skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question is which fringe it attracts. I guess the central point -- the defense of Quillette, in fact -- may be that since it publishes articles that are more nuanced than the norm in looking at questions like why women "don't code", why black people aren't as rich as white people in the US, etc., it opens up a space for discussion about how Jewish people are destabilizing American and how Keith Ellison and Maxine Waters are part of the new antifa brownshirt army or whatever. (Keith, I thought you were just a popular politician with a dumpster fire of a personal life!) And by allowing a place for that discussion to actually happen, with other right-y types pushing back that "hey, that's anti-semitic and factually incorrect! you can be anti-left without being anti-semitic!" then Quillette is actually fulfilling its goal of being a place that welcomes hard-hitting heterodox discussion.

In theory, some good is done by having this discussion in broad daylight instead of on Gab, which might just be an echo chamber. In fact, when I see folks like that coming into a party on a Friday night, I head out -- because as one of these people who is getting uppity and above my station in life by doing things I'm not genetically supposed to be inclined to do, I've developed a little bit of sense about who to avoid if I don't want to get beat up, literally or metaphorically.
So put it in a bracelet.
It wouldn't necessarily be tax fraud. Criminals are free to declare their income from illegal activities and pay taxes on it.

https://amp.cnn.com/money/2013/02/28/news/economy/illegal-in...
Ah, that makes sense. it sounds like there's one benefit to having the cameras rolling (that the police can apply judgment before red-light tickets are handed out) but another detriment (that the cameras are rolling 24/7. Seems you could obtain the same benefit by having a 2-min cache running at all times, and only store the cache permanently when a light-running event is triggered.
Apparently he never actually watched 2001: A Space Odyssey. I find it pretty incredible that somebody could have such an iconic role in such an iconic movie and never actually watch the finished result.

He's apparently not the only person to have done that either. John Williams, the composer of the film score for Star Wars, has never watched any of the Star Wars movies.
If you work for a large company and have a department that does tech support, talk to the people there about recent Apple products. In my case that made me realise that the increasing unreliability is not just anecdotal or the result of people being finicky - it appears that the last couple of years of macbook pros have had measurably more support issues than previous versions. When my 2013 Macbook Pro dies, I suspect I will not replace it with a newer machine.
I think it wouldn't be a stretch to see at least their non-pro computers using an A-series chip eventually. I'm sure there's at least an internal build of Mac OS for Arm machines right?

Given their affinity for AMD graphics, I wonder if a desktop A-series processor could have a built in Vega GPU like the Intel chips? The i7-8809G has a Vega with 24 compute units which should be decent for light video or photo work. Notebook Check doesn't have much by way of directly comparable info for the Vega M GH and the A12X Bionic's GPU.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Vega-M-GH-vs-A12X-Bionic-GPU_8...

https://ark.intel.com/products/130409/Intel-Core-i7-8809G-Pr...
The example is silly. There are several sources of the same video. If it's not a funny meme, a normal person will look for the original video.
In all of the videos he applies pressure on the intern's arm, you can see it by how her body moves.
To shift blame to Sara Sanders because she shared a GIF instead of a video, is the "spin" that reveal bias.
You can put the original video instead of the GIF and the Sanders tweets stands: "[We will] never tolerate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job as a White House intern"
The article falsely claims that Sanders cite the GIF as grounds for revoking Acosta's press pass. The mentioned grounds for revoking Acosta's press pass can be seen in all videos and cameras. (touch the arm, apply pressure). It's not the GIF, it's what happened.
The article implies that the GIF was intentionally modified, but the truth is that:

>At BuzzFeed News, Charlie Warzel dug into the creation of the Infowars clip, establishing that it was made by zooming in on a GIF excerpt from the original video. GIFs can drop frames when constructed, and video-encoding methods can introduce other changes. In the end, Warzel couldn’t decide whether the video had been doctored or not. Citing experts, Motherboard concluded that the video wasn’t doctored, but that it was "altered" —a distinction that might confuse as much as it clarifies.

The article also falsely claims that "The events described in Sanders' tweet simply did not happen."

So, if this article plus its title is meant as an "Study on Irony", then it's a great article.
Rallying against objectively "fake" news doesn't do anything about the much more serious problem of the way that mainstream news is less than truthful in more subtle ways, such as under-reporting or not reporting things that are true, emphasizing certain facets of a true story to follow a crafted narrative, reporting on things that otherwise wouldn't be newsworthy to advance that narrative, etc. Disproving blatantly fake news is trivial, disproving years of propagandizing full of half-truths and consistent narratives is impossible.
Are all of the sounds being generated? They sound like recordings, but I didn't wait long enough to check for a loop.
Whatsapp daily user here. I understand the need for them to monetize but the second they add advertising and companies into the mix, they lose the sheen of their app.

whatsapp is purely for talking to people I know. That's their selling point for me. I don't want to see companies, ads, offers, sweepstakes or curated content. Just me and my family/friends.
Probably they need 'more' though or why would they be so particular about user binaries and so on? Great work anyway from your side. It works well...
Ownership is distinct from renting.

