skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Are you arguing those other, less known places are not beautiful? I can't agree with that.

Well, yes. Milan or Napoli or Brindisi or whatever, is no Florence or Venice or Rome. And there are nice cities like Verona that are nonetheless not in the league of the latter.

You can find nice landscapes all around Italy, but if you want to visit cities, some are naturally more beautiful than others.

Like how Santa Fe is nicer looking than Oklahoma City.

>But they are not the only or even the most beautiful cities, they are just the most well known (again, for valid reasons).

Well, they are the most well known for their beauty. Part of it is totally objective reasons: they were huge wealthy patrons of the arts (Florence) and capitals of naval empires (Venice), so they have more major works (architectural, etc) built than others.
I'm curious whether you can actually import RAW photos into this iPad. According to [1], importing huge (42 Megapixel) RAW files into the last gen iPad Pro was pretty much unusable. I can definitely see myself making this my travel laptop, replacing my 2013 Macbook Air if I could connect my camera, import all of my photos for the day, maybe do some light editing and then export them to an external hard drive.

[1] https://paulstamatiou.com/made-on-an-ipad-pro/#photo-editing
What a typical story. For how long have you been tolerant to such behavior?
Open Source Quadruped Robots – OpenDog, OpenCat
OpenDog - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpwJoq86vov_PkA0bla0eiUTsCAPi_mZf

OpenCat - https://www.hackster.io/petoi/opencat-845129
I don't want to sound harsh but aren't some of those European countries struggling financially and tourism money is the least hectic way to bring in new revenues where it affects (positively) across the entire food-chain (from visa fees to airline tickets to food carts on the streets). Why such a backlash? It can be governed and moderated but blatantly discouraging tourism is not a solution.
How does the CPU compare to the 7gen i5 of the 2017 non-TB MBP?

Otherwise they have basically the same specs - with the MBP being a bit more expensive.
> I don’t think I’ve seen a paper ballot since I voted absentee in 2004.

I've voted in person consistently, and never seen anything else. Different jurisdictions in the US make different choices.
Open borders, and mold all other policy to match: i.e. limit all safety nets and the franchise, abolish the federal minimum wage, remove the indenture from H1Bs, etc. The benefits of open borders far outweigh the costs of doing it right. (And those policies have their own merits anyway.)
This article is about vertebrates, though. The headline is distinctly incorrect, whatever else is happening to flying insect biomass, or even plants, the article is a survey of vertebrate decline. Vertebrates are one subphyllum of the chordates, not even the most diverse phyllum of animals. Even children know snails are animals but not vertebrates, so how does a journalist miss this.
From the look of the first paragraphs, it would seem that QNNPACK is a library similar to Intels MKL/MKL-DNN. So you get "compiled" functions/kernels that accelerate a particular (compute-intensive) task.

With regards to TensorFlow Lite, this means that Google could posibly build tflite with QNNPACK, and (maybe) get better performance out of the resulting binary, in a set of mobile platforms supported by QNNPACK.

Edit: by the end of the article, they say how they built Tensor Flow Lite with QNNPACK and got substantial speedups accross a different range of phones.
We needed a rule engine for a translation task and the only other available one in Clojure (Clara Rules), though an excellent project, didn't meet our needs.
Supercomputing Just Got Way More Interesting with New Custom Cray Interconnect
Not OP, but with the same feeling.

It is simply the best media consumption device I have ever owned.

I bought an iPad 4 at the time (I later upgraded it to an Air and then a Pro) and left it almost untouched for months, then I started using it for web browsing, Youtube, Netflix, Twitch, e-books, light gaming... over time it has replaced not only my PC/laptop, but also my TV, for many activities.

I do not use it for anything professional-related (maybe reviewing some document when on a plane, or an occasional ssh connection to a remote console), but the media consumption part is enough for me.
https://github.com/ossu/computer-science

"Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science!"

Have fun!
Yet 90% of the apps that people will use on it are optimized for a phone with lower specs. If I use a laptop with GPU I know I am going to use games or productivity apps (Photoshop, modeling software) that uses the available computing power. With an iPad I am not so sure.
For archival spinning rust is still massively more cost effective than SSDs while offering better performance than tape, especially for random access.

