skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say I'm photographing someone who is backlit, against the sky. By default, the person looks like black silhouette since the camera chooses an exposure that doesn't make the sky completely white.

I also don't want to have the person in the center of the frame, because that would be really boring framing. Photography 101.

On my current phone I can do the framing how I want, then touch the person on the touch screen. The phone instantly readjusts the exposure upwards so that now the person is more properly exposed and the sky is overexposed. This is what I wanted. Then I continue on to take the photo. This doesn't seem to work on many other phones. I never enter any menus or do any wheel adjustments. It takes extremely little time and is a very natural workflow.

On a rangefinder camera one would aim the center of the screen at the person, then hold the shutter halfway so it would pick the exposure from there, then frame (=aim somewhere else) and take the photo. If you have autofocus, it also focuses on the half-press.

In neither case are there any manual adjustments or looking at any buttons. Your eyes are on the viewfinder / photo area all the time.
They are not substitutes. It's one thing what users say they do or want and another what they actually do.
Holy crap. I was not aware it was possible to map DNA to actual phenotype morphologies.

Are there any other examples of out there of this type of work were organism shape and function can be guestimated to a good accuracy from just DNA?
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Yes, properly anonymised data would be enough. I'm not talking about anything intrusive. I don't care who they are, I care about how they use my product. That can be done in a GDPR complaint way.
yes - very good point
Me too, unfortunately. It really helps enforcing good code styles, though.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9dwq73/rustcon...
Conference Speakers, Check Your Egos
BBC News, crowds across Europe demand climate action
What is your point here? I'm not following.
Even more recently it’s likely that Aung San Suu Kyi will be held accountable for crimes against humanity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_controversies#Pe...
Always assume big enhancements and fixes to come around satellite or universe. Two major releases a year is a safe run
Yes, I know. But she doesn't want to be both in prison or testify.

Someone making something you don't want conditional on something else you don't want either, does not make the situation voluntary.
This is whataboutism.
You can and you should engage politically against every level of institutions who hurt moral principles you believe in.
Tutting Choreography on Senorita
Ireland should know better than to let foreign capital holders control domestic housing policy.
blaze it faggots
Thanks, now I see it
isn't this just a wrap on top of
git rebase -i HASH^;
git commit --amend --author "Jhon Doe"?

Also, as already noted, this overwrites all the history after the commit, making it useless.

Then people said it's a joke...

I know I will get downvoted for this comment, but How did this make to the first page of HN?
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My last two jobs have been shit, just total shit. I sense that the whole enterprise dev industry just isn't what it once was. The culture sucks and I don't want to point fingers too hard, but I see a couple of themes repeating:

1) Agile has morphed back into waterfall. It was supposed to empower developers, but that was too scary, so agile is just bs overwork now, populated with "scrum masters" who are Kommisars, and we still have the idiot product managers and PO types who have no real idea what they are doing.

2) Foreign guest workers. Sorry, but driving wages into the grave hasn't made for better working conditions, Corporate America. You are digging your own graves with this one MBA folk, your time to be outsourced/nearsourced/other sourced will come, too.
WeWork Is Exposing an Astronomical Amounts of Data on Poorly Protected WiFi
The Cold Hard Truth About Driving for Uber (2018)
> I, for one, look forward to a future of navigating politicized open-source constraints of each creator.

> And of course, the creator of Chef-Sugar works for Google.

Lost it
As a chrome-user: this. Firefox lost me years ago due to performance differences, and since chrome works fine for me, there was no ux-related reason to switch back. The day I'll see ads everywhere will be the day I'm back to firefox, and without second thoughts at that. If I really like your service, I'll happily pay for it. I hate ads, the psychological strats behind them are completely unacceptable. I'd happily pay google a subscription-rate, if that's what it takes tbh. Take my money, not my attention.
And many of Londons cafes are not much better than toilets (I speak as an ex-pat having recently visited).

