skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As if us public transit users aren't living in reality. Yeah okay bud.

- Public transit is publicly funded. For improvements in safety, cleanliness etc to happen, the systems need (public) money. But you will never pay fares because you're scared to take transit, and you probably would never vote in favor of a ballot measure to allocate more tax money to transit because you happen have a car and don't believe improved transit would benefit you anyway.

- The population using public transit generally reflects the fact that our culture encourages anyone with enough money/resources to purchase and use a car -- leaving behind everyone who can't (e.g. cash poor, disabled). This scares off the more sensitive potential transit users who'd rather pretend these folks don't exist.

The jarring reality is that most Americans (and their political leadership) are classist, sheltered, and have a "fuck you, I got mine" attitude.

Source: US lifelong resident of various large cities, no driver's license at the age of 31.
Perhaps obviously, I disagree. It's not that every paper has to mention everything that's obvious, but my point was that the choice of how to frame the problem can be a political decision. There was no attempt to explain why micronutrient per serving of rice was the right metric, and I think using it can be misleading if the amount of rice grown changes for the same reason that the nutrients are dropping. And while "everyone knows" that yields will increase, there is disagreement on whether the increase in yield is dependent or independent of the change in nutritional value.

By the way, I liked your comment elsewhere in this thread about eating plain rice. But rather than lamenting that all the references are behind paywalls, I personally think it's better just to give the DOI's and a link to http://sci-hub.tw. Or even better yet, just link to the papers, profits of publishers be damned. The world is better off when more people read the actual science.
Prototypes are cool, but I think this is dead.

Anything that requires tons of visual calibration is serious work. Both for the programmer and the computer.

It worked for a planned demonstration, but I imagine this would be impossible for Mass production. And I wonder if the users found it useful due to latency and accuracy problems.
I would say "high performance customer". The one that is going to push your product to its limits, trying to make it do more than you thought it could. Those limits are where you need to add features so people don't have to hack around the limitations.
It's basically Roller Coaster Tycoon.
Corporate IoT – A Path to Intrusion
Apple subsidiary FileMaker renamed to Claris, new apps coming
Long time ago there was an ad PC vs Mac. PC guy had usb camera tapped on top of his head, claiming how PC are entering new modern age. Mac had camera build in. This kind of feels similar.
I know the interval is configurable, but please make the default to somewhere around 30-50 mins.

10 mins is ridiculous and will make people ignore your product.
Webcams usually have somewhat poor latency, at least in my experience. And I think the performance critical code is all in OpenCV, not Python.
Then how do those customers ever delete anything? Click every single file and choose "Delete"?
What you are talking about is unrelated to NFSs broken model. Although still important, because these are the reasons why we don't need fsync() to actually flush data to disk for example, it can be asynchronous and only needs to add a checkpoint to your log structured filesystem that will be written to disk later, once enough data is buffered or long enough time has passed.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, actually. Oracle gets a lot of flak on HN, and some of it is justified. But the reality is that the team working on OCI is top-notch. And the product itself is quite compelling.

Oracle as an enterprise/legal behemoth is very different from the cloud transformation business unit.
You don't.

"BUT ITS NOT A HUGE PROBLEM"

it still happens, which is a problem none-the-less.
This is a close competitor:

> For those who don't know how the Fed works: technically, there are a series of stages. Generally the Treasury puts out bonds to the public, and the Fed buys them back. The Fed then loans the money thus created to other banks at a special low rate of interest ('the prime rate')...

Also from "Debt, The First 5000 Years".
>You're the runtime state of the software that's running in your brain

That is not independent of the state of the underlying neural network, it seems no more reasonable to dissociate the two than it does to conflate them.
In Alaska, I drove everywhere and my computing setup was just right (a 12.9" iPad Pro, smart cover, and Magic keyboard).
Here in Europe, I walk a lot more, and my giant iPad is heavy for me.
Also, a small, light bag is a blessing: buses in the morning are packed.

I'd bet that things like having or not having a car dictate a lot of our everyday carry choices - it has for me. Now I'm wondering if an iPad Mini is too small...
Ok, cool. In fact you are right in our price point of $9 per artboard. The only think we need to evaluate is the one-off possibility which I'm sure we can try.
Analysing RPC with Ghidra and Neo4j
Hm. I've always thought that building for the hacker/expert is a mistake, because it means building for someone who is willing to invest more time in figuring out what your software can do for them and figure out your UX (and has more skill at doing so) than many, and you're going to wind up with a UX that less expert non-hackers find confusing and too hard to figure out, and give up on without finding value.

