skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s an example of government failure, not a failure of capitalism. The government is banning the easy installation from competitors.
The politicians are paid off by big Telcos looking at you ComcastNbcUniversal. So much so cities and suburbs have laws on their books that they deal with only a single internet provider. Politicians and their empty talk of ‘competing with other countries in terms of technology infrastructure’.
I find it interesting to ponder:

Is it better for a state to have 15% of white and 15% of black citizens have a college degree or for 28% of white and 25% of black citizens to have one? If both groups average 1000 on the SAT, is that better than 1200 and 1150? Is it better for the median incomes to be $35000 for both or $45000 and $43000? To have a 90% high school graduation rate or a 98% and 96% rate?
"Does every developer out there think 30% commission on paid apps is tyranny?"

Combined with the ambiguity, lack of choice, threats to business - absolutely yes, iOS is basically universally reviled by developers.

Nobody on this planet accepts that the 30% is necessary for anything ergo, it's a massive chunk out of profits.

Most companies are not hugely profitable.

In many cases, Apple is making considerable more profit off of apps than developers themselves.

For a $1 spent, about 25 cents to Apple mostly profit, then 70 cents to the dev which will mostly be dev., ad. and op. costs.

It wouldn't surprise met that Apple makes more surplus from Fornite than Fortnite makes off the platform.
Basically, it means to think of all parts of a system as a complete system, not viewing the parts of the system independently.

For example, if you review a car, like in the publication Car and Driver, you might look at the engine and rate it, but it would be within the context of that car. You could have a high output engine and weak brakes, which might make the car less attractive from a holistic view (and maybe dangerous). You want to see how all the parts of that car 'add up' as a complete system.
Oh, didn’t know about the automation. Any examples? I was sideloading a few apps for awhile, but got sick of resigning.
Similarly you might not expect that reading CLR via C# would make you a better programmer at a high level with things like DI and big frameworks and everything, but it makes you see what you're writing in an entirely different light. A whole other layer below the surface.
I think in one of his AMAs on reddit he confirmed that he never said it and no software developer during those times would say such a thing that 640K is more than enough.
Is that a real thing? You can buy raisin bread at any grocery store... I've never even heard of chocolate chip bread.
This demo with a Virtualization component looks promising for large amounts of data.

https://youtu.be/KRNd8JDRqRc?t=3049
thanks for the link, that company is becoming pretty interesting in terms of user-friendly/comprehensive access to chinese manufacturing
Yes, it's essentially the same architecture: two large phased arrays pointing at each other. The terrestrial technology development could transfer to the space application, or vice versa.
I've tried autoscraper now, and I don't like it (not yet).

(1) Its wrapper generation code isn't much more advanced than that similar data will be similarly nested in similar parent blocks. It looks more brittle than I'd like.

(2) It has zero tests, comments, docstrings, types, or any other niceties so far (and minimal documentation).

(3) When things go wrong it strongly prefers returning no information and not throwing any errors. None of the examples in the README actually run (or rather, they give you a `None` response that's all but useless) without changes.
Someone writes these things for a target audience, which believes this. His atrocious compensation, all these well-crafted, small, interesting (though: somewhat predictable) turns. The style is called "Belletristic", I'd say. I am not sure what the goal is: To sell the story, itself (add supported to millions, e.g.) or to find very few customers, which actually spend, what is described in the story as a reasonable compensation for "crushing" a funeral and saying a few words and... god forbid... not doing something wrong, even if requested, such as murdering dogs, because we all know... wish: We get the very good money for (just) doing good (and sticking to our principles and virtues, even against our customer/boss)... truth be told: Life can be different and much harder.
It reads like a landing page, right down to the call-to-action at the bottom.

Also just noticed an article on the front page talking about Portland’s ban on facial recognition technology - so this might be a well-timed advertisement for the service.
"Oops! This IP address has been blocked due to too many requests."

If my memory is correct, this is my first time to click on this domain.

Did they just ban the race in other continents?
I worked with David Fowler he’s really good.
But not so much difference for bandwidth efficiency like HSPA+ vs LTE.
6 watt TDP. That's like super low power and super cheap, from 2018.

So 11x less power, much cheaper.
Engineering Heap Overflow Exploits with JavaScript (2008)
Forrest Fenn, Art Dealer Who Enticed Thousands to Hunt for Hidden Treasure, Dies
How do you handle rain scatter? I'm not an RF engineer but my understanding is that rain scatters GHz range signals quite effectively. It doesn't absorb them, but it would unfocus the beam.

