skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And despite all that engineering their reliability was terrible due to various plug design problems with the predecessor to MagSafe or the cords getting damaged from point stress. Meanwhile, Dell and HP make mediocre stuff that somehow hardly has such a problem by using much thicker gauge wiring and tougher rubber / plastics.
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Tezos $232M ICO
SPOILERS BELOW:

I don't have a mac. Can someone spoil me which is it? I say it's B. It has slightly desaturated or off colors.

edit: I now compared the two result screenshots, I was right.
one day people will have DAG based programs where history has even less importance
> "Apple is a software company that builds hardware". Above is ample evidence of Apple being a hardware-heavy innovation machine.

I disagree with both.

Apple is a design company that builds hardware and software together so the design works as intended.
We (developers) can already build and run wirelessly since a year or so ago, and iTunes will back up your iPhone wirelessly, too.

It does need to be plugged in once and then enabled, but after that you're off to the races. We're actually pretty close. It wouldn't surprise me if the next iPhone had no ports, although they'll probably save that for a non-S year.
You're describing the cheap Chinese made knock-offs. They look almost perfectly identical and generally you can only tell by opening them up.

They're awful. There are a LOT of teardowns of those. It's scary.
"Not even taking weight the proven federal crimes to which this former presidential candidate seems immune"

If there are punishable crimes why hasn't the justice department filed charges?
There is a field in state IDs and US passport files for previous names. It is ostensibly there for maiden names or fraudsters. Countless times it has outed me as a transsexual, and causes me to face harassment from cops or ICE agents.
See here:
https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/DgO4M5UNBt1xfvqm.h...

Irregular in 3 dimensions (terraced).
Most reviewers (and people) don't appreciate color fidelity. Jon Gruber was just talking about how Google spent the time/effort to make the colors of the Pixel display more accurate and natural, and then people complain they don't "pop" and look as good as the super-saturated colors on other android phones.
Yeah, I was being facetious - I'm not totally against the idea, although I don't know how it might actually work in practice.

Rights of the individual are all good and well, but they only work when we collectively agree not to be complete and utter assholes to each other for personal gain. That's sort of the whole point of laws and regulations, right? Not to further the interest of whatever special interest group has captured the regulatory agency.

Like, I expect people not to butt into my personal business for no good reason, but I recognize that that expectation is predicated on me not unreasonably intruding on other peoples' affairs.
Liquid metal transistor does Terminator2 tricks
For javascript, typescript etc VS code is excellent. For simple hacking I still use vim a lot, and for medium side projects I just open geany which is light and fast and does the job fairly well.

At the moment for web related work I use vscode, otherwise I still keep coming back to vim and geany, which are light-weight, quick and get the job done.

Geany is truly excellent, I hope it can keep evolving as it has been for many years.
What I learned from a year of obsessive fandom
I bought a MacBook on eBay that came with a fake charger. Had to threaten to report them before they sent me a real one.
I would be willing to pay more, just to be rid of the Comcast monopoly. That said, I doubt anything comes of this.
My point was more that a lot of strong creative types are bored to tears by startup subject matter (I acknowledge "startup" is a broad category)
The decimation of local news in New York City
Agree, and I think cloud is very much becoming a must-know technology. I suspect many here on HN will be shocked that anyone -doesn't- yet fully grok cloud ecosystems, but there are plenty of us in enterprise environments where physical or at least virtual hosts are still dominant.

3 -4 years go in my sector cloud felt very much like an emerging thing. Now it's absolutely "here", and I would encourage anyone with an interest in staying current over the next 5 - 10 years to get into this stuffif you're not doing so yet!
Looks like still no native pulse audio support.. dang.
Right, but we're talking about the past decision's risk profile. Obviously it worked, but it could have gone a number of different ways.
For those interested in this topic, you also might be interested in sensors that can measure evapotranspiration (ET). ET is directly related to photosynthesis and crop yield.

