skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At some point it is a subjective call what is drudgery or inefficiency and what is desirable work. I, for one, maintain a wet darkroom because I like to make prints by hand, it’s something that makes me feel engaged with the result in a way that digital workflow doesn’t. But it’s totally my choice to do this. And to choose which parts of the process I want to simplify(I use a motorized drum to process film). I like to cook, but there’s no way i’d Give up my electric mixer.
Accessorize to a Crime: Real and Stealthy Attacks on S.O.F.A Face Recognition [pdf]
> Renting vhs/beta/laserdisc/bluray/hd etc has long been preferable to watching something littered with advertisements every 12-15 minutes

Speak for yourself. I haven't done that in years. My last bluray was my first. I stream or download everything these days, not to mention that many streaming services offer paid options that do not have advertisements every x minutes.

Nothing wrong at all with the phrase 'streaming television'
No, it’s just the most boring conspiracy theory ever.

There are a few hamlets out west where the local sheriff and justice-of-peace got into the business of modern highway robbery, extracting fines from unsuspecting travelers. For other cities, fines aren’t nearly as significant as people love to think.

Case in point: fines make up $140 million of LA’s $9 billion budget. That’s 1.5%.

That’s not even factoring all the positive changes, financially and otherwise, cities will see from autonomy: parking can happen off-site, freeing up two lanes on a typical street for pedestrians, bikes, or public transport. Smart algorithms can make far more efficient use of existing infrastructure, reducing the need for construction and maintenance. Fewer accidents means less need for emergency response...
autonomous vehicles will create revenue holes and mass unemployment. It is a scary proposition for non-tech futurists.
The Q and A contradicts this.

>Copyright status in another country is not relevant to the legitimate ability of Project Gutenberg -- or anyone/anything in the US -- to make any use of these books.
The title was long; I abbreviated it: S.O.F.A == "State-of-the-Art"

Full Title:

Accessorize to a Crime: Real and Stealthy Attacks on State-of-the-Art Face Recognition
For Switzerland you can just e-mail me! I am a former programmer, turned technical recruiter. I run https://coderfit.com, a niche recruitment agency that focuses on Zurich. Please let me know at iwan@coderfit.com, if I can be of any help. I got already a couple of engineers successfully into Switzerland.

If you can move to a job, that is really the best but that is not always possible. Some opportunities only open up if you are already in the country/in the city where you want to move. Several of my clients (unfortunately) consider only candidates that already basically live next door. They are missing out on great talent from other places but they don't want to take the risk that someone gets the job (which means other people have to be rejected), moves, doesn't like something about the place and moves away.
> The "seriously...this is best science can do???" overtones are there.

Drug companies have billions of dollars for research, they have a legal framework where any advancement can be patented for decades and exploited in an almost limitless market for a cancer drug.

So the incentives seem to be there, the answer is one of two things: either this is the best science can do at this time, or something is fundamentally fucked up in the way we approach science and apply it to real life problems.
That's a great theoretical argument, but the reality is nonsense. Most people aren't in a position to improve their income by doing an extra few hours work (working fixed hours, or working a salaried job where hours worked don't affect pay, or they're not working, etc), so they'd be better off financially spending that time washing their clothes by hand instead of owning a washing machine.
There's car mods other than race cars. I have a modified Toyota 4Runner that will go just about anywhere. There's a really large field of people restoring old cars, which is difficult because some parts just don't exist. This overlaps with the restomod scene, which restores old cars while selectively upgrading certain parts.

And then you get to stuff like putting a Tesla into an old Honda. If you have to ask why, then you wouldn't understand.

But yes, it very easily gets to be expensive.
The point would still stand even if Starbucks was indeed instantaneous. There's is something nice about being able to spend 2-5 minutes to prepare your own coffee. Sometimes you don't want to do it, but I think the point here is that if you have the convenient Starbucks alternative right in your face, you might "accidentally" surrender the pleasure of brewing your own coffee due to your laziness of the moment.
3 Questions to Ask Your New Pair (and Yourself)
Tangent: in the real world, there are no real numbers. Whether or not there are arbitrary rational numbers is something of an open question.

