skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a cultural thing. I have different view with my brother on pretty much everything but we still manage to find time to take vacation together. It makes pretty interesting evening after a slow, windless day. If people are interested he is really far left, i'm not (or i'm much, much further depending of your point of view).

I mostly don't care about my friends points of view. The only question you should ask them is : why do you think that, and the only question you should ask yourself is the same one. Unless you're really, really well informed, your point of won't be that interesting anyway. Interesting enough to post it on reddit or HN at most :)

If the conversation becomes to much for people feelings, take a tangent, talk about interesting philosophical point. Bias analysis is great too (check your own bias loudly to encourage people to do the same, it works). Do not hesitate to point that an argument is poor, especially if it comfort your views.
I just want to take a moment to note that capitalists are lobbying the central government over a difference of opinion about interest rates, asking the central planners to adjust The Number.

...And several Russian novelists burst out laughing in their graves.
>I am disappointed to see them, for example, file lawsuits against schools that are trying to ensure that only biological women participate in sports divisions for women

Trans women are women. These schools are denying this with this idea, so it seems like a good use of the ACLU's resources to me. Morality aside, I don't know about the legal aspects of defending that principle in the US, but presumably the ACLU have some ground.

>, so that those sports are competitive and fair.

[drifting off the OP topic, but...] shouldn't school sports be about inclusion? what is your ideal of fairness here?
For me, the pursuit and rewarding of certain idealised body types selected by narrow athletic criteria reminiscent of pageantry has never been 'fair' for anybody..

School sports ought to focus on inclusive physical self-improvement, help kids develop cooperative skills, resolve conflicts and work together for a common goal, that sort of thing.
A single text or email isn't a list of events and status updates I can scroll through.
I'm working on the same kind of thing but that gives you a typesafe React UI and REST API through code generation based in your existing database.

Notable features including filtering, pagination, and jwt-based authentication.

https://eatonphil.github.io/dbcore/
Ways to pass time inside this room [pdf]
Nowadays it's recommended to use Fragments instead of Activities, but it's kind of controversial topic.

It looks like you have some hardcoded data. I would move that to resources. You can use some kind of JSON or XML format to store that.

Another thing I would do is split classes into packages. Usually you would have one for UI layer, one for data layer etc.
Personal attacks and name-calling will get you banned on HN. We also rate limit accounts that post unsubstantive and/or flamewar comments. Please make your substantive points thoughtfully and leave out the rest.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why should I trust the creators of YouTube Vanced? Last time I looked, it was closed source.
I buy film from Film Photography Project, B&H, Adorama, and FreeStyle Photo. Most of the brick and mortar camera stores that still exist sell some film. For development I do black and white at home and send color out to thedarkroom.com because I don't shoot enough color to make the chemistry cost effective. I print black and white in my bathroom darkroom.

I'm still able to find 35mm, 120 and 4x5 film easily. I have a 127 camera that is a bit harder to find film for.
Mine too! (Updgraded from a monochrome Nokia a couple years ago) Although the battery isn't so great anymore. And reception is bad in certain places, I'm assuming due to the limited spectrums it can use. I haven't found any potential replacements that I'm too excited about.
To be honest, that's also because they probably want their employees to use one of their 37 different video-conferencing apps.
At least Skype and Webex don't accidentally route your calls through China. I don't really like Skype but Webex shines compared to either Zoom or Skype. And I'm talking meetings with triple digit attendance, meetings with dozens of simultaneous breakout sessions and screen sharing, etc. By far a better experience than Zoom.

The thing that Zoom really has going for it is that it's free and heavily marketed. This made it popular with a lot of people. But it's exactly the people who are least prepared to make an informed decision (and yes, I count a lot on "company men" here). The reasons are sprinkled all over every Zoom article.
It must be expensive for Mozilla to pay for all these old bugs to go to college.
Please don't make Hacker News more like Reddit.

Please don't make Hacker News more like Reddit.

Please don't make Hacker News more like Reddit.
This is not the complete picture. Stallman decided to reimplement Unix because it had a combination of popularity and technical merit.

For instance, MS-DOS had a larger installed base than Unix at the time, but ... enough said about that, right?

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, as the saying goes.

A hacker like RMS isn't going to pour years of coding into making a C compiler, and Unix utilities, in his spare time, if he thinks those technologies do not have merit.
It was experimental for trying to help identify repeat borrowers, that way we could link to their previous loan.

Separately, we experimented with various vendors "face detection" (not whose face, but rather just "is there a face") just to see how many faces appeared in a photo, because for group loans you needed at least 75% of the borrowers present in the photo. If this didn't happen then it meant the loan didn't get posted and someone would have to go back and get all the borrowers together again for another photo which is laborious and inefficient. Much better if you could give the feedback upfront. Granted, as I noted in another comment, at the time all the major vendor's tools had abysmal accuracy and we abandoned the effort.
Those old LaserJets were nearly indestructible. The newer ones, not so much.

