skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The U District? They've been putting up a bunch of town homes north of 45th (so 3 stories, not 1 + 5s), down near U village maybe?

We considered buying a place out there for like 30 seconds, the U District just felt so depressing. We bought in Ballard which has a lot of townhomes (we bought one), but it doesn't feel depressing.
Top Most Populous Country in the World
Thank you for doing the research to find the numbers for this.

I think it's worth adding, as is reflected by your B767 ground movement figure that all jet engines are very inefficient at low power outputs, not just the Concorde's/supersonic aircraft. This is as a large amount of energy is needed to create sufficient compression to allow them to function.

Finding ways to minimize the amount of time spent in these states has been the industry's approach to date.
YT likely doesn't have the 15% deal that is available for tv/movie streaming platforms, and they don't do annual subscriptions so they don't get 15% on second year subscriptions either.
Changing building codes to require retrofits to existing parking garages and dedicated covered parking to include EV charging would be a good medium term fix.

THe problem is how do you charge people for the power? For dedicated parking stalls, that could be covered by a blanket fee or giving the owner a key to the charger. For public shared parking that's more going to look like ChargePoint etc.
Cool idea, but it looks like it needs a bit more work. English/Italian male names have some typically Dutch names in the list like Rembrandt, while it's missing some common Italian names like Luka/Luca?
Pretty much every metric except how much malware is available on the store.
The best would be resurgence of blog rings from before, as well as subject based rss planets, they still exist but are often neglected by new bloggers.

edit: I'm sure there could be some sort of decentralized approach that can mimic mediums tag functionality via ActivityPub. That would be the best of both worlds, discoverability and independence.
Why is failure to "actually live life to their fullest" evidence that such people don't fear death?
This implementation produced almost no useful answers. One of the 'Friendly No' outputs contained this sentence:

"No, I'm sorry I can't attend the meeting because the topic is ridiculous"

Which is about as unfriendly as it gets.
Concorde wasn't that long ago. Londoners still remember.
Looks like only Drive. Presumably they priced Drive based on being able to de-duplicate incoming data. Glacier is a fancy tape drive robot as a service; they're much more concerned with access frequency than data volume.
If only we knew of other instances of large companies making platforms that were massively abused in bad faith so we could better understand this shocking black swan event. Oh. Wait.

Facebook just happen to be on the other end this time: sometimes you’re the pigeon, sometimes you’re the statue.
I don't know whether I should laugh or cry at this comment...
Any rackmount server will be a nuisance. I ran rack servers at home for years but recently replaced my servers with ATX form factor machines, which are super quiet, ventilate much better and still stack nicely. There are plenty of ATX Xeon motherboards that support ECC ram.
Video games in QR codes? That's interesting. Do you have the link to the video? Is it this one?

https://youtu.be/ExwqNreocpg

https://github.com/mchehab/zbar/commit/5bc323849569a629aa0d1...

If so, then the patch he submitted builds upon my work! He fixed a line feed conversion bug that was present in Windows. I use Linux so I did not experience this issue.

I remember seeing that patch get merged but I didn't know about the whole video game context. This is amazing. I wrote the patch because I was trying to print a 4096 bit RSA secret key as a QR code. Awesome to see it getting used for something even more awesome.

Here are the links to my contributions and related pages:

https://github.com/mchehab/zbar/pull/64

https://github.com/mchehab/zbar/issues/55

https://github.com/mchehab/zbar/issues/82

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=703234

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=710009

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Paperkey#Restore_the_se...

https://stackoverflow.com/a/60518608/512904

ZBar used to automatically convert binary data to text when decoding 8 bit QR codes, mangling the data in the process. My patch adds the option to disable that, enabling the data to be extracted without corruption.

I also added the one shot feature to the ZBar tools to make it easier to use in automated scripts that expect exactly one output:

https://github.com/mchehab/zbar/pull/60

Looks like we have a real world application for tiny ELFs now!

https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.ht...
To be honest, I don't feel bad for these people at all. Film studios, the MPAA, RIAA, etc. are pretty scummy, but the overwhelming majority of pirates are there to get the latest Disney / Marvel movie without having to pay. And these groups are serving that interest.

I'm sure there will be plenty of comments here calling out ethical gray areas or valid cases for torrenting a movie - those no longer for sale, etc. But you're kidding yourself if you think this is the motivation behind most illegal downloads.

At the end of the day, these studios are spending enormous sums of money to produce content and they deserve the copyright and distribution rights that are being egregiously violated. Unless you have a good reason, you should be paying it own/watch it and the government is in the right for enforcing it.
Ha, that's definitely fair. I suppose the false premise is that either is necessarily achievable. Sometimes there isn't a good answer.
Well, my use case is Slovak and Romanian (but living in the USA). Missing both languages :(
I can approximate Slovak with Czech almost perfectly, but Romanian names are quite different from related (Romance) languages...
Wasn't expecting to see this here!

