skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks cool, thanks for sharing.

Just a quick feedback note, under the "free tutorials" section, I scrolled passed the images thinking they were just gifs. Then got to the bottom of the page thinking, "Hmm, It really would have been helpful if he included an example video..." Then scrolled back to the top and through all the content again to see if I missed something. I tried hovering over the "gif" and then realized it was a link to YouTube.

Long story short, I think it would help the reader to have a "play button" or small icon overlayed on the image to indicate that it's a playable video, or (better?) embed the YouTube video directly in that space so the user doesn't have to leave the page.

Hope this helps, but open to feedback if I'm just an outlier. You can try the change in an A/B test, and see if the conversion rate goes up for people who visit the site AND watch an example video.
I sold my PS4 because of this. I don’t have much time to play, maybe once or twice a month, but it felt like every time I turned the damn thing on I needed to first do a system upgrade (which takes forever) and then update the game itself (which again takes forever). All to play 30 minutes of Rocket League.

Slightly off-topic since the PS4 couldn’t max out a gigabit connection anyways so not really a reason to upgrade. Maybe PS5 owners will feel the need.
Obs-CLI: Remote control OBS from the command line
Ringtones were the first app store.

The apps were not Turing complete, but you could download them and run them on your phone.

Very lucrative business.
That's exactly what it is - an inflatable mattress, typically placed in a room not intended to be a bedroom, and therefore lacking privacy
Same with OpenSuse LEAP, Ubuntu, or Debian.
It's supposed to be better to have light on in the room. You want moderate lighting behind/around the screen. This has something to do with your peripheral vision and the ability of your eyes to focus.
> "Operation Choke Point" was a 2013 inititative by the DoJ to hurt legal but unpopular businesses (...) by making it harder for banks to provide services to them.

Honest question: can the US goverent stop anyone from launching their banking/payment services?
The upside for the noob trying out/learning is huge.

I'm no longer that person, but I think GCP/AWS are just being lazy about this - perhaps because they earn a lot of money from engineer mistakes. Of course it's possible to create an actual limit. There'll be some engineering cost, like 0.5%-1% extra per service?

Edit: Being European I think legislation might be the fix, since both Amazon and Google have demonstrated an unwillingness to fix this issue, for a very long time.
Child porn is. In this case the issue is one dealing with children. To understand this case we need to keep it in context.
"Dual native ISO" sensors don't perform different amplification before the read out amplifier or anything like that.

With an image sensor you get to decide between high sensitivity and high capacity (how much light it can detect before saturating). So a highly sensitive sensor can handle less light before clipping (which makes sense).

This trade-off can be tweaked by changing the size of the photodiode (bigger diode -> more sensitive), but also electrically - simply add capacitance in parallel to the photodiode. This requires more energy, i.e. more photons, to change the voltage over the photodiode, which is what the readout measures.

Dual native ISO sensors simply add another transistor (as a switch) in series to extra capacitance; this allows them to switch between low-capacitance (high sensitivity, but saturates faster) and high-capacitance (lower sensitivity, can handle more light).

Edit: Haven't watched the whole video but his core explanation in there seems to be that Dual ISO means the sensors has a PGA (programmable gain amplifier) -- almost all sensors use that approach, and that's what is controlled by the ISO setting in them.
All the more reason to break them up ... No more single point of failure.
I want to kill Comcast every time I upload something. Why, in this day and age, does my phone time out and fall asleep before I am able to upload a single photo? Oh right, it's my 5mpbs upstream that I get.
I would make a Roblox version first for some of the game play mechanics. If people like the game and you get product/market fit come out with an IOS version if you need to. You can release pretty minimal games on Roblox and see what works very quickly.
Perhaps I'm being naive, but I don't think there are any application that ubiquitous gigabit to the home (or even to the phone) will enable alone.

Imagine for example streamed, 8K VR - meaning two individual 8k streams. Even that would only take 100-200mbps download speed, latency would be the real bottleneck and that's limited by the speed of light.

What things can a human experience that can be digitized but require continuous 1gbps to stream? I can't think of any.
Google stories is a dad trying yet again to look hip.
We're not the ones who are old. Google is.
> the success of AirBnB has had huge negative consequences for many people. And it's hard to see how the former can outweigh the latter.

'Capitalist realism' has us trapped. Many seem to believe no alternatives are possible.

No wonder we have a global mental health crisis:

"Depression is the shadow side of entrepreneurial culture, what happens when magical voluntarism confronts limited opportunities. As psychologist Oliver James put it in his book The Selfish Capitalist, "in the entrepreneurial fantasy society," we are taught "that only the affluent are winners and that access to the top is open to anyone willing to work hard enough, regardless of their familial, ethnic or social background – if you do not succeed, there is only one person to blame." It's high time that the blame was placed elsewhere. We need to reverse the privatisation of stress and recognise that mental health is a political issue.

