skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, having multiple views/angles and just capturing how the skin moves in 3d-space when forces are induced (through e.g. arm raising, jumping, or various other methods) should allow for inferring some elastic properties. This could allow detailed fitting with parametric stiffness/support trade offs.
I’d say anecdotally that this is true, though maybe not for ddos behavior; it certainly makes sense to attack when less people are at the office
It shows up to the PC just like any hard drive.
Yeah, I don't really disagree. Though, I do feel like a lot of videogame violence is so detached from trying to simulate real-life combat (because it's building on decades worth of genre conventions more than anything) that it's abstract enough that you might as well use it to model just about any other kind of conflict or interaction in a game.
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Argh, I wrote this in an editor and accidentally posted only a partial response. I cannot edit anymore so I'm responding with the full comment:

> What is happening here is like taking a 2-line program that adds together two numbers and dressing it up into thousands of lines of OOP, until you have AdditionObjectFactoryGetterSetter objects being created by AdditionObjectFactoryGetterSetterFactory objects. Then you can bring in powerful OOP tools, but the only things they help you with are understanding the excess complication you added in. Maybe the sheer scale of that structure is beautiful to someone, but we're discussing whether scientists should bother learning it.

In my opinion, this severely misrepresents what's happening. Your example is simply adding extrinsic, incidental complexity and this is not what the categorical treatment of this is doing, in my opinion. The additional complexity introduced by the CT machinery is not a lot and most of the complexity is intrinsic to the problem.

What this does is to add rigor to something that you (or a chemist) may understand intuitively. To a person with a working, intuitive knowledge about a subject, that may seem a bit pointless, but it is nevertheless useful since an intuitive understanding might overlook reasoning holes or edge cases. Building upon this result may yield further useful insights.

Granted, this really may not be useful to a working chemist. The cost/benefit ratio of a chemist doing chemistry is more favourable than investing a lot of time in CT, hoping for a large breakthrough.
Maybe, but it means the guy who can teach himself via google is going to get his similar project done a lot faster.
There must be some sort of Betteridge's Law about this. I swear, every time I see the word "hackers" in a headline, it's always about either script kiddies, phishing scams, simple passwords, or some other trivial breach.
I Don’t Care That Miss America Is a Scientist
There's a tension between solving the problem perfectly and burning your first customers to gather data, fund development, and iterate.

The best product startups have a both curious perfectionist scientist and a commercial sales person working together.
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Also, George Lucas or somebody is still messing with the OT. For the Disney+ release of A New Hope, the scene between Greedo and Han Solo now has Greedo say "Maclunkey[0]" before shooting.

This is apparently a Huttese insult that means something like "I will end you," and it's supposed to provide moral justification for Han percieving Greedo as an imminent threat and shooting him. This is also apparently in the Dug's dialogue in The Phantom Menace. I forget the thing's name.

Also I think the timing of their shots are tweaked so they happen almost simultaneously.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH19gKo7W7w
I am surprised how there isn't a fixed Industry standard for bra sizing. Maybe bra sizing can learn something from Pcie,usb,sata standards.

Someone i was with for a long time used to always complain how all manufacturers are different and that even using stuff like a bra that fits(reddit thing) did not work in Asia as manufacturers here have different sizing. She still hasn't found her perfect fit size.
> There's a prefessor at umich who studies this. I think I recall her saying that gender disparities in sentencing actually dwarfs the racial disparities that we hear about more often, but I can't find the link.

Is that Professor Sonja Starr?

https://www.law.umich.edu/newsandinfo/features/Pages/starr_g...

