skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not attempting to shame users for doing it, Flickr's offer was too good to be true. Unfortunately I think that it harmed the the quality in the long run. I don't mind people using it as an archive, so long as that's not all they're using it for.

It should be a photo community, sharing and discussion platform first and foremost.

You can't ignore the fact that Flickr's traffic, especially in the age of Instagram, has taken a massive dip. I'd love to point people towards my rather humble Flickr profile instead of my Instagram one, but most people under twenty five or thirty probably don't even know what Flickr is.
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Meanwhile, Google does not reveal their unit sales or even their revenue for the various Pixel devices.

>unlike most hardware manufacturers, Google refuses to share official sales numbers for their phone. Instead, during earning reports they simply bundle the product under Alphabet's "Other Revenues", leaving us in the dark about how successful the product is.

https://android.gadgethacks.com/news/rare-moment-pixels-sale...
I get the impression that Diaspora pods can be anywhere on the planet, so you can pick one in not-germany, if you're truly concerned.
This is a pretty cool and subtle effect. But I hope it doesn't get abused like the blink tag...
It would certainly be useful. I'm interviewing a lot of people for ML roles, and I've noticed a new group of "deep learning only" people coming out of colleges. They know their DL, but have no exposure to what I guess we're calling "traditional ML". Since DL isn't appropriate for all problems, they don't have the skills we want.
This is a failed experiment that was posted.
> Related question, What would you use a Postman Chrome Extension... for?

Postman started off as a Chrome Extension (ran in a chrome tab), and then became a Chrome App. The standalone apps for desktops came later. A lot of people use the chrome extension because it's convenient.

Source: I worked at Postman until about a year ago.
Increased frequency of travel may act to decrease chance of a global pandemic
What if 90% of the links shared on the internet are from those 3%? It would be a huge link-rot. I really hope the internet archive has the most linked ones.
how does that IP url works?
for me HN resolves to 209.216.230.240
I know about http://209.216.230.240 format, but how did you get to 3520653040 ?
China will explode, there will be a big riot and it'll split into multiple "democratic"(and in fact, oligarchy）states which are not united at all, after millions died. At that time, US media just won't care about Chinese people at all and celebrate
"democracy wins again!".

Rest assured, China's history told us even that were to happen, within 50 years some dictator-like leader(Hint: last guy is Mao) will rise abruptly leading her 500+ million rural population in poverty and unit the land again.
It probably might be a good idea to make a similar Chrome-based backend for https://github.com/zserge/webview to provide consistent browser engine for all OSes.
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The basic problem with SPA is simple:

1) Request handling until you have a functional app in, say PHP:

GET
Reply
(page displays at this point)

So: 1 RT happens.

2) In an SPA

GET the html
reply

Get the javascript
reply

Get javascript dependencies (usually multiple)
replies

Get the data to display (again usually multiple requests, because nobody does the call combining you should do (ie. don't have GetUserData(), GetFrontpageItems(), GetMessages(). Instead have GetAllStartupStuff() that returns all 3, to avoid the extra roundtrips)
reply

So: 4 RT Minimum

Guess which is the overriding cost in any webapp ?

Yep, the roundtrip.

Guess why we do this SPA thing ?

Why, we do it because it's faster, of course !
(this is so ridiculous it's sad)
True, I guess this source is a least transparent about what kind of content they are promoting
Part of me wishes it was true. But part of me also knows that betteridge's law of headlines is as reliable as newton's laws of motion for everyday life.
I always wondered whether you could train a neural net to to do deep zoom.
That's interesting, thank you. I got the TP31 as it's got both headphone and speaker out plus it's own DAC. I've had it a few years so will have a look at the newer ones. Thanks.
whats the new story here? As this said it was confirmed by wikileaks.. years ago.
The experiment is not the least bit impressive. If your stove behaved like that, you would throw it out. For the cost of the components, you can buy a new, low-end stove at Home Depot or Lowes. That actually works.
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If someone makes money selling my messages - I want to know how!! I'll start selling them. Never thought this was a monetization possibility.
> I wonder why we don't see a backlash against companies investing in China like we see against companies taking Saudi money?

It's a little, like the reaction against Google's project Dragonfly. However, it'd be much harder to sustain: it seems like nearly every Western company is investing in China or chasing customers there, so it's hard to single a few out for protest. You'd have to protest against all of them.

The Saudis aren't nearly so ubiquitous, so they're easier to reject.
It doesn't. GDPR applies to personal data, which photos are not (most of the time).

As long as you have an active user account on Flickr the contract / terms of use apply with regard to retention of photos, which Flickr can probably change as per their previous ToS that you accepted when signing up.
> But where the heck am I supposed to get all the data?