I'm sure eventually SSDs will be cheap enough that HDD will go the way of the floppy but we're not there yet.
Maybe you didn't get the memo, but it's actually an early release of the 'new' way scroll.

Scrolling 1.0 = normal scrolling

Scrolling 2.0 = left/right up/down directions are inverted respectively

Scrolling 3.0 = left/right scrolling only, via up/down gestures (use left/right gestures at your peril)
What do you use for sheet music? I use ForScore with the Pencil, and it has been an amazing pairing that a magnet-mounted Pencil will only make better. One of my bandmates uses an Android tablet and generic stylus, and it's not even comparable how much better my setup is. I'm sure there are a dozen Android tablets with active styli, but I haven't seen them.
I’m a bit confused as to where the base model MacBook Pro without the TouchBar fits into the lineup now.

It was always pretty clear to me that the 12 inch MacBook replaced the 11 inch air, and the 13 inch MacBook Pro without TouchBar replaced the 13 inch air.

There’s barely any difference between the Pro without TouchBar and the new Air. The extra hundred dollars for the Pro gets you a slightly older but faster process at the expense of an additional quarter pound of weight.
This is a new for apple. My iPad Pro 10.5 is continuing to appreciate, instead of depreciate. They keep raising the price. Fist from $879 to $899. Now it's $929. What is going on at Apple where older products cost more?

https://imgur.com/a/JB7fR4a
on their website / in their video, it has an escape key or am i mistaken? https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/
>The cost is in lost/demoralized employees who would otherwise do valuable work

No, stop, that's hardly a cost worth paying attention to for a large company. An exec is worth much more than almost anyone of lower rank.

That's the problem, though. There is no way you can appeal to a large company in terms of the cost of lost employees who are victims of assault by higher-ups. The media storm is what gets them, it's the bad publicity they fear-- in my opinion that is the only way to get anything "done" in terms of assault cases like this.

At the same time, when we rely on bad publicity to force action, we risk ruining the lives of innocent people. Men and women in powerful positions are often targeted with these sorts of accusations for the sole purpose of getting them out of the way.

I have no proposed solution but appealing in the way you have is not it. It just does not make sense.
Upvoting this because it was ridiculously down-voted, and I'm not sure why.

No, USB-C ports are not 'USB' ports. Not as 'USB' ports have been for at least a decade and a half. Almost two.

USB 1.0 and USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 managed to all use the same connector, and not charge us out the ass for adapters to use the same hardware.

If you're not pissed about USB-C, or you somehow think that having a port you can no longer plug any of your previous devices into without a costly and non-bundled adapter is equivalent to having an actual, standard USB port, you probably simply haven't had to deal with dongle life.

We have an inside joke at my work where we literally call these ports 'not-USB'.

The fact that Apple's flagship phone and flagship computer can't connect out of the box without paying for an additional cable indicates blatantly how horrible this situation is. That they had the audacity to release phones only a month ago that were still incompatible after all this time almost makes me feel that they are intentionally messing with us.
90% of YouTube viewers don’t care about video quality
Since this is a product page, I wonder how much of that 14MB is binary data vs. how much is HMTL/JS/CSS. Binary stuff tends to inflate sizes by a pretty big amount, and 14MB wouldn't be big if you've got a lot of high-resolution hero shots. 14MB bundle size would be ridiculous, though.
Anyone else getting 403 Forbidden when trying to download Fedora 29?

