skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Interestingly when sizing a terminal window these WM's show the size in columns and rows and when sizing a "real" window it shows the size in pixels.

IIRC there's a window property the app can set on itself to tell the WM of its "resize increment", as well as a "base size". Since the main use case for that is terminal windows (anything that displays fixed-width text), I think most WMs assume that anything with that set on it cares about rows and columns rather than pixels.
India declares 1.9m 'illegal foreigners'
Ring’s Ukraine arm appears to be working on facial recognition technology
I think that the required length should be bounded on both sizes and penalised if the paper is either too short or too long.
I recently visited what is apparently a prepaid-SIM-without-ID island of the Czech Republic, accustomed to places where registration is required. The person in the telecom store selling me the SIM looked at me with an almost disarming "this is the Czech Republic" look when I asked if she needed to see my passport.

In Germany you now apparently need to show ID and provide an address, though no proof of residence so any address seems acceptable.
Reminds me of when I was permanently suspended from PayPal “for reasons” after 20+ years of constant patronage and good standing. Same black box mentality, no human being made the decision and no human being would look at the situation and fix it.

There really should be a catchy term for this sort of algorithmically generated deplatforming.

Google ganking?
Just a reminder that Telegram has shipped deliberate backdoors in the past https://habr.com/post/206900/

It is terribly unlikely that they’d have their users best interest in mind.
Thing I don't get is, why tell on yourself like that? Why make such an explicit job title?

Where I work there is a policy of no org charts ever because it just tells other companies who to poach.
The mesoamerican civilizations used no iron
> Corporate espionage would have prevented all this.

I believe Boeing knew exactly what was going on with Airbus. US does corporate espionage to favor domestic companies, and creating a new plane is such a big project that there's no way to miss that.
The dispatch part of the code snippet looks to me like what you would also get with computed gotos. Something like goto instruction_labels[++pc]. So that shouldn't be the difference, compilers can compile this well.

As for whether this is "threaded", and exactly what kind of threading it is, there is widespread confusion and abuse of terminology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threaded_code
I really enjoyed reading your comment thanks! I think orientation is very valuable also but we kind of lost it because of GPS and so. I remember maybe 20 years ago, my parents and relatives always had a physical map in their cars. When I started driving, I had one too (even if I used it only one or twice)
Yes, but simply posting it to twitter is not considered declassifying.
In his capacity as President of the United States, Donald Trump has the ultimate authority to declassify any executive branch material. So technically, he declassified the material the moment he sent the tweet, assuming the imagery was classified in the first place. I’m unsure if anyone has determined exactly how classified the material was: confidential, secret, top secret.

For anyone thinking that the President should have a process to declassify information like everyone else in the intelligence community: There likely is one, but the ultimate authority to enforce it is vested with the Office of the President and the President likely chose to disregard it by tweeting.
Ah, yes, inline caching probably explains it. Thanks!
‘Ground Zero': Report from the Former Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan
This cannot be for feature detection. Are they looking for exploits?
It appears, that FB app indeed uploads copies of specific system files: https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1167463077748436993

At first glance, the amount of damage being done is close to nil — even if they reverse engineer received files to steal trade secrets therein (lol), it is hard to pinpoint specific amount of harm, dealt to the copyright owners.

But actually... why are Facebook people doing that? If I were to wager a guess, Facebook needs those files to create exact copies of user systems to debug. In other words, they are trying to save up on buying real devices for their test lab! Using "pirated" copies of libraries to spin up testing VMs is most likely cheaper than owning lots of real smartphones with all available firmware versions. And also illegal.

I wonder if they gauged possibility of being sued for this along with possible legal expenses and found that it is still cheaper than buying those devices themselves.
I haven't actually tried it but I've seen https://socialcoder.org mentioned before.
To be honest, I see quite a lot of inappropriate content on YouTube's tending section pretty often. This can't have a net zero effect on youth.
This is true, but there's also a lot of trivial busy-work and confusion that the compiler and language foist on you that isn't security related. Like the fact that you always seem to have a &str when you actually need a String or vice-versa and your code is littered with .to_string() everywhere. Or figuring out what type your iteration is at a particular stage and why you can't call map() on it. Or figuring out the vicissitudes of what collect() will accept and convert for you and what it won't. Or clumsily dealing with a Vec of Results when what you really want is a Result with a Vec

Having a really sophisticated type system means...dealing with types a lot. I love Rust - especially ADTs and everything being an expression - but I wouldn't call it more productive than C++. And I think that was mikekchar's point?
I recommend interviewing people in your community. If you’re ok with working on a non-profit idea: the world is filled with local institutions that could use better digital technology.
Lots of discussion already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20841976

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20842247
And even worse: run proprietary software, because that is what Apple do.
Here's the one that's been in use at Google for many years: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
There were fined so it is established that they broke the law.

