skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN links to the news article so I was confused as to what Darktable was, I clicked on a few of the links in the menu and couldn't figure out quickly what it was, I then googled to find out it was an alternative to lightroom, so I googled darktable and clicked on the link to find out there's a homepage with the information I was looking for initially... But there's no menu item to get to the homepage?
If it is just a speaker I doubt it is illegal to own but operating it such that it causes hearing loss could probably be considered assault.
Bitcoin is supposed to be a currency.

From the little I have read, a healthy economy means a small amount of inflation.

Given that bitcoins are limited, it is impossible to have inflation.

How can we then say that Bitcoin is s good candidate for currency?
> brain damage

Surely that's a feature, not a bug, when the police have to deal with civil rights protesters. Recall the dogs, batons, and water cannons of the south.
Ask HN: What is the optimal unsubscribe rate?
When a startup is considering how often to send emails to its email list, one consideration is the impact on unsubscribe requests.

On the one hand, if you send emails very rarely (1x per year), you'll have very few unsubscribe requests. This can feel good - certainly better than getting a flood of them. But you're probably not maximizing the value of your list if you send too infrequently.

On the other hand, if you send emails frequently (1x per week), you'll probably have lots of people unsubscribe requests. After they leave, you won't be able to tell them about the new products you're launching or new features you've added.

Does anyone have a sense of how folks can figure out whether their unsubscribe rate is too high or too low? Is there any general guidance on where this number should be for startups?
Even as someone who is very left wing on the environment, it's hard for me to overlook how much misinformation exists on the issue from left-leaning media. This article is a great example: the central implication is that renewable energy is so cheap and plentiful, that it's driving energy prices negative!
Ok, it is cheap. It is also cool. But does the techies here find it really useful? If so, why?
I can't see this without claiming the nerd cred of being the first to identify it as the password Data uses to lock out the computer in the ST:TNG episode "Brothers".

For extra credit, I will point out (which you may not know EGreg?) that the password he speaks verbally, and the password that appears on the display visually, are NOT the same and differ by a few digits near the end, a small mistake in production.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16005949

Upon a diagnosis of brain cancer, Eric Sun set out to achieve some musical goals
59 points by stablemap 1 day ago
I would suggest public domain, if only for the fact that sorting algorithms don't really have much in the way of originality.
I have had to use this exact strategy myself at the suggestion of a colleague. This was not invented by Apple, much less invented by them for this one piece of hardware.
Little known fact: 1984 is based on WW2 and immediate post-war Britain. Orwell was a propaganda correspondent for the BBC; his wife worked for the Censorship Department. 1984 was based on his experiences then, and the disillusionment of the Cold War immediately following WW2. He had initially intended to title it 1948.

Actually, this is not that little-known: it's in the Wikipedia page for George Orwell and easily accessible on the net, and the text itself says it's set in Great Britain after the major powers have divided up the world and entered a state of perpetual war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell#Second_World_War...

http://www.ministry-of-information.com/the-origins-of-orwell...

People get thrown by the title, though, thinking that it's a prediction of a future dystopia while Orwell was actually writing about the world he lived in then.
> what about current infrastructure makes it less efficient than blockchain for your examples?

This is complete conjecture, mainly because I'm not sure if I fully understand his question, but would less human interaction increase efficiency of current financial networks/institutions? Sure, small transactions in mainstream financial institutions don't need oversight as fraud prevention is adequate and easy to interact with, but large wire transfers and escrow accounts probably mandate a set of human eyes for supervision (again, just conjecture). That's something smart contracts can eliminate.
It's definitely not. My dad had one of those 'extensive questioning' sessions the first time (and only the first time) he flew to Israel because (we think) he is former non-US military. He's also whiter than snow, basically the definition of Caucasian.
I mean, I just use mine to check the weather. But for 30 bucks, the three seconds I save from not reaching for the phone are kinda worth it, I guess? It reminds me of my first few calendar items too...
Secret History of a Nuclear Warhead Falling 75 Feet Down a Silo in South Dakota
I would say that the Amazon Echo is generally better at DOING STUFF (e.g. setting alarms and reminders, playing music, adding stuff to your Amazon shopping cart (of course), controlling your TV if you have a Fire stick, etc). Supposedly controlling smart home gear, although I haven't dipped my toes in those waters yet.

The Google Home is generally better at ANSWERING QUESTIONS and providing information. Random queries that pop into your head a thousand times a day (e.g. Who starred in such-and-such movie? Who won the last time the Atlanta Falcons played the Carolina Panthers? etc).

