skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you could (and likely would) walk around taking obviously foolish risks without ever experiencing any consequences

Only things that are random on a quantum level cause world splitting.

Walking in front of a car for example is not random on a quantum level and would not cause multi-world effects.

In the popular consciousness multiple worlds means every single possibility exists. This is not true!

In fact there are very few macro effects that are caused by quantum randomness. Even if multiple worlds is true they are all identical except microscopically.
This is the site or the book hooked me to internet.
Here is the referenced article if anyone is interested: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kj3ny5wk93bxj44/Sepulveda%20et%20a...
I hadn't heard that York had expanded so hard into Engineering. Fantastic to see, given Toronto's growth in software in the last decade.
The problem is really that the indie developer doesn't really have any monetisation options other than those which break the law, but in theory it's not overly onerous to pick one that at least claims to be GDPR compliant. They should be able to trust that their suppliers aren't providing them illegal products tbh.
Nice idea, thanks for the feedback.
I wonder if a header would be a good place for a token.

It won't get exposed like a URL parameter and doesn't misuse the body/POST.
"– Every time you open an app like Grindr advertisement networks get your GPS location, device identifiers and even the fact that you use a gay dating app. This is an insane violation of users’ EU privacy rights, says Max Schrems, founder of the European privacy non-profit NGO noyb."

Yes, insane seem like it's not actually an overstatement for once.
The real question that has to be answered, and this is the hard one, when does the product begin to be monetized?

Let’s say it’s a full DB option as part of AWS RDS (or whatever that graph DB equivalent is). That probably is clearly monetizing the product. But what if they completely abstract the API and not expose the original one, it’s just the backing engine for a graph DB product?

Now moving away from a direct product, what if it’s just the backing DB AWS uses for managing all of their infrastructure? It’s not being directly monetized at that point but it might be the most critical component for the AWS operations, which means that it is helping them monetize other products. Do they owe in this case? (I’m speaking about the license here, not whether or not they should or should not based on goodness or feature improvements they want to pay to see).

As the DB moves further away from profit centers in an organization, at what point is it no longer being monetized?

Personally, I’d like to see a model where the OSS developers can and are paid in all of these cases for their work, but I’m not always sure there is anything better than a contract to support and build new features (classic OSS support model).
I'm not going to try diagramming that sentence, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was grammatically correct English nonetheless.
Issue is not if there should be fraud screenings - of course, they're required both by law and a common sense. Question is do you treat your own system's false positives like customers' problem, or you actually do something pro-active to help them? In my experience most banks and payments services just don't care. It's up to customer to complain and push repeatedly for it to be resolved, and banks make it harder, rather than easier. To get access to your own money you have to go through tones of bureaucracy to prove you didn't do anything wrong. Exactly because of the sums in question the treatment should be different, bank is using that money while it's locked and pays you no interest on that.
People who try to make tech writing relatable to a wide audience. Is it really so bad?
I guess that depends on country. For example the UK has no public road (that I'm aware of) where a speed of higher than 70mph is allowed, so that would be an easy initial rule.

Where there are dynamic speed limits in place, it would be plausible to report back possibles (car location and speed) which could then be checked against a central database which was more accurate.

I'm not suggesting that such a system is a good idea, but that I can see car safety campaigners looking on it as the next step in their campaigns...
The typical slight of hand in such studies is to ignore long term storage, like hydrogen, and then conclude nuclear is needed instead of all-renewables.
I've just installed this font and tested it with VS Code, and I must say that it is a very nice font. Code is clear and easy to read (C/C++ development). I think I'll keep it for a while.

Regarding ligatures, I agree. I could live with the pointer arrow ligature, that's fine and looks nice, but not with the crossed '=' (that is "!=") or the symbol for >=. Call it ageing, but for the moment it stops my code reading flow. So "editor.fontLigatures": false
That’s purely for the benefit of marketing, so that they can say “starting from <low price that nobody actually pays>”. You should expect some anchoring from the company that elevated arbitrary pricing to an art form.
To me that sounds a bit like adding health and safety code exceptions for roadside food stalls.
While it would be nice to enjoy that benefit, I feel like that mindset is similar to that which has more or less locked cheap healthcare behind employer plans.
As point of comparison: CCPA only applies to companies if they have either $25 million in revenue or data on 50,000 users (or derive half their revenue from sale of personal information, regardless of size). And to your point about sensitive data, neither CCPA nor GDPR prevent more specialized laws like HIPAA or GLBA.
One thing to keep in mind is our understanding of physics is only approximate so it's dangerous to draw too extreme conclusions.

Approximate immortality is after all very different from actual immortality.

