skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hope they dont fall into the trap of pleasing everyone. People who are complaining about polish / fit / finish are likely to not switch to the first few iterations of this device anyway. I just hope that they actually ship (unlike Jolla), and dont end up delaying too much, while keeping the device mostly free(as in freedom).
I have tried a variety of hard manual jobs over the years - mainly during my college years:

- Longshoreman (manually unloading 45 - 120 lbs of frozen boxes, non-stop, for up to 20 hours a day)

- Worked on construction sites, carrying cement/concrete bags up and down - for hours and hours - often in sweltering heat during the summer.

- Dug ditches all day long .

- Manually emptied trailers for appliances (fridges, ovens, dryers, washing machines, etc.) all through the night.

and some more.

Either way, they all sucked. Some were absolutely terrible, and made fresh workers quit only an hour or two into it (longshoreman), while others were more bearable (emptying trailers).

But all these jobs share a couple of things:

- The majority of workers lack formal education, and take the jobs because they have to.
- They are all in it because of the cash
- Almost no one over 40. 90% of the guys are in their 20's.
- Injuries are extremely common. In fact, that's why I took those jobs: There "regular" crews were always short of people because of injuries or recovery, and would let anyone (with a fitting physique/strength) try for the spots. And on larger jobs, they would call in extras.

A lot of office workers seem to romanticize these types of jobs - like some kind of honest "manly" work where you get to be outside and enjoy the nature, while staying in shape.

Yeah, no, most of these jobs just suck.

Doing it for 1 hour might be OK, but when you're 12 hours into the shift, sore from the previous days, and know it'll be the same tomorrow, next week, next year, etc. you really start to question your life choices.

The only thing you look forward to is to lie down and rest - but even then, you're getting anxious because you know it's only X hours 'til your alarm goes off, and another day of grueling work. It gets to the point where you have actual nightmares, and will wake up depressed.

Of course, YMMV, and not all of these hard labors jobs are the same - people are different. But the above is based on my own experience, and what the other guys would say.
If you need a bit more advanced SVG editing functionality, check out my app Boxy SVG [1]. It allows you to easily define and manage an entire iconset in a single SVG file [2] (each icon can be placed in a separate <symbol> element).

[1] https://boxy-svg.com

[2] https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/boxy-svg.appspot...
I don't think we really disagree that much. What I meant was that taking YouTube's content is an admission as to where the good content is.
So, a few weeks ago, I discovered a way to make a text that uses Google Fonts render faster. In slow connections, that might give a boost of 1-3 seconds. Some backstory:

* When you use custom fonts (like Google Fonts), most modern browsers won’t render the text with that font immediately. Instead, the text will stay invisible until the font is downloaded – or until 3 seconds pass. You might’ve experienced this yourself (if you had an Android phone and used a slow connection once). This is done to prevent a FOIT, but this hurts user experience.

* A typical solution for this is to add a CSS rule like `font-display: swap` which tells the browser to avoid waiting for the custom font. However, Google Fonts don’t support this rule, and the only remaining solution becomes to
a) self-host fonts (annoying)
b) use JS libraries like Web Font Loader (hurts the initial font load time; pretty complicated for one task)

* Recently, I found a solution for this. Turns out, you can fetch a Google Fonts stylesheet asynchronously, patch it to include font-display, and insert it into the page. So I composed a project that does it! To avoid hurting the performance, the project generates an inline script and a few `<link rel="preload/preconnect">` tags. The script also does some extra work to avoid unnecessary FOUTs. The total size of the code snippet is 550 bytes minified and gzipped.

Here’s the primary source code of the script: https://github.com/iamakulov/googlefonts-font-display-helper...

Would love your feedback on the tool :)
This has broken password reset links that Django sends[1].

1. https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/20d7a1d1...
It seems BB listens here!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19174145
Not too far in the future!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19220210
>>I will bet some money that they have not been used nefariously by AA or SQ.

not yet

Given the last 20 years of bad behavior from tech companies overall, and the steady erosion of privacy in nearly all quarters, I question your confidence and must ask "based on what?"
meanwhile we are ignoring actual privacy violations being done by e.g. Facebook or Twitter, or the millions of ad networks

I'm not sure who you think is ignoring these issues. They're in the mainstream news, and on HN almost every day.
IANAL.

In the USA, it depends on jurisdiction and the circumstances. For example, CA is a "two-party consent" state, meaning that to record another party requires their knowledge and consent in some circumstances. This case (a camera in the back of an airline seat) is a bit on the line: the space isn't terribly private (it's a row of seats on an airline), yet a private conversation might be had in a low voice between two people, who did not see, or do not recognize, and were not told that there is a camera pointed right at them.

