skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, if you pipe a data stream to it, it can't tell what the size is going to be and you'd need the --size option. The progress bar is still default, though.
Global Warming Could Alter fur and feathers Colors of animals
I like visiting cities and every now and then I've idly thought it would be nice to have a small city place. But 1.) Housing prices in said city are pretty eye-watering, not SF or NYC levels, but enough and 2.) You know what? If I actually wanted to periodically get my taste of city life, nothing is keeping me from getting a hotel room or AirBnB for a week. But I don't actually care enough to do that.
A Technical Overview of Internet of Things (IoT)
I live in Texas and recently went to Missouri, I was absolutely flabbergasted that there were almost literally zero fences! Whole neighborhoods were just house after house and lawns in between. Was quite a refreshing new experience for me.
It'd be fun to edge-detect the close in shots at a couple different frequencies, & use it to build a terrain map. Go run around the cracks in the painting.

Limitless human creativity is the fun answer. ;)
I'd love to buy one of these, but I can't get over the potential legal repercussions of running one, especially within ones own home.

In college, I was terrified of even attempting to research drone hacking due to the federal restrictions on tampering with radio signals, especially those outside the range for Wifi 2.4gz. They even still applied to researchers with approval, from what I understood, and it was just considered a gray area.

Can someone please explain how others are so accepting of the risk? Am I missing something? Sorry if it has been addressed and I'm just late to the game.
The issue is that male fertility and testosterone keeps falling consecutively every year in developed countries. We don’t know why. If I were to guesss, it’s due to the use of plastics with our food. Even without extremes of temperature, research has found that plastic will leech synthetic hormones like BPA (synthetic estrogen) and BPS. This is making its way into almost all of our food and drink

On the bright side, the threat of overpopulation is lessened
I enjoy being able to grep the 200,000 books I have downloaded as part of the Pile that was on HN a while back. It allowed me to do things like "show me all the paragraphs where 'Edmund Burke' and 'patriotism' appear close to each other." This seems to be a similar thing, just with less books.
On the other hand, if you tested everyone using this strategy and quarantined those who tested positive, you'd eliminate Covid in two months.

If adding a magic doggie in to deliver the news would help compliance, all the better!
Your list of “anywhere else” must be pretty fucking short if you really believe that.
The same reason you should be logged in as root. It has its uses, but you need to be careful as it can be easy to forget you’re running as root and screw something up. Explicitly putting `sudo` before every command makes it clear what you’re doing.
Exactly. I don't care about cookies because I block all of them anyway except on sites I need to login to, which means those sites won't be able to remember cookie accept/decline settings either because ironically they need another cookie to store that setting.

I used a bunch of custom CSS until I got tired of it, then I started using uBlock Origin which also helps block other annoyances like those stupid "Can I help you?" chat bubbles and other popups on various websites.
The parallel to requiring naturally bearded people to shave their facial hair off is very close.

Both are potentially mildly damaging, and they take roughly similar amounts of time to reverse.
In my house, it lasts about 20 minutes.
Yes, because the surface isn't flat. At these magnifications, any given field of view may be tilted toward one of the light sources, changing the relative contribution of the specular reflection off of the varnish as well as the reflected color from the paint surface. The apparatus doesn't have the ability to tilt to maintain a constant angle to the surface; it can only pan in the x-y plane and do focus stacking in the z-direction. Additionally, the left and right light sources were hand-positioned and there is no way to calibrate their exact geometry and relative brightness and color.
Is it just like having dark skin in white-majority countries, or worse?

/r/2020PoliceBrutality
Ask HN: Has the pandemic made you think again about mental illness?
Several years ago, I was diagnosed with social anxiety disorder (which presumably I still have), and I think it's had a strange effect on my experience of isolation during the pandemic.

