skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you bought this expecting life changing gains, and maybe that is how OP is coming across too?

These things are not life changing, but they have their fun use cases. If you can accept that it’s not going to 10x your productivity and just want something technically neat maybe you’ll find a use for it again.

Or not, and you can just sell it for a quick buck :p
I mean, we kinda already have plug and play, just mostly for older, popular games.

New issues always crop up whenever there's a new AAA title with the latest tech. It's inevitable.
A civil war disintegrated Yugoslavia. Is a conflict that created a border a border conflict?
Question for the Americans - is Mavis Beacon a reasonable name for someone to be called where you come from?

I grew up in the UK and for me it was always obviously just a company who had an eponymous avatar that lead the teaching. I would put that down to the fact that I would never expect Mavis Beacon to be the name of a person but a perfectly reasonable name for a company.
Yes, it did. Here's the fix for one of the ext4 corruption bugs: https://lwn.net/Articles/645722/ (see also https://lwn.net/Articles/645720/).

The one you're referring to is https://lwn.net/Articles/774440/ which is a different bug.

I should add that as a user, what matters to me is the reliability of my data. If a bug exists outside of fs/ext4 in the kernel but affects only ext4 and not other filesystems (such as https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxNDQ which was caused by an ext4-related commit, and similar others in prior years), this makes ext4 unreliable for me.
Financial services don't have tarrifs because they're totally banned in many cases. You can't offer banking services or insurance in the EU unless your regulated by an EU member or covered under a trade agreement. But a bank etc in one member country can offer them in all other member countries, that's called passporting.

Right now, if you want to IPO a Germany company, your friendly Goldman Sachs banker in London can do the whole thing over email.

But from 00:01CET 01/01/21, that banker will need to move to the EU, establish residency, get approval to open GoldmansEU, open it (including getting the correct training and certification and moving a tonne of money there), setup to pay taxes and abide by local and EU regs, and then call the client back.

He'll sack his UK staff or try and take them. He'll stop paying UK taxes. He'll stop funding the UKs Museums and Operas and Lamboghini dealerships.

Financial services for the world's largest, most developed market has been a massive boon for the UK. Its funded everything else we've done.

Passporting was the core economic thing we wanted in a trade deal. Fishing and farming and manufacturing are all worth less than just banking. And we didn't get it.

But we can continue to sell some cod as long as we abide by Brussels decisions so I guess I need to retrain...
I recently upgraded to an M1 Mac after my 2016 MacBook Pro died. It's an awesome machine; however, when I tried to install Lightroom 6, I wasn't able to because the installer isn't 64 bit. As a hobbyist who edits photos only a handful of times a year – usually after trips or photoshoots – moving to a subscription model is really costly. What's silly is that I was able to use Lightroom 6 on my 2016 MBP, even after upgrading to Big Sur. I don't blame Adobe for not supporting a product that came out 5 years ago but how nice would it be if they did.
Grinch Covid stole Christmas 2020
It is! This is what Doctor Octopus is doing in (the original) Spider Man 2. He built his arms to help contain the reaction.
Americans give to charity like never before amid pandemic
The benefit to the deal is that without the deal, there would be no free trade with the countries the UK does the majority of its free trade with.

In comparison to remaining, the overall decision to leave whilst putting the deal in place ensure that UK [i] decoupled from a political project it had already negotiated an arms-length relationship with [ii] satisfied the sort of person enraged by seeing Polish shops that we could start denying Polish people visas should we wish to do so, whilst net migration is actually expected to continue at similar levels to before and we now face similar mostly theoretical restrictions on our own ability to live in EU countries
and [iii] negotiated a slightly larger share of a fish quota, a political priority which has seen significantly more lucrative industries take the hit instead.

We also have more ability to not follow EU law or product/service guidelines, but whether that's a benefit or not depends on which person you ask who's affected by which regulation
Science cannot be trusted, right?
De jure yes, de facto no (England and Wales is still technically the UK).

