skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A director still makes the movie, despite never appearing on film or touching the camera. Design and oversight can be a large part of the finished product. There's no doubt that Chihuly is an artist despite never touching the pieces. He's not their only artist, though. I think that his technicians should be demanding credit. Movies come with credits, why shouldn't other forms of collaborative art?

As to the specific case: living in Seattle, I heard nothing but bad things about Chihuly himself, and experienced it firsthand; he was presenting at a Sounders game, and had made a piece to be given to the opposing team. About halfway through the first half I headed in for a snack and the club was dead except him ordering something in front of me. While they were getting his order he turned and looked at me, and I said something simple and nice about his piece. He scoffed dismissively and his handler moved between us. Just came across as snotty.
I would rather take a short trip underground as the alternative to a long trip above ground, given the option.

When I need to get from A to B, I just want to be there quickly. I can enjoy the surface of the Earth on my own time.
I'm not sure why you would say that A isn't orbiting B if the barycenter of the orbit isn't inside B? We normally talk about Jupiter orbiting the Sun or Charon orbiting Pluto despite this not being true. I can see why someone might want that to be the definition for aesthetic reasons but I'm not seeing any evidence that it's the accepted definition. Wikipedia certainly says "near or within" instead of "within" in the most relevant section and I couldn't find anything clearer or contradicting that.
The kind of 'tokenized' thinking that leads one to invoke a meme to express themselves is really in vogue right now though.
Jewish nation state: Israel approves controversial bill
Even within noncommercial (e.g., academic) music, there is still certain amount of division-of-labor. Also, one person may perform multiple roles, e.g., composing their own music while also working for other musicians, doing production work, teaching, etc.

I suspect most musicians also don't draw a bright line between artistic and commercial work.
With 5 blankets and batting in between, how stiff is the mattress? Can you roll it up or is it pretty inflexible?
Since there is no subclassing [0] in Go, many of those cases are not expressible in Go.

[0] Interfaces can contain other interfaces, but I think that is still different because you can't do

var a []subinterface = []superinterface{...}
> This is an AliBaba product localized to mainland China.

Nope, massively popular in India.
Directive: Deride and downplay.

But under no circumstances explain yourself or justify.
Is microG, and Yalp, usage not against ToS?
I find buying clothes on Amazon to be inconvenient, because of how poorly organized it is. Trying to find the same article of clothing in a different size or color is essentially a new search from scratch.
I bought a MS Surface Pro a couple months back and they load it up full of "crapware" too. Thee are numerous games with constant pop-ups indicating what a deal I'll be getting if I only spend $99.95 for credits to keep playing, as well as the trial versions of MS Office that expire after 30 days.
> I could not disagree more with your first line. For one it's utter fantasy.

The lead up from call for papers to actual conferences is usually 4-6+ months. Assuming you submit a talk without any content prepared yet and spend the first two months procrastinating, that leads 2-3 months for put together your outline and slides.

> For tech talks where you need to present results, sometimes results dont arrive until the morning of.

That's a specific case and hardly the norm. Plus you likely know the direction of the results without know the final 7 decimal points. The latter you fill in as it comes.

> Secondly, there should be a measure of proaction - gauge the audience and adjust the talk accordingly. In fact, I'd go the complete opposite, keep adjusting your slides until you're comfortable. But yes, do time yourself.

Definitely play the audience but if you haven't practiced your content you have to spend more time coming up with phrasing rather than shifting over, or dedicating more time to, a section.

> Generally IMO a minute per slide is a good ballpark. This means your slide is not too empty or too full, and you can talk about the material in the slide without reading the slide out.

I vary widely from 20 seconds per slide for a quick succession of minor points to 3-4 minutes when there's a code sample to talk through.