Here is a quick refresher from the textbook on plant water relations:

> Stomata are microscopic valves present in all leaves, formed by the pairing of specialized cells called guard cells on the leaf surface. Stomata are the main ports through which water vapor is lost. Of equal importance is the fact that stomata also are the main ports through which carbon dioxide gas moves from the air into the leaf and is photosynthesized into plant material and accounts for most of the plant dry matter produced. - Hsiao

Our company, Tule Technologies (YC S14) is the commercial vendor of sensors that can measure evapotranspiration. We solve many of the problems mentioned in this article.
There seems to be a big list of domains streaming through in alphabetical order. First there were dozens all starting with J, now there are dozens starting with K. Looks like gemalto is going through the day's domains in alphabetical order and adding them one at a time?
Most states don't have any restrictions on municipal broadband: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qkvn4x/the-21-law.... Even out of the 21 states that do have restrictions, most don't create really major impediments. E.g. in Pennsylvania:

> [C]ities need to approach their current ISP with a detailed broadband plan. The ISP then has 60 days to take that plan and implement it or reject it. If the company agrees to take the plan, it has a year to build it out. If the plan is turned down, the city is free to build its own network.

Out of the 10 most populous states, only three have significant restrictions on municipal broadband and none have an outright ban. I think the FCC should preempt all such restrictions, but it's kind of a cop-out to say that laws like these are why municipal broadband is so rare.
We already do remote sensing in these wavebands and chlorophyll fluorescence spectroscopy has been around a long time. The amount of signal due to chlorophyll fluorescence is very very small. I think if your going to spend the bucks on an advanced sensor to do this kind of work, you just go whole hog and do hyperspectral imaging.
Nicely done. Just need one for planets and elementary particles now.
The Pixel is a great example of how Google is trying to cast off the constraints of Android's distribution model. I really think they can do it, but it's going to take a long effort. Eventually all the cheap phones will be Android and Google/Samsung/Apple will fight for the premium market. And it's unclear how long Samsung will remain in the fight given their lack of control over the OS and hardware integration.
The programmers I hire.
The current nano-SIM standard is something that was created by Apple.

https://www.cnet.com/news/sim-card-maker-apples-design-won-s...

Since then, Apple has been pushing for carriers to support a new standard for an embedded chip in the device to hold the data currently stored on one or more removable SIM cards.

>The Apple SIM supports wireless services across multiple supported carriers, which can be selected from a user interface within their operating systems, removing the need to install a SIM provided by the carrier itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_SIM
well, now they've admitted it's union-related. so much for giving them the benefit of the doubt.
mainly, I think, they realized it's a trend and they can't just give every single thing 0/10 each time.
Pantheon is great-- I've really enjoyed their tooling and they made stuff like new relic easy to work with.

A couple of things, though:

kalabox is no longer in dev. It's replacement is "Lando":
https://github.com/lando/lando

But I spent a good chunk of the last two weeks messing around with kalabox and lando.... I do a whole lot of WP work, and I find that running the amp stack directly on macOS is a lot easier then containerizing things on several levels. I don't have to work with earlier versions of PHP or test against mySQL or Maria directly, so that's probably a pain point I will find eventually, though.
Li-Ion has extremely low self discharge rate and very high power efficiency. It can also reach thousands of recharge cycles as long as you don't discharge it too deeply and don't overcharge it and keep it cool. It has no memory effect, so it can be recharged frequently.
> Split layer 1 from layer 3. I want a fiber pair from my house to the central office, where I can then patch to any provider who decided to pay the cost-recovery based co-location connection fee. Basically I should be able to tell this wireline provider to plug my patch cord into service provider X and they do it within a reasonable timeframe. I pay this provider for the wire itself.

> I then get provider #2 and subscribe to their IP services. Hopefully there would be enough competition (e.g. dozens) here to not have to regulate further.

This is exactly how DSL worked, with ILECs being forced to sell wire access to CLECs. Many places were still not served by a CLEC.

