skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a photographer and I'll be honest, I clicked on these fully expecting to not like them (usually when people say "look at these photos, they look like terrible photos taken with a bad camera until you, like, get it, man" what they really mean is that the photographer knew the right pretentious people at the right time in history)...

... but I actually like them. I wish I could explain why; he's doing some clever stuff here. Some of it is kinda pervy and it feels like TMI, but he's at least being clever. There are a few photos that feel like you are voyeuristically peeking through time, the defects in the photos are like peeking through bushes to see something interesting. But mostly I can't explain why I like it. I just do.
Yeah. That's a trivial case but I'd still probably use parentheses). For more complex precedence operations I definitely would.
>Are you suggesting rape and murder have the same causes as assaults and burglaries?

They absolutely do - and the cause is having violent criminals running loose on the streets. The overwhelming majority of serious crime, from rape and murder to assault and burglary is committed by an extremely small number of people. When those people aren't removed from society after committing crimes, they are out on the street committing other crimes. As a resident of NY for over 4 decades I haven't seen the situation this bad since the bad old days of the 80s and 90s. The streets are littered with people booting up on the sidewalks, in midtown, in broad daylight. Aggressive "panhandlers" harass, threaten and assault passersby without fear of reproach or arrest. The fact that crimes are not being reported or prosecuted does not mean that there has been a reduction of crime - quite the opposite - which is abundantly apparent to anyone who lives here. Since the "no bail" law was passed as well as laws preventing people under 18 from being prosecuted as adults (among other things), there has been a massive spike in crime. In years passed, getting caught with an illegal gun, let alone using it in a crime, would mean automatic jail time. Today, that criminal is back out on the street in hours. There is a good reason that New Yorkers rejected Bill Deblasio's buddies in favor of former cop Eric Adams to be the next mayor - the city is a disaster zone.
So you need to look no further than NYC's gravity knife fiasco to see what's wrong with politics and policing.

For reference, a "gravity knife" is something originally issued to paratroopers. They could get stuck in trees and need to cut themselves out of their chutes. They needed a knife they could use with limited mobility. The traditional gravity knife had a button that released the knife that fell into place and locked by force of gravity.

These became popular later and evolved, most notably into the spring-loaded switch blade. To combat this and crime in the 70s and 80s, NYC clamped down on so-called gravity knives, which the law defined as anything that could be opened with one hand.

This law was clearly abused. NYPD officers would forcefully try and open a knife with one hand, claim it was a gravity knife and the owner would be charged. With a prior arrest this may be upsold to a felony.

This was such a problem for many professions that needed a knife for their job, most notably stagehands on Broadway and custodians. One custodian walking home at night ended up with a 5 year prison sentence with an upsold felony charge.

And of course minorities were overly targeted with this law.

Through the 2010s reform was repeatedly attempted. Twice this was vetoed by Cuomo at the behest of the Manhattan DA. Cuomo at this time I'm convinced still thought he could be president some day (to be fair, he probably could still be if he switched parties based on recent evidence) so courted the "law and order" crowd and political support from the police unions (who opposed reform) and the DA. Vague reasons were given for the veto.

Eventually this did pass but there still seems to be problems with that.

So let's outline the problems here:

1. A so-called Democratic governor choosing personal ambition over targeted minorities;

2. Arrest targets within the NYPD that drive police to meet those targets;

3. Police unions wanting more ways to randomly charge people for doing their job just in case they wanted to; and

4. Targeting of minorities, likely because they were poor (and couldn't thus afford legal representation and were also more likely to have a criminal record so the charges would stick).

For me I was glad to see Cuomo go but frankly I couldn't stand the guy long before the sexual harassment allegations came to light. It seems like every issue I looked into Cuomo landed on the wrong side of it and personal political gain seemed to be the reason. For example, NYC property tax reform and congestion charging for private vehicles in Manhattan.
I agree this is fucked up for a lot of reasons, but I'd take point 1 as a positive for the service teams. This gives them a way to perfectly predict the load on their servers in advance.
Other places are adding deaths to the covid list.
I have 0 knowledge of systemd-timers. Is it fully interoperable with cron and available on every system that has cron?

