skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Though often I find sites and pages that need Chrome's flavor of JS. It's becoming increasingly inevitable one will need Chrome/ium to reliably get the rendered markup.
No.

The entire idea behind credit cards is to reduce friction in commerce resulting from handling cash. This attracts more customers to businesses through increased convenience.

Taking cards is voluntary, there's no "forcing processing fees" involved. Plenty of businesses opt not to take credit cards.

In fact, interchange fees (which in the US now top out around 2.7%, not 3.5%) are at an all-time low because of technology improvements. The first credit cards had a processing fee of 7% (https://www.businessinsider.com.au/history-of-credit-cards-2...).
Not carting a pocketful of loose change round your entire life. Not an issue for some people, but I really like carrying less stuff.
Leveraging a 3D printer “defect” to create a new quasi-textile
Is anyone surprised a venture capital firm thinks every company should focus on money? Just like software companies think every company should live or die on tech, logistics companies think every company should live or die on logistics... seems like typical tunnel vision.
Just bought mine :)

I hope the Lidar can help portrait mode and other AI depth of field techniques work at further distances to a subject

If this becomes true I chuck all of my DSLR-form factor cameras immediately, its over.
Sounds like a UI bug/misfeature, rather than a voice feature.
I've seen that attributed first to Pascal:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/

There may be better information.
> Btw, doesn't blocking by IP address go beyond what is required by law, since only Iranian residents are subject to sanctions?

The penalties for violating sanctions are so severe that it is worth the risk of potentially blocking legitimate customers.

> Would preemptively restricting accounts that have logged in from an Iranian IP address and asking for proof of residence break the law?

It would be extremely expensive and in a literal sense not worth the time.
Digital Camera Know-Hows
Train runs non-stop for 200 kms to rescue kidnapped girl
Interestingly i've noticed that my friends who are less technically savy have actually started to use voice control on a regular basis, probably because they are more easily frustrated with the existing interaction modalities
I've found TCL to be pretty pleasant on Windows. It is pretty simple and I love building procedures that can be run as commands as it models my thought process better. I like that it is tiny, but very powerful behind the scenes with some very neat features.
Agreed. Timing is everything.
Show HN: VirtualMorale, a mini game sites fun for hosting virtual morale event
Another silly option is wear multiple layered suits like it is the early 20th Century again. While all the layers will contribute to overheating and the sweating problem, a part of the reason for the layers in the first place (especially in the early 20th Century before modern air conditioning) was to keep sweat to less visible layers. Make sure you stay hydrated, of course. Maybe go Steampunk with it and have fun picking a weird style all your own.
Something I'd love to see is a move towards "multiple possibilities" in voice-based UI/UX. Almost all these systems give weighted probabilities to different parses, and if you gave the human a choice between the top 3, you could be much more exploratory/risk-taking in choosing candidates. Or in machine translation or transcription, why do Google Translate and YouTube automatic captioning not communicate the system's level of comfort with what it gives you, and provide alternative possibilities if that is low?

We're humans - we can deal with ambiguity. Systems should trust that we'll respect them more if they tell us they're unsure, rather than either jumping to the wrong conclusion or simply being unwilling to guess!
Which is then in violation of YouTube ToS
When there is a true native and solid/stable desktop version of an app I usually end up using that over the web client. The reason for this is because as a web developer I know what can go wrong with web apps, so it’s partly an irrational fear I suppose.

About a year ago I decided to splurge and upgrade my development process with native apps like Ulysses, Git Tower, Kaleidoscope, CodeRunner, TablePlus, etc and discovered that native desktop apps can actually be well worth the money, so I never looked back since then. There are always exceptions to the rule: for example if 37signals had not closed Backpack down I would still be using it and Jira’s native client is crap compared to their web app version.
This is on a handheld three second exposure in the dark. Not sure you would do much better with an SLR. I have on Olympus OMD EM5 with great OIS and that shot would be pretty challenging
I think the linked resources show that it probably never worked the way we hoped it would. The first investigation I linked was from 2011, prior to the existence of webpack.
Oh, I read "woman in a parka" instead, and in combination with "blurry, smeared" I concluded that it was the image at night.
Sadly there's more and more support for their point of view. We are entering a new period of MSM censorship but this time we're seeing the social media platforms out in front taking active measures to censor political speech, probably due to a mix of short-sighted "best intentions" (flyover country is no more susceptible to indoctrination than the sophisticates on the coasts) and partly to avoid anti-trust suits from the likely victors in the upcoming election. Just like they censor on behalf of authoritarian regimes abroad to protect access to markets, they will do the same here. Good reason to break up the FAANGs for the public good.
> I wasn't thinking of employees, but rather people running businesses selling things on Amazon or otherwise using their services. Insofar as Amazon can fire you, they're no different from any small business.

