skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iCalendar (the Mac app, not the underlying representation) gets this badly wrong. It assumes that all events on the calendar are bound to the time zone that the computer was in when the event was entered. This is decidedly not the Right Thing when I travel. If I schedule an event for 7 AM, what I invariably mean is 7 AM in the local time zone where I am going to be on the day of the event, not on the day that I enter the event.

The upshot is that if I travel and change my Mac's clock to local time, all of my events get screwed up. The first time this happened I nearly had a heart attack because I have years of history in my calendar. So I always leave my Mac's clock set to my home time zone and do the conversion in my head.
So is the Scottish independence movement now forbidden on Facebook?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separatism_in_the_United_Kingd...
I'm curious to know how you use tone.js in a creative way, as I have seen it as a framework for developing musical apps, not a creative tool in itself. Also, do you sync the hardware devices with js stuff, if so how?
Forget Photoshop. Adobe Is a Marketing Company Now
There's no way to secretly test these weapons.

To be clear, I'm not objecting to the weapons existence. I'm objecting to the tests, which are potentially worse than above-ground nuclear testing. The kessler syndrome, if realized, would permanently destroy our ability to deploy, access, and use space resources.
You can just add Discover Weekly to your list of play lists if that is helpful for you. I do that for DW and my Release Radar.
> Its because its not allowed, we either have a list of protected groups - or a general rule that forbids banning anyone because of their 'group'.

It's the former. There is no law, at least in the US, that forbids banning people from private property for group membership in general.
Perfect is the enemy of good.

I know this but I keep ignoring it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is a computer science award, nobody is claiming that AI will revolutionize the fields you mention (which are at best loosely related to CS). It doesn't have to be useful literally everywhere to have value.
How to Read Someone Social Activities Without Letting Them Know?
I do think, though he wrote many novels in English, he drew much inspiration from the wellsprings of the Russian tradition.
Company towns were a bizarre (and, arguably, pathological) special case in American history.

Social media in the late 20-teens were a bizarre (and, arguably, pathological) special case in world history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAIP6fI0NAI
There is no "another networking driver" in containers. It's the same networking driver.
Yes, so long as they aren't breaking the incitement to violence clause.
> usability over being 1mm thinner

thinner unfortunately wins every time.
I would LOVE to have something on my glasses! Even just something to tell me I'm in the same room. My prescription is powerful enough that I need them, generally, but weak enough that I take them off often at home. This also means I lose them a lot and I can never quite seem to remember which room I was in when I removed them. :)
I still have to select the sub-expression whose value I wish to inspect. This involves precisely aiming the cursor at text, which is a lot of mental burden (x millions).

A task I thank the developer who creates a variable to hold such a reference, for it creates a much better experience.
That's fair. It was mainly the constraints of the medium that lead to ideas such as rock operas. Now that the constraints of physical storage are lifted we've seen new concepts.
Yeah but in fact almost no one solo Qs.
Wow, that doesn't sound great. Hope he at least has some job satisfaction?
It's gatifying as a spotify user to think maybe someday soon there could be a population of artists that make a reasonable living uploading their own music and sustaining their efforts without the need for merch, marketing, or touring -- instead just quietly subsisting on doing something they love doing.
How is it much different from monopolistic digital 'company towns'?
people are willing to sacrifice privacy for convenience or they are ignorant of the sacrifice itself.
> There was an iPhone, an iPad, a MacBook Air, and a MacBook Pro. If you wanted the experience of an Apple phone, you bought an iPhone. You didn't go around asking if you should buy an Xr, Xs, or X, 9, 7, or iPhone googol. You went to the store and bought an iPhone. The product categories were clear. The vision behind them was clearer. Everything just made sense. And it worked too!

But back then, people were complaining that there weren't enough choices. A lot of people wanted a bigger phone than the single iPhone size, but at the same time a lot of people would have stopped using iPhones if the single product offering grew to the Xs MAX size.

While I do miss the simplicity of the choices, I'm one of those people who most likely would have switched to Android if I couldn't get a small iPhone. I think the one flavor of MacOS is the most important place where they should offer just one model, and fortunately they still do.
I believe you, but intention isn't enough. How you frame such a question has the largest impact on what responses emerge.

The combo of a low-information comment, a pejorative, and a divisive topic is going to be a flamebait cocktail regardless of anything else.
> Of course! But when China says you're free to discuss the Free Tibet movement in any other country but China, we rightly call it censorship. What makes this any different?

If you talk about a Free Tibet in China, you risk having your legs broken and your family put in camps.

If you violate Facebook's ToS, you might get banned from their website. Then you can just type literally any other website into your address bar and be on your way.
The tools for Java are greate (try C++ if you disagree).

