skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Disney parks and to some extent the Universal Studios parks are idealized experiences. They're carefully crafted to hide anything that is unpleasant (e.g. dirt, grime, trash, foul odors, pests). The attractions are also carefully designed illusions that mask reality.

For example when you go to the Forbidden Journey attraction in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios, there's a long line to wait in like you would expect of any attraction. However it isn't a roped queue that you stand in, it's a walk through Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. You stroll through the greenhouse filled with mandrake root and other plants that are alive before moving into a great hall where Dumbledore walks out onto a balcony and greets you then you pass into narrow hallways where the paintings on the wall are having a conversation but will stop to acknowledge your presence and sometimes insult you. You are actually so distracted with the environment that you forget you just waited an hour in a line, if felt like you were just on a casual stroll.

Contrast this with visiting the Colosseum in Rome where you show up and half the structure is covered in girders and tarps because they're performing some restoration. You get in a line that's not much more than a cattle corral packed in with hundreds of other people waiting to buy your tickets. You wait an hour nudging forward a couple steps every few minutes. The place is covered in grime and dirt. When you get inside you have to move around the thousands of of there people crammed in trying to take selfies or filming everything. Everything is behind chicken wire or metal barriers.
As stated by another comment, now they have to create the standard paper trail for each tracking instance, which makes accountability and transparency a semi-valid possibility
There's nothing really stopping anyone from implementing the human interface guidelines into a UI library. I wonder what's keeping people from building one.
"Some times my clients call me and ask 'What is my social security number'"

hollywood idiots

these must be models and actors
from HN Welcome page:

"Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking, because good hackers aren't only interested in hacking, but they do have to be deeply interesting."

Also, what is so political about this? It's history.
Material a little Playskool for my tastes.

But then I still think the original iPhone icons were awesome. Even the little television for the YouTube app.

Back then, icons communicated far more information than most icons today, which have become little more than bland corporate logos.
That's true, but it fails to mention that there is a very specific partisan reason republican justices won't get behind a privacy finding. Gorsuch isn't standing for abstract principle here, he's refusing to stand on the same ground the found for Roe.
Playing devil's advocate. Here's a possible scenario:

1. Smyte had a security flaw that could potentially (or already did) affect twitter customers.

2. Leaving Smyte service on could do alot of damage, so turning it off would be the sensible thing to do.

3. Telling the world about this security flaw would create a really bad backlash.
There are tons of plants that have the same flavor profile as vanilla, just not ones that retain their flavor when dried for years on end. But if you're just making ice cream, you could just as easily use black locust flowers or whatever and no one would know the difference.
It depends upon what's the target you're trying to embed into. If you're trying to put something on a PIC or an 8 bit AVR, you're down to something like assembly, C, or a very low memory language like forth. If you're looking at larger targets like the ESP32, then you can use an embeddable python, ruby, lua, js, etc without being too concerned. On something like a raspberry pi compute time likely ends up being more of a concern than memory or build complexities.

The other target is trying to embed some interpreter in a larger application, which ends up being mostly constrained by how nice the language is as well as how nice the C API barrier ends up being.

C is certainly not going anywhere, but it is pretty cool that other options are being built to lower the barrier of entry for some application domains.
Understanding the behavior or neural nets using topological data analysis
Contextually I wouldn't think so, his death was an accident caused by what ended up being deemed really poor design of the shift interface of his vehicle; the guilt implication from the author sounds more like maybe drugs or falling in with the wrong crowd or something.
And Microsoft has Mixer, but they aren't YouTube competitors. Maybe for LiveStreams, but nothing else. Amazon is more strict than Microsoft on what can stream and what can't.
It's definitely fair to point out that Google and their employees aren't likely to be the perfect representation of what I would hope for, but all I really meant to convey was that as an institution I trust them more than I do the big defense contractors. TBF, it's not a high bar to leap.
> And boo-hiss tabs.

At the risk of starting a flame-war: boo-hiss not using a formatter.
OT: it now takes two clicks to stop the obnoxious autoplaying video on this website. One to unmute it and access the controls, and another to stop it.

I'm glad when ethics are as black and white as military contracts we're ready to stand up and refuse to write the code, but when it comes to smaller things like implementing dark patterns to bother users we'll step right up.
Not on Dvorak layouts. There W and L are on the same side... two rows apart.
Yeah, that incident was with a bank I knew many years, and they know me well. The manager told me "we do this for everyone now, compliance and regulation is just like this now". This is the new normal...
How Many Sprints Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb?
Also Skype doesn't really work these days.
My theory is that the extra entropy / noise / cognitive load of booting up yet another tool when you turn on your computer didn't match the gain in utility (productivity, etc.)

