skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure what you're really getting at here. There are so many people who do the (yes, tedious) work of captioning videos from people they appreciate because there was a button right there. Some of those people may go on to find a third party caption editing package, and try to contact the content creator and coach them through uploading the subtitles... But isn't it obvious that this is going to reduce the aggregate quality of captions on YouTube?

The process before was straightforward: a community member would author captions and submit them to the producer, the producer would choose whether to approve them right there on YouTube's site; the new workflow involves email, forms, files, and community members who are motivated to go out of their way to figure out how to create and communicate YouTube-compatible captions that will now be less likely to be published even if they are high quality.
> In our proposal, there is no auction. Alternative search engines with the most market share in each market are shown on the first screen, randomly ordered. The remaining alternative search engines are available by scrolling, also randomly ordered.

I agree, that this would be the best solution from the end-user point of view. But Google is not an NGO. Android is a free product that is being developed and maintained using revenue that comes from ad sales.

It seems logical for Google, or any other company in a similar situation, to expect a compensation for giving up even a tiny percentage of its revenue. Otherwise, from the business perspective it would mean that Google is simply subsidising its own competition.

Also, as unlikely as it sounds, having an auction system a kind of democratizes the entire search engine market for new players: now anyone can build a search engine for their own country and make it the top option for all local Android users.
Ten years ago, I loved XML mainly because of what I could do with XSLT, and I wrote many websites where the data were XML (static files) and the XSLT scripts acted as the views to output HTML. All that was server-side (ASP or PHP). The equivalent for me today is JSON for then data and the Lodash library to transform them. The environment has switched to JavaScript (Node.js + browser), which was a tremendous improvement. For me, Lodash is the new XSLT - all about data transformation - although they're conceptually unrelated.
Does IPFS actually solve the problem they set out here though?

IPFS is a distributed CDN; but not very good for storing things persistently or reliably from my experience.

At the moment; the nixos cache is stored in very durable and reliable S3 storage; with very high durability guarantees. Why is that not good enough?

sure it's centralised. But IPFS doesn't offer distributed durability; it offers a CDN. It doesn't seem to address this issue the authors seem to claim it solves. (To me)

I still think it's _super cool_. And once builds are also content-addressed and not just fixed-output derivations; having trustless content delivery is a valuable addition. But IPFS doesnt' seem like a robust answer for the "what if we lose access to the source code problem" given it's not a durable storage system

In this case; projects like https://www.softwareheritage.org/ and https://sfconservancy.org/ seem better bets to solve the source code access issue
The core use cases that the long-haul Amtrak solves are not day trips between large cities. You are right, there are other solutions for those.

But Amtrak is the best fit for multi-day trips across the entire country for people who cannot fly. Amtrak also solves transportation for travelling directly from small rural towns to the large cities, and sometimes even from one rural town to another. It is the safest way to get across mountain ranges in the depth of winter (although not the fastest).

It doesn't solve every problem, and it does need subsidies, and it always runs late... nevertheless, it connects rural Americans to the large cities in ways that city folk don't even realize.
Yes, but in Debug/ReleaseSafe it's much stronger than C with sanitisers. Zig makes those problems so much easier to catch in development than C. Zig doesn't have pointer arithmetic and pervasive casts, and all traversals require knowing the data's size either at compile-time (Zig arrays) or runtime (Zig slices). Unless you explicitly do unsafe casts, Zig won't allow you to index anything outside a buffers, and by that I don't just mean outside of allocated buffers, but even "sub-buffers" derived from them.
That public land was worthless at the time. Without the train nobody wanted it, the train made it valuable to the public.

Things have changed since 1880 of course. However it isn't fair to evaluate it against modern values.
And furthermore if you remove someone it's best to state that in the replay-all-minus-person-X as "removing X"
I won't be buying a Samsung TV again. I have tried so hard to disable any autoplaying TV channels/adverts when you turn the TV on as they have been inappropriate for my kids. I went as far as pin locking every single channel. But give it a few weeks and it'll start auto playing content when you turn it on.
Indians are very pleased at this decision. Amnesty has been a major organization to hold biased views of human rights of terrorist in Kashmir without accounting for the loss of citizens life that are damaged due to terrorism. Their agenda has always been motivated while operating in India. A diverse and large country like India doesn't need such an organization preaching whats right. India is largest democracy on face of earth.
RPF are the initials of who dictated the letter, ht are the initials of who typed it up.
same, I have a samsung tv and use the smart features all the time (youtube) and have never seen an ad.

