skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds great! you should take part in our train scheduling NeurIPS challenge: https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/neurips-2020-flatland-cha...

Our goal is to encourage and benchmark the progress of MARL methods to manage dense traffic on railway networks.
WebAssembly in a browser with access to a real filesystem
No. Quad and octtrees divide the space. K-d trees divide the data.
I think people are asking the wrong questions. We know that people moving back in with their parents is up about 3 million due to COVID [1]. It would follow that studio apartments are the mostly likely to be rented by those same young people, thus the demand has dried up.

The question we aren't asking is, what happens when the economy recovers and these people move out of their parent's homes? Will they go back to the "destination" cities or will newer, smaller cities be the target? Will they crave experiences or space more?

[1] https://www.marketplace.org/2020/07/28/millions-of-americans...
These were still insanely expensive.
Since you are right in the middle of this, what prevents you from walking out on the lease? As in, what starts a flood of renegotiation / changing apartments from similarly lease-locked renters?
Video recording showing some features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRmO-8b4WmE&feature=youtu.be
Amazon Prime Day 2020: All the best tech deals we can find
Also not all property management is about renting out. Sometimes it is just about parking wealth and extra rent is gravy. So if you are just parking, moving to the max rent possible can be a desirable effect. As you may price people out and you do not have to have someone to 'manage' that property as intensively (broke AC, leaky sink fix, etc). Which would be an annoyance on a passive property.
Then your service becomes just a tiny stub of vestigial logic buried under layers and layers of YAML, vendor libraries and locked assumptions.
To save screen space, and have all windows of same kind (e.g. PDF views) in a single unit.
Right now? I haven't used a C64 in more than three decades, so the answer is: very poor :)

Productivity isn't in my mind when thinking about retro/vintage computers, in any case.
Thanks. More looking for some weird IOT ideas like pressure sensors under the floor, LED's, etc. But those flooring ideas are sweet!
It's a dynamic where each party can feel the need to cover one's own insecurities resulting in (unintentionally) invaliding the other party. One side aims to justify a sunk cost and the other to prove themselves and it becomes a chain reaction whereby everyone becomes engaged in ego defense/vuln attack until someone goes "wow you are really intelligent" and breaks the cycle.
Washer/dryer
David Heinemeier Hansson-Great Ideas Derive from Well-Rest
The "pirate" option is interesting. 10 years ago it used to be a matter of ease of use. Torrents and Plex offered something that no other company at the time did. Since Netflix and others came on the scene now its just because people don't want to pay.

I signed up to NowTV in the UK to watch Game of Thrones for 2-3 months and cancelled. The great thing about many of these services is the come and go subscription. Why not sign up for a few months, watch all the content you like and then cancel when you're done?
While I agree with you, that's nothing a custom theme / engine can't fix. Fonts on linux are not that great as well, by default.

KDE is quite a useful Desktop Environment packed with functionality; I miss KDE a lot when using Mac OS X or Windows.
This looks great - nice work!
Please report back in February after experiencing a -40 day :)
While the whole of Disney has now morphed itself into an Integrator in the past 6 years or so, there are parts like ESPN and Hulu that function as Aggregators and have to curate the content from elsewhere. In these business lines they have less of an ability to extract the 100% margin like Disney+. They’re dependent on NFL, NBA for the rights, and on Hulu for other studios to sell them the rights to stream the movies and shows. They attempted something closer to integrator approach at ESPN with X-Games but its scale dwarfed in comparison.
I do like that Disney is moving ahead and integrating and building better content. It took them a lot of acquisitions and strategic planning to get here. When I worked there, it was a really hard sell to bring this streaming expertise in-house. I was relatively junior employee and didn’t realize that a company like Disney can just buy the best streaming platform that they’d been using, MLBAM and build their streaming technology around it.
>like being able to right-click in the file browser to create a new file or resizing windows to the left/right side of the window with Meta-left/right

It's been possible to create files in the file browser (in Nautilus/Gnome) for as long as I can remember – you just have to have "templates" for the files you want to create in your Templates directory (e.g. "C file.c", "Text file.txt"). That being said, unfortunately this is one of those things where Ubuntu and Gnome are objectively worse than they were ten years ago – due to the changes related to renaming files in Nautilus, you can no longer give your new files a proper name as you create them, but have to manually rename them afterwards. Compared to all the clicks that takes (with typing in between), it's faster and more convenient to just click "Open Terminal here" and create any files you need with touch.

I don't know of any problems with Super-left/right, though.
SF is indeed a nice city and better than many in terms of parks and outdoor amenities. However, the space at home, when you WFH, is pretty rough.

