skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't mean anything.

And I didn't even put forth an argument of whether I consider the author left, right, center, whatever. I poked and prodded your argument, because I found it to be extremely unsound (excluding the censorship discussion).

And frankly I fail to find any set of eyes I'd be comfortable with where I could follow your argument for the author being a Russian-bot supporting right wing Qanon based on what he wrote. Just too unsound and lacking any assumption of good faith on the authors part, casting him as what is - in these parts of the internet - almost (right wing) or defacto slurs (russian bot; Qanon).

Again, as for seeing with somebody else's eyes... well, I did for the censorship argument, didn't dismiss what you said outright (sorry if that wasn't clear enough) but put forth my own argument, that in part even agrees with what you said yourself.
Goods and services are not wealth, control over goods and services is wealth.
My apologies - I stand corrected. I was pretty certain they actually used e-ink, but it is low power LCD.
Publicly exposed SVN repository, ht.pornhub.com
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Here's my take: It's good to be good to others, we should all understand that.

So when someone who didn't understand that before sees the light it is a great reason to rejoice. Now we have one more person who sees the light.

The brother who stayed at home should feel the same, if indeed he too has seen the light too. But if he didn't he didn't. I think that part of the story is really simply saying yes there are people like that too who do things only to gain a reward without understanding the intrinsic value of co-operation and love.
I'm wondering why they didn't just use standard CV techniques like background subtraction? Does their technique work with a dynamic background as well?
Supabase.js 1.0 Released
Blur is awesome. Way better, less distracting, than backgrounds. Everyone who try it uses it permanently because it works so well.

I also think it makes the subject look better for some reason.
> After logging in, KDE greeted me with a plasma crash. In the next few hours of light usage, some more crashes followed.

This has been my experience since KDE 4 too pretty much 4 out of 5 attempts i made to check out KDE, including trying KDE Neon (which included weird visual glitches that i never saw before in any desktop environment).

Though FWIW my latest attempt is openSUSE Tumbleweed running on my GPD Win 1 (which isn't exactly a mainstream device, though it does have an Intel integrated GPU which has open source drivers, which helps a bit) and it seems to work fine there. I do very light use of it however, mainly launching games and such - normally i'd be using Window Maker, but GPD Win 1 needed a very recent kernel to boot and also RandR to be configured to rotate the screen (the 'native' screen is actually in portrait mode but the computer uses it in landscape) and i didn't want to bother with that at the moment i installed it so i grabbed the first non-Gnome-based rolling distribution that had official support for some form of desktop environment that i expected to have a GUI application to setup rotation... which basically meant KDE :-P.
That doesn’t unlock extra power out of the car, it tightens up the power steering to give more road feel, changes the shift points and messes with the drive-by-wire throttle sensitivity. Sure it shouldn’t be a paid for feature to you, but I think it should be. If you pay for tightened up steering and more sensitive throttle thinking it is a power increase, that’s your money I guess.
Fwiw macs have had an equivalent functionality for both text to speech and speech to text for at least 17 years to my memory. The quality is poor compared to today's server-driven approaches, of course, but the functionality has been there if you're willing to articulate yourself clearly.
External Gitlab CI is funny because requires you to replicate the repo to their side and then glue everything together (build status, PRs, etc) by yourself

Then they moved the repository replication to the paid plan (20$/month/user).

For a simple 10 person team, that's 200$ a month. Exclusively to get access to repository replication !!

I have my own runners, so there's no reason to pay for the paid plan. I just end up hacking around some replication script.

See https://medium.com/@PedroGomes/mirror-repository-to-gitlab-f...
Will Linux distributions update it?
This is a really subtle and correct point that's I think really difficult to grasp for High School students studying Orwell.

I think this frankly is hard to understand until you're somewhere past 30.

It's hard to understand, when you're young, that basically everyone in the press is lying to you in little ways, even though they're 'mostly telling the truth' - that there is a huge game behind it.

I'm reminded of when E. Germany had to be re-integrated into the West, the problem was that the vocabulary relating to politics and democracy had been erased in the East. Several generations of people grew up without even thinking about various aspects of politics. There literally was no language for the W. Germans to use to re-introduce E. Germans to political dialogue.

You can erase democracy by suppressing language, and therefore by suppressing thought. It doesn't exist if nobody is thinking about it.

The idea is to enforce the rules through the daily rituals, language, constructs that people use - there's no need for facts or ideology then.

The beginning of this I think happens more or less out in the open with certain subjects now in 2020, when we see language and culture shifting - but it shifts slow enough that it's not noticed.

