skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking the same thing. This generally wouldn't replace human translators in a worthwhile way (in the way that grammar- and spell-checkers and even GPT don't replace human writers) but it might help with some of the drudgery.
I have ublock for Firefox on android and it works as expected.
It’s not shady that an industry is doing the best thing for their own interest. It’s shady that the alcohol industry’s best interest is against many strong public health concerns.
The reason people disagree with you is because they're imagining it as the only change with everything else remaining stagnant.
There's not any particular reason why they shouldn't copy and paste this, from a technical perspective. Everyone involved has clearly accepted that they're quite happy with SHA-1 and 1024-bit RSA being mandated as the standard for exchanging this information within the EU, and there isn't any reason why this would suddenly be more insecure now the UK isn't a member.

Of course, politically speaking there are obvious reasons why journalists at organisations like the BBC would kick up more of a fuss about this as part of the Brexit deal than as an EU rule, and indeed conspiciously neglect to mention the EU is presumably already using this insecure cryptograpy internally. Writing the article in this misleading way plays nicely into existing anti-Brexit narratives about it being an incompetent attempt to return the UK to the past and about Brexiters screwing things up by not listening to experts. That doesn't make requiring every EU state to upgrade their systems at the last minute any more practical though.
I remember the times of rebooting with extensions disabled because something got corrupted. Can't remember the key combo to hold down during boot to do this. I just remember iteratively dragging half of the extensions out of the folder to find the culprit. I also remember my 4 year old daughter counting the extensions displayed along the bottom to know how much longer it was going to be before she could play her games.
I don't think that Brooks was arguing that any given fixed programming task could not be made easier over time; clearly, even in 1986, there were programming tasks that had become trivial by use of existing code but were originally quite challenging to code on their own. I think Brooks was talking about the work of the individual programmer: given two identical programmers, with the same available libraries of existing code, is there a language or IDE that will make one 10x more productive than the other? And I think the answer is still, no.
Yeah that's like the worst of both worlds in a way.
Most likely a case of "if you don't change the text you don't need to change the system". You have to remember that this is not actually a new agreement. EU countries and the UK are already exchanging this data and have been doing so for decades.
Would be great if my ISP would give me IPv6 addresses; until then, why bother?
I think you can still make money from the freely available data by making it easier to access.
The US population has increased 24% in the past 25 years but the country hasn't gotten any larger. More homes have been built on existing land, but we still essentially have a larger number of people competing for a fixed supply of land.

The median house price doesn't appear to have been adjusted for inflation or median income. So the factor of 2.4 times isn't quite as high as it might first appear.

The size of a median single family house has also grown. Most people prefer to have more space, and are willing to pay more to get more.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/456925/median-size-of-si...

Health care expenses have increased for a variety of reasons. Baumol's cost disease is one factor: most healthcare work can't be automated (yet) and we have to pay the providers more every year. Americans on average are getting older, sicker, and fatter. New treatments have been developed which can extend the lives of some of the sickest patients but at an extremely high cost. In the past 25 years we've improved the 5-year cancer survival rate by around 8% but spent a fortune to accomplish it.
Or you could just respond to his point.
"Re-education camps" aren't they? They can call them "happy unicorn camps" and they will be still concentration camps. They use them as slave labor and human organ farms.

How on Earth, can you even try to gaslight us saying China concentration camps are "nicer" than the Nazis?
that’s when I work (and eat and bathe), the other half of my day is a distraction filled mess working around my partner’s less flexible work schedule and managing remote school for young elementary school kids...
Thanks for the response.

> Most of the comments I'm seeing down voted seem to me to be somewhat extreme invective lacking in significant useful or interesting content.

Yeah, that's what's been confusing me. Some of the comments being downvoted I found to be quite precise critiques of the problems and honest attempts to provide information to an interesting discussion.

> So lets all take some deep breaths and look at what's actually going on here.

That sounds like the way to do it.
The point being even the largest newspaper (nyt) read countrywide is more regional and local than in other nations and a national paper read by all doesn't exist.
With regards to housing prices, I would argue that the decrease in interest rates over time. Mortgage rates were apparently about 10% in 1990[0], so borrowing $100,000 for a home would cost you about $877/mo for a 30 year loan, which equates to $1,746 in 2020 dollars according to an inflation calculator [1]. Assuming interest rates around 3% currently, you could borrow $420,000 but still have roughly the same monthly payment in 2020 dollars.

So, for the sake of argument, if an average workers salary had stayed exactly in-line with inflation, house prices could've gone up 4.2x and they would have spent about the same amount of their monthly expenses on the loan per month. Lots of caveats that make this not as true in practice though (taxes, ability to refinance in the future at a lower interest rate, etc.).

[0] https://www.macrotrends.net/2604/30-year-fixed-mortgage-rate...

