skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Perhaps your "fed up"-ness means you overlook conversations which do go beyond that? Or do you put me into that category as well?

I do put you in that category, because you seem to be focused much more on the negative, rather than being constructive and trying to find solutions to problems.

> I'm also not sure you understood all of Hinsen's points. I say this because you wrote ""hey, do 100x the work otherwise our science won't be reproducible" stuff"

I've read and directly disagreed with his essay. His points are:

- Python 2 going away orphans a lot of software, because there's a lack of resources/willingness to port to Python 3.

- Python 3 didn't provide enough value to the scientific community to justify all the breakage (this is true for almost every community, btw).

- SciPy breaks compatibility roughly every 2-3 years, which is a bad fit for the pace of scientific computing.

- Beyond that, breaking compatibility threatens reproducibility.

- The SciPy community doesn't seem to know or care about compatibility concerns.

- Projects written on top of SciPy libraries ("Layer 3" code) have to keep updating, and they don't always have resources/willingness to do that.

- It would be cool if SciPy laid out a support schedule.

- It isn't cool that SciPy says, "hey use us", and then breaks compat all the time.

- There are some languages/platforms that haven't changed in decades, this isn't an excuse.

Here's what I've said:

- Agree Python 3 didn't provide enough value.

- If you want to build something on SciPy that you expect to last for decades, you should look for a compat guarantee. If you don't, that's on you.

- If you want new features plus decades of compat, that's a ludicrous amount of work.

- If you want to find a way forward, start a dialogue with SciPy devs.

Hinson's examples of Fortran and Java are illuminating. Fortran's a platform that's seen very minimal evolution over its history. That's exactly the reason people want to use SciPy instead of Fortran. Java's a platform with... billions of engineering hours? It's ironic that a guy who doesn't want to spend the resources to update his own software is asserting that someone else can continually deliver a modern scientific computing platform with new features while never breaking compat, they just don't feel like it ("It's all a matter of policy, not technology"). That's wrong, it's a question of resources.

---

My diagnosis here is communication breakdown. Everyone here wants the same thing: use a modern software stack for scientific computing. So again I'll say get on the mailing lists, get on IRC, go to the conferences, and talk to the engineers. Be constructive.
Typically you'd buy a receiver to take all the HDMI inputs and power speakers and control which source went to the TV via a single HDMI cord. My receiver has something like 6 HDMI ports. Smart TVs have attempted to invert this relationship by accepting HDMI and splitting audio out to the receiver, but you don't have to play along.
Unless you implement data collection in your indie code (as an indie developer) you have no 'extra' work or burden.

The GDPR scales with the size of the data collection, meaning: it doesn't matter how large the staff/company is, it matters if you collect data, and as an indie developer you'd be in an excellent position to quickly scope out anything you don't need. If anything, it's easier to not build collection than build it if you don't need it.
Silicon Valley Is Losing Its Most Distinctive Trait
I legitimately don't understand this metaphor at all
I was under the impression that if you do not encrypt an SSD from the first use, then any attempt at overwriting with 0s is futile, as well as any other method to securely delete the files. The files will be easily recovered.

This guy seems to say the opposite, in that the files are "simply not there anymore", contrary to everything I've read: who's right here?
> But Kavanaugh went further. He said Apple could also be sued by app developers, most of whom are forced to fork over a big percentage of their potential revenue, "on a monopsony theory."

Is it possible for users to easily install alternative app-stores? Wouldn't that solve the problem?
Letter and symbol misrecognition in highly legible typefaces for general, chi
The Hamilton's Pharmacopoeia episode on this was one of the best of that show.
Quite frankly, I'm sick of all the FUD or what-ifs, but it reliably happens in every GDPR thread, so thank you for jumping in and refuting this. There doesn't seem to be actual evidence that people with non-scummy business practices have been fined, or would be - like the hypothetical indie dev.

I suspect the hardest part is actually finding an ad network that is GDPR compliant, and coming to terms with that you can't just embed every shitty tracking and "analytics" framework into your app. As a consumer, this still all seems like a win to me.
You can also keep your house clean and perfectly staged all the time by cleaning it yourself. It's not impossible, or even difficult.
We're branding this Chain of Fools now?

My vote was for, "Whose Curve is it Anyway? Where the points don't matter and the generators are made up." or WhoseCurve for short.
Go to bed: sleep deprivation changes how you experience pain
Note that I was thinking of problems in terms of scientific research rather than business stuff but it was intentionally vague so that people can apply it to their own domain.
Now, we can really talk about AI.
The actual code of a font (ttf, otf, whatever) is copyrightable. The shape of a font isn't, and AFAIK it isn't protectable by any form of IP. This means that while you can't redistribute or embed the TTF you got from a type foundry except as specified by the license, you are free to use it to create a near-perfect knock-off that doesn't share any code. This is where the fonts on all of those "Free Fonts" websites come from.
Problems with TypeScript
New diesel scandal hits European car industry
Heck, you could 'kickstart' some of them by hand.
Not to be a spoilsport. But you may want to rethink the name.

