skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its disappointing to me how this community responds to Jackson Pollack. Most of the Pollack supporter's comments seem to assume that if a person doesn't think he's a genius of incredible technical ability, then that means that person is automatically an ignorant person that's making wild, uninformed, random guesses about how art is created.

I think Pollack's paintings are aesthetically pleasing. I'm not a professional artist, however I am an art and art history hobbyist. I have been for decades. I like his paintings. I don't, however, think they are special or that he was an artistic genius whose paintings should have broken the record at one point for the most expensive work of art ever sold. That's OK though, we all have different tastes and a guy with $100 million just happened to have different tastes from this guy with no millions.

However, my opinion isn't random or uninformed. I know how a painting is created. How the surfaces are prepared. How preparatory drawings and smaller studies are done. How the final drawing is made. How the underpainting is done. My art is pretty bad compared to professionals. However, studying it for decades means I've watched actual masters do their thing for a countless number of hours. I know how the Italian masters created their works of art in great detail. I know how Pollack created his. The level of technical skill required to become a master of classical realism is absurd. Pollack's strength was executing and publishing an idea no one had done before. In the grand scheme of all of art, I don't think that's a particularly strong strength when compared to masters of classical realism.

My opinion is based on an intimate knowledge of what it takes to be that good. If you disagree with my conclusion that's fine and reasonable but to pretend that everyone doesn't consider him a highly skilled genius is ignorant is in itself pretty ignorant.

If I wanted to create a work like Pollack's, there would likely be a learning curve, but we aren't talking the same amount of practice and preparation that classically trained artists require to even be semi-competent. Like I said before, the biggest strength of the work he is known for was originality, not technical competence. He might have also been technically competent as an artist, but when I look at the works that made him famous I don't see it.

I'd be willing to hang all kinds of abstract / modern / postmodern art on my wall because it adds color, sometimes has great composition, and is aesthetically pleasing. However, most of it just isn't meaningful to me in the same way that other genres of art are like classical realism and impressionism. I don't think anyone should feel like that's a personal attack on their preferences. I'm not missing something, it just has a different effect on me. If you don't like classical realism you aren't missing something either, you just like different things.
Captchas have long been hated in the accessibility community though, so even if inaccurate, it seems to be a common sentiment.
That's just plain false:

https://ww2.energy.ca.gov/lng/faq.html#900

Yes, it needs an oxidizer. 5-15% LNG vapor to air is sufficient. Like in the case of a rail car being ruptured and leaking LNG.
> When people talk about "unit tests", a unit doesn't refer to the common pattern of "a single class". A unit is a piece of the software with a clear boundary. It might be a whole microservice, or a chunk of a monolith that is internally consistent.

This is a really important aspect, and I think is one of the key things that separates "journeyman" level from "master" on the subject of testing.

The most concise piece I've found on this is Bob Martin's "Testing Contra-Variance" (https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2017/10/03/TestContrav...), if you can look past the slightly forced "Socratic dialog" style of the article.

> The structure of the tests must not reflect the structure of the production code, because that much coupling makes the system fragile and obstructs refactoring. Rather, the structure of the tests must be independently designed so as to minimize the coupling to the production code.

The "one test class per class" or "one test file per file" approach is an extremely common anti-pattern, and it's insidious because a lot of engineers think it's the obviously correct way of writing tests.
The headline made me very concerned but then first two paragraphs made it make perfect sense.

The title would be infinitely less clickbait bullshit if you added one word to the end:

“In alarming move, CDC says people exposed to Covid-19 do not need testing immediately”

Even better:

“CDC says people exposed to COVID-19 should not be tested immediately after exposure”.

The alarming part is why would they put out this guidance without specifying how long to wait. Seems worse than useless as it empowers everyone to make whatever policy they want for how long to wait and then finger point at how they followed CDC guidance in doing so.
There's been a lot of failure over here. I'd break my home server almost daily while tinkering. Now that it's been rock solid for about a year I kind of wish it would break and give me a problem to solve.
Much better than you'd think --- I have a late 30s Frigidaire which consumes a bit less than 300kWh/year, which is actually on the low side compared to some of the newest ones today. GE's famous Monitor Tops from the same era (which sell for absurd $$$ in working condition today) are also very energy-efficient:

http://web.archive.org/web/20121218033749/http://www.greenbu...

The ones with the highest consumption are the late 60s to 80s thin-walled ones (which makes for more interior space, but obviously less insulation) and those with defrost heaters.

