skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just bought a piano and am learning that. I think it will help with mindfulness. I want to do painting on my balcony but it is too cold here so I will wait until spring. These are solo activities though so I do long for something more group oriented.
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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will carry out the largest astronomical survey ever undertaken beginning in 2022: https://www.lsst.org/

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I didn't find it "easy" to get approved for DVDs. I had over 20k a month in used media sales for over 12 months and still got rejected. The worst part is that you can buy the media, ask for approval, and then get stuck with the inventory. On top of that what you buy from a distributor will never make you any money. It's all in the used items so you hope to make it up by selling DVDs you buy for a dollar at library sales, etc.
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I worked on this for a long time -

1. it's possible to make it "easy to switch" by having common building blocks and only changing the "selector" across sites - lots of companies in the space do this

2. it's impossible to do "just DOM" or "just vision/text" if you want to be able to generalize "get the price of the items"

- DOM doesn't represent spacial positioning very well (see: fixed/absolute positioning, IDs and dom changing without the visuals changing, ...) so you'd need the equivalent of an entire browser rendering engine in your "model" anyways!

- vision/text is messed up by random marketing popups (see: medium, amazon, walmart, ...), it's significantly more computationally expensive to do, and can't currently get >95% accuracy (which makes it useless, scraping needs very close to 100% accuracy in most use cases)
I asked my wife’s kid sister, she’s 19 and in college. Her and her boyfriend had no idea about it being Chinese. It was the hot thing at the moment and that’s all they really cared about.
I know HN is place where anecdotes are not appreciated but here is one nonetheless.

I just caught flu a few days ago and my dad being my dad kept thrusting acetaminophen tablets to me (His way of showing love/care) and I relented after 24 hours of suffering with cold + fever + body aches.

I am 100% convinced that acetaminophen impaired my ability to work with tasks that required deep thinking. e.g: refactoring a feature that is spread across multiple services/repos.
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BlizzCon Fan Event Swarmed by Pro-Hong Kong Protesters
Why is that? If CloudFlare is on-board, they can help adding redirects where needed.
This is what it means to live in a community. The parts of life that happen outside the home are conducted in view of other people, who are constantly updating their profiles of you based on their observations and broadcasting any detected anomalies on the original gossip protocol. For a time, food and urban planning tech advances let us scale settlements past what our built-in organic surveillance networks could handle, and the gap gave us some privacy for once. But it seems inevitable that surveillance tech would eventually catch up.

It may not be all bad. Technological surveillance could at least be subject to oversight and regulation, where old school family- and community-based social norms monitoring could not.
I doubt it's the lack of adrenaline being the main driver for skirting away from "white collar" crime. More likely, the analytical and time consuming work required, and perpetrators who are much more likely to evade capture and/or sentencing, through usage of lawyers, accountants et al.

Also, the victims of wage theft are less likely to be "well connected" sponsors of political careers, while the victims of larceny are naturally more often business owners whom are more likely to have a "voice".
cough python
Man, I still drop this line as a bad joke into conversations sometimes. I remember it saying "That is incorrect" (it sounded so final!), "The correct spelling of <WORD> is ...". The way that it would say each word was always preceded by a slight pause and looking back now I'd imagine it was due to having to find the word data and load it. Back then I simply thought the damn thing was mocking me. I loved it. Mine had a flat face though, so it must have been a later model.
As a fully formed adult with responsibilities and kids. There are so many job posts you can tell right away aren't for a certain demographic. People who may push back because they have a parent-teacher conference on the schedule already.
Jeff Bezos would pay $7B to Elizabeth Warren's Medicare-for-all tax
I don't think so; I'm not much of a developer but I've used git productively for years and I've never had to run the commands CydeWeys listed.

The commands johnmaguire2013 listed are the ones usually recommended for beginners and I have found them easy to understand.

"git branch [name]" is for creating branches; it tells you if the branch already exists. Pretty easy to understand.

"git checkout [name]" is for checking out branches; it tells you if you're already on that branch.

You can run these sequentially and it works fine; there's no need for `git checkout -b [branchname]`.

I think there is sometimes some productivity porn involved in discussions of git, where people feel really strongly that everything should be doable in one line, and also be super intuitive. It's a bit like the difference between `mkdir foo && cd "$_"` on the command line, vs just doing mkdir and cd sequentially. IMO the latter is easier to understand, but some experienced folks seem to get upset that it requires typing the directory name twice.
I think Python 3 is a less cohesive and worse-designed language than Python 2 in many ways. JavaScript and C++ should have been abandoned.

And yes, let’s look at Java. Scala, Clojure, and Kotlin were all exciting new languages at one point that maintain backwards compatibility by sharing the JVM, obviating the need to make Java itself better—though I will admit that Java itself has improved a hell of a lot.
I've found you can buy the exact same generic souvenirs off Amazon when you get back. Less hassle and much cheaper.
What's worse: uninterrupted service with a time window where you are vulnerable to a known XSS attack, or your service suddenly going offline, customers calling your support but all you can tell them is that you will be back in a few days, but at least they are not vulnerable to XSS in the meantime?