There's a French financial software company called Murex.

Since a shell by the same name is very much computer related and I assume that they have a trademark on the name you may be in for a world of hurt, legally speaking.
Show HN: hybridcontents – A Multi ContentsManager Wrapper For Jupyter
How to Collect Customer Feedback
I was reading thinking NOBUS does sound a lot like HUBRIS.
Senator Wyden Wants Paid Ad Blocking Whitelists Investigated
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Lions and Rhinos Are Reclassified as Farm Animals in South Africa
Looks nice.

I will say though when I'm entering credit cards... I don't need it spinning around. To me it is a bit jarring and I want to see the other fields to be sure I entered them right.

Also you have to click CVC to continue with the form? That seems a little disconnected in my head.

Just show me all the fields and I'll enter them.
I go by the seam on the metal shroud. Seam down. Port is vertical? Well shit.
While this is worth writing an article about, the headline seems slanted to draw clicks.

I think a more accurate characterization would be as follows. By state law, some information in a licensed driver's record is public. The DMV regulates access to the information, and charges a fee for the service.

The point to emphasize -- and criticize -- is the law that says the information is public. This is the thing that has to be addressed if the situation needs to change.

The DMV is just executing that law, not, as implied by the headline, going rogue and nefariously trying to make some extra bucks by auctioning off citizens' info.
We kill and enslave people who are far away. Even this only if you play fast and loose with the words "kill" and "enslave" (we're doing less of both now than we did in the past). But if and when we create person-like artificial intelligences, we will create them to be close to us. They will not be far away, and therefore I don't expect the same outcome you're describing.

We'll all be long dead by the time it happens, but that's what I think.
Or worse, the pursuit of beautiful, well-tested, aesthetically-pleasing code that is never finished and never shipped.
We can get rid of these arrows using ramda's curried list functions, at the expense of being slower and harder to read but making us feel more clever:

pipe(
range,
filter(pipe(
modulo(__, 3), // x => x % 3
equals(1) // y => y === 1
)),
map(flip(Math.pow)(2)),
sum
)(1,6)
Didn’t mean to say I used them, but rather they are used. However, my bill pay mails one automatically for rent, can you believe?
Google claims they'll block third-party cookies "within 2 years," while somehow browser suppliers that don't derive the majority of their income from advertising manage to do so already.

Hmm.
They allegedly fell victim to the whole "pivot to facebook video" craze caused by Facebook misreporting their video engagement figures.

Whether some business unit inside Facebook did this intentionally or not, it's a big reason why I think media companies have turned against Facebook as they feel like they got ratfucked.
Strangely no one has brought up cleaning, that place must accumulate a lot of dust. I would assume they hire cleaners but I have no idea what that would cost.
Spanish chemical plant explosion kills man 3km away
Solving "advanced mathematics equations," as opposed to advanced English literature equations?
This is pretty close to my analysis as well. I felt none of these really 'get it', they are trying to build a 'better Facebook' or an 'anti-Facebook', still in reference to Facebook either way. Facebook has what you mention, but also Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Occulus, plus Ads. I've read that they are creating another 'private social network' too.

It's like trying to dethrone Windows or Google at this point.
The Evil List: Which tech companies are doing the most harm
In their 'comparison' with Consolas, they say Consolas is wider but the image clearly shows that Consolas is narrower than their font at 13pt...
How is std:is_function implemented?
Neither of those are actually available, because iOS browsers are not allowed to use other browser-engines than Safari and apps have no means to manage SMS on behalf of the iOS messaging app.
It's basically as they said: Typefaces are indeed not copyrightable in the United States, but fonts are, in the same way other as other code/binaries.

In practice, much of the likely infringement stems from the font and its existing choices for curves and control points (plus nowadays more advanced features of the font like ligatures and alternate forms), not the typeface, so it's not quite accurate to say there's no protection, and stuff like the Open Font License does exist for a reason.
isn't this also the relationship between Turing machines and double stacks in general?
Financial Statistics You Should Know (and Learn From)
What kind of secrets?
Said succinctly: Comparison is the thief of joy
The secure element is responsible for gating retries, and like all HSMs is designed specifically to prevent tampering, so everything - including retry counts and delays - is theoretically rendered untamperable.