That’s exactly my point. Making a full replacement for an API (endpoint) is much more than writing some swagger.
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Thats a really interesting view on it, thanks
Are you saying people(wives included) shouldn't care about their beauty? This seems like a completely unnecessary response to the comment.
I posted this news on a general chat forum on the PurplePort portfolio hosting site (aimed primarily at photographers and models, usually NSFW). PurplePort users include a large community of active photographers, and I thought the discussion might be enlightening. So, in a totally unscientific study, their responses mainly fall into the following categories:

- I’d better upgrade my Flickr membership to keep my pictures

- I already deleted my account because Flickr doesn’t materially benefit my photography (e.g. in getting work)

- So it is worth being a Pro member after all

- I haven’t used my Flickr account for ages because Yahoo locked it

Compared with the discussion here, no-one got heated about the link rot issue.
Let it run on the router or NAS...
that's more or less what I wrote. but in many cultures touching food with your bare hands for the purpose of eating is considered barbaric. that's why I suspect that the problem isn't the knife - it's having to use your fingers.
Is it easier to colonize asteroid belt since water and minerals are easily available?

Gravity still is a problem, but all the resources needed to build colony and sustain life are easily available on lot these asteroids. Also water is great for shielding solar radiation which means on some of these asteroids underground colonizes can pose a lower hazard compared to solar radiation on planets like Mars or our moon.
Well, I haven't watched the video (skimmed the article), but if he's a Trump supporter who's also LGBT+, then he's not only supporting fascism, nationalism, and bigotry, he's also kinda dumb for supporting an ideology that wants to eradicate him.

The article says he's a fiscal conservative, so that explains why he's a Trump supporter, if he is (it doesn't actually outright state that, just says that he's a conservative), but I don't consider it to be a good enough excuse. Maybe two years ago before we knew just what kind of politician and President he would be, but not now.

I understand the dilemma the Republican party has right now. Many of them don't actually believe in the horrible things that Trump supports, but feel like they don't have any choice because the Democratic party opposes so many of their policy positions.

But policy should take a back seat when you're confronted with actual evil, and that's what we're dealing with right now. Nazis. Literal, not-even-slightly-kidding gas-the-Jews lynch-the-blacks ethnic-cleansing white-power Nazis are what Trump truly represents right now, and the Republican party leaders, by and large, won't even denounce them and say they don't support that shit.

If you support Trump, now, you support the rise of literal Nazis, and I don't care what else you believe in or support, that's something I can't see any value in even allowing in the debate.
That's actually coming soon: https://blog.chromium.org/2018/10/trustworthy-chrome-extensi...
Parent comment mentioned credit card points. I technically get points, but I just immediately convert them into money.
Does the same apply to wireless chargers? i was worried they would waste a lot of energy
You need a few leeches for that.

https://phys.org/news/2011-05-serotonin-role-leeches-abiliti...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3210650/
Just look at Kenny Tarmac :)
When you can replicate the site that she mentions and less than 50 lines of CSS.
That's straight up hyperbole, and probably is totally false. But it's unprovable anyway.
‘But when the Belgian investigators approached their British counterparts with a request for help in identifying who was behind the three companies, GCHQ declined to cooperate, claiming that cooperation would “bring the sovereignty, security and public order [of the UK] into jeopardy”.’

OMG we’re doomed
> Part of me wishes it was true.

Me too, on one level, but we should be careful what we wish for. If it was an alien solar sail, there's not much in earthly history of two cultures at different levels of advancement meeting that lends much hope for a long-term happy outcome of an intergalactic encounter.
Thanks for the response...

For number 2:

By ensure, we mean bring greater certainty and confidence on specific trades with artificial intelligence.

Often trading ideas are validated through trial and error placing buy/sell orders that may or may not be filled. We are increasing the probability your trades are filled and at the min/max (on any given day, for example).

For number 7:
Tabs is the correct answer.
Is there such a thing as good geology when it comes to this sort of thing? Or are we essentially makeing a tradeoff here that lead etc is less bad than say in the next valley where its full of arsenic etc?
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It's not properganda if it's true, it's just news.

I'm sorry but the ends do not justify the means.

