skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a neat idea, but the colors seem off. For example, I search for tomato and I get #DC9385 which is a light rust color(?). Maybe this is just what I think as the color tomato should be is different. I would think a vibrant red. I know tomatoes come in different colors, but to me that is the color that immediately jumps to mind. Cool idea though.
Mental model: Life is an RPG video game
I tried this for 2 years. Eventually I ended up with 2 phones - the google store one (with a burner number) and the non google store one. Things like being able to order uber (you used to be able to order on the mobile browser) made life difficult. Eventually I gave up.

Current strategy is to only have a burner google account on the phone and rotate gmail accounts every year (on phone refresh). Keep personal google accounts off the phone (using linux desktop) with a vpn and in firefox with privacy settings.

Use containers on the browser - never mix google, whatsapp facebook and other activities.

Use a phone registered in EU for privacy settings. Use a paid burner gmail account (again I figure it is better for privacy).

Annoyingly I also need an iphone for i-message with family members.
They don’t always look the same though. Even as a very casual airplane enthusiast, I sometimes like to look back at older pictures of a plane to see what it looked like older paint schemes or under previous owners. Also, the planes/cars are somewhere in space and time, and the picture captures that.
> sending you notifications when one of your pre-existing contacts joins Signal

This was the main reason I didn't choose Signal a couple of years ago.

I don't want all the people who have me in their contact database or vice versa (I'm not sure which it is) to get that notification. It's none of their business that I've joined Signal or when I do. Especially not the commercial contacts.

I joined Telegram thinking it didn't do that notification, and was surprised and annoyed when just after joining someone in my phone contacts then started a surprise chat with me. Yet I've never received a notification about anyone joining Telegram, so I must be confused about this feature.

I completely agree about Signal conversation backup being the biggest issue. For my uses, a chat app that doesn't save non-secret conversations in a way I can keep and search long term is of little interest. The ability to transfer history between Android devices is no use if the reason for having a new device is the old one is lost or broken.

(I use a mix of Telegram "secret" chats (which aren't sync'd) and regular chats (which are) depending on the subject, generally preferring the latter if it's not sensitive. I often want to refer back to things or search them, especially things like photos, dates of events, agreements, etc.)
It'd be interesting to know how this compares with alternative solutions.

I might not understand the benefit proposition correctly, and I'm not specifically into Python for data work, but I immediately thought of things like feather[1], fst[2], disk.frame[3] and even DuckDB[4].

Some of these are on disk rather than in memory, but I'd still be interested in performance and use case comparisons.

[1] https://github.com/wesm/feather

[2] https://www.fstpackage.org/fst/

[3] https://diskframe.com/

[4] https://duckdb.org/
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> if you had multiple endpoint recordings you could probably identify likely deltas.

I would think this to be the case of blurring the watermarks in a video feed, but since every zoom feed on a single is so different that might not work. Most of the deltas are not intentional.
Yet they appoint right-wing Tory donors as their chairmen.

https://bylinetimes.com/2021/01/06/new-bbc-chairman-richard-...
Does it?

My point is that there are plenty of lobbies in America which are powerful and work on behalf of the non-rich. Fraternal Order of Police is the most obvious, but various unions are quite powerful as well depending on what State you're in.

NRA may be bankrupt, but their political strength is what caused so many to donate for their cause as well. I don't think NRA is traditionally seen as a rich-person thing either.

Think of the "heavy hitters" of American Politics: ACLU, NAACP, NRA, FOP. Decidedly working for non-rich causes. EFF is arguably for rich people (since it represents tech freedoms, and tech is generally rich).
Interesting - you mention testing a pulsing power supply next, is that right? Have you had any progress there yet?
That would costs actual resources server side. My guess is, that their entire architecture is designed to do as much as possible on the clients, because otherwise they could not offer a free service.
The vaccines being distributed in the US and EU have both completed _three_ stages of trials run under quite strict conditions (the only change being that parts of these trials were run in parallel instead of sequentially - see fig 1 from [1]).

People getting sick after only receiving the first shot is fully expected.
The efficacy of the Biontech vaccine was only 54% after the first shot and only rose to 94% after the second.
And notice that it is not 100%.. so you would still expect some people to get infected after the second shot.. just much fewer cases.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2798-3
Proximity on the Internet absolutely matters. If you are banned from social media and your page is on the 1000th page of google results, you have no proximity to centers of attention.

