skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
astronomical and medical

Sounds expensive! And when you tile sensors that way you still have gaps in between them. http://www.faculty.virginia.edu/rwoclass/astr1230/im/MegaCam...

We put off-the-shelf (cheap) sensors side by side with no gaps. Here's the patent if you'd like to read more: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20170359512A1/
> Reportedly, a database containing sensitive user info was easily accessible to anyone through a web browser.

Personally, I'm tired of hearing the word 'breach' used to describe unlocked doors. It is absolutely critical that the door is locked, but a breach is when somebody enters that door and/or took something. If I ever tell a friend of family member that there was a data breach, nobody ever assumes that breach means 'unlocked door' (so they feel misled or like the story was exaggerated)
Get yourself a good pair of noise cancelling headphones.
Inspiration: https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-noise-cancelling-head...
Uber sues Los Angeles to keep scooter location data private
Apologies for being off topic, but I'm looking to attempt the opposite transition. Go from Big Co to self-employed consultant and would love to pique your brain about your journey if you'd be willing to field a few questions of mine at some point?
Ye gods this is a horrible concept, so let's develop it further.

After you've assembled your pizza with the reverse claw machine, you need to direct a spatula under the pizza, and into an oven. When your pizza is done enough, you use the spatula again to drop it into a box. Then you get a box-claw machine which you use to place your fresh pizza-in-box onto a delivery drone. Make sure it's balanced! Finally, you're granted control of the delivery drone, which you can fly to your house.

What could possibly go wrong?
This is a good point. I don't know. I suppose there are two options: 1) stick with it 2) do something else. I have heard of cognitive biases in both directions, and I don't know which is generally stronger* in most people. Probably the best advice is to seek better advice from someone that knows what it takes to win.

*You could probably study this with outcomes of job switching and divorces. I'm not sure how though...
Somehow the results seem dissatisfying.

This really feels like it should be measuring the area under the curve, at the very least. Measuring "peak to peak" seems silly.
Which class of solution?
Serious question. If I want to build a game that looks like this today, what are my options? Anybody know?
Interesting that tax reform was credited as the main reason for increased taxes paid by one of the largest conglomerates in the world.

The corporate tax rate was lowered from 35% to 21%, but Google's bump from 9% to 18% might be evidence that there are now fewer loopholes. Hopefully there will be media articles analyzing this example.
I agree there is a problem, I simply disagree that there is an easy solution. All "solutions" people suggest either propose to make Facebook nakedly partisan, or would just cause the very same criticisms to reignite in essentially the same form the next day.
“Eye of the Beholder” Ported to 1Mhz Commodore 64
A lot of bike lanes in New York do not have six feet of separation from parked cars.
Ethereum Gas: understanding gas price and gas limit
The main features could be emulated with a small wrapper around git, no?
Not real sure how you can put political campaign ads in the same bucket as child pornography and still claim "good faith" ?
Huh, weird. I use the airpods every day on the Pixel 3a and they work great, both for calls and listening to music.

Maybe android fixed some bugs?
And now what?

I'm only half joking.

I'm glad you find pleasure in Joy, really am, programming should be more enjoyable. And having only read about it, I feel like they're related in spirit.

But this looks like madness to me. There's just too much stuff in there that has nothing to do with the algorithm. It feels like stacking monads in Haskell. Sure, it's cool and all, I mean that it works. And beautiful on one level. But still madness, as far as solving problems go.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Lee_Curtis also
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_of_China
"I don't understand why it's an indictment."

You are not reacting to the content of the opinion piece. Three points are made in the piece that "indict modern finance", none of them being about SoftBank's "stupid risky bet" or how that should be regulated/banned.

> But the crisis at WeWork [..] exemplifies the increasing volatility of the economic model that inflated the unicorns of the past. And it involves three trends [..]: the expansion of the gig economy, the relatively low cost of commercial real estate, and the increase in financial flows from sovereign investors in search of political capital.

