skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't figure this out at the time, but a potential explanation seems obvious to me now.

I think this may have been because the wheel starts accelerating from a particular point. To optimize distance traveled, it's better to have more acceleration up front. Shorter spokes means more acceleration. For the overall wheel, the spoke length is normalized, but it makes sense that the optimization would set the starting spoke shorter.

I should randomize the starting angle of the wheel and see if that fixes it.

I'm surprised to see that I didn't discuss this in the blog post. You're right, I should have.
Agreed. A good classless CSS file should work as a drop-in replacement for the native browser spreadsheet, it should definitely not try to invent it's own semantics.

Not that you can't do that, but if you do you are creating a CSS framework, not a stylesheet.
I have the same problem I have a P1 2nd Gen with Docking station and when I connect it to Linux 5.x kernels the screen setup keeps crashing. When I disconnect the monitor on the docking station it's stable.

Let's just hope 2021 is the year of the linux desktop /s
Time always tells. A Bresson photo taken with a Leica in 1940 looks as good now as it did then. Somehow I suspect that, no matter how impressive the current iPhone 11 cameras are, those HEIC files will look obviously lame in just a few years. The same won't hold true for anyone using good lenses on a nice Sony A7R or Leica M10.
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Tesla has certainly lost money on every sale to date when you consider what they have spent designing the cars and creating the capacity to mass produce them. They may now have unit costs that will allow them to eventually recoup that money and make a profit, but that doesn't just mean you can disregard all the initial capital.
As one of said children in the 80's that stuff freaked me out. Riding bikes at night with friends and hearing weird noises in the woods would get the ol' heart (and legs) pumping.
I hit the power button twice to activate the camera then hit the volume button to take the photo. That's the Pixel behavior anyways.
Unearned revenue is not a loss or theft...
Unlimited can be used honestly when it's practically impossible to reach the limit. For example if you are offering unlimited drink refills at a restaurant that is fair advertising because it's really unlikely your whole supply of soda syrup will be drained.

In this case it's clearly not viable because someone could easily hit a limit for design requests where it's just not possible to fulfil them on the budget. ~$500 is nothing like a months worth of unlimited design requests even if you only make a few requests per day.
What's the use of a docking station if you have to use 2 power supplies
I wonder if that's just because differences are simply more prevalent.

When I was in school, I was the fat kid. Of course, this lead to a lot of bullying towards me. Nowadays, I see lots of kids whom are much fatter than I was, but there are enough of them at this point where it's probably just normal to be overweight or obese, which would make me suspect that they are bullied less than I was. If my past child self went to school today, maybe he wouldn't even be considered fat.

The irony in that is that children shouldn't be getting fat in the first place, so this isn't necessarily a good sign.
Is it anything like Ted Nelson's ZigZag?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZigZag_(software)
Does it bog down with more than 5? For it to be a serious alternative, it needs to support meetings with dozens of participants (even if it requires beefy hardware).
What has happened to Wired? Zuckerberg goes into the principles behind these kind of decisions in depth, in his own words, in a conversation with Yuval Noah Harari that for some reason nobody ever mentions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boj9eD0Wug8
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2203/gnome-run-with-p...
> Now, college students want enforced segregation.

You're conflating two very different things. An oppressed minority seeking an isolated space for themselves is not comparable to a majority forcing one on an unwilling minority population.

> The US is one of the least racist countries in the world.

I disagree with that statement, but rather than descend into a fruitless back and forth over the assertion, I'd rather challenge the context: why does it matter what other countries do? The US holds itself to its own standard. If the population consider that standard insufficient then it's time to act.
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French app, protocol and backend here: https://gitlab.inria.fr/stopcovid19/
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
I cannot quite discern whether you intended it, but "law enforcement wants to be able to use digital communication to discover criminals" sounds quite ominous, even if someone has never read 1984.

That is primarily a problem even at the best of times that law enforcement wants to create criminals whenever it fits their fancy; Even more ominously, if police had any greater command of the voluminous criminal codes and the incentive structure is changed, they could basically be charging/locking up most people they ever come across for any number of arbitrary violations of convoluted laws.

Maybe it is being a bit anxious, but with the full on surveillance state unfolding right before our eyes where wrongthink has you "cancelled", we seem to be racing, headlong into something not all that different than what Orwell envisioned would be the consequences of self-righteously benevolent tyranny … for our own good, of course.
Another benefit of smartphones is that photos are geotagged, processed, and backed up automatically. This is a pretty big deal if you travel for more than a few days.

My humble RX100 took objectively better pictures than my Samsung S9, but not enough to justify the extra weight, and the extra logistics. When my RX100 broke, I did not replace it.

