skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> regular English

It looks like the trend is toward autocomplete suggestions for English too. On my phone keyboard, there are autocomplete suggestions to choose from when typing, and GMail now has Smart Compose [1] to do the same thing.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/09/gmail-sma...
This reminded me of a theory I've been developing, I don't know if others have had it or have it, however an emergent behaviour that I've had some inklings may be true for humans relating to how old the parents are when having children. If having children at an older age (whether older age of male, female, or both) it could mean that resources and society are more stable - and perhaps another factor that there's more time to spend with, raise the children - giving them more guidance and having more nuanced knowledge to pass down, and so evolution may have selected for successful births at an older age toward creating children with different characteristics, behaviour, abilities.
In my limited comparison. Apple’s API performed way better than Tessaract. You can check your images using this app or their sample xcode project for vision, I think same API works on macOS too.

I would also vouch for google’s ocr API but I opted for Apple’s for privacy reasons and as they were easier to implement.
(Disclaimer: I don't mean to question that bushfires are related to climate change. I just mean that ideas should be verified no matter how obvious they seem to be.)

>Australia's bushfires are definitely climate change related

Australia's bushfires are most likely related to climate change and this is probably the best hypothesis for their cause. It should be verified by actual scientists before we can say "definietly climate change" with confidence.
The most surprising thing for me out of this is that casting a high positive integer to double will output the nearest double which could be higher, not the highest one smaller than or equal to the integer value.

Is there a way to get the largest double smaller or equal than some positive integer?
I switched from bash to fish mainly for its incredible autocomplete features. It's not 100% bash compatible like zsh, but doesn't need much configuration and has very good defaults.
I think the author is referring to catastrophic damage in the sense of file/data corruption and loss. In that light a BSOD makes sense as a way to "stop the error" since it halts execution rather than silently continue. I agree that it's strange, though.
That is extremely useful to me so I can define my guidelines better, thank you!
It depends on what you mean. About 25 years ago in Sweden the leading party the Social Democrats instituted a policy championed by feminists that meant that every other elected position should be occupied by a woman. Research has shown that that policy has led to more qualified candidates across the political spectrum.

There is also evidence from Sweden that attitudes towards rape and sexual assault has changed due to government policies. E.g questions such as "Is it ok to have sex with a girl who is too drunk to speak?" are answered differently today than 20 years ago.

Edit: The research is here: https://wwwsnsse.cdn.triggerfish.cloud/uploads/2017/05/sns-a... More qualified means higher level of education and more years of experience. Same metrics as used in most workplaces.

Also, I wonder why it only took someone five minutes to ask me for a source, but no one has yet to ask tenpies for a source... Some facts are easier to believe than others?
Agree, happy to see a list of no-bullshit games go up here, this is a tough crowd so it has to make the grade :)
Titan keeps its atmosphere, in part, because of Saturn's magnetosphere. It is inside it something like 95% of the time.
True, climate change denialism is certainly a bigger deal, but it's not simply a case of a single guy making stuff up to make money.
Another big gap is the sockets API. Chrome apps have direct access to TCP and UDP sockets. PWAs can't have this for obvious reasons.
I love seeing this become a project after seeing the tweet that (maybe?) started it. Good job SK!
For once it's not a post by founders, but a post by the team living the remote-work life.

Happy to hear your feedback if you also work remotely.
OMG yes...I flyed United occasionally when SW doesn't makes sense for the route. I was even status matched to "Premier Platinum" for a while. I was amazed that 1. I didn't get upgrades due to the remaining levels above me, and 2. Just how long boarding is and how many special groups. Can't see the business value there.
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To be fair there are some substantial differences - cars brought some majorly new things to the table.

Scooters aren't new nor are the many niches filled - community bike shares cover many but not all of the niches (the sweat factor). Even if they are being judged unduly harsh they bring lesser benefits to the table.
I had never heard of this book, or color system before, but it makes me think of my time working in car sales. Our senior sales managers trained us to identify personalities, and they used similar groupings.

There were four 'buckets' and they are very close to this color system. They are dominant driver, complacent, ego driven, and analytical. The idea is to, as quickly as possible, identify the customer's type, and adapt your sales approach to that. You learn to use a communication style for each bucket. Different types of questions to ask, different speed/ energy, different body language.

I was a terrible salesperson, but I watched the managers and top salespeople use this approach with much success. They would match their style of communication with the customer's, in an attempt to earn their favor and make them feel more comfortable. The hypothesis is this increases the likelihood of closing the sale.

