skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully I'll knock at least a couple off my "most shameful not to have read" list:

- Paradise Lost

- The Divine Comedy

- The Aeneid

- Moby Dick

- Middlemarch

- Othello & at least the lesser Henriad

- Any of several Russian novels, of which I've read none (War and Peace, Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment probably being the biggest)

- Kafka's The Trial

- The Canterbury Tales (I've read Sir Gawain & The Green Knight but not this, WTF is wrong with me?)

- Don Quixote
I've had a similar idea for awhile, and since you seem to be actively working on it, let me share some of my thoughts:

If you had a very close camera that touched the head, you could map a person's head pore-by-pore. By looking at nearest neighbor surrounding pores, the camera should be able to determine exactly where it is on the person's skull. The cutting device should be a small vacuum attached to the camera that can suck up a few strands at a time and trim those precisely.

By combining the perfect pore mapping to the precise strand cutting, you could write an app to customize the exact haircut you wanted, and the cutter should be robust enough to handle it, even with unintentional movement.

EDIT>> A modification: the vacuum cutter can also serve as a strand-measuring device. So you could go to an actual hair cutting salon, get your hair cut perfectly, then visit the device, which will go over your pore-mapped head and measure all of the strands to remember your "perfect" haircut.
> Why should the U.S. government hold such control?

Because they did until very recently.

> If anything, some sort of multi-national, strictly non-profit charity should be setup for this, or if not, the U.N. as a last resort.

That would take literally years, and would be too-little, too-late to deal with these shenanigans around the .org TLD.
Another nail in the Java coffin?
I hope if doensn't refuse to die (again)
Building a reactive scrolling map article in Svelte
Dietary Cholesterol and Cardiovascular Risk [pdf]
Linus is a hardware person, not really a software person.
>You could get pretty far by reading scripts and trying things out in Hypercard.

I think that's true - but my experience was that it was a good language for beginners, but didn't "scale" well as you started working on more complex programs. The English-like syntax could get in the way as soon as you started to assemble more complex expressions, and you'd be left hunting for the right syntax as if you were playing an old Infocom game. It gave the impression that the parser was more accommodating and sophisticated than it really was, when really it had a rigid syntax like most other programming languages. And because most of the documentation was aimed at beginners, it was hard to find clear answers about _exactly_ what the syntax had to look like when assembling those more complex expressions. It has been a long time since I was writing HyperTalk, but I remember being very frustrated that I couldn't find a formal language spec (in BNF or a bubble diagram or something) the way I could for languages like Pascal.

Still, it really should get a lot of credit for encouraging a lot of beginners to write code and build quite sophisticated little databases complete with all kinds of animations and visual effects that would have been monstrously difficult to code from scratch in C or Pascal. I should also remember that as a programmer and Computer Science student, _I was not the real target audience_ for the language design.
I thought about sharing the offer that i got which doesnt happen every day or to every microstartup. Its not my intention to spam or anything.
Facebook does seem to have a strategy of assimilating every successful social platform.
Not op but Slovak (mesiac), Czech (mesic).
I started learning Esperanto for many of the same reasons on he did, but I abandoned it because I found that most of the literature is just translated from another language, usually English, or is not good.

I also found that people tend to talk about 2 things in Esperanto: Politics, and Esperanto. I'm not really into either of those.

And typing in Esperanto usually required some kind of IME, which I found to be tedious or annoying.

I contrast this to learning Japanese, which I was much more successful at. There's tons of media that I enjoy, plus some things that were never translated that I still want to read. I was able to talk about non-political, non-language things with random people on the internet. And although I was still forced to use an IME to type it, at least there was a true reason for it.

