skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like the other commenter I too am partially colorblind. I don't know how my exact condition is called, but it's very minor. In those online tests with many-many reddish, greenish and yellowish dots I fail to read the symbol or a number in about 1-2 cases out of 20. So, in real world I can see most reds and greens, and it's not a big deal for me. However, due to my condition and her abilities our differences in color perception come up a lot more often than one might think. Surprisingly, we found out about it after about 2 years of being together :D

Of course I envy her, but I mostly just happy that she can experience some aspects of our world better than most other people. It's like with talents: the fact that someone has a particular talent or skill that you lack doesn't make you hate this person. Instead you ask them to show it off, they do, you "Oo-ooh!" and "Aa-aah!", they feel really good about themselves and you're both happy.

Sometimes she is sad I can't appreciate something she sees, but we don't dwell on it. She would often describe the shape or a pattern she sees and I try to picture it and say something like "Oh that's neat!".

Also, there are some clothing items I never combine, and I always ask her for advice when I select my cloths, or colors for my presentation or charts.

Colors are very cool. I wish we could have some kind of tech that would allow us to see colors like some birds or aquatic species do. These days there are glasses for colorblind people to give them some extended color perception, so the tech is making some baby steps.
For someone inadvertently in a photo, even if they were in a bad association or activity: while I think that trust should be based only on behavior over time, I know that forgiveness is required of all of us, and what we are is more important than what we used to be.

(To avoid overly long opinions, I wrote more about trust and forgiveness here, in hopefully a skimmable (a very simple site), for what it may be worth. It represents my collected notes and thinking from over a long time: http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854602995.html )
China is going full fascist, it's total control of people's lives, man. The thing is, usually fascist states fall only after losing a war, and China's got the biggest army in the world. They've also got a huge industrial sector with limited resources. A great setup for World War 3, I just hope my country's not going to participate.
Its not a specification though, because your implementation can never conform to it. You can't say "I have a html 5.x" compliant browser anymore because there is no fixed specification for it.
You can only have something that is "currently compatible with the other browsers". Same thing you would have gotten with SQLite.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21552425
Investment Memo: Amplyfi (Deep and Surface Web Harvesting)
> If you want to learn Golang for example (from 0 previous experience), don't jump into reading Docker or Kubernetes...

I aggree that to learn C, you'd probably not start with reading Linux kernel code.

That's not the correct analogy, though. Learning to write a kernel driver would be more analogous to learning how to extend Kubernetes.

So if that was the goal, and it would be known that Kubernetes internals and its interfaces to extensions are constantly evolving/changing, that there'd more value in diving into Kubernetes code, instead of reading up on possibly outdated howto guides or whatever.
the only reason Google doesn't just outright ban white men from applying for engineering jobs is

Please don't troll on HN.
The question is whether or not Google results are relevant to your search query. There are many alternatives to Google, you can't claim that Google results are not relevant to what you are looking for because Google "interferes" with them and at the same time claim they are so good no alternative is capable of competing.
its an interesting discussion you are starting.

I would have to seriously reconsider my domain if it cost a lot of money.

Perhaps domain registrars could do a lot to stop a lot of hoarding if they charged progressively by the number of domains with the same payment details?

Of course, perhaps registrars don’t want to stop hoarding?
> her recordings, which have been acquired by the Internet Archive in Richmond, California

Thank you Internet Archive!
I think the point he is trying to make is more about “...mistake complexity for chaos, and rush to rearrange it ”
Until one week ago, the article was correct. Since then, payments in the Chinese eco system for foreigners is now a solved problem.

AliPay and WeChat recently signed agreements to facilitate foreign card support.

AliPay (as of one week ago) has full payment functionality for foreigners, called "TourPass" [0]

Download the app, and click on the 'TourPass' icon (blue suitcase in the top left). You can now add credit via a foreign credit card.

Inside the TourPass sub-app, you have two options: Scan to Pay (you scan a code and input how much to pay - peer to peer purchases and small restaurants), and Payment QR Code (your code gets scanned, and account debited - transport, etc)

You can transfer money to individuals and receive money as well.

I confirmed this as of last week in China - and was able to make all purchases (taxi, train, food, supermarket, goods, peer to peer) without any problem.

[0] https://rapidtravelchai.boardingarea.com/alipay-tour-pass/
Who should be getting a MacArthur grant or equivalent. I mean, it's literally gorhill or nothing, it's terrifying. Someone could walk up to him with $10M dollars and say 'Here. Stop making your thing and you can have this money." It would be a fraction of the revenue he's blocking and who could turn it down? Wladimir Palant suddenly became a big fan of whitelisting when he realized how much Google would pay for it. Everyone has a price.
One poorly understood school of google-fu is the art of googling for the words you want to google for.

