skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Costs taken into consideration sure, but the Raspberry Pi Foundation is a charity, so I'm not sure the same sort of incentives exist on a personal basis. It probably is just the engineering attitude of saving costs as much as possible.
Yeah, it's taking up space where the Control key should be.
The best teams often naturally specialize or lean toward what they do well, and learn to leverage each others' advantages.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20392929 and marked it off-topic.
> They get rich, because the more wealth you have, the easier it is to increase it.

The more wealth you have the easier it is to provide value to other people. That's known as capital investment, and it's how wealth begets more wealth.

Or they could just spend all that wealth they've saved on themselves. People inclined to do that generally don't become wealthy in the first place, however, barring abnormal circumstances such as winning the lottery. A habit of frivolous, conspicuous consumption is a good way to ensure that you don't stay wealthy for long.
If ever there was a tool that didnt need a gui its rsync. Idea is to keep two folder structures in sync. Exactly the sort of thing you want to script, or trigger when one side changes, or cron.

I've use rsync all my computing life but i've rarely wanted to have to manually push a button to make it work.

A good cli interface is clearly the correct interface to rsync.

Embeding rsync in an app that does something else makes sense, eg edit locally auto push changes, but embeding rsync in an app that does nothing but rsync without any automation or integration options makes no sense to me.

You have to learn a new interface that you cant automate. Its dead end interface. The whole point of cli interfaces is that they are infinitly hackable and pluggable.
What a... strange battle to fight.

The author has a serious bone to pick with a keyboard key.

I would suggest that anyone who feels this strongly about their caps-lock key simply remove it from their keyboard so it can no longer be accidentaLLY ACTIVATED.

Edit:

Also,

>(Say, for example, double tapping the Shift key, like how it already works on your phone.)

Would be terrible for gamers - I already get annoyed with sticky keys sometimes.
I don't think I understand the security implications of this either. Seems distasteful, but how could it be exploited?
Sorry but this seems conflicting with what callahad replied above
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20394503 when answering "Will Preview be guaranteed to support extensions before Firefox for Android goes EOL?":

> I can't make any specific commitment, but there's a lot of time between now and Firefox for Android going EOL (and we haven't committed to specific timing for that, either.)

> However, we do have concrete plans for supporting adblocking as a built-in feature in the near future (https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/96), which should make Preview more palatable to folks who rely on add-ons for that, even if only as a stopgap.

> More fundamentally, when considering major features like add-on support, we want to take the time to ensure that we're getting our design right at all relevant levels: Firefox Preview, the underlying GeckoView library, and the Gecko engine itself. And though development on Preview moves quickly, there's still a lot of design and development work yet to be done.

My understanding is that there's a good chance that Firefox 68, which supports extensions, will reach EOL before 69+ gets support for extensions.
They're already incentivized to do that to keep weight down to reduce running costs.
Show HN: Styled-typography, typographic components with styled-components
> Certainly, calling out poor security practices is a good thing, however this level of scrutiny is going to require a major shift in mentality for a large portion of the industry.

That's the point. "A major shift in mentality for a large portion of the industry" is basically GDPR's success criteria.
Ahem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_boat
> There's nothing wrong with "flying"! What's wrong is how they get their airspeed, namely by burning fossil fuel.

Sadly at the current time there is no distinction between the two.
I believe "federation" isn't supposed to be a federation of individuals, but a federation of small communities. You still have to be organized and grouped with some people around some goals or topics if you want to create a community and add it to the federation.

As an individual, you can then join several of those communities in the federation.
Has anyone found a similar vulnerability with the BlueJeans local server? I tried sending a few test URLs and they don't seem to do anything so I'm not sure what the protocol is. If BlueJeans can't cause a webpage to launch it's app like Zoom does then I'm less concerned.
Please don't break the site guidelines by being snarky. It leads to low-quality subthreads, which is why we have that guideline.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this one from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20392902.
This is as good a thread as any to say that I don't like object oriented programming. When I have had the occasion to use some open source library to do something (mostly in Python, occasionally in Javascript), it's been rare that I haven't dug into objects to figure out what the hell they were actually doing, and the assumptions the creator made (that they didn't realize they made) about how the object was supposed to be used.

I get the point of OO and see how it's supposed to be used, and how handy it would be in large systems, but in my world the information hiding has been more of a hindrance than a help. Maybe what I really want to say is that it's harder than people think to do OO well, and when it's not done well, it just make everything more buggy and complicated.
Interesting. So criticizing religious positions against abortion, against vaccines, against homosexuality, and in favor of the flat earth will now result in post removal. Assuming this policy is going to be impartially and fairly applied as stated.
Well, I followed through to Benson Leung's post where he cites and transcribes the actual USB-C specification and I'm not surprised that the spec is occasionally ignored. The supposedly 'normative' circuit diagram deviates from a conventional circuit diagram. If you want an engineer to pay attention to your instruction don't invent some ad-hoc diagram technique; be concrete and prescriptive, and assume you're dealing with a low caliber worker, because 99% of the time that's exactly who will get tasked to deal with your specification.

