skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have a scheduled appointment with a vision specialist next week.

I was having eye strain towards the end of the day, and getting some "occupational lenses" pretty much fixed the issue. I think visiting an Optometrist is the way to go.

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You might check if the lights in your home office flicker with the slow-motion camera mode on your phone. I haven't researched whether it actually causes eye strain, but it's so easy to fix I went ahead and purchased some Phillips LED bulbs like the ones talked about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19098678

Some random things I do:

- Lower brightness on your monitor (mine is at 75% currently, I think most people go lower)

- Use night shift/flux to make the monitor colors warmer at night

FYI getting used to the lower brightness and glasses will take a day or two. My glasses made my eyes hurt at first.
I don't think they're killing Chrome OS, Chromebooks seem to be as popular as ever with schools. Schools that can afford to buy Pixels probably would go for iPads instead, though. I doubt there is much of a market for high end Chrome OS hardware.
Did you read the article?

> Privacy advocates said the partnerships seemed to violate a 2011 consent agreement between Facebook and the F.T.C., stemming from allegations that the company had shared data in ways that deceived consumers.

That (among other things) is what's landing Facebook in legal trouble.

The 2011 FTC consent agreement itself does carry the force of law, which means that if Facebook breaks the terms, it's breaking the law and penalties can be assessed.
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This is one of the easier things to get used to-- I don't find "code switching" between syntaxes to be difficult at all, especially if you are already looking at a codebase and can visually copy what's already there. It even makes some sense, if you read it as "variable foo is a bar".
I always wonder why these articles about growing infrastructure costs and shrinking tax bases are about cities and not the suburbs. You would think the issues would be worse in the suburbs because the lower density would drive up the amount of required infrastructure per house.
Slavery and child labor were also just "part of the business model".

Some business models are predatory societal negatives and should be done away with at a government level of respecting individual rights. Behind-the-scenes tracking and data brokering are in that class.
Ivory tower as opposed to collaborative. Maybe it’s the wrong comparison.

Product-oriented vs process-oriented maybe.
I had the chance to go in an underground party in Paris and this was really awesome. Despite being winter it was warm inside the tunnel network. Without our artificial lights we could experience total dark like. The room we stay at had been expanded and decorated by a group of cataphiles and was designed to handle candles which gave an even more great ambiance.
If he returned you’d wonder why he changed. Accept that he left when he wanted to and for the right reasons. You wanting him is not a good inspiration for an artist.

I have all of his books, he was a part of my childhood. I miss his work.
He should not come back.
I agree, I really loved my Nexus 5 and original Pixel. I'm a huge fan of Google's industrial design.

It'd be really nice to have a well-made laptop where Linux is a first-class citizen. It's not even about the $whatever it costs to ship it with a Windows license, though that's significant for some/most - it's more the principle of it for me. I don't want Windows to be the default OS and I just couldn't live with myself supporting that. I also don't want a Windows logo key to have to see every day.
Deleting from a slice is ugly and awkward because it's slow. Go, like C, confronts you with the real cost of what you want to achieve. A builtin like 'delete(a, i)' looks like an O(1) operation, when in reality it's O(n).
Thanks, that was the trick I was missing. Will have a look.
Zygna and the Obama campaign weren’t nearly as vilified for harvesting user data on a massive scale. My suspicion is it’s more of an old vs new media fight.
Besides the engines moved forward those are 2x higher bypass engines and thus point of thrust is moved even more forward resulting in even more of pitching torque - basically the plane seems to be like a Hayabusa bike lifting the front wheel up at the good throttle.
> Tarn isn't known for being a good developer. He's just very dedicated :)

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration - Thomas Edison.
I'm surprised there wasn't a national crisis alert sent out
Google and Bing are the only ones that matter and you can’t compete with Google by paying them for their search results.

Yandex is Russian and has pretty poor results. And you’d be naive to think that those of us concerned about privacy would ever touch something built on top of it.

In other words there aren’t paid search engines that DuckDuckGo could turn to. Unless they build their own crawler, the only game in town is Bing.
You could have that by agreeing on a free trade deal between the UK and EU, which is what May's Withdrawal Agreemenent wants to do.

The problem is that by using a trade deal the status quo the UK is effectively losing its voice in the EU parliament without gainign anything in exchange. This is unsatisfactory to both the leave and remain camps of the UK parliament.
Doesn’t their world class team make such a long outage to be quite unlikely? How hard would it be to devote ample resources to a cover story for the “incident report”? Is the timing relative to the plethora of indictments relevant at all? Reasonable that this may be related to shredding of data and/or code, or even a cooperation to turn over data to government in secret deal?
If federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation, it's almost certain those investigators believe(d) a law was broken. I don't think anyone here is in a position to claim "they did nothing criminal" without inside knowledge of the investigation - in which case you certainly wouldn't be commenting here
a laptop is not a tablet, a tablet is not a phone, a phone is not a watch; that’s part of apple’s philosophy behind how their devices work together. knock it all you want (and there are legitimate criticisms), but it works remarkably well and makes all these devices feel like they have a natural place and purpose

*EDIT: i’m not saying “place and purpose” is a reason why macos and ios have different security models, but just pointing out that “why is a laptop different to a phone” is not reeeeeeally a particularly valid place to start
I knew several of the acronyms in the article but some were new to me. Here are some references in case anyone is in the same boat.