I do not know if this is a violation of two-party consent. It might not be.
> It's one of the reasons desktop linux lags so far behind

Behind what? I've been a daily linux user for the last decade or so, I've always felt the desktop experience was superior to to Windows and Mac. At least Gnome 2/3 has been.
In practice, their "number" goes up over time along with their pay, so they stay on the treadmill. Though obviously there are exceptions.
More wealthy clients and plaintiffs for the lawyers to exploit, somehow it always ends with the parasites on top.
Another vote for the XPS, I have a 9360 with bare metal Ubuntu.

Works flawlessly and the screen is very nice.
This was a huge request on our app as well, we did it, and about 10% of our users are email sign-up.

On the flip side, when/if you do decide to go with email sign-up, be prepared that users who once signed-in with their social media account will start signing in with their email address and expecting it to work, even though they never showed a password.

It seems to me users use the same social media service to sign into most services, so they don't get confused between facebook or google login buttons, but give them an email field, and they get confused as to how they have been signing in in the past.

Anyone else seen similar behavior? Or is it just us?
I nearly got hit just this morning by someone blowing through a right turn on red. If they get that close to me that I am in range to, I will hit or kick their car ;)
Norwegian taxpayer funds sent direct to Indonesian politicians Swiss bank accounts. Marvellous !
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Edited my comment to include 2 Phase Commits. Wouldn't 2PC always get you synchronous replication ? Async Replication probably helps you scale but the tradeoff is consistency and errors like the one they mentioned. Is that correct ?
$200k for a happier life, and more realistically $385k, make a lot more sense to me than the $70k that I saw floating around a few years ago.

The more you make, the better you can handle the 3 versions of yourself. The debt from the past, Food, clothes, shelter, and fun in the present, and savings for the future.

When I rented a cheap single bedroom and made 70k in the midwest I was living a "better life" than I do now making much more, saving much less due to a kid, house, safer (but modest) car, more insurance(s), etc.

Sneak attack lifestyle inflation!
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I understand that. But to be completely honest, for my sake they could bring back the 2013 model, keep patching bugs and just spec it up. Zero new features needed. They perfected the art. Just leave it be.
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The article has been updated - turns out it was a GPS tracker that someone dumped at the gas station and not a skimmer.
You don't need nearly the income described in this article to live in the neighborhoods in NYC with excellent public schools. The price of entry is below $200k after tax income, assuming you demand three bedrooms in your apartment, less if you can make do with two. Source: I live in such a neighborhood.

Saving for college is a thing, but one year at this income is enough to sock away an entire college education.
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> But if this is custom hardware then somebody must have wanted these cameras on there?

I mean, the explanation could be as simple as "it's semi-custom hardware with the minimum number of changes from a commercial tablet". In that case, it has a camera for the same reason brown sugar is refined sugar with molasses added back in: it's cheaper to stay on the path of high volume as much as possible.

Of course, it could also be a more nefarious explanation. Short of mass surveillance by the government, I can't think of one: it's not like the airlines don't know exactly who is in which seat.
As an outspoken critic of the original change, I applaud this move. I still wish it were open source, but this solves a lot of the confusing nomenclature I took offense with. Kudos.
Not really. But remember the 1.2 Million guy is married. Sounds like an awful relationship since his partner laughed at him when he mentioned finding a more satisfying career with half the pay ( that's still 500k a year). He sounds trapped in this clusterfuck of either living in misery and keeping a luxurious "normal" lifestyle or seeking novelty and ending up in court with divorce procedures, loss of wealth, custody and a fresh start from zero. If I was this dude, I would take the red pill, but hey, who said shifting from blissful ignorance to brutal reality was gonna be that easy?
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For those like me not willing to throw $600 there may be an option in the Pinephone [0] for $150. I expect that the Librem 5 will probably be better overall, but I also expect that for at least the first year both will be around beta level at best. With this in mind I'm more willing to give the cheaper option a chance, because it will not be my daily driver for some time.

Whatever will come from the next revision of both projects will probably be very interesting.

Either way they will share software and improvements in whole stack. So it's a win-win!

Also I'll probably buy the Pinebook Pro on the day it's available.

[0] https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7093&pid=43850#p...
It's interesting how the expectation of privacy varies from person to person!

