skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And each time the work is shipped — say from one gallery to another — it’s unwittingly altered further by a system created by a massive multinational corporation:

Methinks the writer of this article has a chip on their shoulder or someone hurt them.
> You don't need fancy features to pattern-match a number.

You would be surprised.

If by a number you don't mean just a sequence of digits, and includes say floating point numbers, a regex to match it surprisingly complex.

Most of what I do with regexes (or similar constructs) is processing text. Extracting information from human-produced text, mostly. No, a parsed won't help me.

And, contrary to common belief, even processing XML (more precisely, XML fragments) sometimes makes more sense to do with regexes than with a parser. Specifically, when dealing with so-called "mixed contents", which is basically is just text with XML elements used for face markup.

For example, suppose you need to find in a text an ordinal number, that can look like "5<sup>th</sup>".
Of course it can be at the top level, as in "My 5<sup>th</sup> text", or within other face markup, as in "My <i>2<sup>nd</sup> italic</i> text", perhaps nested, as in "My <b><i>2<sup>nd</sup></b> italic</i> text".

Matching it using a parser while handling all these possibilities is hellishly difficult and verbose. With regexes it's straightforward and compact.

Parser is great what what you dealing is true hierarchical, or when you don't care much about what's marked up (e.g. transforms). When dealing with what's essentially is just rich text, it's much less helpful.
Yes, it would typically be the output of a boolean function. It wouldn't be much use if it couldn't.
Oh man that's too bad! We have one partner in Italy so far (Bending Spoons) and they didn't mention this to us though... maybe that's a good sign, or maybe they were too embarrassed!
Standard? Someone in vfx would have to answer that, but my understanding is: not really. There is a lot of vfx work that happens on Linux workstations.

https://vfxplatform.com/about/
Hence the last part of the question, "Why?"

I doubt even someone with a PhD in an unrelated field could bullshit the experts in fusion research.
Hi, no worries, thanks for asking! Curious what you’re seeing are the salary bands in competitive low-cost locations?

We’re currently most familiar with the bands in Palestine, Egypt, Jordan, and UAE. What we’re seeing there varies widely, but can probably be thought of as breaking down into two separate scales/salary bands: those paid by local companies and by international companies sourcing talent in the region primarily for affordability, and those paid by international companies sourcing talent in the region primarily because they need strong engineers.

In the former, the band for junior engineers straight out of college with no work experience is ~$800-$1800/month. In the latter, it’s $2500-$4500/month. For senior engineers, in the former it’s around $5k/month and in the latter it’s $6k-$10k/month.

Of course startups sometimes seek strong talent but can’t afford the range, so they may pay on the lower end but make up for it with equity, career growth, etc.
I thought the idea of searching for industrial pollution was actually a pretty bad one. We've been polluting at detectable levels for just ~100 years. And if we keep doing it we'll likely wipe us out in a few hundred more. Overall it seems very likely industrial pollution is a very short-lived phase of any civilizations, so chances of detecting this signature are tiny.
There is some disconnect here. These are violent right-wing rioters storming a state capitol building. The allegation of OP was that BLM protestors were doing something like that.
Yes I have read them.
And don't get me wrong I find some of them interesting. What I consider junk-science and what really irks me is his tendency to just try to suffocate all other possible explanations brushing them off like they have no merit.

As I said, I don't think we should not consider the possibility that this may be alien technology, but the carthesian in me just cannot take seriously anyone that is willing to make such strong claims based on such very little evidence. Science is not supposed to be politic, where you just try to yell louder than your "opponents".

> They are sound and nobody has come up with anything substantive to dispute them.

You can find a very good synthesis of rebutals in this video [1] by Professor Kipping.

You can also find a partial rebuttal in a paper by the very team that discovered Omouamoua [2].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX_Bj7064Ms&t=240s

[2]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.01910.pdf
Threading to keep the brand/type the same.