TPM: Trusted Platform Module (TPM, also known as ISO/IEC 11889) is an international standard for a secure cryptoprocessor, a dedicated microcontroller designed to secure hardware through integrated cryptographic keys. [0]

PCR: A Platform Configuration Register (PCR) is a memory location in the TPM that has some unique properties. The size of the value that can be stored in a PCR is determined by the size of a digest generated by an associated hashing algorithm. [1]

LPC: The Low Pin Count bus, or LPC bus, is a computer bus used on IBM-compatible personal computers to connect low-bandwidth devices to the CPU, such as the boot ROM, "legacy" I/O devices (integrated into a super I/O chip), and Trusted Platform Module (TPM). [2]

VMK: Volume Master Key. The FVEK and/or TWEAK keys are encrypted using another key, namely the Volume Master Key (VMK). Several copies of the VMK are also stored in the metadata. Each copy of the VMK is encrypted using another key, also know as key-protector key. [3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/informatio...

[2] https://online.tugraz.at/tug_online/voe_main2.getvolltext?pC...

[3] https://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/BitLocker_Disk_Encryption
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Ya, I take your point, but I don't think it really is hair splitting unless one of the following is true:

A) The base rate of consent-decree breaches resulting in a criminal contempt charge is high, which I very much doubt that it is.

B) There is some information about this particular case that makes a criminal contempt charge likely. This could be true, but the article makes no attempt to demonstrate it.

Failing one of these things being true, I don't think it's fair to refer to it, at this stage, as a 'criminal investigation'.
Yes, that is my fall back option. I still keep the charging cable that came with the Leaf in the trunk, just in case!

So far, I haven't needed to go to the fall back option. I charge at a l2 host place near my work, and once a week I go to a fast charger near some restaurant.
This may be so for 'some' US based websites or companies, but those of us with users worldwide tend to find it very essential to not violate the right and privacy of our users, in accordance with their countries' laws.
The iOS one is still better IMO because they can/have (?) to say what they're using it for in the dialog.
That's not true.

With the 2011 FTC consent agreement, there is plenty that Facebook can do with customer data that will land them on the wrong side of the law.

Investigating and preventing unfair or deceptive acts/practices affecting commerce is a big part of what the FTC does: https://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/supmanual/cch/ftca....
Case in point: I tried to shrink an NTFS filesystem offline with ntfsresize (offline!) and this happened:

https://marcan.st/2015/10/rescuing-a-broken-ntfs-filesystem/

This is a tool that is part of most Linux installers and tested by huge numbers of people, and yet things still went wrong. Shrinking filesystems is hard, and this was offline. Shrinking filesystems online is much harder.
metal isn't metal, since it's rooted in punk. FACT

Extreme metal rooted from Discharge. Sounds close enough anyway. Crossover thrash isn't metal because it has punk on it, too?

Regardless, this is just pedantry.
Why do so many email clients do this? In my opinion, it only makes things more confusing. It's especially irritating when a contact has multiple email addresses (work/personal) and it's not obvious which is which.
It seems that more public pressure on Apple might make a difference here.
The FAA burned all the trust and goodwill it gathered in the last 20-30 years -- depending who you ask -- within an extremely short time frame: on March 12 between 7am and 10am Pacific or so. It was pretty impressive. It was crystal clear the EASA is offering a face saving opportuntity to them by using the member states to do airspace bans but not suspending the planes of their respective airlines. Then, a few hours after that, when the FAA decided to continue the wave the "I am with stupid" flag they did the unthinkable and declared the 737 MAX not airworthy contradicting the FAA. This has never happened before. At this point the trust in FAA is gone and it is seen as a political and corporate puppet.
Hi there, this is a clear case of misunderstanding. Zomato is doing the exact opposite by clamping down on biased/solicited/fake restaurant reviews. For more details, kindly read this: https://www.zomato.com/blog/project-clampdown
It's just a shame that you could EASILY bolt on basic parametric polymorphism to Go with 0 cost and huge benefit. And it'll never happen.

The power of a universally quantified interface cannot be underestimated!
>A crew screwed up and typed the wrong temperature into the computer, which calculated take-off thrust based on higher density air than was reality

May I ask, why does the plane not have an external temperature sensor able to automatically input this data?
Everyone has an opinion; mine is around lines of code.

