skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can Notability OCR hand written text to regular typed text? It was not clear to me when I looked at the description in the app store.
There are a lot of US Presidents on Facebook?
Missing https://dropbox.com/transfer
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So like every asset in existence?
I wonder how many companies have realized this new search pattern and are already astroturfing on Reddit. Everyone is assuming the content/reviews from Reddit are authentic but a good amount might not be.
The examples are for characters, sure, but state machine + blended animations can be used for all sorts of things.

I do agree on the jade regarding the shorthand for character animation. Especially when seeing so many (mostly indie but might just be exposure bias on my part) games ignoring environmental, UI, and camera animation even when they have good animation on their characters.
While I appreciate any experiments in making CLI more approachable to the public, I do disagree with the author's assertion that CLI has "low" discoverability and interactivity. Many modern CLI environments have excellent discoverability and interactivity: shells such as PowerShell and zsh, and REPLs such as ipython all come to mind. Even bash can be customized to do fairly well.
The US supports the waiver of IP protections on Covid-19 vaccines
Though, incidentally, if you reduce/eliminate mosquitos carrying West Nile, Zika, etc ... you also reduce/eliminate the ones carrying Malaria :)
Iterable CEO ousted for using LSD before investor meeting
> I think unpaid internships being socially acceptable is one of the roots of this insidious habit.

I think tipping as a cultural norm is another of the roots. Making it acceptable to move (a large portion of) staff payment from the employer to the customer should never have happened. The toxicity with which people defend tipping culture (in my experience in online forums) is astounding.
> If you're not a miner you have absolutely no control.

The economic majority of Bitcoin users ultimately decides what "Bitcoin" even means and can enforce that against miners with e.g. a User Activated Soft Fork: https://uasf.co
Basecamp certainly seems to think so, but not that particular viewpoint. Funny, that. Again, your "explanation" is not good faith.
I see the same issue pop up when people ask about applications for NFTs in video games or similar ideas. The idea is that you use NFTs to represent some kind of in-game capability--whether it's ownership of the game license, ownership of game content, or ownership of an in-game item.

The main benefit I can think of that this gets you is the ability to trade the NFT itself on the blockchain, but most the other supposed advantages fall apart under any kind of scrutiny, at least from what I can tell.

The key problem here is that the experience or capability that the NFT provides is likely going to be entirely mediated by the game software itself, not by any smart contracts on the blockchain or anything like that. The NFT would most likely be validated by connecting to a server and making an API call... because validating the NFT locally would require downloading the relevant blocks in the blockchain. Since any "promises" about what the NFT are ultimately mediated by the game software, which is entirely controlled by the game developers, there is no real "ownership" in any sense beyond what you could achieve without blockchain... except for the fact that you can trade the NFTs in blockchain transactions.
It wasn't in a harmless way; it was making an inflammatory accusation of racism; not only that, but in a form which is repeated so often as to be a flamewar trope ("that's racist"), and in a way that clearly signalled ideological battle. That is exactly the sort of thing the HN guidelines ask commenters to avoid.
> I don't think you'll find anyone who earnestly believes that all people are equally intelligent, or equally strong, or equally funny, or whatever.

What you'll have are people who argue that if people who aren't as intelligent, or as strong, or as funny just had access to the same set of circumstances as Intelligent Person X, Strong Person Y, and Funny Person Z, the "underperforming" - for lack of a better adjective - people would be just as good.

That's simply not true and we know enough about the brain, about DNA and heritability, and about environment to know it's not true.

But there's a section of people who don't want to admit that, because it'll shatter their worldview completely and they'll have to re-evaluate a lot of things... but really what it'll do is force them to think for themselves instead of just being told how they need to feel, and that's from where the real discomfort comes, because when you're forced to think for yourself - truly think for yourself, not cite some study... not cite some expert, but actually think and reason with only your own capabilities, you may find that 1) it's hard and 2) you come to some thoughts that clash with your feelings.
Chromebook shipments grew 275% in Q1
>If you think a tendency for creatives to work for free does not increase the tendency of businesses to request that creatives work for free, then make that argument directly, rather than pointing to something different.

I think it absolutely does increase that tendency.

When I write for online tech publications, at some level, my writing, for which I'm not paid, takes money out of some freelancer's pocket--all other things being equal (which of course they aren't).

And all the people who speak at events for free and even cover their own travel (or their companies do) definitely make it harder for qualified people who would prefer to be paid to do so.

But, to be blunt, I don't care. If it's in my personal interest to do those things for free, I'm not going to choose to abstain because of some microscopic impact on the labor market.

