skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As that page says: on the album “Substance”.

That page doesn’t mention the spelling error (possibly intentionally, as the ‘m’ looks weirder than the ‘n’) in the title (cover image on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_(Joy_Division_album) )
Every person I've talked to over at Fitbit (pre-this news) has been down on the company. Sounds like they've had trouble effectively scaling software/new hardware to the level of success that the initial device had.

While this could easily be another money sink for Google as they attempt to figure out some sort of Android wearable, it also has the potential to be an Instagram level-acquisition. Non-Apple wearables seem to be ripe for the picking
>over any wireless earplug
Believe it or not, my co-founder and I actually ended up flipping a coin to decide on the name! I wanted DrivesUs (mostly because the domain was available) but now I feel like Carve sounds a little more sleek and pithy.
I'd definitely welcome this - it seems like Google has been way behind Apple with a solid watch competitors and given they've got the rest of the ecosystem with the Pixels, Chromebooks, and headphones, bulking up their capabilities there alongside the HTC team acquisition seems logical
I don't think security is the only factor here. Security is only achieved when 100% of the holes are plugged, which is indeed not achievable outright.

But what is achievable immediately is being closer to user's expectations of what will be pasted in general, and a step-by-step approach gives benefits in this regard at every step, without making false promises.
Healthcare and medicine is a commodity service, similar to airway transportation and food supply, and the more abundance is there on all levels of it, the lower the prices get across time. Artificial caps on the cost of medicine creates unhealthy bureaucratic incentives like this one instance within NHS in the UK https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/06/15/trump-criti...
Something around 30 years ago, an inmate in the LA County jails was recorded on tape explaining how he put himself in a position to be able to testify falsely. I assume that was one of the factors that led to a grand jury investigation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx-Cz6-HaJA_U240RVBvQkxMNEE...
The lives of the disabled and the impartially abled would be made astoundingly better with such level 5 cars. Greater freedom of movement for those with illnesses, mental disabilities, vision impairments, amputations, etc would greatly improve their lives and thereby the lives of their caretakers and loved ones too. No longer would your legally blind uncle need your help to get to the doctor or to the store.

It's not obvious, but there are medical, familial, and personal liberty implications to such self-driving cars too. I think that these implications should be better championed by their engineers. Such cars can be wheelchairs for the blind, etc. It would hit an emotional nerve better than the meme of people sleeping on their way to work.

Level 5 will be a very very big deal.
Australia wants to use face-matching to verify people downloading porn
I suggest "I carved there"
While I really can't argue with the "get the highest paying job you can as early as you can", there are also many market dynamics at play and quite frankly your own ability to navigate and bluff and take risks are a major part of it. But yes, on average I would say, aim for the highest paying job you can.
Would you buy a second hand pair of headphones with someone else's earwax on them?
> the main reason being that they just don’t seem to fit in my ears very well, needing constant readjustment

It may simply be that your ears aren't a suitable shape - I've had this problem with every single pair of in-ear phones that I've ever tried and fitted hearing aids. At least the aids have over-the-ear clips so I don't lose them. I would be guaranteed to lose an AirPod within a week of owning them.
This is true for every major cloud provider. Certain industries are unwilling to use certain clouds because it is funding their competitors.
It's funny to read this and have it compared to Ember's docs, especially since I've been using Chris's site a fair bit over the past few months...

I only bring this up for posterity, but Ember's documentation is terrible, and what is even worse is the Typescript documentation is almost unusable its so outdated. Chris's site is the only place you can go to find anything and it's incredibly difficult to make sense of or is already completely outdated... There are constant gotchas and missing documentation or things that are flat out wrong...

I can understand complaining some about Swift's docs (though I've never had that problem), but comparing them to Ember's seems like an awfully bad take.