I am aware of two bugs in that logic over the years - I can’t find the articles off the top of my head. One was essentially a TOCTOU bug that could be triggered via voltage spikes to reset the device after you tried to unlock but before it updated the retry count. The other required imaging and restoring the flash between each attempt. I don’t know how that was fixed, but it should hopefully be obvious that That is going to take more than a minute to brute force a 6 digit passcode.
Are you sure this is from DMV records access and not the dealer? (I suppose it could easily be both.)
For multi-weight font they shows up as different font in the list. Fire Code light, Fire Code medium, ...
Social media has lead to a lot of natural beauty being damaged because word got out to the kind of people who don't respect trails, graffiti, take rocks and plants, and litter. It's a shame. There's a beautiful little gorge near my hometown that was amazing until a few years ago when people trashed it.
CollegeHumor had same damn well written, well produced comedic satire. I hope all of their material is archived.

One thing to watch out for is if this posted under their Geuite account to YouTube, when the gsuite bill isn’t paid, all the YouTube videos will get deleted, leaving a cultural hole.

Of all the Google crimes, this one is accidental but the most damaging to society.
> that were not generally open to anyone

Apple's store isn't open to anyone.

> and that took a much bigger cut than Apple.

AFAIK Docomo (largest carrier in Japan) took 9%. Are you sure you know what you're talking about here?
Pausless GCs are real and exist.
If you operate a small company, why not be GDPR complaint to begin with? It seems easier to start out complaint, rather than trying to "fix" the issue once you reach a certain size. The upfront cost seems much lower than retrofitting GDPR into your systems.
Are books really printed at 3000 DPI?
Spelt a little different but McIntosh audio makes the most beautiful audio equipment
> richest people in the county

Any farmer who has land passed down through generations is a multi-millionaire.

A good friend of mine in high school lived on about 600 acres. His family made almost $10 million selling half of it to Walmart.
Google Cloud is acquiring no-code platform AppSheet
> Apple's curation of the iOS environment is a FEATURE for me, not a bug. It leads to drastically increased stability and security, and means I don't have to sysadmin my telephone.

That's fine. So why shouldn't it be possible to install apps on iOS via Google Play or Amazon, and if you trust only Apple you could just not use those?

> Uh, no. Android phones are generally CHEAPER, so why does it take "money" to leave iOS?

Because it's not just the price of the phone, it's the cost of transitioning to a different ecosystem, which can easily be more than the entire price of the phone.
I’m never going to Mississippi...
If you're interested in electric VTOL, definitely check out Zuri https://zuri.com (I'm not affiliated)
In practice all SSDs are always encrypted because they use the encryption to whiten the data written to them. That's why "Secure Erase" takes less than a second on SSDs, it doesn't erase anything but the key.
Does not matter. Most people have not seen a floppy disk for 15 years at least, but they still understand what it means when they see it ("save as..."). Familiarity.
That seem like a lot work, go for VC funding and sell to Google, Facebook, Microsoft or Apple in two years.
"but that ignores the path dependency of one market using cash until recently, and the other receiving unsolicited Bank Americards 51 years ago. Once a job is done — and credit cards do their jobs very well — it takes a 10x improvement to get users to switch, and, in a three-sided network, that 10x is 10^3."
> underpowered

Are you positing that someone manufactures a better and faster SOC for mobile devices?
There's a reason this obscure indie game from a no-name Polish studio swept the video game awards. This the only game I've A) ever recommended to other people unprompted B) finished, then immediately started a new game.
It makes sense given what the Twitter architecture is doing. I would be happy with a "Delete and put the contents of this tweet back into draft mode" like Mastodon has: this would speed the ability to perform the same basic effect of editing.
Editorializing titles like this is against the site guidelines. Would you mind reviewing them? They include: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." Making it more linkbaity is going the wrong way!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well, duh. I kinda thought that went without saying.

But it's work. And if you have 4 kids and 3600 sqft McMansion that aspires to be one of those beautiful, large homes in the commercial with the car with over-sized bow out front, you'll spend most your time doing that. But that's not what people want. They want a perfect, clean home and to be able to spend all their free time on leisure activities, just like the commercial promised them.
It also doesn't necessarily entail remembering who you are. So I think it's not that horrible: you lose more and more of your memories and your capabilities of forming thoughts and intentions, until it's just generic consciousness aware of itself doing nothing and of (what's left from) input stimuli.
Fujitsu ‘Actlyzer’ Delivers AI-Powered, Video-Based Behavioural Analysis
I don't understand this. Did they abandon Youtube for Facebook? They could have easily managed their followers in Facebook while continuing to upload to Youtube as usual.
NOT ace.
> These are factors with measurable real-world impact on your fellow citizens, and, I would submit, more important than your paranoid secrecy wrt your dietary habits.

