skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I must have spent hours going through that catalogue as a kid. I still remember the excitement of getting a new catalogue and going through it with my sister. I think it was the unknown of what you might find that made it fun. We'd spend hours circling things in different coloured pens to let our parents know what we wanted for our birthdays and Christmas.

I suppose this move makes sense - everyone has access to the online catalogue now. I can't remember the last time I used a physical Argos catalogue, although I still go to the Argos store every few months.

It's probably mostly nostalgia, but I can't help but feel something has been lost. You don't browse an online store like you do a catalogue. Online you need to search or filter based on what you think, that sense of unknown and surprise isn't really there anymore. In fact I've never had a shopping experience online that comes anywhere near that satisfaction of browsing a physical catalogue of items. It's certainly more functional and practical, but it's also more bland. I find a lot of things to be like that online. Interactions feel less fulfilling, reading feels less enjoyable, pictures look less "real". Perhaps it's just me, but there is something inherently disconnected about how we interact with the world through a screen.
It seems like it is owned by argos, the cookie warning comes from a sainsburys domain which is the parent company.
This looks really cool! I gotta figure out a way to contribute to this. Is this what OsmAnd uses to pull in transit information?
Machine translation can never replace real translators, unless we develop an AI with actual understanding.

Even with human-translated texts it's usually noticeable when the translator didn't understand the subject. To make sense of the translated text you then have to try to reverse-engineer the translator's mapping to figure out what the text would have said in the original.

Much like how you can't properly parse HTML using only regular expressions and string substitution, you can't truly translate human languages without understanding. You have to parse the input language, process the meaning of what was said and finally serialize to the target language.
The second one was alright. There was a lot of interesting lore in it.
Grid and FlexBox have made my life so much easier these days

and fallback is easier with @supports
Show HN: If Doodle and Stripe had a son...RoundOf
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Regardless of the answer, that's not what happened.
> But, I'd be willing to put in 10 a month if I did not have to worry about allocating that to each of them or micromanaging who gets what. IMHO a simple distribution based on views/listens/clicks, could work.

YouTube Premium?
But in the arts, can AI come up with something truly new?

This should be testable: train AI on all the music ever written before Bach, and see if it ever produces something ressembling Bach.

Maybe that kind of test has alretbeen done; it would be interesting to know what comes out of it.
Then maybe they should roll those out first in usable quality and then get rid of manual ones?
> I am not sure if this is a good state in the long run. What do you live for when everything is always/mostly positive in your head -- but reality is as sad as it ever was. Do you really have an incentive to change something to the better if you are in a constant state of happiness?

That's why Morality (Śila) is one of the pillars of Buddhist training. Tibetan monks are taught to cultivate compassion for others at the same time as they are trained in meditation. At least that's the theory, not sure how well it works out in real life.
Biological light harvesting complexes[1] act as an antenna network. I guess the shape and other properties of such a complex change depending on conditions.

The paper doesn't really try to explain the biological tuning mechanism. Instead, they created a model of an antenna network capable of tuning. As in, this model had a bunch of parameters describing how it captured light and tuned. Then if they optimized those parameters for stability given the light spectra that different plants are exposed to, they found that their model would reproduce the actual absorption spectra of those plants. This strongly suggest that the plants have done the same optimization by evolution.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-harvesting_complexes_of_...
To be fair, this sentence could be valid in regard of most big tech companies. Take for example the ESC button of Apple, or nearly any UI redesigns of Facebook, the [whatever Ballmer's Microsoft used to do with Windows] for Microsoft, and so on.

Having said that, I agree that Google should know better. They base their entire strategy on pure data, but I fear that in this way they are forgetting to factor in things that are not (yet) measurable or measured.
FOSS doesn't have anything to do with values, or do you refuse FOSS software tainted by corporation's contributions that don't share your values?

Because then it is going to be a very thin selection available.
I use Joplin with the web clipper extension.

It isn't perfect but it is really really nice when it works.
Translate GraphQL queries into SQL statements
That's wrong. It's also well known, western companys pay no taxes for factorys in 3rd world countrys since ever. Even they produce real things in a country.
Facebook raises concerns that iOS 14 could harm its ad business
Clearly they need some method of prioritizing their work. HN would have you believe that every product and every feature should be supported till the end of time, regardless of whether it's used or not. In practice, in the real world, features that have few takers are removed because the maintenance burden doesn't justify the benefit.

