skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When making the contrast of the text lower and lower... designers need
to think of

> elderly users with bad vision

> low quality monitors

> bad lighting and glare

> reading on tiny screens

And easily pissed off curmudgeons like myself. I immediately hit "No
Styles" at the slightest visual irritation; low contrast is the most
common. I'll do this many times in a day, with a satisfied, grumbled
"harumph."

I suppose that I, a mere reader/user, am at the end of the line of
stakeholders, with the purchasing/contracting manager at the front, and
I suppose "oooh" helps get a lot of contracts signed. So good for you, I
wish you well, and it's easy enough to erase all your hard work and go
directly to 1992 black text on white with obvious blue/purple links.

You can do this in Firefox as: View/Page Style/No Style.

My favorite Firefox addon, making it one click: Disable Style Button https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-style...

I enjoy a nicely styled, pleasant site, but I only read about 80% of
them as-is.
It's not easy to talk specifics, since as far as I can tell the example in the README is currently unimplemented - there's no comparable test and there doesn't seem to be any code exporting the APIs used there.

But from what I can glean from that short example, the proposed API is essentially LLVM's IRBuilder class, with a slightly different interface. This seems like a strategy that's unlikely to be practical, because of all the complexities involved in reimplementing another project's API, particularly one that changes as frequently as LLVM's.

I'm not sure I understand your breakdown of four steps. As far as I know, it would be very hard to make a backend pass that would have enough information encoded purely in IR from a frontend to compile a construct like goto. This is the sort of thing that needs to be deeply integrated into the compiler, so the author of that feature would necessarily need to understand the data structures and architecture of the compiler. At that point, it's probably easier and more reliable to write it as a compiler extension.

I do like the general idea of being able to extend the operation of a compiler at application compile time (rather than compiler compile time), but I am skeptical that the solution involves directly mucking about with LLVM. That's too low level, the language needs to provide a useful model of abstraction above that to be better than just modifying the code of the compiler itself. As others have mentioned here, Lisp is a great example of offering such a model.
I've been thinking about visiting Kazakhstan for a while now, especially with more low-cost flights going there, to be fair I didn't even know about the expo, do you think the expo itself is worth it to fit this year or maybe leave it to when the hotel prices drop?
Video game subreddits have this happen a lot. A new game will hit the market, and the company will already have set up a subreddit with all of their staff in control. It's an "official" subreddit, but that means it's no better than any other official forums and lacks any ability to hold counter opinions.
It would be quite difficult to find something that would both be invisible and survive the process of being printed out onto the card, especially as you'd only have one shot at getting it right!
It’s Not Just Taylor Swift–Streaming Music’s Biggest Holdouts Are Caving In
This is nice. I don't work in Java but I've studied Java in Sedgewick's Algorithms class. The syntax seemed straightforward and it comes across as a powerful professional-use language.

After reading just now I found that Kotlin is a JVM language and a project developed by JetBrains. For me the notable language feature is the null handling.

Would I be helping or hurting my facility with Java by using Kotlin for personal projects instead of Java?
That's not what I meant, but that is also a good observation.
How not to die of botulism: Understand home food preservation and follow the recipe.

The rules are simple:
1. C. Botulinin is everywhere. It is in the food you are preserving. Deal with it.
2. Heat kills C. Botulinin. Propper pressure canning times and temperatures of properly diced foods will kill it.
3. Acidity inhibits C. Botulinun metabolism. Boiling water bath canning of high acid foods like dill pickles is sufficient to keep any remaining microbes from producing toxins. (Botulism toxin is a metabolism byproduct. )
4. 10 minutes at boiling temperatures before serving will break down botulism toxin.
5. When in doubt, throw it out.

Was that hard?

The most subtle mistake to make is if the canning recipe says dice into 1/4 inch cubes, don't use a different size. It changes the convection currents in the jar and it may not reach required temperature/times in the core. Also be careful with home made salsa as the acidity can vary wildly depending on numerous factors.
You mean like we have every day already? Human drivers constantly make mistakes, and in many cases they aren't even aware of it or their affect on the drivers around them. Most don't cause an accident, but the behavior doesn't get corrected and that is what it eventually leads to.

Slowing for a turn then deciding to continue on, merging without checking blindspots, running red lights, speeding next to the short on-ramp lane, not following a yield to right turn sign, ignoring people in crosswalks, etc. All of these things happen all the time, I see at least one example every time I go out somewhere.
Some code in freckles or length of beard hairs or something like that should do the trick.
That - or the results are based on one of those low quality medical research studies that is performed by medical students in order to get their MD in some countries.
Thanks but chrome and electron-based applications really heat the Mac, get the fan running all the time and bringing it to a halt.