We may well discover that the number of worlds is enormous but ultimately finite, and that the number of worlds you're in decreases exponentially with every risk you take.
This is cool. But very conflicting for me personally. Here I am, deciding whether to apply to the Mississippi Teacher's Corp, which would give me a free Master's degree while getting paid to teach. Probably like $35k per year. And then here is this program, which is very tempting to apply to, partly because of the salary. It should be the other way around. Teaching is so much more valuable than coding.
> Words (eg. for identifiers) loose some of their shape

yeah this is what I noticed as well from samples and testing out on my code, same reason I'm not keen on Fira but prefer Consolas, letters are less regular and words have a different rhythm at a glance.
Oracle Internet Intelligence Announces Oracle Internet Routing 3D Visualization
The bandwidth is great, the ping is awful.
I'll almost certainly have it only allowed in headers irregardless of the HTTP verb used. This does mean you won't be able to use your browser to test GET's, but this feature is squarely aimed at developers who will probably be using a Postman like tool to test with.
Discovering a Cheat: Kaggle Grandmaster
It's funny: we were required to do a Google Sheets integration recently where we had to get a list of all the user's sheets as a part of the flow, and I didn't even realize there was a way to do so using a non-drive endpoint.

This is because I was apparently only perusing the v4 api docs, which I'm glad of since it would mean had I done this using the more appropriate v3 /feeds endpoint I'd have a really ugly migration ahead of me.

We've had users break their experience by refusing the 'drive' scope of access because it's so permissive, and security-conscious users balk at it before we explain that we're only using it to get a list of all the user's sheets rather than download all their files. And even then, some still choose to not use this feature. It's unfortunate, but as the api stands there's no way around it.

Fyi, if you want to query a list of only the user's sheets files, the following endpoint with this specific query param works: https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files?q=mimeType='applic...
But that doesn't work. If you go 80% renewable, there will be long periods where 100% of demand is being satisfied by the renewables (because they are so variable). This makes the economics of nuclear just horrible, as it needs to be selling its power at a good price most of the time to make ends meet. Nuclear and high penetration renewables just don't mix well.
Interesting point. Currently trying it out, and the x-height thing matters, similar to another feedback in this thread that says words become disjointed glyphs instead of a "shape". I'll keep this for the moment. Looks much cleaner than Fira Code, but will have to see on the readability side.

Another point: not only they have increased the x-height, they also reduced the descender-height (for j,q,p,y) by a lot. I have trouble with function definitions such as post/put/patch or even keywords as response/reject.
$10k tuition at York U, for the CS degree mentioned in the link.
Ah yeah, that's a shame. I can't imagine it will take long before someone creates that though.
Purely on a customer device would be extremely difficult as the OAuth keys for obtaining the consent would need to be stored on the device, which isn't a solution that scales past one user, from a security standpoint.

The problem of customer choice is that customers are very badly informed about the relative security of services, so there's a market for lemons. If the bank has no liability, that's possibly fine (although it could be argued the bank has some responsibility to advise the customer), but if the bank has any liability for issues resulting, then they get a say in the outcome.
The world is beginning to rely more and more on Scandinavia to defend human rights and democracy.
Server-side magic – fingerprinting, behavioural detection, referer GET stubs, etc.. It's not all that difficult, though it is harder.
That would be way too easy to take advantage of by a big company making lots of small side companies
What Are the Best Splatter Films Ever?
I think the point may just be that the price was pretty aggressive, not that it should necessarily be done.

I was also wondering if the pipe organ works, or is close to working. I don't even have an estimate of what that might be worth but it wouldn't surprise me that it alone would be more than what they paid for the place. Again, I'm not saying I would want them to do that, just that that may be pretty valuable on its own.

But on the flip side, I can see why they had a hard time finding a buyer. Even were it ready to live in on day one, it would be a project home nevertheless, just to find something to do with the space. You can get similar problems when selling a church; if there isn't another organization of a similar size and similar needs ready to move in, who is really going to buy it, especially for larger churches?
You're right, athletes voluntarily choosing to go to schools to play sports is the same as slavery.
Emotional recognition is pure fraud, with zero scientific basis. Snake oil is a big part of the current AI product matrix.
Get over yourself you hysterical little child.
And they also have added details on their own in cases where it just seems to slightly harm readability, like the extreme narrowing in the "n" for example. I find their design choices strange.
JDK14 Instanceof EA Issue
>Even the theory's advocate acknowledges in this interview that it's untestable. There is no way to observe that the world would behave differently whether or not the theory is true.

Mathematics is also "untestable" in the same way. You can't observe that the world would behave differently whether or not 2=2 or 1=2. Does this make mathematics practically useless, except as a form of entertainment?