It sounds like some US cities have a situation more like shared ownership, in which you can't actually own a home because there's no way to pay (or set aside) the full future stream of property taxes.

It seems bonkers to me because it would make settling down completely impossible, hence my comments about moving away to somewhere where homeownership exists.

In the place I already live (UK) we don't have that, so I'm not calling for any change.

In any case it seems that me (and people like me) moving out in this hypothetical situation of ownership being converted retroactively into rental gives you what you want anyway.
You also need another computer, which kind of defeats the purpose. That's like saying you don't need wine when you have VNC.
Mosquito laser hunter

Inside a room: a device identifies a flying insect, tracks its movements and beams a high-powered laser to bring it down.

The benefit is an automated perimeter protection at locations plagued by mosquitoes that bring malaria, health issues and suck the blood out of humans.

There is the risk of inadvertently shooting humans or animals.
The fact is that you will likely continue to use WhatsApp as long as all your friends remain on there though. The trick is to work out how much garbage can be stuffed into the app before people will abandon it en masse.

I suspect the threshold is a little lower for Whatsapp than Facebook Messenger as WhatsApp has a higher third world user base who have older, slower handsets and will see performance difficulties - hence Facebook's Lite apps for Android.
No, that is just one example. The point is the stewards of this class of languages have, over the decades, never thought it wise to humanize the language despite no technological problem in doing so.

There is no need to set a high bar to filter a language from my attention. There are thousands of them.

Anyway, the point is that there are reasons to dislike LISP besides the parentheses. It's all subjective in the end.
What if civilians used surveilance tech against politicians and prominent law enforcers? I think the best way to regulate this is to turn the table against them.
It gives me server errors.

Example: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/181616/self-portrait-etching-...
“Siri deploy heroku”?
A better way to monetize than Ads would be to slightly follow the Telegram model, they should create a store, ability to access an API, bots... Whatsapp did not evolve much in the past 3 years, it's maybe time to make it larger than just a chat app and create a real platform. Especially when you have entire countries using the app.
I wonder if this will prompt Apple to open up group iMessage, such as BlackBerry (belatedly) attempting to go cross-platform with an app. Charge Android users $1/year or /month for access to the ecosystem or something. Bye-bye WhatsApp overnight, in lucrative developed markets.
Yes, the back button is badly broken. It's like NASA secretly telling us "there is no going back"
There's an audio recording of the incident from nearly start to finish[1]. If you listen to it, it's pretty clear people were aware of what was happening and only a minority were against it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Peoples_Temple_Cult_Death...
In 1995-1996, remember I had an i386 PC running Linux right next to a DEC Alpha also running Linux, with thin-net ethernet between them.

For many things, the Alpha was much faster. But for browsing, I ran Mosaic on the PC and remote displayed it on the Alpha which actually had a monitor attached.

Prior to that, I tried running Grail, a browser written in Python, directly on the Alpha. It was so slow it was basically unusable, i.e. slower than the web loading over data over SLIP a 14.4 modem. Running the x86 Mosaic binary in emulation on the Alpha via FX!32 was actually faster, but still too slow to use daily.
One use is for things like OpenGL, where there's no specific library called "opengl", since every hardware vendor provides their own implementation.
Differentiable Monte Carlo Ray Tracing Through Edge Sampling
How about a wheeled robot cockroach catcher that patrols kitchens at night?
Leapfrogging the IDE
Interesting, but the commit that introduced the malicious changes wouldn't be signed by the alleged author's key.

Also I'd trust anyone who denies adding a backdoor like this. Why would anyone do this with their name attached to the change?

What you'd actually do is change the author to "Anonymous Coward <nobody@android.com>" ;)

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Glob...
I found an even less pretty error: https://www.artic.edu/artists/36351/pierre-auguste-renoir
May be switch off your devices. Restart router to get a new ip. - get a new phone and try. Perhaps one device is having malware.
They were planning to go public in weeks, not years. Looks like the founders/board opted for a guaranteed payday (2-3x share price premium) over stock market uncertainty, but it still seems like an odd decision.
I recommend listening to the audio recording of the incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Peoples_Temple_Cult_Death...

