skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blur Detection via GPU-accelerated Metal Performance Shaders on iOS
Or we could just prosecute App Store monopolies. Nobody should ever have to go through google, or apple, or Microsoft, or Facebook, or amazon to publish software. The point of software is to be portable. I’m sick of buying artificially crippled crap.
Google hangouts video uses about 50% of CPU. For many people hangouts is part of everyday work life.
Yep, the idea that companies should be given a free pass to act with utter amorality because they put themselves in a situation where they are obliged to do so is ridiculous.
> So PG&E get to make unlimited profits but the public has to eat the cost of their liabilities?

"Unlimited profits"?? PG&E filed for bankruptcy this year, and filed in 2001. All electricity rates need to be approved California Public Utilities Commission.

I agree, this weird mix of private ownership where everything needs to be approved by govt is basically the worst of all possible worlds (see also Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac), but it's not PG&E's fault alone that the system is so fucked. California has basically set up a regulatory regime where stable electricity generation is not viable.
If you adopt more accurate terminology by substituting "gender" for "sex" you shouldn't have an issue.
Ditch Chef Splunk snyk for Gitlab? The pitch from new wannabe 1 stop DevOps shop
Not toxic, just informed. When people follow a sport closely ("passionately") they're more likely to be offended by and call out bullshit. The shoes provide a significant mechanical advantage that most consider unfair. Others claim they're just shoes, but then you might as well claim that rollerblades are shoes.

This comes on the heels of US anti doping handing a 4 year ban to the coach of Nike's elite running team. People who follow that side of the sport have little faith that athletics (or cycling, or any other sport) is any cleaner now than in past decades, which is to say, every successful endurance athlete is on some kind of gear.
Very interesting. It makes a lot of sense from a Linux perspective. The conntrack table requires memory, so there is some physical limit on its size. That also explains why it scales per instance type.
You are literally the biggest troll of all. Stop trying to be China.
And that’s fine. But anytime HN users start whining “monopoly” the next thing they start screaming is for government to intervene every time that Google/Apple/Amazon doesn’t something that they don’t like.
> Heck who wants to search from the URL bar.

Me? I love this feature.
That's a distinction without a difference. Judge the results, not the (stated) intent.
Filed under: Depths of Yakshaving
Unanimous Approval of the Blockchain Act in Liechtenstein’s Parliament
Cool. I want to try and work through this text, just to assess how useful it is.

The approach is an interesting one.

Looks like this will have to become a weekly goal. Maybe one chapter a week? Seems possible.
They completely reworked password manager in version 70. Try FF Developer Edition or Beta?

https://i.imgur.com/o2nOB8h.png
Naval Observatory Vector Astrometry Software (Novas)
Coming up on my 4-year anniversary at a company, having just returned from 2 years in a foreign office, I told my Director I'd like a 3rd week of vacation and no more money. Just treat me like I'd been working here an extra year.

He got me a $5,000 raise, no extra vacation time. Said that he did his best and he was the type of person I'd absolutely believe.

Ever since then, in my mind, a vacation day has to be worth more than $1,000. Simple economics, right? Somehow giving me $5,000 maximizes shareholder value more than giving me 5 extra days off.

My next job was more generous with vacation. They used the accrual method with a maximum and there was an extended period where it had become difficult to take time off and they'd stopped putting our PTO balance on our paystubs... so at some point I track down where to find the info and realize I'd lost 10 days of vacation accrual.

I about lost my mind and HR couldn't understand why I felt like they'd cheated me out of more than $10,000.

Felt trapped in the job forever 'cause eventually I'm earning I think 27 vacation days per year, and 10 to start is pretty typical, maybe 15 if you're lucky... And as much as we might like to think everything is negotiable, reality on the ground is that very little besides salary can be successfully negotiated.
De facto means something in the eyes of the law. Where did you get it from that it doesn't?

> Are we going to say that the government can tell businesses what is allowed in its own store?

