skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The original iPhone screen is almost the size of one icon on the iPhone XS Max
I am impressed with the work your team is doing!
The true science in this is:- Circumcision removes the skin that covers the tip as well as the glands that lubricate these surfaces and it dries out. The HIV virus can not penetrate intact dry skin, but it can penetrate the moist and thinner skin of intact males. This reduces infection, but not all. The opening at the top where you pee is still moist and the virus can enter there.
It is well know the Jewish men have far fewer infections of assorted viruses, like HPV that causes cancer in women and that is why cervical cancer is rare in Jewish women.
Plus I doubt most "brexit refugees" were planning on eloping to isolated regions of Canada

You'd be surprised how appealing BC looks to some of us here. Mind you, it (BC) looks bloody gorgeous all the time but as you say Brexit has nothing to do with the big country.
I agree ... and could we see the system you mention in your last paragraph, please, or hear more about it?
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-long-people-wait-to-upgr...

The average person has their phone less than 2 years. If we assume a normal distribution and a standard deviation of 11 months then 83% of people will keep it less than 3 years. 5 years would be 3 std deviations. That is a very small number.
this is mindblowingly good.
AI is here and its use will increase no matter what you desire. It's really no different than any other technology. As a species, we've consistently been getting more and more efficient in most aspects of our lives. How that translates into the well being of the many is a completely different topic. Being more efficient is ultimately only a good thing. But that doesn't mean it will lead to a utopia.

Our problems always have been, and always will be, each other. You point to AI as a problem, but we all should really be looking in the mirror instead. It's up to all of us to solve the social troubles that will arise from continual increases in efficiency.

UBI is one idea that might help prevent a severe imbalance of resources in society. But it alone won't be enough to solve our social problems, and I don't think most people claim it will. It's a start.

If this is really something that keeps you awake at night, be a part of the solution and help us think of realistic ways to address these issues. Going backwards in time isn't an option.
I thought about that too, but in these same examples, other buildings were made taller, making it more difficult to see what's behind them, so that can't be it.
Sounds memorable - Any pictures of the journey?
Yeah, but it’s not like it was $150 before. Compared to a new phone starting at $650 or so, even $89 (old price?) is a bargain.

(Obviously the new phone would have other benefits, but it’s a big price jump. Even for a refurb.)
This makes me wonder what if there are new ways to consider the question of "What is the shortest possible domain name?".

An amusing approach is the one taken here:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/worlds-shortest-domain-name...

leading to the domain used for this URL shortener:

https://l.tl/

However, the ccTLD for São Tomé and Príncipe allows single-letter second-level domains, so perhaps this is a contender:

l.ﬅ
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Can anyone estimate the purchase price?
Not the Mac, but the Apple II was. When the PC industry began, Apple was king for a few years. Then Commodore overtook them in the home market, and IBM in the workplace.

I'm not sure what you mean about performance? When I switched, I had the impression PCs were outperforming Macs by a long shot. That must have been within a couple years of the Win95 release. I should probably hedge a bit there because my memory might be off. It was a long time ago.
Well, if this was not the Ai age, I would probably agree with you. But now we have super resolution and this papers can serve as a warning that now someone can recover the image, enhance it and use as evidence.
> The decision of de-emphasising street names for the benefit of landmarks/museums/event locations etc. is rather subjective: I often use Maps for purposes other than directions, such as getting a feel for an apartment's neighbourhood, finding restaurants, exploring places in the news, or that appeared in books or movies, or even just "sightseeing

This would seem to call for a small set of 'detail view' modes in the UI. I.e., a 'navigation' mode that priortizes street names over other details. And a 'remote sightseeing' mode that emphasies POI's over street names, etc.
meh i'm safe... my phone is always in my hands and I use bluetooth 18 hours a day every day.

Thats safe right?
Blogs are chronological. I decided that I didn't want to be bounded by that and went with pmwiki.

In this format things can be chronological, can be topic based, pages can be a work in progress, no default. Markdown editing. Files are stored as text also, no database. Choice of themes though nothing like Wordpress.

