skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well theoretically you are right but practically speaking even amazon couldn’t really change distance. The whole allure of shipping things from a warehouse and not paying rent is true but at the end of the day amazon ended up setting warehouses all over the country to meet the demand for same day delivery. So it did reduce the real estate costs but it’s still has to stock all items close to the customer. So the efficiency is in cutting display and showroom costs. Food doesn’t fall under that category as it’s very different even from perishable grocery items. That is the source of skepticism. I agree there is demand but it only means that the business will never die, doesn’t mean that it’s going to overhaul the industry. Let’s see though. I do hope some innovative idea comes along.
I’m referring to the claim “not chosen by the people” because not everyone supported the new regime.

Not everyone supports the current US President.
And the sales of insect repellent.
"Hezbollah kept three metric tons of ammonium nitrate"

So a thousand times less is "around this amount"? If so we are all "around millionaires"
I agree. It seems like a fairly clear marketing play that they don't think people will treat them as premium if they don't price at the top of the scale.

However I wouldn't be surprised if it worked. It is not uncommon it hear of stories where raising the price lead to more sales and people regarding the product as of a higher quality.
A pretty consistent pattern if you ask me…
https://gcemetery.co/
I don't want to watch the video. Who's going to win? Also, hiding "news" in videos nobody wants to watch is annoying.
“twitter.com no longer supports Internet Explorer 11”

https://twitter.com/i/release_notes
Face unlock is ... inconsitant, and support in apps is sparse. I have a 4XL (personal) and 2XL (work), and I never run into issues with the 2XL, it reads the fingerprint as I take out of my pocket, and it is open as I look at it.

4XL - take it out, and 80% of the time it works, the other 20% I spend time moving it up and down, and just entering the pin.
I don't practise programming because, so far, I've found more valuable and enjoyable things to spend my time on, and my computers do what I want of them for the most part. I know anything I would be interested in programming would involve a steep learning curve (many layers of existing software to wrap my head around), so it's on the back burner for now.
> By the way, what I think could make this tool more useful for the average user is if the assembly were decompiled into another language (like C).

It's somewhere in the ideas list... https://github.com/compiler-explorer/compiler-explorer/issue...

Something similar is Andreas Fertig's awesome https://cppinsights.io/
> god-like skills

I recommend that you disabuse yourself of such a comparison.

Arthur Clarke is famous for saying "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." As you build your knowledge and skills over time, you may find that others are just as impressed by you as you were by this other person.
What if I'd like to be able to see some stars from my bed?
Furthermore, not every light, sign makes sense at the place it is. They are mostly stamped out at regular intervals "because we say so".
That feature is fairly common but practically quite useless and easy to circumvent if you can find the model information. Even with PCI-DSS enclosure compliance you can get in if you can take power tools to it. The assumption is power tools would be too obvious to use in a typical installation.
Does the fingerprint scanner work when you are wearing disposable gloves ?
Auth is now available in Supabase (YC S20)
NYC to Set Up Checkpoints to Enforce Quarantine Order
For certain inputs, compression doesn't necessarily work out so well, because of the overhead introduced by the compression format itself. For example, "compressing" a small datagram may actually make it larger.

I also believe (but am not prepared to prove) that packed representations can, under the right circumstances, evade some information theoretic limits that constrain lossless compression, by engaging in a little honest cheating. Since you're using a purpose-specific format instead of creating a general-purpose compression scheme, you don't have to record every single bit of information in the blob itself. You can use a side channel - in the form of the format specification itself - to record some information.

Which is why you see a packed representation (perhaps with optional compression) in things like protocol buffers, whereas a format like Parquet that's meant to store large volumes of self-describing data will just go straight for compression.
Yeah, if you don't have the space to cook in, or are shuffling between multiple jobs and don't have time to shop/cook then takeout is the only real option.

I'm not knocking takeout and delivery at all. The huge proliferation of it is just alien to how I operate so it's interesting to hear what other people are up to.
Seems plausible that the information journalists relay is a function of their network, and I don’t have a hard time believing that they are similarly selective about their non-Twitter networks. The degree of bias is certainly an interesting question, but it seems unlikely that it is “low”, especially given what we’ve observed from various antics at the NYT to the same farcical coverage of the Covington Catholic affair across our national media to the farcical coverage of the Damore memo by tech and other media to the Washington Post’s heartfelt eulogy of an ISIS leader and on and on. All signs point to high insularity and intolerance of other ideologies (by which I don’t mean extreme right wing ideologies but rather more moderate progressive or liberal ideologies, for example the attempts by other journalists to “cancel” progressive journalist Lee Fang who erred by interviewing a black man whose opinion wasn’t sufficiently aligned with the orthodoxy). There are many such events that come to my mind, and my perception is that they are increasing in both quantity and gravity; I’m certainly persuaded that more research is merited with respect to the dynamics of both traditional and social media. Maybe that research will correct me and in fact journalists are doing a great job; in that “worst case” scenario, I (and others skeptical of the state of the media) walk away with more trust in the media and our national divide closes a bit.

