skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My thoughts exactly! I've had outdoor nest cameras for a couple of years now and was expecting at some point it'd learn that the trees moving or bugs flying across the camera were not interesting but nope...... we get this...

It seems like I'm not the only one annoyed at nest lately though. I actually backed a indiegogo last week called Camect that hopefully will fix a lot of these issues and you don't even need to replace the nest cameras, though you can if you want to. I recommend checking it out!
Satellites are extremely directional. A foreign entity can’t just launch a satellite over night. You could move a satellites trajectory hypothetically, but at what cost and what loss to the current users of that satellite. It’s just not realistic. US satellite internet providers are telcos. If cable is shutoff, it’s easy to shutoff satellite by a government. If it’s just power outage by a 3rd party, then satellite is the best option. However...how would you pay for it??
> "In general, we're least aware of what our minds do best", he wrote, and added "we're more aware of simple processes that don't work well than of complex ones that work flawlessly"

Fascinating, that could in a way be interpreted to imply that our conscious attention/perception is focused on the things that our minds cannot predict/control and everything else is "automated" (subconscious).

That could also be related to our perception of uncertainty and the way we deal with it. Our attention tends to be focused on what we are the most uncertain of.
Hindus are also given subsidies for travel to their religious sites, inside India and to China. Mansarovar Lake and Amarnath pilgrimage.

So that is one propaganda point of yours busted.

Let's bust the second point: Why are only Muslim refugees being expelled, and why is there a specific citizenship law that gives Indian citizenship to Hindus and excludes Muslims?
Games are wholly enclosed binaries that render everything in open gl or whatever, their entire ui is written in the 3d space, so there's less layers I'd imagine.
Outline.com is one site which, if you allow JS for it, provides access and a consistent, reader-friendly view for many, many others. (Sadly, not all.)

There are other options -- Reader View in Firefox and w3m in console are two I use frequently. For browsers other than Firefox, Outline is useful and I'm grateful it exists.
Though one might say the visuals are distracting, I found them to be an interesting visualization of the difficulty of the score (even though the performer doesn't move the fingers based on incoming indicators).
I think it depends entirely on what you want from it. I utilise social media professionally, and my articles on LinkedIn have certainly opened some doors. Among the most noticeably was when I was awarded the great honour of working on a few of our national strategies for digitalisation. Social media can certainly do that, and beyond influence it can also make you an attractive hire.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a conversation without underlying motives on any social media platform that puts your name one it though. People are always pushing some agenda, and that’s perfectly fine, if that’s what you’re there for. We often get involved, buy products or hire people partly because of networking through social media ourselves. So I think social media can serve a purpose professionally.

I don’t think there is a lot of value in social media when it comes to getting inspired though, and the shorter the format the worse it gets. It’s certainly a great platform for FOMO, have you learned Rust yet? Heh, but in terms of real world value I think it almost always falls short. Take the Rust hype, it’s probably a really great language, but I haven’t seen a single Rust job pop-up on any job-agent for my entire country in 2019. Which means the hype and talk around Rust is relatively useless for most developers. In those cases I think it’s much better to turn your FOMO into JOMO and just work on things that interest you.

Hell, even when you’re successful professionally with Social Media, it is mostly standing at the box in speakers corner. No one really listens unless you say something they can benefit from by retweeting.
See also Mathew Garrett's rant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2aq5M3Q76U
From the privacy policy:

We also may collect limited information from the people with whom you interact by email when you use the Site and Services. This information may include the recipient’s name and email address, the number of times that the recipient opens your email, the recipient’s IP address and the computer platform that the recipient is using.

Is there a way to turn this off?
Having done this quite a few times, it looks more like they are having issues to retain C++ developers, are too picky on their hiring process and the original devs have left, than anything else.

And given some of the macOS client practices, the engineering quality is also to wonder.

For me, C++ with native views, or Xamarin, will keep on being the way to do mobile apps that can't be done as PWAs.
We had 100% mortgages (no deposit) in the run up to the crises.

We even had 100%+ mortgages for a time which included a loan on top of your mortgage to modernise and furnish your property.

Nowadays, 5% deposit mortgages are available but 10% is more typical. We also have a popular government “help to buy” scheme which some think is reckless as it allows people to get into a more expensive new build home (which typically fall in value after first occupier) with a 5% deposit.

A loan for your deposit would not be acceptable as the mortgage company want to see you have skin in the game.

