skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well she was warned not to open that door.
>Just an inflatable boat and a sub in coastal waters.

I have a feeling that they're probably being monitored, so that probably won't go very well.
not to spoil the fun, but this is a lot better ;) you don't even have to remember all those pesky names http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
You have just described VoltDB. They worked with Jepsen years ago and fixed all the problems Kyle found.
I think pressuring for a vote early is of benefit because another vote can’t take place for some time period afterwards.
The organizers want to stall a vote for as long as possible to work up support before this happens.
While it’s illegal to fire a worker for trying to organize, it’s entirely legal to fire that same employee if they are violating company policies to further that organizing effort. I don’t know that this is what happened but is often the case I’ve seen. Misuse of company resources, disruptive behavior, not completing tasks, using paid time to do union work, bad for morale of other employees, creating hostile environment for other employees, etc.
Let's be honest, they pivoted from WMD to the much larger and vaguer umbrella of "terrorist" or "terrorist supporter". This has allowed the USA and its allies to indiscriminately kill millions since the Iraq invasion (and rake in billions in weapons deals).

It's always funny when we ignore the mass murderer in the room and instead focus on China's quite measured response to crime.
Really?!

".io" is used quite a lot (subjectively) => I thought that in general all top-level domains were reliable... .

Any kind of additional info like what kind of reliability issues, how often, etc....?
Earthquake Bomb
Husband-Wife Duo Started a Backpack Brand That Gives Back
Körber Prize 2019 for Bernhard Schölkopf
That doesn't really mean anything to me. It keeps talking about "other frameworks do this" or "other frameworks focus on this" -- but all of the examples in the docs would be basically 1:1 rewrites into React or Vue.
The point is that Facebook ads, regardless of how precisely targeted they may (or may not) have been, did not sway the 2016 election, and I am not aware of any other election Facebook is even thought to have had any effect on. The whole “it’s Facebook’s fault” narrative was shaped by a liberal media desperate to explain why they were unsuccessful in influencing it themselves. Rather than accept the fact that they had simply a run a fatally flawed candidate, and had alienated large swaths of the country by calling them stupid for not agreeing with every one of their views, liberals found a scapegoat: it was Facebook’s fault.

Facebook is an echo chamber. People don’t go there to be informed; they go there to validate their already held beliefs. Given the large ideological chasm between the two candidates in the 2016 election, it defies logic that even a single voter was swayed or chose not to vote at all based on ads they saw on Facebook.
ah, this is indeed quite neat. thanks for sharing.
This is a for-sure buy for me. I have everything from OpenMoko to Creative Zii, to Pandora and back again in my 'utility drawer', and if .. someone .. who is not the Oscilloscope Watch guy .. will make a nice smart watch, without all the bloat and fancy spy'ing, and with 100% open source, then I am IN.

It just seems like a no-brainer. A Linux Watch. Please won't someone just make it. (Bonus points if it has probe inputs...)
I would rather run kops and not GKE/EKS.
Also, if needed, for the vendor specific infra we can use terraform.

I believe Kubernetes stack is more intuitive than any AWS (or GC or Azure) software. The open source approach will spur innovation that will outclass Fargate by miles. Fargate provides single instances, you would need networks/routes/Load balancers/auto scalers to make anything meaningful. I bet they will all be provided as AWS way of doing the same if Fargate gets any traction.
An investigation into the removal of microplastics from water using ferrofluids
The site is super interesting. Thanks for creating and sharing it.
> Thank you. So it is a case of people planning poorly. :(

Well most of them were picked up by another fishing vessel, probably because of a VHF radio distress call and not a ELB/PLB. Those devices often depend on reception by overflying commercial aircraft, which are bound by international treaty to monitor the frequencies and forward reports to land-based authorities. Others use satellite reception. Such beacons are the method of last resort when far from land and not in the company of other nearby vessels, and it can take quite awhile for responders to get the report and make it out to the area.
I agree, in principal, but amazon's retail operation succeeds because it works and puts no barriers in front of people who want to buy stuff.
One might think this is 'basic internet 101' but the majority of other retail sites prove otherwise?
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Disclosure: I work in AWS.