[...]

The radical therapist David Smail argues that Margaret Thatcher's view that there's no such thing as society, only individuals and their families, finds "an unacknowledged echo in almost all approaches to therapy". Therapies such as cognitive behaviour therapy combine a focus on early life with the self-help doctrine that individuals can become masters of their own destiny. The idea is "with the expert help of your therapist or counsellor, you can change the world you are in the last analysis responsible for, so that it no longer cause you distress" – Smail calls this view "magical voluntarism"." [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/16/mental...
>“People will say, ‘I was just hungry.’ And then what do you do?”

People stealing food to survive while the super wealthy and rich becoming richer and richer[1]. What a great time to be alive.

[1](https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/11/18/elon...)

EDIT: I don't particularly dislike Elon (the man has done alot of good), but he was the easiest example I could think of. Stock market is a better indicator of rich people's wealth.
FDA approves Pfizer vaccine – UC Santa Cruz scientists explain how it works
Regarding protecting screen width and height, on firefox you can use privacy.resistFingerprinting.letterboxing (the tor browser has that enabled by default)
There's also something to be said about supporting 60+ versions of a client...
Yeah it’s a really nice niche. Other niche ideas like this:

- Music Tuners

- Rulers/ measurement tools

- Tools using gyroscope (record speed indicator)

Take a simple idea and continue developing it until the user experience is really enjoyable. Not guaranteed to succeed, but a compelling way to spend your time.
This is anecdotal, but I've asked about twenty or so UPS drivers that I've met over the years whether they avoid turning left or not, and they all just laugh and say "No, that's dumb." Either they're messing with me, they just aren't following "the rules", this "UPS drivers don't turn left" thing is urban legend.

I'm kind of leaning toward the latter. Not so much that it never happened, but more that it was something that some data scientist said was a good idea, but never actually works I practice, and so UPS drivers don't actually follow this. Maybe it's a policy. I don't know. I don't have a list of UPS policies handy at the moment. But of the (admittedly small) sample size I've discussed it with, every single one says they do not follow that policy, or is it something they were instructed to do.

Which makes me kind of roll my eyes whenever I see these articles or podcasts or what-have-you. They pop up fairly frequently, but... it feels more like clever marketing by UPS than an actual policy.
Ohh, I'd love to have an account of this in Russian for my Russian speaking friends. Any recommendations?
> Funding criminal activity can itself be a crime.

Is processing payments between two entities equivalent to funding them?

For example, is the post office funding someone if he sends them a letter with cash or a check?
With digital game downloads and those 35GB patch updates (Overwatch, ugh) you appreciate every bit of bandwidth you can get.
How are you supposed to track that someone has consented if you disable tracking? I’m assuming that declining means you can’t use any form of storage.
> Having several app stores would water down the whole iOS ecosystem and has actually the potential to hurt the business of many app based companies. Yes, the App Store can be strict at times and quite of few of its restrictive policies need changing. But it does force you to make good stable apps.

I agree so much. A lot of people here are missing the woods for the trees.
> but man do I wish there was a way to put down a spending limit and simply disable anything that goes over that limit.

Literally did this my first week when trying out GCP for my company. It is entirely possible and documented (with code):

https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/notify#cap_disa...
For those saying that fingerprinting should be illegal, how does this balance against the idea that a GET request should never be illegal? Not that I don't despise it, I just can't see how that's not a slippery slope.
If you take them at their word, why is it disgusting?

What is wrong with cultural compatibility? Why shouldn't a country want people who will help, and not want people who won't? Is this not what countries already do by trying to find productive workers instead of future welfare cases? By turning away people who have committed sexual assault or other crimes. By looking for people who say good things about their host country, not who denigrate it.
If you check the actual numbers here - https://entreprise.pole-emploi.fr/cout-salarie/ you'll see that for e.g. 30k€ gross yearly, a company shells out 41k, which is definitely not 1.5-2x total and still very far from the 75k mentioned above
And that's the case with the Epic suit: Epic literally dropped their prices when they went around Apple's cut, passing almost all of the savings directly on to consumers.

It's really incredible to me the lengths people will go to villanize Epic when they're known for not just advocating for consumer choice and lower prices, but have done crazy things like when dropping their cut... applying it retroactively since they started charging for it: https://marketplacehelp.epicgames.com/s/article/Unreal-Engin...

Can you even imagine Apple retroactively giving all those small businesses half the Apple cut back?
The operation which stopped the German atom bomb program -Operation Gunnerside
If some machines trade stupidly high amounts of money because of some bullshit on twitter, what is the reality argument worth?

Meanwhile the reality of the average person on this planet doesn't have anything to do with the reasons for the largest trades on "the markets". So are those trades irrelevant for your general opinion or those people?

