skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ordering an expensive watch straight from a known master is one option, they usually don't spend a lot of money on managers, dealers or even advertising. For 20k you've got plenty options. The only downside is that selling your generic-but-good-quality rolex is easy and repairing/maintenance can be done everywhere while things with small brands can sometimes be more complicated.

Designing and making a mechanical watch with many complications takes a lot of time, so it's entirely possible to buy even a 200k watch where you are mostly paying for the actual labor (of a high-skilled professional/artist).
They could do something better than resigning: voice their concerns both internally and in public. I have yet to see a HN comment posted by a current Google employee that has criticized Google's data harvesting practices or monopolistic behavior.
Interesting. I didn't know the blocker was financial regulation. Thanks for letting me know!
I once discovered and fixed a bug in a commercial ordering system which prevented one of the addon-products to be ordered. I checked version control - the bug must have been there for months. Nobody noticed that the product could not be ordered.

It probably wasn't the most popular product to begin with, but I am still amazed that nobody even noticed the drop in sales.
The Web platform is now so gigantic and complex that even Microsoft has decided it's impossible to write a browser!
Yeah, or

https://media.giphy.com/media/huDTE2qLxErrkLodUN/giphy.mp4

But also, yes, execution definitely:

https://free.cloudbrowser.xyz :D ;P ;) xx

And still

https://media.giphy.com/media/huDTE2qLxErrkLodUN/giphy.mp4
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And poor distance vision.

http://www.ratbehavior.org/perception.htm
C-h v - display the full documentation of variable
C-h k - display documentation of the function invoked by key
I'm not sure I totally agree with it, but I do agree with you that it's a legit POV worth discussing, so [vouched].
I m talking about specifically “fake news” , lies that are generally obvious yet for emotional reasons persistent

What s different about autocrats is that they will unscrupulously plant evidence and kill everyone who knows
At work I actively reach out to people to ask how things are working, to the point that I have a weekly scheduled check-in with each group to ask if they've encountered anything wrong or that they feel is just too complex for what the task is.

Once people are comfortable with both complaining and having things actually get fixed, combined with I lucked out with department managers who are competent and I can trust what they say and their assessments, this process works extremely well.

It's really the small things that make the big differences. We added a feature, but didn't add a link in the admin to the report for the customer, so what should have been clicking a single link became a 10step process. Having those lines of communication established, they messaged me and I got the link added quickly. Sure, sometimes things get queued, but a lot of their asks are small things that make their lives so much better.
CIA grants. As conspiracy it sounds, it's perfectly public knowledge and true.
Think of all the “evil” or awfully run companies people will refer to. AT&T, Comcast, Facebook, Oracle, Uber, WeWork, Amazon, Walmart, Monsanto, Phillip Morris, Halliburton, Goldman Sachs, 3 letter government agencies, or in general, major private equity firms.

Obviously good people work at all those companies too. Doesn’t mean the company as a whole isn’t a good force.

Funnily enough I was talking to a friend of a friend who works for LinkedIn. He essentially said the same thing you said wrt not hearing about the negative things about LinkedIn in his every day life. He had no idea that there’s a big tech literate and otherwise chunk of people who find LinkedIn’s dark patterns awful. He didn’t even think LI had any because in his daily life at the company, that sort of stuff didn’t come up.

Another anecdote is my uncle works for Comcast. Same with him, he doesn’t hear about the negatives of the company in his every day life.

Your situation seems like this friend if friends. It makes sense. What company wants to be seen as evil? What sort of normal employee wants to think of the company they work for as a bad company? Nonetheless, there’s good reason people have issues with Google, LinkedIn, and Comcast.
That's a pity the FB2 format is not nearly as popular as EPUB is. It's a single-file pure tidy (I mean a simple, intuitive, bloat-free, well-documented schema) XML with purely semantic layout and no formatting. It's a pleasure to write code processing it. The user/app/device is the only to decide how to view it (neither pages nor fonts are specified). Isn't this lovely?
I'm guessing the IRS has a flag on his data that prevents any sort of electronic access without some top level approval. In fact that would probably make sense to have in place for any congress person as well.
Ask HN: How do you separate incident/project-related tasks?
If your team deals with incidents (things going down, minor requests, etc) and project-related work (adding features, improving infrastructure, etc), how do you handle those?

Do you have a ticket system for incidents some something like JIRA for project work?

