skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The city I live in here in France is about 2000 years old. That might not be as old as some of the cities in the Middle East but relative to most cities it is doing pretty well, non?
I have wondered about this kind of effect in VR games. There is something fundamentally different about freely looking down at a stranger's body and hands that isn't present when controlling a character on a screen. It should be possible to try some of these experiments at home
They don't have to exclude it, they can deprioritize it. It's done with other content.
Agree in principle with much of what you say.

However:

a) physicists are not 'tasked with producing SI units'

b) you can have a non-high level of precision with metric as easily as with imperial

c) corollary: metric is not perfect - no one is trying to assert that

d) 'we get to choose the measure that suits the aims at the time' - yes, that sounds like Britain. Let's see how that plays out over the next 5 years.

e) 'if feet and inches are better, use that'. Better?

f) actually, this needs fully quoting:

> No, it's the "95%" measuring their height in centimetres (why not millimetres?;) or buying litres of milk that inconvenience themselves while complaining about measures they don't understand because they blind themselves to the advantages. Good sold in Britain have both measures on everything, we're committed, just not dogmatic about it.

Let's recalibrate:

i) it's not "95%" -- it's 95%. 7.59b people on the planet and 320m in USA, 4m in Liberia, 50m in Burma -- you could throw in the recalcitrants in the UK, but we're still rounding to about 5% of the planet that isn't on metric.

ii) people that use metric are allowed to use centimetres and millimetres .. and metres, decimetres, kilometres. All is good, sensible, easy to transition between by shifting the decimal point. I'm 187cm / 1.87m / 1870mm tall. With shoes on, add 2cm (but no need to adjust the length of the field I'm stepping out).

iii) I don't get the inconvenience of buying a litre of milk ... ?

iv) committed but not dogmatic - what a wonderfully British phrasing. We kind of get it, but we demand to reserve our right to randomly claim exceptionalism, for reasons that can't be described, defined, or defended.
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Tell HN: Looks like GoogleSafeBrowsing list is blocking Appleid.apple.com
I was trying to login to one of the websites using apple id and for some reason appleid.apple.com was not reachable and not resolving. I am using NextDNS filtering and realized that GoogleSafeBrowsing list was blocking this domain[0]. It looks like the change happend just few days ago.

[0]https://imgur.com/a/aFOfBYA
I'm not sure I'm following exactly.

Are you saying that everything (or almost everything) worth automating is already automated by someone else so learning how to do new things isn't important?
Most Chinese cities are younger than Rome or Istanbul or Athens.
> Why was the above comment downvoted?

Probably because

>> I assume this burns people like you each time is mentioned.

is rude and borders on a personal attack.
> you will not have access to FB Messenger, Whatsapp, Instagram, etc.

Actually you can access Facebook, Instagram and Twitter messages through their respective websites (and you can get notifications from the site if the browser supports it), but no WhatsApp nor Snapchat -- though Anbox might just fix this problem.
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Hi all,

I'm writing an online glossary for terminology regardig antique arms and armor. It's far from perfect, and with only one year in the making the amount of articles is still limited.

I just wanted to know what you think in terms of content and usability. Any feedback will help the further development.

Here is the link:
https://www.mandarinmansion.com/glossary
In this case, it makes a dramatic difference.
The announcement about an announcement.
Public transit would've done the same in a much more equitable and environmentally friendly way. Probably faster too.
A lot of people seem to be reading the headline, getting upset and immediately heading here to complain and getting on the defensive. The article is actually pretty interesting and isn't just trying to attack Houston, Texas, the USA or you personally.
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It had a lot of hype. I think a big part of the hype at the time was web related, but it was also immediately popular with schools. Schools liked that it was easy enough to spend less time teaching the language and more on the concepts. It also helped that it was going to be industrially important.
That's true, and that's probably why even though I have had to modify ruby code and write simple scripts at various points in my career, I never got to the point where I fully grep the syntax. Maybe that's why C-like syntax is so popular.
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On the other hand, the RAE has adopted that same expression from the same latin root into the Spanish language in the IT/computing category:

https://dle.rae.es/defecto

It's not something ridiculous out of left field.
Sure, but

1. JAWS and NVDA have a massive chunk of market share, and I don't run Windows

2. Screen readers work differently, so I can't guarantee that something that's fine in Orca does what I want elsewhere

3. Even if I have access to everything, I can't use a screen reader at the speeds that real users prefer, and I don't use them regularly enough to know what's annoying and what's not.

I'm happy to learn, just noting the challenges.
Detroit Metro Airport (DTW) has some roads that go under runways and taxiways. In the game, those roads are rendered at surface level, and the vehicles simply disappear when they get to a runway or taxiway.
Okay so

Movement through space (in any direction) is movement against time.