First thanks for the feedback. We are listening closely and feedback (critical or otherwise) really helps us focus on what to build.

We think of Fargate as simplicity, without compromising on capability. We don’t want price to be a barrier for customers to realize simpler operations models. We are thinking through additional pricing options for customers. We use open source where it matters for our customers and partners. For instance, we recently launched a new capability called FireLens (in preview) that uses Fluentd and Fluent Bit to help partners use a standard codebase and to help developers realize cost savings on logs.

WRT lock in comments on this thread, I was a startup product manager in my past life. What really mattered to us was speed of execution and keeping our costs in control. Choose a product that helps you realize those goals (if they resonate with you), whether it is Kubernetes or ECS/Fargate.
I heard an interview with Steven Spielberg years ago. I wish I could find it for reference.

He said in the interview that anytime he drives in his car, he would not talk on his phone or listen to the radio. It was complete silence for the duration of the drive. And most of his best work and ideas came from these "silent drives" because he was forced to be creative and use his imagination to keep himself entertained.
Chameleon inspires 'smart skin' that changes color in the sun
QuickTeX – Quickly Render a LaTeX Equation
> And battery life seems like the only major draw of e-ink

I also find e-ink easier on the eyes than any backlit display. At least for reading. For a watch it probably doesn't matter too much.
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He definitely has the intent to market.
Your reading comprehension skills seem to be severely lacking.
Hasn't worked, cause they take it without having to work. Fix the leaky bucket first
I've been using "detexify" since grad school which was a decade ago or so.

It's by far the best tool for LaTeX I've ever used. You just have to draw the symbol and it uses pattern recognition algorithms to suggest the closest LaTeX keyword.
Can't the embassy designate them as diplomatic couriers? Article 27.5 say they have immunity, and 27.6 says they can be assigned ad hoc.
Admitting and training 5M new American people per year could be precisely the workforce solution the US needs in order to solve the looming long term care crisis we will have on our hands when the baby boomers transition from elderly to frail.

What if the first stop across the border wasn't a detention center but rather a LTC training facility?

Yes there is the language problem, but how many jobs in LTC require fluency?

Yes there is the fact that some places where the LTC crisis is hitting hard like New England and the rust belt are far away from the border, but perhaps families are desperate/poor enough to relocate? Aren't some retiring near the border for cost reasons (tax) already?
OP here, this is just a tool I wanted because I often find myself wanting to send a small equation or two to friends, and couldn't find anything online that could do that. Everything is wrapped in a \begin{align} ... \end{align} (even though I haven't really made that clear...)
His Vietnam series was great.

Civil War... I guess I already knew a lot about it, so what I noticed mostly was more sympathy than I'd like for a sort of Lost Cause nostalgia, and not much talk of slavery. But I guess he had to sell it for its time...
They seem to be available as functions under a global object named "JS":

JS.&(x, y)
JS.|(x, y)
JS.^(x, y)
JS["~"](x)
JS.<<(x, y)
JS.>>(x, y)
JS.>>>(x, y)
"This is the best we can get." That says it all.
I'm using Edge with the built-in ad blocker and didn't get any ads.
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Another alternative is: https://github.com/tijme/raivo

Unfortunately it's only for iOS
Show HN: I Found a Simple Exploit for Bitcoin Hero
So I found this game recently called Bitcoin Hero. It's an interesting little game that lets you "paper trade" a few cryptocurrencies. It's pretty simple.

https://bitcoinhero.me

The downside is that no matter how much capital you have, you are still limited to a certain Amount and Leverage.

After a while, I decided to see how the top players on the leaderboard were making their trades. I discovered that they seemingly made trades far beyond the limit that the game allows.

