skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you using drives that have their own power source? I found that (a) using the “right” cable (determined through experimentation), and (b) only using mains-powered external hard drives made a big difference.
> The bills are starting to come due now.

Who paid for building them in the first place then? Were people in the 50s so much wealthier than now, that paying for the roads and sewers was peanuts for them, but we cannot afford it anymore?

The whole Strong Towns theory of infrastructure costs bankrupting cities does sound plausible, until you start doing the math. Then, it becomes totally absurd.
It is exactly because no one obsesses over single words in practice that these words gain usage, though. Academic writing is taught and word choice is a part of what is taught. I started using those words in my academic writing because that’s how I was taught to write from lab courses to journal contributions. Early in my studies professors and teaching assistants did correct single words where a more normative word was possible, so you just start writing like that to avoid any trouble.

There isn’t anything intrinsically evil about norms and signaling, I feel that assuming someone recognizing a structure means that structure is inherently evil is a bit presumptive. In-group jargon usage is common and useful for some, and a hurdle to overcome for entrants, that’s it, absent any moral judgement.
Maybe also, we bring back drive-ins, I still love drive-ins 100x more than theaters, but alas moved where there aren't any right now.
Thank you! I'm not at all familiar with CAD software or the like so I suspect that'll be the biggest hurdle.

Is there a good alternative to Fusion 360 that's more of a hobby price point?
Maybe solving some DEs analytically can help one build up intuition as to how the solution may behave, and some algebraic transformations may be useful, but maybe if the goal is for people to know if a solution makes sense then we should put more of an emphasis on the techniques to learn qualitatively about the solution (eg phase diagrams with isoclines and equilibrium points, perturbation analysis, various linearisations).

I wonder how important it is to focus on linearity. On the one hand, lots of equations aren’t linear but on the other hand, most equations are locally linear and knowing about linearity helps with Sturm-Liouville theory.
Except you are the president.

Then its:do whatever you want.
Twitter’s ‘Birdwatch’: a new attempt to root out propaganda and misinformation
Modern surveillance capitalism is at its core a very libertarian thing because libertarians believe there should be no regulation about what data companies can collect and how they process it. There is a difference between mass surveillance and law enforcement.
If someone actually has ADHD, the person doesn't feel 'up'. Instead, after taking meds, they should feel more self control, less frigidity, and more calm. Withdraw should become the opposite. (I'm speaking generally, based on more research than my fingers and toes, not for individual cases).
That is an acceptable outcome.
It looks familiar. I may have it confused with MechWarrior, hmmm.
> The controller shall consult the supervisory authority prior to processing where a data protection impact assessment under Article 35 indicates that the processing would result in a high risk in the absence of measures taken by the controller to mitigate the risk.

Which risks are “high risk”? They can always come after you for not consulting them and waiting 8-14 weeks for any feature launch.

> Taking into account the state of the art, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing as well as the risk of varying likelihood and severity for the rights and freedoms of natural persons, the controller and the processor shall implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk, including inter alia as appropriate[…]

No organization can objectively measure whether they’ve complied with this, much less prove it to hostile regulators.
I hate them for the same reason.

They also had dedicated controllers which were deprecated, but a phone app isn't as versatile. You can't lend your phone to a guest at your house, or to a kid, etc.
Sage smoke allegedly kills airborne bacteria, fwiw

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17913417/
Oh, just the small problems like Transnistria and Donetsk and Crimea.

I do not mean to be sarcastic, but Baltic nations are really happy to be protected by NATO. They are in Russian sphere of interest and cannot defend themselves on their own.
In university in year of 1997 there was few nix terminals and many Win boxes.

Because on Windows machines there was queue of people that waiting, nix terminals was mostly free because students was unexperienced.

So i take opportunity always to sit on "free" terminal and i start learning *nix. Soon i learn pine, pico, lynx, X and many other.

And today - 23 years later i never regret about this decision.
>My personal experience is that comments are usually content-thin, and not worth reading.

Note that you write this in a comment.
So what is the issue in this game? I presume the banner is there for a reason. I see a lot of complaints about it and if it really was something easily fixed someone should make a PR.
Wait a bit longer. You need to first understand yourself better before telling anyone else.
But if a company can make money making a product && make money by storing some text in a database why wouldn't they? /devilsAdvocate
Face retouching settings should be off by default
Could be, but in this case it is because Cohen the Barbarian [1] lacks dentures.