> I'm subscribed to about 100 channels

How often have you actually relied on community generated subtitles? Note that even if you used subtitles, those could have been auto-generated.
This is impressive, but as others have said : it fails to clarify things. One thing that would probably help is on the "colored side" when the mouse moves from one zone to the other, it should just change the highlights that need to be changed, so we can smoothly visualize where we are. At the moment, when we do this, it first uselessly highlights everything for a second, so we "lose" the ability to visualize "what changed" precisely between the two zones.
Pressreader offers something a bit like that.
>>They could recite any leetcode problem from memory, but didn't know how to contribute value to their team or company.

That's understandable any one with that much proficiency on leetcode would be wasting their whole day on that site than building real things.
Is it common to refer to typography as "interior design" in the book world? I've not come across it before.
Progressive Summarization a Practical Technique for Designing Discoverable Notes
Cattle, Not Pets – A Modern Approach to Developer Infrastructure
>You pay for longevity and performance. It's no different with phones/ tablets/ computers. If you want a phone or tablet that lasts 4+ years there is only one brand that offers that kind of device life.

I still have my samsung after 5 years. I'm not sure why you'd consider it the only brand.
Infrastructure and urbanisation are pretty much synonymous with killing off plant life and green zones, sadly. I don't think it's a necessary trade-off but it's the easiest route to take and, historically, humanity is a big proponent of the easiest routes.
But how would you clean up the heap and restart the library?
huh, they might be bringing ARM back:

https://amperecomputing.com/ampere-altra-family-of-cloud-nat...
It might be coming back: https://amperecomputing.com/ampere-altra-family-of-cloud-nat...

> we’re evaluating Ampere Altra for the new breeze of our Arm64 cloud instances in late 2020. — Scaleway
She’s on the board of directors: https://www.dropbox.com/about.
Tools to design, build and host your API
Charlie boy on fire for sharing his wife's nude photos (view pictures)
> no one has a right to someone else's work for free.

Sure they do, that's what libraries are for.
Every feature is useful for some specific group out there. Doesn't mean it needs to remain supported. Here's an example - Youtube used to allow clickable links inside the video. Now it doesn't. That affected many channels, especially those that implemented their own "more like this" feature manually.

You have to make hard choices sometimes. If this is a feature that only a tiny minority cares about, then the team has to pull the plug on it.
Subsidizing? I would call it stop freeloading... Quality news has a cost.
What's their business model? Got to say, the browser looks pretty slick.
Ah yes Maplins :-) and for work The RS (not Radio Shack) and Black Box catalogues.

My first place the electronics shop had a special account for RS - I remember my co-worker buying joysticks from RS to hook up to his BBC B
I have a random question about peertube hope you guys dont mind.

Can I run a background task on my machine to help in some way with making the content of some instance more available to people, or would I have to run my own instance?
grin and the free glasses at the petrol stations
There is the "basic attention token" crypto, it seems like a moonshot to me but it does address the general idea.
Sure, you can tell people who are being harrassed and bullied to just suck it up and turn the other cheek lest they want to be condemned for punching back. Some people might even be able to do that without permanent harm. That doesn't make the mob OK. It doesn't mean that living with the prospect of having to endure that won't have a chilling effect.
Considering that the Trump account had some security measures that protected it from being compromised in this attack, that seems pessimistic.
Here are some links:

[1] https://magenta.tensorflow.org/music-transformer

[2] https://storage.googleapis.com/magentadata/papers/music-tran...
Does any one use Code gen tool before?
A lot of brilliant content just requires more time or investment than someone with a day job has. And arguably, creating content alongside a 40 hour job is a compromise on quality itself.
Google should just start putting a huge red box around pay walled articles. It would basically indicate "don't bother with this site"
I listen to ATP as well, and I did end up joining their membership program. The author mentioned CGP Grey specifically, and Cortex, his podcast with Myke Hurley on relay.fm recently announced a $5 membership. Upgrade, with Jason & Myke also announced the same $5 membership. So I see where the author is coming from. At the same time all 3 podcasts for now say that just by listening, it supports the podcast through the old channels. I do get a little of that FOMO, but I don’t feel any guilt for not paying.
Meat consumption is causing damage
> Don't worry about structured vs unstructured too much, just ensure you include a timestamp, file, log level, func name (or line number), and that the message will help you debug.

if you include all these information and the logs are not structured, you won't get much information out of them.
Let's! Arguably the software world would be much better. Nobody would write shit to spy on us or push ads everywhere if they weren't paid.

