skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> all of the system services be able to be accessed by whatever app the user installs

It would be nice if they started by requiring that phone OSes add back the ability for apps to put the phone into / out of Airplane Mode. The API for that used to be available to unrooted Android phones, until version 4.2.2 came out which broke some apps[0].

A phone should be able to listen on Wi-Fi (or even FM) for a packet that indicates an incoming call, so that the rest of the time it can be disconnected from the cellular network and not reveal the user's approximate location.

[0] https://apkpure.com/scheduled-airplane-mode-root/com.galaxy....
My primary workflow on side projects right now is VS Code with an ssh connection to a GCP instance. It's very quick, and I can run it across both my desktop and laptop, so if I want to go work in the living room I can get up and get to work immediately on whatever was open in the workspace.

The only downside is that the difference between extensions installed on the remote and locally is a little confusing, but the extension ecosystem in VS Code has satisfied all of my use cases. I've also run into some occasional ssh hangups on weak connections, but I haven't experienced that isuse in a few months.

For years I was a linux guy, and now I see no reason to go back, because I can just remotely access a linux environment from whatever system I'm already on. Less time spent swapping between operating systems to work on projects, and a consistent environment, are both huge features.
> Saying an entire group of people is lazy or dumb is not a particularly insightful way of looking at anything that helps your understanding of the situation or learning what kind of results different incentives yield.

Maybe, but when you're talking about the armies of designers at the multi-billion-dollar tech company Google not going through the effort to maintain two stylesheets, I think "laziness" is an accurate description.
IMO this solution solves the wrong problem. The “right” problem to solve is the coupling between the script and the directory layout. If the script needs to operate on data in some directory, the path to that directory should be part of the script’s interface and handled accordingly.
does anyone have a more comprehensive list?
When will I get vaccinated?
Reason I recommend bush fever: separating yourself from society (not just people, but infrastructure) is a good way to see who you are in a vacuum.
One of my biggest dream retro projects like this would be taking the cartridge expansion idea and using it to integrate a Wi-Fi radio and full online play connected to a central server. (I originally thought of it for GameBoy, but a Super NES cart would offer a lot more flexibility...)

You can see the bones of such technology in real products:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellaview

http://nectaris.tg-16.com/GB-KISS-LINK-FAQ-2-hudson-gameboy-...

https://shop.insidegadgets.com/product/wireless-gameboy-cont...
awscli directly supports 2fa (https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/authe... ); I guess having to harvest cookies out of a browser profile is more work, but it seems like a small difference
...in terms of COVID deaths per capita
I think that's fair. But there are very few people who are earning, say, $100K/year who could earn a reasonably guaranteed $1M/year if they would only move to NYC. I agree that if you can earn a life-changing amount of money if you only have to move to some (relatively safe) place for a few years, that's probably something most people would consider.
The two main tricks I'd recommend to not take potato-quality pictures are lighting and framing/composing. Asking yourself a few questions about the lighting situation (which way is the light coming from? Is my foreground darker than my background? should I take the shot from the other direction, if possible?) will help a good bit to start.

For a quick idea on composing, think about the rule of thirds and the golden ratio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds
https://www.apogeephoto.com/how-to-use-the-golden-ratio-to-i...

Just these two concepts will get you started taking much better photos than most unskilled photographers, and at least I find it doesn't take me too much time to give a second or two thought to them. I'd encourage you to turn on a rule of thirds layer on your camera, it'll start to make it really easy to do some quick composition.
I think what's being pointed out is more just a problem, no concrete solution (like "make their content available for free with an option to pay for a printed copy") is being prescribed.

But if we are talking about prescriptive solutions, what I'd want that does all this is a pay-to-access documentation Wiki, where I and other users of the software can make changes (or at least propose changes) to those docs that we read and rely on.
I am an amateur. I have a color card but it only gets used in very complex lighting situation when I need some help understanding what the lighting was to resolve some color issues. I may use SpyderCube when working with indoor light that I do not control.

My understanding of is that brain works in a different way when interpreting moving and still images. In a moving image the differences from reality are much more easily picked up by the brain and so color or image distortion problems stand out much more.

Also, I think, brain is trained to some particular standards of how the moving image is shot and processed. We can easily recognize "movie" or "television" shooting and processing methods and this is starkly visible when somebody is messing with it. For example, The Fellowship of The Ring looked very strange to me the first time I watched it because of how smooth it was due to higher framerate, but at the same time I did not find it out of place for television.
> part of it is the Republican party starving the beast, part of it is the government as a giant jobs program.