FWIW, the Tories probably going to be in power for at least another half-decade or two.
Damn good example, I loved 2049!
For Blender, I've really liked this video, and others by the same chap: https://youtu.be/1jHUY3qoBu8

For game dev, I'd start with something with a UI and general-purpose like Godot or Unity, or if you're not a coder, maybe GameMaker and its ilk.
Building in Public
Someone better name their next paper after Hans Holbein
I went electric because with proper brushing habits electric vs manual matters less.

You're supposed to be making tons of small circular strokes and reaching every surface and taking the right amount of time... but it's easy to mess that up subtly. A lot of people make wide strokes for example or are unable to get the large head of the toothbrush in the corners of their teeth or use too much pressure...

That's why I went with the reciprocating electric toothbrush over the vibrating kind. The reciprocating type has a smaller head that can reach more places, and it's less dependent on correct usage than the vibrating kind.

Mine vibrates to let me know roughly how long to spend in each quadrant of my mouth and lights up red if I'm pushing too hard
In which ways does Craft remind you of Google Keep?
Yeah, I expect software to work for longer than 5 years.
MS works hard to keep software running and I may still have same computer that I had 5 years ago, so why wouldn't it work?
The old software development model where users are buying the license for a specific version of a program and then use it and only come back to spend more when they need an upgrade is pretty much dead now. Most software moved to either free downloads with paid support (even Windows these days?) or to membership-based model (Adobe, Office365).

The reason is that as you add features and fix bugs in a software, fewer users need the upgrade (why spend another 150$ on this year's release for some features I never use?). But the development team still needs to be paid and the advanced features they add each year tend to be harder to implement, so over time the costs are increasing while sales go down.

Adobe might be successful with this business model because they have a strong market in professionals but they definitely lost the amateurs and hobbyists.

EDIT to add: also it didn't help that CPUs and OS APIs haven't had major changes in more than a decade. There was no major reason for a large majority of users to upgrade (such as the move to 64 bit CPUs).
My pleasure! I learned about it on HN as well, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25088683 for a recent (amazing) post
No. The problem is that to git, a branch is just a reference to the commit currently at the tip of that branch - the rest of the commit graph is completely anonymous sans its position in that graph.

Where in SVN it's implicit in the paths a commit touches and in CVS it's a specific field in the RCS metadata for a commit, in Git it's a big graph problem it isn't overly interested in solving.

And yes, people keep asking about the legacy username thing - I'll get to it :)
Glad they did. We have to help one another
I think that's an understated point. We certainly haven't stopped phishing from being successful - but we have heavily increased the rate at which malicious emails get reported. Most of these bad emails do get sent to a lot of people after all.

That makes it actionable - if something looks nasty I can detect every recipient and have it deleted from their inbox. I can report block malicious URLs on the firewall and report them to Google Safebrowse, and so on.
I'll grant you it certainly does depend on the circle, but we're on a pretty dorky forum so I don't think our circles are particularly representative :p

But to me, while a fitness-focused watch does signal sportiness etc, which are great qualities, so does a heartrate strap or sweat band. You wouldn't wear it in the office, at a dinner, or at a party. Of course those are some extreme examples that aren't 1:1 comparable with a garmin. But the general principle to me is the same, to me a garmin 945 looks great on people doing sports, and out-of-place on people not wearing sports clothes.

I think this looks really classy for example, and could easily be worn on something casual (that's not sport clothes) or formal, without looking out of place: https://media.karousell.com/media/photos/products/2019/04/15...

The way that the watch is mostly screen and that screen can show a style compatible with any situation, with swappable bands, is a lot more stylish and versatile than something bulky, with a very large bezel, limited watch face choices, a dim low-resolution screen, often not always-on etc. (not sure 'bout the 945 on all of these btw, just my general impression).
Disagree with your final point.

The last thing the EU wants is disruption - ever. They want clear, stable operations backed by huge bureaucracy.