This is a really wild take! Why would Amazon be required to keep doing business with some random product manufacturer or reseller?
Aren't both political parties equally culpable for the destruction?

A frank discussion about industrial policy would not inure to the benefit of any established political actor. It's a story of breathtaking incompetence, callousness, greed, and self-deception.
Ball-and-Disk Integrator
I'm still rocking an X. I thought whatever the 12 was would end up being my replacement. But I am just not impressed enough and your summary makes me feel good about not jumping on it. The X is still going strong. I get > 1 day battery life (which is all I need) and although I do notice the occasional stutter, it is still very very good.
No it's not dishonest, he did a pretty simple comment.

It's his recommendation, it doesn't say he is working for Lenovo, or Amazon. If he can be paid to generate money for Amazon and Lenovo, because he recommended someone to a product on a specific platform, why shouldn't he collect it?

If it was a Lenovo shill that linked to Lenovo shop then that would be fine, because it didn't have a referral link?
I mean, if you are using a wildly different definition than what most people understand what the word means, then it seems like you are the one making a mistake.

You should pick a different word, to describe this, since you are mostly just confusing people with the new definition that you are using.
Not the OP, but many people use Waze etc for driving directions on everyday commute because the same destination does not imply the same route - due to construction, accidents, traffic jams, etc the best route can vary significantly, and simply driving the same route as yesterday can take much more time than it did yesterday.
I don't think there was flash involved in the shot, it says he held another phone on his left hand and used the light from the screen (not flash) as an indirect light source. The washed out look I think is from software averaging to correct motion blur from the 3 second exposure.
On your searches:

1) I get the correct response; Assistant first asks me if I want to use "air check", I say yes, and get the correct response.

2) I get appropriate responses when I ask "What is the closest gas station to Mt. Shasta." Because the approaches are mostly from Rt. 5, you'll have no problem getting a usable response. Another approach from Rt 89 exists, so I don't know how you expect Google to know which "mountain pass" you mean. However, should you ask Google "What is the closest gas station to Mt Shasta on Rt 89", you will get an appropriate response. Should you be approaching from the opposite side of the mountain, unlikely though that is, Rt 5 or Rt 89 would still be the closest

3) I don't know why you expect a computer to answer this question well at all. I'm not aware of an API that would track this sort of thing. Google doing this itself, at scale, for any popular destination would be a very large project in ML with a very high error rate: Instagram photos are unlikely to be representative of a whole, the data set for a given location may be sparse, and especially for an outside location it is entirely likely (as I did at a local pumpkin farm) that people at an outside tourist destination will move away from a crowd, remove their mask, and take a nice photo safely, while people in close proximation still adhere to appropriate social distancing. Effective use would also need to be real-time: from day-to-day a given location could attract people that wear masks, and the next day a large group does not, especially in the > 300 square mile area you specified. It is not reasonable to expect this question to be meaningfully answered by either a human or a computer.
It may be easier to train the humans to be precise. This is the solution adopted by armies which need unambiguous communication over noisy radio.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_order
We're talking about financial primitives, not owning currency. These people do not have access to bank accounts, loans, mortgages, etc. Once you have identity systems on Ethereum, then no-collateral loans and mortgages will be offered to anyone with access to the internet.
Case in point: Doctors and first responders should be immune before treating the sick.

Doctors can get COVID then spread it to their patients. A vaccine, even just for healthy people, would negate this chain of events.
Federico Faggin
> coauthored SICP with him

Not with him.
I think he's postulating that the sensor+phone manufacturers could give themselves an edge by only selling less-than-top-of-the-line sensors to their competitors.
sadly, they are no overly Politicized outlaws. Defund and replace.
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic.

"It can be tough to prosecute some crimes, so let's just punish everyone without due process!"
In newer TCL (8.5+) you can import mathop to get the typical operators as functions so that you do no longer need "expr".
Completely agree about suggesting games you don't understand to a party. Nothing worse than a playing a game no one understands and ruining the fun. :(

So, rocketcrab opens games in iframes, so techincally I could have a mode where it would open four or so iframes on your screen to demo a game. The problem is that this would not work for many of the games as they rely on cookies/local storage that would be messed up with multiple iframes.

You could also just try opening rocketcrab as is in multiple tabs, but you'd run into the same issue with some games. Best you could do is open Chrome, Firefox, Safari/Edge, and your phone to get 4 players xD

Ultimately, my plan is to add screenshots of each game. Kind of like the App Store. I've been slacking on doing it for more games cause it's a lot of work, but here's an example:

https://rocketcrab.com/game/drawphone

Otherwise, developers are free to add their own demo mode (Drawphone has this!)
You are paying a price for that. The second someone steals your phone, you lose it, drop in into water or your battery runs off, you are temporarily poor and if you might find yourself in trouble if you can't get somewhere where you can charge your phone
Unexpected, Useless, and Urgent, or What RSS Gets Right
“I am not a fan of removing the CEO until and unless it is abundantly clear that it must be done.”

