skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One point the article missed is the relationship between Canvas, primer, medium and oil paint. All three are traditionally derived from the same plant: flax. For this reason, there is great chemical compatibility between them, which accounts for their longevity.

Even longer lasting is Buon fresco (the earliest form of fresco). This is essentially pigment painted into wet plaster. The paint is not a glue, rather a stain. Effectively the support and the paint are one.

Another interesting point is the difference between how light paint is applied to dark. Light paint is usually painted quite thickly, and for this reason is very good at reflecting light. This improves the upper registers of the painting. The last thing you want dark paint to do is reflect light. Thickly applied black paint takes on a very 'flat' look. An experienced oil painter would apply black paint as a very thin and 'dry' layer (dry = no or little medium). They are also likely to employ an underpainting layer of brown-red. Applied in this manner the darks have a profound depth. The end result is a profoundly wide dynamic range.
You are putting way, way too much faith in the average user. See, for instance, TLS exceptions. Also, realize that all the adversary needs to do is some trivial social engineering. A label on the thumb drive with a picture of the prompt and a mouse over "ok" would probably do it.
That's definitely progress, but there's more work needed to make it usable enough to be on by default.
It's a big phone.
The thing that baffles me - why the hell has there never been any innovation in the form of making it easier to diagnose a problem and move through the necessary steps in a checklist beyond fumbling through a paper manual? In a situation where seconds count, it seems illogical that this has never been improved upon. Didn’t at least one of these planes crash because the pilots are believed to have only gotten X number of steps through a list of possible reasons?
How to Handle the Shopify/Mailchimp Breakup
Actually, your comment just reminded me exactly of that feeling when I was a kid and got a Gobot for a present instead of a Transformer.
Definitely not true here in Canada (Ontario). I'd say it's a around 50/50, maybe majority Android.
Have you ever actually used a stock Android device? The experience is much much cleaner than iOS. I use an Android phone and an iPad Pro every day, and I am honestly put off browsing the web in the iPad because the experience is just feels 'off'.

Disclaimer is that I live in Europe and nobody here uses iMessage. Its mostly FB Messenger or WhatsApp.
No one is making any money getting Linux sleep to work on a Macbook Pro 2015. That is why it doesn't work. Sleep can work on Linux, but it is hardware/driver specific. That is why you should only buy hardware where there vendor invests in proper support.
"CMake is an open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software. CMake is used to control the software compilation process using simple platform and compiler independent configuration files, and generate native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of your choice."

They would disagree with you.
This is exactly why Fuchsia is a capabilities based OS, designed to run on any device.

https://misterbugbuster.com/2018/04/19/fuchsia-os-a-modular-...
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> General purpose computing makes it possible to block ads, to rip your CDs instead of the industry forcing you to buy the same music again, etc.

I understand the point you're trying to make, but (1) Apple has delivered software which rips CDs with the OS for 18 years now, and (2) this feature not only doesn't block any number of ways to block ads, but Apple provides an API for blocking content (including ads) with both macOS and iOS.
Yes, xmake is more similar to scons, not cmake.
I wouldn't say it's significant. It's a handful of customers who play occasionally. No where near as much as I do.

I run a support bot business.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tools_for_static_code_...
Google Defrauding and Hacking Customers or Just Bad Service?
Ask HN: For “Stripe Atlas for freelancing”, what features would you want?
Disclaimer: I’m not planning to start this service, I’m just curious if anyone else has a similar need, and what this imaginary product should involve. That said, I’d love if someone else made this!

Feature ideas:

- Easy company creation.

- Easy business bank account creation.

- Chat line so I can quickly ask if certain expenses are deductible/should go on the business credit card.

- Group rate health insurance (not sure if this is possible/legal)

- Automated tax filing in all relevant states.

- Various contracts that are good for different client types.

- Reduced-cost legal services

- Other discounts for common expenses such as travel, coworking, licenses.
this is stupid. the small states should not do this even if they dont get visits. you will be forced to follow california and new york always. but i guess the dems in NM want to spite trump.
Retrieving the camera by authorities would show any footage.

But what's stopping tenants planting cameras now? No risk to them really. Plant the camera, hook it up to the wifi and power. Now you can see everyone who stays. If the camera gets found, the landlord takes the risk.

Who is to say all these cameras we think from the landlord really are from tenants who know they can get away with.

Yes, I agree, the more you think about it, the more complex it appears and harder to solve.
All of the languages you mentioned are watered-down and inferior versions of the programming models invented by APL and J.

By that I don't mean that APL/J are unilaterally better -- there are plenty of practical reasons to choose R/Matlab/numpy -- but they are unquestionably more beautiful and visionary. They hang together at a deep level in a way those languages do not. They are also much harder to learn, and much more fun.