I also had larger cameras. They made photography the main activity whenever I brought them with me. I rarely took them with me.
The premise of "power" and "domination" seems correct. Though there are other things he believes in:

- Mark Zuckerberg believes/believed in China. He read Chinese president Xi Jinping’s latest book and recommends it to his employees, learned Chinese, and asked president Xi for a baby name suggestion. [0]

- Mark Zuckerberg believes in Judaism. He has grown “more religious” after becoming a father and as a result of the “challenges we’ve been through as a company.” [1]

- Mark Zuckerberg believes in Sheryl Sandberg, his Chief Operating Officer since 2008. Author Shoshana Zuboff called Sandberg "the Typhoid Mary of surveillance capitalism." [2]

[0] https://qz.com/1115960/an-idiom-uttered-by-xi-jinping-perfec...

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/facebooks-zuckerberg-says-hes-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheryl_Sandberg#Criticism
Another advantage is speed.

I did a proof-of-concept last week with MVP.css and it was so quickly put together that it was almost as convenient as from writing the content in a Google Doc (where I use borderless tables for the columns). Google Docs are usually my second step in the process, as I don't like to get feedback on sketches, but this might be it now. (My first step is that I sketch on receipt paper, it's the perfect width for mobile, super cheap, and can be as tall as you'd like for your design. Highly rec.)
It looks like the customizable variant of the P1 Gen 2 has different GPU options (including iGPU-only) based on what processor you choose, while the X1 Extreme Gen 2 has a Geforce 1650 in all configurations.

If I had known that when I was picking out an X1 for work, I would have pushed a P1 with no dedicated GPU instead.
> willfully, thoughtfully, and purposefully attempting to argue that there is no racially motivated correlation between these datasets.

On the contrary....

I grew up in Africa. My sister is professor of African studies with degree from UW Madison. I'm familiar with the area and the issues.

The "crescent" seen in the data is geography, not some sort of compelling argument for correlation.

Exactly contrary to your interpretation of my comment, my point is that the same data sets are correlated everywhere there's density, but I guess "the blob" doesn't seem as persuasive as "the crescent".

It's not that it's a crescent, it's just urban America.

And it's a problem.

PS. See also, "centuries worth of negative compounding at work": https://ofdollarsanddata.com/racial-wealth-gap/
Part of why big apertures let you easily get the "it's a nice picture" comment is that it essentially removes the background from the image.

One of the hardest things in photography is successfully incorporating the background in the composition. And if you fail, the results are devastating: the background will not only look bad, but also distract from the one thing that might look nice, i.e. the subject.

A big aperture lets you sidestep that difficulty, making it easier to take "good pictures".

Those are scare quotes because successfully incorporating the background might have yielded an even better image. Remember that in the cameras infancy and quite some time after, DoF blur was considered a technical flaw.
It seems they really got out of their depth with this project. There are a lot of photos and videos of aesthetic things that (arguably) Dyson is good at such as the steering wheel user interface, the shaping of the wheel rims and the colour palettes for the paint job. But there is very little evidence of hard engineering, only one grainy video of the prototype car actually running (the other videos appearing to be the car running are definitely good quality renders).

As Elon Musk put it "For cars it's maybe 100 times harder to design the manufacturing system than the car itself." and I think as soon as it dawned on them the scale of the manufacturing process to build this car and all the precisely engineered systems they got cold feet. Yes conceptually a car is similar to a vacuum cleaner, there's a motor, a battery, a control system, a chassis and bodywork but they are in a completely different league in terms of the scale and engineering. A car needs to be able to run safely without faults for 8 hours a day 365 days a year whereas Dyson vacuum cleaners tend to have a lot of reliability problems even when using for an hour each week.
Unfortunately phones are pretty difficult for me personally. I'm somewhat hard of hearing, meaning that I can't necessarily understand the other side of a phone call. I've also recently moved to an area much more diverse than my hometown. While this is great and I'm meaning people from all walks of life, it also means that there are suddenly a lot more accents that I'm not used to hearing and having trouble understanding and communicating with. Ordering on the phone has not been a great experience for me...
Sweden had ample warning and time to prepare.

Italy, and to a lesser extent Spain, did not.
How well can you actually aim with rubber bullets? Do they fly in the same way as normal bullets?
My point wasn't to replace the classic class grid, just to give basic HTML5 grid if necessary. You can always add any other CSS Framework for grid formatting. About <section> and other HTML5 tags.. you can always personalise the code to your standards.

