skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please, you engineer, do your best to make the app usable from a browser.

I dislike apps. Sometimes they make sense. Fine.

Often, they do not, or offer less functionality than PC or web does.

If you need payment, make that easy, same. Cancel easy too. Just because that is nice, and we all could use nice. You like nice, I like nice. Let us be nice.

If you need profanity, whatever, I get it. Let's be adults.

I don't like the gate keepers and do not trust them. I do not expect you to trust me, nor you me.

Clean, open, portable web for both of us as much as can be managed.

I support you, you support me, us.

I can be a user on linux, android, iOS, Windows, BSD, whatever I can get on the web.

Sometimes dependent stuff is needed for the job. I get it. Please try to avoid that stuff, and I will try and run more relevant systems.

:D

I really do avoid apps, really do try and be a good user, really do prefer web and really do run a bunch of OSes.

We both are rare. I do advocacy every chance I get. Maybe you can too.

Stick together in a figurative sense.

My development is small, embedded systems and or specific purpose programs. Enough to get the engineer speaking here.

Hopefully, you are a user enough to do similar things.
> Can we sue Google when they do things like this? No single entity should wield this much power.

Of course you can. This is America and anybody can sue anybody for anything (with few exceptions).

Winning the suit is another matter. Unless you have smoking-gun evidence of discrimination or some such, I'd say the case would be DOA.

Of course, the costs of the suit would likely be prohibitive as well. I don't think that many lawyers would take a case like this on contingency. Maybe pro bono.
It is kind of weird to consider not having a static IP as "suspicious" as dynamic IPs are the de-facto standard with most ISPs in my country, you actually have to pay extra if you want a static IP.
Surprisingly I also got 292 (156+136 bonus) on the first try on Lenovo X1 gen 4 (NixOS, Xorg). Both synaptics and libinput powered touchpads have always felt perfect for me, with minor to none customization. (Currently my only setting for libinput is to enable natural scrolling.) However, I have no experience with the Apple laptops.
One of the Most Iconic Science Images of 20th Century Science Is 20 Years Old
Show HN: Using YouTube's code to restore annotations
What you're saying is, this has increased the cost of creating a Twitter spam account from practically zero cents to... what, 50 cents an number? A few dollars per number?

That's a huge leap, and it sounds like requiring a phone number is a great way to increase the cost of spamming.
Wrote it in JS at http://10print.art

Source: http://10print.art/__repl
Maybe not literally (I think that it actually did happen more than once that they outright said something was going to be in the game and it didn’t happen), but there was a whole lot of “we implied this, some rampant speculation started, and we made no effort to quash the rumors because they help drive the hype machine”.

I think it was less on purpose and more symptomatic of having a breathless dreamer as a lead who thinks the world is possible. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but might be a good idea to keep that guy’s interactions with the press pretty rehearsed so you don’t accidentally put your foot in your mouth. The guy who did the Fable franchise (Peter Molyneux) was also notoriously bad about this.
Is this really the case? Can you give us some use cases where software could increase productivity in o&g that isn't being done already?

One could argue that existing software even if legacy works and gets the job done so what is to (significantly) gain from writing new (and improved) software?
To chime in, the hardware build looks like a microcontroller connected to an SPI based ethernet chip. SSH is likely not an option here.
What y'all ended up using to accept payments?
Right but chemists can detect things at vanishingly small concentrations so "detected" often provides almost no information without further context.

If you look hard enough you're very often going to find the molecule you're looking for.

Was it detected at 0.1%, 100% or 10000% of an arbitrary EPA limit? This provides at least some quantitative indication of what's going on.
I know this is an unpopular opinion, especially on HN, but it's my stance as well. I can list a dozen reasons why anonymity is desirable, but I honestly don't care. I prefer to interact with people who own what they say. It keeps the conversation far more civil. The more anonymity a forum allows, the more vitriolic the discourse. I'd prefer to interact with adults. Anonymity is a recent curse and it absolutely does not aid democracy. It doesn't even aid free speech. It enables trolls, bots, and hatemongers to drown out average people.

Downvote away.
Ya, I'm directly addressing non-conversational use of Big O notation here, including the areas of academia I'm familiar with and know people in.
>This is why fundamentally a bus or train has to beat taxi services: the amount of service provided per labor hour is potentially a lot higher.

that is looking only at one small piece of the issue. The inconvenience of the bus/train saps the time and drains mental resources from the riders which also has cost. Somewhat similar to why the A380 lost against the 787.
I don't entirely disagree with you, but what do we call the web if not distribution?
It's real easy to contrive clever little gotchas in fluffy language talking about "playing fields" but what is it that you think they've done?