They'll be glad Brexit is over so they can just get on with BAU. The ordeal of an independent Scotland forming and applying to join would be a huge disruption.
Does NI actually have incentives to unite with the Republic?

I mean, with the current agreement they already have special status (no borders) and I think NI people can get Irish Citizeship easily.

It sounds "nice" to have a unified Ireland from a purely simplification perspective but I wonder if it's actually a popular idea in NI.
I'm aware your claim is your culture is good, I never claimed you admit it's bad. My claim was needing to avoid real attack vectors is a good sign the cultural is bad and security is theater about how much it's worked on rather than how real risks were discovered, tracked, and approached.

I agree this shouldn't need to be a "gotcha stunt" though but if this would be to you then yes you're doing it/communicating it/following it up wrong. It should be an awareness call that phishing is going to target you in very thoughtfully real and meaningful ways, not just boring fake tickets/issues or the like. If you can't find a way to send that message in your org then again I claim your org already has bad culture as it can't talk about or examine real security issues and instead has the first reaction to a real risk that you're just trying to improve your reporting numbers again.

Also a small year end bonus being not only considered exciting but not existing at all is probably the real callousness problem in the org, not that one points out the allure of money is used by malicious actors to get people to click things. But that's separate from the whole role of security discussion.
Based on probably third-hand info, but I believe the ECJ is gone but Britian is still under the obligation to adhere to the ECHR, which is a Council Of Europe institution, not an EU one.
Given they don't even support 5120x1440 on displayport on Mac OS, while bootcamp windows can on the same hardware, Apple just is not prioritizing external hardware that isn't in their store.
> Yes - but now we can trade with those countries on our terms, not an aggregated decision on how we can trade set by EU legislation.

No, we trade with those countries on the terms of our trade agreements with those countries, which will more or less be the higher of each partners' standards on each involved aspect (unless there is no trade agreement at all, then it's WTO terms which are the same the EU would get).

The only realistic difference to trade policy being out of the EU is that we can lower our standards with respect to the EU when negotiating deals with third countries. The EU already had some of the highest standards in the world for workers rights, food safety and animal welfare and safety, and I don't think we'll be selflessly rising above those any time soon.
The PM motivates developers? I’m quite motivated, thank you.
I use an 8bitdo in xbox emulation mode -- I think as long as the controller emulates an xbox controller (I imagine a lot of them do), it'll work fine.

It just has to be recognized as an HTML5 gamepad (there are various HTML5 tester sites online)
The critical problem I think is that this trade deal only covers products, not e.g. financial services. And a very significant fraction of UK exports to EU were services.
The think the punchline was they used Cython to wrap a C++ library, which is its purpose. They had to understand the GIL and callbacks.
changed the game by jumping teams to play with other superstars so that he could win. Definitely started the big three era until the warriors dynasty ended. Back to big twos and it's so much more interesting when 6-8 teams can win.
> Why can’t people sell and buy vacuums that meet their needs? If I have a need for a 3000 watt vacuum, he EU won’t let me have it, even though I pay not only for the product, but any power it consumes.

But you probably always could - seeing as industrial vacuum cleaners are outside the scope of the regulation. Maybe you really want a 3KW ‘domestic’ vacuum but they probably never existed, in the same way that a Smart Car with a truck engine doesn’t. I found this document from the EU itself with a brief search that clarifies this
https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/commission_guidel...

