skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know near on nothing about cameras let alone pro grade equipment, but I just love the industrial design of these things.
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For what it’s worth lots of good work-related ideas have come to me while I was being outside the office, apparently being unproductive (taking a walk, waiting in queue at the food-store outside the office to buy some yogurt and fruits etc). From what I’ve read on this website I’m not the only one experiencing this.
For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

- Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque, I (1876)

Or to give more context:

Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness. They have been so tried among the inconstant squalls and currents, so often sailed for islands in the air or lain becalmed with burning heart, that they will risk all for solid ground below their feet. Desperate pilots, they run their sea-sick, weary bark upon the dashing rocks. It seems as if marriage were the royal road through life, and realised, on the instant, what we have all dreamed on summer Sundays when the bells ring, or at night when we cannot sleep for the desire of living. They think it will sober and change them. Like those who join a brotherhood, they fancy it needs but an act to be out of the coil and clamour for ever. But this is a wile of the devil’s. To the end, spring winds will sow disquietude, passing faces leave a regret behind them, and the whole world keep calling and calling in their ears. For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/386/386-h/386-h.htm

Virginibus Puerisque is an essay in 4 parts about love, marriage, communication.
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Shortly after the dotcom bubble burst I did some consulting for a currency exchange startup in London that had the most amazing array of free and limitless snacks I’ve ever seen. Right up until the day they locked the doors. Things changed too quickly for them to alter the snack mix and pinch a penny.
Well, it's a good thing that we're whipping them out by destroying their natural habitat. We don't need any competition. We need that sweet palm oil so we can burn it as biodiesel and destroy the whole planet.
This is where shadow IT comes from and why < $1000 SaaS products work.

Lots of managers have credit cards and will pay the SaaS fee and ignore procurement processes. The the app becomes embedded in the company and the procurement team has to accept the reality of it.
.. and knowing at the end of it that we paid 3x the market price to get it from our 'Preferred Supplier’

Very clear what’s going on there once you get to the end. Somebody’s got themselves a nice cash cow sewn up.
It's related to hometown tax how? Because both have descriptions that include the words "town" and "money"?
a wheelchair seems like an easy bypass, albeit one with very specific use.
Big lists of previous comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13406119

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10035008
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Jesus go have a cup of tea or so mething.

As for being shocked so deeply by this, perhaps it's time to grow up a little and realise history isn't clean sections with adverts in-between and censoring of the violence, it's full of arseholes doing the most rotten shit they can get away with either for pleasure or gain, and then realise the shocker: those arseholes still exist.
Original title was too long, HN asked me to trim it, so I cut beginning and end.

Actual title:

> Trump administration's reported effort to 'barter' a US resident to convince Turkey to ramp down Khashoggi probe stuns foreign-policy veterans
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I work in academia, they actually opened a cafe in our lobby to milk more money from us. I’ve never gotten free anything, the snacks and soda are in overpriced vending machines no one can afford to use, and that pretty much sums up how I feel about the health of academia.
Developers love Apple. The fact that its locked down means everyone has to go through the official store. Follow the money: billions are being made on Apple devices. Apple users spend more money than Android users.
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Its use when referring to animals. Many languages have features of grammatical gender in general which has a specially humanizing effect on discussions about animals, even when their biological gender has nothing to do with it.
>The big question, which I ask whenever someone harps on about portability, is does it even make sense?

For entire apps it doesn't always make sense but being able to port code fragments and small libraries is definitely nice. You can write a (non-optimized) portable memset or memcpy very easily (although one should be careful with how they're used if the arch has "weird" CHAR_BIT). Ditto for printf, a simple compression library, a function to strip whitespace and non printable characters from a string, code to handle the FAT filesystem etc... That's stuff that's useful potentially everywhere, from a 32core Xeon to an 8bit controller.

Look at kernels like Linux that are ported to a wide range of devices, there's still a significant amount of shared code.

