skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I try to understand both sides without siding too much with either.

"there's no substance to an argument where Catalans are ignored or overruled from the central parliament because of any sort of authoritarian rule" leads me to believe that you're not thinking the same way as me regarding understanding both sides.

Image if the EU Council could, at any time, invoke a article to take control over what the member states themselves should decide over. This is what Catalans feel right now is happening.

Any autonomy that Catalans currently enjoy, is devolved power from Madrid. Just having the possibility for Madrid to at any time suspend the autonomy of (what they see as) their own state, makes them uneasy, and we're seeing the result of that uneasiness coming to the surface more and more recently.
That comment didn't exactly add much value to discussion, given that this exact (and fairly obvious) example is prominently featured in the article, under a headline "Historical precedent".

> If you can see how people might respond to IBM, infamous for providing technology that helped the Nazis in World War II [...]
I'm not sure. There is Union[Foo, Bar] which matches instances of Foo or Bar [0] and there is @overload [1]. What would it need to be complete?

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.Union

[1] https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/more_types.html#functi...
The key is that for loops are essentially pre-processor macros (like C) so they must have a fixed number of iterations known at compile time. So yes, you have a for loop, but it's very different to what you expect from a for loop in software.
I don't think a centralized and by-default unencrypted XMPP server for all MPs would be a good solution.

Signal isn't ideal either, as it requires sharing the phone number.

I'm biased since I work for Threema, but any decentralized end-to-end encrypted messenger that does not require a phone number would be a good fit in my eyes.

https://www.securemessagingapps.com/ gives a good overview on the tradeoffs.
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Where they could instead be replacing fossil fuel-based capacity.
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I think the personal automobile still is one of the best inventions. The failure is not the vehicle itself, but the fact that entire cities have been constructed to accomodate them, to the detriment of everything else (as discussed in this thread: pedestrians, cyclists, small shops, communities, health all suffer from car-centric city design).
I've never used fingerprint scanners for paranoid reasons as this, so this gives me both some undeserved smugness and renewed paranoia.

Are long pins and passwords still the most secure way to control access to your phone? Is there U2F for phones as a 2nd factor?
Twists and turns like a fabric, waves like a fabric...
Looks like they've discovered double-entry accounting...

...at last ;)
“An alternate term is combinatorial logic,[2] though this usage may be considered controversial.[3]”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinational_logic
It does matter, because those that reject it will at some point have to justify themselves to the electorate in a General Election, of which currently the opposition are running scared.

Edit: and what's more to remind everyone - over and over and over again we were told 'This is the only deal!' by Barnier, Juncker, Varadkar and many many others, and the anti-Brexit crowd used this to bash Leave over the head again and again. Turns out it wasn't the only deal. Fancy that!
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Zapier is already one of YC's top 100 companies. Form builder apps tap into that same growing 'no code' movement.
> then why does the word semi-annual exist

My large Collins dictionary suggests that biannual means twice per year, while semi-annual has more of a hint at 'six-monthly', i.e. evenly space (which makes sense if you think semi-circle, semi-detached, etc.).

> And I’m American, we don’t use the word fortnight unless we’re pretending to be British.

Ah well there's the problem! ;) But well, yes, of course if you remove the word for something from your vocabulary there's going to be ambiguity when a similar one is used. Or just stick to 'every [other] week' and remove biweekly too.
> the Apple Mac of the same era was noun-verb

As I recall the standard top-level menus were “File, Edit, Options, Help”
The trick to understanding America is to realise that it's the most wealthy technologically advanced country in the world and a declining "developing" colonized nation at the same time occupying the same space with tiny fractal boundaries between the two.
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I want to play devil advocate for a moment and defend a wildly optimistic view of what some googlers might intend to do.

Already a way to debias a model (I know nothing of ML in specific, it is just an overview) would be to have the model explicitly realize that "engineer" need to be assigned a gender in certain situations. So in this sense the correct answer should be to try and understand whether this engineer is a specific human whose gender you should know so not to make wrong assumptions.

Whether this defense applies to this specific case I do not know, my point is that sometimes it is possible to actually partly debias something. The fact that it can be done in the wrong way does not mean it should not be done.

The same way there is a nice middle point between corporate anarcho-capitalism and totalitarian regimes.
I'm not from Pontevedra, but close, and I know some locals and I've been there.

Complains that I remember.

- People from outside the city has problems to move apparently. They say that there aren't parkings enough in the city borders, so they have to go for one that's roughly in the center, through very slow traffic lines. That induces them to go less frequently.

