skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
feels like society is becoming more and more a side-effect of business
One advantage is the core appears to be written in C/C++. NLTK is python and SpaCy is a lot of C/C++ with a significant amount of python.

I’ll have to dig in further, but I suspect there’s a lot of optimization for the task at hand here. SpaCy and NLTK tries to be much more general for NLP.
Can you give some info about the cross platform version - specifically the UI toolkit it uses? i.e. it is Java, QT, Electron, platform-specific UI with a C/C++ core, etc?
LMGTFY: https://www.google.com/search?q=facial+recognition+exceeds+h...

Or, if that's still too much work: http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/results.html
Yes, but if not for him, those thousands of people would be creating that value for people other than Facebook stockholders.
This from the crowd that can barely stand a framework for 6 months before the luster wears off...but no, we can never ever cut ties with our 1995 Netscape roots.

We can/should/must just rewrite all the OS in Rust though, says someone nearly every day...and this is no problem in HN logic...
As The Onion had it recently, “Child amused for 5 minutes by toy that will take 1,000 years to biodegrade”.
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hey dear friend, sry for the hijacking thread here, do you have any new methods to bypass Medium paywall? your old method is not work anymore :(
I've long become aware of the fact that everything promoted with the adjective "smart" is usually somehow dystopian, because it usually acts in the interest of someone else. In other words, we should really have more things which are "dumb" enough that we can control them, not things which are so "smart" that we can't.
I was using some other workaround as well. The shortcut is new since Mojave! :)
Be assured, you were (and are) not alone. North-western Europe in the eighties, any unusual sound or sight from above, I'd be on alert, yellow verging on red. Damn, I was on a remote island off the North Queensland coast in '85 or '86 when the world went suddenly radio silent, and I instantly assumed EMP and nuclear cataclysm on the mainland, whereas it was of course just a major regional power outage.

Like everyone else, I let my defenses drop after '91 or thereabouts. They are back up these days, I can assure you. Unexpected lowflying aircraft, loud bangs, F16 fighters screaming pairwise out over the Baltic, believe me, I pay attention.
It's called Don Quixote in the article but I love that the name on the marquee is "mega donki." Mega Donkey seems more apropos to me.
But people would already get upset at privacy violations of that kind and magnitude.
No one has mentioned it? Did you read the article? The article discusses exactly what you just said.
Could you imagine wanting to rename every male and female "George"? Those Georgists are once more on their throne, one bony hand clutching their terrible rods.
The greatest regret of all parents. They should have added "Parent feels guilty about giving in for 10,000 years."
I guess it really depends on the actual location. The one I went to in Iwate was awesome, not multi-storey but a one-floor, jungle-like layout. Very good food section, bought a rug, travel neckpillow, and some crockery, I'm still using them now after months.
Microsoft Unveils Two Secret Data Centers Built for Classified Government Data
> What's your most convincing argument for why an average person should care more? Explain it to me like I'm 5.

You're going to pay more than me every time you buy something because your profile indicates you aren't as price sensitive.

That's just commercial surveillance though.
Guessing BBEdit and a thick book on HTML...I made quite a few that way myself.

Quick edit: One thing that's oddly enjoyable is going back in and adding media queries, so the sites still _look_ the same and seem a bit more elaborate than more modern sites in their way, but mysteriously adapt well to different screen sizes.
Yes, it's pretty obvious that lots of HN readers don't actually read the article.
Just get a written permission from all of your contacts that you're allowed to upload their data to WhatsApp, like the rest of us clearly have.

Or make it so that no one has anything against you ever. Because people have been sued already for uploading their contacts' information to WhatsApp without permission.

I really don't want to encourage you to use WhatsApp, but one possible solution would be to use this app: https://f-droid.org/app/opencontacts.open.com.opencontacts

It's a separate store for your contacts, so that you don't have to use the Android contacts implementation where every app and their mum wants access to.

