skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i switched from irfanview to xnview about 15 years ago (now under linix), and never looked back. mind you, i don't know about irfanview's developments in that time.
What's the purpose of making this public? Discuss this in private circles within GNU. If it doesn't go anywhere, and you care so much about it, just leave.

What they did will fracture the community anyway. You can bet there are Stallman supporters in GNU, too. If the undersigned have it their way, others will leave (or disengage), in protest. There's no winning in this. From my pov, what they did has only downsides, and no upsides whatsoever.

You don't like GNU? Fork their software, make your own GNU with vodka and hookers. Just, don't throw a public tantrum. Use official channels and due process. If the organization doesn't respond, and doesn't match your values - just leave.
Easy to read/follow menu, and a phone call isn't that hard, with front door payment.

Online shopping experiences vary widely. I love it when the interface isn't even noticed/gets out of your way.
It is all the foreigners in town for the Rugby World Cup ;) I was in Tokyo this morning (in Oita now for a match). The larger number of foreigners creates chaos out of the order. Really. I intend to make sure I am no where near Tokyo for the Olympics. Shiver.

If you have lived here or spent enough time you get a feel for the rhythm of walking and moving through what to outsiders looks like madness and complexity. However the reality is it is perfectly ordered. One or a few tourist can be absorbed but 1000s just makes it all break!
Making a website accessable isn't hard. there's a plethora of tooling available to help and most of it comes down to aria roles and color selection. It really is a bare minimum sort of task imo.
Steve dude
There was the example of the UBS economist who commented on Swine Fever in China as well[1]:

In a podcast episode, Mr Donovan discussed higher consumer prices in China and referred to an outbreak of African swine fever that has pushed up the cost of pork.

He said: “Does it matter? It matters if you are a Chinese pig. It matters if you like eating pork in China. It does not really matter to the rest of the world.”

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/ubs-chief-e...
However they do what everybody does: try to addict consumers.
I generated 1000 random faces for my game in Python (no machine learning)
I read a lot of people debating about how "difficult" is maintaining 32-bit support, or if it adds more vector attacks to the system.

Don't fool yourself. Maintaining 32-bit support is "easy" (with all the technical issues we all know). This is simply a sales strategy.

It's the same strategy than disabling a glorified vnc (Sidecar) on three years "old" laptops. Sure you need a lot of horsepower to display a remote image in real time. Never done. Yeah.

Apple is taking the "appliance route". Your (my) Apple computers, your (my) Apple phones...are closed appliances (no ram upgrade, no battery upgrade, no significant OS upgrade). This appliance version do this, the next appliance version do that. Soon we'll see that they're no longer upgradeable computers, and we will be fine with it...sadly.
The law requires only "readily achievable"changes. So something that is practically impossible isn’t required.
I don't know, if you say "I'm just not smart enough" as a mathematician that is more interested in Functors and Monads and Yonedas than solving actual engineering problems, then there is definitely deception and signaling going on. IMO.
That gives me even less incentive to try it out.
Sure, but there are two possible ways to "not believe" in black holes.

One can say "there is an alternative not yet known explanation to gravity and this explanation will not have singularities/math artifacts." While GR is one of the most verified theories in physics I have some modicum of sympathy for that view.

What is disingenuous is her view "black holes dont exist because GR measurements are bad." Because they really are good and statistically significant. For LIGO results you can reject the nature of the compact bodies (although the fits are very good), but you cant reject the event of the detection.
> so impinged upon

I greatly doubt it was anything more than mildy irritating and the grandparent never implied otherwise.

It's annoying for me to read and I have perfect vision.

Being blind doesn't make you immune to an expectation to be accomodating to others.
for that simple use case gnuplot is even better than R
It seems like a really fun idea. Sadly the sub consists of a lot of 4 upvote posts and then one "funny" one with 2k upvotes about a guy trimming a penis in someones hedge. A lot of the posts are single sentences or maybe at best one paragraph. I had the hope it could be a writing challenge, fleshing out some stuff for the sub in a few paragraphs or articles, but that doesn't seem to be the goal here.
Tools That Can Improve Your Platform Compatibility Testing – Superb Answer
Bipolar disorder?

I think it is worth going to a psychiatrist and getting a good diagnosis. My SO suffers from something similar. Now she can have a job and all and overall quality of life has improved a bit.

We also work in a very stressful field. I've always been widely known as sane and calm, and this gets on my nerves as well.
Just as a counter to this, war invokes similar behaviour and a lot of people often support that.
Indeed, but if you ignore much of the crack-pottery and the lack of understanding of fundamental statistics you could find some valid criticism of current physics in this piece (but more like needles in a hay stack).

