skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me clever is when someone is facing some problem and comes up with clever solution. Something that for example reduces complexity from O(n^2) to O(n) due to some smart idea. But I agree that elegant is another quality which can be added to the list :)
I just moved from the USA to the UK. It was shocking how much better the consumer banking system is here.

With 10 seconds of typing on my phone, I set up my standing rent payment to my landlord (which would have been too much money to use Chase's QuickPay at home). I gave my gym and utilities my account number and sort code and they can (with my permission, which I can revoke any time without talking to them) bill me regularly. I recorded a little video of me holding my passport and a scan of it, and that was sufficient ID for them to give me a new account. For everything under £30, I just tap my wallet on the little terminal. For everything over, they bring a terminal to me and I type my PIN. I never have to give up my card to anyone for any reason.

It's a pretty low bar to get over, but Monzo is definitely the best bank I've ever had. The US consumer banking system sucks by comparison.
Works as expected so far: Facebook recognizes Edge as Chrome, Chrome Experiments are working and also the memory footprint caught finally up with Chrome. ;)

Besides the irony, I think this is a cool and the right move from MS.
> I'm not opposed to discriminating against future renters.

Note that in the typical case the "future renters" are the kids of the current renters....
If you like Mint -- and I do -- please consider supporting the devs through a one-time donation or a Patreon monthly commitment: https://www.patreon.com/linux_mint/overview
Thank you! I'm going for a pastel-like palette individual to each top level directory, if you poke around a bit. Website is still in early stages, so colors aren't fully thought out yet, but I'm very glad to hear you like it.
I know Kurzweil's a bit of a crank but thought the hypothesis that solar output will double every two years interesting as a comparison to the recent "Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonize" discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19592771

I'd give better odds to an exponential take off of solar than a load of new nukes.
Seniority, as a Measure to Increasingly Undefined Problems
I applaud what Apple is doing. I prefer airpods any day over their 3.5 mm jack counterpart and I appreciate a waterproof phone. Sure it is annoying that they can run out of battery and lightning is unnecessary now USB-C is here; but I guess it is a transition.
Thank you very much for Bleve! It was useful for me on a few projects. And, do not be afraid to break things in the future major version, modules are handling that nicely.
I remember many years ago a bad batch of dell small form factor machines that constantly failed to popped capacitors. It would always be near the power supply where the heat was greatest. I guess in that certain area the capacitors were outside of their operating range...

Nevertheless, as a bored 16 year old, I enjoyed ripping apart all the machines and calling the higher level support lines to order replacement motherboards.

As time went on, they took my word on if a machine had failed due to this specific issue. I really enjoyed the responsibility and trust. Since I could fix the machines faster than Dells support turnaround, I just asked them to send the parts.

After about the hundredth machine, I never wanted to seat a processor again. This was back when processors had hundreds of fragile pins too!

It’s likely that those experiences really pushed me towards software development instead of IT. Good times...
That's going to happen regardless, and people have been doing that with written works since the first writing appeared.

However, the technique used to rely more on supernatural than "fake logic". It was more like, "Deity X says you are bad, and thus must be smitten." But replace Deity X with Hannity or Bill Maher and you get mostly the same thing.
NuCypher and IPFS – A user owned file sharing app
I suppose if you want to get laid infrequently (or you're attractive enough for bad messages to work) then this is the best solution.
> Iraq is an interesting example because we only found out it was false after the fact.

Negative on this one.

Everyone knew this was fake beforehand. Colin Powell almost got laughed out of UN for the “evidence” he presented.

Everyone who was paying attention could tell this was 100% a propaganda-piece.
I used to have a blog that ran on Wordpress (3.0 was I think the current version at the time, this was a while ago) with the APC plugin, served via Apache. An article hit HN and it fell over.

Some time later I had migrated to blogofile and nginx and made it to HN again, the server barely noticed.
@scarface74 Let us know what you need. We have about a dozen more coming out within the next week.
That's a pretty cool approach! Thanks for sharing! ;-)
From Asylum Seeker to Fields Medal Winner at Cambridge
Cryonics Magazine Archive
Having done both art painting with acrylic and building painting with acrylic-based paints, I don't know that I completely agree that art acrylics are better for wall coating than wall paints. No small part of the higher price for art acrylics vs wall paint acrylics is the pigment density. A blue that looks back into you when you look at it can be entirely appropriate for artistic work. Or, if it's not supposed to be the blue that's looking into your soul, you can mix that cobalt blue with a mars yellow to get the exactly correct shade green needed, because you're never going to get the green you want using a phthalo green as your base. Most people neither want nor need the intensity of color, nor the color flexibility that comes with art paints when it comes to their wall colors.

