skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Every single sentence of it is wrong or misleading. First sentence, "There are no laws, rules, or taxes which apply everywhere else in the UK which don't apply in the City." Yeah, there are laws which apply to the Corporation of the City of London which don't apply elsewhere. That's the point.

Would you like to try reading the sentence which i wrote, and you quoted, again, squire?

I agree with you that people should look all this up for themselves, though!
“Classic MacOS used Resource Forks. That's where file type was stored instead of using extensions.”

That’s incorrect. File type and creator were stored in the file system, not inside files.

“I believe icons were stored there”

Icons typically were stored in resource forks, but not in the way I think you imply. Applications defined mappings from (type,creator) to icon in their resource forks (which also stored lots of other stuff, including application code). The Finder merged all the mappings needed in the desktop database (each disk had one, stored at the top level of the disk)

The icons couldn’t be read from each file because opening each file would slow down the Finder (it was slow enough to start with) and, I guess, it would take way too much disk space (a single 32×32 black and white icon with mask is a whopping 256 bytes. Overhead probably made that a kilobyte on disk. That adds up on a 400kB disk)
https://www.cenelec.eu/dyn/www/f?p=104:110:922142357808101

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From what I've observed on other sites (mostly StackOverflow and Reddit) I think there are a few major components to this, namely: timing of post, luck / randomness regarding early upvotes, and other posts during that day.

The last one is a bit like when a film releases on the same weekend as some blockbuster, it is more likely to go under the radar. The middle condition is mostly luck, unless someone is prepared to manipulate the early upvotes somehow. But the first one is quite easy to time correctly - US-heavy sites tend to have a few time slots where a disproportionately large number of people check it. My guess would be morning, lunch and afternoon slots, and especially slots where different time zones overlap. E.g. an afternoon slot for Europe which overlaps with the Eastern seaboard doing a morning check of HN might work quite well, etc. This can help a fresh post break through the decaying, but highly upvoted older posts that are keeping it from more visibility.
Yeah their auto-screening isn't particularly impressive. I'm just learning the platform, but I posted a video ad that was rejected and had to be reviewed (fair); then I made that exact same video a boosted post on my business page and had to go through the process again.

I think we're still in the very eary days of L in ML.
I agree with your statement, but I am not sure official Russia shares that view.
Free knowledge like mathematics existed before copyright and was free as in freedom.
The wonderful world of patents.

On an unrelated note, I do believe that Canon has also pulled a patent on quad-pixel AF. Patents being awful aside, quad-pixel AF would be awesome: every pixel becomes a cross-type focus sensor.

(For the uninitiated, focus sensors are usually either horizontal or vertical, and cannot detect features that are perpendicular to them. Cross-type sensors are a combination of the two to increase the detection capability.)
Unfortunately, if you look at his pattern of behaviour, it's probably entirely untrue. It's most likely something he thought would be a good story to tell. It's an exploitation of the silicon valley game - since everyone else is embellishing their stories and achievements you can just make things up entirely and pay no price for it.
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While job searching me and a mate made an interactive app to learn ReactJS and teach graphing algorithms (Dijkstra, A*, BFS etc). Enjoy it (and contact us if you have any exciting jr. dev roles/opportunities !)
I guess there is pure and pure. Pure in the sense of no side-effects at all, such as for example writing to a file, and pure in the sense of not relying on state.
Virgin Australia administrators agree to sell airline to Bain Capital
In terms of technology, yes. In terms of civil liberties, no.

I predict a lot of cities and countries will follow suit and start banning facial recognition technology altogether. If not then we're screwed. I already avoid traveling to the UK for the insane privacy invasion of their CCTV system. I get that there are benefits for crime investigation but it's far from worth it, the whole concept feels incredibly surreal (and wrong) to me.

Edit: To further your point, even if fingerprints were 100% accurate, there's still the off chance that someone planted your fingerprints. And someone could be wearing a you-mask, so you cannot rely on fingerprints or facial recognition for waterproof evidence. Which is why proper trials require multiple sources of evidence (I hope - IANAL).
10% is an underestimate. BTC fluctuates by 50% or more.
For anyone unfamiliar with the term, this regulatory phenomenon is known as the "Brussels Effect" [1,2] (after a similar phenomenon in the US called the California Effect).

Some have suggested that it could make the UK's desire to set its own regulatory standards after leaving the EU rather an uphill struggle. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/how-the-bruss...

[3] https://www.ft.com/content/7059dbf8-a82a-11e7-ab66-21cc87a2e...
> A time traveller [sic] could buy a current Rolex [...]

