skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope. Can't take that line.

Colleague I'm not too bothered about - I wish I was better equiped to address the attempts to bring me towards "Hitler was ok" but this is a person I can walk away from. And that I'm unlikely to change.

And workwise, I need to be be assertive, but I think I'll always lose to the argument with this owner - facts be damned. And those higher up the food chain seem unwilling to say no.... This is a situation and behaviour I have little control over.

But my room-mate I upset. She's a good friend and I have no wish to reduce or demean her. The last thing on a trying day and I failed either to identify with her concerns or find a way to get her (or myself) to think about them. I just went off on one.
There's a reason most high-performance Python libraries are not written that way, and core routines are just written in C instead. Proof of the pudding is in the eating!

See this talk by Armin Ronacher (creator of Flask) on why the design of python makes it fundamentally unfriendly to performance optimizations: https://youtu.be/qCGofLIzX6g?t=171

Julia has be designed ground up to avoid several such problems. See this discussion: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-motivation-why-weren...

If your domain falls under the umbrella of numerical and scientific computing, writing Julia is as painless as writing python, with code that automatically runs roughly as fast as C. If you're used to writing numpy, you can hit the ground running in Julia, with maybe a few hours to become comfortable with the slightly different syntax and the names of useful libraries.
Right—why would you prioritize short term returns over self sufficiency? Seems like you’re just fucking your kids over.
Tolls are a way of allowing wealthier people to drive with less traffic. You may be ok with the regressive nature of that, but in a place without good public transit it feels wrong.
Firefox has been removing stuff for a while... the slippery slope has started at the point when the extension compat checking became a version-based setting that you need to re-set after every update. It was downhill from there... what used to be a hyper customizable browser with lots of features and extensibility, is now just inferior, open-source Chrome wannabe.

I've personally stopped using it a few months ago after being a fan since before it was called Firefox (Mozilla browser? or something). The only things I miss are minor stuff like being able to color tabs (who knows, Firefox might have disabled that too since then).
Then they can’t automatically order supplies.

The printer I work with these days will phone for supplies that tend to arrive the day before the toner runs out.

Although I imagine the network connection could be replaced with a phone line, but there’s only one landline in this company of 500+ people and I’m using it for something else.
coordinate social change - Maybe worker rights and regulation of basic needs items by supply side economics?

Imagine if workers had actual careers, that didn't bounce them from city to city (unless they wanted to relocate).

How about if housing had minimum codes that encouraged actual privacy. (Such as being able to take a shower or do the dishes at 2AM without anyone around you hearing anything; also to doing them at 10PM without waking morning people and at 8AM without waking night people.)

Also if 'rent control' / housing cost control meant that if the market were over a given price more housing would be built in that market to drive the price down properly.

Housing also should not be an investment, that encourages poor behavior in all sorts of ways.
Unix-type servers have always dominant as web servers and this alone made is so a substantial portion of CPUs in the world boot with such kernels even in the 90s I think.

With Unix-like-oses having some inherent advantages over Windows, and the successful open source model making Linux and BSD free and in constant development, in hindsight the extension of Unix-like-oses to more and more domains seems inevitable.

The only thing standing in the way of a Unix/Linux future really was the potential of microkernel OSes but over many years, these have failed to live up to their hype (GNU began development of HURD before Linux was announced).

I mean, Google using Linux internally and using it for the development of Android seem like more obvious breakout moments to me. But there many such moments says to me that no one of them mattered that much.
BBB gives fake Hamas “business” an a rating, charges for higher ratings
Accept the senior level gig if you get an offer, even if they fire you you will get a few months of paychecks and your toes back in the water. Don't tell anyone you are homeless.
I think when scripts are over 1k LOC the naming of functions can get pretty unwieldly when trying force everything to fit into the approved verb-noun mantra.
That "not for profit" (mis)intetrpretation is a huge myth. The execs of vanguard take home salaries and bonuses based on their performance, as decided by management (themselves). That's economically equivalent to them being owners and taking profits.
Apple has monopoly on their store and they have ability to play kingmakers on other platforms with app developers in every niche. Without presence on all relevant platforms your product or service will die off.
> high tech buildings

You forgot to mention fax machines :)
And useless pepper robots in about every shop that tries to look futuristic.
Another thing to note is that Fidelity and Schwab both have commission-free secondary-market treasury trading. This is much preferred to savings account rates. Oh and they allow you to participate in Treasury auctions too; you receive the so-called "high-rate" as a non-competitive bidder.
Intelligence isn't only influenced by genetics, but also by how an animal (human or not) is reared.

If you raise a dog in complete social isolation (not even human contact) it will be unable to cope in the outside world. The same applies to people, if a baby is raised with no interaction, they will not be capable of functioning as a normal human. There's a very well written, Pulitzer Prize winning article on one such case in Florida: http://www.tampabay.com/projects/girl-in-the-window/danielle...

