skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No field has any shortage of leaders / people being "terrible to others" in this and other ways.

People could take issue in how their leaders, and people they interact with are today.

If, on the other hand, they take issue for past leaders being lauded for their "within-the-field achievements" despite their personal behavior (as if that has any bearing on the field), especially after 50+ odd years, then those people "driven out" weren't that driven to be in the field in the first place.

Would anybody go off of physics because Einstein was sexist (and worse), and still (rightly so) lauded as the greatest physicist (perhaps after Newton)?

Not sure when people forgot how to compartmentalise...
I admire AMDs Zen architecture.
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This is the first time I hear of Precious Plastic. The community seems really positive, the site is awesome and professionally done (especially the map), the amount of content and already done tools is impressive.

The video and how-tos already give some ideas to produce (t-shape beams, geodesic dome connectors, wall sockets, bricks, carabiners...). I'd like to get a feel for limits and when it's not suitable to use. For example: how safe is it to have food in recycled plastic bowl, how much load can the t-beam hold, what's the melting point of brick, how much abuse the stool can take. Of course it depends on type of plastic used and probably pellet sizes and duration of extrusion. Can you give your opinion?
Startup school companies were required to apply to the YC main program in order to be eligible for the $15k grant, and there were 30k companies that were part of SuS in 2019.

Also, from the figures presented at the conclusion of the program last year, there were ~23k applications to the 2019 summer & winter batch in total.
Probably the trim feature is a key differentiator. I am happy with nnn [1] so far but it really looks interesting.

[1] https://github.com/jarun/nnn
Holy shit, they finally did it. I interviewed for a coop with eInk back in 2009-2010 and they had mentioned they were working on full color back then. Very happy to hear they finally got there.
Ellison did not write the Stainless Steel Rat if that is what you're saying.
You always can liberate your DRM-ed ebooks with something like Calibre + plugin.
> a clear #3 behind AWS/GCP for most

Maybe in Google board's dreams? As a developer I like support that is: 1) human; 2) available; 3) does not sunset products every week.
IMO: his later books are pretty weird and have a lot of sexual themes that I personally don’t like.

His early stuff is still absolutely fantastic though.
Maybe geolocked sites shouldnt be posted on HN unless OP provides screenshoot or tldr of contet there
some of the best keyword tools are here
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(4) The problem isn't all men. It's all women have to deal with this shit.
The amount of color shift depends on how much water is between the object and the camera, so you need to have a depth map to recover the true colors. You can see how it compares to naive color transforms in the paper.
I really enjoy the concepts in H.P. Lovecraft's mythos, particularly where horror intersects with science fiction, but I also enjoy it a lot less after learning about his rabid antisemitic and racist views[0], which were extreme even for the time.

I also used to like Piers Anthony's books when I was young, and too naive to pick up on how much the author seemed to like writing about little girls panties and fetishizing pedophilia[1].

Some people can ignore the problematic elements, and some can't. You don't have to read The Shadow Over Innsmouth as metaphor for race mixing, but once you know it's there, you can't unknow it.

[0]https://lithub.com/we-cant-ignore-h-p-lovecrafts-white-supre...

[1]https://litreactor.com/columns/themes-of-pedophilia-in-the-w...
What a sad state of the world, that it causes bewilderment that a person with a Turkish name went to an Israeli university...
I don't know about the USA but where I live (Italy) a price tag is subject to some requirements by law. For example it shows the cost by kg or by liter to be able to compare products (of course not on, let's say, shavers.) Packaging can be as catchy as the manufacturer wishes but price tags are very standard and uniform within a store. The store can add label with discounts etc but not on the price tag.
I support this thought.
To add to that, as I understand it Sea-Thru calculates what colour should be where based on depth information, even if the original colour information is 'lost'. This makes it more than a simple filter you apply.
There's a video from the latest Chrome Dev Summit on this very topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFvPLrKZywA&feature=youtu.be
Mob justice benefits no one in the long run. Hypocritical mob justice is the worst of it's kind.

It simultaneously enrages one side against another while claiming it's actions are justified by it's own group, but no other group can act the same.

The accused should be taken to court.