This turned out easier than i was expecting it to be. It's nice to be able to mount a VFS without needing privileges on the server side.
The main intention for this code is to eventually use it to replace fuse on mac, since nfs is a valid mount time for mac clients to consume.
> I really enjoy listening to people's anger ranting why its not really art, or why anyone could do that, etc. If art is intended to garner a reaction - Pollock accomplishes that in spades.

That's like if a bunch of anti-vaxxers gathered to protest Norman Rockwell's "before the shot." Technically, it does says something about the art's ability to "garner a reaction." But that's a tautology.

If there's a critical mass of ignoramuses who are doing the reacting, that doesn't reveal much of anything about the art.
Thanks, I'm all kinds of wrong today!
No ill intent ascribed. What I mean is that it'd still be an immense suffering regardless of whether you'd still be you or not.
I’d love to get more details about this.
It's one of the giant Google A/B tests.
I think that is the whole point. Why fear the big nothingness if it's not possible to experience it? Just like how it's impossible to experience or remember anything before you became alive.

I find it comforting to realize that I once wasn't and now I am. I will once again cease to be. We often think death is final, but if we already made the transition from not being to being, who's to say that, in some form, we might once again become something from "nothing."
There are literally 300 homeless people living in a tent city in a public park in Vancouver right now in part because there is no affordable housing.

Seems to me that there's a market failure here where the market cannot create affordable housing. It's not regulations alone that have made it so that developers can't make affordable housing. The construction costs are simply too high for a for-profit developer to be able to do it.

Housing these homeless people, thus reducing health costs and emergency worker costs is of course a public good. I would like to be able to use that park again.

But aside from all that I don't agree with your narrow thesis of what public dollars should be spent on anyway. If I'm a renter I'd rather have my monthly rent go to back into the public purse to be re-invested in more public works than to some S&P500 listed REIT to pad some wealthy investors' dividends. If housing development is such a good investment then of course the public should get in on it.
I currently have a home server with a bunch of USB hard drives hanging off it, which I pool using ZFS.

That was fine when I only had 2 drives, but now my "USB Octopus" is getting silly.

What's the next step in hardware if I want my server to access a bunch of disks?
Maybe like the Model3 was supposed to be $35K? Meaning, perhaps after year+ of selling the higher end models?
correction to above (can't edit anymore): I meant smaller scopes, as in "smaller field of view" or immediate area of concern, not smaller in aperture
I have YouTube comments disabled. Everyone should.
Fear is actually a bad word for it. It's just that I desire to live, and death robs me of that. I really like what the article quoted:

> As the philosopher Thomas Nagel observed, death is the great deprivation.

That really resonates with me. Death deprives me of all things that I love and want.
You kind of took it off the deep at there with the last sentence. Sure the Trump dept of education has been especially bad, but you can't blame all of the past decades of US public education mediocrity on corporate interests. Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.
It sounds like your argument is “software that was designed to be testable is easy to test and refactor”.

I think a lot of the gripes in the thread are coming from folks who are in the situation where it’s too late to (practically) add that feature to the codebase.
This is very cool! Would be a lot of fun to combine this with an animation library and do lyric videos for songs but with pure js...
As I say in my previous comment the "evidence" is of a very low standard. This is what's reported in the paper:

In addition, inspection of incorrect answers reveals that the model often makes mistakes such as not carrying a “1”, suggesting it is actually attempting to perform the relevant computation rather thanmemorizing a table.

So, what is "often"? 100% of the time? 60% of the time? 30% of the time? Such a vague statement is no evidence of anything, much less the very strong claim made in the paper.
Buy a used server from Ebay that has lots of hot-swappable drive bays. Many can be had for $100-200 and work fine.
I get the same reaction from the DMV, but no one puts them in a museum.
Yes but the idea terrifies me nonetheless. It terrifies me now to think about it. If I could, but I know that's not feasible, I'd ask my loved ones to terminate me as soon as I don't know who I am and start pooping my pants, playing with feces and attacking my grandchildren. Seeing a loved one go through Alzheimer is agonizing and degrading the memory of the patient. You'll forever remember them as what they ended up being in their last stage of life.
I'm going to be that commenter. Given Google's history I want to mark this date so we can start the countdown clock.
Mirror, Mirror: Discovering Parity Isn't
I personally would choose a famous person for a name with a very slight modification so people will misspell it and remember the former.

It will be hard for people to search online so more privacy.

People judge a lot based on the names in absence of other information so having familiar, well known and something they already attach good meaning to should help.

No more validation errors.
A training room in Texas would routinely be interrupted by a loud bang against the window.

Without missing a beat the instructor would calm the students by explaining that it was just the local eagle.