Physics is now entering a new era of "exploration". This means lots of data and little results. The career of the average scientist will be a series of papers where they prove that they found nothing. I can see how this is frustrating or boring to many people but it is the only way forward. The low hanging fruit has been harvested decades ago. The methodologies of measurements have to adjust accordingly and the purpose of experiments has to be advertised correctly.
That's a separate issue. It's enough to clearly make this distinction oneself.

What you're saying about "Chinese people" seems to me true of all people.
If they're UK based, how did they patent it? As far as I'm aware, the EU disallows patents on software "as such". And if this doesn't qualify as software "as such", then nothing does.

Or is it only patented in the US?
How about the original truecrypt? AFAIK it was audited and no bugs were found.
California makes ‘deepfake’ videos illegal, but law may be hard to enforce
Lodash FP Usage Retrospective
1. Most cities are high density enough that cars and bicycles are about the same speed. When you build for cars like in the USA you get very low density and a ton of space wasted on parking.

Things could be improved by using multi floor parkings more often, but as someone who has spent 3 months in the bay area, I think the current state is a disaster.

2. Buses in other countries don't have inconsistent timing. I can go out of my place in London to the bus station that is 3 minutes away and then wait for a bus come in 5 minutes or less, consistently. Yes, a bus comes every 5 minutes. No its not the city center.

3. Public transport is not affected by weather. Cycling is also possible in most rainy weather with the right equipment. The cases where cars are really needed are very rare compared to typical day-to-day use. There are still some, but not nearly enough to warrant actually getting a car, for a vast majority of people

4. Your anti-anti-car rants ignore the drawbacks of the widespread overuse of cars. For example, buildings taking 2-3 times the space due to parkings needing to accommodate so many cars, together with huge roads accommodating the crazy number of cars further increase of distance between things, making walking and cycling an even less viable option. Add to that pedestrian and cyclist unfriendly development (no sidewalks to enter the commercial area!) and you end up with a result that is unusable for anything but cars!

Not only that, but commute times tend to grow extensively. Do you like driving for 1h or more every single day, during which the only thing you can reasonably do is listen to a podcast? Do you like wasting 10-15% of your waking life on driving a car? I know I don't. I'd rather do a much less stressful activity, like sitting in a train for 30-40 minutes while reading or doing some light work. (maybe with the addition of 5-10-minutes of walking and cycling on both ends)

The sad thing is that people take that self-inflicted state into account to judge how viable other modes of transportation are. Well yes, they clearly aren't once you've built things for cars. But why not read about how it can be successfully viable, in other countries?
Misrepresenting what I said and then hurling insults. Yeah, I think this discussion is over.
Oil is apparently still 3% of electricity generation as of 2018 (via IEA, [0]). Still, my point really wasn't about nuclear vs. burning oil for energy. My point was about pointing to nuclear waste as an argument against nuclear energy, probably second most common argument (after "but Chernobyl and Fukushima!") and something I see on HN surprisingly often. Nuclear waste is seen as this magical, unique super-dangerous substance that we couldn't possibly handle safely. Whereas pollution from oil sands turns out to be just as dangerous, much worse in handling and containing, and there's a lot more of it, and yet we can handle it (even if poorly) and it doesn't even register with people beyond occasional news about some ecologists whining about the environment.

I'm happy to hear oil use declines (need to check up on that worldwide, that's extremely surprising - do you perchance mean that the growth rate of oil use is going down?).

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[0] - https://www.iea.org/geco/electricity/
Maybe I chose the wrong word. English is my second language. He just posted an open question on twitter and I answered. There was no hate or discussion. For me it was bittersweet because I was happy to interact, I thought I was contributing because I do have a ton of experience with the subject, but then when I was expecting a reply, he blocked. There was no interaction.

Let me be clear that people are free to block whoever they want. Dave is not required or expected to interact with me. It was for me unexpected because I thought that some conversation could emerge. Still, this is not a shame the guy session. Everyone has the right to block whoever they want for whatever reason they want. My comment was actually about how besides that bad day, I still value his work a lot and still am influenced and play with the concepts and technologies he created.
I haven't defended the Chinese government.

YC was doing something in China for a while but I have no idea how important it was. Knowledge about it hasn't trickled into our corner. HN commenters seem to know more about it than we do.

It's worth remembering that HN has editorial independence within YC: https://venturebeat.com/2015/09/29/y-combinator-spins-out-ha...
Gave an Asian actress in a minor role "too much" screen time. Apparently.
For bonus points, the C&C server realises the incoming IP has Microsoft's name attached, and only sends back the adverts. For anyone else, it sends a malicious image file as part of the drop, which exploits an intentional security vulnerability in the dropper...