Is positive kinetic energy the direction opposite time?
Elm single handedly got me into functional programming. Everything from the syntax to the standard library. I haven’t used a language that was that elegant and delightful to use perhaps since I discovered Ruby.

It makes me really sad that Elm turned to this niche language/framework that it is today. I had hoped for it to grow someday to have a mobile target in addition to web, to be able to use it on the server, hell even to be able to use it to build systems. So much wasted potential.
I used to think I could trust the EU more than he rest. No more. Wirecard story shows how much this trust is misplaced.
I come from a very small town on the Adriatic coast and the church there is from the 6th century. The town itself was founded sometimes BC.
It's interesting that protests generally happen in dense parts of cities. Now imagine a city without a dense part - protesting becomes more difficult. Myanmar's non-democratic military government actually moved their capital from a dense city to a new city so spread out and with no downtown area - potentially to prevent the ability to protest the government.

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/inside-burma-s-ghost-to...

I don't think that's why Houston is the way it is, and while there is still a downtown there, imagining mass protests in Houston seems much different than Hong Kong - due to the density.
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The graph means very little without a comparison line of “all programming jobs” and/or “all jobs.”
Is improvement in quality of face recognition 'good for humanity'?
They sure have got themselves a lot of press. However, PR skills doth not a product make. In fact, all the noise just increases my scepticism.
Zynga bought their office building and ended up being one of their best investments. Good timing though, buying in 2012 and selling in 2019.

"Zynga to Make $369 Million on Sale of Headquarters. That's far more than the company has ever made selling mobile games."

https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/05/29/zynga-to-make-369-...
It really depends on the level of repression or how smart the authority imposes it. West media depicts China’s repression as if it’s the same level as North Korea and then people believe it —- it’s far from it and in fact has very little impact on student and researchers life. The China’s authority did it in a way that’s almost transparent, that’s not too hard given the the overall awareness for citizen rights among Chinese people
Honestly, I have limited time and writing extended counterpoints to every argument is rather tiresome.

Regarding the article given, what made impression to me was that it states that if a document have a few important articles, all of them deserve to be h1. Well, put h1 as the topic that binds together those articles like "The blog of an expert" and each article can move to h2. Simple, semantic, and does not need to break convention.

I'm not against a few h1s in a document, but each of them must be important in a different way like name of the website, name of article, important warning in the footer/sidebar/wherever. It is like mail, if each email is marked "important", none of them is or at least you can't make your mind without reading everything and deciding for yourself which makes the "important" label meaningless.

Edit: adding a counterexample.

I've visited news websites which have sidebar with most recent or most read or the like articles. Each item in the list is marked h1 and skipping them wastes time and money.

Same with a few sidebars that are h1 titled though I don't care about their existence and their presence just shadows the h1 of the article that I'm interested in.
Ironically, this is yet another example of why "dæmonization" is a fallacy. Closing all open file descriptors broke the library code that was using a private file descriptor to send things to the syslog server. It breaks that, other forms of logging, and indeed other library functions that might hold on to private file descriptors for whatever reason.

Had one thrown away the fallacious idea that one has to, or even can, "dæmonize" from a login session context to a dæmon context, this entire problem wouldn't have arisen, irrespective of whether one logged to syslog or to standard error (which is another factor in its own right).

It looks like daemon.DaemonContext() is the function to recommend avoiding here, not just os.close() of arbitrary file descriptors.
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This is the part that got a few nanometers underneath my skin:

Hendrix pulled this eye-opening comparison from a report compiled by the U.K.’s Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission, which sternly suggests that housing 30,000 Italians is less wasteful and more sustainable than using the same amount of acreage to simply move cars around. There’s truth to that, of course [...]

There's no truth to that, of course. Houston is a gigantic port city and population center, in a region of the USA where automobiles are almost essential to life because everything is spread out and public transportation is sparse. Even if you only focus on designing for people, there are people commuting in those automobiles and their quality of life goes up when their daily commute doesn't include a series of congested off-ramps and on-ramps in bumper-to-bumper traffic.

In Houston, the user drives. Just because Tuscany is nice doesn't mean there is any reason why space in places where the use case is different should be judged with Tuscany in mind as an ideal.

