skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can a font pick randomly between different versions of the same glyph?

In theory, yes, OpenType Contextual Alternates can do this.

See "Introducing variety" on this page:
https://www.typenetwork.com/news/article/opentype-at-work-co...
Or look at the history of the chemical and pharmaceutical industry in Germany.
Did you just starting to use TikTok? Many platforms show less ads to new users, in order to not scare them away and it's not until you've used it for a longer period of time that they ramp up how many ads you're seeing. Also different profiles gets different amount of ads.
just realised if you want "squarish" piece you can't really have a rectangular puzzle with a prime number of pieces without resorting to tricks
On each of them
As an aside sounds like we would be doing away with the whole bin show, this is great if it stays through:

>Tip 5: Place items from your pockets into your carry-on bag. Prior to going through the security checkpoint, take the items from your pockets and place them into your carry-on bag so that you don’t have to place them in a bin. Remove the keys, tissues, lip balm, loose change, breath mints, mobile phone and anything else from your pockets and place them right into your carry-on bag.
Have you thought about getting a job in a security company that does active software development (i.e not a pure hardware play)? Someone who wants to be an ML head with a security background would be an asset there. I can easily see companies like DarkTrace, and Vectra loving that type of profile, and being interested in seeing people grow from one side to the other. It's core to the business.
Did you just share a screenshot to prove youtube is playing audio?
Yeah, this surprised me too. As sceptical as I am of TikTok and its "I can't believe it's not malware" approach to privacy I feel a bit sorry for the poor sods actually developing it. Oracle are going to beat the world record for deepest borehole with how hard they'll run the app into the ground.
No current plans to move. I would love to move to a rural area in middle Appalachia and buy land.
> High taxes have a well-established negative effect on capital formation, and investment

That's interesting because in absolute numbers countries with a very high taxation are among the first for number of millionaires.

Japan is 3rd, UK is 4th, Germany is 5th, France is 6th, Italy is 7th

Compared to the population, Switzerland and Honk Kong are 1st and 2nd

In Switzerland taxes are usually low compared to the rest of Europe, but in Geneva they are 45.5%, the highest rate for Switzerland and yet is the city with the highest concentration of millionaires per square kilometer in the World, more than Monaco and SF.

Millionaires in Switzerland are almost two times those of the US compared to the population (9.5k/100k vs 5k/100k)

4th is the Netherlands, 5th is Denmark and 7th is Sweden, three countries famous for their high tax rates but equally high social and economical wealth.
Why would we normalize by population size (or GDP)?

Are discoveries harder in bigger countries? So would we expect a single researcher to be more productive in England than in the US?
No worries, I wasn't offended! I just think it's insane that a group of people other than my own can even think to tell me what my ethnicity is. As an example, it would be utter hubris were I to say the same to Black Americans, so I'm not sure why it's randomly okay to do this to other groups.
I don’t think your ideas are random nor out of place. Durable data accessible by different clients is an important property that bleeds into the data science realm. Apache Arrow seems to partially tackle this problem by moving the data to shared memory that can be accessed by different runtimes like Python and R.

There are a couple of problems I see with SQLite used as a common data format:

1. SQLite is a state machine that only stores the most recent version of mutable (binary) tables so change control is non-trivial.

2. Matrices/Tensors are not naturally stored in relational tables.
The Difference Between “JavaScript Event Loop” vs. “Node JavaScript Event Loop”
Right, because the Supreme Court didn’t ever rule against the Lincoln administration regarding the acknowledgement of a negro as a human and a citizen, which led your principled example, this dream of a divided government; when the current senate conspired with the executive to avoid jail. That’s collusion with the criminal.Back to Lincoln, he didn’t sit there and take the decision regarding the freedom of a slave released in one state, the rights of that black individual — disregarded as a human; To roam freely in every state and abolish the practice of indentured servitude, you could say Lincoln saw the writing on the wall. Just him running for office and winning big, in California, was a declaration of war on its own country to reestablish federated supremacy. The system broken a war fixed it.
The situation where you need different headsets for different apps/games is perverse. Imagine having to have an app store per monitor brand.

Game developers should invest in an open standard and take away the leverage from air merchants.
> The big question on managers' minds (either consciously or unconsciously) when approving a policy change is "if I do this and anything goes wrong, will I get blamed?". This should not be the basis of choice but in practice it sadly is. This is where things go wrong. The people who would most benefit from the change (and thus have the biggest incentive to get it fixed) do not get to make the call. Instead it goes to people who will see no personal benefit, only risk.

This cones very close to hitting the nail on the head but not quite. The crux of the matter is:

/Corporate risk aversion culture is only aware of the risk of change, and ignores the risk of stasis./
TikTok feels a completely bizarre purchase for Oracle. Especially when abandoning the UK market.

