skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're coming to the comments without reading the article, the company eventually fully oaid his camera despite how most commentors are acting. The situation was resolved - I don't know why people are suggesting legal action.

>I want everyone to know that while this has been a really trying situation, KitSplit has gone to great lengths to help. KitSplit has now fully compensated me for the full value of the gear that was lost, even though this is beyond their legal requirements.
OK, I'll amend my statement. You'll waste a lot of time if you try to learn from or work on any substantial C codebase without knowing how to use a debugger. Some people have a lot of time to waste, but that doesn't make it a good idea.
I'm no fan of 1-based indexing either, but for these use cases it's not that hard to add a function to adjust the indexing for you. For example: a mod1() function that will adjust mod to 1-based indexing, and then using mod1 instead of %.

Same goes for indexing, you could write some functions like idx2(x, y, width, height), idx3(x, y, z, width, height, depth) that would compute the 1d index for you instead of using y*width+x (or the equivalent form adjusted for 1-based indexing) like you normally would.
They implemented site isolation and cross-origin read blocking. Unless the OS is also vulnerable, shouldn't that be enough to ensure sites can't access anything not already accessible to the current origin?
handwriting recognition

Is anyone using an iPad pro missing in-place handwriting recognition? as in the old Samsung tablets where you could annotate and write everywhere?
The allure of channel-surfing and just leaving something on in the background seems to be huge for some people. Getting stuff on demand is great, but it does require a bit of thought.
Is that price inclusive of VAT? US prices don't include it by default and it can be up to 7.25% depending on the state and city.
Anyone still renting should look to used markets for equipment. With the number of people cord-cutting, the market for used equipment is quite saturated.

I own a DVR and 4 or 5 "satellite" type boxes, cut the cord and looked to see how much I could get from them. Basically wasn't worth my time with hundreds of people in the same boat as me in my city.
Ask HN: What happened to Quora?
It seems full of very self-similar sexual fanfic writing prompts and responses. I rarely see domain niche questions with known experts chiming in. Is it just the "home" feed algorithm that broke, and just for me? Or is this the kind of content that is reinforced? Does anyone know what happened? The switch a few months ago felt kinda abrupt.

context: I used to frequent the site as something of a veteran in the niche of US immigrant visas for tech founders without advanced degrees. Quora helped me during the process and I have been able to help people since then. But now I can't use it for any niches I like
I have been using NoMachine on a MacBook Pro for remote work without any issue.
powerline networking is your friend.
Vice didn't actually run the ads. They received approval from FB to do so.
Comcast had a deal with UPS Stores when I canceled 2 years ago. I just brought the cable box to the closest UPS Store franchise and got a receipt from them and they handled packing and returning it. That was a wonderful experience.
They may not have invented it, but 18 of the engineers on the certification work for Apple and they were the first laptop manufacturer to announce support. They’ve pushed heavily and quickly into USB-C so I really don’t see any signs of coercion.
> Advertising is almost always an attempt to emotionally manipulate people by lying to them.

Advertising does not inherently rest on lying to people.

The problem is, once you strip away this you wind up with a definition of abuse that is essentially "emotionally manipulating people to feel what someone else wants them to". Which is an excellent description of the vast majority of human interaction.
That's called bundling.
Does it have video output though? We have a similar device as our modem (with Bell Canada) but still need set-top boxes at each TV in addition to the modem. The modem is given on a free rental, but the set-top boxes are not.
Yay! Thanks for including WorkFlowy in this, very cool.
Most people who have tried tiling window managers come to the same conclusion. It's a true eye-opener.
Prime and Prejudice: Primality Testing in Adversarial Conditions (CVE-2018-4398) [pdf]
Sounds great.

My main concern is that if you're in startup-crazy VC-funded world, you're eventually going to try to make more money, somehow, off my presence on your site -- through selling data or advertising or whatever.

If I do join it, I'll immediately leave when that happens. But if I think it might happen, I won't join it. The thing that would get me really interested would be a promise (ideally a legally restrictive one, like being a B-corp or a non-profit) that that won't happen.

I think that everyone (at least in my age group?) is slowly becoming enormously skeptical of companies offering services. I _want_ to use a service forever and have it be good and trustworthy. But in practice I feel like I'm getting tricked and manipulated at every turn, which is just slowly turning me into a luddite.
Original developer:
http://bakkot.github.io/cfgrammar-tool/
What are some of these additional mitigations other browsers are eyeing?
It can be higher than 7.25%, but I'm only 2-3 hours away from Portland Oregon so whatever.
I just re-watched Total Recall for shits and giggles. It's worth it just for the "two weeks" scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY5KTVA_2ys

I was astounded at the number of product placements in that film!

And that there were obvious placements for competing products, like Coke and Pepsi.

