skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The BuzzFeed articles don't show hardly any current pictures of the camps. And it doesn't seem that hard to believe that the detainees would most of the time remain indoors being de-radicalized and re-educated. The guards would be in the towers, or in the buildings, or looking at the camera feeds. I'm sure that people with better images than the few we saw here are working to figure out exactly what's going on in these camps and as best as possible following all the logistics. At least I'd hope so as China is being very secretive about them.

The authors and their teams clearly took into consideration that these could be military bases and they talk about it to some extant. I'm sure it could still be the case that some of these are barracks and the Chinese make their barracks look like detention centers. Some of the locations they found have been verified by other sources though.

We also have that drone footage of detainees being transported, right?

Also, the leaked document from the NYTimes talked an awful lot about security, not letting people escape, and not letting images or information of the camps be leaked for a normal vocational school.

The Wuhan hospital parking lot study was pretty bad, but worse things have come out of Harvard Medical School in recent months.
Yep. "Why get my bearings at a glance when I could miss things and/or wonder and poll the machine about it instead?" :D

There are subtler themes for scrollbars as well so that they don't have to stand out.
Google is surprisingly good at answering questions like that. The rise of voice assistant really has pushed them into improving their knowledge graph and condensing search results into a single sentence. The conciseness has been getting even better too. I notice often it'll actually give a one word answer, followed by a 1-2 sentence context.

For example, I asked "what kind of soap can I use on my cats" and it gave a one word "castile soap" followed by the sentence. (I actually Googled it, and it's like that on Search too).

It's super useful when you quickly want an answer to something you were wondering. A nice touch is also how it sends the link to your phone to look deeper into it.
I doubt they would buy ddg since it is entirely reliant on Microsoft’s bing.
You're better off with "self-hosted" Ghost.

https://ghost.org/

I don't understand the obsession with substack.

Get on Ghost, run it on your own domain, own the entire asset, and stop paying the substack tax.
Ok, this comment convinced me to get it.
This is a remarkably myopic view of innovation that completely ignores the roles of government, research institutions and yes, large companies, in a huge chunk of all the innovations of the last 120 years.
The style of writing reminds me of the works of Fravia, who used similar imagery in his searching guides.[1]

1. http://biostatisticien.eu/www.searchlores.org/indexo.htm
> I think Stripe is there for models on the site who don't sell adult content. OnlyFans probably does a check to see if the page is adult-related and if it is, then routes it to the correct payment processor.

How would the bank even know that transactions for adult-content pages were routed away from it? Wouldn't they just all come in as "OnlyFans wants $20 from card XYZ?"
Hi, Isaac here. I built this live wallpaper when our city went under mandatory lockdown (you know, you know).

This wallpaper changes colors to look like the sky outside based on the time. (spoiler: it's prettiest at dusk and dawn)

It's a simple project I initially hacked together for myself but decided to release to the public. I hope you like it, I'm always looking for constructive feedback as well.

PS: it's great for if you're indoors all the time ha.
I've had reliability problems with my toddler as well, and I suspect it's the treble voices. My primary device (for him) is an LG TV, though, which is push-to-talk. As long as he holds the mic up to his mouth properly it'll usually get what he's saying. (It probably also helps that he's speaking American English).

I don't think my Nest Hub Max or Google Home Mini has ever caught the "Hey Google" when he says it, but it doesn't really matter for our use-cases with him.
Not really :) Not mine at least, and not yet.

I'm 43, have been writing code since I was 8 and professionally since 22.

This is an attempt to cut the idea down to its core to help others get started, and potentially use as the basis for a introductory university course on interpreters.
> when in fact many smartphone manufacturers have done precisely that

Yes, if you're already poised at the lowest part of the platform stack, you can sell hardware that competes with Apple's hardware, but it can't fully compete, because you can't offer a better solution to host iOS on, you can only offer to be part of platform that competes. You cannot compete with Apple hardware directly on just the hardware level.

> Apple has a very small global market share on smartphones and only around 50% in the US.

I'm not making a case that Apple is a monopoly. I'm making a case that their action are anti-competitive (I'm using this term divorced from any specific legal meaning), and thus bad for their users in that respect.

Would allowing other hardware to run iOS be better or worse for users of iOS and the rest of the Apple ecosystem? In some ways better, in some ways worse, but we can't rely on the market to tell us the result of that specific question, because the market is constrained. We can look at each level of the platform stack similarly.

This is usually brought up as a matter of user choice, but I think it's important to distil that to what it means, competition. Choice means there are at least two competing things to choose from, an given that our economic model requires choice (among other things, such as information about choices) to function correctly.

