skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hippy is now applied in 18 Tencent apps concerning tens of billions of ordinary users.

Having used a lot of these apps I wonder if this is indeed what they use to deliver near native experience with web technologies..
I think this would make more sense as an added extra or gift set.
Primordial Particle Systems
Fortnite was a total failure for the a long time. The battle royale gamemode was just further experimentation.
just iterate
How was this policy enforced? I run a small business that has parking issues and we'd love to incentivize people to take mass transit or bike in. I don't know about charging people to park, though...
why speculate when it's so easy to google?
Still needlessly complex and slow.

[x for kv in d.items() for x in kv]
Newer thread with more comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21864259
> can be bought on the community marketplace for 3 cents the following year.

Cosmetics don't depreciate that much over a year. Chances are if you get something rubbish out of a loot crate then it'll always be around that price.
Back in 2009, HN also discussed "The Physics of Bras" (2005):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=925236
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Once could be just about forgiven (it gets hot in summer who knew that), but to have it happen again a few weeks later cannot.

Well, the thing is: we weren't able to change the laws of physics in those few weeks. Metal still expands, so the wires still droop in the heat. The system is designed for normal conditions; sometimes it doesn't work in abnormal conditions. They could probably do better, but it takes time, effort, and money which are all in limited supply.
Often Name from Company is really Nameless from their regional Business Support Department. Simple and dry and minimal content but well rehearsed and presented "heres our product" pitches.
I like the advise to not shoot down the drones, as this can cause a battery fire

They're not good eating, anyway, no matter how you prepare them.
Sorry, I meant not preserving unknowns was also wrong. Proto2 did preserve them, then proto3 didn’t, and then they realized it was a bad idea and went back to preserving them.
Black text on a red banner on a white background is offensive to my retinas.
Merry Xmas!
Btw,color of theme is changed a little bit.
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Just a shot in the dark. But how hard would it be to reduce your commute to practically 0? How hard would it be to convince your co-workers/manager of working remote?
> 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.
Allow me to introduce you to university textbooks.

Huge budgets. Insane costs to the user. “Low quality” would be the nicest thing said about them.

If I’m a paying user, how does this stuff make it through quality control? It’s because, there is no quality control.
It could be related to the official change in supply voltage, though not for the reason you're thinking. Although Britain's mains supply officially changed to 230V, in reality it's the same 240V as before and there's a wider tolerance band for voltages above the nominal 230V than below to make this work. So if Network Rail installed equipment that expected actual continental-style 230V, that could cause problems.

It wouldn't be the first time that rail companies not paying attention to actual grid specs caused transport chaos this year. Back in August, a power failure caused load shedding that dropped a million houses off the grid but preserved power to the rail network as intended. However, one train company had bought Siemens trains that couldn't cope and immediately shut down when they saw a dip in frequency of the level required to cause automatic load shedding, and required an engineer visit to restart. That one set of trains effectively rendered all the measures taken to ensure the rail network retained power almost useless, as they turned into immobile blocks all over the network.
Vulnerabilities that can occur using Angula and the best way to circumvent those
It's more than a "popular notion", it's a scientific theory with quite a bit of evidence behind it.

1. You're equating "brain health" with "brilliance", which aren't the same thing.
2. There's no reason to think that the above folks wouldn't have had even better brains if they had been able to move more.
3. Pretty much all modern biology contests the notion that our bodies are "just" vessels for our minds. Our gut alone has a significant impact on all sorts of mental states.

Don't confuse an outlier with a norm, or make claims without first trying to disprove a counterfactual.
While the history of the additions could be quite interesting and we should make sure to document them well, I fail to see what's disappointing about removing them. Contrary, I think it would be disappointing were they kept in place.
Great example!

Here’s a video where Conal demonstrates interpreting a Haskell program (actual Haskell, not a DSL) into a) an image of a graph-like structure (visualizing the algorithm), b) Verilog (for compiling to hardware), and c) GLSL (for being rendered by a GPU in the browser).

https://youtu.be/vzLK_xE9Zy8
The Fault in the Stars of Kotlin and Gson
> Regional versions of films

This already happens in India. I can’t remember the title but there was a film where two stars from neighbouring states (I think it was Kerala and Tamil Nadu) fought each other and each one won the final battle in their respective states.
Technically some of Doctor Who has not survived, but that's for unrelated reasons (there simply aren't any known recordings of some episodes.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes
Horrible platform.
I don't think that discussing about nebulous concepts such as "liberal bias" is any helpful. Do you have some examples where you felt that for example a NYT article was missing important information? Which details or viewpoints are missing from the obituary in your opinion?
Didn't know that. Thanks for sharing.
The BMW Gina was a direct-to-museum car that used 'polyurethane-coated Lycra' wrapped around a hydraulic (modifiable) frame.