But mobs don't like court, they want a lynching.
Committing to long-term support is part of quality. And this is simply not there with Google products.
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The small sized ones are the ones with a power brick larger than the actual computer :)
There have also been serious doubts over that discovery:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24032022-600-exclusiv...
It isn't thrown away, though. If your district picks a third party, you send a third party representative to Congress. You'll have different choices in district-specific and state-wide races but you could also have a third party senate candidate and no realistic third party house candidates (for example Maine in 2018, though they had ranked choice voting). I don't see how having multiple levels of elections changes things beyond larger populations making it harder to coordinate outside the parties.
I genuinely thought cga was only capable of black, white, cyan, and magenta. Most developers seemed to think the same. Whatever a handful of hackers and the people building the hardware knew, to most of the public that's what cga was. I would've been excited enough for green + brown mode.
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>Instead of management by mushy human judgement, hold people accountable for KPIs.

So it mostly advises for tired, old, worst practices?
All I want is an e-ink display for my monitor!
Quite a few early SF stories were gimmick-oriented.

As an example, one old short story - I've forgotten the name - involves a space race from Earth to Jupiter and back (or something like that). The participants usually go full blast 1/2-way there, invert to slow down, then repeat to get back.

The main character starts with an engine problem or something, can't catch up, then in a burst of inspiration realizes he can use Jupiter's gravity to swing around, at speed.

Everyone at first wonders if there's a problem, then when it happens they realize the brilliance of what happened.

My interpretation is the author had just learned about gravity assist ("first used in 1959 when the Soviet probe Luna 3 photographed the far side of Earth's Moon" says Wikipedia) and structured the entire story around that concept.

The people were secondary to the orientation.

While it's true what you said about almost every famous story, most SF is not made of famous stories.

(I would be grateful if anyone can tell me the name of the story I just summarized.)
One thing I like is that I can use them in my browser with tracking protection. Also nice to know it only has access to browser API's I give it access to - I'm always somewhat weary of what native apps do in the background.

And of course, there's the first-use hurdle. I probably wouldn't even have tried Pinafore if it hadn't been a PWA (in fact, I haven't tried any Mastodon apps). I could just go to the website, sign in, and I'm off.
Not really, a large majority of mobile applications are nothing more than web widgets doing CRUD workflows.

Everything that I have coded in either Cordova/Ionic (not my decision), is perfectly doable in mobile Web, without having to deal with the platform idiosyncratic, specially on Android.
Many of the things we consider just and right today were illegal at one point in time but change was eventually made because of people who would have been considered criminals.
Realistically, very few books keep being read for hundreds years and those who do typically strongly influenced politics or art or because they have contemporary ideological message (teaching kids values and political attitudes we want them to get).

Dickens is not read just because it was fun.

Asimov is more in the "for fun" category. They are creative, but you must avoid thinking deeper about those societies and people in them - it breaks those books.

So while it definitely plays role in sci-fi history, it is replaceable by next fun thing (Harry Potter or whatever).
I couldn't agree more.

I think our Umwelt is formed by our senses, especially the touch: our skin allows us to form a model, in our brain, of our body, and its movement abilities.

That's the reason why we have the Phantom Limb phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_limb

I think that the brain doesn't simply do pattern matching, it also forms models of things based on external stimuli, and then does pattern matching on properties of those models.

And this model constitutes a small 'universe' inside our brains, with us at the center.

And that's how consciousness emerges: we know of an entity that is us because our brain has an object in it that represents us.

In your Breakout example, there is really no formation of object 'paddle' inside the 'AI' that plays the game, and hence if the paddle is actually changed even by little, the algorithm doen't know how to handle it. Whereas, in our brain, we see the pixels on the screen as an actual paddle representation, and hence we can easily play any version of Breakout no matter how the paddle looks.

EDIT:

Same thing with the Vision sense: seeing things allows us to build 3d models of things in our brain. And then we can look at a photograph and recognize objects, because we have these models in our brain.
>I just find Python awkward, frustrating and way underpowered as a language (both in terms of language itself but, of course performance as soon as you need to implement anything and not just glue other things together).

Compared to Groovy and Java?
I like the totally novel angle of attack on the CO2 problem!
>Ever worked with numpy, scipy, pandas etc. in Python? It's ALL about what you call "sweeping the details under the carpet", or what is generally called abstraction.

Those are just external libraries written in C/fortran/etc. Not monkeypatching.
Before PWAs I was pretty much on the field "native will win".

Nowadays I think that long term, the only area that native will have over PWAs will be gaming, as WebGL/WebGPU will never provide full GPU access.
Getting it away from the company's budget is definitely an important step, but from what I understand, both old-style US pensions and 401k still fall short of the Dutch pension system, which has companies paying the money for the pensions into independent pension funds, so the pension isn't threatened by bankruptcy or mismanagement from the company, and the pension fund treats it as life insurance that keeps paying as long as you live.

