skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun with Snapchat's Gender Swapping Filter
It's a shame http://bash.org/ isn't datestamped.
Something here is obviously being misreported, or Manning is crazy.

Why not go to the jury, repeat previous statements, answer any question she's comfortable with and go with the tried-and-tested "I don't recall" for everything else? Or plead self incrimination if there is a risk?

This must have occurred to everyone involved. There isn't any reason to go to risk jail rather than answer a few questions.
Ask HN: Whom do you prefer generalist or specialist?
And they probably wish that they would have your technology and manpower, but it's called asymmetric warfare.

I suppose, we could count the deaths to see who has the better part of the asymmetry.
The Porsche Taycan Turbo EV Redefines Speed and Acceleration
I only got so far reading this, then I got distract...
I've used it multiple times, never got a reply or saw a change. I believe it's mostly like the thumbs-down for comments on YouTube: the user feels like they did something but it has no actual meaning.
I'm a moderator/admin on echojs. What's funny is that all the links are rel="nofollow" and still I delete 2-5 posts a day that are anything from outright spam to blogspam that is all unrelated and/or useless. The comment spam is even worse on most sites, and I'm not sure what the real solution might be.

With new legislation all over the world, particularly in the EU, it's going to be harder and harder to create content or let users interact. Which is moving ever away from the core of the internet's creation which is letting people make stuff. Sites want to be both publishers and platforms and are starting to actively censor. Even if I disagree with the content it's a really slippery slope and already starting to see a lot of unintended consequences.

It really feels like we're heading into the internet dark age.
Depends on what you're trying to accomplish.
Awesome now you all have a church to go to.
So you agree, banning access and gateways to Wikipedia is effective.
I used to play handball at elite level, and exactly as you say, years after quiting I noticed these effects of not managing life properly.

It’s two sides to it as I see, as going all in with athletics obviously gives you the physical bit “for free”. Well not for free, really, but you know what I mean.

The other part is the strict routine you have to keep.

It’s not ever a problem as life revolves around an interest!

Rather, I used to get annoyed if something disrupted my routine regarding food, rest and practice.

To get better and stonger (interest) I have to eat, sleep and turn up ready for practice two times, every day.

Ah... good times! But also severely limiting. But also great... But... :)

Awesome that I could help make your day! Inspiring even.
Truly disturbing.
Somewhere someone in a self-driving car is dying because of you...

;-)
Do you prefer to deploy a new software to your servers by manually copying the bytes, or using a robot?
Coal is dead - natural gas killed it for better or worse.
Citymobil, a manual for improving availability amid business growth, part 5
As has been mentioned multiple times, it was rape. The European Arrest Warrant says: (https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2011/2849.html)

> 4. Rape

> On 17 August 2010, in the home of the injured party [SW] in Enkoping, Assange deliberately consummated sexual intercourse with her by improperly exploiting that she, due to sleep. was in a helpless state.

This was ruled by the [High Court] to be rape under [English] law.

EDIT: Corrected as per gsnedders below.
"Does anybody believe the CIA has covered secret agents stationed at Swedish feminist literature departments"

Sure, why not? It would be an excellent cover persona for that type of spy. From what little I know about how intelligence agencies operate, it always amazes me who their assets are. Look at who the OSS used as spies in WWII. Find out who her parents are before passing judgement. They don't recruit the obvious James Bond types. Find the family connection.
it is! And I just now realized that I have seen it used many times before, in for loops and variable declarations.

It just seems so foreign and out of place when used outside of those instances though, and for me at least the purpose of it wasn't intuitive at all!
The benefit (compared to more classic formatting) only occurs if you're inserting at the end of the argument list.

If adding stuff to the end of a class or of an argument list is your most frequent case, you might have a software design problem.
Initializing Neural Network parameters effectively (deeplearning.ai)
That's not the point.

The point is, someone you don't know precisely about, neither their real motivations, neither its actual consistency, has the actual ability to kill anyone (more or less precisely) from a distance, as it decides, without fearing any other obstacle than its own will.

Like, an imperfect yet powerful god.

You don't know how to "please it" or "have mercy", but by very proxy methods that may not even apply consistently on the long term.
I would absolutely use an alternative to reCaptcha that requires users perform small tagging and classification problems for open datasets. A “freeCaptcha”, if you will.
There is both a hierarchy of courts and judges are appointed or elected on different schedules and methods to help prevent a single mindset, age, philosophy, and capability.

There’s also public records of petitions brought up against motions. So if I disagree with an injunction, I have legal recourse in the court above the one issuing an order.
Reverse engineering a high-end soldering station
Lucida Grande looked great on displays for which it was designed (non-Retina) but looked a bit naff and oddly-proportioned on Retina displays. Not unreadable by any means, but the features baked into the font to aid readability on non-Retina displays simply no longer applied once the majority of Apple's products had moved to Retina displays.
Offering 20% time and then engineering a company with an internal culture that makes it so that you can’t take the 20% time is functionally equivalent of not having the time.