The answer for keeping things competitive and modern is probably both. The physical infrastructure companies should provide dark fiber, which will be demanded if there is high enough population density to independently invest in the gear to light or even for individual businesses with special requirements. They should also provide aggregation through their own edge switches, so that less-dense places can experience provider-competition at regional meet-me centers.
Diagrams for homework is easy. The tool almost doesn't matter.

What gets hard is when a diagram is describing something you don't have control over, such as a system built by dozens of engineers, or a product that is still being influenced by changing requirements. In those cases, I often want to build an initial diagram, then extend it quickly and in a version-control friendly way, or even in a way that can be generated.
Not for producing as such but there's also Mixxx DJ software where you can write your own controls and effects in Javascript.
I don't think anyone used Windows Sound Recorder for anything serious. It had a built in maximum record length for starters (I think to prevent piracy?).

Sound Forge was my preferred editor for years before Audacity matured. Cool Edit was ok, but I seem to recall it had a bizarrely over-designed UI that made the thing feel more like a toy than a serious tool. Particularly when compared to the much older and more feature rich (at that time) Sound Forge. It took a while before Cool Edit really became competitive and by that point I was already using Audacity.

I do still miss some features of Sound Forge even now. Though I don't tend to do too much with audio editors these days compared to the stuff I was doing in the 90s and 00s.
Why?

Postgres is free and usually good enough. If you are going to pay, Oracle is generally better. The ground that mssql wins for a non-microsoft shop is verrrrry small.
Mathematicians built computing including programming language semantics
The iPod team was given first shot at making the Apple phone. They lost to the Mac team. Design-wise the iPhone was just the (secret) Mac tablet with a smaller screen.
So do you mean as soon as it was sold in 1998 to Audi, a German group, right?
And what it has to do with the "abysmal" finish of Italian high end car?
Indeed. I don't know if it's my age or my domain, but this is something that comes up a bit on the design of my own projects and code that I try to get younger programmers to think about, and which might look weird to those who have rote learned the "don't repeat yourself" mantra, or the culture of "just import everything from modules". Sometimes it's responsible to repeat yourself if you have good reason to believe things will shift/change in the future.

A lot of young data scientists and analysts (and IT types in general) code in a way that solves the immediate problem.

But with a bit of time you start to realise that the initial brief is anyways part 1, an executive/customer will change their mind 15 times before the end of the project. What seems like the same problem now will not be the same problem in two weeks, let alone two years. Doubly so if you're interacting with entities or sources that aren't software engineers.

Over the long run, excessive modularisation creates what I'll call Frankenstein programs. You've been tasked with making a man, and what you end up with is a shambling golem made from rotting, pulsating, mutating parts all stitched and held together. If you're really unlucky, it will evolve further into the akira/tetsuo program, where you begin to lose control of the mutations until it self destructs under its own complexity.

The interesting part is that the answer to this can also be partly found in nature: you modularise and specialise, but you also make strategic choices where you're deliberately redundant.

Too much redundancy is spaghetti code. Modularisation and structure save you there.

Not enough redundancy leaves you vulnerable to changes in your environment and mutation as the project ages and evolves.

As I've gotten older, I'm placing more and more value on the later. Your mileage may vary...
It's really powerful in one sense (the composing part) and so limiting because you immediately force applications to talk in lowest common denominator speak.
It's exactly like the dot in haskell but you have no types. Haskell without types is pretty terrible.
>>> Most reviewers (and people) don't appreciate color fidelity

It's not about "appreciating". It's that it doesn't matter. Everyone talked about retina resolution, then about "true colors".

Today we have Samsung making all the screens.

The point is, nobody except professionals care.
I agree with most things in your comment, I'm just curious what things you see that "shouldn't be distributed"?
Hey I used it on some MAGA supports and immediately found BOTS. Check out botcheck.me. Some of them surprisingly didn't come up as BOTS.
This article didn't seem like that much of an incident. The warhead didn't fire, at least. SL-1 is more of what I would think would be a real .mil-sector nuclear accident.
Show HN: GraphQL for Julia 0.6
No worries, I know mining is decreasing returns. at 300$ it makes it doable especially if you started 100$ a day.

