skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if you support denying equal rights to gay people, then I don't want to be associated with you in any way.

Does that include Muslims and Catholics who oppose gay marriage?
elastic isn’t competing with algolia, imo. elastic is after the enterprise customers who have a mission-critical need for search (rather than a casual need like algolia users)

but I think mission-critical search is a niche technical problem that isn’t applicable to many enterprises.
Oh, well, honestly none. I just write them by hand. I've written hundreds that way. It probably would be faster to investigate tools, but it seems like there is always something with higher priority to work on.
Kenneth Feinberg
The natural interpretation would be that entries once posted could not be changed.

Reading the page, that's exactly it; journal entries are an append-only log.
> The mess is beautiful. Keep adding layers.

No, it's really not. In many ways X11 is behind what the other operating systems offer, and the emphasis on backwards compatibility above all else is the reason. For example, Windows has the notion of window privilege, in which lower-privilege windows are isolated from higher-privilege windows. X11 technically has the XSECURITY extension, but nobody uses it as it breaks everything, so in practice every X11 app can keylog your browser. It's really unfortunate that the Linux community is so divided over Wayland, as from a technical perspective Wayland is sorely needed.
> Leaves unanswered the important question: what gender has L'Académie française assigned the French noun for this thing.

I am confident to say it is “Le Blob” due to the “o” in the its name, so it would be male following grammatical gender rules.
They're literally there to prevent money laundering and other financial crimes.
We even have our own Sasquatch. A fun game is telling foreign hikers in our backcountry huts that the terrifying noises they're hearing at night is a Maero[1]. They're actually from an unwanted Australian overstayer, the brushtail possum[2], but cannibalistic wild men is a lot more fun.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maero

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70n88xAdmo0
when will "the blob" finally be given voting rights?

:'(
This is such a pessimistic take, on what in my opinion is a positive development. It means a segment of Americans are wealthier than they used to be.
If you can't present an argument as to why you think something, you probably haven't.
Your comment has me imagine a more visual, GUI-based editor on top of AWS Lambda (i.e. hooking up all sorts or internal/external events, tying workflows or multiple Lambdas together, still including a small editor for writing JavaScript, etc.)

I mean, you can write code in-line with AWS Lambda but to have an application help setup multiple Lambdas and/or integrate outside APIs would be pretty neat.
I mean you can say it's a clear analysis in the abstract, but if you look at the HN comments on the thread about CloudFlare cutting off 8chan it's clear that most people no longer agree with the principle as soon as they're presented with a real world example.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20610395
Lot of errors in your comment.

- Pixel 3/3XL had best camera in phones until 11/11 Pro were released (yeah even better than XS).
- Pixel 3 didn't have best screen in Android phones. Not even close. 3XL had good screen, was not oversaturated. Samsung in general have had the best screens overall.
- Lot of people actually don't think Pixel 3 looks like a cheaply made toy. Look for reviews.
- iPhones won't be supported 3 times as long compared to Pixel 3s.
- App store is not full of garbage.

Source: I use a Pixel 3XL.

Disc: Googler but nowhere close to the Pixel/phone teams.
This begs the question: at what point a computation is simply an optimization
WikiPedia article with more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physarum_polycephalum
> <category-of-material>-ware is plural. period.

Actually it's an uncountable noun. You use a singular verb form - "the software is" not "the software are." But you can't pluralize it or use an indefinite article.

Same with "code," unless it means "cipher" or "regulation."
They're trained to be that way because of the prevalence of guns on the street.
It's written in the page that they're Carbon Emission Footprint are totally biased and flawed:

> The table below features a breakdown of the energy consumption of the mining facilities surveyed by Hileman and Rauchs. By applying the emission factors of the respective country’s grid

You just need to read.
Show HN: How a machine learning model understands logo similarity
Hi HN,
I'm a co-founder of Aesthetic, a new kind of research tool for designers.

Our upcoming app lets designers search the world of design using images or text. To understand and improve the quality of our visual similarity models, we want a more intuitive way to interpret some of the distances between our logo corpus.

My co-founder Andrew Look created this awesome tool using Tensorflow, Inception, t-sne and a subset of our logos corpus.

We just published a cool video of it, published it our website. See it here: www.aesthetic.com

And, here's another data viz that we didn't post on our landing page: https://gph.is/g/aNWDeoq
I always thought relying on companies to enforce morality was far more libertarian, their ability to do so relies solely on companies having freedom of association. The result is it limits free speech to anyone not causing bad publicity for the company, the only care about themselves as you said. Last year it was neo nazis, this year it's anyone speaking ill of the CCP.

As a definitely not libertarian I think we should be placing much greater restrictions on companies ability to discriminate against their employees and customers.
Ladies, gentlemen, and everyone in between, I give you, clickbait.
Sounds like a standard configure.sh script.
> Eternal inflation, if correct, states that there is indeed something which our universe is expanding into.

