skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this idea, but not the idea of having to find a TV with HDMI to use it.

What’s a good small netbook with HDMI out, for when you do you have a TV/monitor available?

The Pinebook is $100 https://www.pine64.org/pinebook/

On the higher end there’s GPD mini laptops https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MMSQ9ZM/

I wonder if a tablet with attachable keyboard could get around the laptop in carry-on bans.
You seem to be doing an uncharitable reading of what you quoted. They can precisely represent numbers outside that range, true. They cannot represent all numbers outside that range.
I get the impression that you may not have played a lot of indie jam games. A hand-crank is one of the least weird things I've seen done. Hell, I once made a game where the controller was two people arm wrestling each other. At least a crank is practically usable.

As a self-described inveterate hobbyist, I completely understand looking around a workshop full of parts and saying "gee, what could we do with that?" And buying parts completely at random just to full future sessions of "Mystery Meat Monday"
We discuss pdf generation here: https://github.com/LispCookbook/cl-cookbook/issues/176
When externalities aren't priced. It isn't a "free market"
> I have to admit that I don't "get" the concept of the viewing (in most cases, apart from identification of course). My grandma died a few years back and the body was available for viewings. Unlike most of my family I didn't go.

> My last memory of grandma was us all together as a family at my aunt's house on Christmas day, her sitting there in an armchair beaming at how proud she was of her family and giving out hugs and kisses to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She died a few weeks afterwards of heart failure.

> It's one of my fondest memories and I'm sure she'd rather be remembered that way than as a cold, lifeless body on a stainless steel slab.

For some, the memories are not enough, and to touch the skin of a loved one one last time (even if there is no warmth behind it) before their body if forever removed from the world, is a special moment.
The best part of open-source is that draws in people who are focused on long-term benefits instead of short-term profit. Contributing to open-source projects teaches you how to write better code, how to work well with other developers and how to communicate your ideas effectively. It also gives you a network of other super smart people who can open all sorts of doors for you once you earn their respect.

Money is a funny thing. Introducing money into something that you were previously doing out of passion completely changes the dynamic. Take sex for example.

I like that Github Sponsors seems to be focused on supporting the developer for their ongoing efforts instead of being too transactional. Other companies have tried incentivizing specific features or bug fixes but they tend to draw in mercenaries who do the bare minimum to get the reward. This seems like a much better way to go.

I'm impressed by the way Github are rolling this out. It will be interesting to watch how it changes the nature of open-source.
Things like Patreon and Twitch were definitely watershed moments for their respective industries. It's true that, as before, most people doing the thing still won't make much money. But still, a lot of people are now making a living in a way where they are directly responsible to the people they serve, without intermediaries like record companies or publishers.
> This corresponds rather well with a non-corrupt process largely blind to companies' nationality, assuming that US companies are rather well-regulated in the US compared to Asian companies.

The trouble is this doesn't really prove anything for the exact reason you're identifying. What you have to compare is the level of enforcement compared to the level of compliance. If US companies are more compliant than average then there should be less enforcement than average, but then you still don't know whether there is more or less than there should be. If US companies are fined 75% as much even though they break the rules 50% as much, that's evidence of bias rather than a lack of it.

Moreover, major US companies are hard sticklers for following rules. They're full of lawyers because their home country is and they'll get their pants sued off otherwise.

That actually seems to be the problem. The EU passes some complicated stack of rules, the US companies have their lawyers go through them and figure out how to comply without disrupting their business, but disrupting their businesses was the motivation for the rules. Then the EU comes around and fines them again. Everybody who dislikes them cheers, but it smells rotten because the companies knew they were under scrutiny and had good lawyers, so it's difficult to find explicit violations and consequently huge fines get meted out over behavior which is not even clearly a violation of the rules.
Indeed it is. So I guess there is no way around it?
Wow, today I am one of the lucky ten thousand. This is a beautiful bit of the natural world I had no idea about.

It's wonderful to learn of something so 'purely' interesting, and (now I've dived a little down the rabbit hole) shared amongst other species like Cicada.
What's with the comment at the end of the blog entry? lol.
Sometimes you need to care!

https://play.golang.org/p/goL1JtapY7q
It's Getting Way Too Easy to Create Fake Videos of People's Faces
As someone who works in an office with heating and cooling they just oscillate wildly - you end with a office that heats or cools seemingly at random, or one area fighting another as one corner tries to heat like crazy as the other blows cold air across the others thermostat.
> Surely it doesn’t take more than 24 hours to find someone to identify most dead bodies? They don’t need to be viewed after they’ve been identified.