1. Why is this one or the other? Can't we have efficient cars that also don't track us?

2. How, in 2020, do people still not understand how serious location data is? In the USA, and likely anywhere that has cars + little public transportation (like rural areas), your car basically displays your life. Where you live, work, eat, meet people, attend events, etc. How long until law enforcement asks for all people who drove near a protest/rally? Or advertisers get that data and start targeting you based on where you drove? Why should a freaking car company (who is 100% guaranteed going to sell your data) have access to your entire location profile? The thought of this alone is frustrating and maddening because of how easily we hand out our data. People have no idea how powerful bulk collection of user data is.
Is there a reason you need access to all the users spreadsheets? This seems to be the correct behaviour, a scary warning if you want access to all my drive files. Imo, it wouldn't be any less scary to request access to just spreadsheets. You might consider using the Drive Picker if your use case was to let a user pick one of their spreadsheets for your tool: https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/picker. Google handles the picking so you dont need all files access.

I started Streak (www.streak.com) and to be fair we are guilty of this as well. We ask for all files access to "future" proof what features we want to offer. I think we should change this and just ask for file specific scopes.
Call it monopoly, monopsony, or neither of those.

At the end of the day it's about a company's abuse of power against users and smaller competitors, and that's what matters. If you get confused when this begins being called "monopoly" because you have a different idea of what a monopoly is, then stop calling it that.

It's about an abuse of power, pure and simple, and the bigger the company and its stranglehold on its users and developers, the more it can abuse that power. Government, the people's representatives (at least in theory), should have every right to deal with that.
All critical instruments have analog backups. Altitude, speed, artificial horizon, etc.
Yes. Next, those researchers will tell us that heat melts ice.
I think, in this case, you underestimate the probability of that happening randomly. The birthday problem [0] can explain that.

Imagine you have conversations with your spouse about hundreds of things. And then you see ads about hundreds of things. Sometimes they happen to be about the same things. That's something out of ordinary for you, so you remember that. You are spooked by that, and you might even tweet about it, or tell your friends about it. You don't tweet every time you don't see an ad about the thing you talked about.
But the probability of that happening several times over the course of a year is quite high.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
Is the Virtual Office AR's (Eventual) Killer App?
There's some interesting content about SSDs and HDDs here:

SSDs: https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/ssd?tab=Votes

HDDs: https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/hard-drive?tab=Votes
And it is anti-competitive business model. By selling the consoles at such a low price that you cannot make a profit on them and then relying on a volume of game sales to effectively extract your rent from, it by design limits the number of companies that can compete that way because there is a limited number of game sales.
We should strive to take away the option of knowledge from the poor, so they can be happy with their place in society.
APFS is “optimized for SSD”, so performance is miserable on hard disks. For awhile Apple held off upgrading the system disk if it was an HDD, but that’s no longer an option if you want to run the latest OS.
Sorcerer’s greatest trick? Shrinking a CCG experience into a single box (2019)
Something you don’t need, FTFY.
Google now treats iPhones as physical security keys
Trump Slams Apple for Refusing to Unlock Suspected Shooter’s iPhones
Because it's more project-specific and thus stands out more. There are a ton of Github links posted to HN, obviously.

If you'd rather we switch to the other URL, let us know and we can do that.
Would there be significant disadvantages in using both platforms at the same time? Or does "pivoted to FB" also imply that the content was adjusted to FB audience?
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You can get a full time job and negotiate to go part time after proving yourself for a year or two.
> If the auditee loses a certification / accreditation, that’s also a loss of business for the auditor.

A bunch of simple medical devices (Class I in the EU) are self-certified by manufacturers, and require no seal of approval before commercialization.
How is that moving the goal post?

> Producing crop for food supplies is not the same thing as producing crop for transmission of blob of text. The former is critical for human survival whereas the latter is totally undesirable.

Do we need to produce more food? No, we have an over supply and producing more would only drive down prices and harm the producers who are already struggling and require subsidies. Proposing we produce more food crop farms is asinine at best.

> Especially now that we have a well permeated web to distribute books on, we don't need anyone to sow or reap the trees anymore. Period.

Suggesting that web delivery is a suitable or even complete replacement for books or printed literature is equally asinine. Conveyance of discrete data is only one small aspect of printed media. The experience of reading a book, magazine, pamphlet, or paper is entirely different from reading on an electronic device. Dissemination is also another critical difference, sure everyone can download your PDF but that doesn't mean they will. A magazine sitting on a coffee table in a waiting room is an entirely different experience from anything electronic and it is complete incomparable.
Indeed! It's a matter of what I already have. I didn't go that old because o those things, those things are in place because I bought a vehicle that old. I'm just counting my blessings out loud, that's all ;)
Either one works, as long as you're going downhill.
Major breakthrough can turn plant waste into cheap biofuels
But AFAIK this isn't true for all solid state storage, like cheap USB memory keys. These would generally also benefit from log structured filesystems - but really should be encrypted too.

(which is one great promise of zfs on linux/openzfs - cross-platform encrypted removable storage).
Google cutting web cookies, ending lucrative tracking tool for advertisers