skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This one stood out to me too. What benefit it even is to get a sample of protective glass if you are not allowed to test it? ”Here. Look at it. Trust us that it’s super resistant to scratches”.
I'll admit, I missed this in my speedier skim of the article. Apologies.
> It also prevents any developer, researcher, or organization to develop tools, critical insights, and research designed to educate and empower users to understand and therefore resist targeted disinformation campaigns.

Is Mozilla building some sort of visualization tool for the marketing done on the upcoming EU elections?
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In Switzerland Lime had to recall their scooters (at least in Basel and Zurich)

This was due to the unfortunate fact that the breaks suddenly engaged in mid ride with partially grave consequences.

It's a bit of a bummer when your scooter schreeches to a grinding halt, when going 25 KM/H.

The potentially bad thing is that your insurer may balk on your claim.
It may very well be "virtually unbreakable" for the use case of something that's supposed to survive the rigors of life as a display for consumer electronics device.

Breaking it, of course, would be something that any device designer would do in the course of characterizing or evaluating it as a component for a new product.

Whether that would have been done on the first sample is something that's strictly between the AKhan and the evaluator.
There are tons of casual community events of various sizes that are just fine with you identifying or not identifying yourself to whatever degree you want to.

What's being discussed here is mostly badges for commercial events like Google I/O. If you don't like the norms of these types of events--scanned badges, real names, probably a fair bit of photography and video of those attending--you have lots of other options.
If you know the exact flags for your CPU then you can compile for it on any other CPU using a cross compiler line GCC, yes. But that doesn't help because in practice you'll just find one binary per architecture, not per CPU.
Wait, so you're claiming that being able to mechanistically follow instructions to get to desired result X counts as the "system" of instructions+follower understanding X?

So if I follow a React.js tutorial and get to a working Todo App example, that means me + tutorial page "understands" React.js? What am I missing?
Yet Google market share increases and now 93%. It is not real people but just people that like to scream and yell about leaving Google.

http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share

Google will report numbers later today. But have been growing at 20%+ the last 10 quarters.

Obviously Google has nothing to worry about with those type of growth numbers.

Versus Apple reported last week declines in both top and bottom lines.
Inventory, items, enemies, weapons, towns, crafting, destructible levels (could a voxel based system work in ASCII?), ...

Someone farther up linked to Monument Valley [0], and that has a really pleasant rotating mechanic so that the player can have more than one view of a level / set-piece.

A little wave-collapse [1] function for automated level building.

I suppose I could go on. This does fall into the trap of "why don't we just ... ?" which I don't like. But I also like to dream a little.
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And other religions promote the idea that all people are equal before god or the universe or whatever greater power they believe in.

Whilst some deeply anti-religious ideological systems promote highly anti-equality ideas like eugenics, racial supremacy, "social Darwinism".

For that reason, it's best you keep sneers like "you must be kidding" out of comments on this topic; it's a profoundly complex issue that requires nuance and care, not ridicule.
It's just an example of something that's not any more fair than congestion pricing. Congestion pricing puts a price on a scarce product: the ability to commute during rush hour.

The article isn't arguing that parking prices should depend on the price of the car being parked, just that having the same parking price for everybody is not any less inequitable than congestion pricing.
> As for the present. Wasm blocks and loops absolutely can take parameters; it's part of the multi-value extension which V8 implemented already a year ago

Agree with all you wrote. With my own implementation, I'm hesitant to include these extensions until they are "standardized" (I have a one-man toy project, bleeding edge is unreasonable). I understand and have watched as going through the phases seems like quite a slow process (not that it's a bad thing). I think, to avoid fragmentation, it is reasonable for someone targeting WASM at this point to assume the multi value extension is not available. I know there are proposals about runtime capabilities and the like, but with so few of these extensions reaching full spec adoption yet, I don't think they're viable features to leverage even if implemented in the most popular runtimes.
This ProPublica article has more information: https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-blocks-ad-transp...
What do you mean? It clearly... okay it wasn't clear at all.

Another example of how unregulated labeling still works for the customer (if it's deceptive as in this case, it doesn't pay for the manufacturer because they got sued and lost).

