skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The parent post above is referencing an online meme that pokes fun at a lack of punctuation[0].

In the Q/A section quoted, the lack of punctuation can be read as:

> Q: Do you store my card?

> A: No payments are processed directly by Stripe, and we don't store your card details

Which implies that Stripe is not processing the payments, with the note that the card details are not stored.

This could be rewritten as:

> Q: Do you store my card?

> A: We do not store your credit card information. Payments are processed directly by Stripe, and we don't store your card details.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/gbJVPk3.png
We're good at avoiding small, mundane risks. We struggle to prepare for large, novel risks.
Oh then definitely not. As I replied earlier there's no real weight to any image I might be thinking about.
I had a case of sleep paralysis or whatever it's called once and hallucinated someone standing at my door, and even thought it was persistent and made sense it faded over time until I was just left with a "what was that?". It's nothing like that at all.

Even if you can think of an object, even complex ones, and determine through a visual method its properties, shapes and colors, it's "nowhere" relative to real life visuals. You could be spinning in place or blind and you can still visualize the image. I could think of a scene with a very bright light but I'm really thinking of a white color or a gradient, it's obviously not going to blind me because it's now flowing through my optic nerves. I mean I can do something like divide a screen in two regions with an imaginary line, but it's not some sort of futuristic HUD.

That's kinda why I think there's some relation between our ability to mentally visualize an image and the ability to recognize a face or find shapes in stuff like Rorschach tests. In other words I think everyone has the ability to visualize images mentally, they just don't exploit it because maybe they put more weight on other details. Where I can remember and play with images and sounds mentally with no effort, other people can remember huge amounts of text, or do complex math instead. It might be a matter of specialization, perhaps?
A great new-ish podcast is: The Fall of Civilizations Podcast. They have one on the Han dynasty, the first in China’s history. Worth a listen.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U9W7cOMGXyA
> For the first point, the app can explicitly tell the user what their login is, or otherwise assign some unique identifier the user can use when contacting support. The app can also offer to contact support for them, which can pre-fill the user identifier.

as thomaslord said, this is an enormous overhead, where a lot can go wrong.

> For the second, that’s entirely the user’s choice. Your app can also allow them to associate a new email address for this purpose (which strikes me as exactly what you actually want since the real unstated motivation here is getting the user’s email).

Even more overhead, and more data to manage.

> For the third, don’t make me type in someone’s email. The exact same issue as described happens if they have multiple email addresses too. Just let me use my OS’s sharing mechanism to send a special link that they can open to establish the sharing connection. An invite to share, as it were. Not only does that solve the problem, it’s significantly more user-friendly.

For native only apps, this would also add an additional overhead, as you need to develop a server to handle this.

The point is simple: if you want to protect your email address, that's on you. I personally use a different email address for each service, because it's important for me. But I don't expect everyone will bend over backwards to accommodate me, and neither should you.
If the wavefunction is supposed to have n,l,m quantum numbers (as suggested by the interface) then yes, it should be rotationally symmetric around the z axis.
I cannot begin to imagine how my adolescenct daughter could be of any possible use to the middle kingdom. Remotely, via a dance app.
We should not continue shoveling any money into “affordable” (read: subsidized if you win some lottery system) and instead need to focus on reducing the market rate rents. The whole “affordable” and “subsidized” housing system is a scam to sell $10 for $3 to a few lucky souls without addressing the root cause of the problem

Furthermore nobody should feel entitled to live in SF proper. It is easy to commute in from much cheaper areas in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, and it doesn’t make sense to subsidize some small set of people to not make that commute
Numerous authors have said this was not their experience.

More importantly, it is not an author's job to "opt out" of someone illegally pirating their work.
Of course but that's a different use case and different hardware. I believe we're talking about two completely different devices and markets here.
> In America at least, the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Is this true for civil cases? I presume no one is being charged with a crime here...
I listen to interviews with thinkers that I'd admire from all sorts of spheres: business, music, film, etc and try to stitch together how they got where they are (make a point to read the books they mention or research the people that inspire them).

It really helps your brain to form pathways to seeing connections that may not be obvious on the surface.
Lots of reasons:
No big company has pushed it yet.
Battery constraints.
Processing constraints.
Space constraints, no one wants to look like a cyborg.
Software to make it useful is in itself a large undertaking.
Making ar reactive the surrounding requires really good machine perception. Which required good sensors and large batteries and powerful processors.

It's coming but everyone is waiting for the tech to be ready.
Learning from Incidents – what to do after you write a postmortem?
Apple manually reviews the code of every app update. Why aren't they blocking this functionality from getting released in the first place?

