skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
don't forget:

- convenient timers on a complication: use this a few times a day

- an alarm which can wake me up without jarring my brain, this being the only alarm I've ever used where that's the case: five times a week

- 2048

- ability to set reminders by speaking to it

- heart rate tracker which actually works. I let my heart rate get below 130 between weight sets, and like to check my peak after a set as well. Also, it likes to alert me when I'm having one of my infrequent panic attacks. You'd think I'd notice anyway, but, not always

- unlocks my computer when I'm wearing it. This is a tiny affordance but really a nice one

- pay for groceries without bringing my phone or wallet out. Do I have to? No. Do I like to? Yeah, I'll cop to that. It's nice

- take the occasional call when my phone is in another room or I don't want to dig it out. Works long enough to say "hey I'll call you back", which is usually about all I want to say

- remind me what the date is, because I'm terrible at that. Granted that my automatic watches would do that too

- when I'm feeling nostalgic, load up a watch face that shows me pictures of times when I was happy, and people I love

- pause and play music/podcasts/whatever

I'm sure I'm missing a few, but I'll also say this: it's way less fashionable than my automatics. It's actually kinda dorky when you get right down to it.

But it's so much more functional that I just don't care, I've made my peace with it.

Someday, I'll get to leave the house again and do fancy things, and I have a couple timepieces for those occasions. But in the meantime, and the rest of the time, it's a smartwatch for me.
In my case I have built something I believe could be a compelling business interest. It works well enough for complex and sophisticated demos but still has a ways to go for commercial readiness. Once I finish my current military deployment I would like to raise capital so that I can hire developers to get this to the finish line. No matter how confident I am in my strengths as a developer I suffer no illusions about doing everything myself.
The point of using a format over another, given the availability, is to gain performance.

You're suggesting to load a whole new parser, parse images at a higher level than browsers can (i.e. slower and with less concurrency), and make `<img>` a whole lot harder to manage.

That's not worth it at all unless the savings are substantial (say BMP vs JPEG)
I love conciseness, but not all writing should be concise. Example: longreads.
The Mercator projection models the earth as a cylinder. I think the association here is just that people are most familiar with the coordinate grid as represented on the Mercator projection, which creates the illusion that lines of longitude are parallel. This illusion is all the stronger because it makes spherical coordinates look like the more familiar cartesian plane, which would tend to be most people's first intuition before remembering that the planet is roughly spherical.

The situation is even a bit worse in marine or air navigation because the nautical mile is (or more accurately was) defined by a minute of latitude, which is nearly consistent across the globe and creates the temptation to measure along longitude the same way. In reality nautical and aviation charts have to use a specific conical projection to keep this naive way of measuring distances approximately accurate.
I use Daylio to track mood and activities since I'm too lazy these days for a proper journal. It alerts me to make an entry at 9:30.

When I'm done, I charge my watch.
Write Up – Google Bug Bounty: XSS to Cloud Shell Instance Takeover (RCE as Root)
Useful tips about the JavaScript array sort method
It is the same with Playstation and Xbox. No difference.

And if you actually read what I wrote it was for Gaming. And Gaming only. And Gaming company will no longer develop for their platform.

>Stop being this naive.

Very Rude. But you are perfectly entitle to your opinion.
It seems the more unequal the society the more pressure there is on children to "beat the odds" to avoid languishing in poverty by being useful to capital in some way.

In many European countries and other strong first world nations like Japan and Oz that provide strong social safety nets and baseline standards of living you see the inverse passive effect described in other comments where people can stop trying to sell themselves at all.

So it seems like people will eat each other until the average is good enough at which point a segment of the population stops competing at all.
It's not "cheating", per se, but it is unfair.

How does an unaffiliated student get access to those prior year exams? Fortunately, the internet is levelling this somewhat.

When teaching at a college level, I used to go out of my way to provide any historical resources. I want my class to be fair to everyone involved.

I also used to redraft my exams and assignments every single year. This is quite a lot of work and a lot of professors simply won't do it. However, if you don't, then some students will take advantage of it, and your class isn't being fair to everyone.
That's rather the tail wagging the dog, isn't it? Besides, it kinda rules out most of the options; almost nobody packages it naively, probably because their build/vendoring/packaging process is insane (see https://linderud.dev/blog/packaging-lxd-for-arch-linux/).
The issue is risk. Hiring someone with a criminal record is riskier than hiring someone with a clean record. There is no upside to mitigate that risk either. So it shouldn't be surprising that hiring managers discriminate on anything they can legally get away with.
I literally cannot tell if you are joking.
On another note, I've been wondering how much digital TV protocols themselves can be used to track individual viewers. Some stations have prompted me to accept their privacy policy (via a "red button" interface) where they also mention cookies (on the TV iirc).