Furthermore, why is entertainment spoken of as a lower purpose than "practical uses"? I very much doubt you'd want to live in a world without such "entertainment".
To judge by what I've seen lately cars have started becoming full of tablets and tablet-like screens, those things will be expensive if not impossible to repair in 10-years' time.
Anecdotally, I can tell you my 6 year old Nissan Leaf asks me every time I start up the car if it can send data back to Nissan. The 2g radio doesn't actually have a network to connect to, so it's kind of a moot point.

I imagine it'll be like any useful service, once you turn off the data collection, it suddenly loses a bunch of useful features
For accuracy, Yggdrasil doesn't "build on top of IPv6", it merely uses IPv6 over TUN in the current binaries because that most closely translates to a usable experience for real people today without having to rewrite their applications. It has been a good way to get users to help scale-test.

The underlying routing scheme, virtual switch/router implementation, specification etc are not aware of (nor do they care about) IP.
Heads up on the Microsoft Graph API: it only works for certain styles of Microsoft Office customer. In particular, you can only authenticate against it with Azure AD, which completely chokes out the home market.
Apple doesn’t “need” to do anything, they have more money than god. What they do is price-anchoring arbitrarily low in the segments where they expect to have the most price-conscious customers. They entice people with “starting from <low price>” then sting further down the road.

It’s just good pricing technique, nothing to do with logistics.
Fitness app Strava became a religion
> This means that it's plausible for a company which currently is doing shady stuff to legally continue doing so, as long as they can write up some fancy words to 'inform' and ensure that most people don't do the opt-out process.

CCPA requires you to have a link with the exact words "DO NOT SELL MY INFORMATION" visible on the homepage. That is an explicit provision. This somewhat limits company's ability to legalese their way around it.
That's embarrassing. Both style and topic make it look as if I copied it.
Cool article!

I had a wealthy relative who carried her bag with her so she wouldn't have to travel from one side of her house to the other just to get something, and if I lived at this former temple I'd do the same.

"Other times, the children use the [movie] room to play hide and seek, and sometimes they invite the 15 to 20 other kids in the neighborhood over to have a Nerf-gun fight."

If I were a kid I'd have a blast here.
Detecting cropped faces on Android with pose estimation
> Apple makes no distinction between companies on it's platform that compete with it and those that do not, they are all treated the same, so it's hard to see an argument that this is mainly targeted at their competitors holding water.

There was that story last year about them ranking their own apps above competing 3rd party apps when searching.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-dominates-app-store-searc...
We all want to, but there's an inertia problem.

From some quick research there is approximately 6,799 banks in the US and 5,757 credit unions. That's over 12,500 entities that need to communicate with each other. It takes a massive political will (not to mention money) to update the legacy federal systems that tie it all together.

Here's some more information:
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/01/10/576879734/epis...

The UK has "over 300 banks" by comparison.
That's a good idea. I did the University of Maryland Coursera course and I liked it a lot:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/android-programming
Google claims its weather predictions are more accurate than advanced models
My Top Deep RL Papers of 2019
Facial Recognition for the Public: Yandex
Here are the ways I can pay for it:

1. Find out about content I want. Decide to pay for it. Pay for it. Receive content. A simple, fair transaction where everyone gets what they want with no bullshit.

2. Find out about content I want. Receive content, along with ads that spy on me, distract me from the content I actually cared about, and tell me my girlfriend isn't hot enough, my car isn't fast or luxurious enough, my house isn't big enough, my family isn't safe enough, etc. Under the barrage of this constant psychological attack, I'll occasionally fall for it and end up spending much more money on things that I don't need than I would have spent on the content. And yet the content that I actually cared about and wanted to pay for only receives a fraction of those profits.
This is why I love how configurable editors are now days.

I absolutely adore ligatures in my programming fonts. I've been using FiraCode for at least a year or 2 now, and while i'll be the first to admit that the reason I enabled ligatures was because they looked cool, now I really miss them when they aren't there.
Get your dumb 4K monitors here: http://www.atyme.net/product-category/tv-line-up/uhd4k/ Before they stop selling them without "smart" tech.
How much time should you work everyday?
The Markdown Test
Show HN: Pyimpof – a pure Python package for dense optical flow estimation
Chaos Mesh – Your Chaos Engineering Solution for System Resiliency on Kubernetes
Talk to automotive guys and you will learn that the most current map with this kind of information is in minimum 6 month old. But most of the time this information is 2 to 3 years behind.

This is true for all current map providers.
Elixir Web Console Is Launched
We are happy to announce the release of the Elixir Web Console!

This website is a place where people can try the Elixir language without the need to leave the browser or installing it on their computers. We hope this is a contribution to the effort to promote the language, providing a convenient way to assess the capabilities of this technology.

This is just the beginning of the journey. We are aware that only a portion of the language is available in this online console at the moment, but we plan to extend its capabilities.

