skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Packed like sardines" is a phrase that probably needs to be retired. First of all, people aren't packed like a factory worker packs a tin of sardines; they choose to live in cities, because they either enjoy it or find the tradeoffs to be worth it. Second, our cities are nowhere near as dense as they once were. There was maybe a time when people really were all packed in together in a way almost all of them found uncomfortable, but that's not really true anymore. Manhattan's population density is down 40% since 1910.

But, ultimately I think you should be free to live however you want to live. What you should not be free to do is enforce your way of living via regulations that prevent density. If other people want to build density on property they own, then they should be allowed to do that, even if you don't like it.

Somebody once said that buying a plot of land near a city and expecting the areas around it never to densify is like buying a puppy and getting mad when it turns into a full-sized dog. Cities have to be allowed to grow, your preferences notwithstanding.
> If that’s correct, it required decryption.

Probably but not _necessarily_ - if someone's vocal cadence was somehow visible in the encrypted modulation then that could be an identifier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_analysis
And so they what, rob a few houses which statistically probably won't be yours before their hack gets discovered? Sounds like way more effort than just breaking the door or picking the lock.
Windows is not going anywhere anytime soon. If you take away windows, you will lose out on many technologies. And just because people complain about windows, doesn't mean they can actually do anything about it. And if you can do something about it, you're probably a criminal learning ways to exploit the software.
They are particularly suitable to be run directly off of a battery with no inverter, because they are essentially a switched mode power supply with the pan as the secondary winding. They already have a rectifier front end.
Project Loom is a game changer. At least as big as Java's original JVM w/ GC combo.

(Ya, ya, ya Java wasn't the first. But somehow Java 1.0 got mindshare. And this time Java's got a massive installed base and ecosystem, greatly increasing the likelihood for Project Loom's adoption.)
Yes! We're adding Report and Blacklist tools that let you block sites locally, and working to get that live asap.

We were trying to have them included for when we posted this, but I was having problems getting the Q&A feature stable enough and getting it as performant as possible to share. There are still a few bugs in the blacklist tool I have to fix before we deploy it. But we're working on that now and will post an update here as soon as it's ready to check out.

I'm using the blacklist tool already on my dev version and it's life-changing.

Thank you sincerely for trying out Andi and giving us encouraging feedback!
There’s always room for contributions!
Knee jerkers are going to jerk their knees. To do otherwise would require too much reading.
Only for domains where automatic memory management is not an option, kernels, hypervisors, high integrity computing, GPGPU,...

Also I should note that NVidia, prefered to go with Ada/SPARK instead of Rust for their automotive firmware.
> American here and I have had to wait >2 hours to vote multiple times.

That doesn't have to be the case though, that's a political decision to staff voting booths like that. It's also trivial to fix.
The most-comprehensive argument that motivates its existence, I've found in Glen Weyl and Eric Posner's book "Radical Markets."
Wouldn’t it be more amazing if there was a script you could run on your existing Ubuntu installation to convert it to rolling?

There is!

See at the bottom of the page/article a link to the Rolling Rhino script by Martin, should do exactly what you want.

The Rolling Rhino Remix is just an Ubuntu install image with the necessary config changes already applied, so it’s easier for newcomers because you don’t need to first install an official Ubuntu version.
Seen RV build-outs with an induction cook-stove (and solar). I think the issue has more to do with battery capacity/current-delivery than with your solar capacity.

Maybe a home however is lacking the battery intermediary.
"Don't optimize for the uncommon case" and "don't handle the uncommon case" are different, though. Google seems to go for the latter, more often than not.
Is it because of contractual obligations to not defame partner company? I have to assume its legal thats shutting this down as a concern of a litigation.
Thank you for the input. I really don’t care for Chrome users and their inability to do pure TLSv1.3. Also, my server decides the selection of algorithms in TLSv1.3, not the web browsers: and that’s ChaCha/Poly.

Yeah, it’s also a JS-free website.

Migration to IPv6 is a work-in-progress.

Hurricane Electric ISP also has a weird login condition; they want you to create a second account so you can pass your IPv6 certification (first was for DNS/IPv4). So I am looking for a secondary DNS provider for IPv6.
It's alarming to see people on here entertaining the notion that coercing people to decimate their quality of life is going to put a dent in global emissions, let alone save the environment. We're at a point where the financial and industrial sector needs to be on board and on the hook for trillions to change global infrastructure, and we need innovative technology yesterday to reduce carbon levels in the atmosphere.