Of course for a small startup a few days notice before removal is enough, but for a large company a few days may be barely better than no heads up at all. Not everyone can move with the same agility.

If you don't pull it at all you risk people staying on the library forever because they don't want to touch a working system.
That seems besides the point. Not everyone has homeowners insurance. If anything the insurance company should be going after the government too.

The point is, there should be restrictions on how much damage police can do in pursuit of a criminal, and any damage beyond reasonable should be considered the fault and liability of the police force.

In Illinois the government goes so far as to actually pay for hospital bills caused by criminals. Keeping the city safe is considered the responsibility of the government paid for by your taxes, so the gov takes some liability for criminal damage.
I know this a long time ago, they ban lgbt content and I never download the app on my phone.
Chinese business is controlled by the state.
Could you point in the direction of/summarize the other roles hiring? Also wondering if there are other teams located in the same location.

I'd love to cut my teeth on the FPGA/embedded systems work, but I'm afraid it's outside of my experience in practice.
Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf6oI0j_zpk&t=66s
But what is math, if not symbolic manipulation? Numbers are symbols that convey specific ideas of data, no? And once you go past algebra, the numbers are almost incidental to the more abstract concepts and symbols.

Not trying to start a flamewar, I just found the distinction you drew interesting.
Setting up a simple multi-node libvirt VM cluster on CentOS 8
She later said it was reverse trolling to parody all the hate she got on Twitter and in DMs for being Asian. Not saying NYT shouldn't have taken action against her.
Because Twitter is ignorant of any sign of market opportunity. They had a massive mobile user base, and then they burried the DM functionality deep in the app (this was years ago). Twitter could have become the biggest messaging app before messaging apps were even cool.
There are several objective measures for programming language "awfulness". The ones I've seen published the most in papers are:

- Time to identify bugs in code

- Defects in written software in fixed exercises

- Defects in written software in real code

- Time to develop a certain program

I can't say that the measurements of these is easy - but when we measure these with old vs. new languages we see change.

One can claim something can't be "objectively good or bad" in the Popper sense of science only caring about falsifiability or in the Quine sense of "just predicting" but that becomes a philosophical argument and debate.

In my opinion since languages are how we express ourselves and we write code in a _very_ roundabout way in many cases - languages are in fact objectively awful, the number of defects is huge, development time is long and developer experience is something few people deal with.

The literature on developer experience and programming language API is just starting to emerge and we are still very very early on.
CFNTP: Modern NTP Written in Rust
In Spanish the preferred name is "ordenador" which would translate to something like "sorter" or "organizer machine".
If you're actually a new engineer you might want to check your company policy on communicating details of internal systems in public; your external communications people probably don't allow you to speak about such things ... on the other hand, if you are allowed to talk about such things then you're probably just a persona adopted by someone in external comms.

Take care!
Apple lays groundwork for iPhone or Apple Prime subscription
UGHHHHHHHHH... will by FitBit data be shared and sold? Wonderful! What will happen :(?
> The world rightly lauds Linus Torvalds for Linux, but Git will arguably have a bigger impact.

That's a pretty bold statement. Git might be almost ubiquitous these days, but if you erased git from the world, the ripples would be much less due to the plethora of alternatives out there. There's no reason to think that things like Github wouldn't have evolved with alternative VCSs. Don't get me wrong, it's a great tool and improves the QoL of developers, but it's hard to think about any dev not being able to do their job without it.
Ha ha ha...the U.S doesn't like double standards. It must be a first. If you need examples think about human rights and international law not to mention trade.
That was a really good read. Thanks for sharing
A huge swath of the consumer market in physical products is Chinese goods. Why would your average nontechnical, fairly apolitical, non-foreign policy or intelligence news following person draw a distinction?

They see a fun app, they play with it. If they're even aware of censorship issues or geopolitical power games, that seems very distant from some app that amuses them for a few minutes a day.
Legislation Would Force Google and Rivals to Disclose Search Algorithms
> We don't analyze your face as you browse Hacker News

You disappoint me ;)

> You need to jump through a million hoops to get permission to store anything at all!

I guess you don't work with Android.

Today I wanted to set up my smartwatch. My phone told me to enable Bluetooth _and_ gps. I turned on GPS, it asked if it was okay to send positioning data to Google for some vauge reason. I said no. So it turned off GPS altogether. So now I won't be able to use my watch. (This is a clear GDPR violation btw)

Why am I telling you this story? Because someone at Google is trying really really hard to get his hand on all possible data. Maybe you two should have a chat.
I need to ask, is this in response to the discussion in [1]? I see that the initial commit happened after that discussion started.