Well, no. A wealthy time traveler could buy a current Rolex. Rolex is a terrible example. I'd love to learn about high quality, affordable brands. Also, only being able to know the time is very little information nowadays; smartwatches can do so much more (I have a Fossil Hybrid HR).
The smartphone society and its threat to our digital privacy [video]
Hypothetically, I imagine they'd sue for damage to their brand. Mozilla has been pushing Firefox as the privacy browser, and if Comcast were to break the deal it would hurt users' trust in Mozilla. I agree it is unclear what the consideration from each party is, though.
My wife and I had a Fairphone 2 as well. Fantastically repairable. I broke the screen on mine just before a vacation, priority-shipped a new one two days before we left and had it all repaired in time. My wife's phone had a strange headphone issue, bought the spare part, and even got reimbursed afterwards, because it might have been a manufacturing issue.

But we have both since moved on. Why? Because the Fairphone 2 was slow when it was released, and things got unbearable in the end. They still technically work perfectly, but software demands simply outgrew the hardware. At the end, the battery (a new one) would barely last half a day, and google maps or websites would frequently evict background audio due to memory pressure.

Which is terribly sad to me; Fairphone (the company) did everything right, but the market decided against them that old hardware just is not viable. Here's to hoping that smartphone demands have slowed down enough to make the Fairphone 3 last longer than the 2.

But for now, I choose buying used phones over fair new ones. And maybe that is actually better for the environment, too.
Another cool command-line weather service:

finger city@graph.no

also includes forecasts (try city+24).
European here, and the 6PM-12AM window is the one I feel the most productive in. I guess it will be a big change for a majority of people but I would definitely be interested by this.

Moreover when I work, I work, so if the sun is already down I'm ok with it; when it's up I can do all the active parts of my day that are more enjoyable during the day.

Still, it's not perfect. I don't think it would be that big of a deal for social life, because most events happen during the weekend anyway, but you'd still be expected to not be available for anything. Hopefully this is just the first phase for Quora, and they'll realize at some point that the whole point of working remote is that everything is asynchronous and synchronous is the exception
On a Boston subway several years ago I heard a homeless guy with a smartphone, talking to a friend about looking for a place to sleep that night, and about a cool new app.

Cell coverage is widely available in third-world countries, and smartphones are increasingly widespread.

So, not all that much privilege anymore.
I have not pre-rinsed for a dishwasher ever. Have had Two in the last 15 years, current one is less than 5 years old and made by Siemens. They’ve always worked fine.
Recipes are so common on the web that we need a <recipe> html tag along with <rs> and <ri> for steps and ingredients.
"Leading by example" does not mean a leader doing the same job as you.
I played DF for a while and seems to me that its main usability problem is not text graphics, but general bad UI design. It can be used as a cautionary example of why action-object (instead of object-action) approach and many-modes lead to bad usability.
there's a better world out there, believe me. you are alienated by living in such a pool of sharks. you won't believe how relieving it is to live in a world where you can trust people
> you were supposed to mix HTML and PHP in one file. Easy to do and easy to make bugs.

I maintain a large project (inherited) that has that; cannot say it's been that bad in my experience; it has been running for 20 years and used (internally and externally; it's a crm/erp/everything system) used by 1000s daily; no significant bugs have been reported and adding/changing features is fast and painless. I sometimes wonder if that over-architected stuff we have been taught really is much better. For most things here I change one (or 2) file, test, deploy, done. For most other stuff I maintain, for every change I have to change 5-10 files all over the place (service layers, data layers, migrations etc) and the result is not really better (I would say actually worse generally). It's not really apples vs apples (for starters, it is only used by this company and it's partners, while other systems are running publicly and have far more users and people trying to hack/break things) but this old system is causing me far less headaches than many others while it's far larger and more complex functionality wise.

Edit: many companies came in 'offering' a rewrite but yeah.. This costs nothing to host and barely anything to maintain (compared to the revenue of the company) ; all other solutions or rewrites would cost a lot to create/set up and then a lot to run/maintain as well. It's a good example of a company that would be insane to 'go cloud'. Not many benefits but a nice bite in the profit.
Twitter introduces new Send Mob feature
I was under the impression that bitcoin trading volume has been increasing steadily in Venezuela.

https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins/VES
On iOS 14 and Android
Sad for the Zoox team, but not too surprised. Running out of money was always going to be a huge risk for them (even without am economic downturn) given how ambitious they were.
I'm on mobile, does this framework at least disable the home button? I would consider that a must-have for elevator frameworks.
This must have been a later version than the one I was given growing up. The one I had only had Apple support. There was no Y cable included, or necessary, because the ADB ports on the Apple keyboards were already chain-able. I just plugged my Alphasmart into the unused extra connector on the keyboard itself!
The same applies for Oculus Quest. Most of my friends have an Oculus Quest and I read the Quest subreddit a lot. This is the first time I've ever heard anyone experiencing those problems on it, while it was very common on older headsets.
Great British Chefs [0] sort of does this - they have both a full list of ingredients with quantities and also at each recipe step they list off the ingredients with quantities used in that step.