The hacker/expert understands the problem domain better than most (expert), and is willing to invest more time in figuring out how to find value in the software (hacker) than most users. Unless you only want to target hackers/experts (which you can if you think there are enough of them), it seems dangerous to your UX to focus on them.

Am I wrong?

(Focus, at first anyway, on those who will get the most benefit from the product "whether they realise this yet or not" -- seems unproblematic good advice to me).
Exactly. We need a free national ID card - like the vast majority of countries in the world.

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2017/07/national-ids-aroun...
YMMV, but I've experienced slight webcam lag on Macbooks even with Apple-optimized applications such as Photo Booth and FaceTime. Perhaps the biggest bottleneck is at the hardware / driver level instead of at the CPU-cycles level?
The USPS has ~30,000 motor vehicle accidents per year.

The entire USPS fleet travels ~1.28B miles / year, with the LLVs traveling 764M miles.

The LLVs travel about 18 miles per day, 300 days per year, which gives you an estimated 43 million LLV trips per year.

Assuming all 30,000 motor vehicle accidents are LLVs, that amounts to 1 accident every 1433 LLV trips.

Of course, on each LLV "trip", it delivers letters and parcels to hundreds of addresses; each drone delivery is presumably one.

(The USPS also averages 1 accident every ~43,000 miles; this is significantly above the US average of 1 accident per 165,000 miles driven. I would assume the increased rate is (1) USPS vehicles drive slow and stop frequently along their routes; I would guess many accidents are other vehicles driving too fast and trying to pass in unsafe areas (2) distracted driving; drivers are performing other tasks eg retrieving the next addresses mail while driving and (3) every USPS accident is likely reported; drivers are responsible for the condition of their vehicle and small fender-benders that we might not report are likely included in USPS statistics.)
Yes, but where's the connection between advertisement and a school shooting for example?
> Once you have a model, the problem you need to solve is how to make a model with no undercuts. Undercuts will make it impossible to remove the 3D printed positive

Is there a mathematical term for solids with this property? It reminds me of the vertical line test, but in 3D.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_line_test
Between side-channel attacks and the steady improvement in rowhammer techniques, the mantra of "there is no cloud, just someone else's computer" deserves a renaissance.

Tech promoters have spent a lot of time and energy explaining that anyone saying that is just an idiot who doesn't understand that cloud is the future (e.g. 1, 2). But the basic insight was never wrong, and the people saying it knew just fine what they were talking about. 'The cloud' means giving up physical-layer control, essentially by definition. That's a real tradeoff people ought to make consciously, and it's one that lost some ground lately.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/stop-saying-the-cloud-is-just-...

[2] https://www.techrepublic.com/article/is-the-cloud-really-jus...
I don’t think it was intended for mass production, and that’s okay. It’s a really cool and impressive hack.
Or perhaps an overbroad generalization? If you work in adult day health dealing with backblaze personal backup IS in fact beyond the abilities or interest of many of the folks there.

Or do you not have personal experience working with the very elderly? The very elderly engineers are more into electronics (physical) and can run rings around younger folks on older electronics (repair / vacuum tube testing etc). But I've not seen high levels of interest in things like Backblaze personal backup API's.
I think with a one off it’s better just to outsource it. But the benefit of the automatic approach is that you could iterate a design over the course of a few weeks, getting quick turn around on each tweak.
it's my cpu usage when building stuff - 100% on all of my cores
In copper, top 3 are: Chile, (one fifth) China, Peru (similar to China).

In iron: Australia, Brazil (half of former), China (similar to Brazil).

In aluminium: China, Russia (similar to China), Canada (tenth of former).

So except for aluminium, this would be very problematic but not insurmountable. I bet Russians won't sell their aluminium to US without many strings attached.
Recaptchas audio option for the visually impaired (the headphones icon) is relatively very fast compared to clicking store fronts.
Recaptcha will sometimes deny me the audio option, for unspecified reasons which I venture to guess could be challenged in us courts under the ADA (disabilities act.)
There’s not really “new cities” in the sense of someone establishing a new town. There’s just smaller towns growing into small cities, small cities growing to mid-sized, etc...

The problem is those places start car dependent and the US is such that we have a lot of land and there’s not a lot of incentive to urbanize. We want our 40 acres and a mule, with a big fence around our land, and a big sign that says “no trespassing” then we want to drive our cars to get to common areas
DARPA, fund me.

1. go vote
2. check to see who hasn't left their house today via open source GPS indicators
3. vote as them too because its illegal for those at a voting station to ask to verify your identification
4. ???
5. undetectable voter fraud
Meaning going from front-end code to Sketch, right? Is this something you need?
I think you may be approaching it differently than the creators are.

They hacked something cool together, I suspect that is the point, and it is awesome.

