skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ran into a similar problem with an older 30" 1080 Viewsonic TV/monitor which featured both HDMI and DVI inputs. I wanted to hook my Intel Nuc to it which was running Linux mint 18-something. The Nuc has VGA and HDMI so I naturally hook it to the TV using an HDMI cable. For some reason, the desktop resolution of 1920x1080 was somehow being scaled larger than the screen cutting off the edges. No amount of playing with the TV scaling settings would get the damn picture to fit on the screen.

I didn't know if it was Linux, the TV or the Nuc. So I spent the next two hours trying to figure it out to no avail. About to give up, I then had what I thought was a dumb idea, hook it to the TV using an HDMI-DVI cable. It worked. the 1920x1080 desktop filled the screen as it should. The only thing I can think of is the HDMI port is only setup to look for TV video profiles. The DVI port expects a PC so it can figure out the signal and get the picture right.
Would be nice to be able to see some high-res screenshots without having to go through watching several videos.
Have you studied the history of revolutions? They really don't tend to end well...
Wouldn't a solved cube actually be several possible points in that space? My intuition suggests that the inner four squares on each side could be rotated somehow, but I haven't learned the skill of solving rubik's cubes, so I'm not sure if that's true.
Most of these aren't myths, they're unhealthy habits we struggle to escape from.
Or https://github.com/mariusor/littr.go - which is my project.

Not federated yet either unfortunately. But I think one of the few fediverse projects that dogfoods ActivityPub by using the client to server protocol to communicate between frontend and api.
It is unclear, at this point, how to respectfully push back against the narrative. In particular, in highlighting her work, effectively many other people's works were devalued. I want successful women scientists to get credit, but even the PR folks who promoted her aggressively had to recant and acknowledge the contributions of others.

I don't support misogynist trolls attacking people, but ultimately, there has to be a mechanism for pushing back against overly progressive PR.
No, at least not for normal solves. On average most solves will be 40-60 moves, though that's very luck dependent. In the case of the most common CFOP method, F2L (the F in CFOP) makes or breaks most solves because everyone does it intuitively.

However there are 3x3x3 least-moves challenges in most big competitions, but they are much closer to being mathematics problems than practical cubing. You usually get a fairly long amount of time to find the shortest number of moves to solve said cube. The record was beaten recently by Harry Savage with a 17-move solution (note that 20 moves is the maximum number for an ideal solution).
This needs a demo account or some other way to see how it looks without having to sign up.

Any friction between clicking and judging value is a no-no.
I've been using Toad for a long time and looking for something better, less buggy, more performant. Watching the video this looks very promising. Looking at the limitation of the Free version, it's too limiting to really give it a try. For example, only one connection at a time, limit to two tabs, no data import and export, clipboard size limit. I need to see how it handles my everyday usage before I can determine if I want to switch.
KDE Applications 19.04 Released
I've been to Croatia and Slovenia as well and yes, expressions like "poslovni centar" were somewhat of a head scratcher.

My initial guess was that perhaps it was some kind of language school, so I asked a Croatian friend of mine and yeah - I was way off with my guess.
I remember how coveted these were. They were all called "Chinese pens".

This was before ball pens, and eventually, gel pens became the norm.
Jet Airways temporarily suspends all flights
The primary author is 15 years old. I'm impressed.
This is about to get interesting again when hybrid/electric planes enable a complete rethink of how planes work and are designed. The first commercial electric planes are currently under development. Both Airbus and Boeing have some plans for about a decade from now on this front. Most of that (but not all) will be hybrid electric.

Current economics are based on the notion that fuel is expensive and therefore you try to fly huge planes with lots of people because it delivers better fuel economy. This completely dominates everything in the aviation industry currently from design, logistics, to operations. The economies are such that you only fly routes where you can fill all the seats and still pay for the fuel. With electric your energy cost is a much less significant. Your main cost shift to infrastructure, cost, maintenance, etc. of the plane. If electric cars are an indication, you can expect some reduced cost there as well.

So, suddenly, flying short hops with small air planes becomes cheap and feasible. So, why fly short hops with a few huge planes that cost tens of millions and burn tons of fuel when you can fly the same route with many smaller planes that you charge using solar/wind/etc. for a fraction of the cost? Changes the game completely. E.g. London-Amsterdam could be dozens/hundreds of 6-12 seater electrical planes instead of a handful of airbuses flying back and forth. Also, London City suddenly becomes more attractive because small electric planes are not so noisy.

Basically on board staff becomes the limiting factor, not fuel cost. Now add autonomous flying to the mix and you solve that as well.
And even in speed solves sometimes a different algorithm (which may be a bit longer/not as convenient to execute) is applied if the solver knows that it will lead to the more favourable position afterwards. E.g. OLL/PLL skips.
Rolling Objects Which Aren't Spheres
There's very little novelty in what VR provides - it just provides a significant enhancement in the experience

Also, limitations can breed efficiency - by being constrained to a 2D projection, the interactions are simplified and streamlined

VR provides the same goals and expects utility (fun, efficiency) from the process.

