skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you on the yellow background battery meter, but not the dithered images. At desktop sizes, it reminds me of the low-res dithered hell of the 90s, except its worse because it's effectively yellowscale. I hate image dithering with a burning passion. I bet the same images would look better as low res JPEGs (they are currently PNGs, which are made less compressible with the dithering noise).
Governance in distributed organizations, part 1
The accuracy of an optical HRM varies a lot based on the person. Skin tone, muscle, bodyfat, and band tightness all play a part. Apple's implementation is one of the better ones, but they all have problems to some degree. Although I haven't used the new watch, the fact that they're advertising this functionality tells me that they're very confident they've worked out these issues.
If a 90s diesel is spewing foul-smelling black soot then it's 1. poorly maintained 2. illegally modified (those guys are pricks).

Also DEF, urea, is a NOx control mechanism and does nothing for the particulate matter.

Ironically, NOx emissions legislation must increase particulate emissions and worsen mpg (Less NOx needs lower T, lower T means more incomplete combustion, poorer combustion means particulates).

So DEF is an attempt by engine manufacturers to meet NOx emissions without increasing particular matter and destroying mpg.

But you'd use gov't overreach and not solve anything directly (obviously, indirectly, you'd get rid of ill-maintained and illegally modified trucks... but that's poor legislation)
Do most people really not marry with prenup?
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/c... suggests that rendering in Chrome and Chromium is identical, so as long as Vivaldi and Brave keep their Chromium updated it should render the same as Chrome.
Yes, this is my preference as well. You can also run a vpn with this setup (as you can with other custom firmwares) so you can take advantage of this adblocking from outside your home.
Optum.
I would be surprised if it didn't affect google's capacity to track you nominally.

When I flush all cookies from my browser session, and open a new session, I am a new user to google's various tracking mechanism. If I am an authenticated google user, then I am not.
Step Back: Going Back in C++ Time
Bill Gates-led $1B energy fund expands startup portfolio fighting climate change
A Cornell Scientist’s Downfall
No difference on the site/service side (yet). Stay tuned for more, though! ;)
I think specifically Germans care about these issues far more than anyone else.
My dream is a tenkeyless membrane, i.e. all keys in the usual size and layout but simply w/o numpad. Somehow our bloated over-consuming society won't make one.
Understood your concern. These were our early users and being giving us feedback till now.
Crappy might have been a bit too rough, I know that it varied a lot based on how dirty it got under the watch. Like when working out the readings went out the window compared to my chest strap. The ECG on the new watch seems like the best way to do it. And I'd add yes, if it's not precise enough for doctors, then it shouldn't be touted as something my health insurance foots the bill for.
How is this possible? I have an app that runs in the JVM which is also bundled with a JRE in some platforms. Does this mean that I cannot freely distribute it anymore?
Technology transfer is not coerced if a company enters into a a contract to transfer technology in exchange for a payment, income that's related to sales, or licensing fees.

Listen to what the Qualcomm CEO said when a CNBC reporter asked whether China was stealing its technology:

https://youtu.be/rAV2y23jHaM?t=2m20s
Designing a RISC-V CPU in VHDL: Arty S7 RPU SoC
The behavior they describe is exactly how every industrialized nation has become industrialized (except for UK). There is no way to develop a technologically advanced nation if you respect artificially imposed barriers such as patents, which by their very nature cannot be effectively enforced in foreign countries.
Can someone explain to me how to reproduce the image dithering look in photoshop please ?
Why You Should Take Your Privacy Seriously – ChooseToEncrypt
Abusing statistics:

“Mr. Wansink’s fall from grace began with a 2016 blog post in which he blithely confessed to using improper research techniques known as p-hacking and HARKing. P-hacking involves running statistical analyses until they produce a statistically significant result; HARKing stands for “hypothesizing after the results are known.” The post prompted a small group of skeptics to take a hard look at Mr. Wansink’s past scholarship. Their analysis, published in January 2017, turned up an astonishing variety and quantity of errors in his statistical procedures and data.”
Not bursting, maturing. I do not like activities that are, in essence, a waste of time as well as boring. This covers most modern as well as classical music, and most political, chat, talk and sports channels.
I drive around, I exercise and that time is also boring, so I listen to podcasts and audio books as I bike, drive or exercise - 3-4 hours a day. Since I am a scientist, I listen to technical podcasts in all manner of scientific and technical topics that are geared to the post graduate mind.
There are quite a few.
http://www.microbe.tv/,
http://omegataupodcast.net/,
https://twit.tv/,
http://www.mysteryshows.com/ - all the radio show of the 30's and 40's
All the Sherlock Holmes novels are available as podcasts, as well as the audio streams of most modern movies and detective novels. Red October, David Bourne and so on. All available from free online sources as well as torrents and the local library. Most radios can play an audio CD, or I can copy it to an MP3 player.
I realize I’m not the target audience of the smart speaker but I already carry a silent interface to anything I would like to do with Alexa in my pocket.

