skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe anything about you. I am simply telling you what I consider to be the reality.

Some parts of the plastic industry can and will be replaced but far less both short term and long term than people want to think, unless; some new fundamental scientific discoveries are done.
NLP's ImageNet moment has arrived
How many wallets are scams on github/app store? That’s the real question
My point is that

(a) he's on very, very well trod ground, and

(b) Apple has already taken steps to correct the problem he's yelling about.

So what's the point of his post?
(Brave employee here)
We block 3rd party ads and tracking, that collect user data, often without their knowledge or consent. Brave Ads are disabled by default, to ensure that no one sees ads that is not interested in viewing ads. This provides a benefit to advertisers as well, as they currently dump a lot of money into a dumpster fire, and are basically tasked with measuring how many of the pixels appeared on the screen for a certain amount of time. Brands don't know if people that viewed the ad were interested in advertising. People get shotgunned with ads. We're approaching this differently.

We've introduced advertising that is private by default, with a new approach to measuring and accounting for ad event confirmations through our ad confirmation protocol.

We have some information regarding the confirmation protocol here, for those interested. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Security-and-pri...

Aside from providing advertising that's private by default, our ad platform includes people in the process, by rewarding them for their attention (70% of the rev share for the ads viewed). People can then contribute those tokens to publishers and creators (like Wikipedia), or hold the tokens. In the future, people will be able to redeem tokens for gift cards, premium content, etc.

We'll be introducing additional ad units in the future for publishers, with a cleaner deal and better rev share than they currently receive (publishers will receive 70% of the revenue, people will receive 15%, Brave will receive 15%).

If we were just replacing publisher ads with other ads from the existing ad ecosystem, I'd understand and agree with the sentiment. That said, we're bringing new methods for ad delivery, accounting and matching to the market, all designed to function without leaking your information from your device. Hope this helps.
It’s based on a bounty system for tasks, each of which have a value. With value localised to every project, the value can be a function of anything (though likely time and difficulty) as long as it’s consistent throughout the project’s life. When people are content with the amount of value a task will reward, they can begin working on it and as they complete these tasks and they’re peer reviewed and accepted, their value in the project grows.

Hope that goes some way to explaining it. Let me know if it needs more clarification.
I should point out that John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace are the ones who actually built Morpheus.
Are there any plans to get rid of uphold on the publisher side and allow external wallets? It was a huge turn off to me when I signed up.
That was part of my argument during the appeal. And like every other report of similar things happening, all I get back in response was some canned copy/paste email from their policies. It seemed very out of my control for something like this to happen and I felt wrongly punished - and for a lifetime!? I can understand "banned for X amount of time" but as a young developer's first offence a lifetime ban seems a bit overkill.
Can there be single thread on HN without some reference to global warming?

It's not merely annoying, in this case, its incorrect.

Central Texas' cedars (aka Junipers) are an invasive species that destroy other plants. The cedars suck up an enormous amount of water, killing nearby live oaks and other larger trees that provide healthy ecosystems.

They are weeds of the tree world in Texas.
This is a response to a push to unionize and legislate protections. They don’t just want to do this, they want to show that lots of their drivers support it instead of the alternative, and get their drivers to lobby against the legislation and reject unionization.
I understand. But the point of organizing would be to shift it back.
When Britain decolonized their other colonies in the 1940s-60s they did take efforts to leave them with democratic governments (many of these did fall apart and become dictatorships or have other political issues as the countries were not developed enough for democracy to be viable.)

Your dislike of the UK seems to be blinding you to historical facts? Or do you have sources that prove these statements incorrect? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_development_in_Ho...