Previously on HN in 2008, and a bonus Wired link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=214314

https://www.wired.com/2008/06/bmw-builds-a-ca/
Slightly OT, but I suggest reading the book "Army of none" by Paul Scharre to anyone who wishes to learn more about autonomous aircraft, drones, and the impact of AI on warfare.
Huawei Mate 30 Pro 5G teardown: US parts account for less than 10% of total cost
I appreciated Pollock more after I saw a film of his process in action.
Did you try the new version? File a bug report with an example raw file, if you haven't already. Which camera is that?

Obviously, if it's just a matter of applying the same adjustments to all imported images, that's very easy to do either while importing or after the fact.
They can just switch from waterfall to agile and build integrated production pipeline to reduce time to market for renders. If multi-release cycle will make sense economically it will be reflected in planning, so that situation you describe simply won’t happen.
The story has some problem, Doubi is not an SSR developer, SSR was a high school girl's popular personal fork who mysteriously stopped.

Doubi is a blogger sharing GFW circumvention tips, like easy-to-use installing scripts for VPS, tutorials, reviews and a list of donated free acounts. Before his arrest, his blog had been under attack, domain names blocked.

The phone number thing is very dangerous, twitter bascially won't allow you to use it after a while if you don't provide a valid phone number.

Police monitoring:
https://twitter.com/tianlan/status/936909920334528513
https://twitter.com/midiexiang6555/status/117813328167558348...

Fried-rice festival, commemorating the day Mao's only son was spotted and bombed in North Korea while out cooking fried-rice.
https://twitter.com/tianlan/status/1198841340865331200
Check out Facebook Horizon. It is eerily similar to The Oasis.
No idea if these statistics reflect reality or are just cherry picked, but one of the problems that England has is attempting to cram a everyone into the only city attracts top businesses and talent and then ship them out again. Daily.

Germany for example has multiple cities with over 1 in million population that are attractive for business and distribute resources and infrastructure. England has London with around ~7 million in population then Birmingham at 0.9.
Anyone done a security audit on this yet?
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Let’s say he took out a bank loan to build 50 machines real quick. He probably would have sold them quickly and been able to build the next 50 and pay the bank at an accelerated rate, and everything would have been fine. He’d eventually have a higher customer base and slightly higher volume.

Where you’re correct is that people look at this in hindsight and say things like what I said. But in the moment they may think this is the big chance, hire a few staff to build them faster and get stuck with a bunch if liabilities when demand ramps down while they were hoping it would continue going up.

People who don’t believe in their business fail, some never even start. But believing your own hype is the best way to fail spectacularly and I expect it’s hard to see while it’s happening. Even as an employee I’ve looked back a few times and wondered what the hell I was thinking buying into a failed idea.
I'm not sure why you are being down-voted. The thing is, your experiences are going to paint the world for you in a certain way. If you are living in an honest society where everyone is kind and most of your interactions are legitimate, you'll think everyone is honest. You are up for a shock in a dishonest society where everyone thinks that everyone is a thief. They'll probably think you are an idiot too.

For all purposes, I hope you are doing better now and things are working out for you!
Good list of books. I could be helpful to majority of persons at larg.e
Not quite. I don't think you all realize how stupendously expensive certifying a new type is. Boeing and the airlines wouldn't be prepared to absorb the extra costs just to have a slightly more efficient 737 at the other end of it.

I don't have numbers but I do realize it's very, very expensive. That's exactly why Boeing has tried to avoid a new type certification for decades, that's why they added MCAS to make MAX behave like the old 737, and I do think it's about the damn time they bite the bullet on that one. All this hassle will end up costing Boeing a lot more than a new type-certificate which would allow them much more runway in the future.
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I don't think I'm conservative, but please bring back the good old theme. And Merry Christmas (:
I actually learned what the app is about from your comment better than from the landing page. However I wonder... as a non-native speaker I totally understand the meaning of your comment, but I am curious if 'democratize' is the correct word in this context.

To me it somehow communicates that there is something systematic (maybe even unfair) restricting some people from learning about nature apart from their unwillingness to study the topic. I mean this in a neutral manner, no one can possibly study everything.