Morons. I hope they learned their lesson and fired the designer and product marketing manager. Only an idiot could come up with an idea like that.
They created a discussion thread, but the Chromium developers have been absent for a while: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chrom...
It was a device for use in trauma patients (car crashes being the most common use case). So that's what they wanted to test, and it is an unsafe procedure for trials, requiring sedation and risking the health of the patient, but possibly increasing positive outcomes in real cases.

I don't feel comfortable outing the company.
If this floats your boat you should also check out a BBC documentary from just about that time

Billion Dollar Day - a 1986 documentary about currency (forex) speculative trading

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNmbjQhTHnE

Two interesting things. Almost everyone retires from dealing by age 30. And its amazing, given our current age of anonymity in markets and robo trading, just how personal FX markets used to be. Almost akin to a sitting around a poker table. With your counterparts halfway around the globe, setting bull traps ;)

Regarding the role of luck. Given current global macroeconomic policy seems to be determined on the merest whims of authoritarian regimes. There is an interesting strategy that comes with fading spikes in EM FX volatility. Very illiquid. It's pretty much casino gaming. But with monthly swings in 25%+ range!
I get exactly same results for those two searches. Calling BING API repeatedly may sometimes result in different results.
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Well, yeah, if you zoom out enough they are 'essentially', 'broadly' the same. If you use those modifiers I agree with you.

Then when the case hits the courts the outcomes will be markedly different.
That's not quite correct. Smart watches have gotten quite good at measuring heart rate. They are sometimes a bit slow to notice drastic changes (like going from sedentary to exercise), but they're pretty accurate when it comes to just counting beats per unit of time. They can be, however, quite sensitive. If it's not working well for you, it's likely because the sensor is wet, or dirty, too tight or too loose.

The fingertip seems like a truly terrible place to measure heart rate, given that fingers are constantly moving and pretty sensitive to pressure. They're the easiest place to measure oxygen saturation (SpO2) though.

Most (if not all?) smart watches have optical sensors, which register the flow of blood. You can measure the change in velocity and count the number of beats and the time between them. It doesn't tell you anything about what the heart is doing. A single lead ECG can do that reasonably well. Anything more professional (12 lead holter) quickly becomes impractical for long term use.
I went to Collision Conf last year and there was one hyper useful feature on the name badges (which had a great design): "role". All badges had on top "Startup", "Guest", "Investor", and other categories I can't recall. This was really useful, if you are an investor you can talk to startups and the other way round. Startups also had a "beta" and "alpha" subcategory, that represented startup scale. Obviously, many don't like being so easily spotted, but it helped strike a lot of conversations.
But the person who sent the mail doesn't know where it ends up. These services are exactly like what the parent was talking about -- someone sends a letter to a virtual address at the mail aggregator service, and the service then sends the letter on to your physical address.

A 302 is like a letter that's been marked return to sender with a forwarding address. The original sender would then know the actual physical address.
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Well how would you ship glass to San Diego? It’s suppose to arrive safely to be tested in a lab. Not partly compromised by the time it gets there.
The freight companies schedule their trains in advance, and Amtrak is part of that schedule. The only issue is if Amtrak isn't running on time, once there is a delay all the scheduled trains (freight trains) run and those late get the spaces that are not filled. One delay adds up because they miss not only that opening, but the next one. If Amtrak was serious they wouldn't miss their scheduled times and things would run better.
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> But this is a small thing and we didn't think about it at the time.

Inlining is likely important for performance. Any chance this will be corrected?
'“We sold 1 million F-Series last year,” Thai-Tang said. “Our PR team did the math. We sell one every 29 seconds.”'

r/theydidthemath
given that knowledge of local streets is necessary to find a route there, what would be a better system?
Well, diamond is very easy to break, because being hard also means it is very fragile. In other words, it is very easy for a fracture to propagate.

We actually broke low quality diamonds with a hammer. They are also very easy to burn.

What is very hard is scratching diamond. If you combine the properties of different materials like diamond on the surface, and something that absorbs impacts inside it could be a wonderful material.
We just had FB report numbers and we will get Google this evening. FB 30% growth. Google 20%+ last 10 quarters without any end in site.

