skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meaningless without knowing your history. If you were a skateboarder and tranfered to snow boarding, you have transferable skills.

Snow boarding is also done upright, so your spatial awareness is the same.

Try teaching adults with no gymnastics background how to handstand. Kids can pick this up in weeks. I know very few examples of adults managing it. And even then their skill level is not very high.
> Given all of that, most people simply won't need a new system any time soon. There's essentially no reason a laptop from 2012 can't take you all the way to 2022 all other things being equal, so we're starting to see sales stagnate across the entire PC market including the Macintosh, so while Apple is selling phones about as fast as they can stamp them out, the same is not true of Macbooks or iMacs.

Isn't this becoming equally true for phones? Perhaps not for hardware as far back as 2012, but I'm expecting my 6S to last me a very, very long time. It's fast, has a great screen (and headphone jack), and I'll get the battery replaced as many times as I need to.

But this doesn't appear to have slowed iPhone XRS+ Maxx sales one bit.
The asterisk has nothing to do with indicating it is a star.

> The name Sgr A* was coined by Brown in a 1982 paper because the radio source was "exciting", and excited states of atoms are denoted with asterisks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A*
Shame on you Facebook!
Indeed. And those residents would be greatly benefited by all the extra tax revenue and business that they recieve from tourists.
dont drink google coolaid!

they all already have ways to release security patches. firefox has a semi-secret/invisible system addon for that. so much that this is still the current way to release security patches and fix internet-breaking bugs.

rapid release for new features eas invented by microsoft with IE, to push the agenda on standards bodies. it moved so fast that nonody even remember IE5 or 5.5... and thats the reason google have rapid release. nothing to do with security, as proved on the 1st paragraph.
That or they found out it didn't matter if you are Walmart.
This library is what I do all my new web services development in (or it's child Saturn). I'm actively working to migrate my legacy codebases to it. It feels pretty good given the host platform, and is easy to mix and match with non-giraffe components too.
Fortnite is T-rated, meaning that it's suitable for ages 13+. But as a parent it's your choice what you allow your kids to do, however it's still your job to raise your children, not the government's.

>A user should be able to pause a game without being punished.

Good luck pausing multiplayer games.

>Isn't there a way at all? I understand this is stepping on personal liberties, but it hurts to know dudes in Epic Games are stuffing their wallets while young kids are breaking their banks to buy virtual pistols and don't have ways to exit that world without taking a hit.

He's your kid. You're the one that's letting him make those transactions. He doesn't earn money on his own and most methods of payment require parental approval.

>I blame myself.

It is your fault, but chances are pretty good that he'll simply get over it one day. As long as he keeps his grades up and behaves normally you probably shouldn't be too worried about it. On the other hand, if it is an epidemic as you claimed above then your kid will simply be the norm and not an outlier.
Probably. I just remember that this tripped me up big time a long time ago.
Please try to make a more substantive contribution next time. Comments like this don't contribute to the conversation and have quite a distracting effect.

HN has its issues but the least we can do is to take care that the quality of discourse doesn't turn into another Reddit.
all 40 devices got helium in them at the same time
Unfortunately the O2 sensors were being monitored by an iPad.
IMHO the whole advantage of single-page apps is about separating the UI and the data + using the browser as a cross-platform UI toolkit, runtime and deployment engine. The reason for SPAs to exist is that browsers are the only way to deploy an app that runs on every OS, looks pretty, automatically updates in an instant every time you run it and can be discovered and ran by everybody in a single click. Just imagine a world where something like WPF was made a truly free standard with full-featured 100%-compatible open-source implementations available on all the major OSes (Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS) from the beginning and packed with efficient support for apps to be ran straight from a URL.
We have the same problem.

Until you hear a Massachusetts native tell you they're from Wahstur(??) - Worcester, you wouldn't have realized that US English still has a lot of varying accents, even after we've been thoroughly homogenized by mass media.
"Clit Mouse". It's old slang. Not the best, but the best way to get someone to realize what you're talking about.
The tax discount is not 1-1 with your contributions to charity.
Absolutely not. Advertising is not bribery and the European region is nowhere near the freedom of speech principles of the US. It may feel the same, either because you have never said anything or have never been heard by anyone who cares, but there are countless examples of prosecution that would be summarily dismissed here in the States.

Professionally "banned" is not a free speech issue in the slightest. Athletes can do whatever they want, however they are still employees and if they want to enjoy their multi-million dollar salaries then they will need to follow the rules of their employer and the sports leagues. You will not be punished by the government for what you say, but you are not entitled to a job without consequences either.
I was more thinking about shortly before Jobs was fired from Apple in the mid-80s.
Before we discuss the lack of thought and logic in this post -> https://github.com/AviAgarwal/AccountHacked
Hahahah maybe it's off-topic for this site but everyone from former bosses to current friends describe me as "feminine" and "submissive" in terms of how I speak and specifically how I am willing to "let my girlfriend shine" blah blah etc etc.

