skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Visit a url with the same work in the title and the url, ie https://github.com/Whitespace/Glome

Close safari and reopen it.

Type in "Whitespace" then "Bookmarks and History" shows up. Highlight a result, then go to the end of the line and delete that work, thinking you'll be editing the url directly to get: https://github.com/Whitespace

It matches on the title and allows you to edit that, leaving you with the option to search on "Whitespace/glome: Glome! Powered by " which is extremely baffling.

My expectation is that it matches the url and allows me to edit it, which is something I do very often for github repos: type the name of the user, highlight a history result so https://github.com/ is filled out, then option delete the repo and type in the one I want to go to.
>They are often paid quite well because its dangerous

2019 median pay for a police officer/detective: $65,170[0]

2019 median pay for high school teachers (often cited as underpaid): $61,660[1]

[0]https://www.bls.gov/ooh/protective-service/mobile/police-and...

[1]https://www.bls.gov/ooh/education-training-and-library/mobil...
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If you can easily get a $500 device that makes 95% of cops stop chasing you, wouldn't every rational violent criminal buy one?

I suppose it could work if 95% of the police were engaged in something other than apprehending violent criminals...
This is great for machine learning, seems very useful for natural language processing. Congrats on shipping, it is brilliant!
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Original way of recording a podcast: instead of meeting in a place, just send questions to participants and they record when they have time to do it. Then download the result or share it on podcast directories. Landing page here: https://rumble.studio
In such a system there's typically two kinds of E2E. E2E for the team's service and end to end for the entire system.

If you can't write the former without acceptable debugging tools your tests suck and you should rewrite them.

If you are a team writing a micro service in an ecosystem of micro services, you need to write E2E tests that mock systems external to yours and have very clear agreements/contracts about how they interact as well as a QA team to test the system as a whole coz otherwise each bug that crosses a layer degenerates into an orgy of finger pointing. Ideally debugging at that scale should be rare and done with multiple members from multiple teams.
If you need a particular amount of flour, you can't express it in volume, since 250ml of flour may be too much or too little depending on how tightly the flour is packed. For reliable baking, measuring flour by volume is too inaccurate, you need to weigh it so you know how much flour actually went into that cup.
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Good point. The people who need this are the people least able to handle it.

Many sole proprietor businesses get in trouble with sales tax collections when they try to juggle accounts with cash flow problems. Adding a loan product like this... ouch.
For people defending Verizon censoring things, would you still defend Verizon so vigorously if they were bowing to Conservative groups and blocking text messages related to women's health? Because they actually did that. [1]

It's really amazing how attitudes have changed. This is what the ACLU had to say about Verizon back then:

> Verizon and AT&T, among others, are spending millions of dollars lobbying Congress for the right to discriminate against content on the Internet it deems controversial, unsavory, or even just contrary to its own business interests.

I think now, the ACLU is pressuring Congress and Verizon to crack down more on content.

Of course, the idea that Facebook, a $70 billion dollar company that dwarfs any phone company in customers, should somehow be less regulated than Verizon is ludicrous. Facebook should be required to consult congress before any major policy changes. Amtrak, The US Postal Service, and Verizon are all "private" companies, but they provide such an essential service that they are heavily regulated. So should Facebook.

[1]: https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/verizon-reverses...
It's not an article and I was making an assumption. I worked at a similar company (with one the the founders of this place) and the idea was that "affinity based" loans have a lower chance of defaulting. I have no idea if the numbers back that up though. It's like a rough mix of social media and small business lending. It's not necessarily the most financially prudent, but I don't think it is trying to be.
It's possible that Boston learned from SF's mistake.
My CI/CD pipeline doesn’t run on Windows. When I’m writing my code in any of the three languages I mentioned, I am running them straight on my Windows box.

I push the code and my Linux based build server, pulls in the dependencies, builds the artifacts - either Docker container or Lambda - and deploys it.

I first played with Docker on Windows in 2014. I didn’t really start using it for anything in production until 2019.

But talking about who did it first is about like Mac nerds bragging about having long file names before Windows. No one cares.
Sorry, but isn't a wristwatch like a bazillionth of complexity of a modern smartphone? How many transistors do you need for a wristwatch?

The whole idea of servicing modern electronics is romantic nonsense. The hourly rate of an expert will make it too expensive quickly, because industrialized mass production is too effective.

