skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is another one in Hagen in Westfalen, Germany.

Allegedly the first. Sorry, didn't find any english link, but clicking on the 'Virtuelle Tour' there leads you to at least some maps where you can see how it is spread out through the city.

http://www.planetenmodell-hagen.de/
Building telemetry for tea a.k.a. Tealemetry (2018)
I'll be waiting to see if the CIA goes full Gaddafi on this new currency initiative as well. It'll be interesting to see how this stacks up in comparison to Gaddafi's prior proposition of transitioning away from the U.S. dollar in favor of the Gold Dinar?
No. I can review 0.1% of the code and verify that it compiles correctly and then let another 999 people review their own portion. It only takes one person to find a bit of malicious code, we don’t all need to review every single line.
rpgplayground is pretty cool.
This is World of WarCraft – Carbot Animations
I agree. GDPR doesn't explicitly state that companies above certain size are exempt for many nuances of compliance or the 'little guy' gets a pass. Yet, almost all small companies ignore full GDPR compliance. Just because no one cares/sues small companies, doesn't mean that they're immune - the letter of the law and its enforcement should be absolute so that shitty laws don't pass the mustard.
This is where I’m at too. I think we are on the same page, but saying it out loud to give you a chance to correct me.

I live in a community that hasn’t taken COVID seriously. Any chain of transmission I carry on would likely be “fungible” in my mind - If it wasn’t me, it would be someone else.

Strong anti-quarantine, anti-mask, anti-short-time-to-market-vaccine.

But mixed in are a lot of _strong_ pro-vaccine folks who collectively have offset the need for masks to keep the hospitals from falling over. They’ve carried the torch of public good in my mind. They’ve offset the primary risk of this pandemic.

I’m on the fence and it feels like my decision isn’t consequential beyond personal risk and daily interactions (friends/family). If I transmit, I feel like it would be in a hurd where transmission was likely anyways and I was a randomly selected path vs an amplifier.

I wore a mask to offset risk of transmission to keep hospitals online. But injecting myself with a novel vaccine… I feel like I’m better off rolling the dice on contracting COVID and re-rolling to get side effects, vs rolling the dice once for the vaccine.

My choice has been reduced to a personal choice. It’s the same choice I make when I travel for the holidays. Example: I get the flu vaccine when I go see elderly or young family members. But right now I don’t feel it’s a moral imperative for COVID where, if I pass on a vaccine, I’m a horrible person who doesn’t care about my fellow man.

Does that make sense or am I off base?
Not to be dismissive, but how does that differ from any other consulting/work for hire job?

Most projects in embedded devices are exactly the same.

- a price tag is fixed by negotiation around estimates

- more and more stuff is pushed to firmware and software

- everyone works way more than they should to deliver in time
"I want something that's not plain text"

"Just use plain text"
Thank you very much sillysaurusx!
Sir Tim Berners-Lee Is Selling the Original Source Code for the World Wide Web
Well, the only really expensive thing is daycare.

I'm afraid there's no ready solution to that - unless we're willing to get back to the idea of extended family and village to raise a kid.

PS. I have three kids, I know what I'm talking about.
Wikipedia gives 11 different links for MPC under "Computers and Electronics". Which is this? Massively Parallel Computing?
He’s posting the articles about 4-day workweeks as an excuse to post the same comment linking to his side project.
Did it occur to you that I mightn’t be American?

I think it’s pretty silly to argue about the obvious failures of American urbanism and successes in Europe on every HN thread about cities. I think main reason these failures weren’t made in European cities is that those cities did not have the same kind of population growth or free space or money as American cities.

One difference with America is that there is a little more hope of achieving something more like a natural environment. Above I wrote about how the “greenery” of American suburbia is in some sense inauthentic and dead. America does however have a lot of their natural environment still in a reasonably wild state (modulo invasive non-native species.) In places like the U.K., this inauthenticity extends across much of the countryside too. The fenland near Cambridge used to be wet and marshy before the fens were drained. Much of that habitat is now lost (though there are some efforts to recreate it.) Much of the landscape of the U.K. is not much more diverse or natural than an American lawn, and even bits that look more wild like the various moorlands have been significantly changed by humans to have more land for grazing (or fowling) rather than bogs or forests.
Isn't that the point of leasing?
Want to double the value of your Yugo? Fill the tank.
Ask HN: What is your “SaaS website stack and workflow”?
Inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27525819

As a non-technical looking into building a new SaaS venture, I would like to request advice on tools and workflows you use for building Saas web properties to include main website, campaign landing pages, marketing micro sites, blogs.

