skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can buy devices that are easier to repair. Shops can refuse to accept devices that they can't repair. Consumers aren't sheep, and I don't believe in legislation predicated on the assumption that they act like bovine.

I'm all for regulating tech companies, but not when it harms their ability to create products that fit market demands. When it comes to market demands today, repair-ability is at odds with other areas that companies innovate like device complexity, size, form factor, etc.

There is little market pressure for repairable devices. I don't think it's the role of government to create it. The most compelling argument I've heard relates to recycling and reducing landfill usage of electronics. But I'm not sure what levers government can pull in that regard that make repair easier.
> The most generous interpretation is that HN has a severe Dunning-Kruger problem. The more likely explanation is that HN is host to a lot of people who are completely incapable of empathy and are unable to protect themselves from disinformation in areas outside of their own expertise.

It's one of the weird quirks of living in our modern hyper partisan environment that how much you believe political correctness is a problem on college campuses is correlated with what you think the IFR of an infectious disease is.

Beliefs come as a package now, independent of the evidence of each individual portion of the package.
Oh I'm not saying that it's immune at all, but the outrage against Trump is at the very least visible and palpable and those who excuse them are visibly ashamed of the support.
The spoon theory definitely applies as you change your behavior but once you’ve made new habits, it’s not the same. Spoons aren’t used up by category of empathy, if you heard detailed life stories of those dying of war or COVID it would be equally as taxing. I care about animal welfare and changed my habits to reflect that (when I felt I could, slowly over years) but like everyone, there is a line where there additional changes are “too much”. Eg, I’m not going to live without electricity or live purely offgrid, to me this is not practical and the positive impact that may have doesn’t outweigh the negative impact to my life.

If you have a lot of pressures in your life, adding a diet change to that is not realistic. Pushing for meat alternatives in convenient places and making it easy for large groups of people to have small cognitive load (low cost of spoons) to go without meat for a meal is far more impactful than trying to convince everyone to go “full vegan or you are a monster”. If you have the time to consider your options and make a change to your habits that match your values, great, otherwise power to those trying to make those choices easier for everyone. Don’t let it weigh on you, take care of yourself and create space to make the changes you want to see in yourself.
I like Skeleton:

http://getskeleton.com/
Can I read up a bit more about that decision somewhere? Do you have any recommendations?

I noticed the massive ecosystem shift towards LLVM, ofc, but I never stopped to think why this happened.

GCC source code was always rather Greek to me, so making it even less readable deliberately sounds like a bad decision.
Why wouldn’t it? Unless they hack my account

Genuine question - I don’t know much about this field
Why haven’t those conservatives brought basic human right utilities (power, water, internet to Native Americans) to their citizens then yet?

Sure, urban areas have challenges, but to say “stay in your lane” is whataboutism in this instance.
A step that is missing is picking your strongest argument. A mistake that I often see made is that people have 50 reasons why that person is wrong but usually 49 of them are fairly weak and could be debated. You are generally better off picking your one killer argument and just bolstering that. Otherwise you get into a position where they seem like they are winning because they knocked aside a bunch of your less meaty arguments.
I covered up the arrows and the effect lingered. That blew my mind.
> Google's reCaptcha code seemed to be very keen on knowing my 'cadence' or the way I used my mouse and how quickly (or how slow) I completed the captcha. It also looked at things like timezone, screen resolution, battery charge level etc So they could determine if it was 'you' who was using the captcha, soon after, in a separate session (even on a different device!)

I'd bet a good amount that they store that along with all the other personally identifying info they have on you (and google of course has a massive amount of that); which is basically why after a single reCAPTCHA solve, you wont see them prompt you again for ages - they know who you are.
probably.. from our grandkids? not sure.
I've just started to get back into working with 3D graphics after a 20 year hiatus. It's amazing to see the quality and range of toolkits available in Blender.

Absolute joy to use.
Is this name a reference to 80's video games?

https://wiki.uqm.stack.nl/Mmrnmhrm
Newsom deserves the heat he got for the dinner; Even if it's a close enough group that you or I would feel comfortable, the Governor of course has to model not just "good enough" behavior, but the best behavior.

The schools thing is a just a stupid political twitter troll from that SD Mayor. Lots of schools in CA are (or were) doing hybrid in-person models.

CA is #2 in covid-19 cases statewide, but #41 in cases per 100k population. I credit, in part, the leadership of many state officials who are at least saying the right things, and modeling the best behavior helps.
Considering that emails fly through a bunch of MTAs and also occasionally aren't transmitted via TLS, none of it matters, your password is public by the time you see the email
If you're against the stated value, then having the value imposed by decree irks you. It's infuriating to see the one who imposed it on you acting in the way that you want to but now can't.
So many basic questions the website could address but seems to prefer generic or unrelated marketing copy for some reason.