Because I see the word used quite frequently in other contexts, I wonder if my understanding of the word is in line with the 'accepted' interpretation.
Thank you. I didn't read it that way. Makes a lot of sense.
I'd like to take this occasion to thank Matt Mireles (mattmireles) for hosting a Thanksgiving gathering a few years ago when I was traveling solo in SF.

It really makes a difference when you're with people on the holiday season. I hope I can pay it forward one day.
Being intelligent does not mean your brain is healthy. See Terry Davis for a tragic counterexample.
Pentagon advises troops to not use consumer DNA kits, citing security risks
Mine was too, albeit 40MB had and a CD tom!

Ran windows 3.1, Civilisation (VGA graphics), railroad tycoon, Star Trek 25th anniversary - and could have them all installed at the same time. Other programs included championship manager 93, and I think day of the tentacle.

But it wouldn’t run Linux - 386 and above.
Seems a bit silly, you can just tell Safari to not allow Reader mode.
Thanks HN for this wonderful year full of learning, reading and emotion sometimes.

May 2020 be even good !
Where did they find the extra 2.5 billion people?
Here’s to the next sprint!
I think HN definitely needs an obituaries section. I'm really not kidding.
I was (until earlier this year) on a dev team at a VFX house trying to implement a more agile production management system. The project ultimately failed, in large part because none of the show managers wanted to change how they do things. Therefore we could never test and validate the approach and therefore could not finish the product.
Another problem affecting Chinese NLP is that text doesn't come pre-segmented with spaces between words and segmentation errors can produce total nonsense.

E.g. 我们很快会谈到这个的。[0] "We'll talk about this soon." Should be segmented like 我们(we)很(very)快(quick)会(will)谈(talk)到(get to)这个(this)的(emphasis)。Literally, "We will very quickly get to talk about this!" But 会谈 is also a noun meaning "negotiation", so the sentence could end up as "We are very quick negotiation gets to this!" which is still kind of comprehensible, but loses the future aspect, so it might as well be a comment about how quickly the negotiation has progressed.

This kind of error affects all downstream tasks. Try doing named-entity recognition when names keep getting partially glued to surrounding words. Very annoying.

[0] from https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/7781672
I don't see anything about the education program in NYT. It doesn't make a huge difference though.

I scanned through http://newsdiffs.org/article-history/https%3A/www.nytimes.co... as well. Nothing stood out as a fundamental change that would explain why the blogger's unbiased perception could be different from others'.
We are trying to do something similar (citizen science + AI) but for the acoustic data,our first model can identify manatee calls and mastication (chewing) sounds. https://manatee-chat-demo.appspot.com/
> why is an oral history compiled by someone with a vested interest in selling copies of her book more (and thus, an incentive to produce a more sensational narrative) more authoritative than the multiple studies conducted by experts

Some of the people interviewed were experts, on the ground. Much of it talks about how much the "official story" omits. How the "authoritative" version isn't. Which was standard Soviet practice. Since you accuse the author (1) of "vested interests", well they cut both ways.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Alexievich
The biggest concern of me with journals is that I'm always afraid that one day the developers will stop developing it, and all my data will be gone.

Therefore, I choose some reliable names like Evernote or Wordpress to store my thoughts there. Although agreeably, they are not fast and smooth, they provide reliability. How do you plan to solve this?

I believe many people have the same concern as me because personal thoughts are very important.
This article is not at all about Wolfenstein 3D. It's about the predecessor, Castle Wolfenstein, which has almost nothing to do it Wolfenstein 3D.
They are probably talking about unqiue users in each app. 10b/18 ≈ 555m per app which isn't unreasonable for Tencent.
A little bit ... "redder", right?
I upgraded yesterday and have been using this for several years. I'm running this on a mac which is not ideal from a performance point of view but am loving the UI refresh and the two new tools: filmic rgb and the tone equalizer. The developer of these two new tools (Aurelien Pierre) has a few nice very technical videos about how these tools and the Darktable rendering pipeline works on his youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmsSn3fujI81EKEr4NLxrcg/vid...

If you don't know it, Darktable is awesome and unique. It often gets compared to Lightroom but it goes way beyond what that can do in many ways. It's main weakness is really that it maybe offers too many ways to do things. In addition to some easy to use filters it also offers many specialized filters and tools. Also, masking and parametric masking is vastly superior and that works on pretty much any tool.
Thanks, I have a branch office in Moscow which has one IPSec link back to HQ via the Internet, didn’t go down (brief packet loss and latency spike incident on the 22nd but only for a minute)
So congratulations, category theory allowed you to come up with a solution which would make you immediately fail any reasonable job interview! Compared to the obvious answer your proposed approach is more code to write, orders of magnitude slower and has security as well as potential data corruption/robustness issues. Your gloss reveals further substantial misapprehensions about python basics (there are no regexps here, no it's not faster to do it that way, no it's not any more order preserving then iteration).

