skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm kind of surprised by the extent to which people have bought into this diversity thing, to the point where it's actually literally a thing people care about. My understanding is that this modern push for diversity and all the rhetoric surrounding it effectively started as a dogwhistle used by liberals to push affirmative action in pursuit of social justice without having to talk about the uncomfortable reality of white privilege and the controversial politics of social justice and reparations. Diversity is sort of a cop-out, a way for liberal white people to convince less liberal white people that affirmative action is the right thing not because white people did anything wrong ever but because it make white people richer.

Taking this as a serious thing on its own devoid of the political context in which it became a necessary tactic and getting into the weeds about what truly is diversity is sort of like the liberal equivalent of taking the Republican rhetoric about makers and takers, welfare frauds and the need for voter ids seriously without realizing that these talking points are largely understood by their audiences to be about black people and immigrants. Seeing the world through rhetorical devices created specifically to confuse the issues results in confusion like this entire article. This is not what diversity means to people for whom it's an important issue.
It is nice to have the option of map pdf colors to correspond to one's color theme.

I like to read pdfs in emacs alongside my notes, and I am very pleased that emacs' pdf-tools allows me to map colors as I choose (kind of - there are only two colors, foreground and background).
Yes. Simple oversight is possible.

Alternatively, if it is a trust issue, the fact that it's not just "the X.org security team doesn't trust the OpenBSD maintainer team" but "the OpenBSD X maintainer doesn't trust the rest of the OpenBSD maintainer team" adds several extra levels of politics to this, which I suspect is what Theo was alluding to with his "abdication of the duty of care" comment.

I assume Matthieu acted (if that is indeed what he did) in his role as a member of the X security team, but I imagine Theo would say that in doing so he failed to act appropriately in his role as a member of the OpenBSD maintenance team. It all makes me quite interested to know what his reasoning was.
This is cool, a while back when I used to do fruit sorting machines, we used a spectrometer for working out the sugar content of fruit.

Nothing quite like setting up the machine to siphon off the biggest sweetest peach you can find at one of the largest peach farms in the world. best. peach. ever. :)
Please, China and Russia, don't do this.
You seem to be unreasonably narrowing options here for no reason. A polyamorous couple could date others, as a couple, without it being an open marriage

My understanding is that an open marriage bars long term amorous relationships from the mix, but that things are ok
Show HN: Associative Memory, Perceptions, and Unconscious Bias
Fixing the United States Healthcare System in Three Steps
From the description, the "record layer" talk seems like it's about an example POC and not a real project:

> This talk will provide a developer’s perspective building a new FoundationDB layer by describing the design and development of a record store that can provide semantics similar to a relational database. This example layer will provide the core functionality of a structured data store such as metadata management, indexing, and query planning.

The JanusGraph support is a real project, though.
20 years ago. (My first burn was in '98 - the old timers existed already... "6,000 people!!! Man, this event has sold out!")
Generally I'm pro-colonisation of space, but does anyone else feel uncomfortable about changing the face of the moon? Initially, any human presence of the moon will be indistinguishable from Earth, but if we look forward 25-50 years from the first colonistation what sort of impact will we have on the on the aesthetics of the moon by mining the regolith?

Life has been looking up at that luminous surface for hundreds of millions of years. Is it important enough to preserve or should we prioritise human progress? Maybe we can find compromise by building major installations and mining operations on the far side of the moon.
depends on how you ask of course.

It’s possible to harass someone unintentionally.
There are no good reasonable answers to your questions. If you see how institutions or governments deal with difficult misbehaving kids, they give them medication, hell the US government was giving them anti-psychotic medication. Aggression is used to subdue and the prison is used to rehabilitate in society. The kids I grew up with who were generally bad apples, a significant number of them are in prison... how do you deal with such people as children.
If you're ever board and you want to watch something on placebos I highly recommend watching this lecture by Dr. Irving Kirsch. Placebos are pretty nuts and probably really undervalued. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISptt3CRAqc&t=15s
Google's major problem is that it's in an adversarial relationship with the SEO industry. For any given keyword there is a lot of money to be made by being in the top 3 results, which means the top results tend to be dominated by businesses with the resources to mount a focused and persistent SEO campaign. This leads the results to become saturated with content marketing rather than "organic" content.
You may be exaggerating, but I find it very reasonable advice in these times, and not just for teenagers.
>> (Netflix employees, why do you accept this?)

> Let me take a stab at this: money is good.

