skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I forgot about the shell company bit on their long-term leases. In any case, they are in the business of managing and reselling real estate, whatever the time horizon.
I just came here to say how cute this is ;). btw yes, corewars is great fun.
> The other thing that is ignored is that for seventy years Kashmir has gotten the biggest share of the central government's outlays for states and they have nothing to show for

This is a poor view of how areas should be funded. Governments are responsible for common welfare of a people, not to be run as a business that expects kickbacks and profit or returns on investment.
Yep! That's exactly right. We keep that in reserve in a 3rd party account :)

Also, you have a great point on the perception problem, which is what we are trying to tackle right now. We have genuinely designed a product that is meant to be the most customer-friendly buyer model out there, but because we are a seed-stage company, many people are just concerned, because we lack a long standing reputation in the industry.
I find it very easy to use "Apple" and "monopoly" in the same sentence.

Apple has been consistently making it harder to make money off iOS users without sharing that revenue with apple.
Furthermore, they don't allow side loading of apps, their own apps have special api's that their competitors can't use, etc.

I could go on and on.
The Profitability Track for Uber
waifu2x still much nicer for art of course (comparison: https://i.imgur.com/4QkIUOc.png 2x, https://i.imgur.com/pQDuIpl.png 4x)

but for the stated purpose this looks pretty good. for example, 720p [https://giant.gfycat.com/AccomplishedBelatedBlueshark.webm] to 1440p [https://giant.gfycat.com/FluidBlissfulCob.webm] test. is subtle, improves video, and runs fine (tested via mpv, https://mpv.io/manual/master/#options-glsl-shaders).
Does Lyft do a similar thing?
You dont get to pick what keeps infants and toddlers awake, my dude.
Hmmh, but a whale's sensori-motor skills are quite rudimentary compared to a human's. A human can manipulate objects, walk, run, dance, swim, jump. A whale can only swim and maybe do a fairly restricted set of dives?
It has a "Best Stuff First" option but you can disable it (and it stays disabled)
Fermat's (Little) Theorem
One of the illustrative point is also that some present day Democrat presidential candidates and legislators just 4-5 years ago were against increased immigration and open borders. Listen to what Sanders has to say about "open borders": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf-k6qOfXz0 he is not just slightly against it, he is quite upset by the idea altogether.
True that they're being cautious to protect their investment in the drug. In the case of TB, it's taken seriously enough that the drugs used to treat MDR/XDR TB are taken under close medical supervision, especially brand new drugs like Bedaquiline and Delamanid. They are usually administered under DOT (directly observed therapy) where a patient is required by law to take the drugs daily in front of a witness, or with lower-risk patients they use VDOT (Video Directly Observed Therapy) where patients can use an app to video record themselves taking the medicine daily and submit the evidence to the local Department of Health. In cases where patients don't comply to treatment, they can be arrested and isolated due to the public health risk.
Listening to high-volume music every day can damage your hearing.
I suspect most people are voting for parties who have policies they don't support. The small-government people are often in a similar boat, for example. Or the hard-core environmentalists.

If the consensus position is broad-scale immigration is a good idea (which seems to be solidly the case in English-speaking politics) then voters who don't like immigration are out of luck.
I am old enough to have seen the Internet emerge. You were enraptured by content and services provided by companies that lost billions of dollars, courtesy of investors, during the dot com era. Those investors provided that capital in large part because they knew how lucrative it could be if online advertising became as efficient and effective as it is today. You will not see that kind of subsidy in the post-ad world.
Indian citizens, at least the progressive thinking ones, do not stand for shutting down the Internet connectivity for any purpose, more so since the governments (central and state) have been doing it without transparency and without strong laws or enforcement to protect freedoms.

Internet Freedom Foundation [1][2] has been trying to make this a thing of the past, but it's very early days. As a tangential example, postal services are stopped in Kashmir now. Nobody is able to find the exact government order that made this possible. This is despite having RTI (Right to Information, the equivalent to the US FoIA). That's the sad level of governance going on for a long time in the country.

Majoritarian views — that prefer less freedom — on social media and broadcast media like TV don't help the situation much.

[1]: https://internetfreedom.in

[2]: https://twitter.com/internetfreedom
I read all of the docs. Every last one of them. There is nothing there. This whole thing is ridiculous.
Same here. Internet felt like a benevolent community where wonderful things florished. Now it’s becoming a giant tracking apparatus flooded with competing addictive garbage.
Well, I suppose the real question is what you expect. Assuming no racial bias I would assume that hiring rates mirror local demographics. Well, about 7% of the Bay Area is black (SF itself is less so let's just bias upwards a bit here). So, given that any hire has a 7% chance to be black and a 93% chance to be non-black, that gives us a 45% chance there are no black employees, an 82% chance there is at most one black employee, and a 96% chance there are at most two black employees, assuming no bias.

