skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have not conceived useful applications that actually require AR yet. It has to be something requiring immediate feedback - maybe driving a car or piloting a similar vehicle would be such application.
Maybe stock market. Or something entirely unforseen, like data analysis or warehousing - using human intelligence better?

Voice is much too slow, as is listening - might as well use the current devices at those speeds.

Computers started with bookkeeping and mass production control. It took quite some time for them to penetrate office market or to (partially) replace the previously used communication tools.
Also: https://github.com/facebook/duckling
The writer of this was a diversity hire so you see what you get.
It doesn't matter, he is still a journalist, and he has accomplished more than they will in a life time.
The train reached its record speed but 385km/h is nowhere near a record. China Daily is a state-owned newspaper.
True, it's possible. You can also be a complete tool.

As I've been saying constantly, what you can believe is more important than who you can believe (Murray has big problems with this himself, unfortunately). That Assange is being abused is one of the facts you have to concede if you've looked at the case at all - even if you distrust all involved parties.
That's not a political offense though, that's a hit and run. She could have been extradited for that if she didn't have diplomatic immunity, however, does the US ever extradite someone to a foreign country? I mean the hypothetical scenario of e.g. Bush or Obama being tried for war crimes in The Hague has come up at some point; iirc the statement then was that the US would send in the military to get them out again. And they'd get away with it too - international treaties and/or the UN has little to no power over them.
> Innocent until proven guilty

And for that to hold, you have to let him be tried. Justice isn't automatic.

But people (maybe not you) seem far too quick to start muddying up the due process. It seems that if he is found guilty, nobody will accept that.

From here, it seems perfectly plausible that he actively helped Manning leak. If the US have evidence to that end, they have a case. Can we just let that case be heard and stop assuming that every actor here is a Bond villain?
recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21296167
Wow! Congratulations :)
arguably the russian revolution would have failed without trotsky's ingenious tactics
The actual world record for a train was set in 2015 on the Japanese Yamanashi Test Track: 603 km/h

The non-prototype record is set by the French TGV in 2007: 574.8 km/h

But even in China trains have been traveling at 486.1 km/h in 2010 (Beijing–Shanghai HSR).
As could glasses, starting with how they're kept on your head and the weight. Just look at how far VR helmets have come, or skiing goggles. There's more that can be done still, but not enough pressure to do it.
I had palm pilots, Psions, a Newton (wow that thing was huge) and some Windows CE devices (HP all of them); I was considered a geek at first for that sure, but I didn't have to lug around an agenda and notebook (esp Psion replaced that in 1 device which was nice to use) and when 2g became a thing, I had Windows CE HP 'phones' (bulky, with keyboard and very fragile) but when on vacation I did all my company business on there (buying, selling, talking to developers, setting meetings, sending/receiving emails) while my colleagues had to go to internet cafe's or lug around laptops. But yeah, they were things for geeks, mostly impractical unless you really wanted to use them (which I did; I hate carrying crap around); iPhone changed that to making it easy to use. Ofcourse I bought that the moment it came out in my country (iphone 3g) and never looked back. That one is also still working by the way, not that I have any real use for it :)
You are referencing a war of 2003 after 9/11, where they were forced to show some power.

And blaming them on very rare actions for behavior that is almost a daily habit for China.

Not a very fair comparison, but that's how WhatAboutism works ;)
> the line is expected to be the world's first autonomous, driver-monitored railway.

I wonder what this will look like to the driver. I'm imagining the train displaying it's intended actions, but I wonder if the driver has to acknowledge anything at all?
And just how commonly do we see such[1] fraud across any business or industry?

Cough, pharmaceutical cos, doctors, social media & search giants, car manufacturing giants. Any of these ring a bell?

[1]As in, the above (your) definition of fraud i.e. misleading customers, by deliberately under delivering and over promising. With this definition, many businesses and accepted practices are fraud.

IMO, true fraud is what VW with their cheating device. Facebook did with integrating WhatsApp profiles. Theranos did with fake IP. Opioid manufacturers do by indirectly incentivising doctors. Don't you think so too?
And if that is indeed what is happening:

> in this case note that I would entirely agree that the use of such medication would interfere with his "ability to understand"
She's the Director of the Open Source Programs Office at Microsoft, used to be Executive Director of the Gnome Foundation, and used to be software engineer on the Hewlett-Packard Unix development team.
Note that that is about BBRv1 (as available in recent linux kernels), BBRv2 is going to address the fairness issues

https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/105/materials/slides-10...
the first the app came out on iOS i've paid the full price for all noises. It has been indispensable for generating focus/relaxation during my work days. brings a smile to my faces every time i see someone link mynoise on hn.
> medicated into oblivion so he can't adequately defend himself.

They wouldn't need to medicate him so that he can't defend himself.