P.S. I love Ember, learning it has just been nightmarish at points for almost no reason.
The best part about IPv6 is that it's now possible to SSH directly into your laptop if you're using a hotspot from T-Mobile US, for example — it gives you at least a whole /64, so, your laptop gets a fully-routable IPv6 address.

Which is kind of ironic, because you don't get that with most wireline connections, as they're all done through IPv4 NAT.
> "Working with the LST science groups and contractors, the team reduced the telescope’s primary mirror from a 3-meter aperture to 2.4 meters. This major change mainly resulted from new NASA estimates of the Space Shuttle’s payload delivery capability; the Shuttle could not lift a 3-meter telescope to the required orbit. In addition, changing to a 2.4-meter mirror would lessen fabrication costs by using manufacturing tech- nologies developed for military spy satellites."

https://web.archive.org/web/20161130130303/http://history.ms...

Hubble's mirror is probably the same [size] as a KH-11: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennen#Size_and_mass
1) Remember the selection when the selection is made, if content changes ignore until a re-selection is made or un-select when it changes.
2) for hidden content, when selected display a permission box
2.1) permission box states, "hidden content was selected but Chrome removed it, to allow hidden content to be selected for this website click allow " [Allow] [Ignore]
obviously it needs finessing but it seems possible?
> It also suggests that our Sun Belt cities, built around the automobile, aren’t designed for pedestrians at all. The trend of fatalities could worsen as more people take to walking and cycling where they previously had not.

This goes for the classic morality play that "cars bad, walking good" which, like, I get and agree with. One of the reasons I moved to Seattle and live in the city is specifically because I wanted to be somewhere more pedestrian and bike friendly.

However, I also grew up in the South and the reality of the climate there is that it will never be very pedestrian friendly. When I lived in Orlando, I tried really hard to avoid using my car. I moved to one of the more pedestrian friendly neighborhoods (College Park). But, when it's 95+°F six months out of the year, it sucks to walk. You will show up covered in sweat. With the humidity levels, you will sweat just standing still in the shade.

Florida was barely developed at all until air conditioning and the automobile were invented. Seriously, look at the population graph [0]. While the rest of the US thinks of those technologies as social ills, in Florida they are critical enablers of livability. If it wasn't for those, the state would still be an uninhabited sweltering swamp of mosquitos and malaria. (You can argue that maybe it should be, but most of that population explosion came from the Northeast and Midwest, so who's really to blame here?)

This is another example of a pattern I see really frequently in the US where the North throws shade on the South. Yanks have decided that (a) you're bad if you drive a car (b) you're gross if you show up somewhere covered in sweat, and (c) you're unsophisticated if show up in flip-flops and shorts.

Then they make people in the South feel bad for not upholding those values, despite the fact that the climate is massively different there. My impression is that places like India and Thailand have cultural norms around clothing and perspiration that let you actually function outdoors in hot climates. But here in the US, you're obliged to pretend like you're in Los Angeles or Boston even when it's thirty degrees hotter where you live.

[0]: http://worldpopulationreview.com/states/florida-population/#...
They’re similar but not the same shape, and clearly neither are horribly uncomfortable to most people.
> run ./configure
> realize i’m missing a dependency

If only there was like, a tool, to help you manage compile-time dependencies.

I wish there was a `yarn` equivalent for C projects.
I have Apple's PowerBeats Pros. They cost $250, and the batteries cannot be replaced. I expect them to last about two years, based on AirPods usage. And the footprint on those things is so minuscule in comparison to other aspects of my life that I could easily improve, I feel no need to justify my choice whatsoever.

EDIT: another comment prompted me to explain better. Money aside, for a bit of trash I get two years of entertainment, a quality experience, more enjoyable runs, something to listen to on my commute, a voice assistant for when my hands are full. All for a little pile of garbage after a few years. Now let's take a trip down the street to the teriyaki place close to work. EVERY TAKEOUT MEAL THEY SERVE generates more garbage than my earphones. If not the lithium batteries, for sure more plastic by weight or volume (let's not forget the styrofoam, either). For something that's going to be forgotten and floating in the toilet tomorrow morning.

