skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, so parent is suggesting making facial recognition software (as a class) illegal. You'd still be able to use your legal computer to analyze legal photographs, but we could, as a society, say it is a Bad Idea™ to make that analysis trivial.

Alternatively we could say that everyone should be able to do facial recognition analysis, but then access to the photographs becomes the gatekeeper of power.
Agreed, I have some artist friends using the iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil.

I imagined it would be for that usecase. I didn’t understand the “who needs a stylus” statement, but I guess that is for the iPhone.
If you want a simplified desktop experience for non-coding tasks, a Chromebook will coat about 1/5 of an iPad pro plus peripherals.
It would be cool if the crank was also used to charge the device's battery.
Can the land actually handle building up? Wouldn't building down be the better way to go? I mean most of those cities are already threatened by rising sea levels. Boston and New York are pretty dense areas who's home do you want to tear down to build new more expensive high rises that the working poor can't afford.
Exceptions proving the rule? It gets a lot more love than hate.
MSI support removal seems premature. Can you do unsandboxed stuff from an AppX? Also can you install AppXs on Windows 7/8?
Traditionally you'd get the body into the ground in three days max. Nowadays that's not happening unless (like some religions) you make it a point of principle. With bureaucracy and far-flung families it frequently takes weeks.
Yes, they changed after Unity are their lunch.
I personally love weird single-purpose hardware. Unfortunately it tends not to do very well commercially.

Anybody remember this guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader
When given the task "What is the next number in this sequence: 3, 5, 7" my first thought would be 9, since we are counting odd numbers. But that's kind of dumb, nobody would ask something this simple. So maybe the answer is 11, since we might be counting prime numbers. That's probably good enough for an IQ test, but if this was an interview question at Google the better answer might be 13 (counting Mersenne exponents, integers so that 2^n - 1 is prime, a well known method to find large primes). On the other hand 23 is the next prime whose digits are also prime. 9 is also the next Columbian Number, but 13 is the next fortunate number.

Now a good question would give me only one of these as possible answer, but in practise having multiple viable answers happens and I have to judge how complicated the question was supposed to be, what the test's expectations are etc. If you ask a Japanese you might get a different answer than if you ask a French simply because of how different their academic cultures are.
Surprisingly difficult. Winding down from Amazon personally has taken months, but thats futile. At work I spend 8 figures a year on AWS.
Yes, why not feed human corpses to livestock?

Also, why not slaughter humans for food when they are younger and better eating? Why do we treat humans any different than any other animal?
“The app does not send or collect any data to us.”

Nice and easy, I like it!

Regarding the premium features, I think they’re a solid idea. The OLED users have a thousand dollar phone anyway, and for the regular phone users white screens are I believe 0,4% more power efficient or something, and they can turn on dark mode for late night reading comfort. Plus, I think it’s good to pay for apps.

Font wise I think Source is an excellent screen font, so I am happy that’s the default but I would also not dislike the default being SF.

I love the button to go down the comment thread.

Really nice app, thanks.

Edit: wow the automatic reader mode on links is the best thing I’ve ever seen in an app. (I don’t have many apps installed to be fair)
Ruby includes something similar, ARGF. It's pretty useful over there. https://thoughtbot.com/blog/rubys-argf
I'm not sure I'm willing to narrow the goalposts that much just so I can absolve Airbus from misbehaving. And that's just the most recent example easy to find with a quick Google search.
Slightly off-topic, but the website design looks like a worse version of Teenage Engineering website (https://teenage.engineering/products/po) with larger font size (a bit too large imo). Not dissing the website though, it isn't that bad overall, just thought it was interesting, since I haven't seen many others attempting that.

EDIT: after a closer look at the page, I realized that they explicitly mentioned partnering with Teenage Engineering on parts of the device design. The website resemblance makes more sense now :)
Amazon stuff runs on Amazon servers... cloud means, it is not your computer, most likey not your Software and sooner or later not your data.
Is this a problem in real life? If I start talking to a stranger, my nerd level doesn't come into play. My ability to have a normal conversation is the only thing that really matters.
Rust people are very glad that Rust brought high-kinded types to replace the most common uses of hygienic macros. Using macros for everything is a nightmare.

About using them as generics, how do you enforce constraints? Unconstrained generics won't lead you far (or better, will lead you far into JS's Wat territory).
We don't actually know much at all about what China does to people in its concentration camps, although the US State Department says it's the worst abuses it's seen 'since the 1930s'. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-rights/us-says-chinas...
I'm pretty sure Visas expired back then too..
The point of it was to deliver an excuse as to why their hands are tied, it went to vote precisely because the outcome was already obvious.
Very cool!