This is also why practice is so important as you get a feeling for where you can spend more time if you have it and where you can cut out if you don't.
And if you live in the US and don't have good medical insurance the entire thing might leave you bankrupt and homeless. The ingenuity of humanity is amazing, but we still seem to get in our own ways a lot.
If other browsers are also included by default, it is not antitrust to include that browser by default too. The only reason the share of Chrome would be interesting for antitrust would be if that share were leveraged to promote a product in another market, which nobody is claiming.
Going one step further, just eliminate insurance, and the entire billing system becomes unnecessary.

My mom had an experience in a country with national health care. She got injured while hiking, and got treated at the clinic in the first town she reached. Whey they were done, she asked how to pay. They said: "You don't pay for health care." Well, what about foreigners? It turned out they simply didn't have any way of figuring out a price or taking her money. Those mechanisms didn't exist. It was probably cheaper for them to dish out free care to a few foreigners, than to manage a complete billing and collection infrastructure.
If you don’t want to live in a world dominated by one company, you have to shop at the other guy as often as you can. That means picking #2 whenever they are no worse than #1, not just when they are better.

When amazon has no competition left, the experience will worsen. If for no other reason than that the stockholders will insist.
Probably similar in sweden. I'm sure I could get a second or third opinion without a problem (for anything potentially serious). Maybe someone would start question what I'm doing if I ask for >3 doctors but I'm not sure that's a bad thing.
Germany changed postal Codes from 4 to five digits after reunification.

> Reality must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled - R. Feynman
I think you're overshooting in your advice in the service of preventing the bigger mistake of turning around and reading slide contents verbatim (on which I certain agree with you). That's fine, but for veteran presenters, I think your advice is wrong. First, you should have text because you lose your audience no matter what (sneezing, emails, bathroom, etc). You should let them recontextualize and that involves judicious use of text. Also, everyone asks for slide decks after talks and they should be useful in that case even without a recording. Lastly reading doesn't mean, "turn away from your audience and read", it is the same as repeating key points - this can be done for emphasis or pacing, as long as it's intentional. This is my opinion based on my experience, at least.
81% of Smartphones powered by Linux
Yeah, someone returned fake gear before you bought it.

Or, a middleman unloaded, knowingly or unknowingly, a shipment of fake shit to Best Buy.
Read about Bottom (⊥).

null can be considered bottom (if it were not for primitives)
A wildly offensive analogy.
Example usage from the readme below. There is no explanation whatsoever provided as to what is going on with all the different formats.

Build up test data for low level code.

$ bo -n oh1l2 Pc if4b 1.5 1.25 ii2b 1000 2000 3000 ih1 ff fe 7a ib1 10001011
0x3f, 0xc0, 0x00, 0x00, 0x3f, 0xa0, 0x00, 0x00, 0x03, 0xe8, 0x07, 0xd0, 0x0b, 0xb8, 0xff, 0xfe, 0x7a, 0x8b

What?

What kind of value starts with a lower case ‘o’ or a ‘P’? Or are those commands? If so, why don’t they start with hyphens? Are they file names? If so, why aren’t they preceded by -i or -o to match the docs? Is some of it output?

If I used this, how would I explain my work to my coworkers? A tool should solve problems, not give me a new ones.

My approach is usually to make a tool friendly enough that a newbie can glance at a command typed in by anyone and immediately see what it is supposed to be doing, without reading any help file. But in this case even the help file doesn’t help.
Well, we already have licenses for flying planes, which seems to work quite well.
You have certainly described a grim future. But if you want to be pessimistic, I feel like drone warfare is far more effective, stealthy, and cheaper.
I think you spell "breaking" wrong. AI, btw, won't build roads or unclog my sink, ignoring that "ending capitalism" isn't intrinsically a problem at all. 2, 4, 5 are kind of no-brainers. 3 doesn't mean financial/economic activity will halt (and seems like QC could solve the problem as well as create it).
The best advice I can give to you is that if you're giving a talk on something that you're not an expert on, then tell people you're not an expert.

I gave a talk a year ago about Continuous Delivery, despite being a bog-standard developer that has had to do it on a couple of occasions. I had some general rules that I could carry across from one company to another, so my talk was around these general paths to happiness, and discussing the tools I have used, alongside a generous Q&A.