I know your response is going to be “well, it’s available and is the employees choice” which is exactly the type of culture engineering I’m talking about

The most creative people are high in trait openness, and are conflict avoiders. The situation you describe is likely to result in only the more disagreeable people taking the 20% with the creative opens not taking it to avoid conflict - so there we are, google engineered an internal culture where their 20% time is not taken by those who it would be most beneficial for google to do so.

This is partially why I left google after 3 years of working there, because I could see that it was just about myopic immediate goals and creativity and curiosity are no longer valued

This is largely why we haven’t seen much innovation out of google in the last 4-5 years, because it’s become a max($) optimiser.

Google don’t want open, creative ideas, they want a bunch of naïve young programmers who they can Overwork because “working at Google is cool”, but Google’s problem is that the smart young are now wising up to this, and their image is shaking. This will result in all of the B level programmers flooding into Google (when I started there it was all A’s, then the Bs started permeating 2 years later) now the place is filling up with walking calculators - brilliant at arithmetic but no lateral thinking.
I see that occasionally in my works codebase. I don't mind it so much. Sometimes I'll see

If(predicate
&& nextPredicate
&& lastPredicate)
{
DoStuff();
}

Which I don't mind but also don't write. However, I do prefer ternary expressions like

int someNum = somePred
? firstVal + 42
: 1000;
As a full face helmet proponent and user (since I started riding motorcycles in India), your comment really makes sense.

This is something I used to do almost on instinct,usually at lower speeds (because the helmet had a sort of an intake and a vent that worked well at higher speeds).
Maybe because she her goal is not come up with the least damage to herself, but to do what she finds more moral and right.

Heroes don't play dumb, heroes do the right thing, make a statement, send the message ... and she is a hero, not someone trying to cover her ass.

On the other hand, whatever she do, she's screwed, her future in such legal and power system is not bright anyways. So why not trying to be "die as a hero" then, it's not likely she would "survive" without "selling out" anyways?
Did they hold a trial or are these extra-judicial killings, as usual?
This tribal mentality of "US"(A) vs. them is outdated. We live in a global world where while laws haven't caught up, you can use your head and judge whether something is right or wrong.

It's clear when someone - anyone - regardless of nationality is being abused for political reasons. Would you want to spend the rest of your life in either of their situations?

For something you did once?

For something that benefitted millions of people?

I'm not saying they're clear of any responsibility and shouldn't have been punished, but this is beyond anything reasonable.
I have a different take: Advertising is hacking. More theft, less a catalyst for needs fulfillment.

We live and function within an attention economy. Advertisement funded business models can only compete for our attention. Preferential attachment leads to power law distribution of activity. The mathematical result is called laissez faire, "winner takes all", fads, last stage capitalism, "the free market".

Agree that advertising should be illegal.

A conclusion that tortures me.

I worked on recommenders for a fashion retailer. As a consumer, I desparately want help finding the products just for me. As an insider, trying to address my own wants and desires, I couldn't even sell "a shirt that fits" to myself. Because in practice, recommenders are just another mirror, filter bubble, echo chamber, preferential attachment redux.

If I'm ever presented with a recommendation (advertisement) which satisfies a need -- fashionable, technical, practical, whatever -- it's little more than an accident.

Oh well.

Maybe the "personalization" craze will fare better.

Meanwhile, I soldier on with my foraging skills.
If you want to rank, 95% is links, not technical SEO. I agree of course, that making your site work well is important, but that usually won't get you any top rankings.

The latest trend is to simply rent subdomains or directories on large websites (newspapers, magazines, tv stations), including header/footer links from the main page. Works like a charm, whatever you publish there will rank like crazy because of the massive links the main page gets.
No blog unfortunately, but I remember when I let it slip - I corrected them about something they were saying about a family member, in Russian. Though, Russian was all around us, so you would even get to use it at shops, at school, etc. No longer taught as a language, because English aligned better with the country's priorities for the future, but still pervasive.

A year or so after, Harry Potter wasn't out in my native language, so I switched to the Russian copy, and I was able to read fairly comfortably. The joys of immersion :)
Note, that it’s true that one can’t be compelled to testify. And the consequence is being put in prison temporarily.