If so, that’s an impressively fast prototype.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21417433
I wonder what would happen if you trashed the place? What would the host do? Send photos of the trashed place that looks nothing like the listing?
For heaven's sake, please let this mean that Google finally gives a shit about wearable devices!?!

I know wearOS devices have been struggling. I hate the thought that I have to buy a watch from China to get decent battery life (a Huawei band 2) which means that my data goes through some sketchy companies in China.

I already have given everything to Google. Why would I want to do that for Huawei, Samsung, and whoever else is making hardware?

I want to control when my devices talk back to a server and what they say, so I started using net guard and monitor the URLs my data is going to.

I want to see the data stream so I can get even more detailed in my blocking efforts.
Yes, exactly. Every new 3.x release ends up being a not insignificant amount of work for us to update our build system for our not pure Python packages.
If things like that affected health, most PoCs and other ethnicities would be dead already.
Read that report you linked. According to it, most Catalans are not so eager to leave as you say (and I would not call it an impartial source). For example, in page 4 you can clearly see: 43.6% wants an independent Catalunya, but 48.2% wants to remain being a part of Spain.

Why is the tyranny of the majority wrong (this is what most people would call democracy) but you see no problem with the tyranny of a minority?
Oh right! My bad, apologies. We northerners always forget that south exists and different.
Chile's fiery anger fueled by fears of poverty in old age
Serving size 1 - Coming from Southeast US there is a rise in craft micro-breweries in many of the more 'hip' cities. These smaller locations tend to have groups of regulars who tend to know each other and provide such a 'service'.
That being said I do agree with the thought of this phenomenon moving to the internet, things like city based slack chats work decently for this and these groups work to create physical meetups as well.
This! Totally agree.
I certainly hope so, it seems everyone in our leadership nowadays is too busy squabbling rather than focus on actually important issues.
And jumping bytes is a great company yet they have no choice but to get political and enforce censorship that bans lgbt contents.
Then why didn't they remove GIL? Given the end of Moore's law and Python's performance, this alone would have justified the discontinuity.
We've taken a very different approach. We run a micro RTOS, not linux. This is for real embedded work. For context see: https://blog.usejournal.com/the-future-is-tiny-44dea02e4517
What are some alternatives to Fitbit products?
People use Fitbit for different reasons:

0. Counting steps.

1. Tracking "real" exercise.

2. Tracking sleep hours and patterns.

3. As a tiny device that wakes you up without waking up everybody else around (this is my case, Flex 2 is the tiniest wake-me-up device I could find).

4. Tracking heart rate.

5. Tracking other biometrics I'm unaware of.

What products could people move to if they don't want Google to be aware of their data?
It's heartening to know that I'm not the only person who has had this thought. Eliminate the power gradient and level the playing field.
Discussed recently but before it happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21378471
Webs, Cell Assemblies, and Chunking in Neural Nets
I like going thrifting and looking for cool things or coming up with something to search for and collect. Recently i'm into collecting uranium glass for instance. It's also gives you some walking around the stores and such. You can even maybe try and play with some weird fashion while there. It helps with exploring some good restaurants also as a lot of thrift shops are in different areas of town and I like to give the stores time to 'refresh' between visits.
And of course all the research on this is pretty bad, on grad students / biased samples and the methodology isn't great but it's better than nothing and we should strive to improve it.

If anything that just shows how bad things are. (Although I believe they really are improving)
Maybe a faster release cycle will help Python and friends insulate from this issue better. Akin to os security updates.
What’s the point here though?

America et al also don’t like certain things being published on social media and try stop it from existing on those platforms too.
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Sacrificing your health and your life for your employer is idiocy.

Hardly anyone is sacrificing their health and lives for an employer. They are doing it for the money and hopefully insurance.
The data isn't very valuable, and it's even less valuable without users. They care about the product but are just incompetent at making hardware that people will buy, even if they eventually make the the product have useful features like identity assertion.
Implementing REST Hooks
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Not every requirement in the req is really real; we're looking for both less and more experienced folks.

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I'm the same. I use a Contec CMS50I purchased new on ebay as a sleep data logger. I use SleepyHead software, however I think even the windows software that comes with it doesn't require a network connection. It is a pulse oximeter that tracks SpO2, pulse rate, and perfusion index. I think they are primarily sold as a low cost option for hospitals. The data format was reverse engineered not provided by the company and while I haven't compared directly I think there might be some debouncing that should be applied in some cases involving movement of the sensor (possibly their software doesn't do anything about that either). I've used it overnight maybe 30ish times and I'm not sure it will last all that long, although the blue line the display acquired at one point went away after a while. I did find that it is a good idea to wipe with rubbing alcohol each time you use it as the manual suggests. I wish there were more options.
Find and delete duplicate images inside a directory.

Using SIFT for feature detection and FLANN for matching.

feedback is appreciated :)
"Why not allow patients to set their own moods to suit their own circumstances and desires?"

Can't most people to some extent do that?
unrelated question: but why would any investigator leak information like this? who benefits?
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