skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has done commercial illustration for some of the big outlets, it’s strictly a numbers game. You can’t get enough work if your style is too distinct, or at least, not enough work consistently to make ends meet.

Outlets like the NYTimes still do employ talented illustrators with distinct, innovative styles. Just look at this drawing of Bill Gates by Connor Willumsen:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/technology/bill-gates-vir...

But it’s not the kind of work that’s centered by these publications.

Anecdotally, and from what I’ve read about the history of the profession, this stems from art direction not having as much independence from editors as they once had. Editors used to hire art directors with the intent of respecting and deferring to their taste and expertise. Now, they override and meddle, thinking themselves capable of directing an overall “vision” without domain knowledge or really even taste.
Results from the InfoQ Reader Survey 2019
It's not really Chinese problem, it's procurement management problem. You can't just put an order in Alibaba if you need to ensure the quality.

Chinese generally have the ability to produce electronics, metals, medical devices and materials with the quality you want. At least the last 10 years.

The problem comes when procurement assumes that purchasing works in China as it does in the West. It does not. If you don't have business relationship or are one-time customer, Chinese manufacturers don't like to decline orders. They just outsource it without the required quality control.
Making Illegal States Unrepresentable
RedHat make money on customers support, NOT on selling code/software itself; code/software from RedHat is fully free & open-source.
It's a known issue if you're using Cloudflare DNS servers.
Here's explanation from the Cloudflare CEO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702
The Cataclysm Sentence
> X also doesn't really work if you UI is implemented with OpenGL or similar.

Depends on how you use the OpenGL API. OpenGL display lists, once compiled, are extremly light on the connection. However they're also deprecreated and no longer supported in (forward compatible) OpenGL-3.3 core. But then again there's no 3.3 GLX specification.
There's absolutely no reason why Xorg "does not support hidpi". It even supports differing DPIs per screen. It does not support however _overriding_ the DPI individually per screen, but this would be trivially solved by standarizing toolkits on some other property (either a plain property or a fancy xrandr extension).
Without experimentation there can be no progress. It is nice that you are satisfied with the "old" era UIs based on dropdown menus and predictable title bars and it would be nice to have some decoupling of functionality and UI so that you can style your apps to adhere to this paradigm.

What I don't see in your article is any reasoning WHY we should build our UIs in this way, and even if you did I suppose I would disagree. I hate dropdown menus, I hated them since Windows95 and never stopped hating them. There are many other approaches - string-based "tell me what you want to do" approach of Emacs, context-based morphic approach of smalltalk systems, etc. Each of them is interesting, each of them brings something new and works for certain applications.

It seems to me that instead of ranting how UIs are not what you want them to be these days, you could instead rant that you are unable to mold UIs to your liking and it would have greater utility.
That statement could mean at least two things.

If someone doesn't care about his own privacy (but avoids endangering others' privacy when sharing information about himself), then that's his personal decision. One can list some of the possible but unlikely negative consequences that the person might not have thought of, but they aren't very strong counterarguments.

If the statement means "violating everyone's privacy is ok because I've got nothing to hide", then the counterargument is that some people legitimately have something to hide.
Couldn't I just wear an N-95 mask?

Once the pandemic is over, I'm never using Zoom again anyway.
What I expect from leading experts is to give clear opinions and recommendations based on their best assesment of the situation given available data. I also expect them to quickly and humbly adapt to new evidence when it is found, while keeping in mind that new is not always better.

I don't expect experts to always be right, sometimes the best prediction turns out to be incorrect. This does not change the fact that it was the best prediction at the time it was made, given the available data.

I personally feel that this is exactly what Tegnell is doing in public discourse, he is very quick to point out when there are uncertainties and what the nature of it is, but is still able to present clear advise. He has also demonstrated willingness to change when new evidence is found. This is a far cry from what I see many politicians are doing, and I think this is the reason he is enjoying very high trust from the Swedish general population.
javascript:window.location="about:reader?url="+window.location

(sorry I'm on my phone just guessing; this kind of stuff might not be available because security or something nowadays)
> but illustrators are not limited to living in those expensive locations.

Like tech, illustration is as much about networking as anything else, especially with art directors at the outlets that pay well. Most of those are in NYC, although SF is emerging as a new hub because of how much art tech companies now use.

If you get really big or a highly-paid teaching job, maybe you can move out to Connecticut or Rhode Island. Otherwise, you need to put in face time with your peers and at industry social gatherings if you want to get work. There’s even a dues-paying club for this glad-handing:

https://www.societyillustrators.org/
This is not how it's done in Norway.
Even with an old Intel IGP it moves smoothly at 4k, framerate locked at 60fps of course. And this has nothing to do with "YouTube videos" which is a completely different animal.
As someone whose tried this repo extensively with politican sound clips (I wanted to troll buddies on discord) - it kinds blows. Don't get me wrong - it's really neat but the results are far less good than one may expect.