I think that a convincing argument could be made that psychedelics could work to kick-start this mental expansion. There are plenty of stories of people suddenly being able to understand complex abstract concepts after using psychedelic drugs.

That's not to say that I believe that the Stoned Ape Hypothesis is "solid", I haven't done any research into it to be able to make that judgement, but it is plausible.
Descrambled:

> Not always. I keep seeing this, and frequently find myself needing to discourage (or at least challenge) the position. For small words it can work, but I find this is inherently difficult (and draining, as well as frustrating!) to read, and doesn't scale to let you read in a coherent fashion over a reasonable period with multi-syllabic words.

Imagine a computer science or psychology text displayed or organized this way. It would be unintelligible, or at the very best a suboptimal method of transferring large quantities of information accurately.

But if you're going to mess up words and claim readability, why not take out spaces and see how you might fare?

Or scramble words in sentences without spaces, too?

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Quite readable. Cant' vouch for spelling mistakes, or lack thereof :)
Bah.

By far the cooler 'hacker's magazine' (as someone put it) was Transactor. Available at the same source! https://archive.org/search.php?query=transactor

Byte was so ... conventionally-oriented. "A friend to all is a friend to none." Scrambled ... or benedict?
I think animations that you don't notice as animations are the most useful. Take scrolling and scroll locking an element to fixed when a threshhold is reached. A slide down of a section opening, a zooming of an image, a swipe left... these are useful gestures that are not noticed but rather feel as though they should be part of the experience naturally. Focus on useful animations that add to the experience but we are not going to the stark days of command lines ever again although as a programmer I love them and can't stand probing for settings deep in UIs or navigating nested trees via clicking. We are not normal though.
When camping I like having hand sanitizer with the toilet paper. At other times it seems unnecessary, but the toilet paper is probably a bit less sanitary than what you typically experience in a city since there's water near the fine hole in the ground and you have to handle the toilet paper the next person is going to use more than if it was in a bathroom.
Deployment and configuration is among the top priorities from both the core team and the community from what I can tell. There's been a lot of discussion about it and some resources being dedicated in the last year. So only a matter of time, but a little heavy on initial deployment for sure.
Yes, just like any company with a virtual office. But the Supreme Court in TC Heartland last year limited where patent suits can be filed. Now, a _defendant_ needs a physical presence in east Texas to be sued there. Only big box retailers with stores in east Texas towns, or companies with headquarters / offices / storefronts in Dallas suburbs like Frisco or Plano, can be sued there. The virtual office for the patent owner no longer had any effect on the suit being proper in east Texas.
Larger iPhone X Plus seemingly confirmed by leak in iOS 12 beta
> There definitely is, but that depends on one's definition of "race."

Oh Japanese definitely think they are apart from their neighbors even in terms of race. YOu should read what Japanese write about themselves in History books.
I think the solution for your country may be the inverse of the one I recommended for America in a different post in this thread.

The construction workers should become destruction workers driven by supply side regulations aimed at keeping the price of housing 'stable' by encouraging the retirement of the lesser quality housing and the conversion of those areas to more socially productive uses. (Maybe parks, nature, or buildings more suitable to society's needs.)
Look, 2048 is fine. Assuming no algorithmic speeduos you get 112 bits of security and that’s plenty. But SSH keys are only used to sign: they don’t affect bulk encryption. 4096’s performance is not what’s holding you back.
Running ads pays 0, well below recurring cost. It's an expense. Free tier is an expense. Many products have a free teir, such as AWS, Google Drive, and Trader Joe's samples.
DOJ and FCC request Supreme Court vacate 2016 net neutrality ruling
Jerry Pournelle I could have easily lived without. He had piles of his hardware and software given to him, and he had high level access into various companies when he had a problem because of his position at Byte. Couldn't relate, and never understood why people enjoyed his articles that much.

OTOH, Steve Ciarcia was like a god to me. The variety and scope of his projects was crazy. I built his BASIC-52 controller board (point to point wiring FTW!) and hung a 2x16 LCD display and SPO256-AL2 speech synthesizer off of it. I marvelled at his "parallel processor" Mandelbrot generator. Every month was one amazing design after another, and I credit him as one of the people that sent me on my path to my EE degree.
It seems a bit on the opposite - that it's natural to like/prefer customers who are suckers and will gladly overpay you significantly for no good reason.
Sharing the ride: Less sharing better for transit, more sharing better for cars
Some states have enacted bad faith litigation statutes. If the patent owner is not careful in avoiding the appearance of extortion, they can be liable for the defendant’s fees and other damages.
I don't think the sed syntax was implemented in an effort to make a good interface; rather, they simply implemented what many (albeit technical) users have been writing for years. I've been using sed-like notation to chat with colleagues for years. HipChat just chose to do something about it.