I don’t see how market system (socialism v capitalism) matters in this sense because rule of law is essential for democratic society.
Benefits of Outsourcing Customer Service
In your analysis, have you included the required base-load generation systems required when renewables aren't generating (night time, no wind) or the required storage systems (which actually don't exist) to time shift the energy supply?
In the deep, dark, ocean fish have evolved superpowered vision
Renewable sources are too expensive without subsidies too. So, how do we make people use solar? I know, let's make everything else more expensive: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/images/b/...
It sounds smart but it's plain false. History proves otherwise.
There isn't anything heroic about not communicating. Heroism is refusing to communicate dishonestly.
I used to also be depressed about climate change, but then I got a job in the clean energy sector. Waking up every day and getting paid to fight climate change feels really good. It has really turned my depression into hope.

I'd like to encourage you to take a look and see what you can find about career opportunities in the clean energy sector. You may be surprised at how many software and tech jobs there are (it's a fast growing space).
Myspace served a similar purpose for later generations. It did for me, anyway.

There were still terrible color choices, and scrolling text, and flashing text, and glitter that followed your mouse cursor...
> So any discussion about population growth in that context sounds like an (intended?) distraction from the actual necessary means.

I'm only saying that we should think about population growth in addition to other measures. Also, it's not about limiting population growth but actually reducing the number of people living on this planet as quickly as possible. In the long term, I can't see a more effective way to save resources.

> what if the average Chineese citizen would emit as much carbon and the average American one?

Then global carbon dioxide emissions would rise by ~10%. It wouldn't make much of a difference, as serious negative effects from climate change seem to be unavoidable. But this doesn't mean "game over". Mankind is a lot more resilient than you seem to think. That's why there's still a need for long-term thinking (centuries, not decades).
Seams odd they closed the case in the first place.
Besides abortions and condoms Planned Parenthood also provides, amongst others:

* Pregnancy services and prenatal care

* STD and HIV testing and treatment

* Birth control

* Vasectomies

* Screening for reproductive cancers (like breast, cervical, testicular, and prostate cancers)

* Pap tests

* Vaccines

* PrEP and PEP (medicines to help prevent HIV)

* Transgender health services, including hormone replacement therapy (HRT)

These are all important health services, and reducing PP to condoms and abortions is dishonest at best.
Show HN: Cloudmarker – Cloud monitoring tool and framework
I'm sure they will be much happier to have rocks regularly dropped on them instead /s.
Worse problem for democracy is refusal of prosecutors to prosecute public officials even in cases of obvious miscarriage of their duties to the public (or lets say highly controversial acts with high casualty counts and largescale damage on property of other people - like going to arrest 4 people for parole violation and contempt of court,... and burning down the entire neighbourhood and killing 11 people).

One egregious example is (today is the aniversary) 1985 bombing of MOVE:

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,141842,...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE

What are the checks on refusal to prosecute? Are there even any? One might find it more apppealing to cooperate with a justice system that at least tries to do its job wrt people who police the public.
I genuinely expected you to pivot to something interesting or novel halfway through your post and was very disappointed when I got to the end. This comment eloquently depicts everything that is wrong with corporate culture in general, occasionally magnified in IT.
The back button being placed at the top is because it's the clearest place to put an indication of a hierarchy. Remember, iOS has always made it explicit where a back action will take you — the arrow button isn't just an arrow, it also contains text that tells you where it's going.

It makes perfect sense to put such a control at the top of the screen next to the title. The interface is clear: you are here, you can go back where you came from — and these two things are grouped together.

Android has now adopted this which is great, because it's still a crapshoot where the hardware back button will take you on an Android phone — back in the navigation hierarchy? Out of the app entirely and into a different one? Will it just dismiss a popover? In the past moreso than now, the button's behaviour could almost have been described as entirely arbitrary.
If they offer warranty, who cares?
When it comes to the woodworking: a japanese pull saw ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_saw ) is a great and fairly cheap way to get started. It enables high accuracy and is still quite fast.

Then you'll need a cheap but sturdy table, a hand plane, some vices, a tape measure, a carpenter's square, a cheap cordless drill. Screwing and glueing is the best way to get solid joints for a novice.
Then I misunderstood your point, sorry.
The deepest mine in the world is 4km deep. There are only a dozen or so more than 2km deep. Going down 5-6km may be possible, but definitely not with "no issues".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deepest_mines
Points on comments are not shown, so how do you come to say:

> I've seen some of these comments that have very high positive scores?

Ah, I've just realised that you can see points on your own comments, so I'm guessing one of your comments has gone grey, and yet it has lots of points - yes? Otherwise I'm very confused about what you think you've seen. I've looked through your comments and none appear to me to be greyed out. Can you point me at a comment that's greyed out and yet has a "very high positive score" ??

And downvoting a comment requires a minimum level of karma, I think it's 501 points. Also, you can't downvote a comment that is a direct reply to you.
Doesn't that need more energy than you generated out of the material in the first place?
You are missing out that certain people are paying to manufacture anti-renewable fervor! -- There's literally no logical reason for not progressing technology wise.. but Big Oil think differently.
The majority of these tactics strike me as sleazy, but they almost exclusively work because search engines don't realize they're being gamed. And as search engines get better at recognizing these tactics (e.g. font size of 0), they stop working. The big search engines in 2019 are generally smart enough to ignore this stuff.