(Edit: according to this link on Quora, several billion transistors are not unrealistic in a smartphone https://www.quora.com/How-many-transistors-are-there-in-the-... )

What is the hourly rate of a watchmaker?
Was about to say the same. When I started reading I was scared of oversimplification but this piece perfectly rode the line between a whimsical read and providing scientific knowledge!
Precisely: and that issue (among many others) is the one ding dongs in "quantum information" sweep under the carpets and hope you don't notice. It's HUGELY OBVIOUS if you try to do it for an HP42 calculator tier computer. Somehow the mystification of adding entanglement to the mess pushes it off into "Hilbert space" and nobody notices.
> The mixing of unfixed and fixed timesteps leads in my opinion to one of the greatest headaches in game development

Here's the scarier truth: bugs due to timestep handling like this are really just evidence that you're hitting the stiffness edge of the underlying differential equation.
And you can't fix that with timestep, really, at all. At least not with feasible performance.

You have to move to fancier solver algorithms if you want any hope of controlling these things in this regime. And even then the yet-scarier truth is that you'll never be able to control it even there, but at least you'll have hope of recognizing and understanding it.

Source: wrote a physics engine for FlightGear many years ago, based on a solid, simple RK4 engine, thought I understood everything perfectly and had picked all the right algorithms. And holy tuning hell, Batman... did you know how stiff landing gear are when you're just sitting motionless on the ground?

Integration algorithms, in practice, are easily the most frustratingly intractable area of numerics programming. And yet they come up in situations like this where they seem "obvious". It's a giant trap.
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Apple doesn't seem to care all that much, it's been like that for many years now. "swscan.apple.com" is the search keyword to find all the things it offers for downloading (including all versions of macOS since ~Lion or maybe a little later...)
The quantum of action, which a layperson can consider as the smallest possible state change, is actually Planck's constant.

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

All energy refers to is an amount of state change that is occurring every second that some quantity of energy exists. That's why action has units Energy x Time.
You can divide by time and you get Energy = Actions per Second, kinda like APM in Starcraft..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_(physics)

Principle of least action is really the principle of "least change."

In summary, computation is happening -- but most of the computation that energy does while held as mass/matter is cyclic processes (aging.) Not anything interesting, at least to me or you. Unless you like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating
I may be a cynical, and lets face it angry, old man, but I am quite confident they do know why and just don't care because their priorities do not lie with making the user experience good.
> A native VS Code-like experience for iPad is sorely needed.

Why not just use a MacBook? Why use iPad?
PBM is probably the easiest list - http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/pbm_list/

The PBeM server on gamerz.net has a good sized list of games they host. http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv/ (I used to play a bit of Firetop Mountain long ago - http://www.gamerz.net/~fm/ ). Note that this is a very old server and I haven't checked if anything is still running.
What do you use for the terminal?
Compute a simple checksum over first megabyte or so of the image file (for O(1) complexity) and store it per known file in memory. Store thumbnails using that checksum as key in global cache. Don't purge because methods discussed in this thread don't.
Just to extend on this - this is how it's done in the UK.

Specifically in London the regular police are not armed. Armed police patrol the city in cars - if you're in the city you can identify these cars as they have a big yellow spot on the windows and there is an officer in the back seat. The aim is to be able to respond to a request within 8 minutes.

During the London bridge attack the attackers were shot dead by armed police 9 minutes after the first call to the police.
unfortunately the recipes never include the steps required to prep the things. There's the ingredients, and then halfway through the recipe there's the "now add the chopped carrots" ..."WHAT?!?! you never told me to chop the carrots!"

drives me nuts. I have to rewrite any recipe i want to keep making to actually have all the required instructions.
You mean those old telegraphic transfers?
Why should I use that?

With my PayPal/Mastercard/GooglePay/ApplePay I can do an international order in seconds.
10.8% faced “assault” is a very misleading statistic because “assault” as reported here is completely up to the discretion of the reporting officer.

Only ~1/10 of these “assaults” are even prosecuted. If prosecutors aren’t even willing to charge someone with assaulting an officer, it probably wasn’t worth calling an “assault”.
SV is hardly the only corner of business prone to fish stories/dick waving. It's the same as the Hollywood gossip circuit, serving the same function.

High school lunch-table politics don't end at 18, unfortunately.
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Only other optimization I would add to this is that you don't need to use the same 'consumer' value for all parts of your game loop. Collision detection you probably want to be tight so that fast moving objects don't warp thru thin objects like walls. But enemy ai may be more tolerant to larger chunks.
If you've avoided sandboxing issues with currently-shipping software, you're lucky. I run into them all the time. Nearly every aspect of the Mac requires priv's now, so the issues are hard to sum up. Some of the common ones are: editors that need to access sibling folders of a project, which they can't do without presenting a dialog, and editors requiring permissions to, for example, listen to keyboard events, which also requires a dialog. "Well, a dialog box isn't onerous!" I hear you say. The thing is, when an operation fails, half the time an app doesn't recover properly, and the action you wanted to finish is just cancelled. That puts a mental tax on the user, because he or she has to figure out if the action was aborted or not, or if the app needs be quit and relaunched to recover. This isn't one app I'm talking about, either. For me, this is a common occurrence. Maybe I'm unlucky.