I am commenting on the spirit of the law itself. You're quoting it back to me but that's not the point. The point is to discuss what we think of those legal restrictions and whether there are restrictive. In fact, what you quoted reinforces my opinion that the GDPR are over-restrictive.
This is the classic configuration problem: a program is too complex for users, we'll use configuration files. Then configuration becomes more and more complex so either your configuration file language becomes an ugly programming language (XML and XSLT for example) or the complexity is pushed into the parser of the configuration files and you have lots of 'magic' combination of parameters..

And no I don't have the answer, maybe using Lisp like Guix do?
Donald Trump very likely controls his own Twitter account, personally, with very little input from staff before hitting submit.

This is contrary to other public figures, such as Barack Obama, who had communications staff manage his Twitter account.

Part of Donald Trump’s “draw” if you will is that his messaging is nearly completely unfiltered, raw, and as close to his stream of thought as anyone has ever likely seen from a President in the modern era.

As for how dangerous that is, I’m sure people will be discussing that for years to come.
I didn't know about having to correct for magnetic vs grid north.

Are the maps specialised for orienteering? Since I've never seen that info on a standard street paper map.

Is it something that a digital compass could automatically do? Especially since the article is indicating that magnetic north drifts.
First skim of the title "what are they tracking now? Wow, very clear language on the tracking part of the business for googleblog.com link. Oh.. Hand tracking"

But this is very neat.
> That's not my problem! There were 100,000,000 developers before you who had to write the ISA, the compiler/interpreter, the OS, the firmware in every device... If I gave each one a nickle I'd be in worse shape than you are.

Well, I have been giving them more than just a nickel since the late 80's, and still doing pretty ok.
Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDT) vs. Paxos or Raft
There is but it is not free from very disturbing issues (search for 'elsagate').

Also YouTube Kids has no quality controls. It uses more bandwidth, due to our hires tablet display I guess, than any other device in our household. Very annoying when on capped LTE on a trip.
This is turning into a religious war, with facial recognition being branded absolutely evil.

As I already wrote, I think that being able to locate pupils at all times is a legitimate concern for schools, and parents.
Certainly schools already work hard to achieve this especially with younger children.

I think facial recognition can bring real benefits without many drawbacks if used properly.

An effective blanked ban is not productive or based on reason.
Actually there are iron weapons made from meteoric iron from before the iron age. Small scale for sure for obvious reasons. Not that relevant to the topic but it might interest you.
FOSS as business only works for consulting and training, which don't apply to some domains, desktop and mobile for the consumer market as an example.
Slight nitpick, but they are not using the original vantablack with a thread like structure in here. The article states it is a new compound with a sponge like structure.
Yes. Same problem as Ever-Dry, the extreme water repelling coating, which is also a surface of lots of tiny hair-like tubes. Great concept, but the effect that makes it work also makes it fragile. You can't coat either with something smooth and hard, or you lose the effect.
DeOldify by citnaj passed off without attribution at CVPR by IIT Jodhpur student
Apple Card 2.0 Pro - available in denim, leather, or diamond-coated black ceramic with turtleneck print.
They do a bit like skulls and cross bones but also they clearly are not. If anything kids could pretend that that are cool pirates.
Take your "too broad" problems and break them down suck that at least a part might be doable within the allotted time frame.

People, especially young women, spend tons of time doing laundry around the world. Doing laundry in a time consuming and manual way keeps them from attending school, which makes them unable to rise out of poverty. This is a big issue.

Will you solve the issue of how time consuming it is for people to wash clothes by hand? No. But could you design, in a computer, a pedal-driven washing machine possible to make out of plastic? Yes. Build a prototype? Perhaps. Make instructions available? Maybe. Roughly estimate costs? Sure.

If done well, this could help fix a problem the world is facing. Or at least help create good ideas for others to work more on.

Don't limit yourselves.
Its not just addicted to gambling. Its addicted to social interaction, as in lonely and trying to fit into a community at all costs.
more guilds than builds?
The best advice I can give us to build something for pain you feel. Maybe it's edtech integrations or a part of your workflow or life that needs optimization.

