jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For clarification: LCD displays like mine have red, green and blue tinted light sources, arranged such that one of each combine to roughly a square. Other displays work similarly, except they don't have any squares. I consider each light source a dot, and when viewing images at 1 pixel per square (natural device resolution), I consider the square a pixel for convenience. So inches are what I measure the size of my display in, natural pixels per inch are what I measure the resolution of my display in, and dots per inch are what I would measure the resolution an arbitrary display device in, if it did not have a natural mapping between pixels and dots.

So dpi is equivalent to 3ppi for LCD under my definition, and both 1ppi and 3*ppi dpi counts have been sighted in the wild. Using my definition is like using SI mibibytes; when you see dpi you don't know which is being measured, but when you see ppi you can be sure, since ppi is only used by people like me.

As such, I do not consider dots and pixels interchangeable; pixels are what I'm trying to represent, dots are what I'm representing them with. If I'm dealing with a printer, I acknowledge that I'm not going to get neat square pixels no matter how hard I try; instead, I'll end up with round, scattered dots. So I look at the dpi of the printer and the ppi of the ideal representation of my image (in inches), and get something like 6 dots/pixel. I consider this sufficient to render a close approximation to a tiny square, and proceed (actually, I don't usually look at that number, since printer resolution is never a problem for me).

This lets me focus on the one aspect of printing that actually matters to a computer: megapixels. As long as I keep the ppi ratio of my layout high, and trust that the printer has high dpi and proper scaling, I get to ignore stupidities like jpeg dpi metadata. In theory, anyway - occasionally print houses request specific dpi, which can be considered a ppi hint and used to do rescaling with the algorithm I want.

Disclaimer: I've never done any print or layout work.
To work the price would have to be many times the market rate to reflect the difficulty in gathering it. Then people would just cheat and just adulterate virgin crude.

A barrel of oil is ~250 pounds. That's a bit of a beast to haul around for $50. You'd probably be better off gathering aluminum cans off the side of a highway at at $0.40/pound than oil at $0.20/pound. Might I suggest eastern Washington state? The two lane highways out there are the most littered I've seen anywhere in the nation. Good pickings.
Use the search engine remove url tools to get rid of stuff after you've cleaned up. Each major search engine usually has a way to do that. It won't erase Twitter and internet archives, but it's a start.
Is it rude that SSL Labs publishes those who got Fs?
They literally describe everything as the result of a scam, conducted by corporations.
If you value information maybe don't use it mostly as packaging for adds?
That's like saying "having 4 parity disks is dangerous, you'll lose all your data if 5 disks die!"

They were supposed to run scrubs and replace disks when they die, not let it sit for 5 years.
Huh I didn’t know that. Seems like a niche feature, but it’s still pretty neat!
So I forgot to mention it, but I do know some HTML and CSS. (Enough to know what I need to copy and paste)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
> Can also be used as a canary trap.

Can you please explain how this can operate as a canary?

Edit: another post explains that the method is if the bogus data end up an a data leak, but that would require keeping track of bogus submissions and generating new data for each company where you create an account. Then you’d have to cross reference like crazy. Am I missing something simpler?
slightly increased anonymity through user-fed obfuscation? if you don't want an app to access your contacts, deny it. if it insists, delete it. the only app on my phone which has access to contacts is.. Contacts
So I advertised sceptre TVs here last year about this time. I’ve had one for a year now and I do not recommend it. The color recreation is garbage, lots of glare, poor upscaling, and basically it’s everything you would expect out of a $200 55” tv (or $380 75”, they are stupid cheap) . Also my TV has a line of dead pixels and sceptre seems to have forgotten about my RMA.

While I won’t replace it with an LG Cx series oled, I won’t be ashamed to pickup a hisense or Samsung when I eventually rage quit this trash
Yeh or a cheap Synology NAS or similar. Remotely accessible, raided, simple to setup.
I'm not familiar with that. Sounds like more complexity for my taxes. I'd rather things get simpler. My proposal is a flat federal value-added tax, its revenue distributed weekly in uniform amounts to each domestically-residing citizen's federal debit card account.
>McKinsey consultants are very polished in terms of how speak, break down problems etc, navigate the business world etc. McKinsey has the kind of money to host trainings year round in extremely expensive location

Can you share some of your top takeaways or lessons learned from your colleagues?
Thanks for that feedback.

I noticed the app icon as well. I wondered who it was, but didn’t look into it.

I’m in agreement about the content.

The “entrepreneurship” culture on Clubhouse seems to be either VC / media worship or this hustle thing.