As for the other question, yes, there is a 31 year old there. Listen, I'm going to be honest with you: I'm in my 30s too, and there is no age bias against 30-year-olds in SF.
If you want to prevent the formation of a pool of cheap exploitable immigrant labor, there are two ways. The best would be to prevent immigrants from entering, but that's impossible. The second best is to make sure that those who enter have the same freedoms and protections as native born workers, so that unscrupulous employers can't take advantage of them (house cleaners paid below minimum wage, H-1B tech employees paid under the table, chicken processing plants [0]).

0: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/09/poultry-in...
> Didn't people make money off internet advertising before the modern surveillance-marketing complex? What happened to it?

Non-contextual advertising still exists, but it's perceived as less effective, so there's a lot less money in it. I don't know if that perception is correct, but I do remember back when a common complaint from people was that the ads they saw weren't relevant to them.

It's also not just targeted advertising that will be affected. Without any sort of user tracking, it will be even harder to prevent fraud. No one wants to spend money showing ads to bots.

> Also I assume / hope that iOS ads aren't tracking people either; third-party cookies simply have no equivalent in the iOS app sandbox design.

You might want to look into the Apple Advertising Identifier.
Two brothers invented an alphabet for their native language, Fulfulde
When I look at "What are the Most Spoken Languages in the World?"[0], I see so many in or around India, I can understand the need for unification of languages.

[0] https://www.fluentin3months.com/most-spoken-languages
Weren't they the company with those weird "it's all about the gold" commercials?
What is the numerical upper limit to your goodwill?

And what about the current citizens who are relatively poorer off because off high number of low skilled new immigrant arrivals? Does a nation not owe more to its current citizens?
There are dozens of models that various companies use. When applying for a mortgage, there are different models used when applying for a car or an apartment. Credit Karma gets their scores from the credit bureaus with some particular model, which probably isn't the same one when you go try to get a car. It's not _wrong_ it's just different.
Every generation thinks their parents got it all wrong.
What I liked about "they spy who came in from the cold" was the pacing. Its small. "a small town in germany" is similary small, as is "the looking glass war" which has a nice quality that its really about inter-service rivalry more than the fieldman.

Peter Wright "spycatcher" made me think this stuff is more true than not. UCL (london) is next door to the kind of grey curtained (bomb-proof chain mail apparently) anonymous doors and blocks which we are told once housed outlier farms of the more elite services in the seventies. The big place down on the Thames up-ended all this, as did GCHQ's remake.

(Duncan Campbells writing on how the british state listened in pervasively to all telephone calls in the days of the microwave backbone up the spine of the UK is also worth reflecting on)

The atmosphere of the remake of 'tinker tailor' was really good. the grimy, flare-trouser, italian-design feels of the place was spot-on for time. I am less sure it was spot-on for what the secret services were like inside, but it felt like it should be: its what we want to believe. I've stayed in those grotty kings-cross hotels, they are alas, all too true.

I love all his books, but the later ones are frankly bloated. He's returned to small. His biography about his amoral father ("the perfect spy" is of course about the same family dynamic and probably has echoes of reality all through it) but you can't call autobiography novels, so thats out.

I thought "the russia house" was a better film adaptation than "the little drummer girl" and I thought "the night manager" was terribly adapted. All three are much the same as books I find.

"the constant gardener" is in some ways, the most depressing. I think it very probably speaks more truth than we would want.
"But please, Modi bhakts", treat differing opinions with a bit of tolerance and respect, shall we?
Great suggestion! More features will be added in the later version for sure.
Protecting their investment sure, but it can extend beyond that to impact clinical perceptions of the drug such that it limits use unnecessarily (regardless of whether Otsuka markets it).

I was tangentially involved in a clinical development program that offered access through compassionate use. The folks who received the drug were truly out of options. As a result several died. Investigation determine the drug was not the cause. That didn’t stop the rumors from swirling and several physicians pulling out of the clinical trials and actively discouraging patients from taking part. Probably extended the development by at least 2 years (it was eventually approved) and as a result many people who could of benefited from it had to wait, which likely resulted in a number of deaths that could have been avoided.
I see at least three things: it was his election promise, he preempts the imminent cyclic recession, he gains leverage on federal reserve and transnational corps. Agriculture problem seems to be preceding the trade war. For instance the soybeans sales to China are down because the protein content is down in the US soybeans.
I think this has a related outcome in the commercialisation of automated systems. It seems that it is much easier to create automated systems that outperform highly paid domain knowledge specialists at diagnostic tasks, than it is to get them to reliably deliver pizza as well as an average human with a moped.
I believe either the patents have expired or the basic functionality was always royalty-free; but what really killed JPEG2000 was the immense complexity and increased processing power required. It still has applications in some niche areas, and probably most people's contact with it will be in the form of images embedded in PDFs (many of archive.org's ebooks use JPEG2000), where the noticeably slower rendering of pages is a big turn-off.
Museum of Ice Cream Valued at $200M
Huh.