- Businesses like bars, chocolate shops and so on flourished (leisure oriented), but others like hardware stores, furniture stores, two law firms, and a Cinema closed.

Imagine that you were going to the hardware store. It's either impossible to park near it https://www.google.es/maps/@42.4264585,-8.6406022,3a,41.3y,1... or difficult/forbidden/very slow traffic https://www.google.es/maps/@42.4304871,-8.6417988,3a,42.3y,1...
As of just now, surveymonkey's market cap is 2.463B
Just wanted to echo this post. The start of the OP felt a little like the prospective founders were focused more on image than results, but by the end I was convinced.

My 2 cents would be to forget about YC as a source of seed capital and either get a loan or private angel investment to build a solid, revenue generating success.
You can use NFC or USB Yubikeys etc.
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Some kind of smudge attack from residue left on the screen protector?
That would be a reasonable starting point.

Also, it would be great to see how these trades relate to the expected amount of volatility for the weekend (also public).

For funds that don't want to trade out of and in to large positions on Friday and Sunday the e-minis are a great way to hedge your risk especially around high volatility events (of which there have been an increasing amount).
Boris already lost the majority, even without the DUP defecting.

But (parts of) the opposition parties could actually vote for the deal, thinking it's better than no-deal or gambling on a second referendum.
It does, because it competes with decarbonizations of things our civilization actually needs. Once that's done, it'll still be ridiculous to try and base the economy on bitcoins, because proof of work scales so badly it'll happily eat any and all energy that's made available.

Thousands of years from now, when humanity builds its first Dyson sphere, I would like to believe the collected energy will be used for purposes like making everyone's life long and prosperous, or propelling great starships across the void - and not just to secure the Bitcoin network.
What's with all the anti-car articles lately? It's pointless to try having any discussion about it because any comment that even remotely suggests the situational necessity of cars is downvoted out of visibility.

Might as well disable comments and just tell everyone what to think in the title. Drop the pretense of not being an echo chamber by this point.
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But this one has comments, the other one doesn't :(
When everyone uses "their freedom"[1] every workday at the same time, suddenly no one (including those how choose the bus) has "their freedom".

I have an asthmatic child and I live in a big city, so yeah, on my list, somewhat curtailing your right to pollute around goes after my right to not have to bring him to ER with a crisis at 3 in the morning. That is a problem electric cars won't fix, by the way, they'll just move it around.

I can do most of my groceries by going downstairs and walking. I can get to the city center in 40 minutes using public transportation. During that time I can look up stuff on my phone without endangering anyone's life, I don't have to worry about finding a parking spot, and I don't have to worry about a bunch of expenses that a car brings. I think your car (and car-centric urban development) is making you less free than me.

[1] Related: Molecules of Freedom https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/29/energy-depa...
I wonder what's the good core count for development workstation. While it's obvious that increase from 4 cores to 12 cores is useful, for me it's not obvious that increase from 12 cores to 32 cores is similarly useful.

Sure, if I'm compiling huge project from the scratch, every core will be loaded, but that's more suitable for CI machine.

For everyday development people usually use incremental compilation and in my experience it's few files. So for me something like 12 cores looks like a golden balance between single core performance and multi core performance (because usually those high-core processors come with low frequency).
If this is a breakdown event like dark body or just a within system surprise event. In other words, Need a total new system or just refinement of observation or equitation?
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We can't have an election until the extension against no-deal is secured. If Johnson wanted an election he shouldn't have made the fuss about being determined to exit at the end of the month no matter what.
This deal is going to fail because of the pro-brexit contingent of the conservative party. The DUP are against and it looks like the ERG are likely to follow suit once it becomes clear exactly what is agreed. So whilst you're right that they'll face a GE at some point, the people responsible for stopping the deal to leave the EU are likely going to be campaigning for a deal to leave the EU (and then continuing to vote against it if they get elected).
> In Docker Swarm, that's a Stack. K8s has no equivalent.

My take is that the equivalent in k8s is it's declarative management with configuration files. Just kubectl apply -f your.yaml and you're good to go.
With things like Figma changing the nature of design tools (in the browser) why don't you see a video editor in the browser taking off?
You must not have used many Android phones. The fingerprint scanner has been stellar and instant in every phone I've had, at least until people started switching to this horrible under-display one which is a huge downgrade for no reason.
Which parts? Can we name names? Are there really that many people willing to get kicked out of the Labour party at this late stage to support an obviously bad deal?
Also what always separated the wheat from the chaff in VR, was latency. (That kind of timing.) Naive approaches did not take low latency seriously, causing users to throw up needlessly.
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It's a bit off topic, but I wonder why everyone is so focussed on MRR (monthly recurring revenue). Why are you focussing only on people who want to pay you every month?