In this photographer case, I actually don't think there's much of an impact. Someone mentioned Super Bowl performers performing for free. I doubt anyone thinks Lady Gaga is going to start giving gratis concerts all over the place. There has been a major impact on photography as a profession but that's more about the proliferation of free, cheap, and easily obtained amateur photos.
Apple-1 build on breadboards by Facebook VP
> more susceptible to attacks from national governments

The attacks don't need to be on the currency, it can be on the privacy.

The ledger is like a giant warrantless paper-trail of who paid whom.

As a side-note, how would I reject a payment that came through bitcoin?

If I were an unscrupulous government who wanted to target an individual, I'd just send them some money from a suspicious account and then bring them in for questioning over that payment.
This is a bad example of unpaid work. Photography is a viewership and exposure business.

The exposure opportunity is priceless here.
> It's more like we have three "sex groups": all women, normal men and extreme outlier men.

For the sake of conversation, I think it's worth pointing out that we could actually break out yet another group: the extreme outlier men at the low end of the curve.

High male variance means men dominate at both ends of the distribution. This is why "incels" and such are almost exclusively a male group. These people not only lose the genetic lottery, they're then lumped in with the high end outliers demographically and systematically punished for "imbalances" when they're already less likely to win these winner-takes-all games than anyone else.
Love the idea, hope it gains popularity! Absolutely can't stand quora spam.
And people who seeking power do all sorts of stuff to gain it, including asking trap questions with no right answer and using the result as leverage to push people out of leadership positions.
Well said, thanks. I get squeamish when statistics are used on “the sexes” because no one is “average” and outliers exist in huge numbers when you’ve got billions of us walking around. Socially, shifting away from assumptions based on phenotypical expression can only be a good thing, and I don’t think we need to pour over research on the phenotypes to get there.
>This is not an uncommon position within progressive circles.

Many if not most progressive ideals are predicated on "the blank slate" theory being true. It's not a matter of common/uncommon opinion, it has to be true. It's an axiom of modern progressive theory. What happens when one of your axioms is anything other than rock solid?

This is why the claws come out so fast when you bring up genetics in progressive groups.
There are 8.5 million people within 50 miles of that plant, and it sits in a geological fault zone that can make large earthquakes. The plant is old, expensive to maintain, and inspections documented various safety concerns. If anything goes dramatically wrong it’s going to be an incredible disaster.

People can read about the closure etc. at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Onofre_Nuclear_Generating_...
I almost transitioned into photography as my career.

In fashion photography (and probably other genres), the editorial spreads in your fashion magazines, (Vogue, Harper's, etc) aren't paid much. They are for promotion. They do pay though. They are also selective on who they choose to photograph a specific story. Even though that gig is way below most professional fashion photographer's day rate, most pros will do anything to get that chance. You also get to work with world class peers like hair, makeup artists, models, stylists, etc. So it's a great deal for everyone.

In Netflix's case, it feels more like exploitation. They aren't paying. And even though they're "Netflix" they don't have that clout like Vogue or Harpers to have top wedding photographers to get at that chance. Also, they have to shoot 5 weddings! 1 wedding is a lot of work and stress, but to do 5 for free is a lot to ask a professional photographer. It's like asking a software engineer to build 5 different applications for free for a chance to pad their resume.

But this type of stuff is pretty common in the industry, although frowned upon by Photographers. A lot of celebrities, brands, agencies, etc. will try to get free shots from photographers all the time. And they will usually find some desperate person who will take the chance to do it. I've done it, and I had friends who did it. I'm sure Netflix will find someone to do it as well.
I don't think it's a concern any more. The trajectory of cases that should have occurred if CJD was widespread in the community, never happened. One consequence of this is the blood donation ban has been lifted in most countries, I think.
I agree with your POV. I'm arguing throwing away equal opportunities (free education and career path choice for all Scandinavians) with the aim of chasing equal outcomes (50/50 gender split of nurses and engineers) is a fool's game.
>Bitcoin the network, of which there is only one

4 by my count. There's also Cash, SV and Gold.
You'd think the very purpose of calling it a "Graphical Command Line" would be that you're not restricted to a literal line of text.

Just because it should be convenient to type and navigate with a keyboard doesn't mean the command line can't have structure beyond just the characters on it.

I can fill in a webform just the keyboard. Tab, type, tab, type, tab, type, tab to the submit button, hit enter. Done.

So I didn't have to type "--" anywhere. I didn't have to type the field names at all actually. Not saying I want them fixed per se, but "telling them apart" shouldn't be a real question in a graphical terminal UI.