(edit: not sure I agree with the content of the article, but I'm quoting the gist of it)
I worked for the consulting company that partnered with them to re-brand and re-code their web site in 2002, yes. It was long ago and while it was cool to have done a site that gets that much traffic, it was a run-of-the-mill consulting project, so no, there isn't anything written up about it.
A note to readers: Paywall down – L.A. Times California fire coverage free today
It's not that weird. They can call it whatever they want. Multiplayer is a better name than 'live editing' anyway.
We've been through this same conversation with the FEC decades ago. They ended up with precisely the same compromise Facebook is implementing now.
The El Reg persona:

I am a middle aged intelligent man who used to be an engineer, and now I have moved up the ranks. I work in IT for a droll company, so I can afford some toys and vacations, and a bit because I just like hardware.

I treat El Reg like a British pub, where wit is appreciated, and sometimes we talk about "the war" (our collective past), and certainly taking the piss out of ourselves and everyone else is a good laff.

I also need to know some of what El Reg writes about for work; at least they make it fun, unlike most of the rest of my job where much of the pleasure is black.
Ahh, we'd love to have had you try it. Next time :)

Loyalty/membership program is something we've been thinking about and will likely implement sometime over the next few months.

Great bug catch!
It was challenging to make money from students on the web -- which is the main demographic using Clara.io. It is sort of a selfless thing unfortunately.

So the parent company, Exocortex, pivoted towards 3D ecommerce and introduced the threekit.com brand aimed directly at that market.

It has been working okay: https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/10/threekit-raises-10-millio...
>> We know how powerful the US intelligence agencies are

Yeah, it controls pretty much every communication device.

>> Even in their missteps, they were able to limit its influence in the region.

Compared to whom? No other country is any close in terms of controlling the world.
Different language families. It is/was feminine in the Latin world, and masculine, related to germanic Arne, in some pockets of Western Europe [Frisia, Scotland, France].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne
I've got comments trashing FB and Zuckerberg on HN from 2009. These people have managed to make Zuckerberg a sympathetic character to me.

I wish you would tone down your rhetoric, however. I've been guilty of it myself and understand your frustrations, but it makes things worse.
This obsession of pervasive targeted ads, and A/B testing methods needs to stop.

I have stopped using all google services except for search and YouTube. Apple Maps is fine now, if you need a free email account, you can get one on iCloud.com.

Who are these soulless marketing execs that are OK with using this type of extremely personal health data!? There should be a moral objection, which evidently isn’t there. That’s more horrifying.
He was writing descriptively, not normatively. You think there should be other uses for cryptocurrency besides speculation; he's saying it is overwhelmingly used for speculation.
Bikes are good/useful in a number of ways. They're a form of individual transport, like walking or driving, with the advantages that that has over public transport -- namely, less waiting, point to point, not beholden to a schedule that might not match your schedule -- and they slot in nicely between walking and driving as a compromise between the strengths and weaknesses of both. Much faster and longer range than walking, more cargo capacity, but still much cheaper than driving, and without most of the issues cars have with things like generating noise, pollution, and danger.

Bikes are also healthy for people, and they're certainly more space-efficient than cars. Oh, and they're vastly less expensive for the city as well; building subways is enormously capital intensive, and buses have high ongoing operating expenses. Good quality bike infrastructure isn't exactly cheap...except that compared to high quality car or transit infrastructure, yeah it is relatively cheap.

So, altogether, replacing car space with bike space makes a ton of sense, especially for a city as dense as NYC. Sure, bus and subways improvements should happen too, but there's so much car space that's wasteful, and bike stuff is so cheap, that it's really low hanging fruit. No good reason not to develop it.
That is cool! Back when I did this either YouTube didn't exist yet, or it wasn't a thing yet. So I never posted them. I probably would have worried about copyright things as well.
If not selling in plastic bottles puts them out of the business, their business only survives externalising costs (= leaving plastic waste to someone else to figure out), and they should be out of business.