That's actually disturbingly sneaky.
BTW sanctions like this seem to be a good thing for the free software world. As soon as sanctions (even though much more moderate) have been deployed against Russia it has started an extensive campaign to replace commercial software with free alternatives in many places. E.g. many PostgreSQL jobs have emerged as well as some traction in ditching MS Office for LibreOffce. Most of the people still use pirated software there (and, I believe, in Venezuela as well) but as free software matures people are turning to it instead.
Atari VCS architect quits project, claims he hasn’t been paid for six months
It's time people realize that a great deal of scientific papers are just written as a requirement to finish a masters/doctors degree, or are just about meeting the yearly publication quotas of the department. I know very proficient writers that probably haven't written a single article worth reading.
How do companies with hundreds of sales points deal with that? Is a centralized invoicing system required by law? I find it hard to believe that multiple numbering sequences are not allowed.
"If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged". This is why we have due process and innocent until proven guilty.

Even if he were gross and "creepy", that's no reason to oust someone from the organizations they helped create and destroy their reputation with absurd unverifiable anecdotes, like the ones about plants or vi. Or the note hanging on the door, which was likely a prank.

Creepy is also a meaningless word, best associated with ghosts and monsters, not people. Nowadays it seems to be used to criticize awkward male courtship attempts, as if trying to romance someone isn't tough enough and those that don't know how to do it have to be ridiculed too.
But you can watch it in German or English on their official German presence southpark.de.
no crashes yet. could not get sidecar working on my late 2013 MBP, even after modifying defaults as suggested by some sites.

overall performance seems better. connects to wifi network faster.

default shell on terminal is now zsh.

will upgrade homebrew managed packages now, Catalina bottles are available.
Gravitational capture is the only way retrograde orbits could happen - a blob of spinning dust and gas just won't produce moons orbiting in opposite directions. Anything going in the "wrong" direction will be subject to a whole lot of drag forces and lose all of its orbital speed and fall inwards. Retrograde orbits have to happen by grabbing something late or after the formation phase.

All of the discovered retrograde orbiting moons are in similar orbits which suggests they all came from some larger object broken apart. Keep in mind all of these new objects are quite small, just a few miles across. About a billion of them could fit inside Saturn's largest moon, Titan (seventeen were discovered).

Regular moon fits with what I was talking about before.

Irregular moons are the ones with eccentric, retrograde, or otherwise weird orbits and acquisition histories.

The more you get into specifics about this kind of thing, the less concise and accurate you can be, it would take an expert up to date with the literature to go much deeper.
not trying to be an asshole but how long did it take to type this comment? do you use some sort of voice to text software?
Sometimes you just got to voice your opinion [1]

Blizzard chose money over human rights and they will have to stand for it themselves. They've already picked a side, money. Now they lost my money though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Olympics_Black_Power_salu...
funnily, this episode is also banned in France
I think you'd more or less have to block *.microsoft.com at the gateway, then add explicit allows for WGA and Windows Update.

Or a group policy update to tell Defender not to upload stuff to MS.
>deleting virtually every clip, episode

BS, every Chinese pirate streaming service I checked still has full South Park catalog.
New Ford Puma Fabricated in Romania
Agreed. But it's reins in, not reigns in.
I wonder if there is a good rule of thumb for what software and features are acceptable to not be accessible? What does it mean for a drawing program to be accessible by the legally blind? You can follow accessibility guidelines (for UI navigation and so on) but does that mean you made the program accessible if the bulk of the operations you can actually do in the software - draw - still requires seeing what you are doing? Are you expected to invent workarounds that allows people to use your software, or can you assume that "nah, no blind person is likely to be drawing anyway"? It seems there is a gray area where it's just not economically feasible to add some extreme bespooke types of accessibility, but at the same time not doing it will make it self fulfilling - of course no blind people will draw in drawing programs so long as they don't get the tools.
Hmmm I take your point, but OpenJDK 8 is maintained.

A better example is the obvious impending transition to ARM, which GraalVM is already preparing for.
Apple also has a blog where they discuss (some of) their machine learning results[1].

1: https://machinelearning.apple.com/
They should have an explicit rule against political displays like they have in football (I mean soccer).

That way it's clear for everyone rather than having a catch-all rule that is arbitrary and does not tell players where the line is.
Due to delayed effects, we aren't even feeling current escalations but CO2 we let out while watching The Terminator.
Maybe not the best example, but this was on FPGA. When making custom chips, you can make all sorts of tuning, including consistent hardly noticeable drifts from spec.