If you build something for other people, you'll need user discovery and project management skills up the wazoo if you don't have a team with that expertise. And you're at risk of building Facebook for Cat Owners or something like that. Start with your own pain until you have more experience transforming user pain into something they'll pay for.
Looks nice! Our forms have a lot of logic where certain answers hide/show other fields/sections. Does this have the ability to swap the schema/form fields on the fly?
I'm using Firefox for pretty much everything including Google apps, but the one thing I do wish Firefox had is support for casting via Chromecast. In my experience, Chromecast support has been sorta spotty even on Chromium-based browsers like Vivaldi or Brave, forcing me to keep Chrome proper installed on my PC for when I want to cast a YouTube video onto a bigger screen. Is this bit of functionality too proprietary or entrenched enough that it cannot be ported to any non-Chromium browser?
How about something to facilitate access to mental health services in your college/university community?
Why does Comcast continue to fight fiber installations when 5G is on the horizon and likely to draw consumers away to the other big providers (AT&T, Verizon, and others)? To me, that seems like the bigger battle for Comcast.

Secondly, does anyone think it wise to bond $145m as the city did with wireless advances on the horizon? Especially when so far only a couple dozen homes have been connected?

I suppose Comcast can and will fight on multiple fronts, so going after municipal services isn’t mutually exclusive to 5G, but both seem like a losing battle for ‘ye olde Comcast. I just wonder if in 10 years we’ll hear a story about how Comcast “saved” a city $150m by lobbying against a fiber project and prevailing but all the residents ultimately left Comcast for a wireless provider.
Hex File Viewer (iOS)
The timing of this marketing stunt was funny to me. I work on the development of Need for Speed Heat and a few days ago we had a discussion about which types of materials we can technically support in our player facing visual customization. We discussed materials that exist but we currently can't represent as well as materials we could make but which don't look real. I joked about adding Vantablack to the game, seeing as it would probably be entirely impractical in reality and look very surreal in the game.

Later that day, this was first published. What struck me was that the end result didn't look as bizarre as I had expected.
I know that was an example out of thin air and not to be taken literally, but I can just see the commercials a la Juicero or Morus or Waterseer. What you need is an overpriced device that makes doing laundry even more exhausting and time consuming because technology! Now when the laundry piles up, you'll feel daunted AND fat!
I agree. There are many people who I've seen say "this is just a warning to other companies" or "this is just the beginning" but it seems like that's always the case.

The fact is, the fine needs to be multiples of quarterly revenue. It needs to be so high not to destroy the company, but enough to make it limp and force it to borrow money to make it through. THEN these will be taken seriously. Until then, these aren't fines. These are price tags for unethical, law-breaking behavior, and these companies are more than happy to pay it.
I don’t get why sibling LifeLiverTransp is getting downvoted. One of the main ways games like fortnite sell their stuff is by social pressure.

One can not customize one’s avatar at all without buying stuff. So you’ll be stuck as a default clone to the derision of friends and enemies alike.

And the game is very much aimed at being played by school friends.
I don't see age being the prime factor here. The X Toolkit Intrinsics (Xt) are actually a quite nice framework if you want to have an abstraction over Xlib, want some nice event loop functionality or OO features in C. I think I even remember someone writing a paper about using it without a GUI way back when.

Not using it was mostly done because you want to be cross-platform at that level, aren't using C as your core language (Qt, Tk) or just the usual case of NIH you get everywhere (Gtk, which rather invented glib).
> and I guess some of the BSDs?

BPF, BSD — notice the first letter is the same ;-)

Also, many systems (some BSDs, SmartOS, macOS, Windows10, …) have an in-kernel VM for running dtrace bytecode.
This is going over the top.

It was just about using facial recognition in a school, not about having brain implants in children...

Schools already have pictures and detailed personal details of all pupils.

This new technology can have real benefits. For example it could be used to locate a pupil that does not show up in class when they should, or to trigger an alert if a pupil leaves school when not expected to or when someone unknown is detected.

To me the law should protect but not prevent useful applications that people agree to, and I think that this specific case shows that, as they stand, the GDPR can be over-restrictive.
To paraphrase The Economist's own words, the headline might instead have been:

Human sexuality is a complex interplay of genes and environmental factors
They did chop trees with stone tools. Here you can see how:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BN-34JfUrHY
*if you're straight and white.

For many, living in Iowa isn't really a choice. Same for many places that are not major cities.
I'm going to have to apologize on this. I did it before the recent site change, but I don't see anyway to do it now.
Regarding the nytimes paywall: simply disable JavaScript and reload.
> play games in multiple languages as a means of language study

I've been studying all night, mom!

Seriously, those who read books in multiple languages as means of language study need to buy each book multiple times and nobody used to find that surprising...
The only thing that will save Mozilla is Google coming under legal scrutiny for their privacy abuses or monopoly power.