https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/fedora/linux/releases/29/Workstat...
Not sure about 8i5/8i7 as I haven't ordered one yet, but previous generations worked like out of the box with very small changes - perfect Hackintoshes actually. You just needed to understand how to install Clover and a few drivers properly, then after each OS update needed to re-run a script changing 4K display timings while Intel GPU was disabled during the boot (if you wanted retina-style display).
Happy iPhone user since 2018 and no regrets so far. I used Android for 7 years before that and I don't miss the constant crashes and the bad customer service I had with my HTC and Samsung phones (both flagship phones that cost the same as an iPhone).
Another potential benefit is reduced toolkit lock-in. Migrating a bunch of smaller pages one at a time is pretty doable. Migrating a large SPA without disrupting business could be like trying to pass a camel through the eye of a needle.
Radix Sort Revisited Redux (2018) [pdf]
I had dinner with a friend last week who mentioned, almost in passing, that he had been reported to HR at Google. Was shocking, since I had worked with him at another company for a decade, and he had been very kind and compassionate, almost to a fault. He is a gay white male, but also a Christian (can’t remember which denomination or whatever). He had assumed it was over something religious he had said, HR did not tell him and spoke (understandably) in pretty general / vague terms.

This person was weirdly resigned to their fate. They are a contractor, so maybe they’re scared of being let go, but the vibe I got from him was just “that’s how it is these days and I have to accept it”.

I guess what creeped me out was how he never heard what the accusation was. It was very kafkaesque, a court you don’t recognize for a crime you aren’t told.

Again I want to emphasize he was in one of those positions Google does where they test you out as a contractor for 18 months before deciding to flip you or not, so it could have been related to that different kind of employment status.
It’s basically identical to the 13” MacBook Pro without TouchBar that’s been around for 2 years.
> Less than 14mb is low? I don't see why that page should be more than 1mb or just around that

If you carefully read my message, nowhere I'm saying 14MB (not mb) is "low".
I'm talking about toddlers, who definitely do need and seek reassurance as they explore the boundaries of their expanding world. As kids develop they need less and more distant supervision, but it is still important. Childhood neglect is demonstrably associated with borderline personality disorder, for example.

Interaction is good for children, and it's not the same as helicoptering. It's far better for a kid to talk to their parent than for the kid to play Angry Birds on the iPad while their parent sits on Facebook. I'm not suggesting a bit of parental phone time is going to mess your kids up for life, but I won't be surprised if the era of personal screens for everybody produces some fun personality traits now and then.
If it stopped the developer doing some ridiculous animation and providing me with a list of products like every ecommerce website on the net, then, sure. Also, why do you need the submit button? Just let me click on a link which filters by 32 GB and be done with it.
>It dilutes the concept, making it less relevant and useful. Currently I know that I can sell something I make using open source libraries; tomorrow, I won't.

I'm not trying to twist your words, but that point has already been crossed in my opinion. You can sell some code, but it comes with a lot of extra work that you'll have to do in many cases (if it's copyleft), and all licenses have additional restrictions or aspects that must be followed.

Just because you can categorize many of those licenses into some umbrellas doesn't mean you can wholesale ignore the details of each since it's under some category of "open source".

"Open Source" already means many different things. Copyleft, permissive, are patents or trademarks included? Can you give a warranty? What form of distribution counts? How do you need to make the source available? All of these things vary wildly among OSI licenses, and in the end it's not causing any massive issues because the overarching term isn't used as a technical term, it's used as a colloquialism.
No, mice were never supported.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege

- Using a good OS (e.g. Linux w/ SELinux)

- Not giving admin access

- Block non-authorized peripherals

- Lock down network

You don't have to educate users if they can't make mistakes.
I found Fedora easier to install than Ubuntu, and it has a more polished UI. I've also never had to wait 2 years for a library I care about to be updated in their repositories.

I got started with Ubuntu around 2008. I wish I could remember why I took the leap from Windows to Linux exactly, but I've forgotten what prompted me to try it. Ubuntu seemed to surge in popularity around that time. Now that I've tried both though, I have a hard time understanding why anyone who is familiar with both Fedora and Ubuntu would choose Ubuntu.
You're asking why should it mean X or Y, but my argument is that regardless of why it came to have the current definition, with its specific idiosyncrasies, changing it (to anything else) - and especially expanding it - is itself bad, because it makes discourse more confusing and therefore the term less relevant and useful.

There's nothing special about it, they're just two English words. What makes the term special is its origin and history - specifically, how it was coined and spread by the OSI and its members.

