skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn’t one of the main benefits of open source projects - like Chromium - that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel, and can instead focus on innovation or differentiation beyond the status quo?
Hehe at our new office in the kitchen there's a cupboard above the sink so that any person going to the sink will not be able to see what they're doing cause the cupboard is in the way unless you double yourself over so that you can stick your head under the cupboard or are a maximum of 140çm tall. Maybe the design was done by a person who has 2m long arms so that he/she can operate the sink from afar and thus avoid this problem.
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I don't follow your logic, you're saying that if the human mind isn't computable, all our research of AI is a waste?

What if weak AI systems are extremely useful? What if we don't need to mimic the human mind to create intelligent systems? What if machine intelligence is very different than human intelligence?

We may never build a replica of a human brain. I think it would be absurdly lucky for the Turing model to be the correct one for understanding the human mind since it was developed without much knowledge of how the human mind works. But is that the only way for AI to be successful in your opinion? I don't understand that perspective.
A lot depends if it's the same culture ( eg. Roman)

I speak French, Dutch and English.

I understand German and can do simple things with it.

I can understand Spanish a little bit.

But I don't think my brain is different. The mapping is very similar between those languages.

An Asian/Russian language would be very hard for me to.
If you can only open one at a time it means the locking mechanism only needs to lock one drawer. They do the same thing with tool cabinets.
I wish it wasn't true, but Firefox seems heavier on low-spec Linux laptops. A while back I was writing code on the road on a $200 HP Stream running Ubuntu, and I needed multiple tabs open with audio to debug. Switching from Firefox to Chrome was a noticeable improvement, where the UI remained responsive in all the tabs.
I'm a college student myself (my university, as far as I'm aware, has no system such as this). As far as I'm concerned, it's both an insidious creep of social-credit policy and a gross invasion of student privacy. It treats us as children rather than as the adults we are, and seems to me to be a sign of the re-infantalization of colleges. Many generations ago, when the age of majority was for the most part higher, colleges acted in loco parentis for their minor undergraduates. It was during the twentieth century that college students came to be recognized as real adults. But now it seems that the coddling has in many ways increased, and some find it fit again, as one sees here, to surveil us like children.

Further, while there have been obvious benefits of technological advancement, they have in large part erased informal procedures and social understanding in favor of a rigid and unforgiving process. For example, my assignments are now largely due at midnight, at a very particular second: submit a nanosecond late at your own penalty. Whereas in the past the common practice of most professors would be along the lines of "get it in my mailbox by 4 p.m.", or something like that, but with the informal understanding that at 4:00:00.0...1, the door of the mailbox would not close and chop off your hand. And exceptions to rules were easier to get before the arbiter of the rules became a severe and unfeeling one.
> When individuals speak of doing “big fist pumps” after their Arch installs successfully boot

After http://linuxfromscratch.org/ and https://gentoo.org/, Arch seems a relatively smooth project.

> This was my journey to my first install. It was an encrypted one.

OK, this might be on the gnarly side.

Arch is that fellow in the neighborhood who doesn't say much, seems generally squared away, and is great to know when the fertilizer hits the air circulator.

Thanks, Arch!
Makes sense. Before I commented, I looked at his profile to see if he had information about his previous companies.
They are objects with a reference to the gun that fired it and everything it could possibly interact with in the game and indeed the game itself. How else is it going to have a “shoot()” method with no arguments?
Castle Wolfenstein in 1981, which was the first game to include digitized speech and an early example both of stealth gaming and of the World War II shooter.

It was also an early example of procedural generated levels. During startup, it would create and write the castle map layout to the floppy disk. If you wanted to replay the level, you could pull the disk out and add a write protect tab so it couldn’t be overwritten.
Ask HN: Should your employer pay for your primary health care?
Is ethical to expect from your employer to pay for primary health care for you and your family?
The decade, as told in grappling hooks
A more important decision was to take Fortnite, the paid co-op against zombie game, and add a free battle royale mode to it
2.7 introduces `Enumerable#filter_map` for that. Example from the NEWS file:

[1, 2, 3].filter_map {|x| x.odd? ? x.to_s : nil } #=> ["1", "3"]
For those not familiar, UKF = unscented Kalman filter. And by the way, there is no such thing as "scented" KF. The inventor of the UKF, whose name was Jeff Uhlmann, didn't want this method to be called after his name, so he picked a random word in the dictionary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unscented_transform
I agree with everything, except with the part that tech people appreciate and demand non-nonsense software.

A lot of people in tech enjoy being the "ultimate power user" and are proud of using things that look or feel complicated.