Have warm fun
I am not at home with my audio software but, off the top of my head, zooming and navigating a waveform in Sound Forge is SUPER efficient and intuitive, as mouse-wheel zooms and middle-click scrolls, and click-drag to edit individual samples. You can quickly zoom into your work at a level of individual samples and them zoom out and see the whole waveform in only a few movements.

My other favorite features are how editing doesn't rely on "modes' like Audacity (I hate having to hit a button before I make a selection then another to do something else), and Sound Forge's selection logic itself:

- the playback cursor will intelligently snap and loop on your selections (or not, depending on how you set the toggle), -

- the editing scrolls to follow your cursor as you are zoomed in, but not if you're currently editing something. A lot of programs do this but I find their logic is terrible and I have to control automatic scrolling myself. This is very helpful for working on seamlessly looping material, as you can leave playback on loop and continue working at the very end of your selection without the UI losing your place

- load and save in native formats without having to use some proprietary intermediary format (AUP)
> For example, as far as I know it’s difficult to guarantee identical FPU results on x86 and ARM.

Can you give details/ressources on how it is difficult to obtain identical FPU results on x86 and ARM?

Does this even hold if you program in assembly using either

- only the primitives that are defined exactly in IEEE 754:2008 (i.e. not some functions defined in some, say, C library)

or

- using "identical" implementations of more complex functions (i.e. not the IEEE 754 primitives; think of cos, erf, gamma, ...)?
I just read the section "Conditional in JSX", and frankly I think this is crazy. If one needs such inelegant code to deal with basic boolean logic then I'm saying thanks, but no thanks, and I'll use some other tool than React. The section actually speaks of an "alternate hacky approach", which says enough.
> It had a built in maximum record length for starters (I think to prevent piracy?).

It was somewhat related to the memory the computer had. I think it tried to store audio all uncompressed in memory. At the very least it varied a lot between different machines. I remember trying it in a super low spec machine and it could record up to about 5s max.
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No, I don't want to access Google services. I don't want microG on my phone. I don't want Google Play Services on my phone.
This is what we are doing at Qarnot Computing for 5years.
We created a heater using CPU as a heat source.
People send a docker image (3d rendering, financial analysis...) and we run it on heaters deployed in buildings in Paris where people are heated for free (we refund the electricity cost)

https://computing.qarnot.com
https://www.qarnot.com/faq/

Disclosure: I work there :)
Seems to be quite popular solution when Russian winter is coming.

Couple of weeks ago there was an ethereum-mining heater Comino https://comino.io

These guys say they use optimized liquid cooling to transfer heat from GPUs to the room effectively (and earning like $10-$15 a day).
Seems like Hacker News is being co-opted by people with an agenda. I see more and more of these off-topic articles popping up on the front page
Why I Returned my iPhone X After 1 Hour
-Smaller keyboard compared to Plus.

-Nearly all apps adding black bar to top and bottom which severely reduces screen size.

-Videos sized to full screen chop off the bottom, or if you don’t expand to full screen the video feels very small.

-FaceID didn’t work when phone was positioned on center console of car.

-FaceID takes 1+ sec to unlock compared to instant Touch sensor.

-No headphone jack unlike 6s Plus.

-No noticeable speed increase in web browsing and normal (non-gaming) activities compared to 6s Plus.

-If you lock phone using right side button, you need to click right side button again (?!) and then use FaceID to unlock.

-Weird (bad) glare in sunlight when wearing polarized sunglasses.

-Screen resolution and quality didn’t seem that much different/better then my 6s Plus except when looking at Photos.

-Corners of X chop off precious real estate from phone.

-Annoying to have to position fingers/hand at top left and right of phone to swipe to access menus.

