skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some past threads:

Orbis: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21301851 - Oct 2019 (6 comments)

ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20569454 - July 2019 (1 comment)

ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8007134 - July 2014 (13 comments)
Like many many solutions, it doesn't have an iOS equivalent.
Reading 'The Audio Programming Book' also clarified the concept of OOP for me. There was a small section where function pointers in C structs was discussed. Just after that, there was a section on struct classes in C++ which made it clear why data members should be grouped with their related functions.
LA county is looking to implementing this. Fares only cover like 5% of the operating budget. Piles of money comes in through the half cent sales tax, metro is building new rail non stop since the measure was passed and coming out of the pandemic with a huge budget.
This is why it's important that Road Cycling takes place on roads; shared-use paths are designed for everything from small children frolicking about in the sunlight to large slow-moving bicycles and big groups of hikers, whereas road bikes are designed for cruising at >20mph and large turn radii. They are vehicles, and are designed for use on roads in the presence of other vehicles.
I kind of disagree with this. Programming yes, but software development not really. At least, I haven't found that to very true, and "passion" is kind of a farce in this world. Skateboarding is a totally freeform and largely individually driven sense of expression and progression. That's exactly what programming can be, but software seems to me to inherit few if any of those qualities. Likewise, as a software developer and skateboarder, especially at one point having foolishly accepted a corporate job with lifers, I felt like more of an outcast than at any other point including high school.
Literally go with this other project on the front page right now, it's good a good pedigree and a healthy ecosystem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27269589

If you want a really gentle start, try Sassy: https://sol-hsa.itch.io/sassy
Now we get to enjoy ChromeOS across all devices not only Chromebooks.
They won’t investigate petty thefts. Bike theft is almost legal in Italy. But they will file a report every time.
you keep begging for evidence only you care about!!!!

> All of these happened after the debacle and both parties were left to deal with their own separate networks.

you keep beating the drum that this was Andrew versus the other guys, that anyone who didn't like what was happening was another guy, and thus irrelevant to freenode & of no concern. it's a poisonous way of looking at what had, until recently, been a community. Andrew was acting unilaterally against everyone, every user, & every helpful soul who wanted some assurance of continuity & the self rule they'd practiced for decades.

> This is no evidence Andrew would fight for control had they not refused to keep his access intact as it was for years.

one person did this. not they. a single person. and Andrew then acted against every man woman & child on freenode in response.

> announced a reorganization with partnership with OFTC

absurd poppycock. there's seemingly only Andrew's word that there was some deep conspiracy to more deeply engage with each other
beyond the ongoing happenstance of the much much wider irc community collaborating on ircv3 and members of freenode & oftc (and both, such as tomaw) being involved in that work. which seems ridiculously sensical. Andrew seems to want to force some of his handbrake coinshit on freenode, to be the white knight who charges in & declares he has freed it from moderators & centralization (& codes of conduct). and it seems likely he's made a phantasm of the obvious & ongoing straightforward ircv3 development, either as a ghost he sincerely has made himself believe in, or as just more of a political gambit to further murky the waters.
I run a large farm of VMs with telemetry turned on. I programmed them to make happy mouse movements whenever Mozilla embiggens their UI elements. My herd of shill-VMs has totally swamped out whatever telemetry-votes you compact-mode people are casting.
Bernie Sanders wants to stop NASA funding for Blue Origin
(I apologize in advance, but I have to)

tired: IP = bad

wired: IP rules are "intentionally designed to incentivize knowledge creation & sharing by ensuring compensation for innovation"

inspired: above isn't true in practice; IP rules have been thoroughly gamed, and their primary job is protecting monopolistic behavior, even if it means keeping knowledge suppressed past the point it becomes irrelevant or useless

Copyright and patents, as practiced today, have mutated into a malignant form. That doesn't mean the idea is bad, just that it was taken too far - instead of creating idea-generating pump, we've ended up with toolkits for extracting rent from society and creating wasteful artificial scarcities.
Sure! It's brought lots of neophytes into the language, who don't really understand base R. That's a problem of success. If we were still stuck using interfaces like base::reshape, base::merge and (shudder) the lattice package, then there'd be fewer users and they'd all be more expert by necessity.
What do cats eat when there are no more rats?
Overcoming Covid-19 Challenges with Emerging HR Tech Trends
Hi! I totally understand your concern.

The export feature is high on my list. It will be possible to export the content both as json and as plain static HTML that can be deployed as is on some static site host.

Backups: for the data, I have in place 3 levels of backups stored in two locations, including point in time recovery. Even in the worst case when something major happens say to the datacenter and I need to migrate somewhere else, I can do that with no to minimal data loss very quickly.
The assets (images etc) are stored in two object storage buckets with mirroring with two different providers.