There's a good simple product idea hidden somewhere in this website.

You basically have to watch the video to figure out the product.
Recently Google's captcha asked me to mark all the traffic meters on the photos, and amongst the choices was a photo of a mailbox. It didn't let me through until I marked it as a meter as well.

Good luck to whatever self driving car they are training using this data.
This makes a lot of sense - exactly what I was thinking
An interesting counter argument I have heard on term limits. If you limit the amount of public policy experience elected officials have, they will rely on ancillary services(i.e consultants, lobbiest, etc) more to implement policy. This gives the ancillary services more power and they are not beholden to the public but rather to shareholders.
This strikes me as an extremely weird attitude. The chicken you're eating lived for generally seven to nine weeks, probably with limited or no access to the outdoors and likely in a small cage. It was then transported a fairly long distance with no food or water on a lorry, then killed by either being hung upside down on a conveyor and dragged through electrified water, or gassed (usually with CO2, which is not painless).

This all sounds much, much worse than a fairly instant death almost immediately out of coming out of the egg, to me...

I suppose it's kind of _unaesthetic_, and maybe people have unrealistic impressions of what the lives of the chickens that don't get shredded are like, but I think this is all mostly a perception issue.
I don't agree with you. I recommend you watch Maradona documentary by Kapadia to better understand his career.
I'm someone who supports many (but not all) of the coronavirus restrictions, but I think the latter case is perfectly reasonable. The point people make is "these politicians are imposing stupid restrictions on us that they know are stupid as evidenced by the fact they won't abide the restrictions".
How do we know your product preserves privacy when it's close sourced?
Also, users should not be manipulated and used for training your machine learning models when they are trying to sign in on a website. I simply don't used it if the website is trying to give me this kind of nonsense.
> Would it not be fair to say that in a representative government those elected representatives are the civilian authority?

Absolutely. But those office bearers have constituencies I presume? If office bearer xan make their own decisions regardless of what the people who put them in power say - we would be stretching the idea of a democratic republic to the extreme, don't you think? The taxpayers should have the ability to veto decisions if in large enough numbers.
NOPE

Its a fucking cancer. CANCER.

Its a gatekeeper...

It is a litmus of those that do not want tracking.

FUCK THIS TECH.

Period.

Its a proxy of bots/terrorists... and if you cant see that, then, fuck you.

We do not need this tech.

We need anti-bot tech, for sure, but this is the lamest way to accomplish such.

FUCK this tech
Ask HN: Good eplanation of AI for curious 10yo?
My son is almost 10, and is quite interested in AI. He likes math and likes more technically accurate explanations of concepts, but he's not ready to understand a highly technical explanation of AI. He also gets really frustrated by buzzword-heavy overly vague explanations.

Can anyone recommend an article-length discussion of AI that clarifies how current "AI" systems work?
I could see that. How would you value Slack as a subsidiary of a larger B2B SaaS if all of those downsides are substantial?
Does anyone have a good solid modern guide or pointers on making easy 3D stuff in text/CLI mode (not x-windows, etc), and hopefully using a convenient library? I'm trying to make a simple fast-booting instrumentation display.

I picked up a Pi zero and muddled my way through what I could in C/C++ from piecemeal guides, and from text boot mode managed to initiate a graphics mode and draw a spinning triangle. Think I threw darts at the board for linking libraries in the compilation.

I have no idea what I'm doing, and of course, the level of scaffolding that had to be put into a simple spinning triangle was just astounding. My prior experience was using three.js and BabylonJS, and poorly. Is there something convenient to use library-wise in text mode, or is a safer bet doing windows -> firefox -> three.js?
I'm extremely skeptical of bootcamps, especially after learning that some of the TA's at Lambda are hired to help with teaching as little as two months into the program as students[0]. I guess that counts toward their "placement" stats!

Not only that, but Lambda (probably the most notorious bootcamp out there) seems so desperate that they will offer a fresh grad at no cost to any company for a 4 week trial period. [1]

[0] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/lambda-schools-job-p...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25138610
I attended 3 interviews. In addition to Java, one interviewer asked for solr experience. Another asked for 5+ years of experience on J2ee. Another spoke yo me, took my details and never came back. All 3 interviews ended unsuccessfully.
Salesforce does have a productivity suite they purchased and built upon a few years ago called Quip.
did try a couple of guesses; definitely fun !
Yes, Nancy Pelosi. She's part and parcel a corporate democrat, interested in incremental changes that fundamentally support the capital class.

She's against universal healthcare, she's committed to austerity, she supports the surveillance state, she fights against progressive reforms.