Listening to whispers is creepy.
It would appear that one man was allowed to turn an alliance into a hostage situation. So I guess all bets are off. And again, this is not about getting close to Iran. It's about not having your "ally" try to dictate all critical aspects of your existence.

You wouldn't want your friends overriding you on what to eat, what you drink, where you sleep, and who you talk to, would you? You'd question the nature and value of that friendship.
Capitalism will keep small players comfortable because if most people are comfortable with their existence there will not be a critical mass for a change. We will be fed and entertained.

The equilibrium may shift due to individual greed of capitalists. If it gets bad enough something may change for a generation or two.
I totally agree that it is great journalism and is worth recognizing for no other reason than that. I think I was just being extra sour because it was the end of a long day and probably should not have been commenting on the internet. :(

Where did they mention that they used social media to get the tip? Or are you referring to the fact that the video spread via social media (which wouldn't have happened x years ago) and presumably led someone to reach out to them? Not being argumentative, just curious.
I'm very curious why it would block city gov.
I've been running it for over a year on my server and I have not heard a peep out of any family members complaining about not reaching anything.
Wonder if they've considered a gravity battery? As an additional benefit it'd let someone local "recharge" the battery manually rather than being 100% tied to the Sun.
At the level of wealth this guy has, allocating 0.7% to something is a notable action. Once you're at the level he is at your capital allocation is not about accruing material goods. Material goods are just a rounding error, just buy a few houses and park a few mil in a fixed income fund and you are set for material wealth for life. That leaves you several hundred million to deploy for influence and power. The opportunity cost of moving $50M around is huge.
Question: assume you have a closed hull around some domain D, and record the electric and magnetic fields E and H at the entire hull; at a later moment you prescribe E and H at the hull; will this setup regenerate the original values of E and H inside the domain D?
New JRE/JDK gets released -> somebody from our company goes and downloads the RPM after accepting the license -> she uploads the RPM into our internal repository -> somebody from another department changes the build scripts to use the new JRE/JDK -> few minutes later we are running the dev clusters with the new JRE/JDK.

In this process the person who downloads the new RPM (aka me) has to be 100% sure that the new JDK is ok to be used. Which I completely missed (my bad) I was wondering about the GPL stuff a bit but I was thinking that Oracle came to their senses and started to distribute the JRE/JDK under a license that is better than the previous one. Again, my bad that I paid attention more to the performance improvements, modules, ZGC etc. than to the license changes. This is why I was surprised when I saw the article from Joda (his real name is Stephen?) and also upvoted, sent around to all my Java peers to be aware that this is absolutely, 100%, pure fuckery that Orcle just dumped on us.
Ask HN: How to manage data for local microservice dev envs?
Microservice development accommodates several kinds of dev env setups. For cross-service integration testing during development (rather than test automation), we’d like the local service under development to connect out to the integrated, shared service running in the cloud rather than have devs run a bunch of services locally concurrently.

Besides the networking/routing challenges this presents, we’re a bit mystified about the best way to manage data in this situation. If any services need to agree on what a given entity ID corresponds to (say, user or organization IDs), any local dev state needs to be compatible with any state in the shared cloud service.

How are people doing this in practice? We can only find vague theories online which don’t get into the details of data management in local/shared cloud service integration development.
Curl lets you keep a cookie jar around, for example, so yes, it's pretty simple. It's also a terrible idea, but doesn't seem to stop people.
In some ways, you can't blame China for trying. It's playing dirty, but that's how international relations go.

You can place a bit more blame on the US companies that let it happen. The people running them are short-sighted and unpatriotic.

The real problem is that the law allows companies to be in a race to the bottom that is ultimately self-destructive. Allowing non-citizens to get access to the IP should be illegal. If it were, then bringing that IP to a location controlled by China's contradictory law would be a violation.

You can't fully stop spies, but you sure can make it illegal to simply hand things over without a fight.