If you take what a typical couple pays for SF rent you can buy two houses in most of the US. So... if you're going to be spending a lot of time at home, for many people it makes sense to move out to a cheaper and more spacious locale, at least for now.
The large misalignment of prevailing median wages to land pricing around the world has puzzled me for decades. Personally, as someone outside of the real estate industry, any of my real estate-related expenses in my business (I'm all remote) and personal lives are near-total deadweight losses to me. But I don't ever see a kind of "your margin is my opportunity" transformation drop real estate around the world >90% in valuation to free up the stranded capital for other industries, as the real estate industry is enormously powerful and wealthy, and I see no horizon where that is ever disrupted.
And that's the problem with... let's say politics generally, but Trump especially. Two of Trump's biggest winning issues have been travel bans and China. Taking the opportunity to combine them was such a political no-brainer that he didn't need to believe in the virus to do it. Over and over again, when Trump has succeeded politically by saying things that are transparently untrue, we have been told that we'll never understand him politically if we are hung up on facts, because we need to "take him seriously, but not literally." I think that advice applies very neatly to this case. His travel ban was seriously meant as a gesture of resistance against a serious threat of disease from China, but the threat was not literally the coronavirus, as his subsequent rhetoric showed. Having a travel ban against foreigners arriving from China felt good and safe for his supporters regardless of the literal medical danger posed by a literal virus. "Seriously, but not literally" means that Trump could support a covid travel ban without believing that covid was a real threat. As usual, his target audience understood instantly, while the rest of us once again took months to figure out that Trump might not even have a literal opinion.
If you don't mind waiting for a loading bar, there's also 404kph[1]. It's technically impressive with decent gameplay (Trackmania clone).

[1] https://js13kgames.com/entries/404kph
The Tragic, Doomed Cleveland Balloonfest of '86
GitHub Release Stats – download counts, release date, authors for GitHub project
<html contenteditable> is too powerful I think.
You can paste HTML,
which you might find desirable for stuff like pasting link anchors,
but if you paste something that uses tables for layout
(HN titles for example).
It leaves it in this weird state where you can delete the table contents but not the table itself.
I think for my purposes I'll use something like

data:text/html,<textarea>

with some CSS to make it fit the page size.

Update:

data:text/html,<textarea style='font-size:1.25rem;margin:0px;height:100%25;width:100%25;'>
It's a fair question, and for me the answer is open-ended. I expect this to last at least another year, but I really have no idea when things will feel "normal" and "safe" again.
In case you are not aware, the first episode of Existential Comics explores this very subject: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/1
I wouldn't be surprised if the massive, long-standing military presence in/around San Diego is a factor for the region being more conservative than most of coastal California.
For a systems programming language the part of C++ that most people need to know isn’t huge.

There’s a lot in c++ that only exists for back compatibility and you don’t need to use it. There’s also a lot of infrastructure so library writers can write very efficient generic code. Most people are not writing libraries and don’t need that stuff.
What would they do? There’s nothing illegal about selling one of these; I’m sure most of the people buying them at this point are only going to use it for security research. Heck, if I had a T2 Mac I might buy one myself…
In my area (Methow Valley) rentals have gotten way harder to score since so many of the people who rented out second homes have moved here full time. It's a pretty big problem for the local workers.
That is an awesome video, but where did you get the new micro:bit from?
It also seems like renting is the most optimal way to take advantage of a long term, temporary WFH situation.

A major advantage of renting (over owning) is being able to move when your lease is up. If the WFH thing blows over you can always move back at that point but at least you'll have saved yourself X months of expensive rent.
Are you saying there isn't a an objective answer in this case? Because I don't agree with that.

Given a specific task and 100 programmers equally skilled in both languages, they will accomplish the task faster in one. There will be a clear and statistically significant answer if one were to do a controlled study. It could be that the result is that they are nearly equal, but that would be a surprising outcome.

So when you say my opinion is the equal of yours, you're just saying you have no idea which is closer to the objective truth so you can't compare them. But fundamentally they are not equal and one opinion will be right and one will be wrong (in this case because it's a boolean outcome).

It is my opinion, it is subjective, but I also am willing to bet it's right. And there is a right and wrong answer here regardless of our ability to know it for sure.
If you read my comment, you’ll realise that I’m not saying serveless is bad.

I’m saying; if that’s your only tool, you’re not doing your job.

“Velocity” is not an excuse for not doing your job to a professional degree. Its a strawman people use to justify doing substandard work (or, often, pressuring engineers who know better, into doing substandard work).
Planning your life around once or twice in a lifetime events like a pandemic seems pretty wasteful.

That's not paying for 95%, that's paying for 99.99%
Or something that many can’t service. Ive seen legacy apps in PROD for which only the binary existed and nobody was exactly sure what it was doing, they had an idea and workarounds for when it breaks.
"Hosting your own server is a lot of work and isn't fun. There is still a lot of work to do if you host on something on such an infrastructure."