It's the code that is the problem here.
Scoop: Silicon Valley VC out after hiring disgraced college “coach”
How does one judge if Salesforce didn't take the profit from Backpage using its product to help fund the PR campaign against its shady practices? If that was the case, is it still immoral?
As a non-white person living in America, this is scary to see. It's a policy targeting a specific race of people's content... How is that not racist?
It will only foment more resentment and retaliatory sentiment while serving to make "certain kinds of racism" socially acceptable as long as it's the "right race" to discriminate against.
Ban ethno-nationalists if you feel so inclined, not {{insertRaceHere}} nationalism. Otherwise this is a slippery slope to head down
Smart stuff and fun:

"Did you though, or did you just scroll down here?"
While I totally agree with this, I think it’s none the less an example of becoming just another part of the economy rather than being s special part of the economy.

I.e. tech is mainstream and diffuse and not as niche as it used to be in its own economic orbit.
The YouTube music equivalent of Discover Weekly is probably the "Mixtape" feature (with the main difference being repeats from your listening history are allowed which is convenient in the case of the offline Mixtape feature). A lot of my discovery comes from the new releases view on mobile and desktop. Sometimes I'm one of the first people to view newly released songs from artists I've never heard of. Which makes me think they can't be doing it all by some sort of cross referencing of listening habits to recommend songs that other people with similar tastes to mine liked. Maybe they do actually have a complex neural network trained on my listening history that can do decently well in deciding what I would like. I do actively like and dislike songs and have been doing so for years so that may be why it's working so well for me.
I started loving Physics with Marathi translation of this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Entertainment-Yakov-Perelman/...
At least in the United States, it is the power dynamic that differentiates White Nationalism. White nationalists and their ideology have penetrated the Senate, the White House, and our police force to name just a few places of power. This has huge and potentially violent consequences for non-Whites in the U.S. and needs to be take more seriously. We have seen historical manifestations of this from slavery to contemporary voter discrimination. Rote quotation of the First Amendment ignores this and we need to change our policies to keep everybody safe.
Are black nationalist ideas up for debate? Who gave you the power to decide what is up for debate?
Replaced mbp with a loaded T580. Fantastic keyboard, runs Linux well. Sadly, the Mac trackpad is far superior.
I don't think by "new cities" he meant starting a new city in an empty field. Take an existing, small, cheap city and go there.

The thing stopping us is the network effects of big cities and tech hubs, but Austin is an example of relatively sudden, rapid growth. (Oil may have played a part, but in recent years it's been tech. My perception is that the oil jobs are in Houston.)

Could we take ten cities that look like Austin circa 1980 and turn them into Austin today rather than continuing to cram into NYC and SF? Would that be better (by whatever metrics we care about)?
Pompeii ‘fast food’ bar unearthed in ancient city after 2k years
Not only that but this also enables offline attacking of the password. If you can compromise the Keybase server and grab the encrypted passwords, you can then attack it at your leisure with whatever computing power you can scrounge up, over whatever time duration you want. And when you break it, as long as any of the included devices are still on the account, you'd have complete access to everything.

Requiring existing devices to be actively involved in provisioning a new device prevents all of this.
They should be able to ban whatever they want, as long as it isn't a protected class. So unless you can prove it was done with racial animus, sure.
The group of SV CEOs has a disturbing combination of 1) too much uniformity of viewpoint, 2) too much power over discourse, and 3) too much collusive inter-communication. This combination is highly disturbing.

EDIT: Given their uniformity of viewpoint and their power, I would expect a moral, intellectually honest, and highly self-aware of such powerful people to act with forbearance and not attempt to use their power to coerce the public. They should be seeking the consent of the weaker. They should be concerned about the consent of the governed.

Instead, they are revealing just what they think of the rest of us.

Manipulation is not a substitute for consent!
On the other hand, a website doesn't need to be a good business proposition to be a good platform. In fact some might say being a good business proposition is outright opposed to the values needed in a good platform.

(In case it's unclean, I don't think Voat or the .chans are good platforms either.)
> The vast majority of both conservatives and liberals are passive about the vast majority of issues.

While this might be true, it doesn't necessarily mean that the views held by conservatives and liberals as a whole are comparable.

I cannot for the life of me imagine someone being called a pro-racist liberal, it just doesn't compute. But someone who looks the other way and claims to be conservative? Sure, plenty of those folks to go around.

> The conservative side definitely does not include "arguing with people on voat" as a platform.

While true, I think the author recognizes that sadly conservatism doesn't often include anti-racism in its platform which is what my comment was trying to highlight.
This is the main reason why recommended content just doesn’t work for me. Youtube, spotify, and many other services try to be clever but are just really dumb.
Please stop doing nationalistic flamewar on HN. The denunciatory rhetoric you've been invoking in this thread has no role in the kinds of conversations we're looking for here—it's a different sort of game, for a different sort of website. Since you're an experienced HN user, I'm sure you know this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Are you asking about my personal opinion, or about what the law currently says?

