skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The BBC recently ran a story about Bauhaus that had less background information but more photos of a variety of Bauhaus inspired photography from around the world.

https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-46863364
That's helpful. The scan pattern looks like they have an oscillating radial scanner plus a rotational scanner. I tried to build something like that once, using an military surplus Bulova resonant scanning mirror for the radial axis and a prism from a laser printer for the rotating axis. 1990s, before you could buy anything useful in a LIDAR. Never got very far.

You can do this, but unless it's super cheap, why? Price/performance isn't that good.
Geometric algebra obscures the point that what really matters is the algebraic structure. There are many ways to construct things that behave the same way (subgroups of matrices, vectors and the cross product, and so on), and while it is nice to invent one construction that gives you everything, you risk loosing sight of the fact that each construction is arbitrary and what really matters is its algebraic structure. That's why it's good to expose students to many partial, fragmented devices, so that they will realize the deeper point that underlies them all. With spin matrices, it is obvious that they are arbitrary manifestations of a group, but if a student were to spend their entire education manipulating blades they might start getting the idea that in some sense the universe was "made out of them."
https://www.bountysource.com is another one
I find indicator lights, if they only have the purpose of conveying something that's already obvious in some other way (e.g. "the computer is on"-led plus a monitor that's clearly saying it is) fairly useless. I'm glad that most devices nowadays don't have them and are completely dark even when they're on.

And to your comment about cars, it seems to be more about pedestrians that can know about an oncoming vehicle and less about whether the user thinks it's running. The latter seems to be something that can be easily fixed.
When it is for free, then more of them don't earn more money.
Economics of Spotify is making songs shorter
Just two days ago working in Rstudio, thought my script ran fine, but actually the data loading part failed but Rstudio charges on despite errors and runs the rest of the script on the data that was still in memory from another script I had run the day before!

But I don't have a satisfactory solution to handle the problem where Step A takes a few minutes or longer to complete and so I don't want to keep re-running it while coding Step B. I resort to copy-and-pasting Part B into ipython which amounts to being a poor-man's notebook. Obviously the "correct" answer is to write out the results of A to disk but this is can be a lot of a pain while you're developing! (Eg: loading an excel sheet in pandas is slow, while the equivalent tab-separated sheet is very fast, but I don't really want to have a separate step pre-processing all excel sheets into tsv files.) Also, pandas to_csv/read_csv functions aren't even inverses of each other (they lose the index) so writing to desk requires extra steps. (And from_csv is deprecated.)

What I'd rather have is "half" a notebook where I can checkpoint a computation part way through and restart from there. But only ever proceed linearly through the code to avoid notebook out-of-order confusion.
via their dutch servers than I guess
So, way too much inflation of items?
Wouldn't a GPS or radio chip (like cheap home "atomic" clocks use) be easier? Some of us choose to not have always-on home WiFi.
Even a (preheated) stainless steel pan with some fat in it will stop eggs from sticking. If eggs are sticking your pan is probably not hot enough.
I noticed that as well but for whatever reason I just assumed that it was so that

1) You wouldn’t be seeing so many other cool cars and thus be tempted to switch cars all the time as that would distract you from driving where you were going.

2) If you wrecked your vehicle it would be easier to get a new one of the exact same kind.

But I think your explanation makes a lot of sense. They embedded a lot of humor in those games.

It is also conceivable that they initially did it as a joke and then once they had implemented and play tested it they discovered the benefits mentioned above, and made the case stronger for keeping it that way. We may never know :)
And on embedded systems with no RNG in sight, use a deterministic random number generator, with a seed generated from another system. Use fast key erasure to ensure forward secrecy. https://blog.cr.yp.to/20170723-random.html