EDIT: wow, that’s a lot of downvotes for what I thought was a metered, well-supported post. I wonder what objections people have to my appeal for more research on the subject? Do downvoters disagree with my perception about bias in the media? And if so how do we resolve this difference of perception if not with more research? What is so fearful about additional inquiry?
An extreme minority. Unlocking your phone is very low on the list of issues if you are one of those people.
Ant & I are excited to release Supabase Auth. Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative. We are building the features of Firebase using scalable, open source products. Back in May one of our users unexpectedly launched us on Hacker News[1]. There were a lot of comments about Auth: many people asking for it, and many wondering how we would implement it.

If you don’t care for the details, the linked blog post is more high-level. For anyone interested in the technical details, this is how we implemented our Auth system from the bottom up:

Authorization: Supabase is built with Postgres + PostgREST so we were adamant that we’d use PostgreSQL’s row level security[2] for authorization. PostgREST solves most of the hard work with their auth system[3] and Supabase hides the PostgREST implementation when you start a new project. We create a few roles in your database: one “anon” role which is restricted, and one “authenticated” role which users can “assume” once they are logged in. Inside your database, you can then add Postgres Policies[4]. These are incredibly powerful (see Steve’s “social network” database[5]). Admittedly they can be confusing, but we have plans to make them simple. Their flexibility outweighs their complexity in any case.

Authentication: After trying many open source tools, we found Netlify’s GoTrue[6]. This was simple and covered most of the functionality we need. There are some missing Oauth clients, so we will contribute them when we roll out Oauth (we only have email login for now). When a user starts a new Supabase project, we create an “auth” schema in their database. GoTrue stores the users and user data in this schema.

AuthN+AuthZ: when a user signs up to your app/project, GoTrue assigns them a unique UID, saves them in the auth schema, and returns a JWT with the user’s details. Our client library attached this JWT to every API request. PostgREST validates the JWT then sends the request through to Postgres. Postgres is able to inspect the request header to get the user’s role and UID, but to make this easy we added some helper functions to the auth schema: one to get the logged in user’s UID (`auth.uid()`) and one to get the logged in user’s role (`auth.role()`). These functions can be used in the Postgres Policies to create a very powerful rules engine.

Postgres is one of those tools which you love the more you use it. RLS+Policies are no exception here. It’s very cool being able to specify rules in your database and then be carefree in your frontend. We hope you’ll try it out and send feedback.

Note - we’re still in alpha! Please be lenient :). There are some missing features (we’ll be enabling email confirmations/password reset in 1 or 2 weeks)

[1] Previous Launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23319901

[2] RLS: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-rowsecurity.html

[3] PostgREST auth: http://postgrest.org/en/v7.0.0/auth.html

[4] Policies: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createpolicy.htm...

[5] Social network: https://github.com/steve-chavez/socnet/blob/f1abaadaaedb7c8e...

[6] GoTrue: https://github.com/netlify/gotrue
It's pretty obvious that Covid supply chains have affected Google's hardware strongly. The Pixel 4a was delayed months (and the Pixel 3a ran out of stock before the 4a was introduced), the Pixel 4 is out of stock before the Pixel 5 is introduced.

They're not the only ones, though; Apple has announced already that the new iPhone is going to be delayed.
This inspires fond memories of the NexTag Programming Problem, which apparently has survived online longer than NexTag itself!

https://spellscroll.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/nextag/
Not really. You can’t buy a Pixel 1 and haven’t been able to for years. Nor can you buy an iPhone 3GS.
This is completely different. You can still use the phone and it will still be getting updates as the guaranteed when you bought the phone.

This has basically no effect for existing owners.
If you have stairs leading up to the porch of your house, they aren't there to prevent people with disabilities from entering. They're there because it's a cheap and convenient solution.

If the building is commercial, not residential, you'll find yourself on the business end of an ADA complaint. Not because of malice, but because of neglect.
> 5.4M C++ devs vs 7.1M Java devs is not a massive difference in pools

That depends on the geographic distribution, though. Also, we are talking of a 25% larger pool.

> And while I don't have numbers for it, my experience has been that the vast majority of Java devs have very little experience with the kind of specialized use of the JVM that low latency programming requires.

You could say the same about C++ developers. Most of the C/C++ jobs are in embedded devices, which differ vastly from HFT environments.
were they that bad? I was looking at them, but the price was just too high for me.
And this is good. This browser needs to die already.