It's both depressing and a bit amusing, both from the point of view of historical accuracy and saving working products from being scrapped, that a basic search on how much energy a fridge uses turns up misleading results like https://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/refrigerators.html --- that one cuts off at 1976, and is essentially claiming 2200kWh/year for all models before that year, which is a gross generalisation and exaggeration. 2200kWh/year is equivalent to consuming 250W for 24/7. The compressor in my fridge has a rated power of less than 100W, and certainly doesn't run 24/7.
I have a Model S and a Model 3, and I actually prefer the 3 (though I generally prefer sportier cars to luxury cars). The smaller size makes it more nimble, the lack of air suspension gives better road feel, the horizontal orientation of the central screen seems more effective, and I don't miss the dash at all. The only things I do miss from the Model S are the much more comfortable steering wheel, AM radio (weirdly missing on the Model 3), and a hatchback. If I were looking for a new EV today, I'd probably be looking at a Model Y.
Sales tax is worth considering but doesn’t contribute much to the delta: 12% HST in British Columbia [3] vs. ~8% sales tax in California [4].

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_British_Columbi...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_Stat...
Stay away from SVB. Mercury or Azlo are much better start-up focused banks.

https://mercury.com/

https://www.azlo.com/
my leader character is space, makes things super easy
OK my name is Osman in Arabic and though Osman shows up on the English/Arabic page I can definitely confirm, having lived in the US for over ten years, it is NOT english friendly to pronounce at all.

But i love the idea of this app!
It’s pretty weird to be afraid of that too. After all, if you are not there anymore, you can’t really worry about it either.

And if there is something, the worry was misplaced in the first place.
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pleasantries are fine, just include the point along with them
New Zealand Stock Exchange Down for Third Day in a Row Following Cyber Attack
... that .su TLD
Interesting, do you have any examples of the out-there names?
Sending wires, depositing checks, transferring between accounts, bill pay, etc. They all require the terrible mobile app or online UI. Banks are all the same until you're a big company, better to go with one with modern tools.
> > The crazy thing is that a foreign citizen can invest in an American start up without any of these credentials, yet a US citizen cannot.

> These rules are generally based on the residence of the investor, not their citizenship. I'm an American in Quebec currently, and it's the Quebec/Canadian rules which determine my eligibility to invest while I'm living here, not the SEC's. And in Canada's case, the accredited investor rules are broadly similar to what the US rules were before this announcement, with the same dollar amounts but in Canadian dollars and with a lot of other differences in the details.

Doesn't it have less to do with the jurisdiction in which you're located, and more to do with the jurisdiction in which the offering is located?
Did anyone else appreciate the ANSI art embedded in the HTML document at the end of the body?
Yes, it is somewhere between a paid streaming service, and YT.

I wanted to mention Nebula because several of the channels I first watched on YT are on there as well.
What is it with this pseudo-doomsday clickbait "the free and open web is dead" type posts I keep seeing?

Is the web really dying or being destroyed? I don't get how it is and this article doesn't explain this either.
Eternal life?
> URL bar (3): no more editing the URL if anything was ever searched in the current tab. Instead it edits the search. The URL is inaccessible

There's a sort of a workaround: if you long-press on the URL bar when the page is displayed (not when typing in it), you can copy the address.

Though of course the behavior you describe is weird if you're already away from the search page.
I do this nowadays when the app I'm building isn't too complex yet. I download the latest Preact bundle from unpkg, commit it into git (I know it feels wrong but really, it's fine) maybe add htm and write my stuff as static unprocessed files.

Of course, it's good to have the freedom to go both with and without a package manager and build tools, since this doesn't scale at all.
The solution is simple. Can some cloudflare engineers here grant this search engine the same access it gives the chinese ones?
Because forced decision making is a barrier to tool use. For instance, imagine if every time you opened your IDE it asked you which language you're going to type in. You like your IDE to be work best with the language you're working in, so that's good. You're adding user choice here, so that's good. But the outcome is bad. Why is that?
Yes, but someone with $1M in investable capital will almost certainly have a lawyer and they will not be easily taken advantage of. I don't think you can require a lawyer per se in this country. I didn't come up with this myself - that's what Robert Shiller (of Case-Shiller index fame) says in his economics course, which I did take.
I've heard it said that the best way to answer the abusive party is with "that's your problem"
> ou have this backwards. Brutalism was popular in the Soviet Union because it is austere, symbolizing equality and utilitarianism.

I don't disagree it's purported to be egalitarian, but to me that's just a codeword for suppressing individual expression as I've said elsewhere.

And utilitarianism at the expense of beauty makes for terribly sad creations.

I'm on Roger Scruton's side on this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHw4MMEnmpc
If something's broken or if someone needs some info/action to be unblocked, I want a notification. I'm less likely to check email for something time sensitive, but I sure as hell don't want 20 phone calls a day.
Being a well-behaved crawler and using cookies the way a browser would is simple. Especially if they're crawling from a single IP address (as described).
yes
see https://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/
This site is fantastic, thanks for sharing.
That seems unlikely. If people demand off-street parking as part of a new home, they can also demand a charger. Or install one themselves. There is no prohibition on off-street parking linked to these changes.