I recommend people learn a second language, but I recommend they find one that they'll either consume a lot of media in, or have a lot of people they can talk to daily and will actually use.
Linus from LinusTechTips Launches FloatPlane
It looks to me to be an ad free hybrid of youtube and patreon. Its primary focus is video delivery, monetized via subscription. They go over some of the bandwidth numbers in the video.
IANAL, But doesn't monetizing the video and giving the proceeds to the claimant of the original copyright (nintendo) consitute infringement against the derivatives work author(Jim), assuming that the derivative work falls under fair use?
Shouldn't Jim be able to sue both nintendo and youtube?
Bill Bryson has a remarkable talent for making stuff that should be pretty dry quite remarkably interesting - I even found the sections on baseball in "One Summer: America 1927" fascinating (I'm not from the US).
Disney owns Hulu [1] :(.

[1]https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/14/media/disney-buys-comcast-hul...
So, it seems like I can't view any of these creators' content without logging in. Not even so much as a preview of it. That's a big fail if they're hoping to run up against YouTube.

The biggest thing I'm going to expect is that it needs to have solid RSS support: If not part of a centralized site, it needs really good support for feed standards like RSS so I don't have to check it daily.
> Much of philosophy is concerned with "how are we to live"?

And how does one decide that question? Presumably in response to a model of how the world is.

> I am consistently puzzled what people seek when they read Nietzsche, or what of value they take away from his writings.

I'm sorry that you aren't able to benefit from his writing.
None of the examples of the "sensitive" questions I've read are anything that HR would discipline someone for (at least where I work). If the environment was so toxic that people were reporting each other for questions like these, and HR was actually acting on it, it wouldn't be a place I would want to work anyway. Either way, it certainly wouldn't "ruin your life"
Great thread. 2019 was the first time in about 7-8 years I made reading for pleasure a tertiary priority ((school+career)work/sleep/exercise+socializing+(NEW!)reading) and I got through about 20 books of varying length and difficulty, so here are the next 20 in my queue:

- Infinite Jest (already started, will likely finish in early Jan. I love it so far.)

- Quantum Computing Since Democritus (started in November as my nonfiction read, but took a break; I think I want to finish IJ first. Scott is an excellent writer and I was really enjoying this)

- Building Microservices

- The Code Book

- How Cars Work (I want to turn the projection of a car in my brain from a black box to a gray box this year, and I don't mean by purchasing a Cybertruck)

- To Kill a Mockingbird

- The Personal MBA (for years I laughed off caring about the business of business and lived in my fantasy land of being satisfied with just the technical details and being focused on only implementing great software/learning how to do so. With a few years in the workforce under my belt, I realize that such an outlook was of great detriment to me. I'm open to other suggestions on similar "catch me up to speed on general business education" material)

- Designing Data-Intensive Applications

- Island (I have a copy of this but not Brave New World. Multiple friends of mine demand I try Huxley, so here we are.)

- The Annotated Turing

- How to Invent Everything

- Soonish (SMBC is a daily read for me and I'm excited to get to this.)

- How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems (ditto XKCD modulo release schedule)

- Basic Economics

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra

- Seveneves

- The Prince

- Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball

- Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Muzak, Easy-Listening, and Other Moodsong

- Fahrenheit 451

Additionally, to tickle the part of my brain that fancies mathematics (one of my my majors in undergrad), I try to work through a chapter or two of Evan Chen's "An Infinitely Long Napkin" on a quarterly basis. If you don't mind a conversational tone to your math textbooks, I've found this to be an excellent resource for scraping the surface of a wide variety of topics and fields (including, well, topics like fields). I think I'll continue this habit.
How strong is this arm? Could it pinch and break the neck of the user?
There's a newer model that can be used pre-trained and doesn't need to be retrained for each face pair: https://nirkin.com/fsgan/

But for now deepfakes seem like a 2018 meme that died out.
Insane. I'm not sure if it's real or not based on the users post history but it's just hard to think about.
I don't get it, with just a "select * from sqlite_master" you can see the trigger and solve both mysteries
Hence why it's called "critical theory". Marxism is what you get when you take "critical thinking" to the extreme.
That's why you hire software/design people.
I wonder how many people get a similar, clippers only, non-styled, hair cut.

