skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but they generally at least did the job adequately

Did they, tho? That's not my memory of cheap 90s/noughties era washing machines, at all. If you go back much further than that, cheap machines didn't exist; adjust the price of a basic 80s washing machine for inflation and you're looking at something that's more than most people would pay for a washing machine today.

EDIT: One thing that the 90s cheap machines were better on was noise, though. It's not that the modern ones are _louder_; I think they're actually lower decibels. But the motors, especially the pump motors, in the newer ones make a much more _annoying_ noise.
Their whole company is wired into it.

I've had friends who work there that push out a release and then get 1000 notifications that something broke so they pull it back.

I would just like it all to be voluntary, even talking to apple in the first place.
No bank is getting killed by Citadel. The numbers are on a different scale completely. JP Morgan makes over $40B a year. The entire proprietary HFT industry globally makes a fraction of that. Citadel almost certainly less than 5% of that number in a typical year.
On the other hand, laptops (especially Windows ones) have a horrendous battery life compared to an iPad.
Spark app, can copy & paste just fine.
> All of them will leak?

You say that like there isn't form. The keys used by every DRM scheme has leaked. Every one. It was not from lack of trying, not because they didn't have access to the best and the brightest. HDMI was actually pretty good.

The problem is not just technology. It's also humans. Create a big enough prize for obtaining a single thing, and it will leak. Every man has his price.

When the prize is the ability to read every communication of every USA citizen, politician and corporation, if you aren't thinking about what sort resources nations like China and Russia can throw it at, you aren't thinking hard enough.
Yeah Virgin is going to be hollowed out and sold for scrap.
The impact of QE during 2008 financial crisis
Not sure why are you downvoted. Without knowing too much about Russian scientific community, in the first article she doesn't seem to say anything too bad. But on vk.com she seems to unironically go full Stalin (the guy who sent thousands of scientists and intellectuals to Gulags).
If you have to go back to the time of the writing of the Odyssey to justify for your behavior, you're probably doing something wrong.
Why do they recommend game logic in the non-fixed update?
I think you might take the opposite viewpoint that you can relax the settings for umatrix, then fine-tune a particular site.
I just program my keyboard to emit the key events that I want, rather than relying on OS-level hacks to do it.

On some level, keyboards should just expose the results of the key matrix scan to the OS, and let them add things like layers, macros, matrix position -> character map, etc... but no OS supports keyboards like this, so you just have to do it on the keyboard.

I plug in my qmk-based keyboard to my iPad Pro and it does exactly what I want. It is a shame that you can't reflash the keyboard from iPadOS, though.
It’s the AWS model applied to real estate: move that $$$ from CapEx to OpEx, woot!
Even if that's true, you should use xargs, not -exec
What an awful idea; people go to work for the social connection. This feels like another episode of ‘Silicon Valley reinvents management,’ and will likely end in the same way.
Can’t tell if you’re mildly trolling or serious.

The obvious point is that enough people in EU have children/families to make these hours a huge burden if not outright unworkable.
What is Karabiner? Never heard of it (mac dev for 10 years).
Ugh, I wish they would. Such an essential tool. I even used it to remap mouse scrolling to the keyboard, as I hate scroll wheels, ergonomically.

In case you missed it, Apple added a very limited ability to remap hardware keyboards in ios 13.4. It is far from karabiner, but it at least lets you use windows keyboards on an ipad now: you can remap the command key.
Very powerful keyboard remapping tool.
What makes a core fast vs slow?

Isn't this just Verilog code? Isn't there only a couple of ways to implement a fast CPU?
yes, and i also think the description as a "computer-science site" is hilarious for some reason. maybe just that HN is so much more than that.
Institutional Senescence
I’m in the market for laptop and thought for a minute “maybe I’ll get an iPad Pro before I get another laptop”.

And then I try to select some text on my iPhone. Also no clipboard manger.

