skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would agree that it is unfair, except as I point out they deliberately ignore or attack critics, and do not offer any actual valid scientific arugments in return. This pattern includes ignoring or even demeaning scientists and engineers who dare criticize them (including quite sexist behavior towards some female scientists). They do this while raking in many millions. This demonstration project uses 30-year old boom technology, and would very quickly fail in the open ocean (as a previous attempt did).

So, either they are so blissfully ignorant of the challenges of what they are trying to do (literally harder than sending humans to Mars) and are continuing to raise funds out of the best intentions, or they are scamming.

For a project that seems to rely almost exclusively on pointing out that the founder is young, I'm guessing the second one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_propulsion
Read Jim Mattis’s Letter to Trump: Full Text
So you basically would mandate to label products with "x" / "non-x", even certain values of x are pure superstition?

Of course I'm fine with companies adding labels voluntarily, as long as thy are correct: "kosher", "non-GMO", "ethically sourced", "cage-free", all the way to "does not contain nuclear waste".
Of course I realize that it is the title of the work and I also know that it is standard Japanese (I've lived in Japan for 9 years and currently live there). What I mean by stylistic is that the katakana title only serves as visual flourish and not that the katakana writing itself is written in a particularly stylistic way. This isn't a bilingual site or article, everything else on the site is written in English.
“From our highly complementary product portfolios to our shared business models and strategies, Corel and Parallels are a great fit. Thanks to the combined power of our technologies and teams, we see tremendous opportunities to drive continued growth and success for our businesses and most importantly, our customers.”

Where do people learn to write like this?
I agreed that customers should understand that cauliflower and broccoli are the same plant that was created from one cruciferous mustard herb. However, that’s not really what they are curious about when they’re shopping.
What worked for me was using the web version, and also showing only unreads/starred channels in the sidebar.
(Minus the extraneous ‘but’ in the first sentence)
It's not a significant amount. It's important to grasp just how huge the ocean is. This would clean up a pointlessly small fraction of the garbage patch. Not only that, but it would be destroyed in a storm quite quickly, generating even more marine debris.
My dads office (attorney) uses it because they’ve used it since it was popular in the 80s. There’s not much reason to have them switch as long as WP continues to get support... it does everything they need.
That same question is treated in Herbert Simon's book "The sciences of the artificial" (1968).
That's just not how it works. I defy you to show us a single case where a company was punished for a sanctions violation based on an action for which they previously received written approval. Federal judges don't tolerate that nonsense.
You said:

> even if you don't use the service, CuteApp can still access your messages. You don't actually know about the service

I don't disagree that permissions dialogs can be confusing and misleading, but you were initially claiming that CuteApp could access your messages even if you have never used it. Are you no longer making this claim?
Much more likely to want to discuss things in your home that are outside the Overton window and don't want recorded than accidentally go somewhere that you wouldn't want people to know about.
It's probably better to list what the real solution is: Bcrypt or scrypt.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/bcrypt

I also added it to a fork of Arc that I'm managing. https://github.com/shawwn/arc3.2/tree/ln/src/bcrypt

(Just type `make` and then run Arc like usual. Which is `racket -f as.scm`.)

Thanks to Scott Bell for providing code examples of how to use the racket FFI interface and unix crypt function, and for glancing over the finished code.

That leaves the question of what an appropriate bcrypt work factor is. 10 is apparently about right.
> So why isn’t he as celebrated as the other founding fathers of spaceflight?

Scientology?
Exactly. So if people are shortening their journey times using the road, then whatever previous journey they took no longer exists. The new road did not increase demand, it relocated already-existing previously-poorly-serviced demand to a new more efficient route.

This is a mendacious misphrasing of what I wrote.

People move. Businesses move. People are born. Businesses are created. There isn't a static amount of demand. People make decisions based on costs; whether they create a business, whether they have children, where they live, where they work. Roads change costs. If you have a clue about economics, you'll know that when costs change demand changes in all elastic markets.

Roads don't simply move demand around. People make more use of roads when they're cheaper to use. In other words, demand increases.

If you don't understand this, please consult an economics primer. Your argument seems to come from the same place as the ignorant people who think immigration lowers wages.
Slack just gave us back our access. I've updated the post on the medium. Thanks to you Slack!
tl;dr for those too lazy to click:

> Approximately 0.8 million tons annually of marine debris, which is 12% of the total debris input into the oceans, originates from land-based sources, and primarily consists of discarded plastic items (user plastic). In highly populated areas, marine debris comes primarily from the land. [...] The 10 top-ranked rivers transport 88–95% of the global load into the sea.

While I agree the "90% of plastics in ocean" stat is incorrect, it does seem very relevant to note that "90% of land-originating plastics in ocean" is the actual statistic (land-originating plastics representing about 10-12% of total).