They have no synergy, no experience, no moderation infrastructure, nothing. Do they want to be Yahoo?

Literally the only justification I can think of is that they want to keep the current administration happy and see this as a quasi-bribe, in the hope of getting more work in future from them in things they actually do. But that seems crazy given the likelihood (on the basis of polling, not making any judgements on whys or wherefores) that the administration will be gone in three months.
Quite often the other side is perfectly capable of thinking for themselves. They just don't want to lose their job on account of that one common-sense approval in case things go south. Self-preservation etc.
In my mind I can only picture something like Mr. Burns saying something like: "how do you do, fellow kids?"
Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?
Reddit constantly hassles me to use their app on mobile.

Why do they care so much?

I really don’t want to use their app. I just wish they’d give up and let me use the browser in peace.
Kodi plugins are available for netflix, amazon prime and disney+ so you can use these 3 from kodi interface not sur about google play or apple.
I don't believe in "benevolent" corporations either, but that doesn't excuse managers from being cold-fish personalities that border on sociopathic or machiavellian.

In fact, even the meanest largest corporations have excellent managers peppered throughout the organization that watch out for their people and genuinely care for them even though the corp as a whole might be a greedy SOB-- I'm thinking places like Comcast and Oracle here. ymmv.
Hackers Bled 118 Bitcoins Out of Covid Researchers in U.S.
However they now have to be trusted. It might have been better to have figured out which you trust and only use those.
So things are not so bad in the US, if one can still worry about dining-in food. Glad to hear. Media here made it sound much much worse.
I don’t know, but lots of people seem to think that social networks can be used to manipulate elections.
Interesting and perhaps nice for scripting, beyond that lost me (as said, its controversial) on using indentation instead of braces.
FWIW, Oculus has the same system - IIRC, you can return for a full refund if you haven't played more than 2 hours in 14 days since purchase. I've used it, and IME it was seamless.
Does raising Minimum Wages lead to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-actualization https://archive.vn/x3NLs
Now anyone can train Imagenet in 18 minutes (2018)
So what would you have libraries like scikits-learn do? Support half a dozen array APIs until a 7th array implementation comes around? Support one, and force users to litter adapters everywhere and (often poorly) reinvent the wheel?

I'd very much welcome a unified array API initiative. It's been accomplished in Julia and it's incredibly empowering.

The fact that today you have to special case functions because the various array types are only loosely compatible is a nightmare, not a benefit.
Peter Thiel's ideas about monopolies are ill-conceived.

In a competitive industry the life of corporations might be brutish, nasty and short. Yes. But the life of workers and customers can be quite nice---since companies are competing for them, too.
> At what point do you think the government should stop taking taxes?

When millionaires stop crying because they have to pay them.
It is and is not at the same time until you try to restore it.
how would solar result in areas beeing uninhabitable for decades (or much longer?) after we stopped using them?
>> Humans don't have "error bounds" either, and you trust them just fine.

Yes, but humans are already here and doing all those dangerous and difficult things. But if we're going to replace them with something, it makes sense to want to replace them with something that's better than them. I mean us.

Otherwise, we might as well stick with the humans. Especially since we already know how to make humans (whereas self-driving cars, not so much).
And if you're more of a Rap person: http://httpstatusrappers.com/

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This clearly shows that you cannot believe companies when they say that there pesticides/GMOs/etc... are "safe".

You can only see this when enough population is affected, by then it might be too late.

To assume that this applied to human food is not poisonous is also a fallacy: you cannot say "yeah we fed humans for 3 months with this food and they are still ok".

The human body is extremely resilient, so obviously nothing bad will happen in 3 months.

But accumulate this shit for many years and bad things will happen, you also can't know how it affects children.

Scientists and companies are arrogant, they don't understand that interactions in a complex system cannot be predicted, it is NOT POSSIBLE TO PREDICT THEM, no matter how low your p-value goes.
I was interested in computers while growing up and a teacher in high school started a programming class that took place before school. I enjoyed that class and decided to become a software developer.
> If you believe otherwise, you should immediately return your land to the native people it was stolen from.

Define native people. Did any other peoples live on that land before them? Did any tribe fight with the other for the same piece of land?

> And as an aside, property rights are a social fiction.

I'm glad you said that. Next time robbers get into your house don't call the police, instead suggest your service to them.

> In order for the "wealth creators" to work, they need a stable legal system and a currency just to start.

Before you have any currency you need a valuable stuff to be created so that you can measure its value by your currency. Before you have a legal system you have to agree on the fundamental principles foundational to your way of living. Unalienable property right is one of these fundamental principles that made possible all the stuff around you and that you benefit greatly from. If you believe otherwise, try a lifestyle in Venezuela or Somaliland for a change.

