skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Opera quite extensively, and have been, starting from Opera 7 or so. There was a brief gap in my usage during the time when Opera switched to blink and a lot of the old features were missing, but now it is pretty much back to feature parity (at least for the features I care about).

I think (IMHO) it has the most usable UI and apparent performance. It has nice built-in features like ad-blocking, mouse gestures (including rocker gestures), some nice single key shortcuts for moving around tabs. The V7 tabs extension [1] provides a really good experience for vertical tabs. It has also sufficient customizability, full compatibility with Chrome extensions.

I am aware that all of these are possible in other browsers, and I do use Chrome/Firefox for non-trivial amounts of time for various reasons with all equivalent customizations, but Opera just seems so much more usable and performant for me across platforms, although I can't put my finger down on one single thing that makes it so.

Edit: I have to say I'm really liking the vertical tabs on the new Vivaldi and their new features. Maybe I'll try making it my primary browser for a while.

[1] https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/v7-tabs/
Tizen has had multiple UI reboots since the Meego days.

The latest one is .NET Core + Xamarin.Forms.

https://developer.tizen.org/development/tizen-.net-preview/i...

I really don't thrust anything useful will ever come out of it, given how Samsung has managed it thus far.
Don't get me wrong, I think Bodega is an exceptionally stupid idea. What bothers me is the outrage about the potential loss of these small shops in urban areas when absolutely zero concern was paid to the eventual shredding of the social fabric of rural communities. The author of the article does not address this, even in passing.
I think this analogy is misleading as we tend to visualize animals by size and not by weight.
Afrostream is shutting down
Isn't it frustrating? All of this effort, and it looks nothing like real camcorder footage.

That's not dismissive -- no one has ever made any program that outputs a string of images indistinguishable from a real camcorder. It's just that hard.

I think whatever the next leap forward looks like, it will come from a nontraditional approach. Something strange, like powering your real-time lighting model by an actual camcorder -- set it up, point it at a real-world scene, then write a program that analyzes the way the light and color behaves in the camcorder's ground truth input. Then you'd somehow extrapolate that behavior across the rest of your scene.

That last step sounds a lot like "Just add magic," but we have deep learning pipelines now. You could train it against your camcorder's input feed. Neural nets tend to work well when you have a reliable model, and we have the perfect one. So more precisely, you'd train your neural net against the camera's input video stream: at each generation, the program would try to paint your scene using whatever it thinks is the best guess for how the colors should look. Then you move your camcorder around, capturing how the colors actually looked, giving the pipeline enough data to correct itself. Rinse and repeat a few thousand times.

The key to realism, and the central problem, is that colors affect colors around them. The way colors blend and fade across a wall has to be exactly right. There's no room for deviation from real life. Our visual systems have been tuned for a billion years to notice that.

There are all kinds of issues with this idea: the real-world scene would need to be identical to the virtual scene, at least to start. The program would need to know the camera's orientation in order to figure out how to backproject the real-life illumination data onto the virtual scene. But at the end of it, you should wind up with a scene whose colors behave identically to real life.

It seems like a promising approach because it gets rid of the whole idea of diffuse/ambient/specular maps, which don't correspond to reality anyway My favorite example: What does it mean to multiply a light's RGB color by a diffuse texture's RGB value? Nothing! It's a completely meaningless operation which happens to approximate reality quite well. There are huge advantages with that approach, like the flexibility of letting an artist create textures. But if the goal is precise, exact realism as defined by your camcorder, then we might be able to mimic nature directly.

(Those dynamic occluders looked incredibly cool, by the way!)
"things in human suits", actually. This is an apt description of some tech workers I've worked with, and some of the commantari here.
Opera (Windows, Android) because I find its UI to be to my personal taste. I am looking to switch (back, a decade later) to Firefox when 57 rolls out, but unless I can get a viable alternative to Opera's brilliant Speed Dial, I might not be able to break the inertia.
> Florenzano is now celebrating the decision to move away from React…

I'm confused as to why you would _celebrate_ this.

Unless you're a competitor to React and they're switching to you, who are you to care who else uses React?
Definitely Pale Moon, desktop, my ancient mac book and Android phone, all driven by it, synced.
I think your comment perfectly proves GP's point.

> I bet many people would care, but they would not persistently & vocally voice their discomfort for fear of retribution/confrontation.

How about: because they have better things to do with their time? The perception of oppression of any group you can name is mostly just manufactured.

> Because you think that the stereotypes unfairly prejudice Italians who may be denied opportunities in those countries.