If the device ever powers down, you will need 32 bytes worth of persistent storage, so you don't repeat the random stream every time you boot up.
And now, with make-ups meant to fool the AIs, the story kind of repeats...
I've argued that your outgoing beam timing should have a few microseconds of random jitter, so that no jammer can synchronize to it. Military radars do things like that.
the alias for the set of conditions proscribed here is "wired in" - a condition of being one with the hardware platform optically, aurally, and digitally [10fingers] with all externalities blacklisted
Mouse support for Macs has been terrible for decades.
Not ASCII, however a cool hack using mpv is that it can display actual videos in a terminal emulator that supports true color output [1]. Just run the following command:

mpv -vo tct video_file.mkv

Reduce the font size to increase resolution. Also, a GPU accelerated terminal like Kitty [2] is recommended, or the video will be painfully slow.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728

[2]: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/
They irony is that the icons are the opposite to the font colors. Please:

https://contrastrebellion.com/
I'm not entirely sure.. my memories are fuzzy.
looking at your benchmarks, I see that you think glog is synchronous. This would be because you are logging at ERROR severity which does indeed flush. Logging at INFO would not have that issue.
Ok, follow your tip. Look those nice w9x icons? do the same with your fonts.

https://contrastrebellion.com/
When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling
There's a lovely piece of software called SensibleSideButtons to deal with that. Back in the day, everybody used USB Overdrive to overcome OS X's shortcomings with the mouse. Alternatively, BetterTouchTool is a nice little piece of software for setting custom shortcuts with any mouse button and/or trackpad gestures.
Streak (YC S11) Is Hiring a Senior Product Engineer in Vancouver, BC
Machine learning and the Continuum Hypothesis
KANSAS-CITY-CHIEFS-
https://opensymbol.zendesk.com/hc/it/community/posts/360039668252--GAME-LIVE-PATRIOTS-VS-CHIEFS-L-I-V-E-S-T-R-E-A-M-PATRIOTS-VS-CHIEFS-LIVE-NFC-CHAMPIONSHIP-2019-NFL

https://opensymbol.zendesk.com/hc/it/community/posts/360039668132--FREE-TV-NEW-ENGLAND-PATRIOTS-VS-KANSAS-CITY-CHIEFS-L-I-V-E-S-T-R-E-A-M-PATRIOTS-VS-CHIEFS-LIVE-NFC-CHAMPIONSHIP-2019-NFL
Achieving that is a difficulty task, though. Personally, I’d not like to rely on an abstraction on top of a system with that level of complexity for production because I expect to run into situations that can only be solved with deep knowledge of k8s.
Ask HN: What are the best techniques to prepare for behavioral questions?
rejecting for example Confucius Institutes at universities because they are promulgating an ideology that is diametrically opposed to the foundational principles of universities in the West -- open discussion without political interference -- is a principle and a principle that fits perfectly. Tsinghua would reject a program from the West that pushed principles that for example reject Maoism. It doesn't fit. Where's the mystery?
I'm one of the developers of Your Priorities and we really like Decidim also and have worked with their team in the past :) For Your Priorities, you can see a full list of features here in our Open-Source github archive: https://github.com/CitizensFoundation/your-priorities-app
> If you achieve this scale of teams suggested, it means you have a lot of implicit gains here as well, right?

> Such as higher quality, higher "velocity", separation of concern and hopefully a clear sense of ownership.

No, it means you pay a huge overhead. Quality and velocity both drop as your day-to-day development requires a lot more setup and faff to do anything, and counterintuitively so does separation of concerns as your interfaces become more rigid. Small organisations should do things that don't scale, turn their size into an advantage.

If you think of your overhead as ax + bx^2 where x is the number of developers, microservices are a way to reduce b, but at the cost of a big increase to a. It makes sense when x is huge but not before. My litmus test would be: do you need to do multiple (unrelated) deployments of different services at once? If your organisation is small enough that you can get away with only deploying one thing at a time, you'll probably have less overhead if you work without microservices.
Technically, there isn't...

But the US doesn't have it either, if you take it literally. Free speech is basically a misnomer. You can only have it in a society if you define the free speech to only apply to some generally agreed upon limits.

