skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I had to acknowledge you are right, and good for you for holding me to the higher standard! Particularly on this topic.
Can I ask you why do you leave all those tabs opened all the time? When I get to 20-25 I go mad and start frantically close almost all of them. I really depend on Awesome Bar to reopen sites though (but I like it)
Thinking Scientifically to Get Rid of Acne: The SkinTheory Method
The iOS changes coming if Apple loses the anti-trust fight
Video games is a pretty big counter example to that hypothesis. Japan has been a huge leader and pioneer in that industry, which is all software + art. Another counter example is robotics, which is software + hardware.
You mean you're going to use it for as long as Mozilla allows it.
AFAIK that revenue stream is search provider agreements and it's no revenue stream. In current conjecture, it's Google giving them some money to keep Mozilla afloat so, they don't become a monopoly per se.

Please correct me, if I'm wrong.
if UPS/FedEx want to offer flat rate shipping to both densely and sparsely populated areas, it's on them to make it economic. if amazon wants to take advantage of their business model, I don't see anything unfair about it.

USPS is a government agency though. if they ship stuff to rural areas below cost, that is the US government subsidizing rural communities. with mail still being the lowest-common-denominator means of communication, there is a public good argument for burning money to deliver mail/packages affordably to people in these areas. I do agree they should feel at least some of the cost though, and I also feel there is something distasteful about amazon exploiting this cost structure.
Covid-19 re-infection by distinct strain confirmed by whole genome sequencing
In addition to posting your contact info please also check out this course designed for people from other fields who want to learn machine learning.

https://www.fast.ai/
I think subdividing the slices makes the problem trivial: cut each slice into a "banana pixel" and then tile the whole thing. That's no fun though.
Wow, huge bummer. This is how I generated and edited my Kindle book... not sure what to do now.
> kindlegen

Was this tool ever any good? I've always used the `ebook-convert` commandline tool that ships with Calibre. (Calibre's GUI is something I don't really like, it seems featureful but also a mess.)
Best to rein in those expectations. Browser developers abandoned SemVer some time ago (bumping the major number for trivial releases with no major features or breaking changes) for reasons that never really made a whole lot of sense to me. Treat the version number as a monotonic counter, that's all the information you're going to be able to make use of unless you're working on it.
Or a Mac. Between them that's, what, 95%+ of the desktop market? More?
You know what enabled that "proper community"? A license that provided a sort of moral compass, fostering collaboration and goodwill towards shared improvement, safe in the knowledge that efforts wouldn't be abused. Something that other licenses still fail to provide, to this day.
His talk at Fosdem :
https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/fsr_openwifi/
Yeah I tinker a lot but even getting to the point of actually writing up and posting an article is often what I get held up on.
Open Source Tools for Activists
You are not going to be vaccinated by a weakened COVID virus, so worrying about that is absurd.
> I haven't seen people give any unkind judgment towards Danese Cooper for helping write the CDDL

We haven't read the same flames, then...
> it is demonstrably useful for national security

Is it? Please demonstrate it by listing terrorist incidents prevented or active terrorists caught due to surveillance other than narrowly-targeted police investigation, or military action in an active combat zone.

To qualify, the use of broad surveillance should be a necessary component of the investigation, i.e. the investigation would not have started or reached the conclusion it did without it. If some of these exist but they're all classified, that's problematic from the perspective of democracy because it prevents the public from making an informed decision about their merit.
We have very different experiences in that case.

Once I go past ~100 open tabs on Firefox, on a 16GB RAM Linux laptop, my whole system freezes. I experienced these issues as late as in June, so it doesn't appear to have been recently fixed either. Note that I do use uBlock Origin so it doesn't just buckle under from ads, but I also make heavy use of Container Tabs, which may also be a factor.

Luckily, the extension "Auto Tab Discard" solved these issues for me.
The title of the article is "Why Every City Feels the Same Now". If someone is going to build a new traditional style building, they can't complain about why every city feels the same.
It can be used for fingerprinting. And most people who care enough to own dedicated MIDI devices also care enough to own dedicated MIDI software.
Yeah, this decision makes business sense for Amazon. Updating a Linux client is a nice gesture but affects a very small parentage of desktop users.
I mean that could be the explanation but Amazon has been keeping to their 1/2 day deliveries even during the worst parts of the pandemic.
you'd have to be a millionaire to furnish a home!

Selling to millionaires is a sound market segmentation strategy because millionaires are more likely to have money for antiques than thousandaires. And even better is the B2B model of the restorer because TV and film productions have realistic budgets and bring repeat business of the type that has a vested interest in the sustainability of the restorer’s business.

Or to put it another way, the restorer’s business caters to people who see future value in a warehouse full of dusty antiques.
Something I noticed about how you phrased the question: you've focused on things you can control (the people and the tech), and not on the things you can't (the opportunity). You can't ignore the people and the tech, but...