You just have to look at HN itself to read trough rationalisations of why software is bloated and why bigger software is probably better. It's never driven by data or by facts, it's purely by anecdotal experience.
I don't know how it works in other parts of the world, but where I live (Brazil) people afford cars to avoid bad quality public transportation (packed and expensive buses and trains). Not to say alternative modes have zero incentive from both government and companies. But I also see another reason: having a car gives you status. Many of my colleagues live very near from work (20, 15 or even 10 minutes walking) but they insist going to work using their cars because they don't see someone on their position could be seen arriving by foot or sharing public transportation with ordinary workers...
> Movie action scenes are typically equal ingredients vs other scenes, but in games they are typically the dominant way of exercising player agency, big difference.

> Besides shooters, combat dominates adventure and open world games, which could be done differently too.

Could you elaborate on this a bit? To contrast, I think of Fallout 3. Sure, there is a lot of violence out in the wasteland and it kind of stinks that I can't, say, reason with mutants. But at the same time, I would not characterize the dominant expression of agency being mediated through violence, but dialog. Are there any games specifically (besides those with a shooting focus like Battlefield, Call of Duty, etc) that capture your sentiments?
Ask HN: Should I Build This?
I am struggling to decide whether I should build out a saas service.

How does one decide whether its a good idea to expend time and energy doing this?

The product itself is pretty niche and its market would be any only service that is focused on user privacy, whistle blowing sites, vpn services or any other that wishes to respect user privacy (dating, lgbt, hookup sites).

My product would be used by these services during the registration phase for users.

In term of time needed to build out this product, I estimate 2 weeks and possibly little to no input afterwards from a feature standpoint.

I'm not sure if I should do it or if there's an actual market for it, how can I tell without giving too much away? There is no product like this that I can compare against (maybe because its not that important?)

How do I quantify if there's an actual market for this product?
Because escapism involves leaving the norms, and most people are fortunate enough that violence is outside their normal life experience.
All true, and TV showing brings shortening, censorship and cutting or beeping a swear word (in the US), or violence (in the UK) etc. I grew up a little so I don't even hide any more when Patrick Troughton is about to be killed by Daleks! :)

But I do like to revisit what it was, warts, ancient effects and all, rather than a moving target that keeps reinventing the wheel.
A good source of data to build an algorithm for bra fitting, is women tailors in India. Specifically, I would ask and observe how they fit women for cholis (sari blouses). The fit of a choli is similar to a bra, although the silk or cotton choli fabric is usually less elastic.

This November I got my first cholis; it took two fittings for an expert tailor to make them fit correctly to my form factor.
The author has a point. I feel like this is what happens when media machines like Miss America get a hold of a Cause. You end up with a veneer of progress, but the underlying core remains almost as bad as it always was.
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Aha, a brilliant idea. Thank you!
I think this is a really good set of advice. In your situation, I would second going with React and some sort of node backend
You're just a jumped up moron who thinks they know something. Stupid little cunt
Amazing comment, thank you for your detailed input and the awesome resources. I want to get into C because I like network and system programming but lack the underlying knowledge and experience. These links will help me start on that new path. Very much appreciated sir :)
> you should need a transponder and rough flight plan – just like regular aviation

For the most part neither of those things are requirements for regular aviation.
This issue happens in so many places. About to press a button on a page and suddenly something loads up top and the page shifts 50px.
The Chinese government is evil. Of course we suspect something is going on with this sketchy looking fork.
Pop an item from an array. What do you return when the array is empty?

Solution: nil. Problem: How do you tell the difference between "the array was empty" and "the item you popped was nil"?

Solution: have pop return a Maybe instead.
> 8086 XT PC for my 8th birthday

Wow, I admire the far-sightedness of your parents, to give a child a computer at such a young age (and in those early days of PCs).

I was of a similar age when my dad brought home an NEC PC 9801 - with an 8086 CPU (8MHz), 640KB RAM, kanji (~3000 characters) font ROM, even a Japanese word processor. I think it ran MS-DOS 2~3.

"In 1987, NEC announced one million PC-98s were shipped."

That was a big wave, and I'm so glad my parents let me play with a computer as a "toy" - it was a huge influence on my mental development.

Kinda like the monolith moment in 2001: A Space Odyssey. :)
When he’s throwing a yacht party at Cannes Film Festival I guarantee you that nobody will know, care or remember how he has enough money to be in that situation.

Game = Won.
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Yep. Quite a few times I've had cabinets start to tip on me because I opened multiple drawers at the same time.

It's not something very intuitive since we generally expect furniture to be stable in normal usage. To make it worse, when it starts tipping all drawers slide open and bang into you, compounding the effect and accelerating the move.
> He invented Bitcoin.

No, he didn't. Lol

Ps. If something is hard that can't be explained in a simple way, it's probably also false.

