skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Germain "ein Ferhseher" is likely just a literal translation of the English "television", being a 20th century technological invention.
>"Marketers have been behind the times"

I have to laugh. I learned psychographics from Bill Wells back in the mid 1990s. He had come back into academia in after spending years at DDB Needham creating one of the first psychographic initiatives/programs that had teams of statisticians, social scientists and used mainframes for statistical analysis in support of product design, message refinement and targeted marketing and advertising based on "personas".

One of the fascinating things to me was that Bill told of doing a summer project during his own graduate school experience at Stanford in which it took him a whole summer to manually (using a mechanical calculator) calculate a Principle Components Analysis on some consumer data.

It boggles my mind in some ways that we have a bunch of CS trained start-up guys who are rediscovering both techniques and consumer behavior research that is sometimes 30 or 40 years old and think they have invented something new! OK, I am sounding like an old fart.

Now, I will admit that many marketing executives I have met over the years were not really comfortable with quantitative approaches but there is a whole subset that have been applying data science types of approaches for a very long time.
I think it was well intentioned, and given the size of their audience/reach, I hope they revise it and provide a new version with solid advice. I think the general population could really do with more modern understandings of security like using very long passwords, a basic understanding of using 2FA/MFA methods, and obscuring their identity by using temporary/throwaway emails and phone numbers.
The Blacklist.
I hear they use embedded systems on airplanes, rockets and space vehicles. Javascript on embedded systems makes it so that your average front end developer can now make the software that controls auto pilot or Nuclear Power Plants!

Javascript is taking over!
I would argue that MS WAS dead under Balmer, but not only for the reasons that PG mentions. However, it has been resurrected under Satya.
It's fairly common to receive TV broadcast by satellite.

About 10% of American households have a satellite dish, and about 20% of western European households. I think it's much higher in parts of Africa and western Asia, where there isn't the infrastructure for terrestrial broadcasts, or where satellite receivers get around state censorship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_television_by_region
A share of youtube premium revenue goes to video producers too though. The share is the money they would have earned from the ad that would have been shown had you not had premium.

(it's actually even more complex than that, since if you had been shown that ad, the advertisers daily budget would have been debited, meaning that advertiser might have reduced their bids on other users to have the same overall spend. The payment has a correction to take that into account).
Oh man thanks for posting this. Did not expect to see this come. I have both of them ("Refactoring" and then the "ruby edition") - it's a part of my vocabulary.

Also thanks to other posters who describe their view of the updates of content.
Yea... they did all that... then fell all the way back to “who buys wrangler jeans?”.
We are selling now www.cover.life which can make even more sense when it comes to insurance industry. And it is 80k only.
I planted milkweed seed about 3 years ago. Had my first plant that sprouted and survived in the spot I planted just this past summer. Give it some time, you never know. Some seeds have to go through a freeze/thaw cycle or two to sprout properly.
To be fair, Feynman wasn't above proof by intimidation, either.

I adore Feynman's work, but he was human and had human failings, too.
I thought the same, since dealers probably want repeat customers. Apparently since fentanyl is so concentrated the profit margins compared to heroin are orders of magnitude greater
Doesn't work for the YouTube app.
That's right. The long-term trend will be in the direction of China playing by club rules. When China is a fully developed nation, its brands are valuable overseas and its own technology is superior in many markets. Then it'll be in China's interest to enforce global trading rules.

Right now it's in transition.
Please don't perpetuate tiresome flamewars on HN.
Thanks for sharing this could be really useful. Most of the marketing automation platforms are too bloated. This + aws lambda everytime the s3 database updates.
you're being downvoted and I have no idea if it would actually be possible to be sensitive to wifi but I can hear my 2014 MacBook Pro process certain things and I don't mean the fan. No idea what triggers the processing "buzz" because it's not constant but certain cpu intensive operations make a buzz I can hear so I can certainly believe a similar buzz could come from a router's processor
How did that work out for California?
I didn't know they had original content either. The main selling points for me were the zero ads and the offline playback, and playback with your device's screen off.
“at this time, no foul play is expected", but is it suspected?
Heroin with a small amount of fentanyl gives an extra kick to the heroin. Heroin dealers who don't include fentanyl are regarded to have an inferior product. If the heroin is cut with too much fentanyl, your customers die.

As mentioned in other replies, the problem with doing fentanyl directly is that it only takes a minute amount to kill, amounts that are difficult to measure.
> 6% included code for the papers' algorithms

This is completely ridiculous.

In pure mathematics, everything you need is right there in the paper. If instead you're in the physical sciences, you obviously can't include your lab in the paper. For software, it's perfectly possible to include the lab in the paper, so to speak, and there's no excuse for depriving the rest of us of access.