These days it's also fairly common to have code that runs on both on amd64 on the desktop and ARM32/AARCH64 on smartphones and tablets. It's not as large a gap as going from some DSPs to general purpose CPUs but there are still enough pitfalls that being able to write portable C without too much difficulty is a good thing.
hn discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=874747
Admittedly haven't explored this myself, but I would expect some insert in my shoes to significantly alter my gait. When I received orthopedic soles, these changed my whole stance and gait. Heck, if there's some twist in my socks, my stance and gait are changed as well. Curious to learn more how well gait recognition algorithms can remove these effects from their prediction.
By this measure, government agencies are tottering on the brink. If you want a beverage or snack, you often have to leave the office, or buy something from the meager selection, if available.
> if the NSA position is "you dont have to hide anything if you are innocent"

Source? Former NSA director has disputed this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV2HDM86XgI&t=1h21s
> Donationware does not work for companies, I think - the bureaucracy required to make money move from the company to you will keep people from doing it even if they think you deserve it.

This is a really important point. Small companies I've worked at generally have had sensible and manageable procurement processes, but big companies have sometimes had mind bogglingly labyrinthine processes even for small purchases. There was once I had to raise an "Approval To Spend" and "on-board" a new vendor, and as far as I could tell the process changed 3 times while I was going through the "process", although I'm not completely sure because while everyone was telling me I had to go through "the process" no-one seemed completely sure what the process was, including those responsible for "the process". All very Kafkaesque. Anyway, it all comes down to your target market - if it is individuals you won't face this problem, but if it is businesses you will face the problem on a scale according to the size of business.
I might be missing something, but wasn't this (=> encryption at rest) the case always, and why this post only now?

Also, the cautionary note, as given https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerg...

"You should ensure you have configured the SDK to reuse connections. Otherwise you will experience latencies from DynamoDB having to re-establish new KMS cache entries for each DynamoDB operation, and potentially have to face higher KMS and Cloudtrail costs. For example, to do this using the Node.js SDK, you can create a new https agent with keepAlive turned on. "
So prove it to us please? a link or two ?
I think most commonly it’s just a game, they don’t want to be the first to say a number because that sets a minimum salary, otherwise they might get someone clueless who’d be willing to take the job for less.. Unfortunately that’s like 99% of the companies!
While it's not as conveninent as desktop-wide fractional scaling, note that in particular Firefox has already had HiDPI support via the layout.css.devPixelsPerPx config variable, which you can set through about:config.
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> one real danger of high energy particle physics is the discovery of an effect that can be weaponized

In Dan Brown novels, maybe. The fact that you need an LHC-sized machine to just barely manage to prove the existence of the Higgs boson, and that it has failed to see anything at all beyond the Standard Model, should tell you something.

In short, the requirements for a physical phenomenon to be technologically useful are stronger than the requirements for it to be at all observable. Basic conditions like "needs to interact with ordinary matter and have a decent half-life" are sufficient to rule out the existence of still undiscovered particles with technological potential. If they existed, we would already have found them.
Things can't be a "real danger" and "highly unlikely". What would be, even theoretically, a discovery in a particle accelerator that can be weaponized? Imho improvements in weapons technology won't be coming out of basic physics anytime soon. The real dangers are currently the development of cheap weapons that can be deployed without putting your own soldiers in danger as well as electronic warfare.
I work in a company that sponsors membership of professional organisations. I haven’t pursued these because it brings no benefits that are aligned with my career goals. YMMV. Membership would not help me get assigned to more interesting projects. I am not a second class citizen as a result, and at this point in my career not looking for this type of kudos.
Why a personal vendetta against Clinton and not the US in general?
Does anyone happen to know why the NYT are reporting Russia as a source of the democrat emails as a fact without any caveats? Is there any actual evidence for it at all?
Hey what are the top challenges that Facebook offer? I dont work in tech and follow HN as I find the less technical posts interesting, and I can’t grasp why people want to work in many of these companies, like where is the buzz from working at Facebook now?
at large enough scale, VPS hosts are just as fragile. physical comms or access is really about the same on a cloud host as anywhere else. good luck getting something like IAM on a VPS provider. you can totally run off a VPS. as long as you have a server reliability team as good as a cloud service provider. and a management console as good as a cloud vm manager. and a way to grant access, and monitor, and grow on demand, and etc.
Looks like https://www.filemaker.com/ is looking at competing. I with Microsft does the same with access
Egg was first by millions of years.
Considering that software will be running on the internal network of your company, they probably at least want someone they can hold responsible when it interferes with operations / deletes intranet files / opens holes in the firewall / exfiltrates their secrets / etc.

(And yes I know that's because of terrible design decisions in the intranet itself, but has anyone seriously worked at a large company where that wasn't the case?)
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I agree with politicians choosing to enter the public space and that they should be held accountable.