Sometimes it almost works, and then it's just totally absurd. Long pauses, voices that don't sound compelling, total failures on female voices. It's great in theory but it showed me that there's a ton of work to be done with voice cloning.

Props to the author for using UMAP to seperates voices though

Also lol at the demand being so high that there are open issues of people offering to pay others to install this on their machine. Freelancing opportunities show up in the strangest of places...
Something to help you manage your new remote workforce
It certainly sows doubt when I see things like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9lchhBE7cE

Taiwan increased their production of N95 masks from 100,000/day earlier this year to over 20 million/day now.

Asia can build N95 plants, starting with concrete foundations, in <14 days and 3M hasn't managed to start up any new production lines in existing facilities since announcing them nearly a month ago.

I'd like to imagine this is primarily a leadership issue. I'd like to think that if money was given to the right highly motivated people that it wouldn't matter than "we don't have melt blown fabric machines" because we could design and manufacture them from scratch in our machine shops.

Sometimes though, I do worry about a potential domestic shortage of skilled machinists and manufacturers. And of our ability to allocate either public or private capital to the right entities during national emergencies. I'd imagine $10 million could go pretty far right now, but I haven't heard of any millionaires trying to work outside of the capitalist systems by building something philanthropically. I also haven't seen anyone try to crowdsource money for some plants here.
Deepfakes are implemented with Generative Adverserial Networks (GANs), where one component is a discriminative network that is already trying to distinguish real from fake, to provide feedback to the generation.

So I think any detection algorithms would get into a never-ending arms race.
Raymond Chen in this article seems to rather minimize the severity of arbitrary code execution attacks allowed by buffer overruns.

His logic is also faulty since he conflates 'End-User' permitted capabilities (what the App correctly allows the user/ request to do) with Application permissions to the OS.

Really this seems like it might be blinded by too many years of C/ C++ & immersion in stale campus group-think.
> by getting the whole parser onto a single screen, I find that I can get the whole problem into my brain’s working memory and avoid burning cycles scrolling up and down to pin down butterflies bugs.

This is an excellent point, and one that not enough programmers pay attention to (well, outside of the APL family of languages, anyway!)
here where I live too. Maybe flatland is too tough, muddy.
Did you write the software or use an app/similar to use it to control your home?
As yet there seems to be no solid plan. Context:

http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2019/08/is-perl-6-being-ren...

http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2019/10/larry-has-approved-...
When photography made realism trivial to achieve over a century ago, painters responded with alternatives, like impressionism.

Illustration overlaps with art, though isn't the same, but people who want to express themselves will create new ways that separate them from people who just use new technology that makes making eye-catching things easier.
I thought the point of the rename was Perl 5 can now release Perl 6 or 7, with Raku being independent.
From what I understand, metal is only a big problem when the metal is the only thing in the microwave.
Honest question: is there a single desktop manager that conducts usability studies and isn't guided by hunches and conventions? Or more broadly: any open source software that does?
Hydrothermal 15N15N abundances constrain the origins of mantle nitrogen
Sol Invictus – Glorious Sun ( Poetry)
Is this how sports schedules, NFL, NBA, etc are made?
I’m non-tech so I immediately though this might be re: Distress, Greg Egan, 1995.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distress_(novel)

Advanced geekery / skullduggery on the artificial island home of an illegal unrepresentable (rogue) state (as in country) amid a global pandemic. Very now.
> Haskell, GHC, hackage/cabal/whatever -- intentionally confusing? No, they are different things.

Those are all completely different words though... that's my point - that's the sensible way to do it.

> Raku is the language, Rakudo a compiler, and Rakudo Star a distribution

These all start with Raku. Can you understand how they'd be easy to mix up, rather than using different words like in the previous example?

> Giving three different things the same name would be much more confusing.

You've got the wrong end of the stick. I think they should have different names. I think at the moment their names are too similar.
Isn't that already done? They're called generative adversarial networks...
Buffett makes non-GAAP adjustments available because GAAP misses important nuances. Also, in the US, security appreciation and depreciation is now reported as earnings (or something ridiculous like that), so it’s pretty important to be able to explain real earnings to your shareholders.
I think Rust was relevant in bringing affine types into mainstream, after the ATS and Cyclone attempts.

