skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do 95.8 percent of female newscasters have the same hair? I don't see it. Whats the source of that number? Where are the examples? All I see in the article is advertising and counter examples.

From what I can tell, the women in news just like the women in real life seem to change their hairdo every other day.
Elon Musk: Sustaining Motivation
I think the big phones are:

1) To show off.

2) A battery life hack. (Number of pixels to illuminate goes up like the square, volume of the battery in the phone goes up like the cube... so larger phones will have better battery life. This was a huge, huge, huge concern on Android when the big Android devices started showing up. Remember the days when your Android phone couldn't even last 8 hours in your pocket at work? That is when the big Androids started showing up, and Apple introduced large phones after that.)

3) Most people don't use PCs anymore, so their phone is their only computing device.

These three concerns obviously weigh into the equation in addition to usability on public transit.

But really, New York is kind of unique in how over-capacity the transit system is. Tokyo is similar. Bought a Japanese phone recently?
A patent gives you a monopoly which makes things easy.

You occasionally search the market for products that contain your tech (in this case eink), then look in your records to see if they bought/licensed from you.
You dont see lots of male newscasters with beards, earrings, tatoos though. And they all wear suits like its penguin paradise. They do have a very narrow standard look as well.
> I trust my AdBlocker more than any consent options/frameworks.

There should be more layers of defense for your privacy. ad blockers only really target third party trackers. While this method also helps for webapps that track you directly (facebook, google, etc).
Would a Shift to Semiannual Reporting Really Affect Short-Termism?
hackaday?
I’ve removed work emails from my phone 4 years ago. That’s way more effective than turning everything off for 24 hours. First I’m still reachable if there’s an emergency. Just call me (people don’t call anymore so that almost never happens) and if no one calls I know it’s because everything’s fine. Second it’s all the time, not just the Saturday.
> Men are allowed to be bald.

Allowed to be bald?! Going bald is a terrible experience that many men have to deal with. The number of men that choose to be bald is vanishingly small.

> They’re allowed to have curly hair.

What are they supposed to do? Straighten it? All male newscasters have the same hair: short back and sides. And yeah, of course if they have curly hair the hair will be curly.

As for women having curly hair. Look around. Curly hair hasn't been in fashion for decades. It's nothing to do with being a newscaster.

> Pretending sexual double standards (or the racial equivalent, etc) don't exist

Typical knee-jerk response void of any logic. I didn't suggest any such thing. I'm just saying this isn't an example of that. The same standards exist for men. All newscasters look the same.
For extra fun for all the people trying to reverse it, the exact waveform data changes per batch of displays. The overall strategy will remain the same though.

If you want to see a more complete list of waveform names you could probably go look at the gpl releases of popular readers...
Yeah, slowly we realise that GDPR was too good to be true. And indeed, it is bad.
Echo chambers and epistemic bubbles
How does one observe the binaries on a voting machine? Nobody seems willing to sign on to that [0].

When you can't audit what is in a voting machine, you can't guarantee if it works.

[0] https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2017/10/star-vote-coll...
even that can be bypassed if the company is really interested in you, they need to offer you yearly salary greater than xx000 EUR and give you contract for 1 or 2 years and you can get a blue card without university degree. i dont know the details, but im working in berlin and i know many friends with that issue
There was a link to another article [1] about how COBOL may be better suited to certain mathematical calculations. The article in question presented this iterative function:

x[0] = 4
x[1] = 4.25
x[i] = 108 - ((815 - 1500 / x[i-1] ) / x[i-2])

It blew up on iteration 14 using floating point, but COBOL could be programmed to go further (by using more decimal places past the decimal point).

[1] https://medium.com/@bellmar/is-cobol-holding-you-hostage-wit...
What is Good Reasoning?
> for COBOL, or thought to produce an emulator facade that keeps the business logic of legacy code, but ports it to another platform, architecture, infrastructure

There are some, but the answer is: because COBOL is opinionated.

In terms of verbosity it makes Java look like a Haiku, and it's a weird mix of lower level and higher level constructs.