I have a Panasonic GX85 / GX80 (depends on the market) which is a model inbetween the GX7 and GX8.

I started out with a GX1, loved it and eventually upgraded to this model. I have a Panasonic Leica 25mm f1.4 which is an absolute dream to use. Also got a Panasonic 20mm f1.7 pancake which is great for travel.

I've considered a FF with a fixed 50mm lens as it's the focal length I use the most but... I'm so happy with the combo that I don't really see a reason to change.

Before I had a Canon 500D with an EF 27-80 f2.8 USM however the weight was actually insane (it was around 1.7kg) especially compared to what I have now. Yeah I could've put a prime lens, but the bulk would not have been worth it. Currently at 505gram for the body + 200gram for the lens.
The only mainstream UX for haptics I see making sense is direct neural input of some kind. Ultrasonic based approaches are cool, but probably limited to art installations, museums and the like
I would love for this to keep expanding to more inboxes, and beyond to news feeds and other kinda inbox-shaped things. Why not aggregate Facebook news feed, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, HN, your local newspaper, etc. It's what Google Reader woulda/coulda/shoulda become.

Please, break down the walled gardens. Free us from the whims of the product managers pumping out redesign after redesign for all the services we use.
But you'll be back the next day. Can you be banned without the chamber voting on it in some way?
If you just want a Linux phone, probably not.

A lot of the price of the Librem 5 goes towards subsidizing the software development.
Pine64 only produces the hardware and leaves the rest to the community, but everyone benefits from much of the work Purism is doing in the software stack.

I got a PineTab recently and am currently running Mobian w/ Phosh on it. I'm also still frustratedly awaiting my Librem 5, but those Mobian PinePhones look nice.

Someone might say the Librem 5 has better specs, but it's also huge and really not targeted at the average consumer (they probably don't care about the physical kill switches or convergence).
I think this is generally good advice, especially for individuals, but it’s hardly the end of the story. It’s critical to establish causal links as well as effect size of various factors in order to properly allocate resources to fight a pandemic.
GP must thinking about the Sf Bay area, where they are a decent % of the activists.
Some context in a BBC feature on the same subject:

https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-55537454

And the photographer's website with many more pictures:

https://michaelbennett.uk/pier-closing-time

Fun fact: the exhibition that has brought these pictures to our attention was apparently co-organised by the Turner Contemporary in Margate, which is itself another seaside town they forgot to shut down.
Are you sure about this? The link you yourself shared shows photos of people carrying "thin blue line" flags. The quotations inside the article you shared says "Just before their violent physical assaults on journalists, the right wing extremists literally tried to kick in the door of the Oregon State Capitol in Salem".

Here is the link you shared in a sibling comment: https://deadline.com/2020/12/armed-protesters-enter-oregon-s...
DRM is fundamentally incompatible with open source and free software. DRM is all about restricting what your computer can do (what code it is allowed to run), so it can be trusted by third parties with handling protected information. Content providers want to be able to trust your computer in not allowing you to have full control of what it does.

If users can execute their free software rights (modify software and run modified versions), they can instruct their computers to do anything, thus DRM would not be possible. Binary blobs like Widivine are not complete DRM solutions on systems where users can still modify their display server or kernel. As DRM gets more widespread, content providers will require more strictly locked systems, that's why mobile devices are shipped with locked bootloaders and PCs have secure boot and TPM — most current hardware is ready to support strict DRM.

The only approach to DRM is to boycott its use completely, there is no workaround or compromise.
Want some PTSD? Imagine having to write "paragraph" at the start and "/paragraph" at the end of every paragraph.