I.e inciting rebellion, lynchings or similar have no place in society, but is technically free speech in the literal sense
There are like 11 people in Sweden, so they need about 6 teenage engineersingingings to be ok for a bit. Just like there are 11 people in Canada and it's mandated by law, tax dollars are contributed, to pumping out a 1 Justin Bieber a year. These industries in small developed nations are fine and awesome, and maybe TE will be the Ikea of Lego of Music. Surly this is getting into a very very different conversation than if TE are boutique or make good tools, no?
I haven't gone through the 152 past comments so apologies if this is dupe. but recently I was on amazon to buy something and the original price was like $17 but it tried to snag me by presenting a deal like $12 so I added it to my cart.

I think I might have misread the countdown clock which appeared to be like 5hours (maybe it was 5 min??). but later when I returned to the cart (less than 5 hours later but more than 5 min later), I had a note saying I had less than 2 min to make the purchase) which I thought I completed in time but was charged full price regardless.

maybe this is a new feature(?) and buggy but I thought it was quite misleading and confusing. I still bought the product b/c it was useful to me but the pricing mechanism could have been more transparent.
I switched my dad over to Chrome OS and never looked back. Now he tells all of this fiends to do the same thing because it's so much simpler. I really wish there was a better open source alternative because Google is evil these days but...
In Slovakia trains are free for students and seniors. [0] Most people see this very negatively.

[0] https://www.slovakrail.sk/en/zero-fare.html
It is good to be aware of the alternatives. Yet, I am super suspicious of data scientists not using Jupyter Notebook at all (collaboration with most of them was a pain; e.g. they didn't explore data enough, had a beautiful pipeline of garbage-in garbage-out data, etc).

While it has my pain points (it shouldn't be the only environment!), show me a better alternative to interactive data exploration and sharing it?
Their resolution is 60 x 60 x 90 nm which is far below the 20 um that BigBrain used in 2013 for their whole-brain scan [1].

Especially, axons are 0.2-20 um in diameter. With a resolution of 20 um you won't really find them, but with 0.01 um, you will certainly be able to identify them. This could lead to new anatomical insights in human brains. I remember recently someone complaining on hn that a new finding about a connection of two brain regions in mice hasn't been confirmed in humans yet [2]. If scans of entire human brains at 0.01 um resolutions were available, you could verify claims like these by just checking the data.

Edit: corrected the BigBrain resolution.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigBrain

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18943385
I did. As I see it all to often mainly at the larger places.

Modern SA is about knowing that your job to help bring business value.
Most of the time this is down to automation.
Wow Hacker News just loves paywalls.
From that perspective, the problem isn't so much the proliferation of service providers but rather the proliferation of aggressively proprietary protocols. By that I mean services that don't merely fail to document and stabilize their protocols, but actively attack and undermine third-party clients. Some of them outright ban third-party clients in their ToS, some theoretically allow third-party clients but impose API limits that are unusable at scale, and some deliberately make API/protocol changes to break clients created via reverse engineering. Anything short of that gets some kind of native Linux client if it gets popular.

That stance, in turn, is driven by business considerations that would probably be a huge tangent to discuss here. But it's important to keep in mind that this isn't just how things have always been; it's a relatively new trend, and trends can reverse.
That too, but bats are also frequently associated with ebola: https://www.google.com/search?q=ebola+bats
Smoking Accelerates Biological Age, Says AI
Japan has standardized at way more than 40 hour work weeks. From what I've heard, 60-70 hours is the norm.
>The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread without sound. Even breathing is done with care. The hunter has to be careful, because everywhere in the forest are stealthy hunters like him. If he finds another life—another hunter, angel, or a demon, a delicate infant to tottering old man, a fairy or demigod—there’s only one thing he can do: open fire and eliminate them.

Very interesting. What this theory doesn't take into account are the non-hunters. A single farmer is at risk in a world full of hunters - see Robinson Crusoe. However, a village full of farmers who can store heavy weapons in their houses has almost nothing to fear from a small group of hunters.