So true.

I really want to know how many of these "I host my own stuff"-people keep all there systems up to date. Updates, security patches etc.
Here's an old one but good one: Text Mode Quake.
Unfortunately offline, so archived link:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100327185735/http://webpages.mr...
I think this is a good history of the idea of creativity and how it's been appropriated by the market or the state. I'm reminded of a Vonnegut quote:

> “The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. [...] write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don’t show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward.”

That's creativity to me. In these months I've been exploring what I can make in Blender, mostly weird stuff, posting it nowhere. Nothing has been more satisfying.
It seems to me like both are required. Supply is more elastic, but only in the medium term.
He's a great example of someone who isn't a true adult.

Ofc children should be blocked from certain content.
I am one of them. Oh boy life has been so much better since the move. Living 6min walk from the beach, everything is open including indoor dining.
Petit Fat File System Module
Well, I believe that Håkon Wium Lie would never have let that happen, but hey could be misreading his stance on things.
sudo apt install kde-full
Sure, it's the blind faith that everything will magically be fine that pisses me off. We need to be preparing for a post-work economy.
And yet this is exactly what is done for farming: Paying farmers to leave fields fallow in order to maintain supply and thereby pricing.

Dropping property prices shouldn't even be an issue for owners. Property value and thereby property taxes should also go down. As long as they can cover that, then they can continue to own the property. Except in reality everyone is actually leveraged against their property and don't own outright. In which case, sounds like their leveraged risk failed and losing the property is supposed to be the outcome of that. And the new buyer can get it at a cheaper and more maintainable price.

I want to be clear that I'm discussing business owners of commercial property -- including residential rentals. Obviously the above is less desirable when we're talking about real people becoming homeless. But no one is going homeless if a business loses a leveraged property to another buyer.
Why did you give it as a source if it doesn't even pass a basic smell test?

I answered as I did as a way to show why I don't think it passes the smell test, with the thought that working through the methods might show you how to develop those sorts of critical skills.

Another way to think of it is, is your time worth so much more than my time that I'm the one who is supposed to figure out if your citations are meaningful?

Because that's a sure sign of a Gish gallop - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop .

8,000 years ago is over 2,000 years before the earliest known "cuneiform or runic etches". I linked you to the relevant Wikipedia page, which lists the Kish tablet from 5,200 years ago as the oldest known written document.

Therefore, nothing "seems reasonable" about the claim.

I'm fine with using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience as a working definition and find no need to get into the philosophy of science as it seems a distraction from the topics you raised.
They replied with:

Thanks for reaching out to us. We deeply understand that this will be a disappointment for you as you can no longer create transfers from Spotify to another music service. This is because it violates our Terms and Conditions.

So here's your request to download a copy of the personal data that is likely to be most relevant to you:

- Log in to your account page.
- Select Privacy Settings from the menu in the left.
- Under Download your Data, click REQUEST. This page also contains instructions for accessing your data and a summary of the categories of data you can expect to receive.

If you would also like to receive the technical log information we collect to provide and troubleshoot the Spotify service, extended streaming history, or have a special data request, please let us know.

Let us know if we can help with anything else. We're just an email away.

And I replied with:

Regrettably, the steps which you have outlined for me are not in compliance with the GDPR article 20 subsection 2, which states that "the data subject shall have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible."

Clearly, it is technically feasible to transfer my personal data directly to another controller, as it has been done with SongShift in the past. You decided to disable this method, in violation of the GDPR. Your terms and conditions do not supersede Dutch or European law.

I demand that you re-enable the API or allow for some other method to allow me to exercise my rights under the GDPR, so I can transfer my personal data directly from Spotify to another music service.

If you do not allow me to exercise my rights under the GDPR, I will file a complaint (verzoekschriftprocedure) at the Dutch civil court (Rechtbank Midden-Nederland). I expect that you respond with a timeline about when and how I can exercise my rights under the GDPR within 14 days.

Court cases in the Netherlands are relatively cheap, with a fixed starting cost of € 83, and a maximum of ~€ 2300 in case of loss (as compensation for attorney fees), so it actually seems feasible to go this route.

I also want to challenge them on the export taking multiple days to be generated. This also is in violation of the GDPR as "undue delay". Many people cite that they have 30 days, but this is actually the maximum time.
That’s been a hidden instability of those markets, in my opinion - housing prices being so outlandish makes it trivial to cash out. For an average renter, moving probably maxes out at a few thousand.