Then there are sandboxing issues that ended or hobbled previously-shipping software. Backup utilities, software that customized system software, security tools, etc. That's not as apparent, because all we see are the blog-posts of their sad developers.

To be fair, sandboxing is probably the best way to keep a machine secure. It does make my Mac less enjoyable to use, though.
Frankly, that’s incredibly difficult to believe. When the cameras are off, police lie about the circumstances to make their violence seem justified. (Or even when the cameras are on — for example, the NYC police union has opposed the firing of Eric Garner’s murderer.)
Wait, so you're telling me "don't buy upgrades, ride up grades" is a lie?

I am joking, of course, but I think you're completely right in that for beginners, a small investment in upgrades (or even just a good solid bike) pays for itself in huge boosts of performance.

Of course, after that, then buying more and better things is just bad for your wallet ;)
Why will Virgin be treated differently than Ansett? (I was pretty young when Ansett went bankrupt, but Virgin's reputation seems to have been "trying to be Ansett and make a duopoly again".)
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Did some more research on this; see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23647018
> There are no photons in free space.

Um ... I'd suggest rewording that, as this wording is incorrect. Cosmic background photons would likely want to have a word with you on this as well.

It is true that what a photon is in a physical sense is poorly understood (double slit experiment, etc.). The goal of physics is to try to narrow this range, so that we understand more, and have a smaller null space of "here be dragons and photons" that we don't quite grasp.

If you can accept analogies, it would be reasonable to assume that photons are the free space analogs of phonons. Phonons are excitons of an underlying system, with stress/strain tensors. Phonons interact with physical particles, scattering them. Phonon-like things are responsible for Cooper pair formation (effectively a Bose Einstein condensate of two electrons which are fermions, into a pair of fermions with net integer spin). Cooper pairs are responsible for superconductivity. I am not sure if phonons (which I believe are bosons) would be considered particles mediatiating interactions in solids, but I am guessing a good/strong case could be made, along those lines.

The analogy may be apt. But the question that immediately arises is, given that phonons are excitons of an underlying material, is there something analogous for electromagnetic waves?

Up to the very early 1900's, they called this thing the "aether".

Transverse waves (oscillating perpendicular to velocity vector of travel) of phonons are called optical modes. Longitudinal waves (think like sound waves, compression and rarefaction) are called acoustic. I don't know if we have a longitudinal equivalent in photons.

There are many questions remaining. We don't completely understand QM, up to, and including if QM is the right theory. These questions and tests are good. The more questions a theory answers correctly, the less likely it is to be incorrect. As Feynman noted, you only need one conclusive irrefutable result running at odds with a theory to render the theory defunct.

Even with that said, some "wrong" theories (like the "law" of Newtonian gravity) are immensely useful in practical matters, as long as you pay particularly careful attention to range of applicability. Feel happy you don't normally need to pull out full 10-D general relativity to go to the moon. Newtonian mechanics plus corrections works well enough (for now). This will change the farther we want to go.

This all said, there are many open questions in physics, including numerous things that you hear about every day. Anyone claiming, ever, in any field, that the "science is settled" is either not a scientist, a poor scientist, or someone with an agenda. Science is never settled. Good science is looking at data late at night in your office when you should be home with your family, and saying "hmmm, that's funny ..."

(recovering computational theoretical physicist here, who used to quantum mechanically simulate semiconductors on supercomputers ... quite inception-movie like)
> my understanding is that Panasonic made the better video bodies.

I love the stills output (esp the colors) from Oly cameras, but for some reason I don't quite like the handling/ergonomics.

I don't know if it's because I had a Panasonic LX3 way back when, but I find my GM5 way more usable than Olympus E-PL6 from a button and menu perspective. YMMV of course, but my GM5 and GF2 feel much more solid than the Olympus bodies (EPL6 and EP2) I have.
My Dad was a lobsterman for 12 years and just being careful is not enough to "drastically lower your death rate" for a profession fisherman unfortunately.

You can't control how long you've been awake. You can't control a rogue wave the sweeps you off the tail of the boat. Professional fisherman have enormous respect for the sea.
Yeah that would be amazing.

As an aside: I'd love to see the alternate timeline where RiscOS continued to be developed, instead of getting bogged down with pointless legal issues for 20 years.

What would it be like? Would it have gone through a Mac OS-like transition from RiscOS Classic to RiscOS X?