I don't think that's right. The fact that space gets bigger doesn't mean that space is inside something, it just means space gets bigger.

Disclaimer: not an astrophysicist
> the landscape of information producers by volume is more or less the same as it was back then

It's not quite the same. Before fact checking anything took an impossible amount of time and not a few resources - a very good library for a start. Now, or even a decade ago it suddenly became possible for everyone.

I vividly remember when the Iraq was announced, and you could see the "information producers" in full swing. I was amazed when my local radio station announcer, well known for his resistance for being bullshitted asked someone he was interviewing in a disbelieving voice if they didn't agree Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

The point being that by then I had already done my own homework (we were going to war, my fellow citizens were going to be killed and I wanted to know why), and knew full well Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. The reports and opinions of the UN weapons inspectors was easily available on the internet, along with numerous dumbed down pieces from the mass media. Anyone willing to waste a few hours could easily get past the propaganda smokescreen. Yet this news interviewer who up until then I assumed to be a master of his craft had been pulled in hook, line and sinker.

It changed the message in Chomsky's books from an interesting theoretical discussion to distressingly real. But it also created another puzzle: why didn't the Internet fix it? Why didn't people immediately put this bullshit filter to good use?

I still don't know the answer. There have now been numerous studies into the phenomenon of people continuing to loudly defend bullshit despite the facts being easily available in just about anywhere you look (cue: climate change). Apparently it has to do with people preferring to signal they are part of a particular tribe over acting in their best interest. Or something. I guess I'll never understand, as they aren't people like me.
That's a very good profit even when accounting for interest (~$144k), taxes (~$29k) and maintenance (not sure, maybe $10k a year?). Definitely better than 2.5x your $50k with an index fund tied to S&P 500.
On the flip side, at what point a heuristic optimization becomes computation?
https://www.coindesk.com/eu-authorities-crack-down-on-bitcoi...
A direct approach used carelessly can cause the other side to feel a lack of psychological safety, which is an important characteristic to effective teams. For example, in your comment, you effectively invalidated the previous commenter's feelings and implied they were crazy for feeling that way. If your goal was to create an environment for collaboration and a meaningful dialogue, you probably failed to do so, since you come across as someone who won't bother empathizing. Were you in the same team as this individual, they would also likely be hesitant to collaborate with you, which ultimately impacts your and your team's ability to achieve desired outcomes and goals.

So, theoretically, you read that previous paragraph and didn't feel anything negative (annoyance, anger, or whatever). And if you're able to do that, I commend you-- but you need to realize that not everyone can do that. Feelings exist in other people, regardless whether you think they're valid. And if you're truly interested in solving problems effectively with other people, then you're going to have an easier time adjusting your communication style rather than telling someone to feel emotions in a way they may have no control over.
People buy wedding cakes for handfastings, renewals of wedding vows, and many other kinds of ceremonies somewhat like a wedding but not legally a wedding, such as the sham weddings that people hold after being married by a justice of the peace at a courthouse. People even buy them to use on stage during theater productions.

That's not actually at issue in the Colorado case. "I will not sell you that cake because you're gay" is the issue, not the type of cake.
It does not. Subtracting a char from a char involves usual arithmetic conversions as well and the result is typically an int. Next, you have addition between an int and a char.
Scala: A software tool for microtonic, macrotonic and other alternative tunings
I guess that makes sense, thanks. I was wondering if it might have been something like the theories of what might happen much later in the universe's life, where things eventually get so far apart while still accelerating that light can't travel between them. But it couldn't be something like that if we can see the other galaxy, right?
We've taken that bit out of the title above.
(2001)

Aside, why the few X11 related articles recently?

Has something happened? Is there a debate?

Correction - the author is Conrad Parker aka kfish. Dunno why that is elided in this version. Conrad has some good rants.

Complete version at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kfish/xsel/1a1c5edf0dc1290...

Trivia, JW here is jdub and was an early Canonical/Ubuntu employee and their evangelist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Waugh
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21268389
> Religion isn't intrinsic to the person ...

Interestingly, even that statement takes a particular religious stance.

Some branches of Christianity hold that a person does not choose to be Christian, but rather is chosen by God to be a Christian [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irresistible_grace
> "Gun ownership is not a "protected characteristic", because it's not something intrinsic to the person. Your example discusses risks and statements about the future, but not questions of identity and personhood."

Identity is whatever a person decides it is, according to progressive doctrine, therefore it's not intrinsic to the person either. There's no objective identity-o-meter.
The idea is that 100 people put in the 5 bitcoins, then each of those 100 get back 5 bitcoins to a different address... yes, you can track the bitcoins themselves, but you don't know which of the new wallets belonged to which of the old wallets... the 5 tainted bitcoins (from an illegal activity) might end up going to a totally different person who had nothing to do with the illegal activities.