Some of them were hilariously anachronistic, like advertisements for Fuji Film.

I can't remember any other movie that was quite so frequent and obvious about product placement, and I definitely didn't get the impression they were trying to be ironic and channeling PKD's social commentary on the advertising industry. It just seemed like good old fashioned shameless marketing.

I googled around and apparently I'm not the only person who noticed it. ;)

TOTAL RECALL and the psychology of product placement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSt2Xbiypsk

He mentions that the book "Product Placement in Hollywood Films" estimates there are 55 appearances of 28 brands in Total Recall.

Best Western wasn't happy with the how their logo was used in the Martian Red Light District next to a pink neon ADULT MOVIES store sign, and how they only got 2.5 seconds instead of their expected 5 seconds of exposure.

https://imgur.com/a/aSaoN0w
To be fair, Satellite television providers offer the same "boxes" at inflated prices, complete with multi-year contracts.
You can't model 1.0 correctly but it will be something like 1.000006667. If you add enough of these numbers you will be off.
EU citizens are discovering what GDPR exposure means for US companies that don't get significant revenue from EU customers: they simply start blocking the EU instead of complying.

Because there's no way any company can actually comply with the GPDR; many of the rules conflict with each other. GDPR is a regulatory trap intended to allow the authorities to initiate selective enforcement against non-EU companies.
If you already have tickets booked to Amsterdam I would recommend spending some time in Utrecht too. All of the canals and dutch charm, none of the red light district pub crawls.
Maybe I should switch, but I like apt too much. Problems I'm having with Ubuntu 16.04.5 on my laptop now:

- Keyboard will stop working sometimes after waking up from sleep

- Shut down randomly turns into a restart
> It's not impressive if it's not doing it with ideal sharpness in real-time, which it wasn't.

Do you have evidence backing up this claim?

> Go plop the largest image you can find onto your nearest Android phone and it'll zoom & pan that image at 60fps with nary a stutter or issue

I've never seen an Android device composite, pan, and zoom a multi-layer gigapixel image with the same performance I saw today. If you have a video you could share, I'd be interested to see it.

> It will take a while for it to re-snap the sharpness as you zoom in

To let you in a bit, Photoshop was doing the recomposition of the destination region in real-time. And it's not just a single layer that's on display there, but hundreds, composited together while the user zooms in and out on varying regions of the document.
The importance of a good brief
Good information, but it's not a clitoris.
Peter H here, the original author of this piece, with an update. I want everyone to know that while this has been a really trying situation, KitSplit has gone to great lengths to help. KitSplit has now fully compensated me for the full value of the gear that was lost, even though this is beyond their legal requirements. They’ve also assured me they are making improvements to their policies and will have additional updates soon. Even before this happened, I continued to use KitSplit —in part because I have been impressed with their customer service throughout this experience. Now, I am pleased that they went above and beyond to help, and are taking this as an opportunity to reflect and improve their system.
I'm still not sold on writing complete program this way (I did try, with various level of success), but even partially-literate approach is ridiculously convenient if you happen to live in Emacs.

I do my task management and note-taking in Org-mode, and recently I found myself doing things like jotting in the middle of my notes[0]:

#+BEGIN_SRC http
GET address.to.api:123/sth
#+END_SRC

and tapping CTRL+C twice, to get the actual response of the API I was debugging.

Or, the other day I was making notes about gravity batteries, and was wondering how efficient is one startup's solution. I briefly thought about firing up Jupyter, but then simply wrote the following[1]:

these guys power a LED (or three?) with a 0.1W, generated through dropping
a 12kg weight down 1.8 meters over 20 minutes.

Doing some basic math on that:
#+BEGIN_SRC elisp
(let* ((m 12)
(g 9.81)
(h 1.8)
(_t (* 20 60))
(E (* m g h)) ; E = m*g*h
(P (/ E _t)) ; P = E/t
(efficiency (/ 0.1 P)) ; efficiency = Pout/Pin
)
`("ideal power [W]" ,P
"efficiency [1]" ,efficiency))
#+END_SRC

Typing CTRL+C twice, out pops:

#+RESULTS:
| ideal power [W] | 0.17658000000000001 | efficiency [1] | 0.5663155510250312 |

(which is automatically rendered as an org-mode table I can operate on, or even reference in other code snippets).

Point being, note-taking in org mode makes it ridiculously easy to invoke any programming language you hooked up to Emacs without breaking your flow, and you get to edit the code in the mode specific to that programming language - so everything from autocomplete to linters work.

I know Emacs is niche, but I can't recommend it enough.

--

[0] - BEGIN/END_SRC block is under convenient autocomplete of "<s TAB".