It's still not perfect; stock market drops and sudden increases in life expectancy can mean a pension fund won't be fully able to cover its obligations. This happened after the 2008 recession, so new laws demand that the funds need to aim for more leeway in their funding.

Of course that means that with a good economy, the fund may end up with a lot of money it's not obligated to pay. For this reason there's a movement to give people a larger share of this risk, both on the beneficial end (when the economy grows more than expected), and effect of economic downturns (which is going to suck for people who retire during an economic downturn).

This is actually what my pension does: I have a special kind of pension fund for self-employed freelancers where I seem to own the money in the fund and carry its risks, whereas normally it's the pension that owns the money and the risk. I'm not entirely sure how that works tax-wise, because it is still tax-deductible as far as I know. But if the investments do well, I get more money, and nobody's bankruptcy can cost me my money, which might still be a theoretical (though not actual) risk for a standard pension fund.
>Linux with GNU

That’s why he said static, although I’m not sure gcc will produce totally static binaries anymore.
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I think this is a separate problem. The JS ecosystem's love of dependencies is not about complexity, but about "not re-inventing the wheel" - everyone has been trained that for any problem there is a library to solve it, and writing code to solve the problem yourself is a waste of time.

This attitude is already hurting everyone, and it's only going to get worse. But it's a different thing than the complexity problem.
That is a very biased article. All the individuals mentioned are already under sanctions by most of the world, and anyone outside of Venezuela would say the Maduro government is criminal.
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It isn’t? When I was setting up my VPS I looked for a windirstat or wiztree alternative on linux and commandline and ncdu was the first thing I found.
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-Obviously there must be some DR compression, however the recording goes to great lengths to ensure Tchaikovsky's intent is preserved - that the cannons drown out the orchestra and is more or less a physical experience.

Your comment has prompted me to do something I've been thinking of doing since I got that album - open it in Aucacity and see what the DR actually is - during the 1812 crescendo, it peaks at -0.02dB[FS]; RMS is -24dB.
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Ah ok yeah that makes perfect sense - if it was keylogging then all bets were off.
IIRC I was already using the latest version. That's what made today's update especially unusual.

Anyway, I'm glad that they have a mechanism to push out urgent updates like this.
I'm not sure how to put this, but your product is "abused" to such an extent that I personally took the time to pop open the Web Inspector, find the CSS selector for the notification, and use it to look up your company and mentally blacklist it and make a point of bringing it up by name when relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21848866. Your product is seemingly fundamentally misaligned with how users want to interact with the web, to the point where browsers are implementing behaviors that specifically target your implementation. Your blog post gives me very little confidence in your commitment to making this experience better:

> OneSignal encourages all websites to adopt a two-step prompting system if they don't already do so. This will help prevent the website from being penalized and forced to show a quieter permission prompt if too many users have denied the traditional native prompt in Chrome.

Websites are being penalized for a reason, and you know this. Simply adding another modal is just making the problem worse.

> The easiest prompt to transition to is OneSignal's Slide Prompt. Ideally, however, we encourage users to use the Custom Link prompt.

The Slide Prompt should not even be offered as a transition. It's completely at odds with the intent of this browser change, which is all about user intent. Providing facilities to present annoyances that bypass user interaction is the complete opposite of this.

> Offering a coupon in exchange for users opting-in to notifications.

…no?

Please, please, please reconsider how you are implementing these. If you are genuinely unaware of the widespread misuse of your tools, I'd be more than happy to direct you to numerous examples of zero-click, near-immediate, largely irrelevant faux notification requests coming from websites using your product.
We've just been talking about this yesterday and today in the client's office, where most of us are contractors. It's an agency, most tech staff is on contract, the client is a government body where almost everyone there are contractors because gov pay is low and nobody will take the work on their PAYE rates. Spoke to my accountant who told me this whole IR-35 malarkey is under review at the moment and might or might not happen come April.
He made a good point regarding IR-35 "insurances" saying that they are only offered because the chance of being hit by HMRC for that are slim to none which is why they are passing the buck to the clients. The problem is not HMRC vs the Contractor but now HMRC scaring the clients from hiring contractors.

Another friend told me his current client wants them all inside IR-35 which means a mass contractor exodus. He also told me banks are cutting the contractors as well. The problem for banks is that a LOT of their tech staff are contractors at high rates.