[1] https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Cohen_the_Barbarian
That’s a really common behavior. I’ve had people open issues stating that something is a production blocker but of course they can’t contribute time to fix it.
What you say is important, but far from sufficient. Recipes which serves as exercises at one level serve as building blocks for the next level. I would argue that the reason it is important to understand the solutions of a few typical forms of differential equations is that they correspond to problems that show up in many different contexts. So not only can the solution methods be applied in all those contexts, but also the intuition for that class of problems/solutions ports over nicely, and allows you to use these as building blocks in bigger systems.

> Because in this way you can obtain solution to any DE with any degree of precision (within reasonable assumptions about complexity of the problem).

IMHO one of the key goals of education is exactly to understand why/when this is not the case, so you don't shoot yourself in the foot. Numerical methods will often generate junk results (too many examples to count, of people running useless simulations to problems whose solutions don't exist, or algorithms don't converge, so that the results of numerics are fundamentally misleading).

Further, probably one of the most valuable topics is an understanding of linear differential equations (and linear shift-invariant systems more generally), including typical solutions and how they compose. A huge chunk of our science & engineering knowledge is built on this edifice. This is hardcore theoretical stuff (ideas & concepts), that can't be derived from being able to numerically solve differential equations. Further, a solid understanding of these concepts allows one to decompose a problems solutions into eigen-modes, and build much better solvers specialized to a situation.
I was thinking of use cases like large slightly-heterogenous data dumps. Or structured logs. Let's say you have a few million entries, mostly with the same fields, but with enough differences that using a header + array of arrays is also not great.

But! This is totally a specific use case and you don't need to try make everyone happy. There's GELF and others for structured logs already.
You need to know a bit of history, namely that one of the earliest "bad actors" here was Verisign, the operator of the com. and net. registry, and of the "A" and "J" ICANN root content servers.

* http://jdebp.uk./FGA/verisign-internet-coup.html
I would expect people in Dubai, Moscow and China put their money in the WEST. How much money go to London every year? How much money go to Sydney? And Vancouver? Money will go to the so-called cities with transparency.
I can certainly feel some of the points the author makes. I am in a different field (astrophysics) and I have recently moved from the professor job in the US to UK. And one thing I particularly feel is a burn-out. After going through undergrad + PhD + getting tenure which all involved pretty much round-the-clock work, I just can't work 60 hours a week anymore. And somehow in academia, it often is required. Basically you have so much stuff that you must do that takes a large fraction of your 40h/week (telecons, students, lectures, seminars, refereeing, etc), so anything interesting -- actual science that you do yourself has to be done in the extra-time (i.e. weekends/evenings).
I am currently hoping that in the UK I'll be at least a bit better placed than in the US, as the pressure to get grants is lower, and people are more mindful of the working hours, but I am still not 100% sure that I'll stay.
(throwaway account)
But does the law actually require PII? 'Logging' might just require a record of source IP/MAC address and destination IPs. So, just having a wifi password that is shared might still be OK.
Factoring in that the prison population is a "good chunk" of the total population should elevate the scale of this discussion above statistical haggling
The truth maybe somewhere in the middle. Perhaps they aren’t 10x the engineer but they do work that’s 10x more valuable to the company’s goals.
Please don't call names and especially don't do personal attacks on HN. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of how wrong some other commenter is or you feel they are.

Most importantly, if you post like this, you forego the chance to explain a more correct view to the rest of us. We all miss out that way. Even worse, commenting like this discredits the truth that it's trying to express (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

Of course it's extremely frustrating when someone is wrong on the internet, but it's all our job here to metabolize that frustration into something that doesn't make the situation worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not really, because having variable license costs imposes nontrivial fixed costs just to price out the license.
http://archive.is/r30UB
I was wondering what I should replace our sonos with. This looks quite interesting, thank you.
Many EU tourists as well, here you can still get sub GB plans, and unlimited is twice what it is in France, and if you're not savvy, four times is possible too.

Free, please conquer the rest of Europe too!
> If this is true, then why haven't elite universities been successfully sued for discriminatory admissions (recently that is)?

Employment and educational discrimination are covered by different laws, so it's not the same question, and,

Even if the standards applied were the same, whether admissions are illegally discriminatory and whether hiring by graduation is would be very different questions.
> This money came from the federal government, and not the local tax payer - ultimately with the federal government taking on long-term debt to fund it.

It did not, this is completely false. Federal government by and large didn't fund local roads and sewers. Federal government did often help with interstate highways and large water works, but those would be built just the same even with the Strong Towns preferred high density development model.