Presidential terms are four years. It seems demented to make a comparison to firing as a last resort.
If we're going to blame one thing for the US culture wars, I'd have to pick the removal of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987.

It's obviously much more complicated than than that though.
It doesn't matter how frequently or uneventfully my car has been at 0 or 60 mph. If it goes from 60 to 0 too fast (e.g. as it would upon contact with a sturdy tree), I will probably not have a good day.

If you're in default on debts and the debt collectors are stalking you, you do need to stop spending and paying down debts -- merely slowing your spending, not paying anything off and then continuing to get collections calls does not rationally conclude with "boy, I guess this whole concept of fiscal responsibility is debunked!"
Heck I ask Siri something like what is the pollen count and I get back a page that it can't read describing what a pollen count is not what the current measured pollen count is in my area. If it could answer your questions I would have home for my own question getting the expected results.
This is really interesting for me. I've just got into roam the last few months after an intertest in trying zettelkasten (and my notion growing rather unwieldly), but the $15/m is grinding at me. The idea I'll be locked in at that price forever more doesn't sit well

For me org-roam doesn't scratch the portability itch (easily add notes on my phone etc), but I'm actively looking for alternatives I can make the jump for, and rely on it not disappearing in a few years

I really like the idea of this extension, but as mentioned I'm not sure this existing only in VSCode helps me much at this point.

Props for releasing though, great to see this revolution in note taking apps, and shifts in thought around the optimal way to take them.
> because fair use as a legal concept implies that there has to be a court decision in order to exist.

There are countries where fair use is always permitted unless a court decision prohibits it in that single case.
Just generalized parsing algorithms in general would be good to include, I think. It looks like the course only plans to cover basic LL/LR, which are admittedly the most commonly used parsers but more would be interesting. A fun one to include might be Might's "Parsing with Derivatives", which is algorithmically novel (though not very performant). I think there was a recent innovation on this: "Parsing with Zippers" at ICFP this year.

Hard agree that GLL is hard to follow. I've read the paper a number of times and struggle with it every time haha.
Before their infamous AWS breach, a former coworker of mine tried to get me hired there under a fancy cyber security operations title. He gave me a tour of the new(ish) building around Tysons Corner, VA. It is a very modern building, with a lot of charging stations and Tesla model S EVs in the parking garage. Public events happen there, they have two cafeterias, and probably a whole bunch of networks supporting all of that. They constantly evaluate new cyber tools, so I was told. It seemed to me that, yes, there could be something behind this idea that they are "a tech company."

So I went through the hiring process. There's an online proprietary aptitude test that's required of all candidates, and it's apparently such a big deal, that you can only take it once per 6 months. They start you off with a practice test served from a non-CapitalOne FQDN, then the real one served from a CapitalOne FQDN. Well, I took both, and got an error at the end of the real one. Apparently, Firefox is explicitly supported on the practice test, but only IE11 is supported on the real one. The error meant none of my exam results were recorded, and due to some technicality, that meant I was SOL for 6 months.

My experience with CapitalOne, the "tech company" whose aptitude exam required a legacy browser, ended right there.
Then CBP will just do what the CIA did when they needed to fund their operations.
Not a great article. Cobranded cards have proliferated because of lower interchange fees. Customer loyalty isn’t the main benefit to the company.
Any opinions on Design by Contract and software quality?
It was Epik’s responsibility to do an “orderly process” when they started acting as a money transmitter, it’s not PayPal’s job to compensate for Epik’s failure to comply with the law. The consequence for failing to comply with legal requirements are often sudden and disrupting; Epik really should have planned for this.

Continuing to service Epik despite a failure to follow AML laws actually exposes PayPal to risk, which is why they did a hard cutoff and not a phased shutdown. “We thought they were money laundering and kept serving them for a few weeks” is how you get prosecuted too.
what aspect of theoretical physics did you get your phd in?
100% this. Dragon used to have more correction features, but at least the Apple dictation doesn't really have any. Even just "correct sentence" where I try again with the same sentence would be a huge improvement.
You need both groups to behave in the same way. Phase III trials are enrolling enough people (tens of thousands) so that a sizeable number will likely contract the virus within a few months. They specifically run these trials in places where the virus is spreading (this is why Chinese vaccines are being tested outside China, in places like Brazil).

> Would the researchers not want people to go out and live their normal lives?

That would be great for the trials (assuming both the vaccinated and placebo groups behaved identically). But most people would consider it unethical for researchers to encourage the trial participants to increase their likelihood of exposure to the virus. People who sign up for vaccine trials are not signing up to get CoVID-19.
I still dont get why google doesnot integrate Google now function on google chrome.

like imagine saying " Hey open a reddit/meme subreddit on the side " while you are doing your watching youtube. or imagine saying "hey Wikipedia that *"
> But if I'm trying to write a DSL, why would I need new syntax?