Samuel Slater is a fine example. He was a spy. He broke the law. The USA would have gotten the technology years earlier if the UK had simply handed it over. Picture that: the USA demands that textile factories be built in the USA, as joint partnerships with technology transfer. The UK wasn't that stupid.
Yeah, you are totally right... it was late in a rough day for me yesterday. I'm not sure why I was so stuck on that.
JavaFX is difficult to use under OpenJDK. I think it has become a library on Java 11, so at least that's a step in the right direction.
It's that simple.

That's fine for things like food and drink, but for everything else there's a huge amount of "stealth consolidation" over the past few decades. For example, if you want a pair of glasses there is literally one company that make them - EssilorLuxottica[1]. They own everything around glasses. All the differentiation is false - they're just brands owned by two mega-corporations. The same is true of cars (14 giant corporations owning 60+ brands), food and drink (a few hundred giant corporations owning thousands of brands), etc.

[1] A good read about them https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/10/the-invisible-p...
I don't think that at this point we can consider Facebook anything but evil on a pretty global scale.
To the author's point, I suppose one can make a strong case that too many podcasts are merely low or zero-information commentary.

But, yeah, why the author decided to relate that statement to race, I can only guess. What did that add, journalistically, to the overall piece, which wasn't really about race?
Stay tuned! Localization is our next highest-priority enhancement.
For example: George Soros
CppCon 2018: Patterns and Techniques Used in the Houdini 3D Graphics Application
Invoking whataboutism is not a defense against hypocrisy.
Indeed, or at least certainly more worthy than a writer (clearly doesn't sound like a real journalist) that drops lines like "going on to publicly bite the hand that fed him"
As many have pointed out, you can argue if this is a trap or not and you can make the case for both sides. But I think that discussion in itself clearly begs the question: do you want to deal with a company that makes it easy to make a potentially immensely expensive mistake?

If anything, Oracle have demonstrated that if they feel you owe them something, they will take you to court.

I changed what primary programming language I use as a conscious decision that took years to make. First I had to find a language that was a good replacement and then I had to make the switch. Both require care.

It was easier than I had thought though. And I'm very happy I did.

Am I sure the my new primary language won't grow these problems? No. But I do know that I'd do it again if needed. There is no shortage of programming languages. There is a shortage of programming languages that have a sufficiently good ecosystem around them though.
Actually, even till late 2000s most of pixar movies were based on rasterization (reyes). So you don't necessarily need ray tracing for that.
I think what I'm referring to is that shown in the map (1950s) at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English#Distribut.... The alveolar and retroflex variants, which to my ear give an r sound distinct from, for example [ɑː].
Cell phones have the same always listening features like Hey Siri, Ok Google, etc.
I hate ads as much as the next guy. This cat-and-mouse game has been going on for as long as I can remember.

But I have to wonder why the ad networks don't require content creators to place some "ad libraries" into the web servers or CMS systems directly, so that the ads are served exactly the same way as the content (same domain, same pages, etc).

That's my nightmare scenario. I figured it would have happened everywhere by now. I see it in a few places but it seems pretty rare.

Is it the heterogeneous server-side environments that are slowing down this approach?

If it ever takes off, what is the mouse to do?
Isn't this "whataboutism"? You shut down a conversation by trying to deflect about how others have also done something?

Like you said, two wrongs don't make a right. Just by pointing out this has happened elsewhere doesn't make the conversation about China doing it any less important or relevant. Why shut down this conversation?
Deep learning of aftershock patterns following large earthquakes – Nature
Not sure what the question is here. But the article points to veganism on it's own not inherently being the best option. That there are definitely ways to be sustainably vegan, but veganism alone doesn't guarantee sustainability.
How about the sim card?

https://www.scmagazine.com/home/news/black-hat-mobile-carrie...
Telegram. It also has channels similar to facebook feeds/twitter without comments and/or retweets.
I understand that the scope and scale of the technology transfer agreements may be unreasonable, but surely these foreign companies aren't "forced" to oblige? I'm not sure if it's on China that many companies find it more profitable to have access to the Chinese market than to hold on to their IPs.
If you're an engineer who wants to make the vision Steve paints into a reality--but for everybody, not just for Apple Watch owners--I'd love to talk with you.

I'm a co-founder at Cardiogram. In multiple N=14,011 studies with UCSF Cardiology, we've shown that heart rate sensors on consumer wearables can detect multiple major health conditions like sleep apnea, hypertension, diabetes, and atrial fibrillation (https://cardiogr.am/research). These conditions affect more than one billion people worldwide, and are frequently undiagnosed -- for example, more than 80% of people with sleep apnea don't know they have it.