Even accepting your premise that there is no longer a "level playing field", there's no legal reason to expect Google to help you publish your app anyway. Hence they have not taken or vioated any rights you think you have.
Big tech faces competition and privacy concerns in Brussels
Sure! If you already have a good math background, essentially the only thing left is to do a "bit" of numerical computing. Steven Johnson at MIT has a good course starting this (with Julia! Which is awesome and I highly recommend) [0] and, for further information, it's worth looking at some books (of which there are plenty, as far as I can tell. I studied out of Chew's Waves and Fields in Inhomogeneous Media, but this book is quite out of date and not particularly pedagogically good).

Overall, the mathematics itself is not difficult (essentially, everyone is using some simple preconditioned CG method for solving the linear problems, along with some [sometimes smart, sometimes not] meshing), but generating robust solvers is, almost universally, still an open problem. Depending on what you'd like to simulate and such, you're going to have to make use of the different properties of the operators you're working with to get really good results. We can email and I can say a little more given more details of your project/potentially guide you in a slightly better direction.

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[0] https://github.com/mitmath/18303/tree/fall16
The content is being delivered though. And everyone who bought at launch gets everything at no additional cost. That's the kind of behavior I am happy to encourage.
It may be unpopular because it's just not true. They did a demo showing procedurally generated terrain and animals that (later we learned) it was NOT procedurally generated at all.

So yeah, they promised stuff that they knew they wouldn't deliver.
The funny part is, when you ask people to back this up, they can't. I never found anyone that could point to these explicit promises. There was lots of discussion about things they'd like to add, or just talking about game development in general, but I don't remember them saying "At launch, you will get X feature" and then at launch, not having that.
Here is my advice.
NEVER EVER take advice from Indian managers. Almost all are terrible and have zero personality whatsoever. Almost all hire their own kind. South Indians are expert with this mindset (long and ugly names)

Indians have obsequious mindset and are driven by jealousy, envy, and resentment.

I know this comment won't last long or is not framed to be politically correct. But, that's the truth. There are good Indian managers, but those are far and few within.

Don't believe me? Look at any online forum and see comments posted.

This site features two Indian managers. 9 out 10 chance both are terrible.

Also, if you want to work for woman managers, work for ones above 45-50 at least. They are more mature and won't jeopardize your career. Asian woman managers (Indians too) are big no-no.

You are welcome!
So your complaint is that Google produced a better product? Or are you implying that Google is poisoning all other ecosystems?
I wouldn't trust them. One might mitigate a bit using the classic patterns against side channels: randomization and masking. I came up with an idea for randomizing execution at CPU level but the person that beat me to it patented it. Possibly something like ARINC partitioning combined with randomization plus operations similar to those that process secrets, but process fake data.

One of the simplest methods, though, is focusing the leak-proofing on the barrier between partitions handling secrets and everything else (esp w/ comms capability). Then, you just make sure you have trusted, hard-to-hack code on as much of the system as possible. No web browsers and such. Safe, system language with pointer and overflow protections along with performance hit that comes with. Otherwise, back to physical separation. I used that with KVM switch back in the day.
I don't think this is worth dwelling on given the incredible redeeming amount of effort that Hello Games' has since put into the game over the years.

But it certainly wasn't far-fetched for someone to buy the game at launch expecting some of these features: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/4y1h9i/wheres_the_no...

I think Hello Games' misstep was that they seemed to avoid clearing the pre-launch air with precise answers.
Apple doesn't automate it and it's difficult to make a case that it's better. They've certainly made errors and bad decisions. So... I'm not sure automation is to blame.

What's more, you could make an argument that any process will have an observable error rate at scale. Would we be having a different conversation in a different universe where this same post exists, but Google didn't automate? I'm not so sure.

> Creating these jobs in the USA could be done for about $10/hour,

Uh, minimum wage is $15 in most places. $10/hr isn't even above the poverty line. It's less than $20k a year pre-tax. If you're appropriating the language of socialism, at least do it in a way that doesn't fall apart to someone with mental math skills.
That was an excuse to have something on ship day because their iOS native API wasn't ready for public release.
I tried it about 8 times before I heard anything, and I only got "going to the park" before I listened to the real audio version. I also have trouble understanding people in fairly mild noise if I'm not looking at their face, so I have to wonder if those are linked somehow.
Why the hell aren't we migrating to the Fediverse (aka Mastodon) en masse ?
> There is still a web and you're free to deploy what you want there on your terms.

Except if you publish something Google disagrees with.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/1...
Its 100% OS level. I installed Linux mint on my macbook ages ago and my palms were constantly moving the mouse. I then installed fedora and it was back to working perfectly.