Likewise we should never escape strings or quote strings in a Graphical Terminal IMHO. They should just be text fields integrated seamlessly into the line, with visible boundaries.

If you copy the line and paste it in a text editor, then sure, maybe show all this ghastly encoding happening underneath. But in the GUI Terminal... nah I don't accept it.

EDIT: While we're at it, I don't think we should use monospace fonts in a GUI terminal. Certainly a font with distinct letters like lI1 and 0O, but not monospaced.
> Was monarchy essential to the socioeconomic system of the EU members? The point is not that slavery was a founding pillar simply because it existed at the time of founding

Thought experiment: a state that actively uses the death penalty applies to join the EU...
My point is most people don't see their gas consumption as something they can change. There are a few who will, and eventually more fuel efficient cars become popular, but for the most part people see gasoline as something you need to buy to live life. So if the price goes up other things get cut first. In other words gasoline is not very elastic, which we already know. When people start to see that carbon tax is why they can't live, they will vote to kill it.

In the US we are not in a situation where drivers are a small enough minority that they can be ignored.
We don't call them "Piece of Shit" systems for nothing. They've gotten better over time of course, I recall how difficult it was to divide a check with my coworkers when I was just starting my career. But it seems like to some extent PoS only got any kind of love when tablet computers became widely available, and now the pretty iOS device anchored (in the psychological sense) expectations causing the definition of 'adequate' to shift fairly dramatically.

Billing systems are a different beast from point of sale, but it always sounded to me like a similar philosophy ruled both realms.
this looks like a decent tool. what's the language of the spec? ad-hoc invented?
Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active playerbase in three years
There are a dozen different contractors and companies that can build out electricity supply for you in a relatively sensible timeframe. Most of the major components are off-the-shelf.

S3 has eleven 9s of durability. That alone is bonkers. Sure, let's say you replicate that and staff it up to keep it working ongoing.

I didn't say "replicate S3", I said "replicate a significant portion of AWS". A lot of the value of AWS doesn't come from using _a_ product, there are alternatives for most of what they offer, it comes from having the whole ecosystem of tools integrated and available in one place.

So now you need to go build out a highly available, redundant queuing service like SQS that supports FIFO delivery and up to 20k inflight messages.

And a highly available, redundant notification service with integrations not only with the web/email/etc but also SMS.

And a geographically redundant database service with multi-master, instant snapshots, point-in-time restore, etc, etc.

And... well, pick whatever other handful of AWS services you're using in your specific use-case.

And wrap it all behind tools for management. And hire a whole wackload of ops staff to keep it all going. And pay 10x as much because you don't get the economies of scale that AWS does.

I'm not ignorant of the difficulties in setting up generation and storage for electricity. But I'm also not ignorant of the absolutely massive task it would be to replicate AWS if you're it for more than a really expensive VPS hosting service. I would 100% choose to work on off-grid electricity generation before rebuilding AWS.
Got it, I had assumed there was an equivalent Plotly express API in JS as there is in Python. Thanks!
I'd encourage you to read your own comment here. You're pointing a finger at "extreme progressives" and calling folks intolerant, childish and confrontational. Does this framing facilitate a reasoned conversation, or further polarize it?
The last one is interesting point. I wonder if this is their general approach on these weddings. How many free talents working for exposure do they involve? Not the crew, but the venue, decoration, bands and so on...
> It's more like we have three "sex groups": all women, normal men and extreme outlier men.

There are extreme outlier women as well.
Thanks! Nice blog btw.
Sure, a little. Limits, Riemann sums, derivatives: the basics needed to understand how they model change over time.
Missing from markdown/web based slides is a way to auto resize text content to fit on a page, like powerpoint does. I didn't find a way to manage this correctly with reveal, remark or marp and from what I'm seeing, slidevjs won't do it either.
fzf-tmux with the new tmux window popup?
Vitalik had a good take on this; developers are in control only until they screw up, which means they were never really in control. https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/03/23/legitimacy.html
Uh, yes? Monarchy is an essential component of the political systems of the Netherlands, the UK, and Denmark (to name a few). There are a variety of reasons the citizens of those countries continue to preserve that institution. The question at hand is whether it's a foundational pillar of the EU, which it's obviously not, because that's not a concept that's defined at the EU-level.

