skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to have this tendency — initially I wasn’t aware of it — I was just passionate and talked about what I wanted to talk about. Eventually became aware of it and lived a period where I still talked about rock climbing all the time/overly much — but I was passionate and it was what I wanted to talk about.

At the time Rock climbing was also a pretty social experience for me. I derived joy from talking about it with others — and some people can talk about their passions in a way that helps others feel inspired. That’s a good thing I think.

Now I don’t do it anymore — but a part of me is sad that I don’t because it reflects a decrease in my motivation and “psyche” for rock climbing and decrease in my desire to share that “psyche” with others.
It's not nitpicking. Your definition of "anonymized" leads people to believe they are anonymous when they are not. That can lead to serious consequences.
There is: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ I have a vague memory or reading somewhere that if you don't register your desired success condition in the trial ahead of time, even if you find something it's not considered a real result.
Maybe there is a misunderstanding. What I originally said is that “Doing it with actual slits and standalone particles is not so easy”.

Are you claiming that it is absolutely trivial to do it with a double slit and single electron detections, and you were doing it in 1989, or not?

Probably not, but then I don’t know why did you choose to reply to my comments in the way you did.

(I don’t know either what do you imagine that I think that the paper I cited means, or what do you believe that the paper claims that is so innovative that it would belong in a much more reputable journal.)
Why not?

Have to start somewhere...
For the vast majority of old people their doctor would disagree: they need to get out and walk more. Yes slowing down is important, but their health would overall be improved by walking more. For those not yet old walking more is more a mental barrier than a physical one.
Yeah, I've once watched a short clip of someone properly applying solder and realized I've been doing it wrong the whole time. I keep meaning to watch some educational material on the matter, but for now I've conceded that it's just some kind of higher magic.
This is just not true. you did not have to specify fixed width in flash any more than you do with HTML. Flash's approach used something like a constraint solver to allow some areas to grow and some areas to have anchor points. It was reactive by design.
Given the amount of fingerprinting and screwing with the content based on platform, I'd be happy to do away with user-agent completely. I'm tired of websites that are completely broken on mobile and force you to use the app (or constantly remind you about their app) and everybody returning a globally unique identification which is so hard to scrub.
sound-reducing reasons*

Sorry for the nitpick, but I live near a highway with one of these barriers and it's in no way sound-proofing.
I think it really becomes a question of what to do when the computer senses it is getting into a scenario that it can not handle with a reasonable confidence %.

You wouldn't flash hand-off the car from auto-drive to the operator without some basic safety measures also occurring. One of those will be slowing (or stopping if possible) the car until the remote operator takes over. You won't hand the human "the bag" (responsibility) after the computer gets you totally up shit creek and you have no chance to effect a positive outcome. It will hand over "the bag" when the "we are getting up shit creek incrementally" value crosses some accepted safe threshold.

(Didn't mean to ramble.)
So the arrow doesn't represent logical implication? As a non-native, I would have read that as a clause that always resolves to `baz(X, Y)` unless the implication holds (i.e., `some_condition(X)` is true). Isn't that logically consistent?
I said it was a systematic defect camera based systems share, not that it was intrinsic to camera based systems. Camera based systems have much less information about object positioning than LIDAR based systems. They filter out non-moving objects because the vision processing algorithms are not sophisticated enough to distinguish between the background and obstacles. If they stopped for stationary objects in the road, they’d routinely stop because they mistook the background for a stationary object.

That may or may not be a temporary limitation. It depends on whether vision processing becomes reliable enough where you can almost always distinguish an object in the road from an object in the background.
I am in favor of people using titles that reflect what they think will be of interest to HN readers. I know the line between that and editorializing is not always clear, but that's a fact of life.

Often an interesting article will have a misleading title for SEO reasons. Seems like those are appropriately rewritten for HN submission.

Or imagine (I'm making this up) an article in the NYT entitled "Senator presses tech firms to supply encryption keys". Yawn...I've seen that for literally decades. But it turns out that the senator drew their analysis upon specifically bad info by relying on an article in wired or maybe a non-law enforcement-specific lobbying group, but one that turns out to have been funded by google. Then a title that called out the specific reason its relevant to HN would be useful.

(This is a totally made up example; I don't mean to diss wired nor google in this post).
Ew.

I don't blame tholman for complying with the takedown, but my layman's understanding is that Monotype had no legal grounds for their complaint because parody is protected -- they were just using legal language to intimidate him into complying. Does that jibe with others' understanding of the law?
WhatsApp has sued NSO Group for the May 2019 hacking – CVE-2019-3568
I had forgotten about it. That takes me back though. My mom made a website using Dreamweaver way way back to post stories she'd written. She was so excited about it and the fact that she'd been able to do it all herself. It was fairly tasteful as far as sites from that era went, There were only one or two animated gifs at the top and the background was pretty easy on the eyes.
It could be as simple as scanning the barcode on a drivers license, the data goes to government system, and they compare what they see. Minus the last step, this already happens at lots of places that sell beer.

