skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah sorry! Yes you are right! Now that I re-read your text, I realized I misunderstood your business model. Maybe my suggestion sits well with those who are running free newsletters on Substack (who will have some form of regular income through sponsors). I notice that you are taking a fee from those who are running paid newsletters. That makes complete sense.
Well there does tend to be a correlation between right-wing extremism and white supremacy, so it's not like that comes from nowhere.

Conservatism goes beyond states rights and economics. It's also cultural. Conservatives tend not to like multiculturalism or cultural change, and tend to like things like gender roles, immigration tests, and just generally keeping things the way they were. Rational and compassionate people can have these opinions too, yet they are suppressed on pretty much all social media sites including Reddit.

When people with moderate cultural views and opinions get suppressed, they cling to the nearest groups with the closest mindset to their own. Unfortunately, on sites like Reddit, these are often extremist subreddits.
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> for Unix, that's AT-SPI

Some time ago i looked into this since i am creating a toolkit (unrelated to the linked one) and thought that it would be nice to add some accessibility support - at least for screen readers. Unix doesn't have an accessibility API nor does X, AT-SPI is basically GNOME's version which works via ATK and/or D-Bus. D-Bus is not an acceptable requirement for my case since it is a system that adds a lot of extra unnecessary complexity and implementing ATK (like Firefox) does is an even bigger no-no And really the only thing that uses AT-SPI is Gnome's Orca (KDE users use that too) and that project doesn't look very healthy (lots of bug - including several major bugs that are there for years, the wiki is a mess that has notes from 2011 about "cleaning it up").

So i just dropped the idea since it doesn't seem to be any way for this to work with X itself - nobody bothered to specify any protocol that works with pure X. It is something i might look into myself in the future, but honestly it is not a big priority for me.

> This is a lot of work, but it's necessary if the toolkit is going to be used for anything other than games or toys.

There are a ton of programs that do not provide accessibility features tech and are not games nor toys (in fact i'd guess that the majority of programs you'd find in a Linux distro do not provide anything like that - and a quick look at Orca's bugtracker makes it clear that even those that seem to do it have many issues). Also i think you'd have a better response from the people who are writing the actual code if you aren't trying to devalue their work by calling it games and toys.

> It would probably be better for you to just use one of the established ones,

It would be even better if the established toolkits didn't suck as much and broke their APIs every 2-3 years, making the programs that depend on them have a shorter lifespan than the supported versions of Windows (let alone reaching a point where they can even dream about Windows' backwards compatibility).
I agree with you. It's just that "What can I get you" is a the proper "cultural" way to say it in English. In Dutch you say it differently, so a lot of Dutch (not being exposed to the proper cultural English way of saying things) just speak Dutch with English words. It's this that makes it sound harsh.
I am guessing James Damore.
Just when the development of vue, encountered a lot of problems, but also made a lot of mistakes, but now, their own harvest quite many. Own vue blog (message board) has been developed to complete. I want to say is that the sparrow is small, fully equipped, although only a small application, but it covers a lot of knowledge points, including front-end, back-end, database and other sites must be some of the elements, for me, Learning great meaning, willing to encourage each other!
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Well, many forms of art are more interesting precisely because they have to work within constraints. In this case, the constraints, things like "your clothing has to cover your buttocks and your chest," are not particularly limiting anyway.
That's not enterprise enough. Shipping a whole JVM with your app, now that is Enterprise.
Yes but protein is expensive and I don't want to take excessive either. (assuming I'm financially constrained)
Why are recruiters so reluctant to give feedback to unsuccessful candidates?
> That Google guy would have been fired in the Netherlands just as fast as he did in the US.

He wouldn't be fired in any country with an actual labor law.
Plant sources tend to have a higher ratio of calories to protein, so it's tough if you're limiting calories. Chickpeas, eggplant, and tahini all have protein; Trader Joe's Eggplant Hummus has all three, but somehow manages to claim a lower calorie-to-protein ratio than any of its ingredients (not sure how that can work). Mushrooms are good too. Also seitan if you don't mind something a little more "processed".
Link still won't work...
ended up? it isn't over yet. we only lose if we stop trying to build a better cyberspace
This installation gives a better intuitive sense of field strength, e.g. emissions still strong enough to cause fluorescence dozens of meters away. I'm curious how Sturgeon's visualizations would appear around household appliances with (relatively) high-amperage induction motors like vacuum cleaners.
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It's not as black and white as that article makes it seem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJpdPYedWjc
When was the last time you saw a car salesman wearing a suit, let alone a leisure suit?
@daredevil_kohai has already mentioned several. What I most like about Telegram, though it does require a phone number to get started, is that it allows messaging anyone else without revealing one's phone number with the use of usernames. For me my phone number is a precious piece of information that I guard (despite the fact that I still get spam SMS and such) because it's increasingly used in many contexts as a unique person identifier for behavior profiling and surveillance (which I'm against). With Telegram, I do have to trust the platform on not leaking my number, but that's the extent of my worry.

