skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a volunteer firefighter for a good portion of my youth and saw many traumatic deaths. It’s easy, as the article states, to realize they are dead.

At 11 years old I stood by my father in a hospital bed and held his hand and arm as he died. I don’t remember the details but other than the emptiness that doesn’t have words. But it was slow, similar to the article describes. Not lingering for weeks, thankfully, but not like the movies where someone says his final words and sorta gasps his last breath.

Both are sobering experiences and seeing children die is the absolute worst. I would be having the same debates the author has had.

None of this makes it any easier to face / accept my own mortality either.
Yup. I wrote a blog post about this a long time ago in 2007, and it was republished in Gizmodo in 2014:
https://gizmodo.com/why-you-should-never-use-pixelation-to-h...

You can dictionary attack pixelated photos.

With Gaussian kernels, besides deconvolution you can sometimes also dictionary attack them if you have the original font and if the kernel is properly normalized kernel (i.e. most gaussian blurs).

Although I haven't tried, I think there may even be neural network based techniques that can perform even more effectively than a dictionary attack.

Separately, if the image editing tools added sufficient random noise to their mosaic filters they might be able to thwart most of these attacks, or at least make them significantly harder.
It also helps if Uber used quality vision cameras instead of whatever garbage they we're using and attempting to say "look at how unlit and dark the road was!!". Meanwhile it was a pretty well lit city streets when people visited it.
Yeah same. It's pretty common for restaurants and households to have raw onion in the salad (at least in north India). Unusual for someone to eat them with the skin though.
This was a great read but I'm a bit disappointed there are no easter eggs in the page source. Or maybe I'm just not finding them.
The problem, as I stated above, is that you will be landfilling significantly more than 0.01%.

There are tons of unrecyclable stuff in regular household garbage. For example, a packaging made of two incompatible in recycling methods plastics are a waste.
Why regulation of fintechs?
Wirecard
Who will pay for electricity?
I also felt that the N was out of place as its market cap is about 1/3 the next smallest (FB at $0.77B vs. $0.22B). The rest (and MSFT) are all > $1B. NFLX has a lower cap than NVDA, ADBE, and PYPL (and TSLA and BABA).
This was a great read--thanks!
After near-term existence is confirmed, long-term existence can be ensured by legally firewalling the global public web archive from more adventurous business units.
> one of the biggest drawbacks to free trade is the loss of skills.

The Economics jargon is "real option value". When you have engineers making widgets of type A, it's easy to get them to make types B, C, and D should the need arise. This potential to do other things has real value even if in fact you never do them.

Real option value should always be evaluated when choosing a course of action, but since it's about non-existent things, it's usually skipped. (Edit: calling it "real" must be economist humor.)

Ricardo didn't know about, or chose to ignore, real option value. In the classic England = cloth, Portugal = wine trade, Portugal would be better off making cloth because of real option value.
O yea users don't give a shit. But it's further reduction and shrinking of the playing field to corporate giants that'll only share details with other giants to develop products.
the value of the llc or s-corp is the corporate veil. whether or not thats worth the $800 annual charge in CA, on top of other inconveniences, is the question.
Any better books you recommend?
My country banned single use supermarket bags, which they defined by the thickness of the material and whether they had cut-out handles. So a supermarket that used to charge 10c for one of those bags replaced them with 20c bags of slightly thicker plastic with attached handles. For me, the extra cost was negligible so I just bought the more expensive bags and threw them in the rubbish. They don't offer them anymore, for some reason.
Bloody love the way this guy writes...
Only by 1"
The author doesn't seem to understand the idea behind this, which I very much agree with, that a new major version should be handled as a new module.
You are breaking contract with your existing users, upgrading will have difficulties for them.

Ross Cox explains the concept in this talk from 9:20: https://youtu.be/F8nrpe0XWRg?t=560
For anyone who wants to do this easier... ZAP Proxy has a HUD display that will allow you to see the data flying on a page after you load it.

No need to do funky Inspect Element magic. Works wonders for reverse engineering how your fancy UI talks to the fancy API to do the fancy things.