And just a tip - leave out the “you know you’re wrong, you know you’re lying” comments. They’re unnecessary, condescending, and don’t help your argument.
Indeed -- I really like the color "blargh" :-)
Pretty sad to see this insanity happening in such a beautiful country. I guess Thailand is due for a revolution. And it seems the West doesn’t care that much about human rights abuses as long as the government only oppresses its own people while playing nice with the West otherwise (like Saudi Arabia).
Did you read my post? I said it’s been decades since there was any far left terrorist attacks, and then I named two far left groups who did commit terrorist acts back then. I’m saying right now, currently, this century, there isn’t a problem with it, and the right wing is much more dangerous and more radicalized.
The strip in the foreground seems to be taxiway B[1], and not the runway (taxiways have yellow short lines, runways white long lines)

[1] https://skyvector.com/files/tpp/2014/pdf/00384AD.PDF
A couple of years ago I had the idea of creating some website plugins. When I came to the point of creating an embed code that would work with all scenarios I found that it was quite challenging and frustrating.

As a result I built Simplicity Blocks to scratch my own itch. It allows you to take a web application or even a web page built using any front-end framework or Vanilla JS and turn it into an embeddable widget. It also provides the ability to have an optional launcher (similar to what you would see with a chat button that you see on sites).

A second use case is for integrating micro apps (or micro front-ends) into a central page.

The service provides the logic needed to isolate the app from the host page, the ability to restrict domains that can use it as well as the mechanisms needed to communicate between the host page and the widget.

This is my first step as I have other features and ideas to expand upon this. I would love to here your feedback. Thank you!
That was a political choice to increase competition it also means that more £ goes to the talent.
What advantages does a blockchain have in this case that a conventional database wouldn't?
I'm angry that people like you continue to willfully misrepresent how the Internet works, and I'm having a hard time controlling that anger. I'm sorry about that.

Proximity on the Internet matters if you're trying to start the next Twitter. It does not matter if you're trying to exercise your right to freely speak. There are plenty of ways in which you can make your voice very vocally heard that don't involve the Internet at all.

To put it another way, you don't have to advertise an Internet location exclusively on the Internet. In fact, you have no right to advertisement or audience on the Internet at all.
It's the same for me on macOS (htop version 3.0.2). Threads aren't displayed with a different color and I also can't hide them.
Hopefully they can criticize the government all they want still. It's that storm the Capitol building looking to overthrow the government that is going to earn them a timeout.
can i rent it?
Putin's palace. History of largest bribe
There’s placement, and then there’s altering the storyline and photography of a scene to achieve the goal of advertising a product.

For example, there’s a difference in someone drinking a can of Coke, versus someone spending 30 seconds talking about how they love Coke, and adjusting the camera angles so that the Coke logo is always front and center.

It’s possible to do product placement that doesn’t take you out of the story. But recent stuff beats you over the head with it in ways that are inconsistent with normal behavior and it’s jarring, takes you out of the moment, and I have no idea how people tolerate it.
> It would be incredibly cost prohibitive to run servers with live transcoding at their scale with a widely used free tier.

From the article, it looks like video watermark is only available for a meeting with only signed in users and locked to a particular domain. I don't know their pricing model, but speculating - I wonder if those features mean it's only available on some sort of premium tier and they could live encode only those meetings?
Yes, possibly the Bullwhip Effect[1] at play.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect
Waldo's My Roommate? (Transcript)
Wuhan-lab researchers admit being bitten by coronavirus infected bats
That's for migraines, not general headaches.
I would be interested to know why you choose "Ulysses" and not "Odysseus"?

ps. I followed a conversation about James Joyce novel which was hinted that there is a difference between the two names and Joyce didn't pick "Ulysses" randomly. I'd like to know if you went through the same process.

UPDATE: Ok, I mis-read the comment, I though the name of the Novel was Ulysses, apparently it is an app.
> The United Kingdom is somewhat unique in the world for requiring those households which view broadcast television to purchase a licence for the privilege

Not really, we have that in Slovenia too.

In the past, you could avoid it by claiming you had no tv (and a grey-legal area of letting them verify). Then they expanded and added the "radio" part, where you paid less if you have a radio (and no tv), including car radio.

Then they added internet streaming, and expanded the definition of "tv" to "any device, capable of viewing streamed content" (pc, smartphone), so if you have a smartphone, you have to pay for tv, just because you have a device capable of watching a stream.

There have been many calls to just encrypt the over-the-air broadcasts, and create usernames and passwords for paying customers for streaming, but they prefer the "catch-all" definitions of "tv", so they can collect monthly subscriptions from pretty much every household in the country.

Our private tv stations are not much better... the most viewed one, did a nasty deal with the cable/iptv operators, wanting either a lot of money for their tv channels as a searate option, or less money if their tv stations are put into "basic"(=cheapest, smaller) cable packages, so they forced a price increase for every cable/iptv subscriber and there's no way to cancel just their channels.
The Myth of Fingerprints
If you're on a PaaS solution, I'd take a look at the built-in scheduler e.g. scheduled tasks in Kubernetes, fargate or scheduled tasks in Mesos via Singularity or other frontend.