However, mind that WhatsApp is not going to be particularly user-friendly whether you do this or block access to the contacts in newer Android versions. It won't display people's names until they've chatted to you (and then only in a shitty secondary GUI), so you will often have to guess from their picture who they might be.

And worse still, there's no way to initiate a chat from within WhatsApp to someone who's not in your contacts.

Thankfully, there's an app for that nowadays, too: https://f-droid.org/app/io.github.subhamtyagi.openinwhatsapp
The thing is, charities and churches are rarely "run well".

It's good that gov't agencies, and programs are so well known to to be run well, don't have problems with inefficiency, and corruption. Oh... wait
Crazy to see Richard Binder here. He's one of the big fish in the fountain pen community (though now mostly retired as a restoration expert.)

For anyone who is interested in seeing what these are like, I can heartily recommend the Wing Sung 601 - it's a very respectable $15 Chinese homage to the P51. You'll need some bottled ink as well. I use Parker Quink plain black (<$10 on Amazon).

eBay link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Wing-Sung-601-Steel-Cap-Vacumatic-F...
I think he means something to count a pack dumped on the table.
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1. Mark Zuckerberg has a much larger risk of negative privacy consequences than the average person. Also, this was probably done more for physical safety than for privacy.

2. If all of people’s emails we’re getting forwarded to random other people they encounter on online forums like HN, then people would be upset.

The point is that people don’t get terribly upset at extremely small risks of minor negative consequences from privacy issues.

These counterarguments are pretty weak, and are essentially:

Oh, so you don’t worry about getting struck by lightning? Then why don’t you go out in a field holding a lightning rod during a lightning storm? crickets
My feelings :

"It belongs in a museum!" - Indiana Jones
While I agree with the general sentiment of the author (and the same general message comes up quite often on HN), I have two issues with the article:

1) It seems to equate "investors" with "VCs", who need big returns or quick losses to make their overall portfolio numbers work. Angel investors don't necessarily fall into this category, nor do more traditional funding sources. Thus, I think the expressed opinion should more be that blindly chasing VC money to fund a business that can't actually turn a legitimate profit on its own is bad, rather than that taking investor money in general is bad.

2) There's an implicit challenge briefly touched on at the very end of the article. If you have a project of love that gets popular quickly, it could literally bankrupt you if you tried to keep it alive on your own. Scaled hosting services aren't free, nor are community support, requested new features, compatibility updates, API costs, etc. etc. It's entirely possible that you could start a side project and then have to shut it down when it starts getting traction because keeping it alive and not-shitty would take more time than it's worth if you're not going to turn it into a venture-funded business.
I suspect the parent's suggestion is more along the lines of 1 snapshot that captures all Skittles in a pack, then ML object detection to classify and count outcome...processes an entire pack in a single shot, as opposed to 1 Skittle at a time.
Just to jump in on the part about metadata vs the message itself. I saw a very interesting talk a couple years ago by an EFF lawyer, who explained this well.

The way I remember it being explained, is in the US metadata had particularly poor legal protections compared to the message content. This is what gave the government any sort of legal basis to claim mass surveillance was legal, compared to say recording and indexing every message from every american. The context of the talk was about cloud and data sovereignty, and making the case that it isn't unsafe to store data in the US with the revelations at the time.

I don't think the talk was recorded, I wish it was, because I think that was the best description I've seen from a legal perspective on why the surveillance programs were targeting metadata and not contents.
On Windows, in order to get Torch I need to use Anaconda.
> My webpage might need to load 1000 images eventually. It's kinda inefficient to try and load them all at the start, especially if the user is never going to scroll through all of them.

That's a fair concern, but this library won't help with that.
I can derive a b-tree reversal on a whiteboard in a Faraday cage given a few hours and a pot of coffee. I can memorize someone else's reversal solution in maybe half an hour. The first method tests my ability to logically break down a problem and find an elegant solution. The second tests my ability to memorize shit. Candidates don't have a chance to do the first during any interview I've ever heard of; so logically you'll be hiring those of the second variety. Good luck with that.
I would recommend "Web Design in 4 Minutes" to understand how to use HTML/CSS to make something simple, yet elegant.

https://jgthms.com/web-design-in-4-minutes/
> A small org has 100% uptime due to good fortune, period.