Do you have any ideas for how to document the tool well?

Thank you for the smile this brought to my face :). Really imaginative and cool tool.
The spec is about doing attribution, literally. It makes the attribution anonymous just to work around privacy advancements that have been adopted recently.

Until browsers get blocked for being anonymous, this is never in the interest of the user.

And if a site doesn’t work unless I turn off adblock / switch browser, then it’s most likely bad on multiple levels.
It's a feelgood topic. People here are programmers, technologists, investors, etc and they feel responsible for this. So they come here, condemn it, and leave.
yes, I see that, I should have been more clear that I knew it was a separate domain. This looks more like extended and interesting macros. My only point was that when you move towards being able to express things in natural language - whether as programming or even getting Siri to call your friend, the frustration level can be much higher if it doesn't work as expected.

There is something about getting to talk in "natural lanaguge" some of the time, and otherwise having to repeat yourself while trying variations in syntax that just feels bad.

Since I was talking about Inform, probably analogous is the text adventure issue where you know /how/ to solve the riddle, but you don't know how to tell the machine that you know.

"Give lantern to crocodile"
"Offer lantern to crocodile"
"Put lantern on crocodile"
etc
The size is the same in the heap there is no improvement. The idea is not to the talk bad about flutter but to show that improvement is needed.
> Revenue US$39.83 billion (2018)

Even not growing, they are indeed paying Oracle.
If that's the case, then why is it a good thing that humans are being used for compost? Seems inconsistent. Either humans are more sacred than other animals, and should be treated specially, even when dead. Or, if they don't need to be treated specially when dead, then why treat them specially at any other point?

I guess this legislation is a way to rationally erode the obsolete emotional reasons for treating the human body as something special.
I do wish you were exaggerating...
But ... Fresh off the boat is adapted from an autobiography, especially the first season.
How do you decide who is going to collaborate with you?

Is there a specific business model behind the company?
Well, they don't remove AIFF tho, just the lib -- which presumably nobody uses...
If we're talking single-purpose gaming devices that failed, there's always the Gizmondo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizmondo

I don't think Panic is involved in organized crime, though.
Terraform 0.12 Now GA
The way Europe handled Volkswagen is... nothing, but Vw directors are being arrested one by one when they transit through US jurisdictions, and jailed.

Perhaps we’ll ser the same: Europe arresting and trialling Boeing officials one by one as they ser foot in Europe. Perhaps there are already negociations on immunity for Vw against immunity for Boeing.
And there are no alternatives that exist?
Can Western companies actually just hire citizens of thier own nation (or valid H1B immigrants) instead of trying to save a few bucks by sending the money out of the country while blocking their own citizens the opportunity to work (all while enjoying the services, protection, economy, and opportunity their own country provides them) ?
Yeah I don't care much about what Amazon does with it, at least compared to the police. Amazon doesn't have the ability to kill me or lock me in a cage for 50 years.
Without commenting on whether its effective or not, the theory being ascribed to in the headline is clear. It has been suggested that one of the reasons why there is a strong gender imbalance in computing is the lack of role models for young women considering entering the field. Those who see this as a real problem and wish to solve it then go ahead and trumpet successful women in programming so that such role models are more prevalent.

Is this kind of thing effective? Does it make any meaningful difference to actual young women considering the field? Is the premise flawed anyway? I honestly have no idea, it's not something I've ever looked at in any depth to know if such questions are even answerable with anything other than one's own prejudice - maybe they are and it all is? If so, studies with data would be interesting and worth my time to read.

I'm a bit surprised that people around here are driven to comment in this headline and need this pointed out. Disagree with the theory all you like to whatever end you feel is a good one, by all means. Being aggressively ignorant seems to be rarely productive for anything useful.

Beyond this, clicks are where you get paid and we're talking about this and posting it here which seems worth mentioning in passing...
E was never meant to be tied to Java (after the very early period in both languages when the E people tried to get Sun interested in incorporating their ideas). http://erights.org/history/original-e/index.html

After that the JVM was the first target platform but the language design was not meant to depend on it.
Cemeteries get the best real estate because they can wait it out the longest. When a town is formed the cemeteries are usually in the outskirts. As the town grows these outskirts become the suburbs which then become part of the urban core.
Ah yes, the nuclear mushroom! :P

The brand name annoys me. Thankfully we don't call forklifts "Ton" or water treatment plants "Potable".
Thanks for the feedback! We're still in very early days with regards to the UI, and I know there's a ton of room for improvement. Hopefully we'll have something more presentable ready soon!
> Racket can probably do everything you want (i.e. serve as its own 'LAMP stack').