Do I think Apple has a monopoly, as previously defined by law? No. But I think it's important to note that nobody had a monopoly as defined by law before the late 1800's, because that legal definition didn't exist, and was created to deal with harms we saw because of anti-competitive actions. So, I think Apple isn't a monopoly as we currently define it, but I do think their actions are anti-competitive in large and obvious ways, and that we may need to address that in some manner legislatively. That may mean altering the legal definition of monopoly so it matches, or it may just mean putting some select laws in place to hamper specific anti-competitive behavior (for example, a consumer right to be able to run whatever software you want on your hardware would address some small aspect of this).

That said, I've been a bit loose here in verifying some of my terminology about legal points, and IIRC you have experience in that domain, so I'm sure you can correct me on that if you feel it warranted (and I would welcome it, as well of course as any specific problems you think my argument has).
I'm surprised not to see the AR effects above the fold on this landing page. I had to scroll down quite a way to see some examples.
> The argument is that the store owner brought the customer to the seller

One problem is that Apple does not allow developers to bring customers directly. You always have to go through the Apple Store to install an app on iOS. So, even if you bring your own customers, you have to bring them through the iOS Store.
DDG is just bing reskinned for the most part so I sincerely doubt Apple would be interested in it
Adding stuff to lists is definitely super useful when you remember something as you're cooking or hanging around.
Thanks for the response! Your apology makes me feel more positive about conversations on the internet. :)

I genuinely appreciate you giving feedback. Running Distill is hard, and there's lots of places we make mistakes or could do things better.

From my perspective, Distill has to balance a lot of equities. I see one of our major roles as trying to explore new visions of what an academic journal can be, so I put a lot of weight towards us doing weird and unusual things, like these threads. But we also need to take care around process and quality. And sometimes we screw up.

Distill is also entirely volunteer run. Everyone involved has full time jobs, and runs Distill on top of that. And honestly, we're often quite exhausted. So sometimes we make mistakes that a better version of ourselves with more time for Distill would not.
The usual response to this is "aerodynamics have gotten better". That said, a lot of vintage cars are still on the road and so it would be fairly easy to test if their bug impacts line up with how older people remember them being. And since the illustration shows 1998, those cars are definitely still around.
I don't know about biggest but Matt Taibbi has been exclusively there for a while.
Been using Onyx/Boox since ever. Own a Max2 and Note2 for instance. Happy with them... Use the Wacom One pen for input. Android apps a plenty
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Been following your journey and I was waiting for the free tier. A free form note taking app is something I've missed and I think muse would perfectly fit this.
I wonder who produced that paper(i.e who sponsored it). How easy and convenient to link pirating to terrorism, don't you think? What's next? pirating and WMD?

>> A group willing to do this illegally is often willing to do other high-profit risky and illegal activity.

A law abiding citizen is just a docile citizen if he abides by wrong/unjust laws. If you were a jew in Nazi Germany a law abiding citizen would have given you in to the Gestapo while a "pirate" would have taken the risk to give you shelder.

A group willing to torrent Game of Thrones is not often willing to do terrorism, you poor little ....! They just want to watch a fucking movie and decide to torrent it because:

a) they don't have the money to buy it

b) they can't buy it because some stupid executives believe some people should watch it 20 years after it's released in x country.

c) they can't watch it on the device they want/when they want because of the excellent DRM laws that you praise and I assume you abide of(i.g their HDMI cable is not version 2.0a it's just 1.4b

d) they are humans

Before hunting "Game of Thrones" pirates can we please do something about all the big guys such GS [0] that steal billions from poor people, some of them unable to pay for that Game of Thrones movie they pirate? I mean something more than a handshake for returning a part of the money when they get caught.

If you want to stop crime you should invest in education and provide opportunities for a decent life.

Either way, jailing your neightbour for pirating movies will not make him a better neightbour. Most likely will turn him/her into a real criminal vengeful on the system/society.

Btw, good job with Aaron[1]! You've done the "right thing", right? So much justice that makes me sick to my stomach. All this to make the few wealthy and privileged wealthier and the lives of the poors more miserable!

When I read your comment your attitude remembered me of a quote from Cloud Atlas[2]: "There is a natural order to this world, and those who try to upend it do not fare well. "

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53529075

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

[2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lxumQYpBzr0
Can you purchase grid scale storage batteries? I don't think so and so the old ways of thinking are pretty important right now if you don't want rolling blackouts.
Well said. We like to call that the magic of a CMS. Headless cms' are all so disconnected which ruins the magic. We want to maintain that illusion, like you're back in the wordpress days. So experience management is huge for us and we're putting much effort and research into it. Also allowing the community to build and share with others because we're open source.
Apple's spellchecker/autocorrect is horrible compared to google's.

When you type anything in google, very often with very high accuracy suggests the correct spelling.