Whilst all countries have positives and negatives any country where you can't publically ridicule the ruling elite is dystopian. Every single one.
Perhaps "food grown in a way that would survive the collapse of the agrochemical/seed industry."
People don't really understand modernity. Humans developed modern civilization thousands of years ago. We've evolved our selves and our surroundings that way. Not really possible to go back now.
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I believe it. “Hunt and peck” may be a misnomer. Full disclosure, I’m a pianist as well and use all ten fingers, but my fingers float all over the keyboard rather than using the home row, and I might use three or four different fingers to hit any particular key. This style is muscle memory, but it’s also not “touch typing.” I typically type around 110wpm with high accuracy, and am slowed by figuring out what I want to type not by my fingers. I mostly don’t look down as long as I’m using my own keyboard, though I am slowed considerably when moving to an unfamiliar keyboard. I say all this because I know some of this style translates well to reduced fingers, eg sometimes I type exclusively with my left hand because I’m too lazy to move my right hand off the mouse and I’m thinking hard and don’t need to type as quickly anyway. Good two-finger typists probably also rely on spatial-muscle memory, and may not look at their keyboard at all despite only using two fingers.
The only place I see that mentions 16 KB is the instruction cache on the S7 monitor core. Apart from cache, it doesn't look like any of these include RAM.
> As for what an extra-terrestrial light sail would be doing in our solar system, Bialy and Loeb offer some possible explanations for that. First, they suggest that the probe may actually be a defunct sail floating under the influence of gravity and stellar radiation, similar to debris from ship wrecks floating in the ocean. This would help explain why Breakthrough Listen found no evidence of radio transmissions.

Wouldn't it be advantageous for Oumuamua's creators to simply collect data, leave the observed systems alone and start transmitting when those clueless Earthlings aren't listening anymore? This thing was noticed only at 0.25 AU _post_ flyby. It is sort of terrifying that someone might have sent this...

Anyways, I am highly skeptical. For all we know, this was a slightly out-of-the-ordinary rock that swung by Sol. Our current inability to explain its behaviour due to lack of data immediately has people screaming "Aliens!". Well, one notable issue here is that the "Aliens!"-conclusion is not due to evidence for the fact (detected transmissions, clear artificial behaviour or surface structures) but lack of evidence against it. One natural cause for the acceleration when moving away from the Sun as well as the fast spin would be outgassing, but:

> In addition, they cite other research that showed that if outgassing were responsible for the acceleration, it would have also caused a rapid evolution in 'Oumuamua's spin (which was not observed).

Are we sure we didn't just fail to detect it? As nature would have it, improbable configurations might have been at work here and multiple streams of outgassing may have stabilised spin?
An IP is just an unsigned 32 bit integer:

3520653040 = 209 * 256^3 + 216 * 256^2 + 230 * 256^1 + 240 * 256^0

The 209.216.230.240 representation is the sequence of octets (256 = 2^8) from MSB to LSB expressed as decimal values.
This looks like a nice project, but I have a nitpick that I just can't drop. That phrase annoys me so much: "like a text based mini-web". Do they mean like a text based mini web browser? What is a mini-web?
> When you can map easily back and forth between the language and CPU instructions, you're as close to the hardware as you're going to get. This is something few programmers - even in kernels and such - actually need, but C offers it and most other languages don't.

If you think this is true, try building a native assembly to C decompiler. There are a lot of warts that you realize C gives you absolutely no way to describe. For example, C has no concept of unwinding, which both C++ and Rust do. (Admittedly, much of unwinding is handled by library functions, but one piece of the unwinding puzzle is do-something-in-this-function-when-unwinding, which can't be handled by library functions). There's no support for SIMD vector units in C. And getting floating point edge case support is tricky: there's a difference between a * b + c and fma(a, b, c), and that's before you get into trickiness like floating point exceptions, rounding mode, and signaling NaN.

The C language only has an easy bijective mapping to the actual CPU assembly if you focus on the easy scalar integer, general-purpose subset of both. Throw in floating point support, control flow [1], and vectors, and the mapping is much more difficult. Trying to support the actual hardware memory model basically kills the ability to map CPU assembly back to C/C++ [2]. The mapping just isn't as good as most people think it is, not if you actually care to start exploring the space of what can be done.

[1] I didn't mention this earlier, but try taking the address of blocks (this is a GNU extension, not standard C) while not doing anything else with them and see how well-preserved they are even at -O0. Spoiler alert: they're not.

[2] Virtually all of the effort to actually make hardware features invented in the past 20 years available in standard programming language is concentrated in the C++ working group, not the C working group.
Not sure re: "easier" but the sci-fi book series (TV now also) "The Expanse" talks a lot about the human colonization of "the belt" and even the morphological "low G" changes humans would have over time. Pretty interesting even for fiction.
This isn't strictly accurate.

In Kent, UK, there's an orchard with around 2,000 apple varieties (it's possible there were closer to 10,000 over the past few centuries). I'd guess more than a hundred of those wouldn't be palatable for consumption - varieties that have been selected for sauce, baking, cider, jelly (jam), etc.

Any seed-grown tree is going to produce fruit that has characteristics of both its parents - so it's not that 'wild apples aren't edible' (clearly that's not true) but rather hybrid apples aren't exactly like either parent. This is neither a bad nor a good thing.