From the glorious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook :

<chapter xml:id="chapter_1">
<title>Chapter 1</title>
<para>Hello world!</para>
<para>I hope that your day is proceeding <emphasis>splendidly</emphasis>!</para>
</chapter>
We now have sites for all manner of organic molecules, and methods of attaching them. This is an analog for the expansion of electronics at the dawn of the radio age - mid 20's which accompanied the global electronics growth of the 20th century.
All manner of parts, tools etc were developed and sold in shops and via mail order.
A similar molecular creativity phase dawned a few years ago and now you can acquire all these molecules and tools online and there is fierce competition. A regulatory overlay is now rising to limit the abilities of molecular terrorists like the Aum Shinrikyo of 1995 Sarin attacks.
I think we are getting well into this phase now, with the online market replacing mail order.
https://hacklab.to/ has a well equipped bio lab.
6 isn't an accurate statement of the argument raised here. It wasn't just accelerating, but did so without changing its rotation at all. Comets don't do that when they outgas, the forces torque then about and you get variance in their rotational period.
Needs [2019] in the title
> I don't think it's possible anymore to have thoughtful, intelligent political discussions online with both sides.

I agree. And that makes it a problem worth solving. I just feel deeply that there is the right UX, and moderation knobs to tweak that can bring it back from the brink.
The thing is he isn't circumventing copyright protection. He is just allowing it to play in his browser too, no downloading etc. I'm a legal noob, but there always was that "fair interests" like making stuff work on different devices/OSs (youtube-dl is hiding behind this a bit), would it not apply here?
I am aware of how Taleb defines antifragile... I've read the book.

>"What we don't have is a Taleb-like model for anti-fragile speech under new tech."

What do you mean here? And how does it relate to "trans" speech in particular?
> But it's our own determination to each get our personal patch of grass that leads to the unending expanse of roads and driveways and parking lots.

The US is large enough to give each individual (person, not household!) 7.4 acres all to themselves. There is plenty of space here.

The problem is that the collapse of manufacturing and automation of agriculture in the US has eliminated many of the jobs that were prevalent in small and mid-sized cities.

We have all the space we need. What we lack is a uniform distribution of work that lets people use it effectively.
This gets unwieldy quickly. Consider the ajax pattern:

b = a
.filter1()
.filter2()
.filter3()
.filter4();
if (b.foo()) {
return a.filter5();
} else {
return a.filter6();
}

For visual programming, AFAICT you have to feed `a` downstream twice: once to filter5 and once filter6 in preparation for the conditional branch. That requires one of the following:

* intersecting lines, which are way more visually complicated to read than the code above (and can quickly create visual ambiguities which as a class do not exist in a text-based language)

* one line which loops under the bottom of one of the downstream objects, which is visually distracting (especially if you have more than two branches)

edit: clarification
> It's not obvious to me why that has to be so.

Because ceteris is never paribus. The comparison is with the counterfactual world in which SF wasn't rent-controlled. Now, we can never know what would have happened, but I think there's a very strong case to be made that such an SF would be even more of a roaring powerhouse than it is now.
Awww... I know they both loved Repl.it too - they love what you're building and Faris made a really positive impression on them!
I got my Librem 5 last week, and I'm sad to say that it isn't. The software is just not there. It's in a state that would have been disappointing if it had actually shipped on time two years ago. A device that cannot reliably connect to a wifi network in 2021 is... mindboggling. I wrote up some of my first impressions here in the Purism forum: https://forums.puri.sm/t/myl5-librem-5-evergreen-arrived-in-...

My current plan is to sell it on at half price, which should roughly cover a new Fairphone.
I think the effects analysis is wrong; SF's policy does squeeze out all poorer newcomers and anybody who falls on temporary hard times, while letting the wealthiest in at any time. There's a reason that studios were going for $4k/month until the pandemic, and it's because the price was getting set by a tiny tiny fraction of the highest incomes, since those were the only people left.

So populations that had a lower home ownership base and less access to high income jobs, such as African Americans, have seen their populations completely destroyed in SF, starting exactly when SF decided to downzone.

