skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are on the right track, but we can used more advanced distributed systems rather than just federation. For example build off of things like IPFS or Ethereum etc. or custom protocol networks. Then that becomes the platform and network that companies provide physical infrastructure for and build off of. Using more advanced decentralized technolpgies means we would not need to trust all of our data to one entity and also allows for better collaboration on the platform level.
“None of the news that’s fit to print”
someone else said that according to a Google engineer we don't "really" want it and I wanted to see if this is true.

I put in a random street (mission street in San Fransciso), this how it looked for me on desktop:

https://imgur.com/a/aOERdLR

Then I started filling out streets with the continuous name of the street (first copy and pasting the name in small squares, then by hand adding red dots to separate them). This is how it looked after:

https://imgur.com/a/xQiF6pm

I was pretty careless/moved quickly, but that should match some of the effect of imperfect algorithmic mapping decisions. The key insight is that even if one specific crook looks horid (not enough space to lay it out neatly), humans will just look at another part of the street to determine the name. But if it's really a little nook where the crooked letters don't contain enough information we'll pinch/zoom in to make it big enough to display legibly. If you really look closely at my picture you will see places where I totally garbled street names through careless copy and pasting and overlap. No problem at all.

The "after" is much more beautiful/useful.

But notice two streets are blank: https://imgur.com/a/I24REM0

This is because their name didn't appear even a single time in my view. that means even though I'm on desktop and there's plenty of space, I would have to zoom or scroll to see them! They're literally information that is missing from the map.

For other streets I had to look a fair way away to copy and paste, since the street name wasn't anywhere near where I was working. (For example, looking at my first, original map, suppose you're at the top-left point, on Jersey street: how long do you go down Jersey street to the right, before you hit the Jersey and Church street intersection? This is a super common question!)

I think the resulting map is extremely repetitive, but pretty useful/beautiful. Humans can filter out repetitive information really easily. It's just no problem for us at all. Tasks such as the one I mentioned, where you are about to go down Jersey street and need to know when you'll hit Church street, are some of the main types of navigation tasks we do every day.

So I don't see the issue with making the repetitive map. Instead of roads, it should just repeat the name of the road.

(On the other hand, those of you who disagree can at least see what the Google engineer was talking about.)
Sure. Eyes are reflective.

But resolution is limited.

If you are so sure it's "obvious" you can extract recognisable faces from reflections on photographs containing eyes - show me you can do it using any photo containing a headshot you can find on Google Images or Flickr... Or even any staged photo you have or can take - showing enough resolution from a headshot that you can extract recognisable faces from eye reflections. I have a 12 megapixel camera in my phone - and I'm not convinced I could reliably take a photo of someone's face with enough resolution to pick to recognisable detail in a reflected face in an eyeball...
Exporting the Great Firewall as internet freedom declines around the world
Thats awesome to hear. If possible can you share additional details about your successful remote policy? Our team is currently working on this as well. We have lots of ideas but it's always good to hear what has worked.
Apple Will Stop Reporting iPhone Unit Sales
An important benefit of punycode is that it provides some protection against homograph attacks [0]. There are so many similar-looking characters in Unicode that it seems reasonable to trim the allowed characters to a subset. Of course it's a compromise and ASCII's not perfect, but it's a lot easier to spot g00gle.com compared to gооgle.com.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack
Yeah, for a million you could probably get a really nice house for one family, and a good bit saved up so they don't have to worry too much about things. That's a long way from any kind of utopian society... Especially when you're building it from scratch out in a desert.
Just finished reading one of the guys papers. I've read a lot of crack pots, and this guy's paper exhibited none of the typical features (megalomania, nonsequiturs, grandiose claims, complaints about persecution or conspiracies to silence the truth, and. so on). He might be wrong (didn't read carefully enough to reach my own conclusions, and I'm well aware of my own limitations), or he might have gone too far from his own expertise to be taken seriously by the right people, but not a crack pot
What does per capita homicide have to do with a culture's being accepting of violence? I mean we're still talking about very low absolute levels. Anecdotally, having been to all three countries, I approximately encountered the same level of violence, i.e. nil. So really, I'm lost here. Are there any specific violence-proscribing laws in Germany that somehow don't apply in Turkey or Croatia?
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The patent restrictions make Apache 2.0 less permissive (even if you think they're a good thing.) They cause practical problems, even for well-meaning free software developers, because they make the licence incompatible with GPLv2.0, which means, if you use an Apache 2.0 library in your program, you can never use any GPLv2.0 licensed libraries or vice versa.
I'm using iPhone and iPad but I would never bother with Apple Map as long as it's only available in their app.