When lock-down began, I didn't mind the isolation; on the contrary, lock-down allowed me to indulge my tendency to isolate myself from people. That feeling lasted a few months, but now (after hearing about others' expectations of happiness after the pandemic prompted me to ruminate) I'm more anxious than before lock-down.

I'm not receiving mental healthcare now (because I "completed" my previous bouts of mental healthcare, even though I don't think they had much effect).

I do have a support network of sorts, but I'm not sure how best to raise my problems. I'll probably seek professional help again, but I suspect activating my support network could transform the success of treatment.
I use YAM display[1] with a 2012 macbook and an ipad mini from 2015, which works great!

I don't think you can use another mac as a second screen though.

[1]: https://www.yamdisplay.com/
> JS managed to migrate to ES6.

"We have nearly endless money and therefore we can make any new feature by treating older versions of our langage as bytecode and write transpilers for it".
It was your time, right up to the point where you pledged it to them as part-and-parcel of the employment arrangement.

If job A requires 10 hours of my day because of the commute while job B requires only 8 hours to accomplish the same thing, then employer A is paying me for all 10 of those hours even though they think they’re only paying me (25% more) for 8 of them.
Ask HN: How to find technical jobs in medicine/academia?
It seems non-trivial to find technical (software engineer, data scientist, etc) positions in academic research groups. Many jobs are not advertised through corporate job channels and ones posted do not seem sufficiently well paid or actually technical (no mention of coding)...
Uh, have they acknowledged their mistakes?

One or two of them are in this comment section right now, denying culpability and fanning flamewars.

Not quite the behavior of the repentant.
As an anecdote, our complete family was infected early December. I lost my smell and taste capacities for about 4 days. My wife and oldest son (13) still have very limited smell and taste.

But now, I still cannot smell my body odour when I sweat. Normally, it is really a strong odour. But not any more. As my wife and oldest son cannot smell, I cannot ask them and going next door and ask if I smell or not after doing a workout is not something I want to do right now :-D

I would not be surprised if dogs could smell a disruption in the "normal human body odour pattern".

This is just a unique sample point without statistical value but if you have the same experience, do not hesitate to contact me.
Daily Stand-Up Meetings: Start Breaking the Rules
25 years for me

> Clever code isn't usually good code. Clarity trumps all other concerns.

Agreed, with exceptions... the problem domain matters. HFT code definitely demands code that is clever, but isn't clear such as bit twiddling, template tricks, and very architecture specific solutions. Gaming - Carmack's fast inverse square root. Compilers - Duff's device. I'm sure there are others.

I'd add one: Someone else did it first and better. Pretty much everything you'll encounter that's non-trivial, is likely an algorithm and done by someone else better, correctly, and faster. There's nothing wrong with knowing the algorithms, but Knuth, Hoare, et al. probably did it first, and correctly. Don't be afraid to find the best algorithm implementation in your language.
I hope to never meet someone who's violated an iceberg.
A consideration of the Japanese saying "The nail that sticks up gets hammered down": https://www.tofugu.com/japan/conformity-in-japan/
Apparently, the Miami Heat (NBA) are also using dogs to screen fans for coronavirus. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/30770833/heat-use-corona...
Conservatism is a lot more expansive than just "fiscal conservatism." The Republican Party as originally constituted wasn't even fiscally conservative.

Most center-left people and center-right people just don't meaningfully disagree on, e.g., whether we should still have Social Security. Social and political conservatism are the flashpoints.

For examples consider the 1619 Project. It freaks out social and political conservatives because veneration of society's history and institutions is a basic precept. This is not something unique to American Republicans. I once had a Japanese acquaintance go through several hundred years of history to explain to me why Japanese culture is less susceptible to political corruption than Chinese culture. Conservatives internalize the saying that "90% of everything is crap." They believe that our current prosperity is the product of a set of societal choices, and we need to install respect for those choices because if we try something new, there is a 90% probability it will be bad and harmful.