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Economy airline travel is insanely cheap now, often quite a bit cheaper for two round trip tickets than driving the same distance in a personally owned car would cost.
I remember seeing a demo of pix2pix where this was one of targeted use cases. [1]

There were even demos of the reverse, where you take a street map and convert it back into a plausible photorealistic satellite image. [2]

[1] https://phillipi.github.io/pix2pix/ specifically https://phillipi.github.io/pix2pix/images/sat2map1_AtoB/late...

[2] https://phillipi.github.io/pix2pix/images/map2sat1_BtoA/late...
The common argument against that is that it would destroy honest patent holders, like individual inventors (who don't necessarily can or want to build a whole company to pursue a particular invention) and R&D focused organizations like labs and universities.
I dunno, it ties together rather well, IMO.
It's only our future, intellectual honesty, social divides, and everything wrong with society addressed with the wisdom and distillation of decades of well formed thought condensed into presentation form. No big deal. This is like a holy revelation and you don't get it????
Plus I can imagine the population density of Canada makes a large difference, too.
Yeah, the service... I have been on Air Canada more than once as an economy class passenger and when they are late, all you get is an empty apology, if that. More likely nothing. But this summer, I was flying back from Europe to the 40th birthday of my best friend (no pressure!). And the flight to Abbotsford was late (boo) so I walked to the desk and asked whether they could put me on the Vancover flight. And since I had a paid business ticket they did without blinking an eye. Which is funny because the YVR flight is much, much more expensive than YXX. Another funny: the business check in agent in Toronto thanked me for providing the airport code, she said she never checked anyone in before to YXX...
or you could put the slightest modicum of effort into trying to see the very clear picture he has painted...
I’d say even for some new CRUD app, assumptions that it will be easy to build are so, so common, and the reality of most “super simple CRUD apps” is that the implementation is way harder than you thought, and selling advanced features before you definitively know how to build them is a big source of failure for seemingly straightforward products.

It’s very much sales hubris to ever believe you know how to build something you’ve never built before, even in cases when it might seemlike a minor variation of something you built before.
You could get a mid tier new phone for 200 which will be better than a 2 year old phone.
???

If I had a picture of an apartment building that was big enough, I'd be able to see through every window. How is that even remotely "technological"? You shouldn't write a paper saying "a mirror can reflect light" when we already use mirrors every day.

Being able to zoom in on an image and see something isn't a breakthrough, holding the details in the picture is.

Another analogy: Being able to find a grain of rice in a picture of a factory-sized floor isn't amazing, taking a picture of the entire floor whilst maintaining detail is.
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Why in leech mode? I agree with you that you'd be morally ok by paying for HBO to consume the content, but I'd say you're morally wrong for leeching without seeding. If you want to participate in the network, you should take and give.
I have a friend who made software for satellites in the 90s (ie, satellites that killed other satellites) and said that China was the US's biggest threat. This has been known for a very long time. Even when I was a kid my mother said they were manipulating their currency (I was about 7 when she told me this decades ago).

If people didn't know, their heads were in the sand. The same way people don't recognize that there are world religions that want to do away with all secular governments and install their religious governments.

Look up the first war the US was engaged in 200 years ago, you mayb be surprised to know it's the same group we now call "terrorists" today.
Member when software had lots of options how to configure it to show you the information you wanted? Peppridge Farms remembers.

Also VLC and a few other weird fringe holdouts...
The Apple 2, yes. It wasn’t the cheapest but it was certainly the big player in the US.

Performance: Macs were quite competitive, or even better than PCs for quite a while. It was only later as the Intel juggernaut kept going that Apple started to get steamrolled and had to switch off 68k. They regained the crown for a little while, but even the G3/4/5 were quickly overtaken by Intel.
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None, pre-digital camera days and I never owned a film camera and didn't buy any disposables. I had very little money that I didn't spend on techno records.
> Except that airlines still get the bulk of their revenue from economy class.