Bodies don't need to be viewed just as a sunset does not need to be admired. But people choose to do both activities all the same.
This startup wants to use blockchain to make “uncensorable websites” a reality
The US does not care if you have any other citizenships but some countries do. E.g. Japan will revoke its citizenship on the citizens who obtained another one [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_nationality_law#Loss_...
I considered quite a few SBCs when I was mooting this project, but I had a spare Zero in the drawer at the time. Battery life was a big driver too, and the Zero is great at this. Lastly, in its original configuration it cost about $10/£10. If something with a similar spec comes up, but is maybe smaller I'll look at the that as well.
There are very limited scenarios where you want to pull the brake; e.g. the door has closes on a passenger and is dragging them along.

But of course these are very limited and you almost never actually want to do that.
Disclaimer: I work at Google and did some GDPR verification on some products, but I’m not a lawyer and will try to avoid legal speculation. I worked with the advertising team but not on it; my impression of those folks is that they took legal responsibilities _very_ seriously. We even had to make new controls in Firebase for you to enable sharing your Firebase analytics data with your Firebase Functions.

I’m curious which kind of party Brave is accusing Google of being (Controller or Processor). I’m also curious what kind of “leak” Brave is accusing Google of making.

The advertiser could certainly filter for some specific terms, but not PII. If you get a large group, differential privacy et. al. should protect the individual and protect a leak.

There’s some interesting theoretical attacks in the threads but they involved a host site asking for the PII after the ad campaign.

Do any attorneys want to comment who the Controller and Processor would be in this situation?

Do any multi-site owners want to comment on whether any advertising UserIDs are even shared across sites, or are they salted per recipient?
This seems like a really interesting business model but also one that will benefit a lot of smaller developer who use github. I'm excited to see how this all pans out.
Look into Immutable.js if you want concatenation and the performance of mutating
Show HN: PHP EU Vat Validation
That's fine as long as you don't mind if the underlying array is modified. As the parent points out, a slice is a view into an array and there could be other views into the same array.

https://play.golang.org/p/goL1JtapY7q
> a threat to the whole world

This is rich. In modern times, how often has China intervened in the affairs of a foreign state? I am writing this from America btw.
No they won't.

I, and a lot of other people, cannot get accounting at where I work to cut a check for that kind of sponsorship. I can get accounting to cut checks for things that matter. Typically if someone asks what's the difference between paid and free, and you answer, it supports Active Directory, you're most of the way there if you can show a business need for the product. But just a straight-up donation? It's a hard sell.
While no true lawsuit yet, there have been cease-and-desist sent:

https://www.businessinsider.com/newspaper-publishers-send-ce...

Most recently (as far as big news goes) it turns out Brave collects donations even if content creators don't participate. AFAIK it's an opt-out feature right now, not opt-in. So Brave is putting donation buttons on YouTuber pages, which only allows the Brave user to donate BAT (Basic Attention Tokens - an altcoin that Brave created on Ethereum), and they hold them until the YouTuber claims it. They also take certain BAT back from the YouTuber if it's not claimed within a year - but those are the free BAT that they give out to Brave users to encourage adoption. BAT donated to YouTubers that the Brave user bought themselves stays in an escrow for now.

https://twitter.com/tomscott/status/1076160753793683456?ref_...
They should just use Google Pay API if that is the case. As far as I know they still don't charge fees.
I do indeed - I'm guarding that IP address carefully :)
I don't really understand this comment. Surely to write well-written code you need to understand how computers work. Just like understanding how cars work is important to be competent at servicing and repairing cars.

Saying "it's an unfortunate fact of life that programming is tied to computers" is as weird as saying "it's unfortunate that being a car mechanic is tied to cars". The job exists because of computers and cars - not in spite of it.

If you wanted a problem solving or engineering job that wasn't tied to computers then there are other options, like a mechanic, electrical engineer, mathmatition or working in any of the numerous fields of science. But a the end of the day, you're still going to need to understand the core principles of that field if you want to be effective in it.
I actually got work in Japan. My passport was expired, and I went to renew it. They always ask how you're staying in the states and to show evidence. At that point my green card was expired and I only had naturalization to show. At that point I had to give up my Japanese citizenship, in order to get a visa. I don't remember if that was the exact reason but I was able to get away with dual for a while. Maybe if I tried renewing it in Japan it wouldn't have been a problem?
Not sure if sarcastic comment, but this would entirely break how redux works.
My hands are almost always cold in the winter here (NE Ohio) and I've found a couple of things that help with that while still letting me get work done.