"The market" has become a sick abomination of capitalism. Trades are being made by people or machines which have nothing to do with the actual products. Absurdly complex products made even the trading process some sick meta-thing.

And you say this is reality? This is the reality the market CREATES not the reality it is supposed to reflect.
Nah, it will just fade away as Java adopts all features that are relevant to most of us.

If Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Azul, Amazon bring a KVM written in Kotlin, then I might consider it.

In the meantime it is just the language Android team is pushing to get rid of Android Java, while the offices next door are pushing ChromeOS/PWAs and Fuchsia.
> youtube couldn't have existed in a pre-broadband era, even if a few were rocking T3 connections.

You're right, but people were trying really hard to make shitty video experiences over dialup in the 90s. Really hard. Broadcast.com did audio (barely), RealPlayer tried to do streaming video, etc.

The only applications I'm seeing right now that need more bandwidth are 4k video (but honestly, 1080p isn't that bad) and upstream for VC. Looking around, I don't see anything where a 5x bandwidth jump would make something suddenly viable.
We are using Jamulus, and I won't try and pretend that it's great, but it's just about workable.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/llcon/
> Even trying to read the amazon pricing for their instances, hours and what not, drives me insane.

I get your sentiment but the pricing is that way because they want to charge you exactly what you use, not for reserving stuff.

For example if you deploy a EC2 instance that comes out to be $15/mo total, and you deploy it on say the 10th of the month, do you want to be charged the whole $15? No, you want pro-rated.. But what if you only need that instance for like 6 days? Then what? You gonna do the math to figure out what it would have cost you yourself, or just read it per hour billing?
Which one is your browser? I would be interested in trying it.
I don't buy that. They're not restricting their subscribers from distributing the GPL'd code. They're restricting who they choose to offer support to. They're not adding any conditions to the GPL. You can exercise your rights under the GPL. You just may not ever get support from them again.
Unity has become a strong platform choice for AR development as it wraps both ARKit and ARCore and is cross-platform with iPhones and Android phones, as well as webgl. Pokemon Go, probably the AR app with the most market penetration, is Unity.
That really doesn't help anyone when ISPs aren't offering 6Gb up. Theory and specs are good, but the reality is that it appears Cable providers have built their networks to be heavily asymmetric.
the world famous disruption, now literally
AWS recently released AWS Budget Actions which should allow you to do that.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cost-management/get-started...
Don't forget that getting even 300Mbps half duplex on your wifi connection takes some doing.
Maybe you should use a Twitter Account. Get a following. And keep promoting it on Twitter.

Some people have said that this was far more effective than advertising. And it’s free.

But most importantly, you need a following, an audience to sell your product to.
Why not alert thresholds, configurable by the user?

Email me when we cross $X amount in one day, Text when we cross $Y, and Call when we cross $Z. Additionally, allow the user to configure a hard cut-off limit if they desire.

Just provide the mechanisms and allow users to make the call. Google et al would have a much stronger leg to stand on when enforcing delinquent account collections if they provided these mechanisms and the user chose to ignore them.

Additionally, Google et al should protect _themselves_ by tracking usage patterns, and reaching out to customers that grossly surpass the average billable amount - just like OP with their near $100k bill in 1 day. Zero vetting to even have a reasonable guarantee the individual or company is even capable of paying such a large bill.

And then what? Sue a company that doesn't have $100k for $100k? This makes zero sense.
Many people are starving because they are locked down and not able to work, but I think that the grocery self scan that so many stores are moving towards, enables food theft; or at the very least it makes it easier. It would be interesting to see exactly how much shrinkage occurs due to the self scan.
tl;dr: it reduces the chances of an accident and cuts delays caused by waiting for a gap in the traffic, which would also waste fuel.
Precursor – What’s the Value of Hackable Hardware, Anyway?
this is from like 2-3 months ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24700491
Fun fact: if you open the Uber app and hit the Food icon/tab, the experience is entirely a web one: it is powered by ubereats.com in a webview.
Dark Sky (whose future is in question due to the Apple acquisition) has a Time Machine feature that lets you see weather pretty much arbitrarily far in the future: https://darksky.net/details/40.7127,-74.0059/2020-12-31/us12...
Also intelligence agencies are going to ignore whatever legislation you create.
I’ve seen this format aped by the NYTimes and I loathe it.
Latency probably matters more than bandwidth in a case like this.

Gotta pay for the direct-fibre for the ping as much as the volume.

Congestion is gonna mean you always need slack. There must be unused bandwidth or the occasional packet-loss just cascades.
This is a good point - PSN seems to have poor download speeds.

The problem seems to be at Sony's end for their CDN or perhaps the peering connections are being throttled/bottlenecked.