I sometimes wonder if anyone who works at Apple ever tries to select text on an iPhone.
What prevents you from using CBOR? I do understand that a fixed schema is more of a shackle and can't be used in every situation but CBOR doesn't require an external schema.
5 Reasons to upgrade to a smart thermostat this summer
Same deal with pintrest too, it spammed Google Image results so badly and there was no way to actually get to the source of the image without signing up for an account at one point.

Think they might have taken action because it's not been as bad lately and the results haven't been as spammed but it rendered image search close to unusable for almost a year.

Really think Google should invest more in being able to trace data back to it's source. Pintrest is all just data scraped from elsewhere, point me to where it's scraping from now the 400px wide image from Pintrests cache.
There's no metric for that that's well understood by the public, though. People have been trained that more watts == more better over the last century by lightbulbs and things (and more dubiously by hifi makers; they tend to use very dubious marketing watts). Air watts (ie power of air movement) might have been a good compromise; most super-high wattage machines don't have substantially better air watts metrics. It still isn't that helpful to the consumer, though; a poorly designed machine may have high air watts but limited suction.
Because being ordered to do something that might get you killed isn't reasonable.
Also, I think begging politicians to see it any other way is a waste of time. Widespread disobedience and resistance is the only way to knock it down. Make it cost a lot to enforce.
I never used PHP so correct me if I'm missing something here, but "you need to use a framework to build good applications in PHP" (which kinda implies that it is hard/impossible otherwise) doesn't sound like an argument in favor of the language.
For those looking to make a good investment to “create a desirable urban space”, there are many ways to donate to non-profit (museums, theaters, local schools, libraries, co-ops, etc) to achieve that. A coffee shop, or even funeral home, could set itself up as a non-profit, with the employees and managers making market salaries but relying on community donations, in addition to community business, to keep the place going if needed.

For businesses who set themselves up as for-profit, or those who wish to invest in for-profit businesses, a return on capital is required for those systems to work. Investors may accept a lower return on their money in a local business compared to one they will never see, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with making sure there is a investment return. Otherwise, how do you suppose the next business gets funded?
Why are you surprised it's broken? Every major OS upgrade changes things and improves security, so the developers need to see the changes and the needed fixes. The Beta has only been out 4 days, even if everyone at Apple used it, they're not going to push the fix for an unreleased/unannounced product, if they contribute to the project.
Bulding a Career in Aerodynamics
Oh, are we writing blog posts to answer questions no one asked? I have a few more ideas then:

- Are state unemployment agencies using Nim in 2020?

- Are aircraft carriers using Ruby on Rails in 2020?

- Are hospital bed firmwares using Excel VBA Macros in 2020?
Bitwarden Roadmap
Thanks for the help! I hope that you enjoyed the app. I have updated it (but ill put it just here in case) https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-w-walker/
I'm surprised it's only a 3x slowdown.
But the single-thread performance of native execution (without emulation) is worse on aarch64, which was expected.
Imo, a better benchmark would take into account the multithread performance with/without emulation.
The Software Freedom Conservancy has proposed that Git should make the name of the default branch configurable.

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/jun/23/gitbranchname/

This seems like a very sensible course of action and I would sign a petition to that effect. Further, does git init really need to create a default branch? Perhaps that step could be left to the user.
I hadn't considered what happens when a company goes into administration, but I am surprised that it's another private company that is assigned to administrating it. I had always assumed it was a department in the government that handled the process.
Small, apple worked with logitech to make a keyboard + trackpad model for the other ipads that uses the smart connector.

https://www.logitech.com/en-ca/product/combo-touch.html
>There is also a good chance that COVID mortality in the US is being significantly overcounted.

It seems experts (CDC among other) suggest the mortality is quite a bit undercounted, since there are many deaths for which the person is not tested, since we lacked the testing capabilities.

One interesting place to see it is expected death rates versus actual death rates while COVID is here, and note there is no other known thing that spiked at the same time to account for the excess deaths.

What science groups or medical groups are claiming it's overcounted?

For example,

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-covid-19-deat...