Additionally, art acrylics are typically very thick, to allow the artist a high degree of flexibility in application density, a flexibility that's just not needed for wall application. You correctly note that labor is the major cost for house repair. In light of that, it strikes me as silly to buy a bunch of extra-thick art paint and take the time to thinning it down the the appropriate consistency for wall application, instead of just buying a volume of paint that was already at the appropriate viscosity.

An acrylic-latex intended for outdoor use is going to be formulated to account for the fact that exterior surfaces see wider temperature swings in the summer and winter, and will be more flexible in its final cured form, reducing the flaking and cracking caused by the temperature-driven expansion and contraction that comes with the seasons. The formulation is also likely to account for the greater UV exposure its going to have outside. If you try to coat the exterior of your house with art paints, you're going to be spending a lot more money, it it might not last as long than if you used a paint intended for the purpose.

Now, if your goal in either scenario is art or aesthetics, than that's a completely separate discussion. If you want the wall of your house that faces the local park to be a mural highlighting fundamental truths of the human condition, more power to you. Though, in that case, you might do better to eschew pre-forumlated paints entirely, and instead buy the raw outdoor-use formulated resins and pigments yourself, and mix as appropriate.

> The last time I let my university landlord paint my apartment, it took days to clear the furniture, and I was instructed to do no paint prep. There were peels coming down from the ceiling. The painters exploited this "paint is glue" theory by painting under the peels and pushing them flat. I channeled my desire to kill them on the spot by politely escorted them out in mid-job and never letting anyone paint for me again.

Okay, that's just sloppy work. I'd have wanted to kill them too. When I was painting commercially, if I or my supervisors had caught anyone doing that, said slacker would be off the crew permanently.
So that you don't reply to things I'm not saying, here's a summary:

I replied to someone saying his/her teenaged relative didn't have time for old stuff and didn't care about it by saying that living in the present, without caring about past or future or how long things will endure is typical teenage thinking. It's what they are known for. This teenager will grow up and eventually mature and care about old stuff and feel nostalgic about stuff.

Things I'm NOT saying:

- Everything old is better.

- Calving & Hobbes (or insert your favorite comic here) is not readily available.

- Teenagers should like old comics or music.

- Teenage thought is wrong (it's only abnormal if you're a grown up and still think and behave as if you were 15). Otherwise, it's an absolutely normal part of growing up.

- That there is anything to complain about, instead of this simply being an observation about life, youth and aging.
The Carbon Brief Profile: Australia
Briffault's Law:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaFJ18aENkc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W6wvHSMmzY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqSCRnrq5I0

Some more:

"More" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud3PgQ_y170
"No Eligible Men" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTxP7fPMnK4
"Seeing the hook" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv4jnWYCuEs
"Remaining unplugged" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KfQIEAGqhg
"Hiding in morals" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBslYOWiJlI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnWV4Yy6dOs

But hey, it may be just porn and videogames after all... who knows...
Appengine could be a great example.
> The purpose is to reduce manufacturing cost and complexity

This argument doesn’t hold water for me because successive generations of iPhones have only become more complex. The X family has a tiny Kinect in the display!

The theory about pushing people to wireless makes much more sense if you look 5 years down the road and see e.g. an Apple Watch and some kind of AR accessory (or even AirPods and Siri as the AR accessory...) as the primary mobile compute devices, which everyone and their brother assumes is what Apple is trending toward.
- The lifetime rating of the capacitor is at nominal ripple current and frequency at a given temperature. Exceeding current or temperature or dissipation (due to higher frequency loading) generally reduces life time by a power law. Conversely, lower stresses generally improves life time manyfold.

- Cheap electrolytics will barely meet their spec and will surely not meet their life time.

- No reason for a consumer good to last longer than the average hours used during the warranty period.

High-quality, generously dimensioned electrolytics (that aren't plagued by particular defects) will last many decades.
Modifying Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts
A majority of consumers do not expect Google to track their activities
Seealso: IntelliCode for Visual Studio.
Agreed, but corporate security is also not out at the bar on a Friday. One would hope that facilities security folks would at a minimum be briefing people, but that stuff costs money, and probably doesn't happen as much as it should.
This is definitely better than nothing.

I personally prefer a bit more so that It looks good on my old crappy phone with far fewer than 600px wide. water.css is great.
> Taxes are the same here in Norway as is in Australia

Is that true? Norway has a 78% tax on profits from the oil companies.
There's more CSS on the page than that though.

And it doesn't look great everywhere. At 375px-wide the line-length of the text is ~35 characters, optimal would be 50--70.
It's definitely an interesting read; I find myself both agreeing and disagreeing with Graham - sometimes on the same thought or idea being presented.

I'm not sure what that means for me personally.
That's the thing about bankruptcy, there's no further to fall.
Holy shit. With all the other reasons to consider abandoning Google the one thing I've held on to is the depth and reliability of their search results. I just assumed they would never abandon their core strength in this area.