For both cases we used Slack, I agree with your assessment in that we used Slack JUST for IM. But if you already have Hangouts / Skype, what's the marginal gain from Slack? As OP points out, initially most people start using it for IM (as this is like muscle memory) but then channels grow, get out of hand, and someone needs to input effort to cut back the entropy.

But given the effort that knowledge workers put into email management, calendars, file management, etc. that's already a lot of cognitive load on controlling information entropy on a _daily_ basis. God forbid you work in Sales or something where you're in CRMs all day, and then you need to manage clients / contacts, or a Project Manager ... shit gets heavy quick. And that's all from doing stuff _about_ work, and not really working.

Another use case that's more microscopic to me: when searching for information in archives, it's easier / less stressful to have fewer places to search for files or conversations than more. Knowing that I only need to search my emails / IM/ files (or hell - if you use Google, it's ONE SEARCH BOX in Gmail for all of them!) is a tough hurdle to get over when you're trying to sell me Slack (unless you leverage their email add-in and send most of your emails / files to Slack, but that's a hard sell for any team.)
> "Disorder" is still in common use, not only for autism but across the DSM as a common term meaning "atypical and diagnosable." So yes, "disorder" is an appropriate term at the moment.

In a clinical context, yes. But there are probably close to zero clinicians in this thread.

One problem with the term "disorder" here is that quite often, it's applied to someone who has difficulty thriving under the many accommodations given to neurotypical people. If the autism spectrum was the norm, neurotypicals would have a similar disorder.

> Whether it will continue to be in the future is irrelevant for present conversation.

Not necessarily. It's perfectly possible for society to lead clinicians on issues like this, which is what seems to have happened with words like "society" and "dumb".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17374440
yes! Big Chuck and Little John:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Chuck_and_Lil%27_John

I grew up in Akron in the 80s and loved watching them
I would be ok with fishing with CSLI data for crime sprees and other applications.

The shit part about this is that this ruling is going to be very visible and people are going to try to make this data useless.
They also slid backwards several decades in agronomy, and possibly caused famines, when that was a national priority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko
I mentioned this in a previous comment I made:

"It's a very secret industry, and getting even tighter now since China has been blocked from acquiring the latest semiconductor technology. China has so far invested over $40 billion in boosting their chip-making abilities, to acquire capital, IP, and knowledge-workers. Given their history of borrowing technology from other countries without attribution, if I were at the head of a semiconductor related company, I would clamp down on the secrets ahead of the danger."

Looks like the clamp-down didn't happen soon enough...
How to use an image as a website background: 4 best practices
No need to assume I’m out to get you.

Are there benefits of facial recognition cameras for law enforcement which can’t be said of other mass surveillance techniques?

Are there specific pros you want to be acknowledged?
US corporations are willing players in this game. in exchange for their IP, US corporations are promised vast revenue from access to China's markets.

the C-suite benefits. shareholders probably benefit. does the average US resident benefit?
As a reformed law student, I can say that I've seen a lot of smart people try to answer questions about long legal opinions after a few minutes of ctrl+f-ing through a case. 90% of the time it worked well enough for them to stumble through a question. The other ten percent, they ended up making silly mistakes, like quoting from a multi-page hypothetical argument that lead the student to completely misinterpret the opinion. It's easy enough to misunderstand a nuance of a legal argument when you read opinions, asking someone to guarantee their correct about a summation of 120 pages of text within 5 minutes, or even an hour, seems unrealistic.

News organizations like NPR like to be accurate when being accurate will only take a few hours of work. And I'd rather they be correct than fast.
I still get a bit tense when I remember reading The New Digital Age. (Written, not coincidentally, by Schmidt and Jared Cohen - ex State Department staffer, current Google visionary.)

It is, to an impressive degree, a love letter to the US government. It shows absolute faith in the ability of technology experts to help remake the world, spreading information worldwide for the benefit of all - but only the right information. As Assange put it in a cutting review: "...this isn’t a book designed to be read. It is a major declaration designed to foster alliances."

I don't think it's particularly hard to understand Google's high-level engagement with the US government; it represents a chance to diversify revenue while supporting ideological positions Schmidt has openly embraced for years. Nor is it surprising that government-aligned leadership is facing dissent in a professional that's historically been somewhere between suspicious of and allergic to government and surveillance.
What replaces slack rooms where any user can jump in and out, or search history ? Not group chats or emails. Only IRC comes close.
Look again, there's a bit of javascript in it.
> The chinese developed printing and movable type but not a "full press"? Not sure if I follow. I'd say the chinese/koreans invented the movable type ( metal type ) and the printing press but latin/alphabet languages/writings were better suited to being exploited to movable type/printing press than the chinese writing system? A movable type printing press based on 26 letter is far better than one based on thousands of characters. But it's still the printing press.

