skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Free land never went away. Demand for it did.

there are places where an individual can hide and gradually go insane alone. But I don't know where today one could go and bring their whole family/tribe/clan and settle down.

No matter how dry or hostile the area, the moment you're moving from surviving to thriving (which you often will if you're in a pack) the locals or the government will find ways to remove you. And it would be even worse if you don't hold a passport from that country.

Humans are pack animals so the "no more demand" argument perhaps isn't too strong.

When I lived in France in July/August the pigs regularly picked up Roma[1] traveling through from Spain. They usually got by washing windows at traffic lights. They drove them 20-30 km away into a forest where they set them free and let them walk home. I walked my dogs in the Parc de la Valmasque where they were frequently set lose among other places (even further away). Many times I watched it unfold in my parked car and the pigs abusing some person with a baton or simply shouting and threatening them. When the pigs were gone I offered them a drive back to Cannes or Nice. Sometimes kids with age 10 or 12 literally alone not knowing where tf they were or how they can get back (and then having to trust as stranger to offer a ride in their car to drive them back).

It's not that "there simply is no demand for it". But we no longer see it when the system commits these crimes[2]. It's expected normal behavior the moment you monopolize violence by giving it to one group over another.

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

[2] UK Johnson government launches anti-Gypsy/Traveller/Roma measures https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/28/trav-d28.html
Sadly phone companies cannot exist in a vacuum. In the book "Losing the Signal" there's great evidence that Blackberry faced far more pressure than merely losing market-share.
Their push-based email service (the back end) previously existed as the only of its kind for phones, then Microsoft updated their version in 2006 so all other phones could have it. Blackberry lost a key differentiator.

Then there was Verizon pushing them to release phones that would work well on their new 4G networks, while Blackberrys were being optimised for 2.5G as one of their CEOs was determined to preserve the selling point of great battery life.

The companies they relied on were not letting them fall into a niche product-producer role. They would have been pushed out of the market, not even by their competitors, by their partners.
But squashing changes chronological view, right? Either you want "real" history or not.

If you're already willing to do that then with the same amount of work you get cleaner history with rebasing, i.e. no intertwined branches.
That's because people look for diversity based on skin colour (ie. racism) and genitals (ie. sexism) rather than anything on the inside.
It might be true that opposing some progressive social issues (which ones?) could get you in trouble in the workplace, but it's always been true that expressing economic left wing views will get you in trouble. Try telling your boss that personal wealth should be capped and heavily redistributed, or that their industry would be better off nationalized, or any of a number of socialist views, and you may get fired as well.
ML model outputs tend to be smooth/continuous and ≈98% MSE accurate

In my experience building and working with such models in similar domains, they tend to be right in all the easy and uninteresting cases where there are no problems and in all the cases where the problem is super obvious, and wrong in all the hard and subtle corner cases that you actually care about.

The other problem is that traditional engineers hate models they don't understand. If you can't explain, at least roughly, why it gave the answer it gave, then they won't trust it and won't use it.
If it was 20 cm off it might just as well have been a few degrees off from being perpendicular to the road/parallel to the line that marks the finish.

The rules are the outcome of reluctant evolution since back in the 19th century, it's hardly surprising that the camera isn't necessarily considered the ultimate source of truth.

(history of techno and a road cycling race on the first lines of hn, today it's really looking as if tailored to mock my interests)
They're sexy toys, not turbines.

See also: Windtree and other scams.
Cheers for this... Hadn't heard of Soundshelter, great site! Techno thursday it is then.
The commmon joke goes something like this. Video gamers think there are only:

* Two races: white and ""political""

* Two genders: male and ""political""

* Two sexualities: straight and ""political""

* Two body types: normative and ""political""
New Digital ID Verification Solution Available to Turkish Fintech Apps
On the desktop or the phone?
I do get a sorta de-sync with lips and words in many video's, but then the system I use to watch them is hitting the wall of its life (core2duo) and the autistic spectrum aspect and facial hair will also play into that. I know they do for me and if you think first hearing yourself back on a recording is odd sounding, wait until you see yourself speak on video. Some people are in their element, others, you will get that underlying sense of awkwardness. Which for some (like myself) will talk fast and any facial nuance will be an afterthought long past most attention spans as they race to keep up with the words being spoken.
Got the same: https://ibb.co/zr56sgp

Edit: It appeared after I purchased a new MacBook. Seems like an Apple Arcade voucher was included with the purchase and it nags me to activate it.
Second chance :P

> being completely taboo it was never discussed

> speaking one's mind in public nowadays is fraught with dangers.
Thank you Draken93 :) It's been quite an experience, so exciting, and such a variety of skills to try and learn!
1. Remove all notifications.
2. Make it annoying to access the browser - as in put the icon in a menu that's not on the front page
3. I don't know if these exist, but you could potentially make a dns proxy that intentionally slows down the requests. Degraded performance is a big turnoff.
4. Get a feature phone. They're pretty good these days...
> Even if it's true that humans are primarily motivated by competing with each other, this doesn't put any constraints on what the nature of the competition could be.

