skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, it's already there when you buy/reinstall the device.
Maybe not chrome but a web browser is preinstalled.

So then you only need to provide url to the users of your app, and they are ready to use it.

With distributing binaries it is much more complex story. And that's why projects using Electron get more and more popular, because they at least take part of this complexity away.
Free samples is just the start. Big prescribers get cushy dinners, "educational" retreats at resorts, "speaking fees", and the like.
HIV infects White blood cells. it won't infect skin cells. Its trivial to draw blood and infect them in the laboratory, but that isn't an interesting experiment. His poorly executed (and unethical) experiment was attempted to be based on the established knowledge that there is a subset of people that have a CCR5 mutation that confers some resistance to HIV infections. That is established and wasn't an experiment that needed to be done on humans.
One can try glasses at home, then buy them. It's well presented.
I think it got solved on its own for me. Filling that void of social interaction can be taken as part of the time to adjust.

I cannot imagine how the informal interactions with co-workers would happen remotely, but I work in an unimaginative bureaucracy where my co-workers are about twice my age.

One idea that has been floated is meeting together for training with my teammates, but I have yet to meet anyone in six years -- even my boss.
I couldn't help but reading `Civilizational Collapse – Part IV` .
> Candidates are more likely to never have encountered computer science

I remember reading a comment somewhere a while back that said something along the lines of "computer science has been mostly completed since the 80s".

Now, I'm not sure how true that is, and I'm smart enough not to believe it literally, but I do understand the sentiment.
I was forced to upgrade my workstation to windows 10 and that’s exactly what i was doing yesterday after unsuccesfully trying to remove bloatware via control panel.

I am fumbling in windows 10. I have lost so much muscle memory due to this upgrade. While i know i’ll build it back I’m frustrated that I have to relearn things I was doing with my eyes closed.
How to Scale Up Solar Energy as the Planet Warms
Sorry, I meant "on the street", as in "being driven".
Biological factors like being intersex or botched surgeries are not relevant to gender identity 98% of the time. There really are only 2 sexes, I'm sorry to inform you. The trolls are right.
You're paying too much for business software
We would have known about machines like the Antikythera mechanism because the Romans wrote about them : specifically Cicero documented the existence of these kinds of machines (that could predict the motion of the planets).
>For all the rhetoric on the right about how people from other cultures are not "suitable" for "western" countries - some of the proudest citizens and torch-carriers for tradition, are foreigners.

That's not quite right--the premise you're I think you're alluding to is that certain cultures themselves are not compatible with the values of Western society. But people like the bakers featured here, who choose to assimilate headfirst instead of creating an enclave of the country they left behind, can prosper.

>“Whoever wins the contest is a winner,” M’Seddi said. “He’s a champion, whether he’s descended from immigrants or not... That’s someone who’s passionate about French culture, who has become integrated as a French person. We need to make people proud to be French.”
> In ruby for example you would have to write a bunch of validations per hand and a bunch of tests too, to check if those work.

In idiomatic Ruby it's more like one line in the struct definition vs one line in the model definition. ActiveModel and dry-validations have battle tested single line validations for this with automatically generated error messages.
I have a Autohot key script that does the following:

Auto correct on some works i mis-type regularly

shortcut for server names, all our sever are formatted PrefixNumber, shortkey #number types the full name

Allows ctrl-v into cmd window

Fills in my default fields in our ticketing system

I date any note I take in onenote, #d shortcuts to todays date

Signatures for emails, #tr for Thanks and Regards

+- for ±

#desk/#mobile for my phone numbers

ctrl-alt-m to open a new email from anywhere

I don't think they save a huge amount of time in general but the prevent breaking your flow to check the date, remember my phone number etc which I think is more important.

Small but they add up.
BriskBard 1.8.1 Released
great research, thanks!
Anonymous internet forums.
> And that's why projects using Electron get more and more popular, because they at least take part of this complexity away.

...no they don't. They're literally distributed the exact same was as native applications. They're developed differently, saving the developer time (theoretically), but they're distributed in the same old download-and-install (or just download and run) way that applications have been since forever.
And that's why I don't pay for it. If Microsoft is going to include ads regardless, I might as well not pay. I'm not pirating, I'm just skipping the license phase of the installer and have an "Activate Windows" tab in the settings.

I used to pay for Windows (have never pirated), but since I use Linux mostly full-time, I don't see why I should if they're going to give me the option to not pay and still get updates. I got a license for my wife and my laptop has one, but I just don't bother for my desktop partition and VMs.
"Music business but for programmers" is a good way to put it. It's basically the software equivalent of trying to be a pro surfer or a rock star.
If you personally want to opt out then use a content blocker? There's also an official way to completely opt out of GA, but this basically does the same thing.