Remember, Satoshi has 1 billion $ . No way to fake that and proving that you are Satoshi is as simple as moving 1 coin :)

Without excuses ofc, which I'm sure he has.
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Is it thorny given that there should be a library for all of this by now?
Fuck off cunt
They do acknowledge using code from Vue: https://github.com/Tencent/Hippy/blob/e284c6b399e50bfb256469...
>I've been having this same problem with Rust lately. Frankly, I think it's true for any package platform you use.

Right, people act like node_modules is extremely special. They open the folder and say "Look at all of the files, what a mess!" as if other languages don't have this. Just in most other languages it's more hidden from you.
> Instead of ‘finding your passion,’ try developing it, Stanford scholars say

https://news.stanford.edu/2018/06/18/find-passion-may-bad-ad...
You can always play simulation games like Kerbal Space program or Cities Skylines. Those still have a tech tree although it may not be as complicated as the skill trees in Path of Exile or the class tree in Trees of Savior.
Mobile OS periodically have to reclaim allocated memory and this happens.
Yes, thanks for this. It appears that maybe the entire university's website has changed location? So maybe a more official link will come back up soon
The only actual solution to this is legal, not technical.
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If the fix is relatively easy, the UI is probably bad. A good UI could show "Other services x.y GB", but didn't.

Good UX/UI should provide intuition to the user, especially in more complex circumstances.
Is it ethical to expect to get paid?
>In probability theory, the birthday problem or birthday paradox concerns the probability that, in a set of n randomly chosen people, some pair of them will have the same birthday. By the pigeonhole principle, the probability reaches 100% when the number of people reaches 367 (since there are only 366 possible birthdays, including February 29). However, 99.9% probability is reached with just 70 people, and 50% probability with 23 people. These conclusions are based on the assumption that each day of the year (excluding February 29) is equally probable for a birthday.

Actual birth records show that different numbers of people are born on different days. In this case, it can be shown that the number of people required to reach the 50% threshold is 23 or fewer.[1] For example, if half the people were born on one day and the other half on another day, then any two people would have a 50% chance of sharing a birthday.

It may well seem surprising that a group of just 23 individuals is required to reach a probability of 50% that at least two individuals in the group have the same birthday: this result is perhaps made more plausible by considering that the comparisons of birthday will actually be made between every possible pair of individuals = 23 × 22/2 = 253 comparisons, which is well over half the number of days in a year (183 at most), as opposed to fixing on one individual and comparing his or her birthday to everyone else's.

From:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
They always find ways out of it I've gone nearly 18 years now without any access to healthcare is it ethical to be forced to fix a broken elbow with duct tape in the richest country in the world? I had to, even after Obamacare I still had 0 access and then was taxed to punish me for lack of access the government should provide access they take the majority of my income but where does it go certainly not for my healthcare
> Yet, it uses Chromium, which contributes to Google’s dominance over the web — pushing developers to further neglect Firefox and other browsers as a target.

The only solution is to create a new web standards organization, since Google controls W3C. For instance, WebAssembly has a lot of privacy issues.
You're lucky. I mainly drive to work, but every time I have to take public transport I am reminded why I drive.

Earlier this year I had to take public transport for a few weeks whilst getting my power steering repaired and on one occasion my first train was delayed for reasons that were never explained. When I got to my interchange the next train was delayed due to signal failure. And when I finally got my train the driver announced that due to the delay they were passing straight through two stations, one of which was mine, so I had to get off earlier and wait for yet another train.

In the end it took me about 3hrs to complete a journey I can do in 30 mins by car.
I've written these articles, and they're usually well received: https://gabrielgambetta.com/client-server-game-architecture....
> Cool stuff. What's hindering you from making money at this point?

Thanks! That's the goal in the long term.

Besides being a spare-time endeavour, I believe I'm still in the learning phase, studying different statistical finance concepts and techniques, making experiments like this one, assessing the results.

Then the next step I think is to come up with some strategies, perform backtests with historical data and build a real-time automated trading infrastructure.

I have a few friends working in Investment Banks but they're more into traditional portfolio management than automated trading, so they don't help much.

I will organize my thoughts and shoot you a mail once a get the time!
> rail companies not paying attention to actual grid specs

I would give the rail companies a little slack. They did specify trains that should have handled the frequency change. But Siemens didn’t build the trains to spec.

The shutdown was unexpected and entirely down to Siemens not building their power supplies the specs set out by the rail company.
Your analysis on the time for transactions to be completed seems just marginally inadequate, if it is only covering the logistical communication concerns.

About 10 years ago I looked into creating my own ACH system so I wouldn't have to use an intermediary (this was because I was going to be doing high dollar, low quantity transactions).