As for on-street parking, I don't feel particularly inclined to subsidize (via my tax payments) parking for the public's gross overuse of cars. I'd rather my tax dollars go to transit and alternative infrastructure.
So was your point not that you could "fuck over" Arab men by oppressing Arab women?
American citizens have the right to self defense. Deadly force is authorized.

Worst case, there are a couple states that require the victim (the real one) to attempt to retreat from the attacker if that is possible. Even in those states, the Kenosha riot victim would have had the right to shoot with intent to kill. Cops also don't have to retreat, and they too have the right to self defense.
One possible problem with this is if one crawler gets a link to the website and then a parallel crawler gets a link to the website as well.

Enough parallel crawlers and you hit the captcha.

So the crawlers would need to be maintaining a record of sites and associated cookies. I don’t see why it couldn’t be done, but definitely adds to complexity.
I think it will be a long time before any existing cities ban cars. It would be faster to start a new car-less city. I dream of doing that someday.
If you're doing incident response or on-call work, I think it needs to be more synchronous and more accurate. However, chat messages are more natural to me to indicate availability than setting the availability itself. Too many people don't set accurate statuses and it can get changed by the programs own rules, so it's a noisy signal IMO.
"How it works: first, an accessibility user signs up at this URL, which is linked in the hCaptcha widget info page. They are given an encrypted cookie that can be used several times per day, but must be refreshed every 24 hours via login."

https://www.hcaptcha.com/accessibility
Cloudflare is not unique in this regard. Other CDNs and just normal libraries offer anti-scraping capabilities.
When I did startup M&A (for a larger corp) we found out the hard way that many profitable startups would not be if they actually paid the right taxes. They didn’t know and were too small (sub $10m in revenue) for the tax authorities to care but we walked away from deals because the cost of bringing them to compliance would kill the deal returns and we were too big to get away with it
Huh I guess the jury is still out then
They failed to present data that exceptions are made for other search engines.
hCaptcha (the service CF switched to after Google decided to start charging for reCAPTCHA for large-volume customers[0]) has an accessibility option that bypasses their captchas, and it's available at:
https://www.hcaptcha.com/accessibility

0: https://blog.cloudflare.com/moving-from-recaptcha-to-hcaptch... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22812509 )
I feel like I'm fairly familiar with the tradeoffs. I'm simply making an observation that it's interesting to me that filesystem access over HTTP isn't bigger than it is.
> Private markets don't have these regulations because the assumption is that past financial success is indicative of financial sophistication. It doesn't prevent fraud, but at least it helps reduce the likelihood of success.

I don't know how any of this works but my kneejerk reaction is Maybe private markets should have these regulations as well? If a company can't follow these regulations maybe they have no business raising cash in the first place.
How do you test the tests that are testing your mocks? That said verifying mocks are a great help - they won't let you mock methods that don't exist on the real object.

Some mocking libraries, like the VCR library in ruby, can be turned off every now and then so you tests hit real endpoints. It is worth doing from time to time.
We took a slightly different approach and chose names that were deliberately common nouns that translate well, such as 蜜蜂

https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=auto...
Names with an L in Japanese?

The concept is cute, the execution is questionable.
This is pretty sweet. I would of have thought something like this needed to be built using canvas or WebGL but it looks like it's all JS and CSS. Will be using this for a side project!
Context: NZX has suspended trading for the third day in a row in response to a DDOS attack. It's unclear if the attack is market manipulation, an extortion attempt, politically or geopolitically motivated, or just someone doing it because they can.
I haven't done this completely (I use the jk remap hack in preference to escape) but I agree with this in general.

Emacs is an operating system, and vi is a language, which is widely "spoken". But if you invent your own dialect, you have an MxN problem, of getting M changes to register across the N programs which will listen to you when you speak to them in vi.

And I simply must nibble the bait in your last line: As a Mac native user, the command key, and consistency in commands across every native application, is one of the great features. It means, among other things, that Ctrl-whatever won't be intercepted when I send it to a program that uses it, or alternately, that it won't shadow the OS level affordance.

Back when I was spending five days a week inside a Linux VM, the context switch between Cmd-X and Ctrl-X for cut was pretty rapid and painless. Sure, I'd get the occasional cache miss, but that's harmless.
Usually to streamline certain oft-repeated tasks. The audience for such tools is not people who dont know how to build them, it's people who know how to build them but dont have time, which is very common condition for people working in computers.
You say "Hi!", I'm in the middle of wrapping up something. 8 minutes later, I have time, I say "Hello, what's up?". Unfortunately, during these 8 minutes you moved on to doing something after waiting for 30 seconds. 12 minutes later you see my reply, and say "Can I ask you something about this Foo module"". Again, during these 12 minutes I moved on to something else, blablablabla.