Better than everywhere else, including other FAANGs, where you don't have to tolerate such policies?
How do you reject MWs of waste heat in a near vacuum?
Accessibility has been worked on since the beginning of Gutenberg. If "Automattic" just wanted to be more competitive or operate for its own commercial benefit, it would have been 10x easier and faster to just do Gutenberg on WordPress.com and not do it core-first. Gutenberg being in core means every WordPress host in the world (that all compete with Automattic) will get access to it. It's not proprietary, it's open source. It works with all the plugins and themes out there. It works with the hundreds of billions of posts that have been written in the past 15 years of WordPress. It's community-first.
I'm not interested in cars, but I built my own house. There are plenty of program-a-like jobs and hobbies to go around.
PowerVR is basically dead FWIW.
I thought it was about being able to see the footer if you wanted to.
It often seems like trademark lawyers must be fairly dim, as a lot of things confuse them that don't confuse anybody else.
At the same time it can also be completely easy to give consent despite the power imbalance - if 2 people are really into each other.
I agree. That’s my point. IE, affairs aren’t the company’s business, but harassment is.
I'm sure the first step is taking many sharper short exposure shots (as opposed to longer exposures, which blur), then doing some tensor magic to stitch into a single image.

Object detection alone won't give you sharp text in low light. You need a minimum number of photons hitting pixels.
> In fact, making your code free for everyone to use probably is hurting the web,

It's the main reason there is a widely used public web rather than it, if it succeeded at all, being another academic niche tool alongside gopher.
Never going to happen in practice. People are willing to go to great lengths for love.

sure they might get fired, that won’t stop them.
Quite the interesting read. Thanks for sharing!
> it's considered less pretentious to use the English equivalent than to use the ten-dollar Hindi word.

Why is that?

Reverse snobism towards the upper or more educated classes?

As an outsider who knows very little about Indian culture, it feels wrong and sad.
Sorry for the off-topic (and cyberstalking :), but that blog post about Instagram's acquisition by FB? It has not aged well, but would be interesting with an update 6 years later.
I recently changed to Thunderbird due to the Gmail gui change. So far it is working really well. There are some very small problems that may be fixable, I just haven't figured out how. Such as, no automatic 30 second undo option on sent mail, a lot of emails get saved as new drafts even after sending, and I can't figure out how to link other accounts and then bring and to send as that account without having to add it as a new account. However, it is amazing how fast it is relative to Gmail. Creating a new email is instant and can be made full screen, where as in Gmail it takes a few seconds for a small compose window to open. Simply opening Thunderbird is instant as opposed to the new Gmail that has taken me 30 seconds at one point. Another reason that I installed Thunderbird is because I eventually hope to leave Gmail. So I'm starting by changing the GUI, and maybe in a year I will update my address.
We seem pretty happy to chop the tops off mountains here on earth
Where did I discount EIS? EIS+OIS is a golden solution. It's what the Pixel 3 does. It's what the iPhone 8 does. It's what the Huawei P20 does.

This all gets very reductionist, but EIS over a series of bursts is a bad alternative to OIS. It will be garbage in->garbage out. EIS with OIS, however, gives you the benefits of OIS, with the safety valve and "time travelling" effect of EIS (in that it can correct where OIS made the wrong presumption, like the beginning of a pan).

>and even using something like Olympus' top range 5-axis IBIS

The ability of OIS to counter movement is a function of the focal length. Your Olympus probably has a 75mm equivalent or higher lens, where a small degree of movement is a large subject skew. That smartphone probably has a 26-28mm equivalent lens. Small degrees of movement are much more correctable.

EIS is brilliant. OIS is better for small movements, but add EIS and it's great. Computational photography is brilliant. However Google has really, really been pouring out the snake oil for their Pixel line.
I was personally surprised to see my face as a "contributor" to ClassicPress, with a link to the Github contributors page that indeed shows my 1,900+ commits... to WordPress.

https://camo.githubusercontent.com/5c2b13dae2a33eafd5eab9039...

https://github.com/ClassicPress/ClassicPress/graphs/contribu...

I think it's confusing to screenshot the faces of all the WP developers, put it on your project homepage, and say "This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute." WordPress itself started as a fork so I fully support the importance of forking, but there's a way to acknowledge WP contributors without making it look like we're endorsing your project. Thank you!
I am familiar with the ethics of double blind studies involving human subjects, but thank you for the pointer. I am not aware of any involving broad nutritional interventions in cancer outcomes.

BTW, when were you appointed moderator? Or do you just enjoy lecturing people on posting etiquette?
The portrait made by A.I. just sold for $432,000
Low for directors, yes. But the senior engineer figures are in line with what I have heard. The initial offer is never that high though.
> It’s that it just wasn’t a good fit due to misalignment of goals.

That's not what Netflix's own spokesman say:

> Richard Siklos, a Netflix spokesman, said the company only fires employees for performance reasons

Only "performance reasons", not "misalignment of goals".

> Perhaps someone doesn’t want to change or just keeps behaving in a way that they’ve been asked not to.

Saying someone "just keeps behaving in a way that they’ve been asked not to" is a very negative thing to say. As a hiring managing, hearing that about a candidate would cause me not to hire them.