If each but one civilization dies in a hunter universe, making noises is worth the risk to meet others who are willing to cooperate.
Early Aqua looks like it was designed to match Apple's hardware. I don't think anyone misses the stripes, though.
yes, but what about the audio?
I have a couple of NUC7i7DNKE and they are great with Linux. They even support AMT, if you ever needed that.
But why!?
I don't understand what the offer suggests companies do instead?

Service based models (with training, support or integration) also can have perverse incentives on the open source software. To make those services valuable, you need the product to be worse than it otherwise could be.

Additionally, the characterization that open core companies stop improving the open source software and only improve the proprietary software might be true at some firms but is the extreme.
I can see plenty of issues for the users if they just change http to https.

All the installs in a professional network where the use of a proxy changes the certificate would have trouble updating. So now it is changing changing http to https and be able to recover the company certificates in some way, in many different environments.

So yeah, the change is not trivial and will likely break the setup of millions of users. Downloading over http with a proper signature mechanism can be safe and is much easier for the users. If people have concerns over the way VLC is doing it, they are free to show how this can be broken and offer a fix.
Why is it seen negatively?
they weren't free for foreigners when i was there. good move.
I think you read that backwards. Those are the respective percentages who don't want sex.
Yeah, exactly!
I'm going to voice a contrarian viewpoint here and say that "half million plus" salaries are actually a good thing. Rising tide lifts all boats and since a lot of technies live in areas with exorbitant cost of living, that money re-enters the economy at a rapid clip anyway. But such salaries are only good if commensurate value is being delivered for the money. Which in a large IT shop it might be, but as a small business owner K8S is a hard slog, hence my suggestion to simplify. I'm pretty sure 80/20 breakdown still applies, and 80% of K8S complexity could be removed without affecting anything much. One might suggest that I use GKE and bypass the problem entirely, but I need to run a lot of GPUs 24x7, and the pricing on those in any cloud is insane.
Which is why you’ll need the input and help from experienced sysadmins that like to do development, which actually is ”automation”.

This done right reduces overhead and gives you an edge in repeatability and quality.
Both are required to scale.
LineageOS seems nice. Can I still encrypt the phone? Is SafetyNet available?
FYI, if you set him up with a managed account, you can Lock the Dock without 3rd party software
Aren't Capsule Networks one of this hyped ideas - everyone was talking about them (because their rationale sounded interesting, and well, Hinton) were never seen again?

It is very different to good ideas, like 3x3 conv, dropout, batch norm, residual connections - which once introduced, become standard building block of networks.
Future of transportation
I wonder if it's possible to "roughen up" smooth sand for this purpose. Shoot it against itself in a special machine, thus breaking it to smaller, sharp-edged pieces... or something.

"Large Saharan Collider – not what you think it is!"
> One of the things I miss the most are the consistent, universal and wide-ranging keyboard shortcuts.

I actually find that's what I miss when I use Windows. Windows' universal keyboard shortcuts seem to be limited to window management and some basics like new files, save, cut, copy, paste, etc.

On the other hand, just about every macOS has the same shortcuts for actions within applications as opposed to without. For items without shortcuts, you can define your own quickly and easily in System Preferences, and those custom shortcuts can apply to just one app or every app.

Not only that, every macOS app puts the shortcuts in the same place, the menu bar. They're all searchable via the Help menu. On Windows, there are more often than not keyboard shortcuts that aren't listed in any menus, so one would have no idea what they are without looking them up. Further, because Windows software tends to be developed in any ol' framework with any ol' user interface, lacking in any consistency, quite a lot of programs don't even implement the standard, universal shortcuts.
I can answer all of the article's questions with one word: Clickbait.
This. With Linux you still end up having to fix stuck updates or some other small thing at least once a year (and with Ubuntu, reinstall at least every 4 years to stay on a supported LTS release), the hardware compatibility is usually kind-of-but-not-entirely OK, and the UX is nowhere near as user friendly.

