skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh this is great. My kids _love_ educational videos. I've been looking for a way to get them more access minus all the garbage on Youtube.
Easy: no autocomplete on label selection for assigning labels. This drives me nuts on the iOS app.
There are already 2 pngs in that list, and they already have different md5s
Let’s be real here: was anything of value really lost? Any important work was likely cited, paraphrased, or duplicated elsewhere.

Anyone disagree?
Not only could can you appreciate the natural phenomena more, but you just shared that appreciation with tens (hundreds? thousands? no idea what the scale of comment viewings is for HN) of other people who can now appreciate the fact and share it with their own children and others around them.
I don't see parallels between OOP and retained mode, and functional and immediate mode the way you are describing. UI components inherently have state. Pretending they can programmed in functional style with stateless functions is bizarre because UI functions do have side effects. See prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24363261
"Simple" solutions to "complex" problems, by necessity, only work for certain subsets of the problems.
Modern distributed systems have tons of largely essential complexity.
The only way to reduce it, is to reduce the expressive power of the solution, which might be great for the cases where you fit into the mold, but then fails spectacularly (either with excess resource consumption, or by not working at all) when you push against the boundaries.
It might be less than that if Fortnite iOS users just move over to another platform and keep playing Fortnite.
Dropbox Is the Anti-Sherlock
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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

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You have not changed the end result, simply moved the goal posts for safety. Malicious apps can and do get approved. Malware has been signed by Apple. Millions are still tricked through websites loaded in the browser. You have NOT solved security or safety by sticking with a single store.

In return for the pretense of safety, you no longer own your device. You no longer have any choice in what software you can use on it. You have moved from owner to renter.

A digital slave to shitty piece of silicon that only obeys the masters with the signing keys.

Nothing against you as a person, but I find your argument morally reprehensible.
But that doesn't make a lot of sense. Say this case was actually about Nintendo and the Switch. Nintendo doesn't allow any X rated games anywhere ever on their platform. And then this game comes along that, to the user, just plays other games. Why shouldn't they be reviewed like everything else on the platform? To the user the implementation doesn't matter.
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It seems relatively absurd to assume you could plausibly replace the subject of a photograph only to be stymied by the inability to do the same to a small photo on a card.

Unless the illegal loan outfit also has access to the national id photo database which seems rather unlikely even by China standards.
was the same in California 20 years ago. Didn't have fires like this. What's changed?
> regardless of their RPM.

It's not regardless:

5400RPM == 90Hz

7200RPM == 120Hz

The human perception curve shows that the humans hear much better the sounds at 120Hz than at 90Hz,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-loudness_contour

That means that for the same reported noise level of e.g. 30dB a 5400RPM drive is much more quiet for humans than a 7200RPM drive.

That is how the people recognized that these HDs aren't 5400RPM -- they sounded "too loud" so they took the sample of the noise and drawing the histogram they proved that the peak was at 120Hz.

As far as I know, nobody managed to produce a 7200RPM drive which does not have a peak at 120Hz. If you know some that doesn't have such characteristic, please write, everybody will celebrate that achievement.
The judge in this case have suggested that the case can proceed if Epic reverts their contract breaking changes. Apple has made it clear in court that if Epic reverts their changes they can restore their standing in the App Store.

> they likely had to break the illegal rule for standing to sue.

I'm not sure if this was ever true, but it's quite clear at this point that they can make their app comply with App Store policies and and continue their lawsuit at this point.
>The "Function-based Component API" proposal for Vue 3 received a massive pushback from community members.

I'm having a hard time getting on board with the Composition API. I'll admit I was one of those that pushed back against it. While it looks like a powerful API and I think it would be a great replacement for mixins for instance, I don't want to start writing all my components with it.

BTW, My main fear was not that they would deprecate the object-based syntax, like Evan points out in the interview. What I'm worried about is now walking into a Vue role where I don't know if they're using Object syntax, Class syntax, or the Composition API syntax, or a combination of all three.

My fear was partially confirmed when we had a meeting at work about the upgrade path to Vue 3 and almost all of the other engineers stand in support of writing everything with the Composition API.

Time will tell if the Composition API becomes like React Hooks in terms of popularity I guess. But I'm already using frameworks like Svelte, and a few others at home as a kind of backup plan. BTW, Some nice looking, Typescript-friendly frameworks I've also checked out are https://aurelia.io and https://stenciljs.com
i don't have any sympathy for california at all.

bad policies over decades has led to this result.
> is just avoiding the real work of thinking about yourself and your place in society

Well sometimes idioms / proverbs can contradict each other. Take for example the Russian proverb

If you try chasing two rabbits, you will end up catching none

Does this mean I have to be singularly focused on one task all the time, and not multitask? Hardly.