> they might find it convenient for there to already be a well-developed trans-continental transportation infrastructure

Infrastructure is created by the same wealth creators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_(U.S.) Your government doesn't produce it out of nowhere, and before the government is able to contract any kind of infrastructure work, it has to extort money from those who created this currecny-measured value in the first place.
This is a common misconception and lie. The National State Law was elevated to become one of Israel's Basic Laws. It explicitly declares that Israel is the homeland of the Jewish people, that we have the right to self-determination in our own language Hebrew). It explicitly spells out that that language will forever be the language of the state, as it has been our language forever.

Further, it explicitly says that "Nothing in this article shall affect the status given to the
Arabic language before this law came into force.". This means that there are ZERO changes to Arabic as it applies to anything in the country. To wit, I a Jewish citizen in Israel can request services in Arabic should I choose to do so. Arabs in Israel request services in Arabic and Hebrew depending on comfort levels.
It would have been funny if you replied "that just a tribute" (semi-quoting a Tenacious D song)
Neat!

Some context would be helpful. Is this a commercial product? Open source? For kids? For adults? I'm not quite sure what I'm looking at, except that I've got a neat thing to do with my kid that will take up a few hours, at least, and a superior competitor to Desmos for kids who like coding.

Assuming it's up tomorrow, not behind a $10,000 paywall, etc. That's why context would be helpful.

Seems similar to p5.js in spirit, but focused on a different type of problem. With p5.js, I can build from what I wrote, and toss it up on my own web site.
What makes you think that business management doesn't care about the long term?

Business management is rumoured to care about share prices. And as we can see in the current stock market, shareholders are long term enough to eg see past the current pandemic. They also managed to see past Tesla's losses or Amazon's slim profitability.
I'm not quite sure what to explain, since it is basically indistinguishable from the way any other racketeer operates. This is pretty much the same thing as asking somebody at gunpoint to sell his Rolex to you for $20, or else you take it by force. The victim is at loss anyway, but when choosing between $20 and nothing, they may as well choose $20.

US market makes up a large portion of TikTok's revenue, some say 50%. So it can threaten to destroy that market completely, for nothing, forbidding TikTok and causing the loss of what is currently 50% of its revenue. Or it can offer some money (an amount, which normally wouldn't be enough to sell) to take it, or at least a part of it. Time will tell if TikTok will find the risk worth the trouble.
A Journey into Reason(ML) Mobile
In one of my previous jobs at a startup (~15 people), the reason for the color scheme we were forced to use on our ecommerce product wasn't the result of some marketing study or human interface recommendation, but rather the personal preference of another employee who had a "special" relationship with the company's president.
For me, I'm unwilling to invest time in an app thats not open source. Other key things for me would be a web gui, mobile gui, self hosted and easily backed up. Trilium notes is the best thing I have found so far.
Nobody really cares about Oracle and its corporate image outside of the software industry, a place where the vast majority of its members are outside of TikTok's target market. If they don't care about the links to an authoritarian one-party state with a questionable human rights record, they won't care about it being owned by Oracle.
In 1605 there was an attempt to blow up the British Parliament during the state opening by placing explosives in the cellars. 415 years later they still search the cellars for barrels of explosives, using oil lanterns and armed with swords. I feel that so many organisations are doing the same thing, maintaining an old solution for a problem that no longer exists.

So I think it's just as, or more, important to apply this thinking to the business requirements which drive development. Half of solution architecture is asking why something is the way it is, and asking again and again until you're sure there's a real reason. A lot of the time the answer is because that's how it's always been and traces back to a technical constraint from long ago. I see this a lot with companies moving from decades old legacy systems to modern applications.

Same with processes, authorisations, security risks, etc... They tend to start when somebody mad a mistake and they stick around regardless of if they're still relevant, effective or blocking progress.
> My HP laptop?

Yes.

You could.

Hackintosh do exist, you know?

Buut it's illegal because Apple doesn't want to.

So blame Apple for your cat.
I would love to know more about the details of this example :-)
What the ‘Tech Exodus’ Could Mean for Silicon Valley
Doesn't that cost $30,000+ per trademark class. And many trademarks span into 2-3 classes... which bumps the cost up to $50-100k :/
Indeed, it has nothing to do with taking reservations, but providing service which is the crux of the issue. If they accept customers while knowingly not following fire regulations, then yes, it’s wrong and unethical; similar thinking should apply to software services.
As a fellow brit, my understanding has always been that the tea needs to go into water as close to boiling as possible, and putting the water into a cold pot makes that much harder. Unless in a rush I tend to use the water from pre-heating the pot to also pre-heat the cup so my brew stays hotter longer.
I wonder how often that happens. I'm guessing it happens more often than HR thinks it does. I've heard quite a few stories like yours. Usually it's from somebody who can pass all the screens but doesn't have enough years of experience to make the hiring committee feel comfortable, so they get offered a junior role that technically wasn't open and is created specifically for that person to grow in. Anyway, it's a smart move for companies that can recognise talent.
The money (and hence most of the engineering time) is in making people's lives and jobs easier, not in exploring deep philosophical questions.
The algorithm have been already shipped within the release of the PixLab Rest APIs 1.9.72: https://blog.pixlab.io/2020/08/pixlab-api-1972-released