Most of us probably know a lot about about protocol families like the web and TCP/IP but digital television and radio seem to be a bit overlooked. Does anyone have any pointers to good learning resources around DVB, DAB and the like?
That's the typical "Apple User" for you and the typical Apple product announcement.
The statement is a slippery-slope, but it's not a fallacy. The concept of a monopoly is one we can agree on, and the exposure to the risk being described is a real one. What is to stop a monopoly deciding 30% becomes 40%? Not much.
> You are vastly understating the problems of bitrot, linkrot

This is an important point too. If it's something I'd like to keep for later use and on a single page, I almost inevitably print the page into a PDF (from reader mode).
Epic could still prevail if the TOS terms they broke are found to be illegal, unenforceable, etc. The important point is Epic doesn't want to be compliant with the current TOS.
It's a glass brick on my wrist.

...I don't hate it. I'm glad it's not a glass brick on my wrist wearing lipstick, and what else could it be, really?

To my eye, round smartwatches that are all screen look fake, but my Mom has one and loves it. I had a Withings Steel and it looks way better, but it just doesn't do much, and the dealbreaker for me was that the heart rate monitor was seriously inaccurate, probably a compromise for the battery, which lasts weeks.
The allegation that Google prevented OnePlus and LG from preloading the Epic Games launcher onto their devices is a factor in this case that does not apply to Epic Games v. Apple.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21368395/fortnite-epic-ga...

If this allegation is true, it's hard to blame Epic for the losses resulting from a decision that Google made.
Paytm and ICICI are the top choices when it comes to Fastag
i agree 1000%, and i don’t think anything i said contradicts what you’re saying :)

my point wasn’t meant to be about employment, but about having something important to do/contribute, should have caveated that it wasn’t just about “jobs”
I remember when I was in college, we had this end of semester exam for stochastic processes. Our exams are usually about 2 hours long and have about 4-5 problems to solve. After this particular exam, a friend of mine was surprised that I hadn't seen the last problem with the answer in our professor's book (she has seen it the night before. Looks like all her friends had too). Ina mathematics exam with 4 problems, I can't exaggerate the relief one would feel if one of the problems is already solved for you. Not sure how often this happens, but it seems like it's quite common. I was in a special scholar's group. I was more into going to the library, exploring related theorems and stuff while except for a handful of others, most my peers were just doing past papers and practice questions for the exam. I did okay, but I felt like trying to learn more and explore things in university was a liability as far as exams concerned. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. Felt like a waste of time.
None acknowledged publicly, but it's an open-source project with pretty open administration, so you can follow along: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264370
Epic has a more shaky case here because you can side load on android. The biggest thing I could think epic can shake at google is how google pushed handset manufactures to limit agreements with epic. Although I am not a fan of bloatware it's interesting google singled out epic here.
A quick fix to many of the problems you point out would be to coat it on both sides with a thin shell of transparent silica and... uh... oh, never mind.
Siri can work a lot better:

- You can’t even activate do not disturb using Siri.

- “theatre mode” take you to web search results.

- doing some of these actions simply crashes it.
Forcibly banning the MAC address of a TV on your own home network, that you've paid money for, really does sum up the state of consumer electronics atm.
Not sure if you know docker was built on top of LXC container and later moved to write its own library trying to replicate lxc. In general LXD is more secure than docker in its general configuration as containers in LXD are mapped to userid and use shiftfs [1], nothing like this in Docker yet including kubernetes. Usually docker always had more security vulnerabilities than LXD.

So LXD is much better than docker except docker in spite of being an inferior solution became popular with marketing money spend on it due to hype. LXD stayed with people who believe in pragmatic simplicity. Docker is plagued by privilege escalation for a very long time. Check the details in general Docker has more vulnerabilities than LXD. [2] [3]

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/687354/

[2] https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1353...

[3] https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1313...
See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29036 which is still open.
I'd have accepted that description for Casio G-Shock.

Rolex is for people with more money than taste, and who want you to know it.
Google and Amazon are both well known to use hardware that is similar to a Yubikey, but not exactly the same.
Runtime is proportional to g (the local gravitational constant), so if you find it's too slow, you can just run your algorithm in a centrifuge or on Jupiter to speed it up.
If you make $2,000 USD a month I think the worst thing you could do would be to move to a very developed country, since you will barely be able to survive on that income.

