skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The spiral mode was discovered entirely by accident, when I introduced a bug into the translation/rotation code. What you see when first entering the mode (or using the o6 preset) is pretty much exactly what I saw then. I sat there giggling uncontrollably; it was so bizarre and unexpected, yet compelling. In that sense I would agree that it is the most generative mode. From there I continued developing the tools to modulate and navigate it to find other interesting parts. I realized it was becoming a kind of fractal viewer.

I don't have a formal background in art, but based on what I have seen in this area, I do think the project is somewhat novel and worthy of interest, and I have ideas about how it could be adapted into an interactive gallery installation (each mode projected onto a different wall, each with a custom physical control panel). I have hesitated to share it so far because of a few issues on the technical side (untenable framerate on slower machines, UI is broken on mobile). I'm also not sure the UX is dialed, I want it to be minimal and somewhat mysterious, inviting the user to play with the controls, but not so cryptic that they give up before seeing what it can do, hence the somewhat inelegant tutorial bubbles (I started with a simple pulsing glow on certain buttons but people didn't even notice it).

If you have any suggestions or thoughts on these matters I would be all ears :) jamesrowen@gmail.com
Looks like they transitioned it to a dedicated Tasks app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-tasks-get-things-done...
Cost of placing a component like the FETs here, would be roughly $0.04, plus say $0.01 for the part. The PCB would be something like $50, maybe a bit more to get the nice looking ENIG finish. There would be a bit of extra money required for the power supply, connectors, handling, solder stencil, etc.

seeedstudio.com does online quotes, but you'll need design files.
And many Middle Eastern countries import breeding stock from Australia (which has a massive feral and invasive camel population)
Oil and Gas producers are also facing severe price discounts due to a lack of pipeline capacity in the United States[1]. One could argue that as more pipelines come on line, shale producers will start to see significantly more profits.

[1]: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Permian-Discount-...
Because it’s a huge pain in the ass. So I go to a car rental place in my EV and then what, leave it there? Bring someone along to drive it back. Add a couple of hours renting a car to a trip that’s already jam packed with fussy kids and irritated spouses, that you’re trying to squeeze in on a weekend?
GDPR has been an UX disaster in practice. Now they're also going after content.
Search, social, aggregators, and adtech's growing bite out of the whole advertising and media sales pie has been hurting the profits of older, lower-tech content companies. About a decade ago, it became apparent that Silicon Valley was "front-running" Hollywood and eating their lunch. This is an attempt to reverse that trend.

The newspaper, sporting event, TV, and movie library companies went to their buddies at the EU and got GDPR passed which banned modern adtech under the guise of privacy and data nationalism. Now they've changed copyright law to place restrictions on social, search, and aggregators.

Might as well call it the FIFA Fucks FAANG Act of 2018.
> Do these politicians really not understand the awful implications of these filtering systems for free speech and fair use?

They believe what their wealthy donors tell them to believe. It won't affect the well connected politicians in any measurable way, they'll still be wealthy. Meanwhile, independent organizations will suffer while the big players get all the sweet licensing deals. Regulations are ALWAYS about punishing the smaller firms to make the barrier to market entry prohibitively expensive.
fracking is used to get oil from shale. FYI.
This is Bloomberg news... a generally respected reporting source. The owner is Michael Bloomberg if you are curious.. but it's not just Bloomberg that is bearish on Tesla it's any news reporting source which has looked at Tesla financials...

At least once a week the Financial Times has been roasting Tesla/Elon too.

This is not a conspiracy. It's basic math and accounting.

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/09/07/1536327657000/If-it-h...
Just think, some molecules of the gold in the traces on the mobo of the device you're using right now may have traded hands in Rome as a coin! Can't say that for an emerald...
I'd say this is defiantly unethical yet I feel like this can actually be considered a good thing to exist: the web being monopolized by just one major browser/engine (which is Chrome/Blink/WebKit nowadays) is obviously a problem so anything than can increase presence of alternative browsers/engines can be considered a contribution to the web ecosystem diversity (although, honestly, I wouldn't recommend any of my friends/clients to use a Microsoft-made browser as these have a strong history of being far behind the web standards progress and exposing system vulnerabilities via ActiveX).
HITRUST certification
If there is only one possible outcome, then that outcome should be clearly encoded in the law. The whole purpose of the court system is to provide interpretation when a law is vague - intentionally or not.
I think between Musk's incredible requirements for his associates (burning people out), and the awkward shape his business is in (notwithstanding his own interruptions), he's really asking a lot from those who operate and keep the boat afloat. However, what an experience it must be to work with Elon Musk.
Does that mean we should choose good parents for the kids? They didn't ask to have a crackhead for a father, after all.