One thing I found interesting is you can purposely trigger the palm detection by doing something like putting your finger above the trackpad on the edge and running it slowly down.
Can someone with knowledge on the matter explain how Fuschia compares against other microkernels such as RedoxOS and QNX?
Here is my advice. NEVER EVER take advice from Indian managers. Almost all are terrible and have zero personality whatsoever. Almost all hire their own kind. South Indians are expert with this mindset (long and ugly names)
Indians have obsequious mindset and are driven by jealousy, envy, and resentment.

I know this comment won't last long or is not framed to be politically correct. But, that's the truth. There are good Indian managers, but those are far and few within.

Don't believe me? Look at any online forum and see comments posted.

This site features two Indian managers. 9 out 10 chance both are terrible.

Also, if you want to work for woman managers, work for ones above 45-50 at least. They are more mature and won't jeopardize your career. Asian woman managers (Indians too) are big no-no.

You are welcome!
Funny, it reminded me of the Plinko board from The Price is Right [0]. Strangely, this is almost exactly how I explain to myself in dumbed-down terms (armchair-quantum-physicising over here) of how quantum computation might actually work. I never imagined it could actually be mapped to a physical structure.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plinko
Children also need to get acquainted with the concept of scarcity if you don’t want them to become spoiled.

Limiting their options between “no games at all” or “the few games that Apple provides” is a good way to teach them that particular lesson.

Anyway, you can always gift them the popular game on a special date like their birthday or Christmas.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/4y1h9i/wheres_the_no...

There are others like this, it was just the first result on Google.

I think comments like yours really just short-change Hello Games for the sheer amount of progress they've made and the difficulty of the challenge they faced in doing something as hard as winning back the gaming community.
So far, the law has been doing everything it can to make these problems worse.

The DMCA outsourced due process for copyright infringement.

SOSTA did it for illegal advertising (really, for policing morals, in general, but even the title of the bill agrees it was outsourcing sex trafficking law enforcement to private entities).

The CLOUD act did it for illegal domestic searches and also foreign espionage.

Caveat emptor — the big internet companies that lobbied so hard for these bills (or built businesses on them) got some short term platform lock-in, but they also guaranteed that their business models would be morally reprehensible moving forward.

We’re starting to see the fall out with Facebook, but they are not the only bad actor in this space.
Especially considering your average user already has a phone number and its basically free to verify. It only has a cost for spammers.
David vs. Goliath: Nauru Rejects'one China'recognizes Taiwan as Nation
I've only ever been impressed with mass transit in megacities like NYC. SF public transit left a lot to be desired. The muni was not worth the hassle and I did not have a bart station near my rented room in a house.
Good points. I do think car ownership might be different because it's a depreciating asset with a limited lifetime of use. I think real estate and buildings, that lifetime can be significantly longer...

It'll be interesting to see how this all works out for a lot of this generation "tech" companies.
I can't wait for someone like noclip to tell the story of this game's rise and fall and rise again. They pulled this out of the ashes of one of the worst launches ever and now it's a huge success
> Short of fining employers for each employee that doesn't get a transit pass through the employer, there isn't much cities can do to curb this.

Rather than fining employers for failure to get a transit pass for each employee, they could tax them per employee and just issue the transit passes.
i've lived in manhattan since 1993.

never underestimate the stupidity of people in large groups with guaranteed income , i.e. bureaucracy.

having been a cyclist my wholelife, since childhood. i have no faith in the government to implement sensible policy. i have faith in them to tax more. and more , and more. uber and lyft have been DISASTERS for new york, but they were inevitable because of the disaster that was the method by which the tlc was creating artificial scarcity in the yellow tax licensing system.

and congestion pricing? no. it won't work. it wont' make the city more liveable or better. it's just a cash grab plain and simple.
It's unclear. Depending on the fabrication constraints/robustness constraints they added to the inverse design procedure (which they don't really mention in the paper), it could be either extremely robust or extremely sensitive. Generally, in terms of measurements, if the conditions are controlled, it's pretty easy to get small noise (especially in the case where these devices are so large, as is their wavelength) relative to most perturbations that happen in the lab. Overall, this is not really mentioned in the paper (unless I missed it), so I'm afraid I can't give you a direct answer on what they do, just that it is possible (via this method) to design a device which is relatively robust to these changes.
That's great to hear and exactly why the article exists. I'd say the DAFX papers are the best rabbit hole in this field: http://ant-s4.unibw-hamburg.de/dafx/paper-archive/search.php...

(And this is not entirely derailing the thread, since many of these papers are full of block diagrams, and a tool to generate nice DSP diagrams from text would be pretty useful)
If a drunk driver hits somebody, I'm not going to admire them for pulling over and doing all they can to help. Yes, it's the right thing to do - but they wouldn't be in that situation if not for their own harmful behavior to begin with.
> Belated edit: More like ~10^81 times the speed of light.