Classes? What are those? Code reuse?

It also talks (in weird ways) to things like green screen interfaces and saves data in "records" or builds "reports" (just try to create XML natively in Cobol)
Bank account closed – is this a scam by my sugardaddy?
>Yeah, as if in the age of the selfie, Instagram celebrities, vanity blogging, social media status games, and so on, "genuine enthusiasm" even had a chance...

eh, I do think, in some ways the "genuine enthusiasm" or if we are going to use tech company words, "Passion" is a fundamentally different thing from "cool" - even if it can be just as inauthentic.

"Cool" is about acting unaffected; in some ways, it's acting like you don't care even when you do. "Passion" and "Genuine enthusiasm" are in some ways the inverse; they are acting like you care deeply and genuinely even if maybe you don't.
why is control on the outside and why are there no unshifted parentheses?
here's that video from earlier this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khbihkeOISc

this sample doesn't look like 96%, but still pretty high up there.
> may be better suited to certain mathematical calculations

No, it isn't. If that's the best excuse they can find for keeping COBOL alive then throw it in the trash already (though I read the article and it's more subtle than that)

There are arbitrary precision libraries for multiple languages, both binary and decimal.
"On closer inspection all the chip components have had their labels chemically peeled off to prevernt reverse engineering."

Wow, I've never seen that. Is it a common thing? It also puts me off buying one of these (assuming the $900 price tag hadn't put me off already).
Intel ME vulnerability enables disclosure of encryption keys
Machine intelligence at Dropbox
I briefly dated someone with a PHD in cancer biology who worked on the marketing side for pharmaceuticals through a "consulting" company.

On multiple occasions I watched her manipulate datasets to produce visualizations favoring whatever drug was being pushed at that time.

The rationalization process was something like the treatments were basically all equally ineffective against the specific type/stage of cancer, but still the best choices at the time for people who were going to live for a brief period no matter what. So they tweak the graphs to slightly favor whoever is paying for the research, something on the order of a couple more months of life expectancy vs. the alternatives. Just enough to funnel the patients.

sigh
According to the article, it refers to the percentage who have straight hair.
Article 13 makes it official. It's time to embrace decentralization
I really resonated with this article and didn’t find much to disagree with from my own personal experience.

Thanks to the author for writing it.
I have a Keyboardio Model 01. I haven't tried the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard so I can't compare directly. From looking at it:

* Keyboardio has vertical key columns rather than the staggered ones on regular layouts like the UHK. That took some adjustment, but is much nicer once you're used to it.

* The thumb keys layout on the Keyboardio has clearly had a lot of thought put into it. When I got it, I expected that I'd hate it and remap a lot of them, but it really works very nicely. The modifier keys on the UHK look much harder to hit without some awkward stretching. Hard to say without actually trying it though.

* I do like the Thinkpad style trackpoint module. I'd love to have something like that on the Keyboardio. It does have a mouse layer, but it's hard to use and I mostly forget that it exists.

Overall, I absolutely love my Keyboardio. The sculpted keycaps, thumb key layout, palm keys and overall feel are extraordinary. Every detail is really aimed at maximum ergonomics and long term comfort. The biggest issue that I have with it is that it kind of spoils you for other keyboards. It's a little big and bulky, so if I'm travelling, I have to choose between lugging it around with me or suffering with a regular laptop keyboard for a while. It also took me a solid month of deliberate practice to really adjust to the Keyboardio layout when I first got it. The UHK looks like it might be easier to switch back and forth between it and a normal keyboard.
COBOL work doesn't actually pay well compared to other languages, and it isn't that bigger market. Why? If your business logic and requirements haven't changed, why change a running system? Even if you could transpile with 100% accuracy, then you'd lose speed. Maybe you've gained an operational advantage, but there are other ways to do that. On the other extreme, you need to modernize badly, and so a rewrite is actually feasible because you can take advantage of new technologies, especially web and mobile. Between those use-cases, middleware exists which does allow you to bolt on even more awfulness. Finally, businesses die or get acquired. Sometimes good stuff is lost, but equally bad or old stuff is purged.