To take it to the extreme, this article is akin to a comparison between the ISS and a soccer field. The author decided that the soccer field is a better use of space because it accommodates multiple times as many participants as the ISS.
Of course, in 2004 Northern Bank was acquired by Denmark-based Danske Group. So now, you have Northern Irish banknotes, which are UK pounds (GBP), with Dankse Bank written on them!

https://danskebank.co.uk/about-us/bank-notes/ten-pound-note
One assumes that if Oracle decided to do its ZFS on Linux, it would do so under an actual compatible license. Since Oracle owns Oracle's ZFS, they can just release it under GPLv2 (or MIT, BSD, whatever) and not be even potentially doing anything that would let someone sue them.
I see I'm not the only one in this special hell. I don't know if that makes me feel better or worse. I'm on my way out now, thankfully.
Really? You're gonna fight over some discrepancies in sources, as if that changes things.

The main point is that there are huge numbers of people who speak these languages and there's nothing special about programming and English beside history.

I disagree with your conclusion from your [1]. Any of those groups could create code based on their own languages. There's nothing at all logical about English.

For my sources, just type "X speakers" or "X speakers in the world" into google and the infobox results is what I use.

Your wikipedia source is way outta date. 1.12 Bn Chinese speakers? Come on. China's population is ~ 1.5 Bn now (was 1.4 in 2018).

French is 270 million. Sorry I said above 300m, but it's within 100% of the number that speak English natively, is what I was saying.
Even within English, a lot of the terms we use are kind of unnatural. I had an American professor once who complained about the use of the term "default" in computing. "Default" is what the bank does when it runs out of money. What does that have to do with me choosing something in the computer?

Similarly, a "file" is a bundle of papers, not an individual document. A "program" lists things that will happen in a performance, but it's not an instruction sheet. An "application" is a form that you fill in for a bureaucrat. Etc.
That has come to my attention more recently when looking for short answers to small medical questions surrounding a condition—things I'd forgotten, etc. I quickly learned how off-the-mark those can be.

The feature is really clever and works great when it works, but sometimes just because something is formatted as an authoritative answer, it's promoted above actual correct information. It's almost slower than just looking for a qualifying source in those cases.
Thanks for the link, that was quite useful to read :)

I'll be rummaging around pathviz for a while.
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Yeah i also do love all the recent updates, i am very happy with macOS.
[Gödel 1931] is not applicable to the foundations of computer science for the reasons stated here:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3603021
I think the significant thing about putting Nim on the Go/Rust spectrum is that all 3 languages are statically typed languages, that advocate performance and compile to a single binary. So there is more to gain from comparing the 3, than say comparing Go and Rust to Ruby.
It is so common for me that I often accidentally send messages to myself that are intended for others (which clearly is better than the reverse). It’s my main reminder/notepad/etc method.
I mean /e/ compared to Android. LOS is a good option too.
Ask Ukraine how they lost billions in ammunition due to a incendiary grenade dropped with a regular drone.

Someone does not need to kill you in your vehicle or your house -- they can start a major fire while you are in there, drop a defensive hand grenade while you're playing with your family in the back yard, touch you with some high voltage wires, dust you in some ultra-potent synthetic opioid.

A lot of people DO leave their windows open, and it is beyond the point anyway, as windows can be blasted away with the first drone, and while you naturally will inveatigate, the second drone will get you -- just immagine 4 AM, you are sleeping, boom the first drone blasts your windows open, 5 seconds later the next one detonates a defensive grenade in your bedroom.

This is obviously for higher value targets, but I'd say an assasin has a much greater chance of evading capture from a mile away, than doing the deed in person.
Yes, the the prefix was removed automatically even though my submission title was "The story of how NASA and ISRO discovered water on the Moon."
Big difference indeed.
Current resident here! I can relate to some of your experiences. I will say though that Houston, like a lot of the sunbelt cities has multiple urban cores, the sprawl kind of connects them.

Going from one urban core to another can take some time, indeed an hour in some cases from one close-in area to another. (Close in meaning ~20 - 40 miles). It's very much like the East Bay in that regard.

Living in an urban area like Med Center / West U, or Galleria, energy corridor on the west side, most folks don't suffer, everything is nearby in those communities.

Houston does have a good park and ride bus system for the outer burbs, and it's been successful. They've added a light rail in town connecting downtown entertainment with the medical center and convention areas, and just launched BRT services that connect hubs in the Galleria to some of the park-n-ride depots in the city.

Lots of problems, lots of opportunities to improve, but for the price, the great airports (which I miss thee days with COVID), and these massive freeways to move us over great distance quickly, I'm still a fan.
Is this being developed? How similar this is to ada ?
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How would function composition work without currying? You'd have to name everything, wouldn't you?

I'm thinking of how you could write in point-free style or even have a `(.)` function to begin with if you had the Smalltalk "message passing" style.