That's exactly backwards from anything I've ever read about airline economics. Do you have any references to support?

https://kottke.org/17/03/the-economics-of-airline-classes

suggests that on a given BA LHR<->IAD flight, the 122 economy seats total about $107K, the 40 premium economy seats about $106K, the 48 business class seats about $322K, and the 14 first class $122K. The 14 first class seats out-rev (and out-profit) the entire economy cabin.
>On that point, people seem to be in agreement. But Reitze counters that the complete data from that first run is already available online.

The italics are the link to https://www.gw-openscience.org/about/

is this hug of death? where can I actually find their data and materials?
Actually, the number is 1/137.03599913.
this is fascinating. given how many pixels can fit in a character, the possibilities are in the tens of thousands at least.

It's almost possible to write a simple math paper using unicode instead of Latex

these characters can also be used to evade username restrictions and other spam filters when character substitution does not work.

you can even use these codes for bitcoin wallets
British Columbia's social democratic NDP government quickly stepped in with their own bus service to serve the north though I'm not sure if it's intended to be permanent.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-northern-...

It could make sense for the government to step in here with a publicly owned transit service if there is a real market failure here in that it's not at all profitable to serve the sparsely populated North.
You mean like with FDR and the Japanese?
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vagueness? he's simply discussing comparative pedagogical models and techniques!
jumping around a bit = we've been culturally ok with that since mtv circa 1993 or the beatnik authors of the late 50's or virtually any film or literature that jumps around in the narrative timeline.
Just a tiny bit of typography on the links would go a long way to making the site look more professional.
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I work as a R&D Engineer in the armor industry and we have an applications lab in a small city in VA which I imagine has relatively lax zoning regulations. The lab is located in a large old tabaco processing warehouse and a few years back a developer bought half the building and put in apartments.

Anyway not sure most residents even know where there but we have tons of hazardous chemicals at the site including drums of JP8 (jet fuel) stored outside near the “common areas”, giant totes of cyclohexane in a shed on the parking lot. Inside we also have a polymer production line where one has to wear anti static shoes and all the equipment doors are blast rated because of the explosive hazards. We also have a ballistics range in the building shooting up to .50 cal armor piercing rounds.

We also have regular evac and containment drills in case something goes terribly wrong. This is all fine and good as I’m well aware of any risks working there but the residents a few walls removed might have a different opinion if they took a stroll through our facility.

Point being, sometimes a few zoning regs can be a good thing ;)
Im hoping 5g will change the landscape on this subject.
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I've found it interesting which things do this vs don't.

Slack doesn't convert unicode urls, discord does for example.
Even then, how many people can be within touching distance? 10? 20 if they’re making a real effort? So let’s say 20 within a meter, and let’s say they’re all actively using their cell phones... it’s going to be significantly less than 20 watts, so still nowhere close. If a few hundred people beyond that are using their phones it will add an asymptotically diminishing amount of energy, so you’re never going to come close to the exposure these rodents experienced.
so any memorable techno tunes from the trip/times? haha
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> to quiet complaints

Uh no - to protect their employees from abuse.

> despite the legal prohibition on retaliation.

Why is it retaliation to seperate the accused and accuser?

In fact if you don’t seperate them you are opening yourself up to legal liability and a PR nightmare.
In a recent hellointernet episode, they talked about how companies have essentially trained them to do just that. If you have enough public clout it seems to be the easiest way to get a response.
I find that RGB color space has lots of washed-out colors with linear interpolation, but other color spaces like HSV or HCL don't have the same issue. I tend to use those color spaces for creating gradients for charts with D3. I don't know if any games make use of them.
Not "edging up to" a mass extinction? No kidding, we are 10,000 years into one, and going strong -- if not 45,000 years, or more, judging from the experience of Australian megafauna.

We have not made a huge dent in the oceans yet, Steller's Sea Cow notwithstanding -- and it's not -- but give us just a little more time. As its acidity rises, it will get progressively harder for any species to produce a shell. Who knows how many uncatalogged species of copepods will vanish, unnamed?

