skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recent practical example: I had a lot of trouble picking which photographs out of 20-100 of a subject to use. Enough were sharp, well-composed, and properly exposed to make it near impossible to pick.

I've been watching James Popsys' videos[1] lately. He doesn't take the greatest photos in the world from a technical standpoint, but there's a theme that runs through most of his videos and pictures: tell a story.

It's a lot easier to pick the best photos out of a bunch of technically decent photos when "best" is well-defined. And it turns out fit in a story about the subject is a solid criteria for best.

When I got my camera, I got this photo of a squirrel: https://kyefox.com/2020/05/20/squirrel-surprise/

It's fine. Not bad, not great.

Then, after thinking about that advice, I decided to tell a story: https://kyefox.com/2020/06/20/eastern-gray-squirrels-at-play...

They're all worse in technical terms than that one photo, but they're better because they fit into a story.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6WYZrzBuNQnz_2F4EqjhDQ
We have the ability to model nuclear explosions and desings in supercomputer simulations. I don't think it would be difficult to re-engineer nuclear warheads, even if all the original engineers are dead.
The French word is napperon.
> I don't know whether you use NextDoor, throwawaysea. Would you be willing to post this under your real name in NextDoor and share the link here?

That sounds to me rather like you're saying "tell us your real name or you're lying", which seems a rather specious (and hostile) argument.
Yes, but then again, Reddit also did the same thing right after the Boston marathon bombing and as I recall it went pretty badly, as they ended up identifying the wrong person as the culprit and his mom ended up receiving threats from random people (he was missing at the time). He was later found dead in a river and it turned out he had killed himself.
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> Outside of sex, I don't see a any proof that jogging will make me live a longer, happier life (especially when you subtract the time spent jogging).

Still a valid use case for cardio training IMHO.
>I think that very obviously qualifies as cruelty.

Whether or not it's cruel is orthogonal to whether it helps native workers. Summarily executing all visa holders is also cruel, but would probably also help native workers by constraining supply.
The beauty of "plain text" web sites is that with any decent web browser you can either turn CSS off, load your own CSS or switch to reader mode.
Really? What is that run going to do for your lifespan?
I've tried it a few times on my kindle, and it sounds like a nice things to have. However, the screen's refresh rate is crazy low. I'm guessing that can be improved, but that would likely come with a battery life hit. More importantly, good luck scrolling on a webpage where it takes you a second to see how far you've scrolled. Same issue were you to respond to a comment: typing with that sort of latency is absolutely dreadful. E-ink works great for displaying text and is so much better for reading than a screen, but there's definitely some more technological work to be done first.
Plus, dialects.
Yeah, but at least it's real fun, unlike jogging. :D
It's not Nextdoor, it's their neighbors.

My Nextdoor has none of the things people are complaining about. Here, the worst thing is arguments about whether we are taking COVID seriously enough or not, but I suppose that is a natural consequence of discussing which businesses are closed etc.
High comp doesn't go nearly as far if the jobs are located in high CoL places with declining QoL.
fixed, aka 6x13
You really should get a Selective ACK aware OS. Even Windows 2000 supports it.
exactly. That is not really desirable.

Also I think there is a ruleset that is just not really applied by most. That is problematic because it allows for people without good intentions to be strict marking up some students while being lenient with others (a double standard situation).
stuff like concepts and code reordering are planned to eventually became stable.
Nowadays everything is decided in the RFCs repo https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues before a PR hits the main repo.
Oh sod off. Apple is the one who decided that the only way for users to install apps is through the Apple store. Once they open that up your argument might have some merit.
The person I replied to seemed to think that the regimen directed to quit insulin without support from the numbers, leading to diabetic ketoacidosis.
Looking at the GitHub page, I like how the board appears to be laid out like an equivalent of a literate program.
To be clear, that's a weekly run. Just like we're not talking about a single lifetime dose of metformin.

As for the benefits of exercise with very few downsides, the abstract mentions some.
> Are you asking me how legislation works?

No. Laws do not exist a priori. They are constructed by the human society that forms structures and mechanisms to create them. I am asking you _why_ legislation comes into existence. In this specific case, I am asking you _why_ the Pure Food And Drug Act came into existence. Do you know the history?
Signs & markings is one of the most enjoyable parts - also practical if you're looking out airplane windows in airports frequently! https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim_html...
Be cautious when using third-party APIs
TLDR; chances are there are songs on SoundCloud that infringe some record labels' copyright. I was using SoundCloud API in my apps, thus my apps infringe their copyright. The consequence is my Google Play developer account has been terminated, forever.