It was a daily occurrence by the same eagle.

His nest was visible outside the window.
> The hardest part would be acquiring a business bank account because of the Know Your Customer anti-money-laundering regulations and checks, but that can be dealt with by most banks and you don't need to visit the UK or live here for that.

Which british banks allow remotely opening a business bank account without visiting the UK?
You can already see planes and the occasional satellite with the naked eye in even very isolated places. Personally, I find satellites to be more aesthetically pleasing because they don't blink like planes. As the number of visible sats increases, I think a bunch of silent criss-crossing points of light will actually be very beautiful, like a constant meteor shower. It's a matter of taste, of course, but it seems very different to me than near-city light pollution and noise pollution.
Maybe you could offer your services to make it better? Since they're a small open source community, my guess is that they don't have front-end designers of your calibre.
If we ban everything most people don't care about, not much will be left. Long tails are long.
Ars is a few weeks late to the game here. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24094386
I checked out English / Spanish also, since that was the dilemma my wife and I dealt with. I think the fuzzy matches are actually much higher quality than the top list.
BSD is unrelated to Linux.
I found this 6 minute YouTube video titled "I could do that" to be an excellent response to this "standard" critique of some modern art: https://youtu.be/67EKAIY43kg

Basically there are good reasons that modern art sometimes does not display a lot of technical skill. It might for example exactly be the point of the artwork, that it can't be sold or reproduced.
They don't have to, but they will, now that we finally allow them... At this very convenient time.
Professional developers have to write code that runs on their customers' systems.
Leaking pre-release movies is just a dangerous thing to do, and even a hypothetical producer/distributor's organization with the weakest stance on piracy one could imagine would go after them. Obtaining copies of unreleased media involves a direct attack to compromise people connected to a company. Even from my anti-copyright position, it's exactly the same as infiltrating a company to find out trade secrets or things that may influence future stock movements.

And there's no doubt it is damaging. So many movies are overbudgeted garbage, and are going to recoup as much as they are going to recoup during their first weekend, before the word gets out that the movie is terrible. All the marketing (which as a rule of thumb costs as much as the film) is focused on that weekend, including getting friendly reviews published, or deciding on a strategy of keeping the film from reviewers altogether. A credible rumor getting around a week before the release that the movie is crap means $10s of millions in losses, and layoffs.

I don't believe in copyright, but this is getting employees of a company (or its contractors, or those who have signed agreements with it in order to get screeners) to steal from the company. This is good when it is internal whistleblowing on crime or corruption, even better when it is government and the only reason for secrecy is to avoid embarrassment or accountability. There's very little detectable public good in exposing an X-Men movie a week before it hits the theaters.
or those who abhor life but fear death more.
Yeah that was my first thought. Noise is really what killed my home lab in the 00s. It was over 3kW when all turned on and was audible from any room in the house.

Lasted about 18 months before my wife vetoed it.

From memory -

Sun ultra 60 x 2
Sun ultra 80 with the big foam sound deadening kit option
Sun ultra 5 x many (6?)
Sun ultra 10 x 2
Sun 6 bay scsi external disk caddy

Cisco 24 port 10/100 managed switch but i forget the model, something XL (ios 11 or something truly ancient like that)
2 cisco routers with PPPoA adsl adapters
3com unmanaged kit with POE
Terminal server

IBM AIX b50 telco 1u server

Several linux x86 hosts in a “beowulf” cluster - single machine image spread over commodity nodes. Seriously cool, even today i’m in awe of the concept (but not the practicalities)

An openbsd host on an old x86 desktop

A freebsd node on a beefy (for the time) AMD opteron host

And probably a bunch of other toys i’ve forgotten by now.
I recently learned that the word brutalism comes not from the imposing stature of the structures but from the French term for raw concrete: béton brut.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9ton_brut
@dang/mods, can this be re-titled? The original title is somewhat inflammatory ("Tell HN: Amazon Cloud Drive is banning encrypted content and backup data") and not strictly accurate. I suspect that's why it was flagged off.

This is an understandable mistake--the OP cites an email that discusses removing encrypted content--but that appears to have been poor communication on Amazon's part that Drive is intended as a photo storage service, not a generic filestore.
> The tragedy is when somebody's life is cut short well before their natural end for reasons that could be easily fixed / avoided if we just applied ourselves better.

You mean ... like 9/11?
It's no consolation to me that a company is giving transcripts of my personal conversations and medical records to the American government instead of the Chinese. I don't want you to collect my damned data. Period.
You didn't exist a hundred years ago, either. Does that bother you?

Countless people die every day and the rest of us go on. I personally find a lot of comfort in knowing that the world will keep turning just fine without me.