There's a lot to unpack here.

Printing, specifically, is a means of transferring ink to paper (or parchment, but paper tends to work better for printing for mechanical reasons). There are several different variations on the idea, but the original genesis of the idea and much of the early variation does originate in China.

The basics of printing boil down to: you have a raised platform that contains the thing being printed, you cover that with ink, you place the paper on top of it, and then you apply pressure to transfer ink to paper. For the Asian woodblock printing, I believe pressure was mostly applied via rubbing.

Movable type was an innovation that allowed you to build the block that was used for printing out of reusable components, which dramatically cuts down on the time it takes to prepare the blocks. East Asian languages are well-suited for movable type because their language is already written in a highly grid-based system; by contrast, the Latin alphabet has characters that bleed into other's boxes all over the place (kerning is a thing in Latin, not in Chinese). Extending printing to the Latin alphabet came with a lot more typographic changes than you'd think.

Gutenberg made, or at least synthesized for the first time in one piece, several innovations [1] in his press: the reuse of press technology to apply force evenly and quickly to paper; the development of a lead alloy for type that was long-lasting and could withstand the forces with less wear; the development of more uniform molds for the type; the development of better inks for pressing against the paper.

It's certainly true that the innovations of printing and movable type are Chinese. But those innovations, while necessary, were not sufficient to facilitate the massive spread of printing to make books cheap and ubiquitous. Extra innovations that Europeans did (in typecasting and the press itself, most notably) were also necessary.

[1] It's debated how many of these were actually done by Gutenberg himself versus how many were developed by other contemporary European shops and reused by Gutenberg. In either case, everything I'm listing was innovated in Europe, not in China.
Please, please be a parenthesis...
I’d say so. That was one of the things that killed JPEG2000. Even if people bought encoders no one could view it anyway so it was useless.

EDIT: Comr to think of it this was the problem with APNG trying to replace GIF. Everything supports GIF, no one supported APNG (relative to GIF) so it never really gained traction.

Even though 75% of users have a browser that supports it the format has no mindshare so no one uses it.
In the USA, unemployed and abled are forced to be "job seeking" whether they give up hope or not to continue receiving benefits.
Hi. This is really cool and I can tell you put a lot of work into it.

I noticed when tabbing through the dashboard that many of the elements have disabled focus styles. This can make the dashboard less accessible to users who need visual indication of what element is focused. Would you consider including focus styles on the non-form elements?
How can you say that the "military" get credit for preventing conflicts while at the same time not get blame for being the muscle of colonial oppression.
If you actually have a writer who is already familiar with the legal aspects of the case, you can put out insightful analysis very quickly (cf. SCOTUSblog). Instead, we live in a world where the NPR journalist (Nina Totenberg) has just about every legal journalism award you can receive but doesn't have a law degree and is most famous for legal soap-opera material (e.g., revealing which supreme court justice had smoked marijuana).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Totenberg

The reason there's no analysis here is because there isn't a market for it.
Ok, find me a Lua compiler for my ARM Coretx M4 that can spool up its VM on my chip, run my C functions natively, and takes less than 30k ROM.

There is a difference here where 1/2 people something iphone can run, and the other half want something that would run on a small 32bit.

I want a scripting VM with an FFI. Lua while supposed to be able to do that just isn’t supported by anyone for that purpose.
Seperating kids in cages and wrapping them in foil was an Obama era photo that the NYT "mistook" for a current one.
China is far more stable than the US.
Material is a design language. There are many different implementations of it (for the web at least)
Is there a Go VM for 32bit embedded?
yeah, but ... does the IP for TSMC reside in some easily transferred tangibles? wouldn't the DOD really need to transfer the whole community of engineers and ecosystem of suppliers?
Toddlers were not the only children being harmed. For example, teens were using the magnets as fake mouth piercings and swallowing them.
That's only a problem if "minimize taxes" is the only metric you care about.
Just today I tried browsing Google Flights on (the latest version of) Firefox mobile and not only did it recommend getting a "browser upgrade", it would not let me use the site at all.

Here's a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/2CCRVDf
Ok, let's do it. healthcare premiums and coverage suck. i actually started googling how to join SAG.
I'm in the bay area, where the "anti-conservative" movement is prevalent which means not considering anything that is against the "anti-conservative" party line.

many things aren't considered on their merits simply because the conservative face has done or said things they disagree with even though it is completely unrelated to lawmaking or anything congress would even consider.

any dissent is seen as support for the current administration.

any dissent is seen as TACIT consent for race-based discrimination, xenophobia, and gender based assault and inequality.

any dissent elevates you to being the spokesperson of everything they hate.