Yes, we definitely are. If there's a monopoly and the monopolist is blocking people from participating, of course we can get the courts involved. Just google all the antitrust cases about Microsoft, Google and Apple, among others.

Re: "price", even if there's no monetary exchange, other goods are being exchanged (personal information, ads, etc).
Even with that disabled I still wouldn't trust it (QEMU devs didn't originally plan for its stdin to be attacker-controlled, so there could be subtle bugs even with monitor disabled - remember the GRUB bug where you could bypass the password with specific keystrokes). I would've personally made it to simulate a serial port to the guest and the browser-based console being connected to that.
> I'm not content with that, but people seems to have the wrong expectations about what a for-profit is all about

Early in the US history, all companies existed through acts of congress and thus were implicitly for the betterment of the USA.

The theory of corporate ownership... Or at least the fashion trend... Has changed through the years. But many still hold onto the old ideals.

We live in a democracy, which means that we can change the 'purpose' of companies as long as enough Americans agree on it.

As such, your argument cannot assume a particular definition or purpose of companies. Instead, the question should be... Is the current for profit model really best for America?
> For our team of just 13 people

In the 1990s, 2000s, or heck even early 2010s this would have been an open source utility that someone had spent a few months building as a passion project. And then 5-10 people from around the world would have pitched in a work week here and there to make it work really well and lots of people using it would be really happy from using it.

Now, because everything that possibly can be monetized needs to be monetized.. it has to be monetized. And everything needs to be made into a company, with programmers, product management, marketing, HR, legal etc etc.

I hate to defend Apple here, because I think they are beginning to halt progress rather than bring it forward, but.. meh. It's just a goddamn feature. You can't call dibs on obvious features. (And in terms of obviousness, I think this one is a lot more obvious than Sherlock.)
I'm using Firefox for a while now (both on desktop and mobile) and I love it.
The only missing part for me on Android is that Firefox doesn't open native apps (YouTube, maps, Instagram etc..) when you open a link. The integration with built in apps like chrome has is not there.
If you are using a Lisp-family language (any language with S-expressions, really), then Paredit for Emacs solves this nicely: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ParEdit
They cooperate for now, but the balance of power and momentum is heavily in favour of Google as it stands. This will only matter when one of the others wants to hold out on some critical feature and find that they effectively can't if they don't want to see their already minor market share plummet. Apple though do have some clout since they own the entire vertical...
Yeah, that would be wise.
Censorship of Harmful Data in Blockchains
Usually I root for the underdog, but in this case, it was almost inevitable. I have both Astropad and a iPad Pro, and I have to say that they priced themselves out of the market straight out of the gate by using a high cost subscription (~$20/mo) plus ~$20 for the hardware dongle. At these prices, professionally it's actually cheaper to just go buy an Intuos because it will perform better in every way and doesn't cost you over time.

TBH, I'm actually surprised this didn't happen sooner -- it's the obvious solution to a lagging Adobe Photoshop and pro tools that immediately give the iPad strong value and staying power.
At the time of Galileo, were there extremely powerful corporations whose profits would be boosted by pro-heliocentric and pro-heretical views?

The comparison seems a stretch to me but I'm no expert on the life and times of Galileo so I would be happy to be proven wrong.
It is hard for one to appreciate the value of a process that helps teams operate well in the long run, in the face of disruptions, pivots, failures, growth, etc. If you can do without standups, good for you.
It is enabled by default for a small subset of system configurations (Windows desktop machines with AMD or NVIDIA GPU).
Amazon stops charitable donations via Amazon Smile if you turn off notifications
>I wonder if Bill Gates ever codes anything anymore, I emailed to him ask once but never got a reply.

He does (at least as of 2013): https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/18bhme/im_bill_gates_...
Is Google “blocking” anyone from using Firefox, or IE?