If this is actually happening, then such a country has a much deeper problem of people being dumb enough to deny opportunities out of petty prejudices. This is not a normal state.
To be fair, a lot of people are seriously angry at Walmart about that as well.
OT, but for an excellent and gripping inside account of the Greek crisis drama I highly recommend Adults in the Room by Yanis Varoufakis (the academic-turned-finance-minister, until he was booted out half a year later).

The crisis was managed irrationally and vengefully, and certainly with an eye on bailing out German and French banks, and making an example of Greece.
JWT authentication with Akka HTTP
1. The Diesel process is more efficient than the Otto process (the theoretical limit is much higher)

2. Taxes in Germany: Diesel fuel is taxed at a much lower rate than other gasoline. In turn, the cars themselves are taxed a bit higher. If you drive a lot, a Diesel car is more economical for that reason.

2. Have ever had a chance to drive a car with a Diesel engine? The power over RPM curve is so different that the experience feels very different and arguably much more convenient.
Guardian is going a great job as well. Here is their collection of articles about Catalunya: https://www.theguardian.com/world/catalonia
> would you mind linking me to a single demonstration of it

I mean physics is quantum. At least, the interface between our experimental apparatuses and the micro world demonstrates all the expected speedups. Every known experiment backs this up.
Good move by Wordpress. The more Facebook says it's open source, there's no risk, it's just to stop bad litigation, the more urgent these decisions become.
I sincerely hope not. The last thing we need is another down-in-the-weeds language for bit twiddling.

Moore's law is practically dead now, so most of the newer CPU-bound algorithms start off using GPUs (where you're stuck with GLSL), then move on to custom chips (like Google's tensor units for ML, or Bitmain's ASICs for bitcoin mining).

If we're headed back to the mainframe architecture of putting the inner-loop stuff in hardware, then this is a wonderful time to start doing more with higher-level languages.

Even as things stand, Java and some Lisps are as fast a C for many applications, and they take care of the memory issues just as well as Rust does, but without the effort or cognitive overhead that Rust requires.
I think alcohol consumption is tied with the social circle of teenagers. I was a shy, silent pupil at high school, but I knew how to play guitar. So I joined a band, and instantly started going out once a week to drink. None of us were old enough to drink, but we managed to find bars which allowed us a few drinks.

For the dating part, I think this is tied up with the insecurity of kids nowadays. There is a lot of competition, the TV/internet is bombarding us with beauty ideals and perfect relationships. It is easy to give up and convince yourself that you'll be "forever alone". There are even communities online, where kids with no relationships hang out. And the longer they wait, the harder it gets for them to start a relationship.

IMHO the kids need to find a way to bite the bullet and be social.
I know a number of start-ups who do use React, or plan to use React in the near future, sometimes for pretty critical pieces of their product.

I think this puts a cloud over that. I don't think necessarily that React users are at any legal risk, but the problem is valuation. If you're looking to acquire a company that has a product that significantly uses React, why wouldn't you use this as a way of beating down the price? In some cases it could be seen as too big a risk altogether - if you're a GitLab or whoever, and you have an explicit stance against the React license, you're not going to acquire a product that uses React unless you have a plan in place to replace React.

I think that's a pretty sad state of affairs...
Magnesium and the Brain (2011)
Look, if I were to believe I was being denied opportunities in the US because of the portrayal Olive Garden (and the like) was doing about Italy and Italian, I think I wouldn't deserve the job in first place.

Culture is important, you must know yours and others, but I really believe people on certain echo chamber aren't getting their priorities straight.

Or, if you let me, they have life SO good, they have run out of good things to complain about.

But I know I may sound to harsh about this. It's the perception we get from overseas.
Discussed 5 days ago (540 points, 200 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15253781

Note this TechCrunch post is dated September 15.
The timing matters because it contradicts something they said before they starting facing criticism.

"Eventually, centralized shopping locations won't be necessary, because there will be 100,000 Bodegas spread out, with one always 100 feet away from you."

Whether it's possible or not, it was their aim, according to this statement anyway.
Yes, my hometown is on the front page on HN!

Oh, damn.
Ask HN: Where are you looking for local tech events for attending?
It's the idea that "offensiveness" even is a reasonable critical descriptor of a startup idea that i see as a problem. This is such a fluid term which lacks any clear, objective boundaries. Everybody has their own view on what's offensive (apart from some areas in which somewhat of a consensus exists about offensiveness, mostly regarding pejorative expressions). Some people have a thick skin and find nothing offensive, others consider any opposing argument presented in a determined tone offensive. And then there is a huge space in between.

Therefore expanding the scope of "offensiveness" more and more is, in my eyes, a problematic trend.
That was one of the most HN comments I've ever read.

Hey, it's just a metaphor.