If you can't figure out ZAP with HUD, you can alternatively use the Network tab on Chrome and switch to AJAX (if it's something that happens without the page loading)
Horsepower isn't everything, usually cost and power consumption come first in SoC selection followed by feature set(of which your GPU is one part of a larger picture).

If you want to really succeed in the SoC space(which is where Arm has) then what you need is volume and I don't think Tegra ever really made any serious inroads there.

The switch is a game console and so it sits somewhat outside of the traditional high-volume SoC market.
In a similar vein, if you haven't watched a pop-pop boat circumnavigate your bathtub, you haven't lived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_pop_boat
> Perhaps that is due to my own selection bias because of the type of people that emigrate or travel

Tangentially to the point, I'm going to hazard a guess that "people who travel to other cultures" are going to be more bullshit-oriented than average, due to factors jknoepfler referenced above, eg "If you're a non-native language speaker and someone asks if you understand something, you're probably used to having to figure it out offline".
which gpus do you use? is the pricing ($1 per 1000 requests) independent of inference time and bandwidth? for instance, some of our models finish within 2 seconds while other models take ~60 seconds, depending on the input. we have been searching for something like this for a long time, but all the other options were lacking in one way or another.
It's also used in the customs process.
Pardon the delay. Check out something like this and it might fix your problem!

I love this w/ my desk because I can adjust my height all day :)

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Off topic, but for the longest time I thought "Fintech" referred to tech companies based in Finland or Scandinavia more broadly.

Those have a word, don't they?
There's an online book for Ada for anyone that's interested in what it looks like. https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/index.html
There are plenty of projects which do not need to change once written as long as you leave web-based things. Some examples:

I recently found my old GPS logger, and wanted to pull data from it. I installed "mtkbabel" package and it worked wonderfully. This code was last updated in 2013 [0].

I was recently copying some files from one of my embedded boxes. It had rsync 3.1.2, released in 2015. Still works and no need to upgrade (the page lists some security vulnerabilities for this version, but this is only for "untrusted server" scenarios, which I never have)

The embedded systems not connected to internet will generally work forever without any updates. I do have a 20 year old MP3 player and it still works fine.

[0] https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/m/mt...
It sounds like you're the one living in an alternate reality.

Their are pictures of the camps taken by Chinese citizens.

Leave your astroturfing behind the Great Firewall.
Boston Dynamics was founded in 1992. That was almost 30 years ago.

Just me, or is it crazy they haven't had 1 year of profitability in nearly 3 decades of operations.
> if the site wishes to moderate comments for some reason, they could be held liable for comments that stay up but are problematic (libelous etc.). So without section 230, a site would be in a catch-22. Section 230 continuing to exist avoids this problem.

You have this exactly right. It's a fairly straightforward law. It's kind of bizarre how far people (especially journalists!) misunderstand it.
Oh, I don't know about that. I wouldn't call it impossible.

I like how Java binaries still work on the latest Java, however, if distribution happens via binaries, why should the language keep source compatibility anyway?

Or, you know, the latest compiler could allow you to select the source code version you want. And automated code migration tools can work too.

---

Err'ing on the side of not getting features is why Java has lost a lot of mindshare.

Java is still super popular, but that's basically in spite of the language itself, because the language is awful.
Guy was using his phone not paying attention to the road when testing experimental equipment on a public road. He was there specifically to mitigate potential malfunctions of said experimental equipment, but he was reading reddit or whatever instead of keeping lookout.

I can't see how this is not clear cut negligence.
Python's Innards: Introduction (2010)
Indeed anyone self-employed, full-time or part-time.

A LLC just (hopefully) gains you liability protection and perhaps a bit more legitimacy, in return for a big fee in California.
When Ambani's driver went to jail in place of his son his family got crores. I wonder how much Uber's gonna give this person and/or their family?
Ask HN: Why does my keyboard always get dirty around the letter T?
I've been noticing this for years: I've had various laptops, and with each of them dirt accumulates around the sides of the letter T, or mostly around the RTY-FGH letter group.