I used to live around the corner from the one in Fitzrovia. Never saw the appeal. Chacun a son gout.
Firefox Developer Edition Adds WebSocket Inspector
Slimming (Thinness)
How does one define weight loss?
Weight loss refers to weight loss, whatever it may be. It can be voluntary (the consequence of a diet) or involuntary.

In this case, weight loss is a potentially troubling symptom, especially when it results in a loss of at least 10% of the weight in less than one year. This threshold is random but is often used as a "benchmark" by the medical community (which also sometimes uses the threshold of 5% less weight in 6 months).

Weight loss can be isolated or be accompanied by other symptoms, very varied.

When not voluntary, weight loss can be a sign of an underlying illness that is sometimes serious, such as cancer. It is therefore important to pay attention and consult your doctor if you are not sure. He may prescribe blood tests, among other things, to try to understand the cause.

What are the causes of weight loss?
Weight loss can have a multitude of causes.

Psychic causes would be involved 50% of the cases of slimming making a medical check-up necessary. Depression, in particular, often leads to a loss of persistent appetite.

Then come organic causes, and especially digestive diseases. However, a large number of pathologies, such as cardiovascular, endocrine or autoimmune diseases, for example, can lead to weight loss.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of potential causes of weight loss:

Cancer: Weight loss is common, and is often one of the first symptoms. About 40% of people diagnosed with cancer report having lost weight in previous months.

Celiac disease: It is frequently accompanied by weight loss, related to the malabsorption of food in the digestive tract.

Gastric ulcer: It is usually responsible for loss of appetite, gastric pain and digestive difficulties that can lead to weight loss.....
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I was one of those users that switched to Chrome for a while (5-6 years, probably). I've now switched back to Firefox. My only frustration is that some sites don't work as well (or, occasionally, at all) on Firefox as they do on Chrome. Not surprisingly, Google's own sites are often the worse culprits.

I've used alternative sites when necessary, though. Bing Maps is actually fairly decent.
It's beyond me why Bloomberg pushes this propaganda: It's totally clear that the power from a wind farm is intermittent, that is, not reliable, and, thus, can't counted on for either a base load plant or a peak load plant.

"Cheap as coal"? Coal makes a great base load plant -- even when the sun is not shining and the wind not blowing, when it's raining, snowing, etc., a big pile of coal out back of the plant is still there and the plant is still a reliable source of base load power, and can't say this about wind power.

So, why would an electric power grid want to buy wind power? For base load? Nope. For peak load? Nope. So just why?

As the grid buys wind power, they idle their base or peak load plant and, thus, don't get the revenue to pay for the plant, that is, the capital expense. So, for that wind power, we have to pay for the capital expense twice, once for the base/peak load plants and once for the wind power. Similarly, when the wind is not blowing, the base/peak load plants are getting revenue but the wind power does not and is not paying for their capital expense.

So, net, "cheap as coal" doesn't mean much. Actually that wind costs the same as coal means that to the electric grid wind is essentially worthless. Or, the wind power will sell at the grid spot price which commonly is just dirt cheap, maybe 0.5 US cents per KWH. The wind power can't pay their capital expense for that.

So, we come to some insight into Bloomberg: The justification for wind will be to save on CO2 emissions. For that, maybe Mike should watch the documentary

The Great Global Warming Swindle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Mx0_8YEtg

IMHO, this documentary is quite credible, especially with the input of Lindzen at MIT.

From the documentary, net, so far human activity has had no significant effect on climate. So, trying to reduce CO2 is worthless. And wind power is worthless. But Bloomberg has other goals.
Clear Linux by Intel
Well he's hasn't climbed over the fence and taken it back. He just stopped throwing it over the fence on a continuous basis , right?
A "unit" of alcohol is 1cL. This amount is commonly used in the UK -- the amount of alcohol in a drink is often printed on the label in "units", and people have some ideas around how many "units" one can drink safely. It's used in personal health education at school.

