skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And, more importantly, the first two can work after the fact. So you do not have to plan ahead of time that you want to trace someone, you can decide that you want to trace someone six months after the period of interest.
I drifted about 2 years ago from white collar / "creative" work to forest maintenance. Not tree logging, but taking care of growing forest and planting trees. I'm in Eastern Europe, so the plan was to spend the warm season entirely outdoors and focus on "mental" work during winter when the available forestry jobs are not to my liking. (I've developed tinnitus -- constant ringing in my ears --, so I decided not to work with gas-powered brush cutters or other kinds of machinery any more. Luckily a fraction of forest maintaining can still be done using hand tools, mostly swedish or brush axes, but scythes also work well.)

I'm currently mostly at home with kids, but the general feeling is that I just would not want to work indoors any more. For my preferred hand labour the wages are tiny around here (IMHO not so when you're OK working with brush cutters, although some might disagree with that). But the mental and physical balance I get from being in the forest every day, rain or shine, tends to outweigh that. So as a parent it's surely a complicated decision as to what to do after we send our youngest off to kindergarten.

In particular, planting trees or cleaning treelings from weeds using a scythe could be a damn perfect job for every physically fit loner-introvert.

Here's a movie about tree planting in Canada (where this is a huge industry, isn't it?):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxR02N-Sauk&t=870s

And here's an inspiring guy, forest keeper, scythe mowing enthusiast and witty documentary film maker Simon from the UK. Yep, I want to be just like him when I grow up. If you're interested in traditional tools and manual labour in the wilderness, be sure to check out his entire Youtube channel. Great movies about scythe mower vs tractor competition etc. :)

https://youtu.be/yvRJAtPWBCY?t=307

Ah, wonderful things, considering the current shitty-dirty-snowy March-like weather in Estonia.
http://xem.github.io

I'm Maxime, front-end developer and passionate of JavaScript code-golfing.

I make tiny JS demos & games for fun or for contests like JS1K.com and JS13Kgames.com, and write about them (among other front-end experiments) here.

There's also a lot of tech watch and projects involving other topics like retro consoles emulation, Unicode, WebGL, and even a collection of memes and jokes.

Feel free to send feedback, even negative.

(I know the site's style is a bit old now, but I'm updating it!)

Cheers :)
Your City's Climate, 60 Years Hence
> even matchmaking, if implemented badly, won't help much: when matchmaking is based on monotonic point accumulation

Do any (modern, popular) games implement this kind of matchmaking? I believe there's often a monotonically increasing 'rank' or 'level' displayed to the player, but I'd be surprised if any major games used this kind of score as the sole foundation for matchmaking.
>The PRD megalopolis is an urban area of gargantuan proportions with few like it in existance.

>It's home to 65 million people, a population similar to that of the United Kingdom.

>It covers an area around 55,000 km^2, about the size of the country of Croatia.

>The GDP of the PRD megalopolis clocks in at over $1.2 trillion, about the same as Mexico.

Well damn, I live in Croatia, can't even make a mental image of that amount of people. For comparison its the same area size as New York state with over 3x the population.
Safaris New CSS Dark Mode Media Query
Maybe there's some misunderstanding.

The top-level comment was about the introduction of uncertainty transitioning (early) from the SAR model to a provincial model. I took your reply as saying "nothing's going to change for investors because Beijing isn't stupid" -- I agree, Beijing is far from stupid. I'm actually agreeing with you in another comment where I point out 'uncertainty around the handover' has been something investors have lived with for a generation, and this won't change any time soon.

I would also say in spite of the fact there's an international referee looking over this, they're totally unable to do anything, so for better or worse, it is effectively an internal matter now.

IMO, however, a better model of Hong Kong is that it remains a colony as it has (almost) always been, what changed in 1997 is whose colony.