Maybe ironically, that Emscripten URL won't load for me.
>How does one observe the binaries on a voting machine?

You can make this argument against literally any programmable machine.
Also, checksums of reproducible builds (a feature a lot of compilers in production now support) are a good way to know the software wasn't altered. Securing the hardware is more of a protocol issue than a technical one here.
The Privacy Revolution in Action
Domainz v1
100 Days of Digital Minimalism
Show HN: A simple library for persistent finite-state machines in Go
We have the long tradition of sending encrypted or puzzle-like postcards to our local hackerspace. Three years ago we created this postcard: https://entropia.de/Datei:2015-01-27-back.jpg

It's 200 bytes, a valid x85 ELF program with a deceptive 'strings' greeting message and an additional hidden message. Run at your own risk ;-) The machine readable version can be found here: https://entropia.de/Cryptierte_Postcarten
Archived copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180915094558/https://www.insty...

Alas, the photos are missing:

https://cdn-img.instyle.com/sites/default/files/styles/684xf...

https://cdn-img.instyle.com/sites/default/files/styles/684xf...

https://cdn-img.instyle.com/sites/default/files/styles/684xf...

https://cdn-img.instyle.com/sites/default/files/styles/684xf...

https://cdn-img.instyle.com/sites/default/files/styles/684xf...
> Also, checksums of reproducible builds (a feature a lot of compilers in production now support) are a good way to know the software wasn't altered.

Nobody will agree to doing that. I just said that.

> Securing the hardware is more of a protocol issue than a technical one here.

I wouldn't agree. Because the binary being run, isn't being run in isolation, making verifying the database difficult. [0]

If we're not allowed to verify any of the internal workings of the voting machine... How can we say it actually has a copy of a verified binary on it?

Random verification of a voting machine is far more intense, costly, and time-consuming than verifying that a bunch of people at the voting place are doing their jobs correctly.

[0] https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/17/voting-machine-remote-ac...
> In Germany almost every shop is closed on Sundays, with a similar idea behind it. Only the most necessary jobs are done (firefighters and hospital workers) and there is free time for everyone to relax.

This was how it was in the UK when I was growing up in the 70s and early 80s. Not much traffic on the roads and a noticeably slower pace of life.

I don't want to go back to that, because with hindsight there were downsides to it, but as an adult I miss that simplicity for myself and my children.
They are optimizing for their audience. Like this: https://twitter.com/JRehling/status/1029374020037238784?s=19
Yes! That happens when you exhaust the limits of double-precision floating point, at zoom level 48 (that is, 2^48 x magnification).

One could do better with arbitrary-precision arithmetic, but I wanted to keep the code small and simple - and also thought this is a neat illustration of why double-precision numbers are really not the same as reals.
You're not wrong.

I just wish they'd decide that quality, reasonably priced hardware without gimmicks was the new cool.
How much of the successful 'politics' would you say is actually sycophancy?
How is that possible though? You cant really tweak clinical results because it is auditable by authorities, and at most what is done to favor one drug over another is cherry picking during recruitment of patients (carrying the risk of narrowing your indications in the end) or excluding patients from the study (again that has to be fixed in the study design, you cant tweak it after the fact). The kind of hacking you describe would be just plainly not allowed and easy to discover upon any investigation.
I trust my hosts file first. For work reasons I need to allow some domains/trackers there by default (Adobe Analytics, Tagmanager, Google Analytics and AB-testimg stuff). There my browser plugins come into play. I can decide on a site by site basis to block or to be able to do my work.

I know, I will not be able to block everything. Especially if it is done in the backend. But at least I can kill most 3rd party crap that way.
That David Beasley talk at no 6 is sick. Dude is a wizard.
Some successful people wake up at ungodly hours to cram more into the day
And as date-fns doesn't support all locales, and moment.js without locale support is roughly the same size as date-fns, what was the point of this?

It's not like the author can't have known this, moment.js without locales is listed right at the top on the moment.js home page (but left out of this list).