In the 80's and 90's, where I live, Coca-Cola used to sell in returnable glass bottles, you would drop it at the mini market and buy a filled one, and buying one without returning another bottle cost a lot more, so people had incentive to store empty bottles and return it back. It worked just fine. They didn't go broke. I call BS that it's not economic viable.
No - are they doing the site now? My time on it was just a project way back when. I'm sure nobody working with them recently has any connection to those of us who did it back then.
I think it's worded in a way that's odd to developers that usually write code for multiple target languages.

What you type is usually considered what it's implemented in, not what it's compiled/transpiled to. The later is the target language, which there may be many.

This differentiation is required if you want to modify/read the code. You would almost certainly modify/read it in the language it was implemented in, and make it clear which language this is when sharing.

Maybe "...implemented in TS, targeting JS" or at least something more obvious like "...implemented in JS using TS".
The Market for Voting Machines Is Broken. This Company Has Thrived in It
My issue isn't where my topping goes, it's how much of that topping is on the pizza. In my experience, when they get to choose, they can be surprisingly reluctant to literally double the amount of a given topping, no matter how much you push them. They'll put a ton more if it's a different topping, but not if it's the same one.
The prom king and queen at my high school had the first names Tracey and Tracy respectively. Paris is an interesting case as it is featured in Romeo and Juliet as a male name but seems to be mostly a female name now, at least in its Parris variant.
It's a bit rich to criticise China's approach to currency after 2008.

Their government should be given credit for basic competence, which our leaders don't seem to have.

Their government has consistently put major support behind key industrial sectors and built out infrastructure that enabled industrial growth.

Just as an example, China now has more high-speed rail than the rest of the world combined. They are the world's leading manufacturer of solar panels, electric vehicles, etc.
There are several countries with equal or better starting positions, yet no achieving equivalent economic growth.

Meanwhile holders of the highest office in US/UK are busy with Brexit, building a wall, and denying climate change exists.
"Surely there are some parameters that would make sense?"

For sure...

"I don't want to see political ads from a local election across the country."

They should be targeting eligible voters. If a local election is taking place across the country, then, of course, you shouldn't be seeing the ads.

"There's also no reason for me to see an ad for the Republican primaries if I am voting in the Democratic primaries. Etc"

No, this defeats the purpose. We should be trying to expose people to more viewpoints - not creating more echo-chambers.
That may be true but an array of n x n chars where n is 2^32 won't fit (well obviously) in RAM and size_t should be at least 64 bit to match (2^32 x 2^32 = 2^64).

Regardless, even without these unobtainium big machines, the cardinality of the largest array for a platform (by any number of dimensions) must be representable in size_t. A too large of an array would not fit in RAM and you should get a compile/link/out of memory error.
The cars frequently treat them as suggestions too. And they seem to treat bike lines in a similar manner.
Interesting, what's the process there like?
Cognitive behavioral therapy is a really great way to get out of bad habits like working long hours. A calm workspace is awesome but won't fix psychological issues.
iOS 13.2 reveals Apple’s Tile-like device could be called AirTag
I thought I heard her saying it was mostly on R&D and Sales and Marketing. Which doesn't tell you much I guess.
This is true. It's gotten so bad that I don't order flowers online anymore. I can't count the number of times I've ordered flowers online and the bouquet showed up frozen, freezer burned, or dead in a FedEx tube mailed from the other side of the country.

Now I phone (yes, phone) the local hospital near the recipient and ask them what florist they use (often it's contracted to a mom-and-pop store down the street). Then I call (yes, call) that place on the phone and order.

I've never been disappointed this way.
This doesn’t do anything when cars decide to park in your bike lane anyways, and your bike lane has maybe a foot clearance to traffic in the other side.