In your example, the original owner of the whore coins would end up with the kingpin coins and vice versa.

It is described here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency_tumbler
If int8_t exists[1], then you know that char is 8 bits[2] and therefore know that char in char + char always promotes to int because int must have at least 16 value bits and a 16-bit int can represent any char value regardless of signedness.

[1] int8_t is not required.

[2] char is the fundamental unit of addressability. sizeof char always evaluates to 1, sizeof int8_t must be non-0, char must be at least 8 bits, and int8_t must be precisely 8 bits, therefore sizeof int8_t == sizeof char and CHAR_BIT == 8.
I mean this kind of in jest. It's obviously just garbage engineering, but I think the mess is kind of pretty.
In my consulting I switched from rolling out ElasticSearch on Azure, AWS or on-prem to Algolia and couldn't be happier. I want to scope and build products and not be a sysadmin - clients don't want to do any of it, let alone hiring fulltime sysadmins.

I have one client in particular that is a stark indicator of this trend - 50+ year old company and their second floor where they used to have 30+ developers and sysadmins and a server room downstairs has now been remodelled into a break room and new offices for their new team of 5 (all awesome replacing a ton of mediocre people who didn't get much done for a decade)

They're doing better, their products are more popular, they don't have to worry about recruiting developers + sysadmins, their current IT staff get paid better and they're saving money.

I find Algolia interesting in that they've managed to capture something that Elasitc didn't - and it could be because of a prevailing wisdom similar to that of grandfather's comment
"Do their best" does not mean "lie to the court." The defense does not have to turn over incriminating evidence that it does not intend to use, and lawyers can ethically and accurately enter a "not guilty" plea and argue that the prosecution has insufficient evidence available to prove guilt beyond a shadow of a doubt.
English is worse as it is SVO. So a more English like language would be all infix operators. I thunk part of ambiguity is that English can be used in both modes.

“Say that”
“He said”
Yes, they could make it illegal... but it isn't yet.
> Hubble and Kepler and James Webb are plenty fine for me.

Those facilities have resulted in lots of discoveries. But Kepler wouldn't have been such a success without lots of follow-up observations from ground-based telescopes (e.g., measuring spectroscopic radial velocities to confirm exoplanets). It's likely that many HST (and eventually JWST) studies rely or will rely on data taken with ground based facilities in order to actually interpret the data. Pardon the pun, but space based telescopes don't exist in a (scientific) vacuum. They have unique and impressive capabilities, but they don't stand alone.
You literally are being dishonest.
Doesn't Colorado explicitly ban discrimination against gay people?
> And there’s no serious way to understand the accuracy you get per use (on your specific unusual distribution of queries) without employing the expensive ML / stats engineers you probably thought you could avoid hiring by outsourcing to Algolia / Rekognition in the first place.

You may simply not be able to do this at all. You might not know how to tell good ML/Stats people from bad. You might not be able to pay them competitively.

You might simply want something that's better than nothing, with "nothing" being your realistic alternative. "Expert in-house ML team" is not an alternative many companies can get, and even for the ones that could, it'll take a while. What are you going to do in the meantime?
I very much doubt that. You have a source?
> The young and gracile protohuman famously known as Lucy... was hardly the sort of presence to intimidate a lion or cheetah.

And look at us now
> You’re not even addressing the engineering costs though

This is a pretty silly thing to say. How could you possibly know what I'm addressing?

I actually have experience with all of these scenarios, and bar none Algolia has been the fastest, smoothest, bug-free-and-feature-rich-for-the-dollar rollouts for search experiences I have ever come across.

> including asymmetric costs for surfacing bad items in many use cases

Sure, if you're Google, Netflix or Amazon. For the 99.9% of the rest of the world where search isn't core to the business, there's unlikely to be any discernible impact going one way or the other, except saving money and launching faster.
Have they gone after any of the users of the mixer?
Off the top of my head, Climate change, China, Hofstede, the primacy of the state and bicycling oddly enough.

The first one I won't touch anywhere online. China has too many wumaos. There's very little room to question the role of the state without things devolving rapidly.

As it concerns cycling, suggesting that people can get out there as self-starters without the need for designated lanes had me warned for being impolite? Not sure how much gentler I could have said it.

I few comments later someone else was suggesting that I was an outlier as a former bike messenger and that most couriers are run-over so my opinion isn't valid. Somehow this one passed by the moderation team.

I get that the moderators can't be everywhere at once. Not here for Internet points. I want to be polite with everyone. But I view the pedantic wrist slaps as falling on one side and ignoring the other.
Obviously they're not "literally" picking the next president, however they have full control on what opinions you see first, and they have utilized that ability to tilt many (yes, very many) people's opinions (especially those whose understanding of even general politics is superficial) towards a specific candidate.
How do you think America is malfunctioning compared to other countries?