It's disturbing, but it gives the best insight into the mindset of those involved.
You're correct. Small robots aren't going to help you pull a road train out of a flooded track. I'd imagine though it would help offset large fleets of large vehicles, however.
Spelling error on the very first image example: "Cofidence"
Good for them. It is baffling why others don’t do this. It doesn’t make sense on any level.
Absolutely. And I hope it happens ASAP. The most interesting team at Apple is the chip decision. They have done things with their chips I never thought possible. A full power desktop chip of A12X variety with some SIMD and more cache could be a powerhouse and still less power hungry than its x86 cohorts.
I haven't thought about it. I have a business in mind for the maps which would keep them in demand. More about that in my AMA I suppose.

I am very happy with my life and where we live. I really don't want develop a big business. Can I just be an artisinal meteorologist?
Apple doesn't need 'em though. What's $1/year to a $265bn/year company? Maybe Apple converts a few hundred million of them to iMessage. 0.1% revenue bump in return for devaluing a USP of their product and increased ongoing development and operating costs.

Plus I think you overestimate Android users' propensity to hand over even $1 in return for no ads.

The reason Apple Music is on Android is that the larger userbase directly gives Apple more bargaining power with labels.
oh dear... you're using line counts as an argument? seriously?

its a "micro" kernel... its small!

I'm talking architecturally... look at the real history, the Aleph->Accent->Mach set of kernels was from a different tree.

The research program was to see if they could replace the BSD kernel with a Mach-type kernel and get the benefits of new kernel + POSIX/BSD userland... the research was a success.
Just tell me what mode that the BSD code was being run in? superviser or user mode? back in the Mach days, BSD code was user-mode code, explicitly not supervisor mode, that was the point. That has likely now changed, but we're debating the origin here, not the current state.

This does not mean that Mach was "derived from" BSD.
I think on the desktop they’ll go with their own GPU and just release a driver for it for desktop OSX
Except all the Google maps setup and API keys are generated from the gcp UI and the billing happens on the cloud platform as well. While maps didn't start as a gcp product, they seem to have rolled it in to gcp fully.
Ha I love this!
My metric is “how actionable is this information?”

The answer is quite often “not very”.
If you can SLS, why not go with metal? Sintered metal gears (not 3D printed but "old-school" sintered) are basically the standard way to make gears for power tools etc. nowadays.
According to Reddit co-founder, “Hustle Porn” is toxic
Puzzle Montage Art by Tim Klein
I hadn't heard of it before so forgive me if I get something wrong. Two main thoughts:

1. It sounds like, to implement a robust program (and not just a pattern in Excel), you'd need to provide every different combination of input/output. This is just not feasible for any remotely large project. For example, if you need the program to handle an obscure error in a specific way, then you'd have to provide the series of inputs that causes the error.

2. If programming by example is characterized by giving inputs and outputs, then isn't it basically just supervised machine learning? In which case, we're still many years away from not needing to write the actual ML code ourselves in a standard programming language.
Sure, if you set it up that way!
I don't. But thanks for sharing, that's hilarious (for an unaffected person at least :D)
Try running that through Hemmingway App.
> Thanks to saagarjha for the effort and making the case to Apple that this should be fine.

I haven't made any case to Apple…this is not my software.
The number of musicians earning a living off recorded music sales has always been small.

Playing live and merchandise sales is still where the money is, whether you're just playing for drinks or doing stadium tours.
No ads are coming in the messages part of Whatsapp. This is all about showing ads in the Status feature of Whatsapp. I am not sure if that will be enough for you to lose the sheen of their app..
What does high-res mean? I downloaded Hokusai's 'Great Wave' and I got a 6.2MP JPG (3k pixels horizon.). That's not high-res at all when considering the original's size. Am I missing something?
This is my (possibly a bit too) long form blog-post/survey on the current limitations of the Rust borrow checker and mutability system as I perceive them.

It might be a bit too detail-oriented for non-Rust specific audience, but as Rust is gaining traction fast and in the same time there is the perception that it's strict/unforgiving, this list of the "limitations" and workarounds might be an interesting read for some.
I believe whatsapp is so popular exactly because it did not evolve. People love wa as-is, why break it?
The S3 outage duration was only 4 hours.
Is Nagios the Future of Monitoring for IBM I?
If only it was so easy. Why would users pay when they can send messages sent for free? Also, iMessage is not materially adding new feature against what Messenger and Whatsapp already offer - so adoption is going to be a massive uphill battle.