Folks I know who've shot up in their career usually shot up because they capitalized on a big one-off opportunity. Their boss left and they were the obvious replacement. A brand-new startup was getting hot and needed an experienced leader with their credentials. They talked to the right person and pitched a project that ended up becoming a big hit.

These individual events are random, but hunting for them and jumping on them is not. Folks who shoot up usually have a background process that spends about 20-30% of their time seeking out information from the world around them, filtering it, and evaluating whether there could be any big opportunities there. The folks who really shoot up (Larry Page, Mark Zuckerburg, Steve Jobs, Peter Thiel, etc.) seem to spend close to 100% of their time evaluating opportunities, and delegate the people/tech stuff to others. Larry Page used to say that the hardest thing about his job was to get people to focus not on what exists, but on what should exist that doesn't yet.

You may want to start developing this background process. How much are you aware of what high-level execs in your company consider to be top priorities? Who are the most creative product & UX people in your org, and what are they working on? Are you keeping tabs on new startups in your field? When was the last time you applied for a new job? Have you had a chat with an executive recruiter any time recently?
A system for charting how “full-stack” you are
Objective data doesn't go deep enough to engender trust
I have to +1. Got somewhat dragged to totality by my girlfriend at the time with a bunch of her friends. It wasn't my prime idea of a long weekend but she and her friends were insanely excited, and she was always very supportive of me, so I went along with minimal grumbling (including when we woke up at 4:30a that morning to go from our campgrounds to an open lake area to make sure we got a good spot).

Any ounce of annoyance I might have been harboring evaporated when the eclipse went from 99% to 100%. It was insane how incredible of an experience it was, and so suddenly. To feel this intense connection to other people who had seen it, or are seeing it...people were screaming and whooping, it was just incredible.

I had driven a full car to the totality zone ~3 hours. I wasn't even mad that the drive home took 7 hours instead. I just had a big grin on my face, it was so worth it.
Do you realize that there are thousands of scientific publications in medical image processing that address exactly the same concrete problem that you have?
How is this different than Terraform?
They also load PDFs and plain text files (IIRC) though those are not quite 'eBook formats.'
Ask HN: Is Ironcast.tv Still a Thing?
I see that there are pre-orders left, but the email on their website bounces, the linkedin they link 404s and there's not much on their other social media, and the website seems to have a lot of little unfixed problems with scrolling despite how simple it is. Chances are they're just heads down building a product, but I had questions and it feels a bit dead so I can't tell if they're still in business or if the kickstarter went under or something? I ask here because I've seen several recommendations for them from the HN crowd, but as far as I can tell there's nothing to recommend yet and no release date. If anyone knows the details, let's hear em; thanks!
I hope you're doing ok too :)
Both Apple and Google will pull people’s developer accounts for this kind of misbehavior. Epic isn’t special in this regard.
> Maybe that's the case for the average walk-in, but at scale all of these terms are subject to negotiation.

I'm sure could, but prior to Amazon, having a fairly flat rate table has been a selling point for carriers even to their larger customers.
They're not losing money. They make money on package deliveries still, last I checked. The losing money thing is a republican/libtertarian talking point that is ignoring the law mandates them to prefund pensions by 75 years.
Not sure if somebody did that bet. So I just put it here. I think the best outcome could be when Apple be forced to allow bigger number of devices under TestFlight - which is the way to install apps not from AppStore. Apple would probably charge extra for that like $1 per device. No virtual goods outside of apple payment system, same 30%.
In that case, it’s clear that eliminating the network request before triggering the refresh directly reduces the amount of time the user has to wait to see the result.
To start, the chinese government has none at all.
You can stick koreader on them. Of course you'll have to go through the trouble of de-DRMing your content, but it's not that hard using Calibre. At that point you should just buy a Kobo forma, which is much nicer hardware.
All this animosity is so weird to me because I like and use Pocket and I'm glad it's there and helps Mozilla.
Apache Kylin on Apache Parquet – New storage engine for big data
It's literally USB mass storage, and you plop files on there. What isn't working for you?
> Otherwise, if its GUI oriented, you will still have to learn CLI variant sooner or later and not only its harder or almost impossible to automate, but such automation is usually flaky as well.

Is it? Or is it that us compsci and computer engineering folks aren't used to it and don't know much about it?

A Japanese instructional YouTuber I watch did a tour of his setup, and in it he shows off a lot of automation he uses to make his work faster, more consistent, and less error prone. The relevant part starts around here and lasts throughout the rest of the video (its in english): https://youtu.be/TGgbSmCoZFA?t=390

I think part of it is there is already a buttload of CLI driven tools for us, so there isn't a need for us to rise above the skill floor for GUI automation. But to just assume it is hard or impossible because we don't know is just the same as people new to CLIs saying they are hard or impossible.
The title should be "Firefox turns 80" ;)
At what ratio can they reduce the HUGE packaging waste?

