately controlled organizations?

Would controlling a large number of votes that way give them some kind of advantage?
A Hardware Accelerator for Tracing Garbage Collection (2018) [pdf]
This is a link that works for me:
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-american-pati...

You should note that “Der Spiegel” is left-leaning and has probably never lost a single good word on Trump ever. Without having read the article, I expect this to be based more on wishful thinking by doomsayers than on real concerns.
This would make a great set of flashcards for a spaced-repetition system! Thanks for publishing these.
So we can do a decent job with hand designed filters... Why aren't they in use in the problem the parent describes? Are they not good enough to deal with small text boundaries?

A lot of hand built filters (I see a lot of these in the audio space) have many hand tuned parameters, which work well in certain circumstances, and less well in other circumstances. One of the big advantages of NN systems is the ability to adapt to context more dynamically. The NN filters can generally emulate the hand designed system, and pick out weightings appropriate to the example.
The original link doesn't work for me. This is the correct link:
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-american-pati...

There's no paywall, just a nag window at the bottom that you can close via X.
I wanted to play with this, but ran into an error upon starting a Miniconda prompt after a fresh install of Miniconda3 on Win7:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'conda'

It's triggered by this line in conda-script.py:

from conda.cli import main

Same thing happened when I tried installing Anaconda instead. Any suggestions?

----

EDIT: To get this to work, I had to remove a PYTHONHOME environment variable lingering from an old (but still valid) Python install (see https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/9239), and set CONDA_DLL_SEARCH_MODIFICATION_ENABLE=1 to avoid mkl_intel_thread.dll issues.

Leaving my comment here for anyone else who gets stumped.
I've had to deal with wild rodents in my garbage using violent (but less than lethal) means, but known house pets with collars or tags that belong to your neighbors? I mean, how much damage could a 7 pound cat possibly do to your property?
First Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro Hands-On Videos Appear Online
Red Hat made its fortune selling licenses with support contracts for software to risk-averse industrires. That the software happened to be free wasn't really relevant to the revenue stream except insofar as it made it cheaper for Red Hat to provide the service.

I don't see how a desktop X server is going to tap into that need.

I mean... I've been using and relatively happy with the Cygwin X server integration for more than a decade. I'm not about to drop $50 on a polished replacement.
I think the point is that you are developing, it all works. If you are not improving, it clearly doesn't, but that is true regardless of "what the economy is geared for".

If you have a complete meltdown, that's not the growth economy's fault.
How can a normal german word be a nazi slogan?
In many situations you can fix this by adding a not to the if statement. eg,

Before:

if (a.works()) {
// some code
if (b.works()) {
// more code
}
}

After:

if (!a.works()) {
// error handling code, if necessary
return;
}

// some code

if (!b.works()) {
// error handling code, if necessary
return;
}

// more code
The melody is awesome, but the lyrics haven't really held up.
Indeed, PDP/11s don't like it. Older ARM designs too, though I believe they allow it since about ARM6 (perhaqps because x86 does?).
You got my hopes up but Bromite doesn't support extensions according to their FAQ
https://github.com/bromite/bromite/blob/master/FAQ.md
People who live in small towns don’t want to be huddled together. They buy houses in these towns because they want a large property with lots of space between them and their neighbours.
Surfing through your app states like your browsing history
I suppose that is why the replacement is called Firefox Preview, for the time being.
South Korea has 51M people. If we have 1,000 patients every day, it will take 141 years to infect everyone.

We had 18 new patients yesterday.

(I'd normally write a snarky comment here, but the numbers speak for themselves.)
My family owner over 20 cats (some died) before I turned 18. Same reason: we didn’t fix the first female. My favorite cat would always take walks with me around the block. She passed away while I was in college. Really showed me how cool of a pet a cat can be.
Detroit has a lot of suburbs that are doing very well. The problem with Detroit was basically white flight away from the city and into the suburbs: those people didn’t leave and take their money to California or Texas. The result was a very lopsided tax base in the region.
FCC draft rule seeks to limit space debris
My first guess would be that they are following the law as written, as is their job.