Before launching I have been testing backups and disaster recovery throughly while I was testing various providers, so I have migrated the platform a number of times even with no downtime. Therefore I am pretty confident that it works :)

Thanks for the suggestions on the About page. I thought that people might be interested in knowing the "why" I built this given that there are some wildly popular options already. I will take a look at adding some info about the user experience. Thanks!
It would be awesome, if they could integrate with an existing AVB network, i.e. just use one network port of the device as AVB port
I think the problem ailing cities is density. East Bay real estate booming while SF prices declining is possibly effect and cause. A tiny apartment in a dense city is not a great place to be in during a quarantine. And correct, the end to all of those commercial real estate leases means much less money going into the economy. New York and other big cities are facing the same doom-and-gloom narrative:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/opinion/New-York-San-Fran...

So yes, SF's crime issues are a pervasive problem. But the current decline ultimately all come down to economic factors and simple geography. Maybe Boudin has exacerbated things, but he has been in office for a minute compared to the past decade of spiraling property crime in the city.
I've found that while having a dry-run code path is always super useful, having a --dry-run flag is an anti-pattern. I prefer to make dry run the default, with all state-changing actions being in the form:

if (clear_db_flag) {

if (verbosity_level > 0) print("DROP DATABASE customers;")

if (execute_flag) exec_sql("DROP DATABASE customers;")

}

I.e. instead of a --dry-run flag to make the script harmless, I have an --execute flag that weaponizes it. This means that while developing the tool I'm more likely to run in dry-run mode (i.e. without the --execute flag) and so test the dry-run path more than I perhaps would have.

It also means I'm not very likely to delete the production database by accident, through running my script in what I intended to be dry-run mode but actually ending up deleting something I really didn't want to delete.

I think it's a nice methodology, to always have a print statement first, then perform an action that the print statement informed the user about. Easy to remember to add the print statements and more likely that you keep the dry-run code path up to date.
Corporations have a fiduciary obligation to work for the interests their shareholders as set out in their articles or decided by their boards and AGMs.

There's absolutely nothing in most jurisdictions that require corporations do seek to maximise value without other considerations and at all cost.

Even if that was the case what "maximizes shareholder value" is highly subjective and/or hard to assess objectively in most cases.

E.g. if you believe (whether true or not) that equalising corporation tax would benefit the finances of your customers (maybe your customers are mostly small cap domestic companies that are damaged by competition with large multinationals that can afford tax sheltering; or maybe you think making such tax sheltering impossible will encourage companies with large cash hoards abroad to actually start spending, since paying tax on the profits means even low returns from reinvesting in expansion will suddenly be relatively more attractive than it used to be), then you might well have a reasonably held belief that such a tax would benefit your company.
Now defeat squat captcha:

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/squat-captcha
“Innate immunity” is a particular thing in immunology that’s distinct from “adaptive immunity”. Adaptive immunity includes things like antibodies, and is most often what we are targeting with vaccines. Innate immunity covers a huge range of inherited systems including hard-codes responses to things like bacterial proteins, markers for fungi and viruses, etc

Like everything else in biology, there is tight coupling between innate immunity and adaptive immunity), so the distinction in reality isn’t so clear-cut about what’s part of innate vs adaptive, but that’s the broad gist.
>We need India able to pump this stuff out by the billions, like they do for other drugs.

The production is not the problem. IIRC the Covid-19 mRNA vaccines were designed and ready to go in under a week. The problem is getting approval, running clinical trials, etc. That's why it takes so long (and expensive) to get the stuff out.
Given that WhatsApp is by default E2E encrypted and I think this includes group chats and files this is probably not even possible at any meaningful scale.
Or, you know, fix problems earlier down the line so you don't get 5x more crime.
Interesting. Operational AI is going to be a huge market and a data layer with very high availability characteristics is a key part of that stack.
What kernel can give such a guarantee?
> It's solidly middle of the road for a Google or FB senior, and high/unreachable for an Amazon

What is the logical conclusion you take from this about the people that can’t get into fb or Google but do work at Amazon or Microsoft?
What about it (other than some choice outcomes) makes it a "conservative city"? Is it political policies? If so, can you name some? Is it the mentality of the residents? If so, what are some of those conservative mentalities?

If it's just the outcomes you're talking about, what are some "liberal cities" with better outcomes that you compare against? I'd be interested in what those liberal cities are and how their outcomes differ.
If you steal a candy bar, is it proportional for the state to cut electricity to your house?
Very good thing, also because in Paris a lot of people are already using private companies for moving around the city like Lime or F2M, etc... so the public authorities must keep the public services available for all.