I admit it’s probably more dry than any sensationalist newspaper that wants to sell clicks and yes, the EU could’ve done a lot more to publicise the actual truth around this.
You could have just called him "Johnson". To use his birth forename seems especially inappropriate when you are explicitly commenting on the behaviour of his political persona, not on his personal life.
What do you think would be an appropriate follow up roughly?
I use Affinity Photo instead of Photoshop, though only because I can also use it on my iPad. GIMP is quite good these days, and meets my needs (as someone who is not a hardcore professional artist).
When you sell to any country you sell on their terms. When they sell to your country, they sell on your terms. You always have to meet their regulations unless you are so more powerful that you can twist their arm and do as you wish.
Same situation in Scotland. There were no bare shelves, and probably an over-supply of frozen turkeys.
Trying to be charitable, I think that is about people failing FizzBuzz not LC Hard.
My favorite anecdote from working in health care was a VP asking if we could use—-trust OpenSSL, because it wasn’t version 1.0, and it was 0.9.8, and instead should we license an encryption product.
Importantly though the UK does not need to apply those rules and standards to domestic trade (which is over 90% of it).
I would believe they've improved over time. But my comment wasn't that pandora had a poor catalog. It was that they wanted to play mainstream songs instead. Perhaps not even mainstream, but just very specific songs. They had a lot of artist's whole discographies but only a subset would ever come on. I can still remember a few of them for me:

royksopp - this must be it

trapt - headstrong

ladytron - destroy everything you touch

Some sort of remix of the hand that feeds by Nine Inch Nails (I think it was the photek remix or something)

I got these songs a lot on many stations, and nothing else by those artists ever, haha.

I don't hold a grudge from 10 years ago though
We are chasing the wrong things. Our conceptualization of the problem domain is fundamentally insufficient. Even if we took our current state of the art and scaled it up 1,000,000x, we are still missing entire aspects of intelligence.

The AI revolution is very likely something that will require a fundamental reset of our understanding of the problem domain. We need to identify a way to attack the problem in such a way that we can incrementally scale all aspects of intelligence.

The only paradigm that I am aware of which seems to hint parts of the incremental intelligence concept would be the relational calculus (aka SQL). If you think very abstractly about what a relational modeling paradigm accomplishes, it might be able to provide the foundation for a very powerful artificial intelligence. Assuming your domain data is perfectly normalized, SQL is capable of exploring the global space of functions as they pertain to the types. This declarative+functional+relational interface into arbitrary datasets would be an excellent "lower brain", providing a persistence & functional layer. Then you could throw a neural network on top of this to provide DSP capabilities in and out (ML is just fancy multidimensional DSP).

If you know SQL you can do a lot of damage. Even if you aren't a data scientist or have a farm of Nvidia GPUs, you can still write ridiculously powerful queries against domain data and receive powerful output almost instantaneously. The devil is in the modeling details. You need to normalize everything very strictly. 20-30 dimensions of data derived into a go/no-go decision can be written in the same # of lines of SQL if the schema is good. How hard would this be on the best-case ML setup? Why can't we just make the ML write the SQL? How hard would it be for this arrangement to alter its own schema over time autonomously?
The four freedoms of the EU are asserting the primacy of free markets and the importance of trade.
Much of the rest of the EU is structures to try and tame and regulate the negative effects of these freedoms, and then endlessly work around closing loopholes in the previous regulations.

I think much of the EU laws were breakable / bendable / vetoable especially as one of the large members, so I don't think that was really a concern.

The issue was that the EU was held up as an example onto which to project (in the case of the UK at least) some rather right wing economics. The primacy of markets, the need for competition, the unease of public or cooperative ownership, the importance of trade no matter what was being traded, fiscal responsibility i.e. 'balancing the books' which was the theoretical underpinning for austerity.

It will still function in this role, but maybe with less of a role.

In addition . The Common Agricultural Policy. This is a horrific way of subsidising some environmental destructive practices, and in the case of the UK at least a way of reinforcing regressive historical land ownership and inequality issues. This now ends in the UK.