So, they should make their own history with a new term. In time it might be more relevant than open source, and that might be great. But don't mix them up.
Never got into the metal scene myself but never seen it as more than an indulgence in some form of silliness, some kind of fooling around with something that is not real but something that gets together kids who would otherwise feel lonely
They have the same name but are you sure they are the same spec?
Would you class Isaac Newton as not being a genius, then?
I got an out-of-spec USB-C cable three weeks ago.

While driving a long distance, I noticed that I had failed to bring any way to charge my phone in the car, so I bought a USB-A to USB-C cable at a rest stop convenience store.

It served its immediate purpose of not leaving me lost with a dead battery. But it doesn't charge many other devices, and it only works when plugged in with the USB logo facing down.

I don't consider the problem of fake USB-C cables solved.

(I have no idea what brand it is, and the convenience store themselves probably bought whatever the cheapest counterfeit thing on Amazon was)
If you are interested in workbooks which are collaborative and versioned, take a look at http://datalore.io/

Version control is transparent and integrated and it's possible to work with workbooks collaboratively.
Look for a Starting Strength coach here: https://startingstrength.org/site/coaches
Utility vs. Security Tokens and China’s Leadership
"the main purpose of that line is to hide the wrongdoing"

I think by focusing in on that line you're missing the bigger picture. What I'm trying to say is that we're primarily a threat to ourselves, not to the 'planet'.

I think people would be much more engaged if it weren't "save the planet" but rather "save the human race".
> stateless API

Does it not access any data?
Powershell has Compare-Object, which will diff .NET objects. It has the convenient alias "diff". JSON can be converted to .NET objects by ConvertFrom-JSON.

So you can import 2 JSON files and diff them in Powershell.
Signal's “Sealed Sender” Is a Clever New Way to Shield Your Identity
There was a passing screenshot in the video with both used at the same time. This was my biggest question towards the end, and I wish I'd screenshotted when I saw it. But they do look to both work together, and glad the documentation lines up with that.
So is the Macbook 12 dead now?
I think they fundamentally json is just the wrong format for these files. Speaking from (ancient and limited) experience I made a little notebook-style interpreter for learning scala back in 2009 or so called scalide. It saved its files ("scalapads") to XML. XML actually worked better in some ways since most of the code could live between the tags unescaped (sans < > &) so it merged / diffed the user code well. The meta-level stuff (cell boundaries etc) needed by the notebook ... not so much.

In json the code has to be escaped into strings, and json is really finicky about syntax (e.g. no trailing commas). So it doesn't work well.

I never got the chance to redo it, however the solution I was leaning to for my post "I won the lottery, I can work on fun stuff" attempt was to store the meta-code in a version of the host language(s), with some simple syntax that could live comfortably in the comments of various different languages to do things like encode the cell divisions and so on.

Basically something like:
#notebook[lang=python]

#cell[lang=python]
def add(x,y):
return x + y
#endcell

//notebook[lang=scala]

//cell[lang=python]
def add(x: Int, y: Int) = x + y
//endcell

This I think would be beneficial for a couple of reasons.

1. Better diffing / merging.

2. One click toggle between show source and view as notebook mode, which would really allow this to work in an IDE like vscode pretty seamlessly. The cells become something akin to //#regions in the IDE. But at the end of the day you are still editing a source code file, so you can edit the whole file easily.

3. The keyboard shortcuts for executing and jumping between cells would generally work in raw code mode, so you could just edit there continuously and manually writing out //cell //endcell. Also the executing results could appear in block comments inline in the editor, off to the side, or in a popup above, the code you are editing.

4. The IDEs could uprender the comment-syntax into cells as they gained better support for the paradigm (similar to how they do for code folding / syntax higlighting already).

5. Eventually, perhaps a cross language, metasyntax could be established to make things a bit more concrete than magic comments (get ready for some serious bikeshed painting though!)

The closest I have seen anything come in this regard is Quokka however it's not quite all the way there.
What would be the solution to this in the future? As cybersecurity gets more and more serious, should we be essentially putting what would have been considered a decent corporate server in terms of speed/power 7 years before in front of every user?