Spying on private citizens is wrong but has nothing to do with the point I was trying to make, which is - despite the fact govt should be held accountable, that does not mean they aren't entitled to private communication.

The public doesn't need to know every letter they wrote during their political career and their communications certainly don't have to be accessible by anyone wholesale, which is in fact exactly what WL is trying to achieve. Lower privacy != no privacy.

WL completely ignores the concepts of confidentiality, security clearances, NDAs at all levels of government, from your standard office clerk all the way up to the president and everything in between. There's no way that can be justified.
"serious journalists" Approved by the state, perhaps?
Nikon DSLRs can use either 12 or 14 bit RAW and there is quite a lot of discussions regarding that. The consensus seems to be that for a well exposed picture you can't tell any difference, it's only in some heavily processed edge cases there may be an advantage.

Remember it doesn't give a wider dynamic range, it just gives a greater number of graduations within that range. How the image is displayed also affects how it looks, but having a better source should give your less degradation during processing and display.
"What it does has no direct commercial value."

Well, apart from that "web" thing.... ;-)

I always think that was a great example of the complete unpredictability of research - fund one thing and get benefits you'd never have been able to predict.
>But does something like Evolution or LibreOffice really need to never assume that CHAR_BIT is not necessary 8, or that int might be less than 32, or that int64_t might not even be defined?

No and why should they? I assume all these things routinely when I write code that I don't expect to run on "weird" systems. And I don't have to worry about int being less than 32 since I when I need this guarantee use "int32_t" like a civilized human being.

The overhead is only here if you care to really write entirely portable C code but in practice very few people bother to do that outside of comp.lang.c.

>It would be nice to have an ISO-standard superset of C that catalogs such assumptions. Basically, a "non-DSP, non-mainframe" version of C, that's portable across all modern non-exotic platforms, and provides definitions for as many things that are UB or implementation-defined in standard C as possible.

POSIX C then? It assumes that chars are 8bits, that data and function pointers are castable and a bunch of other assumptions that are not possible in strict C. It also offers a richer API than C's stdlib. When I write C for a "non-DSP, non-mainframe" environment (that is, 99.9% of the time) I almost always target POSIX C, not strict ANSI.
> Could we let other apes and animals evolve over millions of years under our supervision and eye?

I think we must assume we cannot. There hasn't been any major civilization that has been around for more than a few hundred or thousands of years.

If we construct such a project in a way that it has a 0.01% chance to crumble in a single year (which is why lower than anything our society can achieve right now), there's about a 10% chance it fails within 10k years, a 63% chance it fails in 100k years, and a 99.995% chance it fails within a million years.
I'm using mpv to play videos. It has a very minimal OSD, not all distributions enable this OSD. Mpv works good enough under Wayland. It also makes use of hardware acceleration, this I need because my CPU is too slow to play most things without it (Intel nuc5ppyh).
I've always been impressed by this picture of an Orangutan spear fishing: https://primatology.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/orangutan-to...
MacHale is _the_ expert on Boole, and a wonderful man. Without reading the book though, I do suspect motivated reasoning on his part.
Reminds me of the people who hook their Raspberry Pi up to a tube amp just to listen to Spotify.
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I think it is worth studying. In regulatory based hospitals there are natural profit incentives that are only gated by the law. The hospital has no incentive to go above and beyond the basic legal requirements for sanitation and won't if there is a profit based incentive not to.

Free market solutions where the consumer has strong rights usually leads to superior solutions and their result lines up with the hospital adopting free market methods.
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First of all Wikileaks is not a media outlet. But that's not even the point and that's another story.

The point is the "timed" the action to purposefully benefit one side and in effect benefit itself, while purporting all the time that it is a paragon of openness.

Whole problem with WikiLeaks has been it is telling the truths, half-truths or not even telling anything in some cases.