I remember when I played football in middle school, we had a maximum hair length of 2 inches (and couldn't touch your ear or shirt collar), so we pretty much all just got 0/2 fades or buzz cuts every month from one of the teammates mom for $5.

Wasn't a bad business. She made $150-200 in a single day in a couple of hours.
a few people have started their own platforms, and there s also generic alternatives like bitchute steem etc. I wonder who will become the open source "wordpress of youtubers"
> Maybe we need something similar but more rigorous for video.

Is there evidence that deepfake videos will be worse than photos? My (naive) sense is that even for an AI, editing a photo will always be easier than editing a video with sound.

If Photoshop and deep-fake images aren't a problem, shouldn't we be less concerned about video?
A few PG Twitter recs:

* My Family and Other Animals (started, already really enjoying it)

* Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (started, enjoying it but moving slowly through it. It's very good, and the author is palpably excited about the subject, I just wouldn't call it a page turner)
AWS Lambda Destinations: what we learned the hard way
Well the yield curve did invert recently. Then reversed.
The Alien Multiple-Choice Test
If you want one port that can charge multiple devices of varying needs safely, you need smarter cables. Sounds like a reasonable tradeoff.

Otherwise every single cable would have to be built to handle the highest possible power delivery rate (100W for USB-C).
Sure but I think in a way they’re a necessary evil.

I don’t think we’re gonna get to a futuristic carbon neutral world without a hell of a lot of processing power
Can’t wait for Cerebras. They can probably do an ImageNet in a couple seconds.
Comments below the original post are great.
Show HN: Your very own communication trainer
It's not just that it's at all time highs. PE ratios are also at all time highs: that's the Price to earnings ratio. There's a number of indicators right now that are at all time highs like the Warren buffet ratio (GDP/earnings), all pointing saying this market is really expensive.

This is the most hated bull market ever. None of the experts are buying heavily into this market (it's all stock buybacks that's driving this market up).

So, you can see why everyone is uneasy about these extremely high PE ratios.
That sounds like effort. Intercepting your next Amazon order for anything that plugs into the pc and loading it up with malware would be better.
Thanks. My daughter is a productive novelist. She has published with 2 different independent publishers, as well as experimenting with self-publishing another series. Her current publisher signed her to a 2 year exclusive.

However, it appears that these smaller independent publishers are mediocre at generating any significant audience. It feels like it is largely up to the author to develop their own audience.

So I am always keeping my mind open to people who have overcome the starting problem in terms of developing an audience or fan base even outside of fiction.
Don't you mean JavaScript? This will have 0 effect on Java at this point since it isn't used in the browser anymore.
I think people are getting spoiled by getting what they asked for. People have been asking for a-la-carte cable for years (instead of the massively expensive bundle deals where you only want N channels out of 2000), and that's basically what all these competing streaming networks have become.
My point is, there is no close or far in this business. It's binary, either it looks real, or it doesn't. If your intention is to make deepfake to put it in a movie, video game or any other entertainment system, then sure you're right.

But that already exists, DeepFake isn't a fundamental development for that. What is the "big thing" about deepfake is that we can imitate speeches of people in leadership positions. For this, we can get really really close; but it's unclear if it'll ever be realistic enough to be a problem in court cases, politics etc...
There's LWN.net
Or they buy to convince you to buy.
>>None of that actually happened because people learned to be skeptical, and to care about who took the photo, the chain of custody, and the controls to prevent digital alteration.

This may be true in courts of law, but it absolutely is not when it comes to general public consumption of pictures.
Show HN: ChristmasVillage – Live stream controlable village and train
Clicked on it in disbelief. This happened to be another Linus.
It will bury JS long before it buries Java(/JVM), if it will bury either. I'm not sure there is any convincing reason to use wasm on the backend, where java is prevalent.
Countdown for AUR for Android?
Like always, what's old becomes new again.
It's not meant to compete with YouTube. It's meant for patreon subscriber live streams and the like.
We can still endorse it, while recognizing the inequality. Look at cars. Only the well-off get up to date safety features. Yet of course we still endorse making cars safer. It seems unethical, but what's the solution? Ban cheap/old cars? That will just mean less well off people now have no car.