[1] https://medium.com/@leung.benson/how-to-design-a-proper-usb-...
If you check the lates "innovations" you see almost all of those are like that (previous version was better).

- magsafe vs new charger

- ports on 2015 MBP vs now

- keyboard on 2015 vs now

- physical keys vs touchbar

The only improvement that is really an improvement is CPU speed and memory, which I could not care less about. In the same timeframe (2015 to 2019) Apple went from the most innovative company to the 17th position.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/gadgets-news/apple-is-no...
Examples of staging videos?
Same! Got a ThinkPad carbon X1 Gen 3 as a "pilot" for 300 euro, and then when I realised I could easily work with Linux as a daily driver I bought a ThinkPad T480.
The Thing is a beast.
But the inverse is also strongly true. It's why people decry the "nanny-state". The government and corporations can make decisions that result in changes in individual behavior. Many times, it's easier to get 51 senators (or whatever) to agree on pushing policy than mobilizing millions of consumers on the same issue. Part of the advantage of a representative government is that it's a smaller group of people to arrive at a consensus.

Societal changes are always about some group reaching a consensus on a topic and collectively acting on their decision. Governments and Corporations can sometimes be easier to deal with than 300+ million individuals when it comes to driving that consensus.
Yup eco-tourism would point to a slow, measured response to deforestation.

But global climate change wants a rapid response.
I'd have to guess this as well. I have dealt with a number of public and private bounties, and not one of the researchers has ever rejected an NDA or not allowed us time to remediate before they could disclose this information to 3rd parties. Unless you count Tavis tweeting critical findings I guess.

And to be fair, none of the times I've engaged a private bounty have been due to some massively critical bug that impacted privacy or could hijack parts of client systems. I could see that if the researcher worked with Zoom and didn't feel like they took it seriously they would refuse this and just disclose it due to the impact it has.
I asked the other day [1] if electric towplanes might help with takeoff. I have no idea what the answer would be, but it seems like an interesting use-case to me: short distance, high intensity/power. Build a battery with wings and thrusters.

Of course, it comes with its share of drawbacks as well. But if it was to allow lighter planes, and less fuel expenses/burnt, it could well be worth it.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20248645
I've been deeply concerned with attacks on religious freedom as of late, this seems like a strong step in the right direction.
I've had my Caps Lock key mapped to 'delete word' after having it mapped to several other things while trying to combat RSI and am loving it. Great for both writing/editing prose as well as code.
Sync does have a log. Maybe that would help?
https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices/Sync/File_a_desktop_b...
Caps Lock died a long time ago for me. I think manufacturers/OS vendors should clearly label and market it as the "free-for-all" key. Default it to NOP to avoid ACCIDENTAL OR INTENTIONAL CAPS LOCK. Map it to whatever you want, even Caps Lock if you like. Mine, it's been mapped to Ctrl for ages, just as the Most Holy IBM Model F keyboard has dictated from the ancient times.
> Ridiculous, it's his own twitter account

By the President and his administration’s own description, it is an official tool of government. From the ruling: “The President and multiple members of his administration have described his use of the Account as official.”
Least you get something. I get a blank page when JS is disabled...
i think the UI for unison is very good, after the initial config and setup, 90% of the UI is just the changelog. you can then relatively easily choose how to sync.
Warning: Spoilers about an incorrect solution below. rot13 at your own peril.

qvq lbh guvax bs gur jbeq gung zrnaf srznyr furrc?

(Though I guess it wouldn't have worked with the "double / single / black, blue, and grey" clues anyway...)

Edit: I'm an idiot :D
For deep learning / neural networks, I think these are the best balance of theory and practice (not to mention great visualizations):
http://cs231n.github.io

More on the intuition/theory side for NNs, but Michael Nielsen’s book is highly recommended:
http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com

For NLP, you can try this extremely slick interactive course on spaCy (highly recommended Swiss Army knife library for NLP) from package author Ines Montani:
https://course.spacy.io

The Keras tutorials are solid, here’s one on seq2seq models:
https://blog.keras.io/a-ten-minute-introduction-to-sequence-...

For more cutting edge NLP, it looks like the fast.ai course covers the Transformer model (the basis of BERT, GPT-2, et al. This is a great overview of that architecture:
http://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/2018/04/03/attention.html

And PyTorch implementations of Transformer models can be found here: https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-pretrained-BERT/blob/...

LMK if anyone wants more, I have a learning resource hoarding problem.
There is a gui for rsync that's quite popular. Its called Dropbox.