:-s
My guess is that they meant that a person couldn't determine someone's identity, unlike with, say, facial recognition.
There’s something rather extraordinary about this community, in particular, throwing a fit about advertising in products. This discussion has gone from “fuck that guy” — overlooking that almost every employer represented here has one and the larger employers have entire divisions of them — to “capitalism is bad” in three messages. That’s impressive. It’s almost as if the root cause of why these business models are horrible is slowly becoming more obvious to the people who engineer more clever ways to collect data and serve advertisements to enable those business models (or who work in a cost center orbiting such an organization).

Samsung learned from the industry represented here and it’s disconcerting to observe the lack of self-awareness in the vitriol being leveled at them from here. Equally disconcerting is that the same people rending their clothes over this probably overlook their Gmail messages being scanned and ads in their inbox, but a television, mein gott, a bridge too far.

This is your world, HN. We all live in it now. Sucks, no?
Search all bangs:

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I was reading the question as how to fix people replying all to lists of a few dozen people like school mailing lists, sport clubs etc.
Nine in ten recovered Covid-19 patients experience side-effects – study
In Europe it definitely is illegal under the GDPR
(No insider information, but) I suspect Drive, Photos, Assistant are all 1B+. Most of the new stuff from Google is features on existing products (which cover such broad markets that it's almost pointless launching major stuff as often).
I agree DDG is not good enough to replace Google, but that doesn't mean I want them to die off because of some bullshit auction. They provide a good enough product for some, clearly and I hope it continues to improve so I can benefit from it too one day.
Are you just drawing from devs you've worked with/hired?

(Not meaning to be rude, just that they're already going to be way above average.)
Exactly this. I was surprised by the ads that they apparently shove down your throat but outraged by the fact that samsung knows what you watch. Most people that have a new TV will probably not even know this, only mentioned in some small letters in an eula that nobody reads.
How is that even legal?
Its worse now. The Supreme Court Of India has capitulated; it is, for all practical purposes, in the hands of Modi & Shah. An institution that should check unwarranted excesses is looking the other way.

States that are not run by Modi Inc are in a lot of trouble. That's the point though... conformance.
This is all motivated reporting. India has such a strong and independent judicial system which does its job. If any charges are put incorrectly then courts will grant relief. India is democratic country.
Government agencies have filed official complaints against them in recent years. But it's not clear what came out of it.

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/amnesty-received-rs-46...
The only benefit I can think of, is that biometrics has no way of me loaning my credentials.

If my age verification was tied to my palm, I'd have to cut off my hand to let a teenager buy booze with it.

But I still don't feel this is a compelling argument.
You don't need an accident. I was on chemo earlier this year, and I had to re-register my fingerprints both on my phone and on my laptop.
Fake news forbes said it so it must be true.
Look for "Digital signage displays" (but they are not cheap).
Sure, but we're on HN. The discussion here definitely doesn't reflect the general audience where 99% of the people aren't tech savvy and don't even know what a firmware is.
Matrix protocol uses JSON with namespaces, both Java-style, C and XML-style namespaces.
iPhone UX on home screens is broken, welcome to 1999
The iPhone home screen and App menus have been a problem for me for a long time now. As I designer, the icons never had consistency, the notification bubbles with it's high numbers were bothering me, it was busy and it didn't really feel great to use it.

As IOS14 allows to make shortcuts to these app icons with custom icons, which is great!

With that option now available, I've been designing a new UX/UI with the goal of lowering screen time and information fatigue, remove clutter and distractions,... In one word, I want to keep my screen and my mind calm.

So i removed everything I could and minimised the information, icons, colors and even removed the text under the icons.

To be honest, the last week of using it, my Screen time lowered by 38% and that is including the time I tested the designed icons. There are also no notification bubbles anywhere now. I look at missing calls or messages through notifications but turned off most of others. NExt step is to try and turn those as well and just look at the phone couple of times a day.

Widgets are also great and more will come, but do we really need them? I only use one for the date + time (Color Widgets).

I also limited myself to only using one screen and moving all app icons to the library. It's great and the motivation has been lowered to play mindlessly with these as now I need to search them.

It really feels like one of those phones from 20 years ago and I love it. It's like a phone detox I never knew I needed.

One bug I noticed thought is that I wanted to have the icons with white background as well, but seems like IOS14 creates some weird shadow. Headspace icon for example has the same problem on a white wallpaper.

Anyone noticed that and knows a fix?