How is this being handled?
Applying for a Tech Job in 2020
What is there that needs justification for what the proverbial eyes can plainly see? That aside what is the moral license to academic research and what gives the right to gatekeep what everyone can see if they took an uncommon action? Both are in fact doing so to make a living indirectly for their institutions by using what was already out there and rely upon arcane means to derive income from the data through layers of separation.
Airlines Plan 8k-Jet Airlift to Distribute Covid Vaccines
This is great. happy to see someone picking up Tesla's project of 100 years ago.
Does this mean that the meta-material lenses are custom built for each relay station? For example, to bend the beam around fixed obstacles like a mountain. Do you believe this will be a barrier to manufacturing and installation?

Or are you creating a generic lens that is factory tuneable to the needed characteristics?
Data is usually embedded in json or available from an internal api when it's an SPA. Headless browser resources are pretty huge. When doing large scale scraping, headless browser should be a last resort
> and then subtly shifting between deaths from Covid and deaths during a flu wave (so not caused by the flu?).

Newsflash, genius. They are counting every person that died with COVID (or even "presumed" positive) as a death from COVID-19. The actual number of people that were killed directly by COVID is not known, just like we don't measure, test, or track every single person that dies of flu each year. It's an estimate that's arrived at long after the fact by reviewing data.
> China's response to Covid is maybe not the best, but Taiwan provides an excellent

Taiwan is not China.
Japanese TECOREP brand demolition system generates power as it lowers material down from skyscrapers

https://sipilpedia.com/tecorep-system-high-tech-demolition-s...
All encompassing, multi-source, etc. My take from Oregon, among those at fair.
Vue does allow you to split css, js and html to separate files by using src attribute in sfc file.

Ref: https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/single-file-components.html#What-...
I guess, but the street had a name. And a Burger King, for that matter.
Northrop Grumman wins $13.3B Air Force contract to build new ICBMs
Just because Windows gives the flexibility to do anything you want doesn't mean you have to. You can set up a non-admin account with access to the Windows Store and it works very similar to iOS in terms of getting malware. The only difference is that if you run into something that Microsoft doesn't like or something that's too complex to run within the confines of the store requirements you can enter the admin password and install it anyway.

Curation is just letting someone else be your admin and you only get a normal user account. I don't have a problem with that, but I also don't think it's unreasonable for developers to charge those users +43% to recoup the costs of paying Apple to be their admin.
"only" is a bit of an overstatement. The data is always coming from somewhere, it just depends on how much effort needed to reverse engineer the JavaScript code path to the data
There have always been behavioural requirements in Wikimedia. The obvious example is that vandals don't get to roam free because blocking them would be non neutral. Its also always been the case that if you are enough of an asshole, you will eventually get blocked. It can't possibly work otherwise - a social project that fails to prevent antisocial behaviour cannot flourish. Having no behaviour standards is just as much a failure case as having the thought police.

So whether or not we do this is not new. The question is where is the line. I am of the view that requiring people to not engage in bigoted behaviour that is likely to drive away a specific group of people, is reasonable.
Snow Crash here we come.

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Rat_Things_(Snow_Crash)
The strange thing is it's the opposite in Australia. Second wave is much more deadly than the first one. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/australia/
Can you say a little more about the thinness and what the offline capabilities are? I noticed the search looks like it happens serverside which is great when you're online since you get actual gmail search. What happens when the client is offline?
Is this the NYT article you're talking about?: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/health/22whoop.html

Can you explain to the layperson why it's "basically bullshit"? The NYT article I linked describes a real-world scenario where a fake outbreak (100% of cases were false positives) actually occurred (note: I am not claiming Covid-19 is fake).

Also, specific false positive rates aside, is it not likely we're now approaching a rate of "cases" which is hard to distinguish from false positive tests, which would help explain the drop in hospitalization / ICU / mortality?
Yeah this seems like an ok experiment so they aren't totally dependent on google for income.
Ask HN: How many of you are closet Trump supporters?
Four more years! :D
Obligatory: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/20371
> His retirement had not brought the contentment it had promised, and no number of visits from his children could dispel his loneliness. He had little in the way of a social circle

This is actually a concern of mine regarding retirement and part of the reason I tell people that I will likely never retire. A large number of my social interactions are through work, and I feel if I didn’t have something “productive” to do I would be pretty listless and depressed.

I get wanting to enjoy leisure time and hobbies, etc, but there is something rewarding about doing work that you enjoy that is different for me.
I think the tech still needs a bit more polish to replace great voice acting, but it's definitely an exciting possibility! (Although I've definitely heard some voice acting and audiobook narration (libravox) that's pretty bad and this tech already beats!)
It's definitely a thing. And yes, I've bought it in stores, not just made it.
I think you're just going to accept that there are going to be some things that Wikipedia and friends are going to assume as the state. An example is that maybe you think people whose name starts with R are morons who shouldn't be able to add to Wikipedia. Well, Wikipedia, the cultural imperialist that it is, will choose not to entertain this, even if you find a sizable following in some nation.