The grid is based on this:
parent element {display: flex; flex-flow: row wrap}
child element {flex:1}

Replace the parent element (container) with any HTML element, replace the child element with your preferred semantic element.
Sony's been pushing things forward quite a bit, and after catching up on most of the fundamentals, they're now working in AI/ML. Their latest cameras have incredible eye-autofocus built with ML, and they also recently announced and AI imaging chip.
Informally, it’s called ‘having an eye’ and some people are blessed with it, others work hard to acquire it, and camera technology can seem to offer it. But ultimately, you’re right, it’s still your choices as a photographer that most influence the quality of the work, and while good tech doesn’t hurt, it’s not really the tech.
Ok that's classic "No True Scotsman" right there.
> I do notice in my area (Paris, France) that many small restaurants hardly have an online presence. I understand some people don't like calling up restaurants to order

and some restaurants are quite happy with their current customer base, and don't see the need to market themselves.
Startup time: my phone is right here in my pocket. My camera is in my backpack. I missed on many good shots because I couldn't be arsed to fish it out of here.
I really meant non-plus-ultra which we use in germany.I thought it's universal among language families.
My Pixel is configured to save a raw image as well as the jpeg. I believe you can do this with most phones.

The DNG files have at least a stop or two of editing latitude from the Pixel 3a.

If you want the feel of a Leica, check out the X100 series from Fujifilm. They are excellent in every version, so you can choose your price on the used market. The only caveat is that the 35mm-equivalent focal length needs to resonate with you.
For a second I thought this was about the Android testing framework, https://developer.android.com/training/testing/espresso.
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I’d imagine most cannibals who ever lived were not breaking the law at all. This may hold true even today. It reminds me of a joke, “why do people refer to me as a cannibal? I think it’s my woodwork that defines me. Why not call me a woodworker?”
>> Those weren't economic sanctions, but focussed ones. And against a much less economically-important China

The lifting of some of those sanctions probably helped China become as economically-important as they are now.

I remember buying computer hardware in the 80s and 90s. There was always a threatening information slip or page in the box that warned about penalties against export of the technology to countries like China. And now? Most of that export-controlled stuff is produced there.
> Wouldn't that super-majority for the court be a risk, as a minority could easily block its workings (not influence, just block)?

I don't think so. The idea is to force compromise by putting the threshold so far out of reach to eliminate fantasies that after the next election one party or other will be in the position not to have to compromise. That's the issue now.

The idea that a minority would try to literally destroy another branch of government for some reason seems so remote and so extreme that I'm not sure if it's worth considering. What would the political calculus be for trying to block the workings of the court system?
Do you really believe that Russian spies have Russian accent?
Based on your link, unless you support IE11, you should be fine with variables.
> It's a shame Powershell is a disaster

What's your take on nushell?
"If the business model is boring, you’ll need complex technology to compensate." Could you elaborate on this? What is the complexity compensating for? Boredom of the developers?
Sadly, I think in trying to make an EV fit into a market full of ICE cars has blinded the public, designers, and engineers that a sedan is not the only form factor an EV can take. Something like the Renault Twizy[0] is an excellent use of EV tech. And it's technically classified as a moped or scooter.

For now we're constructing 2000kg wagons to move 200kg of cargo and that just doesn't seem efficient.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Twizy
The ability to use good prime lenses was also my excuse to buy a new mirrorless, and occasionally to put on a zoom for distant wildlife.

My old DSLR was just to bulky so I left it home more often than not, the mirrorless is just that little more compact and light (especially with a pancake lens, it almost becomes a compact).

And good prima doesn't have to be new and expensive btw. You can buy adapters to fit almost any old lens to any modern camera (especially with mirrorless). Only thing you will be missing is the autofocus and auto aperture control. But for me this adds to the experience, since you must really be engaged with taking the picture (eg, thinking about exposure, zooming with your feet, predicting when a moving object will be in focus), instead of having the camera do it's best (or worst) for you and fixing it in post with software.

I have settled on a Fuji as their controls connect more to that feeling of manual photography, making the experience more fun for me. For everything else, my phone camera with cracked lens is good enough.
A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical journals may be unraveling
Are there concrete ways in which direct messaging would make Hacker News better?
That's a truly terrible article.
He asked Xi Jinping to be the godfather of his child despite not knowing Premier Xi nor having met him.
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We shouldn't counter-argument against something by saying there are worse things. Just because there are worse things does not mean that less bad things do not matter, especially since we have to reduce our carbon emissions substantially.

Personally I don't have a car and I don't fly. I live in an area that has a climate that allows me not to spend too much on air conditioning (I don't have air conditioning), but again that's not the point [1].

We currently spend 5.6 billion tons of materials on communication equipment 5.6% of all our consumption [2]. These are not figures that we can ignore, especially since in my opinion it is one of the areas that we least need to spend.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/22/worlds-c...
> Over the past two weeks these questions have taken on a new urgency as Facebook employees have for the first time publicly voiced anger and frustration with Zuckerberg’s decision to protect Trump’s calls for state violence against those who are protesting racist police violence.