So I peeked into the JS and after a couple of moments I realized that you could change the Amount to trade by simply changing the HTML value of the "#amount" element.

$("#amount").html("$ 100000");

It's not really cheating because you can easily lose your 10k USD if you set the Amount of "100,000" and have a Leverage value of 10.

Either way, now you know how the top scorers got to where they are. So, I'll see you at the top of the list!
Conversely, the Chinese government is probably willing to bend over backwards to make sure nothing happens to Obama's brother because of the political nightmare it would be for them.
Internet is great for learning anything. But you can also find the absolutely worst brain damaging crap ever on it.

My little brother learned to both speak and write English all by himself. We live in Sweden so it doesn’t come naturally.

He used to watch a lot of educational videos on YouTube about animals, the universe and everything. But sadly, today he chooses to watch more of the 5 second attention span decreasing "entertaining" videos.
You can still buy various Pebble smartwatches, for less than $100. I still use my Pebble Time Round every day and it fits my needs better than any other smartwatch released before or since.
That's beside the point...

The point is that as a Western visitor to China you would only risk being "punished" by doing explicit things that foreign visitors to any country usually don't do.

There is no practical point in discussing what you could or couldn't do if you never did it and never thought of doing it anyway.

So, yes, in Europe you could freely join a demonstration while in China it would not be a good idea. Does it make any practical difference to you as a foreign visitor? No, because that's not something you would do anyway, and if you did, well, you would probably knew the risks.
Yea, it can be pretty easy in many cases, but it is case by case depending on the destination Country and citizenship of the receiver. This also gets more complicated if the contractor visits the US in relation to their business with you, at which it can be argued they have transacted business within the US and now that may change the status in the US too. It also makes a difference if they are contracted as a business in their home country or an individual, as that changes the rules some too.

I don't disagree about using good people wherever they are, just I am cautious on blanket statements anymore cause so many things can bite you and the rules aren't always so straight forward when you cross international boundaries. So the key is just to get some legal/tax advice so you know the best way forward. It is definitely very doable and doesn't have to cost a fortune if like you said it is a true contractor and they do not hold US citizenship or travel to the US for business and they are working from a Country the US has a treaty with. It can get more complicated if those aren't the cases.

edit to add this: Also if you do business in their home Country, e.g. sell a service even over the Internet that can change the tax situation too in their home Country for you (based on their Country's laws). Another thing to always consider, doesn't rule anyone out, just something to ask about.
Tyrannosaurus rex had a built-in air conditioner, study says
Yes, Bitcoin is relatively speaking a pure idea. It competes in the realm of other pure ideas. At least, if we are unmooring ourselves from national identity it is a clean break with new dangers and new opportunities.

Libra is an idea AND a political entity, which feels like some mixture of status quo and new world which makes me uncomfortable.
like, thanks))
A single mainframe can easily be located in multiple datacenters. The Hungarian state owned electricity distributor company has one, one half is at Budapest the other half -- if memory serves -- is at Miskolc, a bit more than a hundred miles away.
I seriously doubt you would end up in an australian prison because, as a foreign individual, you said you didn't like the current australian prime minister.
My first thought is of course surprise and shock that this number is so high.

My second thought is this is about the same number of British people who are below the official poverty line[1], and of course food is a higher priority than internet.

(It’s still shocking that the number is so high).

[1] https://m.spiegel.de/international/europe/poverty-in-notting...
Since I've raised my children, I find many problems with children are rooted in adults. So when I hear children parenting advice, I switch it to adult. That yields a lot of interesting insights.

"Let Adults Get Bored Again"

Parenting is also about adult self-discipline.
I'd love to play around with it for a music video (non commercial)!
I think it's one of the 2 examples where Machine Learning actually was seen usefull as DIY-project.

The other one is with a cucumber farm: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/how-a-japanese-cu...