I believe the search engine data can go a long way in helping apple improve basic stuff like spell checker and auto correction.
Ok so the answer you want is yes. Congress people can say whatever they want for political reasons, and because SpaceX is vastly out performing their preferred old space contractors, they are motivated to attack SpaceX for the smallest most ludicrous reasons like this.

But they also aren’t likely to pass any specific legislation or change what Elon does.
I think the "not moving your hands from the home row" is another relic of a bygone era. It dates back to when people were taught to touch type and that was the starting position. It also dates from a time when keys had to be pressed with some force. Resting your fingers on the keys with a modern laptop keyboard, you're in danger of accidentally typing characters you didn't want to.

I can type pretty fast, though I've never actually measured my WPM speed. But I'm not a touch typist --I still have to look at the keys-- and I don't type 'properly' using all my fingers. I seem to get by with the first three on each hand. So there's no real advantage for me in having my fingers resting on the home row. In pauses for thought [my equivalent of resting on the home row] I usually find I'm waiting with the heels of my hands on the empty space below the keyboard, either side of the trackpad and my fingers just kind of very lightly touching the keys, wherever they happen to fall.

From that position, it really is far more convenient for me to just curl in the fingers of my right hand , which puts the inverted T of the cursor keys right under my finger tips and which I can do without looking, than it is for me to look down at the keys to find HJKL.
could you source 80%+ users using apple maps? that is simply an unbelievable number.

for me, if this follows the trajectory of apple maps, i will never have any reason to consider using apple search
I'm far from an expert, but I would not expect hand-written Rust code to outperform Numpy. Not because it's Rust and Numpy is written in C, but because Numpy has been deeply optimized over many years by many people and your custom code would not have been. When it comes to performance Rust is generally comparable to C++, as a baseline. It's not going to give you some dramatic advantage that offsets the code-maturity factor.

Now, if you're doing lots of computation in Python itself - not within the confines of Numpy - that's where you might see a significant speed boost. Again, I don't know precisely how Rust and Cython would compare, but I would very much expect Rust to be significantly faster, just as I would very much expect C++ to be significantly faster.
Hi Adam,

Hard to give feedback because your design decisions and trade offs are not public and in your writing you give more of a business vibe than a designer, would've been nice to have the designers here instead of you. But you asked for it so here we go...

Good attempt so far. Frankly, something like it should've been "a mode" for iPadOS. Instead, unfortunately, you're app is restricted by its horrible limitations. There's no separation between content and features that can be applied to content. Take PDF just as an example. No matter how good your team is, the chances that it will create a better toolset than what Adobe already has created are slim. The second I decide to interact deeper with any of Muse's supported content types while in a board, I'm left to leave Muse and deal with an entire different app. Result? My flow is broken. This interaction is conceptually unnecessary. If the PDF is already open in Muse, why can't I bring all the great features from Adobe in and when I'm done I continue with my flow?

2. Your metaphor needs a lot of work. I won't go into many details but I'll highlight one of them. What's up with the grids? Why can't I arrange the content anyway I like? Flipped, 34 degrees, etc.

3. Infinite canvas - bring this in. How to deal with it spatially was solved decades ago.

4. This is related to the last two points... computers are a meta-medium and either you are stuck in the medium that existed before or you're not letting your designers that know this not shine. Stop thinking only in 2D!
Impressive UX work, and looks genuinely useful, but I'm always wary of storing any of my work in proprietary formats without the ability to export it in readable form. Is there export? If I were to decide to stop the subscription, in what form can I download my work, if at all?
This was called frequency clamping in the book 'advanced renderman' which talks a lot about procedural textures.

A simple way to think about it is to imagine a pattern of thin black and white stripes. If you go far enough away from the pattern, there will be multiple black and white stripes in the same pixel. When they are smaller than a pixel the average color will be grey. Knowing this, you can fade to grey as the stripes get tiny instead of arriving at grey from heavy sampling.
so sad that wirecard went down, then you could have had a clean german fintech... oh wait.
I recall VCRs having a lot of nonobvious digital controls that involved primitive onscreen HUD that involved arbitrary buttons to navigate. Everyone understood play/stop/record, what was confusing was setting the on-screen time using those same buttons.
Some good info there, thanks. I'll take note.
> It is an industry that thrives on the young and naive.

Some of it maybe. But not the toy selling business being discussed.
In short: as the frequency of the cosine gets too high you gradually turn it off so you don't get aliasing from the high frequencies.
In the UK it’s broadly as effective as a mapping tool, in my experience. Better in many ways, even; Google Maps is rammed full of adverts to the point it’s actually kind of distracting.