In any case, this one variant of "Can an encyclopedia be objective?" is not a particularly interesting¹ angle. It's just folded into the general question of how Wikipedia can be objective. For instance, WP has to cover criticism of itself and one can hope that we can aggregate that into some semblance of neutrality.

¹ In the ... mathematical sense of interesting. Like talking about characteristics about a+b√2 that are all shared with a+b√p which we've already discussed.
Reminds me a bit of Irish wakes[0]. It does sound a bit "too good to be true," but the Australians have exactly this type of humor, so I could believe it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7g3RuoreRc (slightly NSFW -Dropkick Murphy video)
Online Shopping App Using Huawei Machine Learning Kit
I agree 100%. Unfortunately you severely undermine your argument by referring to transwomen as “men who can’t compete with other men and want to take home a few trophies.”

I am frankly irritated by identity politics but your approach of misgendering transgender athletes and asserting that anyone would go through all the pain and disruption of transitioning to another sex and getting permanent surgical modifications to their bodies because they are “Men who can’t compete with other men” comes across as disgusting and dehumanizing. As if transwomen are craven losers who have thought of this crazy scam to win in athletic competitions. You’re going to make people who agree with your main argument re: women needing their own leagues “back away slowly” because you’re spouting really disgusting misconceptions about trans people in the process.
Not being familiar with these things, why not just emulate "upgrades" through in app purchases? You would offer a limited version of the app for free, and then prompt users to pay for the full version. Every now and then, you would declare a new version of the app, and only give access to new features you add to relatively recent users. Older users would be prompted to pay (again via iap) a reduced price to get the "upgrade".

Issues with this are:

- still has the 30% fee instead of 15%

- adds complexity, due to needing to track what each feature is, and which users are allowed to access each feature

- to obviate above, you would probably end up giving all bugfixes/optimizations/etc to old features to all users.

Could maybe clear up the first point by accepting payment via subscription instead, with the following caveat: "if you stay subscribed for more than 3 years [say], you will gain permanent access to the app, minus any features added after you terminate your subscription". As a user, I would feel pretty good about that (i think), since I'm not locked into either a subscription or a full payment. Of course, this is likely a downside for whoever makes the app, since it probably entails less revenue for them.
That's a really bad idea. If that was a rule, there would be no liquidity at all as no market maker would touch it. Also shorting would become too risky.
Open source extensions already wait weeks or, more often, months to be reviewed and have that scary warning removed. As this program is planned, any commercial or other well-funded extensions will be jumping the queue ahead of them. That seems strictly worse, unless they also pay to play.
This is the fallacy of the rational consumer that we need to move on from.
I would strongly second that endorsement. I would love a new edition taking the CoreCLR more into account but it’s still more relevant than most any other book I can think of.
And maybe we could introduce some kind of tokens to keep track of the size of the tasks so that you don’t end up spending way too much time on a task in exchange for little work from them. And maybe we could have multiple potential partners bid on how many tokens each task should take so that you can get efficient pricing. And that would also take care of relative availability of some types of skills vs others (e.g. almost anyone can do basic copy editing but relatively few people can create a novel compiler optimization). And maybe we could also allow you to cash out your tokens at some point. In fact why don’t we make one token equal $1 to make pricing simple. And to monetize this whole project it would be good to add the ability to promote your particular listings, like an ad platform. In other words it becomes Craigslist but cool, right? :)

My point in writing all that is that soon as you take an idea like this and say “and if we only add feature X we could have a bartering economy” my mind immediately goes to the fact that a bartering economy has a ton of drawbacks which is why we no longer use them anywhere. I see people romanticizing it as if it’s much better than our current system, but accounting with it is much harder, pricing is nearly impossible, and there are few penalties for non-payment since a transaction might take a really long time to get settled (at least as long as it takes to complete the longest task). Basically these kinds of projects seem to work only so long as they stay at a manageable size while also keeping an enthusiastic community involved. If you grow, you need economy which leads to all the stuff I outlined above.
This article reminded me of some odd traditions surrounding death.

There is apparently a tradition in some cultures, now largely vanished, known as the “sin eater.” It goes beyond a religious deathbed confession in that the sin eater hears the worst sins, and takes on the weight of those sins, in return for a fee. It occurred in parts of the UK and India, but died out in the 1800s.

Another is more modern, prompted or resurrected by the science fiction novel Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card. The author claimed that people were adapting the ceremony featured in the novel to their own deaths.

(Typing from a phone, hard to share links, sorry)
I'm not trying to personally nitpick any of the individual points, since there's already a process in place for that discussion, I'm just asking if it ever crosses a line into cultural imperialism, and if so, where is that line?

