skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like it was already rolled back. It seems like an interesting idea, but I'm not sure why they would push a change like this live. Possibly a mistake?
> Then I saw how smooth the terrain was at least where the photo was taken.

If you look through Colin's earlier instagram posts [1] you'll see that the terrain was not smooth for much of his journey. The terrain is covered in sastrugi [2] and this year was marked with unexpected higher temperatures and snowfall which made the skiing very slow for Colin and all the other explorers out there. Explorers Web has a good collection of blog posts about the various expeditions that are happening this season [3].

[1] https://www.instagram.com/colinobrady/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sastrugi
[3] https://explorersweb.com/category/poles/antarctic/
Denouncing the consumption of meat from certain species of animals (like whales or dogs or foir gras) while happily eating burgers and chickens and tuna is utter hypocrisy.

We need to work with Japan and other whaling countries to set sustainable quotas. But the condescending moral judgements need to end. There's nothing inherently different about eating a whale and a hundred chicken.

Personally I try very hard not to be a hypocrite. I'll eat anything, and have tried many things people find objectionable (horse, whale, rabbit, shark, etc.). I know about myself that I'm not willing to go full vegetarian or vegan, and actively choose to eat meat. While I hate vegans that try to force their choice on others, I do appreciate the clarity and lack of hypocrisy of vegans who choose it for themselves. What I really hate is the hypocrisy of those who try to judge others for their choices while being no better themselves (meat eaters who complain about what other meats eaters eat)
Because it _is_ a tradition. They don't actually eat a whole lot of whale meat like they used to do. There's more supply for whale meat than there is demand.

The reason the whaling industry still exists is because it receives government support for being a "protected tradition".
Monit does many of these things. More for monitoring than scheduling, but you could easily make a script that handles the timing side of things.
So it’s only immoral if the number of the animals is really low? Seems like an arbitrary trait to determine whether animals deserve to live or not
Unfortunately I don't use a stylus so for the first release of the app I focused on things I'm personally interested in.
Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos?
I'm curious how others store their photos. Right now I use Arq to back up to an AWS Glacier instance. I also back up to Shutterfly. And I use Time Machine to an external HD.

Problems:

0. I'm using a ton of local HD space to store them. I want to free up a bunch of space.

1. But if I delete photos from my computer, Arq will eventually delete the backups that contained them. Could be months or years but if they're not local, they'll be gone when the cost to store them exceeds the monthly budget I've set with Arq.

2. Additionally, Shutterfly apparently will let you upload videos up to 2GB. But I've randomly found a couple of videos well under that size that just don't get backed up.

I think this is what a good storage situation looks like:

1. Photos and videos are automatically backed up to the cloud from my devices (nice to have)

2. Photos are retained forever in the cloud even if they're deleted from my devices. I have to go to cloud storage to delete something.

3. Very nice to have: photos are encrypted locally before getting sent to the cloud like with Arq.

4. Bonus points: the UI for browsing cloud photos is nice (Shutterfly bought the company I was using, which had the best UI I'd found).

What do you use? Have you solved any of the problems I've laid out with my approach?

edit: thanks for all the great replies. I'm in the middle of a lengthy process of moving off of Google services, so Google Photos sounds great but isn't something I'm into. Will look at iCloud and other solutions mentioned below.
I would hazard to say that both of us aren't in the demographic where $20 matters.

But for a lot of people, $20 vs $250 is the difference between going to a doctor and not.

Separate from that there's the catastrophic vs no coverage argument. If you're struggling to make rent at the end of the month, it's probably a smarter personal bet not to buy insurance.

But patients without at least catastrophic are corrosive to our medical system, and what the ACA mandate was targeting.

Personally, I think the ACA mandate for a catastrophic policy, with preventative care included, and direct cash subsidies to people at the poverty line (to cover routine care) is the best solution.