My laptop has 8 gigs of RAM, and I run many programs simultaneously (usually including several codebase analysis servers behind Emacs, a VirtualBox VM or two, Slack, and of course tens of Chrome tabs, several in development mode), but I don't have anything like the problems you describe. I do use The Great Suspender aggressively in Chrome and that does help a lot.

My Emacs instance itself is extremely tricked out with extensions and usually weighs in between 100 and 200 MB of RAM. Maybe that's the difference - sounds like VS Code eats a lot more.

I'm on a MacBook Pro from 2015 at work, if memory serves.

What setup are you running that handles your needs so poorly?
Was initially happy when looking at Australia (my home country) - small circles and no planned stations (maybe Adani in Queensland).

Then I realized that the large circles in China and India almost certainly burn Australian coal.
Because permanent residency shouldn't be a privilege granted only to the relatively wealthy.
Native lazy-loading support for the Web in Chrome 76
> The best would be to prevent immigrants from entering, but that's impossible.

'Impossible' is a very strong word for something many countries manage just fine. Unless you define 'prevent' as "no immigrant ever enters, even if only to be deported the next day".

But there's a third way - prosecute those unscrupulous employers. If only their lobbying money wasn't in the way...
The fabulous people at LG would never engage in such a thinly veiled attempt at marketing through the Guardian's exceptionally high editorial standards just to promote their amazing ThinQ display tech. #FreeDorothy
No idea how accurate it is, but Wikipedia says that ISWIM was influenced by Lisp...
It's better to compare the weight using brain/body^(2/3) than using body/body directly. With that correction most of the paradox disappear. More info in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalization_quotient
That click tracking spec is useless for advertising at scale. It only supports up to 64 campaigns is what I remember as the worst offender, somewhere in my comment history is a bit more when I first read the spec.
Please reread Someone1234’s comment.

In my words:
Nest devices had security issues in the past [1].
It’s very likely that they still have issues today (like most software). Once a hacker gains enough control of the device she can turn off the led because it’s software controlled[2].

[1] https://gizmodo.com/this-nest-security-flaw-is-remarkably-du...

[2] https://www.grahamcluley.com/webcam-spying-without-turning-l...
I feel guilty for enabling this by buying them smartphones. Now my parents are in a room watching their respective daily soaps/Whatsapp junk viral videos and propaganda on Youtube for hours everyday (and late at night as well).
> [...] the proposed method [...] is tailored to content that puts importance to well defined lines/edges while tolerates a sacrifice of the finer textures.

and

> [...] a big weakness of our algorithm [...] is texture detail, however since upscaling art was not our main goal, our results are acceptable.

That sounds like a multiobjective optimization problem. If this multiobjective optimization problem was solved (permitting the nature or structure of the multiobjective optimization problem, of course), then the algorithm would be improved, don't you agree?

Did the authors of this algorithm not have the capability to formulate or recognize the multiobjective optimization problem?

Or if they did have the formulation capabilities, but that they did not have the capability to solve the multiobjective optimization problem? Why if so? Too difficult? Not enough time? Limited by a resource? No intention to have done so, excepting that they said that a specific trade-off was acceptable?

You're welcome to share your speculation or opinion, Hacker News reader.

I'm curious to know your thoughts, is all.
According to IIHS's data, riders in Mercedes C-class cars have about-average chances of injury. This means they're no safer than a Prius. Mercedes E-class cars have about 30% less than average chances of injury, about the same as Volvo and Subaru.

https://www.iihs.org/ratings/insurance-losses-by-make-and-mo...
I don't know what you mean by sci fi?

Consider this sensor https://martybugs.net/electronics/tempsensor/hardware.cgi

If someone used such a sensor and overlooked the parasitic mode, then that could be used even when the power was physically shut off.
oh how the turns have tabled
In my city Jaipur, there was internet shutdown for last 3 days in some areas because communal tensions flared up and situation had to be brought under control. I stand by it because putting myself in the administration's shoes, I know for a fact that you WILL have a lot of casualties if you don't do that. It's a sad reality.
> Non-contextual advertising still exists, but it's perceived as less effective, so there's a lot less money in it. I don't know if that perception is correct, but I do remember back when a common complaint from people was that the ads they saw weren't relevant to them.

As far as I’m aware, the current state of advertising is people either being too creeped out by ad suggestions to buy anything or still feeling like they’re getting bad recommendations.
Who Killed Tumblr? We All Did
> Since you aren't really using VS Code locally, your extensions aren't all installed automatically.