There are other quotes which challenge that proverb and inspire us to be multitaskers and 'do all the things' at the same time.

As I stated: my brain can't cope with a lofty tome, and prefers soundbites. It's how I'm wired, and I leverage that. I also integrate these proverbs into family life and use them as a guide, no different than reading loads of books. But horses for courses; if reading loads of books suits you, then do it!
Typically in a SaaS business you would avoid profitability until the last possible minute and plow back every bit of cash into customer acquisition (sales and marketing) until you reach a point of market saturation.

So long as retention is good, and your unit economics are profitable, it is like running those dollars into a money-printing press by buying an annuity that will pay out for years.
Another contributing factor is the rapid growth of offroad capable campers like some of the popup style truck campers and rugged trailers. They allow you to go almost anywhere a Jeep can go, sometimes providing as much solitude as backpacking. I like to think this particular subgroup is more environmentally conscientious than the general vehicle camping crowd.
Elvish author here, AMA :)
Helm is an example of what I mean by "pusing against the boundaries."
We tried using helm, but we kept running into limitations, and the complexity of trying to customize charts that didn't work right ended up being worse than the original problem.
Currently, we're using kustomize, plus a thought out manifest hierarchy, which is working out better.
> Getting kicked out of a mom and pop shop isn’t going to end my business.

And it would be a poor business model if it were capable of ending your business, no?
"surveillance and monitoring device" would also work. Since they also detect proximity and some capture device IDs of other nearby wifi devices (used for home/away in smart homes).
If rules are illegal then breaking them to challenge them in court seems justified
I swear all of the comments about "I could host it myself and use stripe and pay way less" just reeks of...

Except for the part where hosting my own website/store and using Fastspring for processing Mac app sales was actually less of a PITA than dealing with the Mac App Store with its signing, certificates, shitty first version of cert management, et. al. And it was far less expense and hassle than 30% of sales. Hosting one's own iOS app web store probably wouldn't be a whole lot more trouble.

So in this comparison, doing it myself is Dropbox. Going the Apple Store route is wiring together FTP with SVN, getting curlftpfs working,...and paying extra for the privilege.
Do you think fraudulent business practices would be able to hide more easily and for longer periods in the ltse exchange? I'm wondering if fewer large traders that focus on short term profits would mean less eyes would be focused on companies so that it would be easier to hide fraudulent activities.
In my industry(accounting in a small europe country) XML is the standard which is used for any data exchange. Then CSV. I don't think i'v ever got my hands on anything in JSON. Maybe once or twice. In APIs of course but these aren't much common here yet anyways.
> I wish I knew how to fix this.

You are not alone in these feelings. I've been searching out new peers and forums where we can converse without fear, the mind killer, the little death that brings total obliteration.
Good article. But talks far more of how it works and far less about why existing alternatives were not good enough.
Is that number correct? Why not just launch at those starts at that point?
Forgive the stupid question, but what's the continuity plan LTSE shuts down in a decade. Who does my share of MSFT go to?
Ah! Got it! That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for sharing!
Distinguishing boson stars from black holes
No I'm using the mathematical definition of a function. ML is not Math nor is it purely functional.

All functional languages need to bend the rules a bit in order to have side effects but in general the person is not writing functions and therefore is not getting the benefits of using functions.

FP is about reducing and restricting these functions that break the rules. Defining a class in terms of mutations and side effects is going against the philosophy of FP.
To me Apple is only proving Epic's point. Don't you dare make Apple mad, otherwise your entire business on Apple ecosystem will be destroyed.
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If we can re-use an existing environment from one of our in-person rooms, the costs to get something like this up and running is marginal. We'd wind up getting a second playable experience, with a potentially wider audience, for not much more spend.

That said, this experience was purpose built to experiment with the remote game concept. (At the time, we weren't sure how to adapt our existing in-person games.) It's a small physical space (approx. 11ft x 9ft), and we used a ton of props we already had.
My favourite kind of web scraping is when you have to pick apart some undocumented API that serves up data to an SPA, then figure out how to tidy up the response(s) into a single pandas dataframe. Always a satisfying feeling to solve one of those little puzzles.
20 years of accumulating fuel on the ground.
Is there space in the ambulance for such a machine? Can it be operated while the ambulance is moving? If not, is it better to get the patient to the hospital quicker or wait to perform the scan?
I'd also like to thank dang for upholding the values of evidence, logic, diversity and respect that distinguishes HN from the mob mentality, flame wars and general toxicity that is social media.
NOAA satellite 2-hour west coast timelapse animation really gives a sense of the scale of the smoke: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G1...
More people, more fire suppression.
"We're sorry that you were unable to log in with Apple. Here's a discount offer on an HTC U-series phone! And we'll throw in five new Fortnite skins!"
What are the legal issues around web scraping?
Well it is basically the pandemic, which put stress on lots of different level. Both within and outside of their Job.