The real trouble is with the tax and if and how the public transports are sustainable in the long term.
Which species is the apex predator at these depths, where whales and sharks (presumably) don't exist?
He handed over his private keys to TLON. AFAIU he no longer owns any Urbit real estate.
As a casual outside observer, it feels like a lot of people are throwing the blame in one direction or another, but while crime may be bad in SF, the level of crime in general is bad in most metro areas in the United States when compared to other developed nations. So there are probably bigger, more fundamental issues at play. SF itself is interesting in that they are so wealthy, and so much power is centralized there, yet it feels like their policy is either ineffective or makes things worse. Like how can a city so rich have things like a feces problem so bad that people make poop maps to track it, and rows of people abusing drugs in bart stations during the day?

It isn't just crime, it seems like there is so much "societal debt," issues that needed to be addressed but were instead kicked down the road. Policy makers are either paralyzed/ gridlocked and cannot even attempt to fix things because they are already in over their head with all the accumulated problems that appear to be festering and getting worse, or they have been captured by powerful interest groups that prescribe selfish policies at the expense of the public. This leads to whatever actual policy happening being something that is akin to releasing a bunch of coyotes to solve the rabbit problem, only then to be left with a coyote problem, escalating up the chain of trying to solve smaller problems while simultaneously introducing larger ones.

The crime, working and middle class insecurity, homelessness, issues with law enforcement, overwhelmed judiciary, captured/ gridlocked legislature, drug abuse, the crisis in mental health, race and demographic changes and whatever else. All of things are big issues, and the United States is dealing with them all at once, causing all of them to cascade into each other and exacerbate everything. It is probably so overwhelming that it is extremely difficult to address in a system that requires elect-ability in the short term. It is probably really hard to get elected on a platform of completing step 1 of a 50 step platform that would take years more than you have to implement. On top of it all, these things can hardly be discussed in when everything is so polarized, everyone is too busy preaching to their base and blaming the other, and they are all pretty much is in a continuous state of whiplash from the spin of news media working in overdrive, who are themselves also fighting for their own existence too. For most people, things probably feel like they have been falling apart for years, decades even, while the well off have hardly noticed a difference at all. I don't even know how you would begin to dissect this situation.
Well feral cats are absolutely horrible for native wildlife, as they don’t just kill the animals you want them to.
> I don't see how this could happen if that claim was true.

I don't see the relation. They could (and I'm sure they do) attach a message id to the e2e-encrypted payload, shared between message sender and receivers. They could remotely delete messages by id, either by design or through a bug. None of this requires breaking e2e.

I mean, I'd argue that remote message deletion by id should not be possible (i.e. the client should not permit it) and certainly not without user notification, but that's a different matter.
That however, is not true; the air traffic control in Belarus directed them to land in Belarus; and scrambled fighter jets to intimidate them into compliance.

A kidnapping is not the same thing as denying entry; nor are the victims equally reasonable even if the crime were - a civilian plane vs. that of a diplomat that wanted to pick exactly this fight.
I completely agree with this. "Customers" want something, Elsevier says they'll make it for a price but if they make it and offer it for a price, people either have to accept, pay, and take it, or reject, not pay, and not take it.

Elsevier is not responsible for changing this, the "customers" are. Individual researchers are just the puppets in this play. The institutions and funding agencies that pull their strings are the "customers" that could require something different and change the system to whatever they were willing to pay for.

These "customers" should be pressured from every direction to require open access. Any particular business practice by Elsevier is ultimately irrelevant. The customers will get something different when they pay for something different.

If the customers (institutions and agencies that pay) demanded that the end product be put online with no paywall, someone (Elsevier or their replacement) will quote a price for whatever preparation service was required (filtering for quality? management of peer review? editing? graphics?) PLUS hosting, and the "customers" could pay for that, find another provider, or do it themselves or in a consortium. They are the ones who need to change.
Yeah it's Trek now. Gary Fisher was one of the first big ones to go heavy on the 29ers, back when 26" was still the norm.

Boy did I feel a bit special on my Hi-fi duallie 11 years ago. :) Still have this bike today, they're built to last.
For GNOME there is also the "DrawOnYourScreen" [0] extension.

[0]: https://framagit.org/abakkk/DrawOnYourScreen
Unless you are a researcher in the field, there are certainly more important things for you to be worrying about. Just get a vaccine, any vaccine.
Why? Immigrants, various ethnic and social minorities, and repeat offenders are overrepresented in Europe's crime stats as well. If anything, Europe tends to have much shorter sentences, so reoffenders can commit more crimes.
That last one isn't an issue. If an addict needs help, give them medically-based, compassion-built-in free help. If they don't want help and aren't making others unsafe, it isn't my business any more than it is my business if someone donates 10% because their religious organization requires/suggests tithes.

People are going to spend money in ways you don't approve of. Period, it is part of life. I truly believe that we, as a society, shouldn't let that take away something that can help a bunch of people.
interesting. this seems to indicate that Schengen countries decided on a national level if they wanted to do checks on their borders. I have seen hard passport checks within Schengen in Croatia, Sweden, Germany, France and Portugal.