Go ahead and look at episodes of '30 Rock' - a brilliant, first rate, amazing production from literally just 10 years ago --> it's couldn't be made today, or rather, it would have to be 'heavily censored' today because so many of those jokes are just a little to un PC (jokes about women's pay, harassment in the workplace). But today, it wouldn't be 'network censorship' - it would be a kind of 'thought and behaviour censorship' right from the writers room and producers edict. When I look at '30 Rock' from a 2020 communications perspective I'm actually very, very concerned - the level of suppression that has slowly been sinking in is alarming.
I didn’t downvote you, but think about whether that was actually being said.
Ask HN: How do you read blog/articles filled with references?
Hello HN, So the question is something I struggle with daily. I read a lot online, from one topic to another. Most often I read blogs, articles, academic papers, summary of tech/papers. (this includes stuff posted on HN)

All of the things I read online, unlike traditional books, are filled with references/hyperlinks.

Depending on article, amount of reference/links, my my mood at the moment, I either just skip the references and read the paper (and often miss some interesting insights), or jump in to one reference and gets stuck on it (often references have references). There's also the risk of losing focus on each "reference jump" (such as thinking about it, go off-topic, and asking it on HN)

To amend it, I often "collect" all the hyperlinks in a list of "check up later", which in turn often creates another entry to the list (references having references) and just gets out of control, until I get rid of it. Then months down the line I re-discover it through other channels and lament that I could've known this months (if not years) ago if I just were thorough in my reading. (and gets stressed over it)

So how do you go on with reading online, when information is just too abundant and often distracting?
Hooks have a very nice synergy with Typescript. useEffect can be tricky to get right in some cases but overall a prefer writing in pure components with hooks over classes.
Good point. These stories were not designed to teach us something. Maybe they often do. But they are just stories which people like (to hear and tell) and therefore they have survived in the memic evolution.
Obligatory shout out for Surfingkeys:

https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys
Embassies are supposed to engage in diplomacy, not warfare (nor other military activity). Removing military attaches will repair and improve US reputation in these embassies' host countries.

That the article strikes a sad tone brings to mind the joke: "Why can there never be a coup in the United States? Because there is no US embassy there."
Sony released some software a couple of months ago that lets you use most of their DSLRs as webcams with USB. My goodness, paired with a fast lens, what a difference to my MacBook webcam, even with these ml blurred backgrounds!

It's only 720p and around 15fps but real shallow dof, very little sensor noise, autofocus works. Well worth trying if you have a Sony camera from the last few years.

Sensor size and good optics still wins. Having said that,the effort and detail gone into this feature is very impressive, enjoyed the blog post. Also webassembly SIMD looks super cool, looking forward to a new class of webapps using wasm.
Look at GNOME, notice the giant paddings, title bards see look at the checkboxes,scrollbars etc.

Also is not a secret that GNOME developers considered at least touch screens if not tablet when designing the GUI.

IMo an informative video on GTK and Qt , it explains what issues you can have with GTK, is about the subsurface application(created by Linus Torwalds that moved to Qt because GTK is bad and even Linus could not get good answers from Red Hat guys) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON0A1dsQOV0
Travis CI has unique feature - support for ARMv8, PowerPC, and SystemZ build environments. GitHub doesn't have this multiplatform building environment.
Didn't hangouts have a business version as well?
Could you explain me the details. Could this be upstreamed. I am looking a way to reduce 32 bit deps of 64 bit systems for stuff like wine.
Free Course – Explore Game Maps with C++
Ah I should have accounted for that, I was a bit flip because IME it has become a quip since then. I didn't mean to minimize it.

That's awesome they have the assignment for download.
That's exactly what this is, though. Pepper's Ghost is not a real hologram.
Exactly, so if you only published the one study where this rare gene was present in a participant, you'd get a wildly distorted picture of the general effectiveness of your intervention.
A static function in Java is essentially just a function. Also I have no idea what functions being associated with classes has to do with breaking out of loops.
> I bought Baoke gel from Amazon and while I loved it a lot, was greatly disappointed to find it was of Chinese make.

...was the name not a giveaway? That's like complaining that Huawei devices are made in China.
In America yea, but the point is more about the notion of IP law in general I think
Camping Drenthe
Hey HN, this is one of the things we've been working on in our alpha -> beta transition.

We received a lot of feedback from the community and we've incorporated it into our client libraries for our 1.0 release.