Wire went two steps further and allows a) signing up with email addresses (without revealing phone number to Wire) and more recently b) multiple accounts for a person. Telegram has just started catching up on multiple accounts, but is still tied to a phone number.

A minor feature in Telegram that I use a lot is to edit my messages after sending them. No more re-typing messages with corrected typos prefixed with an asterisk. This either doesn't exist or came much later in other platforms I've listed in my comment (including WhatsApp).

This is anecdotal, sharing photos in Telegram means it gets through with the same resolution instead of being re-compressed and losing detail. I've heard from some others that re-compression happens on other platforms, but I don't recall on which ones right now.

Speed of message delivery, which is the most basic thing for any messaging platform. While Telegram has slowed down over time (it used to be almost instantaneous a few years ago), it still seems faster than the other platforms. This may just be my experience, since there are multiple factors that affect this.

Multi-platform and multi-device support with synced conversations across all of them. Telegram did it this way from the beginning. Wire is also similar, and better, since it has end-to-end encryption as well (but it doesn't store all conversations forever, and so newer devices will start with the most recent messages). Signal is way too behind in this department, and doesn't even allow carrying over received messages from one phone to a newer phone (this is true in iOS, and on Android it involves some work by the user). Signal actively prevents data from being backed up from the device!

Telegram's search, both within conversations and across conversations, is very fast and reliable.

Telegram allows chatting with oneself, which was renamed to Saved Messages a little while ago. I use it as a bookmarking feature to store interesting information. Combined with great search, it becomes a reference repository.

I'm sure I'm forgetting some other stuff, but the overall user experience is much better, right from application startup.
Many people (especially those who can afford central real estate) mistakenly believe that it serves the common good to deny others time-efficient transportation.
Discussion of Twilio's original article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16321760
"You are extremely creative in your use of mathematical notation"

In the US, this amounts to calling someone a liar and fraud. "Creative accounting" is also known as cooking the books. I have difficulty imagining it being taken as a delicate way to say something. I think it would be viewed as an ugly thing to say.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_accounting
Remarkably close form factor to Glass, but definitely not something Google would be participating in. Glass Enterprise Edition is much sleeker, this has a much more boxed-off front. Looks like they may be using the same projector-style display as Glass, but it's covered so that an onlooker can't see if it's displaying anything or not.

Fairly thick tether cable, seems thicker than you'd need for just power, unlikely it operates standalone. Could be like a USB-C cable, maybe, to run all the power, display, and camera data to another unit on her person?
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"Omologation" must be a German word, because the closest one I can turn up, "homologation," is apparently car jargon. Perhaps you mean "homogenization."
Whats the name for assigning a logical fallacy to a post that starts with “no scientific evidence” and “it feels”?
pea protein is a very cheap vegan source
I found that Windows 10 search is not quite as good as 8.1. I know the problem you're talking about, and it never seemed to happen to me on 8.1, only 10. They jacked the program search indexing somewhat in 10, it was perfect in 8.1.
I get why human rights orgs would want to speak against this technology, from a Western philosophy and law perspective.

China does not have the same philosophical or legal lineage. They will have to find out on their own whether the cons outweigh the pros.

Theoretically, if the system is not corrupted by misinformation (false or incomplete information), it has the potential to keep the streets free of wanted criminals --which is a noble goal. The question is whether keeping criminals off the streets will trample on innocent people's rights and if so whether the general Chinese public would accept that deal.

That said, I can see this technology also taking off in some public areas in the West --ports of entry, for example.

I also think human rights orgs also are concerned that China might show enough effective use of the tech that states outside Asia will want to at least trial it out.
I don't know exactly what the criteria for putting a black banner line on HN is, but I was a bit surprised to not see one here today after hearing of this loss.
> Works fine. There are no CPU fans, no struggling to maintain 30 frames per second. I've played back 1080p30 VP9 video in Firefox on a 12 year old Intel Core 2 Duo desktop with no issues.

That's not the experience I've seen on newer hardware and there are plenty of issues like https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=399960..., not to mention extensions like https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify / https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify-firefox with hundreds of thousands of users.

> VP9 decodes faster than H.264 at same picture quality because the bitrate is lower

That's comparing ffmpeg's decode performance on the CPU using a single clip from one video. What I'm talking about is the difference which hardware acceleration makes, especially since older systems also have older CPUs without the newer instructions used by high-performance software decoders. VP9 implementations have been increasingly optimized over the years but it's really challenging to beat hardware performance even before you consider the power budget.