Here's a quick tutorial on web applications in Racket: https://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/index.html
That's an idea worth considering perhaps.

The question is, will a cap like this produce a net negative or net positive to society?

On one hand, what's the incentive to keep being productive and innovative once the cap is reached? If we can come up with some (besides money), and they are good and desirable, it may offset some of the negative effects.

I always think of it like we don't let private citizens posses atom bombs in the US (even if they are really good people who would never use them for evil). A shotgun is fine though. Too much power in a single individual unbalances society.

But I'm really not sure what the net effects would be. Besides, as other posters have pointed out, the system would almost certainly be gamed. The hazard of too much wealth does seem real though.
Ask HN: Client who paid for US work visa legal fees wants them back
(throwaway)

Hi HN, yes I am hiring a lawyer, just wondering about similar experiences.

I had a client in the US for 10 months (I am outside the US) who paid legal fees for me to start a visa application. I quit 6 months later and now they are asking to return the expense.

Our contract didn't say anything about applying for a US visa, but they later offered to cover the fees to get me to move.

I thought it was weird they didn't handle it on their end but I had to find the lawyer, figure out which visa to go for etc.

I paid the fees and started the process, so I don't have the money. Everything was communicated at every step.

Issues happened at the company that caused all devs to leave (except me). Toxic, seagull/micro-management and incompetence, permanent crunch mode. I moved to the same timezone partly to work more closely while waiting on the application (but still in my own country). The issues kept happening. Since I was the lead I decided to hang on until my replacement could be onboarded. Then terminated my services due to burnout and found something else.

The visa could take a long time, I am covering a large portion of the cost, and have no control over whether it will succeed.

Now the client wants those fees back, but the lawyer would only refund if they thought the application was not likely to succeed.

I feel like it was a speculation on the part of the company (I only did it because they asked me to). With no promise in return other than to follow through on the process and cover some cost, in the hopes of moving if everything worked out. Since the work stopped for other reasons, I feel like they should lose that amount.

I'm still in the process of applying for the visa, and might even end up moving to the states someday. The particular visa is not connected to a specific employer.

Wondering if this kind of thing happens much. What is the normal way?
> Hardly, it's the sentiment echoed by your statement that is prevalent throughout tech circles. Out of sight, out of mind.

Do you believe my statement is false? Or are you simply arguing with an imagined statement that I didn't make?
They also reward click-bait material with more ad-revenue making it more likely that people produce such content.
Queue the torrent of HN comments that conflate "is technically legal" and "Is morally responsible", after all the highest form of morality is making money.
The docs are actually amazingly comprehensive, but it does have a pretty steep learning curve, especially as it is presented towards non-programmers, so you can't nec look up how to do a conditional very easily.

However, what really shines are the tremendously well documented full games. You can literally load them in Inform and play the game in one pane and walk through the code in the other.

I'm still not sure what to think of it as a language, I think now as a full-fledged programmer, I would pick an interactive fiction framework that looks a lot more like a programming language and less like fiction. However as a beautiful experiment in being able to use the English language to write a story and make it playable at the same time, it is still pretty amazing to me.

It /is/ a full-fledged language. You can implement weather or tides or magical systems or inventory systems or health points or anything else you can thing of, but it all reads pretty English-y...until it doesn't!
I've always heard that the US stands out from other Western countries due to the number of guns in its civilian populations. Is the ability to stand up to mass surveillance states something that people who want to take away guns take into account? In my time in the US I've only heard the argument of the US becoming a bad actor towards its civilian populations be dismissed. I also wonder if civilian populations have access to weapons in areas like Caracas. It'd certainly be terrifying to fight the military there, but the military is already mowing down protesters that are wielding sticks and stones.
I understand but the heap size is too big and that is why I alerted while it’s still in preview. If not one says anything everybody will think it’s fine, not following regular web standards for me was shocking too, it’s all based on webgl. I am not too worried about being preview or not, I am worried about “hey here is what we have as a new standard for the web” and it’s webgl and it has a 43MB heap for a hello_world.
Bottom of page:

> By the way, the crank came from our friends at Teenage Engineering. They were our partners for Playdate’s design. Isn’t it nice?

Edit: you took a closer look while I was typing. You're excused. ;)
I recommend you redo the icon (HN?). Having an icon that reads “HACK” for an app named “HACK” is odd to me.
But just like self-driving cars, once you start expanding the scope, and only just a little bit, it doesn't look so cool anymore. I would love to see how far they can take this.

It's beautiful the way you balance the pessimism of hard experience with an optimism borne of real natural language understanding being still an amazing possibility.