Ideally, I am trying to understand what’s the least friction workflow a non-technical person like myself use to publish and maintain content surrounding a Saas web property. Appreciate any and all insights.
Sometimes a game hands me camera control, I do my usual thing of instantly hunting in the options to invert the camera then shortly afterwards have to spend time doing the look up test anyway. It should skip it in that situation.
The cost of suing, proving damages, and recovering the money is such that it rarely makes sense to try to recover money from individuals. 99.9% of the time, a policy limit settlement is the most you’ll recover, and that kinda disincentives insurance companies from voluntarily offering higher policy limits.

(Also I’d wager that more people have only the legal minimum liability than not, which even in CA is $5k property, $30k injury)

Is it cheaper to sue and recover money over there / do people actually expect to recover $1M from individuals? Or is it that governments require insurance companies to offer the higher limits to cover actual damages?
Huh, I've never seen a language quite like this before... The apply operator is indeed a bit weird, but seems neat!

The macro-dsl in https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/imp-simple-interprete... is cool too, haven't tried doing something like that in the language-processing tools I've made in Rust in the past, but might now that I see that it doesn't end up (immediately) sucking.

EDIT: Also very nice to see a language intro with both a bunch of examples, including a comparison to a better-known language with a similar model, and denotational semantics.
Everything feels pain
these definitely are "magic internet applications"
There is no ‘correct’ in floating point, just approximate. But I would guess that such a talented group as Julia’s would pay extreme attention to numerical stability/best implementation of algorithms, or fall back to a lib everyone uses already.
Seeing as youtube (the worlds biggest bootlegger of audio) has audio, then that would be youtube, would it not?

Seriously, if you need a piece of audio, that is out of print, unavailable to download digitally, banned, the first place to look (or listen) is youtube.
It's not only about gathering taxes. It's also about having someone to wipe your ass once you're too frail to do it yourself.
Macabre question, but a serious one.

Has the birth rate dropped below the death rate? If not, then the naive approach to me, would be that this all works out in the wash.

More specifically, does the years of life "lost" due to premature death outweigh the years of life "lost" due to declining birth rates?

We won't really know until:

a) premature deaths return to pre-pandemic levels

b) birth rates recover to pre-pandemic levels
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I think the approach eventually petered-out or was incorporated entirely into other approaches.

But I have on my bookshelf Principles And Practice of Constraint Programming, edited by Saraswat and Van Hentenryck (1995) and wikipedia has an entry for the approach [1]. So the paradigm was up-and-coming for a time. A lot of ideas can rise and fall over forty years. Broadly, it was more or less part of logic programming, which was part of the symbolic/GOFAI (good old fashioned AI) paradigm, which naturally has been waning for many years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_programming
CA has the right approach here. Jaywalking is defined as crossing a street with two light controlled intersections outside of the crosswalk, or when it is not your turn. You can legally enter the crosswalk when the light is flashing if you make it across in time. And for streets without intersections controlled by lights jaywalking just doesn't apply. People manage to not walk across highways or other dangerous areas for reasons other than a jaywalking ticket.
That seems really unfair to me. I would definitely be against that system. If someone chooses to smoke or heavily drink or eat too much it shouldn't be my responsibility to subsidize them.
>the same place

Not even remotely. One Child Policy prevented 300M births. There are still 600M in PRC trapped in lower-middle income who would have traditionally hedged via more children without family planning. Industrialization + reforms + global demand was not enough to drag everyone in PRC out of middle income - simply too many people. The difference is managing state of 1.4B people with 600M poor as result of family planning vs state of 1.7B with 900M poor without family planning in a geography/economy that relies heavily on imports. Family planning didn't crack down hard enough. A lot of current RC strategic burdens are result of still having too much people.
It's ridiculous that you're even being downvoted for what I think is a perfectly valid complaint, and one that I'm increasingly faced with these days. Scheduling appointments and such has been a solved problem for several decades; what are the chances that if this pandemic happened 20 years ago, sites for vaccinations would be usable with only basic HTML, and everyone, even the blind, can use?

Instead, today we get sites that need to load dozens of MB of JS that's reinventing the wheel (and forgetting to reinvent accessibility), are hard to use even for sighted people thanks to stupid UI trends like hidden scrollbars and whitespace everywhere, and fail completely if your browser is even slightly older or otherwise unusual.

There's really no reason for overcomplicating things other than web developers trying to justify their salary --- or Google attempting to make its effective browser monopoly even stronger. The continual churn of the web and the "doing less with more" direction that things are going is a horrible disease. This isn't progress; it's a regression.

A very related discussion from not long ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25915313
A Straw to Stop Hiccups
I went to the hardware store and asked for a ladder that didn't have a lowest rung.

I walked out disappointed.
It's called a disability for a reason.

You don't just accuse things of "creating inequity" for merely existing. They should be accessible for all by all means but the title makes it seem like the only purpose of the websites is to vex blind people.
https://images.anandtech.com/doci/9248/2_575px.PNG

from https://www.anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-about-ssd-data...
Plain stupid, eh? The DOJ has disagreed with you as recently as 2011, but the ad hominem really seems to work for you.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/disability-rights/separate-not-equ...