UK housing market is a complete mess and in my mind hugely overvalued. The can has been kicked down the road for over a decade now. If I didn’t have a family who needed secure housing situation I would sell to rent in a heartbeat.
How do you propose to measure this?

If it's by revenue to the much maligned Big Pharma, then I think not. R&D is a big cost, but not nearly as big in percentage as shown by the pharma companies, so were they all to contract due to sudden existence failure of the USA, they'd still make big profits if they kept the costs the same.
The smaller companies would evaporate.

I'm basing this on comparing Teva USA vs Teva Global R&D spending data. That is 10% everywhere, 15% in the US (dropping faster) and falling regardless of the USA or not, which is pumping in more money into this company every day.

I picked Teva because they're representative and one of global market leaders.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/272544/expenditure-on-re...

Solid: https://articles2.marketrealist.com/2018/01/whats-teva-pharm...

(Yes, you can also read their quarterlies for USA branch and other ones. I checked a few.)

Decent write-up, if a bit old:
https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20170307.05903...
'And to be clear NYT, BBC, Al-Jazeera, Bloomberg and even DW have anti-India sentiments because of lobbying and the vested interests.'

Hmmm vested interests going against India. My sympathies.

'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.'

Your fragility is showing.
There's a nice visualisation of the different orbits at http://stuffin.space
Citations needed!! Citations needed!!

1. What is Hindu culture? Answer:

A very ancient inclusive and compassionate culture. Even the name hindu was given by Persians/Arabs.

2. Why is the slogan being given by a Hindu Nationalist party?

The slogan was given to unify the nation and recognise the rich culture and heritage.

3. Why does the slogan involve similar tones and reach as, "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer"?

Stop with the nonsense please. I have even seen people draw equivalence like, Swastika-Nazi, Swastika-Hindu, Hindu-Nazi.

4. Why are the Indian cities names given by Muslim rulers being changed on lines of Hindu religious basis?

Why should a culture of thousands of years not roll back to the actual names for places which were changed by invaders? What has religion got to do with it? Should we also praise the queen?

5. Try going to North East India without a special entry pass.

Having booked hotel tickets all over north east for my parent's visits, I would say please stop with your propaganda.

6. You cannot buy real estate in certain Indian states, like Himachal Pradesh.

Unless you have been living there for some time. In Kashmir people who have been living for more than even 50 years didn't have voting and property rights.

7. They are Hindu Nationalists because they are using Hindu religion to consolidate majority, and are carrying out actions that they have wanted since independence. Hindu Nationalists killed Gandhi and were outlawed afterwards.

I am a Hindu and I am a nationalist. I don't want to kill people or put them under oppressive regimes like sharia. Being a hindu makes people evil? Is that your deciding criterion?

8. Let's not paint whole nation or its government as tolerant. In recent history, India has supported several terrorist movements in other nations.

Are you confusing India with Pakistan?
Show HN: I created a website to let you create groups and post content
> You can both insulate shipping containers and cut windows into them.

You can do that to anything, even cardboard boxes taken out of the dumpster. That doesn't mean they are adequate living spaces.
been told I should worry about it for years now, but Australia's economy hasn't broken yet (it's weak, but that just means it's doing better than comparable nations but less than what it could be if we weren't being mismanaged by the most incompetent government this side of the black stump). how can I rely on a forecast that is eternally bad? I guess the economy will turn sour eventually, but I can't rely on a prediction that's always bad news since I'll miss all the good.
This is a case of where our intuitions and expectations are deeply flawed. It's not a paradox.

I think the explanation of it is pretty simple. To ourselves, the unconscious things like vision and bodily movement tend to feel effortless. Whereas the consciously controlled things like reasoning involve conscious effort, and they can feel difficult to us. The "paradox" comes from assuming that the amount of effort or difficulty that we consciously experience corresponds to the actual degree of sophistication of the processing involved.
Couldn’t you just put a small piece of electrical tape over it?
The inconsistency in voice search is annoying. About 1/3 of the time I get the old, good weather report with the next 3-10 days' forecast and hourly precipitation. Then 1/3 I get only temperature and a link to weather.com. I don't know what I get the other 1/3. All I know is the good results are out there but they don't offer them every time.
I agree. Note that your reasoning equally applies to those who attend bootcamps.

Here we are choosing between a random/average bootcamp attendee, and a random/average CS graduate from a good school.
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Agree 100% but unfortunately it seems that lots of other manufacturers are emulating the same bullshit.