I have marked a lot of stars and labels for places. If these are not available on my Linux laptop or web browsers they are totally worthless.

I know Apple made MapKit for embedding and you can share links but it is miles away from enough. Apple has to fully open their map for browsers and even Android to make it actually useful but I doubt they will.
It is time to break up AT&T. Their abuse of HBO customers on Dish network is an outrage. Senators and Cobgressman from rural districts need to band together, regardless of party and work together to break up AT&T. I know that as of today I will never consider switching to DirectTV and I’m going to take a long look at switching phone and internet carriers. Hey Hey Ho Ho AT&T must go!
Seriously though, the fact that AT&T can get away with this is just another sign that our government is in steep decline!
The timing is about but right but it was definitely different work focused specifically on extracting the scene the subject of the photo was looking at.

I've hunted repeatedlty for a paper or similar covering the presentation and can only conclude that the presentation (and possibly one paragraph conference talk description that probably exists but that I've not been able to find) is likely the only "publication" of the work which is definitey a bummer.
Nobody else forces 2FA, so it’s not really fair to blame Google here. Even Apple, while strongly encouraging it, doesn’t actually force you to enable it.
The need to build before selling is more critical for start-ups or single person gigs or consulting, because in those situations you don’t have existing stable revenue streams to use to absorb financial or reputational losses that come from underestimating implementation time or cost and failing to deliver sales promises.

If it matters to build before selling in a mature company, it matters even more in a start-up / solo business / consulting feasibility discussion / etc.
>that $30 difference buys you about 5 years of software updates, a suite of great creativity and productivity apps,

5 years of software updates? Can you post a source on that?
"Manufacturing" isn't an industry. It's an activity that many different industries do, such as the automotive industry, the consumer electronics industry, the pharmaceutical industry, etc.

> High level overview of the industry * Biggest players * Problems they solve, problems they face * Size of the industry (jobs, total value etc.)

If you start with a Wikipedia article and start following links and doing followup web searches, you'll find much of this information. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_industry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_industry
The article itself is very low quality. This isn’t even news. Stuff like this happens to thousands of people every day.
Ah yes, wouldn’t it be nice if every piece of software had as buggy and unusable an interface as VLC https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18219757
You're right. It's about our thinking. You and I. It's Alan Kay's quote he wants to shout. We need to get better at our solutions, and how we share them.
OpenGL has some really non-perf friendly design choices. You could optimize the driver. You could also just not support the edge cases that are needed for 100% spec compliance but not needed for 99% of apps and then either print a warning or let the user compile in the slow code that covers those edge cases.
Punycode has its benefits, when people try to phish with phony domains that look like legitimate ones.
Makes sense. Limited $ to spend on staff and staff have limited time so you want to allocate your best people and talent to your top-producing customers.

Although, what's interesting about this, is that they might do themselves a favor if they target customers who have the most potential to bring them more of their business if they give them even better treatment, as opposed to giving the best treatment to only your already-existing top customers. Attraction v. Retention
No, I haven't been to Marbella, but I've been all around the world, and the Saudis are among the most despised people globally (along with the Israelis).
A cannibal changed his name to "Will Bake Her'???
Similar minor incidents in history have caused broader wars.
China was never any threat to any country in the history of China. The culture is simply too corrupted.

US biggest threat is the national debt and the unfounded and underfunded liabilities.

The national debt is really not a problem as long as the USD still the world reserved currency. How the reserved status may change because of China and that’s the real threat.
Did you mean to write "not" though OpenGL? Most WebGL on Windows run through DirectX via OpenGL emulation using the ANGLE Project. Both Chrome and Firefox do this and I'm 99% sure Edge doesn't use OpenGL either so not sure why you thought browsers were using OpenGL on Windows.

https://github.com/google/angle
It occurred to me later, that the first volume of Art of Computer Programming has a derivative calculator algorithm. Even implements part in its assembly language.