I would say the competition is necessarily unconstrained. Even full-scale nuclear war is on the table in the service of one-upping one another. You could say I'm conflating competing with survival and other values, but that would be incorrect since the whole international tension has competition for various things at its source.

To structure the world differently would require lots and lots of tyranny. Empires to that, and may achieve great things, at a cost.

> 2) There are unified institutions that internally have high competition. In fact, that's more of a rule than an exception. E.g., every professional sports organization, every company with competitive incentive structure, etc.

Or the Communist Party of China. To have United Earth government fashioned in the like of FIFA, Amazon, or USA Gymnastics is as dystopian as it gets.
Sad to hear the savings are so trivial.
Of course you do. LOL.

As the grantparent said, noone at Apple ever claimed so.

The device was small anyway in actual life (no need to "make it look small"), skeuomorphic vs flat has nothing to do with making a device appear smaller or bigger, iPad and even OS X also used skeuomorphism (so it wasn't a size concern), and Ive never said anything to that effect. The whole idea doesn't even make sense.

As for what Ive actually said, citing real-life metaphors and familiarity as the reasons (for the skeuomorphic design):

“When we sat down last November (to work on iOS 7), we understood that people had already become comfortable with touching glass, they didn’t need physical buttons, they understood the benefits,” says Ive. “So there was an incredible liberty in not having to reference the physical world so literally. We were trying to create an environment that was less specific. It got design out of the way.”

And Scott Forstall said the same:

"If you look at the designs we did at Apple, we talked about photo illustrative designs, metaphorical designs. And those were infused into the design sense of Apple by Steve Jobs since the original Mac if not earlier. The original Mac had a desktop and folders that looked very much like the desktop on which that Mac sat. And so we used these design philosophies".
Google wants to know your exact age. Pretends it's “the law”
Can't you do that with simple satellites?
Missing:

Bedrock For What you Dream off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzHmXaUSL6o

Undeworld Born Slippy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQGOlawi6n0
80% of people who report they don't drink sugar are probably lying or consume sweeteners that still give an insulin boost
In this specific example, they do produce exactly the same result:

`a / b` is completely equivalent to `a * (1 / b)` when both b and 1/b are perfectly representable in floating point without rounding, which is the case for 2 and 0.5
The UK Met Police have been using facial recognition systems on London without regulation for a while, under the same law, - it'd be nice for our ICO to make a ruling on it.
vi/vim/neovim has a very consistent interface. It does have a learning curve but it is very pleasant to use once you've learned it. A bonus is that you can now edit text on pretty much any machine without installing anything, desktop or server.
Some things are ment to be brokken
It is possible they are not telling you the truth.
Pick ten random people that you know. How many of them can explain to you how their Facebook post gets to grandma?
For me personally, it's mainly CJS imports which I can't drop.

Of course the correct way would be to force the dependencies to support es.

But vite has now become default for me as well for new projects.
Which is just as stupid as if the republicans are so concerned about sustainablily, why haven't they made a peep about or made attempts to ban the VC model that American startups operate under?
To me it's like buying a google product, complaining it secretly attacks your privacy, then buy a subscription from google that mitigates that.

Or to buy drinkable water in bottle from the same company that polluted your river.
I recall my niece visiting my new house in the bundus. She saw the milky way for the first time at 11 years old. It has been raining and foggy on the way there but it cleared up a a bit before we got to the house. She had no idea the night sky isn't a dull shade of orange with the moon. All she might have seen was sparse clouds and a blanket of shining stars too numerous to count, almost like a diamond dress (her words not mine)

Consequently, it's not something we consciously think about. We just assume everyone has seen the night sky. I certainly never thought seeing the stars and the milky way would mean so much for an 11 year old. She wanted to stay outside so she could stare at them all night. But the mosquitoes, bless them, put a stop to those plans.
So, to summarize, according to Kaspersky, the West creates malware, and according to Mandiant, North Korea and Russia create malware. What a great discovery !!
No, because as I understand it we don't judge the winner from the base of the wheel, but rather the front of it.
"Denise Herzing, the founder and research director of the nonprofit Wild Dolphin Project, which studies dolphins in the Atlantic, is now using similar algorithms, coupled with underwater keyboards and computers, to try to decode dolphin"

- Why does she need underwater computers?
I call bullcrap. Is there even a tangentially legal basis for it?
Do I really need to go look up the exact date of birth for my Kind Edward IIIrd gmail profile now?
Always struck me as a vanity project when there were much more deserving uses for the money.
I think it will be interesting to see how some of the companies in Australia with head offices in the US go over the next year. There are signs from the FANG (well “GA” here, the rest effectively don’t exist) will push for people back in offices.