Privacy isn't a zero sum game, there can be improvements.
The best thing to take away from that article is just how much difference there is in type and frequency of how people think.

We all assume that our inner lifes are similiar and it's always interesting to me to discover new facets of personal differences.
> +1. I’ve often wondered how these cashback services like the ones you mentioned, or, for example, the restaurant ones like aadvantage dining work. Do the affiliates get all your transactions? (I really hope not). Or, do the affiliates have agreements with the cc processors to flag transactions on their side?

Banks and lenders are heavily regulated in this area and often times the financial institution has absolutely no insight into the line-item level of the purchase. That data is at the prerogative of the merchant to disclose.

If $RESTAURANT offers cash back on certain purchases made with them on a certain card, the merchant already has the data of the purchase and can determine if purchase qualifies for some cash back and notify the lender (at the expense of $RESTAURANT). Cards also follow patterns in the number scheme which would allow a merchant to determine card type and map that to current incentive offerings. By card type I mean more than just credit provider, down to the specific type of card (i.e. Sapphire Reserved vs Sapphire Preferred, etc).
"He had an awful lot of company to be called a ‘rogue,’" says geneticist George Church

Was Church referring to He or Epstein as a rogue?
/s
https://www.manager-tools.com/

Not only for managers, they have a lot of advice on productivity.
Astronomers usually aren't tracking satellites, so if one shows up in an image it's only as a streak. You need to be moving the camera to track the object to get a reasonably clear image (or very short exposure times, which are relatively uncommon in astronomy).
When people criticize NPM for having millions of downloads for single-function packages, this is exactly the letter I always think of.

When Joe Armstrong proposed this, I thought, "Hm, that's an interesting idea." But I think NPM has shown that it isn't such a great idea in practice.
Is USA really that poor that somebody who has a car is seen as rich?
Yes we both get the dual motor Model 3 with autopilot. My loan will be no more than $30k and max 4 years. Not sure how a down payment translates to a lease.

On mobile and I can’t work out the math right now.
In a nutshell, because suburbs are boring.

They're low density even if you account for increased travel radius due to cars. That means you have a smaller concentration of people for events/stores/restaurants/etc. which means you have fewer events/stores/restaurants/etc. Especially once you move away from the most common mainstream events/stores/restaurants/etc since those cater to a much smaller subset of the population (which in suburbs is too small to sustain a business).
> Git hooks with pre-commit

In projects where I am involved in, we usually set up hooks that run a few checks from https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks plus https://github.com/asottile/pyupgrade plus https://github.com/psf/black plus maybe the mypy and flake8 hooks. These hooks are also run in a "lint" stage by by tox, which is also run on the CI system. This catches some lints that slip through every now and then, before you go on to commit them. Also, a tox run will as a side effect also reformat the code before you check it in, which is a nice laziness feature.

I am currently thinking if I should move to the pytest plugins for mypy and flake8 because I find they make more sense as tests, especially if I'm developing inside a venv and repeatedly run pytest instead of tox. That would also mean that the mypy and flake8 checks are run repeatedly for every Python interpreter I want to tox, unkess I invest some time into coming up with better TOXENVs. Hm.
How exactly would they be "wasted"? Seems to me that they would just end up back in nature and deeding other organisms as part of the food chain.
The Consequences of Gaia, Or, the Carbonist Manifesto
In all fairness, it seems as if a lot of the companies and individuals on Team Right-around-the-Corner have really backed off in the past year or so. I'm not sure how much of this is the deflating of unrealistic expectations and how much is just a tacit agreement to stop trying to top each other given how many hurdles remain.
Agile: The Pope at the Dark Ages of Software Development
Good stuff, thanks ;)
I visited Berlin this year and was disappointed at how we encountered 0 cycle lanes in the city. I work in Amsterdam so I'm spoiled, but my impression is that even London is better than Berlin for cycling. Maybe this is incorrect though, it's only based on one visit.

The metro in Berlin was pretty decent though.
The Information is some of the highest quality and well-researched tech journalism out there. They frequently break stories months in advance of other publications, and are one of the few tech outlets that actually warrant having a paywall, and are not just rehashes of press releases. I personally have no issue with publication staff posting content.
They have relevance amongst themselves alone, and their value can be established empirically as more negative than positive. They add confusion and noise, and their utility is that of a Che Guevara T-shirt.
> and forcibly socialized as female, but it didn't take.

Reimer's socialization was a lot more traumatic than being told he was female. The wikipedia article only touches the surface of the disturbing abuse he was subjected to.
and that's exactly what I mentioned. If the money comes with terms, or expectations of some kind of reciprocation, of course, it must be rejected.