Clearly, awareness needs to be raised about ocean-originating plastics. Thanks for bringing attention to this.
This article makes me think of the game Raft. I'm now wondering how easy it would be to expand the net using garbage collected from the net.
That said, if they were especially clever they could engineer a buyout where a neutral party like Broadcom gets the company and Apple gets the patent portfolio—which would represent the overwhelming majority of Qualcomm's market value.
https://www.google.com/search?q=wifi+signal+presence+detecti...
I couldn’t disagree more. In my experience I have found recruiters to be a complete waste of time (whether internal or external).
>Mass privacy invasion is probably one of today's trends that our descendants will look back on and say "what were they thinking?"

I'm not sure about that. The slope is not going to change direction, so it's only going to get worse. The newer generations will look back and go "what was the problem the old timers were complaining about, besides getting off their lawn?" I have a kid that just missed out being part of the millennial group. She already thinks I'm a curmudgeon about things. By the time she has a kid, privacy will just be a word to learn the definition to understand what people were talking about as it's simply not going to be a concept they care about. Maybe one more gen later.
Dealing with Indians, the normal bargaining tactic is apparently start with like 300%/10% of the expected, and end up at 110%/90% as anywhere else would. From America, starting is 120%/80% or so. Totally confounding when you first start negotiations, because they're offering these absurd numbers as if its normal..

I think the same culture exists with doctors/insurance. It's not that they're skilled enough or have enough power to negotiate down 50%... doctors are putting numbers up expecting to be reduced to 50%.

And then us poor saps get slapped with these absurd numbers and thank the gods we had insurance... but no one involved ever really expected to pay that number. And ofc, without insurance, you're like an american trying to shop in india -- no idea how to play the game, trying to negotiate in the american fashion with 120%/80% when the other guy started with 300%, and don't have the information to realize that initial $20 offer negotiated down to $18 isn't even close to what an indian would have managed (probably $5).

And its not like he's going to correct you when you fail to negotiate properly.
> Also we have the largest military and law enforcement reach on the planet.

I think the modern equivalent of gunboat diplomacy fit the term abuse of power rather well, wouldnt you agree?
It doesn't matter what algorithm you use to hash passwords when users login if you also store them md5-ed somewhere else!
Business bullshit by Andre Spicer will be a good read for you
Do you know your value?
I second triplebyte. I liked their process a lot even though I didn’t accept a job through them.

I actually found my current position through HN. Check The Who’s hiring threads.
Still, it's their fault for not seizing political power and installing a better legislative framework.
I would imagine it's possible to create landfills in areas that are 'geological material sinks' (lay-person made-up term) - i.e. places where particulate matter has a tendency to accumulate rather than diffuse elsewhere over time. Better to concentrate vast quantities of waste in isolated areas where it's relatively contained than let it pollute literally everywhere on earth.
Juul pays retention bonuses of $1M
I’m not convinced these are inherent properties of GUIness. We have had GUIs in use for long enough that many elements even across slightly different GUIs are familiar enough, this had allowed conventions and then conventional wisdom to develop.

Early GUI developers also put effort into making their GUIs at least somewhat intuitive, but they also bundled thick books of documentation on how to use their systems.

To a degree, they are self-documenting, but not because of their GUIness so much as their design choices; menus helped a lot with this. Menus actually are a good subject to touch upon, they are definitely one of the better conventions we developed, and they were based upon and analogous to a restaurant menu. However their very nature as a list of commands you can issue a GUI does also typically but not always, limit the application. If the only options available to you are what is on the menu and there is no other interface, then an application is much more limited. This isn’t even true of most restaurants which will often allow you to issue an order for something not on the menu if they have the ingredients, equipment and expertise to make it.

But as a convention, it is not limited solely to GUIs, you can incorporate menus into any interactive interface.

I think the real innovation wasn’t GUIs, it was interactive software. The innovation beyond that is scriptable software.

What is important isn’t GUIness, but the developer’s intent. If you develop software with the intent to be self-documenting and discoverable, you will end up with an interface that is both of these things provided you did a competent job of it. A GUI might help, relying on platform conventions might help, and using common cultural conventions might help, but these aren’t the necessary ingredients for those qualities.

Emacs has the quality of self-documentation, but it is emphatically not a GUI even though it is interactive.