At a previous client, we only imported the locales they actually support, you don't need to import the whole lot of locales if you don't want to. When you don't need the whole lot, they're actually tiny.

Side-note, Chrome recently changed how it parsed dates breaking existing code (if you left the "z" off a ISO date), yes, that meant different browsers native date parsing wasn't consistent until recently. I forget exactly when it happened but I think it's was about a year or two ago. I think we ran into it because we were using .Net MVC which by default the serializers would spit out DateTime's without the Z and DateTimeOffsets with them. They changed it for newer versions.

Personally, working with future dates in the restaurant trade, the recent dogmatic approach to treating everything with ISO is frustrating. When humans say "meet at a restaurant on 27th Sept at 7pm" they don't, at all, mean it by timezone. A person in France doesn't want to see the booking show 27th Sept at 8pm. And storing it ISO is dangerous as timezones actually change.
I'm not sure how you can hold Meyer directly responsible for the clunky Yahoo email client. This reads as incredibly sexist.
Actually it is not Bluetooth, it is has an USB dongle that does RF
I doubt people would transition to agriculture if it was harder than living off the land.
Personally I love big screen phones - I don’t talk much on them but do use he web a lot so it makes sense.

My mum thought only talks on her phone and she really likes something small and simple. We got her an SE to avoid going the Android route... if her SE needs replacing and we can’t find an apple replacement then it will have to be the Android route.
Fifa is way bigger than you think.
Nice, and I'm not OK with that :) I have no intention of having another thing that requires recharging, I've already got my phone. Glad to see different people needing different features from a phone, though.
Hah, "Not Inough Humility" seems to apply as well :)
Ask HN: What are the expectations from a Full Stack Dev with 7 years experience?
If the hiring is for a great full stack developer, what are the expectations from a 7 year experienced developer?
More details can be found here:
German: https://cliqz.com/magazine/re-consent
English: https://cliqz.com/en/magazine/re-consent
Rare billion-dollar beast: Aussie tech unicorn Canva makes a profit
Yep. It’s portability is what I love about it.
Unfortunately availability of many of the products mentioned here are limited in Europe, require int shipping and which makes it also hard to try out and send it back. So it becomes tricky looking at a 300 Euro somehthing product
This is way, way, way simpler than Fraqtive (I wasn't aware of it, so thank you!) - so this would be a compliment.

The novel part here is showing the set as a process rather than a static image; it doesn't seem like Fraqtive has an option to do it this way. There's a way to generate a sequence of images, but it doesn't animate the computation.
Flattering is not enough. You need to also actively undermine your competitors to be successful at politics.
Brian Kernighan on the Elements of Programming Style [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O99m7lebirE
Microsoft Clears the Air About Fighting CLOUD Act Abuses
It wasn't that, but that is brilliant!
Yes. These are exactly the sorts of soft science a pure mathematician would snub.

It's not, I think, that they're without utility, it's that the science involved in discovery is often accidental or observational.
Beats me, our relationship ended that week, not something I dug further into.

They were informational pamphlets, it looked like something a doctor might hand you when recommending treatment options.

She would just remove cherry-picked samples from the set to produce the desired distribution.
Thanks, I see the critical line in the article now:

"95.8 percent of female anchors and reporters had smooth hair"

That is a totally different statement from the title to me.

Almost all, actually probably ALL the women in my professional circles have smooth hair too. Some of them get it straightened at a parlor. It may have something to do with where I'm located as well.
The waveforms will all likely be disclosed in their patents too:

https://patents.google.com/?assignee=E+Ink+Corp

Certainly a number of drive waveforms and the basic concepts are presented. There are likely implementation subtleties or specific configurations that are not explicitly disclosed.

You can probably figure out a lot about both the implementation, and motivation by digging through the patents.
Hey, great to see my post on the front page!

One moment, I will add a fourth chart that shows the popularity of 'web app' when substracting the Fifa effect.

...

Ok, I added a chart for which I substracted the values for 'fifa web app' from the values for 'web app'.