Since members of the general public are in close proximity I generally wouldn't consider an airplane cabin a place where I could have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

In places that are intentionally restricted from view by others, like my own home, a hotel room, etc. I'd have an expectation of privacy.
of course nothing is free but they think it may be feasible: https://www.symbrosiasolutions.com/team
This isn't to say they could make as much money with such a model, but if they were more concerned with the downsides of surveillance ad targeting capitalism as their revenue stream, they could certainly explore shifting to be a different sort of company - one with different and maybe even less revenue streams.

Funny thing that, why do we never hear about a company that wants to stay the same size or shrink? What is facebook decided they wanted to be half the size they are now expense-wise, get out of the ads business, and encourage people to use their platform for less things?
Buzzfeed confirms his focus on writing articles for the sole purpose of provoking outrage to get the last few clicks before they finally go bankrupt.
The guy mentioned in this story certainly has that job. In 5 years, he'll make $6 million. That should be plenty to retire on if invested correctly.
>I'm not even arguing legally, even just in terms of common sense, everything you do or say is isn't private in those circumstances. So a camera being there (regardless of if it is used) isn't moving the needle either direction.

You already have a number of replies covering some good ground, but there is a word covering the feeling I don't see yet: stalking. There is a fundamental difference in feeling (and a legally recognized one as well) between being seen/heard a specific coincidental instances by a crowd of random strangers whom one might quite reasonably expect to never encounter again in their entire lives -versus- having a single person individual or organization conduct persistent surveillance of you. This isn't some weird obscure situation either is it? The uncomfortableness level seems to be pretty universal. The other unrelated passengers on the airplane are generally going to be an entirely random and diverse group of total strangers. They're unlikely to remember you, to care, or to have any particular interest in you, let alone the ability and volume of information necessary to affect you.

But the airliner is a singular entity, and in this instance it's actually fairly illuminating to apply the "personhood" idea to it and consider it as if a single powerful person was following you and recording you constantly. That person does have a direct economic interest in you, may wield a certain level of monopoly power depending on location, or alternately can easily potentially collaborate with a small number of other "persons" with your information. The person will not forget and can follow you over decades. They can do the same to friends, relatives and acquaintances, drawing inferences and information from higher level social network graphs that would not be discernible from a small given slice.

Now you might not care about this yourself, but you should still be able to recognize that it's something quite different then merely "being in public amongst instantiated strangers". Historically it has been perfectly reasonable from an information theory point of view to have a certain expectation of common likely "anonymity in a crowd", because it's not physically possible for a single human to remember tens of thousands of people. Historically when attempts have been made to use some minimal level of technology and large numbers of bodies to implement mass surveillance and centralized recording an analysis it has made people quite uncomfortable (the Stasi say). There is no reason why advancing technology making it cheaper and requiring less bodies would make people suddenly be fine with it would it?

Scale sometimes brings emergent effects that are a pure function of large numbers. You can't always do a clean extrapolation.
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I don't know, there are literal spy agencies out there(like people getting trained to extract information, being paid to do things etc.).

Would be very convenient for them if there were "unused" microphones and cameras everywhere and just tap the one when they need it.

What makes you think that people with full time jobs and careers based on obtaining private information would not be interested in listening to their targets who are sitting on a chair next to their business partner/colleague for hours?
Indeed, I am far more discomforted by the "Google snuck a microphone into products it sold consumers and placed in their homes" than "very visible cameras exist in airplanes which are already operating between the most heavily camera-covered facilities on the planet".

And AA can fix this with stickers. Occasionally a kid will peel one off, but nobody will really care.
You can do it with just integers (ie: in Z[φ]) by noting that φ^n = φFib(n) + Fib(n-1). Equivalently, compute X^n in Z[X] / (X^2-X-1). I have an article on my blog, but it's unfortunately down right now because of some github issue with changing my account to a free one.
Planes already have cameras in them. This just offers yet another angle to view you from.
How would it reboot on the old config if you had just changed it?
Never said it would. I did imply that things haven't significantly improved.

Throw away goto and globals, replace them with anonymous functions and closures, and the new thing looks an awful damn lot like the old thing.