Maybe a therapist would be helpful.
The “Rent versus Buy” dilemma: 12 important questions (2018)
Russia Drops Declassified Footage of the Biggest Nuke of All Time
Yes, last time I played that type of game was 10 years ago. I've seen the new call of duty you mentioned and while it's realistic I don't find it too interesting. Sure, it may be used for training for soldiers or something, that type of simulator has good use cases but it leaves me cold.
Synology is really high quality stuff and will pay for itself in reduced power usage. Any ancient rackmount gear you buy will guzzle electricity
Interesting that you ended up in Vietnam. I just spent the last 4 years there and the last 2 of them on the road on a motorbike. I came back to the US for work and got 'stuck' here because of Covid.

I 'get' what you're saying a lot having experienced living there. I've never been homeless, but I have adopted a minimal lifestyle.

Because of this new direction, I recently bought a campervan that I'll live in full time, over getting an apartment (or buying a fixed home). Something I wouldn't have done 4 years ago. My perspective has changed considerably.

Anyway, thanks for sharing your story. Interesting to hear other like-minded people.
Indeed, & that's one of the things fueling my righteous anger here.

Several now very-rich, even 'celebrity' tier investors have mentioned that they simply faked the accreditation at a crucial early stage.

Of course, there's survivorship bias in such stories. But I feel like a sucker for not doing that - and thus losing money in approved things like NASDAQ instead. Or being over-concentrated in my own risky projects – which no SEC rule can protect a person from! – where other private investments would've been usefully uncorrelated.

I could've survived a 100% loss in whatever dozen or two startups I might have taken a flyer in – but in fact, they wouldn't have all cratered, and even if they did I'd have had far more insight into investing, and a broader network, than otherwise. Instead, that valuable experience was reserved for the rich, and those willing to lie about their riches.

So who is this rule protecting, exactly?
The EU are making some progress on this:

https://home.kpmg/us/en/home/insights/2020/01/tnf-eu-status-...

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/LSU/?uri=CELEX%3A...

Basically each country must track the “beneficial owner” of all companies, i.e. the natural person(s) controlling it.

I’m sure there are more things to improve, but it’s the right direction.
You might want to do a deep dive on the politics of textbooks, standardized tests, and the economics of charter schools. Corporate interests run deep, and it isn't limited to trump or either party.
The Irish Ballad (the Rickety-Tickety-Tin song):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQfaRSeaMZQ
Big echo chamber here. 99+% of people (myself included) have never even heard of Google Brain.
Not to take away from your experience, I just wanted to share mine.

When I read or think of events on cosmological scale it always gives me feelings of curious bliss.
An example of OCaml use in scientific computing is to derive the framework for the FFTW library, which is rather important. (No, the library isn't written in OCaml, as I've seen claimed.)
...and if you had a single clue about all that you'd know that Racket and Clojure are very different and that Racket is a strong player in the academic world.
In articles like this, everyone crawls out of the woodwork to brag about how they don’t fear death. I don’t believe it for a minute. The number of people who could have a loaded gun staring them in the face and truly not feel the slightest bit of fear has to be minuscule. Humans just wouldn’t have made it this far otherwise.

What I think is scarier than the concept of non-existence though is the possibility that our universe might be cyclical; i.e., that its evolution would repeat over and over again an infinite number of times. Imagine all of the suffering that you’ve ever experienced happening again, indefinitely. Or the Holocaust repeating. Or slavery. Just thinking about the idea of an endless, cyclical universe is almost sickening. I much prefer the other theories of how the universe might end.
Modular Micro-Reactors – The Future of Nuclear Energy?
That is only a problem when you run untrusted software. Doing that is insane.
Like Venice but with park-spaces instead of gondolas. I love it!
Policing Cannot Be a Fair Fight
I did this also. An HP G8 DL380p with 12LFF spots was had for <$250 with plenty of RAM. Add Xpenology and it was like having a Synology NAS for about 1/5 the price. Currently I'm running 8x8TB in RAID6...something that would have required a ~$1200 machine from Synology (at least when I was looking to upgrade).
For Comparison: I'm a 5yr old WA C-Corp, have lawyer and accountant and nexus in three states - all in I'm at $4k/yr for the fees and the labor to process this.
I had the same thought.
But mathematicians who just help physicists rarely get a nobel. Even if its work is invaluable, such as Emmy's work.
You could call her one of the "fathers" if modern theoretical physics, if it wouldn't be too ironic.

Thanksfully they didn't forget to mention Lise Meitner
I know I watch YouTube because there's a handful of specific channels whose content I really enjoy, and those channels are based on YouTube primarily because their audience - or potential audience - is there. That sort of established, two-way relationship is weighty enough to be difficult to shift.
It’s a sad commentary on the state of the web that (a) we’d consider waiting a good couple of minutes for a website to load, and (b) scrolling down to sidestep rendering issues is a reasonable tactic.