We're live on iOS and Android, and we could use help in several areas: mobile and frontend engineering, senior machine learning engineers, and payer relations (the reimbursement from health insurers that Steve talks about). If that sounds like you, please email me at brandon@cardiogr.am!
Thanks for the feedback, We are working on it, Here is a simple video on how it works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVIE_yeViNo
We have wrapped the /scan endpoint in rate-limiting to mitigate and alert on abusive scanning. We are fine-tuning the rate limit as we see more real user traffic coming in.
> It's a risk aversion issue. Large software projects are horrendously difficult to get right, and managing airlines is a horrifically complicated kind of project.

Banks for a long time thought the same. Then banking startups with code written on a clean slate in modern architectures emerged and are eating the bank's lunches as their infrastructure (more often than not a mix of mainframe, weird custom middleware and half-modern webstacks) cannot keep up in development pace. For example, in Germany Commerzbank (once a powerhouse) got kicked out of the DAX with former fintech startup now giant Wirecard replacing them.

Airlines are only "kept safe" from modernization because the cost of entry is so unbelievably huge - to start a bank one needs only a couple of employees plus a couple million euros founding money, but to start an airline one needs vastly bigger sums.
Demolishing the California Dream: How SF Planned Its Own Housing Crisis
Personally probably not much. But I was thinking: What if there was a upper cap on an individual wealth. For instance, 1 million dollars? And everything over that cap should go to "the community" (to be defined, maybe fix poverty, put it into scientific research, something to save our earth).

Probably very short-sighted, but interesting topic nevertheless.
Invoking whataboutism is an attempt to shut down conversation.
If you have vim fingers like me, vivaldi + surfingkeys is probably the closest to replace vimperator+ firefox.
Except that this is not jumping from a bridge, it is the tried and tested way to develop a nation's industry. Moreover, it is very funny hearing this coming from Americans who are in one side accepting that this is wrong and then in the same breath denouncing it being done to themselves!
The moral argument that code should not be restrained by artificial license, like we treat ideas, is a strong one but not made clearly here.

If code was treated more like ideas or recipes we'd all still have jobs.

If you believe that strongly enough, civil disobedience through ignoring licenses is one approach. No one should risk more than they're willing to lose on the position because you will lose if it's costing someone else enough.
I set up a Pi-hole recently, and its been a good experience. Probably the one thing I always have difficulty with though is online streaming for TV channels. I tried whitelisting domains they used for their ads so that the shows would play, I ended up giving up after a half hour and pressing pause on the Pi-hole to watch.
I can appreciate your fatigue with hearing small variations on the same discussion or debate in every thread about these devices, but to discount the utility of the debate is a bit narrow-minded, in my opinion.

The value of debate, even debate that seems redundant, on a popular forum such as HN should not be trivialized. Witness the recent correction Google made with respect to Chrome and its automatic login functionality. Google did not specifically identify where they heard or read the feedback they were responding to, but any reasonable observer suspects they read a lot of it here.

When technologists grieve over the privacy risks of in-home voice "assistant" devices, even when they (as I often do) snarkily refer to them as surveillance devices, the visibility of that debate can serve many possible ends:

* It communicates to the vendors of these devices that technologists are suspicious of their devices. It suggests vendors need to either do better at communicating the privacy safeguards they have already created or do better at creating privacy safeguards in the first place if they want to reduce the degree of negative reaction they receive from technologists.

* It communicates to others who do not provide these devices that there is a market for more secure devices of the same flavor, such as self-hosted in-home voice assistants that do processing locally and exclusively for the benefit of the customer. Technologists may not be saying that specifically, but it's communicated as an undercurrent.

* It communicates to casual readers in the thread that there are risks that they should consider before purchasing and installing one of these devices. Providing clear criticism is one of the ways high-engagement people influence low-engagement people.

* It indicates that a segment of the population will not happily stand by if R&D resources are reallocated away from traditional user interfaces to voice UIs on these cloud-connected devices. It's hard to measure, but there is no doubt that as R&D resources are allocated to voice UIs, some amount of investment is moved away from building UIs that use traditional touch, type, and click UIs. People criticizing these devices are in a small way saying "this is not the future I want." It's a way of participating in the economy and communicating demand to suppliers.

Bottom line: Even though you and I have both "been here, done that" the value is not zero.
Interesting, didnt realize the “pi-hole” branded package was more than vanilla dnsmasq glued together with shell scripts.
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