> There are other studies that have shown gender disparity in criminal cases, but not as pronounced as Prof. Starr's findings. This is because she is looking at "a larger swath of the criminal justice process" in her analysis, she said. The paper states, "Existing studies have typically focused on single stages of the criminal process in isolation"—in particular, the judge's final sentencing decision. These studies compare actual sentencing outcomes after controlling for the recommended sentence associated with the defendant's ultimate conviction. The problem with this, Starr explains, is that "the key control variable is itself the result of a host of discretionary decisions made earlier in the justice process"—including prosecutors' charging and plea-bargaining decisions. Starr's research incorporates disparities found at those earlier stages, and finds that "more disparity is introduced at each phase of the justice process."

> After estimating the amount of disparity left unexplained by the arrest offense and other control variables, the paper explores "why these gaps exist—and, in particular, whether unobserved differences between men and women might justify them." Prof. Starr explores several potential mitigating factors, such as the "girlfriend theory" (that "[w]omen might be viewed as…mere accessories of their male romantic partners"), the role of women as primary caregivers to their children, and the "theory that female defendants receive leniency because they are more cooperative with the government." Although each of these theories found some support in the data, they did not appear capable of explaining anything close to the total disparity that Prof. Starr found.

I wish more people were open to hearing this sort of information.
Why would copying an entire book be fair use?
It also leads to (in excess), a not great work environment
OFP/ARMA family uses parabolas. You need just 2 measurements at 2 time points to calculate a hit. This is also perfectly suited for calculation with SSE in less than a kilocycle.

UE does bruteforce calculation as I know.
"It is considered the most improved rail network year on year since 1997"

Improved in what way? Punctuality? Frequency of services? Affordability of tickets? Refurbishment of stations? New rolling stock? It's a claim that doesn't match the experiences of many passengers. What is the source?

"It has some of the lowest fares if you book far in advance"

Even if this is true, it's little consolation for the vast majority of passengers who need to commute daily. The reality is that, for most passengers, rail in the UK is expensive.

Here is a monthly season ticket comparison from 2017: UK vs Continental Europe:

- UK: Luton to London St. Pancras (35 miles) | Monthly season ticket cost: £387

- UK: Liverpool Lime Street to Manchester Piccadilly (32 miles) | Monthly season ticket cost: £292

- Germany: Dusseldorf to Cologne (28 miles) | Monthly season ticket cost: £85

- France: Mantes-la-Jolie to Paris (34 miles) | Monthly season ticket cost: £61

- Italy: Anzione to Rome (31 miles) | Monthly season ticket cost: £61

- Spain: Aranjuez to Madrid (31 miles) | Monthly season ticket cost: £75

Source: https://www.tuc.org.uk/industrial-issues/transport-policy/uk...
Minor nitpick, the latest Call of Duty uses ballistics on all guns, not hitscan.
Windows 7 does this for some drivers, but it only seems to be for a limited list (e.g. selected Intel NICs), and the drivers are woefully outdated.

I guess this might be "enough" for people buying some of the most popular PCs (e.g. Dell), but it's certainly not going to be for everyone.
That has nothing to do with bullets. That’s saying “network syncing is complicated,” which is true.

Bullets are no more special in that regard than any network entity.
ToTok and TikTok are two different apps.
ToTok is used in the UAE where Whatsapp and others are banned.
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I think you need to ignore the projects you are trying to do and instead work on getting a decent CI/CD workflow setup, preferably with strong automation driving it. The reason I say this is that it sounds to me like you are a victim of lots of unfinished projects that probably never got running properly in dev, let alone in a deployed environment. I've been there and I know it's very demoralizing to work on something and not close the loop on it, and to be staring at a mass of code that didn't go anywhere. I fixed this in my own projects by starting to treat my side coding as proper development work. I put together a Jenkins container with pipelines that test/build/deploy my code automatically. I actually write tests and spend real time on architectural decisions that I might not have cared about if I was just hacking. The result has been that I'm a stronger dev now, much more professional and productive in my workflow, and my side projects are actual software that builds green and deploys. It took me like a month of side time to set that container up like I wanted it, but it has completely changed how I feel about my work. I take it seriously now. Give this a shot if this sounds right to you, I think it could help. Best of luck:)
Brave didn't make any changes to the underlying engine. Chrome has, at this point, basically rewritten it.
What are these "Hyperlink" that links to a page that do not contain anything more to read. This makes me grumpy ;-)
> but every time I start I get overwhelmed with what stack I should use, and how to actually get a ‘real’ application out. It’s hard to explain. I have a lot of anxiety and analysis paralysis about this.

don't we all suffer from Imposter Syndrome in one way or another?