I joined a "Real Estate Money" group that was pitching $500 investments in shared AirBnB properties. It had calling cards of a scammy “investment” group. A mix of cheerleading and leadership-enriching sales to suckers.

I spent some time last night in some social groups and while entertaining from a sort of shock value perspective they were not well moderated. They would not work with bigger audiences.

Andrew Sorkin interviewed Bill Gates on Clubhouse on Friday. My eyes widened when I saw that, I questioned my initial assessment of the product and it’s velocity. Then I realized I was thinking of Aaron Sorkin. Andrew is some mainstream media journalist. I doubt Gates gave a hoot about the medium.

I think VC, media and “influencers” all slept on TikTok and are now overcompensating with involvement on Clubhouse. It’s better suited to them anyway, and it matches the atmosphere of conferences.

It is the type of activity PG labeled “playing house” and is perhaps well suited as a stand in for puffery, fakery and “influence.”

Regarding content delivery, it is like you read my mind. I’d describe Clubhouse content, even purportedly serious stuff, as awash in loquaciousness word salad.

Clubhouse content forces listeners to be beholden to linear progression. So you lost the most valuable thing about audio content found in podcasts: editing and people who have developed the skills to be engaging.

Clubhouse lacks the crucial “trick play” of podcasts, where you can option out of minutes of content (and ads) at any time.

So anyhow, I regret sharing the address book with them and took my lumps ITT for admitting as much.

However, I don’t regret trying it. Critically evaluating nascent platforms and technology is what I do.
Yes you could ignore what he actually said and try to construct a narrative that doesn't sound bad. But, isn't that a lot more complicated than just listening to what he actually said?

To be more direct, myself and many other people aren't going to play that game. The only people that would are people who have a narrative in mind in advance and are going to find a way to justify it post hoc.
Changed now from https://dynomight.net/in-defense-of-myers-briggs.html.
Banking apps are such a disgrace. Full of weird ideas about what is ok and what is not and which data and whatnot they need or else they won't run and in the end it doesn't help at all.
Yes. This is basically teaching how to give instructions to a robot that does exactly what you tell it to - nothing more and nothing less! Recipes are nothing but simple algorithms including branches and loops, may be even procedures.
in which universe is 0.018% a "staggeringly high number"
They probably know about all the things you mentioned better than you, since it's their livelihood.
> I'm trying to say that E2E implies a very specific threat model, and that WhatsApp are in fact in position to subvert theirs in pretty straightforward ways.

I disagree. For me, E2E implies that the company itself cannot read my messages. It's not true for Whatsapp, but it's true for Signal/Matrix.
Native but with text sizes bumped up on the things I'm staring at a LOT (e.g. VS Code). Scaled is a major resource hog in my experience, might be better if your macbook has a dedicated GPU

My next monitor probably will be 40" 4K but sitting a bit further away.
Thanks for this info, it was the first time I’d run across either of them.
As https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/privacy-policy says, it's things like contact, status, profile pic, name, and so on.
Hey all,

Saw a similar link a few weeks back on a list of questions for front-end website designers. I thought it was a really great lists for people looking to hire a programmer/designer here in the new year, so wanted to make something similar for iOS, as we may be hiring and it would be useful to have this on hand.

This is an early work in progress, but suggestions/PRs would be much appreciated!
Really excited about this, no doubt the NSA has already sent their best men to "help" on the project.
They can only fool the DNN because they know their weights. In theory, you could do the same for people's brains.

As long as you don't publish the specs of your net you should be fine I guess.
Great idea, thanks :) I used my favorite CC song, which is Pocketpod - Hybrid:

Original: http://www.hajoheadphone.com/assets/417586_hybrid_orig.mp3
Virtualization: http://www.hajoheadphone.com/assets/417586_hybrid_hahe.mp3
I wrote an app that does this at a minimum level, for use as a car anti theft device (use an old android phone and a reloadable sim, hide under the car).

How do I show it ti people?
Honest question, was that ever in doubt by any thinking person? The article here claims a _former CIA director_ founded it.
Shame on GFW
The idea is that shipping untested code is worse than shipping (unit) tested code. Code coverage reporting is quite common and I'm surprised you've never even heard of it if you've ever written software professionally.
I was in touch with Blekko about a year ago regarding using their api to access their index for search results for my own meta-search engine. They might have used Yandex to augment their search results, but Blekko definitely had its own index as well.
No, the sentence says negotiations are secret so there can be agreement.
On a related note I started doing some of the tutorials on this site [1]. It uses OpenCV as opposed to PCV.

[1] : http://www.pyimagesearch.com
Good comment. But I think in this case the drugs had destabilizing effect on his mind and contributed significantly to the result. At that time he become strange and difficult to communicate.