This was a case management hearing. He wasn't ever going to get an opportunity to defend himself as that's not what it's for. He's not even required to attend.
While most OS folks seem to see PR and management roles as support functions, I think it's good to show some appreciation for people in those roles. They help get some funding in and grow the community. Nothing wrong with that, IMHO.
> 10 percent higher than the designed speed

...wasn't smth like "doing research on a live production system to get X% higher than designed output" what the Cernobil engineers were trying to do? Hope their sticking to trains with this mindset and not generalizing it to more dangerous industries :|

Anyway, at least electric trains are the kind of technology that will benefit everyone when it gets exported, so yey!
A lot of regular developers were working on Y2K modifications to enterprise programs. That was a person intensive effort and was very successful. In a lot of cases it wasn't very easy. I get the feeling that 32-bit gates in embedded control devices will not be taken as seriously.
How will 5g fix this for them?
That's generally the economic case put out in cloud planning: a startup or expansion does great in the cloud with quick time to market, but once that business has matured and the risk is gone the assets move in-house because it's wildly cheaper.

And something that seemingly everyone forgets: it's not black and white... you can have some things in the cloud while you have some thing on-prem, leveraging scalable infrastructure and redundancy while also keeping your core assets fully under your control. It's pretty easy to make an internal S3 replacement, it's hard to make a better S3.
> How could the US extradite Assange for a crime committed in Sweden ?

For a lot of stuff the US applies "global jurisdiction" as soon as anything in the US is being touched, which is also the base for the Kim Dotcom / Megaupload extradition case.
They will travel (with passenger) with 385km/h. That would be a new record. Until now the fastest travel with 350km/h.

But of course the "top speed" without passenger is much much higher.
People are still telling me this just last year. Met a couple of software developers that I believe worked at one of the more traditional large corps. Over the next half an hour or so they kept telling me about how software is a dead end career and all the jobs are going to go off shore soon. They seemed super depressed about their future prospects. No amount of me talking about career (and compensation) prospects of software developers would sway them. And this was in the Bay Area.
If you want to use both then you should investigate rancher - that's the problem they're trying to solve.
There seems to be a hypothesis nestled in there that the tabloids are run by responsible, clear thinking individuals who are pretending to be uncivilised boors but will drop the facade when confronted with an important issue.

What odds might be put on them actual being uncivilised boors who'll publish anything that gets eyeballs?

More likely they wouldn't publish raw classified information because it is dry and boring.
In late 1990s I was still in high school but the.com bubble still reached us there at a young age. I was put into a tech training course called CIT 1 & CIT 2 it was 4 years of tech and college courses. Everyday for 4 years I had a computer integrated technology class that taught everything from how to deal with users all the way to networking & computer programming. We worked on as400, the school network and teachers computers at 14 years old we were experimenting with OSPF. This "pioneer program" was scrutinized and hailed as a victory by news broadcasters & newspapers we were interviewed by all kinds of people throughout the program looking to do the same in their schools. This was the fast track once we got out of high school we were college trained and ready to go into the workforce. The burst happened right after I got out I actually went from interviewing at Fortune 500 companies to taking a cable pulling job that was local for minimum wage. I ended up with a construction company that builds smart homes and I've been happy there ever since.
He's been unpersoned.
it is missing one option. in some areas the middle character is a generation name. that is, that character is the same for all members of that generation.

so the thee characters would be: family-generation-given name
Interesting: as soon as you look into real SW instead of academic examples, Haskell is just as messy as any other language.
When I travelled to China for the first time I've spent one month there travelling across the entire country via their highspeed train network. It's amazing, all major places are so well connected and the trains are really cheap, offer 1st, 2nd, 3rd and business class acommodating all various budgets and comfort styles and they run really smoothly and are amazingly on time!

After departure it doesn't take more than a handful minutes before the train reaches its desired speed of just over 300km/h and it remains consistent at this speed for the entire journey unless it has to stop at a station.

I wish Europe was so well connected via such an efficient and affordable train system. I think then we could easily raise the tax on airplanes to ridiculous premiums and happily expect people to entirely ditch short distance flights.

China is doing amazing things and they get way too little credit for all the innovative things they do. Unfortunately we only get to read the negatives, but I went back to China again and I really love how people live there in increasingly better conditions and not only outpacing other countries economically, but also making huge efforts in creating a fair, enjoyable and sociable environment for everyone.

Say what you want, but you'll never understand until you've been there yourself and experienced China first hand yourself. It's nothing what the media makes us believe!
To be honest, the website is a bit less than inspiring. Their deliverable for month 3 was the project website.
Manipulation and being Russian tool?
The lowdown on how Bitcoin cracked the largest child porn business in the world
> If an American journalist in UK is publishing Chinese military secrets, he will not be extradited to China.