If it's just money from a bad guy that happens to be interested in AI, medicine, or whatever, and I really suspect he justified himself by funding such 'good causes' - take it all! Ruin him!
I have this problem when using the src folder tree conventions (poetry new --src new_package).
Yes, full disclosure, I have become skeptical of Darwin's mechanism once I realize the improbability of it all. I used to be fine with the idea of evolution I was taught in school, but looking into the basic combinatorics makes it all seem highly implausible. Then, I thought if Darwin was correct, his work should at least show up in the mathematically rigorous areas of biology that rely on evolution and need to get results. Not the speculative portions of biology. Bioinformatics, with its reliance on homology, seems to fit the bill.

So, I'm not saying that Lamarkianism, or any of these other mechanisms are common. I am saying that Darwin's mechanism do not seem to be useful for getting actual bioinformatics work done. For example, look at BLAST's substitution matrix. They started with PAM that is explicitly based on Darwinian assumptions, and it worked badly. The more they made Darwinism less explicit and relied more on the actual data to compute the matrices, the better BLAST performed. And, reading through a bioinformatics book it is full of observations that contradict what one would expect if Darwin were correct. So, I have been unable to find a significant impact of Darwin's work in an area where results matter.

Let me know if you are aware of any area of biology that is mathematically rigorous and relies explicitly on Darwin's mechanisms of random mutation and natural selection to make discoveries and get results.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for actually having screenshots of your theme. I can’t tell you how often I’ve seen themes or color schemes on GitHub (for a blogging platform, for a code editor, for some random plugin supporting app) that have absolutely no screenshots. I have no idea why someone would put time and effort into developing a theme/color scheme (or even porting one from another app/context) and then not post screenshots, but it’s very common.
Does he have a pack of playing cards?
At the risk of a massive surge of downvotes, in what universe is this ok?

If someone has managed to get into Harvard, isn't that someone that we want in the US? It baffles me the level of cognitive dissonance that must be happening in the brains of the people that support the Trump administration and how much they have to repeat to themselves that this nationalistic moron is somehow not a racist.

While I understand that HN doesn't like people engaging in political discussions, I have to think that inaction from educated people is not a neutral position. Shouldn't hackers (and wannabe intellectuals like me) be the force that is actively discussing these dangerous positions?
Algo Capital Raises $200M to Develop Algorand Ecosystem
There is response from Mozilla's security engineer:
"Thank you very much for pointing this out! We are investigating this and will report back."
https://twitter.com/mozdeco/status/1166042350453497856
> In Windows an installed program lives in Program Files and has a shortcut that starts it from it's home folder.

And command line tools have that folder added to the PATH, and Windows has a real and ongoing problem with PATH getting too long for the OS to handle when you have enough of them.

Windows is GUI optimized with shell as an afterthought, Linux is vice versa.
I don't think it's just the persistence that's the problem. NPM is now persistent (I think). But it's the fact that you can upgrade the functions. So, maybe if the references were immutable, it'd make more sense. But then it's the fact that you've got a bunch of one-off functions which are a security nightmare to audit, not to mention accidentally slurping in several MB of functions due to the dependency graph.
Luckily there's so much more scope now for individuals and small teams to build profitable indie games. Tools like Unity, Unreal Engine etc. allow people to focus on actually building games instead of implementing Yet Another Engine. Marketplaces like Steam, flawed as they are, offer market access to anyone with a decent product. It's possible to develop games without letting yourself be chewed up and spat out by traditional "commercial" game development.
I'm going to assume this was NOT an MLB team. Based on the pay rate I see for MLB advanced media, which are all in line with general market rates for devs etc, I would assume the individual teams are offering similar rates.
Of course you could choose to buy that - but that's like saying I'll fly to Cancun and stay in the worst possible $1/night hotel... obviously you're going to have a bad time.

I personally would choose grass fed beef or bison or chicken, multiple steamed or roasted vegetables and I would not add salt, ketchup or salad dressing. And no soda.

In that case, the food is of much higher quality than anything I can buy at McDonalds.
eBook – Deep Learning Objective Type Questions and Answers
It supports believing people about what their gender identity is instead of imposing it on them.

The rate of attempted suicide in transgender people is over 40% if they are not socially supported. That rate drops to general population levels in trans people who have familial and community support when transitioning.
Many of you guys are acknowledging that this is a first for you ...just shocking.