Fingerless mittens are one option, and while they don't cover your actual fingers, just warming your hands up helps a lot. I can still type and use a trackpad just fine with them.

If you don't need to use a touch-sensitive device with them, the really thin, lightweight gloves that are meant to be a layer underneath a heavier pair actually work great. I can work in them as normal and only give up a little bit of my normal typing speed; not enough to be a hindrance when doing software development since typing speed isn't the bottleneck anyway.
ChromeOS being fundamentally Linux has nothing to do with it. Crostini is containers running on a VM under a hypervisor (<signalling>written in Rust!</signalling>). Apple could easily do the same thing with bhyve on the iPad.

But, I bet they won't.
That doesn't sound like them describing themselves at all...
Oh I messed up the pricing above, it’s not in $5 increments, it’s per call. So it will be fifty cents for that extra 100k, not $5. Oops! This is why the computers do the billing.

Backup/restore would be cool! I’ll put that in the “ideas” bucket.
In biology and medicine, this funding is provided by industry. Pharma companies and startups often try to reproduce academic findings before investing into further research

Pharma and biotech startups only make money if a drug works (for the most part), so they tend to have a much higher bar for the robustness of findings than academic researchers and journal editors do.

Of course, this only covers a tiny subset of research
I missed the screen part ... what is he / you using as a display? Am I missing something?
Massive congrats to the team - what a great and well deserved outcome :)
After the Queens Blvd locals (M/R) terminate in Forest Hills, they loop around through Jamaica Yard, meaning non-revenue track. Stragglers being asked to alight is a common sight.
$1 is the lowest amount I have seen by clicking the big blue "Start Sponsoring" button and then making it to https://github.com/users/dominikh/sponsorship.

So it appears users can choose their own levels, I do wonder what the minimum is.
> There's nothing that deep or metaphysical here, it's pretty straightforward.

Did you read the article? Here are a few choice passages:

> The importance of the Patagonia vest is that it is both an evolution of the business-casual costume and a reversion to the waistcoat of the ancient three-piece suit. The fleece vest harmonizes with values that have been invested in the suit since its emergence, in the second half of the seventeenth century.

> In its metaphysical proclamation that “all of us know what is and is not appropriate for the workplace,” the memo bespeaks a Babylonian code of unspoken rules. It says that professional conduct is identical to ruling-class savoir-faire, and its manners are too circumspect to say much else.

> The panorama of the scene is a tribute to Ralph Lauren’s prophetic vision: sportswear that’s attached to the traditional garb of monied masculinity by means of it all being stitched together with an invented crest.
You can supply your own 64 GB SD/eMMC card and set the bios to boot from that.
Object References in 60 Seconds
Any nutritional argument is moot unless you are thinking of outright blanket ban, which is a completely different proposition.

We were not generally malnourished in the West during the fifties, sixties, and seventies, despite consuming far less meat. Though we were far less obese and there was far less type 2 diabetes. A chicken was more a tasty, luxury treat than the tasteless, textureless rubbish readily available everywhere today. Most ate meat, but far less in each meal.

Doesn't seem enough to bring down governments by itself. Defining party by single issue is downright dangerous. Particularly when the popular mood seems to increasingly be "fix the damn climate". The Tories - now polling 9% - probably wish they'd never even thought of mentioning the Brexit they are incapable of delivering.

p.s. The Yellow vests seem to be about the inequality of action rather than prices. French fuel prices are amongst the lower in the EU.
TechCast #112 – ETE 2019 Keynote Brian Goetz
What's so modern about it? Does it do anything that iTerm2 doesn't do just as well?
Was this a hoax?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7139797.stm

It isn't necessarily denialism nor shilling to question the validity of predictions. It's a good thing.

Unfortunately the whole topic has become breathless "99% of scientists!" and tied in with social economic programs to the point I'm not convinced any more. To say nothing of failed predictions.

Ya, I believe C02 _should_ warm the earth based on the science. But this whole world is ending thing I'm waiting to actually see something.

