skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What?

What nrr is saying is simply:

If someone replies to a comment and they have a human avatar, there was always a chance it was the output of https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com

Their heuristic for "if it's a furry avatar, it's probably not from a Russian troll farm" is now invalid.
Windows Phone had the best UI of the three major phone operating systems, in my opinion. The Metro UI tile system is a great home screen system, and the layered swipe left/right process made a lot of sense.
Right, if that's all custom means.
I just did research few days back, and there are none that aren't passable with some OCR/tensorflow tech. Anything simple and the question is why do you need it ? Anything hard enough for bots not to beat it will also fail many humans.

Add rate limiter instead and put CF infront or something similar. Way better experience then any captcha.

In case you still want it here is solid one:

https://github.com/dchest/captcha
> Part (not all) of the new Windows resurgence is that if you even really want to play around with ML...

Do you mean machine learning? If so, then that doesn't match my experience at all.
I remember considering paying thousands of dollars + travel + SF hotel to watch this last year. There's some silver lining in everyone being locked down - we can now watch all the good content from GitHub, Apple, you name, all virtual, remote.
Just block EU IP addresses if you want. No-one is forcing you to allow access to any particular country or region.
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Well, I'm not sure what you mean by "concave part of a Pareto curve." (Perhaps you meant convex?) Usually, the Pareto curve is the epigraph of the individual function evaluations at the optimal points, so, unless your problem is highly nonconvex, the Pareto curve is likely to be convex.

More specifically, the tradeoff curve is defined as the following: letting θ(λ) be the optimal solution of the first optimization problem at fixed λ, the Pareto optimal curve/frontier is the epigraph of the set of of all (l(θ(λ)), r(θ(λ))). I.e.,

{(x, y) | x ≥ l(θ(λ)), y ≥ r(θ(λ)), λ ∈ ℝ}

If l and r are convex functions, then this curve is guaranteed to be convex. A similar curve can be defined for the second problem (over M instead of λ), and both curves are equal (in the sense that they both include the same points).

Note that this equivalency between both problems doesn't require convexity; for example, lower semi-continuity of l and r with r bounded from below [0], are sufficient conditions that would include essentially all functions used in ML.

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[0] Boundedness is needed in this case since, otherwise, we could just have r(θ) = -∞ for a bunch of points, in which case we would always choose this θ, no matter how large or small λ is (except at λ = 0) in problem (1), whereas it would have a different effect in problem (2).
deldo.el has come a long way since 2009!

https://github.com/qdot/deldo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1sXuHnf_lo
Ironically I think you are the one objectifying women by implying those devices are only for pleasuring women.
Yes, you are the product in the sense that this is meant. The people at my grocery store track my purchases using my loyalty card, use that data to influence their ads, and sell that data to others.

Jetbrains might not do this, but if they can make money from this, they would be just as incentivized to do this as GitHub.
> If your native app is not going to look or feel any different than an app built using Web technologies why limit your customer base to Windows users?

BTW, It specifically mentions that WinUI supports React Native for Windows.

https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/
Rogue! (Well, and Hack.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike
One of my favorite app, it's a must-have on all my systems.
Every time I read articles like that, of course, it inspires me to create, it gives hope, and stuff like that.

It is possible. Just do simple things and write.

But then you reach lines about $4m in sales and you are like "c'mon that just not me, right? it can't be".

I guess most of the time people have these questions in their head:
- Who am I to write? I am no expert (afraid to express an opinion, share knowledge)
- Whom will I teach? There are tons of people who know more.

and all that stuff.

What I am trying to say depending on current environment the person is in – it can be very hard to overcome those feelings and just start writing.

People should know that when they start writing when they start doing what they have never done – they will at some point be at the place they never been, out of that bubble where they were with discouraging peers.

Maybe that's why people invented aliases?
> The law itself is perfectly sane. The problem is that everybody try to apply it in the worst possible way.

You mean putting trust that a website behaves by implementing its own popup system versus enforcing it on the browser side with a single implementation? Doesn't sound sane to me.

Why don't we implement a law where visitors cannot enter your house when you are not at home, unless you consent. That way we can get rid of locks.

Very sane.
I'm getting tired of this game. Even the deaf ones like me start to hear the drums now.

You know, it's not that we do not have enough megacorps controlling every aspect of our lives. We need more of the "opposite" - places that empower you and leave you in peace and control.
I wonder if you can use this for a setup that cooks and cleans, then I will buy all the components. Should be possible with an IoT enabled washer, dishwasher, vacuum, and oven.
I'm sorry your mind immediately goes to such a dark place regarding this subject. Sex and sexual fantasy can be a wonderful thing.
Which markets? If you are referring to the S&P 500, hope is outweighing fear right now, I'll give you that. If you mean crude oil markets, well, they reflect the narrative. If you mean bond markets, yields are declining.

