skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdata: I'm more used to see senior mainframe people change jobs than be laid off. The pay is not that higher compared to other platforms, so maybe that softens the temptation to save on salaries.
Burying it is a waste. Better to grow trees (and bamboo) to make timber, and use it to replace concrete and steel (which are responsible for huge amounts CO2).
I don't know about this project specifically, but usually comments are simply plain text.

If there's links to illegal stuff there, then something needs to be done about the actual site hosting the illegal stuff.
I really hate to be a “works on my machine” kind of person, but I’ve been running FF Nightly for personal stuff and FF Developer Edition for work on a variety of Macs for at least three years now and have literally never had any problem.

I am not trying to cast doubt on your experience, but I just wanted to point out that it isn’t universal!
I wonder how long it'll take for scraping to make a comeback. I feel like we've become used to APIs being the only integration options. When API restrictions become too burdensome, however, I expect people to recall that other access options exist.
I'm about 2/3 into the book, the idea is convincing, but did he put any example checklist in the book? He referred to many extant checklists, but there is no "Figure 1: a bad checklist" and "Figure 2: a good checklist, improvement for the one in Figure 1".
Eton Diary
I admit, I had some concerns about that as well. But our UX team and PMs did user surveys they believed to be broadly representative and found that enough sites are doing split logins now that our users didn't have any trouble with the change.

This might be a factor of having been done just this year. A year back, the decision might have broken the other way.
Statistics.

Imagine any given configuration of the universe. Of all possible changes to a new configuration (think Levenshtein distance) from that configuration there’s a large set of “equivalent” (in the aggregate) configurations, let’s call those the future. There is a smaller set of configurations which we would ascribe some special character too, such as being somewhat orderly let’s call those the past. the set of possible configurations encoding a broken pot are larger then the set encodings an unbroken one. But the state brokenness of the pot is entirely a subjective things, without that interpretation of the encoding they are equally random

Now if you are a “process”, a kind of pattern that can be identified as the same entity in several of those configurations, it would seem necessary for that pattern to follow some rule in which most of those “future” configurations would retain its unique characteristic.

So if you throw a dart into this mess of configurations and hit such an entity, selecting any direction to move from that point at random would most likely give you a configuration with higher entropy, but in which this particular pattern would be retained.

Some patterns would have a higher chance than other of being traceable along those changes, perhaps they encode a kind of anticipation of likely futures yielding a rules set which a higher likelihood of existing from one configuration to the next. Let’s call this patterns “living”
I think the original commenter was missing some key nuts and bolts in his comment.
If you show up with bags of money, ASML will sell to you.

So yes, it's a major achievement and there's a lot of knowledge layered on top of that equipment, but it's not like they need to reinvent everything from scratch.
My view is quite different. They're just stories that anyone could have told and don't contain any unobtainable wisdom. The people that told those stories simply existed before us. In many ways the stories are inferior to their modern counterparts.
That was my first thought, along with Nvidia.
The biggest ding they could come up with against skeuomorphism is "heavy, clunky"?

Skeuomorphic UIs maybe "heavy" and "clunky", but they were also beautiful, whimsical, and fun! They brought me joy each time I use them. Flat design, in contrast, is soulless and depressing.

God I miss the Steve Jobs era! Apple could've been the beacon of light amongst darkness, like it used to be. But his death, and the subsequent betrayal of his trust by Jony Ive, condemned the entire world to soulless and depressing UIs. And there's no end in sight.
They are different...I can understand the APL ones. I have no idea what a "monoid in the category of endofunctors" means :)
If your an urbanite you have a huge observational bias simply if you accept that rural homosexuals are more likely to migrate to the city.

Reason for the migration include less discrimination, but also higher concentration (making hooking up easier).

Therefore your perceived rate of homosexuality would be grater.

For what it’s worth the self reported rate of 5 percent is the same when I first cared to look it up, about 15 years ago. I would imagine that, if the self reported rate had significant error with it, the decreasing stigma would have changed it
Ask HN: How do you standardise strings to search against list of tags?
I want to be able to match words from a search API against list of tags / categories so would like to know what are your best practises and if you know of any good python libaries ?

What are the best approaches ?
- tokenisation
- stemming
- lemmatization
The LGBTQ community seems to be especially visible online. If you spend a lot of time online, it's possible to have your perception skewed for that reason.