Take a look at how long metro cities in the U.S. have been run by Democrats, and then tell me this is a Republican problem.
1) Cookie notifications are not required by GDPR. They are required by national level implementation of the ePrivacy Directive.

2) Data portability is already a requirement under GDPR Article 20. The problem is that it requires competing services to work together to create interoperable systems or formats. That's really unlikely to happen without addition regulatory action mandating that competitors cooperate.

People will always gloss over privacy policies, privacy tools, and privacy disclosures. The reality is that people are concerned about privacy, but not concerned enough to make any changes. People concerned about the environment still get on planes and fly all over the world.
Have you been living under a rock for the past years?
For a moment, I was wondering if this was the amazing Periscope DOS debugger that had somehow lived on (it's not).

Anyway, this is the best link I could find about it:

https://books.google.com/books?id=-j4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA21&lpg=P...
I’m surprised Twitter didn’t add stories into Periscope
Ah yes when Texas joined the union in 1845 and declined to pass a state income tax they made the first move in a centuries long battle with California...
I also wouldn't buy any 1st version of a product. It's getting beta tested with the public, whereas the SE is tried and proven for many years and does the job (for me at least), for $300 less to boot. Although, I'll definitely be interested in a perfected mini in the future.
I'm not saying that and the article doesn't say that either. If anything it says the opposite, but the real focus of is asking for documentation writers to publish their source files. (odt/doc files, latex/rst/md sources, etc...) My personal opinion is that open source projects should probably do this, when a project is taking patches to the source and contributors can't also contribute to the docs then the docs will lag behind.
Social lives aren't unpredictable. They're almost comically predictable as time goes on.

Everyone in a group falls into patterns, roles. The same jokes get told, or variations there-of. You do the same thing every year. BBQ for Bob's birthday. Jill hosts a cheese/wine night a couple of times over winter. The geekier sub-group all gather to watch the first few episodes of the new marvel series. Everyone gets together for a picnic in woolaton park on the first or second sunny weekend of sunmer.

Occasionally something new gets thrown in, and if everyone likes it, it becomes the 'new' regular thing. Or something gets dropped due to changes in life or circumstances. No more games nights till 2am now 80% of my male friends have kids. No more Saturday night clubbing in the cookie club after we left our 20s.

If you want to keep doing unpredictable things, you really have to meet someone who's extremely hyper/exhausting, or keep joing new social groups (by meetups, etc.). And of course, they become predictable too, by their very nature being a scheduled meetup about a specific thing.

And it's worth it. Personally I feel the best experience in life is laughing so hard you end up crying while chatting with your friends.
Yes, we're unusual in not relying on third parties for list management. We can rollback. Or I might just comment out the 'unsub on hard bounce' code for the rest of the week..! :)
This news fits well into the philosophy of Clojure.

The language cares about the programmers first, in a supporting and liberating kind of way.
If I got paid in tokens at a startup, I would riot. That’s some “company town” bullshit.
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The purpose of the US was to protect these rights for their own citizens / residents.

Protecting those rights for the entire world is a bit out-of-scope.
Yup, and 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5187686 (with a great top comment)

and 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1195704
CCPA covers them so it's not terrible.
One interesting challenge I assume they faced here is that the properties of Silicon that are relevant for transistors can be (significantly?) affected by stress/strain.

So while it seems reasonable that you could thin down a digital circuit and have it continue to function correctly when bent, a CMOS sensor is a very analog device. I wonder if noise / dark current / other properties vary depending on where the stresses are applied.
They explicitly addressed the AI point:

So, for the first question – whether we’re focusing just on technicalities or gameplay elements;
things like AI – for example. To be honest – these are the same for us, from the production standpoint
AI and NPC behavior fall within the general category of bugs, so if I can give you an answer – I think it
does actually include that as well.
Nice!

He shows the trial data starting around 4:00. Also interesting at 7:50, where he talks about people with recurrent infections. They have seen only 1 in the whole trial.

The results are probably even slightly better, since a few people got infected at about the same time they went into the trial. Wondering if it’s recklessness due to them thinking they were vaccinated thus immune.
Right, hence a representative democracy.
Our elected representatives, represent our voices in their votes.
I was not aware that the PyMC developers have forked and continued Theano: https://github.com/pymc-devs/Theano-PyMC

It seems very active right now.

Here some further information: https://pymc-devs.medium.com/the-future-of-pymc3-or-theano-i...

I haven't really found references to its new name "Aesara".

Apparently, the main new feature for Theano will be the JAX backend.