Weak topsoil because of too few roots leads to a dust bowl like scenario.
Practicing scales helped me improve my Python fundamentals faster
This is what I mean, thanks for adding the clarity that I neglected to. I did make it sound too much like a personal attack against the implementers here, but you’re right in that the ones hiring the agencies are just looking for the fastest possible output, not quality, and applying that pressure.
Give them money to bypass it
Nvidia Will Use TSMC for Ampere 8nm Successor in 2021 (Rumor)
Why the register?. +1 for demo without registration
I read this and chewed on it for a while, and I think it points to a deeper problem with how we teach computer programming. While, yes, computer scientists need to know about binary search vs linear search and how to iterate through collections, I propose that most programmers do not. Lots of people do programming that aren't, and shouldn't aspire to be, computer scientists (because they have other, more important, shit to do).

Languages and libraries should support broad deemphasis on counting and iterating and so on. If a user wants to find a thing, they should be taught to use a method on the collection, haystack.find(needle). If they want to iterate, they should be taught to use iterators, haystack.map(measure). And so on. We, as instructors, teach people for needle in haystack and that solves the problem and they move on so they can accomplish their real goals. All of the code in this article could have been written in one iterator chain in a language that didn't promote for l in locals as a first option, and with instruction that saved such implementation details for later.
Ten years ago, it was called "Epistemic Closure"[1]. I'd be curious to see how Julian Sanchez (coiner of the term in this context, now at the liberarian think tank Cato Institute) feels about it now.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/books/28conserv.html?_r=0
I bootstrapped my business because I think that the venture capitalist model is unethical. Digital services should be accountable to their users, not exploitative of them - and VC moves accountability elsewhere and uses exploitation to deliver the returns VCs demand. Bootstrapping - earning money directly from paying customers - means that the line of accountability is drawn directly to those who would be affected by your decisions, and incentivizes you to work in their best interests.

Sure, it might take longer, but at least I can sleep at night.
wonderful read
> So if you saw the machine boot with nothing plugged in, you can trust it.

That's assuming they haven't just attached it to the port from the inside. Or, for that matter, replaced the entire logic board with their own, having used some less subtle attack against the original to extract and copy its secrets/data.

You can't really trust anything an attacker has had unsupervised physical access to.
Object pools?
San diego is much more spread out, has very nice beaches, is warm all year long. It doesn’t have good chinese food though.
I like silent operation too, but I do the opposite, get a big case with 200 mm Noctua fans and double Noctua CPU cooler :) It runs very silently even with high end Ryzen.

The heat as long as it's dissipated out of the case to keep the system cool doesn't bother me.
You’d be surprised. There is a surge of demand away from metro areas eg upstate NY, Tahoe, etc.

I don’t get it. The pandemic will get under control, and people will go back to offices. Will employers require 5x per week in office, or 2-3x per week, or perm WFH?
Bats, bugs, and beauty: The best microscopy images of 2020
You would do well to read the rest of the Pirsig quote you used.

> This eternally dualistic subject-object way of approaching the motorcycle sounds right to us because we're used to it. But it's not right. It's always been an artificial interpretation superimposed on reality. It's never been reality itself.

Pirsig continues:

> When this duality is completely accepted a certain nondivided relationship between the mechanic and the motorcycle, a craftsmanlike feeling for the world, is destroyed. When traditional rationality divides the world up into subjects and objects it shuts out Quality, and when you're really stuck it's Quality, not subjects or objects, that tells you where you ought to go.

Pirsig concludes:

> By returning our attention to Quality it is hoped that we can get technological work out of the noncaring subject-object dualism and back into craftsmanlike self-involved reality again, which will reveal to us the facts we need when we are stuck.

What Pirsig is saying, in this case, is that trying to have good ideas isn't helpful because you're still stuck in a mindset where you are distinct from your ideas. Instead, you need to embody your ideas somehow; you need to remove the barrier between you and what you're thinking about.
The Epic Botch of Diablo 3
It's not so simple. The newer buildings were constructed at a much higher cost than the old ones and they are priced accordingly (and with less flexibility to go down in price). In spite of the price tag and the 'luxury' appellation, they really are not that nice (they tend to be small and the gym/pool that comes with the apartment is closed during Covid. Consequently there is a subtle structural shortage on apartments that doesn't go away by simply building more apartments. If it were possible to build apartments at a lower price with more space per unit in the city then it would be a simple matter of total housing stock. As long as housing stock is differentiated in price and quality a shortage can endure even with an increase in total supply (rent controlled units for example will always be in short supply regardless of new construction).
> There are other things that are cheaper that just make day-to-day life easier.

Not having any protections or laws supporting laborers help make things cheaper too. No parental/sick leave, no per day overtime maximums, no mandatory break times, no non compete ban, lower minimum wages, etc.

Not that it’s the only reason, but I notice it to be a trend in “low cost” states. The exception seems to be WA, which has decent labor protections, but not quite as good as CA.