Liberals are, by their nature, don't venerate history, and are optimistic about new ideas. It doesn't matter to them that there are almost no examples of successful countries that cast an intensely critical eye on their own history. They don't think we need to venerate Jefferson, the Constitution, etc., to preserve our democracy. They're optimistic that we can replace reliance on history and tradition with new frameworks and new ideas. And they're confident that those things will turn out well.
Things I've learned after 10 years in the industry
Good point. If you are already using an adblocker and are interested in this then you can just ad the fanboy list from easylist to your adblocker.
12 foot fence? That's got to at least double the cost. It’s hard for me to understand people who go to such tremendous lengths to hide from the world. Like my old neighbors who closed every blind in the house the day they moved in and never opened them again. I don’t care what people do in their house... but that’s weird.
Show HN: Plant-based flavor enhancer – hack your tastebuds to eat healthy
Wozi is a plant-based flavor enhancer that not only sweetens foods, but also allows you to satisfy your cravings with healthy foods in just 30 seconds. It doesn't have any bitter/"chemical" aftertaste like other alternative sweeteners and also a single serving will last you 30-60 minutes regardless of how much food you eat with it.

Here is a 30 second demo I presented at Pioneer’s demo-day. Check out Avichal Garg’s reaction (investor in Cruise, Boom Supersonic, Optimizley, and many more): https://youtu.be/XC5fSUtbf_0

It is made from Synsepalum dulcificum, more commonly known as the miracle berry. This fruit has been used for centuries by tribes in Western Africa to make their food more delicious. The miracle berry contains a protein that safely and temporarily binds to your tastebuds to make sour foods taste sweet as well as remove unpleasant bitter and tart flavors. For instance, bite into a lemon and it will taste like lemonade. It allows you to discover flavors previously masked by those unpleasant tastes. A strawberry tastes even more "strawberry" and a plain greek yogurt now tastes much more creamy like a cheesecake.

Wozi is the first miracle berry product that is convenient for daily use. Whereas competing products take 5-10 minutes to dissolve, mine takes 30 seconds to dissolve and contains only NATURAL ingredients. It also has pop rocks to not only make the experience more fun, but also give you a cue for when you’re ready to start eating.

I believe miracle fruit has the potential to take willpower out of the equation of a healthy diet by making nutritious foods taste as indulgent as the junk foods that we crave. No one has the patience to wait 5 minutes in the morning while they are rushing to school or work, so I knew this is what needed to be changed in order for miracle berry to go mainstream.

Please check out my website for more information and demos. Your feedback would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to ask me anything!
If I remember correctly, this feature is based on Miracast which means that it also works for most WiFi-enabled TVs.

Very useful for presentations, if the Intel drivers and TV manufacturer code have mercy on you that day and work without crashing, artefacts or random disconnects.
i see. interesting problem
> Why don't you compare the US to countries that aren't island nations or quasi-island nations, like the EU?

How is the EU a quasi-island nation in a way that the US doesn’t also qualify as?

I selected those countries because they’re democracies who learned from the original SARS and immediately deployed strong measures to prevent economic damage. We failed to contain spread and are paying the economic price now for that earlier politicization because we have so much community spread that control is much harder now than it would have been. You should be directing your anger at the people who refused to take basic safety precautions or operate their businesses safely and ensured that we would have no option which isn’t expensive and painful.
I'm sure this has become worse. It seems to have happened with the change in many places to "academy" schools, where appearance reigns and they're run like businesses.

In the 1990s-2000s, when my parents were both teachers and I was at school, "uniform" meant wearing the correct colours (e.g. dark trousers or skirt, white shirt/t-shirt, blue jumper/sweater). It was still ridiculous, but being punished for it would require repeatedly breaking those rules. The usual response was the teacher saying "tuck your shirt in, William".
In the last 2 years or so Win 10 has gotten aggressive about restoring configuration changes (e.g. the fruits of all that telemetry research.)