You also have to consider that different people define these things differently. Some people will self identify as bisexual based solely on feeling attracted to other people, having no actual experience. Meanwhile, there are people who feel that you have to actually have (substantial) sexual experience with both genders to qualify for the label.

I've seen advocates say things like "You don't have to give your sexual history to prove you are bi." and I've seen people talk about feeling attracted to members of their own sex and realizing they are actually bi, but don't yet have experience with members of their own sex because of taboos.

So you can potentially have two different people look at the exact same data and draw different conclusions concerning who qualifies for what label.

Different cultures also have different baseline concepts concerning sexuality. Some cultural differences will not be readily captured by the questions used in a survey, especially if they don't take the time to clearly delineate their terms.
I just noticed because I posted a similar comment in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20284363 and I just saw a similar title in a major newspaper here in Argentina. Many newspaper just cut&paste whatever news reach the redaction with whatever stupid title they get. Just another: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/9378480/giant-golden-asteroid-...

Most newspaper blame https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Golden-Astero...
as the original source.
The New and Improved Giphy SDK
Not to be mean, but that statement demonstrates a frankly shocking level of cluelessness. Extensions (mainly adblockers) are the critical feature that distinguishes FF mobile, and are the only reason I have ever been able to convince anyone to switch. I would almost consider adblockers functionality more critical than Javascript support, they should certainly be part of a minimum viable product. I know it's a preview version, but why would anyone in their right mind run this?
Frankly, I find the entire fintech/payment processor/credit environment to be at times little more than a parasite that I'd like to see go away.

That won't happen though. Capital needs to flow as freely as possible; and the current players at least make that work. Libra, however, has no substantive purpose in the long run other than to finally tap into the rent-seeking upper layers of the financial system. It seems to be the tech industry's fallback when they can't think of anything more innovative to do. Start up a financial services division, and tap into those delicious fees from the "underbanked".

Make no mistake; the data grab possibilities are real barring explicit intervention by regulators. Any advertisement company based on data collection for ad targeting has far too much potential value to reap out of actually tapping into the transaction details of user's. Having the "world's biggest social network graph" at your disposal on top of a distributed ledger from which can be derived a parallel graph of financial activity represents a gold mine in terms of panoptic levels of informational awareness.

People don't seem to quite get it yet that a big enough pile of seemingly unidentifiable data points can be combined to create something as good as a fingerprint or DNA strand. In government work, this is explicitly highlighted anddrilled into every employee, every year (at least at the Federal level).

Caveat emptor. Embrace your localized economies; beware of those seeking to add you to their "customer base" for the sake of 'your convenience'. They wouldn't be going out of their way to get you onboard if they didn't have anything to gain in the long run.
Astounding. I work for a professional open source company, after many years of working for (not open source) companies.

Open Source is more inclusive, more altruistically driven, and better in every way I can imagine.

I am dumbfounded by the premise of the article. I have no idea what it could mean.
I prefer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h0Qvc6_MfQ :)
What if.. and hear me out on this.. they designed a keyboard they really did believe was an improvement in every way?
If you're going to have a 2-page login worflow, just make sure that you aren't making network calls client-side to check if the email is registered on the site.

This is a super easy way for attackers to enumerate valid email addresses to then come back and stuff credentials.
> China was able to manufacture processors

The actual manufacturing is done in Taiwan (TSMC) and South Korea (Samsung). USA can do it too (Intel, Global Foundries) but these are either not leading edge or only for private use.

SMIC in China are up to 14nm: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13941/smics-14-nm-mass-produc...

Everyone uses equipment from the Netherlands (ASML).

> they couldn't manufacture ballpoint pens domestically until 2017

They were already producing 38 billion ballpoint pens a year. Just the tips had to be imported because domestic steel was too low-grade.

Since they weren't given assistance in learning steel production techniques it had to be rediscovered. Chinese steel is now high-quality enough to produce the ballpoint tips, but building up R&D is important for reasons beyond pens; the responsible state-owned-enterprise developed several new techniques, and is (apparently) the only company in the world able to produce e.g. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201904/24/WS5cbfc4a9a31048422...
That's... rough driving. It does appear to significantly cut down on the distances involved, but I'd think it takes at least as much time as the less direct route.
This is an old idea that never really caught on but a good one, nonetheless. But if it will ever get some traction, it probably needs to be implemented in the browser itself
Amazon Explores Having Its Drones Provide 'Home Surveillance' for Customers
You have an interesting insight.