How does your team deal with this duality?
Voting could be the problem with democracy
If you want to try nextcloud use the nextcloudpi project. It takes care of everything you need to set it up.
OK - Let me respond to all your biases:

> He is saying that characterizing it as "reshaping mathematics" is likely an exaggeration

No, it's not and actually reading the article points out how Hilda Geiringer helped change the course of mathematics. The author may have used flowery language but is not "wrong" or an "exaggeration" as you or the other commenter claim.

The title of the article is fine. You take umbrage that the article also points out something else along the way...

> What was being said is that writing an article pointing out how few opportunities women had at the time is trite

So again, you're saying articles the use of the past as an example of why discrimination and equal opportunity in STEM fields are important topics is trite. How trite of you ;)

It's amazing how easily men can call exemplifying past gender discrimination to highlight why it's not a good thing as "trite".

After all, racism was solved by the civil rights movement right? No need to revisit the past as that would be... trite ;)

As I said before, had the original commenter been a bit more neutral in his take, I would have given your original defense of his argument more salt (that and I probably wouldn't have commented in the first place).
The fact that google rewrites the displayed URLs as you click on them to intercept the traffic (and that firefox continues to allow them to do it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229050) is bad enough.

Google's current behavior makes it so you can't copy URLs from search results so your only option is to copy the displayed URL (if it's short enough) ... so of course, they're going to remove the displayed URL.

Copying the search results URLs is something that I need to do almost every day to copy scientific paper urls to people in chat ... usually I can't click the url to get it, because clicking it just launches a PDF viewer.

This single obnoxious bit of user spying behavior that Mozilla continues to facilitate has probably already wasted a full working week of my life.

On the plus (?) side, now that google is removing the one remaining work around I'll likely get stuck using a non-google search regardless of the worse results.
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> You don't run them on camera, but... you wouldn't want to!

I'm talking about APIs that control focus, aperture, shutter etc - not post processing. Phone companies have performed more innovation on this front than camera manufacturers.

I want to write a program that will focus stack for me. As in I want to tell my camera to take N photos, each with a slightly different focal point. I want to specify the boundaries (min and max focus). Bonus points if it stacks all the photos in the body as well. Photoshop cannot do this for you.

You already see it in some phones - great nice shots with low noise because the camera is taking N pictures and taking the median of all the pictures. Why can't I program my DSLR to do this?

As for my other point - it was that most DSLR owners never needed a DSLR. They were fine with prosumer/compact cameras, but decided to pointlessly pay an extra for DSLRs. Some a huge amount extra for full frame. DSLRs never should have been this popular. This story should have been about the decline of compact cameras had that alternate history played out.

Why don't camera manufacturers allow me to do this? I know if I overdo it I'll damage the lens, but that's simply not enough of an excuse. There are ways to mitigate these concerns.
Does the case make direct metal to metal contact with all 3 major heat producing chips on the rpi4? IIRC, the chip related to ethernet gets very, very hot in use and not all metal rpi4 cases actually make contact with it.
Every company has a over enthusiastic “Larry” who went to computer school.
Splitting hairs a bit: the qualifications and regulations for driving in ports, warehouses, docks, and factory floors are far more stringent than public roadways, and the conditions on roads are far less predictable and controllable.

Wouldn’t want to end up like Klaus: https://youtu.be/-oB6DN5dYWo
I tried to build Ruby 2.7.0-preview2 from a source download 10 days ago.

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2019/10/22/ruby-2-7-0-prev...

Build failed.

Spent 5 or 10 minutes trying to figure out how to report the problem, and then gave up.
No, they actually started removing even quoted terms from search like 2-3 months ago or so; as a consequence I am now looking for DDG alternatives. First Google results became bad, now DDG seems to copy the same "failure" of the "dominant player" instead of standing out and being useful.
These addon services are troubling, but I don’t even want my child using a chrome book (really google account) either, which are at best unnecessary. What are our rights in this regard?
Not the parent, and you might consider me biased/extremist, but it might give you ideas: I've been moving to a self-hosted (yunohost for now) solution on a re-purposed computer. Unfortunately, this isn't for everyone. This covers mail, cloud (with nextcloud: calendar, contacts, pictures), and many others.

On Android, I mostly use F-droid, as I find apps there are of better quality anyways.
The only other apps left on my phone are for banking and transportation, plus maybe a few select services.