Because I was going to be setting up an import operation, I wanted to understand what my liabilities might be if a customer either didn't actually have funds in their account or they were fraudulent.

A key concern was the amount of time my company would be liable for the funds transferred to it, because even a single reversal would cause a serious problem for the company.

I learned that the receiving institution can initiate a reversal, and there is no time limit to establish when they can no longer do this. So, theoretically, they could just reverse all transactions for a year, or however long, and my company is on the hook for all of this cash.

Worse, my institution is what's actually on the hook, because they automatically send the money that the reversal is requiring. It seems you are doing a more technical analysis, but the issue comes that if you are a small business unable to deposit $1,000,000 in a CD as a security against such misfortunes, then you are locked out of getting such a service.

Or at least this was the case ~10 years ago.
Yep, I'm not reading Luka Magnotta for fun!

It's also relevant that it didn't work at all and he was caught pretty fast (even faster if the French police weren't idiots), nor did his clever back up 'Manny' plan.
Passive progessive
In the well-structured Groups: nothing.
Show HN: Shock Horror: Crowdfunding Still Happens on Christmas Day!
It's not obvious from glancing at the page, but I've been watching it today, and the number of investors continues to rise!

https://seedrs.com/radbot

Whoodathunkint? B^>

[For clarity, this is my project!]
In my first real IT job we were buying and installing networking equipment for phones, internet in one big government project. It was hard to not choose Huawei when comparing to Ericsson, they completely copied their equipment, even the Ericsson manuals would suit Huawei while the price was 10x lower. Obviously since it was a public tender Huawei won, it did feel wrong though.
Bear in mind that the very worst accusations against Google have been for considering possibly working within the demands of the Chinese government in the future, with the whole dragonfly thing.

You're saying that the Chinese government is more ethical, themselves.
When trying to find more about the website on mobile, I scroll down and I only see a few links at the bottom, but within less than a second new content loads and the links are gone, I will probably need to load all the content before being able to see the credits / about links.

That's grumpy-worthy I find ;-).
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It’s the same in Canada.
> A farmhouse sits abandoned on County Road 24 in Yuma County on May 1, 2017

Looks pretty comfy to me. How much does an abandoned farm house in Yuma County go for these days?
In the spiwit (just watched Life of Brian) of grumpy Christmas, what's with a grumpy single page, lazy loading blog? Paginate the thing.

Happy holidays.
i’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic or if we just don’t live on the same planet :))
I was introduced to it in Scala. I like how all "classic" languages are cherry-picking features from functional programming. It will make people less shell-shocked in the future, when they try it for real.
Also when you try to dismiss a notification on the phone, and just as you're doing it a new one appears and you end up dismissing that instead. Boom! Now you don't know what it was.

This is on Android BTW, not sure how iOS does it. But instead of the newest notification appearing at the top of the list, maybe it should appear at the bottom. Problem solved.
Seems like a useful feature with terrible discoverability and a lack of intuitiveness. Don Norman would not approve. ;)
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But most people use Chrome, which is proprietary, not Chromium.
FFXIV, like (some?) other MMOs, also has no collisions between player characters. So you are frequently expected to “stack” your hit“boxes” at the same point.
As if state support didn’t build any American based tech\data company
FWIW, I weighed the risk of injury more as I got older.

I live in a bike happy area. As in rows of bike stalls and people complain there still aren't enough.

Three of my coworkers ended up in the ER, two of which were knocked unconscious. Many others have had spills and chills.

It changed my behavior. Way more risk adverse. Only choose routes with lots of other cyclists (only thing which increases safety, from my reading). Totally avoid intersections with trucks. And so forth.
Curious: does she have an argument for why in-home advertising is good, or is it just that she has not studied it?
Ah, ok, wasn't obvious to me, either. I always wonder, if it's legal in Germany, because you need to have an imprint easily accessible (from any page I think). Might not be relevant for here, but am just curious.
> As a pilot I can go fly my plane at any altitude I wish as long as I am not entering any controlled airspace.

Well, no. That’s not true. Firstly there are rules about the altitude you can fly at when it’s greater than 3000’, and second you are required to file a flight plan any time you are flying IFR.
As what company, what year then check:

https://www.ycdb.co/

Find the company and check the team page; use google to read up on the person. Caveats: sometimes people have the same name and yet they are not the same people, not all founders are always listed on the team page, especially not for companies that have pivoted, not all companies have a team page.

Success rate for this sort of thing is pretty good if you invest some time.
To the Google drive one that storage also includes Gmail and some other Google services too.
I am guessing back end work and dealing with performance issues is causing stress? If this is the case fixing the back end team will help.

It also sounds like you are worrying too much about what management thinks. They will let you know quick enough if you are a problem and let you go if the business is suffering...irregardless of you being the special one :-)