So now are we just going to make commonly understood words like “price” mean completely random things?
I agree with you that any progress in these areas would include breaking pretty much everything we "know." That's kind of the point though, current epistemology and computability questions basically stop with these irreducable theories. So we live with this irreducable uncertainty currently.

I'm not proposing solutions or saying that there are errors with these proofs. Rather, when I finally understood them years ago it induced an existential crisis that I don't see any pathways to resolve.

My hypothesis is that humans aren't capable of conceptualizing experiments or building tools that could approach the three most intractable problems in epistemilogy. Maybe we don't have the math to do it, or it's fundamentally intractable and it will never be resolved, I dunno. But those are much more interesting questions than "is there an amoeba on europa?"
This legislation has only been introduced. It will take months before it is passed into law, and in the meanwhile you can protest at its hearing dates, whenever they get scheduled, and lobby your local Supervisor to defeat it.

I do put its chances of passing pretty high, though. The veto-proof majority of the Board of Supervisors are anti-capitalists who hate individual freedom. They’ve been agitating for this law for quite some time now.
And trance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REFvB1oNOC0
figuratively eats
I've been using DuckDuckGo as my default search engine for the last year or so; it's certainly improved a lot. Something that can help this transition is the bang support [0], with `!g` prefixed to your query. This redirects you to google with same query if you find that the results are not satisfactory. I used to use it a lot, but I've found I've needed it a lot less lately.

[0]: https://duckduckgo.com/bang
Tried AppZapper, it asked for access to my contacts and crashed when I denied.
It even includes a Monkey Island 2-esque controversial ending!
That reminds me of this story: https://twitter.com/johnath/status/1116871238922776576
This is the book that caused me the greatest despair about our current political system. Short of rolling back Citizens United, I can't imagine an effective counter strategy.

Correction: Union -> United
I'm not talking from an idealist/paternalist point of view about what I think is good for users. I'm talking about letting users decide. And they seem to have decided, according to market share, that they like Chrome.

Yes, users could be clueless and be trading personal privacy unwittingly but that's not what I mean about "serves users very well". I meant users look at Chrome, Firefox and others and stick to Chrome. If they didn't like Chrome, they would switch.
I've been a mostly FF user on Android for years and it does crash routinely for me, and also will do a thing where it doesn't crash but every page renders blank until I restart it. I've always assumed both items might be related to memory management either for graphics or in general.
That’s like saying a drunk driver isn’t entirely to blame for killing pedestrians because there are more people walking about these days.

The conditions under which these fires have started were not impossible in the past. Nor are those conditions even necessary for a fire. Any increased likelihood now is irrelevant since proper maintenance ought always have been done.
When?

They have a link to Amazon (it's not even an app, just a link) and that's about it.
"Their position is, basically, the potential risks of climate change are overstated and extreme solutions are not worth the cost."

Stating that the risk of climate change is overstated is denying the risk of climate change. I don't see how you can interpret it any differently. In your own words they are denying the risk of climate change.

Saying that climate change is happening, but that it is not a risk, is the same thing as saying that climate change is not happening. They're just moving goal posts and being mealy mouthed.
And this is how Democratic voters become Republicans..

Never pitch this office. These people are trying to centralize control and create a political elite-- insiders who may pass through their imaginary gates to the city. Pay to play.
So cool from what ive always heard bill gates has always been a really cool person must been cool to work with/for him and get to meet him
Those were different; they all started at the same time as him.

Having pacemakers in marathons that way is deemed acceptable. The organization of a marathon will even specifically hire runners to, say, run the first half in one hour ten minutes, after which they are free to step out of the race.