> It’s usually very positive about them

Something is very distorted if you think saying about someone that he "just keeps behaving in a way that they’ve been asked not to" and similar stuff that make a person unemployable is "very positive about them".

And once more, this contradicts everything else in the article. You can't have your cake and eat it, too: if Netflix is saying (through it's spokesman and multiple other execs in the article) that firing is always due to performance reason, then that's not a "very positive" statement about the person being fired. It's actually a very negative statement.
Polyamorous people can still marry or be married. That doesn't somehow make them "serial liars" or otherwise result in them being required to describe their relationships using a specific term such as open marriage.
The word ransom.
The point isn’t that it’s legal or not. It’s that the creator -expressed his wishes- for how his work would be treated when he chose his license.

There’s nothing unethical about respecting people’s freely chosen and publicly expressed wishes.
Otherwise, do we believe the biggest advocates of diversity are just really passionate about making shareholders richer by getting workers to produce more at lower costs? That is what makes them push for a more diverse workplace everywhere? I mean some middle manager somewhere might be convinced that diversity is an important ingredient for increased productivity and that may be true for some definition of diversity, but by and large the push for diversity comes from an entirely different place that is far more about the politics of gender, race and social justice and the movement that is providing the actual weight behind this push for diversity doesn't care one bit about which teams and companies are more productive.
> unless I have a fever

How often do you get the flu (actual flu, not a bad cold) and not have a fever? I've only had the flu once in my life (30-something years), and it was like being hit by a bus, having said bus park on your body, and having said bus catch on fire and slowly burn.
Humanity did all of that on a planet every generation of organism evolved to thrive on for billions of years, not a completely hostile environment. All of our ancestors, going back to protoplasmic goo evolved on one planet. All of our mammalian ancestors evolved just on an incredibly narrow window on or near the surface of said planet.

Maybe we won’t need all of our current specialists, but we’re going to need rafts of new ones. You’re also making the “Golgafrincham” mistake when you arbitrarily dismiss existing specialties. It would be a shame for our first colony to die from a disease contracted from the proverbial “unexpectedly dirty telephone.” Having dedicated personal to keep th place clean might be one of the more essential jobs for all we know. HR might be another essential, or something similar unless you want that explosive decompression to have been the result of sabotage because of co-worker conflict.
There's no carbon on the moon.
"never without asking"
> Entire wars could be made impossible.

Maybe, but it might make others go nuclear if there aren't conventional options available anymore.
Here comes dat boi!
None of this is true. Wiring harnesses aren't water tight, primarily to prevent corrosion. If you have a totally water tight harness, and water some how gets in, it has no way to dry and will cause corrosion.
You absolutely can splice a harness and have it have the same characteristics, I do it every day.
anybody want to form a long term study group?
Russia claims US took control of drones in attempted attack on Syrian base
Well, assuming that's true, it has little-to-no impact on how things should be going forward. The web is very clearly here to stay. At the very least people who want credit and payment for their work should not be encouraged to use OSI licenses.
And, like the rest of the world, make it single payer.
Ask HN: Parents: Do your kids use VR?
Hey there parents :-)

We're building educational experiences for teenagers (13-16 yrs) and I'd like to learn more from you as we build out our product. We're currently offering project-based classes where students work in groups of five with a real teacher in there also, guiding the class. In our first class, their goal to build a rocket and escape a foreign planet.

1. Do you see this as an alternative to sending your kid to a local extracurricular class? Why?

2. What kind of experiences do you and your kid enjoy most (educational/games/movies/?)

Not posting our link right now because I'm doing this for research purposes and not promo. If you are interested in learning more, please message me :-)
They probably have to have really well calibrated gyros for Daydream, with temperature calibration etc., unless the IMU/gyro is in the daydream holder itself.
Can you say a bit more about "performant" or point me to some information? I haven't found any yet. I'm processing millions of protobufs per second and would love to get away from batch jobs to do some incredibly basic counting -- this seems like a fit conceptually...If its a fit, any recommendations on the best way to get those protobufs off a kafka stream and into pipelinedb would be great, too!
I feel like openly running an illegal business out of your embassy is a quick way to get your diplomats expelled.
This strikes me as a mentality born of a dying civilization.

If the goal is a thriving and permanent Martian colony, the production of children should be _the entire point_ of the operation, and it disturbs me that this isn't intuitive.
Its to head off accusations that she was "dressed like that" and other stupid nonsense.

As if that's an excuse to throw away professionalism.
I have to disagree. Past a certain age, you will learn a lot from written material, and the difference between a language that is orthographically regular and one that isn't, is like night and day.
San Fran: Now so bad, it’ll make you cry
That assumes they were using effective parenting techniques in the first place.

Siblings winding up in the ER?