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/05/13/8548736...
Neither am I, but I imagine that's part of the overall vision, that this isn't to be a stuffy funeral home of old, but a new fancy-pants one where you can look at art, rent out rooms, and such, in addition to honouring the dead.
I think you might be downplaying the scientific method involved in development of novel ML models and methods. It's not exactly a random walk process. Most of the progress has been the result of people trying to model what's going on in our heads: convnets modeling our vision system, rnns modeling feedback loops, reinforcement learning modeling sparse reward signals, attention based models modeling, well, attention. Network training methods (e.g. SGD) are based on optimization theory. There are plenty of theories trying to explain why or how things work in deep learning. Most of these are probably wrong, but some, sooner or later, will turn out to be right. Not unlike physics which for years had competing theories (e.g. string theory vs quantum gravity, etc).

The original transformer experiment tested the hypothesis: "if we organize layers of attention mechanisms in a certain way and feed them tons of text they will be able to process that text effectively enough to build very rich and consistent language model". GPT experiments test the hypothesis "if we feed the transformer more data its language model might become rich and consistent enough to produce human level results". To me this sounds like an well defined scientific experiment.

Using your analogy, GPT-3 is more like if you devised an algorithm which produces n + k of pi digits after processing n pi digits - without knowing anything about how to compute pi, or what pi is. To me that deserves falling over my chair in amazement.
Dwarf Fortress on Steam
Tools for Building Machine Learning Models on Android
> iPad is unusable for true productivity until Karabiner can run on it

Why do you think it'd be impossible to be productive without this one random app you use?

I wrote a blog post the other day on my iPad. I was truly productive.
I am in the same place. My iPad Pro is my favorite portable computer of all time. It's super light, the battery lasts forever, and there is very little surface for customization. It has a terminal, it has a browser, so there is nothing to do on it except the work that I want to do. There are very few "utilities" and nothing that needs to be customized and sync'd across to other machines. (I also use it as a piece of scratch paper -- the pencil is great for sketches, collecting measurements before I put them in CAD, solving equations... basically anything that you'd use a sheet of paper for, without having to kill any trees.)

I would really like a proper local development environment, though. SSHing somewhere is fine... but leaves so much power on the table. It is also insane to me that Safari still can't expose the 120Hz display to Javascript.

I hope to never own another laptop. All I want is a dumb terminal, and the iPad is the best I've found.
Dwarf fortress are an example I used to bring up in some discussions on UI UX.

You are just far more productive with a keyboard, especially once the commands are in muscle memory.
Funny that the author wrote this on Notion, an app famous for being a bit slow and clunky on the iPad - just a primitive web wrapper. Regarding the author's wish for better "productivity tools", I get it. Making a good tablet touch interface is really, really hard. One example of a really good app that takes full advantage of the touch interface without sacrificing any of the core functionality and speed of a mouse/keyboard setup is OmniOutliner Pro for iPad. I've long since used outliners like WorkFlowy/Roam/Dynalist, but the iPad experience is uninspiring. OmniOutliner (and Documents by Readdle) absolutely convinced me that the iPad can be a game-changing tool - OmniOutliner is probably the only "serious work" app which I actually prefer on my iPad over my MacBook because of the higher productivity, not just because of the sleeker looks.

The iPad has become good enough that I've sold my Macbook. I still do coding and other activities that require a lot of screen real estate on my iMac Pro, but I use the iPad Pro exclusively on the road. I've found that gives me the best of both worlds - the full power and size of a desktop (as opposed to the compromises of a laptop), and the full portability and touchability of an iPad (as opposed to the compromises of a powerful laptop).
I will give you a upvote and it will clean my conscience, so I don't have to do anything about this anymore.
This will go over very well once they are eventually sued for patent infringement.
Show HN: Pwncat – netcat on steroids with offensive/evasive (rev) shell handling
Centos6 goes out of support this year.
It would be cool to have a curl-able service directory of those services on the web, and also a standard way to know the quota of refresh, and some standard /help URL to know more about the options
This only worked because his relaxed pace/speed was fast and built up by MONTHS of intense training first.