Scales and ratios not needed.

edit: Wasn't meant to be negative ... as I could see myself writing something like that and my GF giggling at me for a week ...
I couldn't voice it any better, thank you.
There's also ground transportation by tram, no batteries needed.
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The title & OP don't claim that this company want to eliminate bodegas… it's about cultural insensitivity.

Are you arguing against the linked FastCompany article?
Researchers Unite in Quest for “Standard Model” of the Brain
Mailed you, thanks.
YoBlunt app is now live on GooglePlay
Cloud Providers in UniDAC, as Well as Updated DACs from Devart
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I'm a fan of moving away from Google where possible as well, but Fastmail would cost me $500/year with 10 accounts. My G Suite account is one of the original, so I can have up to 200 accounts for free. Granted, it's only 15GB of storage, but even after about 10 years, I only have about 1GB in my inbox, so I'm ok with the lower amount of space.
Using Amazon Glacier Storage with the SME File Fabric
It means the conversion factor of yearly yield in kWh to installed PV in kWp. "Yearly sum of solar electricity generated by 1 kWp system". It's not about the physical PV efficiency.
> Two Ex-Googlers Want To Make Bodegas And Mom-And-Pop Corner Stores Obsolete

It's my understanding that bodegas (gas stations in car towns) make their money from "unsavory" things: nicotine, alcohol, and lottery tickets.

Unless Bodega is planning on stocking vending machines with this stuff (they can't; it's generally illegal), corner stores will be fine.
A deflationary currency seems pretty terrible for business operations or for any major purchases (car, house, etc.) though. If it's just an asset to hold on to that's less of a concern but the volatility of Bitcoin would make me nervous.
> The perception of oppression of any group you can name is mostly just manufactured.

> This is not a normal state.

I think you underestimate how systemically racist most countries are.
Most games are "mostly static scenes", where the level and lighting stays almost the same. Of course there is a varying amount of dynamic, moving objects but they don't necessarily need to have perfect indirect illumination (that would be hard to spot anyway, since the objects are on the move).

The primary contributor is from the games industry and the results they show were generated in <4ms, so this is probably specifically targeted at games.

There were even some "approximate dynamic occluders", which seem to work alright as long as the occluder isn't too near the camera.
+1

Many people commute by train from the "suburbs" or the smaller cities sprinkled around the larger cities, partly because it's convenient, partly because traffic is really bad in major cities.
Hitler was working hard on PR to keep the US out. Recent I saw a map the Nazis had made with the proportion of the population of German descent for each US state, created for propaganda purposes.
Ask HN: Who's hiring and interested in trying an upcoming video recruiting app?
Hi HN,

I'm looking for 50 startups that are hiring in the SF Bay Area or New York, interested in trying an upcoming video recruiting iOS app before anyone else.

If interested please fill this form and I'll get back to you: https://playwork.typeform.com/to/U0rltp

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"And since I regularly browse via a Digital Ocean VM"

Do you mean using a DO VM as a VPN, or via X11 forwarding to your desktop over SSH, or actually browsing on the DO VM's desktop using VNC? I've done all three in the past as experiments in private browsing, and the latter is too laggy to be comfortable.
That exact same reasoning was used to buy overpriced tulip bulbs. So I don't see how your line of thinking isn't at least as toxic as his.
The blockchain have potencial to change social, the economy, the education and politics, this is one of the possible uses
I see your point. I'm just trying to point out that failures of general tech to emerge are quite different than failures of use cases. You need more of a limit preventing the emergence of a Moore's law on entanglements to really make quantum computing go away and not just solve other problems than those originally assumed to be "easy" and months away.
If you're an officer in an S-Corp, you're required to pay yourself a "market rate" salary for payroll tax purposes, and cannot legally use the salary/draw distinction as a tax avoidance strategy. If you're not paying yourself a salary, the IRS gets very annoyed.

If you're a sole proprietor, the tax impact should be equivalent whether you choose to take draws or salary:

> Sole proprietors and members of partnerships are free to pay themselves — or otherwise take the profits out of their businesses — whenever they’d like. Payroll withholdings do not apply, but each individual essentially pays the equivalent on his or her reported income at tax time.

https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/payroll/salary-or-draw-how-t...
A Holistic Perspective: 70 Scrum Master Theses
Ahh. the uncomfortable truth that DDG is just a meta search engine with a few shortcuts.
DuckDuckGo has really, really improved on their results for me who do not live in USA. Before, it was pretty much unusable. But today I use DDG as my main search engine on all my devices.

You should too.
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The views expressed in the paper are the sole responsibility of the authors and are not meant to represent
views of Harvard Business School or Harvard University.