Not interested in releasing the source? Ok, just don't brand your project as 'computer science'.

Including full source-code (and ideally data-sets, unless there's good reason this can't be done) should be a basic requirement for serious publications. It's disappointing that this isn't (yet?) the norm.

</rant>
I'm finishing my degree, haven't dealt with hiring yet but, god. Couldn't everything be easier if one could just say he wants the job for the money and wants to do a really good work for every cent?
Modern society is getting annoyingly over-complicated.
There are definitely papers in physics that are well-known to be wrong. I know of results published in high-profile journals where the authors have stated (in person, but not officially in a published update) that even they cannot reproduce their own results.
Conversely, I only signed up for Premium to see Cobra Kai.
Yes, ever since WW2 the US has has been the global media leader, and with that the cultural influencer. That space is now primarily online/social platforms, so if those shift to the Chinese, so will the power to influence. And everyone who wants to do commerce has to play to the tune of those who control customer attention.
It's pretty difficult to use this satellite technology as evidence that an ordinary person might be a terrorist, unless that satellite happens to locate (not listen to) radio transmissions from their ordinary hiking trip through the Iraqi desert shortly before someone intercepts them.

It's much more practical for figuring out where ships which have their transponders turned off are.

Same goes for current generation state of the art optical satellite data, which is mostly useful for pretty pictures and environmental trends, but might be just about enough to prove you didn't park your car where you said you did if you're really unlucky. (This, admittedly, is the bit that might improve rapidly in ten years, but it's still not going to be particularly useful for targeted tracking of individuals, never mind dragnets)
The thing is that Amazon is so big and has so many other profitable lines of business that, if they want to, they can swallow losses on the one that happens to compete with you for as long as it takes to choke you out. You can try to keep up with that, but since you’re not as big and diversified as they are, you will inevitably fail. What to them is just a paper cut will be more than deep enough to bleed you white.

(They’ll raise the prices once they’ve driven out enough competition to assume a dominant position in the sector, of course, but that will come too late to do you any good.)
I wonder why they don’t mention that less young people are drinking these days.
The content creation space is extremely competitive and audiences are fickle.

On top of that, Hollywood is a very self-reinforcing system, where industry connection is super valuable at getting funding, securing talents, rights and other things needed to deliver a successful project. Outside funding will have a hard time competing against existing investors, and will end up either overpaying or settle with less promising projects with trouble securing funding otherwise.
Diverse Image Synthesis from Semantic Layouts via Conditional IMLE
Request to modify the link to http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1811.3/07150.html, the original patch.
I thinks this cameras could become really useful in an indirect way, just something that come to my mind is the ability to have zoom crops in post production still keeping the 4K final render.
Few years ago, while a CS undergrad, I created a WeChat mini-prog to optimize and streamline the hiring and management of foreign actors and background actors(movie biz) in Beijing and surrounding areas.

Back then, I had a gig as a 'foreign talent' recruiter for a contractor of a mega chinese movie studio, Hollywood-big studios-size. I proved my worth by using my entire network of foreign students, public/night time events group chats... In fact, I was a part-time agent for like 2 years and that mini-program was my edge on the market.
I figured out that I needed a consistent database that's easily managable from a smartphone and a real-time payment system(Wechat Pay) right after movie scene shoots. Scaled real fast and provided extra income to my friends who also enjoyed the fame aspect of the gigs even though it's very time consuming(~8hr/day).

As I'm from a war-torn african country, I was at ease on movie sets(action, guns and destruction) and didn't mind moving around a lot. I would do translation if needed and give some occasional inputs on cultural references given that few chinese guys in the industry had ever stepped foot on Africa's soil or interacted directly with more than a dozen black 'background actors' at one time for weeks(cant tell who's who face:).

Wechat was the hub for all my work-study-social life in China. We had near a 800 ppl in the portfolio when I left in '16(for unrelated personal political reasons) and dropped out.

Later, I heard that the promising projects became great box office successes on the local chinese market and still are.
My regret is that I kind of oiled up the machine by implementing a quick techie idea. Social impact might be that it pumps up the chinese world conqueror ego spirit and shrinks the imagery of africans/blacks in the eye of millions of chinese. Plus, they are expanding distribution to african markets a.k.a broadcast directly to national tv channels.
The rapid growth after the 1st record breaker in '17 is continously huge in terms of audience and investments.