And the other factor in the modern era is that everyone is overworked and / or underpaid. The motivation to do something properly is gone. I would not be surprised those jobs you mentioned are now doing 2x the workload compare to 20 to 30 years ago while earning a quality of life ( Even Money over inflation may not be a clear indicator ) that is lower than what it was 20 - 30 years ago. Comparatively Speaking.
Show HN: MVP in 24 hours? Easy if that's your long-standing dream
I can't really say this is a bad thing. The number of journals has so massively exploded over the last 20 years that it is pretty much impossible to follow all the literature anymore. I'm not even counting the predatory OA journals (which I think is the majority in the list) but just looking at the big societies and publisher creating ever more journals.
Also, after going through this process, we've come up with a few ways to adapt our existing games for remote play without an in-room game master.
> Even if true, it doesn't help much if you have to marshall through JS for nearly every call.

If you're doing a lot of cheap calls, it's probably not the optimal way to get a performance boost. I think Web Assembly shines at taking an expensive function, and doing it faster. For example, let's say I wanted to multiple a few large matricies of values. In Javascript this would be VERY slow. In Web Assembly it would be a bit faster, but then Web Assembly plus Web GPU allows me to do it REALLY fast. Yes, I'd then have to marshal the end result back to javascript but that's still cheaper then trying to do all that math natively in Javascript.
It's not just fire suppression. We've got a trifecta of drought, bark beetle infestation and fire suppression (aka, tree density).[0] It's the killer combo.

[0]https://www.fs.fed.us/psw/topics/tree_mortality/california/i...
Are these people working on Vue full time though?
Corvallis, OR, is one of the worst places right now. Orange skies and ash everywhere. It's working its way indoors and I can see black deposits collecting in my sink.
It was 20 years less of neglect. Not sure when we have stop doing controlled burns in the name of keeping air quality good. It was more than 20 years ago.
Who said mobile development is long and boring process? My new record is to build an MVP app in 24 hours and release it on the same day in the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1530899550
We used native Swift for development and tried to make a beautiful design.

The motivation is very simple:
1 - it was my long-standing dream to build an app in 1 day
2- I’m participating in YC Build sprint, so I have to do everything very fast Wish you all high speed of development, traction and the growth of your startups.
Researchers may have finally found evidence for sleep in sharks
Here the train set was only 1000 proofs (with an average of 90 steps per proof) so it is decidely a small dataset (but highly structured and noiseless).
Yes, and of course we have arXiv and friends, and sci-hub, and researchers' and institutions' own pages.

But all this misses the point a little -- it is not just the articles that should be preserved, but the journal itself, as a collection of articles with metadata (including the fact that it was collected in the journal), records of editorial boards, editorial articles, etc.
A little numbers correction: it's more like $11 MM per tank. And not to build, to refurbish.

More precisely: for the 2020 fiscal year, the US Army did not procure any new M1 Abrams tank, and is not budgeting any for the 2021 year either. Instead it is modernizing existing tanks at a cost of $1.7 BN for 165 units in '20, and $1 BN for 89 units in '21. This comes at about $10.6 MM per tank.

[1] https://www.asafm.army.mil/Portals/72/Documents/BudgetMateri...

[2] https://www.asafm.army.mil/Portals/72/Documents/BudgetMateri...
My kid loved it! Great job!
Lotus 123 for spreadsheets.

WordPerfect for a different word processor. Bonus points if you start Word Perfect in full screen text mode. http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/wpfullscreentextmode.gif

QuarkXPress for desktop publishing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7360076

dBaseII for databases.

Elite for games, but don't forget to turn off Turbo.
Sounds like you've got it all figured out. Read what you've written again. You've dehumanized half of America, and, well, subhumans ain't worth talkin' to. It'd be nice if someone saved them from themselves, but they can't be saved anyways, and besides, they wouldn't be worth saving if you tried.

Why, might a reasonable person ask?

Well, obviously, because they've dehumanized another part of America.

To quote you back: "Was that deliberately meta or just completely un-self-aware?"
Before Lyrebird was bought by Descript, this was a simple API endpoint. You could generate short MP3's of your digital voice reading any text of your choosing, for free.