This might be the straw for my personal camel's back.
This is the best CSS/design tutorial I've seen, thank you for sharing.
An attempt of mine from many years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3559904

It’s a hard space to define and navigate, as the comments indicate.
oh wow, I took her class at JHU. she's awesome!
Who gets to determine the need?

I've lived, though as a child, in a place where housing was distributed "by need" -- the USSR, though even then in the 80s things were liberalizing some. It was, in retrospect, a horrible combination of corruption, underinvestment in housing, and what would in the modern West be considered terrible living conditions.
A modern take on Mao's little red book and the Red Guards.
This is not going to end well.
This is one of the major reasons, where so many decent electronics are being consigned to the scrap-heap due to the most innocuous reasons and there are avenues available to bring them back to life.

https://www.avforums.com/threads/yamaha-rxv1700-power-proble...
Murder is a federal crime: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1111#a
Federal murder may be prosecuted separately and in addition to state murder, without double jeopardy applying. The same is true for military jurisdiction.

The only issue is whether there is federal jurisdiction over the murder. As the crime resulting in the killing was deemed to be within federal jurisdiction, that would seem to imply such a murder was within federal jurisdiction.
Amazon is even worse.
Here is a real-world example built using this project. It's a full Chat Application:

https://github.com/serverless-components/RealtimeApp/tree/ma...

You can deploy this example. It contains a Create React App front-end and it uses DynamoDB on the back-end to keep track of who is connected to the Chat Application.
DuckDuckGo.com is my daily driver.
How does this compare to full text search in Postgres?
Most browsers eliminating option to turn off “hyperlink auditing”
I think those NAZI SSIDs are indicative of your friend's neighbors as well.
> Actively telling guests "We don't have hidden cameras" has got to be extremely off-putting

It reminds me of, when I've been road-tripping, seeing billboards advertising "clean restrooms." I never know what to do with that info - trust it? Be more cautious of other places that don't advertise the cleanliness of their restrooms?
> "Yes, the cost is obfuscated, just like every marketing cost of every commercial company is obfuscated."

The cost of marketing for a normal business is built into the price of the product. How is that obfuscated?
> under capitalism reproductive activities emerge that are primarily carried out by women

Those reproductive activities can be viewed across the near entirety of the animal kingdom.

And the societal "value dissociation" of child-rearing is not a product of capitalism. Across large communities, the value of child rearing is mostly realized within the context of a family unit. That just means that to entities outside of the family unit, the caring for the child has very little value. That's not to say that the general wellbeing of children across the society has no collective value to those within, which is why most people support access to education, child protective services, and things of this nature. Within a family unit, however, the person handling the child-rearing is of substantial value.

Your claim seems to be that:

1.) capitalism results in the dissociation of value for reproductive activities

2.) capitalism results in these activities primarily being carried out by women

3.) therefore, capitalism is responsible for assigning women a role and simultaneously undervaluing it

If this is not your claim, and please note that it is extremely difficult to actually discern a logical position from the text provided, please feel free to clarify.

If that IS your claim, then I would suggest that my counter is that:

1.) Capitalism only undervalues child-rearing if you fail to understand that the objectives of capitalism are predicated on the individual objectives of the entities within. The reproductive interest of a particular entity tends to be disproportionately valuable to that entity and their partner, much more than a third party. To say that capitalism undervalues that objective is simply contingent on the context.

2.) Capitalism "results" in these activities primarily being carried out by women only insofar as capitalism is a system in which individuals can act according to their own objectives. Many women do not want to reproduce at all. Many women do not want to be with men at all. This is completely fine, and never-married women with no children tend to be highly successful in other dimensions. Many women, however, do want to reproduce, and the fact that women and men tend to diverge in their roles regarding child rearing is not simply something that can simply be asserted as being a consequence of capitalism. Our capitalist systems are not collapsing under the increasing likelihood for a woman to be partnered with someone is less educated and makes less money.
My approach: import unsharpened image from Darktable, scale down with NoHalo (added in GIMP 2.10, along with LoHalo), sharpen final image with unsharp mask. When downscaling a clean image, try 1-pixel radius, strength 0.35, threshold 0.05 as a starting point.

"None" interpolation is occasionally useful as well, in image with really striking edges.

Agreed that the older downscaling algorithms aren't great. My impression is that they do a nice mathematical job of downscaling, but not a great perceptual one.
Right!? You can't have prisons run by for-profit companies and then expect everyone to believe you want low recidivism rates - much less low crime rates. Bodies make the businesses money, businesses making money keep running the jails/prisons, and "being tough on crime" gets the votes - so it's a self-perpetuating machine.