Human language is an extremely fuzzy and messy affair involving all sorts of things like body language that don't transfer to writing. Programming is not like that. These are not just different things. These are completely different domains of things.

That's rock such hopes founder on, sadly. Of course, there's always a chance someone will the passage between things that others have missed.

A more hopefully way to put is that natural language is a stream of symbols that where the unnecessary parts are removed, the other parts are actively interpreted by context and by the intent of the speaker, and where any ambiguity is sorted out by dialog. If you can create a system that can let you program similarly, you may have something.

Good Luck again!
There are thousands of years of history behind the cemetery tradition, part of a culture that's dominant in certain parts of the world. That there are other human cultures which have different practices doesn't make it any easier to change that one.
Well you did say ever....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux
Nice article, thanks for sharing.

I'm sure there are people out there debating F# vs C# for a new project, and might not realize how many future C# features are already in F# though.
Do you have evidence that economic migrants are lower IQ than people in more affluent countries?
Jesus man, please link to this great work! Humility be damned
He never said the stylus was out of fashion.

He said it shouldn't be the primary method of interaction with a tablet...
I like the visual style.
Maybe in the future it will become a giant link-farm. Google is slowly becoming the kind of site they used to ban from their own search results not too long ago.
Foucalt and Chomsky on institutinal control, 1971.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=J5wuB_p63YM
It would be equally weird if China didn't have a few sympathetic people expressing pro-China sentiment in online discussions linked to anti-China articles.
This belongs in the 'about' section of your profile, not as a post. Click on your username and you'll see the form field.
Almost never, getting high is for hiking, chilling with friends, and playing video games
That’s not what people use an iPad for though.
it's a lie/deceit, but I'm not convinced it's fraud. fraud is:

> intentional misrepresentation of material existing fact made by one person to another with knowledge of its falsity and for the purpose of inducing the other person to act, and upon which the other person relies with resulting injury or damage.

Everything is fine until "resulting injury or damage". You'd have trouble proving that a guy who falsely said he wrote parallel FizzBuzz with REST API on a 500-client kubernetes rack caused you any harm.
That's a very clever way to let users test drive dark mode.

There was a HN client posted a couple weeks ago, but virtually all settings and customization was locked behind IAP. Without being able to really try the app at all, I just uninstalled it.
I'm not sure what you're arguing here. I believe humans are sacred and ought to be treated as such, even when dead.
Wolfram Alpha Search Engine Turns 10: Remains Independent, Private, and Free
I've actually ordered one from ebay last week. Looking forward to it.
Image links are broken for me.
Apple wouldn't know how to make that happen.

The ghost of Steve Jobs still insists on a single mouse button.

Apple seems to think that the single mouse button is a holy and sacred canon of minimalism to be extended to all other aspects of computing. One USB port type. One lightning port. One physical button.

To permit a mouse would violate the singular touchscreen as pointing device, and thus the ghost of Jobs would awaken and brick every Apple device in anger.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=validate%20idea&sort=byDate&pr...
The statement wasn't who needs a stylus, but "if you see a stylus, they blew it" (they being the designers, and in context meaning: if you see a stylus bundled with a tablet as the primary means of interaction).

He was commenting on past tablets that were meant to be used with a small stylus -- and the interface was totally unfriendly (and sometimes unusable) for hand touch.
Show HN: How much will your shares be worth when your company sells?
They want you to go to all websites through them, instead of typing the URL. Basically use them as a combined bookmark/history/web search. I admit, its a very nice convenience.
And when the prospect of losing the cold war is breathing down your neck you go right ahead and renew visas of those making an important contribution..?
I am personally more likely to forget the : than a second =. Happened all the time when I was writing plsql.
I gave it a try; love how fast and simple it is! You probably already know this, but the set of snippets are somewhat limited at the moment (though pretty good for a first launch). Also, it would probably be helpful to have more descriptions/metadata around each snippet, so that you can use some NLP goodness to make search better.

I've been working on a related idea, which is sort of a search engine for programming questions integrated into your IDE (starting with JS in VSCode). The idea is to give you fast, relevant answers (code snippets when possible), and reduce context switching to the browser to keep you in flow.

Similar in spirit though; would love to chat more! (my contact info in profile; I didn't see a way to contact you)
Impossible Foods’ rising empire of almost-meat
This isn't about regulation of facial recognition tech (in the legal sense), this is about voluntarily choosing to not pursue a course of action because it is unethical and how shareholders have overruled decision makers on that matter.
that's what i thought it was for, and then maybe it could be used to charge something else with crank-power through usb
Soon the kerneld service will be added and we will finally have a competitor OS for Emacs.
Yea, I almost exclusively do text games these days.