The best software is usually already the one written by volunteers.
I didn't know about it, and now I do I discover that it's not maintained. Do you have a recommended alternative?
So that's when you buy it online?
> magstripe is the backup, but thoroughly validated option

Chip and pin is also used for offline transactions. Never once in Europe have i signed/seen someone sign
https://www.emv-connection.com/emv-faq/#q9

Pin is verified on card,not over network.
The Fascinating No-Gradient Approach to Neural Net Optimization
Interesting! But doesn't work on Firefox if you have Enhanced Tracking Protection enabled. Maybe this would work better as an extension? Similar to RES.
Same-sex marriage is at least planned in Switzerland. However, I think taking this sole issue as a measure of overall LGBTQ acceptance is too simplistic. Switzerland has had civil unions since 2007 and just recently, about 60% of Swiss people voted for a law explicitly outlawing discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Switzerland is traditionally more slow-moving in terms of laws because of its insistence of making sure legislative changes are accepted by the population at large (with its initiatives and referenda), whereas in the US and many other countries, interested parties anywhere on the political spectrum can often quickly decide an issue if they happen to be in power.

This doesn't mean that the general attitudes of the population towards LGBTQ in Switzerland are or ever were worse than in the US. I have a feeling, that in general, attitudes tend to be very diverse in the US, with some areas / circles being totally in support and others in very strong opposition, whereas Switzerland tends to be a bit more homogeneous. Switzerland certainly doesn't have such a strong undercurrent of evangelical voters for which things like LGBTQ and traditional marriage (or also abortion etc.) are such a major driving factor (sure, those people exist, but they tend to exist more at the fringes). I also don't recall any debates about bakers not wanting to bake cakes for gay couples or any of that sort of nonsense.

That's not to claim that there is no homophobia in Switzerland, there certainly is. But I can't really believe that it's worse than the US.
I do, too. I also write software for money, as a way to finance my living expenses. When I write software for free and distribute it freely for others to use, I do it on my own volition. The day someone else decides for me that the development work I do for a living should also be free, I will have a serious problem.
Walmart ended 30 year tradition of opening on Thanksgiving day
Google Translate used to have instant translation from a photo for more languages and then they turned them off, no reason why.

Also you get tremendously worse translations when you translate a document (pdf, doc) vs the "scan/import" an image of text function.

It's a real bummer because hypertext and mobile UI should be excellent mediums for presenting multiple candidate translations and letting the reader indicate the best translation.
Old Argos Catalogues Online: The Book of Dreams
That is so great. I don't really make website anymore, but we used to struggle to create layouts like these, it awesome to see how much easier it has become.
Google goes bust?

That's not likely, is it?

Does Google have no concept of how YouTube drives ad sales and other synergies? Or of how much goodwill is worth?
I'm not thinking of myself here, I very rarely print anything. Roughly once a year. I don't even own a printer myself, I'm generally able to use someone else's, or if it really comes to it, I'm happy to pay a professional printing service a few pounds.

My assumption is that people who print a few pages a week would rather spend more upfront, and less on ink. It's not a technical question, it's a matter of someone making a standard inkjet printer and charging more for it while charging less for ink, and removing restrictions against third-party ink.

> Selling on low price -> volume alone - assuming a newcomer could even make that happen - won't do it.

Why not? Why wouldn't people buy this if it existed? Why wouldn't a newcomer to the market go this route?

> they're far more likely to do the opposite. And in fact have been doing the opposite for decades now.

This seems to be true, but I don't understand why. Doesn't it just take one of the printer companies to break away from the pack?

Perhaps I'm overestimating how willing people would be to spend upfront to minimise their long-term ink costs.
> unnecessary nonsense (TV remote watch, anyone?)

Ah, the Casio CMD-40, pictured as item #14 on http://dev.argosbookofdreams.co.uk/1995-96.html#page=100

This has been my daily driver watch, non-stop every single day, since the 1990s.

When I first wore it, it was "futuristic". Now it is "retro" or "vintage".

Answers to FAQs:

- Yes, really.

- Yes, the remote control still works.

- Yes, even with brand new smart TVs.

- There is a reference list of TV manufacturers, and you have to select a code per manufacturer (e.g., LG / Sony / etc). For basic functionality (e.g., volume up, power off), this hasn't changed since the 1990s.

- The VHS remote control functionality is still present, but I haven't used it for decades.

- For new-fangled things like DVD players (or even smart TVs), any remote control button can be "learned" - i.e., point the manufacturer's remote at the watch, press a button, and tell the watch to remember and mimic what it just saw.

- It was only "recently" no longer manufacturered new, and this isn't the same one that I first wore in the 1990s.

- The strap and battery have been replaced, but otherwise I've owned the current one since new.

- Like graphics calculators, the sale price hasn't ever dropped. Even into the 2010s, it was still possible to buy for ~£40. Now that it is not manufactured anymore, it has become an appreciating asset (see, e.g., eBay, where "new" condition watches are routinely sold for >£90).