A few years ago there was an Amazon promo for when they first started "same day" delivery in another city, where all deliveries were in paper bags.

But while Amazon now offers "same day" service from a warehouse 20 minutes away, and delivers all their own stuff, everything continues to arrive in huge wasteful cardboard boxes.

I like Amazon, I like ordering from Amazon, but I'm tired of recycling entire trunks worth of cardboard boxes often holding very small items.
What about the idea of using a cheap hoverboard as a robot platform? Is there a good way to control it without having to lean forward/backward?
Generate ePub and convert using something like Calibre's ebook-convert?

At the end of the day, isn't an ebook basically a fancy zip with some markup inside...?
It's been crazy watching the evolution of hockey sticks from wood to aluminum shafts, then to carbon-fiber. The prices have steadily skyrocketed, but it's hard to deny the incredible effects of just these material design changes. There are of course trade-offs, most notable being the tendency of these new carbon fiber sticks breaking without much warning, or apparent wear. The speed at which the shot comes off the stick now is pretty mind-boggling, too, which makes it easy for me to justify 300+ for a stick. They tend to either break soon, or last a lot longer than old style wood sticks, or aluminum + wood blades, etc.

I'm eager to try out one of these new designs myself but the pricing is just absurd for a beer league even if I'm playing in the top non-pro league in Colorado, and one of the teams I play against is all retired well known pros.

Like anything it'll come down as the process is refined and likely this approach is adopted from top-to-bottom. Excited to try one out for sure!
How McLAREN Is Pioneering the Use of Sustainable Composites in F1
Sigh. I used to love Chromium, when it was the new kid on the block. But now, because of this browser monoculture, I wouldn't use it even if it was far better than Firefox.

How times change.
If you use your home kitchen commercially, you'll still need to get health inspections, etc. Even camp kitchens at Burning Man (https://burningman.org/event/preparation/health-safety/permi...) get visits from health inspectors.
If bailouts are your standard for "taxpayer funded", then in 2020, the entire US economy is now taxpayer funded.

The Constitution make operating a postal service one of the enumerated powers. If you want to change that, I suggest lobbying for an Amendment.

I'm sure that will be quite popular.
I believe you but mostly I got pictures of tanks!

Is it picking up VK profile pictures? Sort of reminds me of myspace but with, err, Russian sensibilities. I also tried it with Bing and got literally the exact same results.

Google is definitely different, it shows mostly logos instead of photos.

I never used VK but I got the impression it is a real social network, for better or for worse. Should Bing drop them from its index? Now I'm morbidly curios what kind of weird crap searches of social networks from other cultures might dredge up. Like a Chinese VK.
Epic Games rival Unity files to go public, sales topped $500M last year
I'm under the impression publishers can send epubs to Amazon and have Amazon do the conversion. Alternatively send them a regular mobi instead of Amazon's spiced up mobi derivative (awz3 or whatever they're at now.)

At least that's how it used to be years ago. My experience here is a few years out of date.
What's wrong with that? Aren't most people that aren't tech savvy using Windows or Mac?
read "will it fly"

you shouldn't be working on an idea for many months full time without showing it to customers. The sooner you get a minimal viable product in front of customers, the quicker you'll know if your idea has legs. The assurance gained from customers that like your product will be more than enough to motivate you. If they don't like your product, you wont feel bad about abandoning it.
Yes! Jailbreak thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=186645 (Note that in some cases it requires opening the plastic and ordering some cable off of Amazon.)

The only custom ROM I know about that supports Kindle devices is KOReader (https://github.com/koreader/koreader). I don't like its interface one bit, but feature-wise it gets the job done just fine.

There's also Plato (https://github.com/baskerville/plato) for Kobo devices, though KOReader works there as well. In my experience jailbreaking a Kobo device is much less painful.
The post I replied to suggested it is somehow reasonable to majorly inhibit a pleasure of life today so that others can potentially experience the inhibited pleasures in the future. The suggestion is comedic to me - "if you're worried about the decline of fish impacting your sushi eating habits, eat less sushi today so we can eat more sushi tomorrow", is what it reads as. The solution is to make more fish, not to have a segment of the population reduce fish consumption so another population can also consume fish. When the population of a country grows, the agricultural regions don't remain the same size - they grow to accommodate the growth in population. You increase your supply, not ration it out - that's how you end up with an abuse of power.
This was a very fascinating read and elegantly generalizes some truths that I've been only vaguely aware of. History and warfare is more often in effect a brutal and bloody competition between societies' efficiency.