Here, each pacemaker, including the ones that accompanied him to the finish line, ran for only about 9 km (my guess, given 35 pacemakers used and using groups of 7). So, the last group only started running when Kipchoge has run for over one and a half hours.
I have begun the path to learning stenography. Steno involves chording, or pressing multiple keys at once. Multiple keys at once means greatly improving the information density of when you type allowing professionals to type 240 words per minute (realtime), which is just not possible on single-key-at-a-time keyboards. Unfortunately most commonly available, non-gaming keyboards do not natively support multiple keys at once which is also known as n-key rollover (nkro). I ended up buying a pre-assembled, fully opensource hacker keyboard Ergodox EZ⁰, and have a custom layout firmware that matches up with the open steno project¹ . From here I am using Querty Steno² to practice my chording. Here is an example video someone did of using steno for programming a simple FizzBuzz on a different keyboard on YouTube³. In my opinion, if anyone is looking to really take their typing to the next level, chording is the only way and Dvorak/Colmak/single-key-at-a-time-layouts will never really get you there.

⁰ https://ergodox-ez.com

¹ http://www.openstenoproject.org

² http://qwertysteno.com

³ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBBiri3CD6w
Interpreting Go
What is the alternative?

SF is flush with VC money and rich customers eager to try new products. Add to that the perfect weather, quality of life, and ability to get around without a car. There's no better place still, by far.

As somebody who lived in Europe, China, Israel, and the US, I have no attachment whatsoever. I would move in a heartbeat I there was viable alternative. I sincerely wish there was one.
Do you have a link about this?
I haven't checked your link, but John Long told the story in one of his many autobiographical books. He also was credited with the story idea that became the Sylvester Stallone climbing action movie "Cliffhanger," and that is loosely based on the incident.
"ads" as in recommending you get the next version of poweshell?

Not a huge thing of your ask me.
Maybe a tourist cruising down the beach path would go slower. But this guy went 13.1 mph which, on a bike, is actually a bit less cardiac output than a 3mph walk.
It’s very common to wear sunglasses in an ultramarathon. Runners usually also wear a vest to carry their water, food, safety gear, headlamp, etc.
San Francisco is full of Republicans who don’t know it. This would be a welcome change.
Welcome to New York! [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0N3C6DsisQ
The problem is that you don't. You can earn big money maintaining COBOL software on mainframes, no FAANG there. As long as it is a choice it will be really hard to do something about it.
I have js disabled, and the page shows no notices and the article renders fine.
Bel has four fundamental data types:
symbols, pairs, characters, and streams.

No numbers?

Then a bit further down it says:

(+ 1 2) returns 3

Now suddenly there are numbers.

What am I missing?
It can be automated response. They use automated testing for extensions and they want to make it harder to guess how it works.
> I'd honestly like to divorce the name entirely from its physical counterpart.

How about (bit) or (randbit)
Excuse me, we hate individual freedom of rich assholes such as landlords, developers, and JUUL. You’re free to blow vape smoke in Tom Ammiano’s face.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4818165/joe-biden-confesses-b...

From Uncle Joe's own mouth.
I, since day one, always felt chromium UI was slicker than any other web browser out there. Slighty less lag, slightly simpler overall. Something that I love about software in general.
Firefox preview is not mature and lacks extensions but it's noticeably faster than Firefox Beta, which I use as default browser on Android 9.
Deception on both sides is a failing strategy. A big benefit of the moral high ground is having the high ground. If morals lack on both sides then it is difficult to convince people with evidence, I think.
Too hot in summer and too cold in winter. Not enough VC money relatively to SF. Otherwise I'd move.
It's a 14 minute 5K over and over for 42K.
But then you don't have smooth scrolling.

Enabling apz kinetic scrolling is another approach. That cuts the lag by about 90%, getting it much closer to chrome.
WebExtensions are planned to arrive in Firefox Preview at the end of the year.

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/5315
The goal is quality tools, not money.
Count it! Cuz in everyone's mind, we do! We don't care about the technicalities, we care what a human was capable of doing. The crowd was a huge help in getting him there. Nike's course was sterile, this one specifically had crowds to help.
Nothing is certain, but remember that there's a difference between negotiating "unpaid time off" and "vacation days."