You don't necessarily. But you'll need code generation to implement your domain-level abstraction.

Within-programming domain example is OOP. CLOS is essentially a bunch of macros that bolts OOP on top of base Common Lisp. It unified and standardizes what was many experimental flavours of OOP systems that were also implemented as macros. Or e.g. pattern matching and logic programming - both implemented as libraries for CL, via macros.

Outside programming domain, I can imagine working with software e.g. simulating chemical reactions, where you'd want to have atoms, molecules, reactions, energy exchange, etc. as top-level concepts. You can of course model all these as data structures, classes, helper functions, etc. But Lisp macros allow you to take that and close up the abstraction, by building a clean interface that doesn't leak the underlying machinery. On top of that, you can shift that machinery to compile-time execution (but also reuse it at runtime).
He didn't use a flash for that image, the only light was from another phone screen. And it was a three second hand-held, it's impressively clear for what it is.

> This Portrait mode w/ Night mode 3-second exposure was shot with the iPhone 12 Pro in my right hand. Simultaneously, in my left hand, I held my iPhone 11 Pro and used the light emitting from the screen (not the flash) as an off-camera fill light for Esther’s face.
The water was found in the Clavius crater. Hmmm... Clavius... why does that sound familiar?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavius_Base
First, the Guardian is one to talk given they've fueled and capitalized on the culture war themselves. They're not the only ones, of course. Mainstream media outlets are propaganda outlets. They all have a POV that the owner and editorial staff enforce through hiring, company culture, what they accept for print, etc.

Second, culture wars are always fought by minorities. It doesn't take a large number of people to change the status quo. This applies as much to revolutionaries (communists, Nazis, etc) as demographics (Taleb once gave the relatively innocuous example of kashrut classifications on food in the grocery store as an example of how a tiny minority can impose its sectarian norms on an agricultural industry that serves a majority that probably doesn't even know what kashrut is; he used this, I believe, to illustrate that the argument that you don't need a majority of devout, Sharia law-following Muslims for Sharia to become a realistic possibility).

Third, the current culture war is real. Even if it is led and actively propelled by a small minority, it nonetheless embroils everyone. It's difficult to give a single date of birth for the current culture war, and in some sense, the world has always been in a state of cultural war. But what people typically have in mind is the deep-cutting revolution that has been escalating since the 1960s. Like newborn fish that don't know what water is and have no memory of things past, many fail to grasp the revolution taking place. Perhaps people expect revolutions to look theatrically dramatic. But there is a culture war taking place. In the last 20 years along, we have seen changes that were unthinkable across human history.

The stakes are high and the multitudes will be led by whoever is the victor. The media are instruments of different factions in the war. Some are looking for a seat at the table when the dust has settled Other look to wage total cultural war against their opponents. Some are fighting to preserve what's left. Others seek to counteract the entire rebellion.

It may be better to call this a culture battle. I claim to know the victor of the war. I just don't know who will win the battle, or how much blood will be spilled.
FWIW, I tried the first query on Google Home and it suggested I talk to a third party extension called "Air Check." I didn't go through with connecting it but I assume it would give you what you wanted. It sounds like you were on mobile so maybe it's different there. I actually appreciate it prompting to connect before making the request because there's probably some privacy tradeoff there.

The second query was hard for me to test but it seems like a reasonable one to make.

The third one is probably impossible due to Instagram's TOS (among other things.) Their TOS states: "You must not crawl, scrape, or otherwise cache any content from Instagram including but not limited to user profiles and photos." [0] After Cambridge Analytica I'm not surprised that this is the case. Even if Instagram allowed scraping of their data, this feels like a somewhat specialized (though currently very relevant) request. I tried reformulating this request as "What is the mask compliance rate in Shasta county?" which also didn't turn up results, but I'm not surprised by that either. I suspect that data doesn't exist anywhere, so it's hard to fault the assistant for not pulling it up.

[0] https://www.instagram.com/about/legal/terms/before-january-1....
Researcher put tiny tracking tech on hornets to help deal with murderous pest
I found the code for Instaparse (relatively) easy to follow.

I had considered leaving a comment here like "hey could you cover combinators and PEGs?", but after thinking it over, it's important to limit the scope for a class like this.

It would be pretty great to offer a "201" edition, covering ALL*, GLR, GLL, combinators/PEGs, Earley, parsing-with-derivatives, Marpa, and anything else I might have forgotten: basically a survey of modern parsing algorithms, which frankly, LR and LL are not.

But for your own learning, I bet you could take this course, and then spend some time with Instaparse and the GLL paper, and walk away with a solid understanding of GLL in practice.
Nitro data breach impacts Microsoft, Google, Apple, more