> Which "left-wing american values" are those specificly

Without even mentioning any specifics of the documents, I guess I'm referring to the general trend of the HR-ification of everything. There has been a huge creation of rule systems which give elites and managers more weapons to bludgeon people and groups who want to operate differently than the universal corporate structure, largely as a way of preventing the need to save face in the case of social media outrage.

One thing I have noticed from multiple real life experiences: this mentality rots organizations. The HR-minded are more concerned with creating an impossible perfect organization that crashes into the ground than creating an imperfect organization that actually produces something of tangible social value.

Re: deletionism, it includes this:

> Repeated removal of Wikimedia content without appropriate peer review or constructive feedback for improvement

Which hopefully could help address drive-by speedy deletions.
> The people dying from corona are mainly those who are statistically dying this year because they have reached the end of their lives

The excess deaths statistics [1] give lie to the tired claim that these were all people who "would have died anyway." 200,000+ more people have died this year in the US alone than normal, and it's very statistically-significant, particularly as the annual death rate is under 3 million.

1. https://www.sciencealert.com/2020-has-killed-up-to-200-000-e...
I avoid Snapdragon 865 generation because it requires external 5G modem thus not efficient, even thought Snapdragon 765G integrates 5G modem.
No one would provide liquidity, the risk would be too high. And if they did, the bid-ask spreads would be as wide as the grand canyon.
The concept is still worryingly dangerous given the precedent of "Can't move data outside our jurisdiction" could easily be applied to limit security and ensure snooping instead of preventing it. Given the usual habits and hypocrisies trusting them as far as you can throw them remains wise.
I also never said I'd do a better job than them.

Just commenting on the fact that the way the organization was setup was bad for
Firefox as the product.
"What makes Portland's legislation stand out from other cities is that we're prohibiting facial recognition technology use by private entities in public accommodations,"

Prohibition is too strict. Better would be to allow opt in, so that my hotel, gym, uber, pizza parlor, etc., could recognize me and customize their service accordingly if I consent.
That's fascinating. It sounds like you might be in the minority. I don't think I'm particularly good at recognizing faces, but I've recognized several old acquaintances among many passerby in a big city. I don't even have to look at them directly - sometimes my "spidey sense" kicks in when they enter my peripheral vision.
George R.R. Martin? Is that you?
Regardless of false negative rate, measured positives are always at least as frequent as false positives.
Else where in thread someone said 100 mw/cm^2. Not great, not terrible. Maybe 1/5 of putting bird in a microwave. Cooking time would be long but you may be able to get it to work
Wikipedia:

> Some chapters and paragraphs of the Japanese paperback edition were not included in the English translation. Translator Jay Rubin cut about 61 of 1,379 pages, including three chapters (Book 2 Chapters 15, 18, and part of 17; and Book 3 Chapter 26). Combining the original three-volumes (Japanese) would have been too long, and so the publisher requested that ~25,000 words be cut for the English translation. These chapters contain plot elements not found elsewhere in the book. For example, the two missing chapters from the second volume of the original three-volume elaborate on the relationship between Toru Okada and Creta Kano, and a "hearing" of the wind-up bird as Toru burns a box of Kumiko's belongings (Book 2 Chapter 15). In the third volume, the computer conversation between Toru and Noboru Wataya (Book 3 Chapter 26) and Toru's encounter with Ushikawa at the train station are also omitted. In addition to reducing the word count, some chapters were moved ahead of others, taking them out of the context of the original order. At the start of Book 3 the chapters have been rearranged. Rubin combined two chapters called “May Kasahara’s POV” and moved the “Hanging House” chapter to make the chronology of events consistent.
Or swapping the optics. Today they swapped from the 1G to 10G.

I can use other strands or run them in the second conduit we installed.
To get a sense of the community consensus, it is worth browsing the General Comments section: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Universal_Code_of_Condu...

Additionally, the overall project page (not just the draft review) offers the foundation's arguments for why they believe this needs to be made:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct
AltStore/Altserver - https://altstore.io/

> AltStore will periodically attempt to refresh your apps in the background, and you can always manually refresh your apps from within AltStore.
It's not skill, it's pure woo. I'm not impressed.
Here's a super aggressive version of the freeloader argument:

* Continuing the species is the most important thing we as a society need to do
* Therefore, all members of society have an equal obligation to advance this goal
* Some individuals choose to have kids which directly supports this goal, but is difficult
* Others choose not to have kids, which is easier
* Therefore, society should redistribute until parents and the childfree are making equal efforts to support future generations

So yes, parenthood is a choice, but of course all of society should help out. This is probably a little past what I actually believe, but maybe not by much!
Yeah I'm also pessimistic about misleading thinking + demagoguery. I do think that there's a good contingent of society that has a decent bullshit detector though. I guess we'll find out.