A lot of successful projects seem to be of the form 1) Consider old-school unix tool. 2) Aim for one aspect of its functionality that serves a mainstream need. 3) Put friendly face on it so less technical users can reap the benefits.
Yes, for example in 49 U.S.C. §301 and 42 U.S.C. §7671.
You don’t have to be in the developer program ftp distribute your app on the Mac.
Try changing a flat-Earther's mind using rhetoric, reason, and facts. Probably not going to happen.

On the other hand, geocentrism took a long time to die, but when it did, it wasn't because justice warriors were shouting louder (though many tried); it was simply a fact that could be independently verified by more and more people.

Real scientists don't launch marketing campaigns when they've made a discovery. They publish it in a journal and invite others to verify (or disprove) their findings.

You don't change people's minds by telling them what the truth is. You show them how to discover the truth for themselves and let them draw their own conclusions.

But don't take my word for it :) Look for the pattern in history and you'll see.
Depends where you want to move to. Diversity has really nothing to do with it.
I work in a very diverse workplace, but many European countries have strong cultural norms for the workplace.

As an example - corporate events in Europe rarely include a +1. That confused all of my American colleagues, that are used to having their spouses join. Making friendships with people at work requires more than just "we work together".

In England having a pint after work on Thursday or Friday is basically a team building event. You better join in, or you'll stop being invited.(Drinking isn't mandatory, though)

In France - lunch time is not work time, so don't talk about work.
Yes a nice strong plastic bottle of shampoo that you keep. Wont have branding however or whatever the packaging is supposed to convey for this brand. It will be your own choice of color or look.
How so? It seems like only if they say "those animals" (or similar) instead of "those people".
I'd argue that even the option to reject that responsibility was removed when the political parties put their presidential candidates' names on the ballot, instead of all the names of their electors.

It seems fundamentally fraudulent to do that. It makes it look like the popular vote actually matters in a presidential election. It's really a bunch of people you have never heard of, voting the way they were told to vote, while under threat of party excommunication if they reneg. There's more democracy to it whenever the Catholic cardinals elect a new monarch-for-life.

The original idea, to send representatives of the community in good standing to make their own decisions in the best interests of those communities, was well-intentioned. It isn't the modern elector's fault that their role has been nullified and obviated by political undermining.
It's entirely possible to criticize without dehumanizing.
It's not the initial cable that's the problem, it's those that come after.

My wife wanted a charger with a longer cable for her phone. We need it to be able to fast charge, which is called a variety of different names on both the phone and charger sides. Can I get the $10 charger, or do I need the $40 charger the size of the MBP charger?

We ended up just biting the bullet and getting one of the more expensive, MBP-charger-shaped chargers, since I have laptops that use USB-C - but it was a confusing mess, and I still wasn't really sure fast charging would work on her phone till I plugged it in the first time.
App becomes a local backend server that has privileged access to the machine (with control over what it accesses, maybe give it a specific user), and a web UI to access the app.

Someone in the tree of replies for your parent explained and was contemplating actually going through with it.
Ask HN: How can I make money using available open source technologies?
I have done graduation in computer field, I never wanted to do job, always wanted to start a business of any small to mid scale, I am lucky that my parents are supporting me and giving money as initial finding.
Hackintosh it is.
Firefox Public Data Report:
https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/usage-behavior

"Has Add-on" has been between 33-38% for the last two years.
I'm well aware, but I find that a waste of soap. Also (maybe should have made that more clear) I don't care if my soap bar looks dirty, that doesn't really hinder it's functionality.
That depends.

Applications that have occasionally used UI MUST BE self descriptive. Their functionality MUST BE consumable without need of reading man pages.

Otherwise they will have very few users.

Computer is for human, but not human is for computer. As its configurational appendage.
No, because the principle actually at issue here is one governing government officials’ restrictions of communication in privately-owned forums used for official government purposes.
> The Facebook teams are going to give a presentation with some new plans where they want feedback on

This is an "are we off the hook, please say yes" meeting, not a "we don't know how to fix these glaring ethical issues we're profiting from, please help us (for free)" meeting
> Why are they taxing flights rather than fuel?

Cuz Chicago convention
I have never heard of this (UK), a bar of soap you can wash hair with?
DeKalb allows police department to access private license plate readers
Censorship is censorship.
At least they admit it.
And you are not forced to abide by the developer terms to release a program for the Mac just as I said. Despite all of the HN conspiracies, you can develop for and release code on the Mac without Apple’s permission. You don’t have to abide by those terms.
Tesla Autopilot team loses several more engineers as Elon Musk takes over
You can read on the background and challenges here in Salman Niazi's PhD - http://kth.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1260852/FULLTEXT0.... This is not a new topic - WinFS (part of the failed Longhorn project) was the best known example, which tried to use SQL Server as the metadata store for a new windows FS. Performance killed them.

