skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is disingenuous. It's been actively marketed to law enforcement. A product is not created out of the blue with no target market. That's simply not how things work.

And that's whats happening to with a lot of surveillance technology, see Palantir, they are being packaged and aggressively marketed to schools, law enforcement and government.

Taken together these companies are selling and enabling a surveillance dystopia for no bigger reason than personal gain and the people responsible should be called out.
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> ads are the only way to keep the net free.

Do we really believe this? My understanding from people who were around back in the day say the web was far better before the web was a giant shopping mall and ad supported sites took over everything.

I don’t know if it’s the usual “back in my day things were better” thing happening or whether they’re correct, but a web full of content produced by people who are hobbyists and do so because they enjoy sharing their passion sounds way better than a web full of garbage that is clickbaited solely to maximize the amount of money coming in from ad support. In my experience hobbyists sharing a passion is almost always more enjoyable and of a higher quality.

I do recognize there is a middle ground in there somewhere, but I’m not at all convinced the web would somehow disappear without obnoxious ads. People would still create content just like they did before ads and before tracking had infested everything.
From my experience this is a foundational idea in a marriage / coupling. Took me many years to realise there were two forms of support and more importantly that my response was always solutional.

I am now able to sit and listen without offering answers.
That was a core idea for the British Establishment.

Public school was where children went to learn how to operate in public life. The rest of the population had less privilege, but more privacy.
We’ll write one in React Native.
What you see is not necessarily what you think
Yeah but isn't it already a solved problem with 1x monitors? Who is implementing things multiple times for no reason? I'm glad in the future it will be easier for Apple because they just won't hire devs to do that part then, but does this imply that 1x monitors will simply look inferior no matter what is done with newer versions of OSX+?
Yes, that is currently a problem for those who want that 120 Hz goodness.
Its’s not a bug. It was announced as a change at WWDC. It’s believed to be a consequence of the move to merge iOS code into macOS. iOS doesn’t support sub-pixel antialiasing.
So get your own monitor. I understand that many employees make the decision that they will not pay for equipment, to be true. However it's still a decision.
I've been watching this series recently. It's got quite a bit of statistics, mixed with some code and real world applications. It's certainly refreshed my memory on some things; some of them I'm not sure I really appreciated first time round.

https://youtu.be/C1lhuz6pZC0

It's probably not as rigourous as you mention in your edit but I'll leave it here in case someone else is drawn to the title.
Actually Apple is definitely big enough to force change—they've done it multiple times in the past. Apple helped push the original USB standard into common use with the original iMac. Obviously it would have happened eventually, but the iMac made the transition occur much faster than it would have otherwise.

The problem with the USB-C standard is that USB-A now transcends far beyond the personal computer industry. It's now a power adapter standard for mobile phones and all sorts of gizmos, gadgets and accessories for the home and car. USB-A isn't going anywhere for a long time.
> perhaps taste(closely related), we have been unable to tame

Really? How do you think they make the most junk of food still palatable enough that people aren't literally barfing while eating, say, a pizza that doesn't even have real cheese but a mediocre imitation of it?
Or things like this :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl_methylphenylglycidate
used in various cheap industrial food products like ice creams and syrups. Entirely artificial and synthesized imitation of strawberry.

We have deciphered taste down to infinite combinations of various synthetic compounds to replicate, although not to perfection, pretty much any sort of taste, which is why there is a junk food epidemic. People wouldn't be able to gorge themselves onto the road of becoming morbidly obese if artificial flavourings were not up to a decent, although not gourmet-level, standard.
Respect! Amiga rulez! Awesome project!
Haha, I remember them. (sighs)
I have been using Discord on Ubuntu for some time without experiencing any problems.
Great. Do you think it matters ?

For example, to give some vague indication of just how pervasive it already is: https://www.google.com/search?q=index+of+public+webcams

I guarantee you there's 5000 private webcams and non-web cams pointed at the street for everyone listed there. 100 government ones.

Stopping shopping is not an effective punishment, and will not lead to stopping progress on machine learning. I would just ignore it. Besides, at this point, it's probably just a security cam. 24h and your video is gone (assuming the store wasn't attacked).
The real question is whether they’re on @2x disolays exclusively.

I have a Retina MacBook Pro I mostly use it plugged into a 27” Dell 1440p monitor.

