skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blender heavily relies on numpad keys and middle mouse button so there is small "hardware" problem to use it on laptops
We are focusing on free to access any model explicitly shared by the user and pay for training/deploy resources as a service, but might consider mixing in a paid route for users to monetize their unique trained models.
Eh, the original iMac was truly a work of art. The shape and the colour were innovative & exciting, a vision of computers as objects of joy.

The half-basketball iMac looks like something an engineer designed (and I'm an engineer!).

The single-screen iMac (iMac G5) looks unbalanced. The massive white rectangle's proportions are all wrong. I wonder if anyone ever actually looked at it.

The iMac Pro looks the same, just with some more pigment added to the dye lots.

Apple once reached for the stars; now it barely even bothers to stumble out onto its back porch and look up at them.
Why every Web Developer should look into Ethereum
I'm curious about the technology they are using. Is it an actual mesh network or point-to-point wireless?
Google Maps Platform
Because it's in the video container.
> However, this would also mean that logging in using an email/username would also require a full scan

No it wouldn’t, and that’s what makes this specific case different. In your scenario, you can lookup the column you need by username or email, which is indexed. You can then retrieve the unique salt and password hash with no lookup penalty. This is not possible in the other case because there is no known column that can serve as the index.
None of those are apps I particularly enjoy using or would want to use.
I have a ModalContainer that passes down this.context.openModal.

https://reactjs.org/docs/context.html
Facebook fires engineer who allegedly used access to stalk women
> To me, startup speed is somewhat irrelevant.

But isn’t that the author’s point? It doesn’t seem like much time but because you’re paying it so often in so many little places it really does add up.
reddit.com/r/contagiouslaughter will get me every time
The science behind the placebo effect (old paper)
I was looking at this the other day; it sounds like 100G-DR1 and 400G-DR4 are not coherent and vendors are aiming to make it commodity. Coherent is more like 200-600G per lambda.
At the time I lived in NYC (2007-2013), Me and family had needed urgent care services 3 times. In all three times, we called insurer (Aetna once, United twice), and they told us to go to ER because there is no better option.

Things may be different now, last time I visited manhattan a few months ago indeed there were several walk-in clinics between 8th street and 23th that weren't there 5 years ago, but (at least from the sign on the window), not all accepted all insurances, and none had a chargemaster listed outside, which means there's a nontrivial possibility one would go bankrupt going into them.

> Just because you can use them in the UK or wherever doesn't mean you should, and there is nothing to disincentivise people from this because they're not footing the bill (directly, that is).

That's true. And if people did misuse them significantly, I'm sure the (dis)incentive structure would be put in place. But it turns out that most people in the UK and EU and other places are not jerks, and do not call an ambulance needlessly.

It is a mathematical certainty that there is always a false-positive / false-negative tradeoff; The US system (and your recommendation) prefers false negatives, the EU system and other single payer systems prefer false positives. And .. what do you know? Bang for buck, single payer systems triumph greatly, have lower infant death, and higher life expectancy.
The shortened HN title here is nonsensical.

In this context, "joint" means "together" or "at the same time". The work's title, "Joint 3D Face Reconstruction and Dense Alignment", essentially means "Face Reconstruction with simultaneous Dense Alignment". The HN title should mention both parts, or remove the word "joint".
See also on code.facebook.com: https://code.facebook.com/posts/172423326753505/announcing-p...
Oh! 3-5 hours a week. You said "extreme sports" or some such, and I was imagining several hours a day!
Facebook is using your Instagram photos to train its image recognition AI
You are definitely not alone. I personally use pweave, which is essentially a thin Markdown/LaTeX parser wrapping Jupyter kernels for injecting the output of code chunks.

I like being able to use my existing tools (text editor, make, version control, etc). I also like being able to write clean functions and run unit tests while still ultimately being able generate a clean final document.
> At its peak in the mid-1970s, the Karachi Circular Railway served 6 million passengers annually, but by the end of its first decade, the system was already in decline. 52 High maintenance costs and unstable funding prevented investments in the infrastructure necessary to keep up with population growth. There was no grade separation at many street intersections, and traffic congestion slowed the train as the city grew, which in turn led to lower ridership and a downward spiral in revenue. These pressures continued through the 1980s and 1990s, as the railway also faced a rash of transit crime, ticketless riders, and competition with new transport options. By 1998 the KCR was making only twelve trips a day, and traveling no faster than a walking pace in some sections. The next year it was shut down.

6 million annually to 0! Wow that is really sad :(.