You're right that it would require a new business model, but I don't think there's a business model that allows "Free" and "Paid" users in a way that doesn't inevitably create an equality problem. If Free is just as good as Paid, no one would pay. If people wouldn't pay and it needs to be free, you'll need to monetize it and that's likely advertising.

Open source, community driven apps might be a good solution. But open source tends to be driven by tech people solving a tech need. Just having open code also doesn't solve a lot of issues, like an open source video platform still needs to pay for the data.
Giving every IPv6 address a name
> When the iPhone 12 is released I’ll switch to USB C

Depending on what standards your existing ports support and what power input the iDevice can accept, you may find that a simple A->C adaptor will suffice. You may not get the fastest charge possible so in that case will want to move over sooner rather than later, but this may be an inexpensive (in terms of money and effort) stop-gap measure.
3 or 4 Discworld books, as in every year. Starting with Soul Music this time, in publication order.

Designing Data Intensive Applications.

Some books on leadership from the recent HN discussion, not decided which yet.

Death's End (book 3 of The Three Body Problem). The first two were really good.

The Algorithm Design Manual. Domain Driven Design.

Some chess books. Some general science and history. The yearly random self help book.

If I manage all that plus whatever I'll decide I want in the actual year, it will be a good year for reading, but maybe I need to have some more focus. We'll see.
Oh wow, I would not want 2000w going through Ethernet. Both for the obvious electrical issues, and for the dangerous mixing of safe sockets and hot sockets.

No idea how this would be more efficient. Bursting voltage will lead to higher loses versus a continuous voltage. Are they claiming efficiency thanks to a centralized AC->DC converter?
I'm no brain healthologist, but yoga has been absolutely, irrefutably, amazingly transformative to my mental health.

I started with no prior experience at age 39 nine months ago, and have gone to 140 classes since.

My happiness, attentiveness, and friendliness have all increased to the point that I am hardly recognizable, mentally, as the same person I was one year ago.

In addition to the effort and focus you have to put in during class there are other benefits, like seeing and feeling muscles you never knew existed growing and strengthening, having better posture and balance, and getting a good night's sleep every night after practice (because you're so damned tired).

On top of all of that, my studio is full of very friendly and welcoming instructors and my fellow students are just as nice, so I've made tons of new friends-- which is really hard to do when you are a working adult.

I've also lost 40lbs since March. Because I'm so tall, one hour of yoga burns about 580 calories on average for me, and I feel better afterwards-- not worse like with some other forms of physical activity.

But I didn't go for weight loss so that's just a nice bonus.

I'm relatively sure that the same could be said for many forms of physical activity, but yoga seems more suited to a variety of people regardless of age or physical ability.

Having become a bit enamored by yoga, I've started recommending to everyone I know, including my elderly parents, that they at least try it.
Some people will always be predicting a recession, sure. But the yield curve inversion a month or so ago is an indicator that a substantial number of people agree on. But IIRC it reversed again after inverting.

Certainly in raw numbers the market is in territory that is, while not unprecedented, associated with a couple previous rather significant collapses. It's safe to say a recession will happen but difficult to say exactly when.
> having a good drunken time

You're talking about being drunk. The person you're replying to is talking about having a drink.
With all due respect, Rube Goldberg's dream is coming true!
I wonder what his effective tax rate will be on these sales.
So it's like YouTube but you have to pay a subscription for every channel? Ugh.
Hi ASalazarMX - no it couldn't. We have software constraints around speed and position. Additionally, there's hardware checks that shut down the arm if it moves too fast and/or encounters too much pressure.
Protests erupt across India against new citizenship law after police storm uni
"It depends."