But somehow I think you meant we should improve the lot of the parents in the hope that that would help the kids.
For the average user, i believe problem #1 is the ads themselves when they are obnoxious and annoying. Plain ads, even when super-targeted are not that annoying i think. Apart from rare cases when the ad touches something sensitive (which the user should be have been able to block in the 1st place). What does Brave do to reduce the "annoying" factor of ads? If your system becomes popular, you are going to have a lot of obnoxious ads in the system.

I hope brave is able to make a dent in this system - alternatives and competitoin are always welcome.
Certainly 3 variables is common place? https://i0.wp.com/flowingdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08...

4 is pretty common too, but I agree that 4-5 is tricker to make sense of.
Fracking is the technology used to extract shale oil and gas.
Interesting. I don't think many have the expectation that they have the right to watch a Netflix movie they streamed in perpetuity, as they do with Kindle books or iTunes purchases.
Having the new Chief Accounting Officer, quit after a month is rather unusual.[0] I don't know why he left, but that raised serious red flags for me.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/7/17831204/tesla-accounting-...
>"But, under Cook the following has happened: Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod, iPhone X, ARKit, Siri Shortcuts, FaceID, iMac Pro. Everything in that list might not perfectly suit every user, but the argument "Without Steve Apple can't innovate!""

Yes that mix of products and features all happened during his time as CEO but how innovative are those things that you listed really? Is there a common through line to any of the items in your list that would constitute a product vision?

For instance Apple spent billions on buying Beats. And 4 years later they are pushing Air Pods while Apple Music recommendation engine is abysmal. This strikes me as incoherent the opposite of visionary.

Apple was also years ahead with Siri and a voice interface and yet only trotted out a smart speaker years after someone else innovated. And oddly the Home Pod came out years after Apple decided to discontinue making the Airport. This also seemed incoherent as hey already had a toehold in the networked home with the Airport base station and Airport Express.

And during the period where it seems Amazon was busy developing a voice activated digital assistant Apple was busy making jewelry in the form of a wrist watch.

I would also mention the laptop, which although not new and sexy isn't going away anytime soon and aside from the confusing "touch bar" the Macbook Pro hasn't fundamentally changed in years. Dell and MS have innovated far beyond anything that Apple has done with the laptops it seems.
Thank you, this is exactly my point.

I don't buy the concept of "living wage" but that's not even what's at issue. I just think it's folly to blame Wal-Mart employees for availing themselves of a legally available social benefit program.

I don't care where a person is politically. The private sector's job is profit maximization, not social welfare. There's this growing school of thought in the US that thinks it's the private sector's duty to "Take care of people". I'm not sure how we got it into our head that that should be the responsibility of private businesses. We have a government for that. It seems absolutely bonkers to start messing with the fundamental machinery of corporate law if the goal is social welfare. It's like seeing the thermostat is broken in the house, so we take a wrench to the engine of the car. It makes no sense to me whatsoever.
Yea and it's a sizeable gap too. You're going from billions of people to ~330 million.

If you look at Australia, it's got almost the same land mass, but it's under 40 million people .. and much of that land is totally inhabitable too.
Indeed.

Tesla has its nay-sayers and financial enemies shorting it, yes, but there is decent reason to wonder if they'll be around 10, 20 years from now. If I buy a Model 3 in 10 years and plan to drive it 10 years, that's a very important consideration.

Good point.
You call that a "fix"? Sounds like a windfall for incumbent media companies.
Hi tobltobs. This survey is to learn about how developers verify the quality in their mobile apps. Microsoft has a device lab that has ~3,000 iOS and Android phones/tablets for developers to run UI tests on (Visual Studio App Center).
slowdown in performance increase? haven't we been there for a decade?
> Given Apple's build costs don't scale with device size (++screen, +battery, +gpu/mem), selling the same internals in bigger devices for more is a win.

Only if those customers buy the bigger device, and if smaller phones require the latest internals. If these people stick with their older/smaller devices, you've lost a sale. If you can get away with 2-year-old internals in these smaller phones, it could be much cheaper to produce than the latest flagship.

I don't know what Apple's margins are on these devices, but a couple months ago AT&T was offering the current (final) iPhone SE for $50.

> Apple has the ability to say "These are the only form factors this generation, if you want the newest iPhone..."

True, but the SE was never about appealing to users who wanted the newest iPhone.
Musk's strategy seems to make himself more of a distraction, in order to deflect away from the poor financials and performance of the company.

On it's current trajectory, Tesla is burning. But hey, here's a picture of me smoking weed. Did you know we are going to go private? Psych.
America moves closer to being a cashless society
> Everyone at Microsoft attends yearly ethics training

It must be a toxic environment, working with people who needed to be continuously trained on how to be ethical.

Good on them for trying to do something about it, however.
I think you are underestimating the challenges involved in moving to a new node and designing to a new node. Just last year, a lot of other companies were on the fence saying 7nm was not ready.