[1] https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
I would think we have the models to try many different strategies to determine the "best" distribution methodology. Depending upon what the definition of "best" is, of course.
Apple’s approach to cycling directions is second rate IMHO.

It’s only available in certain media city locations. If you stray out of those areas you’re out of luck.

Basically Apple seem more interested in rolling this out as a tick box item for journalists than helping me get to work.

This tells me that Apple is not serious about its Maps app.
Yes, you're correct. Many researchers in the field prefer the phrasing 'human health', the consequence of which is human longevity.
I'd love to see his take on the OP's post and if Google still has a moat in mapping.
Single-purpose website for a DOSBox front end, using 1990s technologie, no CSS
Social Distancing Designs of 2020, Institutional and Environmental
tl;dr Cheaper credit and inflation. The monthly payments today are actually 40% lower on an inflation adjusted basis. Only the down payment is more expensive, by 30% after inflation.

I’m going to go with 1990 for a specific date. According to their source, house prices have gone up 2.6x since then.

In 1990 the prevailing mortgage interest rate was a little over 10%. Today its about 3%. For a house that costs the exact same amount, the payments today are 2.1x less. Conversely, the same payments today let you afford a house that costs 2.1x more.

Additionally, as far as I can tell, that figure isn’t adjusted for inflation, which is 1.99x since 1990.

Combining inflation and more affordable payments, an equally affordable house would today cost 4.2x what it did in 1990. Seeing “only” a 2.6x increase, the inflation adjusted monthly mortgage payments are almost 40% lower today. For the down payment, however, the easy credit doesn’t help you, only the inflation, so a median inflation adjusted down payment is still 30% more expensive today.

That’s my best guess for macro explanation. Cheaper credit and inflation.
Those things have significantly outpaced inflation, and inflation is an entirely fallible metric in and of itself: you can literally game it in one extreme or another based entirely on the things that you choose to index, how you account for them changing over time, and how heavily you weight things within the index.

Furthermore, with things like housing, we get major distortions of real world meaning that are completely obscured by macro trends. For example, the average housing price across the country has outpaced inflation metrics by a little, but if you narrow it to places of economic opportunity, it has drastically outpaced inflation. Any new growth in economic opportunity has been accompanied by even more severe growth in housing costs. The end result is that average housing prices appear flat-ish relative to income, but it has stayed that way due to massive emigration of economically disadvantaged people away from areas of economic opportunity.

What has really happened is that America fell in love with dysfunctional markets. Free market prices, but with significant regulatory capture. We've got cartels on housing via hyper-localized land use regulation that decreases the relative supply of housing.
First project in a while aimed at devs that has Linux and Windows as named release versions with no OSX version. As much as I love cross platform, it's nice that Windows devs still get some love... :-).

(Yeah, I know the qt version could be made to run anywhere and yes I love my Mac, just having fun with a cool project)
Yup. It came out as Macster and it lived a much shorter life than it did on Windows.

I don’t remember what I did for a while after Napster shut down. I remember doing a ton of file sharing through Zip drives on school computers. It used to be so fun to exchange Zip disks containing our Napster collection and play them on school computers.
I recommend reading "Grokking Algorithms". It covers a variety of algorithms and their notations. Intended for beginners and even non-programmers, it breaks algorithms down step by step and has lots of pictures to relay the information to the reader.
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The same reason we read stories like Hamlet, Catcher in the Rye, To Kill A Mocking Bird, etc in school. So much of what we read has to do with awful things people do and a reflection on that.

In the case of video games, there are some that are mindless violence, but The Last of Us Part II is an example of a game that reflects on those and show the real outcome of what people can do to each other and how evil and pointless it can be.
This is one of the better critiques I’ve found of the CDC’s very absurd position:

https://www.persuasion.community/p/why-im-losing-trust-in-th...

Literally their plan was to kill a greater number of people “because ethics”. It goes against well established pillars of ethical logic against “leveling” outcomes by intentionally making things worse for a group that is better off, and against the most fundamental tenant of medicine to do no harm.

You must apportion a limited supply of life saving medicine to the population most likely to benefit from it. To claim that apportioning the medicine to a population which is orders of magnitudes less likely to benefit from it, knowing that a greater number of people will die as a result, is an abject ethical failure.

Even accounting for the smaller minority share of the elderly population, you still kill more minorities overall by apportioning the vaccine to essential workers ahead of the elderly, because the death rate is so heavily skewed based on age.
>I think that a good person can do 5x more than an ok person, maybe even more

This is really surprising to me, and I'm not sure how this can be the case. I would imagine that this would be true of a high level position at the top of their game, able to define their own schedules & goals. For a typical worker with clearly defined short & long term objectives defined by the organization, how does one become 5X more productive? Clearly my heuristics about the tech industry are way out of step with reality.