For the record, I've been hearing this for over 30 years as an adult and so far not much. Perhaps one day it will all catch up, but I'm skeptical at this point.
Reading this official Xamarin Forms document https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/cross-platform/desk...
It's really hard to tell how the 2 offerings from Microsoft differs.
It looks like Xamarin Forms is fairly mature, and supports Mac and Windows.
Does anyone have production experience on both? When sould one choose one over another?
That site benefited enormously from reader mode.
Yes, they are completely different functions with completely different purposes. If you're still doing mutable programming for some god-forsaken reason using concat to mutate an array is a misuse of the function.
Cars are a device of personal freedom that you can own and operate yourself

Facial recognition tech is a device of surveillance owned by governments and large corporations that do not enable greater individual freedom, at best a few convenience benefits at worst total restriction
I created a plugin system for Figma and got 4000 users in under 2 weeks
.flat() should be much better, because it "knows" it's flattening. In the author's case, each individual step was treated as stateless, so a new array had to be created each time. In a .flat() function, you could have a single persistent, stateful destination array that everything gets copied into. It would be equivalent to the performance of using push(). Actually, it would probably be faster, because flat() is presumably implemented in native code instead of JS.
Cogeneration Takes Flight at JFK Airport Hotel
In addition to Hercules, qemu supports s390x guests.
I probably wouldn't worry about it unless you have really large arrays. It's still probably pretty insignificant compared to the time spent updating the DOM.
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Exactly. I was looking a creating a business that was something like Patreon for open source devs. Github already has 98% of what they need for this business. The marginal cost of this is a rounding error for them.

More than that, it's an excellent differentiator for their business, so then can justify all the GitHub Sponsors expenses just as marketing budget. Other people have been replicating the "nice web front-end for Git" part of their business. But this turns GitHub's large audience into a potential revenue source, which will be very hard for other people to duplicate.
Your move GitLab!
Damn near impossible to read the code in those blockquote blocks :(
So... What exactly can you even do with these?
That's obviously not what was intended by the question, come on.
A raw sequencing file can be massive, like 80-100gb per sample, and if you have a sample size of 1000, storage alone is going to be a huge requirement. Then you need to load these huge files into memory, so you are gonna want like 128gb of ram. Then you need to process your files, and if you want to get it done this week, you want at least a dozen cores working on your job. These requirements are far too expensive for an individual or even a lab to own a capable workstation, so everyone gets familiar with the command line and cluster computing instead, and they use whichever computer is cheap or comfortable (or even a phone if you wanted to be cheeky) and just run the jobs on the cluster.
> In context of the UK and especially in the context of brexit you are dealing with a population that has had 3 decades(!!) of anti-eu propaganda

Also, rorykoehler mentioned,

> I grew up watching the Murdoch media mafia systematically dismantle trust in the EU.

I find it interesting, as I was never aware of these media empires in Europe, especially, what does Murdoch do in Europe? Do you have more introductory articles on this issue?
The investigation was completed though, so nothing was obstructed. The media went from:

he colluded

he didn't collude but he obstructed

he didn't obstruct but he wanted to

That's the point being made here - the media is not doing its due diligence and is generally engaging in predicting the future or misrepresenting facts.
Very interesting, loaded it up through my Toronto VPN and was rejected too.
Tobacco and WWII holocausts are relevant to the style of your argument. Your argument was there is no 'consensus'. What I am pointing out is your argument is no different from the scholarship that continues to deny Jewish holocaust and deny that tobacco causes cancer. My respect for such denial arguments are roughly equal. Can you explain why the other famines are not relevant when we are on the topic of British excesses and resistance movements that led to independence. Are the lives lost to the other famines less valuable ? The death toll for the 18th century British made Bengal famine is around 10 million about 5 to 6 times more than the 1943 one.

You still have not clarified which part of deliberate you are contesting. Are you saying destruction of grains and diverting of supplies were not deliberate ? I presume it does not come as a surprise that denial of foodgrain causes starvation and death. Or is your position that the British tjought the 'natives' do not deserve/ need those ?

"Oops we did not realize you guys need to eat too, sorry cant have that, the Japs are coming, enjoy the scorched earth. BTW nothing is deliberate the grains self destruct or runaway on their own"
The EU copyright directive won't help its image once enacted. They may come to wish it remained more about boring fish quotas.
A browser extension. Most can run in a context above CSP.
The problem is people who would pay to avoid ads are those worth targeting... I'd love if a single service could let me opt out of all tracking and ads internet wide for a fixed fee, say $50-$100 a month.
GitHub doesn't really need a business model right now since MS probably has no issues treating it as a loss-leader (and makes plenty of money elsewhere). Eventually it'll need to make a profit probably but it's got time.