On the flip side Atlassian just came out and said the reverse. https://www.smh.com.au/business/small-business/four-times-a-...
> (I think there's even a name for this in the context of evolutionary biology).

I think you're thinking of the handicap principle.

See also: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-11-01
Talk to customer reps
We need to block it on a federal level in the USA. Don't allow any state to use facial recognition software for any reason, except maybe at airports, but only for terrorism---not for any other reason.
You can't reliably implement conditional PUTs in the client, you need a server side mechanism like the `if-match` header.
Remember that the conservative cancel culture uses anti-terror tools : secret lists, administrative persecutions, and other sneaky means. Do not believe that cancel culture is a left leaning trope.
Very nice write-up, it was a fun race to watch. On your future research, alternative 1: Instead of only looking at the width of the wheel, what about looking at the height/width ratio? The quicker wheel ought to be relatively more ”squished” horizontally.

On the other hand, with the tight margins involved, it might be that the ratios are not comparable due to the fact that they are not the same distance from the camera.
We need to tease out several different things here. In my opinion:

- Information density is good. If you can stuff more data on screen, by using annotations, underlines, fringe markers, whatnot - it's usually a win. As long as the indicators don't interfere with each other, human brain can quickly learn to filter them with near-zero effort.

- Clicking is bad ergonomics. It has high enough overhead compared to keyboard that it's enough to interfere with focus and the state of flow.

- Most animations are bad ergonomics. This, ironically, applies to the author's CodeRibbon[0]. It looks like a great idea. Then you think how to implement it in Vim/Emacs, with less animations. Then you realize that you can get this with some tweaks to how you switch buffer/window configurations, and it'll give you same benefits with better ergonomics.

- The article underexplores the third choice of the predator - enriching the environment. Or, perhaps, we should introduce a fourth choice[1]: meta-enrichment, or developing technology. That is, reconfiguring and extending your tooling to offer you more/different contextual cues (foraging), navigation tools (navigation) and operations (enrichment). This is where Emacs shines above all - for a proficient Emacs user, meta-enrichment is something one just does. Of course, as a developer living in Emacs, I suffer from confirmation bias[2] :).

--

[0] - https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/coderibbon.html

[1] - Incidentally, one that distinguishes humans from the rest of life on Earth.

[2] - I mean, over the past year I spent about a week worth of time on developing what now is 1400 lines of Emacs Lisp[3] implementing some creature comforts, including a "control panel" for a particular flavor of development I'm doing. I could've avoided spending that week if I used VS Code instead, but then I'd also lose on all the benefits I get from a tool that fits like a glove.

[3] - That's 1400 lines of my own Elisp, on top of the ton of third-party elisp packages and customizations specific to them.
Cooperation is literally why we are humans. Individualism doesn't require the complex brains we have. Our brains are this complex because we evolved as a highly social species.

We didn't hunt the megafauna as individual superwarriors, we hunted them as a group. If prehistoric megafauna was shown a zombie movie, it would recognize us as the zombies: there's too many of us and we never tire. They tried to sprint away but we jogged after them, hurling a dozen spears at them like death from a thousand paper cuts.

Yes, we value excellence, but only because it brings us forward as a group. The goal of competing for being the best isn't to find out who's best but to encourage us all to be better.
Chinese provinces fall into line on super tall buildings ban
Citymapper Crowdfunding Campaign
> To me it's like buy google product, complaining it secretly attacks your privacy, then buy a subscription from google that mitigate that.

In that case the mitigations could be merged into the product. And it's not about "secretly" attacking your privacy; to make the analogy work you're someone that chooses to keep buying even though it's open knowledge that it attacks your privacy.

> Or to buy drinkable water in bottle from the same company that polluted your river.

Are you buying the pollution in the first place because it benefits you even more in some other way? If not then it's a completely different scenario.
Rustup 1.24.0 release incident report for 2021-04-27
Agreed. It is apparently "the biggest selling 12-inch single ever." But maybe because of its classic song structure (verse/chorus), it is not lumped in with what is typically considered techno.
UML isn't taught that way any more. It's still mandatory in programming courses and waterfall(ish) programming projects, but it's also emphasized that iteration with clients is a good thing if you can do it, that the clients don't actually know that they want, that you're unlikely to get your software right the first time, and that 90% of software projects end up failing anyway.
Yes there is, circumstances.

There's nothing forcing you maybe, but plenty of people will be stuck there because of circumstances.
Check out Underworlds first two rock albums btw. "Change the Weather" will grow on you.
I agree with you - but the standards elsewhere seem to be so much lower even than here that I think it's (possibly) worthwhile having political discussions on HN.