However, I could see something like this happening in my own field: academia. As a bioinformatics postdoc, the bread & butter work most of my colleagues do is routine, so they can hit their goals fairly predictably. My project, in comparison, is mostly ad-hoc, struggling to parse a novel dataset right on the edge of what is technically possible. My productivity is in the toilet, and I can imagine a different researcher in my position being 5-10x more productive. This is not how I imagined the tech industry working, though.
> "Chicken breast, meat only, grilled" contains 10.3 grams of [niacin]

That's off by a factor of 1000x -- it says 10.3 milligrams.
As somebody with no music making skill I quite liked using arpeggiators like Figure.
This is nice in theory and wildly out of touch with reality. Should Grubhub pay drivers more? Yes. Yes they should. But we live in a world where Grubhub does not pay enough to drivers. That means as a consumer of the service, you should be aware of that and tip. You're outright saying that we should punish workers because Grubhub is shitty.

I encourage you to go do something about the system, but until then, advocating for hurting delivery workers because you don't like the system is a bad approach.
> Wikileaks had an image of a Bank of America VP laptop with email discussion about the creation and exploitation of predatory loans, and a complete indifference to the eventual 2008 crash that they knew it would cause.

How do we know this is true if the data was burned?
Github is IPv4-only to this day. So you should not be getting AAAA records for it, nor any v6 routing issues to a v4 address.

(Also, my experience with IPv6 on Comcast was relatively solid; just hated their billing department. Now my ISP doesn't offer IPv6 at all, which isn't great.)
http://archive.is/PifIi
> there is nothing different this day and age except awareness

And the fact that crime has dropped like a rock, with a ~20 year lag, after leaded fuel was phased out.
Why should that be required by law?
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I don't know if they are inventing society or they are learning how to act on a society. And what I mean by "how to act on a society" I mean to learn how to interact with others, where are the limits, the consequences of your actions, etc.
Device code for the Meshtastic ski/hike/fly/customizable open GPS radio
Government dietary guidelines effects health education, and my public school health education had an impact on the decisions I made during some of my more formative years.
I don't think it's comparable no. The effort put by Fairphone to build an ethical tech company is not comparable with what apple have been doing.
There's a lot of information on their website and it's worth to have a look: https://www.fairphone.com/en/impact
It would be nice if Youtube had a clear policy written in clear English (or indeed made a series of videos on the subject) explaining what's not allowed on the platform.

Some channels post videos which stay up for years without any strikes or problems and then out of the blue the whole channel gets taken down under a vague "you violated our T&Cs" notice without Youtube bothering to highlight which of the T&Cs. They sometimes take down huge channels without first contacting the channel owners to warn them in advance and give them the opportunity to do something about it.

Rather than take down the channel why can't Youtube just remove the videos?

It's not a civilised way to conduct business.
yeah, i mean that’s why we are vaccinating the most vulnerable first and i agree that’s the ethically right thing to do. but doing it the other way around would probably stop it quicker.
I'm starting to think it's a blessing if your first language "dies." Anyone who truly tied their personal/professional identity to K&R C, Pascal, Smalltalk, CLisp, even today ObjC or Perl - will have long since retired in frustration. Distance brings clarity, and as much as I liked (and still like!) some of those languages it's very easy to see the unfortunate parts of them once you are working three, four, ten toolchains after out of necessity - and that brings more understanding how unfortunate your current tools also are.

Unfortunately it seems like JS developers will likely never know this joy.
Testing is already strained? And missing doses is all waste. Too risky imho?
I agree partially. As gruez said, the term "hacker" being used in that sense will irk true hackers.

I do see the humor though - even though the situation is not similar, it made me think of the website http://ismycreditcardstolen.com/ - we used to share it around as a joke :-)
"getting integrated into linux" meaning has been for a few weeks in a stable, LTS kernel
A common solution is to add footnotes and sprinkle them around the panel gaps.
This is exactly my experience... I’ve been in lockdown the whole time though. I started working out just so I have the stamina for it (it has helped, but finding 20 minutes for it can be hard).
Here, in OSM, I can see stairs shape, type of pavement, stairs direction, and amount of stairs. Not sure about sidewalks, though. OSM is pretty detailed altogether. It depends on user input, but the tools are there.
> 1- When I was living south of London, Citymapper was completely pointless

Agreed. Citymapper is only good when you’re in a city. When you’re not in a city / travelling outside the city, the experience is subpar.

Fortunately the clue’s in the name. Like the OP (and sibling), living in zone 2 and rarely venturing outside of my z1-2 bubble, nothing comes close to Citymapper.