If not, I think your comment is pretty irrelevant since there are still scenarios where you'd need to use cron.
Reddit r/engineering community has gone private
I did and the only hostility I see is from krisives, frankly.
Choice of weather conditions is within your control, just don't drive in terrible weather.

Being a good driver does a ton to insulate you from the shenanigans of

Equipment failure is basically a rounding errors but also within the driver's control since "flat tire at speed" is probably lion's share of crashes in that category.
If what the article says is true, this is the definition of authoritarianism.
A random paper on crime and policing from 2017 covering two months in one city that shows a small difference in some types of crimes (complaints of felony assault, burglary, grand larceny) but not others (murder, rape, robbery, grand theft auto) and it's on Hacker News? How? Looking at the graph of the period after this slowdown, the crime also appears to be down year-over-year by about the same amount as during the slowdown.
I learned German as a 16-17 year-old exchange student, and haven't had cause to use it super regularly since then, aside from talking to people there.

They tell me I still sound a bit like an extremely out-of-date teenager.
Wow this is cool!
I tuned into 12m randomly for about 10 minutes around lunch time today and picked up a /mm calling CQ which was fun.
If you downvote HumblyTossed's comment please explain why.
If that were true the market makers would be losing money buying the order flow, and this conversation would be moot. But instead these firms are quite profitable doing this. It’s a zero sum game so the money must come from somewhere.
I suppose by wrong I mean something more than the redundant, robust, and various protection systems can handle. For example, on a car, I wouldn't consider the anti-lock brake system kicking in as something going wrong.

I've had an engine failure in my car while driving it. I simply was able to slow to a crawl until I got home. I don't think engine failure on an airplane is such an anti-climatic event, on average.
Yes but Disneyland has refined its crowd control and experience to fine point. You don't see the chaos and mess because Disney spends a lot of money (and has lots of people working the parks) to contain and direct it. Even something as simple and common as a guest getting sick on a ride, Disney has a response team to handle it and keep the "Happiest Place on Earth" image alive.

Try that kind of curation and moderation in an online forum for people that size and within a week you'd have the right wing yelling about "cancel culture" and GOP senators calling hearings on Big Tech censors.
Not much in there require the DOS version to be precisely MS-DOS; on the contrary it was done mainly for compat with 3rd party code which e.g. "knew" where the DOS structures were, and surprise 3rd party DOS obviously had to be compatible on those points.

Now remains the "suck the brains out" problem, and although it could have been easily solved cooperatively IMO, it is illustrative of why people would not have needed 3rd party DOS when Windows 9x was running anyway: the kernel did nothing, the libs were mostly irrelevant (and MS-DOS probably gave that small compat edge even there, simply because its prevalence even before 9x), and the cmd line tools, well a) who cares about the tools b) actually if you do I suppose that was the easiest things to run (and if not: the irony; oh it is scandalous that windows relies on internals of MSDOS -- but not that e.g. Caldera DOS tools relies on internals of their DOS kernel)?

Caldera would have needed a Windows clone to compete. DOS was just becoming irrelevant.
> I mentioned perspective because Taiwan used to be part of China

But again you are viewing things with a twisted perspective. The legitimate Chinese government is the one that had to flee the evil usurpers, and ended up on the island of Formosa. It's actually kind of the other way around: Mainland China "used to be part of" what is now Taiwan. So, sure, reunite them: Give China back to Taiwan.
The censorship didn't get going anywhere for the most part until about 2016. Before that, the internet was not considered a serious enough information channel compared to mainstream media to impose much censorship on. After the Trump election, the mainstream woke up, freaked out, and the screws got tightened everywhere.
Turns out you don't have to miss it at all: https://win95-tms.ytmnd.com/
Considering that ~half of collisions involve multiple vehicles, I suspect your feeling of being in control is a bit of an illusion.
> the age-old question of why it’s so difficult to learn a second language as an adult