Also, it would be remiss of me not to point out that the markets != the real economy. They are correlated, but that correlation is not perfect. 20M newly unemployed Americans would disagree with you that things are largely unchanged from 3 months ago.
Gitlab solved this properly by making runners private to (private and public) organizations and repos.
It is debatable whether hard work should be an end unto itself. Certainly you shouldn't idolize hard work uncritically because, for example, someone told you that you are a worthless person if you don't work as hard as possible at everything. (I definitely think there are people who were psychologically programmed this way and never question it.)

However, there are many things which are important and which require hard work. Cultivating the discipline of hard work can thus be indirectly beneficial in a lot of ways.

And it's a sign as well: if you rarely find yourself doing hard work, then unless your life is exceptionally easy, you're probably missing out on something important.

And since hard work is a necessity, it's preferable to come to terms with it and develop the ability to enjoy it rather than hating it. For that it helps to draw satisfaction from doing it, which isn't quite the same thing as glorification, but it's still a way of putting it in a positive light.

Ultimately, if you define your own goals and do things for your own reasons, then hard work can fit in well with that. Just make sure your hard work is serving you instead of you serving hard work.
Microsoft has been trying to make pen input "a thing" since at least 2000 when they started selling "tablet PCs", and as a result their pen input has become really excellent over the years. The segmentation of the Surface brand is confusing as hell and I'm still not sure which is which despite being invested in it.
Perhaps there should be an interstitial when loading Gmail if there are items in your spam that you haven't seen 1-2 days after receiving them.
nitpick: you seem to be talking about command-line mode; command mode is normal mode
In this case, the incidental heterochromia actually makes it feel even more authentic.
And btw, don't forget the past. They had 'team fondation server' (that is now azure devons server'), that was shitty and git and Github were terrible competitors.:
https://wilsonmar.github.io/tfs-vs-github/

And all of tfs was volontarely deeply intricated with Visual studio useless things.
Not quite the same, because right now tracking is suppose to be opt-in. Free cookies are not.

A fair comparison would be a law saying people need to opt-in for paying for a cookie. You can't charge the customer or hide the information, they need to agree to pay for the cookies, and they need an equally clear option to not pay for them.

However, stores bend the rules. They have someone stand at the entrance saying, "Thanks for coming to our store, we have cookies for sale at $0.99. Would you like to come in?" If you say yes, then you're charged for cookies you buy. To get the cookies for free, you need to realize you can say "No" to entering the store, and then through a complex 5 minutes conversation, you can get the person to let you into the store for the free cookies every person is allowed to have according to the law.

Most people don't know about the free cookies. Others can't figure out the correct questions to ask to get permission to enter the store for the free cookies. Some people want the free cookies but they don't have 5 minutes to waste talking to the person, so they just decide to pay.

At the end of the day though, of course everyone wants the free cookies. I want them. You want them. The law says the store is required to give free cookies. Why introduce all the complex interactions and rules that businesses will not follow, and customers will find annoying? Just give everyone the cookies and be done with it.

If you don't want a blanket statement allowing free cookies everywhere, what's the ideal process? 97% of people want free cookies all the time. 2% of people want free cookies "sometimes". 1% of people never want free cookies. Asking people at each store for their preference (similar to a website cookies pop-up) is only beneficial to the 2% "sometimes" crowd. For the other 98%, they're just being annoyed and repetitively giving the same answer to every store. Require the banks to allow a setting on credit cards to toggle free cookies on or off, and have stores respect that setting without needing to ask.
I personally don't want anyone sending my data to another provider without having me opt in first. I trust AWS to do the right thing as much as I trust Fox News to report the news accurately.
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I've found that having a good undo is far, far better than a commit step. I think the best ux would be

- Apply changed immediately.
- Provide indication that the change was applied (maybe pop a checkmark our for a second or two)
- Provide an undo that at least revertes to the state when the dialog was opened, but ideally even be able to recent to snapshots from before previous changes. (So that if you close the dialog then decide you don't like it you can go back).

COMMIT is useful in databases because you have made a "permanent" change and for atomicity reasons. If you make undo effective and there is no concurrent access it is unnecessary.
That's amazing! Thanks!

Shameless plug of my own: Last month I shared a post sharing a few thoughts on secure software redistribution, notarization, safe updates, and so on: https://henvic.dev/posts/cs-security/
Why not just have overhead lines that you can attach to when you need a charge? Do it like the street cars. Or have something like a railroad you can drive up onto and then it charges you while you're traveling over it.
I wonder if they do any form of penetration testing?
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It's not that hard to get ahold of reasonably high-powered lasers. IIRC, one of the ones he used was ordered direct from China, sold as a tattoo remover.