If minimizing privacy invasion, they could type info they're verifying in to get a yes/no instead of seeing whole thing. There's strategies for reducing abuse of such a service, too.
If anyone here wants more info regarding the French Revolution, I heartily recommend listening to the Revolutions podcast by Mike Duncan. He really goes into detail into the French Revolution and of course covers the period
Of Napoléon.
> 1. Can it be considered "modified enough" to be considered derivative if it's the original file, plus some Javascript to provide a pop-up notification?

They're altering the functionality of it, fairly substantially imo. I would argue that copyright should protect your IP from being subverted to serve additional, annoying pop-ups.

> Does Comcast violate copyright when it interrupts a television program to show a federally required EAS alert?

In that case Comcast is not altering the contents of the work, it is replacing the content with other content. I don't think that's a violation of copyright at all.

> 3. Captive portals are a well-established instance where a page requested is not what's delivered. No one is accusing them of copyright infringement.

Again, they are not modifying the returned content, they are refusing to display the requested content and returning alternative content.
Dev there is a champ and didn't wipe the repo history, though
I don't think Angel has anything to do with Buffy. Angel is a traditional Hispanic male name. It's become more poopular because there's a lot more Hispanics in the US now, and they have a lot of kids. Other Hispanic names have also been rising in the name-popularity lists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_(given_name)

Now if you want to see some interesting effects in name popularity due to popular culture, look at the quick demise of "Jude" after The Beatles' song, and the quick demise of "Jeremy" after Pearl Jam's song.
WhatsApp Says Israeli Firm Used Its App in Spy Program
Ask HN: Why are we not making the most of the recent UFO reports?
I posit a serious question to all of HN. We have recently been given evidence that on multiple occasions (2005, 2015) the US Navy witnessed UAP/UFO aircraft on radar, infrared, and by highly trained pilots. It is the official stance of the US Navy that these aircraft are exactly that: aircraft; not sensor glitches, foreign psy-ops/jamming, etc. By all accounts, the UAP were observed by these sensor platforms and pilots performing maneuvers which indicate intelligent control and technology beyond what we can duplicate at present, no matter how hard we try. Each person must set their own standard for proof, but for me pilots, radar, and infrared is enough. I think that's a real UFO on those videos and I don't care where it came from, I only see opportunity.

In the history of humanity our research efforts, hence our advancement, has always been bound by the dreams of visionaries and hampered by the dead ends of failed/wrong ideas. To actually have a working piece of highly advanced technology paraded through our best attempt at a floating radar range is the greatest advantage that we have ever come upon. This is a technological goalpost for us, it shows us what is actually possible, and informs our research efforts as to which directions are likely fruitful. Such a guiding hand in our development has never been extended before and I feel we are profoundly stupid to ignore it.

I ask the members of this community who also feels that this evidence is sufficient to apply their excess brainpower towards extracting knowledge from these events. We need to figure out everything we can from this and start the conversation within the scientific and technological communities about how we can gain from it. Also, I argue that any knowledge gained needs to be open sourced and that this will only happen if more IQ outside of government is thinking about it than inside. This community could easily ensure that. What can we learn from this?
I went to school in MN, and regularly did 1 mile walks in all weather including highs of -25F. You learn to dress for it.
those who downvoted me, I am curious what evidence you have that it's not net positive. I've never seen any such evidence, only a list of problems, which of course exist with any human endevour.
Come on: 90% of voters in an ILLEGAL referendum? how can that be representative of Anything?

There is discussion but let us keep it honest.
> I'm guessing their focus is on the lowest level activities in simple brains, perhaps afferent/efferent sensory perception, metabolic and physiological regulatory control -- the kind of things instrumented in worms like C. Elegans.

could be but then most of the authors of the paper work in human cognition so I'm slightly skepical that their focus is going to be at the level of cellular biology
It is, it's going to be part of the Census.

I currently work for an spanish ISP, and I can tell you that this test will put a lot of stress in the ISPs network. Querying, for example, cellid for so many phones simultianeously is going to be a problem. Other data like IMSI and so on is not a problem because it's stored in a database.

For people who is scared of this, ditch your phones because extracting your location, subscriber id and other info is, honestly, trivial. It is not to do at scale, but if someone wanted to spy on you and had access to the ISP network, be it via hacking into it (very difficult in the one I work for, but may be possible), or using a law, they can know where are you with very little effort.
I run an independent, localized wedding registry platform. Couples pay a one-time activation fee. A friend and I built the site some years ago and never really changed anything. All we have to do is to reply to 1-2 support emails per month and keep Google ads running. On average it generates a profit of about 1,5k per month.
To top it off, AMD competing well with intel reduces the price of parts Apple puts in Intel Macs.
Flash's approach used something like a constraint solver to allow some areas to grow and some areas to have anchor points. It was reactive by design.
Given that Monotype has a nonzero chance of browsing this thread, are you sure this is a fact you want to publicly draw attention to?
I'll echo that. Heavy rain, I could barely see the lines, but the car seemed to find them just fine and was driving straight and smooth.