Even if you could convince most of your classist hippie/yuppie acquaintances to live in a cage, it would not make a difference. That is the infuriating part of the messaging, the projection of guilt onto consumers for not jumping on a hypothetical ineffectual bandwaggon. They sure like to talk the talk, but I don't think they would let their own consumer preferences truly open to public scrutiny.
I assume the intent is to show how woke google is or how unwoke the poster is? Searching for redneck couple seems to work just fine for whities.
Family - priceless
Returns - exponentially priceless
The only way "Hey" is acceptable is if there's an immediate followup with whatever it is the person is asking for.
Stopped using Debian a long time ago, and this is just making me glad I did exactly that.

What kind of hairbrained nimrod came up with that idea!?

You can't have mixed voting methods and still call it fair in any respect. Any chance there could be tampering should be considered not just to be happening, but to be assured to happen. "Secret ballots" of any sort when everyone else is not partaking in said "Secret ballots" just creates a skew towards unfairness and improper results. Assuming those ballots truly are secret and not just pseudo-secret. If true secret, then there is no way to track properly for sure if there is tampering...

I doubt anyone with Debian is going to be listening to me on this; but perhaps they should.

Debian crew: No. Normal voting methods only dammit.

Like they are going to listen though. In the meantime, I'll be using a different version of Linux. Debian has been dead to me for a long time now.
Thanks everyone for the responses, that twitter thread is making more sense now.
If you want to run it just on solar, use one that can be legally fed with DC (almost all work fine, anyways), and hook a battery with suitable voltage between it and the solar panels.
also a JS-free website

That's great. I would love to see more JS-free sites and more lightweight sites.
Please remember that we do not have a perfect litmus for every disease, especially rare diseases. And statistics nearly falls apart entirely when assessing a single individual. So although i agree there is potential.. I believe the potential is more along the lines of "You have 15 patients in your practice with X, Y, Z active symptoms - it is incredibly likely that 1 one of them have A, or 3 of them have B"

There is significant reason to be hesitant about having an algorithm suggest every sickness under the sun that hasn't been "ruled out" by testing or statistics yet. Ever use WebMD to try to diagnose yourself?

In other words, I worry about what this approach would do the signal to noise ratio for doctors.
> see also counting of the 'popular vote' for US president, a ballot which has never been tried, and whose results are unknowable.

I don't follow this point. I'm not an American, but my understanding is counting via simple popular vote vs "electoral college" doesn't change the ballot itself, you still vote for the president directly; it just changes the way the ballots are counted.

Are you suggesting either something on the ballot is different, or that people would making a different vote if it was counted differently?
Lex in-depth: why is the UK stock market so cheap?
I so much love when somebody judges :) My reading goals are mostly whitepapers from few scientifical areas I am trying to follow, what can be more open-minded?

Of course, if you are talking about some sophisticated fiction, you are going to experience giant losses of content, usefullness of which may be not so high for such me then for you. And by the way, if it is needed to read something being translated from a language I do not know, I'd rather search for the one has been translated into my mother language.
I worked for BoomTown! and I’d say that the single most complicated bits were ingesting MLS data. “Waterfront” on the beach is different than “Waterfront” in Ohio and can be coded differently. They had a full team of librarians whose sole job was to properly categorize all these things. It was wild.

Anyway, getting the data would be the most hardest part for a new product. MLS data usually isn’t open and usually only licensed RE agents can get authorization, and usually only in the area they are operating in. If you really want to disrupt the market, create an open MLS database and somehow sell it to agents that are sometimes contractually obligated to only use a single MLS.

Good luck!
You are massively over-simplifying the problem. Imagine someone put their contract online somewhere saying, "you must litigate in Miami-Dade County", what happens next? Is that lawful? Is it reasonable? Is it moral? You could easily have multiple legal professionals arguing about whether it is or isn't and at the end of the day, most people decide with their wallet anyway.

The reason we have Courts in many cases is to try and make decisions on grey areas in terms of what has already been decided elsewhere, you can't open-source that because even the judges won't agree.
Based on my 0.5 days as a CyberIndustry specialist I want to send out a message to everyone:

* Half the teams waste collaborative potential by not having a second standup around 2PM.

* We do things DIFFERENTLY from all others; watch our funny PR video.

* Why waste time inside when you can code on your iPad in the sun?

<super clever algorithm hack>

* What do you think 1 + 4 =?

Heart for 5, Like for Five or Comment your answer!