To me the great mystery is how African megafauna continue to survive. Even the elephant has not quite succumbed yet. The Wrangel Island mammoths fell to not more than a few hundred Inuit ancestors, starting barely 4000 years ago, and it was over in no time.
I can't remember much about specs. Actually I can't even remember if I knew enough back then to interpret specs! Maybe i just thought PCs felt faster or something :)
I'm very serious, but very burnt out by many recent failures.

I would hope that nobody would blindly believe me, but would investigate the idea on it's merits.

It's basically an inside out cyclotron... instead of ions circling a central point, all ion trajectories intersect a focus point once per period. If they collide at that focus point without fusing, they will still be on a trajectory that brings them back to the focus.

There are no new physics, and only basic college level physics knowledge is required to understand the device.

Here is a simulation video I made using a program called simbuca that simulates ion motion in a penning trap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT6nvmN7GB0

As you can see, that simulation was made 3 years ago, but has very few views. I've tried, but don't know how to move forward without funding further research myself... I've basically stopped looking for outside funding.
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Metal is very close to that "perfect layer" in my opinion. I would love to see a portable Metal built on top of Vulkan, rather than the MoltenVK we're getting (an insane idea, in my opinion). Perhaps the Dash/NXT thing that Google is building would be an OK substitute?
I've been in Phoenix for the last couple of months and the water here is disgusting. It tastes terrible even after softening and filtering. My hands and body feel slimy after washing. After living somewhere with good tasting and large quantities of fresh water and then coming here it's very easy for me to believe that people would rather drink nothing than water. My one year old daughter loves water over everything else and even she won't drink the water here.
Check out the amazing work Yihui Xie and other R-luminati have done with R's version of markdown and the package "blogdown". Plenty of academic examples around and can get up and running quickly, securely, and for free if you wish.

https://bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown/

All the cool kids are using static sites these days.
It has a whole lot to do with net neutrality when an IP-based video streaming service is being blocked by an ISP. This isn't an ordinary cable carriage dispute. If they were blocking YouTube Red, Hulu, and Netflix would you claim that has nothing to do with NN either?
Perhaps we’ve understood the original comment differently.

I took it to mean writing a driver that uses an existing DMA API to talk to a controller.

But yes, I agree: implementing such a DMA interface from scratch — even with an existing controller — is not a trivial problem. Testing and verifying said implementation would also be difficult.

Well, I hope that one day I can make 1M/yr! For now, 3 months into my first job, I’m fairly satisfied with where I’m at :)

I’m considering shifting into kernel development next. Given your experience, would you advise going down that career route? Any tips for a career in low-level development?
What does it mean to manage upwards?
35k in a city with a ~40% tax rate and rents approaching 2k/month.

Developer salaries in Europe are a joke.
Doesn't work at all for me on FF63.

A quick look at the dev console - I think tracking protection blocks it from loading reddit which it wants for whatever reason.

Probably a 'proxy through the back-end' job.

edit: I just realised I have reddit's DNS blocked. Oops. FF still brings up tracking protection regardless I think.
A lot of your news is not just "not-depressing". It's actively uplifting. In fact, most of the stories on the front page are "feel good" stories.

It'd be cool/useful if you could provide news on the important issues of the day that's simply "not-depressing". I.e., factual and detached and doesn't elicit emotion, but not explicitly feed-good.

(e: forgot to say: nice work!)
> Someone else called it FUD, now you're calling it propaganda. I'm seeing a pattern.

Maybe you should talk to someone about the patterns you are seeing. Maybe you can connect more unrelated things together to paint a mental portrait of others. Thanks for being inclusive.
>Whenever you zoom in enough that there's enough room on a visible street to put a label, then put the label! I mean if I zoom in so far that only the one street is visible and there's no other text on it, but Maps still leaves it blank... it just feels inexcusable.

Agreed. Happens on google maps too, and that's just so irritating