By the way, the money that federal government spends is not created out of thin air. It comes mostly from federal income tax, which is overwhelmingly paid by the people living in exactly the kind of suburbs Strong Towns hates.
I just went to disable data collection in the Sonos app. It was the only part of their app hidden behind a password - seems like it’s trying to dissuade people from accessing that particular setting...
> Hence why many years ago I took to explaining DNS using HTTP terminology. It works quite well.

That is the source of your own confusion. There will be no memorial for you on the hill that you're dying on.
Have you run into any issues with licensing for things like the VST sdk? I know it used to be an issue but it looks like VST3 has more options.
In the former case, there's only one person and a court to please, in the latter case, there's millions of people who can violate you. (Not intending to argue for monarchy here, ha, just came out that way.)
> So an immigrant cannot be as informed as a "native" based only on the fact that they were not born there?

Certainly someone who immigrated to the US as an adult cannot know more about the US than someone who grew up here.

> What sort of claim is this?

A fairly straightforward one.

I don't think the guy's comment was that controversial or baffling.
Sorry I thought it was fairly obvious we were only talking about suburbia because the article itself points out urban areas are funded just fine. Its suburbia where the cost/tax ratio is out of whack.
AI will do that for us.
There is such a system already if you are a millionaire.
You get access to first release movies that you can play at home but it not streamed but sent to a bespoke media server.

It is about $3000 per rental.

https://www.redcarpethomecinema.com/
I used Factorio to train myself to overcome psychological barriers to progressing my projects. It's easier to do it in Factorio because Factorio is more engaging and problems with overwhelming chaos and complexity and legacy barriers to progress and the needs for refactoring are the same.
> It is only hubris for some people to think some governments of their own choosing should have a piece of that

It is not hubris. It is pragmatics. Moving to another county does not fully avoid contributing to the community where you live; you aren’t leaving the state, so state taxes still apply. The point is that rich people should pay their fair share of taxes and not be able to just buy their way out of it with fancy lawyers and accountants, thereby depriving governments of billions in taxes. This analogy just isn’t on the same order of magnitude.

However, I think our philosophies are too different for you to accept my argument because it rests on the premise that rich people should pay taxes, which I don’t think you believe. It seems to me that you believe that individuals can and should avoid contributing to their communities through taxation as much as they possibly can. No matter that this money is often used for social services and other non-profitable activities that help people in need.

I think the atomized, “I got mine” attitude meshes deeply with the “temporarily embarrassed millionaire” attitude that tries to justify the Panama Papers stuff as on the same order of magnitude as getting cheap gas in another county. The concept of community doesn’t exist in this mindset; only a group of dragons sitting on their hoards whose sole interactions with each other are business transactions exists. I hope that changes.
Oh, I read the first bit and gave up listening, waiting for an interview :(
I don't want to demean your work in any way, but what exactly is the problem you are trying to solve? You certainly already know that determining whether two machines are extensionally different is undecidable, so, what kind of ambiguity your choice of a normal form would eliminate?
It's not like people are emailing Turing machines back and forth, it's mostly just a definition.
imo, the website is utterly confusing as an educational resource
> keeping a company like Sonos (upscale audio hardware) alive & prosperous with the crazy megalithic competitive forces

Make good hardware and sell it at a profit. Problem solved. Sonos still has an edge on the actual audio hardware (that none of the existing "smart speaker" competition can match, besides maybe the HomePod but the lack of Spotify support is a major dealbreaker for a lot of people).

In any case, I don't see how data collection helps with any of this; selling consumer data alone isn't going to be enough to keep the company afloat, and introducing ads into the audio stream itself will be a major no-no (unless the speakers are given for free, but then the costs of that would outweigh the advertising profits). I don't think speakers are a thing that can be monetized with data, full stop - and that's okay.

Most likely the whole idea behind the data collection & analytics is to justify the salaries of their marketing department and give the engineering department something to do (analytics show that X percent of customers loved this new feature, let's rebuild/expand it) while ultimately all that people want is a speaker that plays their Spotify and gets out of the way (and unlike other hardware, people aren't - and shouldn't be - used to replacing their speakers every year).
Good grief. Can you please stop posting ideological (and worse, race war) flamebait to HN? It's not what this site is for. Worse, it wrecks what it is for, so we have to ban accounts that keep doing it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've been part of European academia and amount of corruption I've seen there is just staggering and way beyond most of private sector firms. I'm happy that the author of the blog article ended up in one of the organizations where politics, horse trading, faking of research results for grant audits and outright bribery isn't endemic.
> There’s nothing here to say it wasn’t. Further, how can you be sure the universe wasn’t created as it appeared last Thursday and everything since has simply been some higher dimension’s cellular automata set up with that as its initial state and an update algorithm encoding what we call “physics”?