I think I might have had that same Panasonic flip clock/radio as a teenager. Got rid of it long ago after a significant number of digits broke off.
> ... the software incorrectly matched 28 members of Congress, identifying them as other people who have been arrested for a crime.

Lol, that's because it's Amazon AI. Do you expect better from the makers of Alexa?
There is now a triangle between YC, Reddit and China via Tencent's $150M Series D investment in Reddit.

I wonder which YC startups form this triangle. Certainly having the CEO is a kind of a big deal.
Solutions to US Police Problems
S60Maps – yet another maps for Symbian 9.x
Wouldn't the threat of change be going in the opposite direction?
I tried to recreate this using Rekognition. I used a public mugshot database. Here are my results [0] if you're curious about what these false matches look like.

[0] https://medium.com/ml-everything/how-facial-recognition-work...
Is there a reason people prefer a monorepo to submodules?

I worked at one place that kept everything in a mercurial mono repo and it was a real pain keeping branches in sync.
Doesn't google meet only work in chrome?
It's an obscenity, defiling woods to make way for strip mining. I wonder once it's all played out whether they will backfill and let new woods grow again.
It matters a great deal whether someone is doing something to deceive or confuse. So whether it's toxic behavior depends on context.

If someone is reliable and trustworthy in their communication, then calling them "toxic" because you don't like the style is just wrong.

Conversely, someone can tell you all day every day how honest and straightforward they are, but if they aren't consistent or trustworthy, then their communication style is irrelevant.
Amazon announces one-year pause on police use of its facial recognition tech
Ireland? Why the heck would people troll that forum. Madness.
I really hope this doesn't mean Hacker News will start getting inspiration from Reddit, or that Alexis Ohanian doesn't get dillusions of grandeur and wants to turn this into what Reddit is (a profiteering social media company fuelled by ads and astroturfing). We really don't want that. What we have here is something quite special, and as far as I can see, unique on modern internet. It is a tiny slice of what the "old internet" used to be: serious discussion, wonderful anecdotes, thought provoking articles. We don't want Reddit drama, we don't want reddit moderation, we don't want reddit anything. We want the status quo.
Do CLO portfolios of major banks pose any systemic risk, yes or no?
Side nav broken on Chrome.
For child porn it is still grounds for a search warrant. Which they'll execute and return your stuff after not finding anything (six months later minimum).

Notice and notice is about copyright infringement only. It's just a pretty toothless way to intimidate. If they were actually going to do something then they would use notice and notice to serve you a summons to court. In that case it's either small claims, where you don't need a lawyer and the judge will help you if the other side uses one, or it's full court where the loser pays the all the winner's costs. So as long as you're on the right side of the law, it actually doesn't cost anything if you get sued (no filing fees as the defendant).

Whether or not you're actually liable in this situation is going to have to be answered by a real lawyer.
I posted in another comment, but I tried to recreate this using default 70% match. The dataset was 440 images of congressmen and 1,756 mugshots. There were ten mismatches between 70-77% certainty

https://medium.com/ml-everything/how-facial-recognition-work...
Well, that would only make Reddit better, but Redit is much much bigger. The bigger risk is that Alexis sees what Reddit is doing (maybe gets a peak at their balance sheet) and thinks that what we have here is the next big social media unicorn he can overhaul and then flog off to the highest bidder.
Out of idle curiosity I tested that domain too, and it works on my end (Chromium 80.0).
Canonical source: https://redditblog.com/2020/06/10/reddit-welcomes-michael-se...
Hot potatoe? Last one left holding the battery pays the disposal costs?
> Throwing in some "social proof" for why all of that was okay:

More just to explain what led to it, but you can interpret it how you like.

> Emphasizing how big of a person you truly are by putting in extra effort:

Actually, just trying to live up to the standard I set for myself, but don't always achieve. I chose an idiom that might have implied something I didn't intend. By "going out of my way" I was really just referring to how I was replying to myself, and not waiting for your reply to me, so try to short circuit that wait, and express my feelings even if you chose not to reply but still felt negatively about the exchange.

It is possible to apologize for how you did something, but not for why. This isn't some attempt and stealing a "win" in an argument through meta-analysis, it was just me deciding I had been uncharitable, and deciding to do something about it.