Note however that Retina does not support real-time performance on the CPU especially on IoT devices and web browsers (WebAssembly). That's why we opted for a standard cascade approach for our WebAssembly port: https://sod.pixlab.io/articles/porting-c-face-detector-webas...
I'd wager it's because the average user only blocks ads in the browser.
Yes you're expected to register a trademark in each country where you're conducting business. You can calculate the costs of registering a world wide trademark here [0]. It gets a bit expensive, but if you just cover your primary markets US/EU it's not that big of an expense.

[0]: https://www.wipo.int/madrid/feescalculator/
Asia chipmaker stocks dive after Huawei ‘death sentence’
> Web developers, like the mature people they are, bullied him into abandoning it.

So there is a status code everyone knows is used. The people running the official list know it is used. Now you have a guy running around telling people that they should stop using it because why exactly? Are the people running the list suddenly going to forget that it is in use? Are they going to ignore the issues caused by introducing a status code where the value is already widely misused by existing systems? Are they that intentionally malicious to cause a problem out of spite?

> Web developers, like the mature people they are, bullied him into abandoning it.

As opposed to the guy on a power trip trying to stomp on everyones fun? Grownup people are allowed to have fun, aren't they?
Chinese technology better than Western technology? Quick! -better impose sanctions for er... "security" reasons.
The solution to the problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-determination
> You can't blame a company for wanted to protect itself against a disgruntled employee that wants to push the (example - not applicable to your company) ebanking software code out in the open.

The thing is, they can't, not if my PC is still usable for day to day work. For a legitimate user, the ways to extricate data are endless (e.g. tunnel out via DNS, embed into video streams (for customer training or something), hell, even simple stuff like embedding data into the monstrous modern MS Office files should fly under the radar). The real value comes from making certain that a) only those that need access, get access (e.g. why do I have read/write access to the sales file folder as a developer?) and b) minimize the result of a breach ahead of time, which often coincides with doing good work in general. For instance, don't lie to your customers on a regular basis, treat your employees respectfully, and – regarding your example – write closed source software as if it was open source the whole time. It's not as if attackers need the source code to fuzz your software for vulnerabilities.

On a principled basis, I really dislike the world view where the employees have to be constantly prevented from getting the better of the company. If you don't trust me enough to surf on news sites during my time off at work, you should not trust me with software development, where laziness has often far worse consequences than not doing any work at all.
Hopefully proper implementation of CPFP (child-pays-for-parent) on the miners' side and in the wallets would bring fully decentralized solution to the problem. So you could simply "bump" your transaction by sending a child one that pays higher feerate for both itself and the parent. That would be more efficient since that fee would go to all miners, not just those with the deals with "accelerators". And no one in between to collect extra fee.
Its not meant to be a commentary on whos good and bad on some objective scale, just an anecdote on the effects in play
Tesla is not a good representative of the field; they are waaaay behind Waymo (Google) and Cruise (GM).
Do you think depth estimation could be done with two cameras plus computer vision (to find markers)? I think this is more or less what we do with our own eyes. Of course you would need much more processing power, but maybe for some applications the robot's brain doesn't need to be inside its body.
I can’t be alone in being more creeped out by Oracle than bytedance. So we’re giving a pathological collector of software control over a huge group of easily manipulated teenagers? Yikes!
But it could still be useful. As a source of energy, propulson for example. Sink one end into a star and put the other where you need power.
Explained in three sad letters.
Soon. https://forum.obsidian.md/c/developers-api/14
yes!
I have found an Android version of the Hewlett Packard 48g which suits me very nicely.
The Emu48g is actually better than the original in that it is possible to archive files both on and off the system and of course those awful battery changes are no more.
I can't really imagine a better machine for the kinds of things I like to do - I have a hobby in algorithm design and also sometimes want to do engineering calculations. Maybe everybody in calculator design looked at the hp stuff and they couldn't see anywhere further to go on a handheld device, so the design teams stopped being headed by top programmers.
Funny thing is: once you travel with a baby, basically anything goes. 1L water bottle? no questions asked. Even though the baby won't drink 1L of water on a 2-hours flight.

The whole restriction on liquids is fairly ridiculous, and even more of a security theater than most of the other checks. And I think the security guards know it, and use any excuse to look the other way.