>These services are ludicrously expensive. Video calls cost 40¢ per minute in Newton County, 50¢ per minute in Lowndes County, and $10 per call in Allen County.

The use of the video system is now compulsory, in person visits are banned, and another at-cost for families of criminals is seemingly tacked on because... ...freedom? Capitalism?

At what point do we agree tapping the families of inmates (note: not the inmates, themselves) out of money is going too far?
More and more projects are turning off GH Issues & PRs and I think it's a good practice.

I think setting the expectations early and visibly may prevent some of the disrespect on social media, but private or pseudonymous amounts may help too. (Maybe all code authors should use pseudonyms, the way book authors do?)
Electrolytic capacitors, even high quality ones, will eventually dry out and fail. The older the capacitor, the more likely this is to happen....sometimes they will last longer even with lots of use but..........
We can't, or else it's no longer Open Source.

BUT, maybe there's room for a reasonably permissive proprietary license that is based around moral restrictions. Plenty of people still use proprietary software; so if you're already doing that, I could see a semi-open "ethics license" fitting in. You couldn't include it in other GPL or MIT licensed libraries, but again, if you're already building proprietary software, those restrictions probably don't matter to you.
The writers of the Rgveda certainly were members of a pastoralist society, so they would have had a decent amount of dairy, if not quite the same quantities as today.
It looks like Gwern's guide is for finding something which you know already exists, rather than looking for something which may not.
We (OP here - Estimote) have a significant team in Europe doing just that. Working on sensor networks. Interestingly our customers are in the US and we went through YC and have mostly Silicon Valley investors.
That is an interesting format. It's encouraging to see small, incremental changes to the style sheet result in so vast improvements in legibility.
with infinite supply, prices drop to zero. the end of money. no further need for the gamification of everything. advantage structures cease to exist with no competition. the advanced technologies which avail such abundance were transferred to humankind by the people who co-inhabit our galaxy in the 1940's.
https://www.youtube.com/user/SDisclosure/videos
(author of Dgraph) We use specific libraries from Bleve to do, for e.g., full-text tokenization and such. But, we use our own indexing and storage mechanism, not Bleve's.
Why should I be looking for centenarians that eat vegan? I have no idea how you ended up with this from what I wrote.
Google Keep is what I use
Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface for text or display
https://www.ul.com

https://www.trustarc.com/privacy-certification-standards/

https://www.usda.gov/topics/organic

https://tilth.org/

http://www.ok.org/companies/what-is-kosher/meat-dairy-pareve...

https://www.globalnegotiator.com/international-trade/diction...
Conversational Interfaces on the Rise
Or further, disconnect the internet from the Demarcation point outside.

Although I have personally found a cheap android phone located in an outside, locked, electrical receptacle box with a charger plugged in. It all fit nicely. This was running a hotspot with hidden SSID.
It happens whenever I resize a layer (any type of image) or generally resize an image. It's always so much worse than Photoshop's quality. Very noticeable.

The problem with using an external tool is I often want to resize layers on the fly to fit them into a final image I'm working on. So using a third party tool to do that goes from a 5 second operation to 5 minutes because I first have to resize it in Gimp to get the dimensions and then resize it "for real" with a different program and then place that into the Gimp image.

It's gotten to the point now where I'm looking for an alternative to Gimp, or I'll just go back to using Photoshop full time (even though it's a huge waste of $ since I only edit about 2 images a week).
> main {

Why not target <body> instead? <main> should not have content that is shown on other pages, like headers, footers, and sidebars, but it makes sense to have this CSS affect those areas.
N26 have some big troubles in germany. The BaFin (german abbr. for Federal Financial Supervisory Authority) is taking a closer look into N26 after several reports for "money disappearing" and having insufficient customer support.
Show HN: HackerCards – Hacker News on chrome new tab. Made for skimmers
This is reminding me of the meta search engines that consolidated results from multiple sources. I haven't used one of those in probably 15 years.
> If someone managed to create an ingestable pill or nasal spray for insulin they'd win a Nobel prize.

We already had inhalable insulin in 2006 (Exubera) and again in 2014 (Afrezza), both of these medications were withdrawn from the market for lack of sales. And yet people still get upset when Pharma spends money on marketing...
I've found that people in many areas of work are given guidance and training then either:
a) forget over time
b) ignore the policy because they think they know better
c) ignore the policy because it is inconvenient (this is my favorite!)
d) ignore the policy because it is personally advantageous to them (either for reputation, money, etc)

Reminders never hurt (assuming they are reminders and not over the top bigoted screeds)

So many people think they understand what the impacts are if they bend some of these rules, or ignore them a bit for convenience. I would argue that most of the time, unless the stakes are consistently high, they do not.
The “Free Market” Argument Against Brexit Is Collapsing