Do you (as in your entire company/maybe eng department) have less than 100k LOC? If yes, you should stay in a monolith (except for potentially breaking out very specific performance/storage use cases).

Do you have more than 100k LOC? You should start breaking things up so that a) teams can own their destiny and b) you can have a technology evolution story that is not "now we have a single 1 million LOC codebase and we can never rewrite it".

Evolving ~10-20 different ~20-50k LOC codebases is doable because of the enforced wire-call API boundaries; evolving 500k-2M LOC monoliths is not, unless maybe you're Google/Facebook and have their tooling and workforce.

Granted, 20-50k LOC per codebase is probably not "micro".
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Not only consider, but comparing a Go map to C++ absolutely has to do that since go is unordered. A c++ unordered can be significantly faster than ordered in many contexts.
I bought the low spec Pixelbook and gave it to my daughter. I replaced it with the high spec Pixelbook for myself. She since replace her Pixelbook with a 32gb 15 inch Dell XPS i9 for VM work specifically.

Prior to this, I gave my mom Chromebooks after she kept calling me for tech support for virus infestations, and it worked well.

Working with the Pixelbook, I totally agree with the VM bit. I would love to run Vagrant, MiniKube, KubeFlow, etc. The Linux emulation is good, but It's Google. 'We' can do it better. They probably did, but missed the adoption / backwards compatibility curve.

I hung out with a ChromeOS dude last weekend and he told me about how the Linux emulation is controlled by 'vsh' using their own replacement for QEMU, and inside that is an LXC container. Great for security, and I believe him. I entered one of the system vm's and saw LXC/LXD. The security seems great, but again, I can't do what I want to do. I felt dumb asking him about my 'emacs' in the ChromeOS Linux emulation. It always had a huge title bar on the top that took a bunch of the little screen real estate available. His answer was 'hit the full screen' button. I felt dumb. Usability for us dumb engineers will sell your product. Apple has abandoned the engineer market. The XPS flexible, but the Pixelbook is still sexy. I can't get my son to take my daughter's Pixelbook though, so maybe I am just old.
Kind of a generic list really.
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This is super cute. Loving how the little diagrams change as the sliders are moved.

One thing that might really get people to purchase a drawing is the ability to change line colours. Imagine all the colourful patterns! Have you plans to add this?
Here’s the FAA Emergency Order of Prohibition:

https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/media/Emergency_Order.pdf

On March 13, 2019, the investigation of the ET302 crash developed new information from the wreckage concerning the aircraft's configuration just after takeoff that, taken together with newly refined data from satellite-based tracking of the aircraft's flight path, indicates some similarities between the ET302 and JT610 accidents that warrant further investigation of the possibility of a shared cause for the two incidents that needs to be better understood and addressed. Accordingly, the Acting Administrator is ordering all Boeing 737 MAX airplanes to be grounded pending further investigation.

I’m curious about “the wreckage concerning the aircraft's configuration just after takeoff“ part as that’s the first I’ve heard about aircraft configuration having been recovered from the crash site. Maybe something about the horizontal stabilizer positon when the crash occurred?
Quality software exists and is written by talented engineers. Its written in specific languages and is tested on specific hardware configurations and verifiable. These things cost a bit more. I’m sure if the mass market were willing to bear an enormous cost this would already be solved. Unfortunately I doubt you or your cohorts are willing to pony up $2,999,999 USD a seat (Minimum order 500).
I would have thought that was true after the first crash. I'm honestly baffled how it could happen again. If I was aware of this issue from the Lion Air crash, wouldn't every pilot in the world know about it?

I mean, if a plane crashes, doesn't every pilot in the world inquire about what caused it? I wouldn't think that would escape a single pilot. Or do I have it wrong? Do they not perceive crashes the same way the general public does?
I've read anecdotally this applies to drug tolerance too. If an addict uses a drug in an unfamiliar setting their body won't have steeled itself to expect it, and they can overdose more easily. It was definitely a weird idea when I first heard it.
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This has been discussed before. Here is one from 2 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13622301
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Yes for short stories. (1) Magazines need several new stories every publishing cycle. And (2) if no one buys it, you've wasted less time.
That is what spin offs are for. Let it be an independent company that you still own 49% of. If it fails, at least you got to sell the 51% stake first. If it succeeds, you still own 49% of it.
I have always wondered about the fire safety of these events, gathering large numbers of people in spaces not originally intended for that and with (I imagine) unusual constraints on planning mass exits. Do you happen to know whether the fire safety aspect gets scrutinized?
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Agree with you. VSCode used to be somewhat slower about a year back but not anymore. Yes it uses more RAM than Sublime but for anyone with a decent computer, that is not a concern. The productivity boost with VSCode is much better than with Sublime. Especially for Javascript, there is not even a contest.
Not even considering that unordered_map is not the fastest hash map implementation for C++. There is plenty of the flat hash map implementation (swiss tables) around that beats unordered_map by an other factor....

https://abseil.io/blog/20180927-swisstables
'How about counter-suing them for attempted murder.' -- says one of the top comments on Ars. 400+ of them at the moment, by the way.