Otherwise Mozilla lives because Google allows it and they allow it because it's mostly irrelevant and it's making itself even more irrelevant through stupidity like the MrRobot mini-scandal.
Mental models are good. You should have them.

Don't expect them to be complete. You will not be able to solve any non-trivial problem without discovering edge cases, unexpected complications, and misunderstandings that will only be revealed when you start to code.

I don't understand why anyone would believe that a mental model makes a debugger unnecessary. An accurate mental model won't protect you from certain kinds of implementation bugs, or from sneaky hard-to-spot typos that compile but do the wrong thing - etc.
Is that a thing, developers being personally responsible for the company that was not in compliance and that they, at some point, worked for?
Do people go to Facebook directly to just watch video from their non-friends? Is it even possible? Genuinely asking, I haven’t used FB for quite some time.
I think you could cover the IE case, as well, with:

@media screen and (-ms-high-contrast: active), (-ms-high-contrast: none) { }
With Shift: search whole Project.
Without: search in open editor
So, how do I raise a happy family?

Or rather, I have a idea of starting a MOOP company - Massive Open Online Psychology.

By monitoring a household, listening to conversations (interruptions, time to respond, aggression etc) and even vision (physical contact etc) it should be possible to see where we all are on some scale of "good interpersonal relations"

And presumably guide us to be better

Let's say a SatNav for your life
The most likely origin of the middle eastern religious “meme” of the flood (Noah etc) is Sumerian plain floods (Mesopotamia). In fact, the stories in Genesis are most likely the retelling of Sumerian technological achievements (farming, building and the concept of time and seasons).
I know the principles of the GNU project, and see nothing in the Four Freedoms or the other ideals which is in opposition to this sort of behavior. Surely Stallman knows them better than you or I, and he is not opposed.

What is the concern you have? Why does it reflect poorly? How does it undermine trust? What is the trust you have in the Free Software Movement that I don't have and don't think exists?

(Perhaps you are a source of 'license drama' that you complained about at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20693660 ?)

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/money... says "someone who is money-grubing has money as their main interest and does anything possible to get a lot of it."

There is no indication that that term applies here. If I am underpaid in my job position, and ask my boss for a raise, am I money-grubbing?

Your "basically just reinvents", is yet another overly dismissive term. A cursory look of the documentation shows many things which are far beyond what a simple xargs-reinvention would do.

In any case so what? Look at how many other GNU tools are "just reinventions" of standard Unix tools.

Larry Wall is not an "unsung hero" of open source.

Do you seriously think Wall has a problem with this? I mean, look at how many commercial packages there are/were which are based on Perl, and not made open source/free software.

If it's okay for companies to make loads of money, based on free and open source software, what's wrong with the free software developer also making loads of money? Or asking for citations?
I just mean that RAFT nodes are already read-only for most of their lives — it’s not clear to me why you’d want nodes to be dedicated as read-only; it would only reduce consistency guarantees (and I believe you wouldn’t be avoiding the heartbeat and data consistency network chatter).. I think the leadership functionality comes cheap
Yes. I interviewed through a full round (i.e. 6) of technical interviews. Once the firm (a startup) indicated interest in moving forward, I requested to meet with the CFO, VP of Sales & Marketing, and everyone who interviewed me.

For each person who interviewed me, I gave them the same problem they gave me with a twist. I wanted to see how they dealt with an unfamiliar problem for which they had some understanding.

Kudos to the CTO for giving me such leeway.
See also upthread where twenty comments are dedicated to discussing cards that aren’t white and which issuers will give them and how cool they look and how proud one person is of their gold signature on black card especially.
People are social creatures, and have a strong innate desire to stand out and express themselves. If a game successfully creates a social atmosphere, selling cosmetic items can be a lucrative business.

It's essentially the digital version of the fashion industry, which most people seem to viscerally understand-- aesthetics are the primary motivator for most people's clothing choices, and they are willing to pay a significant premium for some items on this basis.
oh - that would be interesting - any references ?
Right. I got a terrible example.
I mostly agree (the “too lazy” bit seems a little harsh).

I liken developers who proudly say they don’t use debuggers to surgeons who don’t take X-rays.

Sure, you could, but why make your life harder?
Damn, I didn't know people's memories could be archived and replayed.
If it were me designing a laser speed camera, I'd have it be a pulsed 1500 nm laser with a beam spread big enough to cover a car at 200 yards. You don't need to hit just the license plate to get a good return from it.
Perhaps he's just doing it for the lulz?
could wear a bracelet instead