Telecoms are regulated, which is why they can't do things like that. If we want to have the same thing apply to social media then we need to regulate social media to do so. Depending on a court precedent that has already been deemed by other cases not to apply to tech companies isn't going to work- legislation needs to happen.
I've found that the new "made for you" playlists has superseded discover weekly.

I have "work music" (ambient, house, instrumental), "work out music" (hip-hop mostly) and "music I actually listen to". The made for you playlists seem to auto-organize pretty well into those categories.

I've also found that creating custom playlists and using the "recommended songs" that pop up at the bottom works pretty well.

But I agree, it would be nice to have an "ignore this type of [song/genre] when auto creating playlists" option would be nice.
It's an ideology and it doesn't in it's essence include any form of violent action at least according to ex their US leader.

There are however idiots who support that ideology who end up spewing their hateful crap out on the internet and in forums.

Those are two very different things and unfortunately people who are otherwise smart people like here on HN aren't able to separate the two which is why I am being downvoted simply suggesting it's not that simple.

ISIS ideology is about killing the infidels and actually doing it, White Nationalism as an ideology about the survival of the white race. Look it up on wikipedia and you will find that it's not the same as the idiots who spew their hateful crap.
Where does Keybase use SMS authentication?
Java applets and Flash are dead. WASM isn't.
> we could have a separate platform from the browser for running web applications, and lose the need for the browser to support applications.

Yes. And the benefit of that is that it building a new WASI implementation is almost certainly going to be much easier than building a new web browser currently is. If web browsers were to revert to being simple hypertext renderers, then those would be orders of magnitude easier to implement as well.

> Users are often coerced into giving up unnecessary permissions

How is that different from the web?

> and they have less control over the user experience (can't block ads or change styles).

If I have control over who the WASI VM can and cannot talk to, I can block ads using exactly the same mechanism that is used today. Styling would depend on precisely what interface ends up in common use to render graphics for WASI applications, it is totally possible to style native widgets or something like QT/GTK. You can't style anything that uses a canvas regardless.
Mint for work and personal
Still develop Windows Software in a VM
Biggest downside to the Lenovo X1 Carbon is you can't buy it without an OS. You have to pay the Microsoft tax even though it works well with Linux drivers.
Paper claims to have found an efficient algorithm for multiplying large numbers
> Historically, when it's done by force, it doesn't work so well for the rest of society in the long term, either.

The French Revolution seems to have worked out reasonably well in the long term; the short-to-intermediate term, perhaps not as much.
That would almost certainly require them to be snooping on their customers' data, which would be a whole other scandal.
Why do we always go from one extreme to the other. Mongo is great at handling large volumes of schema-less data. Relational database are great at connecting two datasets.

If you are just using one table with two fields (id/value and value contains a json object that changed) for logging perhaps a relational database isn't the right choice. Redis might be better / mongo might be better depending on what comes next.

Let's stop the next cycle where everyone moves to postgres for everything only to throw it away for the next thing. I was using postgres in 2008 and it was great.. why did it take until 2019 for everyone else to discover? We are in the peak postgres cycle. I hope it doesn't get disgarded when the serverless hype kicks into gear.
It doesn't make a difference for the newer keyboard style. The space between the keycap and the board is so small that it's very hard to blow anything out.
> and this allows bad behavior to go unpunished and uncondemed.

This is interesting, I haven't quite heard this before. What examples of bad behavior go unpunished or un-condemned beacuse of special treatment to a minority group?
Safari doesn't run on Linux and hasn't supported Windows in a long time. Opera and Edge have or are switching to be Chromium based. iOS doesn't allow apps to implement performant browser engines so they all skin Safari.

Technically you could load Firefox, Chrome, and Safari on Mac but Firefox and Chrome have wildly different performance on the same hardware running on Mac vs Windows.

So in short no, there aren't really any useful comparisons to be had beyond what arewefastyet currently has.
Just hit "command space" and start typing the application name you want to start. then "return" to start it. I stopped using the doc many years ago to launch. Occasionally its useful for dragging files into an editor or such.

There was an app called "quick silver" https://qsapp.com
was a similar keyboard launcher.
there were also many people who were absent or "absent". they can easily be swung
The main problem I have with discovery weekly now is that I primarily use Spotify for the gym but during the day I like to listen to a work playlist that mostly consists of non-vocal electronica.