"Binary number" as used by grandparent really refers to dyadic rationals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyadic_rational), which are a perfectly well-defined dense subset of the rationals. Similarly, "decimal number" is really "terminating decimal expansion" (or whatever you want to call the decimal analogue of dyadic rational), which is again a well-defined dense subset of the rationals. This is a perfectly valid mathematical distinction; the numbers that people work with day-to-day are much more frequently the latter.
You’re entitled to your opinion, but I think that evil is a stretch. That one aspect is certainly disappointing. Maybe I’m just in love with something that is evil.
I don’t think the two of you are actually disagreeing.
But those facts don’t fit with the anti-American trope commonly repeated on Hacker News. Why do many Europeans on here seem to resent or blame the US for everything? There doesn’t seem to be nearly the same animosity from Asians or Australians. I am genuinely curious because clearly you stated the facts around the origins of copyright law but clearly others wanted to claim that this whole system was caused by Americans — despite being factually wrong. Do Europeans have an inferiority complex or something when it comes to Americans? It’s strange to me because Germans really seemed to love the US during the Berlin Wall era.. Levi’s, American music, Coca Cola, American military assistance to counter the Soviets.. but as soon as that wall came down, the next German generation seems to be filled with a low-grade hatred or resentment of all things American. But Europeans, rather than attempting to compete with American companies like Facebook, Apple or Google, instead seem to want to use the government to weaken those companies — rather than supporting tax and entrepreneurial policy that would allow places like France to create successful companies. There are more tech billionaires and millionaires in a single city in the United States than in the entirety of Europe. And that money? It gets used to fund more companies — creating a cycle of innovation and entrepreneurship.

But somehow, all of Europe’s problems are because of America?
It feels like you're making the assumption that women who would be attracted/impressed by/enjoy luxury things are somehow shallow or maybe gold diggers. The truth is that status (or the potential for it) factors very highly into how humans pick mates. Luxury things are an easy proxy for status, your personal ambitions, and success. And yes, status can be displayed via other means if a person has social standing or does something our society considers cool (ex: rockstar).

I guess what I'm saying is that, whatever personal situation, I doubt you would be interested in a man who just lazed around the couch all day watching Netflix, playing video games, and having little ambition beyond that.
Shoot, I was just planning to use this for generating PDFs out of a URL on nodejs. Does anyone know of any other library / module out there that is good at this?
Sometimes significant societal change exceeds the limitations of our own personal experiences.

I think the introduction of running water, especially hot water, into homes, and washing machines around the same time, made a substantial improvement in terms of availability of ~half the potential working population.
One good reason is speed limits lead to noise control.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)#Decline

"In March 2017 Veronica indexed 133 gopher servers"

https://blog.golang.org/8years

"Go has been embraced by developers all over the world with approximately one million users worldwide. In the freshly published 2017 Octoverse by GitHub, Go has become the #9 most popular language, surpassing C. Go is the fastest growing language on GitHub in 2017 in the top 10 with 52% growth over the previous year. In growth, Go swapped places with Javascript, which fell to the second spot with 44%."
Fair enough.

My only issue with the game cart is that it sometimes* doesn't reconize, but the good old magical take card out, blow on it, put it back in, and bam it works again...

This only happens on 2 of my 7 games tho.
Any reason why this is up on HN? Is there a new release or something?
How did you set that up?
Another problem, then:

If people see a vehicle has stopped for them to cross, they oftenbassume it's safe for them to cross. Unfortunately they are then less attentive to see if other lanes are following suit.

Pedestrians are constantly being hit in my "friendly" town where the culture has people stop for pedestrians even if the vehicle has right of way. But then the stopped vehicle blocks the view of another car in a neighboring lane, which keeps on coming.
Of course more digits than 2 exists. In Germany petrol/gas has always been priced with 3 decimals. And in B2B it's even more common. I'm talking about 98% of consumer business where the precision is full cents for each transaction.

In general you need to know when to round and to how many digits. But my complaint was that languages have a natural API for binary floating point, which is useful for scientific number crunching, but rarely anything comparable for commercial calculations.

I have not tried to design a natural API for fixed (but parameterizable) decimal precision and the implicit rounding required. But I would be surprised if it's impossible to come up with anything less verbose (explicit constructors everywhere) and less error prone (forgetting to call rounding).
We may be of different ages.

My point was that this is not at all new phenomenon -- for people over 40yo, the appeal of 'at will' AV systems has been well understood long before the word streaming was re-appropriated to refer to a sequence of IP packets.
I noticed the "referrer=" parameter in the submitted URL is for MetaFilter.

> https://www.metafilter.com/172744/Technologies-of-Mass-Indiv...

I thought it'd be cool to see all the comments and discussion people are having about this: How can the comments on all three sites {MetaFilter, NYT, HN} be collated to into one discussion? Is there a service that exists for this that my morning brain isn't thinking of?
Identity politics is calling a black person who voted for McCain or a mexican-american who voted for Trump a traitor.
Sounds similar to Edit with Emacs

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/edit-with-emacs/lj...
Would you argue that dumping tea into the harbor is an act of outrage?
> It's good for the environment too but that's not as convincing to me. My pollution is a drop in the bucket, cycling or not.