I have found that my PATH entry reverted at least once after I tried to hide the system Python and I am also wonder if Microsoft will use their 'monkey patch the standard library' approach to forclose any stopping the insanity.
chicago has an unforgiving winter with gusts that will chill you to the bone. Thats probably what you missed.
The Android SDK Is the Worst Thing on Earth (2019)
perhaps I'm just wrong, but I thought dyes were mostly safe and the bleaching step was the damaging part.

in any case, this was more of a "people who live in glass houses" post than a defense of the rule. imo we have a lot of arbitrary appearance requirements for school children that do more to distract from learning than anything else. the school I went to justified their strict dress code by claiming it was all to prepare us for our professional lives. I have to chuckle at that one when I show up to the office with hair that goes down to my bellybutton, a beard, and a tshirt, still looking more "presentable" than many of my peers.
Unique, yes, and I'd even go as far as to say it's somewhat out of place on a Unix-like OS, but I have an easier time remembering "infile, outfile, block/batch size" than, say, arguments for tar due to its simplicity. I wouldn't call it bizarre because it's extremely straightforward.
Building General-Purpose Robots
If you're on Linux, Weylus will let you use your tablet as an input device for Gimp.
It's about the Salton Sea.

https://www.watereducation.org/aquafornia-news/california-jo...
I meant strange in the context of the people I normally interact with, with regards to computers, which are usually developers or otherwise relatively tech savvy.
I also wish the name or subtitle was more accurate. When I read "noiseless" I thought it muted all your tabs or something not that it got rid of "visual noise" or something.
I'm simply disputing the claim that “Men are evil.” would be construed by English speakers to automatically refer to males.

The reason I'm not what you call “kind” is simply because this is how English works, and how it has always worked and how English speakers would interpret and parse that word.

I see no reason to avoid using a word in a perfectly acceptable, current, and historic use simply because you find that it has a different, secondary use. You call that “not being kind”. I call it “You don't own the English language any more than I do.”

You may speak as you will, I do not deny that the current usage of the word “man” has acquired a secondary meaning of “adult male human” opposed to it's historical meaning of “human" and if you wish to use it as such, then I'm confident I can usually discriminate by context. I merely ask that I be allowed the same and speak as I will and use the word in it's original meaning, that obviously still sees current use.
Had to do this years ago for headless bitcoin miners with multiple GPUs.
Some of the problems mentioned in the article could already be solved with gmail. To find out who sent you an email, append a "+[keyword]" & use that email to signup for a service. If you only use 1 site per keyword you will know which site sent it. Unfortunately that doesn't work for sending on email though.
For big names in a field not to know to keep their data - certainly today, that would be shocking. I think it was quite shocking even back then. I still have my data for my work from my PhD in the 2000s. It isn't a job you'd leave to a student. IRB hoops are a different matter - but this wasn't that, as I recall.
> Liberalism is centre-right.

No, the liberal democrats are centre-left. Liberalism/authoritarian is mostly a different axis to left/right.

Its perfectly possible to be a left/right leaning liberal in UK politics.
Extremely misleading title. These are not "mistakes" as much as subjective preferences.

A better title would be "some random person's opinion about what should be changed in the CSS spec".
India's constitution is the largest national constitution in the world, and second-largest overall, only behind Alabama's, which has a whopping 951 amendments and nearly 400,000 words as of January 2021.
You’re at the other extreme with the milquetoast takes. But that is just another kind of insanity, to blind yourself to obvious and monstrous corruption, and then I guess try to gaslight people who point it out.

Hopefully we can avoid war during the breakup, and history will show which society does better in the long term.
If only you bothered to do a quick search in Google before typing that ignorant comment...
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/the_nail_that_sticks_out_gets...
Well... if you don’t do anything to upset anyone else, your risks of getting in trouble are pretty low. These just have a bunch of transceivers that operate in ISM bands - which are more a less a free for all in the status quo.
This makes the avenue for detecting covid the same avenue for getting it. Covid is transmitted through breathing which is just a less aggressive form of sniffing.