-2716mAh battery of X compared to 2750mAh of 6s Plus.

-174gram weight of X compared to 188 grams for 6s Plus, so practically the same weight but much smaller screen.

Only positive was the camera did take nice pics.
I'm curious, what are you doing that cops are looking up your information so often? Is this from being pulled over for traffic violations? I'm struggling to think of the last time I had any interaction with someone who wanted to see an ID from me. Maybe I just don't get out often enough ;-)
Dejavu 1.3 – The missing web UI for Elasticsearch
One-woman-photoshopped-by-18-countries
Have you used it? How does it compare to commercial DJ software? Iyho
Just as I am far enough removed from the experience to laugh about the 2500 bitcoins I "lost"...
I think we can find common ground in agreeing that those pilots needed all the help they could get. Same with these sailors.
And yet companies worth hundreds of billions had put the title to people after that long every cycle.

Complaining about this is putting way too much emphasis on naming.
Ask HN: What are you working on?
Well, we do use ML quite a bit in scene classification, but as I said earlier, there is really nothing revolutionary about what was being presented in that article. Its all old science and methods that have been in employ for decades. LiDAR and hyperspec is the way to go, but as is ALWAYS the case, its all hand-waving without good reference data.
Haha, Cool Edit... now, that's a name I haven't heard in forever. Cool Edit and Paint Shop Pro were like the highest end crackeable shareware I never had a use for, and yet for some reason were the first thing I'd install on every new Windows install.
The big question I think is why we compare US with Weimar and not any other two countries.

The US is not the most oppressive one to sexual minorities.

And there have been thousands of countries throughout history and most of them have persecuted minorities. So out of them why do we pick Weimar?

To me it seems to be a case of cherry picking to support a desired conclusion.
If iPhones ran today's Android, they would lead the pack; but because they run iOS, they're pretty MOR in terms of everyday performance and responsiveness (and perhaps especially disappointing WRT battery life). This is quite a role reversal from the situation five years ago.
Facebook Says It’s Policing Fake Accounts, but They’re Still Easy to Spot
I'm curious about that, too. I'm betting they are serious and just didn't get that it was a joke. As it stands I'm not quite sure I get the joke either, but it is kind of funny how useless an organization scheme this is since all the repos are unrelated and it's highly unlikely any one person would be looking for multiple element-named projects.

I think it'd be even funnier if the repos it links to weren't even named after elements, but just had names resembling the abbreviations or something. But then again, it would be hard to find some more useless grouping criterion than being named after an element... I wonder if it's actually worse than random :)
Cool Edit is now Adobe Audition
Yes, many models are vulnerable. But there are no proofs that allow you to say that. You should also be aware that they're only talking about image classification in all of these.

I will only accept blanket statements about "all machine learning systems" when there's a mathematical proof.

I don't mean to lessen the importance of the work, just to point out that saying "X fails at Y on subtask Z using the techniques we have today" is very different from saying "All possible X's, current and future, fail at Y."
This especially applies to Trello tickets that you're writing to your own colleagues/developers.

Prior to going to DevBootcamp I worked as an engineering consultant, my product was informational reports that had to describe specifically what the problem was, how we determined that, and what we recommended to resolve it.

Sometimes my reports would be returned to me in a blood bath of red ink on changes but eventually you understand what it means to get the point across objectively and concisely.

My point is, get your copy proof read, limit the jargon, and get to the point in the first sentence.
Ask HN: What is the state of ESB?
Traditionally ESB is the centerpiece of an architecture. How relevant is it these days. Do people still start grand projects to unite all systems and what are the tools and OS projects taking its place? Kafka is the 'cool' thing to build stuff with.I assume people can get a lot of mileage with pub-sub and use grpc where they can. What mordern OS tools are filling a similar gap?
you're an early adopter and you were surprised?
Are you white?
On the flip side, it would be much easier to change identities if you didn't have to list previous names which would be heavily abused by criminals, etc.