In addition, we hope to keep adding more features to have a UI experience similar to `iex`. In particular, we are lacking a way to write multiline Elixir code, but we expect to address it shortly.

You can read more about this project and all the security concerns about it (I bet you are thinking about that, after all, running foreign Elixir code in a server is kind of crazy!) in the Readme of the project (https://github.com/wyeworks/elixir_console#elixir-web-console).

Here is the site: https://elixirconsole.wyeworks.com/
>you don’t lose a lifetime of app purchases, movies, songs and books when switching products

That's a really alarmist (and counterfactual) way of framing this.

Yes, if you change computing platforms, you generally need to replace software. OH NO. I don't see a need for regulatory intervention based on that.

Deciding to ditch the iPhone for an Android has utterly no bearing on your ability to watch TV or movies purchased from the iTunes store. You can still watch those on an AppleTV, on a Samsung TV, or on your laptop. And obviously on your iPad if you have one of those.

Tracks purchased from the iTunes Music Store are yours, period. There's no DRM, so anything that can play AAC will play them fine. You don't lose those if you ditch the iPhone.

However, Apple Music is a distinct thing. It's a subscription service like Spotify. If you stop paying for it, you stop getting access to the music you acquired with it. This is neither nefarious nor exploitative. You need a device supported by Apple Music, but it works on Windows, so not seeing the problem here, either. (Though I should note that I wouldn't see a problem even if Apple Music worked only on Apple devices.)

Apple is a rounding error in digital books, and I know nothing about it (mostly a Kindle guy). However, if I decide to banish Amazon from my life, I'll lose access to Kindle books I "bought" from Amazon. That was part of the bargain at the time.

>There should be regulation requiring companies like Apple to allow users to sell the apps and other digital content they’ve purchased to others, to allow people to set their own default apps on their own devices and to not hamper the efforts of others to provide interoperability with other devices.

How far does that go? Would you insist on the right to do the same to any computer-controlled device you purchase from any vendor?

Because that seems bananas.
HN is not the place to ask these kinds of questions.

Your best bet is to check something like https://downdetector.co.uk/status/reddit/

Which does show that Reddit is having issues currently.

But yeah, not the thing to ask HN.
Sadly that's not what is really happening behind PR veil.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-china-coal...
I do love the ligatures in Fira Code. It always makes me happy to see the nice looking <=, >=, !=, !== or ->.

I am not so sure about these, though. Maybe a tad to much/to special in some cases? Somehow they don't pop for me the same way.
Human Mortality at Extreme Age
The fact that SMS group messages suck isn't something that Apple can really fix without an oob protocol which would basically be iMessage again.
Counter point: no.
Swings and roundabouts in the EU: GDPR should clobber all the nonconsensual data collection, but there is also the "eCall" mandate that will require your car to phone in location to the emergency services in the event of a crash.

(What happens when an EU national drives one of the American surveillancemobiles? Sounds like a straightforward GDPR violation to me, although good luck getting that resolved)
What car did you end up buying?
> texting was and still is insanely expensive in the EU

In Poland at least, SMS costs 0 in almost all plans.

As for WhatsApp, I try to keep people away from it and show them Signal, as I do not trust Facebook with any of my data.
That's not true. The restrictions only came into force a few years ago. The benefits were never there (or at least much shittier - some banks even charge for credit cards!) in the first place.
Is there a reason why the stroke narrows where a curve joins a line (the loops of the p and g, the top of the n and the bottom of the a, etc)? The Consolas font uses a consistent stroke weight; the Fira and Source Code Pro thin the line a bit but much less. It's so narrow I feel like it might render strangely at sufficiently low resolutions; it risks breaking the connection.

Presumably there's a readability reason, but I have no idea. I don't have an opinion one way or the other; I'm just curious.
This is one of my favorite stories ever.
Usually, fonts are licensed under SIL.[0] Maybe Jetbrains feel that their target audience is more familiar with Apache licenses?

[0] https://scripts.sil.org/ofl
The misinformation about Masonry in the article is very unfortunate. The Freemasons are not a “secret organization” — they are organization of secrets. Big difference. Also, this building isn’t a temple, they’re referred to as lodges. I can go on...

The Masons are one of the largest fundraising organizations in the world, who started and fund the Shriners Hospitals, as an example.

Would have preferred to see a more positive and realistic perspective on the Freemasonry.
A decade or so ago, my band mate and a few other folk musicians purchased an old temple in Cumberland, RI. After initial estimates of 75k for renovations, they are 200k in and they've done countless hours of free labor.

The result? Talisk, Alasdair Fraser, and Hanneke Cassel are all playing there this spring...three of my musical idols!

Let's restore and repair our great spaces, the value and community is incredible! Blackstone River Theater is a great example of the cultural value of this investment.