Occasionally though, Alexa will surprise you by answering a question where Google flopped. Either way, like others in this thread, I now have both since they discounted them so low for the holidays. But for the Google, I get by with the "Mini" version... whereas I sprung for the full-size Amazon Echo because I use it for music, audiobooks, podcasts, etc and want the better sound.
HTML 5.2 is done, HTML 5.3 is coming
I think that the reason the DDR did that was because of their power was already slipping. If they massacred a lot of citizens, they would probably have a revolution on their hands… They practically already did.

It’s a difficult comparison to North Korea because the regime is not in that situation. The situation is more nuanced than that. I elaborated on possible motivations for using nonlethal force earlier... In the case of North Korea, they also might prefer to not kill citizens who they use for labor.

I wasn’t intending to discuss specific events or political situations, though. I meant to merely touch on the political dynamics of non-lethal crowd control.
Google is miles ahead in terms of a conversational assistant.

There is a lot of friction in using voice activated services. If I have a choice of typing "Weather in XXXXX zip" in the address bar vs. asking an assistant, I choose the former. Therefore, every time I use anything else but Google, I am afraid it won't recognize my command and I immediately feel like throwing that thing out of the window.

I need to be 100% sure that I will get a return on my time invested when it comes to searching or asking for information. When a Google search fails in a browser, at least I have something to bite on.

For other things such as timers, calendars, game scores, home lights, music - assistants are nice.
I do find it useful for the one very niche purpose of telling it to play music and control the room temperature while I'm taking a shower. I also fully acknowledge the privacy risks of having an always listening device in the bathroom.
Hacker News, can we come up with clever ways to undermine this growing trend toward authoritarianism? How effective are ear plugs as a countermeasure? Parabolic mirrors?

How can we divest from organizations employing these anti-populist, anti-democratic measures?
There's nonprivate repositories with a disabled fork button?! I've never seen that. I didn't think it was possible to disable forking on github, I know that you can on bitbucket.
WeChat poised to become China’s official electronic ID system
“Operators” are the core team and early adopters and exchanges.

Well if all the above are not enough for you to classify as a Ponzi scheme, not sure what to say. I have no further arguments.
While I don't have an exact number, there is a couple of points I would like to make.

Email makes for a terrible and noisy changelog. New feature announcements are best in-app.

Email should be targeted and thoughtful. What that means heavily depends on your audience, the nature and premise of your mailing list.

You should not avoid sending emails from fear of unsubscribes, an inactive mailing list is worth as much as a mailing list with zero subscribers.
"The new iMac Pro, which retails for $4,999" ... and no Touch Bar.
As a professor in a non-math subject, I agree with this and think it generalizes. I often say "this is obvious" as a way to communicate to students "you're overthinking this like woah."
> The idea that something that isn't working according to spec is supposedly working in practice is almost always an illusion.

They're obviously different things. The what that is working is not necessarily the what that the spec writers intended or imagined.

I work in network and application security. A lot of what "works" flies in the face of your definition, and I don't find your definition useful outside of meeting rooms.

> Your claim that you could specify an IP address in SNI is still wrong.

I never claimed that. I claimed that you could specify the textual representation of an IP address, of which dotted quad is the most common and the only form I've tested. You have agreed with this, so I won't repeat myself.

At the very outset, my point was that the definitions of these words are very context-sensitive. A nodename, a hostname, a domain name, a fully-qualified domain name, a text representation of an IP address. They have overlapping common meanings, but all are functional, working names for use in SNI, as understood by standard tools of internet technology.

Your argument seems to be that any name that works in SNI is by definition a DNS FQDN, because the SNI spec says that only DNS FQDNs work.

But that is clearly not correct in any other context. "snitest" in /etc/hosts (or NIS etc!) is not a DNS FQDN. "8.8.8.8" is not a DNS FQDN. Both work as names in SNI.
"Alexa, what's the weather?"

This isn't too difficult. I know Google is well off in this space but Alexa is pretty damn good too.
I mostly use it to control Philips Hue bulbs.
You can still do that with a Pringles [0] can - the pitch of the "boomp" will be quite a bit lower since the can diameter is larger.

[0] Potato snack chip ("crisp" for our UK readers) formed into hyperbolic paraboloids, which stack neatly in a cardboard tube
For those that (like me) have never heard of it before (since the info isn’t on the linked page):

darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.
I agree and its not really a surprise either... Google has been in the search (Q&A) business a long time.
I mainly use it as a home automation "hub", works well if you have multiple systems (I use it w/ Insteon, Hue, Sonos) working together and don't want to run something complicated like Homeseer. My wife uses it mostly to control lights/music, especially when she literally has her hands full with our twins. I also like that I can re-order common stuff like diapers, wipes, etc. without having to find/take out my phone.