If you aren't using a PaaS, take a look at hashicorp's nomad tool. It's worth noting that if your team uses microservices or just likes making lots of services, a self-hosted or cloud PaaS solution will save you inordinate amounts of time when it's used by more than 20 engineers.
Let's say someone want to use python first to create a few tensors with numpy, and then use another python package networkx to create a graph from the tensors just created and next to do some graph analysis with networkx.

It is easy to do it on a single machine in a single python runtime because data structures like tensors can be easily shared within a single python runtime.

It will become a bit harder to share the data across processes/Python runtime efficiently without expensive IO or serialization (doable with the help of things like plasma in Apache Arrow).

However, if we want to deal with "big data" that cannot be handled on a single machine, it will become very hard to share data without IO/serialization.
Vineyard can be used for such cases. It makes sharing big distributed data structures easy for different runtime.

There will be some added benefits with vineyard:
1. vineyard can handle the the IO, sharding/partitioning, failover and data migrations for the applications.

2. vineyard supports many out-of-the-box highly efficient data formats (such as Apache Arrow) and high-level abstractions which ease the difficulties of developing big data applications.

3. With stream data support, there is a possibility of enabling cross-process optimizations.

4. Fits K8s very well, where common data structures can live in a separated pod/container with its own resource limit.
I don't have a TV, nor do I need one. Would I get a rebate?
There are plenty of new hobbies that nobody would call “superior forms of entertainment”. (Although it seems strange to gatekeep entertainment when its only utility is to the person enjoying it)
Looks like color filling shapes is better ranked than strokes drawings. My artwork : https://paint.wtf/ranking/ZJ7I/3UdyfyDLMYLomWO1wKkF
Useful for finding label leaks in medical images (burned in radiologist marks for example)
At first I thought they meant Bang & Olufsen, a high-end brand that prefixes all their products with Beo [0]. But I guess the industry is making Beryllium drivers now [1].

[0] https://www.bang-olufsen.com/en/headphones/filter/over-ear

[1] https://blog.masterdynamic.com/article/know-your-sound-tool-...
It's true that with ideas, if you wait long enough, someone will do the work for you. I was toying with an idea of "novel markup", something that could let you track characters over scenes, geographical locations and interpersonal relationships.

Things got hairy quickly so it died on pages of my notebook. Glad someone gave it a go. A header tagging is probably better than inline I wanted to have.
That post sound sounds like it was written by someone who dreams of getting power and status. If power us your dream, working for a 3 letter is one way of getting it.
Easier way would be to get 2 copies of the same stream from 2 or more clients then compare. Repeat until extra/missing data is found.
IRP Lite 3.2, the Free BGP Network Optimization software is here
The main issue is that "simplicity" is a very ambiguous thing. If your language is "simple", you need to write the same low-level code again and again every single time, making your own code NOT simple. Pushing all the complexity away from our program into the language means that our code is simple, which is much more important. Any improvement to the compiler is spread for free to every single program compiled by it.

(I'm a go user, though)
(I am not a lawyer disclaimer applies)

They are yet to issue the final regulation - existing entities have around two years to comply. This is HUGE, so I am sure we will hear more about this in the coming months.
Its funny how everyone who really tried seems to be going for the carrots :)
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I commented on this, right next to your question:
"Well, view could speed up code, but it also had some overhead, so creating lots of views came with a cost that would sometimes outweigh the benefit."

So yes, there was indeed perf improvements previously, they were simply not as lightweight as they are now.
I've seen no reliable sources make the claim that Parler was built on WordPress. To the best of my knowledge this stems from a misunderstanding, and Parler had a WordPress blog which was compromised, but that is a completely separate system to the main social media site, which is not WordPress.
It's a writing-focused word processor for MacOS and iOS.

https://ulysses.app/
This can't be right : it claims the worlds first.

I distinctly remember a Lego sorter here on HN, from one of our very own.

edit, here we go : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14226889
ProWritingAid integrates with Scrivener and provides grammar checking, repeated words, and much more to help you improve whatever you're writing.
http://prowritingaid.com/
I've looked into this a few times and it always seemed like there is a huge abundance of servo motors, but the market for servo amplifiers seems to be tiny in comparison. I always suspected this is because the electronics of decommissioned machines are just scrapped wholesale. However, I am also wondering what people are doing with all these servo motors without matching cabling and amplifiers.
Less toxic than law enforcement knocking on my door to see if I have a damn television. I'd rather reign in authoritarianism.
I can't wait 'till Parcel 2 is stable, but yeah with Parcel you just include it and boom, it works.