This immediately jumped out at me, the rest of the article notwithstanding. My hot take is that there are at least two strong reasons why it's so difficult:

1. You're not serious about it.

There's a man in my weekly French meetup who when I joined was a little bit better than me (which wasn't saying much -- I was horrible). Since then, his French has improved almost none. He can't conjugate, he can't pronounce, he can't even stay in the language: stumbling halfway through a simple sentence, he just gives up and switches to English. He's not serious about trying to improve. For him, I think, he just likes the social aspect of the group.

2. You worried about failing.

Far too many people I've seen want to be fluent to the detriment of becoming fluent. When in conversation, they think very carefully about what they say, practice pronunciation in their head, etc. Saying something embarrassing or even just slightly off is seen as a hindrance to their goals, but it's just the opposite: you have to make mistakes in order to get better.

Not to say that it's not hard to learn a language, but I've talked with so many people who just say, "Learn Spanish? At my age?! Impossible." But I can get by pretty well by myself in France with patient native speakers, and I'm self-taught. It's not as hard as people think.
I get my car broken into biyearly. After the first time, I don't report because it's a waste of time. Same when bicycles are stolen from my friends. I don't need a study to say the sky is blue.
I'm just happy with the files themselves being intact, but IME even that was difficult to achieve with non-NFS solutions. SMB was notoriously difficult to set up, and things like WebDAV or SFTP would have severe write loss problems when I tried to use them like an interactive local filesystem. NFS is rock stable.
>No one thinks that showing the same ad to the same person 100 times is effective.

That depends on what you consider "effective" advertising. Keeping a brand in your (and others') face is a key goal of advertising.

In fact, two (of many) of those goals for advertisers are "top-of-mind awareness"[0]:

In marketing, "top-of-mind awareness" refers to a
brand or specific product being first in
customers' minds when thinking of a particular
industry or category.

and "unaided awareness"[1]:

Brand recall is also known as unaided recall or
spontaneous recall and refers to the ability of
the consumer to correctly generate a brand from
memory when prompted by a product category.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-of-mind_awareness

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_awareness
I'm surprised he doesn't refer to it by name (Pimpl). In C++ it has the advantage that you can change your implementation and retain binary compatibility because the size of your class doesn't change as you add/remove member variables (and maybe more surprisingly, add/removing virtual functions). If you're going to use C++, seems like it would be better to avoid the void* by

class C {
protected:
struct Impl;
std::unique_ptr<Impl> mImpl;
};

And then define C::Impl in the .cpp file.
More importantly, why wasn't there a social worker to show up first? /s
Show HN: New Home Page
> How can you double the volume of an object just by decomposing and rearranging it?

That part is easy - for each point on a unitary sphere move it to a point at position 2x ( ie. to a corresponding location on the sphere of the 2 units radius) - you've just doubled the volume, i.e. you've just built a 2 units radius sphere out of the points belonging to 1 unit radius sphere. Banach-Tarski of course more fun and illustrates much more than just volume.
> This whole project continue to be a big love-fest to retro gaming.

You can buy Gameboy-lookalike devices in any toystore for a few bucks. I personally don't understand the rage, although I must admit that I was never a big fan of computer games to begin with.
In my opinion masters are not worth it unless someone else is paying for it.

The line between scripting and software development means a lot less when you’re writing ETL pipelines. I don’t think you’d have too much to worry with if you’re comfortable with something like Python from a devops context.

Speaking for the teams that I lead, do a little work with Airflow, have something approaching expert level SQL skills, be able to talk about Python requests, pypetter, and related libraries/tools and you’d have a good shot at getting an interview.
Test internet speed using Python
Even when they did, somewhat 10+ years ago, it is still far from perfect for whatever reason. But no one cared much because we were all taught to just use AFP.
Thank you for taking the time!