Sometimes I wish it had a GUI though so I could interact with it even faster..
The Social Origins of Inventors [pdf]
It’s unfortunate you had to take this ad hominem.
economy != currency

An economy built exclusively on bitcoin without other currencies would indeed fail to achieve a healthy 2-3% yearly inflation rate. But apples and oranges.
I don't find it useful at all. The things it's good at (timer, lights, playing music, etc) are not hard to do to begin with.
It gets OK use I've found from people who are between 28-40 adopting new technology like voice commands.

I have two kids. You should see how they use Alexa. A ton.

Like we adopted technology in ways the generation before us could never imagine, so will the next. Never forget that we have decades of bias cooked into our souls; the mouse and keyboard being the primary instruments of UI and email being the main method of communication.

The next generation has no guarantee of using the same tools we did... and in fact is very likely to be using something entirely different that seems unproductive to us.
> I also believe that these abuses do not represent all police.

The institution of police was created to undermine labor movements. It may behoove you to re-examine your assumption that they're there to keep you safe.
Sounds like these companies are good investment opportunities? No?
Am I the only one that thinks these are useless? I got one last Xmas and stop using it after a month or so.
I work in Support and have for almost 10 years now. In NPS theory, you wanna focus first on the 8s, as they are closest to a promoter (9) and then work your way down. Usually the 8s have easier fixes than the 0s as well.

You can choose to go down and focus on the 0s too, but they help to often spot bigger pain points that could shape the product.

Again, the thing to remember with any number is we optimize for what we measure. NPS can be helpful but you need to have the NPS feedback machine running smooth or else you are going to spend your time building/running that vs. actually doing your thing.
I’ll give you similarities of the Bitcoin with a Ponzi scheme:

From wikipedia: "A Ponzi scheme (/ˈpɒn.zi/; also a Ponzi game)[1] is a fraudulent investment operation where the operator generates returns for older investors through revenue paid by new investors, rather than from legitimate business activities or profit of financial trading."

Bitcoin's only real value is that of the chance of being adopted as currency. For it to become a currency people have to start buying bitcoins, as it is the only realistic way to get hold of them. So the only way to make value for the current holders(older invenstors) is more people buying into it(revenue paid by new investors).
I wish they support photo management, at least import photos into organized folders by date
I wonder if this person has actually been to a church.

Churches are much more communal in my experience, it's not unlikely to end up drinking coffee and chatting with people, while at a gym, people often go in, do their workout, and go out.
I have a 7 Plus and am not getting an 8 or X. I will probably upgrade in a year so that I can get a better camera and (hopefully) a smaller phone.

I got the Plus because I wanted the dual-camera setup for Portrait Mode, and this tradeoff has been worthwhile overall. But I would really like to have a smaller phone, so I'll jump ship as soon as the dual-camera setup is offered on a smaller phone — without having to pay the premium for the X.
And Amazon is ahead in cash money dollars, market penetration and app/IoT integrations.

Also, don't think for a second that they're lazing about and not trying to figure out how to surpass Google in the areas where they're behind.
Those kinds of thing may be better communicated through im, emails or even test cases?
I have a bit of SQM and it is a wild ride. It jumps around a lot, but has done quite well for me as a long term investment.
Luck plays a big role, but there are also other important dynamics.

Domain expertise, creativity, intelligence, education, insights from other fields, financial resources, connections to other impactful individuals, personality, etc. Such things significantly affect how events unfold.
According to The Directory of American Philosophers, 1980 edition [0], he taught at Franklin and Marshall College at that time. Probably with a little more digging, you could come up with his academic CV. The school is a small, expensive, private liberal arts college that's (currently) well-ranked in the US News rankings[1].

--

[0]: https://books.google.com/books?id=5D9AAQAAIAAJ&focus=searchw...

[1]: https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/franklin-and-marshall-c...
False positives. No system is 100% accurate, but the closer that systems get to 100% reliability, the more people confuse those systems with 100% reliability.

The Panopticon™ claims you robbed the bank. You know you were at work, in a meeting, and your coworkers vouch for your alibi. But the Panopticon™ is "always" right, so you get fast-tracked through the courts (saves taxpayer money not to have the case dragged out) and sentenced to ten years for a crime you didn't commit (your public defender was a huge help at sentencing). Because after all, if you couldn't trust the Panopticon™, then why the hell did they spend $600 billion of taxpayer money building it?

American society was founded on the bedrock of a few principles: you're innocent until you're proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, crime is prosecuted and not prevented, your reputation can be reset by moving somewhere new and making a new beginning, and trust, faith, and forgiveness are more worthy aims than proof, evidence, and justice, for the latter can only really obtained with great difficulty and cost through the courts. Panopticons go against all these principles.
Surgical Strike 2.0: Swift Cross-LoC Raid by Indian Army Shocks Pakistan
The potential returns are enormous, but so are the risks. Remember any number of things could disrupt the price, from novel battery tech, to new mining opportunities. That’s the long term, the short term is just crazy.
The compute power wasted is unrelated to the number of transactions. The only point of wasting the compute power is to be able to say that "this block has X compute backing it". If you do that, the security of bitcoin does not care how much is contained within the block.
Is it someone's fiction?
What a nonsense article. They may as well say that the recent US stock market boom is a boon to extremists also.