I am a big believer in scientific approach and statistics. Note though, that studies are often performed incorrectly. For example in your link they describe "reduced likelihood of past-year suicidal thinking" and "reduced likelihood of past-year suicidal planning". But the indicator to observe before making such conclusion is real "successful" suicide cases. We need to compare a drug-using group and non-using group, and compare the number of completed suicides in groups.

For me, it would take more studies, rigid, reviewed and confirmed by other scientists, before shading doubts on psychedelics danger.
> Retail can buy/sell call options overnight.

Options are only traded during market hours.
I don't like how they make sigificant changes to the UI and deploy the changes with security updates. The toolbar was the last major change where it looks drastically different and functions different (and the fact that for one release you could undo it, the next release you could undo it but in a different manner and much more difficult, and finally I dont think you can undo it at all). The new password manager is another example of significant functionality changes. A browser is a tool, I dont want to relearn how to use my screwdriver because a new version came out.

Don't get me wrong, Im a huge firefox fan, I want them to win more market share, I've used it exclusively for 10+ years. But some of the changes are unnecessary and I should have to pin my security of being forced to use it.
I don't know, should corporate executives be allowed to feed themselves with a fork? This turning purchases into dependency business model is sickening, and I look forward to companies who practice it slowly decaying, especially Adobe who is getting their lunch eaten every single day by small competitors.
I thought as you did, but a friend in the U.K. tells me there are very racist racists there as well. I was saddened when he told me this — but having watched the U.K. a little closer over the past decade it comes as less of a surprise to me now.
Interesting idea, I assume Apple would solve the versioning problem the same way Google is currently handling it. Apple is doing something like this already but there isn't too much detail other than the mention of update packages here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/reducing_you...
Sorry, couldn't resist.

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion- Fuck Shit Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBJuhxU7oHQ
The individual links can't be copyrighted, but a person's collection of links probably can.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_copyright_law#Com...
So I guess they don't make enough money on it, then ?

I wish the general attitude would change to "I'm willing to pay for services that I find useful" instead of "Everything should be free !!!!"...
Test everything about your design. Your customers will tell you what works and what doesn't. Remember that copy is part of the design too, headline tests are boring but they can make a huge difference.
I'm a big fan of http://pinboard.in
Yes. Have you considered also tracking your abdominal girth? I read about some studies showing that this (or the ratio of abdominal girth to hip circumference to make it work between different people) is a better indicator of health.
It might be the fault of those programs. Depending on how they have the file locked, it may be impossible to Dropbox to read it (not to mention potentially dangerous -- how'd you like your Evernote DB to be sync'd mid-way through a save?)
For one the plastic casing was as cheap as you can get. I dropped my phone once while getting out of my car less then a foot off the ground and the thing looked like I threw it against the wall.

Second the gps did not work, this was not an uncommon issue, so uncommon that T-Mobile replaced my phone no questions asked for a G2.

Third the software they put on the phone, while not an issue for this phone, was slow, buggy and hard crashed my phone at least once a week. This coming from the G1, running community build roms, which hard crashed maybe twice in the 2 years I owned it.
This is modern business mantra in a nutshell. It's sad. When it comes to implementation, business interactions involve people. If those people want to be dicks and say, "It's business," that's their prerogative. We're all sharing an existence on a small planet in the middle of a huge void, and many would apparently prefer inventing silly definitions to justify sociopathic behavior as opposed to helping one another.

I had a sad vision of the future while reading the article, one in which business no longer involves human interaction of any kind. Instead, we're all just browsing virtual stores, ordering items that will be packaged and shipped to us by people and robots working in factories. There will be no more traditional sales or customer assistance jobs. Some may consider this an improvement, but I don't.
The Pleco Chinese-English dictionary iPhone app does realtime lookups using the camera. It's more of a study tool than a realtime translation tool, but still really cool:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/24/pleco-chinese-dictionary-...
I’m not sure if it’s ‘true’ intrinsic complexity: one can argue that the complexity comes from the kernel having so many different modes. (E.g. a ‘simple’ single-threaded cooperative kernel might not have this complexity.)