I understand why. Everyone's entire political party needs to operate as a unit to swing power in their favor.

but it is so one dimensional that many people reject it, since there always is a gradient for each separate issue.

conservative in this context doesn't mean anti-progressive, or risk averse, or traditional. it is just a political grouping, but in the bay area it means even slightly considering the merit behind a not-democrat party proposal.
and modals and drop downs.
Hm, yes. At least in this case we have proof NASA really knows what they're doing since the probes usually get to Mars. For climate science we will only know in a hundred years or so.
Gorsuch's dissent is straightforward english and lays out his thoughts and what he thinks is also a possible way forward. I only skimmed through the prior dissents and decision though.
I probably should have written "kerfufflery" or something more colorful. The point was that dicking around with your type system trying to "understand contravariance" is directly hurting your ability to write and ship working solutions to real problems. Typesafety is only one axis (and a minor one at that) required by correct software, and this kind of masturbatory obsession with it doing no one any good.

There's a reason why so little true world class software (in the sense of beating out the competition with the sheer force of its value to users) is written in Haskell.

If that's "anti-progress", then sign me up I guess.
Are they redirecting EU users there?
I don't see why you'd use MicroPython on a raspi-class device, unless you can't use a OS that runs CPython for for some reason. MicroPython is more for smaller stuff.
Maybe there's more than one part of the military, and the resilient internal communications network part is different from the wedding-bombing part.
Supreme Court ruling requires search warrant for phone location data
But why would you want to bootstrap your knowledge on something detached from your actual use case?

Lots of people on HN bemoan the lack of formalised education and crappy code stitched together, but that's what half arsed tutorials and impenetrable documentation breed.
The silver:vanilla ratio really drove home that it's not just "location, location, location" but the rise in global population and global incomes drives the value of 'location'.
One island contains 100% of the world’s Mongolians — Eurasia.
>And when something like this has a connection to a company like Google, people simply don't question it.

Yep. It's the "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" mentality that pervades the modern IT industry.

You get one so-called "thought leader" to scribble a blog post about how skeuomorphism is a bad thing, and the next thing you know every screen looks like pastel confetti.

I was reading an old computer magazine last night and one of the ads was for a 6809 box that had a red keyboard. RED! With white function keys and blue action keys!

If anyone tried to produce a computer like that today, they'd be laughed right out of HN, even if there were a dozen studies backing the color scheme's utility.

Until one day someone from Facebook or Big G or some random blogger with the correct Twitter followers says it's good. Then suddenly, it's red keyboards all around.

Working in the IT industry, and knowing people who work in the fashion industry, you'd be surprised how alike the two camps are.
What It’s Really Like to Have a Trust Fund
Out of all the improvement needed for OLED, higher PPI is like the last on the list?

And it seems Micro LED will be better fit for these type of application, where you have 0.5" of screen space.
That's a very good point. The logical conclusion of what I said is that at some point the whistle gets blown (or already has as you've pointed out) at which point Google backs off and Northrop (or another defense co) takes over, and we're right back here.
> In the real world, nothing is ever "full stop." You should purge that phrase from your lexicon.

Not to get further off topic, but: Huh? "Full stop" just means "end of message". It's an amusing leftover from telegraph technologies that people sometimes use for emphasis, but it doesn't have a literal meaning more than just "end of message".
I strongly do not like the design. To my taste:

* colors are too bright and saturated
* Low text-vs-background contrast: white letters on bright yellow-orange for example
* Font strokes are way too thin which is especially bad compounded with dark-ish gray on light-ish gray low contrast (see above)

Viewing this on a usual normal-resolution 24" Dell monitor. It could be that it looks better on retina phones and monitors - can someone opine?

I would prefer something like [1] (not ideal, but found this just after 5 seconds of googling)

[1] https://p.w3layouts.com/demos_new/template_demo/06-01-2018/g...
> I would be entirely comfortable letting my under 2 year old play with BB-sized steel or glass balls, under loose adult supervision, from a safety perspective

You'll be spending time in ED having them removed from the nose or ear.
> Roberts is turning out to be one of the most balanced judges

Let's be careful not to define "balanced" as 'toward the center of the current justices' ideological spectrum'.

The spectrum of current justices does not represent a real-world or absolute spectrum. If Ginsberg and Breyer retired tomorrow, Roberts would be on the left, for example.

> not just ideology

Courts should not be applying ideology at all. That's for Congress and the President. Sadly, the SC, especially the right IMHO, is highly and unabashedly ideological these days.
I found it. It was Caron Butler. http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/01/30/why_burger_ki...

Bridgeman's story is really impressive, but is the opposite of the one Yglesias was proposing about Butler.