This is a lesson I paid with a high price. About 2 years ago, I published 6 music streaming apps. These apps relied on SoundCloud API for searching, filtering & streaming music. The monetization model is Admob banner, there is no in-app purchase, no subscription. It went fine at that time.

Finally, an Indian record label filled DCMA reports about my apps' infringement. They listed some of the songs apparently being uploaded on SoundCloud, without their authorization. My apps were using SoundCloud API, thus, their songs appeared in these apps if my users search for them. In the wee hours of a night, I received consecutive emails notify that my apps have been removed for its violations. In the morning, when I wake up, an email put an end to my developer account, for repeatedly violating Google Play policies. Of course, all of my other apps, whether or not they violated the store's policy, have been removed too.

With API Terms of Use, SoundCloud already clarified they do not grant any rights when using their User Content. It was my thoughtless actions that resulted in the termination. I was always careful to choose free Google fonts, free Freepiks' icons, free Unsplash photos, free Youtube Studio music, etc. with their appropriated attributions. But I never thought using SoundCloud API would be a big problem. My hard-learned lesson.
Montreal needs to step up with their salaries.
I wasn't talking about lexical variation though. (I also wonder how much experience you have with the wide range of English varieties: there's quite a bit of lexical variation.) Lexical variation is pretty irrelevant for spelling changes.
Because "security people want to make your life harder" is as meme that needs to die. People actually believe that and if we don't call out that it's wrong and harmful, it will continue to be repeated.
Still not high enough. They raised it another 8 inches to make it an even 12ft not too long ago, but evidently that still not enough.

One would think they would've looked more closely at the traffic on that road and adjusted it accordingly.

It's also really silly to have a sign indicating that too large vehicles must turn, which most drivers won't read/see in time, and practically force them to crash into the bridge, instead of having some sort of 'bumpers' ahead of the bridge for those vehicles to bump into first (I've seen those at entrances of parking lots that have both above ground and underground parking).
At the other end of the spectrum, ‘row’ has two different pronunciations (each with its own meaning).
I agree with you. Unless it can be proven that he provided sub-par care because I was a foreigner, which I am pretty sure that he didn't, then there is absolutely no case for losing his job, or even be warned.

It's good to talk about our feelings and try to be considered to each other, but we should put facts and reason above feelings, which are not objective, otherwise we are doomed as society.

Having said that, if I would see my employee talk to a customer like this, I would definitely ask them to be more professional and discreet. Either here, in US, or back in my home country, where I think xenophobia is worse.
Seems like a lot of rationalizing.
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I’m also a T1D. I assure you, lots of diabetics have tried keto diets. It doesn’t put the disease “in remission”. That’s not how the disease works.
> And Apple suffers since they allowed the app to be sold on their store.

Well, they could allow the app to be sold outside their store, and then they wouldn't face any reputational risk from it.

I don't really see how this is deceptive either - if the app clearly states that you're paying for it upfront, and what the price is, then how are you being deceived? If you aren't willing to pay for it without trying it, then you can just not use it.
A few days ago I was searching for a cloud native, low fidelity mock up tool, and liked https://gomockingbird.com/

I have no affiliation with them.
Makes you a slave master nonetheless.
Because of dangerous impurity.

But this isn't dangerous impurity.

This is a guy angry that he isn't getting as many fruity loops as he used to.
you can still find quirky things

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Good question. Do you have a definition we can work with? I tend to focus on theoretical innovations like mathematical theories so my definition is often at odds with what most people think is innovative.
Yeah, we already did this quite a while ago.

In 2020, which capital will you choose? London, Delhi, D.C., Canberra, &c. &c.?
It would be an interesting test of group intelligence as well.

Most people here probably would not believe mass will and focus alone can manifest things spontaneously, but an app like this would be pretty definitive on that front. It's also potentially a good hook to get people to try it, and might lend itself easily to gamification that isn't technically a prediction market.
In Spanish on my teen years, which saw the rise of SMS and MSN Messenger, it was very common to see a simplified version of Spanish, where "hola" became "ola" since the h is mute, and similar changes. It was a brief period though, since now everyone (my age) uses proper grammar, and younger generations use English mixed in instead.
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If you are looking for DIY, there are some pretty solid channels on YouTube. I looked a few years back and it was impressive what they were doing then.

If not DIY, could you be more specific with the topic you are interested in?
Very true. I don't mean this as a strategy for procrastination, but rather as a strategy for finding patterns/modes of thought that would otherwise have been difficult for you to discover on your own from first principles.