I don't eat at the teriyaki place anymore for the above reasons. Leave me the hell alone about my headset choices. /EDIT

Though with a minute of thought, I'm pretty sure I could mount a reasonable argument for disposable, but smart, earphones reducing my footprint. But that's a longer discussion and beside the point. EDIT: for one example, see user ogre_codes experience with Walkmans.
Live Listen is the closest they have right now. Works fine on the current AirPods, then again I don't have hearing loss.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203990
Yeah, I'm not saying that there aren't exceptions. But if you want to do business with Walmart or Target, unless you're a major player, you can expect them to have a requirement of not using AWS.

Just noting what I've seen from projects that I've actively worked on first hand.

(Also Walmart and Target are far from the only ones that do this, just using them as examples.)
There are a lot of professors who have public contact info, and many would be happy to answer your questions about their area of research. It wouldn't hurt to ask!
Music Mode for Youtube
I’d be interested if the fit is better when it comes to running. I actually don’t have much of a problem with AirPods now that I got some Earhoox ($10 little silicon arms that wrap into your ear, which sounds skeevy when I type it out right now but it’s really changed my whole run experience). I only use them while running, though, and maybe these would be a better fit. OTOH, I don’t want noise cancelling while running in the city, so might not be worth the added dough.
I have a Pixel 3 and the horribleness of the Pixel buds has me seriously considering a switch to Apple.
are you using it for remotely accessing linux boxes? mintty+wsl-bridge aka wsltty has really come a long way in a short time, and i'm beginning to use it even for remote work alongside using it for wsl. call me shallow but it really boils down to it looking far, far better when staring at a vim buffer for hours...

i absolutely love mobaxterm, but there's alot of cases where it seems like overkill for my purposes. that being said, nothing beats mobax when it comes to a stupid easy X server for windows. vcxserv and x410 are both nice and getting nicer, but you gotta sit down and work out kinks to make either one really useful
The Sempahore Barrier
> can we agree that the copy would believe that it's you?

Absolutely. I think this is a presupposition of the entire scenario.

Practically speaking, the only thing that is in question is whether the original's subjective experience extends to the clone. If it doesn't, the clone is useful for those who aren't the original, as a means of backup for important individuals. But, such a clone isn't a viable way to pursue immortality (for the original), as you'd still die if you are cloned in such a fashion; 'your' experience would end as the clone succeeds you, much like the case of having children.

I'm reminded of the case of blindsight here, can something be called immortality if it is the equivalent through another body?

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight
Isn't this just a rehash of the "people ride their bicycle more dangerously when they're wearing helmets" argument?

The solution is all of the above, and also don't paste stuff into your terminal from the internet.
I can't wait for my already EOL'd Pebble that was acquired by FitBit to be resurrected as a surveillance/adtech nightmare by Google.
Something definitely has been off at Fitbit - I had their first device and then after swearing off smartwatches got a new Fitbit for Christmas. 10 months later I'm on my 3rd watch from them - the first one stopped taking a charge after a few months, the second one the screen went out in a week or two. I'm hoping the third time is the charm
I’m going to get these as soon as I can. I’ve been addicted to my Bose 35 but tbh they are a bit bulky.

Also, I need noise cancellation and have been waiting for Apple to release their version of it.

A bit bold here but I’m going to assume their NC experience is beyond anything else on the market in the same form factor.

Look at Bose for example and their in-ear alternative; you have to wear a bulky necklace to get the same experience as their cabled version.

Nah, I feel like Apple is going to disrupt the entire NC market with these things
Replace "everyone" with "large corporations" and I think it's a pretty sound argument.
Or you could just use youtube-dl, which is free.

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/
https://www.fiercevideo.com/tech/aws-mega-customer-netflix-u...
How about let's not.