And, again, a rock concert isn't equivalent to a government service. You've invented a notion that everybody needs to have the same exact experience, which is weird. The government needs to provision services equally to everybody. If they aren't funding their call centers for adequate access, then it isn't equal access.

But anyway, I go to dance parties with Deaf people (or did, before Covid) and they love music with lots of bass.
I'm sorry, this is a very bad take and analogy. A run inherently excludes people who cannot run. But a website need not inherently exclude the blind; websites are accessible to the vision impaired by default and it takes extra work to render them inaccessible. We can and should do better.
Probably multi-party computation.
> The part I find particularly interesting about this trend is that both camps can't seem to fathom that the other could possibly exist

This bit is weird. I’m in the “I’ll never voluntarily take a remote job” camp, but… I get that some people like remote work, and that’s fine.

Some people seem to be positively evangelical about it, though.
I don't care how it's stored, as long as I can export it for backups' sake. I don't want to see markdown, I don't want to use it for formatting text, I don't want to use it as a user-interface, and I certainly don't want text jumping around and reformatting stuff as I type.
I'll take the bait. I used to drive for an FRC team, and we'd write demo programs similar to (but much less impressive than) Boston Dynamic's demos. Those demos are static though, and have a limited degree to which they can react to outside intervention. The field of inverse kinematics has a long ways to go before we need to be worried about this sort of thing.
I’m so relieved that Altium showed the middle finger to Autodesk…
I agree, there is a limit to sustainability, even if technology is likely to improve I don't see why we should take the risk of pushing the limits.

If the population decline happen to be a seemingly unsurmountable problem 100 years down the road, we'll have more than enough time to react before risking extinction.
Teachers don't like teachers being social services. They are right. That doesn't mean they are opposed to schools providing social services.

Families getting fed at school like getting fed. They aren't opposed to eating.
> for workers with the luxury of this sort of choice, this will become an early "disqualifying question" while job hunting: are you remote or on-site?

For companies that are strictly one or the other, yes, definitely. It already is.
These are all much further developed nations than China 40 years ago. Sure China's birth rate would probably be about the same as it is today without the one child policy, but they would also probably have hundreds of millions more mouths to feed.
'World on Fire' is something more people should read, not for it's political leanings or bias of which there is aplenty, but because there's quite a lot of information in there regarding trends and ideas in 'other places' i.e. 'outside America', particularly in Asia which never seem to penetrate the fairly insular American bubble.

Almost all of the 'controversial' social issues in the US are fairly contextualized to the 'US experience' and this becomes a huge problem as these social ideals are exported.

Outside the US bubble almost everything is completely different ... requiring a completely different context to try to start to grasp why things might be viewed differently.

To the people on outside looking in, and especially to ex-pats/immigrants living in the US, all of these social issues are going to look very different in ways that are basically impossible to express without some form of contextualized understanding that just doesn't exist in most popular forums including the more intellectual spots i.e. New Yorker, The Atlantic etc. - and on campus.

A 'sensitive issue' from the other side of the spectrum -> 'gun rights' is kind of a good example of this. I've had so many discussions with very intelligent Americans about the issue who didn't seem to be able to grasp how safe and normal civil society could be without open gun access. (Edit: not blaming all Americans here obviously, it's just something I've come across) Forget arguments about 'what should be done' - all of that aside - it was like there was a total inability to contemplate a different context for crime guns etc.. That's a really, really odd position to be in, debating someone who delegitimizes your own lived experience in a different country because there's some kind of 'mental block' (bad term) and they can't fathom that it could even be real - when in fact it's the literal reality for most 'rich' nations outside the US.

Chua is not even close to 'radical'. She's a little populist surely, but nominally her arguments exist well within the bounds of reasonable civic discourse. I do believe that most of the OP's comments are effectively valid, in that with her 'hat in the populist ring' she becomes part of that circus and will therefore become a target / participant in the stupid, ugly, petty little feuds on campus - which it should be noted are going to be 'sided' often on the basis of 'perceived ideology' etc..

Edit: I should add, it's a little shameful that people even on HN have to resort to 'throwaway' accounts to have basic opinions on issues. To think this is actually a place where there's a lot of good discussion to be had and even this places gets petty ... is not a good sign. 'Use your words' is what we tell children, it would apply equally here and everywhere else. (i.e. not ad-hominem, casual remarks, gotcha statements, instinctive/arbitrary voting).
Two issues turn up in in ML.

One is that the dependencies are a beast. The risk that it won't find a solution between a number of libraries that are only compatible with certain versions is high.

The other one is that ML projects themselves contain data, often large amounts of data.