I feel like every time I submit an app update I get questioned about why my app needs access to $xyz feature.
Is for your own good comrade!
The issue is (as far as I know) the CCP has unfettered access to Chinese apps. On the other hand, the US government has to ask. While Google, MS, Apple, etc have all said "yes" plenty of times, they also have said "no" and are doing so more frequently as public opinion is changing on privacy. Literally the ability to say no is a big difference.

If I am wrong about the unfettered access, let me know.
Fair enough, but the topic at hand are the potential reasons why programming, as a whole, not only doesn't command must prestige/ respect, but in some sense kinda seems like a joke to outsiders.

And my contention was that programmers choosing to dress in hoodies and casual pants doesn't seem to help, whether they have a choice to wear it or not nor whether it has any bearing on their salary.

To put it in other words, person might see a programmer guy in a hoodie on his way to the office, and that guy might very well command a six figure salary, but that's not the observer's perception or first thought.

I'm not arguing about which is right or just, I'm just arguing about the reasons of why things are the way they are.

And maybe, you might think: who cares? Let them think that. Which, again, fair enough. But in the overall grand picture, if a lot of people have similar perceptions, it might not bode well for our profession overall. I mean, it's not just about attracting the opposite sex, it's also, as some already stated, inspiring more people to do take up computer science.
Oh, why hello there!

Let's correct one thing. I do not have a dim view of free speech, I've been championing it my whole life. I have a dim view of so-called "free speech activists" who clamber to protect right-wing extremists at the exclusion of other important freedoms, and then don't make a peep when lefty rabble-rousers get the same treatment on platforms made by, for and of the far right. Because that demonstrates bad faith, and a lack of commitment to first amendment rights -- hypocricy, as you say.

I disagree with you about harms to the "spirit" of free speech. Ultimately, you and I have right to disagree. We have the right to complain about eachother, we have the right to petition third parties to dissociate from the other, and those third parties have a right to ignore us, listen to us, act or not act based on the information presented. For one example right under our nose, HN users who stick around for a few weeks and make valued contributions have the privilege to downvote and flag eachothers' comments and submissions. All that to say, free speech is not without its just limitations -- first, I cannot be compelled to agree with or disseminate your speech, and second, the freedom of speech does not confer a freedom from social consequences -- if I go into a church and shout blasphemy during a sermon, then I'd rightly get kicked out and they'd probably ask me to never come back. The "spirit" of free speech, in my opinion, is the freedom to expose your opinions to the judgements of others.

Not sure what you're referring to as a "cheap dismissal", feel free to elucidate. Personally, I've been trying to get my employer and friends to stop using Zoom for various reasons. I'm not super informed about the situation with Chinese activists, but I do have a razor. If that was the act of the Zoom execs' personal conscience, more power to them, and hopefully the market will punish them severely. On the other hand, if that was due to pressure by the Chinese government, then I am very much against it.

A lot of the friction that we're seeing today is because technology has enabled monopolies, or near-monopolies. I'd love to see facebook, twitter, google, etc. get broken up. I'd love to see zoom replaced with open protocols wherein apple, microsoft, android corp (a post-google organization), linux devs, etc. all make their own apps but they're as interoperable as a phone call. As it stands, we've got a handful of non-interoperable social platforms and video chat services, where for the most part, a single service is in an overwhelmingly dominant position. The impact of this is a near-monopoly where a single entity's choice to deplatform somebody has an outsized impact. I understand why this makes free-speech purists squirm, but I do not have sympathy for the notion that free speech is the only right worthy of protection. There must be balance.
Stroll – A Roam-like experience in a free, downloadable file
And third, nonprofit doesn't mean you don't make money. Ikea is a nonprofit. A job at a nonprofit, thus, is a job for any other entity.
It's more a lesson that just because someone has 74K Twitter followers because they were an early Twitter adopter and got pulled into the default onboarding suggestion algorithm years ago doesn't mean they actually know what they're talking about.
I wonder how this will impact my externally stored music library, which is accessed by two open source apps (Vanilla Music and Alarm Klock) but not managed by those apps or tied to their lifetimes.
China forcefully harvests organs from detainees, tribunal concludes
Scoped storage is going to kill all the most useful apps that I use that require full access to storage (such as SyncThing). I'm going to keep using Android 10 until I die. Or just switch to Apple, since if they're going to lock everything down, I might as well go with the company that supports their phones longer than two years.
I’ve gone from 700x25 to 700x35 to 650x42 and I’m never going back. The wider tires are no slower, and a hell of a lot more comfortable. That may be because I am in a land where bad chipseal is good pavement, but even on Germany’s smoooooth roads, they still fly.

The new tubeless rims are different than the old ones, and There’s a lot that went into reducing the variance in the rim the rim / tire interface.
Am I the only one who is super-annoyed at having to figure out everytime if this is Ampere the company or Ampere the new nVidia line?