Every office I’ve worked in that provided Macs also provided a 1x monitor of some kind. Never 4k or 5k.
Yeah, unfortunately not. I meant 100% literally what I wrote as you see there, which was figuring out if the advice to lie like this was actually legal (and I had to confirm they were actually suggesting to lie, since it wasn't clear to me and otherwise the question would've been moot). It was a naturally succinct question so I left it like that instead of trying to worry about actively dispelling anything else people might read into it, but I guess that was a bad idea. It's fine though, thank you for clarifying.
(note I haven't worked on subpixel AA for font rendering, but have for something different)

the amount of color you apply to each subpixel has different levels of intensity depending on how deeply into the pixel the shape goes, so you would need to blend with whatever is behind/in front of it. Also you can't just do something like write (128,0,0) to a pixel and leave it at that, you'll have a red pixel. It would need to be blended with what's already there.
Thanks for the heads up. That concept looks very promising.
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Walt Disney also died a long time ago. Yet the mouse is still under copyright. [1]

[1] https://mag.orangenius.com/how-mickey-mouse-keeps-changing-c...
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Well, I have successfully replaced macOS with ChromeOS on my MacBook plus Debian in terminal via crouton. And I am quite happy about it. I can have flatpack apps and even have Virtualbox preinstalled so I could have run macOS or Windows if I had to.

Apple software is total crap in my humble opinion while hardware is still superior.
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> Personally I physically disconnect all of the internal microphones from my laptops, and cover the cameras.

How do you deal with the former on your smartphone?
No, I didn't. I just didn't want anyone to get the wrong impression that everyone with enough points gets in.
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Apple strikes again....they recently destroyed having two external displays with a recent update, and now they mess up single screen external displays too.

I have a MacBook Air connected to a 2560x1440 screen and fonts looks good. I was looking forward to Mojaves dark mode.

Now I'm afraid to install Mojave. I understand that Apple wants to simplify their code, but they can't just remove things before having an alternate solution to a problem that exist.

Font rendering is really super important... I really hope they reconsider.
The web isn’t broken.
There is an easy alternative to voting system.
Rating=Number of comments - C*hours passed since post.
where C is some site-specific activity variable.

Same could be applied for comments without time factor:
Rating=Number of replies/posts in subthread tree spawned by post
Good thing the US Postal Office didn't make the same mistake and use a picture of a Las Vegas Elvis impersonator on their Elvis Presley Forever stamp.

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

https://www.lasvegas-entertainment-guide.com/las-vegas-imper...
I use it daily and it’s fine as long as it gets a reboot every night ... which is needed rarely on my MacBook. I also like the flat UI and configuration is a mess, just like on the other two OSes
When I open this page on my phone I am greeted with a privacy modal that blocks the entire screen, with a consent button below the fold, which I cannot reach because scrolling appears busted. (Mobile Safari)
We provide very generic CI templates for each stack(java,go etc). If teams want any customizations on top of that, they will have to do it themselves. In CD we have some very specific expectations from the package so this make sure that CI part won't go way out of the way even if they make some customizations.
The reason marketeers don't like traditional advertising in Reddit is because they are getting their advertising for free by pretending to post as normal users. A room full of students can push any product, message or image. Its rampant in resdit. Why pay more for less reach?
MacOS Mojave nukes subpixel antialiasing, making nonretina monitor appear blurry
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So posts get “to the top” based on time posted? Maybe the submitted title should be changed into something less click-baity, like “A message board”
Try out Deepin - I prefer it to any gui. I hear good things about the latest KDE too.
This complexity is why we can't have windows that spread between 1x and 2x monitors since the introduction of Retina displays.

Ideally everything should be rendered (and cached) to the maximum resolution available (minimum trace widths considered) and then downsampled to the specific screens with subpixel data applied, but that's a lot of processing to do and battery life would suffer.
Fortunately it's quite easy to provide a compelling facsimile of emotional support. You just shut up and maybe hold the person while not obviously paying attention to something else.
>Basically font-smoothing is grayscale-only in Mojave.

This is actually better for me. I wrote to Steve Jobs a long time ago and asked him if he could switch to gray-scale font smoothing because the tricks they use with colours don't actually work with people like me who are red green colour blind. The end result was that text on apple products looked terrible to me and I couldn't use any of their products until the retina displays came out. In windows, you can use grayscale font smoothing easily.

Anyway, he replied "we don't have any plans to do this" or something like that. Turns out I won in the end.
im wondering what smell you would have got when you scrolled through the comments section of a YouTube video...
Same here, also took years to understand that my wife just want to be listened to and not given solutions every 5 sec. Happy wife = happy life!
I won't have anything bad said about FCPX. Yes, they botched the launch by releasing an unfinished, beta-quality first version. But every criticism of it was addressed within short order and it's solid as hell now.

The only reason why anyone continues to hate it today is because they're used to the terrible, horrible and stupid way that all the other NLEs work (including FCP6). It can be disconcerting to use FCPX because everything seems like a fancier version of iMovie, that it therefore must be not for "pros" or it's missing lots of "pro" features.