iMessage succeeds on Apply only because it is the DEFAULT SMS app which Apple took over and converted into a full blown Messenger solution. Highly unlikely this playbook will work out on Android.
Call me naive, but I hope and believe there’ll be a paid opt out
I haven’t heard the term headcanon before.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Headcanon

An idea, belief, or aspect of a story that is not mentioned in the media itself, but is accepted by either the media consumer themselves or the fandom in general. If it is confirmed by the creator of the story, it becomes canon.
Any stats / surveys on this? Most smaller (< 50 employees) b2c enterprise-style SaaS companies I'm anecdotally familiar with barely have enough funds to hire ops engineers let alone outsource to MSPs (even if the MSP practices labor rate arbitrage). A lot of the criteria I'd wager may be conditions around pre-revenue status and funding conditions moreso than headcount. I'm trying to understand just how biased my own experiences and indirect experiences are with the wider US market and appreciate data.
it took a decade to "be allowed" and is still extremely rudimentary, not to mention its a very fine line to the point that mozilla and google still wont invest in a browser engine port because apple already told in the past that simply running JS in the browser is enough to breach their policy. so please stop shouting like its common place.

pythonista3 is a very controlled experiment as it is now. and it exploits a "tiny blessing" apple gave on the policy of running "user inputed source code" only!
Upwork is partially automated. They probably use market position to manipulate users. I had some bad experience and no communication also. When you register account, Upwork "moderates" your profile and "decides" if you can start to work with clients. They have some kind of automated moderation with percentage pass value. It's not working great. If you aren't using in your resume a lot of words that they think are marketable you will be banned as not being eligible for working with Upwork. They will send you e-mail with misguiding information that you aren't good fit for them in nice words and that you can reapply in the future. Reality is that some bad data processing took place. For many people reading such type of e-mail that they send can be offending (if not depressing in cases when they didn't get what happened). In my case I just added some more keywords and tags because I was almost sure what happened and resubmitted profile. After a couple of hours my account was Up and Working ;) No sorry or any other information from them - not a nice way of starting bussiness with a client.
It's even worse for Tor users, logging into Discord makes me solve about ten or twelve rounds of reCAPTCHA. It's maddening.
I’d say google earned that bad faith this year alone with what they did with maps.
They don't necessarily need to "break it" but to evolve it a bit into a service. I'm sure you have people who would be happy to pay for bots, larger groups and business features (including myself). In some countries, WhatsApp is larger than a chat app, it's a social network but without any features, there's a gap somewhere here.
> I strongly suspect following the Lisp style of indentation and placing parens

Definitely - I have started writing JavaScript braces for nested callbacks in that style as well because it makes much more sense.
Debugging distributed systems with why-across-time provenance
I'm not sure why you'd expect a radical reimagining of UI for touch. Touch UIs look largely the same as WIMP UIs because there isn't a radically better way of presenting information and affordances on a screen.
I've never heard that about John Williams, but it's probably not quite the same sort of thing. He must watch the nearly-finished rough cuts dozens of times in the process of scoring (which is one of the last steps in the movie making process). Then again, on the screen behind the orchestra, during the recording process. By the end, he probably knows the movie by heart and isn't excited to watch it yet again, just to see the last bit of polish.

That's pretty different from recording some voiceover lines in a studio then never even seeing the movie they fit into.
thanks! good to hear :-) I will definitely have to take the deep dive one day into one of these modern Lisp variants.
Ask HN: How reliable are Facebook Lift studies?
I work at a e-commerce company, and facebook analytics/ marketing science team is pitching Facebook lift studies, to value the role of Facebook advertising plays. I am curious to know how these experiments (a/b control group test) might be vulnerable, to say seasonality? branding vs. conversion objectives?
It seems to be boilerplate now, included in the __template__s1.docx legal Dropbox, judging from the same appearing in recent years.
People never change.
I submitted a PR to fix the mistake before I read the comment here.
A little bit of a shameless plug but for anyone interested in the intersection of art and tech, Arthena (YC W17) is hiring software engineers and data scientists.

https://angel.co/arthena/jobs/
Concur & Hybris come to mind
This is an awesome feat you have accomplished and just when I had given up on anything new & cool coming out of the crAPP Store. Thanks for your work.
Why would users pay when they can send messages sent for free?

A combination of awareness that TANSTAAFL and network effects - RIM sold plenty of BB hardware to people who just wanted access to BBM because that’s where all their friends were, so there’s precedent.

I think it’s pretty safe to assume that even if there were a paid option for FB, Insta, WhatsApp they would still do everything they could to monetise personal data, because that’s just the kind of company FB is, rapacious.
A Comparison Between SCTP and QUIC
Open MCT – mission operations data visualization framework from NASA