Why not try to go back to the basics. Don't beat yourself up, or pressure yourself. I would do research on a specific stack I like first and what I want to learn more about. Then dive into that very deep. The more I learn about the stack the easier it is to find ways to apply the stacks advantage in specific use-cases. Then try to build something based on that. It's sort of the reverse what I would "normally" do, but more fun because I allow myself to tinker and make mistakes (or do something outrageous, just for the sake of proofing it's possible to do it with that technology). Usually the decision what I build automatically emerges in that process.

if unsure if floating or swimming why not float[1] for a while?

[1] from Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life https://fs.blog/2014/05/hunter-s-thompson-to-hume-logan/

> And indeed, that IS the question: whether to float with the tide, or to swim for a goal. It is a choice we must all make consciously or unconsciously at one time in our lives. So few people understand this! Think of any decision you’ve ever made which had a bearing on your future: I may be wrong, but I don’t see how it could have been anything but a choice however indirect— between the two things I’ve mentioned: the floating or the swimming.

ps: for me one of the most soul crushing and mind-numbing things is having to wrap some fragile REST endpoints into my app. Doing so can quickly get results and I understand why people do it, but in a side project I rather learn what a specific IETF/RFC or academic paper is about and then do something with that. The experience/knowledge from that is IMO much more valuable than being able to hammer out 3rd party API's in whatever language.
A 6ft wingspan fixed wing "drone" is easy enough to build for several hours of flight endurance. It won't be able to exactly hover, but it could fly circles at slow speed, making the impression of barely moving if positioned high enough up.
Merry Christmas everyone! =)
Well, to that point, YC or alternative programs be like "Why should we give you money?"
From memory, one of the things we did was set up an event bus to communicate between xstate and Vuex. We only used the xstate.org.js and vuejs.org documentation, which are both very good.

Sorry I can't help further.
That was the first thing to jump out at me, too. I love crotchety blogs ranting about (whatever screwups), but this one takes a serious credibility hit right off the bat. Ranting about something you don’t understand and being blatantly wrong about it isn’t a great look.
Selling blood is somewhat outlawed. I say somewhat because you can still receive gift cards and movie tickets.

Selling plasma for cash is mostly done by very impoverished people. I used to live a few blocks from one of these businesses. The people you see hanging around the place would probably discourage anyone but the neediest from "donating."
I was with you until you called IPFS “blockchain technology” which it is not. It is true that people interested in blockchain are also interested in IPFS but this is association, not underlying technology.
It's an exercise in time travel. The server has to maintain previous states and estimate based on lag where each client thought each other client was when the shot was fired. Valve has a great article on it: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_Multiplayer_...
It's the Rusky's, checking out our air defenses before they wreak havoc on us like the Saudi oil refinery !
Well, it's not the spectrum management solution that I'm looking for, but at least it could be a genuine attempt to offer at least one alternative to the horrible wireless carriers.

Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/08/who-owns-your-wireless-s...
There's a website where people make fun of HN comments? Is it Twitter?
Do you think that React Native was also a fork of something else?
Google Keep, Google Podcasts, and YouTube!
Crime ring allegedly makes millions selling defective iPhones
I used to work for the Denver post - them and quite a few other newspapers have been bought out by a venture (vulture) capital firm that lays off most of the staff and then makes nonsensical moves like this to dry and drive short term revenue. Absolutely brutal loss of historied local news organizations.