Had your first message been "Hi! In the Foo module, do we really need the function Bar to be public?" you would have been all set after 8 minutes.

A chat, like email, is just a tool to get shit done.
Huh, interesting the uptake by Catholics was greatly due to a Marian apparition in the town of Fatima, Portugal.
How Corporate Tyranny Works
Targeting by placement and location are just proxy for user targeted ads, due to lack of better abilities. Gives you very broad targeting criteria - like San Francisco is likely to have people interested in cloud. Cosmopolitan is likely to have middle age women readers, etc. User-targeted advertising gives you much higher granularity, which makes ads campaigns more effective for advertisers.

Is privacy invading targeted advertising a concern and something that needs more debate? Yes. Can it be creepy and cause harm in some cases? Yes. Should world be driven by advertisers ROI? No. Are user-targeted ads ineffective? Hell no.

But also, just because something is concerning and bad for some aspects of the life (like privacy), it doesn't mean it should be wiped out of the floor, as cheaper and effective advertising does help to grow any capitalist economy. Trade-offs are needed (same as we don't ban oil, even tho it's bad for environment), and it'll become more regulated (either self-regulated by industry, or by governments), but it's not going to disappear.
The point was that in a geopolitical sense, we can make Arab states weaker by encouraging their oppression of their citizens by telling them it's bad to oppress their citizens.

If the manner of their oppression is ethnic, then encourage that. If it's gender-based, then encourage that.
When you click M he signs it
I feel like "Accurate Chat Status" only works if it's automatic (as in, a calendar integration that switches your status to "in a meeting" or "it's after 6pm, probably afk.)

Otherwise you get:

4pm: "Ah, bob's status says he's in a meeting. I could message him, but I'd like this to be a quick, synchronous, chat discussion."

5pm: "Guess bob's still in a meeting..."

7pm: "Let me check - yep, still 'in a meeting'"

10pm: "Yeah, he forgot to update his status"

And then you never trust those statuses again.
I didn't know that! I don't subscribe to the physical edition anymore so I've been missing them. Thanks for the tip!
Facebook chose not to act on militia complaints before Kenosha shooting
Yeah everything you mentioned is spot on. I wish I had a garage to operate all my equipment, but have to work within the constraints of my small apartment.
> To open a new tab you have to open the tab selection with the icon on the top (or bottom) of the screen and then tap the "+"-icon in the middle of the screen

Out of curiosity, how come you have ‘+’ in the middle of the screen? Standard behavior for ‘material design’, which FF seems to follow for me, is to have such floating buttons at the bottom right.

> They removed the option to hide the microphone icon in the URL bar

That appears to be back, at least in ‘Nightly’. There's a toggle called ‘show voice search’ in the search settings.
> So retain the cookie they give you?

Ahh, but the cookie is created client-side using some Javascript which does some computationally intensive stuff for a second. Doesn't bother you as an end-user, but if you're writing a crawler and you're not driving a headless browser (expensive) then you probably don't trivially have the ability to run arbitrary Javascript code (or else, you have the work of integrating Deno or something to do that part for you).

Either way it means you can't just curl the webpage and get it. That's obviously the point when defeating DDOS attacks is the use case, but it doesn't work for crawlers, many of which are legitimate "users" like in the article.

These services should offer some other easier proof-of-work mechanism.
This is the sort of thing that seems like it makes sense, but assigning a time period or ownership to a lack of existence doesn't follow. We can talk about something not existing but it's only a convention.
https://gigablast.com/blog.html#cloudflaredestroy
Valid point, but I do not think they are lying, I am sure they can present it to cloudflare if required.
What exactly do you mean data collecting is bad and should be outlawed? Should banks no longer report financial transactions over $3,000? Should purchases of schedule II drugs no longer be recorded?

Again, I'm not sure if you understand what it is Palantir does. The fish is already identified: the government knows your name, your address, etc. The challenge lies not in identifying the fish, but identifying which fish are doing bad things.

To take a concrete example: Palantir was used to identify fraudulent pharmacies (aka "Pill Mills") and drug dealers using said pharmacies. Previously, analysts would sort purchases of certain classes of drugs by amount, and investigate from there. Drug dealers adapted by making multiple, smaller purchases none of which were large enough to attract the attention from analysts.

Using Palantir, analysts were able to identify people purchasing the same drugs on the same day at different pharmacies. That is suspicious. In addition to that, Palantir let them plot these purchases on a map, and link to a street view of the address. Clear patterns emerged, where dealers would purchase moderate quantities of drugs along a stretch of highway, often from pharmacies that did not have any external signage indicated that the building was a pharmacy. The government's ability to enforce laws is enhanced, but the data collected remains unchanged.
extremely similar to Flutter, SwiftUI is a sort of more wonky FP-y approach and they have a lot of work to do to flesh out the API still, we'll know more then
The Straussian Moment by Peter Thiel [audio]