Regardless of any of that, really cool project. Being for a class underscores the deadline you did that in. Thanks for sharing!
Satellite views can be too busy for some uses.
That's even worse. He took a simple side-by-side comparison of 2 or 3 images, and invested substantial effort into making it far more annoying and harder to compare by an uncontrollable permanent headache inducing slow flicker which is inferior to our built-in saccades. I hate the GIFs on his pages, they're by far the worst thing on his site and why I don't reshare his otherwise very interesting analyses, because they're a crime against the reader.
Back in the 70s I heard from more than one adult that you'd get your five cents back when returning the bottle.

In the non-"bottle bill" area of the US where I lived, the last time I remember bringing bottles back to the grocery was during the 1980's.
That's a really good tagline
Greyhound actually were handicapped when they got started decades ago as GM deliberately downgraded the comfort on the buses they sold.

The business logic for this made sense in a way - GM like to sell lots of cars that have to be replaced every few years rather than a small quantity of buses/coaches that are engineered to provide years of reliable service.

Once the market had been nobbled this way the passenger numbers dropped meaning that no capital was available for better buses/coaches. So there may be reasons from fifty years ago that led to your observation.
Resolution is limited.... to the camera that takes the photo. Yes. You won't get information from something that doesn't have information. Are you going to write a paper that 100 < 1000 ? I wouldn't, but I guess I'm some genius or something.

You can't, because the information isn't there. The same way you can't read a book that is closed, even with a super computer.
I did the same and concur.
Most often it is that the author is so involved they forget to given enough context. They are so passionate about a topic, but don’t realize that others do not drink the same Kool-Aid every day.

More than half of the emails I get from technology companies fail to start with a reminder of what their product or service does. I see this much, much less frequently with consumer products — better marketing.
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Great Idea love it!

I'll second the idea of providing straight info on major current events too, tho that might take a big editorial/journo staff...

More immediately, while Chrome populates nicely, Firefox just comes up with the main page with [Top Today] and [New] blank. I'm also running NoScript but w/restrictions lifted on all sources on your site.
Or, alternatively, try to find somewhere where your solution-focused attitude is rewarded.

Not saying you shouldn't try to build relationships but I'm not much for hand-holding just so people won't hate you for no reason.

It's ok, you don't have to be friends with everybody.
Less than 1% of the configurations you can make in VLC are actually tested. i.e. you can't actually configure it because it will break.
Sounds a little reminiscent of General Fusions piston design: http://generalfusion.com/subsystems-fusion-energy-technology...

The essence: A sphere with an array of pistons compresses a central point.
I run an org of 20ish at a FANGish company. I have mgrs and a team of ICs reporting to me. Myself and my managers are on the oncall rotation along with ICs and we do light coding activities.

Pros- team morale, better tech decisions, skills stay up to date, oncall is quiet

Cons- more time consuming, develops bias against other mgrs that do not code

To each his own...
> Chrome is just another browser, they existed before

That's a weak argument. Email existed before Gmail, web search existed before Google Search, maps even online ones, existed before Google Maps, mobile OSes existed before Android.

> Photos is not exactly innovative

That's what I used to think - another photo sharing/storage thingie. But it has all sorts of crazy machine-learning powered features.[1]

1. https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2016/0324/How-Google-Ph...
I can't tell whether you're getting serious, but I'm pretty sure most users would not prefer your change. It's so dense it's hard to read, and in a repetitive way.
making it government-run ensures it won't be taken away again.

It only ensures that it won't be taken away again until the next time the province elects a majority Tory government.
Source separation is much more general than just music. For instance, a common application is hearing assistance; can a hearing aid separate the voice of the person you want to listen to, from the background noise of many other perfectly valid conversations?

I can't speak to the research presented in this link in context, but the first segment provides a good introduction to the problem domain: http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chat2017/presentations/CHAT_201...
Soon, 100% of illegal North American marijuana use will occur in the USA.
I'd come at this from the opposite perspective: being reliant on bus/train companies that can stop serving your town is exactly why an automobile is valuable and essential to anyone not living in a city.
Only a former employee could be so relentlessly negative about the product. Notice he's never ended his articles saying anything nice about it?

Nobody else would know what to look for.
> Guess it’s the same everywhere. Downvotes if you disagree.

BTW, if you're not aware, I can't downvote you.