Thing is, with ongoing efforts on managed languages to integrated similar capabilities into their type systems, we can get most of it, even if we don't get access to the full package.
What does it even mean to "exist as a concept in nature". Pi is a ratio derived from physical existence that humanity collectively gave a name to since its a regular property of the fact that our universe is tuned in the way it currently is.
You can block those trackers.
I was never able to commit to Pomodoro mainly because those 5 minutes are not a lot to commit to anything.

For small breaks, I will just get up, do some stretching, have a snack (usually an apple with peanut butter or another fruit, maybe some dark chocolate). If I really want to get out of the zone, I will open HN/SO and will spend more than 15-30'.

For my lunch break, I will put a podcast/book on and will cook with that on the background.
No, they are just being hypocritical. Was their story unbelievable without their own use of low-budget artwork? If not, why then did they feel the need to also underpay artists themselves?
German fraternity guy here. Did such fencing with sharp weapons three times, but was good enough to only receive one small scar.
AMA :-)
> I thought the point of the rename was Perl 5 can now release Perl 6

I think that would only add to the confusion, since Perl 6 was already a thing, albeit totally different from Perl 5
The way forward is sturdier masks that last "forever", with removable filters that can be sterilized in boiling water, exposure to the UVC in sunlight, drenching in household bleach or thorough washing with water and detergent.

This is exactly the way the Czech Republic is going, with several companies now churning out such masks and the government being the bigger buyer. Stockpiling billions of expiration-sensitive disposable masks is more expensive, compared to pre-distributing one reusable mask to every citizen.
anyone knows why they are not doing the same in UK? Most restaurants stopped being available in Uber eats and deliveroo
I wonder if we'll ever get to a future where all code is write-only, immutable, and thrown away after compilation.

The choice of the language would become a matter of presenting the compiled code and writing replacements for new code.

The runtime and the type system can't be replaced this way though.
The first thing you cut as a business looking to save as many employees as possible is your donations.
The Windows SDK is free to download. Unless you meant free, like in free software, in which case, yes, there may be an ideological barrier to entry regarding Windows development.
> it's worth noting that the "flu" has been killing a large number of people year in and year out for as long as we can remember.

> The long-term death rate of COVID-19 remains to be seen.

At the moment we count flu deaths differently to covid-19 deaths.

Counting deaths due to flu is hard. We've only just started this work for Covid-19 by putting in standards for death certification. These stats lag the real time counts by some time, and they're always higher than the real time counts.

So, we're taking a method for counting flu than over-counts, and a method for covid-19 that undercounts, and then saying "covid-19 isn't that bad".

And that's just looking at deaths. We also need to look at hospitalisation (because we want to look at all the harm caused by different illness to assess whether our measures are reasonable or not; and because iatrogenic harm is a thing) and we see that covid-19 does put a lot more people in hospital than flu normally does. And this difference is only partly explained by rates of immunisation against flu.
it's not arbitrary, this program execs what the user asks it to exec. if some non user can get it to exec something the user doesn't want it to exec, then yeah, it can be a problem. but a non user has to go trough the user to have the dll in place, so the problem is the user and the vector social engineering, not a vulnerability.
Does it hurt?
World held hostage by hit-or-miss Covid-19 tests
The protection for this kind of fencing was practically the same during the last hundred years. Depending on the city they are different, the Paukbrille is default everywhere, others like nose or ear protection are treated differently depending on the local rules.
Google already writes a bunch of Rust. Oracle did too, though the open source project seems abandoned and I’m not sure about the current state.
What languages are you thinking of that are like Rust but GCed? Most GCed languages don't compile to native binaries.
Show HN: Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments
While I agree with the criticism of Redhat, Oracle's behavior was shitty. I'll have remember this next time I land on a "Support Contract Only" Redhat knowledge base page. Oracle is just a bully.
There is evidence sufficient to make predictions, and evidence sufficient to prove something beyond doubt. When you say Sweden is taking a more "evidence based" approach, what you're really saying is that they're denying evidence of the first kind. What ever happened to the precautionary principle? Does Sweden still practice that in other areas, relative to the US (for example)? If so, then suddenly getting all conservative about what evidence to consider and calling the result "evidence based" is not only insulting to scientists and policy makers in other countries but a bit hypocritical as well. The arrogance astounds.
Simply put; If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I feel like modern development has developed into "features for the sake of features" rather than actual improvement.
>What's the rationale for lists and tuples being different, and not just allowing lists to include different types?