Consider moving to a developing but decent quality of life country where USD is strong. Thailand, Malaysia, Turkey, Argentina, etc.
The major difference is that almost no one buys a playstation and xbox for their built in capabilities - the games are the major reason people want these devices. Yes, people stream netflix on them, but usually because it is convenient with their AV install, not because it is some major differentiator that other devices don't have. Whereas with smart phones, it is reasonable and common to never touch the app store. Or
at least never touch non-free apps from the app store.
Seems like one of the better ideas I have seen for a startup.
Interesting. I wonder if that's something 'normal' to getting a raspatory disease or if there is a specific kind that leads to that
If you lose the domain, the old packages can’t be changed because they have a hash. New, evil packages are a problem, but that can also happen now if someone steals your password or does an email reset of your account.
Yup, I love it.
Fled the city and moved out to a small town.
More than twice the space, at less than half the price all with the same salary.
I never want to go back.
It is not a definition, it’s shorthand for something that is precisely defined so as to exclude the examples you have given.

> No person shall … traffic in any … device … that (A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; (B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or (C) is marketed by that person … for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
Oh it's my favorite time of the week again on HN! I truly love these blogs. Someone last week posted this[1] documentary which I think more people should see in connection with this series. But I'm still collecting questions, which I may take to Quora or SO at some point but I'd love to know how did we get started with (i.e. discover) this process and how does it differ from steel. Apparently we will learn about the latter in the next blog though, so I can wait on that.

[1]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuCnZClWwpQ
> I actually have no problem with Apple or Google charging 30% for gaming. I do have problem with Apple charging business like Fitness class, Online Email Services, Education or all other Services simply for access through their Apps.

Why differentiate gaming and non-gaming? The platform should be blind to the content and be a platform.

I would also argue that a platform can curate, but the platform should not lock-down the user from escaping the platform. For example, side-loading should be a legal right that an owner of a device should have.
They've done it a few times this year alone: https://lists.archive.carbon60.com/engine?list=wiki;do=searc...

The other times just weren't noticed, posted, or upvoted on HN.
Price fixing at least requires an agreement among the parties - which is unlikely here. If I own a gas station and Bob owns the only other gas station in town across the street from mine, and we both agree to set the price to $4/gallon, then that is price fixing.

But if I wake up one day and see Bob set his price to $4/gallon while I'm selling for $2/gallon, I may decide to bump my price up to $4/gallon and that is not price fixing.

Realistically the 30% vig didn't come out of thin air - Apple set the standard, the rest of the world saw apple getting away with it, and decided that they would set their rates the same. But that doesn't mean price fixing resulted in all of us setting the percentage to 30.
It also may be because of what I observe as 'masculine thinking' vs. 'feminine thinking'. It appears to be drawn biologically from the genetic male sex and 'male brain' vs. genetic female sex and 'female brain'. Natural variations exist in all things, but if you look at what's most common, with biological sex differences (whch feed cultural 'stereotypes'), they still are what they are.

See Robert Green's book "The Laws of Human Nature" (2018) for his take on the following. It's very insightful. (Chapter entitled, "The Law of Gender Rigidity")

'Masculine thinking' prefers to categorise and bifurcate. (Dualism.) I'm a guy and I consider myself having a 'super' 'male' brain in some aspects even more than the average. I find it very hard to multi-task, and I easily hyperfocus.

Male thinking solves problems by breaking things down and focusing on one part of the picture at a time. It's about specialisation.

Female thinking treats things more as a whole, with everything connected. It solves problems by looking at the whole picture at once. It's about multi-tasking.

I now see that 'male thinking' (as opposed to males), such as 'specialisation', dominates modern capitalism and public policy, and often to detriment. Most females at top levels in business at this time in our culture would appear to mostly have this success because they are 'atypically' strong in 'masculine thinking'.

Personally, I think such leadership needs more female thinking. I'm slowly trying to understand it more, as my own starting point. Modern diversity policies that change what's on the outside (how many penises are around the table) don't actually solve the real problems. We're still picking what's taking place on the inside. We need diversity of things far deeper - to embrace and celebrate true 'feminine thinking' - not just what's on the surface.

So anyway, this could help explain why female sexuality is seen to be more 'fluid', on average, than among males. It's not so much how people actually are, as how people see themselves, because of how they tend to be wired. And this is not even factoring in that there is greater cultural stigma around a male being bi vs. a female being bi.

I am a male, and 100% bi.
> The Libby app, a slick and easy-to-use service from the company OverDrive, gave her access to millions of titles.

Am I the only person who finds that there may be "millions of titles", but rarely is the one I'm searching for one of them?

The most frustrating thing is when it autocompletes the title as I'm typing it, and then it says there are zero copies anywhere in my system (San Mateo County Public Libraries). Not zero copies currently available — they don't stock the book at all, anywhere. This happens 90+ percent of the time when I do a search.
Wikimedia is only provisionally on 7.2 until they finish migrating ahead of the next Mediawiki LTS release. There are a bunch of points where they talk about the benefits of requiring 7.3 here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257879

EDIT: Looks like the main blockers are related to moving to Debian 10. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T245757
30% in physical shops is entirely different to 30% on digital shop fronts.