I mean it's probably not the fault of either, and a huge coincidence we're getting a flurry of news articles about both in summer of 2020, but come'on (can we have some kind of edits in the titles of HN posts to make the distinction clear?).
If using TOR go to: https://web.archive.org/web/20200630183013/https://www.reute...
There is a whole episode on how different groups are stifled in the 2 party system -

https://youtu.be/MykMQfmLIro

AOC gave a long interview on how Pelosi actively tries to stifle the more left views.

You are portraying it as some happy harmony. It's far from it.
I found this project pretty cool: https://github.com/roblox-ts/roblox-ts

It's Roblox's dialect of Lua, but it's still Lua. Probably not worth a mention for vanilla Lua though.
It's worse than that. They're violating copyrights, i.e., stealing, and then saying "if you don't want us to steal from you, we have an opt out form you can fill out."

EDIT: People are downvoting this because I equated violating copyrights to stealing, which is odd because US law explicitly defines copyright infringement as stealing property. That's not debatable; it's a simple fact. (A fact that apparently bothers some people, but being bothered by reality is not a basis for disagreement.)
Presently, to do the AR processing to extract features from a space uses either cameras or some kind of LIDAR or time of flight scheme to get a point cloud of locations of objects around you. The data from a single camera that is say ~1-2Mpixels (say 1280x800 RGB camera) at say 30fps is only processable on an SOC or an asic. If you choose to process the raw image locally then you need to have feature detection, extraction, etc algorithms that can run locally on that processor. For AR, a more realistic approach to a true all-in-one solution that sits on your face is to create an ASIC that simply gobbles up raw camera data, H265 compresses it, then sends it over a low latency link to your phone sitting in your pocket. Then when you consider that the chip also needs to drive a display (or 2 displays) of some sort, then you realize you need to also must have a way to receive that video data (potentially H265 video decoder now also needed), a way to display that video stream and do some potential fix-up on that video stream (at least some kind of GPU needed) -- now you realize you need a relatively capable SOC that runs on your AR device on your head. So you need a cable / battery pack etc -- even if your phone in your pocket is still the main thing running the show. So it just means that the combination of needing to use cameras, drive displays, and receive data wirelessly means you have some fixed costs, power needs, and limited set of SOCs to choose from at present. So its do-able, just its early days for the hardware to support it.
Yes, def, it's not so easy to sell a $3500 consumer product, but it is cheaper than a brand new full VR setup, and dare I say a far far better experience.

There is definitely a lack of good apps right now, but that will be changing. It's more the experience in HL2 that is astounding and I expect most devices to eventually adopt this
I probably was moving goalposts, but it's just one of those issues where it's hard to communicate with each other. I guess i'm not very good at visualising other people's experiences :p
It’s nice to disconnect from the wall of numbers and just eat the food.
Supreme Court Affirms Validity of ‘Booking.com’ Trademark
I think we're so bad at avoiding risks because most of us are so averse to risk that we're not exposed to any mild risk, so we're completely unprepared and incapable of handling greater risks.

Most children are shielded from risks growing up, since good parents don't want their kids to get hurt. They end up reaching adulthood lacking any risk awareness or crisis management skills.
Some problems are hard, common and already solved. Sometimes solving these problems yourself adds no unique value to your product. In that case, you should just use a well-reviewed external ecosystem package.

A large project will run into many of these problems. It is a waste to re-invent the wheel because a cool new framework has too few pre-made wheels.
This is quite interesting, as it has long been the popular belief that birds were responsible for migrating fish eggs to new bodies of water (albeit usually stated as external transport on legs and or feathers, not internal). Even Charles Darwin proposed this explanation. But there has been little scientific evidence that this was actually true.
App Store Review is a joke on macOS.
Buzzing to Rebuild Broken Bone
I assume Google accesses the clipboard to see if there's an address in there and search for it. Whether that's a good use case or not is up for debate.

Personally I was surprised to learn that apps could read directly from the clipboard at all. I would've thought that was purely managed by the system and not given to the app until actually pasted.
Relying on a cheap payment online to identify an individual determined to act maliciously likely isn't going to lead anywhere useful.
nice, user share dropped again this month :)
NovaChat: Multi-Network Chat
There are only a few pieces of infrastructure that I haven't found myself cursing at, redis and haproxy are among them. They both are the closest to set-it-and-forget-it I have worked with. No doubt the leadership of Antirez played some part in that. I hope the project can continue to reach the bar he set.
I keep reading about naughty apps and wondering will the OS ever lock this stuff down.
US buys up world stock of key Covid-19 drug
Evaluating Your Virtual Event Tech Stack
Also, if you click "join us" and then "tutorial" your scroll position is in an unexpected place.
This is the kind of stupidity you get with elected judges.
“IA.BAK has been broken and unmaintained since about December 2016. The above status page is not accurate as of December 2019.”
As someone who deals with anxiety I sometimes wonder if this is to blame for the wave of anxiety and depression that we've seen in recent decades, as well as the rampant personal insecurity (across the entire political spectrum, despite what some would tell you). And whether those might be partly to blame for our ongoing political meltdown, as people lash out against others in order to fortify their own identities, because they don't feel enough confidence and stability in them otherwise.
I know at least one software that was complete - hasn'tbeen updated in a long time and I still useit. It's Winamp.
Thanks for all!
Good luck in future
It's in progress, currently limited by both hardware and cost.