Until traffic on the other side of the median barrier hit a big deep puddle, absolutely covering my car with a thick sheet of water. Autopilot immediately started screaming at me to take control. I already had my hands on the wheel, but it still scared me because I couldn't see either! After the water washed a way in a couple seconds, I was able to re-enable AP and keep going.
Yes there is, it has to come from somewhere, and we know it's not coming from the actual site being visited...
Glad I dropped the worst ISP in the USA.
You know its bad when even important morons (bureaucrats) call you a terrible company.
Early to Bed, Early to Rise Makes Me Exhausted, Depressed and Sick
There was a particularly invisible glass wall in a parking lot near me. I guess enough people walked into it that they did the low-tech human version of this by sellotaping a piece of paper onto it that simply said “window”... I can’t imagine birds understanding that, but it was hilarious to see.
I’ve had one a year and use it a lot. Never any burn in.

Where do you see burn in? Light or dark screens?
This is an old trick used on homes, except window paint (typically white) is used to make thin vertical lines about 6 inches apart. It doesn't affect your view and it doesn't look ugly if you use a straight guide and thin lines.
Not all areas have data caps, it seems to be localized to specific regions.
Yes, let's make a building look ugly and prison like because of Twitter. There's a reason people don't do this. This is not novel.

They probably eat 40 chickens a day in that building but they are not 'beautiful'.

This is not a small thing.

If this crap gets put onto every bulding that's not a world I'd like to be in.

People fight for window access. It's a requirement in some countries.

No one questions how it got up so quick? It would have been discussed and possible for years. But there are good reasons not to. Twitter is a toxic curse.
Tracking satellites through crowdsourcing
Who started with this whole facebook = "Damned if you do, damned if you don't". Been seeing this all over the place. Is it just a catchy phrase or some higher up in the tech world said it and everyone is parroting it?

Search results for comments of the last month https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...
Wrote a book about learning React.
> we won't be used to driving, so a self-driving car might be safer for us

Very much this. I've lived in London for nearly 20 years. I haven't driven in nearly 20 years. I've barely set foot in a car in nearly 20 years.

If I ever needed to drive I'd essentially have to learn all over again (ethically, anyway; not sure about the legal situation). A driverless option for those rare occasions would be great.
Yeah, but I'd rather a super high refresh rate over that. LCD does that better at the moment.
Yep, that's what I'm thinking as well.
Facebook Sues Israel's NSO Group over Alleged WhatsApp Hack
I can see that argument, but on the other hand, the first iteration of an iPhone design refresh tends to be the one with the most problems (antennagate, bendgate, etc.) The 11 Pro seems to be peak maturity for the "iPhone X cycle" and has been reviewed very favorably in all respects, it might be worth just getting one rather than betting on an unknown quantity.
Samsung Teases Foldable Flip Phone That May Be Galaxy Fold 2
This website takes a raw firehose and puts a nice human-friendly UI around it. The live data already exists in a much more machine-friendly format.

If I was going to be watching other peoples' secrets for fun and profit (and not just for fun), I wouldn't be using the human-friendly version.
Thanks I hate it.
Genetic Algorithm Walkers
Does tmux have anything like screen -R?
How do you find a place within easy transit distance of your work, your spouse’s work, a grocery store, your kids’ school or daycare, your kids’ activities, and your kids’ friends’ houses? How do middle class people do all that in a country where cities have made it illegal to build new housing?
If you're using table aliases like "O" you're already throwing clarity out the window. The following is perfectly clear and readable IMO:

Orders.id = Customers.order_id

and also indicates which column is the primary key and which is the foreign key. What about other column names duplicated across tables, should

Orders.created_at = Customers.created_at

become

Orders.order_created_at = Customers.customer_created_at

Scope exists for a reason, don't be afraid to use it!
And 1337-speak was never readable to anyone in English, since numb3rs ar3 d1st1nc7 fr0m l3773r5.
[Speaking about the US, specifically] Micromobility in major cities doesn't really change the realities for the vast number of Americans who don't live in a place where this is realistic.

I grew up outside Palm Springs (so not just talking about the very rural part of the country, which is vast and still populated). It would have taken me almost an hour to bike to my high school from my house, but only took ~20 minutes in a car, and for two of the years, the route included dropping off two younger siblings. Skipping past the safety concerns, I think that two daily hour long bike rides is pretty unrealistic for kids under a certain age. This also ignores that, in high school, I literally didn't have a spare 1.5 hours with varsity sports, AP/IB classes, and all the other "necessary" extra-curricular stuff for college prep (which is a separate issue, but still exists).