Are there projects to build native cocoa apps on top of eth/btc much like aquamacs for emacs
Tanzania bans newspaper for 2 years
Speaking of - what happened exactly at 0:54? It seemed like an abrupt slowing down. A human driver would not slow down this much due to a couple of pedestrians walking next to the road. The correct behavior is slight slowing down and making sure the pedestrians will remain safe and then going past them.
You know what? It's usually me thinking this about that kind of comment, but this one really is that bad. It's not that it's not optimized for mobile, it's like the site was optimized against mobile.
With this PHP rootkit you can take over a server hiding it in PHP server modules
Reddit is a YC company. YC companies, like most high profile VC-backed startups, are supposed to own the world and be worth billions.
Trump Reveals Flat Revenue at Controversial Washington Hotel
Ah, Cloudflare doesn't bill you per GB as long as your usage fits into the normal plans.

I use Cloudflare and I have a per GB limit/billing without Argo.
In the last decade or two blinded lineups -- where the police officer with the witness doesn't know who is the suspect -- became the standard in a fair number of U.S. states. You can take this pessimistically: wtf, it took this long to introduce some basic epistemic hygiene? But it also shows progress does happen. "No practical benefit for anyone" is just giving up.
No "programming language design and implementation" category?
Same here, I hadn't heard of it.

Currently checking pricing for a trip.
I would agree as well that the code looks great and quite "idiomatic C"; but I'd prefer using 2048 and put the memchr() in the same if with another &&.
the release of the Macron "documents" - complete w/ all the evidence of Russian manipulation and fakery, hanging MS Word edit tags in cyrillic, etc, in the official dump, says volumes. They didn't bother to even read through the stuff before dumping it on the public.
Of course this has already happened :)

https://youtu.be/dhM_2ubR9Aw?t=213
Also see this fantastic interview with Ray Bradbury:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF3uZf4G3Lo
Bitcoin mining the hard way: the algorithms, protocols, and bytes
It turns out it's really 7 notes, not one. If you're not already good at identifying tones, there no one-ness about it at all.
Please explain to me in simple terms why a website property is worth so much.

Keeping in mind this has remained a mystery to me ever since Facebook didn't sell for a million dollars an eon ago. Facebook's founder is today worth some ridiculous sum of money. Why is that? I'd have sold Facebook for a million dollars and then just made another website. What am I missing. YouTube sold for some amazing sum ages ago to Google, who has from my understanding still not turned a profit with it.

Since I am clearly so out of touch please make the explanation easy to understand.
An interview with Ray Bradbury [video]
A photorealistic color painting might be just as good for identification purposes as a photograph, though it might be easier to tell it was done by hand. As long as it looks "like you" (according to other fallible humans!) then it does its job.
Sure, and the point is that HIPAA is only applicable to the health organization. If you were to sue somebody under HIPAA, it would be the records organization, for exposing information it shouldn't have, or not logging the access to information properly.

However, in this case, HIPAA wouldn't apply to a purely Indian health organization, or the records of a foreign national in a foreign organization.

Note that in your situation (sex tourism) all prosecution/wrong doing is based on being a US citizen doing stuff and then returning to US soil. It does not apply to any sort of foreign national - you cannot be prosecuted for sex tourism under the US statute while on US soil if you are not a US national and the crime did not occur on US soil.
They completely missed, with 1800+ citations, the winner of the “Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC) 2016 Test of Time award”: “Calibrating Noise to Sensitivity in Private Data Analysis” by Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, Kobbi Nissim, and Adam Smith. Oh, it also just won the 2017 Gödel Prize; it really ought to be at the top of both the “Theoretical Computer Science” and “Computer Security and Cryptography” lists.

Worse still, with ~3000 citations, Dwork’s “Differential Privacy” (ICALP (2) 2006: 1-12), should rank even higher in the Theoretical Computer Science list. But Google Scholar has completely lost track of that foundational paper; it’s got it all confused with a completely different paper, Dwork’s 2008 “Differential Privacy: A Survey of Results”. Note that this also means that anybody searching for the general topic “differential privacy” on Google Scholar will not get to see the most-cited paper about it! https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

Disclaimer: Dwork and I have been seen together, for 24 years.
Digital Ocean CLI APP – Coded in Live Session ( TURKISH DESCRIPTION )
These uniquely human jobs will be replaced by emulated "standard" humans.
A virtual human brain, even if computationally expensive to emulate could be programmed to do rare "human jobs" while AI employs more pragmatic algorithms.
Eventually all the brain functions and networks will be extracted and encoded in algorithms and FPGA hardware, so I won't bet on these "uniquely human jobs" existing forever.
The article is interesting and biographical, but for those not interested in biography:

The Price Equation[1] simply states that the change in a trait due to natural selection is proportional to the covariance between that trait and it's impact on "fitness" (survivability). The link to altruism is that the equation applies to a whole population, not just an individual. So, spending time and energy to help your kin can increase evolutionary pressure for your traits, so long as the gain in utility from the resource transfer is larger than the genetic difference between you.