I used it extensively in one of my projects, only to find everything broken after leaving it alone for a few months.

All of that to say, are there any alternatives out there HN knows of?

This isn't an attack on Descript, either. The Lyrebird purchase made a lot of sense, and they've built an amazing product with the technology.
For comparison, the nearest star to us is 268,770 AU away, or around 491 times further away. It would take quite a bit longer to get there!
If Epic’s PC store is any indication, consumers will eventually have to face bullshit exclusives that force them to use the Epic store and largely cost the exact same.
> it doesn't set the pane title in tmux correctly out-of-the-box

Yeah, it's an unfortunate side effect of Elvish not having job control at the moment; tmux (and terminal emulators) use the information about the foreground process group to automatically set the title, but since Elvish doesn't have job control and stays in the foreground, that doesn't work.

However, there is a module that does this: https://github.com/zzamboni/elvish-modules/blob/master/termi...
Give your services for free and not turn a profit? Weird
This does not compete with this solar/batteries so much as it competes with electrical wires.
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Question I ask is "What have you tried?" and "What happened differently to what you expected?" gets junior engineers to at least have a go.
We don't always know what is important at the time it's published, and there are many examples of this in the literature.

Meanwhile people are working hard to preserve every Commodore 64 game.
(30k proofs to be precise, valid and test are each 1k)
Probably the early schemes for doing objects in LISP, from the Symbolics refrigerator-sized LISP machine era, which worked that way.
I've seen this comment specifically from you come up a lot in all the apple vs epic conversations.

This is whataboutism for sure.

It moves the discussion to a less constructive, more re-hashed place.

Consoles are different because they're not sold as general purpose computing devices and do not have the market penetration size that iOS does.

There is a great argument for allowing all consumers to install whatever software they want on all devices they purchased - including consoles - by law. I'd like to see this - for over a decade, a lot of tech communities have pushed for this - but this isn't the conversation we're having today.
Getting "404 not found" for any video result e.g. https://cdn.iiit.ac.in/cdn/bhaasha.iiit.ac.in/lipsync/static...
It's not a new idea... I first heard of it in the intro segment of this Cool Worlds Lab vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgOTZe07eHA
> But if Apple decide that they don't like you anymore...

Epic intentionally broke the rules. Maybe Apple's actions are right, maybe wrong. But don't pretend Apple just out-of-the-blue decided to do this to Epic for no reason.
For the most part, having lights you can only talk to is kind of annoying. Having lights only on a dumb switch gets kind of annoying. Having smart lights on a dumb switch is kind of annoying. But having smart switches or smart lights with coordinated smart switches is great. Consistency and simplicity is key. You can get the best of both worlds. Being able to turn of 3, 5, 10 switches at once. Being able to change brightness with your voice is something I use way more often than turning the lights on or off with my voice. Turning off the closet or bathroom light once already laying in bed. Alexa and Google exist to let you mix and match brands. You can have 6 brands of lights, best in breed for each purpose or cost point (cheaper lights is lesser rooms) and nobody besides the person maintaining the system needs to even know.

The software and wifi connecting has sort of been trash, but the WeMo Smart Dimmer and WeMo Three Way are GREAT pieces of hardware as far as being a LIGHT SWITCH is concerned. It's the apple of switch design. A single button for on or off. Slide your finger up the track for brightness. Long press to control other switches on the network (glitchier.)

https://www.belkin.com/us/p/P-F7C059/
https://www.belkin.com/us/p/P-WLS0403/

The Philips ecosystem has a wide range of accessories, including smart dimmer knobs to control smart lights. https://www.lutron.com/en-US/products/pages/standalonecontro... LIFX now has a switch, but I've never actually seen it in stock so it may be vaporware. https://www.lifx.com/products/lifx-switch

It can be annoying when it glitches out, but overall its a positive change. Don't knock it until youve really given it a serious try.
Supposedly it will be better able to support large amounts of users in the same location (like sports stadiums), so that's a slight advantage if you go to football games or concerts a lot I guess?
Download page throws this error, might want to look into that. I guess it benefits the user that it's broken.

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No, that's not fair. Most of the products that get imported this way also have local service centres that fulfil warranty claims. The labour is more expensive and often part of a different regional company than the import or manufacturer.

I wouldn't import a Ford truck from the US and expect a local Ford garage to meet its warranty obligations here in the UK.

There are extraordinary things to consider for the consumer.
A label like "grey market" helps. It's not a slight. It's just quicker and easier than saying "this was imported from a distribution channel in another country and will only be serviced in that country".