That's absolutely correct as the UK doesn't have an extradition treaty with China.
That's my impression too. Kubernetes and Docker work very well together, so Docker knowledge is not out of date. It's just that Kubernetes is now relevant too. And more in demand because fewer people are fluent in it yet.
one man's hero is another man's villain.
Ah. Wow. That looks like it belongs in a Marklin set. At the risk of agreeing with Trump, I do think a small fence would have been better here.
a bit sad to see that notoriously "free software" people like Bradley Kuhn and Karen Sadler have agreed to appear here.
Night Sky Reflections from the World's Largest Mirror
And what's the alternative? Losing your biggest customers because you couldn't be assed to put a new button on some load-balancer configuration?

Of course, for small or medium customers whose finger snaps are ignored... WYSIWYG. The roadblocks in not-your cloud are still your roadblocks.
How common is it for the same person to have both strong Haskell experience and experience building large real-world applications?

I’ve tried to find a way to use Haskell (lacking strong experience there, but with lots of large app experience), and I’ve not managed to find a situation where pulling the trigger makes sense because of the risk of getting “stuck” with a poor path out.
America's banking system is the best example. My clients still pay me via ACH that takes 2-3 days to clear. Meanwhile in my local market, I can send/receive money instantly for either zero or a fee capped at less than $0.10/transaction.
But for paper printers you had no alternatives... So you just focused and printed. You could not take your luggable[0] out in the train and read off screen. Or take it to the couche or sit in your college bench.

For 3d printers etc we have alternatives that are fine; we don't actually need them for anything urgent.

[0] https://oldcomputers.net/pics/osborne1.jpg
574km/h is the record on steel rails set by a french TGV with some slight modifications from the in service version.
21 years ago, in 1998, there was a software called Microsoft FrontPage 98. You started it, visually made a website with elements shared over all pages, and pressed a button to publish a static page.

There's nothing like this today that is simple, financially accessible, and works out of the box. (With maybe the exception of Mobirise, but it has too much free-to-play vibe.)

A little while ago there was an entry here:
"Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21242857 and reminded me of Swishmax ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWiSH_Max ), a tool I used around 2003. It was a breeze to use, to create animations. I'm unaware of anything like this today.

In 2005, DC communities shared any content and had vibrant chat communities. Blog didn't immediately meant WordPress, but Pingbacks and RSS worked across them, so websites were able to talk to other websites.

In 2008, Skype worked. File sharing over Skype worked, because it was able to use the local network and went p2p over LAN. Video and sound always worked.

We're nearly in 2020 now, and video conferencing still sucks.

Nostalgia is only a lie of you don't have proof. I still have the installer for most of these programs.
We can always make more money if we really want to. The economy might run out of oil, sand, gold, land, and willpower but it will never run out of money until the central banks stop the money supply or politicians cause a hard fault.
So they get all the benefits of the project while i get a regular flat salary?

Why not just work as a regular programmer regardless of what i work on is FOSS instead and keep my own projects under my control for myself?
This is true. Thank you for saying it. Made my life much better just to know what happened to Google.

I had a serious impression that 24 months ago Google was absurdly good. So good that I thought no DDG would ever be compared to it. It returned exactly what I wanted all the time with just 2 words in the query.

Today it doesn't ever return what I want, because it seems to ignore what I've searched for more and more. It thinks it knows what I meant more than I do and I can't tell it otherwise.
Rebase is not a "trick", it's one of the basic features of git.

If you consider it's a trick, please don't use it, it means you don't understand it yet.
This exposes the sham that is western "democracy". Everything is allowed to persecute those who oppose the status quo. The so called freedom they claim for themselves when they attack Russia, China or Venezuela in the corporate media is a right reserved for those who have money and who submit to the ruling class.
Your job sucks. Leave.
> Yes, I know I have a Danish IP, and my language settings is British English, but just give me the original Swedish version of the content it's FINE.

Given these settings, how would you expect the browser to know you want to see the Swedish content? You have explicitly indicated that you want British English (if available).
The point of this website is diversity.
> It was commonly believed that the point of those charges (whether they were true or not) was to get Assange to Sweden, at which point Sweden could roll over, do the US's bidding and extradite him to the US.

Which was always ridiculous, as it was based on the idea that Sweden would be more willing to extradite than the UK, a ridiculous notion.
IMO, only when trying to get loads of performance. It's just messing with the compiler...
But what are the alternatives ? paper ID cards are even easier to fake
Does anyone here any experience running an Estonian company from India? Any links to good tax lawyers?
Anecdotally: my father did have kidney issues when he went Keto, but that's because he had too high a proportion of his calories from protein. He switched to more leaves and fats and that seems to have cleared up.
In the U.S. there's no such thing as being a licensed journalist. Anyone can be a journalist.
How to Earn Karma Point?
> baseless claims

Those are opinions.