I'd expect the ACA designers considered this, and only broadened the mandate requirements as a horse trade to insurers for assuming the risk of offering marketplace plans.
In addition to this video overview by Andrew Adams from the Stanford course [1], there's also an MSR talk given by Jonathan Kelley [2], and there may also be a Google TechTalk somewhere on YouTube (don't remember for sure so just search for "Halide" or by one of the authors' names).

And of course there's also the videos of lectures of the MIT 6.815/6.865 course on computational photography given by Frédo Durand (those videos are linked to from the Halide home page under the Getting Started section [3]).

[1] Stanford CVPR2015 http://halide-lang.org/cvpr2015.html

[2] Decoupling Algorithms from the Organization of Computation for High-Performance Graphics & Imaging (MSR talk given by Jonathan Kelley) [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnFccCGvT90

[3] MIT 6.815/6.865 Digital & Computational Photography lecture videos by Frédo Durand http://halide-lang.org/#gettingstarted
Ctrl+Tab is the standard key combo for switching tabs. Not using it is like not using Alt+F4 to close the window.
TDD is great when you have a solid set of requirements. But when you are doing "Agile" and the requirements change every day, your tests can be invalidated almost instantly. If I was doing a reliability focused project TDD would be my first step. But that isn't the kind of project I work on.
At least according to The Social Network, Zuck is an Emacs hacker...
I'm 32, didn't go to college, and have been a programmer since I was 17. I suck at math.

https://teachyourselfcs.com/ is a good resource, and they recommend (and have a link to the pdf for) Mathematics for Computer Science.

I plan on getting through that at some point, but I've also had decent luck with https://betterexplained.com/ - they do a pretty good job of explaining calculus.
This sounds ridiculous to me.

So if someone snaps a photo of him or he is on TV the tattooist is going to get royalties? That goes for anyone else that is tattooed as well.
If this all Musk has, looks like the defamed will be getting some "imaginative" money, maybe tens of millions.
IMO, "ugly" is a matter of opinion, pedophile not so much
I guess maybe you were trying to give OP some tough love here but it came off a bit misguided to me. I think it all depends what your philosophy towards work is and what you want to do with life. Your analogy kind of illustrated this, at least to me. The idilic coal miner gets meaning from building a family and doesn't give a shit about his job, others might choose a different path to that. Telling someone who's dissatisfied to basically "harden up" might work in a different context but is not constructive here. Why does OP not have the right to question the meaning in their work and surroundings?.
Parents do it all the time.

Nobody wakes up wanting to play the oboe.
A bearer token is opaque. It could be a JWT, it could be something else, depending on the application.
Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=halide-lang.org
One thought, if this is combined with a freezer and there is a pumped heat exchanger between that and the fridge, you can effectively use the freezer as the battery.
Well , by that logic any and all meat has to be banned.

That is unachievable at the moment.

It's saddening, that people willingly participate in extinction of a species however... that is what whaling has become after all.
So in other words they're closing the loophole where you can force lossless by adding a single transparent pixel.

This is almost definitely good for Twitter's bottom line, but no doubt it is bad for a growing segment of their userbase: artists. People have been flocking to Twitter from sites like deviantArt, Tumblr, etc. to escape drama, harassment, policy changes, etc. for years now. The latest round of them come from Tumblr's explicit content purge.

Now, I actually don't use Twitter. But the news of this change spread so quickly that I already heard about it last night. So to say that this is a problem is an understatement. I'm currently recommending to people to just upload their work elsewhere and make use of Twitter's decent embedding functionality. (Pixiv is a great site to post drawings, for example, and it embeds decently on Twitter.)

(On the other hand, I do like that smaller PNGs win against JPEG - I am fairly sure in the past, transparency was one of the only criteria that kept you as PNG.)
You can try Word 5 emulated in your browser: https://archive.org/details/msdos_microsoft_word5

(you can also download directly a floppy image: https://winworldpc.com/product/microsoft-word/5x-dos )

The manual (for version 1): http://toastytech.com/manuals/MS%20Word%201.00%20for%20DOS%2...