- OK, here's a picture. https://imgur.com/ivmBFaa
Thanks, it works! The site collects some kind of a fingerprint, looks like. Private mode chrome opened site asks for account, the same site in firefox, indeed, thinks I'm a new user. Smells like some dirty way of data collection.
the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

* Any tool that allows to discriminate "for" allows to discriminate "against"

* What is the rational to be able to add "black-owned", but not "mexican-owned" or anything else, are mexicans not victims of discriminations ?

* What is the end game ? Black people go to black-owned businesses, white people go to white-owned businesses ? this kind of anti-racism looks a little bit like segregation to me.

I'm not against any positive actions, but this one seems dangerous and could have unwanted indirect impacts
Show HN: PWA to work with Multiple JSON at the same time
Are other search engines not bound by the same law?
The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header (2003)
I actually completely agree with this statement. I tend to follow the gaming industry pretty closely and lately I've noticed that there are simply too many low-quality gaming YouTube channels.

I was recommended a video the other day "The Downfall of Blizzard" or something like that, started watching it and was surprised at how incredibly bland the content was. Even more surprising was the amount of views and likes the video had. The jokes were bad, the production quality was low, there was no critical or opinionated analysis, etc.

There are tons of channels like this, full of videos where it's just some some guy or gal talking to a camera with some uninspired editing and generally run-of-the-mill content. And this is just one slice. I see this kind of content everywhere now.

Of course, everyone wants to be happy doing what they like doing, but it simply isn't sustainable that everyone lives off of their hobbies. Not only are they providing little value in general, but they're just not really good at it...
There's a typo on the main page: "Collect the partecipation quote" <-- should probably be "participation"
I like this term: "He's McKinsey guy".

Then I wonder which product person is suitable to lead behemoth like Alphabet. On top of that, do the board trust a product person to become CEO of Google? I think, in mature stage of company, board trust MBA people more than engineers or product people unfortunately.
> programmers are like Daedalus... they always end up creating more twists and turns

Doesn't sound like what a programmer would say. No decent dev I have ever met would do any but untangle the mess[0], and given any capacity, would not create one in the first place.

[0] References to theseus need not apply.
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Processing/streaming logs to get metrics is a terrible waste of time, energy and money. Spend that producing high quality metrics directly from the apps you are looking after/writing/decomming

The other side is that I don't know what metrics I'll want until later.

When do you think it's better to pull metrics from structured logs vs generating metrics in app?
The Click Reader Now Offers a 3-Month Free Data Science Specialization Track
Atatürk Dam is impressive/scary https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse#v=37.57077,38.47465...
Per this reasoning, producing The Wire or Breaking Bad and most of the "Western Canon" was already unnecessary. Humanity has produced enough written content in antiquity to keep you reading for a lifetime.
"Trash" journalism pays for the deep investigative stuff, though.
Why and how we are doing E2E Tests
I have always wanted to edit the auto-generated subtitles and translations for some YouTube videos but never knew how. Perhaps the feature could be much more popular and really boost reach of some videos if they made it more visible and easy to use.
"'But you're Philip Glass! What are you doing here?' It was obvious that I was installing his dishwasher and I told him I would soon be finished."

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/nov/24/arts.highe...
‘Drone Swarm’ Invaded Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant Last September – Twice
I agree in the general sense. The problem is that good human translation works as follows: The translator reads the text, decodes this into some mental representation, and then encodes that representation in the target language. Both decoding and encoding are also highly subjective (which is why works of literature can be translated in many different ways, see e.g. all the translations of works like the Bible, the Odyssey, etc.).

Machine translation still works by a straightforward source-to-target mapping. This assumes that there is somehow a 1:1 correspondence between concepts in one language and concepts in the other one.

There are some cases where this can yield OK results: when the languages are very closely related and/or if the material is very technical (e.g. instruction manuals), because in such cases, the concepts do tend to align a bit better.

But in general, I think the problem is intractable without solving general AI.
Given all the degrees of freedom in a three-dimensional scene, and the one-dimensional data stream they capture, my caution is aroused.

I'm suspicious that their outputs may be solely the result of over-fitting from neural networks.

And that given a significantly structurally different scene, the output would be nonsense.

The article does not seem to show a broad variety of scenes, and physicists are frequently not creative photographers. I would not be completely surprised if the training images were rather predictable poses in a physics lab. And do not see how there can be enough information from the sensor to produce an image otherwise.
If you're interested in a C/Rust-level language which supports verification, maybe take a look at ATS http://www.ats-lang.org
Connectix Virtual GameStaton ran on the original iMac which was 233MHz or so
Each creator would have to separately set that up. The right place to do it is Patreon, which already aggregates their posts for subscribers.
Help classifying AI-generated images based on Instagram Hashtags