He would not have had that time if he had gone at the relaxing pace the entire time he spent training.

Relaxation is good, no doubt. But there is a time and place for, as they say, "going hard in the paint". Building muscle and associated stamina is one of those times.

This is a perfect example of why experiments require a control group to mean anything at all. I am surprised that the intelligent Mr. Sivers would fall into this rookie trap.
If you go for “resource forks”, you still would need a file.

And nitpicking, that wouldn’t be “ala OS 9”. That OS had a desktop database on each volume.
Don't let your ecommerce business get blindsided
Is there anyway to get the new terminal working on Windows 10 LTSC? It seems as though a newer version of Windows is required. A backport maybe?
Even if Docker wasn’t possible (because no virt), a sandboxed terminal with enough utilities to bootstrap Brew is just a software problem. It wouldn’t require special hardware stuff, just as chroot doesn’t. As long as it could be accessed by other apps and stay alive in the background, it’d be a great way to code on the go.

They can make something work if Swift Playgrounds works (which is a pretty silly experience anyway. “Hey kid, great job learning Swift. Want to make a real app? Buy a $1200 MacBook and get to work!”
There is also an RfC on the matter with a majority of voting editors opposing the change proposed.[1]

Considering that the WMF has allocated $800k for rebranding efforts for this year,[2] and has already signed a contract with Snøhetta,[3][4] all with no consent from the community, I wonder how willing they would be to walk back on their position.

1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Requests_... section "Comments"

2. Ibid, image/PDF in the section "Joint strong opposition to the branding process from the Catalan Wikimedia projects & Amical Wikimedia (WMCAT)"

3. https://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/i/mRd1pp/snoehetta-skal-sk... (in Norwegian)

4. https://brandingwikipedia.org/
do you take everyone’s fingerprints, at 60 frames per second?

if you sample enough, nearly any real world classifier will have a nontrivial false positive rate.
> I am glad that JP have done something sensible here,

I doubt that.

For over 20 years people have been pinning their hopes on new languages and "paradigms" to make things better. Things haven't progressed a lot with that strategy.

I blame this on how software architects don't, and programmers can't, and because of that they all hedge their bets on new language X with feature Y, hoping it will make all the hard bits go away.

It's akin to how in the creative writing world, writers sometimes dive deep into the grammar and vocabulary of a particular natural language whereas the real challenge is thinking up new and entertaining situations and characters, and then filling that in with words in whatever language you happen to be proficient in.

Literate programming has been a concept for a long time now: write a document that explains, understandably, what the software is supposed to do, then accompany it with some source in whatever language the programmer is most comfortable with.

In a perfect world, that would be called "doing you job". In our current world, there is no money to be made in "doing your job" and it will be heckled as slow or outdated; praying for deliverance is much more profitable.

The too long, didn't read: Turing and Church proved that, fundamentally, all languages suck, so no new language will ever save one from one's own incompetence. Maybe it's time we all stopped blaming or praising "the language" wholesale for the various inadequacies and blind spots in our branch of industry.
That's true. Several companies I know are pursuing such endeavors. It's often even battle between Java & .NET as they are trying to focus on a single stack.
Responding to Harvard's Survey Request on My Open-Source Contributions [video]
No, nobody pays attention to an organized effort to push propaganda. I question the health of anybody who believes in Veritas
That seems to have been changing quite a bit in the last couple of years. Just look at the Zephyrus 14.
Using a scale is even easier, especially for things like bread, you can just pour ingredients directly into your bowl until you hit the right amount, zero it and move onto the next thing. No guesswork of trying to fill a cup, no separate measuring device needed, just pour and tare.