I will likely move over to a pinephone when they are available. I can't wait to have a serviceable phone, both hardware and software.

The self-hosted way maybe isn't for everyone, but if every person that does it offers access to family and friends, it wouldn't take that many hosts... and there are commercial/nonprofit orgs that provide some hosting options.

I do not self-host a search engine, though (searx didn't work well, and isn't really a search engine). It took me a few weeks to get used to ddg, but I find it very hard to use Google nowadays, as I got used to bangs, instant answers, the way to enter search terms, etc. I actually use my old (ca. 2010) Google-fu, which works well, but not on Google anymore.
Who is it that is doing this to men? Who is it that is attacking you? Who is it that you hate?

And also : you say you don't want anything from me, and then you say you want me to acknowledge your pain? The first step here is for you to acknowledge that you are in pain, you are distressed, and you need some help.
My therapist: rats driving tiny cars aren't real, they can't hurt you

Rats driving tiny cars:
I think this is a good idea. I agree with you about the QR code being problematic, simply because some bars are extremely crowded, and it would be difficult to ‘find’ the QR code.

Also, anybody could take a picture of the QR code and re-share it.
Sure, but people close the door out of modesty not really privacy. If there was a machine that provided a written transcript of what someone did in the bathroom with no video/audio I don’t think people would mind.

Like when you’re in high-security areas and have to be monitored in the bathroom there might be a door between you and your guard but no real privacy.

Or when people loudly object to strip-searches at the airport but the scanner that sees everything but then only shows a cutout highlighting suspicious areas to pat down are mostly fine.
> Maybe promoting a strong personal identity could help.

Isn't this already overwhelmingly so? I live in the United States. Virtually all popular media (movies, music, memes) exposes messages like "be your true self" - that's promoting having strong personal identities. I actually think doing this less could help.
With the URLs missing, that just got harder.
Old timers have told me of the "phases".

Like load phase 1. Load data cards and start Phase 1. Punch cards are produced with modified data for phase 2. Load phase 2. Load Phase 2 data and start Phase 2. Run Phase 2.

There were often even more phases.
plenty to do, such as?

also, she can't wish away the fact that without data any new theories are worthless, even if someone conveniently comes up with one.

also, saying that the LHC haven't taught us anything ignores the reality of all the data that it has generated.

is it shiny "new" physics? no, but it's a crucial prerequisite for that.

particle physics needs new data for new physics eventually.
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Unfortunately slices are 3 words. (Besides, AArch64 isn't a common target for Go. On x86 you'd need cmpxchg16b or something.)
>"Who wouldn't want to be perceived as inspirational and forward-thinking when seeking support for a pet business endeavor?"

Sure but how many would want to be be perceived as "inspirational and forward-thinking" in the short term in exchange for being perceived as little more than a greedy charlatan in perpetuity?
I think it's just interesting to a lot of the HN audience. A modal HN reader stumbled across the post, they found it interesting, they thought it would be good to post on HN, and it was.

I think it's interesting to the modal HN viewer because although FFTs are pretty neat intrinsically, but most people are exposed to FFTs through sound processing (if they are exposed to Fourier Transforms at all, I don't think they were a required part of the CS curriculum at my university, they were only required for the EE courses), so the application of FFTs to images seems like total magic.

The explanation that jpegs use FFTs is ho-hum if you spend a bunch of time doing signal processing at your day job, but there are many intellectually curious developers who spend their day job gluing together CRUD apps.
It’s not as black and white as you make it seem either. Oracle is not the same as other big tech companies. Is WeWork the same as other companies too?
There isn't anything fundamental about the time system. Timezones are already an abstraction that separates clock noon and solar noon. In places, clock noon and solar noon are already forever an hour or more apart even during standard time. Sometimes even places with the same longitude are an hour or more apart. Clock noon and solar noon are only in sync at one longitude per time zone in the first place. We have already managed to survive with the delta between them jumping by an hour two times a year for decades. Given all that I'm not sure how normalizing on a larger delta would be at all impactful. For people who need solar noon, sundials and almanacs are already available and needed.
Perhaps, but in the GitHub issue form, it says "Attach files by dragging & dropping, selecting or pasting them." so I'd just be mirroring the UI text.
They’re fine, just as long as they are opt-in.
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That's not what weaponized means..
> Duckduckgo uses Bing search in the back end, which is dogshit

Bing seems fine to me.