And you dare to call yourselfers engineers...
Ask HN: How should I negotiate channel sales?
Hey guys.
I’m a freelancer with focus on SAP and I work for major companies where I saw the same problem again and again. For more than a year I solo-developed a solution for the B2B market and eventually I reached a state which I think is ready to be sold. There are no direct competitors but still it will be difficult to sell since the solution runs on premise and requires integrations with other systems. The B2B market is anyway difficult so I think this will be the critical point in the whole game. As a solo developer I see basically no chance to do it alone.

When I talked about it with a friend who I trust and who works in sales, he told me that he could sell my solution as part of their company which is an established hosting company in the B2B market. After I presented the solution to his CEO he also confirmed that they are definitely interested but of course we need to be clear and have a contract where we define the conditions. For example, he mentioned getting the exclusive rights to sell the solution in my country. They would not only sell the solution but could also offer a service desk, hosting etc. I see it as a win-win situation because I could continue focusing on the technical part (which I love to do) and they can offer an innovative solution that might be the entry point to new customers who they could sell their hosting to.

Next time, they asked to define the conditions in detail. I’m not a negotiation expert and do not know how to approach this. Thus I would love to hear your opinion or your experiences:

- How do channel sales contracts look like in general?

- Which model to share the revenue would you recommend? Absolute or relative? The pricing model will most likely be based on active users plus a base fee.

- What are the points I should insist on?

Thanks a lot!
You can get six years back damages, and often you have a substantial portion of a patent's 20-year term in front of you. And frequently cases settle well before you are three years into a suit.
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> The real solution is for Microsoft to treat its customers with a bit more respect.

Microsoft has embraced the modern development model and its culture as well. In other words, customers are cattle.
Loosely related: ADSL over wet string

https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet...
> If you're capable of running the Tor browser, we encourage you to do so. Brave isn't as good as the Tor browser if you're smart enough to use the later. That said, if you need a browser that can also make non-Tor connections, etc., then Brave is probably more ideal.

I'm confused about this? Tor browser installation isn't any different from any other major browser, presumably including Brave. There's no skill required to operate it that you don't need for Chrome.
Excellent ideas, doubt the billionaires will go for them. Or even the top 10% of voters. The UK's capped property tax is ridiculously regressive.

(Not that London has any parking anyway)
Reusable components of any nontrivial complexity are, for the most part, a pipedream. Unless you have a dedicated team maintaining and extending them, it immediately becomes more of a hassle than anything. Documentation is slim, edge cases aren't completely thought through, and configuration is never sufficient. Visual design patterns can absolutely be standardized. But the actual implementation as we all know changes ever so slightly from project to project in ways that can almost never be forseen. I'm all for component driven UI architectures, but the idea of being able to reuse anything complex between projects and teams has never really worked out in my experience unless it is a highly active open source project, or something you built yourself and fully understand.
We're talking about it right now. What do you mean?
Exactly, what if the animal just dies without being eaten... are 100% of it's nutrients wasted? Or did it lead a full life and return from which ot came?
Agreed, I think for a developer, he may think a demo link is better and enough. But sometimes people just feel tired to open so many links.
Curious - are you suggesting LA needs more public (free) housing for the homeless? Or just more "normal" homes that have to be rented/purchased?
CVE-2019-14378: QEMU Vulnerability Allows Virtual Machine Escape
Ok sure but how can I say it without being accused of being anti-semitic, I was thinking using the intelligence agency name is more appropriate than an entire country!

I am NOT ever anti-semitic, but maybe Mossad gets away with crazy stuff exactly because any westerner who complains is immediately branded as such.

Note: the entire post is flagged now and removed from HN front page.
> How exactly would they be "wasted"?

Increased entropy mostly in the form of heat.
Hong Kong leader mulls “all legal means” to calm protest
It's a lot easier to support Linux than Windows since it's so similar to macOS, and they're already supporting ARM, so it really just comes down to OS features they need to support. Windows is just so different from everything else.

That being said, I'm sure it already works through WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), so if Windows is your only platform, you can still probably play with it.
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Fairphone 3 Released
> The richer people are the more they drive, the more likely they are to drive to work and the more cars they have.

That may be the case in Germany. In the US, the exact opposite is nearly universally true.

Rich people own lots of cars, but they are less likely to need to drive them anywhere. (In part, because Rich people already own all the best land in all the best cities with all the best alternative transportation. And in part because, Rich people outsource their driving to Taxis / Uber-Taxis / Lyft-taxis)

Working class people are the people most harmed by the elimination of public vehicle transportation. These folks, generally speaking, can not afford to live anywhere where alternate transportation options might exist. And the act of building new transportation for them, nearly always prices them out of living in that place.

Since the article above is about LA, here's a specific example from LA, about how LA's attempts to expand their bus/rail system are gentrifying out their own ridership - https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-rosenthal-transi...