skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love Bandcamp. It is my primary place for exploring and purchasing new music. Their generous policies around previewing, the ability to browse through niche labels to find similar music, and flac support make it hard to beat.

I am also really happy that Paysage d'Hiver got a call out in the article. Such an amazing, one person, lo-fi, atmospheric black metal. It's great to program to as it just drowns out any distractions.

> Someone grabs an LP from Paysage d'Hiver, the Swiss black metal band.
Ask HN: Has anybody else had issues playing YouTube videos in Firefox?
It's happening more and more frequently that once I go to a YouTube video page, I get the error "An error occurred. Please try again later.". When the issue happens, it's reproducible with all YouTube videos. Switching to Chromium fixes the problem. Although MPV with youtube-dl integration works even better.
> Touch Absence

One of my favourite tracks of the last few years, such great production

I know a few of the others (used to love that Proem album, big Alva Noto fan), will check the rest. Thanks!
Yes, but sometimes just bluntly stating a solution can be a request for enlightenment.
> Or... is it that you were part of both groups 5 years ago and you and most people in the first group have changed over time to both accept these new terms and stopped using casual racist talk.

Yep, this. I agree that me arguing for the use of "master" and "slave" in 2014 was likely racist, and would have made a black coworker uncomfortable.

IMO I think it's important and useful to acknowledge when your language has been racist in the past. I think this acknowledgement is what most people shy away from, instead preferring to retreat into ever more complicated arguments about why they are right or the “I never meant...” defense.
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The Kingdom of The Infinite Number
cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

http://web.archive.org/web/20200703132003/http://www.antipop...

https://megalodon.jp/2020-0703-2248-09/www.antipope.org/char...
Google has a "readability" restriction for reviewers/authors on CL (changelists, I guess like a pull request). You need a reviewer with readability in a given language to approve your CL before it can land. When I first started, to get readability involved putting together a good archetypal CL in the language, showing good knowledge of the language, lots of tests, good documentation, etc. and then it would go into to a readability queue, get reviewed, and you'd get your readability capability.

Go was different in that they had introduced an incremental readability process. Instead of one CL, you had to do many, each reviewed by different people, and over time after doing a whole bunch of CLs you could get readability. This is the process that Google eventually adopted for all languages, but they started with Go.

What I found was the Go reviewers were a) exceptionally pedantic [even by Google standards] but, worse, b) very contradictory. One would chastize me for using channels where they were unnecessary, so I'd remove their use and just use simple functions but then a later reviewer would scorn me for not using channels in the same code. It became a painful game of tennis. And the whole thing had a feeling of ideology over practicality.
Could the zoning situation be improved with the concept of shared air-rights? Note that this is non an idea I've researched at all. Any property you own would also include partial air-rights for surrounding properties. If a new development was going to cast a shadow on to your property, they would need to buy you out of those air rights. You're never forced to sell, but many would be happy to if the price was right.
South Park, never got it. Never funny to me.
I thought it was more than that, but you may be right. Regardless if it goes a la carte the price would have to be more than double that because at least half of the people would drop it. Their whole business model is based on the forced purchase in partnership with the cable companies and it is absolutely not sustainable for the future.
And here's exactly the challenge. Google will not tell you how exactly they use your data. What you can check though is what data the keyboard is able to access, and then imagine the worst. Here's an excerpt from Play store, of Gboard's permissions:

find accounts on the device
read your contacts
view Wi-Fi connections
read your own contact card
find accounts on the device
read the contents of your USB storage
take pictures and videos
record audio
download files without notification
full network access
control vibration
read terms you added to the dictionary
measure app storage space
use accounts on the device
prevent device from sleeping
read Google service configuration
run at startup
view network connections
add words to user-defined dictionary
The free market would react to a lack of parking/transportation and fewer buyers will want to buy those houses and thus the prices will tank.

Nobody is talking about price controls.
I maintain a suite of opensource tools that do exactly that: download zoomable image tiles and stitch them together.

- dezoomify (https://dezoomify.ophir.dev) is a web application. It is super easy to use, but the final size of the image is limited by the browser. No browser can create gigapixel canvases.

- dezoomify-rs (https://lovasoa.github.io/dezoomify-rs/) is a command-line desktop application for Linux, MacOS, and Windows that does the same thing. It has no limitation (other than the one imposed by the file formats themselves) on the final image size.

- dezoomify-extension (https://lovasoa.github.io/dezoomify-extension/) is a browser extension to extract zoomable image URLs from webpages. It is less relevant for google arts and culture, where the zoomable image URL is the URL of the viewer page itself.

If someone is interested by how the zoomable image format used by google arts works, the source code of dezoomify-rs is quite understandable: https://github.com/lovasoa/dezoomify-rs/tree/master/src/goog...