Heterogeneous lists are a pretty advanced feature in the world of static typing. Since hetlists normally have to be fixed size anyways to do type-safe indexing, tuples are good enough for something like 99% of use cases.
You'll get used to Raku too. When the rename went through I had similar thoughts but now I think it was a very good decision. Less "Perl is dead" BS at least. Now Perl 5.30+ can evolve and become Perl 7 and so on. I also thought Raku was a silly name, but it's short it's consistent with Rakudo.
Thank you for participating so much in this thread. I've gone through similar things in childhood, but took the 'other' path and ended up significantly lower-functioning than I thought I would be or was expected to-- drinking too much, avoiding people and responsibilities, generally just trying to scrape by on my own terms. You could say the system failed me, but it's usually not so simple... I also failed myself, and was impeded by a drive my parents instilled in me to seek 'higher knowledge' through religion, and later drugs (the latter leads one back to the former too easily sometimes). I was in my mid twenties before I finally came back around to a materialistic world view.

Fortunately, I have a partner who - in part resulting from their own childhood obstructions - is incredibly supportive, as well. It chills me to think of all the kids out there who feel trapped in an inscrutable world that doesn't seem to understand them. I like to think putting your words out there helps some.
Imagine that the relation between a particle and it's antiparticle is an abstract relation, and one of the easy to explain consequences is that they have the oposite charge. (Other consequence is that they have the same mass, but it's less interesting.)

There is an anti-neutron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antineutron I'm not sure of the details, but it should be easy to produce an antineutron beam, if you have the right equipment (perhaps like a particle acelerator worth a few million dollars :) ) Some random paper http://www.ph.unito.it/ccl/docenti/menichetti/CIVR/bressani.... take a look at section 2.
The weapons are sharpened in such a way that they leave clean cuts. The Adrenalin is high enough so you don’t really realize the hit and direct aftermath, only the blood running down.
Of course there is the healing pain, can be quite painful.
Discontinued? It's fully open sourced:

https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src#timeline
McDonald's is very often a love or hate divide as you can already see from some of the comments here. You could prevent that distraction by using a generic food takeout store and ask people to imagine their favorite. The article will resonate with a larger audience, and the comments will be higher quality.
Ask HN: What are some great posts or articles about history of computing?
I found this post about ARPA Net a few months ago and finally had time to read it. Anyone have other great reads or know of books on computing technology?

I think knowing the history of how we got to where we are helps to understand ot more.

Link: https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2019/05/08/arpanet-par...
Mill: A Build Tool Based on Pure Functional Programming
Is that the 2nd page? It doesn't start with the story about Madoff like in the original.
Was it like this for the final years of Concorde? I don't know, but I doubt it.

With an entirely first class plane, and service, I expect they had special gates, and priority everything for the passengers.
You’re never working remotely or do you plan to use a different app/service?
The Colour of the Year: Kyoto Glow
I hate Musk, but this...

> so Musk the genius in all, knew that ventilators do harm so he sent these other machines in his own initiative

...isn't the claim being made.

He says that he asked hospitals a list of machines to buy, and then he went and bought them. He says he bought what they asked him to buy.
Wouldn’t that be working as intended? More revenue
Reminds me of the chuckecheese robots
In my experience a lot of applications with workers that require a result to be furnished to a client are incorrectly engineered.

The correct pattern should be a client submits a request to get something done to a thin layer, receives a ticket that allows it to claim the result and goes away to either check for the result via polling for the ticket or receives a call back.
Hi HN!

I have built a tool that allows users to search and explore edits to the English Wikipedia made from IP addresses associated with public organizations. I've written a brief article explaining how it works and you can see the tool in action here: https://wikiwho.ailef.tech

This was just a fun side project for me to build, and so I decided to share it with everybody else. I'll gladly receive any feedback and answer your questions.

Have a nice day!
Why then are the scars such an uncommon sight nowadays? Is it because the medical treatment of the wounds is better or because there are less duels nowadays than 100 years ago? Or is it because in the past, students did everything to get a scar (including slicing themselves open with a razor blade) because it was seen as a sign of honor?
> just as when a police officer coerces or shoots someone they aren't doing it based on universal rules for people

Are you sure about that?
> The meaning of a test result for a person depends not only on the accuracy of the test, but also on the estimated risk of disease before testing. This was described mathematically by Thomas Bayes and later explained by Siddhartha Mukherjee as the law that “a strong intuition is much more powerful than a weak test.”
Actual Github repo for this called Avatarify: https://github.com/alievk/avatarify

Original repo code that Avatarify is based on called First Order Model: https://github.com/AliaksandrSiarohin/first-order-model

Short video demonstrating First Order Model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUfJOQKdtAk
What does this mean? How are they tiling at all? All apps are full screen.