The nice thing about supabase-js is that it is modular, wrapping 3 other libraries. Each sub-library is a standalone implementation for a single external system. This is one of the ways we support existing OSS tools. Already we are seeing other communities[1] leverage the work we've done for PostgREST.

We also migrated completely to TypeScript, and added some opinionated functionality, such as returning errors [2] instead of throwing them.

Enjoy!

[1] Tezos blockchain using our postgrest libraries: https://pro.tzkt.io/

[2] Returning errors: https://supabase.io/blog/2020/10/30/improved-dx#errors-are-r...
So, taking the example from the GNU man page:

#!/usr/bin/env -S perl -w -T

Why is the `/usr/bin/env -S` even in there? Why not rather

#!perl -w -T

I know that not all environments support non-absolute paths to interpreters like this, but it feels to me that adding -S to env is a worse hack than allowing non-absolute paths to interpreters. I’m not sure which platforms support resolving the interpreter by PATH (actually, is supporting it a shell thing?), but it may even be more portable than -S at present, GNU coreutils env only having had it for two years. And even /usr/bin/env itself isn’t fully portable, as there are (old) platforms that have env at /bin/env and not /usr/bin/env.
Agreed, though the big thing missing from the Wikipedia article is the root data collection method - cable tapping - which makes all the difference in explaining an ubiquitous surveillance system.
Unrelated to the ML, but I don't like the fact I noticed that all the people in the clips are "diverse".

No clue whether Google did this on purpose, but I feel like I've been trained to notice this due to the diversity movement thing currently occurring and I don't like it.
What do you mean by demographic destiny? I assume that means something like, over time the demographic makeup of society will come to look more and more like "college-educated coastal progressives"? Do people really believe that? If so, that is hard to believe. "College-educated coastal progressives" tend to have few or no children compared to the "majority of the country". It would seem the demographic makeup will go in the opposite direction.
What's your background? This is some pretty scathing commentary. If you're from India, I can find it interesting. If you're not, then some of your comments come off as a bit xenophobic towards India.
Ah ha, that must be what I'm thinking of in calling it a joke.:)
Why do things keep evolving into crabs? [video]
Honestly it's the worst implementation I've seen of this technology yet. Just absolute and total garbage.
David Shor could have used a study that looked outside the us.
Ask HN: How to effectively get feedback from users?
Getting feedback from customers is crucial but it seems really difficult to get people to answer a survey or get on a call.

I mainly use email to ask for feedback and the response rates are terrible, 2-3%.

Are there any effective ways of getting feedback from customers? Tools or templates?
> If it allowed me to ditch the Android phone with a less distracting alternative ...

The PinePhone seems to be coming along decently these days. Maybe that's a workable alternative?
I'm sure he'd very much like people to believe so.
Of course the father was happy to get his other son back. Which father wouldn't? It is his right then to throw a party. It is not to celebrate the son who came back, but to celebrate the fact that the father and more properly the whole family got one more (grown up) member. And think about the network effects. The whole is bigger than the sum of its parts. I think the other son just was a kind of grudgy person
In this particular case, why is testing/demonstrating on diverse set of individuals a bad thing ?

A personal anecdote is that a few years back the automatic door sensors in my university did not work on my skin tone.
We need to unionize the tech companies.
wow that's incredible. one of those things that blow you away so hard, you can hear your heart beats.
Using AI to generate summaries of news articles
I read them in case there is a compelling reason to quit, but it's always the same standard issue complaints
Note that i was never a big fan of KDE in general, i just happen to like KDE 3 more than the other versions (though TBH i haven't used KDE 2 at all and while i do like how KDE 1 looked and behaved - it was the first Linux environment i ever used - it was a bit too rough, though that was also because of Qt1 too) and i used it as a second environment in some computers.

But the two main reasons i think KDE 5 is worse than KDE 3 is that as a UI it follows the same pattern as Gnome 3 (and Windows 10's "modern" apps, sadly) for wasting screen space everywhere and it does feel like it has a lot of moving parts everywhere which aren't exactly fitting perfectly with each other even though they are made for each other (i know that KDE 3 was probably also similar, but it always felt solid and stable - i wonder if breaking kdelibs or whatever it was called to a myriad of tiny little libraries that all applications and each other needing to be there anyway made things more brittle, though that might be my bias from whenever i try to install a KDE application in a non-KDE environment and i get a dependency vomit from the package installer).