Its fun and interesting, but I haven't seen anything groundbreaking.

Frankly, I think VR and FB are a good match for another reason - they both provide an overwhelming, dissociating experience

This can be a boon, but like sugar and opiates I worry that they're more social or sensory information than we can take in chronically - unfortunately, huge amounts of money and thought and technology is aimed at maximizing our intake to pad coffers.

I'm not sad AR/VR adoption is lacklustre
I'm a speedcuber with an official (World Cube Association) 3x3 average of 10.01 seconds. I use the CFOP method, which is 50-60 moves on average. The other popular method for speedsolving the 3x3 is Roux, which is ~5 moves lower.

There's another event the WCA conducts called Fewest Moves Challenge, or FMC in short. In this event, you're given a scramble and one hour to find the shortest solution to that scramble. The world record solve for that is 17, with just 20 people having an attempt <= 20 moves. There's no fixed method like CFOP or Roux that people use for FMC. The general heuristic is to solve as many individual pieces as possible at once with a few moves and then use commutators to solve the rest. It's all pretty interesting - check out Ryan Heise's website! (https://www.ryanheise.com/cube/commutators.html)
Phones need better features to entirely prevent these things - so apps can't trick the user. I want no application to have access, something like Incognito mode for all apps basically. The permission dialogues are typically not very helpful to make a meaningful decision and apps don't function at all without certain permissions. So why not allow to "fake" contacts,storage,location,etc...

Majority of apps are just spyware anyware.
One of the team members is on this post stating cross-platform is coming via Electron.
Thank you. These links are illuminating.
There are other tell-tale signs, like wingtips, how the rear-end tapers out, number of wheels in the main landing gear, location of pitot tubes etc.

Wingtips alone will give away Airbus vs Boeing on all current in-production models.
Backpackers worried about using mobile devices in Ghana
Follows work at least. Commenting directly on stories works, as far as I remember, but I think the main issue is that it doesn't properly create a list of inboxes that a comment is addressed to to push the messages to them.
Is that a “best by”, “sell by”, or “use by” on the bread? Usually I’ll see one of the first two on bread. Shortly after that, it starts to get stale.
And there are 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000 possible shuffles of a pack of cards which is also mind blowing but really just an excuse for me to wheel out this excellent link again https://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html
The alcohol one for sure. Most of the rest are just stupid.

Surprised they didn't add "catching up on sleep", my pet peeve. I know I'm not actually catching up, I just finally feel rested for the first time this week
Yeah. The fact that they are going to be at about 85 million in 2050, down from 125 today, is pretty alarming.

Well, I guess "alarm" isn't the right word, since everyone knows that it's happening already. But you would think there would be more concern about it?
Slaveowners Got Reparations
Excellent question. I don't know.

My impulsive response is that any data from which identity can be inferred is PII.

I'm not smart enough to understand the maths of differential privacy. I gather that it's a calculus for determining how much to fuzz the data (points) to anonymize. So car rentals may need to decrease the accuracy of both timestamps and locations to create hash collisions with other rentals.

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Maybe there's a way to create logical "data diodes", for lack of better term, for the notion of data flows and relationships go only one way. So for electricity, each meter has GUID, which is never referenced directly, meaning any external reference (foreign key) references an opaque identifier which can then be dereferenced within the system. Then anything referencing the meter will be issued its own opaque identifier, so that no two references can be linked from outside the system.

I'll have to dig out my copy of Translucent Databases to see if I'm making this up or repeating something that author had already thought through.
'Dogs are cleaner than beards' say Swiss scientists
Well, this is about density maps unless I overlooked something?
The Future of Black Hole Photography: What's Next for the EHT
>In Minnesota red light cameras and such automated ticketing systems were determined to be illegal (for the state):

>The result? Minnesota isn't experiencing some sort of Mad Max like traffic apocalypses, things seem pretty normal and I don't know of any dramatic disparity between places that use such cameras and those who do not. Meanwhile corruption and other issues cloud the traffic camera world... it's a product that arguably encourages / benefits bad actors, and possibly nobody else despite what we might otherwise think it does.

There are so many areas of law and law enforcement that are like this. Turns out if you just let people do whatever most people will do what society considers reasonable because at scale what people do determines what society considers reasonable.
It's weird to me how often people try to shoehorn aspects of the site into reddit/not-reddit. It has always been common to talk about some piece of tech that's related to the article, in a way that's not touched by the article itself and doesn't need it to be read first. That doesn't make those comments shallow, and I wouldn't put it in a list of distinguishing factors of reddit either. I agree with the idea that it's not a problem until you're speculating on the article, or raising a point that the article already addressed.
Most European languages are Indo-European. The exceptions are:

* Basque, a language isolate which is generally considered by many to be the sole surviving remnant of pre-Indo-European languages in Europe.