Is there an explanation for this? Have you experienced something similar?
There are so many website that will automate spamming every politician contact form with prewritten content about an issue so I'm surprised if those contact forms route anywhere other than /dev/null.
Indeed, you're correct.
Aaah, trial versions on the App Store :( I'm still not sure what would be the best way to implement a demo version for an App Store only app - I loathe the "Free with IAP" model.
If you want to test if your scanner works with PDFScanner, try to use it with the Image Capture application that comes with macOS. It uses the same library as PDFScanner to talk to the scanner, so if your scanner works there, it will also work in PDFScanner.
> one of the problems with the constant focus on the admirable efforts of the Internet Archive here and elsewhere is precisely that the many other archiving and digital preservation efforts go by relatively unheralded and underfunded.

Any chance you could point me to some other initiatives? I'm always interested in finding more repositories of information.
And people claim the markets/VCs are too short-termist. If anything, the opposite is true.
Yeah, TIL Mathematica knows what a goat is, and can recognize one on sight.
so true, but its not just executives that get fooled. there's a whole company full of adjacent people, sales, marketing, finance, that fall for this bullshit too.

they add to this dust storm of fud that allows these people to exist.
Probably not if the product in a plastic bottle is much more expensive than the same thing in a glass bottle, right?
That happened to us and on this VC firm's maiden round. They offered no reason except that they reconsidered. Wasted months of our time.

Our attorney (from Fenwick & West) told us the same, that it would damage the VCs reputation and that this was pretty much unheard of for them.

But I never heard another thing about it and that VC firm seems to not be having too much trouble filling out their rounds.
The poor guy's a lady. Other than that, agreed.

Edit: Post fixed now, disregard. :)
What I'm learning, at least from my kids, is that students are always online when they're doing anything with a computer. So, they are typically comfortable with using online tools.
They're a form of Government-issued photo ID, so not "secret" but definitely "sensitive".

At least in Australia, a passport can be used as your primary ID for a lot of stuff such as renting houses, buying mobile phones, connecting services to your home, booking flights, renting cars, etc etc etc.
I know what you mean. ThinkPads are definitely chunky and are in the similar price range as Macs. If I didn't have the Macbook pro (16gigs with core -i5) from work, I'd probably buy a Macbook air. I feel that the Air series offer a lot of value for money. I have the touch bar Macbook pro. It's great. I use the touch bar sometimes but all I really want is the finger print sensor. Great feature. I'm wondering if Apple will ever open up the iPad OS a bit and allow terminal access and enable installing compilers and dev environments like the Mac OS. I wouldn't mind switching to an iPad in that case. The ARM Macbooks are going to be just non-touch iPads with MacOS X on them anyway. I don't do a lot of gaming. Mostly play casual games on a Nintendo Switch. So my desktop PC has been barely touched in the last three years.
Because many people don't know why the EARN IT bill is terrible, here's a video
Sorry! I should know better than to assume gender these days. Fixed.
If the deal seems too good to be true, it probably is.
What GP proposed was a Wealth Tax which is an additional tax on _living_ people who have a net worth over a certain amount.

What you linked is an Estate Tax (aka death/inheritance tax) which only applies when someone passes wealth on after death. If they decide to give all their money away to charity or otherwise spend it while they're alive it does not apply.
Is it just me or is the next robot already a drone?

Why walk when you can fly?
Early nineties and the Microsoft of eighties was no better. Lots of highly problematic actions with respect to DOS and DOS clones, it’s part in blindsiding IBM on OS/2, etc.
I'm not sure Starbucks would erode a places coffee culture, even in Seattle. If anything it would expand the pool of potential customers. I love and drink a lot of gourmet coffee/beans. I also visit Starbucks on occasion. I never go to Starbucks specifically for their coffee though, unless there is no good local cafe in the area. Starbucks is a lightweight coworking space / 3rd space at this stage.
Ya, we hired a top tier SV firm. They just used their own fill in the blank forms like you would get from legal zoom. And I even had to make corrections and send it back multiple times because they got the share numbers wrong and forgot to replace multiple mentions of the last company they used the form on.
The power of Inspect Element. This is exactly how I found out I was underpaid[1]. A company I worked for used a software called erecruit to manage my contracts. When you click on a clients name, it makes an ajax request to fetch the data. Being a web developer, I inspected the data returned.