Versus Apple reported declines both top and bottom lines last week.

These type of articles must not be typical of "average" people.

Google search share is actually increasing and now at 93%.

http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share

Curious why is there such a disconnect between articles on HN and the actual data?
Which is indeed successful. But this also takes time and sometimes sadly not allowed or deemed necessary. It also does not allow to respond to changes quickly unless a proper re-calculation is also done. Good technique for a lot of scenarios anyway.
> We have to adapt our laws to reality as technology changes it, not the other way around

social norms and law as a consequence always have to strike the balance between personal freedom of [x] vs the others personal freedom of [x,y].

just because a technology exists, it doesn't mean it should be used in any way. As an extreme example let's take "knife technology", you just should not put that tech piece into any human body and see what happens... so it's clear where the balance is in this case. deep fake should be the same as any other human dignity vs. free speech discussion imo. There seem to be different norms in different countries too regarding this, it's not always authoritarian.
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"No Street Names"?
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2014321#map=17/52.844...
Linux is built to avoid this: important programs get users, and permissions can then be set to disallow others from even reading.
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> I want my kid to develop skills of interacting with the physical world and with physical people.

I came across a fascinating BBC article on treating ADHD with music [0]

> "The ability to time, to synchronise with others underlies all face to face communication," says Khalil. "People imagine that synchronizing is doing something simultaneously. But synchronizing actually means processing time together - perceiving time together in such a way that we have this common understanding of how time is passing."

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21661689
MIT is also a university; the two elements of their existence are orthogonal, not mutually exclusive.
Maybe, maybe not. But I have a number of academic colleagues working on marketing/news/misinformation on online platforms, and Facebook has always been a problem for analysis. It's next to impossible to get raw data unless you're Facebook, which makes investigating these questions very difficult.

For comparison, Twitter is comparatively easy to work with (though getting harder as time goes on) and Reddit is very open. This is one reason why there are lots of papers based on Twitter data and very few based on analyses of Facebook.
Is there anything that Huawei does that Western companies don't do, such as trying to steal their competitors secrets?

https://www.digitaltrends.com/business/google-sues-uber-over...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43010348

For any older person this is no news. Didn't we something like this with Hitachi in the 80s?

Of course the authorities try to ban purchases from foreign companies that steal American company's secrets, but they don't apply the same rule to American companies that steal other American companies secrets.

They also don't seem so eager to launch sting operations against American companies who aim to steal other American companies secrets.
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They literally describe Huawei sending a picture to Akhan of a deep scratch in the sample, proving they’re testing it properly.

Read the fucking articles people:

The first sign of trouble came two months later, in May, when Huawei missed the deadline to return the sample. Shurboff says his emails to Han requesting its immediate return were ignored. The following month, Han wrote that Huawei had been performing “standard” tests on the sample and included a photo showing a big scratch on its surface. Finally, a package from Huawei showed up at Gurnee on Aug. 2.
For those interested, password is: demo
the gemologist was

> an FBI expert in forensic gemology

and I can only presume they know what kind of power is required to melt diamond, and how it looks afterwards..
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This statement crystallizes the article, and indeed the discussion in the rest of the thread. Young's language is drawn from functional programming. All of the complaints about complexity seem to boil down to, "event sourcing is hard in a world of mutable objects. The further you are from living in a world of pure functions and immutable data, the harder event sourcing is going to be.

Having implemented event sourcing in an existing desktop GUI application, I found there was a tremendous amount of complexity at the beginning, and very few benefits. Application state had to live in two different systems for a while. It was very hard, but we had been backed into a corner by inconsistent private mutable state and we had to do something. Once the project picked up steam, we saw a huge improvement in consistency and were able to realize some features that had been out of reach under the old system. Having lived the transition, I wouldn't recommend starting a project with event sourcing. Unless you already have a very clear idea of what constitutes application state and what constitutes an event, you're going to have a muddle. I would, however, recommend making the transition once you've figured out what the application is that you're writing.
I'm amazed you think the R documentation is anything but terrible.

Compare the R vector page:
https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/vect...