They took my removeable battery but they will never take my headphone jack! Oops, I mean freedom!
The brain size comparison and its relationship to body mass is super interesting.

The intelligence comparison is a little bit too simplistic though. How do you define intelligence? Are we humans really "more intelligent" than whales? There are a lot of human behaviors that are not intelligent at all, and which seem to be a lot less intelligent than what whales do (and pretty much any other animal on the planet for that matter).
Well, it tells you some people can go nuts, even Google engineers. If you look at his Twitter feed, he's into QAnon conspiracies, international anti-Semitic Jewish conspiracies, anti-vax conspiracies, apparently all tied together.

Funny how the leaked blacklist doc shown, if true, included USA Today Politics, rightwingwatch.org, and mediamatters.org. Veritas and Breitbart only took a yellow highlighter to the right wing sites, but didn't highlight a number of left wing sites also in their leaked materials. Now why would someone biased, have Media Matters and RightWingWatch, and USA Today Politics blocked?

His problem seems to be that he filters out facts that don't fit his mental model, and only sees things which confirm the conspiracy.
As much as I love reading all the commenets here that try to use rational and great thoughts about WeWork, they forget one thing - this company for a very long time is a classic pump and dump. Even the founder sold stocks just a while ago.
There is no business reason, unique technology or anything else that will even try get close to the numbers of this company.
I just hope that when it collapses it will be contained and not affect the entire technology sector.
Do you have a way to subscribe to updates? Would love to try out your service when you implement this!
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18719816
That's usually called "the broken window fallacy".

A kid goes out and breaks random windows in people's home; as a result, a lot of economic activity ensues - the glass producers, the people who produce glass cutters and specialized tools, the people who install windows, the cleaners who specialize in cleaning broken glass, etc ...

The ad industry is breaking everyone's windows. It does indeed produce a lot of economic activity; But it is more likely than not "misallocation and waste of funds" when looked at in a broader context.
Saudi Arabia Invests $75B in India Despite Kashmir Unrest
+1 for Clang. It integrates with everything. But like most open source options, it plays second fiddle to each company’s primary languages, and so thee’s no one IDE so perfectly integrated into these mobile dev C++ use cases as to make it easy to work with, the way, say, you can be productive on .NET framework with either C# or C++. Google and Apple are both C++ compatible, or have native bindings, but... they target their examples and ease of use at the languages that best integrate with the respective IDEs. (Swift for Xcode, Kotlin for Android Studio) The end result is possible, but it’s like picking Cordova/PhoneGap/Electron for your native app. You’re going to struggle to use native technologies at some point, and there are few examples to follow. Allowing for the realization that 80% of your app code is likely platform-specific even if the UI doesn’t vary much means you can adopt new approaches and native UI conventions faster. It’s like the difference in programming speed when you simply target Chrome for your web development vs when you’re trying to write code that runs on Internet Explorer also. It’s getting to the point where platform functionality diverges so much that writing it but from the same design/spec/data model is faster than trying to maintain compatibility. Especially if you need to support multiple versions of iOS and Android in a backwards compatible way and with different UI conventions in different OS releases. Native is native, nothing else looks or feels like native, when that’s what you need, and there’s more hand-holding for apps when they follow the latest spec from the platform, rather than try to chase it with their custom bindings/implementation...

Note re. targeting a platform — often learning and reading some C++ is inescapable. For me, reading Chrome source code makes it easier to work with Puppeteer in JS, or deliver a better web app because I know how things work under the hood and it’s easier to read the C++ than the read the web standards themselves. Similarly, C++ really is portable and fast, so it shows up in many places. But on mobile, the mix of C++ to Swift/Kotlin should be 90%-platform native if your app is a traditional CRUD app that deeply integrates with the platform. If it’s simpler than that, build a website, or if it’s a game engine or some custom UI, use that, sure, but if you want to benefit the most from Apple and Google implementations, native (with shared spec/data models) is the way to go...
I think many HNers do understand this. I do and I am sad by the amount of waste it creates. The jobs in adtech are better left not done at all, and the manpower and money redirected to more socially useful jobs.
Those purple circles are pretty depressing.
There was Hindu extremist dictatorship in 1947 when the conflict started? They originally wanted a separate country because they felt they are ethnically and culturally different to Indians. It didn’t become a religion issue until the 80s.
Why do you want there to be more Americans? Is there some advantage to more people living in the geographical region?