TSMC doesn't just invest in 7nm with a build it and they will come philosophy. I'm sure Apple and Huawei were both instrumental in bringing 7nm to market. Global Foundries has dropped out of the advanced node game and Intel is struggling to maintain parity.

Hurray to all of them for a tremendous achievement.
I think the LinX acquisition was more related to FaceID.
And if the collateral holder doesn't want to return said collateral?

And while this may work(1) for a theatre-model (where the consumptive act can be funneled into a tightly-controlled venue (which is something I already posted about a few day ago, so I won't repeat that but what is necessary)), how is any mechanically reproduced media to be distributed to individuals? That is to say, DVD and Blu-ray and such media, electronic books for sure, and, possibly, physical ones as well, and any and, essentially all, material delivered to the individual for (relatively) private consumption.

(1)[And even then what of 'media laundering'? It may be illegal for a third party to interfere in a contract by, say, bribing the contract signer to break said contract and distribute an copy of the media in violation of contract, but, say, if one or the other party simply leaves it in the middle of the street and someone unassociated with any of the involved parties picks it up, they could then distribute their own copies of said media at will, legally.]

Under such a system, where does the contract into play? For example, your posts in this conversation, which are conveniently protected by copyright law as it stands now from being appropriated by myself, or any other reader, to use in whatever fashion we please. Should we have begun negotiating these posts before we knew what we were negotiating about?

> The two parties willingly choose a court to fall back on if their contract needs arbitration.

But, again, what does a decision one or more parties are not 'compelled' to follow matter? There are only two alternatives: either everyone agrees that they can't be held to account because they refuse on some kind of intellectual/moral/ethical grounds, in which case, the only consequence to being a bad actor is the likelihood of reduced future business with the offended entity (and even that is not assured, based on the state of the market, localized monopolies, power relations, etc), or it devolves into a shotgun wedding.

> The reason why copyright law has been perverted

From Tsarist Russia to the Act of Anne in Britain, copyright began as state censorship, so arguing for some 'golden age' (other than the vaguest wording in the U. S. constitution) is to ignore history.
What is missing in this picture is that this Directive gives affordable enforcement muscle to all copyright owners*, including the smallest ones.
Full disclosure i'm a product manager- good PMs care about ship speed just as much as you do, they should also care about reducing the risk that what you ship will not solve the right problem for the customer or solve the right problem in the wrong way. A PM that nitpicks every little thing is doing it wrong. A PM that excludes engineering from the de-risking/validation process is doing it wrong. A PM that doesn't involve engineering at the earliest stage of the process is also doing it wrong. A PM that takes credit for the team's work, doesn't fight for the team and blames the team for missteps is also doing it wrong. There are many bad PMs out there (thus the hate for the profession among the HN crowd), I'm not saying I'm that good, but I'm trying.
Radio stations make the little that money they do because they are using a limited resource- spectrum. That is not the case on the Internet.
Why There’s Never Been a Better Time to Be a Developer
and how are we going to find out about the new products of humanity? from hacker news?
The big jump there was from 2D to FinFETs.
Also, American party dynamics are different from many other cultures, so this guide is quite useful for foreigners.

Coming from Eastern Europe, I was really clumsy socially during my first visits to the US because I didn't recognize the boundaries of small talk.
Call me crazy, but in no future can I imagine anyone willingly paying their browser vendor for freely-implemented adblocking.

If the browser provides a value add through integration and support, then I could completely imagine that.

Brave isn't the future, it's yet another cash grab. The real future is fully-decentralized websites, and it doesn't require new browsers.

If we make it too hard to make a profit while protecting our privacy while it's too easy to make a profit by eliminating privacy, there's only one way that story can end.
Even shorter: `git log @{u}..`
Yea you are correct, but are there any US Oil and gas producers horizontally drilling wells but not hydraulic fracturing the well?
If 10 million users doesn't warrant keeping a product around even if unsupported, I don't know what is...
for some of these documents it seems like it would be easier to just contact the relevant agency and see if the claim checks out on their end
After a chapter 7? A landfill. Nothing survives Chapter 7. Everything is destroyed to show it has no value.
So, what was his mother's advice?
The Tesla fans are oblivious to all of this sort of news. It's all "minor" and they can't seem to see how problematic it is in aggregate.

There is a huge gap between what these people think is happening (Tesla is taking over the world!) and reality. This company could go under and they wouldn't believe it. I've never seen anything like it.
The way I have experienced it (with Javascript, Perl, Python and Matlab) is that many casual users give up whenever you mention packaging. Any language that lets people go very far without involving external modules will get significant usage from amateur programmers.
Numbers, not FUD. Give me links to reputable publications that include sources and not some random nonsense.
Purchasing an electric vehicles causes more pollution than simply driving your exiting vehicle if it's relatively fuel efficient.