My devils advocate comment was to say that as the UK is totally powerless (and much of the rest of the international community with it) and Beijing's more forceful stance on the SARs of late, that they may just cut off the SAR model entirely. Who's going to stop them? As you say, it's an internal matter.
If the photos are straight from a digital camera, even 10 year old photos have enough metadata to be ordered with exiftool or digikam or equivalent software. Music, books, documents, movies are much harder. Since they don't have enough metadata to sort them automatically.

High quality media takes a lot of space. A modern, mirrorless camera easily creates 1GB/minute movies in 1080p/50fps. A photo walk consisting of ~150 photos yield 5GB of images to sort and process. Ripping the Audio CD collection to FLAC also adds pretty fast.

Backing them up adds another dimension.

My storage needs doesn't warrant a storage array, but I need at least 10TB of storage now, incl. backups and future headroom.
Fine grained judge approval is the lowest form of privacy theatre. It will always degenerate into a worthless rubberstamping process. It's totally invisible, unchallenged and there is absolutely zero possible upside for the judge to ever deny an application. Everybody who agrees that privacy, invasive measures are both sometimes necessary and something that needs to be restricted should try to come up with something better.
Well you most probably don't need all of that collection in your phone. Phones are generally lousy primary storage for, well anything including photos and music. Easy to lose, drown or destroy.

You also most probably wouldn't hear the difference between high bitrate mp3 and flac, unless you are genetically gifted with superior hearing and use expensive headphones on top of that.

But I guess its easier to shell tons of money and complain later rather than work a bit on managing your music collection/expectations.
sorry for stupid question, does this software support all the EOS M series? M50, M5, M6, M100?
Fullscreen API iPad
A custome party where people can pretend to be the jet-setters of the 60's and 70's, complete with an airplane cabin from that era, would be neat.

I could even see it being something one could make as a party location to be rented out.
> bloated has 100000 features when people use 3 most of the time

And here's your MP3 player, iTunes...
Windows hasn't learned from the Mac, because user experience was never a key selling point for Windows. Windows dominance was the result of selling large quantities of Windows licences to IT managers who were not chiefly concerned with user experience, but rather with easy management of a large number of machines, integration with other Microsoft products (Office etc), and backwards compatibility so they could continue running the software that their businesses depended on.

The Mac user experience is great in part because Apple is willing to compromise on backwards compatibility. This allows them to innovate in the user interface (which Microsoft also does) while at the same time keeping it relatively consistent, which is what Microsoft is prevented from doing.

Also, since Apple relies on selling directly to consumers, they really have to prioritise the user experience.
Maybe best foreigner (non-Korean) Protoss player. The match that AlphaStar lost had actions restricted to a single screen. Before AlphaStar could see and control everything that was not in the fog of war simultaneously. Still quite impressive though.
You didn’t read the opinion and you added the word “directly” to the summary.

Do you scan source code and draw firm conclusions about what it does based on skim reading the first comment you see?

Perhaps my old contracts prof could have a second career as a google interviewer. (He was notorious for cold calling people that hadn’t briefed their cases and eating them alive.)
"Angular has been out for 2 years" Oh?
In Science, as in Sports, the Sidelines Matter
Yeah, I mean I think it would be such a minimal difference in recovered highlights with a raw image where you've ETTR. I think testing the sensor limits is a great philosophy, but also letting go and focusing on the 'artistic' subtleties over the technical subtleties of an image becomes more important.

Would be interesting to a/b your ETTR and 'correctly' exposed images to your friends without letting them know.
Ask HN: How Do You Use Calendars in 2019?
Saving the Bats, One Cave at a Time
TIL. That's really cool.
I can understand you. However, libraries are hard to understand until managing your collection creates a lot of overhead. A good library can find something from a sizeable collection in a second or two. Calibre is perfectly capable in this regard. Also metadata is something really powerful. However, you need a lot of it (in this case books) to reap its benefits.

Calibre doesn't obfuscate / embed the book files. They copy under a folder with Author's name. You can pretty easily access the original file pretty quickly. Maybe you can configure Calibre to use your directory structure without modifying it.
Totally agree, and am inclined to agree it may be the root cause of many a midlife crisis.