Hey, don't sell yourself short! Of course an individual's pollution contributions are a "drop in the bucket". Just like a presidential vote is a drop in the bucket. In aggregate, these drops do a lot of good (or could do a lot of bad). You're walking the walk, so to speak. That inspires people to do the same. Keep it up!
I feel like that’s a mistake with the opportunity cost argument for and against. You don’t have to be in a position to make more money or improve yourself. Maybe the opportunity you find value in is not wasting time washing your cloths by hand.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language)
Huawei Nova 2s specifications and price
New lawsuit says Google refused to hire white and Asian men
Yay, you are looking for a dedicated Product Manager. Too bad all your job offers seem to be relatively non-remote (I'm in Europe).
Why is it so important that we should be able to control what it runs? It's a consumer gaming device and does that perfectly well.

No one is complaining that you can't run your own programs on the dishwasher or thermostat, or your car (and I fear the day we get jailbroken autonomous cars)
A couple of actual numbers:

* For example, Agua Caliente Solar Project, located in Arizona near the 33rd parallel and awarded for its excellence in renewable energy has a nameplate capacity of 290 MW and an actual average annual production of 740 GWh/year. Its capacity factor is thus: 29%

* A significantly lower capacity factor is achieved by Lauingen Energy Park located in Bavaria, near the 49th parallel. With a nameplate capacity of 25.7 MW and an actual average annual production of 26.98 GWh/year it has a capacity factor of 12.0%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor#Photovoltaic_p...
Yes, I have heard COBOL has support for fix point decimals. But I have never used COBOL and I guess few people would encourage to start new software projects in COBOL, even if the use case is commercial/financial.
Five short years ago, I was no less a permanent resident of the Internet than I am now, and I was no stranger to the unsavory dark corners. Yet I had either never, or very rarely encountered so many of the inflammatory topics that i see now on a daily basis.

There were no regular references to nazis (godwin'd threads aside) and white supremacy. You don't even hear about godwin's law anymore, because it applies much too often now. I'd never heard of antifa. I didn't daily encounter people accusing people and things of being racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and so on. I didn't know the names of any white supremacists other than David Duke, and I rarely saw anything about him. (Ironically, I still have never seen any white supremacist material or figures in any organic context. I only see them being promoted by their opponents due to the Streisand Effect).

My perception of all of this has changed drastically in the last 5 years. I encounter all of the above daily to the point where it's never far from my thoughts. That was never the case before. I'm not an activist. I don't take an interest in politics. I only subscribe to graphics programmers on Twitter, and I only visit subreddits that interest me. But it's only in the past 3-4 years that I can't even be on the web without seeing all of the above.

Now all of this hasn't found its way into IRL, yet. But it has begun to. People I've known for many years have recently started posting about what I consider fairly extreme political ideas. Certain distinctive vocabulary, and the associated thinking, is seeping into their lexicons.

I'm sure there's a lot of truth to what you're saying too. But culture spreads. If those outraged voices are "just" being heard more, there is no "just" about it. They're drawing people in, the ideas are spreading, and the mobs are growing too.
It's not commonly used because the hierarchy is weird. Originally the names had to be four deep, containing both the state and the locality, which is silly since all but the smallest operations span localities and even small companies often change locality. So they eventually allowed registrations directly at .us but there is still no .us equivalent to .org.uk.
If you look at the fast.ai lesson 11 YouTube video, the very beginning has an amazing example of this with fish!
Blockbuster.
My favorite (mis)use of Dosbox was using it to drive Symate for PLC programming. That let me switch to using a Linux netbook instead of dragging a laptop booted in DOS around a factory.

My notes from the time: https://sites.google.com/site/waspvm/runningsymate374underdo...
You're mentioning startups that will be wiped out. The big players in this scene are companies like Google, GM, and Uber. Not startups by any stretch of the imagination.
Yea, the lack of email absolutely kills it for me. The turn-by-turn directions might be a decent enough substitute for maps. But having an actual maps app would be nice (though it couldn't be as interactive as we're used to with an e-ink display so I'm not sure how that would work).

I like the basic idea - I definitely can do without social media, netflix, games, etc. But basic business communication (email!) needs to be there.
Exactly. Which is why the responses which focus on how the "average" pay is higher than the "median" pay the report mentioned is misleading at best.
You're assuming the driving environment will remain the same.

It's possible the convenience and cost savings of autonomous transport would be great enough that society would be willing to change its relationship with roads.
moment motors is an austin startup that converts classic cars to electric.