I have no grounding in physics on which to place this hunch but... doesn't this sound like a wee fudge factor to make the Big Bang theory fit evidence?

I am reminded of the concept of "aether" and "land bridge theory" where people had a workable hypothesis except for the niggly little problem that the hypothesis was contraindicated by some of the evidence.
For powershell:

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Most of the advancement that leads to actual profit increase is in analytics right now. Getting more out of data before investing heavily.
What's the State of Free Speech on Campus? We Asked Canadian Academics
"If you, as an author, want to spark an intelligent discussion on your product than do just that, present the points you want to debate while allowing some freedom for that noise since it isn't always useless.

Instead of: "Hey HN, I just wrote a badass new streaming protocol" and linking to the github source, specifically mention your concerns about continuing to rely on TCP for video streaming and the buffering lag it induces, link to a blog-ish thing which links to your source but frames a number of questions or doubts you have around your project if you, indeed, are at a loss and want to turn to the internet as a whole to try and solve them."
I'm one of the leads for docs. We've got an issue open for the blog CSS: https://github.com/kubernetes/website/issues/13412
Can anyone with insight into the games industry explain the financials of dedicating years to adding material to a failed title for free? How do they make enough new revenue from new customers that wouldn't otherwise pick it up to justify the cost of creating all of the new features and material?
I've been playing it regularly since launch.
This basically just came across as a GNU/linux hit piece. In my admittedly really limited knowledge wouldn't multiple vectors into the kernel introduce more surface area for attackers? The other problem with this is when is Google going to get bored with it and move on to something else? If they are willing to jettison Android they are willing to jettison anything. Also the line about GNU/linux only caring about servers seems to ignore the amazing amount of work that's gone into KDE, Gnome, Ubuntu, Kali Linux, Mint, etc. all of which are desktop focused and in the past few years have really started to catch up feature wise. Yes obviously there are still issues, and realistically there always will be issues. Windows and MacOS/iOS have issues with thousands of paid programmers why wouldn't a distro built by hundred of part time workers with only a portion of them paid to work just on the OS?
Thank you for the link, I bookmarked it to read more in detail. You're right, that's a nice overview of the features. I've always felt the need to learn more about accessibility (and regularly apply it to what I build). This looks great for the purpose.

I found in the browser preferences that I'd checked "Prevent accessibility services from accessing your browser". I had to uncheck it to be able to enable the Accessibility Inspector. Will be exploring it more.
I appreciate the pointer! Yup, indeed, I'd checked "Prevent accessibility services from accessing your browser". I had to uncheck it to be able to enable the Accessibility Inspector.
Sounds like a white-hat stuff to me - probing the security and reporting found vulnerabilities to owners. Genuinely curious - why do you write it like this a bad thing? As long as they don't exploit what they find, of course.

Better let good-intended actors do that before ill-intended actors do the same.
For a young teenager back then those were hard. For a mid-late 20 year old today they're still hard.

I wonder what sort of questions one would ask to implement such a age verification scheme these days. Ask, "what does AOL stand for?" or, "which one of the following audio clips is 'the dial-up tone'?". Or how about "what is a 'hanging-chad'?". Heck that last one doesn't even work anymore, there are 18 years today born after the 2000 election... I'm getting old.

Although I guess Google and widespread internet adoption has rendered this kind of age verification useless.
I started the same way you did ~15yrs ago. I first learned JS, then PHP (this remains useful: the other way around would only allow you to generate static pages). PHP is a mature language today, you can get very far by learning frameworks such as Lavarel. Needless to say, also for JS there are huge frameworks with famous names you already heard off. There are people who do frontend programming only nowadays. This wasn't the same 15yrs ago.

I really recommend you not to get too attracted by AngularJS and friends. Proceed with learning programming basics: Back in my days, I made the step of the popular "P" scripting languages: PHP, Perl, Python. Then, in mid 2000, the "LAMP" stack was the thing: Linux, Apache, MySQL, one of the P languages. I learned all of this, and Linux was an eye opener.

Today, LAMP might be really old fashioned, but Linux is not, and SQL is also fresh and young as it has been 40 years ago. Make the step towards Linux, it will change the way how you percieve computing and especially programming. This is also true if you want to stick to web development -- a number of modern age utilities are written as command line utilities which you can only really easily and quickly make use of with Mac OS X or Linux (thinking of preprocessors and server side compilers).
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Jimquisition does a good video on the promises and vagueness of Hello Games prior and after release [1], so I would have to disagree. The link provides video footage of Sean Murray stating things. I'm happy with what it's become, but I also recognize what it was.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2qKAX_QaoI