“Records declassified in 2014 show discussions about self-government between British and Hong Kong governments resumed in 1958, prompted by the British expulsion from India and growing anti-colonial sentiment in the remaining Crown Colonies. Zhou Enlai, representing the Communist Party of China at the time, warned, however, that this "conspiracy" of self-governance would be a "very unfriendly act" and that the Communist Party wished the present colonial status of Hong Kong to continue. China was facing increasing isolation in a Cold War world and the party needed Hong Kong for contacts and trade with the outside world.[19][20][21]

1960s
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China's leaders explicitly wanted to "preserve the colonial status of Hong Kong".[21] Liao Chengzhi, a senior Chinese official in charge of Hong Kong affairs, said in 1960 that China "shall not hesitate to take positive action to have Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Territories liberated" should the status quo (i.e. colonial administration) be changed. The warning killed any democratic development for the next three decades.[22]“
Uber needs drivers to have an incentive to maintain their vehicles as efficiently as they can. They want the overall cost of the fleet to be as low as possible, because one way or another that cost gets reflected in the price. The current structure preserves that good incentive for drivers, but if they went with a "net" structure they'd have to be much more involved in the purchasing and maintenance choices that their drivers make. That's a really difficult position to be in. (See also the entire health care system.)
Collector unearths long-lost 8-bit Konami games, dumps them for emulation
Is there really no other way to monetize except through ads? Sure, there needs to be more regulation in this space, I agree with that. But the idea that ads are the best monetization has never sat well with me.

I understand that it's convenient because you get money without asking your end users for it. But I've always thought of it as "if it seems too good to be true, then it probably isn't" and stories like yours just keep reinforcing that feeling.

And all that's without considering how ads degrade the user experience or help erode the privacy. Every time I have to browse the web without an adblocker, I get freshly shocked at how awful it is.
That's an "if", while Android is literally sponsored by a company that makes money on consumer surveillance, and apparently has a vibrant malware culture, so who's cherry picking again?
My conspiracy theory hunch is that with the upgradeability (read modest modularization of a few internal components) of the forthcoming Mac Pro more independent repair businesses are going to be necessary to handle the longer service life and component swaps.
Wikipedia hates cryptocurrencies they constantly delete their articles even Bitcoin was denied an article at one point. I feel Wikipedia is violating their own conflict of interest policies with this.
Is this likely the iPhone event or the Macbook refresh?
No, I didn't know that when you said "chemicals" you meant "food additives that are recognized as safe but I dislike".

Thank you for clearing that up, much appreciated.
Is there a reason you can't commute from Oakland to a SF job?

Maybe SF should ban single-passenger cars and solve this Uber problem once and for all.
Diet modification during training typically still involves eating more calories than a sedentary person.
Ride share, by the strict definition, is just the point of entry. Uber's goal is to become transportation infrastructure, in a 'privatize the gains, socialize the losses' kind of way, as with the rail barons and the car companies and the commercial airlines.
If you model the capabilities of a software/hardware package as intelligence, then it's easy to see that a handheld device is a "node" of intelligence. And then, between (non-airgapped) nodes, there are "pipes" carrying intelligence between the "personal" nodes (e.g., computers, smartphones, etc.) and the "corporate" nodes (e.g., servers, cloud services, etc.).

The question is this: if the bandwidth of the pipe is expanded to infinity, does the intelligence inhered in the personal owned device remain, or does it wither away... into a rented, datamined, and preternaturally infrastructurally fragile "the cloud"?

Thus far the evidence seems to suggest that "another wave of smartphone and IoT innovation" will fully and finally turn personal devices into dumb terminals administered according to the whim of the Great IBM in the Sky.
> Install Ubuntu and be done with it.

Thinking this is real is a huge problem in the linux community. My entire post was about ubuntu. This is their trackpad guide in 2019: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad

Stuff like that makes me wonder who Canonical's target audience is and who they're testing with.

> Or if you want things to work like a Mac, go with elementary OS.

This is a joke, right? It's basically some high quality apps (I can't emphasize that enough) and a skin. The issue isn't the quality of those apps, it's that the desktop paradigm is fundamentally different and wedded to the PC. I can't understand anyone who claims to have switched and gotten up to productivity within a few years—maybe I've been using macs too long.