I grew up in Mumbai, which is considered a sister-city to Karachi. I remember the suburban rail (which is a lifeline of the city used by millions to commute everyday) being neglected and frequently late. But when I was in high school, something changed: the trains were cleaner, started to be on time consistently and so on. Then they upgraded from the ancient rail stock to more modern cars today. And the system continue to hum along.

I wonder what caused one of the systems' precipitous decline while the other one continues to run.
I thought it was pretty funny... it's ok to lighten up a bit.
Scooter skirmish: San Francisco places limits on rental companies
I met a journalist from Karachi once. Did some traveling together. They were telling me how the population of Karachi is widely disputed, how people throw different numbers around all the time and the real number is hard to determine. Judging by this article, that's a common problem for a lot of information in Karachi. I'd guess that's due to political instability in the region preventing accurate information gathering and distribution. I find that to be the more interesting part of this story.
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Beat Saber now Steam's most popular solo VR game, beating Skyrim and Fallout VR
The Rise and Fall of Cribspot
Not necessarily. "aaaaaaaaaaaa", "password1234", and "pennsylvania" are all 12 characters, but they're all insecure. These might seem like stupid passwords that nobody would use, but if you enforce a minimum password length as your only requirement, then I guarantee some user is going to use something like this.

I agree that length is generally much more important than anything else - but it's not the only factor. Long passwords can be insecure too. Unfortunately it's not easy to validate what exactly what makes an insecure password, and as a result we get stupid requirements that prevent some very good passwords (e.g. diceware-generated passwords).
I suspect this comment is largely mistargeted, policy is in no way equivalent to force, though some policies may engage it.

Unless you are arguing for a fairly pure form of anarchism (good luck with that, if so) you have policy work and the desire to improve it. It is a reasonable expectation that doing so empirically will vastly outperform doing so ideologically in any scenario like healthcare reform.
Yes, in my company we generate and receive uncompressed video in software and get to these kinds of bandwidths from a couple of servers running dual 100GbE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4L5xEXXlas
> I've read a bunch of negotiation books as well as conversation books.

i would like to read some good books on negotiation and conversation. do you have any advice on what the best books that you read on the topics were?
Yes, but Apple couldn't have made the iPhone without a touch screen, ARM, Wifi, etc, hence claiming that Apple is the sole responsible of past and future innovation in their product line is naive.
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Play-Doh fingerprint leads to arrest of Walmart suspect
What is the API to download only the audio from a youtube video? How would you do your proposed solution?
The Internet Needs to Fix These Privacy Issues
Christ, I hope not. I get enough spam calls that I ignore, I don't need them leaving voicemails too.
You always need the capability to generate UI in code, because static forms sometimes don't suffice. For example the layout and contents of your form depend on the data that is sent to it, like render a choice as checkbox if it is binary, use dropdown otherwise. I used delphi, etc., MFC was really bad forcing too much inheritance.
Using Electron, you are rendering each window in Chrome, with some added OS hooks. With Proton, you are using JavaScriptCore with hooks to the native MacOS UIs and APIs.

Seems to me that this should use far fewer resources (especially memory) and make it easier to make an App look more 'MacOS'y. Very eager to give it a go!
No, like touch screens, ARM, Wifi, etc.
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70%+ is probably accurate if you include the whole microsoft enterprise ecosystem (sharepoint etc in addition to what you mentioned)

windows is definitely a minority in web hosting
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1.1.1.1 might lead to slower CDN performance
I like being able to use it in bed with one hand, and occasionally to have pocketability, to bring it to things where I'll have to do a lot of waiting, like doctor appointments or being a passenger on a long ride.

I looked into small tablets a while ago and found that the selection was pretty limited and none of the few that looked reasonable could easily run LineageOS.

But a phone with no SIM card or plan is basically just a really small tablet anyway.
It's not about WTF computer do you use, it's about being wasteful. I've been using Outlook and Skype for Business on my machine all day and they're using less than 160MB together.

Wastefulness is not cool.
The CIA made a card game and now you can play it
It isn't available yet. On HN there's no harm in waiting until a thing is available.
This is exactly why it’s important because words do have a meaning.

Calling the left at large liberal when today significant portion of it could not be further from it is something that needs to be called out.

Having a comparison which says “Democratic” vs “Conservatives” is also harmful as you now paint one side as authoritarian.

I want to have clear definitions and for words to have meaning specifically to avoid any confusion in regards to the issues you have mentioned and many more.

If we take the the US an example I think you would want to make a distinction between civil war republicans and those of today just as you would want to make a distinction between the democrats that institutionalized racial segregation through Jim Crow and those of today.