It is very important to test out first hand by "doing the real thing" the ideas you discover by watching skilled people.
Thank you for posting this. It's a long read, and depressing in parts, but I found it really interesting.
I think the problem with such tools is that the technology disconnected our societal checks to make sure that such tools are used correctly. Or didn't consider the need for that function at all as this new online capability was created. It was just some developer+PM saying, "what if we offered this?" And it just appeared, a new feature in the world.

Now, maybe I will be downvoted for saying (in this climate), but the ability for people to see something suspicious and do something about it is important. You would have the pendulum swing the other way and have people actively tell themselves to ignore potential crime / bad actors, or be unable to report something legitimate?

But the point is that up to recent years, your interactions with police were not anonymous, and you had to (generally) put your name and reputation (or phone number and your voice) behind things that you asserted were true. There was an element of credibility verification in the reporting.

Today, anonymity on the internet, and the ease of creating false (or biased) reports has unleashed a tidal wave of noise and bad information, with no repercussions (reputation-wise, or cost) to the persons creating it. And the effects are all externalized to those who wrongly come under suspicion.

There are some things that need to have a barrier to being done, and taking it online lowers that barrier. Until we figure out what that caused, and how it's to be handled correctly, it's right that these portals disable the features that are causing us these kinds of societal mistakes -- and we actively should choose to slow down our adoption of things that we don't yet understand the full implications of.
Is there some ban against linking drm strippers on HN? I've seen countless links to scihub or to paywall bypasses on articles.
QUIC is already getting those optimisations as the existing large deployments are incentivised to do so, as one example Kazuho Oku from Fastly made changes to their TLS implementation that showed improvements to AEAD and header encryption[1]. I suspect we will see improvements to QUIC's performance at a pace faster than the optimisations to TLS were made to make ubiquitous use of it trivial.

[1]: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/quic/OnBhC4gCosmlU3VKo...
You know what? I love space ships. I want to live on a space ship and flow effortlessly from my bed to the kitchen, rehydrate some food and put it in a crumb-free wrap for breakfast, flow to my office and work on my experiments, take a break in the observation deck and take in the vastness of the planet below, and at the end of the day flow back to bed, wrapping myself up in my tethered sleeping bag so that I can doze off peacefully and not float away.

Do you know what would be really depressing? If that spaceship never left the ground.

I live on Earth, please don't build spaceships for me to live and work in while I'm down here.
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So, just make it the users’ problem?
Convenient.

It’s both obvious and not at the same time, how does that work?
My two cents: Ubuntu Mono is the only monospaced font I know that looks good for prose/code. I like to mix code and prose (in web and in Emacs org mode), and I prefer using the same font.
Microaggressions Cause Lasting Pain
@dang can we have the title changed or something? Most of the diabetics in this thread (yourself included) agree that the title is misleading at best and simply false at worst.
I tend to agree with this line of thinking... reminds me of Mike Tyson’s admonition “everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” You want to take that first punch as soon as possible.
Yes, SPICE (and its descendants) is fundamental to all integrated circuit design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICE

The code developed at Berkeley was available publicly and most all professional simulators were based at least in part on the SPICE code.

It would be interesting to estimate how many students and professionals have performed circuit simulations in the 47 years since the first version shipped. It is ubiquitous. It is safe to say I think that every chip, every computer, essentially every device with any electronics in it had some portion of that design simulated with SPICE or a derivative commercial simulator.

The authors could avoid a lot of confusion in many circles if they changed the acronym.
> who has generally been extremely forgiving of apple

He has his own sense of priorities, which often aligns with Apple (which is why he runs a website about them), but when they don't, he complains. There are times when his front page is all negative articles about Apple, when they're doing a bunch of things he doesn't like.
I don't use nextdoor so I don't know, but how much is caused by the platform's design and how much of that is just "these suburbanites are racist"?
Natives, on the other hand, tend to misspell (like you did ‘lieutenant’).
"I'll be invisible if I stay perfectly still" is a great photograph. Actually, that picture (with the caption) stands by itself - it tells its own story.
I have to agree with this sentiment.
I think this depends on the intimacy of the two people having the conversation. "How are you?" does always yield a (grammatically) direct answer: "great!" "good" "fine, thank you!" "ok...", but which of these someone chooses depends on how much time the other person wants to spend talking about it. You are right that it is uncommon to ask "how are you" because the questioner wants a detailed assessment of your mental health. It is just a set greeting. "I greet you!" would work just as well in many cases.

Not going into any depth here is a proxy for the relationship not being very deep. When I check out with my groceries, "how are you" is always exchanged. I am sure that neither of us really care about the details, so the details aren't discussed. Similarly, the kind of person that you have this superficial relationship with isn't going to give you a special price, invite you to their party, or invest in your startup. That is a deeper relationship that has to be cultivated somehow. That is not unique to English, that's just how people work.