Especially for a tool that targets beginners. I mean, if someone uses your app enough to keep paying 20€ for it every month, I would assume that they'll soon want to upgrade to "real" video editing software. Adobe Premiere isn't that much more expensive.

Of course, the non-power users can just use the free version with watermarks. But who wants a watermark on their videos?

I always wonder why these SaaS companies do not offer something for casual users?

If I want to edit just a single video from a special event, why do I need to get a monthly subscription? Why can't I just pay $5 or whatever to remove a watermark from a single video?

I understand that targeting casual users may seem less profitable than targeting power users. But there's probably also lot less competition in that space, and it may help with word of mouth advertising if you don't focus exclusively on the most frequent users of your software.
25 points, 5 comments, 1 hour.

If this was Apple, we would be at 500 points and 100 comments saying how they abandoned Macs for a {insert random brand}.
Some sort of certification would be useful. We can compare cameras with megapixels, but fingerprint reader is like boolean: it's either present or not. There are obvious metrics like false positive rate, false negative rate, but I have no idea where to find those metrics for any phone.
> If the social benefits of a cryptocurrency are worth the computational power, and if PoW is the only technical solution to implement it, then by definition PoW isn't wasteful.

But they aren't, and the whole exercise is comparable to trying to repeatedly solve ever-larger NP-complete problems by brute force. Something no technical person in their sane mind would consider a correct course of action.

And just like we use good enough polynomial approximations to get near-best solutions to NP-complete problems, we can do the same for running economy. Trust is not a liability. Trust is what makes economy efficient.
I like the fact that I can put ~/.config under VCS more easily than I can put ~/ under a VCS.

OTOH, I've recently (months) started to use yadm[1] and seeing that it maybe doesn't matter and all I needed was a tool to make managing my home & configurations in a simpler way.

[1]: https://yadm.io/
Here the metaphor breakdown for a very simple reason: crimes are crimes and not crimes are not crimes.

the villain part is irrelevant. If $hero/heroine wants to buy an hammer to smite $villain, the hardware store is in the same situation: protect your safety and call the police.
>>The first is learnability. A big problem with gestures is that there is no clear affordance as to what kinds of gestures you can do, or any clear feedback. For feedback, one could couple Soli's input with a visual display, but at that point, it's not clear if there is a big advantage over a touchscreen, unless the display is really small.

That's the same reason for why I think voice controls are literally the worst way to interact with a computer ever(although I think this might actually top it).
Well, it might matter in that respect but as far as the short term it does look like we won't be leaving on the 31st.

Mind you - I'd happily accept this deal if there was a confirmatory referendum - so maybe some parties would agree with this deal on that basis.

[NB Even Dominic Cummings used to think a confirmatory referendum was a good idea].
A "form builder" that obviates the need for lots of expensive web development would be huge for intranet and small business applications. It would blow away Sharepoint, for example.
>> Dark matter filaments. Computer simulation.

To be honest, that looks just like a very old (ca. 1990's) noise filter from 3d Studio Max (where it would be used to make smoke, fog, but also very realistically looking veins, etc).

("Filter" is not the right term. Sorry, I haven't touched Max for ages.)
There are photo editing browser apps that are very popular and received huge funding. Video is naturally the next thing, right?
I think you were rejected this go around for your own good.

You don't necessarily need YC. You're growing at a growing rate. You're not at any kind of impasse, you're not making a transition. You'd be giving up 7% for a lesson you already got for free.

Bootstrap until you can't.
That's of no consequence to what I said. The opposition cannot run for ever.
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The most important take for me was that YC gave great free advice even in the rejection email.

When I was working at Google I was not allowed to give detailed feedback to the person whom I was interviewing and I hated that, because I think people deserve to know why they weren't hired.
Also

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-03-21
No, that doesn't follow from "not at work". You can engage in political activism outside work, even if somebody from the same company is active on the other side. Both of you are asked to not turn work into the battle ground however.
if you are interested I have good article for you listing some differences between humans and animals http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/A.Sharkey/2008-darwin....
If PoS is rent-seeking how come PoW isn't rent-seeking?
DuckDuckGo have a rather nice one.
Give it time. Only 6am EST and 3am PST (iirc) so most of the CA hners are still asleep.

I will say since this is limited to a single Samsung model I am curious if there is precedent for this to happen with other in screen fingerprint scanners.
Is that what YC tells you because they know $150K won't go far.
Test suite runs can take a long time. And sometime you touch that header which is, indirectly, included everywhere and trigger a global rebuild.