Microsoft offers version 5.5 for download here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/word97win/Wd55_be/97/...
Since buybacks are meant to prop up stock prices, presumably the drop would have been even more without it. Only investors rather than Apple itself would have absorbed the loss.
It doesn't tick all the boxes though, there's no good way of adding attachments to notes and the moment a note should be categorized into 2 or more folders the all thing falls apart.
Google and Facebook fed ad dollars to child porn discovery apps
I think this gets to the heart of it. Some places to start:

Meaning in Work TED talk by a researcher in the field: https://youtu.be/RLFVoEF2RI0?t=177

Happiness vs Meaning: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2013.830764

My favorite survey of the field: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2015.1137623
Yea this is exactly why I only ever get high deductible insurance.
Really loved the Auora Rhapsody (Rising + Renegades + Disonant) by G.S Jennsen. It’s an epic 9 book space opera that has both Hyperion and Commonwealth Saga beat. It’s a must read.

https://www.gsjennsen.com/books
At least, we should eat much less fish from the sea. With fishing, as with hunting, the limits need to be what the eco system can sustain. The sad part is, due to our overfishing, the sustainable fishing rates are much lower today than they would have been 100 years ago. If we had not overfished, we could fish much more than we should today. Same applies to whaling in much stronger form.
GitHub has 16 recovery keys which you can print in advance, and use if you don't have your authentication device at hand. They are also retrievable from the account's security page at any time.

https://help.github.com/articles/configuring-two-factor-auth...
uhm, browser vendors literally got together and standardized APIs.
That doesn't mean there's no bugs or unspecced territory in the current implementations. Obviously these need to be solved. Through more standardization.
I wonder how FastText (essentially word2vec + word & char n-grams + other stuff) stacks up against these algorithms.

In my own tests on my own corpuses, CPU-based FastText is faster to train and produces significantly better results (precision/recall) than the GPU-bound CNN algorithms that I've tried, but have not compared it against RNN techniques.
Adding "attachments" like that, the way Boostnote also does it, is not portable nor ergonomic, since you need the full path to the file in question or you need to upload it somewhere.
Probably reading articles about the massive proliferation of private and State Stingrays...
Are Bethesda also validating that modders are not cheating by copying each others essays? There is software that can detect plagiarism.

Bethesda, if you are are reading this and assuming you are just going after people cheating on public servers, I suggest instead they must make a video of themselves doing 50/150/250 push-ups or sit-ups or leg-lifts, and saying "{my username} agrees that cheating on public servers is weak" in between each 3-count set.
One of my buddies on the dev team I am on has been going through a very similar situation. He has worked there much longer than myself yet he ends up with most of the drudge work. Instead of working on cool full-stack JS PWAs and SPAs he is stuck putting content on WordPress sites and fixing WP plugins. He has on occasion asked me how I managed to get all the fun stuff despite being so new. My advice to him was as follows:

1) Communication is key, a lot of times management don't realize you hold resentment and a simple conversation could really clear things up. Make your wants known, don't expect them to just be presented to you.

2) Take the time to shine. Push yourself to impress those in charge. Demonstrating value is always a good way to get more responsibility.

3) Try not to take it personally but instead ask yourself are some valid reasons why they have made such a decision. Also try and ask yourself what you could do to help the new hire. It isn't their fault and would probably love the assistance.