On the readability of APL (terrific video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Mt0GYHU9A

Alan Perlis on its beauty: https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/perlis78.htm
Interesting. In typical Facebook style, they do not attempt to fix the root problem (there's too much code, and much of it has been copy-pasted) but instead expend even more resources just to allow (or even encourage) it to proliferate. The effort would be far better expended on a tool to refactor out all that duplication, because they've created something that can clearly identify duplication.

It reminds me of how they hit a limit in the Android VM because their code had so many classes, and decided to work around it instead of reflecting (no pun intended) on how they ended up with so much code in the first place: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5321634
Yeah, this has baffled me before. I remember learning in my Family & Consumer Sciences class about the importance of being an informed consumer. Then, in college I had to get a dental procedure done and I called around to try to find out the price from different dentists and no one could give me any actual numbers. I ultimately just had to pick a place based on reviews and found out the price after the fact with no knowledge of how it compared t other places.
This is an interesting perspective, and one that could only exist in the past few decades.

For millennia, of course, the written word would appear in the particular style of an individual scribe, and might take on an entirely different look when copied by another. Gutenberg’s movable type introduced the concept of a text appearing exactly the same across multiple copies, something that has persisted for centuries through lead type, phototypesetting, and into PDFs. Only with the advent of information technology in the 20th century did the idea arise of text appearing in formats other than those chosen by its publisher, advanced by technologies such as TeX and HTML.

In the latter’s case, however, the original idea of a platonically structured document to be interpreted per the user’s preferences has long since been superseded by a return to the concept of the publisher defining the presentation. Client CSS never caught on, while server CSS took over.
[Off-topic] Another programming language website with no code examples front/center on the homepage?

When you click "Download & Documentation" there's a link under the headline "master" to the long-form documentation which has some examples: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/

Edit: also found a blog post with a nice introduction: https://andrewkelley.me/post/intro-to-zig.html and an examples directory: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/tree/master/example

Interesting to see how the language has evolved away from using "%" in the original Hello world:

const std = @import("std");

pub fn main(args: [][]u8) -> %void {
// Print "Hello World!", and believe that no errors will happen
std.io.stdout.printf("Hello World!\n") %% unreachable{};

// Short version:
%%std.io.stdout.printf("Hi!\n");
}

Compared to the newer version :

const std = @import("std");

pub fn main() !void {
// If this program is run without stdout attached, exit with an error.
const stdout_file = try std.io.getStdOut();
// If this program encounters pipe failure when printing to stdout, exit
// with an error.
try stdout_file.write("Hello, world!\n");
}
How does what you are proposing increase trust for consumers?

I think that when you look at how things went for the certificate business, you will find this model pretty quickly turns into a pretty scammy breed of companies offering "notary" services without a lot of benefit to consumers. Consumers would have to know which authorities were trustworthy, and since most won't care/know, it results in lower security overall.

Now if the App Store were decentralized, I think things would be a lot different. But Apple already owns things end-to-end, so they may as well be the certificate authority as well.
> Speaking of which, the iPhone vs Android debate really boils down to a thinly veiled version of classism.

Or maybe people just like iPhones?
Just from reading the introduction, this book seems extremely well written, far-reaching, and just plain cool.

On days like this, I'm always tempted to drop all my current courses and just spend the time reading a book.
Is there a trick to make the alt key behave like esc+key? Without this, emacs is pretty unusable in Alacritty.

I did find a few filed issues and they all seem to suggest to add a huge number of key mappings for every possible combination with alt. Which seems ... odd.
Texas solar boom fueled by oil and gas power demands
Should Ad Blocking Be Illegal?
Jd the J database is free for non commercial use and listed as $600 for a single user to use commercially on their site somewhere last I looked. They have fancier enterprise support contracts as well.

As for the language itself, it is free to use in commercial projects I think (someone please correct me if I'm wrong), but the source code to the J language is either GPL3 or you can pay. I think that means if you wanted to use the J source as part of a commercial project, you can pay or make the source available under the GPL3 license. I'm honestly not sure though and would appreciate some clarification.
Kids love the cosmetics though and it becomes as important to some of then as having real gameplay advantages would be. So it's good for the gameplay but I am not sure it is any less nefarious.
It is indeed mean to shame people for their counter-productive lifestyle choices but if it warns off others from going down the same path maybe it’s worth the cost on a societal level.
>for every dollar you take from an investor assume you need to turn it into 10

I don't think that's the right way to look at it. It's more accurate to say that for every dollar you take you need to generate $0.50 to $1 in ARR. Or for something like a social network acquire one customer per $10-15 you take. VCs are looking for an IPO or acquisition and that's how they're priced
this article is about jails
And so do I, because without the user being able to carefully select who to trust (and there's no reason Apple is inherently more trustworthy than another company), that's almost the same as removing any vetting process.