I will say that apples grown for their type are replicated via grafts or cuttings.
Undo is an important feature too
When I make something, I want all and just the relevant pieces of what I am doing in my face, and then I want them gone when I do the next task.

So if I were to every try to design a page, I want all the relevant design items there when I am figuring it out, and then when I am done, I don't want to see them again.

So if you spend a lot of time designing the html/css then this approach makes sense. I don't want to jump into the css file and then back in the html file.

However, if I want a particular look and feel for a site, and then knock out the css, then I want the css in a different file and then I want to focus on the layout and the logic.

So my guess is that the original author builds lots of new sites and moves on. My guess is that the original author does not build one large site for a large company that has a consistent look and feel for years (till the rebrand).
This may be the instance where it has been the most difficult for me to separate what we know from what I hope. The idea that it fit so much of the criteria for Rama probably locked many of us in to wanting to bend the narrative.
Which is a great way to do science
There was a very fun preprint a few weeks ago on biorxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/10/22/336073

The same trick as DeepVariant, if you encode your genetic variants as images and give that to a CNN you get reasonably good results without doing much extra work!
I hate to see 80% of my old photos going back to 2005 disappear from their original URLs... but I don't hate it enough to pay $50/yr forever. If I could pay them $100 today to freeze my account forever and never have to think about Flickr ever again, that would be great.
They use Foursquare.
I really don't see the benefit. Sure, you don't write "CSS", but you write a lot of classes that look like CSS. If you write class="bg-white no-underline" you could easily write style="background: white; text-decoration: none;" and every frontend guy will understand it. I don't get the point.
TLA+ is only for specification. In one of the papers on it Lamport mentions just putting a copy of the specification in a comment above the implementation. If you get a bug you just need to find where your implementation differs from your specification which he finds is usually pretty easy.

If your code doesn't have a specification (of course usually less precise), fixing bugs is incoherent. How can you say come behavior is a bug?
>Another way to say it is - If China was a democratic nation with the highest level of freedom and openmindedness and fix the issues US has.

I would be surprised if they didn't have nearly the same freedoms we have in USA, if not more in some ways. A lot of their culture is based in confucianism as well, which makes their society different than USA.

We have an oppressive system with humanitarian issues, that's unapologetically Orwellian, that cheats and lies. Our workplaces are authoritatian. I don't see us as too much different, just the USA really doesn't want to lose their #1 economic superpower status, so we're inundated with low quality propaganda. We're both capitalistic systems, China is not economically communist or the people would own the means of production.

https://m.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/rapporteur-United-Natio...
Elon Musk says Apple doesn't really 'blow people's minds' anymore
"And even backyard tennis courts"

I don't know a single person with a backyard tennis court, and there appear to be 6 in a small area here. Where am I looking?
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Flickr is under new ownership -- it was under Yahoo that Flickr made the 1TB promise. It's too bad Smugmug can't go along with it, but if it were a viable offering (i.e. Flickr was profitable), Yahoo might not have had to sell off Flickr in the first place.
Show HN: Where Do My Taxes Go?
They are selling for $0.1 an account. I'll give you $0.1 for your messages.
Unfortunately, "forever" is a really long time to keep the disks full of content spinning, drawing power and requiring replacements.
It's not that easy, unfortunately. Mixing is a lot more complex and involved than it looks. It's a balancing act, making tracks stand out from the background or blend into the background, and finally putting it all into a coherent-sounding whole.

For example, many mix engineers - most, probably - use a buss compressor as "glue" to help blend the whole mix together. Take out something loud like lead vocals or drums, and the buss compressor behavior changes, changing the rest of the mix. A lot of mixers also use sidechain compression to duck parts depending on other parts (like the kick drum taking a few db out of the bass).

And besides the mix, it needs mastered (which costs money), and packaged separately from the rest of the album, making it a different product, to be sold separately.

On the other hand, some fields actually do instrumental tracks with vocals stripped out as regular products - karaoke and hip-hop tracks are often made from the original mixes.

Personally, as a mix engineer, I don't want some home genius second-guessing my mixing decisions.
Hi HN! Jacob here from WhereDoMyTaxesGo.

I started learning to code on January 1st, 2018 and this is my first real site that i've built without any tutorials or help - just figuring it out as I went!

Two years ago, this idea came out of a barroom debate on how much tax money gets split up between different governmental departments. Fast forward to today, and WhereDoMyTaxesGo is a cool little web app that takes your gross income and the state you live in, calculates a rough amount of taxes you pay, and then shows you how much of your tax dollars get dolled out to each government department in the proposed 2019 budget.

I know it's not quite perfect, but for a first product to put out there, I think it's pretty fun! I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have and am excited to hear what you all think!
I wouldn't promise.