Simple systems are the most reliable. Luck has nothing to do with it. If you create complex systems, you have only yourself to blame when they require more upkeep to meet the same requirements simple systems can meet.

Do I care Gmail can serve a billion people? Not in the slightest. I care about my org’s availability and downtime alone, which is comparatively easy to deliver on when scoped to a local domain.
Slightly off topic, but I want to share this.

I've recently started using fountain pens again, after a... long break (secondary school, I think).

The way they glide on the paper and the pleasure of holding such a beautiful (well, arguably, but I love both how nibs look and how they work) device made me improve my handwriting, and I started to take more notes just to use the pens.

I highly recommend the experience, if you're not familiar with them. Some good modern ones are also pretty cheap.

Like with vinyl records, there is a certain satisfaction in taking care of the pen, cleaning it when switching to ink or a different color, and so on; and it's a mechanical object that helps me detach from the digital world. Unlike vinyl, it is actually a practical thing to use everyday :)
Because Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and food stamps do more good for 100+ million

Do more good because their have much bigger budgets? - Maybe. More good per every dollar spent? I doubt it.
Fair enough. But it also wasn't an either/or choice.
I tried a wicker basket as a test mesh this week and had a great deal of trouble with the handles.

For closed objects though the results are probably better than I've found in commercial software.
I don't think anyone is missing the point that an interview can't literally be exactly what the job entails.
This editorial makes sense: once a company takes outside investment that demands outsized returns not in 10 years, but tomorrow, founders and employees will feel pressure to take larger risks and act in ways that might not be moral or ethical. VC-backing is definitely a factor in fraud, anti-competitive tactics, and unethical behavior. But what's the alternative to VC-backing? Doesn't seem possible for everything to be bootstrapped.
Not at all, however I don't know the full extent of his charges. I don't actually even know if he actually hacked into anything or if he just abused the system he already had access to, in order to disseminate information that would normally cost money via a subscription. However, if I recall I believe he did break into a computer lab or something and hacked into the university computers to bypass their regular security. But it is my understanding the University itself didn't own the content he distributed either, so it isn't like he stole directly from the University but instead abused the access he had and likely violated some terms of service. I see it more as a civil issue, minus the breaking and entering.

However, there is strict law regarding hacking confidential government documents and trying to break into government systems. I see it a vastly different matter with very different implications.
Intel's Interconnected Future: Combining Chiplets, EMIB, and Foveros
> People with the condition are more likely to develop high blood pressure, an irregular heartbeat and have a heart attack or a stroke.

I'm pretty sure that obsesity has been linked to snoring, so is it possible that this is just a side effect?
Ask HN: Hacker-friendly, simple e-commerce solution?
Shopify is questionable, eBay not ideal, Magento too heavy. What do you recommend?

Use case: Selling a few, simple physical products online. Ideally with some sort of subscription support.
I appreciate the vigour, but it's probably easier to just use an ad blocker: https://f-droid.org/app/org.blokada.alarm
She wasn't kidding about it being very well documented at elevr.com, but I'll link a few posts here.

http://elevr.com/studio-metaphor-an-embodied-software-paradi...

http://elevr.com/body-friendly-design-for-turntable-games/

http://elevr.com/some-rather-different-social-vr-experiments...

http://elevr.com/yoga-for-building-vr-tolerance/
Get rid of screen time for 3 hours before bed.

Also, I highly recommend the book "Why we sleep"

Edit: you can also experiment woth wearing socks (by changing limb temperature you influence blood flow and heat dissappation
Your name leaked from an identifier to a property of your account in my head and I actually thought this was a dead comment. Weird.
> Mark Zuckerburg who has majority control of the largest source of private data in the world bought the two plots of land next to him for privacy reasons.