As a simple example, might you be willing to trust Mozilla to offer a service where they review and certify all submissions that pass review for apps that are willing to pay for the process (allowing Mozilla to use some of their credibility and engineering expertise to raise funds)? I would. It wouldn't be perfect, but it would allow for a company with different principles and motives than Apple to be used, and my sensibilities lie closer to Mozilla's than they do Apple's or Google's.
You’re entitled to view the world that way if you like!

I'm drawn to pay attention to wildly popular things - especially the ones that aren’t to my taste - because it helps me to understand people and the world.

It’s totally fine if you don’t want to do that :)

FWIW, Kanye has won over 250 industry awards (not all of which were popularity-based), and has collaborated with several widely respected artists including Beyoncé and Paul McCartney.

The Big Mac Index is regarded by serious economists as a meaningful economic indicator. Countless books and documentaries have been made about McDonalds.

Cults/religions are about the most significant influence on culture for much of human history. People are fascinated enough about cults that documentaries, dramas and podcasts about Jonestown, Scientology, Branch Dividians and Rajneeshis have been consumed in vast numbers in just the past couple of years.

I can pay attention to these phenomena and learn things about the world through them, without ever having bought a Kanye record, or consumed a McDonalds burger (at least not while sober) in 20 years, or set foot in a commune or even a church for the past 25 years aside from for the occasional wedding, funeral, or Christmas singalong.

I, and many others, like to learn things about the world that way.

You don’t? Thumbs up, we’re all good :)
Meson[0] has been gaining in popularity and has migration tools for cmake projects.

Large projects such as systemd and gnome[1] have migrated or have been migrating for years

[0] https://mesonbuild.com/

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/MesonPorting
Ask HN: What can SDEs do to hit the ground running at a new job?
Bonus: What can SDEs do to set themselves up for long term success?

How do these answers differ for a new grad vs mid-level vs senior SDE?
It’s not like that at all. It’s not about price. Most kids who prefer iphones would take a $250 iphone SE over a $900 Samsung. Hell, I would even take that deal.
> The experience is much much cleaner than iOS.

In what way?
Perhaps, but somebody in one of my classes had jailbroken his iPhone and was showing off his fancy home screen, which would have been pretty par for the course for a custom Android home screen, and everybody was oohing and ahhing at how cool it was. Really just anecdotal, but I don't think iPhones are more popular purely because they've considered both options and chosen the one they liked more.
I might answer “do you think Google does X” with ‘yes’ because I believe they do, and “do you expect Google to do X” with ‘no’ because I do not believe it would be right to do so.

“Expect of” is often used to connote a kind of standard setting.

I expect power multinational companies to behave ethically to the best of their ability. I believe they behave ethically only to the degree that it allows them the political leeway to behave without scrutiny.
Google knows how the person is because there is a high probability that person is logged in to the Google account (which is why GDPR and such legislation do nothing but entrench these companies further).

Advertisers can't use this and don't have any way to extract identity. User ids have always been anonymous and are now completely removed from any data shared by Google's marketing software. The most an advertiser can do is target a list of users but there are limits on the minimum size and scope of these lists. It's incredibly hard to know a person's identity on the web unless they are logged into your service and it's only gotten harder.
> I found that their anti-scraping defenses were really difficult to get around

What sort of defenses are they using?
This is my experience with most systems that send webhooks, in particular payments, and subscription management systems. As you've elaborated on in other comments, queuing and periodic retries are generally the best way to handle interacting with what is effectively, an eventually consistent API/system.
Can you confirm the high social status of owning AirPods? You can't even hope to have those with an Android.
> Apple provides an API for blocking content (including ads) with both macOS and iOS.

(For Safari)
A security risk to their business model.
I think half those N's are cmake itself considering the amount of time I see "requires cmake x.x or above" messages.

I wouldn't find having many build system such an issue if they'd just add a makefile (and maybe ./configure) to call that build system, giving devs a consistent interface and not having to lookup up how to do a simple build.
I fail to see the relevance of comparing an opinion from 20 years ago to a product that didn’t even exist. Besides the fact that Google is literally 10x beyond any software company that existed in the 90s in terms of resources both human and financial. Nothing is possible until it is.
The only prominent former Secret Service agent I'm aware of is Dan Bongino. After viewing his output over the last couple of years, I have developed a fairly low opinion of whether a Secret Service agent chosen at random is likely to display any real insightfulness. I'm sure they're quite well trained for physical combat though.
What does artificial intelligence bring to the biopharmaceutical industry?
There is behavior that I expect of a 14 year old, even if they seldom exhibit that behavior.
Their business model being making devices that are easy to use and hard for the user to mess up.
Not sure how states taxing more don't harm their own citizens. If I make $100, with 30% federal tax, then I keep $70. If my state raises their tax from 0% to 20%, then I pay $20 to the state, deduct that from my $100 to get $80, and pay $30 on that which is $24. So I keep $56.
Shamefully clickbait title.