I believe you could also edit your last message with the mouse, or by pressing "up" (but I don't remember if that was opt-in).
Ding, ding, ding!!! I've been beating this drum for a few years now. The interesting thing about chat bots is the UI not natural language processing.

I think people are completely overwhelmed by the massive lack of consistent UI the Web has brought us. I also think the more "apps" that could be brought into platforms like Telegram, the happier users would be.

There's also evidence of this in China where 100's of millions of people use WeChat for a large percentage of their needs.
‘tqbf is responsible for that one :)
A dangerous thing about congestion pricing is that it incentivized government to run as a business that caters to its paying customers -- making premium product to serve only the wealthy, and ignore the working classes
Not the best move from Firefox. But, they never did support RSS more than half-heartedly.

OTOH, the constantly-maintained-these-days Thunderbird supports RSS -just fine-.
While the built-in reader isn't the most amazing thing in the world, I assume this also means the Subscribe button is being killed? I'm sure an extension will be able to do the same thing, but that's somewhat of a nuisance.
Backwards compatibility. I don’t think it shelled out, but close enough.
My own opinion, and one reason I avoid all such sites and accounts so stringently, is that such "platforms" (walled gardens) are a man in the middle attack on social interaction. This affects society's health and wellbeing overall, including making it more difficult to engage in healthy relationships/interactions with others addicted to any given platform.
After seven difficult years, a fine day for NASA and human spaceflight
> I recently rolled out YubiKey 4s to my whole organization and it was a painless experience.

A writeup would be awesome.

I have been trying to set up keys for road warrior VPN as well as our access to cloud, and it has been FAR from straightforward.

Generally, everything consists of "Somehow communicate with a Radius server" that Yubi no longer supports(YubiRadius) or "Trust Google".
The patent laws contemplate indirect or joint infringement, that could hold multiple entities liable if there is sufficient coordination. What you propose is an interesting investigation, but would quickly run into these issues of multi-party infringement.
You use SSO with strong authentication to sign a temporary credential for SSH.
I miss Italy from that point of view. It's tough to make friends here in the US.
I think you are on to something there.

Los Angeles and some other American cities get water from hundreds of miles away, even crossing mountain ranges to do so.

These days that kind of ambitious engineering would be largely unthinkable. Some bean counter somewhere would say it’s not worth the expense and the politicians would go along with it.

Recently I learned that until 2005 Navajo Indians were transporting coal 300 miles via a slurry pipeline to Nevada power plants. Again, something that would be inconceivable in these small thinking days.

I’m glad that a few crazy adventurers like Musk and Bezos and a few others have popped up. It’s been a long time since America had that kind of pioneering spirit.

If people in the 1930’s had today’s mindset, Los Angeles would be just another desert gas stop on the coast road between San Diego and San Francisco.
I think it’s possible the removing stuff is a function of constrained resources, Mozilla might just not have time to stay competitive with chrome/safari etc and maintain all these features at the same time.
Seems to work well for me in Firefox.
Userbase removes Firefox support
This sounds like an excellent way to keep customers.
Not even within a few hundred miles? Los Angeles, New York and lots of other American cities bring water in from hundreds of miles away.
Doing business isn't the problem. The problem is that Google is creating a censored version of their search engine. Rather than simply turning a blind eye to China's abuses, they're actively helping the communist party perpetuate those abuses.

Additionally, your flippant dismissal of "silly hypotheticals" is particularly misplaced. Maybe read about some of the things they've done to the Falun Gong and what occurred at Tiananmen square. These aren't small abuses that can be overlooked, and no American company should be complicit in helping the Chinese government keep these things quiet.
> Tax is already tiered by income

Not in all jurisdictions. Sales taxes and gas taxes and license fees are not tiered by income. Property taxes are vaguely tiered by income.
I've said this on here before more or less, but here's the problem for me: If my girlfriend is approached by a man without due cause (such as asking for directions, trying to commission her to work on something, etc.), our immediate reaction is to assume he has sexual intent. The only difference being creepy makes is whether or not it's an assumption or a certainty. I don't like being perceived as though I have sexual intent and I don't get the impression anybody else does either or romantic cat and mouse games wouldn't be as popular as they are. This isn't some hypothetical worst case false accusation thing, it's something real that I know happens because we both do it. And I know why we do it, we do it because 9/10 times if a guy approaches her without due cause he's got sexual intent. When you approach a woman without due cause you join a tiny segment of the population that is 90% horny men, expecting to not get labelled as a horny man is wishful thinking.
build a portfolio microsite using React. Go to meetups. hand out resumes. repeat.
Thank you. I'll check out those links.

Long day, so will sleep on it before doing so.