If it was open sourced in the early 2000s, could it have become a viable competitor to Linux on the desktop and Android on mobile?
As a lightweight but powerful OS for low-powered ARM devices it should have been perfectly placed.
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I'm seriously wondering whether this is a form of sarcasm or a bait. 10.8% of sworn officers faced assult in 2018[1], while armed. Cops threatened by people with or without firearm is not that rare. In 2018, 2,116 sworn officers were not only threatened but actually got shot(!) by a firearm.[1]

[1] https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka/2018
It's a comparatively recent idea. It only appeared in the 19th century, with the Fannie Farmer Boston Cooking School cookbook. It introduced the whole idea of exact measures, rather than "a lump of butter the size of a walnut" and "enough to make a stiff dough". Before that, recipes were told like stories.

It was a scientific way of cooking: gather and measure all your ingredients before you start. In a commercial kitchen you still do that: you go to work hours before the doors open to put everything in place (mise en place). That's how you get reliable results.

Even if you don't gather stuff, a good home cook will still scan the list to ensure that they have what they need. Still, It wouldn't be a bad idea to also replicate the measurements in the recipe itself. Perhaps they have the coder's instinct to not duplicate information.
did you just tell him to let me duckduckgo that for you?
a savings account that loses 50% of its value in a matter of days?

If anything, the crash last March has proven that BTC is not a safe asset and not immune from a global financial meltdown. Other way around - its very sensitive to it actually.
Funny, after trying out all sorts of digital recipe organization methods, I've settled on plain old 4x6 index cards as the most useful.

I have all of my recipes plaintext in an org file with a very simple format...

* Recipe title
** Ingredients
- 1 tsp x
- 2 tbsp y
** Directions
1. Mix together x and y
2. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes

I set up a simple python script using the same package as the OP's website for scraping recipe sites to org format, then I export subsections to latex with a custom class and print to index cards.
Probably not? It's not like there's a lack of evidence out there now that everyone has a camera in their pocket.

From what I've seen it looks highly likely that their behavior is a big part of the problem.
They could no doubt (at a price) make the inside as spectaculrly looking as the outside.
I am talking about Apple devices here (edited for clarity).
The only real concern I have is I rely on a handful of Windows applications that I run in a VM and I doubt they'll ever be ported or run on Windows ARM. If a solution for virtualizing x86 guests with reasonable performance doesn't emerge I'll have to switch to Linux on a Thinkpad or desktop.

Fortunately I have a 16" MBP which has been great and will buy me until at least the end of the 2 year transition period to see how things shake out.
WaPo did a whole series of articles on police shootings a few years back. Part of that was creating a database of all police fatal shootings since, unbelievably, none existed.

One of their articles looked at every fatal police shooting in 2015 and looked at the circumstances. They found 30% occurred when the victim had pointed or brandished a gun, 28% when they had fired a gun and 16% when they had attacked some other way. They identified 5% to have occurred in a manner likely to cause public controversy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2015/10/24/o...
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You mean $899, right? I guess $1200 was a typo.
IIRC, right around the time Oly switched from Panny to Sony sensors, they made an agreement to share tech/patents, which I think included Oly's multi-axis IBIS.
I'm somewhat qualified to talk about AI and to call it hype is itself hype. As in, it's looking at outliers and trying to understand the market based on them alone. It's deciding that because there's no glamorous reality shifting changes there must be no impact at all. For example, IBM failed but every pharma company has a decent bunch of PhDs building machine learning models for a variety of reasons. Those models aren't as headline catching but rather they improve certain unglamorous business processes by X%. Taken as a whole that adds up to a lot of value for those companies. Facebook probably makes tens of billions per year due to AI. In a way AI has become mundane and doesn't require specialized centralized companies to be implemented which makes fewer headlines.

edit: I also suspect it's a bias due to people being used to traditional industries. To make a new drug you need a lab, infrastructure, equipment, well trained experts and so on. Lot's of investment so it's centralized and visible. To make an AI model requires some data, a laptop and an internet connection.
The analogy is a false one. PHP was never re-written from scratch in a way that Windows was (with NT). Most of PHP’s pitfalls are still there, and only now are they being slowly removed one by one.
I wasn't proposing anything. I still think it is worth shedding light on shady practices so people are at least aware.

Just because something is define in law does not make it right or wrong. All we can really do is inform people and let them decide for themselves.
This pretty much on the mark. I'd only add that even though the military is uber hierarchical, in good unit's it can be seem fairly flat. Everyone does PT together every day and when I was in the CO would be doing pushups and running with a section every morning. It's a closer team and less bureaucratic leadership so standards are kept in check by the collective. Even though there were pay and rank differences, everyone was in it together where in the police it seems very much like you're on your own.
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