The equation is useful and accurate, though not incredibly insightful. From the article: It is like a footballer who, when asked how their team will win the next match, says they will score more goals than the other team. By trying to explain the game at its most fundamental level, say the critics, the equation explains and predicts nothing about why certain traits should increase or decrease fitness.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_equation
The eyes look dead, the hair is obviously fake, and blur seems to be used to soften the wrong parts. It is very close though.

I showed it to my wife with no context, and she immediately asked if it was a still from a new video game.
Fortunately, it's not an irrevocable decision like choosing a JavaScript framework. With deep learning you spend a lot of time considering a small amount of code.

We use several frameworks because sample code from different papers uses different frameworks. It's not that big of a deal.
Isn't there some eponymous law about organizations eventually prioritizing self-preservation over their original mission, especially if the original mission has been accomplished? (Not that it has in this case, obviously.)
EURion freckles would be a good prank :)
If Reddit is still around in 10 years, I will eat my hat.
TLDR: Police asked the developer to stop working on it.
(and judging by their Twitter activity, no crazy stuff happened)

https://web.archive.org/web/20150822042959/https://github.co...
I saw this and I give him credit although I think his idea that Amazon will be the only winner is pretty irrational. Less than 10% of purchases made today are online and even with that number growing, there are lots and lots of very smart companies with tremendous resources who can compete, not to mention lots of very smart people who can innovate in this space in ways Amazon won't think of and disrupt them. It happens virtually every time a newcomer is predicted to become monopolistic.
So first, the gov goes MiTM[1] all the way[1]. Then hosts a futuristic tech expo ? I don't know that current status is, but that doesn't make much sense.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10663843
If this case has no chance of going anywhere, then why run? A prosecutor acting based on political motives isn't uncommon, though unfortunate. But to actually convict Assange with so little evidence would require subverting the criminal justice system, tampering with witnesses, judges and the jury, which is far more egregious and unlikely. I don't have much faith in the ethics of prosecutors, but the judicial system I consider far less susceptible to political interference.
A while ago here on HN I compared meditation to debugging, a bit like setting breakpoints.

Recently, a Promise-filled chunk of a code started throwing errors when I switched to Bluebird (instead of node's native Promises). I spent a good few hours figuring out what went wrong. Going back to native Promises, my code worked fine, but with Bluebird I got weird errors and stack traces.

I eventually figured it out, and it turned out the error wasn't mission critical but would've probably caused problems down the line. So finding it was worth it, even if the debugging, in a way, caused the program to blow up in my face.

Perhaps it's a bit like that. I believe regular meditation is unlikely to cause problems, but I am careful about, say, going to a week-long vipassana retreat because of various (thankfully not too terrible) mental health issues (and the same applies to hallucinogenic substances, among other things).
This is one of the many reasons I prefer to surf the web through emacs-w3m, in my terminal. All the cute design crap is removed, and I'm given direct access to pure information, functionally displayed. Unfortunately it doesn't work with Javascript, so some sites don't work. But surprisingly many (including HN and Wikipedia) do.
An observation when taking a step back: The discussion about deep learning frameworks seems almost as complicated as the Javascript framework discussions a couple of years ago. Google and Facebook pushing their own frameworks (among other participants) also adds to the deja vu!

Why is the choice of framework such a big deal? Is it unreasonable to expect someone well-versed in one framework to be able to pick up another reasonably fast if/when collaborating with someone proficient in the latter ?
I think you are quite wrong, at least in the narrow sense covered by SAE competition engineers (and areospace engineers).

Recruiters look at grades and activities. If all you have to show for yourself are perfect grades, it's entirely possible (and sometimes way too likely) that the only thing you're good at is getting good grades. Add in experience that you can prove yourself by talking about and suddenly grades matter a lot less – you still have to pass your classes and understand the material, but the experiences prove your competence in combination with the grade.

Not everyone developing a product has to be an engineer, so if you want a lot more technicians, fine. But you still need a good portion of engineers with the full depth of knowledge. People who program don't necessarily understand this, because a lot of programming work is technician work that you can teach yourself. Not that it's impossible, but very few people self-teach partial differential equations, and it's not something you can just pick up via osmosis.
>against popular belief.

To be fair its amongst people who study diet, it is also common belief that a ketogenic diet (which while can have lots of plant matter is often high in meat) is almost as good for longevity as caloric restriction.. :)
I attended a talk this year where the speaker made two points that have stuck with me:

1. Because of legal precedent surrounding protection of patron records, librarians are in a similar category as priests and lawyers.