Also, this type of hostility has a very chilling effect. I have had good experiences with the open source community personally, but public forums are utterly toxic to people who express opinions about gnu/linux/gnome/kde.
Also irrelevant. Most people don't use phones that old.

There is a vibrant official second hand market for iPhones where people sell their phones and the hand me down market. It really helps when you can still use an older device with the newest operating system. Anecdotally, my son is still using my circa 2015 iPhone 6s with the latest OS. According to many benchmarks, it was faster than high end Android phones up until 2018 and is still faster than mid tier Android phones.

Also the length of time that people are keeping their phones is almost three years (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43ejej/study-smartphone-i...). That’s longer than you can get support for most Android phones.

Even better, their system apps will also get updated at an even higher frequency during that time transparently, while iOS users have to wait for an OS update and reboot their devices. This is an issue with highly vulnerable apps like iMessage and Safari.

Well fortunately we have statistics about how many iOS users are running the latest OS compared to Android users from the prospective companies. We know that your conjecture is probably false.
Wool – Omnibus Edition (The Silo Series) (2018)
Even after reading section 4, I'm still confused about why its using HTTPS. Wouldn't writing it in the application layer above TCP make it faster and use less data (due to smaller packet size)?
iPhone event is always September, I think.
I think we all agree. I should have rather said maximum short term profitability : fancy features and half-baked UI redesigns, rather than carefully improving the efficiency of the existing ones.
Why deep learning is turinging to low-precision arithmetic
Emacs users are often so enthusiastic about all the things emacs can do that they overcomplicate the experience.

Just open emacs with no customizations.

You can do everything with a tiny handful of commands, many of which you already know: c-F for forward char, c-B for backwards char, c-P for previous line, c-N for next line. It's modeless so if you type you'll see your keystrokes. Run the tutorial to learn a few more (c-H t -- c-H is "help").

One difference in emacs compared to many other editors is that search is so lightweight that it's trivial to use search to move the cursor around. So actual "cursor movement" is less common.

I was pair programming with a colleague who's been using Emacs about as long as I have (since 1978) and the other day he learned a new command. "I can't believe I survived with this command", he said, but really, he had done just fine.
Having a different number of chromosomes is a hurdle, but not an absolute barrier to offspring reproductive viability. It's not necessarily an issue for animal health.

Horses & donkeys have a different number of chromosomes. They're also separated by an estimated 4m years of evolution, which is around the rule of thumb limit for large mammal hybridization so it makes sense that they're borderline hybridizable. They have shorter generations than us apes.

Anyway, mules are healthy. No survival issues. They are mostly infertile, but not 100% of the time.
See: entire financial industry during and after the 2008 crisis.
Depreciation is a large cost as well.

The IRS sets a standard rate of 58 cents/mile for deduction of vehicle-related expenses. There’s obviously a wide range of actual costs, but that’s in the ballpark for an all-inclusive amount. If you average 20MPH then you’ll exceed $10/hr.
How is the experience? I mean, the resolution is a lot lower than you'd have if you just watched it on your monitor right? Is that a factor?
Will be new iPhone launch. See speculation on features etc on macrumors.

https://www.macrumors.com/
It's not "could" it's clearly the meaning. Out of town drives have surplus charge for this reason.
>Apple doesn’t certify third party repair shops

That's exactly what the AASP program is.
Not sure how this adds to the gazillion complaints already out there. Just trade it in for a replacement. Takes a few days max.
I see why you read it that way, but I can't read it so charitably after they claimed payments were held in escrow when they weren't.