Title: Harvard Business School: The U.S. Political System Has Been 'Hijacked'

Thanks for fixing the misattributed title, it comes across as sensationalist.
How did Pablo Escobar die?
Such goal attainment does not require consciousness. Even in our species, functions like breathing and blood circulation are autonomous, and they continue even in our sleep when consciousness is absent.
I think it's because they have a technical edge (well...) in diesel engines for cars and / or because they sell so many of them, especially in Germany itself. Markets favoring diesel engines thus favor German car makers.
Oof, magic strings. Always use enums!

enum Booze: String {
case wine,
case champagne,
case beer,
case whiskey
}

let wine = [Booze.champagne]

</ocd>
Did you consider protonmail? If so, why fastmail?
Part of this cost is the rapid panel depreciation which increases complexity or causes loss when inventory drops in value.
Second, they might crawl a few things, what percentage of the queries are answered by their index, that information they will probably not say.
Apache Optionsbleed: bug leaks contents of server memory for all to see
It's better to use the '!s' bang. Is like using '!g' but with more privacy because uses startpage.com
We have spectral renderers that simulate light transport extremely accurately and in fact are indistinguishable from a photograph (see http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/online/box/compare.html)

The problem isn’t solving light transport itself (the rendering equation has been known for years, and is asymptotically exactly solved using unbiased numerical integration techniques); it’s modeling the interaction of light with complex physical materials and doing so quickly that poses the challenge.
Ugh. GO. :-P
Ask HN: Programming books for teaching beginners
I will be teaching some programming to an absolute beginner and am wondering what HN thinks is a good book for absolute beginners. So please share your thoughts.

I'm considering starting with 'Learn Pyhton the Hard Way'.

Some background:

She has some experience maintaining and setting up WordPress websites but I would say it is fairly limited.

I'm looking to teach fundamentals more than making her ready for a job although that would be welcome in the long run. So, gaining some understanding or being able to pivot to PHP and/or JavaScript is never a bad thing in this job market (Amsterdam).
I got burned by the migration from 1.0 to 1.something and haven't used it since. Looks like it was the right choice, breaking changes are a major failure in language design IMO.

I understand why they do it, but I don't like that they are getting away with it. Apple seem to be in this endless update cycle where they change stuff across hardware, operating systems and even programming languages. The customer doesn't have much choice: they either keep up or get left behind.
Migrated to Vivaldi after 15 years of Firefox. I highly recommend Vivaldi and would pay for it, given the option.
People are conditioned to think Search has to work online.

This was true when Google was created.

No one had the processing or memory available on their desktop to search an entire index of the "useful" web.

Not anymore.

How large is a "useful" index of the web today? And can it fit on your laptop? The answer is yes.

Can the entire thing be queried fast? The answer is yes.

As an example take the entire stackexchange and wikipedia dumps in their entirety(including images). Compressed it comes to 50-60 GB range. Think about that number. That's an rough approximation of all known human knowledge.
It's not growing too fast. It has stabilized. To query the content you need an index.

So how large is an index to a 100 GB file? Generally around 1 GB. Let's say you use covering indexes with lot of meta data and up that to 5GB to support sophisticated queries.

With today's average hardware you can search the entire thing in milliseconds.

So why aren't we building better local search?

Because everyone is conditioned to believe, thanks to Google's success, we need to do it online. Which means baking in the problem of handling millions of queries a second into the Search problem. Guess what? This is not a problem that local search has.

Every time a chimp or a duck needs to build a protein in it's cell it doesn't query the DNA index stored in the cloud. Instead every cell has the index. Every cell has the processing power to query that index in the nanosecond time scale.

The cloud based search story is temporary.

If you want to index every reference to Taylor Swifts ass that every teenager in Norway, Ecuador and Cambodia are making, then yes you need a Google size index. But for useful human knowledge we are getting to the point where we don't need Google scale.

If you don't believe me look at what is possible TODAY in Dash/Zeal docset search for offline developer documentation search or Kiwix or with Mathematica.
We have every reason to believe that quantum computing is possible, but it could happen that it's impossible (from an engineering point of view) to have stable coherence in sufficiently large numbers of qbits to do anything useful.
Photosynthesis is incredibly inefficient compared to solar cells.
Posting messages to Slack using incoming webhooks and Python3 Requests API
We need to be careful with words here. IMHO, changing "Spanish goverment" by "Spanish Judicial System" is much more accurate. We do have a clear separation of powers in Spain.
I think why Toyota is spearheading this AGL is related to its prior software failure related deaths[1], considering broad the scope of AGl: "..advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving.."

[1]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/toyota-unintended-acceleration-...
When I don't like the DDG results, I use the '!s' bang instead of '!g'.

That means more privacy because uses startpage.com
If offensiveness is a fully subjective concept, as you say, then "expanding the scope of offensiveness" is an oxymoron, since everyone has their scope.