I think that would make it even better as it'd have a lot less elements on it.
I lost 10 kg after two months of doing 18 hour periods of fasting.

I’ve tried other diets and this one has been the only maintainable one. My body does not feel hunger at night anymore.

The success of going for long streaks of days has greatly motivated me of eating healthier, with less carbs, no snacking and more water.

So probably the fasting itself was not the direct but indirect cause of the lost.

I sometimes do eat at night, socially, but i always find it easy to go back to the fasting.
Can you expand more on this idea? I'm interested. What do I do if the task takes longer or shorter than the block?
I'm not sure if this satire is crude and poorly targeted, or if it's high brow to the point it's over my head.

I think it may be the latter, not because I "get it", but because it's hard to believe someone is really arguing for using Slack like a microservice over the monolith of meetings. I think author is skewering the "adopt everything" crowd that jumped all over microservices and likely the comprises the current wave of Slack adopters. Not that I'm against Slack, but pushing more there instead of into a well run meeting, particularly to make effective decisions as a team, is a laughable idea.
This is the supermax prison the US government wants to lock Assange up in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADX_Florence. Take a look at the other high-profile inmates: terrorists, actual spies, organized crime bosses. The prison was established to house "those prisoners most capable of violence toward staff or other inmates."

They want to throw Assange in there for the rest of his life for the crime of publishing the US' dirty secrets. The worst thing they have on him is basically saying "I'll look into it" when Manning sent him (or someone else at Wikileaks - we don't even know) a hash.

The NY Times, Washington Post, Guardian, and other newspapers have issued statements about the danger of this prosecution, but beyond that, they've barely reported on it. They're the ones that benefited from the leaks - they got to publish and report on the cables. The Guardian itself made Assange's situation even worse, by publishing the decryption key to the unredacted cables (The Guardian's journalists apparently did not understand that publishing the encryption key was equivalent to publishing the cables themselves). These newspapers should be raising a much bigger ruckus about this case.
Yes, it was what I meant by "Google removes negative keywords for certain politicians from its search recommendations".
There's a different gradient of workers union influence for employees at different levels. Traditionally, workers at the bottom of the pyramid have the highest union influence and it decreases as it goes further up.
I imagine you would ensure the persistence of the data you care about by either running your own IPFS nodes that pin the data, or by using a pinning service like Pinata [1].

[1] https://pinata.cloud/
I was excited about the early announcements, but completely expected it to be 13" on one side, not when unfolded. This way, it seems to be an expensive showcase gadget only - can't think of who would legitimately want it as an improvement. I hope they iterate on it - I'd love a 2*13" version.
Amtrak needs to kill all operation outside of New England until they can get that system working. DC to Boston should leave a evey half hour or better 24x7, with average speeds of 150 mph. Note average includes all stops (new York city obviously is a stop, we can debate others). This is perfectly possible and would make money. Until they get that working they shouldn't try anything with harder to make work routes.
Will this thing run Linux and can the keyboard be attached via a cable?

I am thinking about getting a tablet that can run Linux and an external keyboard. Then I can put the tablet on something and use it like a monitor. And the keyboard in front of it. What does the HN crowd think about this approach?
I don't understand who this product is for. Even folded it's still too big to pocket so you have to either carry it in hand or in a bag that could already accommodate the unfolded screen. Does it only exist to be something for tech journalists to write about?
For one. They allow for distributed incremental builds. Improving your developer productivity. IT doesn't matter anymore where an object file is compiled. You just need to know its hash, ask if it exists, or otherwise compile yourself.

One problem with NixOS currently is that certain dependencies in our package tree are very painful to change. If we touch glibc, we need to recompile 60.000 packages and it takes A LOT of compute power to do that.

With reproducible, content-addressed builds we can do things like early cutoff optimisations; making these changes less painful. SImple example; if somebody just changed a source code comment in glibc; then we get the same build artifact, and can skip building 60.000 packages.

If you do this at the source code level instead of the package level (like Bazel) then somebody can change how glibc does domain resolution; but packages that don't depend on that don't need to be recompiled either.
Even if this actually becomes widespread (indeed I am not aware of any consumer device providing pass-through network access through its HDMI port), I'd expect most devices to have a toggle for this or a privacy-friendly company like Apple might even make the lack of that "feature" a selling point.
> In the same vein, if I want unbiased results, DDG is strictly superior to Google.