> The fact of the matter is that the existential question cannot be answered with any degree of certainty, so to accept any single explanation as truth while ridiculing valid competitors (all that cannot be disproven) is a close minded approach.

I also cannot be sure that reality exists at all, I could be imagining everything, including the mobile phone I am entering this reply into, the HN site, and the notional user that closed the comment I am replying to.

Cogito ergo sum, but everything else is negotiable (possibly only with myself).

There are any number of variants, including Matrix-like scenarios where some or all people are brains-in-a-jar, simulated, or meat-puppets, and most of them are unfalsifiable.

Reproducible empirical evidence is, ultimately, the tool we have to work with, which as far as I can tell, seems to have brought us pretty far already (YMMV, assuming that "Y" even exists), and I'm not going to discard it based on an argument that is basically aaequivalent to "The fossil record could have been created by God to test our faith" (or "The fossil record could have been created by the Devil to lead us astray", pick your poison).

Assuming anything other than that reality exists and can be meaningfully investigated with the tools at our disposal doesn't lead anywhere useful (or for that matter, interesting). We don't have to be certain of this proposition, we just have to be certain that it is falsifiable (all it would take would be one glimpse behind the curtain) and that the unfalsifiable alternatives are pointless wanking almost by definition.
You've missed the point. There would be precious few who would deny narcotics to those who really need them. They are often the only effective line of pain relief for severe pain and they are on WHO's list of essential drugs!

You seem to have not considered these points:

(a) The intrinsic nature of narcotics requires them to be managed with great care. This means the dose has to be accurately titrated sufficient to kill pain and no more or addiction results. These facts have been known by the medical and pharmaceutical industries for over 100 years, also the FDA knew this but seems to have forgotten when it was lobbied. (I'm oversimplifying the facts here but it'll have to do.)

(b) Sacklers/Purdue were fully aware that intrinsic nature of narcotics requires them to be managed with great care. As this info is in almost every medical text on the planet that deals with the subject, similarly every pharmacopeia text on the subject. (Check for yourself.)

(c) Sacklers/Purdue deliberately ignored these well established medical facts about narcotic addiction so as to proffer from drug sales. They willfully pushed OxyContin use to levels well in excess of that recommended by medical best practice. Thus, it hugely increased the numbers of opiate addicts than there would otherwise have been.

(d) As I've said above, many medicos were complicit with Purdue and deserve to lose their license to practice.

(e) As I also said above 'before OxyContin, there were any number of narcotic painkilling drugs from those that have to be injected to ones that can be swallowed as a tablet or capsule that are made by more reputable drug companies (and have been for decades). OxyContin didn't offer anything over these earlier drugs.' Doctors, pharmacists and the FDA knew this too, yet they deliberately threw away their Hippocratic Oath and 'mistreated' their patients for a few cheap shekels.
> to impress their teachers

If I was that teacher, I would have flunked them for "doing something just because you can" and not using their capabilities for a more useful goal. And also because I'm tired of yet another toy CPU and toy OS that's just like all the others.
WebRTC is low latency by itself, otherwise you couldn’t have a video call. The challenge is to serve one WebRTC stream to 1,000,000 viewers while maintaining low latency
Wasn't one of the downvoters, since I'm pretty sure this is sarcasm/parody, but given Poe's Law, you might want to telegraph it a bit better.
French bars and cafes desperately could use VPN services that secures DNS, thus the logs would be MAC addresses and a single endpoint, with time stamps/ durations only.
Defecting against everyone you meet is a losing strategy in an iterated multi-actor prisoner's dilemma. Establishing and maintaining mutual trust, to cooperate with those who are willing to cooperate with you, is in a nation's interests.
That statistic I cited includes pension funds.
A ban on evictions amounts to a confiscation of property and violates the 5th amendment. Landlords have mortgages, property taxes, and utilities to pay. Eviction bans will decrease the supply of rental housing by discouraging investment in housing.
The World Population in 2100, by Country
It‘s not as meaningless as it seems. Parcel sizes are very similar in similar areas: smaller in cities accommodating row houses and larger in the land planned for single or double family homes with a garden. There are some outliers, but usually you will only find very similar plot sizes in one area.
Yeah probably tough and expensive to transition existing neighbourhoods to this model... but is abandoning the current infrastructure and starting fresh more expensive than maintaining the already expensive existing infrastructure? Don't know.

I do know London, England is build on top of many many layers of obsolete sewer systems from a millenium of city living. Sometimes its best to abandon and rebuild.