What concerns me more is when the search engines themselves are complicit in anti-user tactics.

One example is the loosening of restrictions, particularly by Google, around cloaking.

Google used to come down very hard on cloaking, where you show different content to a search engine's bot than you do to a visitor who arrives from a search engine.

The reason it used to disallow cloaking is because users hate it. Nobody wants to see a search result that appears to answer their query, only to find out when they arrive on the page that the content is inaccessible unless they pay for an expensive membership to the site.

But now Google indexes subscription and paywalled content https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/paywall... and tries to make it seem like this isn't cloaking, but from a user's perspective, it totally is.
Interesting. Presumably that means that all of the ipfs.io domain is blocked(?).

You could try it on some other IPFS gateways. For instance:

https://ipfs.jes.xxx/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQk...

or

https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72...

There's a list of gateways[0][1] (hopefully github isn't blocked...) in case these two are also blocked. You could also try just using IPFS directly[2], rather than using an HTTP-to-IPFS gateway, though that's rather more involved and potentially might make you stand out more / seem more suspicious.

In brief, in case you hadn't read about it, the idea behind IPFS is that it's a decentralised, torrent-like content storage system, where content and nodes are "addressed" via their hash (e.g. QmXoyp... above), similarly to git. In order to allow people without the IPFS daemon to access the "IPFS web" there are gateways, like the ones mentioned above.

[0] https://ipfs.github.io/public-gateway-checker/

[1] I hope that I'm not just helping Chinese censors by providing a list of domains to block...

[2] https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs
For anyone interested, here are the actual facts surrounding this case.

https://justice4assange.com/note-to-editors-sweden.html

The way media has "covered" this, it is not all that surprising to see ignorant comments and cynical speculation. Such deliberate and thorough ignorance as the above is a little more rare.
> First of all I don't see how man-made climate change is even controversial with the amount of evidence we have

It's because it's very hard to prove causation. We have lots of evidence of correlation, and the scientific consensus, but that's not 100% proof to many people.
Switzerland's first ‘VIP bedroom’ cinema
Well, I just happened to have feedback from some of them, e.g. in Romania:

"The INSCOP Research poll revealed that 44.4 percent of the respondents believed that living conditions were better under communism, 15.6 said that they had stayed the same, while only 33.6 claimed that life was worse back then."

And that's from 2014.
I’m part Eskimo and grew up I. Alaska. My mom yelled at me, this is a different time:place.
When it comes to getting an assessment for any sort of mental health issue the best advice I've heard is to answer all the questions from the perspective of your worst day because that's the situation you're trying to avoid. Coping mechanisms are great but they don't work all the time, and at least in my experience once they fail I end up in a downward spiral that can be really hard to get back out of.

Best of luck to you - I made an appointment to go and actually finish the assessment process off the back of reading this article this morning. I wonder if having started it and got distracted twice previously will count as a point in my favour?
For example, I am searching for software developers for my company and I can choose either candidate - Generalist (Who knows little about PHP, JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, and PYTHON) or Specialists (Any One Technology).

Whom would you prefer and why?
> What I don't understand is why this is so controversial.

Our attention is a finite resource too. When some issue is in the news daily and obsessed about by a whole bunch of interest groups, from European-style liberals who have new taxes in mind (Macron) to the radical left who want us to live a frugal, Eastern-Bloc lifestyle, while we all see no real effects by this CO2 monster on our daily lives, it's bound to meet some resistance.

> I don't see why we shouldn't transition to renewable energy asap anyway.

Germany is transitioning to renewables quickly and has put a huge burden on households with high electricity prices (€0.30 per KWh average, even affecting EV adoption after some sensationalist "EV more expensive than Diesel fuel" themed articles) while the industry gets it cheap. Is this reasonable?

> Why would it be a bad thing to get rid of air pollution?

This is a great idea, but it has nothing to do with CO2 (= not air pollution in the usual sense, we all exhale it). I wish we could invest 1/10 of the efforts currently underway against CO2 in just getting rid of pollution in cities - from heating (with "renewable" wood), cars, industry, ships, airplanes (where's the CO2 tax and why do these things happen? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6993173/Actress-Emm...).
Google seems to be commited to Dart, since they already developed linting, formatting, package manager, support for multiple IDEs... As a native iOS developer, I can say that I'm very impressed because Apple did none of that for iOS.

Dart is meh, but because Google owns it, they can change it to Flutter needs (and they are already doing that). I can see it becoming very nice language in few years, but right now it's good enough.
Discovering Patterns with React Hooks
Clickables, for convenience:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7887328

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=602478