This isn't a product.
It's on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/TGnbKgmUzGc?t=7
What hardware do you have? All the touchscreen windows laptops I've tried have the responsiveness and accuracy of a touchscreen from 1990.
Google Photos-Like Simple Viewer on top of Google Drive, Dropbox and Others
aye. My mistake. Keep up the awesome service btw :).
I think Apple is trying to push folks to iPad Pros since they're touch capable and now support a mouse.
That's nitpicking, but I suppose I deserved it.

The point still stands: your mind and your body can be seen as separate things, and from this point of view you're your mind, not your body.
Extreme water stress affects a quarter of the world's population, say experts
Lazy loading Zendesk saved Huddle 2.3MB of JavaScript
It's actually $99/month if paid yearly.
The premise of democracy, at least the American incarnation, is to allow people to believe whatever they want to believe. As a candidate, you have the freedom to say whatever you want. Even if everything they say is true, they can draw attention to the wrong issues, or stoke fear. To argue against misinformed voters is to argue against the foundation of the process. It's not just foreign countries dropping propaganda to disrupt sensible consensus, its the people themselves running who are propagating misinformation.

"In a Democracy, the real rulers are the dexterous manipulators of votes, with their placemen, the mechanics who so skillfully operate the hidden springs which move the puppets in the arena of democratic elections. Men of this kind are ever ready with loud speeches lauding equality; in reality, they rule the people as any despot or military dictator might rule it." - pobedonostsev

At the end of the day, whoever either spends the most money yelling out a megaphone, or gets the most attention yelling, gets elected. Except for times like Trump exploiting the modern news/press cycle for his own benefit, most election winners are the one who spends more money. I think the last time the lesser spend won a presidential election was Carter running against Ford. Goldwater got spanked as well, compared to spending.
Apple stores only sells accessories to their manufactured products, and isn't a retail platform.

If Apple opened stores that sold a wide range a goods, including from other sellers, and then banned Dell, then yes, your hypothetical would be anticompetitive.
I suppose most website html templates are later filled with code ( php, js, whatever). Then design change, you don’t want to restart inserting php code all over again.

At least that was one issue i thought about reading OP.
how does the battery life compare to the touch enabled windows laptops?
My heart is breaking. Toni Morrison was one of the greatest writers of our time. I loved Beloved, but The Bluest Eye is my favorite.
Sometimes, a higher quality of internet service can be attributed to 1. Household is in-between two major cities, 2. Household is close to major highway (lower cost of building and maintaining infra), 3. Household is in the vicinity of a highly valued facility (E.g. military), 4. Telco designated the area as a higher priority on the subsidized list.
Seashells – Pipe output from command-line programs to the web in real time
Can't replicate the issue... Can you show me a screen shot?
I came here to say exactly this. I played RuneScape as a kid and was scammed. It molded me into the skeptic I am today.

Plus, downloading a keylogger masquerading as a RuneScape hack taught me the importance of not running random executables.
> Please see here: https://github.com/electric-sheep-uc/black-sheep/blob/0735de...

Creating and destroying threads in a tight loop (and blocking on their destruction, thereby reducing the point of having many) seems like a bad idea. Conceptually you have only maximum of two threads in any given part of this snippet, the one running the loop and the current instance of visThread. My guess is also that the loop thread spends most of its time waiting for the recently created threads to die. Why not have visThread only get created once and process a queue of events?

Anyway without additional evidence you potentially flagged a bug in the c++ standard library rather than pthread_create.
How is it misogynist?
DUPE
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16745998
In principle, true. But it is hard to push protocol updates to people.
I don't miss it. While working I hate finger grease on my MacBook screen much more than I do on my iPhone or iPad. Also, my wife has a Surface laptop with touch screen and she never uses it.
Sounds like lisp is doing the low level stuff for you, so really like a mid/high level language. Most languages have statements that correspond to a single cpu instruction. And it sounds like this cons cell is in fact an abstraction away from bytes and memory. Which is more of an abstraction than, say, a byte string.
Hi, I moved from the US to Europe and have lived both lifestyles. I'm calling BS on your assertions, AMA.
I think it is pretty clear I was referring to kernel-mediated readahead. Sure, you can achieve the same thing in userspace using async IO or threads.
> The drone had a parachute system to allow a controlled descent

The parachute would allow the drone to avoid a rapid descent. Most parachute systems are not steerable/flyable so they won't make it a controlled descent.
"Protect the kids" reporting about an offline game hardly compares to the dangers from online communities. I don't behave like a 12 year old girl, thus I'll never be treated like one. Even if I wanted to experience it, I'd probably be unable to even imitate one. So its a bit more than just people finding it awesome that you can get your money back by killing the hooker.
This could be extended for multitouch too, yeah?
This is really cool, it is really hard to evaluate the value of Zencoda without the code output of the demo. I get that the full product is not ready but being able to see the input and one good output would tell us a lot.
Yev from Backblaze here - oh? Where are you located!? We're working hard on EU - lots of meetings, tons of them!
Maybe next someone will build a “camera keyboard“ for my iPad. Turn any surface into a keyboard with a camera and machine vision.
Data Ethics: Contesting Truth and Rearranging Power
Very neat! I am wondering whether it could also recognize multiple fingers and thus sort of emulate multitouch gestures, although my guess is latency is not great with one finger already, so this might not work well.