All I know is that we used to have retrained housewives writing physics programs. Now we expect 10,000 hours to write a halfway decent web form, and halfway decent doesn't happen nearly as often as it should.
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My working explanation is that it's actually survey data. the richest people either don't answer the survey or understate their actual holdings when they do answer.
Golem Project has dozens of engineers working on distributed computing and have rendering capability today. GitHub: https://github.com/golemfactory and website is https://golem.network/
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Sorry. To clarify: it's not that I'm confused by the distinction between capitalized vs uncapitalized, it's that visually, "config" and "Config" look quite similar at a glance, whereas "c" and "Config" are clearly visually distinct.
>after kicking myself out of machines I was SSH'd into

I still remember my first 'ifconfig eth0 down' over ssh!
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Been a long time, but doesn't `write conf` write the config to NVRAM?
I give it about a week until the airlines cover all the cameras with stickers. Maybe a nice little company logo.
There are stories they are demanding 50% with regards to their new News subscription service so perhaps 30% wasn't the limit.

https://9to5mac.com/2019/02/12/apple-news-subscription-servi...
This seems the wrong way up to me, in that a CPU from scratch seems like a much harder thing to achieve and learn from. But I'll agree that the "analogue" build a circuit stuff is very different to the digital stuff.

> 555 timer

Very much an all-analogue part; possibly easier to understand in its non-integrated version: https://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/tinykitlist/6...
I just wanted to drop into the comments here and say "WOW". Thanks to Hacker News you guys gave me the most views my little blog has ever had in the year that it's been up.

I plan on writing more about the Fediverse in the future.

Thank you for your attention and the fun ride. I hope that you'll visit me again.
They certainly are "medical fields", because that's how people treat them, and they promote themselves as viable alternatives to real doctors. Even worse, many hospitals actually have them there practicing; they call it "alternative and complementary medicine".
The gas stations near me now accept Tap/Apple Pay/Google Pay. I feel a bit safer using those, but alternatively, you can pay with debit/credit inside the gas station at the register.
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In the UK, this sort of thing (putting camera right in your face against your wishes, more than once) might be considered harassment, even in a public place.
#2 is not at all clear. Investors lost (collectively) over 125 million dollars. The only employess that lost money are those that exercised stock options and had to pay taxes on unrealized gains. It's highly doubtful that this totaled nearly as much as the investors lost.
There's simply no way that "23-25% of US adults listen to podcasts daily or a few times a week."
Using WiFi would be very surprising for most content, but it would be interesting to have live TV on aircraft.

There are a few airlines with live TV. I think Southwest and JetBlue, but I could be wrong because mostly I sleep on planes.
As a developer this obviously sucks but this seems to be pretty efficient from a high level view. If all the low hanging fruit is done and all future development is just adding features with continually diminishing returns, it makes sense to just go into maintenance mode, extract your profits, and let your developers go work on something else
That sounds like a stronger defense of types than Go's documentation.
Can we read more of your writing/thoughts anywhere? The videos and books you shared were fascinating.
Granted I don't have kids - but that parents act like this seems utterly delusional to me.

Frankly, I think you're getting a below-average education if you're spending tens of thousands a year on it (before college). Private school, getting a seat at a public school in an expensive suburb - fuuuuuuuuck that. Those experiences are nowhere close to worth all that money, and honestly prevent the students involved from learning about the real world in important ways that they'll pay dearly for later.

Honestly, this is insane. Those parents are spending tens, hundreds of thousands of dollars on making their children worse-off. I know they'd probably disagree with me.
UBI just makes landlords richer. Why not have the country simply pick up the carbon tax for individuals?
Shorewall is one of those rare well-designed, well-documented programs that lets you go from no knowledge, to reading documentation, to implementing the final solution seemlessly.

When thinking about how to create IPtables rules for a tricky virtual server environment, I stumbled upon Shorewall. After following along with the documentation, creating the config files as I went, I was able to flip the switch to turn Shorewall on and my firewall behaved exactly as I intended, no trial and error required.

Thank you for all the hard work on this project, I sincerely hope it continues to be supported by the community. Enjoy your travels Tom!
It's more fundamental since you're working with the underlying vector space and linear operator vs representing it as a matrix over R^n, running a decomposition, then converting back. No need to change domains, but yes they are isomorphic (which is the point).
I like the dystopian outlook and dislike of UBI. However, the advent of the internet = civil war 2 is a false premise. Dividing the country was possible long before the internet existed. You can argue that being able to rapidly spread information accelerated the preponderance of these echo chambers- however- you can just as easily say that the advent of the internet has made the world a more enjoyable place and has increased most people's quality of life.

TL;DR with the good comes the bad.
Mr. Wizard showed me this decades ago.

Is he even still around?
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The name is REALLY interesting to me as a Greek: in greeklish (using latin/english characters to transcribe greek ones -- pretty common before unicode caught on everywhere), "Balto" reads like "Valto". Now, "Valto" loosely translates to "score it!", and it's a famous snippet of a sports commentator, where he was talking to a football (ok, soccer) player about to score a very important goal.

Good luck guys!