As a simple example, I opened https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c on a 2.13 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (2010 MacBook Air). That's playing a 1280x720 stream. In all browsers, even with ads blocked by /etc/hosts I had to wait ~20 seconds for the 80+% CPU from the YouTube JavaScript to settle down before starting playback. In Safari, that video takes between 3 and 8% CPU usage with no dropped frames. In Chrome, that's 80-120% CPU usage and about a 5% dropped frame rate.

Firefox is interesting: it ran at about 15-20% CPU usage, which is worse than Safari but still much better than Chrome. I thought that was odd but stats for nerds showed why: Firefox was using H.264. After using media.mediasource.webm.enabled to forcibly enable webm, it started using VP9 and that meant ~40% CPU with bursts up to about 80%. While that's clearly much better than the Chrome experience it's still a full order of magnitude more CPU than Safari's hardware path.

Remember, I'm not saying that VP9 is horrible but rather than hardware support is a really big deal and optimized video playback in general has non-trivial costs. Apple made a big investment in HEVC and it doesn't surprise me that they're investing in the next generation rather than spending time on the current generation since the fixed costs for tuning, testing, security, etc. are the same whether 100% or 5% of your customers use it.
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Why is learning Sanskrit and making mandalas somehow “more important” than spending time crafting a specific fashion?
1995 ish - I build a milling machine controller using a BBC Computer, some stepping motors (requiring an 8 bit port to control, 4 bits each, 2 motors) a unit I researched and ordered and some machine code.
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pea and whey proteins are cheap, less than $1 / serving
That is mostly because all modern competitive bodybuilders use large amounts of PEDs.
Definitely worth a read.
Tris search engine offering 'IKO' (Initial Keyword Offering) to own #1 spot
Overpopulation can be addressed by building more cities. Take India for example. Mumbai is overpopulated. The reason for this is that it's the financial hub of the country and also has a booming movie industry (Bollywood). But that will change once we have smart cities through the Smart Cities Mission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Cities_Mission

This will lead to natural decongestion as industries will spread out over a larger area causing large populations to shift base.

For instance, the Dholera Smart City (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOFpWFLSqgU) based in Gujarat will become operational in 2019 (http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-dholera-smart-city-to-b...).
>Overall, our results suggest that, even in the gender-blind, transactional, flexible environment of the gig economy, gender-based preferences (especially the value of time not spent at paid work and, for drivers, preferences for driving speed) can open gender earnings gaps.

Not sure this is the right conclusion to draw. If Uber driving is less safe for female drivers, it's hardly a "gender-based preference" that's driving the gap. If women are spending more of their flexible hours doing housework or caring for children than men do, this may not be a "preference". While the paper does a great job identifying factors correlated with lower income, does it really indicate an individual's "preference", or does it indicate that the situation they find themselves in either enables or prevents uber participation?
The world seems a little bit darker.
Not necessarily. One can earn cryptocurrencies. That's especially so for coders and such. But yes, conversion with "real money" is problematic.

For small amounts, meatspace trades are doable using LocalBitcoins.com etc. For huge amounts, I suspect that expert assistance is available. It's the middle ground that's nontrivial.
...for one specific OS...

Or a userspace implementation written in difficult to bootstrap languages...
>the newest use of facial recognition technology that has drawn concerns among human rights groups

why are they getting up in arms about this? networked cameras with facial recognition have been around for years. what's so different about mounting it on a police officer's head?
The requirements were practically negligible for its era, and the leap it represented. I have installed and used it at length on 386 with 8MB on a 210MB disk. It wasn't pretty, but it wasn't pretty bad either. Perhaps (on appropriate hardware) it wasn't as solid as NT 4, but before XP (which is 2000 which is NT, even if simplifying it) there weren't many "polished enough" _and_ "affordable enough" windowing systems for the masses. Classic Mac OS was very polished but not very affordable, and it didn't even have pre-emptive multiprocessing. UNIX had either a high cost of entry if you're talking workstations (Suns and SGIs were polished but expensive) or man-hours to acclimatize (try running X11 in 1995, then compare to Windows 95).

Eh.