In physical shops you have a lot more capital invested, because that 30% feeds the retailer, the landlord, the construction company whereas the mobile marketplace has gobbled up two layers of the economy and charges the same rate with pretty insanely significant barriers of entry to compete.

It comes down to a question of monopoly and how much is too far which maybe everyone here has differing opinions on when that limit is reached.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W--KU79Y0DQ
It doesn't surprise me since they have been pretty flagrant. You have to play the legal game to survive in this scene. I have a history as prominent member of the scene and would never consider being so brazen.

That said this is big news for people who do play the game properly as it could set precedent and strike some fear.
Leading Indian startups are supposedly forming an alliance to launch their own App Store for fighting the duopoly[1].

IMO, There was already an open, accessible, free app store called - 'Internet Browser' upon which Internet was built. These companies undermined it in collusion with the duopolies to hoard more data from their customers and are now crying wolf.

So, the answer they are proposing now is creating a monopoly to fight the duopoly?

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/30/indian-startups-explore-fo...
10 years for breaking election law + 14 years for "using a computer"?
I think there's a fairly common story that goes like: two people, founders, spend a few months hacking on an idea together, without getting paid, build a functional MVP, run a beta, get positive feedback from beta users, maybe start making revenue, enough to have confidence in product-market-founder fit, want to start taking salaries so they can work on the nascent product full-time, reach a level of codebase complexity where adding another developer would add a lot of value, decide the right path forward is to raise a seed round to launch and reach a revenue milestone in 12-18 months, raise enough money to pay the founders salaries + make a few hires...

And now you're in the situation where you have put in enough upfront work to have confidence in product-market fit but still choose to raise money and build out an initial team ahead of real revenue / traction.
Out of curiosity, what are you trying to track wrt respiratory rate? Like what behaviors would you be modifying based on respiratory rate?
Said he holds a passport from a country “nobody wants to deal with.”

US Passports are pretty useful. Ranked 7th in the world for number of countries that allow visa free travel.
There was a point where people bought a PlayStation... something, because it was the best Blu-ray player. The line you’re drawing is arbitrary
feels weird, i'm not sure if it's about money or making a statement.
Apple has a related patent from back in 2009. Physical size seems problematic for AirPods when you could use that space for more battery, but I could see this showing up in Power Beats Pro in the not too distant future.

https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2009/04/apple-r...

> The sensor can also be other than (or in addition to) an activity sensor, such as a psychological or biometric sensors which could measure temperature, heartbeat, etc. of a user of the monitoring system. Since sensors can be positioned proximate to the head or ear of the user, useful psychological or biometric data can be acquired. The sensor can also be other than (or in addition to) an activity sensor, such as a global positioning system (GPS) receiver or a proximity sensor.
$2k/mo in a passive income + $50,000 savings would qualify you for a decent quality wife :)

What prevents you from moving to "safe, clean country with a non-toxic culture (and preferably a cool climate)"?

Ok, we can cross out Monaco, but there are still lots of options on a table?
Has been using LXC and later LXD in our startup. It’s a pragmatic simple container and now VM management platform and can help companies to build vendor neutral cluster and high availability system leveraging the knowledge of HPC and Linux cluster community.

Kubernetes is good for google size companies, for startups it’s an additional overhead and tie their products to vendors specific kubernetes’ distributions given the complexity and moving parts.

Try the above setup and than see the simplicity. Also give a try to kubernetes and see which one is easier and better able to help. In my view for installing database and blob storage infrastructure as part of the application VM’s are still better than containers.
None that I’ve noticed. Been doing it for a few years
Sleep Cycle [0] does this with "Intelligent" wake mode, and has a standalone app for the Apple Watch.

I'll also be shocked if this isn't a native feature of Apple's Sleep app within a year.

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2020/05/12/sleep-cycle-apple-watch-app/
> hash function with larger key size, you necessarily need more computations to compute K

You're right and I saw your other reply on this thread after I posted my reply. The time complexity is only O(1) if we ignore the cost of the hash function, which is really O(log N) because it needs to process at least log N bits. However, by that reasoning even an array lookup is O(log N) because an array lookup requires adding an offset to a base address and the addition function may require O(log N) operations to calculate.

According to some brief googling it appears that some (most?) sources avoid this problem by simply defining "elementary operations" to be O(1). A constant number of elementary options would also be O(1) by that definition. That is probably what is meant by those who say that a hash lookup is O(1).
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