I would say well built systems, provided you intend to do anything productive and even slightly complex, should have a manual included, or else it isn’t a well built system.
Battle of the Hams (1958)
The problem in the US is that you can't just go get your throat swabbed for a strep test in that situation. That could take 5 minutes and cost less than $50, but nope.
Really? Maybe it's just a bit of selection bias (not yours) that I didn't see it at the places I came into contact with.
That’s not increased demand, it’s just meeting demand that was only willing to pay a lower price in the form of time spent on the road.
Someone posted a topdown photo of Gatwick from about 3000ft on reddit this morning. I was wondering how they got that picture.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/a7za4i/this_photo...
Brain cells communicate using mechanical pulses, not electrical signals [pdf]
Doesn't the national team usually wear primarily yellow and blue? I know there's some green in there but...
You know, Iran is selling oil to countries without using US dollars.
This article was originally published in Scientific American but is paywalled there. Please do not construe the NIH source as an official endorsement.
The story of weapons vs. countermeasures is for the most part, a history of just such assymmetries in favor of weapons. With few exceptions, weapons are generations ahead of countermeasures. It is still much much easier to shoot someone than to defend against being shot. It’s easier to drop nuclear warheads than intercept them, to lay mines than sweep for them, and so on.

I think it’s just the usual wages of entropy, in the same way that it’s easier to spread falsehoods than recitfy them.
I don't mean to sound condescending, but I truly don't understand this line of thinking, as I've seen it crop up every so often.

The notion that "at least they're doing something" isn't a valid justification in my mind. There are plenty of reasons to believe that this wouldn't work, and adding more garbage certainly does make matters worse (even if by a miniscule amount, relatively speaking).

As for more promising projects, we'd be better off doing research to find those projects than throwing away people's money on a pipe dream. Pretty much any project at this point would be better- engineering bacteria to eat it, Dyson funnels to very slowly separate it out, whatever. I'm not a marine or materials scientist. I'm a person with limited funds to contribute towards things, and I don't like being sold snake oil, especially when the response to criticism is "well at least they're doing something!"
What’s GA here?
I remember this. You have the link change names every time you refresh the page. I couldn't believe that app store was something they wanted to copyright. It's literally short for Application Store. I always thought if you had someone sell your product on dedicated hardware it might work, but then that's a ton of overhead. :/
My personal threshold for claiming dishonest motivations is higher than yours. I'd require, at a minimum, specific & direct evidence re the individuals involved, whereas the childish defensiveness you've come across is perfectly explicable as part of the general ignorant pop culture that encouraged the misguided project in the first place.

Anyway, that aside, we're totally on the same page re the merits of the project. It's a terrible waste of the good intentions (& resources) of the donors, and can only lead to yet more cynicism.
Lol. I like the concept of blind but it is one of shittiest apps I have used. Their app consistently doesn't respond correctly to buttons and their redesigns just make their user interface worse.

Oh, and on the topic of security, one guy found a SQL injection exploit and demonstrated it by giving any users who commented on their post 100 likes...
$1B Funding for India's Swiggy
Love them.

I saw them once at Trip or Treat at Hampshire college. Sadly their set was only 2 or 3 songs as the guitarist's foot went through the plywood stage and it ended up broken.
It isn’t all bad. My laptop is 6, almost 7 years old at this point and it has received a few upgrades in that time. This change in habits does lower the minimum system requirements for its eventual replacement from “runs Mac OS X” to “runs emacs”, but I might be able to stretch its life out a bit longer now.
They made a big mistake, but generally I love reading Blind. There are a lot of interesting things on it about which I couldn't talk even to my own colleagues.
My iPhone runs machine vision on my phone at night (locked, plugged in, on wifi) to determine which people are in which photos. My iPhone.
Good to hear! Other than that I'm enthusiastic about the development of ML.NET, I'll definitely be getting a lot of value out of it moving forward.
I know the location of every WiFi device connected to my network. In general, I, and other occupants carry a device that has WiFi (Phone, watch, etc). Since I know the location of the device, I can infer/assume the location of the person.
There is nothing in this article that disproves that; and it likely would be featuring prominently if it were more.

Also, it seems quite silly for Amazon to lie about this if it could be disproved with a GDPR request.

The mistake that was made here is that the wrong customer's data was sent in a GDPR request.
Maybe we "do this kind of stuff" specifically _because_ we value free speech. DDoS perpetrators restrict the online speech of their victims. There is nothing inconsistent about America's First Amendment protections and the FBI's actions here.
Indeed. Is there some other more active discussion somewhere?
I personally don't like how watches feel on my wrist. I wore one for years until I got my first mobile phone, then I never wore one again.

I have to carry my phone with me anyway, so why should I have a watch?
WTF

Grab is spending big $ to improve the maps and contribute back to the community.

How about less bitching and more helping them spend their $ better.

And a side note, Grab and the other products like it are revolutionising Asia.

They are allowing the poor to have more rides, giving the drivers consistent work, wiping out the tuk tuk mafias, are making the vehicles far more efficient and clean, allowing non local language people to use local people to take trips easily.

I've never seen anything like it. It's a revolution. It's how tech can truly change the world.
Porting arbitrary style transfer to the browser
I think you're more likely to use a smart assistant as their ability to understand and respond correctly improves.