I understand these buckets (colors) aren't scientific, and it sounds like some folks in Sweden might have taken it too far or been misled. But the article says

"Erikson has repeatedly claimed that the benefit of his colour approach is that it helps us understand ourselves and others and, as a result, improves our communication and reduces conflicts."

So I'm not sure that the idea of learning different ways people communicate, and in turn, how you yourself can communicate in different ways is a 'fraud'. To be fair, I haven't read the book so I don't know how or what ideas are presented.

I think the 4 buckets/colors can just be a loose 'framework'. As long as you understand it's not the end all - be all of personality. In fact it's not really 'personality' at all. It's just a quick and dirty way of grouping common characteristics of people.

Maybe it's not useful in all situations, but for some applications (like sales), there is certainly value in communicating with people in a way that is compatible with their style. In the case of car sales, it's very tangible value, a larger paycheck :)
Let's see. Nobody went to jail for 2008, they just stonewalled it.
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Is this something Mozilla could feasibly improve?
Thanks! Yes Google Photos is awesome and does way much more (like searching by things in photo). I just wanted an on-device solution without having to upload anything to Google servers.
That sounds more like "get off my lawn" than objective truth. I grew up in a house built in 1914, and almost 10 years ago I bought a brand new house. The new one is built better in nearly all regards.
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I have a problem with the article author's implication that someone without credentials (read: university degree) isn't a scientist, or at least is a lesser scientist.

A scientist is someone who employs the scientific method. That's it.

Thomas Erikson does not seem to qualify from what I can tell (he's just winging it), but he absolutely does not need to have a doctorate (or even a bachelors) in order to be a "behavioral scientist" - he just needs to be using the scientific method when testing the claims he makes in his book or elsewhere.

No, your poodle does not have just as much right to call themselves a scientist, as a poodle is literally incapable of ever using the scientific method. You don't need an extensive "scientific background" in order for your first book to be perfectly scientific.
Indeed. And in the last few years we've had a couple of 60+ degree stretches in the middle of winter, whereas I can't remember that ever happening while I grew up in the area. It's all well and good to be able to go outside without a coat in January, but it's low key terrifying.
These include scans of documents that prove the model's age, things like ID cards, birth certificates, and passport scans. Also included were performer release forms and profile information. This is particularly bad given the sensitive nature of the work and the need to maintain the personal privacy and safety of the X-rated web stars. There is also the risk that, as the records from virtually every occupied part of the world, that LGBTQ+ performers in some areas could be at risk of persecution.
That's true, you can see the peat farms in Connemara, just by the roadside.
There are plenty of games with IAP and ads on that list, nobody said that a game with IAP is always bullshit. In fact, that's the opposite of what the guidelines say:

https://nobsgames.stavros.io/help/
Upvoted you to counter whoever downvoted you. Do you mind explaining why HN is somewhere you can't or won't downvote but other places you will?
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It's complicated insofar as, if you own a restaurant and don't allow tipping, it's probably going to be harder for you to hire and retain waitstaff than it will be for your competitor down the road. (Not to mention that a lot of potential customers will look at your prices and think they're relatively high even if they should do the appropriate mental calculation.)

I'm not a particular fan of tipping but it's difficult for an individual business to eliminate the practice.
Wow, that's awesome! Obviously anytime someone looks at this they wanna get cynical immediately (as I did). One thing I'm curious about is the property taxes. I could find it online if I really wanted to so I truly wonder if they took that into consideration. Also the upkeep. If I were them, I would try to rent out a portion of it and then eventually turn it into a rental property.
You dismissed your first argument, and I agree, it's just a matter of learning the system - I mean, I don't think anyone here can genuinely argue that VIM is bad because it's hard to learn.

Regarding the autocomplete, GMail does do this. It was a bit jarring initially but now I either accept the option or continue on as if it didn't exist.

I'm not sure what your argument for the third is - that it leads to code that relies on auto-complete? Isn't that in fact an optimization? Those lines don't seem particularly egregious to me. I don't know much C++, but I could see exactly what it was doing with those lines of code by being able to read the variables. Is it verbose? Yes it is. I don't take the idea that coming to rely on a tool is a necessarily a bad thing. C# visual studio debugging is head and shoulders above Console.WriteLine() - is it necessary? No, but it's greatly sped up the development process. Same with not having to go to the command line each time I want to compile and run my application.