Are you hoping that it will allow certain aspects of the culture to spread / persist?

If the latter, would it be as good to cultivate those things at home and allow them to spread on their own merit?

Or do you prefer for more people to exist under the national banner for its own sake?
Pretty sure future generations will treat microplastics as asbestos or leaded fuel today. Especially since its widespread in the air.
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep46687
I may not agree with cultivating a community of the sick but what was important for me was to see that becoming healthy is possible. These realizations you’re having are healthy and you will find a way to find a refuge in yourself no one can take away from you.

An adjunct to therapy I found particularly helpful was to take up compassion meditation (”metta”). You may consider asking your therapist if she agrees.

Much kindness to you.
Searching symptom tracker, google tells me no no you mean symptom checker. No sorry I do need a way to track them not check them
Recently the story has been TSMC is pulling ahead of intel in process nodes and intel has been missing deadlines, but this inversion has only happened in the last few years.
10,000 Alex Jones, Ben Shapiro, Andy Ngo peddling conspiracy or ideology under the guise of journalism is not better.

You’re right as well of course about anonymous sources being an issue, but your “politicians in power” comment is an unnecessary straw man to the conversation.
The actual problem is people with no intention of journalistic integrity being given the same access and platform as people with that intention.
Well, it mostly involves leaving work with them in and leaving them in till I get where I'm going.

Plus, I've never been one to have ear infections, so I end up with used ones in all my pockets so they're pretty much always on me.

As another comment mentioned, there are flat frequency response ear plugs, Etymotic ETY ER20 are pretty cheap, reusable and cleanable. Not as much dB reduction, but that's better for some scenarios.
Fracking in U.S. and Canada Linked to Worldwide Atmospheric Methane Spike
> I think the issue is that people don't trust themselves to build a wooden box with adequate structural integrity.

Why is that a concern? There are plenty of people who are more than capable of designing and constructing buildings. Even if you need to pay for their expertise, their work costs a fraction of the total building cost.
Great project. I don't see privacy being mentioned in your message nor on the website, that + the comment about the extension's permissions are a big no for me.

It's 2019, I would expect such info to be given when reaching to the HN audience. We know you need to make money, the website doesn't say how, the logical assumption is that we're giving data to pay you and personally I like to know how much I have to pay before trying a new service.
I can't find all the fine details on this loan, but there are definitely loans that stop you from prepayment, or at least have a penalty associated with them. These penalties can be pretty large and definitely are a reason not to pay back the entire mortgage before 10 years. In this exceptional case I'm assuming there is a prepayment penalty for a large portion of that 10 year fixed rate period.
I just want to say that this is exactly the type of thoughtfulness, design, engineering and research that justifies the price difference in something like a Mercedes and something like a Honda. There are so many small triumphs like this in class-leading, high-end vehicle manufacturers that go unnoticed and unsung and allow people with 2019 Accords to say things like "why would I pay $45,000 for that when I get better auto-steering for half the price?".

Certainly there are subtleties to high end cars like road feel, steering, throttle feedback, and ergonomics that are only apparent to "car people" and thus work the premium versus something that is more "point A to point B". I applaud Mercedes for not only putting the effort into deploying a feature like this, but also for marketing it.
Just look at the code needed to support the file system on iOS 13 to write a file provider. It changed a lot, and non-native code to adopt to that would be a nightmare I imagine.
Why does it follow that efficient automation will cause population levels to not matter?
I live in Poland which is one of the notorious coal using countries (roughly 0.5% of world's population and 1% of world's CO2 emissions). For Poland this list of coal power plants is not complete - it does not contain smaller CHP (combined heat and power) plants. However these facilities are cleaner and more efficient than burning coal at individual households, so their environmental impact is probably positive.
Irish Teenager Wins Google Science Award for Removing Microplastics from Oceans
The bad actors just need to open their own website in webkit to check if they are being blocked in some way. They will always know if a particular tracking strategy they are using is not working. So there is no harm in making the list public.

The benefit of making the list public is that blocking tech is in some sense of the word censorship. The public needs to know who is being blocked to ensure transparency and to ensure that WebKit is not using their blocking technology nefariously.
I think many of the best programmers would jump at the opportunity to work with Rust. That might change if the language de jour changes but working with rust is a positive for many of the best people right now.
It’s a bit harsh to say rotten apples. In my view the smell is subtly saccharine and reminiscent of fermentation,... with maybe a hint of applesauce.