A vacation day is a paid thing. Unpaid time off is not. It's all money and productivity in the end, but in many companies it's easier to negotiate unpaid time off, than to negotiate extra vacation days. Even if the money works out the same in the end.
He has won all ten of his last ten marathons. He was beaten by Wilson Kipsang in the 2013 Berlin marathon, but Kipsang ran a world record time. Kipchoge is incredibly consistent in arguably the most competitive field in history. He is an extraordinary athlete in both performance and spirit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliud_Kipchoge#Competition_rec...
Too comical. Scooters are a threat to society but not record level property crime, car break ins, and opioid addiction and mental health issues among the homeless
syncing is alright, I admit I never liked it, but it works enough to do the basics stuff (automatic plugin install, shared bookmarks) without caring much more. Maybe it's amazing and I just never learned about it.
"Ecofascism is a theoretical political model in which an authoritarian government would require individuals to sacrifice their own interests to the "organic whole of nature" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofascism
There have been several points in time where the earth was on average 8° higher.

Furthermore your claim on "clouds will never form" is plainly wrong, and more likely than not, the opposite of what actually happens in a 8° hotter earth.

Climate change is happening, no real doubt about that, but the mindless apocalyptic claims that are parroted around need to stop, because not only are they wrong, but they also decrease the credibility of actual legitimate claims.
It's really annoying. If you have a matching app installed there's an Android icon in the URL bar to open it in that app instead, but it's an extra step.
Well that's a pretty confusing article. As far as I can see all it points out is that the guy had theories claiming cancer and heart-disease were caused in part by certain mindsets. Then it goes on to mention how these theories were apparently very successfully tested by him, by preventing people from falling sick.

And so the claims he made are apparently supposed to sound "ridiculous" enough to the reader to discredit his work? Strange.
It's easy to utter when the opposition rarely has anything to do with actual science.

Ever had a conversation with someone who didn't believe in evolution.

Get ready to discuss at length why it being the "theory" of evolution means even scientists know it's less credible than the "law" of gravity.

It's easy to share truths that only know nothings would believe so your opponent knows 78 of them. Debunking them will require knowledge of 17 fields and taking a week to debate the matter
> Never pitch this office

If you didn't get the memo, it won't be optional. If you come up with any idea on how to improve anything at all around you, better run it by Norman Yee first. Now get your ticket and wait in line for a few weeks to get reviewed.
BTW, comedians literally call this "working out"—it's understood that if you don't use it, even for a week, you start to lose it. So along with a need to do it, part of it is that it's more difficult to get back into comedic shape than it is to stay in shape.
Looks pretty cool!

The notifications, however, look a little off. But I can’t tell what’s wrong. I’m not an UI person :)
This response feels very hyperbolic to me.

I can barley call this an ad, especially since the subject of the ad is free, open source and a successor product to the current one.
Sure, but there is debate and there is to cast FUD and lies using extreme or disingenuous cherry picking then claim it's a debate.

Were someone to perform a study or experiment, any experiment, that cast genuine doubt on the consensus we could have a debate. Few would be naive enough to claim science is perfect or infallible. Models are imperfect, climate is a massive, complex thing with colossal hysteresis. So, Mr X does an experiment that shows that we're mistaken, and mistaken despite the endless stream of record weather events, species loss, arctic melt and so on. Then people can analyse, discuss, try to replicate and so on.

Not remotely what is happening, is it? Endless trope, but obvious sounding to the layman pieces that prove the planet was warmer xx million years ago, the climate is always changing isn't it, or a few mammals survived the K-T extinction, so humans will clearly be perfectly fine now.

That's not debate, that's the tobacco bullshit distraction and obfuscation playbook.

So please, someone, anyone, find some evidence we're all mistaken, then a real debate can commence on the science of the remarkable study with new findings.

Edit: Actually it strikes me that would be a genuinely fascinating debate to read or participate in. How were we mistaken? How could we possibly miss that effect? Why, what are the implications, etc. Rather than the frustration of hearing weak, irrelevant or facile arguments in a new coat of paint over and over.