I'm sorry it sounds like you couldn't accept this in the spirit it was meant. It's probably not productive for us to continue further on this topic. I hope you have a good night.
Currently Intel likes to disable features on some models of Core cores for product segmentation reasons. I'm pretty sure processors sold under the Pentium or Celeron brands already have enough features fused off that they're roughly comparable to the Atoms this is being pared with. You also fuse off things like sections of cache or whole cores that have manufacturing defects.
This involves giving out validated billing details to Google which from a privacy point of view is much worse than just letting the ads be (they still track you but at least it's pseudonymous).
My Carver C-1 stereo amplifier has been playing music all day every day since I bought it in 1981 or so.

I've kept several of my computers from the 80s and 90s and 00s, but they won't power up any more.
Did you read this backwards? He was added to reddits board. Why would this influence hn?
Ask HN: What do you think about this idea (stocklist.live)?
Stocklist (https://stocklist.live) is a way for you to create collection of stocks from around the world and track it's value over time. You can share the list with others and track popular stocklists created by others.
How on earth could a user "prove" this? Mention some secret on a call and then watch for the Chinese government to act on that secret? Give us a break. It's much safer to assume surveillance and protect oneself accordingly.
In theory, TDP scales linearly with clockspeed. In practice, power increases higher than that rate. 30-35% increases in heat to dissipate is significant.

I'm old school when it comes to overclocking. Stability and sustainability matter to me. I don't always run all cores full-on for hours, but when I do, I want a cooling solution that's up for the job.
Mine is my 1972 Dodge. I drive it once a week.
I bet GrubHub realizes it can get an even bigger payday later on when either Uber or DoodDash will need to acquire it. That's probably why they didn't want to consolidate with Uber immediately.
Why do you think he has any say in what happens to HN?
Just an appreciation post, not a question. I have reached out to graphviz as my tool of choice for diagramming for my entire career. Sometimes years go by without me using it, but I always end of finding a place to use it.

Recently I started teaching Software Development, and once again reached for graphviz for a huge variety of classroom uses.

Thanks!
The oldest thing I have that I still use daily is my bedside clock radio. It's from 1983, when I got it as a birthday present to help me wake up for 1st grade. It says on the bottom that it was "proudly made in Malaysia".

It was my primary alarm from 1st grade through high school and college and much of my adult working life, until about 12 years ago when I switched to using my cell phone.

But we still use it as our primary clock in our bedroom to this day. It keeps time better than most modern clocks.
Just to be clear, he decided he needed a second screen after he decided he needed a second home, and a home office with a separate room for a video-conference app.

He may be right that the second screen helps. But maybe it's worth saying it in a way that isn't tied in with a level of wealth that signals that his problems are often unlike most people's problems.
Reducing server bandwidth with conditional GETs
My point was that the form of communication doesn't matter so much as the context. I agree that you can assume a context that implies it was bad.
What are you talking about? Alexis Ohanian left Reddit, and Michael Seibel took his place on Reddit's board. How would this lead to Alexis Ohanian having an influence on HN?
True. You'd think I would have learned by now. You can't have a logical discussion about illogical views.
Most of Microsoft's Scalar tool is also a thin wrapper around existing git configuration or just task scheduling upstream git operations with currently no or minimal config UI and Microsoft's blog posts talk about what isn't a thin wrapper around auto-configuration is stuff they are working to upstream directly to git eventually (assuming it makes sense to be in git upstream; GVFS for instance is considered out of scope, and git likely won't ever have a background task scheduler).

Since Scalar is open source, it can be a useful reference for git settings to try in large repositories. I know that if I need to remember how to configure git's sparse "cone" checkouts, Scalar is where I'd look rather than try to manually configure it directly in git's config files.
The C# Design Process a Conversation with Anders Hejlsberg(2003)
China has been accused a number of times of engaging in industrial espionage. As a company developing a lot of high technology products, I think Google is entirely justified in keep Zoom out of its technology infrastructure.
I mean, HN isn’t really relevant as an asset to ycombinator besides a advertising asset, right? It has a couple million monthly users, maybe 1 new feature a year, and runs on a single core. It’s more of a demonstration of Arc than anything, right?
Are there programming jobs for Math PhD's?
A friend in my network graduated with a PhD in Math and wants to work in Tech as a programmer.

Looking at his CV below, would anybody hire him?

Schools
BSc in Mathematics (CS minor) - 4.0 GPA
Cambridge University -MSc Maths (Topology) - Merit
Oxford University - PhD in Maths

Work Experience
Alan Turing Institute - Research Associate in Computer Vision for 1 year.
Software developer - 9 months in total

Good knowledge: Python, C++, PHP.

Question, is he hireable for any of the big tech firms? or startups as a programmer?
From COINTELPRO and beyond!
To be fair, many of the participants on the call were probably in the government's employ, so they got a realtime feed. BLM activists have to watch out for the same thing: lots of FBI and big-city police CIs.
Uh, why something like that is on front page?
I'm Married to an ER Doc in NYC
> I think security and ease of use are mutually exclusive.