It seems the present disincentives to massive securities fraud are insufficient.
The middle consonant is a ق, which is the same consonant at the end of "Iraq", or Qur'an. There's been a tendency to write this with <q> in English more recently -- consider "Qur'an" vs. "Koran". The <k> version produces transliterations that may look more natural for English spelling, but there is another Arabic letter, ك, which is transliterated as <k>, so the <q> version helps distinguish the two.
> Future increases in AWS's prices will be passed down to the end users.

11 years in, AWS has never raised prices for any service AFAIK despite holding a near monopoly on public cloud for quite some time.
class Universe(void):
def __init__():
eval("Fiat Lux")
I remember seeing a classified US military publication in 1984 called "Soviet Military Power 1984" and there were pictures of this smaller soviet space shuttle being hoisted from the ocean onto a barge.
The money saved would be used for something else, e.g. education. That effect would also compound over time.
> All family people, with decades of programming experience

I might be reading into this wrong, but it almost sounds like you're saying that you only hired people who had families. Doesn't that sound a little bit discriminatory?
> the actual day-to-day coding is not done in a single C file.

That's true - but in order for it be able to be reduced to a single C file, a lot of thought had to go into the process.
I've owned the QC20i (two of them actually). The battery was never the issue. The durability was! I take a great care of all my electronics. And no matter how careful I was, the QC20i never lasted more than 2 years without some sort of connection issues.
Exactly right. The rental revenue more than offsets depreciation within 1-3 months on the platform (thought it does depend on the model). The important thing to remember is that a lot of larger car dealers are actually getting better deals on cars from manufacturers than rental car companies.

When it comes to luxury cars, the depreciation tends to be steeper up front, so they'll need to be on the platform longer to make up for depreciation. We also take used luxury cars.
My project, https://contact.do , is also part of the data privacy group. It protects the privacy of your email address and it also protects it from spam. You get a contact link which you can post on any site instead of your email.

Here's mine: https://contact.do/toni

Please get in touch if you want a custom contact link or if you have any feedback
GitRoyalty–The First Open Source Paywall
If you enjoy this sort of thing, this book is full of bit twiddling algorithms you never thought possible: https://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Delight-2nd-Henry-Warren/dp/0...
Manufacturers are fundamentally in the business of pushing new cars. No amount of financial engineering can make it a frugal option to drive a new car.
It is more about the general "conspiracy" tone of the article. It is like "OMG banks can create money, what a conspiracy" by some people who are surprised by the facts on how financial system works when they finally learn some basics.

There is strong demand for any kind of vehicle which allows transferring value digitally outside of the traditional banking system. I don't think tether users trust tether because they advertise on their website that it is "backed", but more because they have strong need for something like it and there are no alternatives.

Of course the huge demand has been spotted by many others and now there are loads of these "stablecoins". Some are more regulated and might take quickly over if feds decide to stop tether.
I'm confused by this comment. How does your experience in a walkable neighborhood suggest that the school system in the parent commenter's unwalkable neighborhood is in any way at fault?
Short Tcl script that combines everything into one file:

https://www.sqlite.org/src/artifact/5fed3d75069d8f66

Some other details / rationale:

https://www.sqlite.org/amalgamation.html

Combining all the code for SQLite into one big file makes SQLite easier to deploy — there is just one file to keep track of. And because all code is in a single translation unit, compilers can do better inter-procedure optimization resulting in machine code that is between 5% and 10% faster.
Show HN: Firebird database remote protocol client in Common Lisp
I recently decided on a whim to try an IPv6-only VPS which was something like 70% off at my provider. It being for internal stuff only, I thought it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

As it turns out, not even the Ubuntu repositories are reachable over IPv6.

I believe this was the PPA server, which held some package I needed for some workaround for all the other connectivity problems.