Fyi: The real reason why i posted it, is that suddenly your RSS feeds on your website work again i suppose :P

So all your items on your blog are suddenly in my list again :)

That and ... it's an awesome story :p
>could that be because China is now heavily invested in Hollywood?

I don't know man?

I mean, right or wrong, it's obviously because they want to sell their movies and merchandise in China. The level of Chinese investment in the Fast and Furious franchise could be billions. It could be zero. (Probably is zero.) But that's irrelevant to whether or not the people who make those movies want to get that Chinese box office money. They want that money anyway, so they go out of their way to stay in good standing in China.

Should famous actors be willing to forego getting any money from the Chinese market to support whatever cause? Well, if they believe in the cause, then yes. But what we're discovering is that most people and companies don't actually believe in these causes, they were just supporting those causes to be chic, or popular. Like most everyone else in America, and the world for that matter, what they really believe in, is money.

Which, given behaviors observed repeatedly in American and world history, shouldn't really come as any big surprise I suppose.
In comparison to what, though? It's easy to knock the Beeb, but compare the output (TV, Radio, and Web) to anything vaguely similar and you will probably appreciate the quality. They're not just making docus, it's so much more. Funnily enough, the Beeb aired the Burns Vietnam, too.
Here's a picture of some of the light even HDR wouldn't likely uncover:

https://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2007/07/The_constel...

EDIT: A larger version of the image, with an equally huge url: https://m.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/imag...
I'll give you LEGO and cardboard, but in what sense are nerf darts or boardgames meaningfully different or better from a skill-based videogame?
In my experience, if the open source project solves a software development problem, presenting it as an answer in Stack Overflow can drive lots of consistent, long-term traffic.
Instrumentation: Fly Safe in Production
I am confused, a quote from Wikipedia: "The Ken Burns effect is a type of panning and zooming effect used in video production from still imagery."

Our framework takes a single still image and animates it via panning and zooming while adding 3D parallax. Does adding the 3D parallax not make it the Ken Burns effect anymore? Please let me know in case I am misunderstanding anything.

Yes, the examples that we have shown do not zoom as much as common Ken Burns examples. This stems from our framework processing the input at low resolution due to limitations in deep learning and the overall complexity of the problem. As such, there is not enough detail that could be zoomed into. This will be improved in later generations.
> What you see with the teenager in question is a small town with decent enough resources

Everything bar the geo-specific things (sailing,planeterium) come from the same money pot for every school in Ireland (ROI) and are pretty much the same for most schools countrywide. The more disadvantaged an area your school is in, the more resources(a la funding/support) it gets.

This extends outside school to community. The most disadvantaged/crime-ridden communities get the most government funding(local sports/after-school activities/local community centers etc.)
The challenge is everything that was analog in the 90s (music, phones, etc) now requires a screen. “Screentime” is treated as this black and white thing, but when the iPhone becomes the uber-tool-that-does-everything you have to focus on how it’s being used, not screetime writ large.
Is there a downloadable dump available, in case I or anyone else don’t want to reveal exactly what symbols we’re typing into our (possibly confidential) documents?
There is no license addendum. It is explicitly stated that they are asking you to respect this rule.

> The code is released under the BSD-3 License (see LICENSE.txt for details), but we also ask that users respect the following:

The license is in LICENSE.txt and that statement seems to unambiguously confirm that LICENSE.txt is the beginning and end of actual legal obligations.

It is not uncommon for FOSS projects to make requests without legal contract about how users use software. In this case it may simply be SalesForce trying to preliminarily distance themselves from malicious actors, with knowledge that the license would be useless if it attempted to give these rules teeth.
I have loved all my Sansa MP3 players, but I find my current Sandisk Clip Jam a bit annoying for some things (very long files names; playlisting; working out what fields it sorts on and why). It won't take rockbox.

If you want a cheap device to run rockbox...