> I can't think of a single counterexample where security did not have an effect on usability.

Sticking with the "mutually exclusive" criterion, wouldn't ssh vs. rsh serve as a counterexample? How about https vs. http?

Both replacements brought us greatly improved security, with no effect on usability in the vast majority of time I've spent with them.
I mean most of Asia does routinely punish way more severely for non-violent drug offences.
Posing the question to gain more familiarity with African-Americans in tech: who were the other candidates for this position?
What is the nature and extent of student–university mismatch?
The end game of the race has already been reached and this is why the web without an ad-blocker is so hostile so I'm not sure what value there is in doing this.

In both cases (both now without an ad-blocker, and in a hypothetical future where ad-blockers are impossible due to DRM) the experience is terrible.
That sounds like the donation request is being effective...
In civilized world (Europe, upc/liberty global) difference between 300Mbit and 1Gbit is $3, per month. Internet economics in US are all about maximizing profits and rubbing nipples https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbHqUNl8YFk.
I am sorry for him. I know as a fact that he’s brilliant and fully deserves the position, but given the circumstances (Ohanian resigning and calling for someone black to replace him) he will always have to live with people having the reasonable doubt that he didn’t arrive there for merit alone.
It's the perennial thorn in the side of big tech companies. If you want to do business in China, you have to abide by the rules (as you would in any country). However, in China this means that you have to engage in political censorship in order to do business there. Hopefully this is will be a lesson learned.
Funny and true but also because companies should really scrutinize this kind of software more carefully. Your meeting app "participates" in some of the most delicate conversations.

I used Zoom exactly once. I was invited, I installed the software and Chrome extension as a regular user. I had a mediocre experience in the meeting but didn't pay too much attention, and then proceeded to uninstall the software when I got a prompt that I need to do it as admin.

For me this was a clear warning signal that they want the software to be there especially in companies (that didn't block it) where many users may end up installing it but then aren't able to remove and just forget about it.

Then I started reading about their installer "mishap", their general encryption scheme weakness "mishap", their encryption key routing through China (!!!) "mishap", the redefining of E2EE "mishap", the default settings "mishap", and the mishaps just piled on to the point where I personally believe only a great deal of ignorance or blissfulness could allow a company to still use it.

I get schools and individuals do, it's "free", meaning they don't pay with money and they don't need to look any further than that. But I refuse to ever use it again and when I got Zoom invitations I politely declined, offered to host the meeting myself, or else just asked to be sent the meeting notes on mail. I have no reason to believe Zoom intends to fix their issues but rather to hide them better next time.
Really, though, who denies the language has a very bad reputation? A lot of these decisions were questionable, but explainable, like mysql_real_escape_string coming from the MySQL C code itself.[1] that doesn't excuse it, but it explains it.

[1] https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-real-escape-st...
Nope, it's still a great illustrative comic. The people that disagree with the censorship are the ones showing Zoom the door. It's all individual choice, from Zoom and from those who agree / disagree.

I don't agree with Zoom's censorship because I don't agree with China's laws. But I'm not in China, so I have the luxury of expressing my opinion about pretty much anything. Zoom, having operations in China, chose their path. Fine with me, it just means Zoom are lower down my list. That's precisely the scenario depicted in the comic.
Great!
and you can redirect automatically by using a redirect browser extension/plugin :)

I just set it up with my favourite: https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/

* Include pattern: ^https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v=(.)

Redirect to: https://www.youtube.com./watch?v=$1

* (check "regular expression)

you can check it's working by adding, e.g.

* Example URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfdsfasd

(I see the code is not rendered well here, see https://pastebin.com/LVqWMgAM )
Looking at you, Alamo Drafthouse
:D The joy of aesthetics and style is that there's enough room for more than one of us to be right, and certainly enough room for all of us to be wrong :-)
What?? I enjoy reading Hacker News and commenting, but Reddit is a lot more open and puts a higher value on free speech and contrarian ideologies (some of it is borderline horrible, but that's OK, that's the price of free speech). I'd be more worried about him bringing HN policies to Reddit.

Trying to get superficially good behavior from users by punishing contrarian views isn't going to work in this case. But it works for HN because people know that we're just guests on a VC's property.

But I come to HN to push agendas and collect feedback on ideas, not to share what I really think about.
That is also what I immediately noticed. The graphs showed that the slow runs were around ~4s (p50) or ~7s (p90), and then also mention that Linux was 5-10x faster. This would mean the same operations on Linux are somewhere around 1s in the worst case, which is perhaps even faster than their sped up system.

But instead they had to build all this extra junk like an additional caching layer and daemon (wasting memory and CPU) atop the kernel's existing cache just to work around the kernel being slow.