The minimum price was set to 50p per unit / centilitre of alcohol.

(Keeping easy metric amounts for simplicity. In bars beer and cider is sold in 568mL glasses, though wine and spirits are nice round metric amounts.)

A 1L bottle of vodka, at 40% ABV, contains 40cL of alcohol. The shop or bar must sell it for at least 40×£0.50 = £20. In England, Tesco's cheapest 1L bottle of vodka is £15, so this has increased the price by £5 in Scotland. A fancy vodka which costs £22 in England is unaffected.

A 2L bottle of cheap cider at 5% ABV must cost at least £5. At Tesco in England, this is available for about £2.
This is ridiculous. It’s unsustainable. There is no way you can audit all your users to determine how law abiding, ethical, moral and whatever other measure you want to use.

It’s a bit of immature posturing.

If I need something and I can’t buy it directly I’ll go to a third party who will buy it for me. So it’s kind of futile anyway.

Imagine if Bernie wins and then everyone who doesn’t like socialized medicine (physicians, etc., go on strike — oh, my bad, they wouldn’t be allowed). Or big pharma said, we’re not selling to government, they are telling us to depress prices, we disagree!
I wonder why, even though we generally try to be skeptical of the news, I’m not seeing many comments here that question whether what this article is saying is even accurate.

How exactly does the reporter know which people are IS fighters? Is there some notion that militants don’t ever also farm?

Also in these comments there seems to be a huge double standard. The idea the United States might accidentally kill some civilians is somehow morally outrageous, but the regular and deliberate targeting of civilians by the Taliban and the IS as they attempt to completely destabilize the Afghan government is taken as somehow normal?
I'm not a Mac owner, but apparently it got better:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20874139
That is true currently. Know that this problem will be strongly reduced in the next version of Firefox, to be released on October 22nd.

Firefox will use much less power then, on par with Chrome (haven't seen direct comparisons to Safari). Unfortunately by the time it's released Catalina will be out for a month already.
He removed his repository because it was used by a company that he thinks it did something he disliked. I don't know why it matters, at least in the grand scheme of things. For him it probably matters due to his personal views and it'll probably matter for those who align with his views (assuming they know about that move).

In any case, anyone is free to do with their code whatever they like. If you depend on anyone else's code keep in mind that you do not have control over them and any expectations you may have about their actions may not match theirs, so take that into consideration when making those dependencies.
They can always pump more money to the market in different ways, but what is clear that is happening there is a shift on the dollar not being the world currency / international trade currency.

FED will have always more trouble to handle that. What will happen is hard to say, maybe some crazy inflation, or liquidity crisis... or something I don't care about. What I care about is that economy and money will be broken for a while which will make people move away from the Dollar.
The 1994 Federal Assault Weapons ban was the source of the irrational feature tests under discussion. These feature tests originated here because California's experience showed that name bans were easily subverted. The 1994 FAWB did not contain a functionality ban aside from the feature tests only applying to semiautomatic pistols and rifles with detachable magazines and semiautomatic shotguns. Semiautomatic pistols and rifles with detachable magazines and semiautomatic shotguns remained legal.
You'd be surprised how many people don't use adblockers. There will be a few people switching but I don't think anymore than 1% of total Chrome users
https://opensource.org/osd-annotated

> 5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups

> The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.

> 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

> The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

---

Being potentially used by organizations you don't agree with is what open source entails.

There also appears to be nothing wrong in the FOSS model of taking the last published version and forking it... and releasing that.
"This distribution has no default desktop or window manager environment." - goes to prove that "simple" doesn't mean "easy to use"...
In the comments of this article the author explains that that kind of blocking still works on the new Safari.
Have you tried the content blockers? They work fine for me on Safari (kablock or wipr) and mobile Safari (adblock plus and kiyoshi, the latter against custom fonts) and I’m highly allergic to the usual adserver ads.
Offshore turbines also access more consistent winds, so not only will the turbines be cheap, they will be reliable, which will reduce grid integration costs.