* The Balto-Finnic languages (not to be confused with the Baltic languages!), primarily Finnish and Estonian, of the Uralic language family.

* The Saami languages, another part of the Uralic language family, of the indigenous peoples of northern Scandinavia.

* Hungarian, yet another Uralic language, although this one seems geographically out of place.

* Depending on how you divide the borders of Europe, there are representatives of Turkic languages in Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan. There are also some Kartvelian languages and other language isolates in the Caucasian region (primarily Georgia)--note that Armenian is Indo-European.

Indo-European languages are though to originate from the steppe region on the North side of the Black and Caspian Seas, and then get diffused through various waves of linguistic migration into the rest of Europe. Uralic languages probably originate in the northern forest zones of Russia (eventually being pushed out of their homeland by the Slavic branch of Indo-European). At some point, the language migrated onto a steppe confederation which eventually settled in Hungary, which is why it seems out of place. About 1500 years ago, give or take, the steppe confederations shifted from Indo-European dominance to Turkic dominance, which is what prompts the rise of Turkic languages on the margins of Europe.
707 was a quadjet, you mean 717? You can tell it apart by how the engines are mounted at an angle from the body (pointing slightly upwards).
Xubuntu lists the apps by name then function. For example "Thunar File Manager" and "Parole Media Player".
The second edition came out in 1998. Parallel merge sort well predates that, Parallel merge sort, Richard Cole, SIAM Journal of Computing, 1988.

PageRank is more of comparison function for determining order rather than a sort algorithm in and of itself.

Dunno. Maybe.
A Basic Guideline for Incorporating Async Communication
Here's some notes from Harvard on how to count Rubik's Cube positions with Group Theory

The number is: 2^(12)3^88!*12!

http://www.math.harvard.edu/~jjchen/docs/Group%20Theory%20an...
No, they are not. It is not that economy requires growing population, it is the Ponzi scheme of taxing population and diverging govt funds to buying votes. And paying back past debts.

This is a man made conundrum not a law of physics.
I like sleepsort:

for (int i = 0; i < in.length; i++) {
Thread t = new Thread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
Thread.sleep(in[i]);
out.append(in[i]);
}
}
t.start();
}
> How can you not mean to?

It's my understanding that they used to do this entirely intentionally at one point via an "import contacts from mail" feature, then they dropped the feature and now when they added the "sign in with e-mail to verify your identity" feature someone reused the old code without being aware that it will also harvest the contacts and that they don't want that this time.

It's the opposite of "privacy by default", basically.
That is a very serious shortcoming. Government whistleblowers need protection too. Governments have shown time and time again that they are very capable of breaking the law too. They should not be above accountability.
> Nobody lost their contacts, so what’s the $ amount it cost them?

Opportunity cost? If Facebook has these contacts now, then their third parties have them, so those contacts are no longer as valuable, if valuable at all.

> Where’s that number coming from? The article talks about 1.5 million users.

My bad, added two orders of magnitude by accident. I knew something was off there. Thanks for the correction.
Plus the time needed to aggregate the results...
Thank you for the quick and thorough response! I will definitely try this from home. I love web tools (I wrote a really terrible wireframe tool when I discovered Ajax back in 2006 and it's still alive, and still terrible, but last I checked a lot of people played with it!) and from what I've seen of samples and screenshots, it's very neat and visually interesting.
Is there a rust implementation of mastodon? The dependencies for the current implementations are too brittle IMHO.
It's not that you're wrong to point out the shortcomings of Electron, but it's boring and it leads to endlessly repetetive threads that derail what could have been interesting conversations.

Perhaps it's better to assume that people who are working with Electron understand its limitations and have made an informed decision to use it because it suits their requirements.
I read some of The Book of the New Sun many years ago, and was mostly just disgusted by the story of an executioner becoming a tyrant. Is it worth taking another look?
Given that several companies with obscene valuations have never recorded any profit, this seems fair.
Facebook Bans Far-Right Groups and Prominent Hate Figures
Is the video in Korean for everyone or just me?
> Extreme protectionism can be dangerous for sure. But the Bombardier example and protectionism in aerospace isn't a negative example of protectionism. It actually shows that protectionism works. The US benefited by having bombardier planes being built in the US. More jobs, more work for american workers and more taxes for the government. It's a win-win situation. You could argue that Boeing lost out, but they really didn't either.

No they didn't. No new plant, no new hires, no more planes built at that plant than before. They will displace planned production at that plant to make room for the specific planes requesting by US customers, and the plane originally meant to be built there will be made in another non US plant.

The ONLY thing that changes for the US is negative in that Boeing's competitors are now stronger and allied together against Boeing.
> Depending on how you divide the borders of Europe, there are representatives of Turkic languages in Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan.