The main thing I see though is that it will force UK to focus on structural issues in their economy and society and environment that were previously at best just ignored (and contributed themselves to the result of the Brexit vote), at worst assumed that they were being handled by an assumed enlightened and benevolent superstrate.
When all that existed was just another artificial power structure that was subject to just the same issues of all power structures; politics, vested interests, lobbying, control by capital, corruption. Only it was of a distance from everyday life and normal political scrutiny and engagement that people could just outsource some idealised values onto it and ignore it or at least offer it none of the scepticism and scrutiny that structures closer to them were subjected to.
Oh, interesting, I hadn't considered how those territories worked. They're not in a customs union with the US then?
It seems like a lot of criticism of Python is directed at the data science community but I'm curious what the alternative is here?

Is it surprising people trained in math are writing hard to maintain programs? Is biology+Perl any better (I'd argue worse).

What languages exist that are hard to write bad code in? I've worked at places that rewrite abominations of Java every 5 years because they are such coupled, unmaintainable messes.

JPMC has Athena and Pinterest seem firmly committed to Python. I know some people that worked at Braintree (now part of PayPal) that heavily used Python

Home Assistant and Ansible are two massive OSS projects
Companies like Adobe don't have much of a reason to cater to these unprofitable use cases. They're going to go deep on maximizing customer lifetime value (CLV) for folks willing to pay more. That's how they keep (or more probably, their only option) for delivering double-digit growth year-over-year, which becomes challenging once reaching a certain size.
> It has 11 clinics specialising in bariatric weight loss surgery, breast enlargements, nipple corrections and nose adjustments.

It doesn't seem like that was done at these clinics.
Worth pointing out the truck backlog is unrelated to Brexit.
> it's very common for ethicists to have advanced degrees in the scientific/technical area.

Maybe, I can't tell, I am missing hard data on the distribution of degrees among ethicists. The one from Facebook whose lectures I attended had no technical degree but multiple degrees related to philosophy and sociology. One of the first lecture statements was that "technology is inherently about power", which is obviously how people outside tech perceive us and what many SWEngs are naively missing as we tend to think it's all about fun and self-realization (well, OK, it's dystopian now after profit-sensing individuals invaded our field). So those people outside want to regulate us with "ethics", i.e. creating power structures they rule and we need to consult for permissions.

> sheet paranoia

Was this truly a line of thought you wanted me to follow in order to become unreasonable?
18 hours is absurd, IMO. I have a Garmin Instinct Solar that gets up to 24 days of battery life without any solar exposure (there's unlimited battery life with enough exposure unless you use GPS a lot). I get notifications for any phone app I want, plus GPS when I need it and a multitude of fitness tracking, including round the clock heart beat monitoring. I can't use it as a phone or send texts (though I can read them) so I guess that's where it "lags" behind the Apple Watch. I think it's the perfect fitness tracker that's also a rugged watch.
Is that true? When the UK was part of the EU, goods manufactured in the UK would have to comply with UK laws, which would have to be equivalent to or stronger than the EU laws.
> Question for the Americans - is Mavis Beacon a reasonable name for someone to be called where you come from?

I would say so. Mavis is a bit old fashioned, but it was a very common name at one time[1]. Beacon is not a common last name, but IMDB does list a few people with that as their last name[2] (and a lot more with "Deacon" as their last name; I could totally buy the B and D getting switched out at some point in the family's history, especially if they immigrated in the 19th century when record-keeping was much less stringent).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavis

[2] https://www.imdb.com/find?q=beacon&s=nm&ref_=fn_al_nm_mr
Urban Shaman, by Serge Kahili King.
Building in Public, Join In
Use Blu-Ray instead of CD, because the optical layer of all normal recordable CDs (and DVDs) is susceptible to fungi.

BD-R (except LTH) use an inorganic layer to record on.
See this, from a high school science teacher, for an overview. TL;DR rapid burial in high mineral content soil creates the best chance of fossilization

https://socratic.org/questions/what-conditions-increase-the-...
There are several markets.

It is a very different thing, wether you are responsible IT guy for a +20 seat Agency/Studio, where everything has to run top-notch all the time and everyone is schooled in Adobe from college on.

Or if you are, for instance, a freelance photographer who does wedding cards.