Edit: The UK’s already up to 50% nuclear and renewables on the electricity grid, this is an extra 6GW of capacity, and goes on top of previous auctions which are currently under development, it looks like we’re headed for 60-70% in the mid to late 2020s.
Vaping criminal probe announced by FDA as illnesses rise to 530
Clearly they are asking because they hope that you click "Yes". Once you click "Yes" they give you a cookie and stop bugging you. It's a nasty trick of the tracking industry.

GDPR does not forbid websites to ask or even deteriorate your experience (afaik). Perhaps that should change.
I'm struggling to understand the natural selection process that's driving this evolution. The article mentions only a few causes like pre-industrial societies introducing solid foods to infants earlier along with environmental pollution and recirculated indoor air resulting from the Industrial Revolution, but these are more developmental issues. The article almost seems to be implying a Lamarckian take on this when discussing those factors. What is causing reproductive selection for these traits? Also, depending on your definition of a generation, 250 years ago is only 8-10 generations ago. That seems like an incredibly short period for such a significant evolution.
I am saying, we are allowed to have an opinion on it. You can be good at something and still acknowledge that is sucks.
My point isn’t that rights can’t or shouldn’t be restricted. My point is that we don’t generally ask a specific group how to best restrict themselves. Sporting bodies don’t “regulate themselves in an effort to avoid regulations being imposed by law”, they generally work to make the most money by pushing the boundaries of the current law, and are eventually curtailed by more or different laws that they did not propose.
uBlock Origin is completely free and open source.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/

It's a very popular project on GitHub with many developers scrutinizing any changes to the codebase. Fears of uBlock Origin being a "security or privacy risk" based on code in the extension are unfounded.
This is the real story, right here. Turning old subterranean public toilets into cafes and bars is just another London food scene gimmick.
We can do better: infinite credit, no responsibility and no attention altogether. The perfect setup for narcissistic hell.
Shadow of a black hole surrounded by dark matter
No no - that's in startups coasting on VC money. In places trying to actually get something done - it's dog food :)
Islamic Law as “Code”
> Alternatively if Yemen rebels attack Saudi Arabia, that’s bad.

Why is it bad? I mean, after they've been at the receiving end of Saud's war machine, why can they not retaliate? They sure did not cause as much boodshed (zero, just material damage) as the Sauds have caused them.
What? R+D investment is still a real thing, even if investors have shorter time horizons than they used to. There are still firms sacrificing short term gains for long term ones.
Show HN: Bsnes, a Super Nintendo Emulator
Not true.

Take for example all thecredit unions in OR, CO, CA

Like north bay credit union in santa rosa.... their requirwments list for opening an account is RIDICULOUS!!

Other companies want either 3% of your deposits or $3,000 a month for a checking account whichever is higher.

Other banks AND companies will cancel your account if you even have the word “canna” in your name.

Ive literally sat there looking at $160,000 in cash with bills needed to be paid and no way to pay the bills...

You know how fun it is to go to seven different post offices with four employees in tow to buy as many money orders as you can so you can pay bills, such as a $25,000 software bill?
I suppose that would make it an empty gesture devoid of practical consequence then?

Looking through the commit history[0], he doesn't even look to be all that prolific as compared to other contributors. One would imagine those folks would keep on keeping on in some fashion.

[0] - https://gitlab.openminds.be/mirror/chef-sugar/commits/master
On iOS mobile Firefox provides the same blocking capabilities to Safari as is available in Firefox.
From the POV of someone who's both just a visitor on most sites and used GA himself: GA is often used for evil purposes, and as a tool it's optimized to enable and support evil purposes. Therefore, it's reasonable to assume, in absence of evidence to the contrary, that the site that loads it uses it for evil purposes.