I might sound too hard on KDE 5, but TBH if i absolutely had to choose between it and Gnome and had no other option (or the other option was a tiling WM - which i never liked), then i'd use KDE. It isn't bad, i'd still install it on a computer i do not want to fiddle around with much.
If you want to see a "real hologram", check our the mirascope.
It is a children's toy, that consists of 2 parabolic mirrors, aligned in such a way, so that when light rays converge at its top, the illusion of an object that is not there appears. (I guess this meets the definition of hologram, except it is not created out of a projector but from an actual physical object)

[1] http://physicstoys.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-mirascope.html
To be fair, it is very difficult to find car without touch screen today. Or with power switch that physically cuts power to the engine, fuel pump and ignition. Or without GPS tracker...
Really amazing design, typography and reading experience.
It seems to have gotten a little better recently, but my experience matches yours. It really struggles when I wear over-ear headphones - they sort of phase in and out of existence.

The other thing I've noticed is the background blur absolutely annihilates my CPU. To the point where I would rather just turn off my camera if I don't want my background visible.
What you say is simply not true - we know this because the fundamental measure - concentration of wealth - is continually increasing.

Intergenerational mobility, particularly at the very top, is interesting, but ultimately irrelevant to most people. What is relevant are the vast quantities of people who suffer from poverty and grotesque inequality.

Imagine explaining to some homeless person that society was pretty fine actually because in several generations somebody will have overtaken Bezos.

Put another way - you don't make an unfair ladder fair by rapidly re-arranging people on it as much as possible (aka "social mobility" or "opportunity") you make it fair by flattening the ladder (inequality reduction) and making the bottom of the ladder a less unpleasant place to be (poverty reduction).
Which group(s) do you assert he is racist towards?

As a White formerly-enthusiastic-supporter, I would now consider Trump the most openly racist anti-White president in US history. His promises of securing the border have been entirely unfulfilled (he even promised more immigration than ever in the face of a rapidly declining and disenfranchised White population); his contributions to Israel from the predominantly-White taxpayer have been the most 'generous' in spite of the nation state's relative prosperity and security compared to that enjoyed by most Americans, even while jewish organisations such as the ADL routinely malign White Americans for displaying any ethnic identity or pride; thousands of black, jewish, and wild White insurgents have been free to loot, vandalise, riot and terrify American cities and suburbs (and he even promised $500bn to black Americans as a direct result) while little old White women are prohibited from attending church; open anti-White racism has been allowed to proliferate under his watch, including popularisation of "Karen" racist dialogue, criminalising Whites who defend themselves against aforementioned violence, etc; and his continuous references to the increase in non-White employment and socioeconomic outcomes have become a meme in the pro-White community (including in his recent 60 Minutes interview where he basically listed the benefits of his presidency to every group except Whites), a total betrayal of his voter base and his country's narrow minority.

But somehow a woke activist can misconstrue the occasional Tweet into a thickly-veiled dog whistle and claim that he's a White supremacist? He's doing a very good impression of the polar opposite.
How Are You Voting, Really?
please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I guess the submitter dropped the 'forgotten' as it could be considered clickbait with it.
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> What do you mean by demographic destiny?

Presumably he means the same thing CNN means by it. https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/01/politics/election-2020-trump-... (emphasis mine):

“It happened four years ago when Donald Trump scored an Electoral College victory with his turn-back-the-clock campaign to Make America Great Again. He'll have trouble pulling it off again. That's partly because the pace of demographic change keeps shrinking the America Trump evokes in the rear-view mirror.”
Wow. Been a long time since I've used Winamp.. but man was it good!

I used to have a ton of fun developing presets for the visualization plugins - AVS(Advanced Visualization Studio) and Milkdrop.. are those still functional?
Holographic interactive sheet cloth in pure JavaScript
In addition to that, see this thread on the Pandora forums, including this post where I released a hybrid arm QEMU WINE with OpenGL passthrough (the download still link works).

https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/wine.72133/page-6#p...

I haven’t looked at this project in years, but maybe run “file” on all the executables in the hybrid download if you want to see how I mixed x86 and arm wine binaries.

For the OpenGL thunking, I originally used a modified QEMU with a custom syscall to call functions directly in a native host library, but now my upstream glshim project uses a shared memory ring buffer approach for remote rendering that works anywhere shared memory mmap works.
Suburbs aren't cities, though it's true that the modern suburb owes its existence to "urban renewal" initiatives which dovetailed with auto infrastructure development (hence the freeway which cuts through the historically black quarter of so many cities, which it connects to said suburbs). Additionally, many of the older small towns had public transit into cities via rail/streetcar.