Still, a distributed build and test system would be superior anyway.
So,umm, surely I’m not the only one to make the ‘hot sand’ connection...
I don't understand. If they make money from the app, why not simply just keep working instead of letting go of a portion of the company?

Sure, it is a lot of money they will get but it seems like they don't really need it?
I own a Pixel device, which is one of the few Android phones I’ve found that provides details of how it keeps that data secure: https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/6300638?hl=en.
I know Yubkeys can be used as a second factor for apps but can you use them to unlock a phone aswell?
That only works on mail that actually gets delivered to your mailbox. Gmail can and will:

- Reject delivery of mail from sources it has determined to be spammy (e.g. residential IPs) - this mechanism allows the sender to be aware that delivery failed.

- Accept delivery and then silently drop the message somewhere between after accepting delivery but before appearing in the end user's mailbox.

In either case, there is nothing you (the mailbox holder) can do. In the second case, there is no way for anyone to know the message hasn't been delivered.
This is such a breath of fresh air in the tech world. I dream of working for a people over profits org, where value is placed on your compassion and custodianship as a means of getting things done (and enjoying the journey there).
No, but do you think that is an accurate representation of US politics? From the outside it seems that "one dollar one vote" applies equally well (and is equally wrong).
The DUP are against it. Britain will only leave with a deal if Parliament vote for it (They voted down Theresa May's deal three times). What happens if they don't vote for it is the Boris Johnson will, by law, be forced to ask for an extension. He must accept whatever extension the EU propose. However, it's likely to get more 'interesting' than that.

I've found these flow diagrams very helpful with understanding the process, but it hasn't been updated in a week: https://jonworth.eu/brexit-what-next/
Well, apparently on this one the fingerprint sensor is also fast with the caveat that it unlocks the phone for everyone when a screen protector is applied.
Try checking out https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/08/on-device-real-time-hand-t... this might remove the need for any hardware apart from the phone & its vibration motor.
From the first paragraphs:

The two sides have been working on the legal text of a deal, but it will still need the approval of both the UK and European parliaments.

The DUP has cast doubt on its success, saying they still cannot support it.
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As many here seem to like the idea of not a non political workplace couple quick questions:

- If I work at a workplace which produces a deadly weaponize-able Gas (lets for random reasons call it Zyklon B) should I care for politics or just do my job and provide any customer with my product?

- If I offer storage (e.g. for Cars, Git-Repos, Shoes, ...) should I care if maybe one of my customers is this Gas producing company which needs some storage?

You see where I am getting? There seems to be this trend that politics is some side business which people should only think about when they do either nothing or do it as a job. I don't think Democracies will survive this way.
I have this feeling as well, but now I realize that [citation needed]...
A couple points here.

First, you get data about how pedestrians can reach all the truly popular locations. If you also get extra data about how pedestrians can reach various irrelevant locations, okay, that doesn't have value but that's not harmful; what matters is that all kinds of niche landmarks that would be interesting to tourists are somewhere in your data.

Second, people making a detour from their normal day-to-day route to reach some location is the whole point - these are local people with knowledge of how their city works; you don't want to measure how tourists usually get from landmark A to landmark B; you'd want to see what shortcuts an optimizing local would take when getting from landmark A to landmark B - which is different than simply looking at random people walking habits with no intent to optimize the route; the gamification provides an incentive to optimize routes and allows you to harvest the knowledge of that optimization.

If someone tells google maps that they want to go from A to B, and google maps tracks how they got there, then it doesn't harvest any information about the best route because the user doesn't know it, they wanted a recommendation and likely tried to follow it even if it's very suboptimal, so you'll just get a reprocessed version of the data you already had (and gave to that user). On the other hand the data from Niantic is useful so that Google maps can make a better recommendation.

Third issue is that the Niantic process also allows you to detect undesirable routes. If Google maps directs a tourist from A to B through a shortcut that's passable but unpleasant in some manner, then they'll take that route; and if they send another one there, they'll also go there, because they don't know better and the alternatives are (probably) not obvious. You'll only get a signal of people not going there if it's really bad e.g. impassable.

Niantic, however, can detect that most people who want to go from A to B (because of game incentives) but who know all the routes from A to B (instead of asking for directions like the google maps usecase) are intentionally taking a longer route for whatever reason - which is again useful data for improving Google Maps recommendations.
re: investment, one reasonable place to start might be Bernstein's free ebook "if you can", which also has some pointers to further reading. some of the advice in there, re: tax-advantaged retirement savings plan, is specific to the USA

http://efficientfrontier.com/ef/0adhoc/2books.htm