That’s not to mention the desktop app - it’s a step change in performance versus Google Maps being a sluggish browser experience.
I can't speak for or stand up for Apple here. I'm just posting examples of how/when Apple doesn't take their standard cut.
Also, AuthorizedKeysFile may also be set to none to skip checking for user keys in files altogether!

Or choose to disable keys based authentication if using certs.

Or customize keys so that they get served from a db or some such, the only requirement for this is to write a script or binary.

I linked to all of this in another reply and it was downvoted for some reason. Odd.
I spent a lot of time digging through all the oft-mentioned search engines here, and the interfaces between G, B, DDG and the others (Runnaroo, Startpage, etc) are all surprisingly similar. And they're all pretty unappealing (to me).

Visualizations of results have improved so much in the last 10+ years, hopefully "visualization of search results" can also be advanced.
Very poor choice of name.
That gets at an interesting point that if one country depends on energy from a far distant country for part of the day, then the defense of those power lines has immense geopolitical significance; similar to oil and gas pipelines.

Maybe the solution is to keep a lot of dirty petroleum or coal-based generation capacity around to use in an emergency or war, but don't actually use it.

As usual, there's a trade-off between efficiency and resilience.
Use your imagination my friend. And throw weak dollar and low rate on top of that.
Stopped reading at "Did you know? Not blocking ads helps content creators[...]"
How are you gonna advocate for a minimal web when you're so oblivious to adtech current year?
There are lots of interesting things like this right now. For instance, there is work on hot water heaters that can store excess energy by heating water hotter when electricity is cheap and then mixing with cold water to maintain a constant temp throughout the day / night.
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Currency devaluation doesn't just happen against other currencies. It also happens against particular goods/assets (another currency is just another good/asset).
If I have $10 and 10 goods, and suddenly have $1000 and still 10 goods, each good should come to cost 100x more. Or to say it backwards, the $ becomes worth 100x less...

To bring CPI into this, the reason we don't see common inflation metrics such as food/gasoline spike, whereas assets suck as stocks do, is more a matter of supply/demand for the corresponding goods than anything else.

Said differently: if food was the only good there was, and we suddenly doubled the money supply, food would in time come to cost double.

However the market consists of many more things than what CPI looks at (which is why it's a bad measure of inflation). Stocks being one of such things. Real estate another. Right now, demand for stocks is higher than demand for food, and given the more money available, naturally we see stock prices rise, but food/gas prices staying relatively the same...
Can you touch/tap the screen with your finger to go to the next page of an ebook? Or do you need to use the pencil for "next page"?
Thanks for the detailed write up, I love hearing from folks with more experience than me.

How do you study failed attempts in a space? The survivorship bias can make those hard to find. Do you focus on failed attempts within your company for those cases?
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The Tesla Powerwall enables the uncoupling of rates and usage, but I'm not sure how long it takes for a return of investment.
Libraries all use Adobe DRM. Kindle doesn't support it, so it's not in consideration for me.

I don't want to buy ebooks.. I want to check it out via my local library
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I don't get the antitrust against Google search. You can just click on Bing and start searching there as soon as Bing becomes even slightly better.

On the other hand, you can't "click" on Android and suddenly switch to Android (or from Android to iOS) if Android this year becomes slightly better. It's designed to be a real uphill battle to switch (re-purchase all the media: apps, movies, shows, etc.), unhook imessage, transfer photos out of iCloud photos, etc. etc.
Uh, they have? It's in every iPhone and iPad and iPod and Apple TV and Apple Watch, and coming soon to Mac. Of course you'll never be able to get it in a PC.
What do you do with the mushrooms afterwards? (In the heavy metal case). Presumably you can't eat them, burn them... Do you just pile them up somewhere?
These are things that seem obscure, but thousands of people are probably asking already. Try asking it something that would easily be answered by a traditional keyword-based search engine, like how to install the alsa-firmware package in Ubuntu. The entire result set will be about alsa-firmware-loaders.
Not an issue with PoE since you're running a cable out to each device rather than linking them in a loop/circuit.

But then that highlights the problem with trying to PoE and entire house - You have to run a line out from a PoE source to each item you want to deliver power to, and provide a port for each which comes at some cost. I guess you could try and run some kind of PoE passthrough circuit arrangement like you see with some office voip phones...

Complicated.
Do you deny that the DRP gov't is directly or indirectly paying many thousands of people to wage a vast information war on social media?
Outside the US, it is a norm to have government sponsored hard online verification with two-factor authentication. Examples include Estonian eResidency, online bank verification in Nordics and infamous Aadhaar in India.

Though this gives government more power, it makes simple online identity fraud, like tax refund schemes, impossible.
There are neat companies in NL that do this:

http://www.flex-form.nl/ (wow, http? really?)

and

https://www.floatscans.com/

The latter makes very impressive scans.