It’s a huge shame this is happening, but more of a shame that no at the paper successfully innovated to survive the switch to digital.
And a truck driver should use a sports car to make his deliveries I guess.
I get where you're coming from and it is an evolution in it, but Fortnite does have more players per map. And the map is a lot bigger. The interactable objects and building is what make it quite different technically.

With games where building stuff is just tacked on, you'll find that performance drops very quickly after just a few hundred objects are placed. This limits building significantly. The interactive objects point is also something that wasn't too common until recently (past few years). Skyrim had loading screens to go indoors so that they could have a lot of interactable objects indoors. If you went and put the objects from a few houses together then the game's performance dropped significantly.
> Calling a private method with a literal self as the receiver is now allowed.

Oof. Call me old fashioned, but I liked the consistency of not being able to call private methods with an explicit receiver. Oh well!

The rest of this looks great, thanks Ruby team!
If a psychology study concluded that the sun will rise tomorrow, would you dispute it based on the replication crisis?

This kind of knee jerk dismissal is becoming tiresome on this site.
IPFS itself is not, but the VC investments into it are basically all tied to blockchain things around IPFS. E.g. a16z invested into Protocol Labs' Filecoin - which funds IPFS development, but IPFS alone would be uninteresting to VCs.
Honestly Gmail storage should show up as an entry when you look at drive storage stats given that it's shared. They do that elsewhere in the account iirc.
America’s Love Affair with Driving Takes a Back Seat
Fully highlighted button responds to Enter, the most powerful action. The button with a border only is associated with the secondary action, space bar. Makes perfect sense.
If a more productive team emerged naturally from incentives available to everyone, and that team collected large bonuses as a result of proven success, I think the company and the team would both be better off.

If a team is designed from the beginning with a different set of rules than the rest of the company, it has a lot to answer for before it even begins, and its achievements will be accordingly discounted.
A project that has 500kloc probably doesn't have anywhere the churn on most of that code that actively developed dependencies have. Most of that mass of first-party code is static and doesn't change much, if ever.
Number of incidents and impact on people are different things, right. I wonder when targets impacting more end-users end up happening. Taking out something like the Playstation network or Netflix will have a large impact in that way.
RAM is billed by the hour (or minute?) by cloud providers, and it’s 1GB per process, not 1GB total. If you’re running 20 virtual servers, that’s 20 GB. Moreover, if you’re shipping a desktop app, it’s 1GB * number of licenses. Finally, the “it’s not worth tuning” argument proves my point—Java proponents will tell you that Java doesn’t need to consume that much memory—you just have to tune it, but no one tunes it because it’s too hard/not worth it.
Daylio - It's a journal/mood tracking app and I've been using it since march 2019. Other than keeping a track of my moods it also help me keep track of all my goals I want to achieve.

Google keep - I've tried all the popular/unpopular apps for note taking but I keep coming back to G.Keep, it's really very easy to use type that is why I use it for taking all kind of notes. The only thing I think it's missing is authorization/password protection.

Money Manager - Helps me keep track of all the income and expenses. It really heped me a lot in managing my expenses.
I think the issue is each module tends to include far more code than just what the project needed.

If everything was like the NPM meme where you install a package to check if something is true, then your LOC for that module with be quite limited.

However a single dependency is often big itself, and the 50 dependencies it has are also quite big. The LOC in the dep-dep is not the same as if it was written by hand in the dep.

So if you wrote your dep by hand you may use, say, 500,000 LOC - but with the tree of dependencies not being a 1:1 to what you use, you have to audit more like 2Mil LOC. Perhaps an audit could be aided by some sort of tree-shaking scenario, where all non-used code is removed, leaving you with the real 500,000 LOC that needs review.. Would be interesting.