Rent control is just fine for newcomers, as long as tenants don't ally with homeowners to keep our newcomers. The tenants lose in that battle when it comes time for the next generation to find housing.
But incumbent residents are owed the right to self determination and local governance. And that includes taking actions to preserve their quality of life. That doesn't make them crazy, selfish, or "racist" (as the linked article claims).
My dad grew up in Rhyl, and we used to go on holiday to Anglesey a lot when i was a kid too. It is indeed an amazing part of the world for natural beauty.

But the towns have seen better days. I remember seeing the infamous closed-down shop branded "Rhyl's Biggest Receiver of Stolen Goods":

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gazh1/184659511/

(as the caption says, mouse over to read the notes - the slogan is not what it seems)
Never roll your own crypto, but you should damn well know how to use the library properly.
The rise of the fake commute, and why it's good for your mental health
I live next to the biggest greenhouse area in the world. Since the pandemic in March last year, I exclusively eat lunches of about 600grams with around 20 types of veggies. It feels amazing after doing so, I never have an after-lunch dip any more. Some performance sports I do got 5-10% directly measurable improvements (cycling and bouldering) after switching to these lunches. Not completely sure it is the cause, but all signs direct to it.

I simply cut these veggies in small and balance the salad out on sweet, sour, salty and calories. After a few months of doing this I started to crave these salads.

Most of the veggies come from the greenhouse area, but not all. You can tell most of them, since they are quite clean already and do not have any dirt/soil on it.

Taste of these veggies is mostly different, not necessarily bad, although I would not describe it typically as being richer in taste. Redish is less sharp, carrots are much more crispy and less fibery, letuces are much fresher (they come with clod, so dont degrade a bit, even after two weeks in the refrigerator), tomatos are more watery but also much, much more varied (small, ultra sweet super juicy ones; bigger fleshy with delicious sour pits; characterfull flavory ones; many more), chickory which is sweeter, bell pepper which are more varied and edible as fruits, sweeter, juicier, cucumbers as small, medium and large where the small ones are really tender, many herbs such as mint, coriander, sellery, rosemary, parsley come as plants which I consume over about two weeks.
Oh, I'm well aware that I participate in how it changes. My neighborhood also changes due to forces around it, around the city, the county, and so on.

My point is merely that change in a neighborhood is a natural and normal thing. A great many of the forces involved will be external, as it is rare that a neighborhood is in fact completely isolated from the world in every way.

I am attempting to set this up in opposition to the idea that we were presented with: that people have a right to hold their neighborhoods static against all things and we are obligated to honor that. In my opinion, neither is true.
One person placing their elation over another's lack of ennui and frustration is greedy and frankly a little evil.
Thank you! Will check in with them when we're exploring more robust payment solutions. Hopefully by then they'll have solved this problem & expanded to North Africa etc...
Iabas Do Aparecido?
Indeed, Google has been controlling the "web standards" for many years now.
It was established as a way to include Italian-Americans in the national creation myth, at a time when xenophobia against Italian immigrants was still high in the US. Many Italian-Americans still feel strongly about it:

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/12/769688161/columbus-days-meani...

Unfortunately, proposals to eliminate Columbus Day and tear down statues of Columbus don’t typically include concessions for Italian-American pride. This has led to some friction:

https://www.inquirer.com/news/floyd-protest-columbus-statue-...
Yea let's do it. It would be cool to integrate discussions back into HN. Maybe a bio site could cross pollinate, as others called it, by submitting the stories to HN automatically and using HN for moderation and discussion. Then auto comment a link to expert discussion. This would improve discoverability.

The structure then could be just a news feed of important bio stories and there is expert discussion locally then you click and it links to HNs copy with discussion.
I’ve started a couple businesses on the side. First one, took the leap to full time after a year of very long hours. Second one, took the leap after 6 years (!) of less intense work on the side.

In the second case I negotiated a 4 day work week. That helped me stay sane, but the one day on / six days off cadence made it hard to build momentum.