I'm pretty sure all the developer did was:

echo json_encode($queryResult);

I saw how much I was getting paid vs how much they were charging clients. I quickly changed my prices after that.

[1]: https://idiallo.com/blog/how-much-do-you-charge-for-your-wor...
I don’t see how a society with dynastic wealth is free, especially when that dynastic wealth further accumulates.

The problem for me is not even that people amass such large amounts of money (do I think we should have some higher tax brackets on capital gains, sure) but that generational wealth creates power and economic structures which hurt the rest of us and ultimately impinges many more peoples’ freedom
hey.. thanks for the comment. I didn't mean marijuana usage made my friend sharp. They just happen to be intelligent and interesting people. Yes, I do understand why it's better to decriminalise it. But, you're absolutely correct, it shouldn't be promoted either. As responsible adults whoever wishes to dabble in Marijuana, it's their business. It's just that, I don't use and I don't think I've the right to judge anyone who does it.
There is a big gap between "breaking changes every month" and every couple of years.
Ada, not ADA. It’s named after Ada Lovelace, not an abbreviation.
One of the better blog posts I’ve read
Drones run out of battery and have huge spinning blades that can take out somebody's eye. They might on occasion also fall out of the sky.
Why should Uber give them anything?
Sadly finding a Philips MP1002C Stirling engine generator is almost impossible. Not to mention that they are loud and only output around 200w, which is nothing compared to a Honda 2200i.

A stand alone generator need not be mobile, so it needn't be that light weight. In fact it probably would benefit being integrated with a home's heating and cooling system to utilize waste heat.

What it does need to do is be relatively maintenance free, and run off a variety of heat sources (such as pellets, woodgas or solar thermal). This is where I think Stirling engines shine...you can gasify all of your waste organic matter into dirty gas that wouldn't normally be fit for an internal combustion engine, but work fine for a swirl burner which can be used on an external combustion engine such as steam or stirling.
Is this the same Krebs that erroneously publicly accused someone of the recent Twitter hack, publishing their name and place of residence?

Edit: Yes, looks like it is.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-e...

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/three-charged-in-july-15...
Perhaps you want the website for the secretary of state. You can also look up any business and see all the public forms plus the address they're using (for those notices you're not getting).

https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/
No skin in the game but...

Sounds good to me.

My understanding is that most authors will send you a copy if you contact them. If the authors are okay with open access, doesn't that make paid journals just rent seekers?
Programming Rust by O'Reilly, haha.
Only one thing could possibly improve the travesty that is fintech: a per-transaction tax. Even a $.0001 tax per trasaction would buy universal college education and universal medical care, with plenty left over to replace all coal and oil-fired power with renewables and storage and replace the air fleet with hydrogen-powered craft.
Awww, there go all my favorite panel shows.
I give you a weight, you are to hold the weight in front of you with your arm outstretched, for 12 hours straight. If you drop your arm then a random person is shot. If you drop the weight is the death your fault or my fault for putting you in an impossible, for a human, situation?

Humans are very bad at paying attention for a rare event and having nothing else to do 99.999% of the rest of the time. This is surely well known to the people who set up this system in the self driving car.
But that would be chopped or otherwise separated onion right? Not eating an onion the way one would eat an apple.
I'll agree that the conspiracies you mention are unhinged. However, cursory research will reveal that Gates and Gates Sr. have both been involved with the eugenics movement.

It is unfortunate how unhinged criticisms are used to dismiss what is hiding in plain sight.

>"So Melinda and I wondered if providing new medicines and keeping children alive, would that create more of a population problem?"
> RFC 4122 defines a Uniform Resource Name (URN) namespace for UUIDs. A UUID presented as a URN appears as follows:[1]

> > urn:uuid:123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426655440000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#...