To be perfectly honest, I'm concerned to a degree. Both for contractors like me, and to clients who rely on contractors - come April, if this is not retracted, there will be a mass shortage of hands. Being inside IR-35 is like being PAYE without benefits and PAYE pay is significantly lower than contract one. This is quite a problematic situation.
It’s 2020 and the EU still thinks more bureaucracy is the way to go. I am not entirely sure US websites should necessary spend more to accommodate GDPR, which itself should be revised and made less inconvenient.
I wouldn't say "very few", on the frontpage you can find posts with a lot of comments _almost_ all the time. Not every post on the frontpage though.
> The problem is--in my experience anyway--that too many people equate complexity with quality.

I find that a strange attitude. Complex systems are by definition harder to reason about, and therefore guaranteed to contain more bugs given the same amount of mental effort.

Sometimes complexity is unavoidable, but in general I find myself attracted to simpler systems, and consider that a sign of good engineering rather than the other way around.
They state they are targeting education in developing markets, so that sounds like they (believe they) have a way to scale this and make it very affordable.
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Very clear explanation, love the diagrams.

To me this is a more sensible way than carbon tax, or even better use carbon tax to fund research like this.

I don't think that economic incentives alone might fix the situation, and maybe not even slow it down sufficiently. We need political focus, and high investment in research.
I thought Moore's Law effectively ended over a decade ago when we switched to multi-core chips?

This ruined all sorts of single-threaded architectures that relied on these performance increases over time and resulted in programmers being less able to realise performance gains in released chips without having to rework their code to accommodate the change.
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Thats pretty cool. We could do with a GoPro version of this lol.
And the product guy did it because a sales team came in and said without load of color and animation then we won't be able to sell the product.

And the sales guy did it because a prospect said we really like all the features and the price but your product doesn't have as much color and animation as Acme Inc's product.

And the prospect did it because they actually prefer Acme Inc's product but they don't like Acme Inc's price so if they are going to have to go with the second choice product then let's get something done about the colors/animation before we close the sale.

And then we have the product guy coming back and working out what is the least or least worst thing we can do to remove the sales resistance, close out the sale and have everybody paid.
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gcc would be happy to, but glibc doesn't really like to be linked statically.
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Don't tell me, you could have done it yourself in your basement in a couple of hours? Well done.
Google sheets are « good enough » to serve as a scratchpad for ideas (comments, some styling, multiple tabs, scripting ...)

They are not quite engaging for creative users however.

I find the « messy infinite desktop » where documents and webpages are not only links but viewable widgets really attractive but rapidly limiting.

For ideation / brainstorming, I still prefer gathering people in a room and writing / sticking stuff on the walls.
What sets science fiction apart from high literature is that it tends to emphasize the novum, that new idea or technology that distinguished the setting from the real world, at the expense of characterization. It’s any ideas, not people.

Literary fiction is the opposite. It’s about people, their relationships and struggles, situated in reality. It tends not to deal with high concept counterfactuals which are the bread and butter of science fiction.
There was a time on desktop when apps were super light. Chat apps took a few MBs of memory at most and used native controls.

Desktop apps are now bulky thanks to electron and take up collosal amount of memory and consume a ton of battery. I'm just afraid that with the rise of adoption of PWAs mobile apps are soon going to end up the same.
It can be a coincidence. You were probably asked or talked about hundreds of things in last week and noticed this one situation.

It can be just targetted marketing, perhaps your colleague googled the book or saw the book on Amazon after getting a random ad. Ad companies understand that if someone close to you liked a product, there is a chance you will like it to so they prioritize advertising similar things to those on your WiFi/location or background.

In any case, I find it very unlikely that our devices are listening to us talk and report it to ad servers. I doubt conspiracy of level to pull it off would be still a secret. It would need to have both Apple and Google engage in it, engineers working on it would have to keep silent, it should be virtually untraceable and so on. It's just much easier to explain as coincidence along with some targetting due to ads your social circles engaged with.
"In 2012, a whistleblower reported a hidden backdoor in 360 Secure Browser."

"In January 2020, a Reddit user reported Qihoo's presence in Samsung mobile phones as a pre-installed storage cleaner in the device settings, from where it sends data packages to Chinese servers."

Definitely not a company one would expect to report vulnerabilities. Also odd that they would be find Firefox issues given their browser uses IE and Chrome renderers.
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I want to add that it's helpful to describe the kinds of problems it addresses and to show how.

Is love to see a presentation on it.