[1] - this is a real note, so if I got the physics wrong, I just made a fool of myself publicly -.-
Unless both rooms are on the first floor above an unfinished basement it usually isn't.
I had X1, was very nice. We have one "mommy" box and a couple of the slimmer boxes (don't know what they call it)
The mobile apps were very good as well. We have YouTubeTV now, but if I had, or wanted to spend the $ I'd go with X1 again.
> one of the steps required disabling Secure Boot and another security item via terminal

Probably SIP from Recovery Mode. This doesn't disable your T2 chip completely, since it's still necessary do things like control your camera and microphone or read from your SSD, but it disables certain protections.
Ever seen the numeric tower of lisp? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_tower

The link to the scheme documentation that goes over this is quite good.
I really liked how you justified the gameplay with story re: "When a InvaderZ dies, they upload their progress to the mothership, so it can generate more InvaderZ like the ones who did well before."

The evolving enemy concept made me look up an old boss-rushing shooter that selected the next boss's upgrades based on your performance[1]. Is this something you're interested in refining further?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warning_Forever
Of course, but I'm just saying there are so many of them and they are so hard to shoot due to the slow bullet time and only one bullet, that the left to right movement is not making as big of an impact as it could.

I would say just give a try at slowing down the vertical progress, remove the one bullet at a time restriction, and see how that goes.

Not trying to be negative at all, I think it's a great project and the code looks to be very clean. Nice work.
Do you really wanna know how much it costs? Look at similar streaming hardware (think FireStick, Roku, etc)

The hardware (heck, even the software) is the same or very similar for the most part.

Smartphones made the hw price (and form factors) go down a lot.

If your decoder is DTV or Cable there's an extra cost related to the receiver, but that has also getting cheaper as well.

Long gone are the times of the first receivers where you had several ICs with dedicated functions and had to shuffle the data around in not so straightforward ways (the first DTV receivers had dedicated MPEG2 decoder ICs, I suppose DVD players had a similar architecture, then became integrated with time). Now modern smartphones decode more complex video streams with much less energy expenditure)
Duplicate of:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14322829
> The RAM is user serviceable on the new Mini. The drive might be soldered

sure / source?

If so I will order one straight away (not $2000 for 64gb ;)

> external 1TB

how do internal NVME SSDs compare to external ones speed wise?

Update: There are external Thunderbolt 3 NVMe SSD enclosures out there that can read and write in excess of 2000 MB/sec

But they bring you back to the $1000 upgrade cost ? :(
I hope iOS 13 will have mouse support for the iPad Pro.

Only being able to touch the screen while using the iPad Pro in laptop mode feels really limiting.
JOIN excercise added. https://app.bytescout.com/sql-trainer/index.html
I don't know why people downvoted your comment. I didn't. I don't understand the theory of downvoting on HN anymore (if I ever did).

But, I also don't quite agree with your comment. I mean, won't the new Mac Pro now be free to reach even higher prices than the existing Mac Pro? (Also, FWIW, my guess is the new Mac Pro will be in a different form factor than the mini, use xeon chips and ECC memory.)
MySQL Transactions with Slick
>If FFXI's leveling wasn't so group focused and slow, I'd probably love that system above anyone else: I do like the idea of needing to level various classes, but I'd prefer it be all on one character instead of 12 or so I need to manage.

Wouldn't FFXIV fit the bill?
> the game has had incredible longevity

I'm not a WOW player (or really any MMO), but it's always impressed me how willing Blizzard is to throw out all the investment people have made in learning the game system details. Talent trees (or whatever they are called) are rewritten practically each expansion to follow very different rules.

I suppose it has to do with knowing that NOT changing is a guaranteed loss over time, but still, it feels like an unusual attitude.
> Are there still places with cable TV but not cable internet?

Cable internet plus OTT live TV service is probably more expensive in most markets than Cable internet plus Cable TV with equivalent channel lineup, you still have to deal with the cable provider, and the OTT TV counts against your internet data cap, if (as is likely without a same-provider TV plan or an extra payment for uncapped data) you have one.
thanks! added info that it is available in MySQL only. MySQL is pretty popular so this query can be good to know anyway.
Note the use case of this is pretty limited without a direct API to access GPU accelerated decoding. Otherwise you can basically decode on the CPU or fake it by rendering HTML video and copying that buffer into the application skin.
Is there a playable demo?
Well, that wasn't true for the Mac Mini form factor for a while. There weren't really any competitive PCs like that. But now I think even in this niche there are.
About the security content of iOS 12.1
Do you have Spectrum on fibre? I have their Arris (Arriss?) box on coax in Largo FL and find it a lot snappier than Comcast's Scientific Atlanta box was in Sarasota.