Quite saddened by the day though.
Not just footer CTAs - they’re still broken! These are the ‘start your free trial’ red buttons. I’m on an iPhone SE
It's not possible to build good public transportation after people have already chosen where to live, work, and build buildings based on the non-public-transit infrastructure.
May want to check out SparseRSS.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.shandschuh.sparserss/
While watching nytimes simultaneously drain my phone battery and data plan is fun and all, I feel like this could be better represented if you used static graphs on a regular web page.
Meteor Showers
Ask HN: OpenCV – How would you track the spinning of a 'wheel'?
So I want to track how many times a wheel spins. I have a few ideas, but I'm curious about alternative solutions.

My solutions all require placing a marker on the wheel and tracking its path. I'm okay with using a marker.

Since I want this solution to work with a night vision camera, I can't be dependent on color. So I'm leaning towards looking for a unique shape that wouldn't be found in the environment. e.g., a Star

I know this solution seems rather simplistic and limited, but I'm not trying to build a very flexible or intelligent solution.

What I've built already works for a very sterile environment, translation - a white background with a green circle moving in a circular motion.

This is just a fun weekend project.
I agree; I don't think it's right either.

To take your hotel analogy, I agree it's not right for customers to make copies of room keys. But if it were as easy to copy a hotel room key as it is to copy a wifi password, the hotel would not be in a position to describe those keys as adequate security.

Though the analogy is poor because a hotel room is intended to be a private and secure area where I can store valuable item, whereas wifi access is more like the soda dispenser at an American restaurant—other customers are equally inconvenienced whether you paid or not.
No, because they are companies.
It depends. This is the only deviation I've ever found: https://github.com/cython/cython/issues/1936 ; that is, Cython will execute __prepare__ in Python 2; but __prepare__ doesn't exist in Python 2, so the normal interpreter (CPython) won't execute it. This can lead to deviations; in my case, the code crashes if run under Cython, and executes fine under CPython.

The Cython maintainers disagree with me that this is a bug, so, if you're under Python 2, I would say it is "very nearly" compatible. If you're in a recent version 3, AFAICT, it just makes Python code faster.
It's best to assume all passwords need to have sufficient entropy to withstand a brute-force attack on some super fast hash until proven otherwise.

I didn't change my macOS password to 8-characters (to save myself 20 seconds a day) until I thoroughly researched what key-stretching was being used under the hood.
Ok this is way fun and drags me back to the days I was diligently trying to build a 3D rendering engine from first principles (sort of, I had Glide to put stuff on the screen).

The renderer is perceptually better than the one that is included in my CAD package (TurboCAD) for pretty much all materials. So I'm guessing they will snarf it and dump the proprietary renderer and replace it with this stuff if they can.

But the really interesting idea that popped into my head was this; could Google offer 'rendering as a service'?

Specifically they have a zillion machines, many of which are doing nothing important, and they have this rendering package, and they have a scheduler that can put things on any machine. Imagine a service where you sent them a suitably detailed model description, and a set of lights, could they send you back a rendered image? Could you parameterize changes to the model description over time so that they could send you images in time based on your models? Could they do say 480 renders 'free' per month and then maybe $0.19/render over 480 in a single month?

Could you create a studio of modellers who would design models, and animators that would animate those models over time, and a director who would compose those animations into scenes? This is basically Pixar without the expensive renderfarm. Does that enable new studios to bring their own vision to life? Does it offer a cost effective service to places like Pixar which allows Google to make money on otherwise idle resources? Curious minds want to know :-)
Anything new since the last time this was posted? I know the creator hangs out here and can maybe give us an update?
I found the same to be broadly true for me. One small tip to break the habit - use your hosts file to straight up block distracting websites on your work PC. You can still read them elsewhere when not working. This really helped me break the subconscious habit of checking distracting news sources.

And yes, I blocked HN on my work PC.
Actually natural language scales quite well. Aza Raskin and his father Jeff did a lot of good work in this area.

The discoverability of commands in a system like Emacs is much more powerful than a menu based system. In fact, I bet most people navigate the web now days by typing part of the URL in the omni bar and letting the browser fuzzy match versus mainting large bookmark lists.
JIRA pages are "animated" by new widgets popping in, then showing loading icons and then finally displaying their final content. You cannot target any single element on the page while it does that because everything moves around every 500 milliseconds or something like that. You just have to sit there and wait until all done. And then it only loaded X of Y items and you have to click to get the rest which again leads to more layout changes. It's as I am watching the same rube goldberg machine over and over again.

Ok, I can see that something is happening. But that renders the whole UI unusable while it does. And it gets tiresome after the first time.
add a teaspoon or two of clarified butter to the mix

I make mine in a special bowl in the microwave (because I'm lazy) using ghee, so yeah...

add a teaspoon or two of clarified butter to the mix

To save some calories I add a bit of splenda afterwards (heat seems to destroy splenda, so it's got to be after the fact). Not as good, but better than nothing.