Putting in a little work on the side every day, as other commenters suggest, is probably the way to go. But it’s a different (and to me less rewarding) kind of work that can be done in small increments. Probably not deep work. Choose your business idea and responsibilities accordingly! And be patient.
The article leaves me wondering whether Facebook was also party to this vote.
What an interesting and informative article! Nicely done!
Haha. Handling commonly repeated argument forms would be a good feature. Instead of a lengthy comment, just click the "fire in a crowded theater" rebuttal and save everyone some time.
They've a reputation for being a good place to work for (if a bit too SV-wannabe), especially in the context of Italy.

They probably didn't want to embarass you (and this isn't really a problem here, but it might be a serious issue SEO-wise).
Name-calling never changed anyone's mind, but then if these markets were healthy, economists wouldn't have anything to write about. Ergo, piss people off.
>100 is really damn hot,

It's actually supposed to be the body temperature. Due to imprecise measurements, it's actually having a light fever. Flip note: C scales the same - 0 is the water freezing point, and then you have the same scaling as F but in 5s instead of 10s. [and you gotta remember: (f-2pow5)*5/9].

That's an old debate, yet if you are born/used to C, F is pretty horrific.
>RMS refused to run grep until it was FLOSS?

RMS and anyone could implement a dumb grep from within GNU ed easily.
24hr time is also 0th based :)
The problem is that if you relax zoning codes you get rich developers at least in the short term.

Leftists should think about it in terms of deliberately producing an oversupply to crash the market. Aggressively relax zoning in areas that have already gentrified where that battle is simply lost and never coming back. Massively expand the supply of $1M+ homes until the supply outstrips the demand and developers are stuck with inventory of housing that they can't move without slashing asking prices and taking losses. Watch as property values fall.

The problem is that both liberals and conservatives are against that, because they don't want to see their property values fall, and that background of NIMBY'ing is where we are. Without really opening up zoning to generate a glut what you are generally talking about is relaxed zoing in a few areas which will be too little to affect the trajectory of housing markets, but will enrich a lot of rich people.

Leftists kinda instinctively know that this economic fantasy of creating a supply glut is just a fantasy, so it does make sense to support things like rent control.

But you know keep punching left like they're the biggest problem, and not the people who understand the limitations of the system.

(This comment's tone totally changed from the start, but I'll leave it as it is instead of cleaning it up so you can take the journey with me...)
So there's the argument that all housing that is affordable now was luxury when it was new. New is at least somewhat inherently luxury.

Banning such would be like banning new cars to keep the price of cars down
> The sense of “something has changed here?” is so deep in places like this. They are populated still but the architecture points clearly to a time when there was so much more going on in the area.

My grandmother lived in Llandudno, and the town is the acme of that. So many incredibly grand hotels, arcades, and so on, all now tatty and grim. Some cousins were staying at the Grand Hotel, the biggest and boldest hotel, up on the side of the peninsula. The bedsheets were dirty and the rooms stank.

I have no idea what you could do about any of this.
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You're absolutely right! Participating in local governance does not inherently making a person crazy, selfish, or racist.

I do think it's perhaps possible that in some cases people participating in local governance might advance and adopt policies that have outcomes that benefit them financially or have disparate impacts on people of different races. Though I confess I found few references to or even accusations of racism in the article. Perhaps you can help me?
> you really don't need crazy software like Mastodon or Pleroma to participate in it.

You may not need crazy software, but it's not like you just have to "implement a spec" to be part of it: read https://schub.wtf/blog/2019/01/13/activitypub-final-thoughts... for more details, where you'll learn that ActivityPub is not really a specification but rather guidelines for doing things. You can't "implement ActivityPub" and expect your app to play well with the network; the specification is vague enough that multiple incompatible behaviours are technically valid with the specification so you actually have to "implement Mastodon" and "implement Pleroma" and "implement Pixelfed" etc...
Thanks for providing all of that background information! I was skeptical of the parent comment's claims - particularly how overly simplistic they were. But as someone on the other side of the world, I can't easily know how unrealistic their portrayal of the situation is.
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