[0]: https://www.greatbritishchefs.com
I just prefer to disable autocorrect.
Any currency can be used as a parallel currency. Cryptocurrency doesn't have a monopoly on that. Usually people just use dollars when their native currency is worthless.
It's interesting to see so many people here checking the code of all their open source packages, so here's my take on it as a security consultant:

No, most people don't, they even have a hard time keeping library versions up to date.
If I'm willing to give up long pipelines and out of order execution for security I'd at least go for a Project Denver chip or something. No need to give up all the single thread performance, or multiple cores sharing a memory pool.

Or more likely a chip with a ton of ARM A5* cores on it due to availability.

EDIT: Wait, it looks like I could actually get a Drive AGX for $700 on Newegg[1] and they seem to have about 40% the single thread performance of a Ryzen[2]. So actually not out of the question if I was willing to give up more for security than I actually am.

[1]https://www.newegg.com/nvidia-jetson-agx-xavier-32gb-256-bit...

[2]https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia-j...
True. I deeply regret not spending idk 70€ more getting an iPhone SE instead of the Moto G5 Plus. Last security update was January 2019, as I got about 2 of 3 years of "support". Somehow I was assuming there was going to be an official lineageOS build. Guess what...

I am now in the situation where I can't bring myself to buy Android again, but don't really have the 500 bucks for the new SE. Honestly, new techy features became the least important factor for decision making for me. Support/security > connectivity > battery > repairability > X.
I save my recipes in plain old text files. For a long time now I've been meaning to write them up in LaTeX and print them on A6 cards with a nice font. Then construct a nice wooden box to put them in.
Have you tried Prisma?
>So much attention is always paid to accuracy when facial recognition comes up.

Because many people are ok with mass-survielince as long as long as it's used fairly. The problem they see with this tech isn't that it's going to create the kind of world we don't want to live in but that it unfairly targets minorities and/or the poors more than other people. They don't understand that it can never be fair because the institutions that run it can never be fair because there will always be out-groups because that's how human nature works and they will get disproportionately screwed unless we limit the ability of the majority to screw them.
There's all sorts of audiophiles out there. Some hold beliefs rooted in pseudoscience.

And some are all about accuracy and measurements.

For instance, I use Sennheiser HD600[0], which I strongly recommend, attached to Topping DX3 Pro (old model)[1], which I cannot recommend, as the v2 model shipping now is garbage[2], a consequence of a redesign to work around high fault rates. Mine is fine as problem units fail within weeks, and I've had it for years.

[0]: https://reference-audio-analyzer.pro/en/report/hp/sennheiser...

[1]: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/r...

[2]: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/m...
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it's my daily driver, and I upgraded and restored from iCloud for the last few devices in a row so it's hardly pristine. I'll see if I can do a sysdiagnose tomorrow.
Apple is far from the only company with that kind of license ( Qualcomm, Nvidia, Samsung, even Intel)
The Rebel Physicist Trying to Fix Quantum Mechanics
there is actually a standard using attributes :) https://schema.org/Recipe
To me the main accomplishments which led to the beginning of the current AI summer in 2012 are:

1. Convnet (Lecun)
2. LSTM (Schmidhuber)
3. Scaling up the convnet to win ILSVRC (Hinton)

Strictly speaking it was just 1 and 3 which jumpstarted the revolution in computer vision, but the importance of LSTM for sequence modelling (language and speech) is hard to overestimate.
No, because they are not implemented as a part of wego;
wego is used just for visualization of one of the views (v1).
The rest is implemented outside of it
Systematically exposing the information that you were at place X at time Y is already a huge privacy violation. You can bet it will not only be used for that (immediately dispatching police forces) but in due time it will become the norm for countless other “less harmful” uses in the interest of whoever controls the apparatus (government, lobbies, industry): collection agencies, private investigators, myriad profiling ventures, and yes, advertising. We’ve been warned.
It takes a lot of self-confidence for a small business person to issue revenue notes. They aren't profit notes; they come off the top line not the bottom line. So if the business goes through a cycle of loss-making this kind of debt can turn into a way to "fail fast." Then everybody loses.