I doubt the downvotes are due to an ideological disagreement or anything like that. If I had to guess the reason, it's that the ideas you're expressing here just don't have much merit and are pretty tone deaf to boot. They're not that much different than saying a penniless, starving man should just buy food, which you personally find pretty affordable as a well-compensated software engineer.
it's there. scroll down and click icons
Sen. Wyden proposes bill that could jail executives who mishandle consumer data
Was it this one?

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ipsjtcva/5/0/5_1/_pdf

I remember seeing it that year...was an interesting read.
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Citation needed. GM hardly has a monopoly on the bus market, in fact they don't even seem to feature in the top tier:

http://www.chinabuses.org/news/2015/0409/article_8844.html
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“Pan right and pull back. Stop…track 45 left. Stop. Enhance 15 to 23. Give me a hard copy right there.”
Just accept that you don't need to be friends with everybody. Some people you just will not get along with. Whether it's you or them that's responsible is not really important.

I always try to be nice at the start, but if it goes south I just try to avoid that person. It has worked for me but YMMV.
This is the funniest post I’ve read all day, the way it sarcastically promotes things that drive users nuts had me cracking up. Good one. The kicker was when trying to read and a pop up jumped in asking me to sign up and then near the end the final floating icons at the bottom, genius.
Doing the comparison TLA vs Rust as programming languages is a misunderstanding. It's exactly equivalent to the misunderstanding in a comparison like "what's the advantage of SQL over Rust, that as far as I know is designed specifically for this kind of problems". Now, one could believe, perhaps, that Rust is "designed specifically" for the implementation of database "kind of problems". But the conclusion that there is therefore no "overwhelming advantage" to databases would not follow from that belief.

TLA and the TLA tools form a model checker. The TLA language is not used to do computations,but, rather, is used to describe properties and behavior of complex systems. The TLA tools then machine validate the descriptions to assure that the evolution of a system with the given behaviors will satisfy expected correctness properties. A TLA specification tells you that if your system is implemented (in a computer language, like say Rust) according to the description then the systems operation will satisfy the validated correctness properties.

TLA is about answering the question "Do I properly understand my problem and will my solution logic satisfy problem needs?". Rust doesn't help answer that question.
All I want them to add is traffic lights, so I can navigate to where I want to go. I’ve been waiting for years.
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Which 200 year ago war you are talking about?
Before Apple Maps added transit mode and hand-edited all the stops, it was displaying half the Caltrain stations as "Southern Pacific". The data sources are more than happy to give you data from 1940.
Wayback Machine mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20181101043107/http://vihart.com...
(Yes, totally serious.)

For me, it's not hard to read. I'd prefer it, anyway.

Still, if you wouldn't prefer it then we can see what the Google engineer meant, as this is exactly what you get if you show as much information as possible!
I’m close to folks who interact with trucks and buses on a regulatory level. Many were death traps (50-75% defective brakes, unlicensed drivers, broken suspension) until major operators were shut down from 2013-2014. Now you need to be cautious of the unbranded buses as they get passed between shell companies to avoid trouble.
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That's an interesting point, as all maps are (by definition) only representations, invariably leaving something out - the question is what to leave in the map.
> Writing something “cool” nowadays is not enough to be taken from the folks seriously.

You don't have to be taken seriously by serious folks. You just need some folks to like it - or be intrigued.

The other thing is that the gap in the market can be more important than the product itself. So, the first version can be absolutely terrible...

e.g. People want free unix.
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If they are packed how can they be losing money?

Perhaps I'm wrong but its clear you are not right either.
For me personally, I would try to talk about the specific issues and describe them, as you did in the second part of your comment. I understand there is a definitely place for using a simple phrase to characterize a larger pattern of inequality. Even using dramatic, colorful phrases which capture the imagination also have their place in the world.

Edit: I'm not trying to change your approach, I'm just being blunt about my opinions. I appreciate your open mindedness.
Anyways... I was at the gym thinking... (still working out like like a Marine) I was wondering are there any resources out there for Marines (or armed service people) to get into coding?

I haven't had time since I retired to give back to our veterans. I was wondering if anybody knew resources, or do I need to start something?
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10611504

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4788659

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9796275
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Do you mean that it was even more interesting at the time, in 2012?
Interesting... I've been working on a similar app.. Polar:

https://getpolarized.io/

I liked that you made this offline-first...

Also the annotation part is really interesting. Would love to see more adoption of web standards in that area.
The "giving" is the illegal part.
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