So I do not believe I’m avoiding anything I’m just not picking and choosing based on what would benefit my agenda.

Identify politics is poison in general and if we must resort to it in since casss we must make sure that we use the clearest definitions possible and use them correctly.
Amazon Offers Retailers Discounts to Adopt Payment System
I'd imagine that if they had switched from Node.js to Akka they likely would've solved some of their issues dealing with single-threading - while I like Node.js I think the point where performance matters more than feature iteration it should be refactored into something that suits your domain better.

That being said, they mention being turned on to low resource usage specifically because of garbage collection issues and resource overhead. While the JVM is lighter than the Node.js runtime when considered across multiple cores I think that's just going to give them more runway to tackle the underlying problem they were still having.
I may be wrong, but I would bet that copy-on-write of pages would be hardly visible for most workloads. Copying is quite fast when you do it in batches (4k per page).
Apple’s content business is already the size of two Netflixes
Yep. Jobs originally went to Verizon, which balked when he said they would have no control over the phone. That's why the original iPhone carrier was AT&T and only AT&T.
I might be biased because I'm from the hordes that are moving from Stata and Matlab to Python (but then there are the hordes attracted to data analysis now), but that was never really Python's strong suit, nor its target market.

I mean, I was always into little scripts, but I used Tcl and then Perl.
I think this would be a big step up for more than 90% of the population, do you agree?
> Drumming the word 'toxic' in front of 'masculinity' and a lot of kids are going to believe, "it's poisonous to be male". That's because kids lack the insights and knowledge to think beyond the literal meanings of those words.

The literal meaning of the words is “a subset of the traits traditionally associated with men that is toxic”, not “being male, which is inherently toxic”, as you seem to have interpreted it, which both incorrectly understands the literal meaning of masculinity, and incorrectly understands the literal meaning of applying an adjective to modify a noun: my two year old son has little trouble understanding that the phrase “red cars” refers to the subset of cars which are red rather than asserting that all cars are red.

So, even to the extent that young people might be unable to see past the literal meaning of words, the literal meaning here is exactly what is intended, and entirely unlike the decidedly non-literal interpretation you've misrepresented as the literal meaning.

> We want our men to be aggressive

We who?
>>You can't start any economic argument by saying that paying any cost is a must. You will get fleeced.

>Paying taxes isn't getting fleeced.

I think it's fair to accurately address the arguments being put forth, rather than reinterpreting them. Taxes are necessary, and I don’t think any serious person would argue otherwise. The problems come when we get into the details:

Conflating local, state, and federal governments with their respective tax regiments only serves to muddy the waters. Additionally, conflating property, income, and capital gains taxes compounds the problem.

Scaling anything from 60M people to 300M is non-trivial (just ask Twitter, which is pretty simple).

Arguing for a collectivist approach in the US (which was partially founded on individualism), seems to betray the entire reason for our independence from Europe (the old country) in the first place.

Let Europe do Europe, and America do America.

Edit: Just to be clear, individual European countries are 20% of the population of the US at best, so it makes more sense to compare them with US states (e.g. The state of CA is the 6th largest economy in the world). Top-down policies do more harm than good in such a large heterogeneous place as the lower 48.
The bit at the end about social responsibility seems bolted-on and gratuitous.

How does AI even factor into the blood donations example they cite? It sounds like a simple database query, not AI.

Also the talk about what they are doing internally to "ethically use AI" seem pretty weak. A lot of "we can do this and that" without any "we are doing the following and it is making a difference". And saying that one of their key strategies to ensure ethical AI is to hire a diverse workforce seems again to be a bit thin on details and supporting evidence.
I've always been disappointed by how large software projects, both FOSS and commercial, lose their "can do" spirit with age. Long-time contributors become very quick with a "no". They dismiss longstanding problems as illegitimate use cases and reject patches with vague and impervious arguments about "maintainability" or "complexity". Maybe in some specific cases these concerns might be justified, but when everything garners this reaction, the overall effect is that progress stalls, crystallized at the moment the last bit of technical boldness flowed away.

You can see this attitude of "no" on this very HN thread. Read the comments! Instead of talking about ways we can make Python startup faster, we're seeing arguments that Python shouldn't be fast, we shouldn't try to make it faster, and that programs (and, by implication, programmers) who want Python startup to be fast are somehow illegitimate. It's a dismal perspective. We should be exercising our creativity as a way to solve problems, not finding creative ways to convince ourselves to accept mediocrity.
Honest question: can you rephrase this? I can't tell what you're trying to say.
Node.js 10: The New, the Changed, and the Deprecated
Are you the exception or the rule for the population?
The question is what companies the people responsible for these actions at CA move to. A company minus the people isn't even an empty shell and irrelevant in and of itself.
There's an entire genre of people bringing hard feelings from job interview processes into these threads and sticking them to the companies posting ads. Some of this must surely be justified, some one-sided, and some completely misleading. The trouble is that we have no way to tell which is which, and getting into detail would only take the threads further into the weeds. So I don't see what choice we have but to treat all of it as off topic.