Of course, I would love to know of a place that discusses things even more sensibly.
Rowing alignment is slightly different from swimming alignment.

In swimming, the start and finish are both fixed physical objects that the swimmer must touch (though in all events except backstroke, the start is a bit weird because it's outside the pool).

In rowing, the finish line is an imaginary line much like cycling or running. While at the Olympics there are 'clogs' to hold the bows of the boats which drop down at the start:

https://www.polaritas.com/products-and-services/automatic-st...

a race official is always required to certify that the bows are aligned, which is why the gates are transparent (and the system includes video cameras to help this official).
Let's talk concretely about the consequence that is most fraught.

Should employees be fired for expressing political positions at work that their employer disagrees with? Should all employees be told to focus on their companies mission instead?

Previously progressives seemed happy for the former to happen, but now they seem annoyed that they also might have their free speech squashed.

What kind of consequences are acceptable?
You can call my fears "horse manure" if you like, but that doesn't really change the fact that I have them. Based on how I've seen some of my (now ex-)colleagues treated when they have spoken up, I don't think they are at all unfounded.

And yes, people have been discriminated against for who they are, or what they believe, for a long long time. It was wrong then and it is wrong now.
You don't get on the main stage without words/lyrics.

Also, any musician that wants to get big should know that the fastest way is to add words/lyrics.

Music is such a universal language that it needs to be annotated or something.
Market is the most important factor in a startup's success or failure (2007)
Also conditions change over time. Indoor pools are much less affected than e.g. a ski run in inclement weather or ski flying where competitions are basically lotteries in who gets a favorable gust, but subtle changes in e.g. air oxygen content could easily cause performance differences in the range we are talking about here.
GitHub renders Markdown in commit messages
At least code snippets in backticks. Not many people seem to use them but it can be seen for example in my repository: https://github.com/ipasimulator/ipasim
Thailand and especially Bangkok are not third world ... but let me guess - YOU are an "American", right?
I disagree with this, firstly on the principle that if you ask someone on a moving train to stand still they know exactly what you mean, and secondly because politics are acceleration rather than velocity - applying energy to push, rather than drifting in a direction.
They aren't even subtle about it.

Once you cave in and type your actual date of birth in, there's a popup to say "This is your current age, please confirm", and then "Thank you. This ensures we can sell the right kind of personalised ads to you".

"The law" my ass.
Ok, then buy insulin shots from the same company that sold you ice cream and soda.

It creates all the wrong incentives and a dangerous positive feedback loop.
Maybe it's used to compute if you're a minor.

The exact age would allow Google to determine at any point in the future if you're no longer a minor, which is not possible with a yes/no question.

Else they would have to ask every day anew.
So in other words, you would rather take the blue pill?

Sounds like removing the distractions gave you time to think and allowed you to see things more clearly. That sounds great! Now you can face the things that came up head on rather than distract yourself from them. Why would you want to 'sleepwalk' through life instead via constant distractions? Maybe there is more to life, and getting rid of distractions is the first step to realizing it.
> One highly successful software entrepreneur is burning through something like $80 million in venture funding in his latest startup and has practically nothing to show for it except for some great press clippings and a couple of beta customers — because there is virtually no market for what he is building.

Who was he talking about? Anyone has any clues?
> "hollow dash"

That's because you never had to attend a uml profile meeting where people discuss the style of arrows.

Think people trying to customize this https://i.stack.imgur.com/YCegU.png with different line patterns for hours
The intuition is similar to "why C over other languages?": speed. Many programmers treat C as the fastest/lowest-level cross-platform language, but Fortran sometimes has a slight edge (especially with specialised compilers, e.g. I remember Intel's producing very fast binaries).

Although it's general-purpose, Fortran skews heavily towards numerical calculations, which is probably why it's not used much outside science and engineering (e.g. most Web stuff is 'string processing' rather than numerical).

Fortran was used to write highly optimised numerical libraries like BLAS, which are so widely used and performance-critical that it pretty much cemented Fortran's use; although (a) such libraries can be used by other languages, and (b) they've become so optimised over the decades that they're essentially pure machine-code these days ;)
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No, because it's not normal to accidentally or unknowingly bring explosives to school.

It IS normal to accidentally or unknowingly have a flaw in software. So normal that it's likely every piece of software on the planet has flaws, many of which allow the exfiltration of data.
The idea of Blackberry's unified list really resonates with me! And I strongly endorse your two tips, they really help.

About your important/transactional split: shameless self plug but I'm working on a project that's all about a unified list, and one part of that is splitting incoming into important and not important. If you check it out, feedback welcome! garrett@[productname].com

https://www.twobird.com/