For instance a "word2vec" style model might be 1 gigabyte and it might be a part of another model. (Say you turn the words to vectors then put the vectors through a CNN or RNN.) The Python packaging system might be a logically correct place to store this data (a necessary part of the the model) but it's a big file that will cause hassles if you do everything right, big hassles if you do things wrong (like compress anaconda packages with slow bzip2, use whatever algorithm that Docker uses to superamplify I/O, ...)

It is nice to pack all your "empty" models (ready to train) as python packages and maybe even your "trained models" (some data files to supplement the empty files) but it will take some iteration to make it all go smoothly.
quality is an issue though.
Multi party computation

IE compute F(x,y,z) where I have x, you have y, and dang has z, and none of us want each other to know what our values are.
I guess that is different between the EU and US:

Here in Europe, for almost all car rentals the maximum you will pay even if you rear end another car is around €1500 (may be higher depending on the class of the car). However as I understand, they are well within their rights to charge you that even for a tiny mark on the bumper.

It is mandatory for all vehicles (rental or not) to have insurance that covers damages to the other party in the event of a RTI - this is on the responsibility of the vehicle owner and covers anyone authorised to drive it. We don't have crazy medical bills so this is usually quite cheap (I pay €120/year). This covers everything, so if you hit a brand new Rolls Royce which ends up being totalled you aren't on the line to pay anything extra. Of course you will need to pay to fix your car.

There is also comprehensive insurance that covers damages to your own vehicle. This takes into account your driving experience and value of your car, so can range from a few hundred to thousands (I pay €600/year for a 12yo Toyota). If I decide one day I feel like driving into a tree, I just need to pay a €100 access fee and the insurance company will fix my car.

The €1500 is the equivalent of that access fee. Paying for the extra rental insurance reduces how much of that €1500 you need to pay (well, I think you still need to pay, but can claim it back). There is also third party car rental insurance providing the same cover, which last time I took it, was something like €50/year.
This is more or less what you get from equity compensation (i.e., RSUs, options)
Except one is a goddamn car and the other is a portable general-purpose computer.
Pretty much, yes. It has a bit steeper learning curve though.
What is the difference between the current American urban planning system where certain property is restricted to certain purposes and eg developers must devote certain amounts of land to parking lots and the proposal of the GP where some land must be devoted to certain “green space”? (FWIW I mostly disagree and think the city or some trust should just own that green space.)

It seems to me like you’re ranting against the status quo and not anything particular about the parent comment.
The excitement was in the previous winter. It was a very strange time with strange scenes. For example, seeing children of avowed Marxists in the school yard shouting for Khomeini, etc., and then streets full of wild eyed occupants of cars buzzing through the streets waving handguns out the window.

Of course now, in hindsight and having seen multiple color revolutions deployed and broadcasted via media the Iranian revolution of '78-79 is no longer such a cryptic event, in my mind. It is interesting in fact, in context of Marx and his theoretical views on the 'mechanics of history' to note the role of psychology, specifically group psychology, in the possibly choreographed unfolding of human events. This is possibly a dimension that he overlooked.
The question isn’t can we make 11au. That’s facile. Can we make 11au at the exact velocity, location, etc etc etc?
It seems like the opposite is occurring. In order to be a licensed real estate broker in California, you have to have a major/minor in real estate (or relevant courses) AND 2 years of full time real estate experience as of 2013.

Previously it was anyone who could take the courses and had aa Bachelor’s Degree in any major OR 2 years of full-time experience could apply.

I think, like lawyers, it’s just a way to keep the supply of lawyers/brokers steady.
Nope. I say your-anus.
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I’m sad to see that analogy become so popular over the last year. It fails to capture the tremendous amount of work that is required to establish or verify proofs. In the Waldo example verification is O(n).

I’ve worked on other analogies but every simplification is damning in its own way. One I particularly like:

You want to ask Google for directions to an address in your small town but you don’t want Google to know where you are going or where you live. Instead you ask for a list of directions between every address in your small town. It takes a bit longer to return these results but the it satisfies the conditions.

This isn’t of course how ZKP’s work but directionally captures their computational overhead in a way other examples don’t.
There was a variety of foreign cars, but the domestic ones had a lot of volume and were built simply and for more basic conditions. Fićo [1] being super widespread, with people sometimes owning several so they could use them as donor cars. They had underpowered, air-cooled engines, but they had a killer first gear that I remember could pull off climbs that no other car could at the time.

The thing I remember about Fićo was its poor gearbox, where sometimes you had to hold it in gear to catch, and constant synchronizer failures. I also remember the Stojadin had a butter-smooth shifter that allegedly was a Porsche design :-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zastava_750
One could make the case that the carefully cultivated selective breeding of wolves into domesticated dogs over several millennia was just the evolutionary equivalent of digital programming.