The first result for the utterly mundane, plain English "how to program linux drivers" brings me to this tutorial: https://www.apriorit.com/dev-blog/195-simple-driver-for-linu...

Linked from that tutorial is a hypertext version of the content in that PDF: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/lkmpg.html
If it (or Notion.so) supported Inking, I would switch completely from my combination of GDocs, GKeep and GoodNotes5.

Will see if I can contribute to this project.
I can’t get over the name buildah. It’s so bad.
You're not installing it when you're using Docker. However that send to be on the only possible way to run it.
I imagine open-sourcing something that's both cloud-based and tightly integrated into the operating system would require a complete rewrite.
Ha, OK -- "prepared" written text maybe? "Formal" written text? I've never come across people paying for translating business emails. :)

I'm talking about the vast majority of what translating companies are paid to translate -- articles, contracts, reports, specifications, meeting summaries, and so on -- whatever you want to call that. Thanks for helping me to clarify.
Building something wanted.
Also, It does not mean 16nm is cheaper than 20nm... the smaller the feature size, the more the wafer costs. Also, this is aggregate revenue at the foundry, and is ignoring things like tapeout costs.

Not trying to crap on the tech, but it's not so simple as we can merely go to the fab and get small quantities of full custom, 100% yielding chips, for 6k ea.
The saddest part of the story:

"At the time Stokes began recording, television stations had been deleting archives for decades"

For-profit corporations can not be trusted to archive history.
If I remember correctly there’s an exception for learning and development tools.
I love to listen to Sophie Wilson, the inventor of the ARM instruction set - to me a real geek and hacker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson
Hang on, did he just buy essentially a freely reprogrammable FPGA with built-in RAM, A/D converter and USB support - for $20? Seems to me, you could do a lot more with those devices, now that the wire protocol is known.

(Edit) It doesn't appear that he decoded the bitstream format though, so some more work would be needed before you could use it as a general-purpose FPGA.
Anyone know how much these are going for, roughly?
Why downvoted? While as they said, YMMV. I also have had pain over time in my right hand/wrist (started around the same time as a minor bicycling accident), that was somewhat improved from exercises I accumulated by various reading, coworker suggestions, and wrist brace (the 2 doctors I did se didn't seem to actually help much except making a couple of suggestions), I also benefited from seeing a good physical therapist who recommended the best exercises I have found so far (for me, that is -- I get the idea that situations differ enough that individual evaluation might be best. Actually, I also saw a chiropracter and we discussed, confirming some things I was already doing, but a licensed massage therapist did something to it that made the pain go away for almost 2 solid weeks: I wish I knew of a person to do the same thing, who lives much closer to me, and I might look more for one again as time permits.
"To make the film, Wolf developed a complex system to index and identify the 70,000 tapes, which were all six to eight hours long.

In the end, he only digitized 100 of the tapes and says those 700 hours are “a tiny scratch into the surface of what's there.”"

Wow, what a treasure trove!
As mentioned in the article:

Tencent last week announced a pilot program to open up WeChat Pay to foreigners. UnTour's Mr. Long, an American, was initially excited about the program. As of Friday, he'd had no success making his Visa or Mastercard work.

Tencent, which called lack of access to mobile payments a "major pain point" for foreigners, said the rollout is initially limited to certain situations, such as booking train tickets on a travel site.

The site is only available in Chinese.

Travelers have had more luck on Alipay, which introduced a seven-step process last week that requires visitors to submit passport and visa information to Alipay, before loading money using an overseas card onto a prepaid card.
I don't think 1 in 16 is "quite rare." If you've got 100 people you know by name (and you likely have more), 6 of them have got this.
I need to subscribe to read. I won't.
I wonder how small a small HoD is really? 10k concurrent requests?
In nuclear engines the fuel and propellant is separate. I keep wondering how much gas a rocket needs to take with it in order to have something to push against. Nuclear fuel is incredibly energy-dense, but the density of the gas used for propulsion in a nuclear rocket can't be much different from what's used in conventional rockets.
Speaking of Comics Books ... this morning I began the excellent treatise on Comics as a medium (some of you surely would know this): Understanding Comics[1] by Scott McCloud.

The book itself is written in a comic book form, with black and white art. Thoroughly enjoying the "visual literacy" and the "mechanics of storytelling" by McCloud; a fine explainer.

(Looks like this is the book I needed to give me the push to try the World of Comics.)