When I got a Surface Pro 4 three years ago, I decided to give Edge a try to see if it would do as my main browser, and left Bing as its default search.

Three years later, I've not felt the need to change that.
Anybody able to verify this does what it says? Random windows zip download from a domain I’ve not heard of sounds pretty sketchy.
Yes, it's called Google-level profit margins and a willingness to spend it on things like this.
True. I'm really not sure why I don't use either.
Because people can learn on the fly, and these systems can’t.

Sure, you can aggregate the data from a fleet of cars and use that to train a better model (or set of models for vision, driving, etc.) that updates the old one, but that process takes time and isn’t as immediate as a human reaction. Not saying it can’t ever happen, but rather that it’ll take a lot of time and effort before a self driving car can handle extreme weather, rather than the calm conditions of California (which, to be fair, took an awful lot of work to get functional there, too).
Waymo is approved for full driverless in California. They ordered 20,000 Jaguar IPaces with delivery starting in 2020. One thing they don’t have is approval to charge for the taxi service.
Huawei is alerting for me.

www.huawei.com 0 Actalis Authentication Root CA F373B387065A28848AF2F34ACE192BDDC78E9CAC
Again, any link even for the conspiracy theory / discussion, as farfetched it seems.
Start from a data model you don't understand and use/write objects that force your data into expected results.
Make sure everybody involved sees a working version

Writing this way is time consuming but ensures nobody including you wants to maintain it or add features.
This is very typical of all problems, not just software issues.
NFC gates in Japan take maximum 200ms and can handle one person per second at one gate; the riders never stop walking full speed.

The QR readers are certainly not “quite fast” and that’s nowhere near “a ton of people.” That QR gate wouldn’t stand up even on a weekend at a mid-range Japanese station.
Yes, not synchronizing a slice can lead to memory corruption in Go.
What a great idea, I'll find a software or consulting firm, that pays well, that has openings and is based in my city with flexible work options THAT IS NON-MAJORITY WHITE.

You're telling me to work for a company based mostly (or at least partly) on the other races of people that work there.

I swear to god HN is mostly white Americans that have never left their own country.
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> Timezones are already an abstraction that separates clock noon and solar noon. In places, clock noon and solar noon are already forever an hour or more apart even during standard time. Sometimes even places with the same longitude are an hour or more apart.

That's a fair argument.
Sometimes ice is an impassible skating rink, but usually it's either in patches or only partial ice.
They had pidgeon guided bombs and missiles in ww2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon

I laughed a bit when I saw the project head... Of course that's who.
This is why in every site I build I have it email me whenever an error happens. Unfortunately this is only for the backend code and I really need to do this for the frontend javascript as well.
Some of the highschools I was enrolled in as a kid made wednesday/friday into half-days. Students and teachers alike loved it. I thought it was an effective and motivating system. I don't see why actual companies haven't tried it out yet.
TIL, I thought that only worked for images. nevermind...
That one is alerting for me as well. Same thumbprint.
It's not a haox folks. It just so happens that my Chrome user is not in the A/B test, but my firefox user is.
Here are the two versions I see on two different browsers. Chrome shows URLs while firefox doesn't
https://imgur.com/a/TX49AZu
It's a lost battle. It annoys the hell out of me because we used to laugh at the new age gurus that advised to "get rid of your toxins". Now this stupidity is everywhere and if you point it out you even get downvoted. Even here, where people are supposed to be rational and well informed.
It is worse than anonymized data: you are easy to track in databases that are not storing data about you at all, only measuring the broader environment you operate in (typically for innocuous purposes). This data is inherently "anonymous" in that it was never designed to be associated with or track a person but you can nonetheless reconstruct identity and other information about people from this data.

Individual anonymity in a technical sense is impossible in an environment with network connected sensors. Above a critical mass of sensors, which we have far exceeded in most urbanized areas, there are no technical measures that can keep a person from being tracked.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21427036
Correction, please change notion.com -> notion.so for now. Sorry about this.
Confirming that it's not a hoax. Here's what I see on my two browsers
https://imgur.com/a/0tcLhBe
So... why did I get downvoted for thanking someone for their post??
I would be ecstatic to be proven wrong on regulations holding it back. :)
If you click the DOI link at the bottom of the article it'll take you to a page where you can download the PDF.