I understand you understand you're an outlier, and I know you're just making personal arguments, but it kind of feels a bit "old man yells at cloud" - and that's not bad, I just thought there was value in debate.
Where does the article mention SoftBank specifically?
Myers-Briggs is just about as unscientific as it gets. Neither Myers nor Myers-Briggs (her daughter) had any formal education in psychology or any serious experience. Their personality types are based on Jung's ideas that are over a 100 years old and have been long since discredited. There are no studies that confirm that MBTI type is predictive of anything. There are studies that seem to confirm that the dichotomies used in MBTI might not actually exist. Et cetera.
Honestly, it hasn’t changed much. But Swift made it easier to make a native module (as compared to Obj-C which was defacto method a few years back)
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On the other hand, automatically labeling everything temperature related as "caused by climate change" is not a proper argument as well.

I mean this is most likely actually related to climate change, but this should be verified/modelled before coming to conclusions. Even when it is absolutely obvious.
Living next to a low elevation resort this makes me quite sad.

Climate Change will also impact other snow sports:

The future of backcountry skiing (at least in the alps) will be to drive up a mountain pass, get on a E-Mountainbike, drive up ~300m of elevation and then begin skinning.

Nordic skiing (where you need road access and a lot of flat-ish surface) will only be possible in a few quite elevated valleys without much sun.
Re: editor trying to be helpful but getting in the way

Sublime Text often inserts "matching" quotes and parentheses. But it doesn't always do the right thing, so I usually have to go back and erase it. But then it erases the original one, too. So I have to move the cursor, add a space, and then erase it.

And when the feature does do what I wanted, it's only saving me literally 1 character --- ~0.1 seconds at my typing speed.
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I avoided php and its ecosystem like a plague for the longest time. However the who eco-system has evolved including the language e.g. functional paradigm (closures) and syntactic improvement (arrow functions). When you combine this with a modern web framework like php Laravel it is an absolute pleasure to work with, specifically as a monolithic for rapid application development, which is great for MVPs and ensuring you have product market fit. I am not sure how this translates over time to a micros-services. However if you're starting to writing a new application I would definitely recommend php + laravel for rapid application development. I say this relative to my extensive experience with nodejs express/java spring boot.
OP wants the opposite; they're converting from double to long.
That's my point. Maybe a notification protocol? Seems to be used as a warning sometimes..
>The people voting against environmental reforms are doing it because they don't want to reduce their quality of life.

No. They're doing it because of tribalism and ignorance. They perceive that by allowing progress on energy sustainability issues, they allow the enemy tribe a victory. And many of them don't care at all about sustainability because they believe the second coming is just around the corner.

The ones who think it would reduce their quality of life are just being ignorant. They don't understand the possibilities.

>And since nothing comes close to the cost to energy density ratio of fossil fuels...

Well, it's not that simple. You can't just look at the energy density without looking at the context. Even dry wood comes close (within an order of magnitude) to fossil fuels. And ethanol is even better. But there are issues with both of these. That's the thing. You need to also account for the issues. And fossil fuels themselves also have issues, namely, the topic at hand, climate change. If you want the highest energy density, you would go with an H-bomb or a high energy laser. But you need to harness the energy in a context so being realistic about it, fossil fuels need to go. Just as we can't power our civilization sustainably with fusion bombs, we also can't do so with fossil fuels.

The energy density of fossil fuel is around 40 Megajoules/liter, which is impressive (though not compared to an h-bomb at over 7,500,000 MJ/L), but when you put it in a car, the energy density of the whole system drops to 0.2 on the same scale. Not so great at all.

Where things get interesting is if you take batteries, which are an order of magnitude worse energy density on their own compared to fossil fuels on their own, and you make them into an integral structural component of the automobile system, as Tesla has done. So now if you look at the entire system, batteries become much more competitive in context. Your tank of gasoline is not serving any structural or stability enhancing role in your ICE car. But a battery is, thus bringing benefits which on an ICE car have to incur extra weight.

>there is no solution other than reducing energy usage and reducing quality of life

Not true. We squander so much freely available solar energy by allowing it to heat tar-covered rooftops which could instead be collecting it as solar power. There is plenty of energy for our use. There is no need to reduce quality of life. People are already living this. The future is already here; it's just not evenly distributed.
Good point, I forgot about this.

We just need distributed multi-user interpreters (down to the metal) :)
Most (older) residential buildings also have hoist beams, mostly to get furniture in and out when moving. Because older Amsterdam houses have narrow stairs and no elevators.

http://shadowsofaforgottenworld.blogspot.com/2016/06/hoistin...
It is so clearly a con game and I consider it abuse to subject anyone to it.
Very disappointing.