In the case of this image, I'm not sure the highest zoom level saved as a single PNG makes a lot of sense. No image viewer will accept to open a PNG file of this size. For JPEG, the format does not even allow images of that size.
Why would right-wingers reference their own racist culpability when they can blame the government instead?
> OpenStreetMap is an unwieldy but not "big" dataset

Do note that while not BigData big, it _is_ large. Your PostgreSQL database (postgis) on your macbook won't be able to import `planet.pbf` in any reasonable time (think: weeks). Your digital-ocean VPS won't have enough diskspace to process a weekly planet.pbf and the free or cheap tier of your RDS won't be able to handle planet.pbf either.

http://download.geofabrik.de/ (also one of the StateOfTheMap conference sponsors) is a good place to find "chopped up" downloads to avoid that: just get only your country, a province or even just one city. On my developer env I always run everything through with `luxembourg.pbf`. or `iceland.pbf`.Luxembourg-latest does still contain nearly 2.5 million datapoints: `osm2geojson luxembourg-latest.osm | wc -l #=> 2417784`
Software Engineering != Coding
HOAs survive because they are able to socialize long-term costs of maintaining them.

If an HOA mandates single-family dwellings and large set-backs, then it should be directly responsible for road maintenance, sanitation, fire, etc. If you want all those long roads, you have to pay for them.

The way it works now is that a developer drops in an HOA with a restrictive covenant, then turns the mess over to the nearest city to maintain a bunch of excessive infrastructure.

If an HOA can't be maintained (bankruptcy) then the covenant should be automatically dissolved and the easements lifted.
What is missing is that no country, not Denmark, or any other country besides maybe New Zealand has eradicated the virus. So we are exactly where we were in February or March. With one difference. We know what groups of people are at risk, and which groups aren't.

Any country that decides to relax restrictions will see a surge in cases, not necessarily deaths, but cases for sure. That's true for sun belt States just as much as for Denmark.

Those advocating for low case counts at all costs are basically advocating to close parts of public life for good. Which can be a meaningful public policy position to have. But then say so. Don't talk about flattening the curve and hospital capacity. That's disingenuous.

If you are a governor or president anywhere, communicate clearly what your objective is. Are you working towards a kind of heard immunity situation while not overextending hospitals? Okay. In that case rising case counts can be expected. Some states are doing that. But say so. We are not stupid.

Are you trying to keep new cases below 10 per million and you hope to wait it out for a vaccine? Okay. Say so. In that case, I'll probably close my gym and skip that state for my concert tour. But I know what I'm in for. I know who is accountable for the decisions being made. You probably want to extend direct financial support to those businesses that you are preventing from opening. Otherwise they will sue you and eventually they will win, albeit might take some time for courts to get there.

The approach taken will be very different regionally. It's very likely that people in Texas have different preferences than people in New York or Michigan. They have a very different makeup and think and live differently.

What I'm missing is clear strategy communicated by governors to which their constituents can hold them accountable.
I think the difference is that the people affected are (also) in developed nations. It's easier to ignore famine and disease that don't affect you.
Sure you can drive, but can you explain in details HOW you do it? Probably not and that's why a machine cannot do it yet (until it learns by itself, as we all did).
I love how this article tries to make this sound like a complex affair. Only the most ridiculously stupid person would be in a situation where they are continuously trying to judge the position of the train relative to their own position as they attempt to beat a crossing. The only situation where you should ever be remotely in danger is if all of your braking and steering catastrophically fail at that exact moment and there is nothing to stop you from rolling directly into the train.

I also find it amusing that all of the stories regarding train-car interactions seem to occur at crossings with modern signaling devices, rather than "at your own discretion" crossings in the middle of nowhere. This leads me to suspect that the typical human has been conditioned to treat any signalized intersection transition as a "beat the yellow" event, but in the case of a rail crossing the brutal physics equations seem to be conveniently ignored.

Perhaps there needs to be a day in driver's education courses where everyone has to review just how heavy a freight train is and how much kinetic energy must be dissipated in order for it to come to a complete stop. Maybe make them ride at the front of a train to experience how painfully long an emergency braking maneuver takes to complete.
There are countless people who live happily in areas that don't have single-family zoning. So I don't know what effects you would expect, other than an increased availability of housing. Low-rise zoning makes sense - some people just don't like having a skyscraper next door - but I don't see any reason that a 6-unit apartment building would infringe on the day to day life of people in the 2 story house next door.
Park and rides suck. It’s the worst of both worlds: I still have to drive. Then on top of that, I have to wait for a bus and ride on a bus with a bunch of other (potentially infectious) people.
Yes. In colorado they actually have a mechanism where the city and developer can conspire to create a special tax district for each development area.
I love how the buttons, since they're written as a string in an array, actually look like ASCII art buttons. Cool stuff!
Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense by Rory Sutherland.