And it's hard to challenge such law as unconstitutional because no right to privacy is explicitly written into the constitution.
They realize that few people will accept the trade off of having less house.
That is hard to answer can you anser what kind of contact tracing are you missing in "the West", and what level of privacy invasion are you comparing it against.

In the first stages of Corona we did a lot of old school contact tracing.
TLDR: German author now understand that Americans have a system that intentionally thwarts top-down control, and that, even so people, can still learn to adapt and do the right thing even in a backdrop of insecurity.

Bonus Antics: German author uses "(sic)" in photo caption to imply that black nurses from Brooklyn are not speaking proper English.
They are Lügenpresse. Documented over and over again.
My middle kid is enjoying competitive chess and doing math through Art of Problem Solving, so there's places he does work hard and there is intellectual challenge. And his slacking is good enough to be at the top of his class, so I can't quibble too much.

I'm sure there'll be problems eventually, but, we're ready and up until then we're trying...
I think the case of tobacco companies is equally damning to the free market as it is to governments. This is wholesale exploitation, profiting off the suffering and death of others. Nothing so far has stopped tobacco companies. The one thing that could stop it is expressly illegal: the art of vengeance. In effect, government betrays its citizens by protecting a regime of exploitation. It's not reasonable to completely trust either system.
https://www.amcny.org/blog/2014/05/14/is-a-cat-bite-worse-th...

Cat bites are more likely to cause infection. Dog bites usually cause more physical damage.
I have used both Postico and Tableplus extensively, and if you are sure that you are going to be working with Postgres only, its the better, more Mac-like app.
However, both are a serious upgrade over PgAdmin :)
Why don't they use/fork the GoLang runtime?
What is this mass psychosis of feeling the urge to own a dog or cat anyway? And how it comes, that environmentalists don't get loud on the harm on nature caused by domestic cats and dogs?
"predictability" is only a function of your memory capacity and/or knowledge.

To a scientist/saint who has done a lifetime of study/penance on the past, present and future, every invention is predictable. To a goldfish with 5-second memory, every sunrise, why every breath, is a discovery.

Look at it another way. A scientist 'discovers' the atom. He didn't 'invent' it, right? Now, how did he discover it ? Using a microscope that another scientist 'invented'. So far so good?

Now go down the chain to that scientist. How did he 'invent' the microscope ? Did he make it out of thin air ? No, he was one day playing with 2 optic lenses that another scientist 'invented', and when placed in a line, he 'discovered' that they magnified it 100 times what one lens did. And he told everyone that 2 lenses together is called a microscope that he 'invented'. So far, so good ?

Now, go down the chain to that scientist. How did he 'invent' the optic lens ? Did he create it out of thin air ? No, he was one day playing with glass which another scientist 'invented', and when looking through it, he 'discovered' that they magnified it things 10 times their size. And he told everyone that looking through a glass lens is a 'magnifying glass' that he 'invented'. So far, so good ?

You see the pattern here ?
Every permutation combination of nature exists. In other words, all possible inventions already exist waiting to be discovered by humans, or all possible discoveries are waiting to be invented.

The 2 words are synonyms.

Something 'new' that you 'discovered' was someone else's 'invention'. And once you go beyond the deepest chain that your senses can reach, even the physical laws that govern our universe that were 'discovered' are an 'invention' of God. Where did God discover it from ? We can ask Him.
Well, Americans are going to be forced into multi-year lockdowns when they realize that reinfection is a real possibility and even if not that the infectivity of this is so high that lifting of stay at home orders will cause numbers to begin overwhelming hospitals again within weeks. Herd immunity is unlikely to save us in the short or even medium term.