We opened a 7 year old cheese for Thanksgiving that was perfect as it is a cheese deliberately packaged to age and allow tyrosine development (which people seem to like for its bite). I've had a 30+ year version of the same cheese which was very edible and enjoyable, though you had to like a cheese with some bite. Pairs nicely with a white wine.

Would 400 year old or older cheese be good? Main thing I'd worry about is brucellosis or other contaminants.
Why on earth would they even do that?! It's just as infuriating as sites that muck around with the scroll. No...just don't. Don't try to be fancy, leave the scrolling to me.
Why would you bother paying someone to give you a basic training cut? Just buy the clippers and #2 blade.
interesting conclusion:

> In the long run, the larger risk may be that public attitudes swing too far in the opposite direction: that the possibility of deepfakes completely destroys public trust in video evidence. Certain politicians are already in the habit of dismissing media criticism as "fake news." That tactic will only become more effective as public awareness of deepfake technology grows.

Deepfakes themselves will not disrupt democracies or cause the much anticipated chaos. Deepfakes are in fact pointless for agitprop / disinfo campaigns:

"cheapfakes beat deepfakes" --@thegrugq

https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/1206404680223358976

https://medium.com/@thegrugq/cheap-fakes-beat-deep-fakes-b1a...

What is fascinating (and uncommon) is, that the damage isn't delivered with any specific deepfake itself. But the mere awareness that the technology exists, and that they could _potentially_ be used, is enough to change our risk perception. Even if the ratio cheapfakes/deepfakes usage in actual disinfo campaigns remains tiny percentage, deepfakes make much better headlines. (in a similar way the infosec industry is obsessed with 0days - but most of the risks are coming from people clicking on links in email)

Maybe one day we will look at deepfakes like "art". If pictures and videos can be art, and if "all art is propaganda" (see Orwell), then deepfakes too should be considered art, no?
Much like my sibling comment, things have always been pretty fast and reliable in France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, UK, and the Netherlands.

I literally do these things everytime my privacy, just like I'd do with any other right, is violated. And no it's not a full-time job, that's precisely why I delegate.

Not using real data, unless the interactions are legally binding, helps a lot. Give it a spin maybe?
Nitpick: Invented in the 19th century. Mass manufactured for OTC self-administration from 1921 onward. At least in Germany, available OTC for the next 70ish years. Became prescription-only in 1988, became banned from prescribing in 2008 -- i.e. it's been legal a lot longer than it's been illegal.
Slightly more sophisticated than this one:

https://youtu.be/yQSh1MWIdVU?t=223
A serious video CDN is one of those things that makes sense at scale. You have to get POPs all around the world, transcode lots of different bitrates, store it all, etc. and that sort of thing is expensive enough to get up and running that I don't forsee a lot of small-time people putting up their own versions (a la wordpress).
To paraphrase another hackernews: Freedom is nice, but it comes with tradeoffs that for whatever reason buyers aren't willing to make right now.

A restricted platform provides security guarantees that total freedom cannot provide, No matter what kind of magic incantation the OS vendor hides the "I know what I'm doing, let me run what I want on my own device" mode behind, some normie end-user schlub is going to find it on the internet as part of a malware author's instructions to download pirated video or games and get infected. Multiply that by a few thousand or million and that's a big black eye for Android the platform. That's a chunk of total Android devices infected with malware that iOS just doesn't have. Why? Because Apple did the smart thing and locked everything down from the beginning.

So yes, for Android the openness genie is going back into the bottle. Get used to it. In the current environment of billions of always-on, always-networked devices, we can't afford to let them all run arbitrary code. You are free to purchase a phone whose vendor respects your freedom, but those are niche items and likely to get rarer.
I didn’t say Nazi. Modernism is an art movement that came into being alongside Italian fascism: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/263882
It depends™️.

Agree in this case; really bad idea to not let people select text on whole like that.

There are tons of of cases, however, where not allowing selected text is totally a good behavior in UI.
> Shouldn't Jim be able to sue both nintendo and youtube?

Sure. And if he had infinite time and money, he might even win.