President of USA, travels with a ~100 men security cover all the time, does not mean USA is unsafe to move around and you should stay in home with a gun in hand.
Transcript: https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jq248bz8097/jq248bz80...
I prefer my country’s social services delivered by professionals, inefficiencies and all, over church volunteers. Inefficiencies are okay, expected even, when operating at scale. Sometimes universal availability and coverage take priority (know what you’re optimizing for).

Also, when discriminated against by faith based services, you have no recourse. This is unacceptable, and can be monitored and governed more effectively when government provides services.
Right, programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). But I do agree that TFA was needlessly negative. I mean:

> Unsurprisingly, Shaich never mentions SNAP in his TED talk. If he did, he may have had to admit that Panera Cares was nothing but an elaborate branding exercise, a solution to a problem we already know how to solve. Panera Cares was an experiment that, in the end, was exactly like Shaich: full of empty, unpleasant, and superfluous gestures.

I rather envy people who do gestures well. I've been coached at it, but I'm still pretty wooden.
Thx - I respect your choice. In my situation, though, my dev env has to be a non-virtualized Linux OS with good gpu access.
That last part was the big pain. They had to add me when I had it on the newer android but that phone died. Thanks for the empathy.
From what I understand poor sleep quality is one of the reasons obese people see these issues. But maybe my understanding is wrong and it's just all correlated without causation going in that particular direction.
By announcing their intention to sell well in advance of making the trade [0]

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rule-10b5-1.asp
Don’t have kids.
The "texture" of the code reminds me a bit of the JJencode/JSFuck[1] JavaScript obfuscator --- lots of repetitive patterns and the same concept of building bigger and more complex pieces from recursive applications of very trivial rules.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSFuck
Frankenstein Veto
Ask HN: Best online strategy board game?
I am a huge fan of Stratego, which is similar to chess, except you do not know a pieces rank until you strike it (all pieces are identical). Unfortunately, the online game seems to be breaking more and more as the company who built it is no longer maintaining it. Any recommendations? Not looking for an online game like LoL where there is constant input and output, but one where there is time to consider what is the best move.
First-World Chores: Waxing Your $1000 Keyboard
You may also like a couple of lectures by Erik Demaine:

Dynamic Programming I: Fibonacci, Shortest Paths
https://youtu.be/OQ5jsbhAv_M

Dynamic Programming II: Text Justification, Blackjack
https://youtu.be/ENyox7kNKeY
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice…
Update : received a confirmation mail around 11:00 am about non selection.
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> The point is that people don’t get terribly upset at extremely small risks of minor negative consequences from privacy issues.

No, they don't get terribly upset because they don't (1) understand the potential consequences well enough and (2) it doesn't affect them until it does. We have a very clear mental model of what happens if we get struck by lightning (I go to the hospital and my skin gets charred) but we don't for data privacy.
I’m fond of my 61s as well, with their capillary reservoir, and being one of the first commercial uses of Teflon.

They’re a pain to clean thoroughly, though, so they’re best used as a pen for someone who doesn’t change inks very often. That person is not me :)
But it doesn't happen on the mass scale on that kind of magnitude. Hence, the indifference.
I'm not sure I follow your logic.
Next couple of generations will still be "shrinking stuff", after that it will be "new stuff" (e.g. graphene) and "stacking stuff" (3D integration).
I found it helped me that "indicators of compromise" is written out in full in the relevant paragraph, and then just abbreviated in the summary.

It's rough if you're skimming though (and who has time to read everything on the web?)
employees, and worked. The individual items were distributed across the various individual contractors cycling in and out; no one was guilty of all of those points, but most were guilty of some. If it was one mostly-static set of contractors who could've been grown into actually productive devs who cared about their craft, that would have been one thing, and I'd have felt proud to have contributed to said growth. But an endless parade of people with whom communication is difficult will eventually have a corrosive effect upon the soul.