</super clever algorithm hack>

<insert meaningless picture of author>
For Jupyter Notebooks I highly recommend trying out jupytext, which converts Notebooks on the fly to a number of formats. It really has been a game changer for working with git and Notebooks for me. I essentially never want to preserve state of the notebooks anyway so converting just makes sense. The best thing is it is completely transparent, i.e. it generates a notebook file when you open the other file and saves to the file ever time the notebook is saved. If you want to keep the state of the notebook you can always keep that file around as well.
Also using IntellJ. But how is the landscape with the other IDE's these days - is NetBeans keeping up?
> Let's say you voted for candidate A and didn't find your vote. How can you prove that you really voted for A?

With ZKP it would look something as follows:

1. Encrypt a vote with a commonly known public key and publish it to the bulletin board.

2. Shuffle the votes and producing a ZKP proof of correctness assuring that only votes from bulletin board where shuffled, no vote were added, removed or modified.

3. Tally the votes and produce a proof of correct decryption.

The argument is that since authorities does not know the choice of the voter they would accept the vote to the authenticated and public bulletin board which would prevent vote omission.
I only switched to Kagi yesterday. So far so good, this search was a very good example.

I also tried DDG for a while but for me Google worked better.

Kagi is not a meta one, I believe, but I do not know much more. Yes, I got an invite some days ago. Maybe because I signed up for it a while ago, but I do not remember.

I do not mind paying for a search engine that actually works. I value my time. Google nowadays reminds me of Altavista back in the day. Lots of results but mostly irrelevant.
Well, it depends. I was actually thinking most places weren't secret votes because while the vote of the general public is a secret, the vote of members of parliament is NOT a secret.

I wonder what the pros/cons would be for parliamentary votes being SECRET in a democracy...
FTA: “Local water districts’ SGMA plans currently propose to fill about 40 percent of the hole with recharge. But an independent analysis from the PPIC found that recharge could fill only about 25 percent of the overdraft.”

So, it seems it’s a good idea, but not a silver bullet. Water use will have to be more than halved, too.
This is an interesting pattern that I have noticed, and much of my work is in a similar vein. I have to be able to accept unknown numbers for my work. As a result, I pick up on a lot of robocalls. When it comes to business numbers, there really isn't a good solution for this.

I'd be interested to see if an entirely new business model rises up out of this. Some kind of verified business network of phone numbers people pay a small fee per month (per call?) to get assurance that it's a legit business call. A sort of for-pay group whitelisting.

At the very least, when it comes to my private number, I decline any call I do not recognize and I figure that if they are legit, they will either:

1) Call back immediately

2) Leave a voice mail and I can call them back in a minute.

It's tedious, but a sort of call/re-call seems to be like a kind of workaround to this. It's just a very tedious thing when it comes to stuff like doctors offices calling form a new number, 2FA from some website, or anyone I might not have saved in my contacts list.
As I understand it, the law provides reasonable limits on what is covered by its legitimate interest provision. Violation of the law is widespread because everyone knows the enforcement is a joke.

See also a rare exception https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27060609
I think this translates to "technique to build a quantum computer using traditional silicon, maybe"
Keeping generated code in a segregated source code repository, with the advantage of inspecting diffs without file pollution, should be technically easy.

Commands to take snapshots of every build ("git add *", "git commit", "git rev-parse" on the actual source repository, "date" etc.) are easy to script.
I LOL'ed at the first page of the manual: "When it works, it's fantastic."
Regarding empathy, there’s also an argument that it tends to be significantly biased, and that rational compassion is preferable for decision-making: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Empathy
What’s the loss for you if you did reset the account, or even just started a new one with another email address?

Also I’m not clear why being contacted by a recruiter at Amzn was relevant to the story?
> so maybe future-humanity gets a coincidental-but-desired outcome after all?

If you fuck up the gene pool to get to that result I don't think you can call it "desired".
Why not? If someone tries to coerce me like that, they're no longer my friend, because I cannot trust them, nor feel comfortable around them anymore.

But they can still be my wife's friend's husband, and that's how I am going to treat them.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30776103.
Prosecutors make this kind of mistake on a routine basis.
There's actually a much more obvious and selfish reason somebody would want to do this: the tradeoffs are worth it.

The reason people cluster together in cities is so that they can trade with each other and have sex with each other and learn from each other and attend gatherings with each other and look at each other's art and so on. And even most sexless, joyless, introvert-art-haters need to sell their labor or their wares. So, sure, everybody would like more space, more privacy, etc, but the way the world actually works is that you have to make tradeoffs.
You’re not alone! I’m the exact same way, it’s like I try to wrap my head around the enormity of what I see and I’m filled with terror. My wife thinks I’m insane that sometimes I imagine falling in a space suit toward Jupiter and I feel scared.