If you decide to experiment with them, please be very careful, and buy proper eye protection from a reputable supplier. There are a lot of garbage goggles out there that don't actually filter out the parts of the spectrum that they claim to. I've seen this myself with some alleged UV goggles that were the same shade of green as my actual UV goggles, but didn't filter UV light. IIRC, in the tattoo remover video, he finds the same thing with the useless "safety" goggles that that laser included.

If you have proper laser safety goggles for the type of beam you're working with, you probably won't be able to see the beam, which takes some of the fun out of it. Years ago, I saw a video of a folded-optic welding helmet that put HDR imagery on displays inside the helmet, so the eyes weren't even exposed. That would be an ideal approach for lasers, IMO, but I can't even find the video now, let alone DIY plans or an inexpensive commercial product.

It's the 21st century, but you still can't get the replacement eyes that 80s cyberpunk novels promised us. It's very easy to lose some or all of one's sight when experimenting with lasers. Back around 2010, I was about 3/4 of the way through building a laser pistol out of a DVD writer diode and some custom electronics when I realized that even in the best case scenario, it wasn't worth risking my eyesight, so I abandoned it before going from the breadboard phase to the "fits into a pistol form factor" version.
Thank you for sharing this and I hope someone in government takes action to protect our grid. Based on your findings have you made any personal preparations for an event like this? I lean towards preparedness but know I can be a little over reacting when hearing about these possibilities.
Love their mission. But I think Slice is more for helping non-chain pizza shops compete with Dominos/Pizza-Hut/Papa-johns.

also $1.95 doesn't include the costs of delivery (delivery is handled by pizza shops' existing delivery drivers)
Vi is the ultimate example of software that is "easy to use" as opposed to "easy to learn", it is great that we still have Vi and so many other unix tools that use the same philosophy.

One of the biggest things that has happened to computer software in modern times is the balance between "easy to use" and "easy to learn" has shifted dramatically towards "easy to learn".

There is some software that can achieve both at the same time but IMO much of the time the two ideas are counterbalanced against each other with each hurting the other.

Before the mouse almost all software was harder to learn but users would become extremely fast & efficient when they learned to use it. Vi is a classic example. So were lots of applications that had character cell user interfaces and function keys & shortcuts for everything.

A lot of mobile stuff is the ultimate opposite.. it takes 2nds to learn but you're never going to be able to use it any more efficiently or quickly than you did 5 minutes after you first tried it.
Consumers have been paying for merchant losses since before credit cards even existed. The price of shop lifting, robbery, burglary, ect... have always been factored into brick and mortar pricing (even if only via the cost of insurance). The cost of fraud is factored into online pricing. It’s not a problem that’s going to go away.
OMG ME TOO!!!!

I love that keyboard so I put up with moving the dongle around but damn I hate it too!

I really wish there was a wired version!
It probably is also an expressway for the objectification of men, but it seems to be used (currently) for women - arguably the objectification of women is much more widespread with modern porn and tech than it is for men. Look at the number of female sex robots on the market versus male sex bots (and no, dildos/fleshlights emulating a single body part such as a penis or vulva by any reasonable argument is not the same kind of objectification of a whole body sex toy), or the amount of porn focusing on the female body versus the male body, nudes of female celebrities leaked versus male celebrities, pornographic deepfakes of women versus deepfakes of men, etc.

Objectification in media is common to both sexes. That does not mean to the same degree or in the same quality. (I'm making no comment as to the harm or benefit of objectification[0] here, and I don't buy the idea that programmable sex toys are a form of objectification).

[0] There is interesting research, though: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-019-01024-0 and https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ab.21719
I contribute to various OSS (and private) projects all time just by using the GitHub code editor and catching errors or regressions if any in the CI. Having a fully fledged dev environment is even better.
The feedback loop works if you assume most people's opinions are rooted in facts. They are often not grounded in reality, especially at the local political level where awful inflammatory opinions readily circulate on social networks like nextdoor and Facebook. People in SF and other cities frequently oppose construction of homeless shelters, with the thinking that this will attract homeless to the area and make the situation worse. Guess what, the homeless are already there, that's why that site in particular was chosen for the potential shelter. At least in LA, when a shelter goes up, cleanings in the area happen much more frequently and it becomes a less attractive place to camp if you need to move all of your things every day. People don't bother reading the details of these plans to see these things.

This degenerate logic against shelter construction ignores the fact that the only alternative to not building shelters and mental health facilities is to allow the homeless population to grow and fester and continue to trash the streets, since thankfully we are not a society that just removes undesirables from existence.
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I'm learning about some of my personal biases through this, apparently. I just assume furries/fursonas/furry fandom/whatever it's called is about sex.
> I used vi and vim for about 25 years before switching to Emacs.