Als interested to see how it works with different lighting and how dirty the screen can get before recognition fails because the reflection is too „muddled“ ;)
I have similar that ties in to Toggl timers. If the time's within the work day and I've not got a timer going it bugs me to do stuff [1]

If there is a timer running it also knows (based on my calendar) if I should be doing something else and asks if I am and offers to change the timer for me [2]

[1] custom script

[2] the same custom script pings my phone/tablet via a Pushcut webhook. This pings me the notification but also allows me to tap the notification and start a new, relevant, timer using iOS shortcuts and Zapier
Applied category theory: the emerging science of compositionality
Debugging (other people's) legacy code
If you have friends in EU countries consider getting a foreign phone contract through them. I'm in DE with an FR contract, 4 euros for 40gb a months and I can connect to any carriers. It's still slow as hell though.
Great for blog posts but any ETA? I'd like to .. you know... start backing up my data with 3-2-1 rule :P
Yes, you do, that's how English works. If I insult you I don't get to say "well, it was a quote" after, I already insulted you.
Mom Test is a great book, just finished it. A short but good one is "Talking to Humans"
It would be wonderful if clever scammers could figure out a way to wreck the entire Internet advertising economy. Burn the whole thing down.
Solid interview. But one thing I saw that was missing was that Amazon also doesn't charge itself the 15% marketplace fee (it varies slightly depending on category but most are 15%) that it charges 3rd party sellers. Since Amazon directly sells tens of millions of items, it had at least a 15% head start on every single one of those products in terms of price competition. Since we're talking retail here, the margins on most items don't exceed 15% in many cases. The fact that they have been allowed to charge 3rd party sellers this fee while not facing it themselves or being forced to stop selling products at all if they are going to run the marketplace is mind-boggling to me.

At the previous company I worked for, they were very careful about this issue. It was a fintech company that had 20+ different lines of business/revenue. Due to the nature of the fintech space, certain business units wanted information/data/services from the other divisions. For example, the index and ETF team wanted corporate actions data from the team that monitored all corporate actions globally and delivered it via a standardized feed. The ETF and index teams were forced to take money from their budget and actually buy the service from the other team to avoid legal issues. They knew that if other ETF and index providers found out they had to pay for the product but our internal team got everything for free and could then undercut them and charge less for the ETF and index products, I guaran-fucking-tee you they would have sued us. Every division in the company was financially separated for exactly this reason. There should be some sort of class-action lawsuit on this basis from all sellers against Amazon, in my opinion. Amazon should be forced to separate that business that actually sells its own products into a new legal entity and have to pay the fees.
> Monzo's approach is radical transparency.

How can you be sure of that?
>Are reposts ok?

>If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok.

That post is from over a year ago, and didn't get much traction.
Automatic Playtesting for Game Parameter Tuning via Active Learning
How does the sex ratio at birth vary across the world? – Our World in Data
Speaking of cowboys-and-indians, Custer's Revenge is a videogame that is closer to the way 8chan views the world.
Convex perhaps?
The authors didn't publish thinking "this is going to rock the world, it's ready for mass production"... More along the lines "hey fellow hackers, we found a way to emulate a touch screen at 1% of the price".
Reminds me of playing GTA3 on my PS1 which did not have a memory card.
EA Async implements async-await methods in the JVM
This actually sad. People here understand why people despise these schemes and tracking yet still do it and post it here. Can't even blame marketeers or manager pressure.
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Luckily there is massive domestic demand for US corporate debt.
OK. But the prohibition is enforced by the patent holder suing for damages. It seems 1) unlikely that the patent holder will discover the infringement in the case of a DIYer, 2) that they will go to the trouble of suing for damages and 3) that the damages will amount to anything significant.
This is great. I notice it's Python 2, could this be ported to Python 3 easily or some inherent issue in upstream deps?
As a test, you could have removed the hours from your comment, shifted the lines by X, and asked HN to guess which hour the first line corresponds to
Absolutely, and we have. So when will it be your turn to be generous to us?