On PS4, I believe the motivation for game updates recopying all the game data is to defragment/optimize placement on disk to minimize seek time (particularly important for hard drives) and to maximize sequential reads. It may also do so for data integrity reasons. I don't think PS5 needs to do the same sort of block placement optimization, but it will still do the copying for PS4 games (just faster if you use its internal flash storage.)
Good to know. I'm planning to add settings so you can control the behavior of each subscription (e.g. choose which ones you want a sample of, choose which ones you want the whole thing), so that workflow should be possible with Findka at some point.
This is like a black market suing the govt for monopoly.
Ask HN: Folks who play games with physical disabilities, what features help?
On my personal time, I've been making a computer game with traditional third-person controls. I purchased the Xbox Adaptive Controller with the one-handed joystick attachment, and I'd like to make my game more available to people that have a different situation with regards to mobility.

If you have a physical disability and there are certain configuration options that help you enjoy a third-person game, I'd love to hear from you. Some things that come to mind to me are auto-camera-turning or toggle options if you have arthritis, but I want to hear from outside my perspective on that one.
>I find myself reading a lot of history and philosophy now trying to figure out how we got here

I recommend Why Nations Fail if you haven't read it and that's your goal.
> It's interesting to see so many people complain that it's hard to hire Clojure engineers, when I've had the exact opposite problem

Both can easily be true at the same time. Just because there are people looking for language X jobs, and companies looking to hire X developers, doesn't mean they are a good match. It's a bit like a liquidity problem, having more positions and more candidates in a market helps them all shuffle around to find a good "fit".
>Why don’t we call out bank employees for all the fraud and deception leading up to the 2008 crash? Car makers and oil companies employees for polluting the earth?

a lot of people complain about those all the time. In Iceland they even put them into prison.

>The reality is most employees have virtually zero impact on the direction of their company

I don't think that's true. Software workers, in particular at those large companies in senior positions wield quite a lot of influence. It's right that they're not owners of the firm, but they're in short supply and they command a lot of power. That said, even your average lowly developer has a very simple choice to have more than zero impact. Don't help them build these systems.
Almond prices pushed $4 a pound just a couple years ago, and yields can easily exceed 4,000 an acre (I just got 4,100 on a fifth leaf orchard not even in full production). 15,000 is not the norm, but plenty of farmers have gotten that yield at least once over the last five years.
I’m familiar, and I’ve used them many times. I’ve just always had privacy when using them because I was in someone extra room, so I thought it must be something else.
You're right that the destruction of equipment and loss of material resources in general is a failure that could have been prevented with a more cautious approach, but that's not the entire picture. Another resource, one that Mr. Musk cares more about, is time. He both affords to and is willing to throw material resources at the technology development problem, even at a loss (i.e. the stated "1/3 chance of success"), just so he could "move fast and break things" (from time to time, if it comes to that). In this context, even with that prodigious blow at the end, having at least some of the testing goals met can be a genuine success in Musk's own eyes, not just a sell for the rest of us. The political actors, on the other hand, had to play the perception image game because that's the world they reside in. The politicians' primary objective in that space program has always been the prestige that comes attached from bearing it to fruits. Sure, in a race they went on in a similar fashion and threw copious amounts of material resources, but for them the cost of technical failures were not so much about loosing material as were about loosing face, hence the propaganda that had to handle/mitigate that. Same rocket science development game, different rules for the actors involved.
You misunderstand. Having a monopoly is not against the law. There's nothing wrong with it.

Abusing your monopoly position in the market, to the detriment of consumers and fair competition is against the law.
well, in the old world nothing is perpendicular, and all the roads have a different width and single direction without any clear pattern, so not getting lost is already a strong goal, there is very limited BW to optimize for time :)
> What people who harp on pronouns... Mental breakdowns over pronouns... pronoun police

To my eyes, in this thread, the person who is harping on pronouns the most, seems to be closest to having a mental breakdown over them, who can most accurately be described as "pronoun police", and who shows the greatest explicit tendency to control others' use of pronouns, is also the person who in the first place corrected an in-the-wild usage of singular "them" to "him".

Like, can we step back and look at the thread and say that yeah, sometimes maybe it's the people who are pushing back against singular "they" that are blowing the thing out of proportion?

> I've never seen the pronoun police display actual concern for anything other than their ability to control people.

If you're open to a real example, the "pronoun police" at my workplace suggest that when writing about hiring candidates, we use singular "they" instead of "he" or "she", in order not to call too much attention to the gender of that person when those evaluations are read by decision makers. The intent is to reduce any possible gender bias in hiring.

This to me reads like an actual concern for something other than one's ability to control people, namely a concern for being more objective and unbiased in hiring decisions. (Or at least, if you want to be cynical about it, for seeming more objective and unbiased in hiring decisions.)
Maybe UPS drivers ignore it, or maybe UPS no longer does it, but it's not an urban legend:

https://www.ups.com/us/en/services/knowledge-center/article....

(This link claims they had 55,000 drivers using the system in 2016.)