Your point about journalists. Maybe it's fair. Maybe they don't know what to look for or how to get/report it.

You seem to have an inside track. Why not reach out to some of them anonymously and do a public service?

I can recommend a few very good ones who would be interested if you don't know some already.
Sounds like ad-Blocker repos, nice!
This is completely, utterly wrong.

I was involved in a gerrymandering case in the 1990s. The group that brought me in was challenging the Illinois congressional map, which had been drawn by Democrats. It was, and is, atrocious. Back then, the map was a deal between the white Democrats who wanted to hold some white seats that extended into the suburbs, and some black Democrats who wanted incumbent protection.

Back then, the Democrats were the ones across the country who were protecting racial gerrymanders because they wanted to ensure that any area with a substantial black population was never represented by a Republican. They drew the districts in Illinois to ensure as many black-majority districts as possible (and one Hispanic-majority district). The districts were completely convoluted. They made arguments that the Voting Rights Act actually required racial gerrymanders.

Our side challenged the districts. The other side, defending the gerrymander, was led by the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund, and they brought in the Clinton Administration Justice Department as defendant-intervenors. That's right -- the primary defender of gerrymanders was the Clinton Administration. They were involved in similar suits, making similar claims, across the country.

Demographics have shifted a bit since then, and now we have more Republican gerrymanders than Democrat ones. But make no mistake -- the original convoluted maps were all Democrat, and virtually all Supreme Court gerrymandering-related precedent during the era came as a result of Democrat defense of the maps.

So don't try to claim that Democrats "play clean and fair". That's rubbish. They created this problem, and only now are shifting their views of gerrymandering because it is no longer working to their benefit. They, like most politicians, are opportunists.

Disclosure: I'm now the chairman of the Chicago Republican Party.
Facebook enlists plain English to clarify how it makes money
It shouldn't be when you consider that the topic is textbooks. I agree, work hard, give good content that's better than the competition on the market, and I'll gladly pay for that value. However, textbooks are not a free market. They are a captive market, where the professor decides what textbook is ordained for the course.

Students usually have the choice of the brand new print edition $$$ that they can resell for $, the ebook edition ($$) that expires after the term and you cannot resell, or fighting for one of the two copies of the book on 2 hour loan from the main campus library. Some professors do not let you use an older copy, and for some classes, they make you do your homework on proprietary publisher websites that charge for temporary access codes. So even if you pirated your book you would still have to pay McGraw Hill their cut to get full points in the class.

Curious how well textbook prices correlate to the maximum federal loan you can apply for.
It's the fault of wireless charging. Premium phones used to have metal backs, but that is incompatible with wireless charging so we are cursed with glass for eternity now.
Materials engineering is also where China is trying to make progress so they can produce viable competitive jet turbines.
> Hopefully this signals the end of the designers tyranny at Apple.

Madness. You're talking about Apple.
List of distributed systems reading lists, plus miscellanea
We didn't have search engines in the earliest days, but we still found what we needed rather quickly. Gopher was pretty slick. I still have occasion to use it. IMO gopher is better than even the current web for certain things.

Remember before search engines, there were this lists, sure, but more interesting were the Web Rings. (Yea, even that far back, everything about hypertext was one mixed metaphor after another.)

Now I'm wondering if the archie (and veronica) search engines that had their brief moment are still operational. So much info with so little overhead and spam!
Stamina is the wrong word though. It's willingness or grit or something, not an innate physical characteristic that they picked up from rural poverty.

Fun that your edit added "willing" while I was writing this.
Everyone is talking about the keyboards, but I want to know about the Mac Pros. I'm assuming Ive is responsible for the cylinder, but is he involved in the return to the cheese grater, or did that happen while he was off designing glass doors at the Apple building? The keyboards aren't the first stinker on Ive's watch.
All I can say is watch the presentation. These systems don't work the way many people seem think they do, they are much MUCH more robust.

The op's assertion that autonomous vehicles rely "heavily" on GPS data is false. The problem he presents will not occur.

This won't happen because the computer does not use GPS to determine drivability and will not drive the car into underivable conditions, and the computer will have selected a drivable route to begin with because it can select from routes that have previously been driven. If a route that was previously drivable becomes underivable due to local conditions, the car simply re-routes.