Also anytime there’s an article about the sheer size of the universe, trying to get you to understand the enormity, I feel my grip on reality start to lessen and have to pull myself back and stop thinking about it.

I’ve noticed the moon doesn’t cause similar anxiety, maybe because it’s so close and tangible compared to everything else?

I’ve never met a fellow astrophobe, either. Hang in there.
>What this sarcastic poster means about the society you live in, is ultimately very shady. The society he lives in is lazy. It doesn't want to study or work. It cries foul when people ask for "welfare handouts", but meanwhile, he is asking for a welfare handout from us the people who work and study harder - by means of claiming it's his culture and we're just here doing all the math right while failing to integrate. That's just not true.

Exactly this.

And you know what, maybe these immigrants that can't demonstrate their ability to play rugby have more important things to do, like actual work for some purpose other than virtue signaling or self care/healing from dealing with existential threats.
How do you e.g get called back from customer support or answer when a food delivery worker calls?
You can, if you login on Minecraft.net and click through to edit your Minecraft profile first.

It’ll let you change the email address without sending a confirmation to the old address first. They’ll send a confirmation request to the new address, change it and then message the old address that it’s been changed. Their flow is backwards but it works out for your case (sauce: I did this two weeks ago).

Once that’s done you’re good to go to link the accounts.
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Yep, I posted this idea on Reddit recently and people said they need a formatted syntax because of diff and version control; we do not; get the ast, reformat in the editor as the particular user fancies and generate diff and version control artefacts also as a particular user sees fit. Our computers are very fast so you can make a lot more different views on your code than we have now by using the ast instead of text and regexps.
The problem with this is that it is thinking in absolutes during a situation where people are often very willing to compromise their own beliefs just to be able to provide an answer.

In normal elections we see this with people who don't like any choice, but don't want to spoil their ballot. So they pick their next best favorite.

This means that if A is removed, people might pick B or C instead just because A isn't there.

People are tricky. Hard to pin down what's exactly going to happen every time. There are distinguishable patterns and such; but ultimately you can't rely on them as if they are infallible.
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Fine. Apology accepted.
Worth linking to Richard Stallman's rider: https://gizmodo.com/please-do-not-buy-richard-stallman-a-par...
If you can get the required parts in the single quantities you'd need, you may want to consider a battery voltage suitable for the induction stove to run directly off of, so you wouldn't need the dance with a bigger inverter and that.

Just need a grid-powered charger for the battery to replace the sun with if you worry about running out of electricity to cook.
I ended up using VoIP for both my cellular and landline connections. I would recommend it for the latter, but not the former.

When WiFi and 3G signals are thrown into the mix, real-time communications go south fast...

To STIR/SHAKEN's credit, however, the only spam calls I've received go to the cellular number assigned to the SIM card I have that is purely for data (so I can make those VoIP calls outside of home wifi range)
"They". Again, governments are not monolithic entities!

It was a local politician abusing his power who is being investigated for that power. It has nothing to do with banning hateful imagery.
Yeah, I was stressed out when I accidentally make other people mad. Now I just apologize and move on, if they're having meltdown I just assume they're assholes and move on.

Especially true when driving.
The DC Hayes Micromodem II for the Apple ][ had its own weird command codes using control characters, with ^A at the "attention" command.

IN#3 (Apple ][ command to hook input from slot #3)
^A ^F (modem command to set full duplex)
^A ^Q (modem command to pulse dial the following number)
^A ^Z (modem command to hang up)

https://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/documenta...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_Microcomputer_Products#E...

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10264598...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/393165436881

Later on once the Hayes AT command set took over and BBSs became popular in the 80's, there was a flat $25/month subscription service called "PC Pursuit" that had banks of modems in different cities connected by a network, which you could dial up locally, then connect over the network to another modem, and dial out to a local BBS system. It was a subsidiary of Telenet, which spun off from BBN, and later was a subsidiary of U.S. Sprint.

http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/library/CONCEPTS/SERVICES/PCPU...

https://bbs.fandom.com/wiki/PC_Pursuit

https://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/voip/pc-pursuit---t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet#PC_Pursuit

There was a fun game you could play called "PC Roulette", in which you first connected to a remote modem with the PCP command, then issued the command "A/" directly to the modem, to redial the last number somebody else dialed on that modem!
I can empathize with this :), high empathy is almost always a curse and gets taken advantage of. I've also numbed out over the years but its not ideal either. I've been accused of being sociopathic at times simply because empathy is not a knob one can tune and sometimes the only option is off rather than an on, because being empathetic would mean losing boundaries.