It's easy to see the grandstanding that people like Pelosi do as somehow leftist or progressive, but fundamentally she's playing a much more conservative game. She's a democrat who will put on Kente cloth and say black lives matter, while doing nothing to actually improve black lives.

For instance, she mandates pay-go, meaning any new programs must come with new taxes. Seems reasonable, but she's not proposing new programs. She's letting the progressive wing propose them, then letting the right wing attack the progressive wing, and then saying "there was nothing that could be done, maybe we should be taking my compromise, which is predominantly a market driven compromise."

Pelosi is not someone who is out there calling for labor strikes and strong union protections. Compare her to, say, Martin Luther King Jr and his Poor People's Campaign.

I'll leave you with a quote from her:

"I have to say we’re capitalists. And that’s just the way it is."
That’s exactly what I’m thinking too! Lot of it is to prevent scraping and a lot of it is unnecessary
I don't think we'll dramatically extend human lifespan in our lifetime (or reverse it), but I'm hoping breakthroughs can dramatically improve quality of life well into the 90s.
As a person that works a lot with Salesforce and not much with AWS, I have the same opinion but about AWS. Salesforce is not known for wonderful documentation, but experience and familiarity changes the perspective quite a bit.
Part of me laughs that an ARM chip could compete with a Threadripper, the other part of me seriously thinks it could happen.
I dislike the widespread use of captcha regardless of provider.

I realize anything connected to the internet will be subject to automated abuse, and it's impossible to run some types of services without taking some steps to defend against it, but it seems to me there's usually a way to handle that without invading the user's privacy or wasting their time. The exact details will vary based on the type of service, of course.

One particularly egregious misuse of captcha in a service I use presents one after I enter a correct username and password. An incorrect login says so without presenting a captcha. The potential reward for an attacker who successfully gains access to an account is high, so it seems almost certain anyone running a targeted attack would defeat this by handing it off to a human upon detecting that they had a good account.
Every time I check the Personal Health Dashboard, the number of issues increases; it's currently showing 13 open issues for my account. Cloudwatch logs for the last few hours are unavailable; it appears that the log agent is getting errors when it attempts to upload log events. Metrics are spotty or missing.
But then he only found a possible source if the signal is intelligent. He did not find a natural astronomical phenomenon in that system that could be the source.
I think US healthcare spending dwarfs the defense budget by an order of magnitude. Not sure what point you're trying to make there.
> I suppose there could actually be runtime consequences of TypeScript too, as you’re still writing runtime code, just through a game of telephone with TypeScript :p

Right. One of the first things you learn while doing TypeScript is that interfaces don't exist after compile time. So in general, it's better to write interfaces and use plain-old-objects than to use `class`, which generates real JavaScript code.

Within reason, of course. Classes are still useful. But it's not necessarily the first thing to reach for.
This is cool, but doesn't seem like it would scale. When I say scale, I mean farms with a few hundred to a few thousand bird operation, good luck affording this machine. When the article says scale, they mean being able to do this with millions of eggs on an industrial feedlot. Trying to make industrial farming ethical is like trying to make fossil fuels not harmful to the environment.
You're misconstruing the content of this blog post. It's about the activities of the technical support team at the FSF, not the FSF as a whole.

One of the things they've mentioned they're doing is implementing Jitsi conferencing for their staff to use. They're not writing a new piece of software, and they're not trying to stand up a big public service -- this is really just an internal project.
A lot of people are saying, that newer generations are lonelier than before, because society is a lot more impersonal and a real interactions are replaced by social media. But when the pandemic ends I think it's going to improve at least partially, because lockdown is making more people crave in-person interaction and realize that it's important.

One thing that was surprising:

> A 2018 study by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that more than a fifth of US and UK adults, and 9 per cent of Japanese adults, said they always or often felt lonely.

I watched a documentary that explained Japan had a serious problem with putting work before social interaction, and people of both sexes were having trouble finding partners. Is it true that the US and UK have even more loneliness?
But where are they going to get the experience if no one will hire them at the full wages they have heard software engineers get? :)

To get to the point where they are on par with a college graduate, they would need to pay an employer to give them on the job training for several years and then try to get a paying job.
That's exactly who I mean when I say neo-liberal. I dispute that neo-liberalism is laissez-faire though. Regulatory capture is a core strategy. I would call the ACA and it's individual mandate a prime example of neo-liberalism for example.

It is this corporatism and the MSM control it exudes that has created the "chilling" on free speech and promotion of censorship, whether or not the people supporting it realize how center-right the underlying ideology actually is.
With hCaptcha (enterprise ver) this is entirely under the control of the customer.

We're not "remembering" in the same way, but have good enough instantaneous scoring to correctly guess whether or not a challenge is required most of the time.