2. Libraries are a great leveler for society. Paraphrasing: you don't have to dress a certain way; you don't have to look a certain way, and you don't even need to smell good to use a library.

Depending on your outlook, the second point could seem like an in-joke at the expense of homeless, but I find it profoundly poignant.

A side note about the value and impact that libraries have on people's lives. I grew up in Montana where I was routinely asked by older adults if I was any relation to the woman who read / told them stories every day after school. I would reply that she was my grandmother, and they would launch into stories about how they and their friends didn't have any place to go after school, and how much they loved the nice lady at the library.
I don't think there are barriers at the "entry" level at all. You can't build something like Amazon or Walmart over-night, the sustain and focus in these corporations are only doing what the economic "fitness function" tells them to: Sell more stuff at a lower price with lower costs [and quality]! When these systems get so large and impersonal, fraud can only escalate--fake goods sold to invisible personas who can only write strongly worded letters that are immediately tossed into /dev/null, if they even knew what /dev/null was.

This will always come back to bite us all because you cannot legislate long-run self-destructive self-interest away. Consumers will almost always prefer the lowest price and wholesalers will prefer to move more units in fewer transactions to retailers--because that is less work for more money. Once you get big enough to influence the wholesaler/manufacturer price everyone is captured and if you introduce a "price freeze" in an attempt to make people more "equal" welcome to a world of shortages and more robust black market/System D environments.

This is a cultural/people problem--not a legal problem--that is not likely to go away any time soon short of a particularly bad pandemic that changes the focus away from price to authentic relationships between people. I've got no problem dropping $25 for a 5# pasture-raised chicken raised by wonderful people, but other people less fortunate must buy the $1.99# factory-fresh-concentration-camp-chicken from Walmart because they need to eat, you know?
There used to be some terminal emulators that supported "screen dump", where the scrollback buffer would be written to an arbitrary named file.

echo -e "\ec\n\e]55;/tmp/ouch.php\a"

I believe they've all removed that functionality by now, but there might be some older copies around here and there.
Why Spotify Should Become a Social Network
What do they do and how could they be out-competed?
In Sweden an artist painted a self-portrait, took a photo of it, and used that photo when renewing his driver's license. It was accepted. [0] The transport agency, when told about this afterwards, had no problem with it as it was -- in that small size anyway -- indistinguishable from a normal photo (but they discouraged others from trying the same). [1]

[0] https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/konst-form/konstnar-har-sjalvp...

[1] https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/konst-form/transportstyrelsen-...
Interesting story but I feel sad for the daughters.
I agree, and I think it steps slightly and firmly over the line of changing the author's work. I really hope they "re-think" this.

What will they do with Jane Austen's inconsistent spelling, which was common at the time? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jane+austen+spelling&t=lm&ia=web
Yet you post on a site called Hacker News.
Generous bitcoin contributor may be thinking that he made a wrong choice of giving away.
I'll probably just add "| cat" on in the rare case when I want unfiltered output, then I don't need to memorize any options. That's what I do with ls when I temporarily don't want colorized output.
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy.[0]

[0] https://www.quora.com/What-is-Pournelles-Iron-Law-of-Bureauc...
Forget Apple's New HQ, Celebrate Your Low Road Building (2011)
It's simple, eyeballs, ads, and data. They can directly measure the value created through ads posted on those properties - and that scales up with the amount of potential ads. Then you have future value of the data being generated (personal habits, info on Facebook, watching patterns by demographic etc on YouTube).

For Reddit, it's one of the biggest communities online (maybe the world?) - there are many ways to leverage and monetize that even if they haven't figured out all the optimal ways to do that yet, the perceived value is enough to convince investors in its future.
No. This would open an enormous can of worms, but I'll just pick one: security.

And if you're the kind of person that needs this, the solution is a one-line alias.
They're not websites. They're social graphs and they are very powerful sources of information that can be used in too many ways to list. Facebook revenues alone are $8B per quarter. You'd sell that for $1M?
That's brilliant. Bonus points if it causes the workflow on the other side to totally stall because the ID card printer refuses to print the image.
I try to have at least 2 at any time.

The upper limit depends on several factors such as deadlines, the communication skills of everybody involved and the ability to work on projects remotely.

When you find yourself juggling projects and not being able to communicate with each customer on a weekly basis at least you probably have taken on too many projects.
Looks like those would be under "Software systems."
That's it! I tried googling it, but I kept thinking Stross coined it.
My buddy did college race car competitions and then got a job at SpaceX right outta school. I can anecdotally attest to this.
I see the pro-union people are out in force. I suggest you go read UPS, FedEx, and Kroger's Union stuff. What I say is true because I've been to court over it. You sign up, YOU LOSE THE RIGHT TO REPRESENT YOURSELF IN ALL LEGAL MATTERS. It's explicitly written like that.