He's in lots of videos, TED talks, etc. if you want to get the cut of his jib for free, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iueVZJVEmEs
I've had comments about my channel similar to those. "Stuck in Youtube 2005". I've also been told my site has a web 1.0 feel too it. I take it as a compliment.

I don't really call myself a "maker" but more of a serial tinkerer, but I'm more worried about content than quality.

If you got the gist of what I'm doing, and I didn't have to spend hours editing it, then it's good enough. I still use Windows Movie Maker! And yes I am familiar with Davinci Resolve, but I don't care to use it unless I have to for some reason. Most of my stuff is filmed with my tablet on a tripod in 720p/30fps because it's what I have. I don't have the money to spend on gopros. I'm in it for building/fixing/hacking stuff, not for being Youtube famous.
YAZN (Yet Another Zettelkasten Notes) system. This one is Markdown with YAML Front Matter for metadata and an Electron based editor. Roam, Foam, Zettlr. All of these start with the powerful principle that every document/note should be addressable with its title-slug (wiki like linking). Good stuff.
There are three components to my answer :-)
1.) The actual keyboard, due to its mobile-optimized design, leads to 4X less typos; this is irrespective of privacy
2.) Our neural network performs 'at par' with the others, even though it's offline. Bear in mind that we'll be release massive improvements on this over the coming months.
3.) Certain features are not accessible, yet, for example GIFs, Voice, Web search, Translation, because this requires additional permissions. We're working on smart ways on that though.
another Electron app, no thanks
Robert Conquest’s First Laws of Politics:

Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
I agree.

One of the best courses i had taken on Coursera was the Algorithms series by Robert Sedgewick. Apart from going through the lectures, i had obtained a great satisfaction from solving the assignments.
But this year, i have taken up the lab assignments for the following:
https://cs144.github.io/
https://tc.gts3.org/cs3210/2020/spring/info.html

Both have been recommended earlier on HN.

Next on my list is 6.824
The accident report indicates that ATC also didn't follow procedures, so no, ATC did not go above and beyond.

The main criticism in the report seems to be that they did not report the lack of landing gear or the subsequent engine strike back to the aircraft.

My criticism, having listened to some of the recording, is that ATC were not more insistent in their instructions. Every other ATC recording I've listened to, ATC instructs and pilots obey. In the rare cases where pilots disobey without immediate good reason, ATC usually gets quite heated. They don't generally just acquiesce.

So, don't get me wrong, the pilots bear the majority of the responsibility, but pilots and ATC are a team, and ATC didn't do a great job either.
Words have different meanings in different contexts, to "floss" could be a dental hygiene procedure or it could be performing a particular dance. It is simply not the same to refer to a "master branch" as it is to a "slave master".
I’ve actually heard some things about the Albanian cannabis mafias. (They aren’t Dutch growers, let’s say ;)) Not to detract from your larger point.
The word genocide has a much more sinister import than 'kill all'. It literally means kill all of one race ('geno'). I wouldn't call terminating a child process 'infanticide' either.
Weapons of mass migration...

And why bother with batteries when there are

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_lightbulb s?
> Seems like a simple life/cost estimation exercise.

All safety mechanisms are this. The tricky bit is the value of life calculus. Is it worth an added $10/year tax for every taxpayer to MAYBE save 1 life per 5 years? You'll get different responses for different reasons.

That $10 may be a rounding error for many, but to some its the difference of a week of lunches for their kid or not, and they vote, too.
I live next door to a single—family home that was ‘converted’ to a duplex in an area where vehicles are required.

There are only 2 parking spots available, and the upstairs unit was converted in such a way that the only way to get to the bathroom is through the kitchen.

The side of the house was ‘modified’ to provide a front-door to the upstairs unit. However, this door is less than 6 feet from my fence, so it is impossible for anybody to move furniture in or out of the home.
My answer? No. I'd support ending these subsidies.

There are a lot of factors here - property taxes are also sky high for new buyers, so it's a little difficult to consider this one question purely in isolation.
I imagine it's due to calling it "wuhan coronavirus" instead of simply "coronavirus" or "covid-19".
Entropy is a difficult concept to understand. This was a well-written article that explained nothing and further muddied the waters.

What is perhaps not appreciated is how the idea of entropy completely transformed our society by unleashing massive amounts of mechanical efficiency. This free energy is derived from contrast -- power comes from flow across a gradient.

I wonder where the analogies work or where they fail. For instance, the importance of contrasts seem to illustrate the value of cultural differences (diversity) and raises concerns about a homogeneous world culture.
I can have opinions on various topics. Including,
among many others, disabled people.

Are my opinions equally valid, given that I'm not
part of that group?