Replace Bitcoin with any other commodity/security and this article is pure fluff.
Gym has a bit more physical penitence going for it. There is a sense of real bonding that happens to people who suffer together.
What Is It Like to Be a Bee?
When I'm grilling steaks, cooking vegetables on the stove, and baking garlic bread in the oven all at the same time... Alexa is the ultimate kitchen timer, letting me set separate reminders for handling all three or more at once. She's great for managing my To Do list and shopping list. She's a nice DJ, or podcast player when I'm getting ready in the mornings.

I have two young kids, and they love peppering the Google Home with a million zany questions that otherwise I'd have to stumble through (e.g. "Is a T-Rex bigger than a Spinosaurus?"). Occasionally random queries will pop into my head too, and it saves me the trouble of pulling up my laptop or tapping a search string out on my phone.

They're both mostly toys, I suppose. But I've spent much larger sums of money on much sillier and less worthwhile toys (it's astounding that Apple hasn't made one of these yet).
How sure are we that some new tech won't replace lithium ion batteries? I'd want to know that if I was investing in a mine.
You mean to say bitcoin is not a good choice as the primary currency of an economy?

What’s its use case then?
There is more than one definition of democracy. We have never practiced that form of it and never will. Representative democracy is still a form of democracy, no matter how much people want to pine after the popular vote totals.
I use it to play songs when guests come in and want to party. It's a huge pain to search for songs on Apple music and play them, when 10 guys are yelling their preferences. I also use the timer function quite a bit - for indoor exercises and cooking.
That's interesting, and "no man is a prophet in their home town". With social media, perhaps everyone knows you as a child/teenager. OTOH there are PR firms who manage one's online presence.

Yet, someone like Elon Musk, though highly capable, also gets credit for the all the work of his teams - at least in the public eye. And if "he" saves the world from climate change, AND "he" colonizes Mars, perhaps that's a greater miracle than magic catering. i.e. He could be a legendary hero.

Also, I'm not sure how important Jesus's miracles were for the success of christianity. Of course, the PR helped, but I think it's more that his teachings worked better for city-living than the alternatives. Today, most secular societies have incorporated his ideas. (They are "Christian" is the sense that their economic policy might be "Keynesian"). Though he wasn't the only one with such ideas (e.g. Buddha), I think that's the main reason for his profound influence, and this influence is the main reason he is remembered.

I mean, many prophets performed "miracles" but not all are remembered.
A fair point. It was a silly example to use and seems to be limited to CFMEU members which is not part of the market operating as normal.

Still - do you think $140k is too much for any one person to make?
They have uses, but some people delude themselves into thinking they make a significant difference in their lives
Hooked it up to my ESP8266 and now my IoT devices are voice activated. Nice!
I got new tires, but didn't buy a car, so they are worthless.

That is basically what you are saying here. We both agree, it will tell you the weather, your commute, and play some music. Those are the things you grew tired of, but many people have their entire homes wired to these devices (me included). I don't use them daily, I use them hourly at home. It runs my sprinklers, lawn mowers, vacuums, lights, alarms, timers, starts my car, on and on. You have to invest in things to get the most out of them.
Bitcoin is deflationary by nature. One of the problems with it (scalability aside) is that who would want to spend an asset which keeps increasing in value?

So now Bitcoin is seen as more of a store of value. Which it actually seems to work pretty well for. A bit expensive to move around (but still, $20 is cheap compared to most value stores like land or gold).
Yeah, this is where Lightroom really does well at. For a good photo workflow you not only need something that can process raws but also let you deal with 500+ images in a manner where you don't spend hours culling/sorting.
>>whenever people call out Anderson Cooper caught in front of a green screen

Huh? A quick Google Search shows only sources from absurd places like InfoWars. Have any conclusive evidence that can't be easily explained by motion compression algorithms?
There's a link to the homepage in every single page of the website, it's the image of the logo.

While I agree that it's not obvious, that's a common practice (Hacker News does the same) so you should probably keep that in mind.
Maybe it’s just me, but I find these products creepy and intrusive. When I think of entities I’d trust with a networked mic in my home, giant multinationals don’t readily spring to mind. Price is not the issue, much like price isn’t the problem with FB.

...Then again I have a cellphone...
You’re gonna have to help me out here. I have no idea what I did to make this thread a “flamewar hell”.
I find this an impressive fit, did you come up with it on the spot or did you read about strategy simulation somewhere else ?