There used to be a good blog post from Michael Abrash when he was at Valve that also talked about two main issues. Latency, and drawing black effectively.

Latency is critical since low latency is a requirement for things looking real (since humans have fast visual systems), but that's ultimately a hardware problem that should get solved in time.

Drawing black is harder because AR uses ambient light and putting a black line on the screen in front of your face doesn't work for focus.

Unfortunately it looks like Valve killed their blog, but the way back machine has it: https://web.archive.org/web/20200503055607/http://blogs.valv...

My bet is that Apple will pull it off Apple watch style with front facing Lidar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5J_6oMMG7Y

Probably at first they will be mostly for notifications and interacting with apps in a window in your visual field, getting most of the power from the phone. Things like looking at food for calories and names, etc. will come later when a front facing camera is acceptable and there's existing UI in place.

I think this is probably the next platform after mobile devices, looking at little glass displays is a lot worse than having a UI in your visual field (if it can be done well).

[Edit]: A more recent blog post from Abrash on this topic https://www.oculus.com/blog/inventing-the-future/
PWA support is still pretty new. It will take some time before we see a lot of really successful PWA deployments.
AMD has 64 core processors without any NUMA issues now. They use a dedicated IO die to provide uniform memory access to all chiplets.

ARM has a much weaker memory model with significant performance implications for multithreading as well.
How we failed at making a viral video
A File Manager can ask for root folder access permission but Google will closely control which applications in the Play Store can do so (but if you think that sounds good this is also the same policy they have for SMS access, and Google's enforcement of that has been disastrous as review on the Play Store is a dismal mess).

However, this will no longer get you access to Application's own folders, and so backing things up on Android gets even harder and the OS gets more anti-user.

(To be clear, this should absolutely be behind a Permission barrier. But to block off user access entirely is a toxic and unhelpful move that makes the platform less useful).
Government’s policy: to prevent people from ruining their lives with drugs, we’re going to ruin their lives for them.
Must there be? One would imagine that there should be, but comparing over time and from different jurisdictions is quite difficult. What is the baseline? Many car accidents never get reported to any official body (single car accidents, fender benders). How do you classify an injury? I was involved in an incident that looked quite horrifying if you looked at the cars, but no injuries were reported at the time.
Right - someone at the Wellcome Trust (respected UK genuine medical research charity) earned £3.2 million last year.

https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/charity-pay-study-2019-highest...

Now not saying they aren't worth it - this person probably bought more money in than that so of course it's obviously worth it on the bottom line, and everyone's entitled to earn as much as they can negotiate, it's nobody's business but their own and the people paying them.

But don't hear 'non-profit' and think 'impoverished monk working on noble goals' as one or both may not be the case.
I'm pretty convinced I experience aphantasia (never been clincially tested), I can't even fathom what it means to "visualize" something.

I'm also very good at knot tying. It's a hobby I enjoy, and a practical skill in rope rescue activities I participate in. Knot typing seems much more "spatial" than "visual" to me.

Interestingly, the article specifically mentions differences in spatial abilities as not being correlated to the ability to visualize.

"But other aspects of the findings suggest self-reporting may not be biasing the results that significantly: there were variations in answers coupled with data suggesting that spatial abilities - an ability to map relationships and distances between objects - appear to be unaffected in the volunteers."
Cheapness of labor is also indicative also of the purchasing power of the place. Yes you'd be able to hire people for cheap, but it also means the people getting paid little are able to afford the basic necessities. Also, cheap labor equates to more demand and therefore means a higher net income.
The Science of Making a Wild Sourdough Starter
Is the aim of this to help people cheat when playing online poker for real money on sites like 888 poker etc?

If so I think that's a pretty awful service.
Well I also have no intention of slurping PII beyond the bare minimum. I understand there may be some added friction for some users but as a one man show I can’t deal with the maintenance necessary to be on the mobile app stores. I look at it as a constraint to encourage creativity. As I develop ideas I am exploring more and more how to make the ux and the approach gel in a seamlessly natural manner. I guess I’ll find out if I’m successful after launch...
For sake of completeness, this field has been processed both by theory and and practical applications before. Formerly, those system were known as Issue-Based Information Systems (IBIS).

The wikipedia article gives some background and references to (mostly abandoned) tools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issue-based_information_system