I haven't worked there for years. When I was laid off during the acquisition, I didn't protest, because I was about to look for a new job anyway. My only regret was not being allowed to finish building the new image deployment system so the persons to take up my duties wouldn't have to deal with yet-another-half-finished-system-built-by-people-no-longer-working-here.
I've recently had an interview where the interviewer scraped my most recent project off of GitHub, then asked me to add a feature, using a whiteboard. In my opinion this is the RIGHT WAY to do it.
The codebase is obviously familiar to the candidate, along with the problem domain. This rules out memorization, puzzle gaming, etc... It informs on programming style, ability to somewhat think on ones feet, but doesn't exclude candidates who didn't happen to guess what the interviewer wanted before the interview began.
privacy != security
A great place to write and host the static page is https://repl.it You'll be able to code in the browser IDE, then instantly see the changes reflected at their url, or your custom url. Also a YC company
I'm a proud UW CS graduate so this story is thrilling.

It was mentioned at times in your article that you used your network to seek advice on the next steps for the business.

Have you used the UW network to seek business advice from people not in academia and not in the math field?

If you are supporting four people, not all of whom are developers, that's an amazing place to be, imho. If you are supporting four developers, it's even more admirable AND probably time to involve someone who can think exclusively about how to grow the business and does not think about engineering tasks. There is a huge network of former UW people involved in the software industry in Seattle who would help if you are at that moment to consider it.

Maybe you've already done this, your article makes it sound like you have been very thorough in investigating how to take this to the next level, but it wasn't mentioned explicitly.

I know some people like this, reach out to me if you want connections to them.

Here's to your future success!
Sorry if this isn't your question, but it seems too good not to mention for your task.
This is great news. But it says they've licensed it to a small pharmaceutical company, whose shares are now up 400%.

There are a number of "miracle cures" out there for genetic disorders that have been effectively discontinued or that have insanely high prices. I'm concerned that future articles about this breakthrough will be in that vein.

Hopefully not, but that's my fear.
Thanks for the recommendation. I don't have that Wing Sung model yet, but as a beginner in the hobby I have had a blast buying Chinese fountain pens over the last year. To the degree that I'm annoyed that my local big box office supply store has such a sub-par (for the price) selection. About all I buy there is Quink, which has been really great writing and drawing ink.
They will most likely end up shooting the messenger.
Does anyone believe any of these so called myths?
Should have bought the fountain pen dip.
When I said central Tokyo, I should have been more clear. I was referring to Shibuya, Shinjuku, and Minato ku.

I'm well aware of the diversity (or sometimes lackthereof) of Japanese cities/neighborhoods. I've been living here for 10 years.
Add to the checklist: Can the patient survive the trip home? Based on a true story.
Looks like it uses ActivityPub - https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy/blob/master/docs/API.md

Nice.
They will be the same for SpaceX. What makes you think otherwise? Their constellation will not start out anywhere near the max capacity they've stated.
Another article with some more information: https://www.chicagobusiness.com/transportation/car2go-app-ha...

I hope we get a postmortem on this.
Exercise has helped me in many ways, including sleeping.
Legit commentary, however, point 1, the phase of lowest sleep is temporary, and point 2, with kid #2 and I presume onwards, you've been through it before and it's easier to adapt.
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You used the word duopoly. I responded to the word you used. The point being that 99% of the people in your area also in a duopoly simply don't care.
today my wife did a search and found her info on a site called mylife<dot com>. She was seriously creeped out.

I did a little research into that site. I hope they scrape more data on everybody, so when the public finally becomes aware of it it'll finally bring some sane regulations to all this
The irony of a css “framework” that says it’s built for “lightness” and then immediately recommends the single biggest cause of weird page display for people on slow connections: a web font.
I realize this sounds hokey, but the Deep Sleep Pillow Spray is phenomenal.