The questions were all fairly straightforward, and a number of people came up to me at the end to share the same sentiments - they were developers that had been roped into doing sysadmin stuff, and that they found the talk and answers to be very useful.

I have a theory that people often go to talks not to learn something new from an expert on the subject, but for a structured developer chat around an approach on a subject that seems to work for someone in a given context. If they've attended, they're interested in the subject, so as long as what you say is on-subject and clear it's difficult to give a bad talk. From there, it's mostly around delivery, which comes with practice and preparation.
Video version:

https://archive.org/details/youtube-dDsWTyLEgbk
Then you grow older on a professional level of income, learn to appreciate great food and realize your food budget averages $1000/month. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Population size seems like a red herring. The real difference is that the U.S. has a significant number of non-white minorities.
Omega-3 no protection against heart attack or strokes, say scientists
Show HN: Gemini, A Modern LaTeX Poster Theme
Not so old school.

I would put mobile native on the same basket.

And outside HN bubble there is still a thriving native UIs for infotainment, healthcare, factory automation, field machine control units,...

I have spent the last 4 years doing native UIs for life science labs.
here's my plan

1. elect anyone as BDFL

2. new BDFL announces they will pass a few PEP Guido was adamant against, because, well, now they are the BDFL

3. Guido realizes the mistake and we have the good old BDFL a while longer
I have been using Wkhtmltopdf to build pdfs in my application for quite a while. It has never caused any harm. Actually it has always "just worked" and is a good fit for my app.
Recently I've found myself at Best Buy a few times after not having been in years. There's a few reasons.

For big ticket items like TVs, Amazon usually isn't much cheaper if they are at all like it seemed to be a few years ago. Being able to see them in person and take them home same day is also nice.

Amazon's listings are mess. Sometimes the listing are just skeevy looking and have missing or wrong information. Even when the listing looks good, I'm not always sure I'll get quite what I ordered. I've already started to basically not use 3rd party sellers, but even when Amazon is listed as the seller, I've gotten items that were clearly used(when they were supposed to be new) or just not the right item, once being a counterfeit of what I was ordering.

I also noticed that for "gravy" items like cables and stuff, where Amazon was often 3 or 4 times cheaper, Best Buy is at least not as bad as they were in the past. They've still got some very overpriced options, but they also have some more reasonably priced options. So now its a decision to spend $3 or $4 more on that HDMI cable at Best Buy when I get the TV rather than $15 more. The decision to to spend the couple more dollars at Best Buy for the cable isn't just convenience, but is bolstered by cheaper items on Amazon being even more of a crapshoot than they were in the past.
> But I quit Prime a few years ago after 10 out of my last 10 orders arrived late

I have a hard time believing this. I've never had late shipments with amazon nor have any of my friends. Are you exaggerating or is there any omitted context?
Hi HN, author here.

I wanted to give a little bit of background on the motivation behind this post. For a while, I've been making academic posters using PowerPoint, Keynote, or Adobe Illustrator, and while it's possible to get a high-quality result from these tools, I've always been frustrated by the amount of manual effort required to do so: having to calculate positions of elements by hand, manually laying out content, manually propagating style changes over the iterative process of poster design...

For writing papers (and even homework assignments), I had switched to LaTeX a long time ago, but for posters, I will still using these frustrating GUI-based tools. The main reason was the lack of a modern-looking poster theme: there were existing LaTeX poster templates and themes out there, but most of them felt 20 years old.

A couple weeks ago, I had to design a number of posters for a conference, and I finally decided to take the leap and force myself to use LaTeX to build a poster. During the process, I ended up designing a poster theme that I liked, and I've open-sourced the resulting theme, hoping that it'll help make LaTeX and beamerposter slightly more accessible to people who want a modern and stylish looking poster without spending a lot of time on reading the beamerposter manual and working on design and aesthetics.
They get a bigger cut because they bore the most risk and were willing to support a venture that otherwise wouldn't have had the resources to happen.