I wonder though, my experience when working with Theano, and also deep with the internals (trying to get further graph optimizations on theano.scan):

- Some parts of the code are not really clean.

- The code is extremely complex and hard to follow. See this: https://github.com/pymc-devs/Theano-PyMC/blob/master/theano/...

- This also made it very complicated to perform optimizations on the graph. See this: https://github.com/pymc-devs/Theano-PyMC/blob/master/theano/...

- In this specific case, it's also a problem of the API: theano.scan would return the whole sequence. But if you only need the last entry, i.e. y[-1], there is a very complicated optimization rule which checks for that. Basically many optimizations around theano.scan are very complicated because of that.

- Here is one attempt for some optimization on theano.scan: https://github.com/Theano/Theano/pull/3640

- The graph building and esp the graph optimizations are very slow. This is because all the logic is done in pure Python. But if you have big graphs, even just building up the graph can take time, and the optimization passes will take much longer. This was one of the most annoying problems when working with Theano. The startup time to build the graph could easily take up some minutes. I also doubt that you can optimize this very much in pure Python -- I think you would need to reimplement that in C++ or so. When switching to TensorFlow, building the graph felt almost instant in comparison. I wonder if they have any plans on this in this fork.

- On the other side, the optimizations on the graph are quite nice. You don't really have to care too much when writing code like log(softmax(z)) -- it will optimize it also to be numerically stable.

- The optimizations also went so far to check if some op can work inplace on its input. Which made writing ops more complicated, because if you want to have nice performance, you would write two versions, one which works inplace on the tensor, and another one not. And then again 2 further versions if you want CUDA as well.
They are getting ready to be acquired by Microsoft :D
I don't have a hard time being alone but I suspect it would be different if I didn't have at least online interactions with people. I start to talk to myself out loud after a while if not around other people.
I don't think Apple competes in the $200 laptop segment right now.
That query is completely contrived (doesn't match anything I'm working on), but here's what the response would look like:

{
"products": {
"abc123": {
"id": "abc123",
"name": "Some Widget"
},
"def456": {
"id": "def456",
"name" "Some Other Widget"
}
},
"images": {
"xyzabc": {
"id": "xyzabc",
"product_id": "abc123"
"url": "https://example.com/xyzabc"
}
},
"reviews": {
"4": {
"id": "4",
"product_id": "abc123",
"user_id": "hjk453"
"review": "This thing sucks!"
}
"15": {
"id": "15",
"product_id": "abc123"
"user_id": "pos999"
"review": "I love this thing!"
}
},
"users": {
"hjk453": {
"id": "hjk453",
"handle": "somebody",
"name": "Some Body"
},
"pos999": {
"id": "pos999",
"handle": "someone",
"name": "Some One"
}
}
}
The tree will last longer than 20 years, but it'll have achieved parity by that time.
Yeah it reads to me more like they were pressured to release it quickly before the holidays by investors, and the decision makers didn't listen to those below saying that it just couldn't be done (to the quality everyone expected).

I've been playing it on both PS4 Pro and PC and haven't experienced any game-breaking issues, and I was as hyped about this game as anyone (huge fan of the original RPG and CDPR in general), but I still would've preferred they just came out and said "We fucked up, we need more time" and delayed it until next year. People would've been pissed, media would've eaten them alive, but ultimately when the game came out it would've been 10x bigger than it is even now, and the game truly has potential to be one of the greats... after about another year of work.
I've owned 35mm full frame sensor cameras, Micro-four thirds, and the RX100vii. The iPhone with a tripod still seems to me like the most convenient way to travel. The only thing which would 1UP the iPhone would be a camera and viewfinder on the Apple Watch.
I'd think this was worse for the investors than not releasing in December and delaying until ~March? Stock price down over 30%.
I'm no tax lawyer but I think you get to deduct the costs whether or not the apartment is rented out. Also you can only deduct costs from revenue. This is no VC backed entrepreneur with a growth story where you get more money with a negative contribution margin. ;)
Certainly not; invariant sections have the effect of limiting what modifications can be made to the work.

The GFDL also places some weird restrictions on storage and distribution of the licensed work -- notably, it forbids the use of any "technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further copying of the copies you make or distribute". Depending on how strictly you read this, this could be interpreted as forbidding the use of encryption on filesystems containing GFDL documentation.

https://wiki.debian.org/GFDLPositionStatement
Masks are effective in a hospital setting with trained persons that know how to properly wear one and replace/clean. Wearing the same cloth mask every day while you grocery shop does nothing but make you feel better.
Besides other reasons I think management thought they could get away with it.