Actually I wound up in the ES once come to think of it.

But being a parent now I get it. You do your best and unfortunately sometimes that's shit. I thought I would be a way better parent than I am but I try. Definitely no smacking because I worked out that at least that doesn't do anyone any good. In all my experiments of parenting so far the effective thing is making boundaries explicit and enforcing them consistently.

The hard part is consistency because kids are just relentless sometimes. But if you back down you lose. It takes patience and sometimes you just don't have it. S;me people lash out in those circumstance because the feedback is immediate and gratifying. It looks like it works.

I'm glad the data supports that while it works short term it's in aggregate more problematic long term.
well glad we agree on content and just have a different interpretation of what his article is implying!

Instead of discussing the article, let’s just look at other commenters and see their interpretation.

reviewing other comments in this thread I see:

- commenters that believe she made plans to go to burning man on a weeks notice and convinced her mom to join. And got tickets.

- commenters that re-interpret “conservative” to mean professional/business casual attire. That interpretation makes Simpson seems particularly oblivious about the event which is clearly untrue

- a commenter that specifically mentions her naivete

As I’ve said already, what these commenters think isn’t true, but they believe these things because that’s what the article unfairly implies.

I’m glad this article is drawing attention to this harasser and this issue in general, but it does a disservice to the victim to falsely paint them in this light.
Very good, give a star
Excellent documentation, stability, and a deprecation date of at least 2020 or better.
It’s a slightly different motivation. There is something worse than a forum troll, and that’s a forum censor.

I could post all the stuff publicly, but then I’d get more downvotes, because a lot of forum users enforce the norms they like.

I see the number of points in my posts like this one jockey up and down repeatedly, meaning equal double-digit numbers of readers approve and don’t. Being able to follow that history would prove fascinating, but it’s not a feature on HN.

I’ve even attracted a following of a couple of readers who downvote anything I post.

So it’s with the norm—enforcing downvoter in mind when I want to reach out.

Share away. I can’t even give my technology ideas away.
Interesting. Considering the readme is the first thing the person sees on the github link and nothing about the license itself precludes other contracts, could the bolded text in this context be considered a verbal contract? Or at least enforceable as such?

Edit: Actually, there was a change to the license surrounding pre-trained models and sales back in June, so it's even baked into an obvious contract. A lot of the licensing conversation here is somewhat mooted by this.

https://github.com/robbiebarrat/art-DCGAN/blob/master/LICENS...
Well, it's not like Olympic athletes are doing anything new and innovative. They are just the best at doing what millions of other people also do. That seems like a decent analogy for Netflix whose basic task isn't groundbreaking, but who has to manage doing it at a scale that rivals anyone else in the industry.
Interesting detail. On this, though:

>One awful thing cheap LED lights do is blink slowly to control their voltage

I assume you're talking about PWM. That's not just to be cheap. It's the only real way to control brightness.
Of the whole thing, this is what struck me as distasteful. Manipulative and degrading.

The French kids owe the Stanford kid like half to all of it.
"you're not supposed"

Yea, the company should probably be in charge of who you get to associate with.
Not everyone has the same access to the health care system you do. For the price of a doctor visit and a script you can easily buy over 3 grams of pure methamphetamine
Music events/concerts – indie artists/bands playing live in M'Sila
Pokémon Go clone lets players collect ‘Catholic saints’ instead monsters
I was an AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) user for many years. I started in the early 2000s on dial-up and made friends and learned about the Internet. It factored into my technology career today.

As a side project I developed an AIM clone with Node.js and web sockets, using original bitmaps and sounds. One can choose fonts, colors, and buddy icons just like the source.

I ran a server over TLS with a few friends for a while. It was a lot of fun and I am proud of it.
Nice approach also notebooks with broken screens would be a good option for something like this.
Pollack made beautifully balanced chaotic patterns, not merely spilled paint.

Cage made a recording of an audience waiting for music. The audience was the work, not the orchestra.
How Could Spies Eavesdrop on President Trump’s iPhone Calls?
"dippers" are extremely common.
Inequality is great really. It incentivizes people to give extra effort for a reward. But gone too far, the efficiency of humanity will drop. There needs to be (and there probably is) shifts in wealth to keep things moving. Let's get those moon bases going.
Something like the “Dog Dod Grid” from Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age...

>> Atlantis/Shanghai occupied the loftiest ninety percent of New Chusan's land area - an inner plateau about a mile above sea level, where the air was cooler and cleaner. Parts of it were marked off with a lovely wrought-iron fence, but the real border was defended by something called the dog pod grid - a swarm of quasi-independent aerostats...

>> These pods were programmed to hang in space in a hexagonal grid pattern about ten centimeters apart near the ground (close enough to stop a dog but not a cat, hence "dog pods") and spaced wider as they got higher.

Further reading: http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=243