> Either develop a a player from scratch or port a subset of Rockbox (no games, FX, etc.) on a small SBC plus added display, DAC, SD and LiPo circuitry. The SBC could well be the ESP32 which would add wireless functionality; *Pi and other Linux boards would be tremendously overkill for the task. Shouldn't be that hard for skilled developers, and it would surely sell among those of us who don't want to use a cellphone.

...this feels like it's going to end up as being an expensive device. There are a bunch of other MP3 players available from companies like FIIO, Cowon, Shanling or others. Would you be able to build something that competes with these? https://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk/shop/Digital_Audio_Play...

EDIT: Thinking about it, if you had braille on the buttons and a clear simple layout you could push it to both markets: people who want a hackable MP3 player, and people who want an accessible mp3 player for things like audio books. (Which is something my Clip Jam is not great for).
Excellent point. If they just cycled a lot harder on existing products they would be best in class.
This does not generalize to the broader gig economy, but I expect quarterly losses will increase for Uber and Lyft, whether due to adhering to or fighting the bill.

While I’m not a fan of either company, heavy blows to both have the risk of putting Lyft into a downward spiral as they have far less capital to weather a storm than Uber. If the duopoly becomes more like a monopoly that would give Uber even more leverage over drivers.
https://hackernoon.com/stop-using-io-domain-names-for-produc...
Here are the 3 new books mentioned in the article:

By the author of the article:

Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms - Hannah Fry
https://www.amazon.com/Hello-World-Being-Human-Algorithms/dp...

Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty - Ian Stewart
https://www.amazon.com/Dice-Play-God-Mathematics-Uncertainty...

The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data - David Spiegelhalter
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Statistics-How-Learn-Data/dp/1541...
Such an interesting topic.

The famed Andrea Camilleri [0], one of the most prolific and well-known Italian contemporary writer (also author of "Commissario Montalbano", known worldwide in both print and TV form), in a TV interview recounted how "boredom" was so important in his youth.

He specifically remembered how he and his teenager friends would sit in a field or on the beach, take a metal coin, spit on it, and just wait, in circle, until a fly would get entangled by the spit. Whomever owned that coin would be the winner, and this "game" would usually take several hours, during which they would chat, sit in silence, fall asleep, etc. - "bored", you might say.

I found this story fascinating.

I can't point you to the actual documentary describing this, as it's in Italian and it's also not freely available online. Please believe me, there would be no reason for me to have invented this.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Camilleri
It seems so: https://github.com/lunaroyster/LaTeX-search
New device uses carbon nanotubes to detect marijuana in human breath
It takes two to three seconds to process the input image and can subsequently synthesize each frame in the output video in real time. This makes it possible for the user to adjust the camera path and see the result in real time. Feel free to have a look at the video on the website for an example of this.
Yep, I've used it. It's amazing! I'm also adding a link to it on my page, so people can find symbols they don't yet know how to describe with text

I felt that 'type and hit enter to copy' would be faster for my workflow, which is why I built this :D
This comment made me smile, thank you. :)
Slightly OT. In Barcelona, Spain there is a work of art called the Calder Mercury Fountain.

It is absolutely mesmerizing. It reminds me of when I broke a thermometer as a kid and the poison control center instructed my parents to use magnets to clean it up. I still remember the shimmering beauty.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q35_zuffGqk

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/calder-mercury-fountain
Transformative? New Device Harvests Energy in Darkness
After moving from our own on premises hardware to the Cloud, to the hybrid Cloud, to the hybrid Cloud on the Edge, we now have to move to the Fog. Is there no end to this innovation :]
> Once you’re an adult, how you behave is up to you

This is not binary. As they grow older, kids should be able to take control of their lives more and more. Probably much more than the average parent thinks they should.

Edit: To clarify, I don't mean kids should become more skillful in controlling themselves according to their parents wishes. I mean the parents should gradually micromanage their kids less and less as they get older.