Reviewers were given the PC version, so I imagine it was a calculation of “how many reviewers are willing to wait on traffic, just to review old consoles?”

It just didn’t work out for them.
That review hits home for me. The game was ok. It can be beautiful at times, but everyone has done it already and did it better ( GTA, Fallout, Deus, Skyrim, Half-life ). For some reason, I decided to try out Stadia version and it was an acceptable experience for me.

But the part about the immersion breaking over ridiculously bad AI, shallow world... Yeah.

I read the transcript and based on what I saw, there is no way there is not a CYA email saying something along the lines of 'it is not ready. if you release it, it will bomb'. I wonder whether board members will be removed.

edit: Well, now I am annoyed. I can't mow down children in car ..sigh
Yeah F regulations man, I really want to employ children and pollute rivers. How dare they impede my capitalism.
If you know technical details, are there any metrics cardinality limitations?
I can only suspect that this made sense at some point in time when wealthy people started their day with a pipe and a magazine to read.
In some constructions you can use it to lower your taxable income, or helps lowering council taxes for empty buildings, etc. My family used these kind of tricks
I'm guessing the division comes down to generational ignorance. Commenters on both the oldest fringe and the younger half of the age curve aren't going to remember the big deal Nintendo made about these chips.
I don’t think this is correct. EU is pretty strong in favour of data localisation, UK is not. Moving customers to California doesn’t mean they are no longer under UK privacy rules, which of course are identical to EU privacy rules (for the foreseeable future, could change of course).
This is absolutely technically correct. Practically speaking, maybe not so much.

http://stockoptioncounsel.com/blog/standards-ownership-canth...
Unfortunately, the issue with MMS is it is very country specific. With some of the other big ticket items, since it is universal, you have a lot of people working on it.

MMS seems to be a big issue in the USA and France (and maybe couple of others? I have just noted those two so far). On top of it, it is a very complex issue. I spend as much time getting it to work as I do to try to fight misconceptions about it to try and motivate folks to want to help.

Thankfully now it is more of an integration issue than it is a "does it even function" issue. But the integration issue is not trivial either.
Backend. It's essentially an API gateway, although on my API it's just another endpoint. Behind the scenes it calls the other endpoints.
This is certainly possible - I am terrible at predicting the future! To clarify the logging in comment: site is free, but they require you to login to view content (what Medium is doing) and now you have a unique identifier that can be used track you across sites when shared locally ("login with Google" effect)
Agree. If these landlords saw their p&l on a screen like stocks, they would smash that sell button.
My issue is the whole “privacy practices may include handling of data as described below”, which on first read always sounds like “great, this app is handling my data for some reason”, only to be followed by “no data collected”. It’s pointlessly verbose to get that point across.
It's not really "run anywhere", but you can write apps for a trusted execution environment like Intel SGX enclaves; not even the OS can look at what's running. Enclave code is cryptographically signed so that you can both validate the identity of the signer as well as the code contents. In the latter, you'd have to compare the MRENCLAVE value to a published value, which you could reproduce by building from source if it's open.

Microsoft calls this "confidential computing" and has some related Azure products, including providing VMs standalone and in Kubernetes.
At my current gig, our infra team - who all use linux - regularly break the developer workflow for the rest of the org, which is around 80% macOS - by using unsupported bash or coreutils features. When I look at the scripts I want to pull my hair out, their use of bash goes far beyond glue code and rivals the complexity of some of our smaller micro services.
And staying on a version with CS is not possible? No one forces you to update.
Agreed. it drives me absolutely berserk that Reddit forces you to "Click to view more comments" just to see like 3 more comments.
Got a better one. Try to buy a car in the USA, directly from a manufacturer.
There's no PM, so I'm just commenting way in the past. I'm guessing you're a guy who's neither a model, super rich, or hyper charismatic?
It's si incredible that Pixel 2 still has better low light photos than latest iPhone
Speaking as someone who lives in a small city, if I weren't tied to my current location and could move to NYC or SF at a non-astronomical rent, I'd jump at the chance.
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Right, and they probably thought it was clever since it rhymes with tweet.
I mean, that's great for you, but people are bashing CDPR for a good reason: the last-gen console versions are unfinished buggy messes. In a few hours of playing I've had multiple crashes, constant bugs, drops to 15 FPS, just generally terrible performance. I've literally never played such a buggy game before. For a game that had 8 years of dev time the state of the game is pretty egregious
It's not a contradiction to say that you have inalienable rights and that it is not the duty of the US government to protect them.