I've been having this same problem with Rust lately. Frankly, I think it's true for any package platform you use.
I buy my dress shirts at Indochino. They do multiple first measurements on you the first time, then they make a first iteration shirt. You come for a second fitting with that shirt when they look how it sits and re-adjust the measurements which are stored in your profile and all subsequent shirts are made to them. The result is pretty good. Never been to a custom tailor but I guess this is a good industrialized approximation of what they do. I am wondering if something like this could have worked.
Ask HN: Where to check YC alumni names?
Someone I know from Egypt is claiming he is a yc alumni.
I am not sure how to check if he really is?
Emily's point is that NLP researchers tend to describe only how English is used, not how other languages are used.
They also do deflections when you're firing at, e.g., a thin wooden wall a bullet can go through or something hard hit at a shallow angle causing a ricochet.
thanks for the post, i have to brush up on my mandarin to read it tho
Thank you so much for this! This guy's site is a goldmine.

Going up one level on that site:

http://wilsonminesco.com/6502primer/

I've been fiddling with a 65C02 over the past month. This is exactly the kind of information resource I've been looking for!
Somewhat related: You may enjoy the song "Nanobot" from the acapellascience channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObvxPSQNMGc
They’re fast moving relative to network latency and the error margins are small (off by a little is the difference between a kill and a miss).
This is a feature that you have to go out of your way to enable, not the default status of the system. Either you or your IT department enabled it.

Complaining about this is like complaining that the computer is reading the text out loud.
I've got one. Sometimes when you start typing on Google, the keyboard drops in the middle of typing causing you to tap a link where the key had been.

https://imgur.com/a/v1CGba5
Ask HN: How would you host a static site in 2020?
Yesterday I submitted a post I'd written about moving from Google Kubernetes Engine to Netlify (see HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21872910). In the comments, many people suggested alternatives they thought would've been better for my situation that I'd either never heard of or didn't realize were good options for my use case - Google's Cloud Run and App Engine, Firebase, AWS Lambda + S3 + Cloudfront CDN to name a few.

So I'm curious - if you were going to host your static site in 2020, how would you do it?
Not to mention shooting into the air launches the projectile in a very large path that could kill people. Never fire into the air!
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Ask HN: Any Workspaces for Windows 10 with keyboard support?
After holding out for last couple of years, i finally switched to Windows 10 (from Windows 7) this Christmas! :-)

While the upgrade went through without any issues, and all my tools seem to be working properly, i have lost one MAJOR feature - multiple desktops/workspaces.

I used to use Dexpot on Windows 7, which has intermittent issues after upgrading to Windows 10.

Any suggestion for customizing the built-in workspaces feature in Windows 10, or any 3rd-party utilities for Windows 10, that support keyboard-shortcuts like:

- moving active window between workspaces.
- switching to specific workspace (without cycling through all).
It’s incredible how far along iNaturalist has come. I’ve been an active user in Hong Kong since before the Pokémon Go craze. I used to tell my coworkers in jest that I gotta catch them all. :P

Seriously, iNaturalist is sooo much more meaningful than stuff like Pokémon Go. If you have kids who want to play Pokémon Go, show them iNaturalist instead. It’s a great tool to teach kids about the environment and its evolution. Once you start getting into iNaturalist, you’ll start noticing trends of species getting more or less populous from year to year, and you’ll learn to identify bugs, plants, birds, etc, and you’ll gain a new appreciation of nature, even when you are in an urban setting.
That makes sense for a 4 drawer, 5' tall filing cabinet -- which generally all have the interlock, and little to none for a 3 drawer under desk unit with drawers half the length or less of a filing cabinet. Even if you wanted to load them as heavily as a file cabinet, the drawers are generally far less substantial or well made. Doubly pointless considering the drawer unit shown has no filing drawer. Most of those solve the possible tip with a castor or slide under the front of the sole bottom filing drawer.
I lived in Chicago and would log into CBBS, Ward and Randy's and The Ward Board all the time.

Thank you, Randy, for all the good times I had on those boards and the joy and excitement of discovering new things, even if was just to say hi to strangers with a similar interest.
I think category theory generalizes pretty much everything, so that may be tough.