There are representatives of Turkic well within a mainstream definition of Europe: West Rumelian Turkish in the Balkans, Gagauz in Moldova, Crimean Tatar in Crimea, and (though perhaps now departing from the mainstream definition) several Turkic languages in European Russia north of the Caucasus such as Karachay-Balkar and Mishar Tatar.
Wow holy shit. I had forgotten about this thread which is indeed what put the seed in my brain for adding recursive drawing.

I knew I read about it somewhere and the idea go wedged in my brain until it was implemented. That's pretty much how everything works :) But it's kind of cool to see the exact moment of inception from months ago.

Yeah I remember googling this and not being able to stop thinking about it. The same was true for tessellations and radial symmetry before that.

What a fitting conclusion that we both find ourselves here with your suggestion implemented. I'm indeed not active on HN but I do show up when my servers get hammered by it :).

Thank you for the idea, I hope you're satisfied with the implementation :)

If you go to the pro facet of the site (https://pro.mandalagaba.com) you'll see you can mix radial symmetry, with tessellation, with recursion... If you like it all, you can have it all in one pen stroke :).

Let's just say that baking recursion in was extremely complex. I had to sit down in front of my computer for a couple of hours every night for a good 2 months to have it implemented and free of bugs.

So... you got any other good ideas? :)
Post-GDPR this is "unintentionally" and they try to make amends. Pre-GDPR that would just have been a "happy accident" and they'd just have swept it under the rug.
Good for you. A number of candidates devote no thought to how their appearance might be judged and turn up dressed in a way that wins them no points. Sounds like you do better than them.
Hero still makes these pens, they're such an outstanding value that these knockoffs have generated knockoffs of their own.
Yes and no...when learning about the LRFD (Load Resistance Factor Design) for structural engineering, we'd design a component (a portion of a floor, for example) and we'd size it for live loads (dancers), Dead Loads (piano), environmental loads, and NVH issues (the floor moving when people walked on it)

The last one there was more a comfort level thing...people like to not fall down to the next floor, but they also like to not feel AS IF they'd fall down to the next floor...to you overdesign to remove the vibration.

9 times out of 10, it was that NVH aspect that drove the design.
Amdahl's Law Limits Performance of Large Neural Nets [pdf]
Scientists print first 3D heart using patient's biological materials
How does this factor for tools like Datashader?
What Java apps became popular, other than Minecraft? The only things that got used were tools from companies like Cisco and IBM which everyone detested using.

People still complain about Java.
This. WooCommerce is very well designed and has an excellent plugin ecosystem as well. Yes it is WordPress but if you are looking for something open source and self hosted, it is the easiest to get started with and has great documentation. For subscriptions, they have a paid plugin but it is totally worth it (used it for many years and works like a charm
In 2016, I voted for Stein, because Hillary and her supporters (esp. all the really nasty, condescending supporters on Reddit) clearly told me they didn't want or need my vote (as a Bernie fan), and the media told me my state was absolutely certain to go to Hillary. Well, the media was right, but not as right as they thought, but Hillary did win my state by a reasonable margin.

Honestly, I can kinda understand why some people would be turned into Trump voters after seeing what kind of people Hillary fans are really like. They're truly horrible human beings. I even had the displeasure of having to sit through a nasty argument between a Trump fan and a Hillary fan while in a carpool last year, and it was pretty interesting how the Trump fan was the one who actually cared about rural voters, and the Hillary fan's attitude was seriously "let them die". It's no wonder things are falling apart in this country.
Job That Will Let You Do Whatever You Want in a Swedish Train Station, Forever
Back up for me on the East Coast of the USA.
WebAssembly for fast and interactive CLI playgrounds
Subtract one and it's a prime number, so you can say there are prime number of unsolved states. This is only true for some cubes of different sizes [1].

[1]: https://www.speedsolving.com/forum/threads/a-collection-of-c...
Hey HN! This is an article on how WebAssembly can enable us to port command-line tools to the web, which enables fast and interactive playgrounds!

You can find a demo at http://jqkungfu.com and the code at http://github.com/robertaboukhalil/jqkungfu
Can you point to any publications criticizing the Swadesh list as “Anglo-centered”? That is something I would be interested in reading about. Personally, I have viewed the Swadesh list as rather American Indian linguistics-centric, though its application was easily extended to other peoples around the world at a similar level of technological development.
I'm not an economist by a long shot, but I would like to propose an alternative model: Whenever a bank gives out a loan, it not just creates the money that is given to the debtor. It also creates the money that will have to be paid as interest, and gives that money to the government. That could be the government's primary income stream, instead of taxes. And it guarantees that there is always enough money in the system to pay all outstanding debts.

(Looking forward to more knowledgable people pointing out the inherent flaws in this idea.)