When I do venture out, I’ve now switched to Apple Maps, as I’m typically driving. Voice notifications are intrusive to music & audiobooks, and having to regularly look at the screen is distracting and dangerous. Apple’s restrictive APIs for the Apple watch means it’s the only mapping platform that can give me haptic feedback when it’s time to turn, and that’s extremely valuable driving in and out of London.
The New Penn Station Train Hall Opens Next Week
The author is being funny
Why is YouTube not broken up again? Clearest antitrust case I've seen in tech. 2 billion users with something like 99% video streaming dominance.
With Tkinter Python itself was the GUI-building IDE. (I have no idea why Tkinter isn't more popular. The TCL/Tk widgets that it wraps are boss. For example, the text editor widget comes with word wrap modes, undo/redo, tags, marks, customizable selection patterns, rich text, embedded widgets, ... it's really cool.)
The nes had plenty of real examples where poor translations made the game harder or made secrets obscure and hard to find without a guide. Castlevania 2 and Adventure of link come to mind.

Actually, i'd say most text heavy games translated from japanese on the nes suffered from this problem and made those games way more confusing than they should have been.
In the article, I mention a few ways of dealing with it - from "old school" impostors/billboards (think of precomputed sprites), simplified representation, to finally temporal anti-aliasing (reusing pixels in screen space).
All of those work well under some strong constraints and are used today, however all have problems, trade-offs, artifacts - whole point of the post.

Temporal AA is the most general and mature solution, but at the same time, many gamers hate it due to introducing some blurriness through imperfect resampling (and makes some very small population motion sick) - just web-search for "temporal antialiasing reddit" and see the sentiment of many users.
When people talk about "pre-existing conditions" they mean things like high blood pressure or type 1 diabetes -- the kind of thing that can be well maintained and has almost no impact on the person.
Since we are talking about a tyrannical dictatorship, I'm willing to forgo "in dubio pro reo" in such cases.

Investigators trying to dig up evidence usually end up in jail.
Yes that.

Let's be clear here. If someone has covid and is dying in a hospital about to be ventilated and awake for the last time in their lives and they refuse to admit that maybe this is serous then watching some Intercept crisis porn would not have convinced them either. Some Americans refuse to admit that mass shootings at school actually happened and no amount of "evidence" will convince them otherwise.

Having journalist hover over the grieving like vultures asking the dying to describe how they feel is gross. Filming them while they die is despicable. Journalists might have become accustom to covering health crisis porn in famine and war zones outside of the USA, but inside we have legal protections against being the subjects of this kind of exploitative journalism and we have protections against the dissemination of health information.
BBC has been dropping the ball lately, there have been entirely too many articles that miss the thrust of whatever their source was.
Can somebody post TLDR summary for me? I am curious but do not care about the subject enough finish the article. Was it use as a straws? Or "enriched flour" classification?
Are you suggesting that video editors only support Raspberry Pi? Or are you suggesting that they only support Intel Core 2 Duo + NVIDIA GT 640?
I don't get what you're suggesting. A video editor needs good hardware, either you can go with mac, or PC. On PC, you can not really lock yourself into one model, even the developers are gonna have a variety of different hardware.
>I hate how American (and European) companies will virtue signal with commercials and campaigns (Apple and Nike come to mind) toting their ESG credentials but then will be doing stuff like this

My favorite
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/034/229/Bethe...

Companies don't care though but consumers also have to realize they are not your friends either
There's more - the URL it points to, https://dxp.mastercard.com/index.html#/onboard/request, doesn't work as of now.
An obsession with Ultima 7 led to some of PC's best RPGs
Anyone curious about how the Amazon evolved as a worked landscape (like the grain fields of Europe), should read Charles C Mann's books 1491 and 1493. What the developed world sees as an untouched wilderness threatened by development was actually, in many places, a place where large indigenous communities found ways to make the jungle bear more life-sustaining food ... while still appearing to be a jungle.

https://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Colu...
You are mixing 2 different topics. Ramping authoritarianism and policing is one problem.

> "allowed to defend themselves"

> "punching my bully"

...and this is what most bullies would say. No, bullying cannot be solved by the victims, otherwise it would not be a problem in the first place.

Bullying needs to be stopped by the school - and without calling in armed bullies to stop the bullies.
Please stay out of tit for tat spats no matter how badly someone else behaves. They're tedious, nasty, and not what this site is for. I know it's not easy, but it's important given the intention of the site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> And for folks in developing World: Don't worry, your turn will come to experience all this (if you haven't yet) soon enough in your lifetime. I guarantee it.

I don’t understand this statement. Is it meant to imply that people in the developing world right now have it better than those in the developed world?
I believe there’s a very narrow link between the specific thing you practise in the game and any real life use of that. Nearly every game is gamified too much to be useful in this way. The n-back games may be an exception.
Alternative title: "Russuel Okung is being paid a fee to advertise for some bitcoin platform under the guise of being a private customer, NFL is not involved in anyway whatsoever and has given no indication it will in the future pay wages in any other currency than USD."