The result is a pretty nice trend.
Actual book title, look it up on Amazon: The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: *God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison
If you really want a website to erase your data use a service like http://opt-out.eu (disclaimer: I'm one of the creators)
Another light alternative (~2kB) is [fecha](https://github.com/taylorhakes/fecha)
I find Paul Graham's essays & Brian Balfour's essays very insightful.

PG --> http://paulgraham.com/articles.html
BB --> https://brianbalfour.com/essays/

I also follow YCombinator's podcast & Startup School Videos to glean what anecdotes I can find on getting users & finding product-market fit. [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcefcZRL2oaA_uBNeo5UOWg]
> why my iPad Pro has a hard case instead of just a smart cover. The whole reason I got the damn thing is that you can write on it with a stylus, but somebody at Apple decided "Let's make this not lay flat on a table because people are buying a tablet to use it as a camera."

A more likely reason is that it‘s easier to pick it up from a table if it isn‘t flat.
I was under the impression that Visual Snow was a symptop of anxiety?
> Beauty standards are narrower for women in TV because beauty standards are narrower for women period. Decades of feminism have done nothing to change the fact that being beautiful and fashionable is still far more important for women than for men.

IME women comment (judge) way more frequently on styling and looks of other women than men ("nice").
Doesn't native erlang handle that? With {packet, Len} and {active, once}?
> JSON & CSV, whilst undoubtedly simpler formats, still lack the 'power' of the XML ecosystem.

"Power" is often a compromise. There are convincing arguments that plain text is, after all, more powerful than JSON, CSV and XML. It all depends on the context where this power will be exerted.

If you only need to store name-value pairs, it may be better (e.g., more robust, more powerful) to use

scanf("%s=%d", &name, &value);

than to depend on a particular json or xml implementation.
Used to be able to do this on macOS until the latest release broke karabiner. Hoping that, one day, this will be an os feature.
> They think they're being clever by underpaying unskilled labor and leaving them to rely partly on government benefits, but then they end up having to make up for it by hiring more often, losing time to training, having to load up schedules to make up for lost time (making each employee more expensive anyway), and ultimately defending themselves against nasty articles documenting their work practices.

Remember, Amazon excels at high volume logistics and labor is merely another good.

They may well actually be clever. For example, hypothetically, they first squeeze labor until cementing some cost threshold acting as a defensive moat for competition then second they play nice. Or not.
Pisa winners in science: Singapore, Japan, Estonia, Taiwan, Finland.

Sweden is somewhere around 30, bravely competing with countries like USA, France, Russia and Spain.

Brief visit to Tallinn might solve this mystery, instead finding some minute errors in schooling system design. :-)
SpaceX Books the First Tourist to the Moon
3+Common+Methods+of+API+Authentication+Explained
The new Yahoo mail client was her incentive, it was all over the news and she was actively claiming credit for it. The worst part is that she was claiming that it was faster but all users felt that it was the opposite.

https://www.google.de/amp/s/www.mercurynews.com/2012/12/11/m...
Simple. There are multiple codecs in Bluetooth headphones, the most used one is proprietary aptX from Qualcomm. Apple has no problems licensing it for Macbooks and iMacs, but for iPhones they chose to reject Qualcomm, do their thing, and use AAC codec, which is supported only by small fraction of wireless headphones. https://darko.audio/2017/12/how-to-enable-aptx-hd-bluetooth-...

So, if your headphones don't support AAC, they will (most likely) fallback to SBC encoding with a subpar sound quality. Don't want a subpar sound quality? Buy Airpods. Or Beats. Or some other overpriced thing that understands AAC. There was some 100 year-old industry standard regarding sound transmission, but apparently it's "obsolete" now, because Apple said so. And bundled headphones don't sound too good.

The removal of headphone jack was purely a political decision to spite Qualcomm and screwing over Apple's customers.
I’ve had various retina MBP since they came out as work laptops, and still use various non retina screens on some personal laptops.

In a vacuum, I guess the Retina display is nicer?
It’s not something that I really find very noticeable, personally.
Probably most consent dialogs are illegal, tbh. It just needs to get to court to prove that the GDPR is enforceable.