But it's not. Terrible, horrible and stupid NLE design isn't a feature. FCPX is the first one to get it right, but the rusted on Premiere / Avid "professionals" refuse to see it.
1Password 4 runs fine on Wine (the Windows version, of course).
I'm betting Apple will launch a family of Retina desktop monitors.

Also, remember it's still beta software. People do public betas to surface issues like these.
I think Gandi does still accepts bitcoin just fine for their services https://wiki.gandi.net/en/billing/means/bitcoin I was renewing a domain this week,and Bitcoin was listed on the checkout page, and I'm pretty sure it would be for all domain services (such as certificates).
It’s already a solved problem if you want to keep using the software you already wrote, and never do anything different. (Nobody is stopping people from running OS X 10.13 indefinitely on their 1x displays.)

If you want to rearchitect your whole text / vector graphics rendering pipeline to take proper advantage of GPUs, then you are going to be much happier with your life if you don’t have to double your work to support legacy hardware.

I would love to see Apple implement this kind of thing http://w3.impa.br/~diego/projects/GanEtAl14/
Sure, my mistake. Flip that "position:absolute" for "position:fixed". Note how I wrote "z-index:..." to imply an element covering the whole page.

Also note that activating your adblock does not disable the message in the OP, you'd also need to refresh the page since you are effectively removing the body.
Some myths are best perpetuated, e.g. 'nobody will ever need any more than 640K' (paraphrased) and in the UK there is a pretty good myth about Margaret Thatcher 'inventing' soft scoop ice cream. In some circles it has been repeated often enough to be as good as true.

One story that I wish was a myth is how ice cream used to be made from pig fat in the UK. Yes, pig fat, not dairy fat.

If you lived in Gloucester then you could see how this worked. The Walls Ice Cream factory was next to the Walls bacon factory. And they didn't have many deliveries from distinctive Milk Marketing Board lorries entering the factory gates. For vegetarians this 'secret' was not obvious, food labelling wasn't entirely required during the 1970's so one was assuming rather than knowing that the product was dairy based.

This did change and Wall's Ice Cream moved on from pig fat to palm oil. This was not to end the 'Aushwitz for pigs' aspect of the Gloucester factory, it was just economic realities. The pig fat could be sold at a premium on the global marketplace for such things and substituted with the cheaper, rainforest-destroying palm oil shipped in from the other side of the world.

Put together, I do wonder if any Wall's employees ever thought about the realities of what they were doing sending their vans around housing estates.

So first of all the product - cheapest sugar mixed with pig fat and padded out with air. Not exactly the ice cream product that people imagine it to be, not exactly great for diabetes and clogging arteries, not that it matters with kids to get them forming such life habits. They don't need vitamins when there are perfectly good preservatives to give them ADHD.

Then the ice cream vans themselves. Belching out fumes of lead at child height. Plus the noise pollution, spoiling the tranquillity of a children's play area with the throb of some poxy four cylinder engine not to mention the 'music' played over the PA system. Not all the drivers had a healthy interest in young children, but in those days we didn't have the words we have today for describing or reporting such characters. The mobile chicane created by the ice cream van could also bring death to the roads in the pre-speed bump era when housing estate speed limits were 60 mph and nobody had seat belts.

There is also the pester-power and FOMO aspects. What a heartless killjoy a parent would be if they didn't give their hard earned money over to their kids to fritter away on some pig fat whilst getting gassed with neuro-toxins at the ice cream van, to spoil their appetite for dinner?

At the time Walls had an advertising slogan that was a variation on the slogan the condom manufacturer's used. So, for ice cream you had 'Stop Me and Buy One!' and for condoms you had 'Buy Me and Stop One!'.

Despite all of the above people have extremely fond memories of ice cream vans.
I just installed the Mojave beta on my Macbook Pro. The fonts are just as blurry as if I toggle off "Use LCD font smoothing when available" in High Sierra.

So the contention that it won't be the same in Mojave is disproven. Even on Retina displays, disabling sub-pixel anti-aliasing leads to blurry, indistinct fonts.
That’s very interesting. I was under the impression that O-1 visa require verifiable world class talent (such as making the olympics in your discipline). Could you elaborate on what the bar is to be eligible for O-1 visa?
Nope, over the last 5 years i've found employers more leniant
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I installed Mojave beta on my MacBook Pro. It is the same thing. The fonts look identical to toggling off the setting "Use LCD font smoothing when available" in High Sierra. And by the same thing, I mean they look very bad in Mojave.
> And why would you even bring up the philosophical leanings of the group running this GitLab instance

In case someone is looking for a new repository host for their next project, so they can avoid inadvertently getting mixed up with a bunch of drama and hate.
The more frameworks, the more there are to learn. The more effort required to learn all frameworks, the more appealing it becomes to roll your own.