I interpreted the statement as describing people who are breaking into stores.
FWIW The Italian contact tracing app, Immuni, is open source as well: https://github.com/immuni-app

I installed it today and I live in one of the 4 pilot regions, let's see how it goes.
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As a non-American, I'm thinking the exact same thing. The whole system is completely broken.
Yeah, if there were a way to have this without the grid stuff, I'd be all for it. But as it is, if I want to use this I'm stuck either ignoring tags (which I may want to use) to avoid the grid stuff, or I'm stuck using a grid system which isn't very controllable.

It's cool, but I'll stick to just writing my own, light-on-classes CSS.
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I suspect the reason this may be trending again is the 'Black Nitrogen' was just discovered. So called because of its similarities to 'Black Phosphorous', it is the only known allotrope of Nitrogen other than Ninitrogen,and the only one that has properties similar to elements on the periodic table row underneath Nitrogen. It show good conductivity too, but researchers are unable to stabilize it so commercial uses are out until they do.

https://phys.org/news/2020-06-black-nitrogen-high-pressure-m...
I've been struggling with this.

I've long been into photography and have a crap ton of gear that I've mostly been bored of. Canon 5D3, 5-6 lenses, 5-6 flashes, umbrellas and studio gear, you name it.

The two cameras I get the most enjoyment out of right now though:
- iPhone 8 Plus
- DJI Mavic Mini

The introduction of multiple lenses on the smartphones was the thing that started changing everything for me.

I have never really been a "must have every focal length covered" guy with my SLRs/DSLRs. I very often felt more creative and got better results with prime lenses. Having only one focal length feels restrictive, but 2-3 is plenty. With these new phones having 2-3 it's suddenly enough to feel like I'm not creatively restricted. I am fairly excited to get an iPhone 12 Pro or Pixel whatever the next time around that hopefully has super-wide/wide-normal/telephoto options.

The Drone has 1 focal length, but it's an insane tripod that lets you get all kinds of compositions & angles & shots you can't get any other way, so very very exciting.

Having the phone with you all the time breeds creativity. Not having to carry a bunch of heavy stuff breeds creativity. Not dealing with terabytes of RAW photos & programs like Lightroom and hours of "processing" at your desk breed creativity.

Most of what has been sold with high end photo gear has ended up revolving around pixel peeping and being sure you can get a sharp photo of the maximum # of possible shots, even if a lot of those shots aren't really creative. Unless you're really really focused on shooting wildlife or something a lot of those very expensive tools are mostly going to sit and not produce that many killer photos you want to look at all the time. It's also been very aspirational... people get satisfaction out of saving up and buying more stuff and consumerism. But once you have the stuff for years that starts to not be as fun.

I am fairly certain at this point there's no way I'm going to go drop $3k+ on another DSLR body. (My 5D3 is the 3rd I've bought). It's more a question of do I end up starting to sell off some of that gear. There's just more fun trying to do creative stuff with less at this point.
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Because it's probably not a software problem. Why not source better parts from the beginning?

The existence of this TM3141 touchpad[1]—which is every bit as good as a MacBook touchpad and works with a stock Ubuntu configuration—is proof that this is already a solved problem.

1. https://www.newegg.com/p/0TP-001B-002C6
Also not OP, but in that one article the violence was indiscriminate, not targeting journalists.

James Taranto in his Best of the Web column had a running gag poking fun at articles where lots of people were affected by a problem, but the author dwells on one particular group, under a heading of "World Ends, X hardest hit." Yes, journalists are being affected by recent violence, but so are a lot of other people.
If I am carrying my DLSR I generally have it accessible to shoot and not tucked away. I see your point though, I use a crossbody bag on my chest to store my SLR for this reason.
Actually the MBP is a poor example imho. If your dGPU dies, like it used to in the past and needed resoldering by a specialized shop or replacement of the whole logic board, you lose your external monitor capabilities. Maybe they improved that situation nowadays.
Powershell is a disaster? Did no one tell Microsoft or the hundreds of vendors supporting Powershell as an interface to their product?
Good vacuums? Where? Reliability issues and the plastic chassis broke not long after purchase. I won't pay the premium again, that's for sure.
Some of those links are still active even after being outed more than 3 weeks ago.
New gut-brain link: How gut mucus could help treat brain disorders
Ask HN: What Happened to HN Books?
Took me a while to notice that I wasn't receiving weekly summaries of books linked in HN. I've discovered plenty of gems on this subscription and I'm just wondering if we all collectively stopped linking books or if there is an issue?

https://hackernewsbooks.com/year/2020/week/21

Last week had a single book for example.
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This is amazing. When is Workspace rolling out?
The problem with centralized platforms that allow for mass censorship and ubiquitous surveillance is that they are never “on your side.” There will always be pressure to bend the knee to the ruling party, and whether or not you agree with the politics of the ruling party at a given point in time is irrelevant. In a long term sense this is a slippery slope into fascism. Companies like Facebook are responsible to their shareholders, not users, and certainly not our vague notion of democracy.