I could go back to uni, take on a ton of debt, and after retraining find few want a late fifties junior. Chances are I'd never pay off the student debts before retirement either, unless I get really lucky. A direct into the job route will probably meet just as much resistance to a mid fifties starter. Foreign Legion, Police and Air Force all think I'm too old now.

That smell is from all those burnt bridges.

Yet 40s and 50s are when many decide they've had enough and want something more fulfilling, find limited choice, and end up with a self employed micro business. I suspect this is not what they wished for in many cases, but just what's left.
Gmail also dumps a lot of non-spam emails into its spam folders.

The ones that drive me nuts (and have led me to having to sign up to fastmail for my business emails, rather than sending from my own shared server) are the ones that are valid responses to emails sent from GMail in the first place. Excellent logic (or lack thereof), Google.

I don't actually believe so, but I have often wondered whether GMail has such an overly fastiduous spam filter simply to encourage people into its fold... .
Self-Driving Cars Might Kill Auto Insurance as We Know It
> Also comparing OSX to windows, you can actually mostly drive windows from the keyboard without resorting to hand warping shortcut combinations reminiscent of Megadrive Streetfighter cheat codes.

As a long-time Win user, having wrist pain, this is the killer thing for me. Everything about a Mac feels extremely unergonomic to me. Many things are not doable from keyboard at all. AFAIU most of the Mac developers do all stuff with touchpad so they don't care though.
http://johnmathews.eu
It's my personal blog, mostly about side projects or what I'm learning. It's been a great mirror to my interests.
Ask HN: What's the Best Tool to Create Slides Using a Markup Language
Something like revealjs, but maybe richer or easier for someone who doesn't know much CSS
Hence why it can work with algorand.
According to Betteridge's Law of Headlines, no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
It’s the brain’s autocorrect in action. At 60mph slamming the brakes makes more sense than the gas. I presume GP actually meant brakes.
Sorry, but I reserve the right to be cynic. I belong to the old group of people who got to know Google as "do no evil" company, who tossed that to the wind as soon at it suited them better.
inbound, outbound, or both?
I swear you only got downvoted here for using the word 'irregardless'
Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment Future Trends
It seems the MIT lives in a world were only Bitcoin and Ethereum exist. Seriously, who besides Vitalik Buterin himself considers Ethereum as one of today’s most efficient cryptocurrencies?
Using both S3 and SQS outside of AWS is perfectly possible, and the Colo provides decent bandwidth, cooling and power, that's literally the point of them
The Effect of Online and Face-to-Face Feedback on Self-Esteem (2018)
Google Keyboard Enables Bitcoin Symbol on iOS
> I have directories on my filesystem(s), files in those directories

Your library.

> powerful applications to navigate them (Total Commander / mc / Krusader).

Not powerful enough. Filemanagers are optimized for hierachical views and don't integrate well with filetypes. Namely, they usually don't extract data from files, like metadata, covers or previews. Though, filemanagers have started to do that to some degree.

But they still lack the "alternate view" on your library. Those Walled Garden-Apps that work with librarys are more like a relational database, offering flexible selections and content-optimized views that filemanagers are normally lacking.

The major difference is really just if you want a static and inflexible organization, or something dynamic. And usually with heterogeneous datas, the dynamic approach is better for consuming beacuse it allows you to break through the hierachy.

> (eg. where do I find all those books when I want to copy them?).
> I hate Calibre for the exact same reason.

Just select your books and export them. Calibre can export to a device, but also just a local directory. Calibre in that regard is one of the better gardens. Very flexible and powerful. Just the UI sucks.
Stress comes from (the feeling of) responsibility you can't control.

So I think it's not about what you hate but about what you can't control.