Maybe Desktop-as-a-Service like with AWS Workspaces?

Or locked down, highly controlled devices like Chromebooks or a yet to be released Windowsbook?
Problem is, most software upgrades are all-or-nothing. You can’t just take the good (security fixes, better performance, etc.) and leave the bad (reduced functionality, new worse UI, more ads). It’s in my view a major unsolved problem in software.
OpenStack Says Its Open Source Edge Platform StarlingX Is Ready to Fly
iOS is generally supposed to ignore touches on the edge of the screen, but it doesn't always work. I guess this is one case where it isn't really functioning as expected.
Every time I've been in a mosh pit, it's been notable how everybody looks out for each other. If somebody falls down then everybody near them stops and helps them up. Despite the surface violence, nobody gets seriously hurt. Admittedly this was many years ago, so it might be different now, but the feeling was always more like sparring than a real fight.
Not parent but I tend to think there are broadly 3 "languages", with 3 very different cultures and mindset:

- C, which is, well, pure, raw C,

- C++, which tends to gravitate toward modern C++ (C++11 and later), and focuses on avoiding C constructs (except when needed, eg for legacy reasons),

- the so-called C/C++, which is C with a small subset of C++98 constructs, mainly classes, the public/private distinction, the string type, references, and not much more

For a purist (either a C purist or a C++ purist), the third category feels like losing most advantages of the original language (simplicity and orthogonality of C, relative safety and expressiveness of C++) and getting drawbacks of both (name mangling and dangling pointers, both at the same time, yay!)

For me, it would not be a red flag, but definitely a yellow one.
> Which is to me another one of those ingenious but now obvious design choices ... I wish that Microsoft had thought of this for the surface pen.

I'm kind of glad they didn't. A pen magnetically attached will likely pop off when you put the tablet in your bag. It's a nice place to dock the pen when you're using the tablet, but poor place to store it in a bag.

People report up to a year of life with the Surface Pen battery. Swapping it out when it dies seems simpler than remembering to charge it regularly.
They are exactly the same.
Did you check out Hours? That could cover your time tracking needs.

https://github.com/DefactoSoftware/Hours

Then the only thing that would remain is to take the hours registered in Hours and stuff them into invoices somehow...
Fast, Modular Instance Segmentation and Object Detection in PyTorch
Is that a camera bump? So it doesn't lie flat on the table?
>The argument is that in order to produce 1000 calories worth of meat, more resources (e.g. land, water, greenhouse emissions) are needed than to produce 1000 calories worth of plant-based food.

Sure, but either quantity might not be the real issue on the grand scheme of things, if it's just eg. 5% of resource use or pollution.
I just had my whole Mac lock up after beginning the extraction of a xip archive. It is absolutely unacceptable for the UI to stop responding no matter how much load my computer is under.

My Amiga never did this because the whole user interface was interrupt driven, it wasn't possible for any of the bloated trash running to deem itself more important.
Fair: added an edit.
I'm really impressed that they made a number of environmental friendly additions, though they haven't been played up as much:

- LED display is mercury-free
- No arsenic
- No BFR or PVC
etc.
It depends on what you're doing, yeah? In RMarkdown notebooks... yeah, I wouldn't write models in one. But if the focus is on embedding some visualizations and tables into a document, and then refreshing the document to every so often pull in new data, I can see that as a production use for a notebook. TL;DR: Can be useful for reporting, wouldn't use it anywhere else in the pipeline.
Sounds like a great thing for the government to solve, to institute some sort of incentive to families to send their kids to school. Where are those funds coming from? Probably tourism, which makes up a majority of their tax revenue...and now we see how difficult the problem is.
Detect faces in real time on Android using Google’s ML Kit
Older jumpers at my drop zone used to tell the legend of the South African Three Way. Seems that in the early days of RW, three jumpers were jumping all day long trying to get the first 3-way formation in South Africa. They succeeded, as proven by the position their bodies were in when they found them.
It isn't liquid either. False advertising!