I have never seen anyone trip over to try and immigrate to Netherlands.

US has a lot of ‘desert’ in the middle? Pray do tell..what is the name of said desert in the middle of America?
(I don’t hate social media)

One specific behavior I dislike though is the very public display of .. thanking? People often seem to talk to their followers rather than the person they seem to be talking to.

They’ll say “had a great!!! time at XYZ with you @someone see you next time!!”

Like, cool but why don’t you just tell them? DM? In person?

Seems to happen especially often between high profile personalities within the given domain.

But yes, I get it, you’re both using twitter as a tool and this gives you more visibility together, still I can’t stand it.
An organization is not a tool, it's a group of people thus it reflects the morals of those people. Software is also not a tool, it's a continual process in an organization of people. Just think, is the code you wrote today a rock? Will it survive without you supporting it? I used to think that was the case but after decades have never seen that to be true.
Yet it occurs...globally...

Proxies too. Teenagers install proxy modules on their own phones and APs all the time across the globe. This “illegal crypto” is simple a series of mathematical algorithms.

You cannot truly “ban” math.
What credence does your opinion hold?
The compiler doesn't agree with you.

#include <type_traits>
static_assert(std::is_arithmetic<char>::value, "char is arithmetic");
Try watching star trek the next generation with that setting on.
Well. That would be the literal definition of ‘higher density area’.

I don’t understand why that is misleading?

https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_p... :
> ... and the emphasis on backwards compatibility above all else is the reason ...

Not entirely; from memory the entire X11 development team are also heavily invested in Wayland.

There was a long period of time where graphics drivers lived in userspace, in X11, and nobody could use an alternative window system. That was the way things were up until 2010-2012 era. Even then the graphics drivers in the kernel weren't in a great way.

Now the drivers in the kernel work well and the graphics stack is slowly migrating away from X11. They are moving as fast as they can without breaking things.
Until most mining moves to renewables, yes it does.
Since gold bullion isn't legal currency anywhere, I'm not sure it's the most relevant comparison.

From the US Mint's financial statement [1]:

2017 cost $13.5 million dollars in "Communications, utilities, and misc charges", which presumably is the bucket that electricity bills falls under. There's no breakdown of overhead between currency coinage production and bullion/numismatic production, but the manufacturing obligation suggests that currency is roughly ⅕ of their total costs, which suggests that we might ascribe about $3 million in utility cost to produce coinage. The coins themselves were worth about $870 million, which suggests about 250 kJ (or 0.07 kWh) per $1 of coinage if we assume the Mint pays $0.05/kWh. I'm not including the energy cost of metal production itself, because I don't want to spend the time to track down that information.

[1] https://www.treasury.gov/about/budget-performance/CJ19/23.%2...
I'm a huge fan of Ionic. Capacitor is a great project and fixes a lot of issues I had with Cordova. I have made a few apps that are websites and apps on both stores and they work pretty well I think.
Tess Spots Its First Star-Shredding Black Hole
It doesn't really matter too much if it's taxed twice, the majority of people with 10 million dollars in a portfolio are passive investors of whatever liquid and hedgeable assets are available.

The complaint at issue is that a passive investor who happened to have 10 million dollars that they inherited at 30, sticks it in betterment for 50 years while drawing a top 1% of income 380k for expenses ( accounting for tax rate ) will eventually have 130 million dollars. They can easily pass this amount down to children at estate tax rates to enable the next generation to do nothing as well, or they could use any one of a number of tax sheltering methods to avoid or defray the estate tax as well.

Generational wealth, or "idle wealth" has been a concern in the US from Thomas Jefferson onward - capital gains taxes are merely one mechanism to restrict it.
If someone replies to this comment saying they are a Nazi, are you going to stop using hacker news? Perhaps you're restricting yourself to only paid services, but that still doesn't seem like a tenable plan. Nazis buy coffee from the same cafés as you, they ride the same trains as you.

If you think people should be removed from society altogether, you should vote to make what they're doing illegal so they can all be thrown in jail. Short of that, I don't think it's fair to try to prevent them from participating in society. Jail is the way we prevent people from participating in society, stopping them from using their bank accounts seems like a half-measure.
The middle is agricultural land. You have to consider rural areas akin to industrial areas or open air factories. Because acres under industry is not suitable for residences.
Why would it requiring discrimination be a problem?
It's disheartening to witness some of the arguments in this thread defending Google, saying that disallowing open source developers from linking to their Patreon pages is a legal requirement, because Google is legally liable (while the rest of the internet apparently isn't) for the payments that may happen on Patreon by following those links.
It's a routine application of HN's rules. I'm happy to hear what you find objectionable, but you're going to have to be more specific if you want a specific response.
I was thinking maybe it was traveling a large fraction of c and there was a relativity thing going on