In the case of my friend, although he is a fantastic worker, he struggles at times to vocalize his contempt. Instead he will brood. Do not do this. People can't read minds and at the end of the day it is managements job to do what they think is best for the company as a whole. Good luck, hope all ends up alright!
Doh! I had a nagging suspicion about the public school thing. Now I have outed myself as an ignorant American.
My photos are mostly in archival boxes with ring binders, and portfolios. I admit that that is probably not the answer you were hoping for.
Also, that is the real tragedy, and I hate the fact that the journalists often miss it: criticising people for killing sensing, feeling animals is hypocritical because we do the same thing for cattle, pigs, sheep and chicken. (Argument for whales being rare species are nonsensical because the minke whales that are being hunted aren't that rare.) What's horrible is killing sensing, feeling animals for no good reason.
Preflights are cached, but because CORS is per-URL caching can be of limited value. If your API uses `/info` and `/edit`, a preflight request has to be made for both (assuming a preflight is necessary). If your application has dynamic URLs (e.g. `/widget/1`, `/widget/2`, etc.) the problem is exacerbated even further.
Extinction is a problem. Culling isn’t.
I'm not sure if I'd be able to provide value or not, but feel free to message me with additional details and I can give you a more informed opinion. My career consulting work is often paired with resume and other services (LinkedIn, cover letters) where it serves to tie everything together, but I also provide 'consult only' packages to people who are trying to navigate unusual circumstances in careers.
The U.K. is next door to France where eating horse is common. Many if not most British kids will have at least tried horse on a school trip to France. The French also eat frogs and snails.
> For a novice it looks a pretty simple job of using some Fuzzy string matching tools and get this done.

Nice.

That annoying quip aside, as with many things in data processing, it's case to case. In TF-IDF you lose ordering information by definition. This is probably fine for this use case but it does mean that if ordering does matter since a set of stores share the same words.in different ordering, this will fail to resolve the difference. The author says he did due diligence on the data but there are other ways this can fall short. For example ["Walmart", "5280"] compared to ["Store", "5280"] is going to not be so similar as one would want due to the down-weighting of the identifying number in TF-IDF. So imo the disadvantage mentioned for using BoW over TF-IDF is actually not a disadvantage sometimes. As with everything it depends on your problem and data.

To the author I would hope in the future you remove statements like "to a novice, it seems easy to use X". There is nothing novice about going into a problem with an idea and trying it if it seems to fit the use case.
Why did you switched away from okta?
There’s an old zen expression: “Before enlightenment chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.”

One benefit I’ve found from meditating is that it makes me less judgemental of tasks and more willing to approach everything in life with a desire to do the task well.

I’d recommend reading one of Phil Jackson’s books (the NBA coach). He’s got some great thoughts on Zen, and it’s interesting to see how he used meditation to help superstar athletes with big egos to focus on tasks that others might find “boring”.

My naive impression of why this is effective is that meditation helps your brain realize that labels like “fun”, or “boring”, tend to fall apart upon scrutiny.
As a Former high school oboeist I can confirm that the oboe is F*ing hard to play.
> we breed these animals for farming, so technically we could breed as many as we need to sustain our habits.

I'm not sure this justification works. After all, if someone started breeding dogs or African Greys for human consumption in the U.S. in a way that was sustainable, people would still be outraged by it.
Ask HN: How do you (in)validate new ideas efficiently?
I have a number of different ideas that could be potential new ventures or projects. In the past I have not done a good job of validating ideas up front before running off to build things. The result has been the creation of neat portfolio pieces but no product/market fit.

My goal is to test a number of different ideas before starting work this time. One of the methods for validation that I would like to use is to build a landing page and purchase advertisements to gauge interest.

Do you have any suggestions for products or workflows that would help to make this type of testing more efficient?

Also, I would love to hear any experience around the topic of validating ideas.

Thanks.
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maybe a natural square meter of average soil.. think of the micro-plastics, hard chemicals and decaying man-made materials and their prevalence.. quite a mess I would think
This is more commonly know, but does not fit into wikipedia agenda:

>Wicherts also points out international evidence that average IQs can rise dramatically over time — by as much as 20 points in the Netherlands between 1952 and 1982, for example. In fact, Africa’s current estimated "average IQ" is about the same as Britain’s in 1948. The phenomenon of rising average IQ scores over time is known as the "Flynn effect," named after political scientist Jim Flynn, who popularized the result.
Kind of, I see no good way of adding attachments to notes this way, and the moment a note belongs to 2 or more folders/tags the all thing falls apart.
Sure there is, but in your view we couldn't say that those people are evil, because in the end it's just preference of where to draw the line, correct?
Nazis chose to draw a line excluding jews, and that was their preference
This is much more complicated than it might initially seem. It can be argued that a whale can suffer at a higher level than a chicken can. Even though this clearly isn't your point, I agree wholeheartedly with your first sentence and I believe that we shouldn't kill any animals at all.
What does linkage have to do with anything? Why would statically linking in go be more safe than in C?
> I like to think about the guy stuck in a shit town, working in a coal mine. Maybe they all drink themselves to oblivion and I'm delusional

> Guy goes down there and busts his ass all day in the dark, getting dirty as fuck, probably doing long term damage to his lungs and such. But it's his job and at the end of the day he goes home to his wife, kids, and dog, and realizes that work is just something he has to do to support the parts of his life he cares about.

Where this romanticizing of hard work comes from? Protestant work ethics? A coal mine person working "down there" better find a partner before starting the career (i.e before the age of 18). Otherwise with the low status of the job and its hardness one has zero change finding partner afterwards. Many don't do and wreck themselves from misery by reaching, lowered already usually, retirement age. Yes it's devastating for their health and lungs.

These "be a man" life advices are almost always obsolete.
Give them FIDO keys.

It's built on public/private crypto, so it's not like TOTP where the QR code is the plaintext private key that has to be distributed around like it's candy.
Part of the GPs job is to be a general counciler on their health and lifestyle habits. They certainly shouldnt be diagnosing mental health issues if they don't have the expertise but encouraging to have good habits before referring them to an actual therapist is definitely warented in most cases.
it looks interesting as concept, but I found it a little bit strange and slow to use. Edit: it was rolled back on my account
I didn't mean to shit on everybody else's work, but I really tried to find a note-taking app that ticked all the boxes _I_ am interested in and avoid coding it myself, but I really couldn't find one. In that sense it doesn't suck, I could have said "that it ticks all the boxes for me" but it would be less catchy maybe :)
systemd-crontab-generator may be usable for something like linting classic crontabs?
https://github.com/systemd-cron/systemd-cron

Systemd/Timers as a cron replacement:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/Timers#As_a_cro...

Celery supports periodic tasks:

> Like with cron, the tasks may overlap if the first task doesn’t complete before the next. If that’s a concern you should use a locking strategy to ensure only one instance can run at a time (see for example Ensuring a task is only executed one at a time).

http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/userguide/periodic-t...
Show HN: We Intern Tech
It turns out there are some longer videos on YouTube, though also curiously cut down sufficiently far that a lot of it is without context, e.g.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkSzmnA1CQQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIY1uSxL-qQ

But now I am suspicious that it always debates the same people (they make reference to having worked with the machine for over a year). If that is the case, then they know precisely what to say to trigger certain canned responses (it makes jokes that were quite obviously well-planned by a human). The rest of the material seems to just be content culled from online documents and read out by the machine.

The achievement here, if there is one, is to parse online material and decide which snippets support a given argument and which don't.
Small boats used systems like this: freezing blocks of ice to provide convective cooling to a cooler so that things stay cold without the engine running.

A lot of people hated them enough (and the gas used while sailing) to replace it with solar based systems.
> we cannot run a web server or use a ton of JavaScript

Just curious, why are those constraints there?
What successful products do they have that use AI? From all the talk on HN, Watson is all marketing.
"Lawyers generally agree that an implied license allows people to freely display their tattoos in public, including on television broadcasts or magazine covers. "

Seems to me that the digital representation of someone is just another way of displaying themselves. If it's legal to do it in photos and videos, it's legal to do it in 3D models.

But even without that, I think it's unethical to claim ownership to any part of someone else's body and tell them what they can and can't do with it. (Laws are an obvious exception to this.)
They'll also reset it if you have the ssh private key for one of the public keys you've registered on the site