(The combination of choice paralysis and opportunity cost analysis are a powerful motivator, especially when one comes to the budding realization that even the mightiest frameworks are full of irks. More fun in being a total NIH control freak.)
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> But it's not true today, because today hand-tuned assembly is slow compared to what you can do on the GPU or an FPGA or a TPU.

That's not how thing work. GPUs/TPUs aren't magic, they don't speed everything up: they are really good is some scenario, but they are really slow in many others: the cost of loading memory to the GPU and back from it has a huge cost and it's only worth it if the GPU has enough work to do with the workload.

In theory, you could write a web server that runs on the GPU (at least a majority of it, it will still need some CPU work obviously), but it would be incredibly slow, probably slower than if it was a regular web server running on a machine from the 90s.

FPGA are totally different beasts, you can theoretically speed up anything with them, but

1. that requires a LOT of work, and

2. they aren't new: anything you can do with FPGA today, you could do it in 1995 already.
I've been on the beta for a couple days (using a 2016 12" MacBook) and I haven't noticed anything. There's a visible difference when I disable LCD font smoothing in settings, but not much changes besides fonts appearing somewhat thinner.
I programmed my first BBS on an Amiga 500 with 2 disk drives. Those were the times.
Subpixel-AA was not removed from macOS Mojave so the title is completely wrong anyway.

This was covered at WWDC. It uses grayscale-AA now which is much easier to hardware accelerate and gives a more consistent experience across different types of displays.
I must be the odd one out in that I actually prefer my fonts to look “soft”?
Personally, I think that is moving in the wrong direction. This is the reason text looks bad on transformed HTML elements in browsers, or when you click a button on Windows and it tilts slightly.

Text rendering should be aware of the (sub)pixels, even post-transform. While we're at it, this can apply to vector art, too.

If we ever want to have a hope of computers looking like, e.g. this Microsoft fluent design mockup [1], which is clearly window-based, but the windows are tilted slightly and shaded giving it a physical appearance, we'd have to go in that direction. If we stay in the model where everything is a texture that gets composited, the only thing we can do is to use higher resolution / retina display.

Also, one thing I've never seen discussed are virtual displays inside a VR world. The VR headset has plenty of pixels, but you can't simulate a full HD screen at a few feet distance, let alone a retina screen.

[1] https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2017/05...
Ask HN: Should I create a GUI for creating Tensorflow models?
Currently, I am evaluating some Master thesis topics. One of the proposals is:

- Create a GUI for creating Tensorflow models with data flow graphical programming (similar to Rapidminer).

- After the model phase, the Tensorflow code can be ejected and you can integrate it in your existing workflow.

- Also, the library will be Open Source.

What do you think about it? Is creating your graphs from code a problem worth solving/improving? Why or why not?
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The wizard is still there in the latest Win10
Hm, just browsed his page a bit again ... well, it seems still centered around, "this is bad and that is bad" "and this is wrong.. "

Not sure if this is the way to get people exited, building on better things.

I also like to read about, what works. What are working alternatives, and this he writes about ... but less so in my opinion.
I guess if you are super strict on definitions the proper one should be "a short-form video hosting service where users could share six-second-long looping video clips."

Is that your final decision or could I persuade you to give it another opportunity; feedback is always welcomed.
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Something kind of eye-opening for me was that I recently found an Android setting to make my phone (a OnePlus 5T) vibrate whenever any app requests location data, and even with location access denied to everything, it still vibrates about once every ten or fifteen minutes. As an end user I'm helpless to know whether it's a normal function of the OS, or if I have malware, or if it's Google, or OnePlus, or the Chinese. I can only hope I'm a little fish caught up in someone's advertising scheme and I'm not being tracked by the FBI because I said the wrong mix of things online. (You know, because there's no way I'm getting rid of my smart phone.)
They don't remove font smoothing. They switch it from subpixel level to grayscale only. Technically subpixel should produce better results then grayscale. But IMO the subpixel antialiasing in macos looks horrible. So you might not even see the difference as it looks exactly as horrible as before.

I'd be more outraged if Windows removed cleartype, because their subpixel font antialising actually works and is configurable.
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Gnome really is great. It's very simple though. If you transition to a search based launcher then you won't go back.
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Or, more realistically, that you wouldn't feel comfortable having read back to you in court.
They give justification for it in the video linked somewhere else in the comments. They say "it works better on a wider variety of displays" in reference to the gray-scale approach. I am guessing they are probably switching to oled across all of their products.
It has been a while since I looked into these 2.

But a few years ago, GlobaLeaks was a lot simpler to install and administer than SecureDrop. Which ment smaller organisations could afford to have an instance.
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