But it definitely is ‘useful’ complexity...
They are pretty terrible, but I am not sure what the alternative is in this case?
Nice, this goes into some ground not covered in other python testing discussions. Great code examples. :-) These are the kinds of articles I come to hacker news to find.
HTC has been known to cut some corners on their hardware. For example they ship some variations of the HTC Hero with a tiny 1200mAh battery, others with a 1500mAh and will sell you an extended life 1800mAh. Why not just include the best battery possible? The HTC Evo ships with a 1500mAh battery -- the same as my HTC Hero that is half the clock speed with a smaller display. I don't get very good battery life on my Hero so I can only imagine the Evo with the same sized battery is really going to struggle. It looks like there's a 1750mAh extended life battery coming but that's not a huge improvement. (and it's going to cost you $50)
Downvoters: any particular reason for downvoting this comment?
Aren't we all using Duck Duck Go anyway?
"Software Engineer" is a generic title at Google; the actual role can vary wildly. Carrie is an impressively talented engineer and statistician.
So we should force iPhone users to pay for unlimited bandwidth so that we can try to force them to "do more awesome things" with their phone?

What this argument is not taking into consideration is that some people don't use their device as much as others, and they do so by choice. Plenty of people will take a $10 discount to cut their phone usage a bit, and be happy that someone offered them the choice. Personally, I'm a data-crazed maniac who uses my iPhone constantly (and uses around 900MB/month) but that doesn't mean everyone is (or wants to be).

I'd also argue that there are only a few applications that consume large amounts of bandwidth, such as streaming/downloading audio and video. You can still take full advantage of your phone (with the exception of those two things) and not use much bandwidth.
I would consider signing up for a TV service if it were 100% pay-per-view with no commercials and no minimum fee.
Well, in this draft linked here they spell 'server' as 'sever' in one instance so I guess that evens up the score. But the GGP had a point, referrer is a troublesome bit in many ways and he seemed to be aware of the spelling error so I chose to answer the meat of the item rather than to take it in the most simplistic way (after all, making spelling errors like this really does happen, one guy I knew had sandblasted 150 glass doors with a text when I happened to walk by and pointed out that pneumatical has an 'n' in the second position (and not an 'm'...). For some reason he didn't seem all that happy.
I believe they were referencing that in English it is "referrer", but has been misspelled in HTTP forever as "referer".
Do you have a sample chapter or anything available? I'm intrigued, but it would be nice to see a preview or something.
It's pretty hard to miss. On the link you provided, it's a great big section right below the top one which explains which John Mayer recordings are not allowed on archive.org and which are.

More broadly, archive.org does operate in a legally gray area. But by trying to be a comprehensive archive but providing straightforward mechanisms for rights holders to opt out (including retroactively)--and by being a non-profit that doesn't run advertising--they seem to strike a reasonable balance for most people.
OK. But employee surveys consistently show that people working at these companies are highly satisfied. That doesn't mean you'd be satisfied there, but I don't see how you can say that they are not good companies to work for.
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A lot of slacktivists complain about their policies, but honestly, are they that bad? I've heard a few content creators moan, but they've always stopped well short of e.g. hosting their own videos.

If you're sailing close to the wind - making video collages with copyrighted content (legal fair use, but that's an affirmative defence you have to assert, not a right as such), or advocating for controversial political causes, or doing things many people don't want to see in public (breastfeeding, nonnude fetish modelling) - then sure, you're in trouble. But what proportion of content creators is that? The mainstream of content creators are, I think, doing fine under YouTube.

There are plenty of occasions where YouTube takes down things that are perfectly legal, perhaps even things that don't violate their own written policy. And sure, that's bad. But nothing they've done so far has felt like the hill I would want to die on.
However, from an employee perspective, paid overtime is great. It lets you be lazy in your work. You have no incentive to help the company finish it's tasks in 40 hours when you know they are going to pay you to stay 55 hours to complete it by brute force.

I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying that there are two sides to incentives and it's not obvious that one side is more important than the other.
In response to people who are saying, "it's just because Chinese people eat weird food that the virus started in Wuhan," here's a much more thoughtful article about how the shape of the global markets contributed to the shape of this pandemic:

https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/chinese-viru...
hubris isn't a super power
Yeah, the popup was a mistake :D Came up in other comments as well.

Waywo asks every 5th time for the license key, it is the same dialog as the tracking one and thereby not full screen.
It can easily be closed again
They locked down end of January.
As an aside, what's the status of Flux and Zygote? Last time I looked they were integrating them and I got some errors.
So what if the student has their notes app pulled up? That's a legitimate reason to trigger the alert. The student could also just be playing xbox or something unbeknownst to the professor and still appear alert on the webcam.

It seems like it trades a lot of privacy for something students will evade with no effort at all.
It's more likely that this will end up being a new tax on resources, instead of ending labor taxes. The true purpose of the tax is to create a new tax on resources. Ending labor taxes just seems to be a sales pitch to get support. From a cynics point of view, it's just a new way to sell a carbon/environmental tax. More taxes!=More Rainbows.