Their exact cut is generally a balance between the risk, reward, and ability of the venture to happen without them.
Automated landing systems are only in very limited use, and require active monitoring by qualified human pilots who can immediately take over if something goes wrong. In general autopilots don't cope well with mechanical failures.
The top 1% of earners pay more than 40% of the total federal taxes. Moreover: "the top 1 per cent paid more tax than the total paid by the bottom 90 per cent combined."[1]

Those taxes fund defense, social security, national parks, interstate highways and many other services that benefit everyone.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/d17e9240-c61e-11e7-b2bb-322b2cb39...
Interesting, I did not know that. I can guarantee you there was a very strong taboo against it when I was a kid.
AFAICT, this article repeats the disaster of PEP572: it makes almost no effort to discuss how Python is used. Specifically, it implicitly holds that the BDFL + core contributors model that served Python so beautifully from, say, 1992 to 2002 when Python had perhaps 2 orders of magnitude fewer users than it does now and ran on—how can we know—3? 4? orders of magnitude fewer machines, should be taken for granted as the default governance mechanism for Python in 2018, when it is a key part of the world's infrastructure. I have no idea how to manage something as important as Python, but reading python-dev and seeing the brilliant Tim Peters, who was indispensable to Python's early growth, argue for a significant change in the language's semantics by using it to refactor a few samples from his personal code base, strikes me as prima facie evidence that neither do the core contributors. Millions. Of. People. Write. Python. That. Affects. The. Lives. Of. Billions. Of. People. Start there.
Inside Europe's people-smuggling networks: A journey from Afghanistan to Germany
> Historically a lot of EU or American artists are pretty much trust fund kids. because if you need to think about money all the time... you can't make art. Art requires some modicum of genuine freedom and most people need money to find it.

And this is why "Art For Art's Sake" was invented when the middle class began to encroach on the upper class's ownership of art and the ability to make it. After all, if your social inferiors can do something, is it really special? No. So either abandon it, or define it to be something those people can't do after all.
I think at the time they had a better sale price. It was a slight discount vs msrp. I also was able to sign up for a store credit card to get 10% back in rewards on the first purchase. Top that off with like 3+ Best Buy locations within a 30min drive of my area.

Ended up being a very good deal. If I bought from Apple would have missed out on free rewards, msrp discount, and the drive to Apple store is a bit longer
This is speculative, but project dictators might be too risky for succession. They can be good at managing the project, they can be bad at managing the project, and there's no reliable way to tell in advance.

Guido was good. If he hadn't been good, Python wouldn't have caught on like it did. If someone who starts a small project turns out to be bad at it, that's no great loss - there are a lot of small projects. You don't see the ones that fail.

But if you put someone in charge of a large project and they mess it up, that's a large problem. It's better to go for a safe option with a reasonable expected value than for the option with the highest best-case value.
Have been using puppeteer [1] at work as a replacement for wkhtmltopdf with great success.

[1] https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer
New tech support scam from +15167398540 with caller id of “APPLE INC”
Computer generated voice claims there is a security breach with your iCloud account and encourages you to press one to be connected to a security specialist.
How do you interpret this sentence:

"Single-detector gravitational-wave triggers had never been disseminated before in low latency. Given the temporal coincidence with the Fermi-GBM GRB, however, a GCN Circular was issued"

I interpret it as "Because we read the report from Fermi, we treated this data in an exceptional way". In which case their signal to noise ratio is going to be messed up, for the background estimates to be valid they need to treat everything exactly the same every time. Basically, if they want to do this, Fermi needs to be distributing false positive GRB reports so they can incorporate them into the background.

>"Multiple signals is the whole point of multi-messenger astronomy. Each detection was independent, but having evidence in GW, GRB, and optical provides multiple lines of evidence, which is a cornerstone of good science."