I cringe when I explain this stuff to my european friends who are always mindful about international geopolitics and to other black 'woke' westerners. Now, I live&work in Benelux where they are mostly clueless about China movies or WeChat, so my mind is quieter but regrets won't wash away.
With the disclaimer that I don't get paid for my Typescript work (I use it for some personal projects, as it saves me a bit of time compared to C++), I have this as the compile scripts entry in my package.json:

"compile": "tsc -p ./tsconfig.json",

I also have a start script, for running it from the command line:

"start": "npm run compile && node ./.build/main.js"

tsc has some kind of file-watching mode, that I assume compiles when you save stuff, but I don't use that, because I'm not a monster.
Tracking / Signal Hunting technology for planes and boats has always seemed to generate the most fantastical ideas.

There has been a good amount of progress, but it really stalled for a while when ICBMs seemed to negate the importance of aircraft. The US had the quite sophisticated Northern Early Warning Line at one time to monitor all airspace in the North Pole. It’s very hard, even today, to get good satellite tracking there because it is a Pole.

The craziest thing I’ve heard is what the British tried before radar was invented. A Hoover Dam like wall 200 feet high that was supposed to amplify the sounds of planes approaching from Germany that would alert a human operator.

http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/soundmirrors/locations/denge...
actually Activision's portal was an amazing experience because yes it's a novel but you're the main character. You're an astronaut that arrived on Earth 100 years after you left and no one is on Earth. You find a single working computer terminal. The "game" is your terminal for you to use to figure out what happened. it's pre websites so looks like 80s ideas of info but I loved it
There are quotes from people interviewed who removed the sponsored ads from their own listings. Did no-one think Amazon's behaviour was so unacceptable that they abandoned it, and used a different service?

Or is Amazon such a monopoly that this wasn't even considered?
I'm intrigued by the rotated schoolbus images. I wonder if the failure of the computer is due to the method of presentation. The schoolbus images are fundamentally two different things: an object, and a background. Humans know this intuitively: we understand the rules of 3D reality and extrapolate them unconsciously to all the objects therein. A computer is presented with just one thing: an array of pixels. Can we really expect a neural network to understand depth, scale, motion, and rotation when all it knows is two dimensions?
Ketamine is hugely psychologically addictive though. It is like saying that opioids should be available to everyone that is in any pain. The level of addiction caused may be different because the opioid user has to contend with the negative association with withdrawal as well as the allure of the high itself, whereas ketamine is only one of those two. Dependence and addiction are not the same and ketamine is powerfully re-enforcing. I don't mean to trash this - I'm just trying to show a counterpoint and another perspective because there WILL be misuse as soon as prescriptions become available, and people (doctors) will not understand the degrees to which it can draw people to misuse until much later. There is already a black market to supply to the demand. If droves of people start acclimatizing themselves to ketamine, the market demand will increase and the black market will be there to fill that new demand, just like it did with heroin/fentanyl when pain was over-treated with opioids and droves of mom's and yuppies suddenly thought heroin sounded like a pretty good idea because they had already lost their opioid naivety.

So in turn, I put forward that we should hope a discovery of the mechanism of action and a way to put it to use without ketamine. Ketamine's action itself is assumed to _not_ the primary mechanism of action but rather a metabolite is (the experience has a part of it I'm sure - it's pretty fairly a psychedelic but the yin to LSD's yang) and scientists are working to find a drug that will have the same effect without the psychedelic dissociative qualities of ketamine (and it's monstrous allure which some people notice and fall for - but many don't)

Seems to me that only certain personalities thirst for ketamine after experiencing it. But that will all come to view in time because the black market is ready to supply to an increase in demand and it will happen that way once people start diverting ketamine. The black market will compete in that market. It will offer a product of similar quality (most clandestine on the street is close to 100% purity) but will find its competitive advantage is price and availability.
There are other non-official, youtube apps that it does work for. I wonder when/how Google will crack down on them.
Reminds me of this! https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/451/45101.htm...

It's always pretty amazing to see these "demakes" on heavily constrained platforms.
What was he even supposed to do?

Hand them over -> risk fines and imprisonment in the US

Don’t hand them over -> immediately risk fines and imprisonment in UK
> But it's worth $15 for my family to not be subject to stupid ads.

Yes. Nursery rhymes and other entertainment for toddlers is by far our largest use case for YouTube, and ads would frequently comprise things like the latest horror movie trailer. If we didn't have the option of YouTube Premium to make it so the ads didn't interject, we would've been done with YouTube a long time ago.

Kind of a non-issue for us now though -- since moving to an area serviced by Comcast and thus having a mandatory data cap, we just use youtube-dl to grab the video once and then stream them over the LAN through a Plex server.
This airline is now weighing passengers’ carry-on luggage
10mph*!
There's a couple of things going on that you might not be familiar with as it's a bit different to most languages:

The public modifier on these constructor parameters is actually introducing them as properties of the Student type:

constructor(public firstName: string, public middleInitial: string, public lastName: string) {}

Since the Student type has 'firstName' and 'lastName' properties, it meets the Person interface requirements. It doesn't need to declare that it is, but could and usually would just for readability and the additional assurance that you haven't forgotten something.
Apple pay uses a card number per merchant, but that card number could still be used at any other merchant. Eventually that loophole could be closed, but payment systems move like molasses... Expect it to take 20+ years...