It’s also an interesting attitude, that cars are so much more important than bikes that it’s not car drivers who should check the road when opening their door, but bikers who should lose the 6 feet of street space near parked cars which is the only semi-safe place for bikes in New York
Maybe fix your downvote as well...
When speaking to Blackberry execs (10+ yrs ago) about their abysmal developer support I pointed to apple.com/developer as an example of how it should be done. Blackberry's lack of developer support was surely one of the key reasons for its failure.

Apple seriously needs to re-focus.
For the record, this should now work as expected without copying.
http://archive.is/JMFbi
Those pirate CHMs of books were usually surprisingly well indexed, with proper table of contents.

When I was contracting I'd carry a disc or two of CHMs - basically the bookshelf back home, to avoid carting actual books.
Queer [video]
I understood about 20% of that!
> "turn out the volume" isn't idiomatic

Indeed, thanks.
> In a similar way, making better free software to take market share from paid SaaS software is better than deriding SaaS companies as immoral for stepping in to make life easier for their customers.

We can do both.

> Well, this depends on quite a lot of factors you're leaving out. How do you leave your house without a car?

The point is that if everyone does something in lockstep, e.g. via taxation or simply an agreement, then these solutions gain pressure to arise.

So again, we can do both. If ICE cars were taxed more heavily then a ton of investment naturally flows into alternative fuels, bus services, etc because suddenly there's an enormous competitive advantage.
But seeing that the other 50% don’t have iOS devices, how can they feel marginal?
I recently read all the help files for Keyboard Layout Creator from Microsoft. The tool is a bit old now (no update since 2007), the help pages have some interesting information difficult to find online.
Are you calling Sabre / Amadeus APIs in the background "for now" ?
Ask HN: Good UI/UX Practices for Spreadsheets?
Is there such a thing? Is someone working in this problem domain?

I’m dealing with some customers that love spreadsheets and I want to serve them as best as I can, but my own spreadsheets always look lame and confusing. I’m willing to improve this skill, but I’m having some troubles finding out where to begin.
Well in this case, Google kind of has to do something with wearables. Apple Watch is pulling people over.

Unless you were suggesting in your comment that Apple should release the AW from the walled garden and allow it to work on Android? In that case, I agree!
US is amazing when it comes to voting. People constantly trying to fix electronic voting while the rest of the world does perfectly fine with pen and paper. You don’t need computers for elections.
> thanks to Google dropping MathML, there's still no cross-browser, non-kludge way to display math.

Probably a huge tangent, but UnicodeMath [1][2] is at least encodable and (basically) readable just about everywhere UTF-8 (et al) is supported, which is all browsers today, if unfortunately only just a linear presentation by default. I'm surprised there aren't more progressive renderers for it to up-level it to more traditional two-dimensional renders in browsers directly yet (after several years being standardized as a Unicode Technical Note). A cursory glance shows that even MathJax still doesn't seem to support UnicodeMath (at least out of the box), like it does MathML and AsciiMath. (But I think raw UnicodeMath is easier to read than MathML or AsciiMath in a "progressive" fashion from linear to "professional"/two-dimensional rendering. Though that's a personal preference/aesthetic that can get quite subjective.)

[1] http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.1.p...

[2] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/murrays/2016/09/07/unicodem...
> You just said you yourself were able to identify them. Why couldn’t someone else?

Because as I also said, anybody else would likely make different judgements. The assessment I described is entirely my own opinion, and it would be impossible for me (or anybody else) to make any form of assessment that wasn’t influenced by opinion.

> And, suppose they were missing from your News Feed. How much would you miss them?

I personally don’t care about ads at all. But you’re understating how extreme your suggestion is. News outlets would be excluded from any sort of promotion on FB. Basically any NGO would be excluded, including environmental groups.

I would expect such an extreme idea to have a very strong justification, and I can’t see anything other than FB employees not liking it.