The article says they only image the metal layers, so I guess you can do anything as long as you don't visibly change the metal layers.
Trump's campaign was finely tuned to win the electoral college, because that was the winning condition. If there was no electoral college, his campaign would've been different, and he might've won either way.
The pandas syntax is far less intuitive than R dataframes, especially if you're also using dplyr.
Are you in China? Perhaps it's only been removed for users in China.
Interesting. Capture One is a non destructive photo editor: how does that not force to use Capture One for managing your library as well? Is digiKam able to access the post-process images from Capture One?
And that's where you enter the woods. There is no "the screenreader". There are different screen readers, and each my interpret your site differently.
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Do you honestly believe the T2 serves no useful/practical purpose? Apple just put it there to be malicious? lol
I mean I left physics after doing my PhD precisely because I felt it wasnt exciting, but I disagree with the criticism of "big data." I know analytic results are romanticized and even now physicists are looking to express things in but a few equations, but it might also be that the world is complicated and to learn the details you really need to crunch a lot. Kind of like in avalanches, lots of things can be modeled by power laws but the actual details are incredibly messy and non-integrable.
Any other good resources on production level deep learning practices?
Also,

"The vault managers are now taking precautions, including major work to waterproof the 100m-long tunnel into the mountain and digging trenches into the mountainside to channel meltwater and rain away. They have also removed electrical equipment from the tunnel that produced some heat and installed pumps in the vault itself in case of a future flood."
Jest and Puppeteer: how to setup, what you can do
Actually impressive you managed to stay so long in a single job (5 years, 3 years etc) I can barely make 1 so imagine how depressed I have to be... If you don't have massive expenses such as rent, kids etc then take a long break and consider what you like doing and try to do that even if it doesn't pay much
> even when you have pictures and the item is marked as tested/working

I bought a PlayStation 2 second hand a while ago to relive some memories and to play some of the games that I hadn’t yet played.

One of the games played perfectly well up until about 60% through the story and then there is a bad scratch on the disc at which point the game freezes.

I think most sellers of used games will only pop the disc in and see that it starts, if they even bother to test the game at all. That is reasonable of course — we can’t expect anyone to play through a whole game another time over just to see that the whole thing works as it should before they sell it for a couple of dollars. But yeah it’s a risk and it does suck a little bit.
After 'South Park' Censorship Episode, China Deleted the Show from the Web
China Halts NBA Broadcasts as Anger Mounts over Hong Kong Tweet
It gives me - the ability to use my iPad as a second screen, and takes away the ability to run all my 32 bit apps.

Until now I've pretty much been a day 1 updater with MacOS. Nope.
Arent Apple chips manufactured in Taiwan? Would Wouldnt it be funny if TSMC decided Apple doesnt exist?
Few “great men” are psychologically well-adjusted. Their poor adjustment is what creates the friction that causes them to reshape their surroundings.
The decision has nothing to do with China being communist. It has everything with both being capitalists.

You said it yourself: "Putting profits ahead of everything else.. because it sacrifices quality and every other good for the sake of short-term profit."

A blanket fear of communism is not productive.
“Tokyo's public transport systems are Magically art”, which foundation has been calculated precisely.
English is remarkably monosyllabic, especially for nouns.
Adobe lost me as a customer when they started renting software. I won't run any software on my machine that has a remote kill switch. This is yet another example of why Adobe's business model is bad for consumers and great for Adobe's competitors.
That's good to hear :)
Hmmm, I didn't mean it like that.

Coulda been any nation with 1.3+ billion, with their stereotypical eating utensils.
Maybe, but I remember reading a the time that it was so the OS didn't need to load two versions of every library in.
It's not black or white. Large scale protest without proper leadership can really get out of control by a few small groups. It is probably a mixture of riot control tactics and violence from smaller groups of protesters that don't follow any leadership and overreact without proper strategy.
You're looking at the "hot" page there (basically like the Hacker News front page). Here's the Top All Time for instance: https://www.reddit.com/r/HaveWeMet/top/?sort=top&t=all

It certainly seems like much more attempted comedy than serious roleplay though.
Reality is so absurd, it's too hard to make up untrue but sufficiently believable stories...
This is an interesting example of a business idea resulting in an asinine technical solution, but thinking about the actual business problem, it seems like you would want to transmit an encrypted blob to the customer, and then transmit the decryption key at the end using your "very reliable" communication method. The decryption key isn't "usable" until the entire thing is received, which means the entire game isn't usable until then either. (I don't think this actually solves the real he-said-she-said problem, but I think it would appease the PM in charge.)
Of course the fun part of that is when the sales staff mistake a minnow for a whale.

Case in point, a large FTSE, NYSE, NASDAQ listed company with largely siloed internal departments, all with their own budgets. Your yearly budget might be $20,000 -- but they see the Inc. or Plc. with a turnover in the hundreds of millions and quote accordingly...

That situation makes for some fun sales calls.
Hi, some short questions:

- What's your spectral resolution? (I'm assuming you're using spectrometers and not filters?)

- Is this a scanning setup?

- What is your minimum spatial and temporal resolution and what is the detection limit?

- What do you consider an 'optically rich image'?
If you have this attitude, don't buy Apple devices. Is that too difficult?
Everything is easy when it is someone's else problem.