Personally I am happy that I am able to make enough money to contribute my part and have the flexibility required for her to do her medical school stuff. It doesn't feel like I'm putting my life on hold. I'm in software support-- I don't feel the need to become like, a suit wearing, jetsetting CTO or etc :)

Thank you so much for your kind words and I wish the best to you as well. Also, if you find the magic cure for eating too much and moving too little as a result of returning to a desk job with in-person team, please please please me know what it is because it's my #1 problem right now lol
Based purely on the dismal quality of these things, it cannot be very much. They don't seem to have gotten any better with time at all. Extremely laggy, awful UX, they run hot, they use a surprisingly high amount of electricity just to idle, and are generally just barely usable. Kodi on a Raspberry Pi performs better in pretty much all cases (except for, well, not having live TV -- usually), which is shameful on the part of these massive cable boxes.

On top of that, why does it still cost an additional monthly fee to record locally to a DVR? Surely there is little to no additional cost involved in that, that isn't easily paid for by the standard monthly subscription price. And unless you've got one hell of a box, you're still limited to only two shows. It seems like if a monthly fee is involved, the DVR tech would be considerably better. Maybe something closer to just saving recordings as standard, personal on-demand media.

My mother used to rent movies on demand, but she's gotten a refund every single time because they've been unwatchable. She's since stopped doing that, at least.
What the layman thinks of genetic engineering magic is going to have to happen in the germline. That means it's not going to help you or me or anyone else already alive.
Shakespeare wrote for a wide audience. In his plays there was plenty to entertain people from all walks of life regardless of education level, in fact literacy was not a prerequisite at all. I make no claims for intellectual superiority, I do have thespian friends who I do read Shakespeare with so that when we do go to the Globe we have a little bit of an idea of what we are seeing. From this I appreciate how my thespian friends value this cornerstone of English culture. Consequently I believe something is lost when the great works are reduced to a tweet. Had the post been made by someone who knew who identified with the literature - a fan - then I might have seen this as admirable fan love.

There is nothing new in hiding text in images, in fact I do this for myself to see if images can do better in Google SEO, and if indexed images can be searched for by unique phrases hidden in the binary as well as the EXIF data. I do this with the permission of the owner of the images and I don't blindly take images or text for this that others might consider sacred.

I think that Shakespeare 'himself' would have been okay with having his complete works stuffed into a tweet as 'he' did steal most of his stories from elsewhere.
"better sealed clock" would be the universally used quartz resonator, but that would have added 0.002$ to their cost. Unthinkable.
yeah! because changing a document that was written hundreds of years ago to suit the highly changing landscape that is human society is a terrible idea........
I figured a lot of people (most?) don't know about it and it's a net good for the world.
Aren't there already laws against false advertising? That's the real issue here...
" b)Asking for a sexual favor off-site while the candidate was still waiting for response. Neither it in and of itself an offense" -> Are you serious? How is this not wrong in HN world?
> Is it not possible to bookmark web pages on the home screen on iOS?

It is possible. This is actually what they had in mind before the app store... every app was just going to be a shortcut to a webpage.
And it's the security teams job to assess the security needs of the business and apply policies. If the entire business has a data loss risk then sure a blanket ban makes sense.

I disagree with what you said in that I believe "most businesses" need granular security policies that should be applied for specific departments.

There maybe better ways of handling files but say you're a news corp and sources give you data over USB or a fashion company that has freelancers walk into your location's in person to hand in photoshoots and large cad files. The resteiction would have an impact both to users and to the business.

For example,I worked at a company where specific departments were not restricted from accessing any website due to the possible business impact of them not being able to reach a required site.
It's all about the UX right?

I scroll down on my mbp laptop and the @#$@#$ pictures move to the right...
>We don't allow unlimited free speech, but we don't view that as censorship.

Speak for yourself. I certainly think blasphemy laws are certainly way past their due date, and more extreme restrictions (e.g. like in Germany, but notably not everywhere in Europe) definitely at least borderline on the dystopian side.

And as to what an average citizen might think: perhaps an average Chinese considers their “free speech” laws, or their closest equivalent, quite reasonable after having been taught so all their life. Europe could certainly do with freer speech.
Great question, we tested how people interpreted the motions on both, and the hardware version was a bit easier to understand (but nothing statistically significant). The paper has a figure with the comparison results.
Every time I see deep sea creatures being filmed with bright white light I always wonder if that leaves them permanently blind.
Since the server is probably gzipping the response there's no need for an intermediate unzip step in curl | bash
Did people do this back in the day? 4chan used to be totally fine with just uploading a jpeg concatenated with a zip, but I haven't seen this ICC profile trick before today.
>This is a narrative the game industry has been successfully pushing through organized PR campaigns and astroturfing online discussions, of course parents share some responsibility but this angle is disingenuous and lets publishers off the hook too easily. I wouldn't beat yourself up too much here you're aware of the situation and actively involved in fixing it.