There's a distinction here that I'm struggling to put into words.

As largely non-disabled people, there is a lot we can and should be doing.

If you have an idea for a better sort of wheelchair or walking aid, is that something you should pursue? Yeah! It's not that you should shut up and stay far, far, away from disabled people who are doing disabled things. But, each step of the way, we've got an obligation to make sure we're not overruling them. Pragmatically, this makes sense as well - we're unlikely to design some kind of gamechanging next-gen wheelchair without some serious collaboration from folks who are actually confined to wheelchairs.

There are parallels when it comes to race relations. As a white man in America, should I largely (or entirely) shut up when it comes to the Black experience in America? Yes. I am not going to understand that experience by any means other than some voracious listening. But there is plenty of work to be done from the white side of things as well. My thoughts and actions are needed there. In fact, considering we have the majority of economic and political power in this country, most of the work needs to be done by us if the situation is to be improved.
I don’t think the data supports your conclusion.

How many will die from COVID-19 if we lift all of the measures we have taken to stop the spread?
India, did actually implement a regulation to let users pay for exactly what they want to see to give the users an option other than the bundles provided by carriers/aggregators. This was implemented from Feb, 2019 https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/watching-tv-...

Also, from March of this year the price per channel was capped and even the carriage fee has been capped to what the government agency deemed suitable - https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/telecom/teleco...

Though this can end up making the business for some cable TV companies unsustainable, especially on the lower end of the spectrum - some of which were already in losses.
Some of these - particularly the Zizek Navy Seals Copypasta - are absolutely incredible. Great work, Gwern.
Because there is an incubation period, where people already infected start to develop first symptoms. There is a development period (from the first symptoms to the point where they are severe enough for the person to seek medical help — only at this point the case is registered). The introduction of quarantine measures is not immediately effective — there is a transition period of at least few days. There are response / case registration delays. And finally, it takes some time for the new epidemic regime just to be visible on the curve (a perceptive delay until the trend is understandable).
Here's how you tell, I think.

If you're in a room with partisans from opposite sides, more often than not they'll be shouting over each other and not really having a discussion.

If you're in an echo chamber, you'll find that generally everyone is agreeing with you.

If you're in a room without partisans and you're not in an echo chamber, you can have a discussion, some people will disagree with you on pretty major issues, and you may even change your mind, at least to some degree. These are wonderful spaces to be in.
> I'm really happy that the "knowledge base management" type of tools are getting a lot more attention these days...

I share this happiness...It often feels like so many people assume this is a solved sort of area; But i believe it is not.
The idea that we can even have Martian colonies is ludicrous given our current skills.

Getting there is the easy part. Building a self-sustaining ecology on Mars is harder - much harder. And if you look into the research, you'll see there's much less than you'd think.
That is why we have discussions and a good chunk of why we as humanity have so much literature outside of technical and entertainment reasons. Putting down your "lived experience" and conveying it so that others can understand it is very important and should be happening everywhere. There is nothing magical about "lived experience" if you articulate its effects clearly and others can understand it. People can, of course, choose to dismiss them but that is their own failing.

Personally, I think the "lived experience" argument is currently being used more as a way of discounting/dismissing opinions just by virtue of who is saying them rather than the content and value that said experiences convey/express. It's equally dismissing of the "lived experience" of the other group as well because they bring a unique perspective as an outsider if the issue pertains to just one group.

Right now, the "lived experience" of white-people (and some other groups) is being dismissed and ignored. There is currently racial discrimination against white people, double-standards against pro-white opinions, all-round blaming of white people for grand historic things that they are not the sole perpetrators of, downright hatred against them that is ignored and celebrated, demonization of them expressing pride in their identity, historic slavery and oppression of white people is swept under the rug, human-rights abuses against white minority groups around the world are ignored, predominantly white nations are being demonized for racism for wanting national sovereignty, etc. These are all "lived experiences" currently affecting the white population group. So if we want to bring emotion to the discussion, then I'm all for having the "lived experience" discussion with any group, so long as all groups' experiences matter.

Side note: Another "lived-experience" affecting white people: Having to tip-toe and be afraid of voicing our opinion on racial topics such as this one.
What Is Ton OS?
I dont think that's right. Nobody would build a suburban mall without parking. Nobody would go there since they wouldn't be able to park their car.

Developers would weigh the cost of building parking against the benefit it provides. Some would still build lots of parking but others might not.
How does Zettlr compare to https://roamresearch.com/ ?
> languages like Java where most calls are virtual

Most Java call sites are in practice monomorphic. They may look virtual according the language spec, but that isn't how they're really implemented.
It seems like the 'scientist' part of 'Data scientist' might cause this sort of misunderstanding.

There's a lot more 'engineering' and fiddling going on than any type of 'science-y' stuff it seems.