> not well written

That's yours.
Switching Databases: Migrating from MariaDB or MySQL to PostgreSQL
Short term gain being firing their in-house IT staff, only to realize they're stuck in a 5-year contract.
The cost of ads killed my last two companies
I will probably always be in the consumer space, but am looking for alternative ways to grow an initial userbase at a sustainable rate. One interesting approach I'm looking at is referrals. Similar to Pinduoduo in China.

They basically proved that alternative models like group-shopping can reduce cost per acquisition by boosting the incentive behind referring friends. So instead of buying an item for the listed price directly, I have the option to get it for a discount under the condition that I can bring another X people to also buy it within a set time period.

Do you think this approach is possible in the western market?
No. I'm saying that the idea that the European model is the solution is simplistic at best.
Couldn't agree more, good analysis.
Sorry, got distracted earlier.

What I mean was: it’d be good if there were more options via, say, drop down menus, or whatever.

I vaguely recall this being a thing in some distant past?
Thats difficult to work out. Pure hosting was easily less than £1M

But software licensing costs play a massive factor in the overall opex.
How does this compare to MLflow [0]?

Considering MLflow has a few components, I suppose you are building something closer to MLflow Models? How do they compare?

[0] https://mlflow.org/docs/latest/index.html
You can always just pirate Lightroom (LR Classic, that is—the non-cloud-dependent one). It’s not particularly difficult, and sidesteps the subscription lock-in nicely.
now I need another App to stay updated?, could have been a good PWA website.
But the web-scale demand for SCO Unix never really materialized. Linux took much of the marketshare while SCO went after IBM https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/02/ibm_vs_sco_revives/
Even better: ask German-speaking Swiss people how they feel about Germans.
Stellar Airdrop
Ah, memories. The frustration was they wouldn’t deliver from CA to NY.

Fascinating to watch technology go from world-changing bleeding-edge to archeological discovery.
It's ten years since he was arrested (just weeks after the Cablegate release - but they'll have you believe that was a complete coincidence).

Kids who were 8 years old at the time can vote now.

It makes you wonder what the world would have looked like, had Wikileaks not been shattered.

It's not just Assange. Arjen Kamphuis disappeared without a trace on a trip in Norway. Ola Bini is jail in Ecuador. Aaron Swartz and James Dolan, who worked on SecureDrop and probably on Wikileaks' own submission system, both committed suicide.

State propaganda ops from all sides rushed in to fill the void after Wikileaks was crippled.
i very much like how "martin" is translated into chinese:

马丁 not only captures the english sounds somewhat reasonably, but it also surprisingly captures the meaning in an interesting way: martin is based on mars, the god of war, and is also a famous figure in christian history as a roman soldier on a horse.

the chinese characters are: 马(ma): horse, and 丁(ding):soldier

you can hardly get any closer with a resemblance of the meaning in both languages.
> This exposes the sham that is western "democracy".

Comparing western democracy to Venezuela is facetious at best, but I agree it's a sham. Just for entirely different reasons. If people really cared about this issue, then western democracy still has checks and balances for the people to make change.

The problem is Assange has long become a boring item in the news cycle, and we as a people in that democracy just don't care enough anymore.

The narrative of him being a rapist, and letting it simmer for enough years, was very effective.
Spotify Saved the Music Industry, Now What?
I worked with them on crown royal.com and everything you say is 100% true

Nothing ever worked and their technical stack was an absolute joke.

Eventually the agency lost the business due to not delivering, which was solely due to their platform not doing anything promised by infosys.
Its not all that clear cut.

If you are paying significant cash for network, then what ever you are doing you need a CDN of some sort (I assume most people are web here.)

VPS bandwidth is not unlimited, and it is a single point of failure.
Other tools like? This is a different type of tool which writes React / React Native code. Which tool would you like to compare with?
it's impressive. Major improvement would be if all travelers in chinese trains would use headphones if they want to listen music or play games. Personally I love silence in Japanese trains - everybody is polite and silent.
Oh incidentally I learned recently that things you learn in the last 90 minutes or so before going to sleep are less likely to be retained.

I believe I read this in "The Expert's Guide to Sleeping Well" by Chris Idzikowski, which is a well-researched book... but I didn't take any notes on where in particular I read it.

It was a striking result because a lot of research shows that sleeping after studying is crucial to consolidate the learning -- this added the nuance that a gap between the study and the sleep is also needed.
Dealing with the misunderstandings of what is GhostBSD
> Qt has the perfect business model for OSS.

Except for that part where their business model incentivizes them to bloat the library towards what is actually paying (car and smart fridge dashboard UIs) instead of what most people would want Qt to focus on (desktop widgets - see pretty much every thread whenever a Qt release or news is posted).

> And considering all the places where Qt is used, I would say they are very successful at it.

Since we're talking in the context of money instead of popularity, 1000000 projects using the LGPL version of Qt for free doesn't make Qt successful, it only makes it popular.