Sure the Haskell syntax is a bit much when you're not familiar with it but, like almost any language, it's often the least-interesting part of the language and the most talked about.
"What to expect when you're expecting to expect."
I'm not saying it's a waste of space or anything. Just that's it's interesting how large it is in comparison to Manhattan. It's about as useful a comparison as the one made in the article, frankly.
Indeed! The day I started ignoring my bank statement was the day I became truly secure.
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Population:

Houston: 2.3 million

Siena: 50k

What's the use of these pointless comparisons?
99.9% of web developers now use a trackpad, and this site works perfectly with a trackpad. Those of us with actual mice are a vanishing breed.
How much old stuff is in Chinese cities vs countryside though? My understanding is since the capitals moved many times (often with city destruction at dynasty end) that there's less old stuff in the cities (and a lot of 19th century less historical stuff has been raised.)

At least a lot of the famous stuff around Xi'an and Luoyang seems to be monumental works outside city. Maybe various parts of the grand canal and stuff surrounding is a better example than that?
> Your blame-free production line won't help you if you're making the wrong thing and/or your UX doesn't help the user.

Blaming someone will not help either. As you said, the user doesn't care who fucked up.

Some of the problems you listed are still open research areas, so I wouldn't call not solving it lack of seriousness. And for the street view thing, given that there's no clear right or wrong, the best they could do is look at the data and see which approach seem to improve the user experience. I hope they've done that, but I don't know.

Then, there are bugs in excel, online shopping, aeroplane systems. Maybe those would be explained as a lack of seriousness, but I don't see how blaming someone would help avoiding those issues.

Finally, there's the recent intel/amd bugs. They were out there for a long time and it took quite a bit of time and ingenuity to find that there was a security flaw there. I think we can hardly classify that as lack of seriousness or understanding that it can have bad effects to people's lives.
Good point. I think this story also interweaves practical and cultural elements.

The industrial revolution changed how measurement systems were used. It became important that a 13mm fitting measured in Paris was 13mm in Milan. Also, that age had novelty everywhere. Cobblers & weavers were separate worlds in medieval times. It didn't matter if they used different units of measurement. Novel industrialism required it.

On the cultural side, there was the French revolution. They wanted to throw out everything old and irrational. Old measurement units got the same guillotine treatment as old rulers. Tradition must die. This was the political and cultural environment that yielded the metric system. The political element also explains why the British Empire didn't adopt it.

The BE also needed rational units, ultimately. But, instead of adopting the radically rational metric system... they tweaked their medieval system into standard "imperial units." Why?

First, they weren't going to adopt their enemy's stupid system. Second, their philosophy was conservative. Tradition must live.

It's interesting how the ideals of the era (republican vs parliamentary monarchy) were mirrored in these decisions.
Don’t exaggerate it, people use template to do it. In China most of those are just a process thing, nobody even look at it
They're not. There are actually multiple different definitions of "money" in use, because it's complicated to define exactly what distinguishes money from a financial instrument, but corporate bonds aren't included in any definition I'm aware of.
That's pretty much what I expected; I think that's pretty common, and that's exactly what the author claims to do (use this process for discovery and learnings, then write some guff for chef once they know what they're doing).
Owning property ties up capital. All that money is tied up in that land and that building. That money can't then be used to grow the business in other ways.

Owning and managing physical property isn't what a tech company is good at. Some of the really big companies might own some of their buildings completely... but I feel confident in saying that most don't.

Owning and managing a physical property means also having staff that does maintenance, grounds keeping, electrical, plumbing, deals with the accounting on taxes, etc... That isn't party of the core competency of the tech company. If anything, it distracts the company from its revenue.

A company that I worked at in the late '90s and '00s in Sunnyvale bought the land, built the buildings... and then immediately turned around and sold them to a property management company and leased it back from them.
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It's called fractional because that X% is smaller than 1.

I do agree that, 0 being an integral, that name lost its meaning, but it's still the same thing, so people keep using the same name.
I have used manjaro on my personal laptop for the past 4+ years and I share the same sentiment. Great for a computer but I'm not sure what value is added on the pine phone.
I'm pretty sure this is a joke. There's no way you can run a SaaS on two lines of code... Unless it's some bizzarely simple calculator or something like that.
I would say its borderline unethical in the sense of self-promotion and pushing the scientific career.
Incompleteness in the sense of inferential undecidability still must be proven for higher-order strongly-typed theories in computer science.

For an example of such as proof see the following:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3459566
Such systems have been available on Linux-based operating systems since the middle 1990s. It's not a new systemd thing by a long chalk.

* http://jdebp.uk./FGA/daemontools-family.html#Logging
Agreed that it's worth OP diagnosing the actual source of friction here. My answer was implicitly predicated on the assumption of a largeish team, and I hadn't realised that.
Why a smartphone? A Nokia 101 (or whichever model above it which has Bluetooth) seems like a much better fit.