Similarly, slavery as an institution had no bearing on the socioeconomic systems of the Northern States, but it was quite essential to the Southern States. All the US was (at the time) was a Union of all of those States. The concept didn't really exist at the US level, and insofar as it did exist, it was in the form of an incentive to abolish slavery. The foundational pillars of the United States were simply a Federal union of States with a bicameral legislature, a set of enumerated powers, and a set of limitations on the Federal government. That's it. Just because it did nothing to abolish slavery at its founding does not mean that slavery was itself a foundational pillar of the institution. By that logic, <insert atrocity committed by UN member country> is a foundational pillar of the United Nations. A totally unserious argument.
The difference is the bankers have authority and compliance by way of force. That is, government controls currency, you pay your taxes in dollars, you trade your oil in dollars, etc., or else.

Crypto groups do not have this authority, and cannot impose their will beyond what the masses will accept. They compete with forks and alternative products. Some chains don't even use mining, some use alternate algorithms where SHA-256 ASICs have no advantage. If powerful groups try to force unpopular change, they'll just split the chain and more or less divide the value proportionally to the user-base that they can convince to join them.

We saw this with Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum Classic, etc. So if the Bitcoin network does something I don't like, I have the option of leaving and supporting one of the potential forks I do like. Force cannot be imposed, and products must compete. This is one of the advantages of open source, decentralized software design.
Ask HN: Ex FAANG – whats the top most thing you miss about workin in FAANG comp
Something you want your current company to do. Something you want to start similar. Something you will always carry with you.
At least in California, the utilities are trying to make that distributed generation unattractive through lobbying. I'm slowly working towards getting myself off grid to avoid the tyranny of PG&E.
Yet, with your caffeine example, the brain very quickly acclimates to regular doses of caffeine and returns to a baseline, so I'm not sure what that example really proves.

Of course hormones do have effects on the brain, but "chemical X affects our mood, therefore chemicals Y and Z must mean there are huge inherent differences between the genders" feels like a pretty weak argument to me.
When the OCEAN model of personality (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism) was developed, they used a statistical approach. Researchers asked hundreds or thousands of study participants hundreds of overlapping questions about personality, and from there they clustered correlations between responses into the 5 categories. (sorry, I don't have my source for this)

I wonder if they controlled for gender when this model was developed. Such a method would lead to the outcome quoted below.

>For instance, males and females on average don't differ much on extraversion. However, at the narrow level, you can see that males on average are more assertive (an aspect of extraversion) whereas females on average are more sociable and friendly (another aspect of extraversion). So what does the overall picture look like for males and females on average when going deeper than the broad level of personality
Miners don't decide what software other people run, that's why. If a miner tries to mint themselves more Bitcoin than they are due, then their block will be rejected by the network.
The core focus right now is autocomplete, but this is definitely an area that we want to explore more in the future!
Is Arrow good for text data or does the columnar format lose its benefits when dealing with lots of arbitrary length strings?
It also has much less ability to screw over people unless they live in China. China cannot project power the way US can.
One aspect that maybe deserves to be more explicitly outlined because people tend to assume that talking about gender differences means that we're pointing to one as being better than the other, is that "more extreme" doesn't just mean "closer to the top" or "better". There's more variance between men, success wise. There are more men at the top, but there are also 7X more homeless men than homeless women IIRC. There's also a higher rate of drug addiction amongst men, there are way more men in prison, way more men getting killed because of reckless driving, etc.

It's a bit like investing. Nature takes a more high risk approach with men. High risk can yield high reward, but it also means a higher rate of failure. This is why, when investing, the advice people generally give you is to make conservative/safe investment decisions.
Matt Levine had a good bit on this yesterday. A bit long to quote but the gist is that as an early-stage investor you want to look for founders who are weird (who might also be into stuff like microdosing), otherwise you're probably being too conservative. As you get closer to going public, though, you want a stodgier, more respectable CEO. So there's an awkward middle phase where the expectations change, and Zhu might have misread it.
This sounds like a less funny version of the time I ordered a couch off Amazon.

I ordered 1 couch, I paid for 1 couch, I was delivered 1 couch. I was delivered 1 more couch a week later. I called to explain the error and they came and took 1 couch. I received notice that I needed to schedule delivery of 1 couch. I called and got the delivery of 1 couch cancelled. I received notice of a refund for 1 couch. I called to explain that I needed to pay for 1 couch. I authorized Amazon to charge me again for my 1 couch I was sitting on.

Each time I spoke to Amazon I was given a $75 credit. I still have never been charged for my 1 couch.
>Which is why we should focus on infinite wealth creation games

So, fairy tales?
I'm not going to out a friend who still works there, but yes I did see phone pictures of a power point presentation literally mentioning "Otherkin."

Although I'm also just some random stranger on the internet, so take this post as you will.
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