I'm glad the company I work at also dropped IE in new projects and have plans to upgrade older projects too.
They now have two production build variations (I’m guessing two Webpack config):

modern: ES6+, less polyfill

legacy: ES5, more polyfill

The appropriate variation is served by detecting browser’s version from the User-Agent string
Here: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21356745/google-pixel-4-xl...
That's a bit concerning for you - I was able to navigate there without issue.

Edit: That's kind of possibly concerning for you. It may be totally fine. Still seems weird.
Well, they do say organic is best if you can get it.
> There are no conventions that write a date as mm.dd.yyyy

While slash is the most common, use of hyphens and dots as separators for US-style dates is not at all unheard of in the wild for manually formatted dates. The fact that it doesn't show up in lists of national “preferred formats” and doesn't tend to be commonly implemented as a prebaked format in software doesn't mean it's not a real thing people see and will interpret dates they see in light of.
I've seen devirtualization happen with link-time optimization as well.
Green Rush: Cannabis Startup Genius Fund's Line of Failed Products
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This is fun! One thing I notice is that rarely do I get one-to-one riffles. Often they group 2-3 cards together. I've always wondered (but not enough to do the leg work) if those 2-3 cards tend to stay together shuffle to shuffle. Can small physical attributes (size, edge alignment, inter-card friction, air pressure) contribute these cards to affect the entropy?
I just can't buy into Google hardware anymore. When they first introduced the Pixel, I thought that by version 3 or 4 that they would have made vast improvements and "figured it out", like Microsoft did with the Surface Pro 3 and 4 (which is when that line really took off, letting them expand into laptops and AIO desktops). But it just seems like they went backwards with the Pixel 4, and I don't know if I can trust them again.

Pixel 4a looks decent for the price, though.
I keep seeing this sentiment when it comes to those in the natural sciences, but it makes no sense.

I could replace "programming" in your above little bit with "mathematics" and it would be just as weird.

Our modern world runs on computers and programs, just as our modern world and modern science built itself on mathematics and required many to use it. So too the new world of science may require everyone to know to program just as they know about the chemical composition of smells, or the particulars of differential equations, etc.

And I know your argument isn't "they shouldn't learn programming", but honestly since I keep seeing this same line of reasoning, I can't help but feel that is ultimately the real reasoning being espoused.

Science is getting harder, and its requirements to competently "find the exciting things" raises the bar each time. I don't see this as a bad thing. To the contrary, it means we are getting to more and more interesting and in-depth discoveries that require more than one discipline and specialty, which ultimately means more cross-functional science that has larger and deeper impacts.
A Framework to (Dis)Trust and Verify TikTok
Do people wear disposable gloves? A facemask I can understand, but I'm not sure of the value of disposable gloves vs good hand hygiene.
That also applies to phone numbers :-(
if you got the time, this movie will take you in the fasinating world of Fungi and the amazing work of Paul Stamets

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/fantasticfungi
They're low-level interfaces to a custom property and method lookup table in a language that already has that built-in. I guess it might just be me but I get a little chuckle every time I read/read-praise-about/use them.

I dunno, the functions-or-bust crowd happily doing and championing manual OO machinery fiddling amuses me.
Or maybe they do fail because they are flawed. And foreign interest weakening them is just a story. People suffer under socialism. Maybe you should liver under a socialist regime before preaching them.
And here I thought it was Samuel Butler who came up with the millihelen as a measure of beauty.

And as Herodotus says, Nobody ever went to war over a kidnapped girl.
How did you pair to your computer?

I have an engage 75 and was very frustrated to find that that after dropping $500 on a BT headset, the base had to be plugged into my laptop.
> All I want is sharing pictures I took with my friends, while also looking at photography from random people.

Sharing pics & stories with friends/ family was why I started using FB years ago. I think Instagram became popular because FB had become a polluted mess before young people even had a chance to try it. Older people just stuck around out of habit.

I never liked IG because generally my FB posts and images are hosted on my blog first and crossposted, something you can't do on IG.

Fully agree that IG is already a mess. But people haven't really abandoned it yet in numbers. They just stopped attracting new people.
>Many USB drives already have small embedded CPU in them.

For most common hardware this is just an 8051 variant that sets up the USB and DMA peripherals. It's easy enough to get something more powerful, but I am doubtful you'd want to reuse consumer hardware.
If findings are true that insects are more attracted to cold light than traditional incandescent light sources, then it's small wonder you still find significant numbers of insects where all the cold light is emitted, even if they are killed on contact with those light sources or trapped by them (which is a significant problem with mating). Same should be true for any species which follows insects as a source of food.
Goldman names new head of digital assets for the future of financial markets
Where exactly do you feel like you’re fighting with macOS?
If you have more stuff, and 10% is good, than that stuff can be more of the better.
Why not an excel plugin to fix the problem?
I made all my Py2 code forward compatible with 2to3. It was mostly a smooth process when you're using the future imports and know what landmines to avoid. It still required manual intervention at times with Unicode support and libraries that have breaking API changes between versions.