In any case, to bring it back. It was good enough. Nowadays, I often hope for a minimal Windows 10 that will be out of the way enough to approach Windows 95.
Notice that the smart glasses tech is improving fast. Intel recently showcased a very convincing (according to a reporter) prototype called "Vaunt". One advantage is that it looks basically like a normal pair of glasses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnfwClgheF0
Well, they never phrase it that way. Instead they see its opposites, complexity and mystery, as positives. E.g., the complicated, innovative new architecture that turns out to be a boat anchor. Or the people who, intentionally or not, write themselves 200kloc of job security and treat the resultant incomprehensibility as a byproduct of their genius. Rather than their failure to apply that genius to making things clear and approachable to others.
people in power need to be rated against these principles.
Historically? Round us, there are various predators (wild and feral) that would happily feed on a cat - hawks, owls, goannas, snakes, foxes, wild dogs. Mainly nocturnal, we keep our cats in at night (so they don't prey on native nocturnals themselves too). Plus our dogs roam the home yard, which helps keep predators at bay. We've had sheep killed though, and chickens, plus a rabbit that only has one ear left. People sometimes talk about a "natural death" as if it is some kind of peaceful alternative - but most deaths in nature involve being eaten alive by another animal.
The 'mathematical states' here are descriptions of nature. A symmetry in the description doesn't correspond to identified physical states, it corresponds to a constraint on the description. For instance, if you want to prove that something is unique, you have to show how all the different ways of describing it lead to the same conclusions.
Seriously, I can't sell this to others. Getting people to use another platform is extremely difficult due to network effects and laziness. As I said above, I spent a lot of my personal capital to move some people to Telegram and they haven't regretted it because of the features (which I also tell them about). Without richer features and without large marketing and advertising budgets, any of these will only be niche platforms.

I'm still waiting for Signal to come closer to being relevant, as per my expectations, before moving to it and pushing some others to move to it. But every time I look at a new release and compare, Telegram still seems about a year or more ahead.
pencils, almond milk, sweatpants, ...
Rob Lake's comment is pretty spot on (I'm taking the liberty to repost w/o his authorization):

""The app brings up the suspect’s vital information, including name, ethnicity, gender and address." Presumably version 2 of the app will also pop up the person's social credit score."

That being said, this will definitely come to the west sooner or later. I mean, doesn't London already have cameras at every street corner for instance ?
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Definitely - the easiest way to get something done is to have someone else to do it. Taming is a two-way process.
> Gil Kalai can have his contrarian opinion on quantum computers. But we can have a much simpler argument against quantum computers. That they will remain infeasible for a long enough time for traditional computers to catch up to it.

IIUC and IIRC (both somewhat doubtful admittedly), Feynman argued -
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~christos/classics/Feynman.... - that only a quantum computer can perform a scalable simulation of quantum physics. Assuming that is correct, there is no option for "traditional computers" to catch up for all problems at least.
what is wrong with you?
That brings back memories.
Sure, here's an example from 2 days ago.

During the day, my wip.md file looks like this https://gist.githubusercontent.com/hboon/cd7ffa9ed94ce3a8bc8...

I abuse the Markdown format:

* "projects" marked with headers, with a prefix :: so I can search for it

* I mark "tasks" as done with an *

* I mark uncompleted tasks with @@

* When I start to work on a project, I add a line near the top with the start time and when I finish, I mark the end time too, using a vim macro.

I use MacVim all the time, so my wip.md is always open as the first tab. And I bind cmd+1 to it.

At the end of the day:

I run a vim macro which runs a script to generate the total time for each project ending up with: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/hboon/b8770dea077f67664d9...

I then go through it manually and delete the tasks that are still marked as @@ just keeping those with an asterisk. So this effectively becomes my journal for that day. I keep a short note under the Notes: line. For eg. I might say that I didn't work because I went out with my family, or if I'm sick. I delete those mark with an asterisk in wip.md, add more or tweak the remaining ones and I have the file ready for the next day. I do my daily review at this time, so the macro which I mentioned actually opens a few other files including one called on-deck which is basically where I can grab things over from to add to wip.md. Over the years, I sometimes end up with wip.md growing too much, making it quite inhibiting. I try to keep the wip.md to ~1 page so it's more manageable.

I'm ashamed to share the script which I wrote a few years ago :P But it's simple, it just goes through each line looking for a regex match for:

11:10 PM - 11:21 PM Mimic

I have a config file that looks like this:

[timelog]

projects=Everyday,Marketing,Mimic,etc

ignoreInTotal=Plan,Review,Photos,Expenses,HomeAdmin,Paperwork

timelogDirectory=/Users/hboon/Dropbox/backup/timelog/

So it can figure out the project name from the regex and only include the relevant ones. Then compute a total for each project, for AM/PM, as well as a grand total for the day.

You can see the result in that second gist link.

I think I got the idea from John Carmack's .plan files https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive/blob/mast.... My original version back in 2009 only had this:

11:57 AM - 12:17 PM	Code: Check conversation view problems

12:19 PM - 12:23 PM	Code: Crash when timeline->avatar->followers->back (not home, probably), probably problem with ContactsPicker

It just evolved from there.