Some customers may disable that option to meet their requirements. Not much we can do about that :)
ImGui [0]

Immediate-mode UIs are by far the easiest for quick and dirty work. Near trivial to get stuff up on screen you can interact with.

[0] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
Americans consume protein like its the only nutrient that matters and that not getting the maximum amount possible will make you lose all of your muscle and become emaciated. Frankly, this is certainly helped by general marketing campaigns from the meat and dairy industry where they basically claim that protein makes you stronger.

The truth is pretty far from that and most people with a regular omnivore diet get enough protein just through the plants they eat without even considering the meat. The human body burns protein and most excess protein just ends up getting burned along with carbs and fat.

So while animals may take up a large percentage of protein intake, our irrationally high collective protein intake is hardly a good reason to chose meat over plants. Eating meat is really all about calorie density.
>Male chicks don’t grow fast enough to justify the cost of feeding them up for meat.

Why is this? Logically that would mean that either 1) females grow faster than males, or 2) all chickens that are used for meat are first used for laying eggs, because that's the only economic way. I'm fairly sure that neither is the case.
I obviously didn't mean the side that supports labor laws better for workers.
But also far superior to reCaptcha from a bot's perspective using Tor. Don't get me wrong: I also hate solving a gazillion captchas only because I'm using a VPN or get outright denied because my IP address happens to be a Tor exit node. At the same time you have to acknoledge that captchas don't stop bots, only slow them down or increase their operating costs. People in third world countries happily solve one image recognition challenge by Google or hCaptcha for far less than a penny. If Google's goal is to drive the costs up for malicious bot operators, then they're definitely doing the right thing. In the end, it won't stop them either since buying a couple thousand infected computers is probably not that expensive, but it is yet another stepping stone for anyone trying to bypass their captcha.
Surely the second case is where you point out the hypocrisy because it means the hypocrite also does not believe their actions are needed, thus supporting the observer's belief?

You could look at the UK where several government officials have broken the quarantine rules. You can see that as meaning they don't really think the rules are needed, but politics demands they act like something has been done. Someone who thinks the lockdown rules are unnecessary would point this out.
There would not be any place for the news of his passing on Hacker News, if that were to happen?!
As someone who scrapes, captcha's are pretty silly. One of the sites we scrape implemented hCaptcha, and it was a breeze to get around. There are a few things that make my life more difficult, but captchas aren't one of them, and nothing can stop scraping altogether.
I also recommend http://latexdraw.sourceforge.net/
Small finlets on owl feathers point the way to less aircraft noise
You're often not selling what you think you're selling or not selling it to the person you thought you'd be selling to. Approach your sales process the same way you did your product development - you need to beta it. Get a few early customers in and really learn from them. How did they make the decision? What do they think the main benefits are? How are they using it? What would they tell a friend? Who influenced the purchase and who paid for it?
I’d love to see a version of this illusion with less compression. Does anyone have a higher quality link?
I've had hCaptcha recheck me repeatedly and fail to work at all on VPN. I much prefer ebay's simple slide the puzzle piece method.
hCaptcha makes money by having humans label things to teach machines. This suggests that at some point, the machines will be nearly as good as the humans at labeling. At this point, until the humans are tasked with a different training exercise, a bot will be effectively indistinguishable from a human via hCaptcha.

If there's value in it, it sounds like a spammer could train an hCaptcha-defeating bot via hCaptcha.
Interesting choice of name. i was looking for such a tool. Gui are still limited in 2020
I disagree. I was vegetarian for 2 years for ethical reasons. Animal-based protein is much easier to digest. And your average person perhaps doesn't need much protein...because your average person has no concept of exercise or fitness except as something other people do. Then your average person falls victim to metabolic syndrome and other western lifestyle related diseases. Once you set fitness goals your nutrition perspective changes. There are very few vegan/vegetarian athletes.

I agree with the perspective on limiting animal suffering and I buy pastured meat. I agree with the vegan perspective on many things but I think its limited and fails to consider other aspects of the human condition. I oppose the widespread mockery and lack of respect that vegans get. The health issues associated with an ethical commitment to avoiding animal products makes it more worthy of respect.
Fargate console is reporting no capacity in us-east-1 which is a bummer because I've lost several services that got spun down apparently due to missing cloudwatch data. But EC2 appears to be working though its taking noticeably longer to create resources. I think the take-away for a lot of people is that multiple availability zones is not a substitute for proper BCP that encompasses multiple regions or cloud providers.
Everything worth doing in life is hard. Family, friends, purpose, health - these are the things that are going to make you truly happy, and maintaining all of them takes effort. You need to devote time and energy to all of them. Your career is important and can give you purpose, but not if it causes you to sacrifice the other three.
Information asymmetries arising in Namibia because of insisting on using English