Drive your current car until the wheels fall off and then, if you have to buy a hybrid or electric, try to buy used.
I would advise reading https://www.amazon.com/Political-Order-Decay-Industrial-Glob.... Due to the order of development where the US was free first then developed a bureaucratic state. The Us has always had a low state capacity. Add onto that the role of the states in the US as co-sovereign and you run into a lot of implementation difficulties in making these proposed Nordic policies workable here.

Any policy we attempted to implement would be resisted by the states. Held up in court, and ultimately made useless by special interest.
£6.54/100g in the UK, although that is still 50% more expensive than the US example you gave.

https://www.boots.com/boots-muscle-pain-relief-cream-35g-101...
So if I start an online service in the US and someone in the EU buys I'm liable to EU laws and fines?
As an iOS developer who constantly needs to reunlock test devices, I simply cannot be required to face each one each time to use FaceID, that’s an ergonomic nightmare.

It also reminds me of the Black Mirror episode where people live in those small rooms with walls and ceilings lined with TV displays, and it would pause ads while it detected they weren’t actively watching. (S1E2: Fifteen Million Merits, probably NSFW)

Maybe Apple will eventually “catch up” to Android and put a TouchID on the back of the phone :D H*ck, make it Apple shaped!
Smart, rule-based tagging which condenses multiple items down to a single row in my main inbox and allows granular control over when they surface then yeah.

Oh wait. That's bundles...
Indeed!

BTW, you mentioned reservations about possible overspending by Corbyn's Labour. I'm encouraged however by the noises they're making about productivity, e.g. in a recent report:

"The report’s guiding idea is to encourage finance to flow towards productive investment rather than speculation in property. This reflects an old complaint about the City of London: it is a global entrepot with little interest in promoting productive investment in the UK." [1]

And here is a very good primer on the important distinction between productive and unproductive credit. [2]

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/c59c189e-85b8-11e8-a29d-73e3d4545...

[2] https://youtu.be/N-FDdHj7rPk
Tokyo is anomalous to the entire world.

There is no city like it in terms of population density. It is literally NYC + LA + Chicago, the largest 3 US metropolises, combined.

It would make more sense to use a remotely comparable city for comparison, like Osaka (still larger than any US metro)
Wow, I would have loved to be friends with all the guys in this thread. I didn't have a single friend with this kind of interests, none of my friends would be interested in creating stuff instead of just consuming it.
> I imagine Tesla pushing into profit with time to spare

Is your imagination based on any facts, or just your feelings?

From my point of view, they are not currently profitable and becoming profitable is not in the near future. Are there any independent analysts that are predicting Telsa profitability on the same timeline as Tesla themselves?
The only thing I want to hear about is the release of a new Mac Mini. I want a new CI build slave, and I'm not paying for the existing obsolete one.
I'm sorry, I didn't intend to offend. My previous reply was just a glimpse into some of the thinking behind my opinions.

In addition to working in the tech field, I also work with farmers and my opinions are from my own experiences, research, and study.

From what I understand, the price of 90% of what you buy in a grocery store is not the real cost to produce and delivery that item to the grocery store.

That price is heavily influenced by what the market value is of the commodity, which at the moment is mostly driven by industrial farming operations.

Industrial farming relies on their massive scale to make a profit, and they also rely on predictable growing conditions to obtain those results, which is also a tangential problem.

Non-industrial farming operations (local farmers, family famers, etc...) rely on multiple sources of income, resources, and commodities to break even. Typically, one of the partners of the farm has a full or part time job to cover OPEX, and any profits made from farming is used for CAPEX. At the end of the day, the farmer has to decided to either compete with the industrial farmers and unrealistic market values, or they bypass that and sell straight to consumers.

Another issue, is that for everyone else who doesn't live near farmers, they are accustomed to market values that are not reflective of the real cost to produce those goods.

As of right now, the market value is reflective of industrial operations that use both scale and subsidies to produce cheap food.

My entire point, is that this trend is not sustainable for consumers, farmers, or nature.

So in addition to the next financial crisis, we will also be seeing a dramatic change in our food production and distribution system.
If you aren’t excited by the Apple Watch then this makes sense. The only major new success has been the watch. AirPods are also a huge success but it is hard to see it as a separate product category like the watch.

But how many successful new product categories did the Jobs Apple produce per decade? One or two at most. I personally didn’t get excited over the Bondi Blue iMac but it was Jobs first success but not a new category. That was the iPod. It took years for a new product after that.
ok 30 cm is a lot.

one thing that I don't fully understand yet: there were always storm surges above 2m (?) how come that 50cm sea-rise without any storm surges are already causing problems?
MICs are only money makers if there is demand for their services.
It is the origin of iPhone..

Everyone knew how to call and use a smartphone browser ( eg. Nokia ngage )