Here is a porsche they did
https://www.momentmotors.com/porsche/
Is Common Lisp not a popular language? It has had rational types natively since the 1980s
Take away the fridge, dishwasher, and the washing machine and now you need someone in the household to get perishable groceries daily, cook daily (no leftovers), wash dishes, and wash clothes. Add up these and gains from other appliance and services and you basically have a full day every day. The argument isn’t that you’d earn for an extra two hours a day with a washing machine at home. It’s that these appliances - in sum - free up an entire person to go work.
Same, and this just started after the holidays for me, and not sure why. Going on a trip, order new boots guaranteed to arrive the day before i left. Needless to say, I canceled that order the night before my trip at 10pm. And that's like the 5th time this year. They really need to quit calling it a guarantee.
Hans Rosling called the washing machine the greatest invention of the industrial revolution:

> Rosling, however, believes washing machines foster education and democracy. He doesn't think the "haves" should tell the "have-nots" how to spend their days either.

http://www.businessinsider.com/hans-rosling-washing-machine-...
May I suggest the wikipedia page? The term has historical significance. It's usually applied to underprivileged groups and associated with democrats. For some reason no one calls it identity politics when Trump divides us into patriots and sons of bitches. Or real Americans vs coastal elites, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics
There's this[1] effort for a more readable syntax[2][3].

[1] https://verbalexpressions.github.io/

[2] https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JSVerbalExpressions

[3] https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/PythonVerbalExpressions
What is a reactive microservice?
I don't buy that. DVDs were region-locked with multiple PAL regions, later consoles which didn't have that problem were and are region locked.

It's about price differentiation between different regions.
Also: off road/overlanders. Stock parts just don’t work.

Edit: I have replaced diffs, springs, shocks, tires, wheels, and added a steering damper. For overlanding that is pretty minimal work. For Motorsport style off-roading, I would need to do quite a bit more.
Temperature doesn't affect capacity factor by this definition, because it reduces the numerator and the denominator by the same proportion.
Maybe instead someone will reinvent the editor. Voice assistant integration, for example. Perhaps better understand code structure.
You could do three searches? Perhaps that's not convenient enough.
But Russia is the number two arms exporter, and it spends a higher percentage of its gdp on defense.

Factually, that may be correct, but in context the numbers spell out a different picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...
> International websites have to respect local laws

No. A website doesn’t really exist unless a person visits it. It’s up to the user to respect local laws. If certain content is illegal somewhere, that’s not the fault of the website. The website isn’t in the country of concern. Why is it there problem? It’s up to the user to choose if they want to break local laws by consuming “illegal” content.

If I start a phone sex number in the Cayman Islands and such phone systems are illegal to use in Germany, then why is it my problem? I am not forcing people to call, nor why should I care where a call comes from. The end user is the one violating the law by calling my service. It isn’t like I am broadcasting.

Same concept. A website is no different than a phone number.
I think ebay changed a lot. Every time I search something there it's like 90% new stuff from china. On the other hand, amazon has used stuff too.
I would really like to see a break down what fraction of the products on ebay are new vs. old, and how much is sold for a fixed price vs. auction.
It's clever, but I think it misses the point of readability. For me anyway, readability isn't about one person actively developing code. It's about communicable code, working in a shared code base, and having to re-skim a 2,000 line chunk of a 2 million line code base two years after dropping it on the floor in order to update it in a timely and correct fashion.

In the same fashion, I update my design, architecture, and implementation documents concurrently with implementing a prototype if I need to make modifications or add complexity on the fly. They aren't for me, now. They're for the junior engineers I'm going to hand the project over to who need to be able to flesh out parts of a much larger machine.

Finally, whether or not I can read or understand my code, which I generally can, I test it anyway. I test my code not because it is unreadable (it is generally very readable), but because despite my best efforts to minimize complexity, it is generally too complex to fit inside my head, and because whether or not it fits in my head I'm not the only person working on it.
True, that's why Emacs has Vim emulation (evil mode).
There are games coming on carts that still require a large download, and 64GB cartridges have been delayed
So England pays, Norway gets the profit and Scotland gets the credit. Hmmm.
I've seen them squeeze 1000 Euro out of so many people (usually the sum they go for, making it a tad more expensive than a defence lawyer would cost you). It's a sad state of affairs.
I'd be surprised if there is a facet that is cheaper for hand washed. Only way I can imagine right now, is if you don't have but one or two things to wash.

I'm finding it amusing that so many people are focusing on the time portion and somehow managing to downplay it.

Even the energy costs are lower, considering how ridiculously little energy modern washing machines take.
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> Solar 27% capacity factor is BS, that isn't possible.

I often gripe about people using the word nuclear to describe exclusively fission, which is regrettable for those of us keen on encouraging research in fusion.

The use of the word 'solar' to describe exclusively PVCs is comparably regrettable.

Solar thermal is pretty much guaranteed to trump PVCs at the moment, albeit at a higher capex.
The author's point is that we've thrown out too much of what we've perhaps to broadly labeled as waste. We're realizing that some of the "waste" (to use your term) actually has value in it that we previously didn't recognize. It's a waste of effort to climb to the top of a mountain when you could've taken a vehicle to the top, perhaps, but for some folks that value isn't in the destination alone. Author's point is that we should be more aware of what we value, and how much of the "waste" a convenience a convenience removes is truly "waste" vs meaningful/valuable experience/effort for growth and fulfillment.