At the end of the day WikiLeaks has a agenda and it become a tool, albeit a political one.
I agree that it is highly unlikely but it was deemed far more likely when CERN was founded.
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The final bit is complete bunkum for an unknown distribution. Whether the distribution is monotonic and if not, how symmetric, is the major determinant of occurrence of such result.
Giving a flat number is completely bogus.
Don't forget non-paying customers.
Docker is NOT a VM. Anything in a Docker container runs with the exact same performance as a service installed on your system. Docker does introduce problems, but performance is not one of them. I've done a pretty detailed post on how Docker works over here:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/my-love-hate-relationship-wit...
And obviously dance all the way to fool gait recognition.
To be honest, I just turn the resolution down at the graphics card level. Gives me slightly more blurry pixels at my Thinkpad X1 13" HiDPI display, but I am not able to tell apart pixels at that insane resolution anyway. Side effect: It is computationally cheap and of course no compatibility problems with GTK/Qt/X11 to expect.
> medieval erection of parapets

lordy
Look at sites/software/etc that is offered for free that you believe offer very high value. There's a recurring trend. In spite of the value offered, the developers invariably end up short of revenue. This tends to result in ever more visible requests for donations or alternatives (such as swag) to try to spur revenue. And even with these appeals, the revenue tends to rarely correspond in any meaningful way to the value of what's offered.

As an example Lichess (www.lichess.org) is an amazing service for playing chess. It supplanted services like ICC (internet chess club) and now competes against services such as chess.com and really stands head and shoulders above the rest of the sites. Now let's consider compensation. ICC had on the order of tens of thousands of users and charged around $50/year for what would have required extremely little overhead. They were undoubtedly making millions. Chess.com today is heavily ad-driven and works hard to push their users into a premium access model. No idea about their revenue, but they happily spend 5 figures a year in contracts just to get various players/streamers to exclusively play/stream on their site, and have an extensive paid staff. In contrast to these two sites, the founder of Lichess is able to gives himself a salary of $22,218, about $2k above the French minimum wage. It's not like he's then getting loads in options each year - that's it, that's what he gets for building software that beats out other sites making countless millions offering arguably inferior services.

It sucks, because I wish this model worked, but I think it simply does not. There are exceptions, but they are definitely the exception.
I'm not sure what's "interesting" about having been around for longer and still having achieved absolutely nothing.
Puts on critic hat

The article is making a claim that can be summarized as...

the cognitive capacity to share with conspecifics something learned more than 120 seconds ago, is unique to humans and orangutans

They also inform you that bees have this capacity. That should be enough to make anyone skeptical. It seems like they identified a particular behavior unique among apes to Orangutans - suppressing vocalization in response to threat - ran an experiment to confirm their bias, and are spinning it as a story about the ability to talk about the past (rather than simply that Orangutans have evolved to deal with perceived threat by keeping quiet while the threat is present, and then going bananas after it's gone).

Conveying info about the past is something bees can do; yet it escapes Chimps and Bonobos. Yeah, ok.
Older family friend made $30/hr in the 60-70s with pension and benefits working in a meat packing plant with a high school education. Same job today pays $15/hr with no benefits thanks to illegal immigration. There's a reason people like the Koch brothers spend millions in support of illegal immigration, they wanted to drive down the labor cost for jobs like the above.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf-k6qOfXz0

Offshoring and illegal immigration has killed low skill jobs and given billion dollar multinational corporations the ability to demand whatever they want from workers because they have unlimited labor supply.

This doesn't just effect low skill labor either, it forces more people to go to college and take on debt which then drives down the wages of high skill work as well. It's a scam and the american people should be angry
So is most retail, foodservice, call centers (even at stable companies), and anything else fairly low-paying.
This presumes conditional independency - violations of which are common.

Instead, you get to estimate the dependency between each observation as in advanced variants of Bayes chain rule. Ultimately, some place of the estimator will contain an assumption giving only bounded optimality.
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> That single collision turned two satellites into two thousand high-velocity projectiles, too.

Just to add to that point:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envisat#Space_safety

A single 10kg. chunk of debris could result in over 8 tonnes of additional debris, triggering a rather nasty chain reaction.
And this is the language we're meant to reinvent apps with. Oh my.
> Thus, two different function pointers may have the same bit pattern.

Is this likely/guaranteed to happen by the wasm standard itself, or, could runtimes/emcc fill in stub table entries to avoid this?
Indeed, which is why this CV padding "cloud migration" nonsense in various sectors I've seen is antithetical to the benefit of the business and entirely pushed by a need to transform for no particular reason, for the most part.
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Not the OP but I also grew with the gaming industry since early 80's, and additionally had a short foray into it, many eons ago.

For me yes, which is why I tend to play more old-style games on my mobile devices than multiple GB downloads on modern consoles.