I don't believe this program was live 90 days before the uproar, so I don't give much credit for them not taking the donations.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20826200
I've been looking for an algorithm for a while to examine photos to get their "real" resolution, both to compress my personal collection better, and to provide a relatively rigorous demonstration of when a "12 megapixel photo" is "really" a 2MP photo due to the camera as a whole not being able to support it. I wonder if this could be the basis for what I'm looking for.
> floating-point calculations are absolutely exact

Are you sure about that? What about 1.00000000000001^2 (using eg 64 bit double)?
My hypothesis is "compensatory excess". As men do less "manly" things then they used to, have less responsibilities, etc., they compensate on the outwards signals: beards, muscles, tattoos.
iPhone event primarily; they tend to give the iPhone it's own dedicated time in a single event rather than muddying the message with additional product lines.

I think the Macbook refresh is more likely with the (speculated) iPad event later in the year (October-ish).
Most minimum wage workers don’t have to pay a bunch of money operating their own equipment as part of their job.
Not necessarily, they're not proposing to put their drivers on salary.
What do you propose they do? Shut down?
I'm the same age, kind of a taller guy because I'm 1/2 Swedish. You bring up a good point about digestive issues, because I've definitely had them over the past few years and I think they were brought on by bodybuilding supplements and/or stress. At one point my eyebrows thinned pretty severely and I think it was due to anxiety/burnout at my job. I'm wondering if beards are held in such high esteem because they are an indicator of overall constitution like face symmetry or straight teeth.
Rabbit supports the choice of durable exchanges, queues, and messages. There are (tunable, negotiable) performance penalties in terms of latency and throughput.

We are partly in agreement regarding f/t. Logging comes into play when digging into recurring failure (bugs). Fault tolerance will not save you from bugs and bug hunting.

[p.s. to add, performance tuning/trouble-shooting also require instrumentation. Instrumentation would appear to be a fundamental (and useful) capability.]
"Ahh, so I have the flexibility to choose to be homeless to save on rent. Great."

That's hostile misinterpretation. I gave you real-world examples, like roommates.
If you search for either town in Google Maps, it draws their boundaries, which will be useful for this thread.

Morrison looks like a gerrymander: it runs along roads, and has some other parts that are unused pieces of land, and doesn't include private property that is being used even though it is next to it. It really does look like it was designed to cover roads that have nothing to do with the actual downtown part of Morrison.

Mountain View is between W 41st Ave and W 44th Ave (which looks like a fairly busy road). I just noticed they are only at 5.3% in the report though. [1] That's not even 10% (and a lot more than Morrison's 45%.)

Since you mentioned I-70, on the other hand there is Lakeside: Mountain View actually borders another tiny "town" (population 8), Lakeside, which consists of a lake, shopping center, and amusement park, and I-70 and related on/off-ramps. According to the map in the report [1], Lakeside is on the map but at 13.5% revenue from tickets.

[1] https://www.governing.com/topics/finance/fine-fee-revenues-s...
Ask HN: Anyone Hiring Based on Open Source Code Review?
Maybe some of you can sympathize. I'm looking for a new job, and am certainly qualified, but I don't like all these tests.

Why I don't like tests: I have gobs of open source projects covering the gamut of full stack, and a good resume. I'm not going to spend 2 hours each on a bunch of tests for companies, especially if they have made no offer to me. That's ridiculous. Whether it's front, back, full, w/e, I probably have something in my portfolio similar already.

If I haven't used w/e framework or tool on your list, I'm certain I can pick it up in a day or two, even a new language (who doesn't like learning?).

Hire good programmers and trust them to do their thing.
Do you only leave the grocery store after a fight?

I think you’re reading much more into this.
Yes I believe that's correct. My intuition is that since these matching experiments are very local, it's perfectly possible to have 'constant' distances integrate into non-linear curves (which are no longer 'the shortest path') or simply have error build up as you take 'finite steps'. Indeed I believe that's what caused the "blue turns purple" problem in CIELAB back in the day, since it was fairly constant locally but had non-straight hue lines.

http://www.brucelindbloom.com/index.html?UPLab.html

CAM02 is certainly much more uniform than LAB (hence OS's using it to print these days) but I think the problem is still fundamentally there (especially once we start talking about 'appearance' given a 'surround' and so forth).