Then maybe you can help:) I've tried, multiple times, to switch to emacs. And every time, I get stuck, because vim keybindings are so wired in to my muscle memory now, and even the broader interactions are hard to adopt (i.e., I expect to get a command prompt by escaping to command mode and then typing ":", and then all commands are available). Is there any trick that you found helpful to overcome all the inertia?
Agree. And considering the size of this, they are executing a very well defined playbook. Sounds like a very successful company integration to me. Will be good for everyone.
Ok, thank you (and no offense meant to the OP) that makes sense in an odd way, and I’m clearly just not up on these things. I wasn’t aware that the corresponding fake-person generator was a thing, but of course it is. There’s something odd about the fact that a cartoon rendering would be more trustworthy than a photo. Then again, there’s always been the joke about people who keep the sample photo that comes in the picture frame to pretend they have a s.o. or family ...
I hope this accelerates interest around web-based development environments. If someone could pre-package a setup containing language servers for "all" languages, a build system that is generic to all languages (bazel or bazel-like), and internally run a small kube cluster with a wildcard DNS name pointing to it you'd reduce ops work of setting up staging environments, feature branch testing, development environment management, etc for most development teams by at least 10%.

I can't wait for a monorepo-friendly staging/development environment that works out of the box and can provide cross-language & generated code autocompletions for "every" language.
or any http connections...
Here's a subreddit where all posts and comments are made by a set of GPT-2 bots trained on different subreddits:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/btfhks/wh...

It's very impressive
There are blocklists dedicated to cookie request elements. You can install one of those in your uBlock Origin and the banners will disappear.

I use and appreciate this one: https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/
I'm willing to bet that a lot of HN users block third-party trackers, but the average user has no idea how to do that. Why are we allowed the choice between (as you put it) "websites stay[ing] free" and privacy, and yet the average joe isn't? (To be clear, I don't even believe that's the choice we're facing.)
Theyve been trying for nearly a decade with little to no luck. Skype was acquired in 2011 and Skype for Business is a joke, even in enterprise settings like my workplace.

Everybody has moved on to Zoom, even though SFB is available via our org wide Office365 implementation. I do use it to send quick messages to coworkers in different regional offices, as their online/offline status is a useful indicator of their availability since it's connected to their outlook Calendar. And the screen sharing feature is good, there are never any compatibility issues. But as a voice or video call system, it's not great. Zoom has had far lower switching costs.
That's exactly the process - there are full docs at the link below, and we're always keen to hear from potential partners.

Please also note that we only automatically send details from _public_ repos to our secret scanning partners.

https://developer.github.com/partnerships/secret-scanning/
VMWare has beta Workstation that integrates with Hyper-V.
The UI looks like this currently

https://www.gimp.org/release-notes/images/2.10-update-ui.jpg
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The book Beautiful You by Chuck Palahniuk comes to mind.
I'm really happy it was posted here, since I've never heard of this effect. Do you have some further reading on the "not useful or reliable" aspect? This site, for example, lists multiple applications for them: http://technology.niagarac.on.ca/people/mcsele/lasers/Lasers...
I did not say it does not have any problems. The poster said that they don't understand why the whole system even works. I simply explained the mechanism by which it currently works. I did not say it was flawless.
I’ve been developing some chat bots recently professionally and, honestly, I don’t get the point of these kinds of projects, especially done by companies like Facebook - sure you could create some text generator based on tokens, but it serves no purpose.

Give me a trained bot that can extract specific things in various different ways users express them (without me creating dumb questionnaires), match across thousands of domain specific technical variations of terms, understand voice as well as text... until then it’s all stupid tricks that just show Facebook has too much money to waste.
> I just assume furries/fursonas/furry fandom/whatever it's called is about sex.

Nope! :3

https://faq.dhol.es/@Soatok/furry-fandom/is-furry-a-sex-thin...

It's a common misconception. We're more about community than anything.

(That's not saying that sex doesn't happen between adults, but that's not what it's about, for everyone.)
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What about putting these skills to use for your own benefit?

Asking because I am myself an infrastructure engineer (I don't like the "DevOps engineer" title) and I am slowly getting tired of being so far away from "the product".

I have taken a different approach and I'm trying to find and start a meaningful side project that could generate revenue and could slowly become a full time job.

I thought first that acquiring fullstack skills and working as such for a company would give me more joy, but I figured I would probably get also bored after a while.
> The only inhabitants are US and British military personnel and associated contractors

So wait, all .io domains map to a US/UK military base in the Indian Ocean?

How does that affect privacy...?