It is almost entirely the parents' fault. Parents are the ones that have to raise their children, especially when the parents are letting the kid play a game that's meant for somebody 4+ years older.

>This + the instantly available secondary market which allows you to gamble with your digital goods/currency is the major difference between this and it's predecessor: baseball/pokemon/magic the gathering card packs.

But those exact same things happened with those games too. The reason those card games weren't so popular was that they weren't as fun and they were prohibitively expensive.

>Belgium/EU are making strong moves on this but very doubtful we'll see any movement in the US anytime soon, a New Hampshire senator dared to question the situation and was blasted by an aggressive letter from the ESRB claiming loot boxes are not at all gambling.

The EU might agree, but that's because the EU makes all kinds of decisions to curb the freedom of its citizens. I say this as a European. And the reason why the ESRB told that senator that lootboxes are not gambling is because they do not fall under the legal definition of gambling.

>Most games are just a vessel for the 'marketplace' which is an online casino for kids. The current state of gaming is shocking, regulation is desperately needed.

I find it ironic that you're asking for regulation on a topic you seem to be completely ignorant of. Most games do not even have a marketplace. What's shocking about gaming is the amount of misinformation floating around. I guess this is our generation's "video games cause violence."
I wonder how aware Apple is of this story. I'm sure engineers browsing here will have seen it, but it'll be interesting to see future iFixit teardowns of devices to see if the MEMS sensor has any different shielding or if they use a different chip entirely.
Thanks! For this project, we had a lot of ideas how to improve the build that we learned while doing it. We'll try to make those changes. But more exciting for us, is we've used some of the techniques here to build an augmented reality system that runs on smartphones. I'll try to post a video in the next couple of weeks.
Maybe have a reminder every monday after work to look for things to do this upcoming weekend and the following week. Include some events pages so you'll also find events that are months out, and sell out quickly, that you may want to see (bands, comedians, etc).
Please tell me the fonts have been fixed.

We've waited years for the 1998 Linux font tendering to have caught up with, at least, Win 2000.

There was dozens of X Font Server patches that never worked.

Then illegal downloads of MS TeueType fonts that were a little better*, but still infuriating.

Then fontconfig examples from hundreds of blogs and forums.

Then forks of forks of some dude's Arch Infinality tweaks that kind of worked, but not really.

Then Google released a bunch of professional Android and Web fonts which got us closer...

Then a bunch of patents expired - finally we'd be on par with Win XP or OSX Tiger.... In 2016.

Last I heard, a bunch of Microsoft 's Open Initiative patents would allow Win 7 level rendering (though MacOS and Win10 have gotten even better).

I gave up a whole ago and just bought a Mac.
Airline reservations systems are kind of fascinating, because they were some of the first really complex computer systems, and a lot of those crusty old bits are still chugging along fifty odd years later, with newer and newer piles of code layered on top like a demented tower of jenga.

http://thecodist.com/article/how_flight_reservations_work_pa...

http://thecodist.com/article/how_much_is_that_seat_by_the_wi...
You could automatically encode a KNN model as a set of logical if-then rules: "if x1 > 10 and x2 < 3 then 4 nearest labels are [1, 1, 1, 0]" so the information is there. For KNN you could also train weights for every variable (how much should they count in the distance calculation?). For deep learning you have way more parameters and architecture choices than for nearest neighbors (mostly the distance metric and the number of neighbors to consider). After that, both learn a mapping from input data to a target.
It is somewhat prone to that since you're on your own to cobble various frameworks and tools together. Not to say you can't build a good one, but it's harder when good advice is fragmented by tech choices.
Ah, I misremembered I guess. I could have sworn I had to type it in to authenticate the chromecast device to my phone for initial bootstrapping.
Yaris and Scion are different badgings that coexisted at the same time.
Ah, I can possibly actually help a smidgen there.

Don't count calories. Instead, work on getting nutritionally dense foods into you.

I lost several dress sizes. I never counted calories. I just tried to eat healthier.

I think we keep eating as long as we need some nutrient or other. We stop when our nutritional needs are met. This is why eating "empty calories" really packs the pounds on.