The Fairchild book is indeed a classic and a heavy hitter as you mentioned :) I can't claim to have read it cover to cover.

Another interesting (and somewhat unconventional) book is Jan Koenderink's "Color for the Sciences".
> number of bins in terms of memory

Less than that, with the appropriate compression scheme (sparse encoding).

> But then I got completely lost in the math to show why this guarantees anything.

You get guarantees on _relative_ error:

- 100 to 110 is a 10% error

- 1000 to 1010 is a 1% error

Depending on your logarithmic base, you can detect errors up to a certain relative %-tage.
Oath doesn't even exist anymore, and is now Verizon Media, right? I imagine that may delay things.
Debugging Docker Builds
He wasn't talking about the cars, he was talking about the fact that BMW does not, in fact, have a monopoly. You can go buy a Toyota/Lexus instead.
If the comments in such a critique cross into personal attack or otherwise break the site guidelines, we'd appreciate users alerting us to that at hn@ycombinator.com. That's not ok on HN and we moderate such comments when we know about them. We just don't always know about them because we can't read all the posts here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Predicting new product announcements aside from the iPhone has become more difficult since Apple now releases product refreshes off-cycle (e.g. AirPods/MacBook Pro/iPad) that would normally be announced around this time. I suppose there could be an October event for a new iPad Pro.

Personally I want an iMac Pro update w/ a Navi GPU but that's wishful thinking.
The problem with this is that you'll always have exceptions, and eventually you have enough of them that users become accustomed to blindly hitting "Accept" to any permission dialogs.
> My God, these posts attacking capitalism get tedious.

This is hacker news. I've never said such-and-such's view on capitalism is so damn tedious. That's like a punch, an attempt to sway with no actual content.

> Capitalism is just a codification of people's wants / needs. It's structured demand mixed with some basic contract law to hold people accountable to their own promises. That's it. If you deride capitalism you're already implicitly saying that "what people want" is "bad". By condemning the system you're already implying that even the highest desires of humans aren't good enough.

You've basically set up what you think is a logic tautology for yourself - at this point nothing anyone can say can ever be useful in the context of humanity if it goes against capitalism. That's pretty useless in terms of progress. So it is impossible to have humans without capitalism? And going against that is going against humanity. Interesting take. I don't see any point in arguing that line of logic. You win.

> Capitalism is already based on trust of mankind, since it is based on giving people what they desire, as long as it doesn't infringe on the basic human rights of others. There are other ways to allocate resources and all of them are FAR INFERIOR which has been shown time, and time and time again.

Also, since the wheel has been invented, we shall not try to go further. Thanks for the optimism.
I'd prefer they launch the new macbook now than iphone. There's nothing exciting about the new iphone except the triple lens back camera.
I hate to be _that_ person, but $21 / hr minimum is more than EMTs, and even most surgical Residents make (at least in the US).

I don't know how to interpret this in that context: is this proposal absurd, or is the medical / labor system in the US absurd? (or both??)
No, the decision was based on a spreadsheet with many items concerned with web compatibility, HTML5 DRM plugin free-as-in-beer, extension support, etc.

Chromium without Google tracking is dominant, this is just a fact (it will change some day; not soon). The best way to counter this is not to die on the wrong hill (engine wars) right now -- it is to go a level up and fight for privacy and user sovereignty where Google cannot defend: blocking all tracking, paying users 70% of user private ad revenue.
The idea of "four great beard movements" seems like an odd framing.

Another way to look at it is that periodically the somewhat-unnatural act of shaving becomes fashionable.
> The Apple event invite has the iPhone XR replacement's green and lavender colors at the top of the bottom of the Apple

https://twitter.com/markgurman/status/1167108671807074304
I'm also willing to pay more for quality parts. I had one of those guys that drops by wherever you are and replaces your screen. The 3rd party screen he used was crap compared to the OEM screen. White balance was wrong and I couldn't view the phone with polarized sunglasses on.