Maybe you did not hate Windows, C# and EF, but when it turns out to be a big stress factor it can be good to swap and take control again.
I wonder why Canon refrain from supporting this kind of projects by providing documentation on how to interface with the hardware (without going as far as stamping it as official). It seems that it make their products more attractive at no cost for them. Any drawbacks?
How would you handle books with multiple authors? Symlinks would not be an option as they are way too nerdy for common users.
Yeah, so what you defined is a crony capitalism. We should move as far away from that as possible.

It's not moral people are forced to pay for these things.
And India. And the Philippines. And loads of other developing countries. Meanwhile, Apple killed the best price/value iPhone they offered, the SE.

I just don't understand Apple's current product direction.
There are couple of interesting question:

- backpressure

- what if both userspace and SOCKMAP are doing read() on a socket?

- can one use SOCKMAP to splice only a selected amount of data, and pick up the rest with read()

- What are the parser/verdict program semantics. What can they do.

- what is the SK_MSG abstraction, and how to benefit from it.

and more... some of this is discussed:

http://vger.kernel.org/lpc_net2018_talks/ktls_bpf_paper.pdf

On io_submit, we wrote about it here:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/io_submit-the-epoll-alternative-...

TLDR: it allows for batching, and with IOCB_CMD_POLL can be used as epoll alternative.
Great to see alternatives to emscripten. I’m definitely going to try this one out, I’m especially interested in the smaller size ( compared to emscripten) promised by this tool. And for the people want to do swift to webassembly check out air by remobjects.
No, not unless its badly designed.

I used to work for a VFX company where we would try and get as close to 100% utilization out of the farm.

We had machines that were 4 years old, still merrily plodding away. (not too many mind, they ate more power than its worth.) The things that tended to fail were Harddrives and fans.
Leaving in a society means agreeing to some rules -- some of those rules might include what one can do to their body, their lives, etc.

That "society should not have such rules" is not something everybody agrees on -- it's just one particular answer to the "big question" of how society should be run.
I'm wondering how they will update the microwave manuals.
From my perspective (~500 employee mail server), greylisting had a much larger impact at the time, thanks to the spambots/viruses attempting direct connection to mail servers. Extremely effective, zero false positives, much lighter on resources. I did use both, of course, so that I could keep a record of how effective the systems were.

Today the situation has flipped. Most of the spam we get is coming from authoritative servers (ie: gmail, yahoo, etc), making stuff like SPF/DKIM/etc next to worthless from a spam perspective (it's still marginally useful for forgeries), while bayes (or in general, trainable) filters are essentially the only thing that can differentiate it reliably.

With a modern setup, you can basically next to zero spam and no false positives. In fact, honest email marketing (ie: mailing lists you've actually subscribed to) are from my experience the only thing that throws these filters off.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

First, thanks for writing this up. Too many people just take a “buy the box, divide by number of hours in 3 years approach”. Your comparison to a 3-year RI at AWS versus the hardware is thus more fair than most. You’re still missing a lot of the opportunity cost (both capital and human), scaling (each of these is probably 3 kW, and most electrical systems couldn’t handle say 20 of those), and so on.

That said, I don’t agree that 3 years is a reasonable depreciation period for GPUs for deep learning (the focus of this analysis). If you had purchased a box full of P100s before the V100 came out, you’d have regretted it. Not just in straight price/performance, but also operator time: a 2x speedup on training also yields faster time-to-market and/or more productive deep learning engineers (expensive!).

People still use K80s and P100s for their relative price/performance on FP64 and FP32 generic math (V100s come at a high premium for ML and NVIDIA knows it), but for most deep learning you’d be making a big mistake. Even FP32 things with either more memory per part or higher memory bandwidth mean that you’d rather not have a 36-month replacement plan.

If you really do want to do that, I’d recommend you buy them the day they come out (AWS launched V100s in October 2017, so we’re already 16 months in) to minimize the refresh regret.

tl;dr: unless the V100 is the perfect sweet spot in ML land for the next three years or so, a 3-year RI or a physical box will decline in utility.
similar idea (shameless plug) https://github.com/bitnami-labs/udig
And Croatia's town (like Split) leaves impression like a really crowded place. At least for me as person from North Europe country.
The Sino-British Joint Declaration declared Hong Kong's way of life would be left alone until 2047. Signed by both leaders on behalf of their governments, and lodged with the UN.