Also, try to get some walking in, even if you "don't really exercise." (I mean sports, gym, etc.) Take the stairs, not the elevator. Park a little farther out instead of circling like a vulture looking for the closest spot. Etc.
Maybe it’s just that I’ve done a few gigs at financial institutions, but it’s pretty shocking to see the number of people in this thread arguing that it’s a-ok to use floating point for money. I don’t want to get dragged down into specifics, but if you’re doing this, please, please don’t. Money is one of those things like dates and times - everyone who hasn’t done much of it can’t figure out what all the fuss is about. Just... please, at a minimum, if you don’t want to be bothered, find a reputable third-party library with Money and Currency or some such, and use that. It really won’t add much work for you.
If they are fixed will you really switch platforms?
Yeah, my bad, my networks not 192.168.1.x
The customer expectations are much lower when shopping for a plane ticket. A painfully long experience is actually expected.

Friction is absent when buying anything from Amazon (because of webperf, UX, etc) so customer expectations standard is way higher. If something goes wrong on Target, Mediamarkt or Carrefour website, the sale is gone and off the customer goes to Amazon.

As a similar example, in France the main way to buy a train ticket was through the railway website, whose UX was poor (as were travel agencies). A small team went at it and built a competing booking website (Captaine Train) whose sole promise was a quick and easy to book a train ticket. They instantly removed the above mentioned friction and became a huge competitor almost overnight.
I think this takes a narrow materialistic view of things. People don’t suddenly get any happier when they have billions of dollars. At the very bottom, sure, there is something there. But the average HN reader and poster has as much to lose as any billionaire or millionaire in the abstract. Freedom is an extremely undervalued asset.
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There are ones with no TPF at the bottom now. And most res systems have no old tech in the shopping part... that's more often in the booking, change/cancel and check-in flows.
Partially true but in my experience if you are cut off of WoW you will not find another way to procrastinate immediately. That's why there were studies that kids and teenagers being cut off from smartphones/tablets have found themselves more mentally healthy. You can search for those, they are out there.

So while I agree in principle -- that the inability to address one's problems is not fixed overnight -- it's also true that removing the distractions you crave the most can and will push you to healthier habits even in the short term.
The article says that Apple's user guide mentions phones not working around helium:

Exposing iPhone to environments having high concentrations of industrial chemicals, including near evaporating liquified gasses such as helium, may damage or impair iPhone functionality.
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Why /s? Could be even better, no language barrier, taxis programmed not to rip you off, every girl at the bar will want to go hime with you, and you get to cut all the lines.
Second this. Work remotely for big tech company. You couldnt pay me enough to go back to an office
I can’t disagree about people living at or below poverty line, even from the materialistic view. The average HN reader, though? Philosophically, I believe what I wrote is generally true. Having a bunch of money isn’t going to change how happy someone is. You aren’t any freer. You are still bound by the human condition like everyone else.
1st option is better the 99.99 generally holds only if it is managed by someone with very deep knowledge of the system and in case of CockroachDB it's pretty much the core team.
Why i can't Make a new post on https://news.ycombinator.com
I joined the Edge Foundation team @WalmartLabs about a year ago. We help manage the HTTP ingress flow (CDNs, WAF, Tier 1/2 proxies and LBs, etc) for all Walmart eCommerce properties. Our custom proxy also does some basic and not so basic frontend optimizations (js and css compression/minification/bundling, image resizing, url rewrites, etc) and handles a large portion of routing requests to backend servers.

This is a great write up from earlier this year, and from the screenshots it looks like it was before our new site design launched. That was a pretty massive modernization effort that included some site performance improvements. We also now have a sizeable team (100+) focused on some of the other details from the article. Brotli for instance went into A/B testing this month.

There are a lot of moving parts and changing priorities at a company the size of Walmart, and development and deployments can be slower than at smaller shops. But there definitely is active progress on improving our site speed.

And if you like working on any of these kinds of systems we are always hiring!
Considering that Trimix and Heliox used in deep commercial dives can have the majority (Aka >50%) of the breathable “air” be helium, your theory that there’s really any risk of danger to people seems a bit unwarranted to me.
That is the question, now isn’t it? I too look forward to the benchmarks.

Something to keep in mind too, iPad Pros have a much more constrained TDP than your average laptop, so it isn’t merely just a matter of performance but performance per watt and sustained performance.

There is also this question: given a higher TDP, what could Apple’s silicon team really do? Although I’m not convinced it makes financial sense for them to replace Intel with custom silicon, I’m happy to be proven wrong.
foundationdb the sql layer was not opensourced as far as I remember.
Fair enough,probably meant what you said.

In general these restrictions sound good but they're really bad when applied as a blanket policy to everyone. I prefet a "default" (not blanket) ban with exception/whitelist process in place. And this ,only for data sensitive departments.

The response to lateral movement via USB mass storage should be measured to restrict that specific attack vector(execution from mass storage). It is not an excuse to recommend a policy that solves problems outside the scope of the incident. If there are data loss concerns,the policy should be made after proper risk analysis,available solutions and user+business impact.

IMO,How you do these things tends to be more important than whether they get done or not(process>practice).