So because I spend so much time listening to the work playlist it's began to influence the music on my Discover Weekly which I used to use to curate new hip-hop/metal music for the gym. It would be nice if Spotify gave you finer control over the type of music that hits your Discover Weekly because it really would suggest good music for me occasionally.
Let me guess, they'll do it with a total lack of transparency and accountability, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzlPhxf4Rd0 ?
I've been using an X1 Yoga (1st gen) for almost 3 years and it's been great as well. I would probably go Carbon next time as I don't use the yoga function that often. But I don't think I could switch to anything else after using this laptop keyboard (and if it breaks I can just replace it myself).
> That's very ignorant to say that attention or convolution is anywhere close to the expressivity of RNNs(LSTM).

But that's exactly the point of the Transformer model, with a paper aptly titled "Attention is all you need" [1]. And the Bert architecture, based in this idea, seems to be doing well. And they claim to be bery flexible, too[2].

Maybe that's what you meant with "unless you brutely search over hundreds of hyperparameters configs", but then again, isn't that what NNs are about anyway?

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805
By all means Facebook can decide to be a publisher if they wish. That does mean though that they shouldn't be able to hide behind DMCA safeharbor. If they want to prioritize content they need to accept the responsibility that comes along with it.
And he did a good thing with that. Calvin and Hobbes never wanted for quality. We wouldn’t still consider it great literature if it had gone the way of Peanuts or, God forbid, Garfield.

It shows he was smart on another level than being just a great cartoonist.
> Why do Coca-Cola and Pepsico have >60% of the soft drink market?

Well, this one is probably simple: government. I'm unsure whether it would be copyright, or trademark infringement, but if you release a product that tastes exactly like coke or pepsi, you'll probably find yourself in expensive litigation.
I agree with that entirely. In fact, you can take it one step further and say that it is essential for freedom. One of the huge hurdles for many people leaving their jobs is health insurance. The other is money. If people don't need to worry about their health, and have enough for food and shelter, now companies need to directly compete on job quality, because workers don't feel compelled to work SOMEWHERE.

And while I see his point that it's funneling more money to the top, I think that's also missing the point that someone needs to pay for all this universal basic income...and that's probably the people at the top...
That's what I get for figuring this out by eye.
If your website's registered userbase is 1/4 of the population of the entire planet, then yes, that's what we're telling you.

It's no longer _your_ free speech.
The problem with public vote records is that people may be incentivized financially or coerced via threat to vote a certain way. The bad actor in this situation can verify with public record if the victim followed through.

Somehow I think this is less of a threat than our "black box" vote tallies, but it is valid.
Binary Indexed Tree (easy to code data structure similar to a segment tree)
Not if all these heterogenous procurement processes end up buying from the same 3 vendors.
* it's still a value judgement about particular content. The decision really can't be made on an abstract "free speech" basis.*

In other words, they abrogated the Free Speech rights of others by imposing their own values.

Free Speech also includes the right to hear. If there are those who would want to hear/read the speech which is being de-platformed, then by definition, Free Speech has been interrupted.
I'm not a citizen of an EU member state. But from an outside perspective, a significant number of MEPs "accidentally voting the wrong way" seems to indicate a severe and systemic problem with the European Parliament.

Failure of one the fundamental
mechanisms of representative democratic government calls into question the legitimacy of that government, and of that system of government.

This is ammunition for the advocates of illiberal systems.
Can I tell you about the most amazing side business I’ve ever heard of?
Another thing Microsoft tries to ruin
Took them long enough. Guess it had to come to accidentally causing a regime change in a major world power that ends up being bad for everyone involved.

You get zero points, Facebook. And everyone who works for Facebook.
You're the first to point that one out! Nice catch!
I lived in a rent-controlled apartment in the 1980s and it was impossible to get the landlord to fix anything (i.e. invest in anything) regardless of what the laws said (this was Cambridge, MA, and the usual junk grad student apartments next to campus). He wasn't going to get any additional rent for anything put into the building.

In fact his best option was to let the block decay and become uninhabitable so he could pull it down, put up something better, and rent out at market rates to new tenants. A few years back I drove down the street and guess what: the buildings on that street had clearly been built since I graduated.
I wanted to provide a different answer from many of those "glad I left" answers here. I sympathize with those "keep the physics brain alive" goals of other commenters.

Physics undergrad (2015) with thesis in nonlinear dynamics, but have done research in astro. Always wanted to do GR-related research.

Landed an awesome job in quantitative finance where I write computational code (distributed computation) for various purposes (researching markets, analyzing risk, etc.). Job is interesting - but not "capital I" Interesting in the same way that physics was. I guess that is part of the trade-off.

I'm considering going back to academia - especially in light of the G-wave phenomena finally having sizeable datasets to analyse in recent years - its getting increasingly difficult to keep my studies of physics/math at "hobby" level.

Interested to hear if anyone else out there has "gone back".