> Finally, I’d love to hear about some of these “ads for products that have political messaging”

Nike and Gillette have two incredibly high profile examples. There’s plenty of smaller ones too. Any company that participates in pride month is delivering a political message. The issue with classifying political speech is that it depends much more on the views of the audience than it does the content of the speech. The graphics used in a weather report would be considered politically charged by a flat earther.

It is simply not possible for FB to take a neutral position on this matter, so your choice is between FB taking a political stance on what election ads are allowed on its platform, or having FB not moderate them.
Wish the rss/atom was better represented, rather than only existing in metadata on your site. I must be a dying breed, but I refuse to sign up for email newsletters. I refuse to hand over that much of my attention.

Edit: https://www.gkogan.co/feed.xml
Facebook is already doing moderation of political content posted by non-politicians. See the latest news about content removed about Lindsey Graham. Facebook is choosing not to stay on the sidelines themselves already. They are just doing so for politicians.

The status quo of Facebook is worse than them not touching any of the political content on their site.
I have yet to hear of an example of a factory or plant using AI for optimizing industrial operations. Anybody known of any?
How I pay $1/month for 2 terabytes of storage: introducing Sia Slice
The video has a star emoji in the title for a reason discussed in the video, but HN stripped it out. Just to make it clear I didn't editorialize the title.
Amadeus offers an easy-to-use and affordable flight booking API too: https://developers.amadeus.com/self-service/category/air/api...

What's new here that Amadeus or Sabre do not offer?
The male and female names have different origins, and Anne was never a masculine name in english so it’s not a transition.
The Smart Dashboard for Kubernetes
Who funded the worldwide automation and improving yields of agriculture?
I've always been agnostic on blockchain stuff. One of those 'flip-a-coin to determine its future' type of mentalities. On that note, my humble, unsubstantiated hypothesis is that IF it ends up not being a dud technology, then a couple of potential things that make that so might be...

(1) Something to do with the growing number of people not participating in the current traditional financial system (the unbanked etc) together with some sort of negative event in current traditional system (recession/depression etc).

(2) Something to do with future A.I. systems and processes requiring a historical snapshot of everything that happened within the system or process and blockchain somehow ending up being more reliable, secure, and accurate than a traditional database in recording the history of an A.I. system or process.

(3) Something to do with the ability to monetize certain things at scale that either could not be monetizable at scale before or could have been but no tech existed that could have made the project/business profitable.
The media went after Facebook when they started losing all that sweet money to them. Current political situation was an icing on the cake for them, as much as I despise Zuck and FB (I find their business model to be vile), it's more than obvious the media has a strong agenda and really are after them, no matter what Zuck or FB does.
Perhaps in the 70s people also stuck to the general trend of female names ending with a vowel while make names typically ended with a consonant. Immigration from cultures such as India where this isn't the trend might indeed be responsible for it waning.
Pro-tip: create a dedicated email for newsletters so you don't feel like they're spamming you or clogging your inbox. Ever since I did this I really enjoy finding the occasional unique newsletter.
>You think China is going to do better?

Well... why wouldn't they? China since the time of Deng has been acutely aware of the risk of becoming an imperialist power[1]. Even if they have arguably crossed that line at some points (the South China Sea...), they're clearly attempting to take a markedly alternative path to becoming a superpower.

I think the media tends to portray individuals in the Chinese government as uniquely sinister and amoral, and the assumption is if given the opportunity, they'll commit all the same crimes the West did. But I find this to be quite a cynical view.

[1] https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1165122628757024768
>Why there are people who welcome the rise of Chinese/CCP hegemony when they are actively looking to crush [2] "Western values" is beyond me.

Perhaps it's because Big Tech is full of people who favor Chinese ideals over Western Enlightenment/American ideals, such as:

-Group identity over individuality

-Mass tracking/surveillance over privacy

-Cenorship over free speech

-State control/power over self defense
Long before Shalespeare, Paris is also a male in ancient Greek mythology. (No relation to the name of the city of Paris BTW.)
Much more upbeat story than "Brooks was Here".