Hiring away Google's head of AI seems to have made a material difference in how well Siri performs in an annual head to head comparison of how well various smart speakers responded to 800 sample requests.

>Google Home continued its outperformance, answering 86% correctly and understanding all 800 questions. The HomePod correctly answered 75% and only misunderstood 3, the Echo correctly answered 73% and misunderstood 8 questions, and Cortana correctly answered 63% and misunderstood just 5 questions.

>Note that nearly every misunderstood question involved a proper noun, often the name of a local town or restaurant.

https://loupventures.com/annual-smart-speaker-iq-test/

A 22% increase in correct responses over last year's performance.
> JPL itself doesn't have "occult roots."

Just my personal speculation:

Qian Xuesen, one of the few who founded JPL and later the Chinese rocket industry, has a strange favor in researches of "special human body functions" which turned out to be nonsense at all. It would be easily explained had he ever been exposed to Aleister Crowley and/or L. Ron Hubbard in 1940s.
There's a fine line between protecting original works and creating barriers to competition through litigation. Not sure just using a different material and stitching method (that has been widely used for ages) qualifies for protection. It's too general. Now if someone is trying to pass off as the same brand name that is something entirely different but that's trademark not copyright.
That's cute, but it doesn't make sense.

I'm no lawyer, but I don't think judges overlook constitutional rights just because an officer "found something." In fact, I believe there's an entire industry of defense lawyers that exists because judges don't overlook those rights.

From another vantage point-- if officers can invent reasons for searches that pass legal muster, then what does it matter that parallel construction exists and has a constitutional loophole? If it were really the case that there's an epidemic of invented reasons for warrants then parallel construction would improve the status quo by reducing the number of dubious warrants, leaving only those that "find something."

I'm playing devils advocate here to fish for a legally competent response...

Edit: typo and clarification
To save agriculture from climate change, we need better weather forecasting
Yeah, I missed my 8am class a few times, but I never missed a final.
> P2P messaging apps have a hard time with group messages

Well https://tox.chat and https://ring.cx (now Jami) can do just that as well as https://briarproject.org.

So these do exist. Such a thing was also being proposed for Ricochet https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet/issues/54
That's true. I didn't realize that when I wrote my comment (from an iPhone, haha).
Some material that lasts forever in most conditions but dissolves rapidly in ocean water would calm a lot of fears and quickly make someone very rich!
Strange Sydney has so many less jobs in HN than Melbourne. Whereas I think in actual job count it is opposite. This could be because of more startup like companies in Mellbourne which publish jobs on HN
Exactly, sounds like he was a bright guy and a free-thinker with interesting hobbies. Somehow this gets twisted into nonsense about a Satanic NASA, moon hoaxes, and secret space fleets. Paranoia in action.
well, points for this

This package provides an in-memory R-Tree implementation for Go, useful as a
spatial data structure.
It has support for 1-20 dimensions, and can store and search multidimensions
interchangably in the same tree.

Authors
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* 1983 Original algorithm and test code by Antonin Guttman and Michael
Stonebraker, UC Berkely
* 1994 ANCI C ported from original test code by Melinda Green
* 1995 Sphere volume fix for degeneracy problem submitted by Paul Brook
* 2004 Templated C++ port by Greg Douglas
* 2016 Go port by Josh Baker

License
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RTree source code is available under the MIT License.
Show HN: A Discord bot for grabbing Last.fm data for a user
On the contrary, if the statisticians aren't intimately familiar with the data and the cleaning process, it's likely that they'll overlook some important features. When I interview potential hires, I make sure they'll be self-sufficient when writing data extraction code.
Just go to bed earlier?

I recently decided to wake up earlier (have kids, wanted an hour or so to myself before they woke up), so I started going to get earlier. Instead of an alarm in the morning, I have an alarm at night so I remember to go to bed on time.

For something as important as a final, you should be getting a full night's rest. It's just not worth whatever little you can cram in the night before.
Look at faith based cooperatives. Seriously.
I haven't read the book but I like the series.

The way the series depicts occultism vs traditional religion, traditional vs modernism and their interaction is surprisingly deep. It's not just shady characters using vulnerable and unstable people (it's that too). It's also people trying to escape traditional society and using things like occultism as way to get out. It leads to tragedies, but sometimes it nudges people to the right direction.
Was Fugazi the only band doing this at the time?

When I was tuned in to the local music scene in the greater Boston area (say 15 years later), it seemed like most shows were at 'non-traditonal venues' like VFW halls, churches, and basements. It's funny to think of a time when DIY bands played mostly 'real' venues
I honestly can't with the HN crowd at times. The problem with a bubble is you often don't realize you're in one.