It simply means if the card number is used for fraud, it'll be easier to track down who leaked the card numbers.
Have you run into any issues that required tweaking of the PiHole set-up? I'm running PiHole + a hand-rolled VPN on Digital Ocean but I'm looking to put together little PiHole boxes for my family who live across the country. It needs to pretty much be perfect out of the box or they'll unplug it.

I've only had to disconnect once or twice to unsubscribe from spam lists, but I doubt my family would even bother.
The eyes have it: Ocular biometrics
The guy that bought Watson's returned it.
All good-natured CoCs boil down to "don't be a dick". Trying to push a patch that changes all uses of a swear word into another word that turns the comments into nonsense is destructive behavior. It's being a dick.

The person pushing the patch doesn't really want to clean up those comments, or to make them more helpful. The only purpose there is to try to pick up a fight. And, like that one comment in the article says, I'm sure the maintainers would prefer for such people to "stay the fuck away from the code" until they stop being dicks.
> Javascript on embedded systems makes it so that your average front end developer can now make the software that controls auto pilot or Nuclear Power Plants!

You must be kidding, or you want to see everyone dies, right? JS does meet realtime constraints. Maybe someday when nodejs has event priorities, it would be much more interesting to use in that field.

I mean software development skill is only a small part of embedded system development used in autopilot and power plants. You need related engineering expertise (e.g Math) much more than writing C or JS.
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> You're supposed to review the code you run.

Really? After spending years watching the pro-bitcoin people shill their crap, this is the first argument I've seen espousing a requirement to understand the code before using your wallet.
This is metalinguistic satire, the grammatical errors are partially accidental but mostly intentional. It's designed to seem ridiculous.
It's being replaced with Chat, which is an RCS client. Even though RCS supports encryption, Chat will not support that.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/what-is-rcs-messaging/
Baby steps. First have a viable alternative, then the rest may follow. :)
If the pesticides were banned, how fast would their population be replenished? Or do they persist, akin to CFCs?
All of Europe uses Whatsapp and Messenger, with a few fringe countries and groups using Line, Telegram, SMS, Twitter DM's and instagram.

SMS has a delay of 5+ seconds in most of Europe, so isn't really good for rapid fire conversations. Many phones aren't correctly configured for MMS (picture messages) either, and some networks don't yet support emoji.
You calibrate on what people were satisfied with thirty or a hundred years ago, eliminating modern status-seeking. You ask yourself "Would I be horrified to live like that, or do I just think I'm too good for it?" Like there's no way I am going to live as a boarder with another family, but I can definitely make my own lunch.
The getting coconut shell part doesn't impress much. Even snails or hermit crabs know to find abandoned shells to hide in. Seems pretty natural for that class of animals.
Incorrect. You can target web browsers with it.

> Dart’s flexibility in compilation and execution doesn’t stop there. For example, Dart can be compiled into JavaScript so it can be executed by browsers. This allows code reuse between mobile apps and web apps. Developers have reported as high as 70% code reuse between their mobile and web apps. Dart can also be used on a server either by being compiled to native code, or by compiling to JavaScript and using it with node.js.

Source: https://hackernoon.com/why-flutter-uses-dart-dd635a054ebf
> Does brightly colored/neon hair indicate the person is part of some particular group?

Yes. The "I'm non-conformist and quirky!" girl.

Of course, they're "quirky" exactly the same way as all the other "quirky" girls.
Easy one: stop fucking up Africa. Everyone wonders why piracy is so prevalent there and why it rose when the fish reserves dried up to a point that they were only fishable with giant trawler ships... surprise, European (and iirc also occasional Russian) fish factory ships vastly overfished African seas, the states either did not (due to diplomatic pressure e.g. to cut assistance) or could not (Failed State Somalia) do anything against what essentially is sea piracy.

Europe now finally gets back what it created... same with refugees driven into desperation by European agriculture and textile exports under the guise of "donations" which essentially wiped out the local industry. Hard to compete with "free".
It's not elitist, it's reality. Do you really think uneducated people can make decisions requiring deep knowledge across many complex domains as well as well-educated people? That's tautologically false. Even well-educated people are pretty lost outside their own domain.

The kind of everybody is equal mentality that must underlie such a statement boggles my mind. It's an attitude that is shockingly disconnected from the real world. We may as well be talking about Santa Claus.
flopnax has a naming collision with flopnax. don't people even google before releasing new products these days?
You just always push it, and get pulled over the old fashioned way.