> The market maker (MM) pays 10c to Robinhood for the order, and buys the shares at 10c better @ 150.10. The MM has paid 150.20 effectively (151.10 + 0.10) when the next best buyer in the market was 150.00.

Is this possible due to the technicalities in regulations? Since they're paying a better price, it's OK that they purchase the order from Robinhood and fill it themself? The order didn't hit the "open market" or whatever we'd consider it. It was filled before then, but the best price on the open market was less than what was filled for, regulators are happy.

Very interesting that the money is from retail customers selling at bid, and makes sense.

If you'd like to share -- what's front running in this scenario and how would MMs front run this, assuming it's legal.
For most people carrying DSLRs (e.g., Canon Rebels), an iPhone would yield better results. Most won't make use of post-processing, focal lengths, apertures that an interchangeable lens camera with high dynamic range provides. Phones have better in-camera image processing than a stock Rebel.

I've stopped using my full-frame because it's heavy and good photography is a commodity and so easy. Maybe if I posted pictures on social media, I'd use it.
I would suggest the other way around. Many women don't report.
I used to think it was .onion. I owned my .onion domains in the sense than only I had the private key that corresponded to the hash that was my brute forced vanity domain. I thought that meant I had control over them. I was wrong.

It turns out that even in p2p networks if there's one one dominant development group then that group owns your domains. The Tor Project decided that tor v2, with all it's potential exploits, could not exist alongside tor v3 and so all the tor v2 domains will disappear to the official tor clients this october 26th.

I don't own my .onions so I won't be making v3 sites.
Have you ever had a person in your team “so clever” that as soon as he/she learns a new feature of the language, they use it everything to look even more clever? Most of them are in love with genetics/templates, I call them “the code masturbators”.
I tried to get into it a little, but it feels like you end up in the deep end quickly and it's hard for me to make sense of how you hook things up.

I get that there's some message passing thing going on but I don't really quite get how the objects all bind to each other or where you put your logic for controlling things.

A scene seems like an interesting primitive, it's just hard for me to make sense of how to organize things into it and the tutorial basically just says add all the things you want to see on the screen into your scene and don't worry too much about wiring things up.

But I sort of feel like I don't have a real model of how things interact in Godot to make sense of what they're doing yet.
Games are more expensive to make and prices have not kept up with inflation, but units sold are at least two orders of magnitude than they were twenty years ago, and individual free-to-play titles have playercounts that dwarf the total userbase of all games at the turn of the millennium.

Multiplayer does not require constant funding, unless you want to lock the game down so you can sell microtransactions. I can fire up the original Quake or UT99, pick a server, and play online; it doesn't cost id a cent. On the other hand, I recently tried playing Splinter Cell: Blacklist again, a game released in 2013, and their centralized online services don't work.

Developers have made an effort to keep players from hosting their own servers, which has introducing many new problems. For example, the lack of community moderation / 'toxicity', homogenization of gameplay options within a title to support a matchmaking pool, and stagnation due to lack of new maps, modes, and mods that used to be created by the community.
Only if the software does not have a license. It does not mean that copyright does not exist; it’s just one or the other.
They cite myopia as a specific clinical reason and while there is some evidence correlating "near-work" activities (screen time, studying, etc) and nearsightedness, I personally think that's a weird way to slice a policy (especially considering the correlation isn't very strong). To be fair, it's not the only factor they cited, so I'm willing to concede it's an attempt at a "two birds with one stone" sort of policy.

The other major factor that was mentioned was addiction. I'm not sure there are studies on this, but at least anecdotally, a lot of people seem to think it is a problem.