Good to hear the UK has improved. I should have mentioned I haven't been there since 2018. I was expecting that brexit made things worse and had no idea
> if it did and Facebook complied, it would disprove their claim that e2e encryption as they use it provides sufficient privacy

You made me envision this "end-to-end encryption" scheme:

- Alice sends a message to Bob. True to its word, WhatsApp encrypts the message on Alice's client and transmits it through to Bob without the WhatsApp server ever being able to read the message.

- Bob receives the message, which is decrypted for his viewing by his WhatsApp client.

- Bob's WhatsApp client reads the message and reports it back to the WhatsApp server.
Thanks.

By the way, your explanation of that persecution complex was good. The challenge is people (like me) looking at and thinking “yeah, sounds correct except in my case, where I know for a fact I’m a persecuted minority on HN”

But maybe it’s enough to convince people in general that there’s no such persecution going on, even if there is. That way comments like mine that imply it’s existence end up with -10 instead of +23 or whatever. So fewer tedious comments, but maybe easier for the downvoting/flaming/flagging cabals (should they exist) to take control of the narrative on HN.

You’ve been doing this a long time. So you’ll probably make a good decision, whatever you decide.
Monopoly on publishing scientific papers? How?
It took me a while too :-P
Judging by the size of the camps and the amount of stuff there, the police is not moving anybody anywhere. Pre-pandemic, there was a cleanup effort every 4-6 months where things went back to the usual within a week or so. Last year, not even that.
At least where I am, they don't accept cash (you must pay for credit before boarding) and they don't enforce tickets. Separate ticket inspectors go around checking tickets.
For more information in English, see their public transport website:

https://luxembourg.public.lu/en/living/mobility/public-trans...
For me I'm waiting $N years till I consider getting a covid shot.

According to the oxford calculator[0] my risk of hospitalization is microscopic so I take that chance over trying out new under-tested vaxines.

[0] https://qcovid.org/
People do make that argument, yeah. I’m not well versed in the subject of heterosexual or homosexual sexual statistics to opine on either, I just wanted to clarify what was being discussed :)
This is a crucial distinction and I don't get it why it's so hard for people to understand it. Both extremes of the spectrum are toxic and at the same time have the "if you're not with us, you are against us" attitude. A stable central position is needed to protect the society from extremes.
Statisticians might see it differently, but I still don’t think it’s obvious that (1,0) represents effectively a repeating pattern that’s extended to the size of the other vector.

For instance, for the statement (a,b,c,d,e) + (a,b,c,d,e,f) are we really all saying that it’s clear, obvious and unambiguous that this means (a+a, b+b, c+c, d+d, e+e, f+a).

Personally if you showed me that and asked me to describe what would happen before reading this thread, I would have said it would either throw an error, concatenate the vectors or only add the matching elements. I wouldn’t personally guess that the first vector would be treated as a repeating sequence, but different people might make different assumptions - I just don’t think it’s particularly clear, and I struggle to believe it’s clear, unambiguous and obvious to statisticians too.
They dismantled the team who maintained the mdn docs? That’s shortsighted. mdn is a magnet for web devs and helps Firefox to stay in developers’ minds.
Your information is a tad outdated. There are a bunch of trams ( Lines 1-12 are in operation and only 3 is in Paris, and runs along its border, the rest are across different suburbs) which are being built/expanded to cover just that, and then there's the biggest infrastructure project in Europe, the Grand Paris Express, a 200km+ ( iirc) system of 4 metro lines, linking suburbs to suburbs ( like the line 15, which will be a circle line in the suburbs). Fascinating stuff, and the first stage is expected for 2024-2025, while the latest around 2030.
Haven't read that book so I'm not familiar with the contents, but if you're interested in creating VST plugins you might want to check out some frameworks out there like JUCE: https://juce.com/

I don't know if you're a musician yourself but I'd highly recommend downloading a DAW and playing around with the plugins to get a sense of common audio processing modules, you can perhaps make it a near-term goal to create an EQ or filter plugin that you can install and use in the DAW. IIRC I think Ableton Lite should have a free demo, Reaper is another well-regarded free DAW from what I've heard
If you think some dweeb checking your ID is a serious impediment to freedom of movement, I invite you to do a few dozen border crossings outside the EU.

The ID requirement to fly is not great, but it is nothing like actual border controls.
Spurcycle bells on both my MTBs. They are great, sound nice and clear -and certainly not too offensive, and are just easy to use whilst looking awesome.

So sad to see their design being ripped off by copycats.
Wow, what a lame answer it looks like they’re being disingenuous when they describe it as a “blog on history and politics”. The whole new-feudalist/dork enlightenment stuff was also an underpinning to Urbit in the beginning as well. The whole hierarchy of spaces for example.