For me an even worse experience than either has been the Arris box Verizon/Frontier deployed to Sarasota. It performs like the thin client you don't like. It's slow as the 90s-vintage SciAtl Comcast box and doesn't have knobs to increase program information font size (amongst other UI negatives). I'm biding my 6 months on Frontier before I bounce back to Comcast despite the former's far greater program selection.
Ok, let's get started. We need an abstract simulator front end, and to be able to connect that simulator front end to both Verilog and VHDL - almost like a simulator IR language, and have that language cover productions from both VHDL and Verilog. There's some recent Verilator optimazations to look at, but all that stuff comes later. V0.0 should probably just have a simple message pump for delta cycle emissions. I'll start seeing if I can gather some literature on this.
> After the Spectrum fee rises within days to $7.50 a month, that will translate to at least $120 million. Monthly. Or at least $1.4 billion a year.

I agree with the overall "screw those monopolistic rent seekers" theme, but I hate seeing summaries like this. Is $1.4 billion a lot? If you told me it was $100 million per year, that would still sound like a lot, but apparently in this context that would represent not a lot? These are meaningless big numbers.
The NUC CPU is 45 watt, IIRC
"I have wit. I have charm. I have brains. I have legs that go all the way down to the floor, my friend."
> The reason I hate ads is because it's a legitimized way of abuse, of hurting other people...

Everyone on this thread hates ads, but that's a stretch there bud.
Something that all of these tools (?) are missing are tutorials around concurrency, allowing multiple sessions to be in progress, interfering with each others operation. TBH this is an under-taught area of databases in general.

I have vague ideas about building a browser-based tool that allowed the user to queue up operations to be performed in order in multiple concurrent database sessions, allowing exact locking & blocking behaviour to be experimented with, but have never had time to work on this.
Hey Eugene! In the last question, it seems you can get the same result by doing top 3, or limit 3, but only limit 3 is accepted as valid. You might either want to, if there's a valid reason for the distinction (execution order?), want to highlight as the difference between top and limit, or if there isn't, accept both.
You don't need a specific cable for your iPhone. You can charge it wirelessly.

Regardless, USB-C would not be nicer than keeping the iPhone XR as thin as it is. Lightning really makes it possible.
X.org give-me-root hole is so trivial to exploit
You can also try a MoCA adapter. I've three Motorola 2.0 MoCA devices and they work great; much better speeds than WiFi albeit not as fast as Ethernet (but also without having to run Cat6 throughout the house).
I've had a 6p for ~2.5 years now and only occasionally have troubles, and then only with certain plugs.
And no firewire!!! OMG.
The Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Language of Dieting
I have to know which city this is, I need details on this proposed pet cemetery!
What’s the difference between using kernel parameters within sysctl.conf and cgroup2?
Fermi's paradox demonstrates it's almost certainly not a light sail. For it to be a light sail which was observed by chance by our totally unprepared observatories after a window of less than a century but also consistent with all our observations of the universe, we would need to hypothesize that we got extraordinarily lucky to observe a super-rare artifact, or that countless (or one vast) interstellar, pan-galactic civilization throwing out light sails in every direction constantly which also collectively choosing for millions/billions of years to avoid any kind of stellar engineering or direct colonization or Dyson sphere-like artifacts or even atmosphere composition tweaks visible on exoplanet spectrographs all carefully preserving the illusion of a 100% dead cosmos in every inch of our Hubble volume, or that alternately, interstellar civilizations are super common and in fact routinely throw out solar sails all the time, but some sort of interstellar-capable Great Filter kills them almost instantly before they can have any visible effects, leaving just a bunch of spreading artifacts. (And this Great Filter can't be any of the usual ones like asteroids or nukes or pandemic or development of intelligence.)
> ... the filesystem has to be aware of the zones.

Does that mean the drives simply will not work with an unaware filesystem or that it will work but performance will be poor?
FWIW, my Dish network satellite box is half the monthly rate of my old Comcast cable box, and has twice as many features.
Ask HN: How do I interview someone for a more senior position than mine?
Due to some availability issues with my team, I need to interview someone for a more senior position than mine. It's more of a lunch/conversational interview and not a coding interview. What kind of questions should I be asking to gauge the person's technical and leadership skills?
Adding to the other replies, the Phones are also on an S release, which means the form factor wouldn’t have changed much this year. If USB-C arrives for phones it will be in next years release.
THe phones also have a shorter shelf life than the iPads, so it’s not as big a deal if it isn’t in the phones yet
yeah, i have a use case now where we pull data from a database, manipulate it, and then have a final table/csv/dataframe/whatever. the problem is then how to share this with non-technical users. in an ideal world, this would get inserted into a google sheet, and that sheet would just update daily after new data is loaded into the database.

i'm pretty sure this is a usecase which others have and curious what people use to solve it. i've heard, variously, that some options are to use tableau/similar or email a csv and ask the end user to import into google sheets/excel
That's fantastic! Do you have any more resources on this? I'd like to look at that concept in more depth.
Plus, of the two major satellite providers, one is also a cable company.