"No longer driving at all" is really only for single and/or childless people, and mainly those living in a large city where the retailers and service providers you need to see in person are within a realistic biking range.
Yeah and fires "help" firefighters...

How uselessly cynical.
Correct any zero % rates are deals with the vendor. Affirm is just another predatory lender. Rates are sent to the user by who ever is giving the most kickback to affirm. Credit scores only give a yes/no on to next logic. My gf has just about zero credit history 690 and I am 790 we both get same offers at 18%
Sure, why not. If it is a really life or death emergency you of course need to call an ambulance which I'll assume has license to do things illegal for you to get there faster. Most ER visits are important to soon, but few are now important.
There's nothing wrong with crying or in general showing or having emotions, "negative" or otherwise.

Some people just have that reaction to difficulty and frustration or whatever else, it doesn't have to mean that an environment is terrible or immoral if people cry about it sometimes.
A certain number of hours for some features is reasonable. But if I recall correctly, the controversy was that you had to play for 40 hours in order to unlock just one of these characters.

The community got mad when they tried to say this was to cultivate "a sense of accomplishment" when the goal was really to encourage players to buy lootboxes in order to skip the grind.
No, it's not related at all. Jesus guys, this is not reddit, you don't need all of this to know the location and track a mobile phone. Every carrier in the world can do this with very basic tooling.
That's because many of them are surnames. Parts of the US (namely the South) had/have a tradition of naming boys with their mothers' maiden names.
Actually, some of us wish they would.
The Pawn shop was my Father-In-Law's idea, but, it requires a LOT of paperwork (including getting your FFL Type 2), a lot of regulatory stuff (retaining DL's and video on all transactions, reporting to regional fusion centers), and a lot of time (it was probably 18 months before we were profitable).

The Great Clips was just a chance thing -- Sport Clips didn't seem like it was up my alley, and it's also located in Eastern Kentucky, where not a lot of people go for $70+ haircuts. Existing owner wanted out of his franchise agreement, and I was more than happy to purchase it from him.

Eventually, I might try to market and sell the Pawn Shop's POS that I wrote for it, but, that's years down the road.
I know there were a lot of good reasons to deprecate Flash, especially as a web design tool.

I've never understood why it was necessary to ban it from browsers and practically kill nearly 20 years of games and animations.
I used Sonic (DSL) for five years while I lived in the south bay and I was extremely happy with the service and the company.

Where I live now comcast is the only broadband available and although the service is theoretically faster and somewhat less expensive, I'd pay twice the price for sonic. Comcast is unreliable, intermittently very slow, and the company is impossible to deal with.
If you want more from this, then you would have to get folks to contribute to enhancing our detection and tracking capabilities to the point of identifying the unidentified objects. Distill the technology down to simpler and smaller devices that can be fitted onto more aircraft, ships, satellites, etc. Perhaps apply machine learning to piece together sensor data. Widen the useful spectrum of data that is gathered.
I've never had a font make me laugh so hard.
Huber Brothers did more than 2 (Freerider, Golden Gate, El Nino, Zodiac). Skinner and Piana freed Salathe, Lynn freed the Nose. Most repeats aren't done in TC Pros.

But yes, TC Pros are great.
The True Essence of Personal Motivation
If you refer to the theory that AV actually wrote viruses (it's not clear), that's as realistic as saying that police commits crimes so that they can get extra reward from the new tasks.

I've followed the VX scene for years (it died long ago) and there has never been shortage of new malware.

Even if we wanted to give some credit to the theory, which type of virus would the AV companies develop? Something trivial, that requires a variation of a signature to detect? Or something extremely complex, that requires month of work, and that slows down the AV engine because it's algorithmically complex to detect?

None of this makes any sense. The truth is very simple - malware has always been an interesting subject, and writing viruses always had a subversive appeal to young rebels.
Because a car your own means your stuff is in it. If you use it somewhat regularly it is cheaper in the long run to own your own SDC over a taxi (even assuming automation), if only because you get to decide when to clean it.
While I'm normally all for access to raw data used in research, that's pretty hard to do with IRS data without massively violating Americans' privacy and exposing them to identity theft. It's fair to be skeptical of anything using locked-up data, but I don't see a good way around the problem.
Show HN: SlowTube – Learn songs by ear by slowing them down
I thought moving my life off of Google was just too monumental of a task after being tied to them since the gmail beta invites, but yeah after like six months of no Google it's not really that big of a deal at all. Occassionaly DDG returns very bad results and you have to go back to the old search engine, but for the most part it's just really easy to avoid them.

Make sure you're using some sort of extension to block all of the Google analytics/trackers as well, they are on almost every site.