Does it inconvenience honest people who'd like to use those tools for honest purposes? Sure. But think of it this way: it would be much more convenient for me if I could just give a merchant or service provider my on-line banking login and password, so they could take care of billing me directly. Would I ever do this if asked? No fucking way (even ignoring that my bank would consider it a TOS violation).

Problem is, there's no good way to signal honest intentions between parties that aren't already in a long-term relationship (and no, "we only use cookies to improve your experience" doesn't count; in fact, it's an anti-signal; thank marketers for that). So the only option for honest people is to not do the same things evil people would do.
You say that (and I agree - I use Firefox everywhere because there's no Chrome plugin support on Android) but I'm genuinely curious to see what happens if/when Chrome stops supporting ublock origin. I suspect - sadly - that there won't be the "flocking to firefox" we might be hoping for. Just enough ads will get blocked with a new, gimped ublock origin, or built-in ad blocking of some flavour, to prevent any meaningful exodus.
I usually avoid these conversations about the military, because it's such a hot button issue. I have many family members who were/are in the military. I have one family member who died in WW2, buried in a US cemetery in France.

> but military training is mostly about obeying orders

Not at all. The military wants individuals to think for themselves. Strictly obeying orders would never get the job done. In fact, the large majority of military training is industrial/trade depending on the branch. When people see bootcamp, and orders being thrown around that's less of learning to obey and more of making people into a cohesive team (breakdown, then buildup). Think about how tight a startup team is after going through hell to get a product launched. Very similar but even tighter.

> that biggest thing soldiers have missed in their civilian lives is the adrenaline/joy rush of a shoot-out, no matter how dangerous it is

A very small percentage of the military ever gets in a firefight, again depending on branch. Of course there is an adrenaline rush that comes out of being in danger (just shooting guns in general is a rush). Every time I paddle out into big surf or when I have sky dived, the chance I may die is part of the 'fun'. I've never been in a shoot-out, but from what I've read it's those experiences X 100 or more. Finally, these are the exact type of people we want fighting. The best way to survive and win is to go all in 100%. When someone is there, on the ground being shot at, the time for them to debate is over.

> Seems that soldiers are fine with killing "the enemy"

Keep in mind that the US has strict rules of engagement (mistakes are sometimes made as reports have shown). By the time a soldier is killing the enemy they are also going to be receiving fire. Effectively if they do not kill this person, this person will kill them. Seeing friends die is obviously hard because they are your friends, and because of the way teams are built people end up very close.

With all that said, the military is the execution arm of politicians. A soldier on the ground has about as much power to decide to be in or out of war as you or I. People join for a lot of reasons. Financial is a common one. But, a lot of people also join out of a duty and a draw to be of service to a country they love regardless of who is POTUS at any given time.
The anniversary of 9/11 is a week ago and you forget?
I wouldn't want to catch a .32 ACP or even a .22 LR in the ass. That doesn't make either round "high powered" though.

Calling an AR-15 a "high power rifle" is simply wrong. As far as rifles are concerned, 5.56x45 NATO is on the weaker end of things. Such a term can only be reasonably applied to .50 BMG and the like, with rounds like .308 in between.
A synthetic metabolic network for physicochemical homeostasis
The Bizarre World of Recruiting
Ask HN: Have you been b& from somewhere on the web? Why? Was it was justified?
Have you ever been banned from Quora, Reddit, Twitter or somewhere else?
Have you felt there was something similar to a due process in your banning?
Do you think there is a doctrine?

Tell me your experience
The CEO of Chef responded to this with a blog post: https://blog.chef.io/2019/09/19/chefs-position-on-customer-e...
It’s a tool for webdevs to do simple configuration of web servers without leaving their comfort zone of Ruby On Rails.
Even more ironically, it comes from a Google employee, when Google is so much widespread, that it's guaranteed to be working with morally questionable actors left and right; or (according to many people) being /the/ morally questionable actor.
Probably because the income inequality is higher. If you think of some famous super rich people I am sure most of the names you think of will be from the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient#/media/File:2...