The end result is something that can be Py3 native whenever I want. 2to3 is the right tool for the job. There is no way to map all Py3 features back into Py2 so 3to2 would be a broken mess that only supported a subset of the language.
You might have clicked on a techcrunch link in the past few weeks or live in a country different than the OP. They use http redirects to assign you an advertising ID based on your IP or something afaik.
Why not RocksDB for streaming storage?
Nightsight on its own is freaking magic, and makes the camera worth it for me. Taking pictures in doors, or in a bar (not that I can do that anymore :) ) was easy on a pixel, and always came out looking good.
As a GitLab team membmer, this is really awesome to see! A GitLab CLI is something I'd love to have officially at GitLab. Feel free to contribute to the discussion and help up vote the idea here https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/3324
Yeah I feel the same. I recently felt pretty astonished after seeing them again once I went out in the woods.
To be clear, my comment did not say nor imply that better individually-skilled or talented employees would make less money.

To elaborate on my comment: I'm suggesting that an employee's full value to the organization should be reflected in their pay. For example, someone with slightly less than average skill in some area (e.g. as indicated by project performance up to this point) may have other strengths.
I'd love to see some stats on page load times etc.

There's a lot of repetitive debate on HN about JS web apps slowing things down and I'd like to know if the effects would be as bad if you could use the latest browser tools unpolyfilled.
>What's the point of casually dismissing this article's premise?

Because it should be casually dismissed. This person doesn't know what they're talking about, refused to listen to the people who told them they didn't know what they are talking about, and wrote an article full of nonsense.
Yes, German streets are quite dark. Some villages even close the lights at midnight.
You should be proud of your ability to extrapolate a pattern from only 3 data points, but ashamed of your ignorance of the other 91 data points ;-)

https://killedbygoogle.com/

https://gcemetery.co/
Unsplash releases biggest tagged image dataset
We are excited to launch this dataset to help with innovations that are on-going with ML research. The lite dataset contains 25k nature-themed Unsplash photos, 25k keywords, and 1M searches. The full dataset contains 2M+ high-quality Unsplash photos, 5M keywords, and over 250M searches.
Your computer scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
I have a OnePlus 5 and use both depending on the situation, very useful.
CDC says 1/3rd suffer for months. How does that play into your logic?

https://bgr.com/2020/07/27/coronavirus-symptoms-return-after...
It's not just about data entry. Entering dates properly in excel allows you to calculate with dates.

If you want to know what date and time it will be 476 days and 12 hours from today you can just do =TODAY()+476.5

This is very useful when the requirement is to 'happen every 10 days' or you're looking for '30 days in the past'

Excel has a very low barrier of entry compared to pandas while boasting an immense amount of power and features. I think it was not an easy challenge to keep it going over the decades.

> US dates
I'm a non-US person and I fixed this simply by changing my locale to enUS everywhere. It has an added benefit of not having weird translations of everything in random tools and excel functions not being localized to their cringy versions in my native tongue.
Ask HN: What do companies WITHOUT a whiteboard interview ask?
Hey,

So I'm in college and preparing for interviews (swe). I've always found Leetcode irrelevant and would rather learn how to actually build stuff.

So I was surprised to find that a ton of companies have actually done away with the traditional style (https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards).

There's a lot of advice on "how to crack the coding interview", but how do you crack these kind of interviews? What should I expect and how should I effectively prepare?

Thanks in advance.
Ask HN: Hitting Restart at 40
TL;DR: How can one restart a career and move to research (or any other area for that matter) at 40?

Hi HN crowd!

I've been climbing the corporate ladder for most of my career, with some degree of success, mostly in big consultancy, currently leading a team of around 140 consultants. My background is in software engineering, and corporate ladders are mostly incompatible with sticking with the engineering side of things (I usually put it as evolving from engineer to manager to salesman).

I'm at a point in my career where I feel a change is needed, and research has always been something I'd love to do, and where I feel I could contribute with actual value to actual people.

The thing is, I'm about to turn 41, never worked in research, and wouldn't know the first thing about starting a career in that space.

Any tips on how to do it? If it helps, and in the current economic context, how would you advise someone on how to restart a career at 40?
Bitwarden supports faceunlock -> all apps with pin support face unlock. Solved.
People seem to forget that their skin is a glove when it comes to viruses.

My point is instead of wearing gloves you can just avoid touching your face until you wash your hands or use hand sanitizer, which you can't do wearing gloves.
That's consulting for you.
Ah yeah, maybe. I've had the watch and previously a Vivoactive HR and they never seemed to have any trouble with my skin colour when measured against other measurement methods.
Not even a year old.

Meanwhile my 'very old' 2016 iPhone SE is still supported and will be running the new iOS 14 update very soon.