And if you want good results, without dumping every buzzword you know about your search, Google is strictly superior to DDG.
Even if that was so, it's a bit like saying that blind won't need braille because there's text-to-speech. And English isn't the only language on youtube
Apparently according to other comments a lot of TVs still do ACR on content received by the apple TV (or any hdmi signal) so we still need dumb tvs...
Amnesty's resources are better spent in operating in those countries where there is no democracy such as middle east, africa, china, etc. Good they got an exit from India where they are useless :)
Here's an example which something like Amazon One can solve, but a card cannot:

When I go to the grocery shop and I buy alcohol then I have to wait at the self checkout till until a member of staff comes to verify my age before I can pay for my shopping basket. That involves me showing them an ID (e.g. my driving license) and them having to verify my biometric (face) by looking at me and then looking at my driving license. This is time consuming and requires additional staff at self checkout tills, making them less "self checkouty".

On the other hand (or palm should I say :P) I could age verify myself only once at an Amazon One kiosk and then have my legal age linked to my verified palm. Now I can go and buy alcohol and when I present my palm then the checkout till knows that it's me (because unlike a driving license or credit card or phone I can't hand my palm to someone else). It knows that I'm of legal age to buy alcohol and therefore was able to do three things in one go: age verify, pay and reward points all via a single hand gesture. That is a win for the consumer and the shop as they don't need that extra staff anymore and there's less of a human bottle neck, leading to faster checkouts.
Thanks for update
>India has such a strong and independent judicial system which does its job.

Eh... no it does not. The Supreme Court has capitulated; it rubber stamps anything coming out of Modi Inc. Do you not follow whats going on?

Why don't you address all of the issues that the parent poster bought up?
Early Works by Edward Hopper Found to Be Copies of Other Artists
> But people don't use xml as a markup language;

I do. I use it to build a simple website (well, 'simple' being relative, I guess), and for that it works fairly well.
I’ve used Australian consumer affairs laws to return products well outside the return date when they’ve been updated to remove/modify features I specifically wanted.

I returned a Bose speaker when it stopped letting you cast to it without their app, and have returned my Ring external camera when they removed customisable motion zones (I need to block a specific tree that moves in the wind). Plus more.

I’ve never had a problem doing so, I’m always polite and just explain that it’s no longer as advertised and print out the product update notes showing that they removed/changed x or y feature.
Why we’re still years away from having self-driving cars
I used to keep a rake and tensioner in my wallet. That simple kit is usually enough to get through common locks.
Like other commenters, I agree that this is roughly equal parts awesome (because flying suits are awesome, and also because rapid response from medical professionals in the field is too), equal parts silly/gimmicky/unlikely.

Also, why is the BBC feeling a need to put quotes around "fly" in the article? If a person is, like, lifting off from the ground, and moving through the air in a controlled fashion driven by jet engines, isn't that pretty exactly flying, without quotes?
How about a surface? https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface
Perhaps using some electrical or acoustic properties? They're very cagey about how it works, so I doubt it is just a camera.

> Q: What is the device actually scanning when it creates my unique palm signature?
>
> A: the technology evaluates multiple aspects of your palm

Ok then.
It doesn’t mention pricing but I would imagine these would be significantly cheaper than a helicopter. If each mountain rescue team could have their own then that would really help.
I'm really apprehensive of any folding screens, mostly because of their durability. I don't see a need for it. Innovation is great, but does this really help with anything? Can anyone please tell me why this would be great a choice over a Thinkpad Carbon or something equivalent?
In the light of this post, I'd like to share that I made an almost "no js" live monitoring service a few days ago. Again with the help of Elixir (and Phoenix LiveView). It tracks everything that's posted on Hacker News and Reddit in "real-time", and distributes it to everyone listening to it. And it tracks the number of online users, too. Of course.

You can check it out here https://alertcamp.com/live/Apple,Google,Microsoft,Amazon,Fac...
They go over that. The idea is that the air ambulance can't necessarily land that close to the patient, the jetsuit can allow the medic to cover severe terrain rapidly between the helicopter and the patient; ditto for terrestrial ambulances trying to reach patients over difficult terrain.
sure.. I am IF atm, I just dont eat breakfast I eat only between 11am and 8pm only.

granted, i also eat smaller meals, I dont add sugar to my drinks anymore and I cycle for 30-60 mins a day every other day.
I'm down 13kg since December and through the covid winter (im southern hemi) I managed to maintain that steady weight despite not riding more than once a week.

It all adds up. eat fewer calories and exercise and you'll lose weight.

but yeah I dont think there is any "magic formulae" to IF. Its just calorie restriction.