Amazing that it has come to this.
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With WSL in Windows 10, a lot of the reasons for booting Ubuntu go away. Check it out if you haven't.
99% of the end users only care about the product, not how the developers are making ends meet.
It's pretty clear that Apple is using a dominant platform position to raise prices and block competition.

By raising prices and blocking access to competing services, Apple is acting with malice to consumer welfare.
Now that you mention it, I remember reading about the crazy amount of data that CERN generates.

The crazy part is that they can't (no-one can or would want to try) store something like 95% of their data and have to run algorithms in realtime to decide what to keep and what to discard.
Funnily enough, same for me too! New Grad this Friday. Good luck!
Erie County, Pennsylvania, has an unfunded liability of $9.7 million, according to line 7 of section 2.5 of their 2018 annual report.

The annual required contribution is a mere $4.3 million

Their pension is 99% funded. I don't know why you'd bring it up, since it is unrelated to the article.

Fixing pensions won't change the fact that neglectful landlords get rewarded under the current taxation scheme.
I wonder what studies there are on what features women find attractive in order of priority. How many of those could men generally do something about?

How easy/hard would it be for a male generally to increase their attractiveness through effort - sufficient enough to compete with the existing top 20%? Or is that not possible - due to genetic fitness (or maybe environmental vars only marginally in their control - diet as children etc)?

Assuming that men COULD increase their attractiveness to compete with the EXISTING top 20% of men - would the size of the top cohort that 80% of women compete for increase? Or not? I.e. are women looking for a particular level of minimum quality that won't change much over time? Or if that 20% figure remains constant - that their desire in this respect is a relative value; relative to the overall quality of mate choices available currently.

Getting down to the brass tax questions I'm building too.

Does that 80/20 figure of women chasing men amount to a cultural fact that men are lazy in terms of trying to appear attractive? Do men find more women attractive - not because they are less choosy, but because women put more effort into being attractive? Or are women just choosy and men easy?

What drives female choosiness? If that 20% figure stays constant no matter what men do - then one explanation might be that mate choice for women is highly status driven. But something must mitigate it generally right? Outside of the tinder abstraction - women settle for less than the top 20% all the time. Don't they?
We added a google form that gives a little more insight to what we are looking for https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdWZRtZsxk4ahwGMYKx...
Elon Musk tends to continue posting foot-in-mouth tweets, when he's under investigation.
As far as the responsibility goes I’ll raise you a Zygna, and especially the Obama campaign which was lauded by the media and facilitated by the platform because after they noticed the abuse “they’re on the same side”. I doubt this would be such a pernicious issue if another candidate won.
I can't get 2 hours without seeing a meme of him, HN article etc. Been happening for 2 years.
In that case you can probably at least use Chrome and Startpage at work. Startpage.com pays Google for the right to use their search results, so you'll still find your pages about obscure error messages, and Startpage doesn't track you.
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Did you read the article?

>Then of course I remembered that std::map is a red-black tree, i.e. ordered, whereas the Go map is not. Change out std::map for std::unordered_map and C++ pulled ahead, 20% faster than the Go code.
Southwest was actually grounding these flights yesterday (Tuesday) before the FAA decision. Source: flight was cancelled along with multiple other 737 MAX flights out of SJC yesterday.
There is literally no amount of money that compensates for an absent parent. YMMV, of course, and the calculus is different if you're single or something.
The City of Erie, Pennsylvania, is the Erie on the hook for fire and police pensions. https://www.paauditor.gov/media/default/MunPenReporting/RPT_...

Why bring it up? Because cities are special purpose vehicles to fund police/firefighter pensions which have a side hustle in providing civic infrastructure. That's quite relevant to the question of why costs are increasing (because politically powerful people got placated), whether investments in infrastructure will reduce costs (strictly impossible), and whether property developers are to blame for underfunded infrastructure (they do not receive checks from the city every month).
From the FAQ:
"Can I use Tesseract for handwriting recognition?

You can, but it won’t work very well, as Tesseract is designed for printed text. Look for projects focussed on handwriting recognition."

To which I found https://github.com/githubharald/SimpleHTR, which has a number of references that you should look at.
True, and seems it happened again today https://downdetector.com/status/facebook

Looks like not much has been learned :-)
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That actually sounds pretty good if you don't have much money. Free food in exchange for agreeing to receive free scrap paper.