So let's hope a few important people/companies/institutions start to be slightly inconvenienced. I bet as soon as this rises to the concern of, say, some peoples' Netflix stream stuttering it's a matter of weeks to solve it.
I had the Charge and liked it. It's a bit "boring" for the price. The tech seems solid though, so maybe Google could inject some excitement into the products via software.
> senior principal engineer

you're telling me there's a difference between a principal and a senior principal? this seems like title bloat (non-financial, meaningless compensation)

i think there are just way too many senior engineers and not enough work for them. this title thing feeds into my hypothesis: if you're getting to the principal level and then encouraged towards "senior principal" level, that's an illusion of career progress.

i think more senior engineers expect to carry the sort of intellectual freedom they had as high output juniors forever as they become "organizationally woke elite hackers". that's just not a good way to portray yourself, though: eager juniors like that person once was will do the job at 75% cost, and not try to occasionally wade into politics as this free roamer has empowered herself to (ref. bullet about cross-organizational lubricant type)

i would be extremely wary of portraying myself as an "elite hacker with enough confidence to meddle across teams" because that is about as vanilla as it could be in 2019. instead i would slot in with an enterprising managerial type and basically become his code peon, pumping out his prototypes, giving him the credit where due, and understanding that he's generating the ideas but not the code, so he can't ghost you very easily and (maybe) he'll keep you safe in the event of layoffs.

this keeps you learning new tech and always building, but makes you really valuable to someone with organizational power, so safer than some generic engineer on a larger team.
OK, "relatively" easy compared to other hobbies, I agree.

The challenge comes when you see what artisan bakers can achieve. It's one of those things where your taste can utterly outgrow your skills.

This is definitely a "forever" hobby where one can always find ways to improve and find new dimensions to explore.
It's not relevant to the position, but 'coding on a whiteboard' is a legal sorting function that will reject a lot of truly awful candidates (You pretty much can't bullshit your way through it. You may end up being an awful hire for other reasons, like your personality, but that's another story.)

That it also rejects some good candidates is fine, there's always more candidates for FAANG jobs. (Few competitors pay FAANG salaries.)
Perl Unicode Forensics
If there is a way to run the preprocessor without any recursion it seems like that would be an easy way to do it without an extra tool.
What’s the word on active noise cancellation and hearing protection? I currently avoid using headphones in loud environments, and my quick test is if I can hear myself talk over the music.

This page says the active cancellation uses “anti-noise”, which iirc is noise, at frequencies that drown out the outside noise. But I’m not really sure about this.

So, if we were in say a 85 db environment, would music with these be at, say 90 db, or would it actually let you play safely at a lower volume like 80mm.

I know NRR headphones are best to actually block noise. But I’m curious what these do. Specifically related to hearing damage.
I'm sure their motion picture tells us all about it. PR != reality.
It might not understand the socio-cultural context of the game, but it understands strategy better than us.
Voxel Video
Ask HN: Model Monitoring?
How do you monitor your models? And what exactly are you monitoring? Curious at the various approaches.
I find pkgconfig + dnf install pkgconfig(foo) useful
Not sure about Firefox but in Chrome you can type "thisisunsafe" on the page to bypass even HSTS (you can test at https://subdomain.preloaded-hsts.badssl.com/ )
No physical buttons on them, but each pod can be programmed to do things based on taps.

For instance, my right pod will skip to the next song with a double-tap. My left pod activates Siri.

I left my airpods at home today (what a coincidence) so I cannot visit that menu to let you know whether or not mute is one of the possibilities for the tap gestures.
Most open source that thrives (with notable exceptions) are things that companies have interest in (e.g., helps them make or save money somehow), so most of the contributions it receives are from people who are getting paid to make that contribution.

For open source hardware, would there be any financial advantage for you? Would someone save/make money by contributing to your open source hardware? Why would someone contribute to your project or simply want to read its source?

I am not saying those answers are "no", I'm genuinely asking you to reflect on that.

Also, it's likely you would have to license other people's IPs and I have no idea if those licenses would forbid you from open sourcing your HW.