With a Chromebook, you put it in front of them, set it up, show them, and if it breaks, you can ship them a new one from Amazon, remind them where they have written down their password, get them to sign back in, and done.
I am inferring that the problem of matching a particular individual's results with haplotypes is a problem in optimization (finding a best fit) with many variables that is actually solved by maximization (finding a good fit) without doing a comprehensive search of all possible solutions. The space of potential results may be very large -- very many haplotypes from which to select and a percentage to be assigned to each, from 0 to 100, and a perfect result cannot be expected, as ancestors within a given haplotype are nowhere near as similar as identical twins. It is very common, even typical, for algorithms that attempt to find good solutions to such problems to include some randomization (making some guesses based on pseudo-random numbers) followed by more directed attempts to successively improve the guesses previously made. Because some steps of the search are a random walk, different results from the same inputs are common for several iterations of the same algorithm.
Same here, I've been on it for about a year now and I prefer it to Twitter in every single way. One example is that you can turn off tracking boosts and retoots in the notifications. It's complete noise to me, and I find it's just distracting. Twitter splits notifications between all and mentions, but there's no way to stop notifications for things other than mentions. This is just one of the many little things that result in a much nicer user experience for me.
I think the book you're talking about is Atomic Habits by James Clear. I just finished it this month and it's terrific. The story of Japanese Train Conductors stuck out to me as well. Clear also has a terrific blog, which is where many of the content for the book was pulled from.

James Clear: https://jamesclear.com/articles

Atomic Habits: https://smile.amazon.com/Atomic-Habits-Proven-Build-Break/dp...
I believe that's the recipe for the Philosopher's Stone, from the old books.

That's why the Middle-Age alchemists couldn't make one.

Now we can.
What amazes me about this is that the body-painting was considered by Europeans to be evidence of the 'primitive nature of lesser cultures', yet it turns out it was actually kind of advanced technology.

I hope to witness more instances where the old imperial, intolerant ways of looking at the cultures we've degraded over the last few centuries get turned upside down. There are so many things we could have learned about the world from the 60,000+ year old culture of the original inhabitants of Australia, which might've pushed us further.

I put this 'stripes as insect repellant' in the same list as 'they had a Hippocratic oath before us', and 'they understood antibiotics and antiseptics while we were still arguing over miasma theory and bloodletting'.

Turns out, their technology was more advanced than our hubris allowed us to admit.
I tend to agree color is another channel of communication, but you need to think the UI that way from the bottom-up. If they wanted grayscale buttons, they'd need them easily recognizable by both new and old users. This was not the case except for the most basic ones.

Did they run labs with actual users to check how they reacted to the monochrome icons?

If you do that well, you can use color to convey another dimension, much like it layers meaning on top of source code (by coloring keywords, variables, comments, etc)
When I was a kid, I loved free transportation in my city. I could get on a bus off peak hours, and make a trip or two around the whole city, just staring out the window. Sometimes I wonder if that was a significant part of what made me who I am.
Not really, Minecraft is a completely different game and Epic made fortnite battle royale in ~month or less and it blew up. The base game was dead for about a year
netflix self produced content is 99% garbage or very low quality heavy dollar movies like birdbox or IO. the script, the acting, the story is a 20year stepback and it feels serve only one purpose: please self justice warriors, putting minorities in strong roles and calling it a movie. the metrics they use are laughable - it is not because everyone watched a movie with sandra bullock in it that the movie is any good. that was all that was available as new content for netflix users and the scarcity of content made them watch a shitty movie.
The designers were a very well coordinated integrated group (if there was more than one of them) and they took design imperatives of a restricted palette and fixed pixel sizes to heart.

If you asked the same group to design this now in a world of high dpi high gamut screens they might not get the same constraints out in their design brief.

Google's work on flat responsive was in some ways running against the tide. Skuomorphic was hardly ancient when the Google reaction happened