Thus the doggo would get covid then spread it to everyone he sniffs.
To think that many of them then end up in big tech makes me wonder if their oppressed needs causes them to make decisions that impose the same oppression of ideas/joy on their customers (basically, the rest of the world).

Edit: Not saying that it would, I'm just questioning the possibility of it.
I know we'll be downvoted to death for this.

Sway is so deeply rooted in the game and remains a solider for the culture to this day. Always a positive beam of positivity from him.
Is the point of school uniform to squash individuality? Is this how we want to prepare children for adulthood? I doubt that conformity, submission to arbitrary rules out of fear, and not standing out are good things to teach children, at least if you don't want them to become a bunch of zombies as adults.

Also, given the choice, who wants the sort of job that mandates a uniform?
Don't forget the claims that adblocks risk your privacy, because they have access to all the sites you visit. >_<
Oh, aren't you so clever. Why not contact the author and tell them your suggestions instead of just whinging about it in your armchair. I'm sure that whomever made this work would never have thought of any of the techniques you came up with.
Author here for your vintage IBM questions :-)
Title says 2015 but the article includes results from 2020 CPUs.
> That’s true, but it misses the point because printing money is debasing your currency, not defaulting on debt.

> And if it’s true that borrowing $x billion and printing money can be done without consequences ‘almost indefinitely’, then why stop at x? Why not 2x, or 10x, or 1000x?

That's my whole fucking point. For America, right now, we pretty much can. And if we chose to invest it in ourselves instead of subsidising rich fuckos we'd surely see a positive return on our investment even (thereby paying it off).

sigh There's literally no place worse on the internet for Economics than HN. I should just delete this fucking account.
I think you misunderstand Google's intention. They want to prevent competitor browsers from using these APIs so people are forced to use Chrome (and it probably relieves some backwards compatibility work too).

Yes, you can steal Chrome's keys, but Google can easily update those in Chrome. Are you going to write an automated system to extract the keys from Chrome on every update? Doubtful.

This stops browsers like Opera and Brave from using the APIs.
> * Incompetent engineers and bad actors can act as negative 10x engineers.

I worked with an engineer, let's call him Mark, whose 'talent' was to get involved in everyone else's problems during the stand up. When I first joined, he was 6 months late delivering his own project, which was eventually a year late, and that was the reason. He was a drag on the entire team. Rather than stand ups being a way of learning what everyone else was doing and offering help later, it turned it into guarded, cryptic, monosyllabic updates, lasting seconds. He'd spend half an hour at someone's desk after the stand up, trying to get up to speed on 3-6 months in 25 minutes to knock out a 5 minute solution that never worked. He was asked to leave and productivity soared.

"Don't be a Mark" is still a phrase in our company.
The whole point of both of those is that suburbia as currently conceived is a massively-subsidized unsustainable mode of living that is an aberration from how successful settlements were built.

The whole point leans on the fact that building cities where residents are required to lock in 15% of their earnings to automotive expenses to be economically productive is insane.
Please don't lump the US and the rest of the world together. The UK still has racism, for example, but we don't get people being regularly shot by police black or not.
I find this omission to be super weird.

Also:

Advocates of empowering local communities talk about increasing the number of times a dollar is used within the community. Just to make up an example: Before WalMart a dollar is used 10 times before leaving, after WalMart a dollar is used 2 times.

What's that measure called?

And that's microeconomics, right? If it's important for microeconomics, why isn't it important for macro too?

Also:

Big money has to chase big investments. Probably because of transaction costs and limited attention.

So while there's innumerable small opportunities, they remain uncapitalized.

How do we (society) get these things done? Find a way to scale up. Empower more people to make more investments. So instead of a billion dollar fund looking at 10 large investments, we have 1,000 million dollar funds looking at 10,000 modest investments.