Ok, but I'm saying it is my understanding that no one expects to detect any supporting evidence in the case of the black holes. Ie, not that it was missed. There is "nothing to see":

"These momentous black-hole clashes produced gravitational waves that were audible to LIGO-Virgo but there was nothing to see."
https://www.nature.com/collections/gghkrvklfb
Tips and tricks for making a UX flowchart
Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine
1) Do not attempt to live code. change your code via version control, build small videos, copy and paste... whatever you do... do not try and live code

2) Read "The presentation secrets of Steve Jobs" ... its not really about Steve Jobs so much as its about how to be a great presenter.

3) building or writing a talk is significantly less important than the delivery... which means that more of your time should be spent on how to deliver the speech (recording I find is the best way to practice)

4) Pick a single thing and do it well, do not attempt to put too much into a talk or tackle something massively complex.

5) Make sure that everyone is walking away with something they can actually use. This doesn't require it be a hard skill... "Soft" or philosophical utilities are just as good

6) Have Fun and be funny... Speakers have a tendency to want to show off the size of their intellect, and the level their competency- having a speech be entertaining is way way more important.

7) DO NOT READ FROM YOUR SLIDES. know your shit. slides are supplementary

Extra Credit. Here's a collection of some fantastic technical speeches:

* https://vimeo.com/9270320
* https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
* https://youtu.be/o_TH-Y78tt4
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c
* https://youtu.be/a-BOSpxYJ9M
* https://youtu.be/kb-m2fasdDY
It's absolutely unethical and they should be ashamed and held accountable. They have something like ~$250,000,000,000 in cash and they are just robbing their customers twice by denying the problem they created and not paying appropriate taxes in their countries either. They've optimized to be incredibly selfish.
So media tycoons are getting washed up, rather than getting continued returns?

No, of course not: this is why we've had ever increasing numbers of sequels, remakes, franchise films and such. Why lots of heavily promoted music is highly derivative.

Sure, some people invest in riskier stuff, on the hope of much greater returns.

What are they risking, will they suffer in any meaningful way if the project fails?
There is also the time element. If you're working two part-time jobs and delivering Seamless on the side, not to mention your hour-long commute from the nearest affordable community, your time to prepare all those healthy vegetables into a palatable meal is a lot less than that of the average tech worker.
This depends on downstream caches respecting your TTLs. And, as Java has shown with their DNS implementation, that's not a reasonable expectation to hold.

You can force some of it by putting everything behind TLS, but even then there will be downstream caches for some of your customers (especially the enterprise customers with their sweet, sweet enterprise money) which will still interfere with your expected caching.
No kiddin'. There's been seem really weird stuff getting through on HN lately.
Yea, it’s a total minefield. It’s gotten to the point where I won’t go to the doctor unless I literally can’t function. Whenever I go, it’s the same song and dance:

1. Doc recommends a long list of blood tests for reasons she can’t seem to articulate. She’ll also recommend a testing lab. Oh, and see this specialist!

2. Now I have to figure out:

a) which tests do I actually need and which ones are just being recommended out of abundance of caution or because the doc needs to protect herself legally?

b) will my insurance cover the tests I’m going to do? If not (or even if so) how much will they cost me?

c) will my insurance work at this particular lab? The lab often won’t know.

d) do I really need to see this specialist or is my doc just tossing some juicy business to her med school buddy?

e) is the specialist in my insurance’s network?

f) how much is the specialist’s bill likely to be?

g) how much will my insurance pay?

3. Do all the things (or not)

4. Random bills for random amounts start landing in my mailbox over the next few months. They could be anywhere between $100 and $10,000, totally impossible to know ahead of time. I now have to pick up the phone and start negotiating with the doctors and my own insurance company, figuring out what I can pay now, what will have to wait, etc. Usually the insurance company will say something about a deductible and “you have to pay LOL.”

The stress is enough to give me an ulcer (which I’d need to visit yet another specialist for, is this one in-network or out?)