[1] https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060976255/understanding-co...
Writing an Automated Code Formatter: The hardest program I’ve ever written
This doesnt just apply to if the application was sold, but if it is used in a commercial environment, I.E. If you plan on using it at work, this would likely be considered commercial use.
Yes, Firefox on the Mac is absolutely a less-than-great product, to put it mildly. That's why I called its UI "lousy".
The discussing of ethics is at the very end, summarized by the influence of investors:

> The investors are optimizing for growth rates because that’s how you get the big multiple and that’s how you get the biggest bang for an IPO. I’m not a big fan of these methods, because most of the time, the large valuations are based on the premise and promise that these companies will dominate the market that they’re in, capture a monopoly and then one day, once they have eradicated every competitor and become the top dog that dominates everyone, they can raise prices because customers will have nowhere to go and that’s when they make money. Is that an aspirational place for us to be, that we should be cheering on monopolists who are cornering markets and then when we have eradicated all competitors, they raise rents? That’s not a very appealing prospect to me. I’d much rather see healthy marketplaces where there’s lots of different providers.

If you want to be ethical, don't take money from those who care about nothing but getting more money.

Greed is not good.
> All results are generated by Google and i don't have a copyright claim on them. They can show me whatever result they want. If I'm not happy, I'll look elsewhere.

Google gets legal protections from claiming that they don't editorialize their search results.
I have no idea who this guy is or if his ideas are valid but here's his 10 reasons why Brexit is good

https://dominicfrisby.com/news/ten-reasons-im-voting-to-leav...
Why not? Maybe not all details, but at some people should be aware that it's not the job or co-worker relations that makes me look like shit.

Actually I know a guy who had in a bar fight after a scenario you just described. He's still fine at his job.
It's great that plot function returns matplotlib axis!
The difference with Google is that it's a search box. It's not like Microsoft Windows or the iPhone, where the monopoly is supported by an ecosystem of apps and compatibility. If the product is bad and shows irrelevant results compared to another one, in the case of Google, capitalism will work its magic.
I hope Firefox succeeds, as I like the idea of not concentrating yet more power in few hands, but, on OpenBSD, I use Iridium (Chromium derivative), so I see these benefits, and am wondering what Firefox would add for me, privacy- and security-wise:
1) Iridium doesn't send info to Google like Chrome does (or that is the idea);

2) It is easier (last I checked) than with Firefox to leave some config tabs open so I can quickly turn on/off javascript, images, and/or cookies for those sites where I need them (by exception list or temporary exception, and easy to manage it without a mouse once the tab is open; separately, I do change the search engine also, and create search keywords), and

3) OpenBSD adds pledge/unveil system calls from the browser, to prevent it from reading/writing files where it should not (plus I browse under a different user than I do other things with high confidence there will not be a privilege escalation; also they say the pledge/unveil support is easier to implement in Chrome/Iridium than in Firefox because of the cleaner separations of concerns in the code organization (my wording; though they have probably also put pledge/unveil in FF also for all I know),

4) Maybe the security of Chrome/Iridium benefits from Google's bug bounties, more than what Firefox has done (ie, the security track record of each, frequency of major holes over, say, the last 1-3 years). I don't really know but I'm glad they try.

Given those things, what are the remaining biggest reasons I might prefer Firefox? (I am aware of OBSD removing DNS-over-HTTP from Firefox, indicating that is a choice that should be made by the user at the system level instead).
I once cleaned up my sister's room. I thought I was doing her a favor but she was mad at me for a week! In hindsight I should have known better. Spacial memory and all that, she knew where everything was even though it looked messy.

The article is not talking about the kind of tidiness that is the hallmark of a well-run workshop, IMO. That kind of tidiness is part of what makes more efficiency in that context.
Correct. The process inside the AliPay app is extremely streamlined, entirely in English, and surprisingly painless.
This article makes some good points. In particular, it emphasizes understanding why there is a “mess” in the first place — appreciating the role of things in a functioning system is an important step forward to any kind of constructive change.

Some elements of Konmari’s method actually are consonant with that, since evaluation of your self and the place of objects in your life are a continuous part of the process. Just throwing all your stuff away every week, whether you need it or not, would definitely be efficiency destroying although it would also be very tidy. Speaking from experience, however, this is not a behavior that developers struggle with. The heedless piling up of trash, code and tickets is far more common.
> Not all women have two x’s

That's not correct.
It is also faster for professional programmers to run something through stack overflow and paste the top voted answer into their code.

Not being a translator I wonder how good of an analogy this is
Most of that 6% don't have the useful form of tetrachromacy. Their response curve of their extra cone is almost identical to one of their existing ones. This is like deuteranomaly (the most common form of colourblindness), in which people can't distinguish red and green because their L and M cones are too similar.
i like the gist of both of your ideas but i'm not sure they are feasible for firefox, since both are expensive services (in different ways) that are a bit outside the competency and mission of firefox.

i could see firefox providing hooks for 3rd parties to make those services easier to integrate however (and maybe charging a fee, e.g., to certify the 3rd party). that would fall squarely in their wheelhouse.
> something else will emerge and win

No, no it won't.

That's capitalist spin not considering how monopolies or psychology actually work.
I'm not sure that's entirely fair. Most of the complaints about the article are coming from people who know enough to understand that there's no alternative to interfering. There's no magic "correct results" machine at Google HQ; there are only strategies for better results, and sometimes the best known strategy involves manual intervention. So they see an article that's saying something obviously true in conspiratorial tones; I don't think it's political to be annoyed by that.