Some other comments are also mentioning that this is more a restriction on companies providing services to underage audiences, and we do have a bunch of legal restrictions on how companies are allowed to interact with children; see COPPA.
Not sure why this is being downvoted. Deleting posts via scripts gave my Facebook a second life. I just use it for messenger and events. Highly recommended.
I've witnessed the same. Police responding with overwhelming force. Unfortunately, we're not unarmed like in Japan (or most of the UK), so there have been instances of police being caught off-guard and killed for being too "chill" so by policy they must respond with almost worse-case-scenario.

With that, I will say they need to learn how to use less than lethal tactics and force to apprehend a violent person. Firearms should be very the last resort as a result of non-confrontation. In other words, the police at times provoke more violence by the way they address an issue. A violent drunk. Instead of getting up close so they lunge with a knife, get far back, get people to move away and then corral the drunk in or use alternate methods of subduction and use lethal violence only when the perp makes it necessary.
Eigenvectors for building a leaderboard? Can you explain more?
> I don't think engine failure on an airplane is such an anti-climatic event, on average.

It often is, actually. They have more than one engine precisely for that scenario, and can fly quite well with one down. Flights over water are also carefully planned based on distance to the nearest airport with an engine out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS

Even if you lose all four on a 747, there’s surprisingly large amounts of time to troubleshoot if you’re at cruise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
Do you advocate that every city develop its own unique vaccine?

If New Zealand is paying for its vaccines then its contributing to the effort just like everyone else.

The people who should develop vaccines now are the existing clusters of experts in vaccines. As in large university, government and corporate environments that have been working in that area and already have lots of experts, equipment and relevant resources and arrangements.

Anything else is a long term project.

Maybe RNA vaccines and other new vaccine tech will bring down the costs of vaccine development centers, and maybe the pandemic will increase the demand for more centers. I am not arguing against New Zealand developing their own in house capacity going forward.

Or maybe we only need a few really good vaccines for each pandemic and there is a limit to the benefits of redundant research and production.

Either way, new centers are not a quick or simple task, and not likely to happen while most experts are currently located and utilized elsewhere.
Google Forms can put the data into a Sheet, where you can do all those other things.

You can host custom forms from Sheets with GScript. It's basically JavaScript and you can do a whole ton with it beyond just forms. You can even host websites from Sheets (as of 5+ years ago)
Actually they probably want to give you “2 years of 1GB symmetrical” for $35/mo CAD*

*with a 2yr contract, regular price of $79.95/mo after the first 3 months etc etc
I've been blessed to run in many different social circles in life. Poor black kids, incredibly wealthy white kids, I've seen it all. My experience is completely in line with yours.

The wealthy white kids I was around were loaded with hard drugs. Coke use was rampant. I could open random drawers at my friends place and see bags of the stuff. Heck, some were outright dealing the stuff.

Meanwhile my poorer black friends pretty much only smoked weed, while occasionally dabbling in some other minor drugs (mushrooms, MDMA, etc...).

Of course the only ones with stores of police harassment were my poorer friends. My rich friends got away with anything they wanted
Wow, real edgy there
I don't have an opinion about whether anyone has butchered Bach or not, but, after listening to a half-dozen interpretations of the WTC (all on piano), I find that I like Zhu Xiao-Mei's the best.
Author says PHP, Java and C are not suitable for the cross-platform world. Hmmm.
> NYPD has a lot of contempt for the city they operate in

A lot of New York cops live outside the areas they patrol. The ones who live in the city are overrepresented on Staten Island. That said, for every peaceful protest last summer there were unprovoked nighttime riots which seemed to occur more when the cops were somewhere else.
Facebook might not be the place to find high-end furniture, but it is everything that Craigslist was, and before that newspaper classifieds were, especially in rural areas.

I've recently purchased these items via Facebook groups and marketplace, all of which were listed no place else:

- the exact boat I had wanted for years

- a ton of home brewing gear

- lightly used children's shoes, at $75 off list price

- a chest freezer

- a 4k monitor

I'm not saying this is a good thing, but it is outrageously effective.