Assuming your problem is purely lack of experience, here's a word of advice: stay the hell away from abstractions for a year or two. Instead try to form some basic mental model of a) how a computer and b) your main tools (such as python) work (have a very simplified model of how the CPU, memory network and SSD work, with numbers correct to 1 or 2 orders of magnitude; read a bit about the python implementation). Try to predict how much time/memory/etc something should take before you implement it. Then implement it in the most straightforward and direct way.
I commute there now, the past weeks have been a nightmare of cancelled trains 2 minutes before they're due while I stand at an open air station freezing my nuts off or getting rained on. If we had a little more notice id stay home where it's warm for an extra 15 minutes. The delay you speak of is still there, and it's now worsened by the fact that the new Thameslink trains are given priority to pass as we sit and wait.
What do you mean by “translate computer languages”?

The reserved keywords, like ‘class’ or ‘if’? That might be easy, though I won’t be surprised if some natural languages will have multiple forms of those keywords depending on numbering or word-gender.

The function and class names in the standard libraries, like UITableViewController or String.toUpperCase()? That’s harder, and would have to be manual to avoid the “water sheep” problem (hydraulic rams). Also: does Chinese have the concept of upper/lower case?

Or do you mean the entire documentation, which is sometimes lacking useful details even when it’s only written in English? That’s not going to be possible automatically, and when it is, software developers will be obsolete because business speak could be translated into code without us.
I wonder sometimes if I had less time to do dome things if I’d still have managed to get the most important bits done. If I’d have just been more circumspect about available resources. If, for instance, I’d gotten an hour more sleep a day, my output may have been better.

Too often have I come in the next day and deleted all but four lines of what I was tying the day before. Sunk cost fallacy hits me less severely after I’ve “slept on it”. Maybe all those grandads were right.
Democratizing has also been my experience with eBird.org also which made it a lot easier to find out where to go birding and what species had been seen exactly where. Before you had to be involved in various inner circles which generally were not designed to be inner circles but it made dissemination of information slow and selective. eBird changed all that. It made it much easier to find out what had been seen and allowed a new generation of birders to get going (at least here in Portugal). It still has a long way to go so it's good to see that iNaturalist has thought about the social side.

Engagement is one thing I'd like to see solved in these applications. Wildlife films are spectacular experiences but it only distances people from nature as they show things that are only rarely seen. There would be a lot more people concerned about the planet if "contact" with nature was happening more often. Strangely enough this happened to a certain extent with "wildlife diaries" which appeared in local newspapers which at least conveyed a sense of "what is happening outside, sort of right now". If apps had wildlife challenges (this tree is flowering now, can you find it) and up to date news then it should be possible to get more people
s' attention and more people taking positive action.
Merry Christmas makers! My wish for HN this year is the ability to redirect to a website rather than to a post, then I have to click it manually (I'm using iPhone)
I dug around a little and installed their demo app in the iOS simulator: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hl3nk8jrcjleurj/hippy.mov?dl=0. Visually, the only interesting part of the demo app is the RefreshWrapper example

Code-wise, the most interesting things I've seen:

- They expose wrappers for native recycling list views[0]. React Native does this in JavaScript through VirtualizedList, however some have experienced performance issues with it[1]

- They wrote their own flexbox layout library[2] (likely based on Yoga)

- It works with both Vue[3] and React

- Hippy supports web as a build target out of the box[4] (react-native-web is a 3rd party library)

- Touch events work on the `<View />` component directly, instead of needing to wrap `<View />`'s in the `<Touchable />` components[5]

- It uses a closed-source fork of libv8 on Android called X5[6].

The API & coding style is quite similar to React Native, but the implementation seems different. I'm guessing this started as an internal fork of React Native and turned into a large refactor, but that's just a guess

[0]: https://github.com/Tencent/Hippy/blob/master/ios/sdk/compone...

[1]: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/13413

[2]: https://github.com/Tencent/Hippy/tree/master/layout

[3]: https://github.com/Tencent/Hippy/tree/master/packages/hippy-...

[4]: https://github.com/Tencent/Hippy/tree/master/packages/hippy-...

[5]: https://github.com/Tencent/Hippy/tree/master/packages/hippy-...

[6]: https://github.com/Tencent/Hippy/issues/9#issuecomment-56822...