China treating it as void does not change that.

Nothing racist about making that observation.
>He noted that even if it did target the wrong person, "it doesn't mean they're going to get convicted or arrested, it just gives the detective a look at who could be involved."

"Hmm, this black person was near..."
Can we please leave generic political discussions off HN?
Another nice quote:

'Oodi “fits very well into the Nordic story of how societies work,” Mr. Laitio said. “There are so few of us here, so we have to make sure everyone can develop to their fullest potential.”'

A perspective increasingly lost in Sweden.
As far as driving OSX from the keyboard... yeah, it doesn't go out of its way to teach you how, but there are some pretty deep keyboard shortcuts. Of real note is readline, which is built into every text box. You can use emacs/readline shortcuts everywhere, and because of the ctrl / cmd separation it doesn't interfere with the basic shortcuts.

I've been using Windows 10 more and more over the last 2 years. Its fine. For the first time in a long time I don't feel like Windows is slowing me down, especially now it has sub-system for linux. Its still annoying that processes can lock access to files... but thats small potatoes.
You can make plasma with a partially evacuated sealed bottle, it’s basially how plasma chambers work and it’s a handy way to get plasma if you’re stuck.

You can use different gases in the bottle for different plasmas.
So, send phone on trip to "prove" I wasn't somewhere else; put it in my kids backpack, fix it under my neighbours car.
>How often does someone carrying out a planned crime carry a phone with them that is switched on, these days?

Almost all of the time.
Ask HN: Studying DS/Algorithms will turn me in a better Developer?
It is a legit question, I'd finished my degree in 2016, it was a degree more focused in the job market, so I haven't had strong classes about CS fundamentals.

I'm working as a backend engineer for about 6 years, currently I'm ok with my salary and have no plans about applying to FAANG companies.

- I have some understanding about basic DS like Trees, Stacks, Queues and what are the benefits and drawbacks of using each one, but never worked with Graphs, and have no idea what is a Trie or a AVL tree, neither how to implement those DS.

- I understand what's the idea of Greedy Algorithms, Divide and Conquer Algorithms... But I don't know which sorting algorithms are the best, how to implement then (just bubble sort :/). I'm also quite bad at Leetcode style challenges.

Usually I expend my time studying about system design and not DS/Algo, my question is if I should invest some time learning those things, if it's really helpful in turning me a better developer or if it's really useful for those who are targeting interview in FAANG companies.
These are close to optimal recommendations. They capture the modern truth that swap is too slow to actually transfer to and from, but that it can enlarge the effective memory slightly by providing a place to park very rarely used data.

However, this is only a minor optimization and mostly it is not worth the trouble of configuring it. On servers especially I prefer zero swap. The mere existance of swap can cause pain as inevitably some new admin will come along and insist on monitoring swap use and sending alerts when it becomes full. "We have critical situation: we are using 99% of (8GB) swap on the database host (1TB main memory), I'm rebooting it". True story.
Exactly, that's non-EU just like the UK is about to become.
I don't pray, go to the temple, or do anything regarded as 'practicing' Buddhism, however I went through a very rough patch in life and I have to say Buddhism helped me out ALOT. It helped me learn to be calm even when the entire world (relatively speaking) is on fire. It taught me to navigate tough times with dignity, and come out on the other side stronger and in faith that things will be good.

The Buddhist concept discussed in this article is one of the 3 marks of existence in this article it is referred to as Anitya however it's synonymous with Anicca[1]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_marks_of_existence#Anicc...
I disagree with you motivation, affirmative action purpose is to give a second chance to people who had a bad hand at life: you had a terrible high school? maybe you can still become a fantastic Ph.D. if you got the chance at a better university.

It is not about hard work but how exam and unidimensional numbers are a poor way to grade humans when you consider a variety of backgrounds.