It sounds like he's doing IPC to some kind of headless editor updating files inside the container, which would lead to a bad habit of ignoring all the platform's tools that his IDE doesn't know about. I'd much rather script builds and tests inside containers (if the runtime has enough packaging issues to need them) but keep the source out where I can fully use everything I've learned.
Best Headshot Photographer in San Francisco?
Have a look at dolphins playing with bubble rings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT-fctr32pE - and making labyrinths out of suspended mud to catch fish with - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzfqPQm-ThU
Crispr enters its first human clinical trials
> I would absolutely not sign on to a company whose space is a garage. First of all, it signals precariousness and non-seriousness

So you would have avoided Apple and Amazon then?
I would push back on that a little. There are different responsibilities when you only have one instance of a character of a certain demographic verses a multitude of characters. For example, no one would complain if one of the East Asian characters on Fresh Off The Boat was a stereotype (I don't watch the show, so I'm not sure if there is one) because the cast is full of East Asian people are therefore the show is in no way implying that they all fit that stereotype. Apu was the most prominent and sometimes the only South Asian face on television for years and therefore there is extra pressure not to make that character a stereotype. There are so many white people on TV that presenting some in a bad light doesn't lead to stereotyping.
where do I sign up?
> You were enraptured by content and services provided by companies that lost billions of dollars, courtesy of investors, during the dot com era.

What about the independent blogs?
Apple gets no money from in-app advertisements.
While they certainly have some nifty safety features, I don't feel as though they really take safety seriously when they have one of the worst completion rates for the Takata airbag recall (source: https://www.nhtsa.gov/equipment/takata-recall-spotlight#comp...).
Nicely packaged notes, i will clone this to my archive, thanks for sharing ;-)
Couldn't they come up with a more interesting name, say, "nudge-note"?
In Praise of Pretty Books
Plane can fly 500 miles, powered entirely by hydrogen
I have heard several stories about industry groups preferring government regulation to the status quo because game theory made it impossible to self-regulate effectively.

It makes sense to me, no agreement will hold if any one person can violate it with nothing to stop them.
I’m not quite sure about this, but I think Safari will prevent cross-site tracking in this case until you interact with the thing.
I'm Proud to Be Gay, but I'm Tired of Coming Out to Strangers (2019)
That's pure lies and propaganda. The brutal atrocities in past by invaders should not be forgiven, however, this doesn't mean to hate the descendents.
It is BJP which abolished Tripple Talaq, it is BJP which decriminalized homosexuality (Congress did not because it would hurt their voter base of Muslims), it is BJP, which is giving benefits on the basis of income, etc. Kashmir was and is integral part of India and it's culture. While we are on this no news outlets dared to talk about the genocide of thousands of Hindus, Buddhists and Suffis in Kashmir since 1989 by the Pakistan sponsored Islamic Terrorists.
If one comes on the ground instead of reading propaganda from news outlets dominated by Hinduphobic pessimists, it'll be better.
And to be clear NYT, BBC, Al-Jazeera, Bloomberg and even DW have anti-India sentiments because of lobbying and the vested interests.
It is the Hindu philosophy which is the most inclusive and that is why India was and is most diverse nation on the planet and not any Western nation.
There seems to be a pattern where a new, addicting technology sinks its claws in, and the it requires a certain amount of youthful malleability to realize the problems it causes and grow out of it. And the older you are, the less of that adaptive ability you seem to have.

My mom plays the most mind-numbing mobile and Facebook (yep) games, instead of realizing there's a bigger world of much higher-quality content out there. Gen Z seems to have the hindsight about social media to resist some of the effects it's had on millennials. Etc.
Ask HN: What is the best Google search alternative for programmers?
They will, but if it makes you feel any better mostly they will burn Chinese coal [0]. Australia is disproportionate.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_coal_prod...
Supported in Chrome 76 and any Chromium 76-based browsers.

There is also an open implementation bug [1] for Firefox.

Webkit also has it too [2], just not sure when it will land.

I know this is going to be an unpopular opinion, but I really wish we could make Javascript-less Web Page ( HTML ) better instead making everything Web page an Javascript Web App. Lazy Loading is something I wanted for god knows how many years.

Hopefully someday I could see something like Turbolinks and Stimulus inside browser.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1542784

[2] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196698
I have to do -site searches for certain types of image searches. OTOH that does fix this issue pretty easily.
Such a high dependency on tracking is, if anything, advertisers being complacent, sloppy, or generally bad at their job. You absolutely don't need all these data to advertise to people.
That doesn't mean previous generations didn't make any mistakes.
I’ve yet to find a news source without an agenda, corporate or non-profit