A related issue is how people try to avoid random conversations with strangers. The people you see on the sidewalk walking at a brisk pace, looking at their phone, never making eye contact, wearing noise cancelling headphones are sending a clear message that they do not want to have a random conversation with you.
The fact that most mobile platforms are sandboxed would help a lot to mitigate this - even if you do install a malicious app, the damage it can do is going to be fairly limited in most cases.

(And the platforms that don't have effective sandboxing need to implement it, regardless of whether they allow outside apps or not).
I found arch to be quite stable on mine, though I didn't use a desktop most of the time. When I did, i3 was by far the fastest, so maybe give that a try.
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there is a bit by the comedian Doug Stanhope about how the time of the 'occupy wallstreet' group of people would have been better spent by sitting within the lobbies of large banking institutions and applying for superfluous loans that would be known to be denied before hand, taking advantage of the laws in place that disallow discrimination with regards to loan applications.

His example is something like 'Yes, I came here to apply for a loan of a billion dollars for an ant farm, yes I would like a complimentary coffee.'

It's an entertaining idea.
The other issue I have with the enclosure is it looks like the page-turn buttons are in the center on the bottom. Who would ever feel comfortable holding the thing like that? The buttons should be on the sides, and not at the bottom.

Regardless, though, it's a really cool project and I could see it morphing into something just as good or better than a commercial e-reader after a few iterations.
Same for Louisville, generally speaking. FWIW, I'm a 'lulvul' guy.
Hatred comes from lack of understanding and knowledge. Most American citizens I interacted with on this issue have little or no idea of how the immigration system is designed or works. It’s hard for them to fathom why it is so hard for third world passport to travel or work in other parts of the world because they haven’t had to jump through odd Red tape hoops to do it themselves.
This seems like some pretty shaky logic, to put it mildly.
...and the name comes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invidia (pronounced almost identically), also the eye logo.

(I find it amusing that the last item on that logo guidelines is basically saying no to its own site.)
This reality you want to impose on the world is hilarious.

Just picturing buying a computing device, then not being able to install the software I want on it.
Here's a frank answer. I've worked with various foreigners and H1Bs over a long career and always enjoyed it. I worry sometimes that they're being seriously abused by their employers, but I figure that's for them to decide.

I feel less positive about the program these days given that a number of companies have made it a point of pride to emphasize hiring of "diverse" employees, which seems in reality to be a pretext for H1B hiring that would not otherwise happen. This stings a little bit for me personally, as it's become clear that I'm losing some jobs to H1Bs. And I'm sure it really stings for native techies that can't find work during this incipient economic depression. (I'm old enough that being whacked by H1Bs just means unexpected early retirement.)

For whatever reasons, I suspect the American base will continue to hollow out and turn into something different. It's a bit like British cuisine, which has (in my impression) been essentially overrun by Indian cuisine and that of other countries. Is that bad? I guess it depends on your point of view.

Anyway, as long as the hiring is legal, I'm good with it. Certainly I've never met a colleague from another country that I didn't enjoy working with.
From the developer perspective I never felt the inspect CSS gets me much over the design documents that I got in the past, that included the systems definitions and rules to follow. To be honest, I prefer the latter and find a lot of the "modern", interactive tools fiddly and ineffective to use (e.g the generated css giving me a html code instead of a variable name even if its a defined design color).

That said, I never felt implementing a design once is the hard part, but keeping them maintained and in sync. What are things that worked for you in that regard?
E.g. as an engineer, how do I quicky figure out what I need to adapt when a design has changed? I quickly looked at Figma, and while there is a version history, it just seems to switch completly between versions without anymore detail. So I'm bound to miss changes and completly am reliant on the designer annotating manually.
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Yes, I've heard this before. I've even had to ""translate"" between an Ulsterman and an Afrikaner who both nominally spoke English as a first language but were unable to understand one another's accents a lot of the time. Regional accents and idioms increase confusion, while all International English speakers have a uniform, comprehensible, slightly bland idiom and accent.
Doesn't all surveillance require a warrant?
> If Apple is ready to switch to ARM they must have some impressive CPU.

Not necessarily. The tech advantage that Apple gains by designing its own CPUs is ease of adding its own specialist circuitry for computer vision, speech recognition, and other difficult sensing tasks.

Think Siri on device, not over the internet. And a Siri who is aware of conversational context, and the environment generally. Siri writing meeting minutes -- being asked for them after the meeting is over.

OK, that's probably not what Apple is thinking, but rapid circuitry addition is a real technical option that likely has real value to Apple.

Unified architecture is another thing that has value.