Neither the apparent drivability of mapping data, nor position within that data as computed by GPS effect the car's ability to travel autonomously from point A to point B.
Intelligence gathering is not the same as predicting the future, no more than a thermometer can tell you whether it will rain on your wedding day. Data gathering is relatively easy, forecasting is hard.
> Microsoft etc have not been forced to do these IP sharing agreements

Microsoft regularly shares Windows source code with foreign governments for them to inspect.

From 2003 https://www.infoworld.com/article/2681548/china-gets-access-...
I assume you are referring to ClearMe? https://www.clearme.com?
>Until now design was king at Apple.

Was it? Design is "how it works" and Apple products have been "working" a lot less lately (cylinder Mac Pro with no room for future processors, laptop keyboards, two different kinds of Pencil depending on which iPad you have, etc).
What Color Is Khaki, Anyway?
Hey, go fuck yourself.

As a counterpoint, I think the author should go work in a salt mine at some point. You know, so he can gain a deeper appreciation for table salt.
USB-C is great. Keyboard is horrible. I'd prefer the last gen trackpad - the new one is needlessly silly and easy to bump by accident. Touchbar is garbage and needs to go, Touch ID is great.

Please give me back an sdcard reader at minimum. VGA port is probably too much to ask for but literally every conference room on the planet still has that as their default with other options being a bonus and I'm sick of accidentally leaving my adapters behind.
Redshift changes roll out in us-east-1 after other regions though, so I imagine the root cause is something else.
Google Just Patented Dropout
>I'm not really familiar with IPFS, what does it mean that unpopular comments disappear? Is it like seeding the only torrent (comments) that you like?

Uploading to IPFS is like creating a torrent for any file you share. Someone always needs to be seeding that file for it to remain accessible to people.

So what OP meant by unpopular comments disappear is that nobody would be seeding them.
I'd be interested to know why we haven't seen intermediaries that don't need the advanced tech of a rail gun, like why haven't we seen magnetically driven mortars or artillery? These seem less demanding, is it just a case of existing tech being good enough?
>Consider iPhone 5c, for example. The colors are horrid, and when you add those Crocs-like cases it looks more like a Fisher-Price toy than like a device an executive would want to be seen holding.

Except Apple has previously found wild success in selling brightly colored devices down market, see the original iPod Mini for example. A selection of colors both appeals to the sort of person they are targeting with the lower end device (teens/young adults) while also preserving the marketshare of their higher end device by turning off the kind of older, more reserved buyer who might otherwise buy the less expensive option. There's also the entire Apple lineup in the early "Second Coming of Jobs" era with the iMac and, to a lesser extent, the Power Mac G3.
I'm sure it's just a coincidence that this is being published in multiple outlets now, when AMD is kicking Intel's butt, instead of when it was originally known. Why would anyone suspect otherwise?
Thanks, I think you're right. But wow what a misleading presentation. They really ought to state the answer format explicitly rather than make you infer it.
People with Intel stock are not happy.
Sony WH-1000XM3

I wear them everyday at work.
Better than the BOSE QC35, and better than the new Bose 700's I had the opportunity to try.
> That technology is helping China in its race with the U.S. to build the first next-generation supercomputer—an essential tool for advanced civilian and military applications.

Are we entering a space-race with China for supercomputers or something? Did I miss the memo?
A proof-of-concept implementation of a generics proposal for Go
Uber/Lyft drivers say they were misled into petitioning against workers rights
thanks to your comment.
the comment means you can't linked post (it is posted to web service called qiita which is popular in Japan)?
or means it is difficult to read because words alignment is not smart?
It takes 5 minutes per life to sign up for a zelle /venmo/WeChat account , plus one minute per device.
I'd be more concerned about spam than speech I dislike.

Is there any kind of rate-limiting to stop bad actors from making a million comments per second?
Nowhere near as good as punched paper tape for your ASR33.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PaperTapes-5and8Hole.jpg
You can spec it out pretty well. Why take issue with the low end as long as it goes high enough for you?
That sounds nice in theory, but even as a highly technical user, I don't have any knowledge about what information apps actually gather about me.
5 is larger than 4.5, agreeing with my statement that all the numbers are bigger.
He singed off on it.
I disagree with your first sentence. But apart from that, the term "corporation" does not necessarily only mean large for profit joint stock corporations in the US, of the sort that are typically demonized. For instance, worker cooperatives or credit unions can be types of corporation. Or, "the oldest corporation in the Western Hemisphere is the Harvard Corporation, known formally as the President and Fellows of Harvard College"

So, I think you have a rather facile understanding of what you are talking about.