In a way it's too bad, because job searching sucks and hiring sucks and it would be good if there were a process to sort through all this. But I'm skeptical that any internet forum can function as that kind of courtroom, and certainly the Who Is Hiring threads cannot.
I'd say mounting a remote filesystem is convoluted when you can just edit with vi :-)
hg allows loading modules at runtime. maybe thats a problem.
"Economies of scale" isn't a universal idea that you can apply to literally any industry/sector.

Unfortunately, medicine is not retail. Otherwise are lives would be a lot simpler. Would it be more efficient to introduce Amazon-like policies to medicine. For sure. But unlike Amazon fulfillment centres, you can't just close all the hospitals in a city and build a mega hospital 1 hour outside the city and expect anyone to go along with that.

Pretty much everything that can be "economically scaled" in the medical industry already has been -- the drugs you are receiving to treat X condition in NY and WA are probably going to be from the same company. The MR machines you use in TX are the same brand as the ones used in PA. This means those things are cheaper than they would be if they were being produced by "mom and pop" shops. Economies of scale are already in play. It's all about fixed vs. variable costs.

My point was about admin. When the scale of an organization goes up, the admin costs go up, not proportionally to the value that this admin provides. It's necessary if you want to get bigger, but not proportionally useful. With a national health system, the number of doctors you need will not go down. The number of imaging devices you need will not go down. But the amount of centralized bureaucracy you need WILL go up.
Lets do that excercise "It is immoral for wealth to exist in a way that, properly distributed, would solve the fundamental necessities of people. Thus, wealth should be confiscated until this goal is achieved for morality"

And I answer "the very application of that goal will be immoral because it will take from all and give to all, and will do so unevenly on both ends while also destroy a part of everything levied."
Isn’t that really a just a bandaid over the real problem though?

The fact the developers of hg went so far as to make that shows startup time is a real issue.

So why not fix the problem at the source?
I put similar code in Emacs's vc-hg to get revision information straight form Mercurial's on-disk data structures instead of firing up an hg subprocess.
>Did you read the link we're discussing? It's in large part about why the slow startup times for Firefox's build scripts are a problem.

The link we're discussing is about Python runs for the Mercurial test suite. The Firefox build is mentioned in passing. It's not what the post is discussing (and doesn't get into numbers there).
I'm currently running multiple Kubernetes clusters using StackPoint in combination with DigitalOcean. This has been working very well. Could someone tell me how the new DO Kubernetes service compares to StackPoint?
I think this is not correct. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application, Web applications are applications running in a Web browser. The term was introduced to distinguish Web _apps_ from Web _pages_, not to distinguish _Web_ apps from _native_ apps.
At the time of writing that comment, no one in this thread had asked those question. Also, on the page linked, the author was not asking those question.

That led me to conclude that nobody asked those things.
I don't totally understand why this exists to be honest. React Native for desktop is... React Native. It isn't mobile-specific in any way. In fact, it is already possible to make Windows (UWP) and macOS apps with it.

If this project was about formalising proper stable support for Windows and macOS within React Native, that would totally make sense. But it seems more like it's trying to be an alternative, under a different name, different branding, etc.

Surely it's better to remain as one widely compatible project?
What would be really nice is checkpoint and restart (i.e., unexec), but it turns out that it's extremely hard to implement and get right in a non-managed environment.
I agree with everything you said. But just as important as the technical leap was the business model improvement. Before the iPhone, at least in the US, carriers dictated what functions could and could not be present in the phones. The video offerings were nothing but short snippets of content offered at steep prices from the carriers. Phone manufacturers considered the carriers to be their real customers, and the carriers wanted to make sure that every phone feature was a money stream for them. Apple was the first manufacturer with enough clout to get a carrier (Cingular) to offer a smartphone that was not crippled by the carrier. Once the iPhone became popular, it was no longer possible for carriers to hobble the smartphones they sold, in order to nickle-and-dime their customers.
JavaScript function argument validation for humans
Exactly. I feel like the design experience of HTML/CSS is the best of both worlds. You're designing in code, but it's not imperative code, which is what you have to do in iOS if you want to escape the NIB. Using declarative code to define your interface just...makes sense.
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