They aren’t walking away from nothing - that oil ain’t goin anywhere.

Just wait until the price hits $100/barrel and let’s watch what happens...
I agree, so I'm interested to learn a more accurate store. And now that's I've read this article I see they even mention Cadfael. I enjoy the series, but I try to remember it's fiction, not history.
Egypt air pilots performed the recovery procedure and still crashed. Pretty damning evidence that it can't fly safely with MCAS off.
I've noticed that a lot of employers don't tell workers how much they are paying for health insurance. Because for large companies the number gets rolled into a negociated contract.

In my case I do know. My employer pays $930 some a month. My rent used to be $860/month.

The other thing the happens is just because you have insurance doesn't mean that healthcare providers aren't trying to jack more money out of you. Any procedure/service will be up coded to increase your out of pocket share.
This is comparing broadband "availability" (whether you could have >=25Mbps if you paid for it) with broadband "use" (whether your downloads actually go at >=25Mbps). The latter is a better metric, but there isn't any mystery why these numbers are different.
Isn't V fake? https://github.com/vlang/v
Don’t ever install software by piping arbitrary remote scripts into bash.
The tuition fee in the UK isn't really a fee at all, at least for most domestic students. In practice, it's more like a graduate tax. Student loans are only repayable if you're earning over £25,725 per year. Your repayments are 9% of your income over that threshold. Your loan is automatically forgiven after 30 years. Because of these terms, the vast majority of students never fully repay their loan.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/students/student-loans-tui...
See my response to chrisseaton's comment.
Just sharing another good book on the topic.

Mathematics for Computation from MIT[1]. HN discussion on it[2].

[1]:https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring17/mcs.pdf

[2]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13800320
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Don’t pretend that Tesla is the only EV.
I'm not discounting the language at all, by your comment here perhaps some application of a common mathematical function such as an average or the fibonacci sequence would be a good front page example.
You really think that people would spend $10-$20 on a digital movie if they didn’t have to?

So the entire movie industry worth billions of dollars a year should take advice from a few random posters on HN?

These are the probably the same people who declared in 2001 on Slashdot that no one would buy the iPod - “Less space than the Nomad. No Wireless Lame” and that poo poo’d Dropbox (the only YC company that has gone public) right here on HN saying they could do the same thing with a few shell scripts...
Which phone do you have?
This is the most ridiculous pile of rubbish I've ever read.

Do we serious think every time the Secret Service comes across a person they should spend hundreds of thousands of $ forensically analysing all their electronics?

This was a random person who was in a resort. Nothing more.

You check them out, open their phone, check their usb, check their laptop and move on, or investigate further if they seem suspicious.

The total lack of computer literacy here is amazing.

Garbage like this is straight out of a hollywood movie "threatened his own computing system and possibly the rest of the Secret Service network."

The Secret Service are human beings their kids will use their laptops, do we understand this as IT professionals? Or we living in gaga land of Hollywood?

It's up to their experienced network IT staff to contain their network at differing levels and a laptop in the field should be considered compromised.

Should they also have locked this lady down in a bio security suit in case she was carrying biological weapons? Is any other field as stupidly impractical as computer security 'experts'?
Sure, you can fix it so devices don't appear as unauthorized keyboards... you still leave yourself open to a near infinite number of other attacks. What stops me from creating a USB device that appears as a storage medium, yet contains a transmitter which slowly exfiltrates any data written? What about a USB-powered microphone or camera posing as a flash drive? Hell, it would be of great value to just have an software defined radio which could execute arbitrary bluetooth and WiFi attacks while allowing remote control via RF.

Am I the only one old enough to remember 'disk bombs' from the 90s where you filled 3.5" floppies with paste made from strike anywhere match heads so when the disk spun up it melted? You could do similar things with a USB stick. You could have a high voltage converter which fries your PC the second you plug it in.

Basically, it is always a bad idea to plug in unknown peripherals to your computers. The OS isn't going to save you in all cases.
Everyone wants socialist benefits for themselves and free-market benefits for everyone else.
But the meson installation has many dependencies, it is not very lightweight, it needs python, ninja, and xmake has built-in luajit, no third-party dependencies, more lightweight
There are plenty of SSH and password management apps on iOS. Did they not work for you?
When you say that J is faster than R, are you referring to using Jd versus dealing with R's read_csv, or are you just talking about the calculations in general for the same size dataset and just using vanilla native language constructs?
You can’t have absolute salary numbers be attached to a lifestyle since 300k/year is like Royalty in Virginia but just “comfortable” in SF or NYC.