There's talk of multiple strains or of it mutating in ways which aren't necessarily more deadly but make reinfection possible independently of the currently found 2% who seem to be testing positive again after "recovering" from covid

Then the powers that be will realize just how deep of a shit situation we are in. The people who are protesting now are likely infecting themselves or will soon know a loved one with this and soon they will personally realize how stupid they were to protest this. It's only a matter of time...
I've spent a lot of time living around wild cats, and I've yet to see a cat hunt a bird. Of course cats do hunt birds, but I'm very curious about how these figures are reached, in this case, how reliable those isotope studies are.

Incidentally, here's a critical take of a study on the amount of wildlife cats kill that made headlines in 2013 cited in the article, also by NPR: https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/02/03/170851048/do-we...
I assume if the PC isn't mine e.g. machine provided by employer, or the box isn't mine (router from ISP) It is probably has telemetry of some sort. I also expect device s like a phone/pager etc from an employer to be monitored in one way or another.
I once had the opportunity to fly a business-only airplane. There was no line skipping. There was a whole dedicated terminal for these airplanes. As soon as you entered the terminal someone would welcome you like at some luxury resort. The passport and ticket thing was a breeze, then they would guide you to the lounge, if you were early. If you timed your trip accurately, I guess you could find yourself from the terminal door to sitting in your comfy seat within 15 minutes. Champagne glass on the tray in front of you, of course.
I've been using Postico for years. High quality software.
Love the design, looks great!!
> At worst, the patient would have recovered anyway and the drug only made it harder.

They had called the family in to say goodbyes because the guy wasn't supposed to make it through the night. I'd say the drug saved his life.
It's not news when employers use software to take screenshots of workers' computers. Come again if you catch a worker use software to take screenshots of employers' computer.
Because dogs get out, roam the street, get hit by cars, and bite people. You need a license to report to/sue the person who allows this.

Cats climb trees and can hide easily if they get scared.
I disagree that the second is more impactful, but that's because I work with oddball architectures where the UB actually crashes the program ;).

I'm wondering though, does UBSAN catch this?
No, it wouldn't disable the optimization, because a pointer 4 bytes into a live long long object isn't a valid pointer to another long long object that is live at the same time (even though it could abstractly be a valid pointer to long long over the life of the program). If you want to disable the optimization you can use a union (which would also be technically UB but in practice compilers document that they do the right thing).
DBVisualizer
Sure but all those "rescue" pit-bulls are capable of killing adults. But even moderately sized dogs can disfigure a child pretty easily.
We've asked you before to stop using HN for ideological battle. It destroys the curious conversation that this site is supposed to exist for.

It also routinely ends up with poison like "How obtuse are you?" and, god help us, "you're a bootlicking shit". Since you're participating regularly here, I assume this is not the kind of place you want HN to be, so please don't make it so. The GP comment shouldn't have posted that smug and supercilious putdown, and you shouldn't be responding with even worse.

I don't want to ban you because you've also posted good comments like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22123132 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21818850. Unfortunately those are mixed in with personal attacks, petty swipes, and political boilerplate, and at this point the bad stuff grossly outweighs the good. You're doing a lot more damage than you're adding value at this point, so means we're going to have to ban you if you don't fix it. Please fix it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This software is pretty common in the VA space, and Upwork does the same.
It's Mac-only, but also Postgres-only! TablePlus has wider datastores support.
This is interesting to consider in the context of Zeihan's "The Accidental Superpower"[1] which says that
- geography is destiny, and
- the U.S. won the geography lottery.

The idea that geography has some input to the rest of the cultures values, as shown in TFA, sounds plausible.

Whether Zeihan actually has the right of it isn't clear, however.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Superpower-Generation-Amer...
I have always bit my tongue on here.. I went to Startup School 2012. So I have tried to keep my cool because I thought it might lead to some opportunity.

But this site is so bad at this point. I really don't care anymore. I might lose my karma or get kicked off but I frankly do not care...

I have read the guidelines. and I defy someone on here to give me a good reason to downvote the original comment.
It feels like you care strongly about it.

So I am sorry chrisco, but I am not sure what you are alluding to?