This has implications for how the future could look that go far beyond what seems most "reasonable", what looks most like the past and what will make each individual person feel best. It doesn't necessarily have to be war - it could also happen through peaceful but intense competition and trade.
We Distort Probability
I am constantly baffled by just how much cardboard is being used. I would be very curious to read about its environmental impact.
There have only been 12 days in 2020 where police did not kill someone
I was much more happy with my Kobo, as others have said.
I'm not really interested in having some big argument with a stranger on the internet over this. I have already told you that I think you are being overly pedantic and her writing will likely improve and get clearer with practice.

I don't agree with you about food and supplements being less powerful than medication. But it's always a can of worms for me to try to present my point of view on that, in part because my so-called qualifications are "I'm a former homemaker who failed to die after doctors wrote me off for dead" and I have had people who think of themselves as very scientific tell me straight up that "Thirteen years of steady forward progress on your incurable condition is not proof you know anything. Wild coincidence. Stranger things have happened." (And now it's been like nineteen and a half years of "wild coincidence" and my patience for being dismissed over that is at an all time low.)

So while I have no objection whatsoever to talking at length with someone genuinely curious to understand why I think food and supplements are at least as powerful if not more powerful than medication, I have zero reason to believe that's what's going on here and I have zero interest in having some pointless internet fight where you dig your heels and decide I'm stupid and I dig my heels and decide you're a jerk.

I suggest you just set aside your judginess of the defects of this early blog post of hers and give her a little growing room and see where she goes with this and see if future posts by her make more sense to you. There's a pandemic on and we are all cranky and short tempered and so forth and doubling down on a minor point like this isn't going to go anywhere good.
I’m not sure I trust myself to set up my own bastion securely. Are there any companies that offer secure bastions as a service?

What I’m envisaging is: I pay somebody, make an account on their site and add 2FA, and then they give me a server with a static IP and handle the auth. Then all I have to do is to whitelist that static IP.

Ideally it would function as both an HTTP proxy and an SSH proxy; like a ‘secure web portal’
> it seems unrealistic that rest of the world is unaware of good software engineering in generic use cases.

Depends on who is aware and whether they have the clout to actually implement it, the trenches are full of developers who know there are better ways and that those better ways would have a positive RoI but that it wouldn't show up possibly for 3-4 quarters minimum which makes it a hard sell to management if you can get them to even understand it without a tortured analogy - those programmers frequently don't have the authority to enforce the standards particularly when the other half in the trench with them are busy adding to the pile or actively fighting against it.

There have been times where I've wanted to shiv (figuratively) a developer who writes the worst most pointless convoluted code after he proclaimed code should be "self documenting".

Fortunately these days I'm at a level where at least for my teams I can enforce whatever standard we agree on and if we can't agree then the one I agree on - if we can't reach a consensus I operate on democratic principles, one man, one vote - I'm the man, I have the vote (though I try to avoid having to do that).
So that's the missing part you say? The Internet has been the biggest catalyst of disintermediation in history. But this is not disintermediatable without HFT?
Seems like they could have been more helpful:

https://faq.usps.com/s/article/Refuse-unwanted-mail-and-remo...
Thanks for sharing this, I'll have a listen!
The problem with cross-origin requests as I understand it essentially boils down to cookies. If cross-origin requests weren't blocked by default, any site you visit could send requests to your bank, for example. Since those requests would send auth cookies, they could potentially make changes to your bank account. So these requests are disabled by browsers unless the bank explicitly tells them (via CORS headers) that it's ok.

IMO the better way to handle it is by allowing cross-origin requests, but locking down cookies so they aren't sent cross-domain by default (ie by setting SameSite on cookies). For my services I generally open CORS up, but only implement authenticated requests with API tokens. The main problem is if you set a custom header (such as Authorization: Bearer) it triggers a preflight request. The only reasonable way I know around this is sending the token in the query parameters, but that also introduces some security issues.
Linux turns 29: The biggest events in its history so far
No. A lot of people use Calibre to convert epubs to mobi before loading them on their kindles.
Cities house half the worlds population but create 70% of the worlds carbon emissions. I'm not sure they are as green as you think.
>"Irreparable Harm: The issue of irreparable harm focuses on the harm caused by not maintaining the status quo, as opposed to the separate and distinct element of a remedy under the likelihood of success factor. Here the court's evaluation is guided by the general notion that “self-inflicted wounds are not irreparable injury.”

To add more color to this, the court refused an injunction to force Apple to enable Fortnite with the Epic payment processing. Epic can remove that and be admitted back to the App store. If Apple refuses at that point Epic would likely win an injunction to force them.
They don't appear to be having any difficulty sharing their SDK code publicly through GitHub.

https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk

Or, more conveniently, through a dependency manager like CocoaPods.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ios/componentsdks
I just recently bought a Kindle, and this has not been my experience. For whatever reason, perhaps something I am doing wrong, it is not detected as a hard drive by my system.
It's true of large-scale retail which is really what the parent's point is. Small retailers just outsource their logistics to a company like XPO.