Hopefully a small business considering this kind of loan can get some free advice from somebody like https://score.org/ before they get in too deep. I know I'd recommend that before I made that kind of investment.
Again, if you buy a Dyson that follows EU norms it still works great.

Bit off topic perhaps, but in my experience: Dyson does not necesarily work great nor handles well nor does last particularly long. Ok this is only anecdotal from my experience and 2 friends (Animal pro models or similar) but still.. Main complaint: it's overengineered/designed to the point it degrades usability. The handle is about twice the weight of a 'standard' one. The hose is very short so you have to drag the thing behind you cnostantly. Sucking power is really not all good. And it gets degraded by mouthpiece design with extra obstruction and narrow pieces in the airway. Which also makes it pretty hard to get e.g. straws of grass to pass through. Design of the mouthpiece is also such that anything larger than about 4mm requires lifting it to get sucked in. It makes a lot of noise already, but if you attach the carpentry cleaning mouthpiece (which in their defense is a rather nifty idea, but for the small effectivity it adds has the disadvante it wears out carpets/couches/... because the brushes are quite harsh) it becomes really, really loud. If you accidentally suck up dust which is too fine it becomes broken (even more noise, loss of sucking power), though that can be remedied by taking most of it apart and cleaning out with compressed air or perhaps water. Mechanism for sucking in the cable is way too weak.

I get that this all might sound like it's a disaster, but I guess it could work for some people who haven't tried alternatives. After all it does suck up some dust. And it doesn't require dustbags. Still I recommend anyone looking for a vacuum cleaner to look into simpler yet more effective designs. From other things I've used: Nilfisk is really good. Models I've used are simple, just work, none of the complaints from above. I also happen to have a Festool one which I normally use for dust extraction for saws/sanders. While not really meant for it, and pretty expensive, it's still way simpler in design than the Dyson and completely blows it away on all fronts.
Don't get me wrong - I really do love Haskell. And I don't think the language extensions are bad.

I just mean that Haskell doesn't feel like a coherent, commercial language to me. It is basically a bunch of PhD thesis's strung together on top of a research language - with some of these being very interesting and incredibly useful. This is perfectly fine for what it is - but it also means the overall language and standard library have not been designed with a "batteries included" mentality that let people get going easily and quickly in a commercial setting.

I suggested CL/Clojure because those are both interesting, lambda-calculus based languages similar to Haskell (without the typing, unfortunately), with great, mature libraries for building any commercial project possible.
One thing that our IT people complain a lot about is that some of the macbooks don't have enough power on their USB ports/port replicator, so you can't attach some USB devices when on battery.
Even more infuriating, for some projectors don't work without the notebook (because the port-replicator does not have enough power).

I also find it very interesting that if there is a problem with a some website/file/software mac-users blame it on the software (and actually windows users agree even if it works fine for them), but if it's a Linux user that has problems, it's always "because he/she is using Linux"
Another perk of remote worker villages is their potential for upsetting gerrymandered districts in the US.
With the condition that you can work those hours specifically? I don't believe they are that flexible.
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> an aside: I am somewhat disappointed to see a HN thread so populated with groupthink “Comcast is bad!” I’d expect that on theVerge comment board or YouTube comments. sigh

Is this really surprising? You do go on to acknowledge the “public resentment.” In the tech industry—HN’s specialty—Comcast certainly seems to be widely regarded as an evil beast with no conscience.

That’s an entirely anecdotal observation, but many of the comments in this HN thread are not: they frequently link to evidence, while Comcast employees chime in to say, “internally, it’s not like that anymore.” It’s great to hear that’s what it looks like on the inside, but given Comcast’s history and HN’s general skepticism, that’s going to be a hard sell without solid evidence.
I understand that very well. There was an understanding how it was handled on the net. That is why got legislation like removing platforms for the content of users. It was necessary to allow interesting content to flourish.

All that is now getting thrown out because some don't like a free net with diverse opinions. And yes, some of those are really shit. Life is hard.

It is the other way around, that people citing this legal fact don't understand the mechanisms that made the net as a whole workable for the largest amount of people, not just rich kids from prestigious universities without real life goals.

There are also people that understand the social contract of free speech and those that do not.
May I ask: do you or have you recently developed web front ends for money?
First time seeing a post like this on HN frontpage.
Phosphor-decay simulation isn't new - xscreensaver has had it for ages. What is new, and slightly mindboggling, is that they're going below "treat display as pixels and post-process them" and generating an actual PAL signal.

I've not checked to see whether they're keeping that in frequency space or actually emitting samples at some rate above 4MHz. But it's an interesting approach.

https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK/blob/master/Outputs/CRT/CRT.... seems to be well-commented.
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