Adapting existing projects is harder though.
On joining a startup after 8 years of consulting
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It isn’t anyone else’s problem that you can’t control your anger.

Yes, clearly places like Speaker’s Corner exist in real life. That is not up for debate. The issue is that an extremely small amount of American corporations are allowed to decide what is deemed acceptable to discuss online. If deemed unacceptable, you are relegated to the outskirts and often denied access to say, credit. (This has actually happened.) Do you not see the issue with this?

It’s precisely like my city center example. Yes, in literal terms you are free to start your restaurant outside the city. No one is preventing you. In practical, real life terms that actually affect real culture, it absolutely matters. Especially when you decide to exile so many people outside the city that they become radicalized and start attacking you. Creating more echo chambers doesn’t help anyone.
I think that's more common than not. You're doing things other people want you to do and pay you for, not what you find interesting. And you're not just doing them when you're inspired to do so but all the time whether you feel like it or not.
Those pilots do some of the most dangerous and impressive flying. I hope it works out for them!
The moment a piece of knowledge becomes important, it can spread fast enough to reach almost everyone. "open this in settings, enter these numbers for youtube" doesn't require average iq to remember. And even if you can't recall, you can refer those in need to the person who told you.
> So they can't just adjust it at will. The fee is set for several years in advance and increased from time to time to adjust for inflation etc.

What stops legislators from adjusting the fee at will? There’s legislation enacting the fee, defining the fee, enforcing the fee. Surely, there can be legislation to modify the fee and remove the fee. Same as any other tax.
No, I know there's a difference, what I'm saying is that any recipe that says "caramelize the onions for 20 minutes" means cook the onions for 20 minutes.

I gather you think very poorly of chefs and recipe writers, but, really, no recipe-writer tests a recipe by cooking the onions for an hour and then writes "20 minutes" to try and win some speed sweepstakes.
Below median intelligence, for average we don't know.
I pity you if you can't understand the difference. Really.
I agree, but I also disagree. There is a lot of discomfort that has nothing to do with long-term physical damage to your body. The author takes the distinction for granted:

> I’d have stopped if I felt like I was truly injured

I think what the author is talking about is that we start as children from a position of trusting discomfort unconditionally. It distresses us, and we avoid it. Through experience, we learn that that the distress that many types of discomfort causes us is disproportionate, and we start to react to it differently. We even learn to associate certain types of discomfort with the reward of hard work. If life doesn't force these experiences upon us, we have to get them by choice, or else our lives can end up overly constrained by discomfort that we never learned to put into context.

But you're right as well. In the gym, people first learn what their bodies can do when they use emotion and bravado to unlock levels of effort and discomfort they had never experienced before. As they gain that ability, they also learn to moderate it, to use it wisely in the context of how their body responds to what they're doing with it. The first without the second is dangerous, and the second without the first is constricting.
Interesting. Does that make it kinda midway between "pure" MarkDown and reStructuredText? As in, it's a bit more powerful than pure MarkDown, but still lighter to use than reStructuredText?

I mean, if you don't mind summoning the awesome power of something like Visual Studio Code, you could also write reStructureText with live preview (there's a VSCode extension for that, IIRC).
Looks very interesting, but the example given ("John is very unique") and the warning given by proselint for it illustrates why this is a veritable mine-field, and why what sleepysysadmin asks for isn't really possible (but that's ok - having a tool flag possible issues is still great)

The example warning is certainly worth giving, but conversely Merriam-Webster points out that "very unique" is a common construction when "unique" is used in the sense "unusual", though most frequently used in less formal contexts. And so it may or may not be justified depending on what you're writing...

Having gone back and forth with a real editor for a novel, half the effort was a conversation with the editor based on questions about intent and preferred tone and style, in order to come to agreement on things she had flagged as possible issues where it was not clear whether or not a change ought to be made or not.

I'm absolutely going to take a closer look at proselint, though.
No it is really common
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A high-speed computer vision pipeline for the universal Lego sorting machine
> [...] due to their mistakes in protecting sources.

This is plainly false.

Neither of them worked directly on the Reality Winner story, especially including handling the leaked material.
I think it’s Americans that are confused. They don’t allow any subtlety but scream “socialism” as soon as something deviates the slightest bit from their current system. This is probably by design to suppress meaningful discussion of a system that benefits the people on the top.
It's a shame they didn't even mention Germany in the article, considering that's where the king actually lives.
I agree. Perhaps, like sentences, blog posts should be required to express a complete thought. The top level commenter (at this moment) has some insight about British audiences that would have been great in the post.