I'd only recently discovered this through the collection of Schopenhauer essays offered on the site (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21386663). Both the selection and presentation were excellent.

I'd also very much like to know the reason for the closure (and have inquired via email).
If you’re in the Apple ecosystem, Apple Arcade is pretty great for this. Every game on it is an actual game, no IAP or ads.
It might not help much but maybe you can get permission to run tcpdump on a machine that talks to the service?
Neal Stephenson is probably my #1 suspect for being a secret time traveller
there is something about psychology that really invites all types of pseudoscience. In all honesty I cant tell whether what I've learned in introductory courses makes more or less sense than what is described as fraud in the article
Yes, it would have to be a societal effort (or government banning it, but I don't think that's the right move).

Actually, I'm thinking everyone paying for meals electronically and tipping electronically would go a long way as that would remove the extra incentive from evading income taxes. Once that is gone, then the below average waiters may be incentivized to demand a steady wage rather than be subject to volatile tips.

Of course, in the US, even in places where all people have the same minimum wage, people still tip lest you be seen as a cheapskate.
A pretty common way to do the offset_of thing is to take a null pointers. Eg: &foo->member where foo is null.

sizeof on invalid pointer dereferences is also pretty common.
No one would design an autocomplete for written language because we remember the words we are going to use, and anyways, if we forget them, there is no hierarchical namespace to browse and navigate.

What autocomplete has enabled are deep and broad namespaces in programming languages that do support such a concept. Yes, you are definitely correct that the massive namespaces designed today are only possible because of autocomplete: libraries can cram in more functionality because developers will be able to use autocomplete to find it. But what’s the alternative? Less functionality in the libraries so they can be used with autocomplete turned off? There is some merit to that point of view, but simplification can only go so far before you are just missing things you wanted to use in some niche use case.
> Thanks politicians!

Strange that you would indict the State for failing to legislate Industry, as though the latter had no agency and were therefore uniquely blameless.
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Rude and unnecessary. Now what could be a learning experience is diminished. Saying nothing is free.
So does gcc: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Diagnostic-Pragmas.html

(TIL - thanks!)
> In addition the source code for this compiled binary has also been lost in the mists of time.

Sounds like you could try copying the binary, putting it into an isolated VM—or a virtual copy of your other services—and beating a file with a stick until the service accepts it as a config.
Yes, because a CoC "limits" what and where should a contribution be made to a repo and what or where not.
It says it has IAPs.
I wouldn’t. Swift is far more performant than using these React-type pseudo-native systems and the developer mentioned that he “fell back” to React because of an apparent lack of SwiftUI documentation — so why not use this project as a chance to actually learn it and create some documentation? He wrote up about how he built the app, adding yet another article to the boring canon of “I just want to use JavaScript and React and call myself an iOS developer.”

And he said that he used React just for the views — SwiftUI isn’t that hard at all and there are exact tutorials about listing things. Ray Wenderlich for example, the WWDC videos — there is high quality information out there but it seems like Swift and SwiftUI wasn’t actually a real consideration.

To be clear, I am not criticizing the app, what I am criticizing is the parent comment hoping more developers follow that approach. I happen to think that approach is lazy and aspires to the lowest common device denominator rather than building apps that are platform specific and optimized for each.
It's not because "people don't like" what you're saying, it's because what you're saying isn't true and most people would rather downvote than take the time to respond to nonsensical far-right talking points.

> Considering nothing happened after the Mueller investigation, I consider the improper handling to be at least partially responsible for the lack of action.

Nothing happened? I seem to remember a few indictments and jail sentences. Do I need to list them all?
servers are guaranteed to at least average the state minimum wage over a pay period. when I worked in a restaurant, my alternatives offered minimum wage plus maybe a dollar or two per hour, while everyone at the restaurant averaged more like $12-14. btw, this was definitely not a fancy restaurant. it's hard for me to believe the average/median server would be better off without tipping.

ps, 15% is a pretty bad tip. unless someone was wrong with the service, 18-20% is really the minimum.
Good catch, and the migration page kinda glosses over that.

They are asking for input and use cases, though.

"Q: My app uses the chrome sockets API to do networking. Can this be done with the open web?

You might be able to do what you need with WebSockets. However, to use this, you will likely need to change the remote end of your connection.

If that isn't possible, we'd like to hear more about your use case—please let us know about what you're trying to accomplish via the Chromium issue tracker.[1]"

1. https://bit.ly/new-fugu-request