Version 4 UUIDs have 122 random bits (out of 128 bits total).

In Python:

>>> import uuid
>>> _id = uuid.uuid4()
>>> _id.urn
'urn:uuid:4c466878-a81b-4f22-a112-c704655fa4ee'

Whether search engines will consider a URL or a URN or a random str without dashes to be one searchable-for token is pretty ironic in terms of extracting relations between resources in a Linked Data hypergraph.

>>> _id.hex
'4c466878a81b4f22a112c704655fa4ee'

The relation between a resource and a Thing with a URI/URN/URL can be expressed with https://schema.org/about . In JSON-LD ("JSONLD"):

{"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "WebPage",
"about": {
"@type": "SoftwareApplication",
"identifier": "urn:uuid:4c466878-a81b-4f22-a112-c704655fa4ee",
"url": ["", ""],
"name": [
"a schema.org/SoftwareApplication < CreativeWork < Thing",
{"@value": "a rose by any other name",
"@language": "en"}]}}

Or with RDFa:

<body vocab="https://schema.org/" typeof="WebPage">
<div property="about" typeof="SoftwareApplication">
<meta property="identifier" content="urn:uuid:4c466878-a81b-4f22-a112-c704655fa4ee"/>
<a property="url" href=""></a>
<a property="url" href=""></a>
<span property="name">a schema.org/SoftwareApplication &lt; CreativeWork &lt; Thing</span>
<span property="name" lang="en">a rose by any other name</span>
</div>
</body>

Or with Microdata:

<div itemtype="https://schema.org/WebPage" itemscope>
<link itemprop="http://www.w3.org/ns/rdfa#usesVocabulary" href="https://schema.org/" />
<div itemprop="about" itemtype="https://schema.org/SoftwareApplication" itemscope>
<a itemprop="url" href=""></a>
<a itemprop="url" href=""></a>
<meta itemprop="identifier" content="urn:uuid:4c466878-a81b-4f22-a112-c704655fa4ee" />
<meta itemprop="name" content="a schema.org/SoftwareApplication &lt; CreativeWork &lt; Thing"/>
<meta itemprop="name" content="a rose by any other name" lang="en"/>
</div>
</div>
micro services on kubernetes is hardly over engineering things. its lightweight, fast and is easy to implement with.
If you're introducing breaking changes once per month, then your library really isn't ready.

Tell people you have an unstable library. Breaking changes _will_ happen. Then, when you've used your library in production for a while and are reasonably sure it wont have to change, tell people it's stable. If you make breaking changes after that, then start with a v2 suffix.

For some reason, semver has made people stop going through the alpha, beta and rc stages of a release, even though the point of such things is to discover breaking changes before you're commited to maintaining the version for the time to come.

Major version changes should be a rare event. If it's not, you're really just shipping around a (pre)alpha library, and should be explicit about that.
As someone who is in the field of mobile robotics, what Boston Dynamics does is often way ahead of its time. Robotics is hard and expensive. If you are developing a new form of locomotion it will take years and millions of dollars before things work out. Heck, I myself have seen my colleagues spend 10+ years just ironing out issues with underwater vehicles before they even see the market.
I haven't made CPUs before ( I am guessing you have?), so I am not sure of what you are implying. Are you saying that CPU technology is as easy or copy-able like a javascript framework? I can see that ISA would be copy-able. But what about a modern implementation?
I guess Facebook is the new “talk radio” but the amount of info it can deliver into your brain is a factor more than what talk radio used to deliver.
Yeah... Krebs isn’t a particularly reliable source.
Not even remotely the same thing.

Dude was paid to pay attention. He didn't. It wasn't because he got fatigued, it was because he was deliberately doing something else, by choice
IBM open sourced A2O POWER processor core
The Apple Watch SE is $279—that’s not luxury level money.
"Unblending the smoothie" is such a great line.
How to Install IonCube Loader in Debian and Ubuntu
Glass is about the most harmless thing you could put in a landfill. Right down there with naturally occurring rocks. What environmental problem are they causing by burying it?