It also solves to many issues with ingredients that will just never have equal density, flour variances, packing brown sugar by hand, etc are things of the past.
http://artbuffer.com/

I made Artbuffer to create my own wall art without having to spend years learning to paint. I've successfully used it to create my own :-)

Some examples:

https://www.artbuffer.com/view?a=wslyHCoGjqoA3ZKgsQ_hNAlnshT...

https://www.artbuffer.com/view?a=-9Wr6aLtgF383zsAWxchXJbt8CW...

https://www.artbuffer.com/view?a=OuIs3I6vHAyqV-PoMb6EFiRVAFw...
This is the one character commit that they used in identifying me: https://github.com/lodash/lodash/pull/1036
> for a first-time self-published launch I recognize that my situation is a bit of an outlier. I attribute this to having a large Twitter following (101,000 followers) and as such having a group to market to.

I’d atribute it to the same reason. Time and again I observe that the size of one’s audience matters more than the quality of the output. It’s irrelevant how mediocre your product is as long as you have followers to market it to—and the more they already like you, the crappier your offering can be.

Which makes these “what I did” posts useless to most. It was what you had (an established audience) that had the biggest influence in your success.
I think the fundamental premise on which your arguments are based is flawed.

1. Those jobs don't belong to "American workers". "American workers" : <wink> <wink> now, don't we all know what that means?

2. Said "american workers" have no guaranteed claims or rights to be employed in those jobs. The business no more owes you that job, than you owing them to work there. S/he is very welcome to find a different line of work, if they are inconvenienced. Just because you don't like something, doesn't make it illegal. Report fraud to the FBI/DOJ and Let the judicial system decide it.

3. To the extent the machinations you describe happen, they are no different from the VASTLY more prevalent resume padding, outright lies, outrageous salary asks and general brattish behavior by many "American workers". Should they be prosecuted too?

4. "American IT workers" are already among the highest paid professionals and have FULL + employment, and yet all they do is kvetch 24/7/365. These "victims" you describe, are trying to sell a bicycle - to put it mildly - for the price of a Rolls Royce, while the customer needs a Honda Civic ! And like every spoilt brat ever, throw a tantrum anytime they didn't get what they wanted.

5. If these american workers get off their entitlement high-horse, and stop wallowing in this sea of self-pity, they would be aware how mismatched their skills and compensation expectations are.

ps. i am a 3x entrepreneur, who used to believe in your ideas just as strongly, but my startup experience has changed my views on this subject.
For some reason, the last one feels very plausible.
No, it's not really the kind of thing governments could do, as they can't really be independent; they're generally a major creditor (for unpaid taxes) along with all the others.
There's an Australian company called KordaMentha that specializes almost exclusively in bankruptcies. (Or, at least to us laymen, never makes the news for anything else.)

https://kordamentha.com/restructuring
In Australia, independent administrator is appointed who is working on behalf of creditors. Government is usually another creditor so they are not exactly an independent party.
Awesome post. I'd tried playing around with OpenCV edge detection, but was struggling filtering out the noise. This helps a lot.
On Mac: Fn + left

On iOS: double-tap the top bar

On Windows: use the home key

On Android: swipe your thumb a dozen times really quickly
Sure but RHEL 6 has Extended Life-cycle Support until 2024.
The iPad and iPad Pro advertise “up to 10 hours of battery life”. Many laptops advertise, and get, more than this. (As an example, my Surface Book can just get 12h on light usage, and when it was new I could get 14h if I was a little bit careful. They advertised it as up to 12h. As it stands, I tend to prefer performance to battery life, so I leave it on the better or best performance power profiles, often using it fairly heavily, e.g. compiling Rust code, and so I tend to get only 5–8h. If thrashing it truly as hard as I can, recording high-quality video so that CPU and dGPU are both working at close to 100% the whole time, I can drain the battery in around 3h.)
> Baseline pay is arbitrary

Nope. Most of Europe has minimum wage regulations, and especially tech workers have the freedom to walk whenever they choose and go to competition.
You mean you don't trust unknown source/host tool0.1.3.zip with no hash to execute patch_installer.sh? Don't blame you.