The reason why we managed to get better performance compared to all previous attempts it three-fold:

1. we used an in-memory high performance DB (NDB) and we did not de-normalize our schemas (no caching!)

2. with denormalized tables, we needed cross-partition transactions at high performance

3. we did a reasonable job at re-implementing HDFS' POSIX-like model using read-isolated transactions and row-level locking and new protocol for sub-tree operations.
If we see or imagine a 3D model of a tree there must be something that happens in the brain to transform the "binary" (the electrical impulses sent through the nerves) into the 3D model. When we scan brains there are no 3D models found inside it. The same can be said about scanning a PC's disk, there's no 3D trees inside. But the code can be converted to a tree and displayed on a screen. On the computer the screen has a physical form. What would be the screen in our body? The lack of understanding about the mechanism that turns the "code" into a 3D model may be considered a gap in understanding.
What happens to performance if you store a database inside this filesystem?
If Twitter removing posts for their political content is not an attack on free speech, then Twitter users insulting religious people is most certainly not an attack on religious freedom...
Lewis Lapham’s Antidote to the Age of Buzzfeed
Where and how are you coming to the conclusion that rsync is "niche clique"?
Sounds reasonable. I think a lot of it has to do with the industry and whether it’s b2b or direct to consumer.
The biggest problem in "FreeBSD desktop" is not the "FreeBSD" part - that works pretty much fine.
In the context of firearms? Sure that's great from preventing someone that gets a gun in the cabin from shooting the flight crew. Someone shooting the sides of the plane however is still going to penetrate and at best cause a rapid depressurization of the passenger area (and under the right conditions, a catastrophic failure of part of the fuselage) as you're talking about a 1/8 inch thick bit of aluminum with some fiberglass and plastic between you and it, if one round doesn't fully penetrate from common handgun calibers then a second round in the same spot (and at point blank range that is trivial) will almost certainly get through. Someone that was so inclined could easily fire multiple rounds into the same spot, from their seat, before anyone could react if they were motivated. Even under optimal conditions, you'd probably experience some loss of life purely from the oxygen deprivation in those with preexisting conditions as the flight crew took the plane down low enough for passengers that didn't get masks on to be able to get adequate oxygen.

Some people are absolutely crazy and simply want to do harm to others, or just to be infamous which doing harm to others will potentially result in. If TSA only manages to find 1% of hidden firearms/knives/explosives/flammable liquids in baggage, that 1% could be the difference between 0 deaths and 10s or hundreds of deaths.

TSA needs to change, sure, a lot of what they do is ineffective. People need to get over their delicate sensibilities and be more comfortable with profiling, profiling works in security settings, just look at El Al.

El Al gets thrown under the bus for racial profiling but they just aren't looking at people based on race or accent, they're looking at many things and putting it together big-picture to determine who to look at closer.

TSA lacks this training and unfortunately are guilty or racial profiling, like when they detained YouTube personality Jus Reign some years back when he (most likely) was selected for secondary screening because as a Sikh he was wearing a turban. And yes, TSA gets carried away with searching elderly and children quite invasively at times, and this needs improved considerably but x-ray, back scatter, chemical testing, dogs, metal detection, I'm quite fine with this for air travel.

If an hour or two of extra inconvenience saves me 8, 16, 32 hours of driving then it is fine. It's an aircraft travelling at tens of thousands of feet above the earth, were something as simple as mercury introduced to a scratch in the aluminum fuselage can cause a catastrophic failure. Where a small fire can easily get out of control and be fatal for the entire flight at worst or just cause respiratory issues from burning plastics for multiple passengers and result in an emergency landing. Or where someone with a small blade can easily take out multiple passengers tens of minutes, or an hour or more from emergency medical response.
This actually follows set a number of cases years ago dealing with local government use of internet (which themselves directly applied caselaw applicable to privately-owned physical forums with virtually no distinction); the only movement by the Federal Government is the executive branch doing things that the courts had already determined no public official was permitted to do.
EDS - a large company in the 1990s - should also get a mention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Data_Systems
ICAO already regulates the reserve amount of fuel required to be carried.

This isn't a valid argument
This might have some interesting implications for Twitter's ability to moderate their platform. If the President blocking someone violates the First Amendment, then surely Twitter themselves blocking individuals is also a violation.

Will this force Twitter to allow all legal speech on their platform?
I agree, and a lot of what I do for fun (live video production) is kinda exactly that. Not iOS- or Mac-specific, but I've got multiple iPads talking to vMix at all times.
Ireland of all places should have an ancestral memory of the dangers of monocultures, having lost millions of people to starvation and emigration [EDIT: in part] as a result of a blight that clobbered the monoculture potato crops [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)