The best argument I see in favor of the WSJ article is that many people actually do think Google has a magic machine. If so it's fair to publish stories about how that's not true. Yes, it couldn't work any other way if you think about it, but the point of a newspaper article is to get people informed enough to think about it.
Romania was the only country where the leader (dictator) didn't step down when he was asked to by Moscow.

The leader was also obsessed that Romania would be invaded by Russia, like Czech was in 1968, so he had specialized guerilla army units to fight back. This can explain why the army was fighting itself, and why it took so long for the shooting to stop.
Interesting to skim through the PDF.

Here's an excerpt from Section 3.1 which outlines the "most important factors" that influence Page Quality ratings. One thing I found particularly interesting is that raters are encouraged to search for external sources to determine a website's reputation (one example they provide in the PDF is that Kernel.org should receive the highest rating for term "Linux Kernel archives" because of Wikipedia's kernel.org page vouching for its authoritativeness).

---

- The Purpose of the Page

- Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness: This is an important quality characteristic. Use your research
on the additional factors below to inform your rating.

- Main Content Quality and Amount: The rating should be based on the landing page of the task URL.

- Website Information/information about who is responsible for the MC: Find information about the website as
well as the creator of the MC.

- Website Reputation/reputation about who is responsible for the MC: Links to help with reputation research
will be provided.
WeChat Pay and Alipay are accepted in tourist-friendly shops all over the world. Just off the top of my head, I've seen one or both of their logos at the payment point recently in Qatar, Georgia, Indonesia, UK, France, Germany...
Google Translate is spectacularly bad at Japanese/English. I received an email yesterday where someone who is visiting me said (in translation) that she was looking forward to eating "my rice" (proper translation: my food), which is such a basic thing I can't believe that Google still gets it wrong.
It's very easy with immersion cooling. The article mentions roughly 20kW of heat per 15U which wouldn't even get anywhere near the 100kW+ for which immersion cooling has been designed.
That's the thing with public opinion, you don't need a good justification to get things done, only a sufficient one.

If a devastating asteroid did hit and NASA/ESA/etc got all the funding they ever wanted to catalog the sky, and announced they'd finished 2 years later, a large slice of Joe Public would respond "you said the chances were 1 in a million last time. Why should we trust you now?" With the right resources that could be leveraged into a Mars colony with actual sustainability in mind.

I think you'd find the threat of asteroids to be a much more relatable and palatable threat than Climate Change. It's an purely external force of nature that no human can claim responsibility for or point fingers over. An asteriod strike would also be the single, short-term-but-devastating situations humans have a evolved to deal with, as opposed to the long-term creeping rot of Climate Change. Likely much easier to get action over asteriods.

Hell, asteroids are already #2 on the list of things NASA should focus on according to a recent PEW survey.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/nasas-priorities-app...
Why is there only one .org registry, anyway? There are multiple registries for .com.

I hate to say it, but maybe domain names should be managed on a blockchain, so there's no central authority.
Show HN: Open-Source Alternative to Intercom, Drift, Zendesk, FreshChat
Like all things, everything in moderation. Excessive clutter is choking and restricts the creative and productive workflow. Allowing yourself the room to make a mess while in a project though lets you work without constraints. Also I find myself tidying when I'm trying to avoid a problem. Which can be a waste, or an opportunity for your mind to work on a problem while your hands are busy (like a shower thought).
I don't think that's true. Deuteranopic dichromats can't distinguish red and green by looking more closely.
Hmm, I thought that Amazon was famous for how they standardized their cross-company software? (With AWS as a side effect.)
Or is this not the case anymore?
One of the few things like the idea of using a Blockchain for imo
I attempted to use this for a couple very simple projects and the conversion completely fell on it's face. I tried four projects and none of them successfully converted.
I dont know why but I find this gross. If you love your pet this much, get a statue or painting made from pictures - dont freeze dry the body.
At least a few years ago, you could set WeChat Pay / Alipay up as a tourist, but it was quite fiddly. You needed a Chinese phone number (easy to get a prepaid SIM) and then someone needed to send you some money to make the wallet appear in the app, and then you could use it. You had to get friends to send you money unless you had a Chinese bank account to top it up with, but Chinese bank accounts are possible to get as a tourist, if you're willing to spend a day traipsing around different bank branches until you find one that will accept you.
I believe the bolt on ML algorithms like Vince, Panda, and Penguin add up to something like "prefer a well linked brand site over anything else".

The Vince update is interesting. Google characterized it as being about trust: https://searchengineland.com/google-searchs-vince-change-goo...
Not sure that you point relates to Brexit to be fair, even if I find little else to disagree with