To the equivalent python documentation:
https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html
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It says right on the bottle, "premium blend". That should have been the very first clue this wasn't 100% olive oil.
I think the difference is mostly theoretical. Consider the proposed extension changes: no one seems to like them, but Google will be able to push them through anyways. Maintaining a Chromium fork is a huge undertaking that only a few companies would be willing to invest in.
Agreed. The post is from Nov 2018, both Amazon and Target now have different product images. The post is accurate about deceptive mislabeling, but the example is out of date.
Pallets are commonly broken up for firewood for pickets, especially in the middle of winter.

Pallets certainly don't say blockade to me.

So again that could be read either way.
> Good for them -- it's their town after all!

Of course, your grandmother was relying on the kindness of the postal service in this case. The postie could simply have decided it to return it as misaddressed.
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()

is better as

if __name__ == '__main__':
sys.exit( main() )
The SemVer summary states:

Major: for incompatible API changes

Minor: for backwards-compatible new functionality

Patch: for bug fixes

A few sparse thoughts:

The definition seems to imply that version 1.1.0 can have twice the features of v.4.0.0, which in turn might have exactly the same features as version 1.0.0, just backwards incompatible.

APIs that strive for backward compatibility never get a "major" release? Has Windows ever had a "major" release?

If anybody was relying on a bug to be present, does that qualify the patch as major? And how do you know it in advance?

I can understand the usefulness of SemVer; what I don't understand is why it should replace instead of integrate the usual release numbers. Just because they both are described by the same English word?
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Inlining happens in optimizing compilers, on optimizing compiler IR, so it doesn't really make much difference here, IMO. Not sure how we could correct it in a backwards-compatible fashion.
True, 302 was the wrong analogy. But the good point here is that there are three kinds of indirection, not two.
An issue with fastmail folders is that you can't easily create or move them around in the structure without entering a settings page. Same with creating rules for folders, that's on a whole different page. This part of the system could really use some attention from their developers.
This is why keeping your political and professional life separate is important. Speaking out against your employer is juvenile, although if they hadn't spoken out against their employer it's more of a grey area - but having a high paying tech job is not a right it's a privilege.
As a New Yorker who commutes to the Bay Area once a month (and grew up there), there is a distinct East Coast-West Coast divide on this issue. In the Bay Area, there is recognition of a problem but a sense that Facebook is invincible. In New York, there is productive outrage.
> > Not only that, but for the most part the WebAssembly specification team were flying blind.

> It's an ad hominem.

Er, no, it's not. It's not a an attack on the designers as bad people, nor does it serve the role in an argument it would need to serve to be part of an ad hominem argument even if it was.

It may be inaccurate, misleading, , deceptive, uninformed, or a million other kinds of wrong, but it's not ad hominem.
Mind bogglingly awesome. I was just dreaming about a 3D ASCII engine. But I would have rendered to planes and used billboarding ;)
Any legitimate reasons for not allowing access to raw data? Could it violate people's privacy for example?
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Would have been nice if MS went for Gecko, would solve a lot of these concerns.

I was just starting to get that butterfly/stomach feeling for Edge, I don't think I'd ever leave FF for it but Edge was pretty attractive and I started to developed some warm fuzzy feelings for it. My initial revulsion has long since been replaced by a sort of curiosity which had the potential to grow into even more... That chromium news killed it though.
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That does not sound like quite special situation. Most fields are bigger and overwhelming majority of tech people dont write publicly.
Will look into it, thanks for info.
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Yep, this isn't the first story in recent memory from Bloomberg that smells like much ado about NOTHING. What's going on with them?
The dashboard lighting in my Mini Cooper turns red/orange when it gets dark outside, and I set the accent lighting color to orange. I think it helps a lot.
The point of the story is not whether the glass is "unbreakable" or not.

It is about the extent of the Huawei scandal.
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Part of this is unintended consequences. Previous rulings have said that the board and company must prioritize shareholder benefit to avoid them focusing on their own personal enrichment. At the same time, this pursuit of growth is why the stock market is growing 25%+ in the good years which everyone loves seeing in their 401K and IRA statements.

We really need to encourage more B corporations both in the founding and running and also by eschewing public company stocks that are not.