skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can imagine some future world where ordering garments online works for me. Maybe I could scan my body and see an AR version of the clothing using real physics simulation or something, though I'm also picky about how a fabric feels. So, for me, I can't tell if a garment is going to look good or bad on me unless I try it on. Further, I just don't seem to find what I'm looking for online. I also find looking online slower. Looking at racks of clothing I can see 100s of items at once, looking online I see 9 to 12 per screen and while sure, there's more places to look for some reason it feels like way more work, maybe because it takes more time to pass all the stuff I'm un-interested in.

Still, at least in the USA, I don't find it offline either. The USA or at least SF/LA has almost no variety in clothing. All there are are chain stores. The limited small stores I know of just don't carry enough. Conversely in Tokyo I can find 10x? 20x the variety? At least that's my experience.
> Science is discovering dogs can smell disease.

Bees too. Yesterday news included the Dutch training bees to smell covid.

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/oddly-enough/bees-netherla...
The Humane Representation of Thought - Bret Victor (2014) [video]
Is this being posted now in response to Sheikh Jarrah?
He also put together recommendations for free for Musk to improve their manufacturing processes based on his research and tear downs. Good people.
Sure. But I can't choose to work another hour instead of volunteering, make $60, and donate it. Salary doesn't work that way, and which is why these comparisons never make any sense to me.

In fact, if I decide to work another hour, I would be making less per hour.
The car also most likely has a built-in compass.
Gut ist der Schlaf,
der Tod ist besser - freilich
Das beste wäre, nie geboren sein.

Sleep is good.
Death is better,
but the best is to have never been born.

Heinrich Heine 1797-1856
Morphine 1835-1836

http://www.vhemt.org/philrel.htm#antinatalism
I really liked how balanced the view is the book takes. There was a point where I thought this was Ayn Rand in space, but it's definitely not. It's quite human and shows the inherent flaws that will come organizing humans either way.
FWIW, in Chrome (Dev) on Linux, with hardware decode and 2D GPU raster enabled, on a fairly old laptop that occasionally sees GPU process hangs, it's _perfectly smooth_, and try as I might I can't make it skip frames. The icons jitter around a tiny bit as they change size, but I can't get it to produce jank.

What browser/hardware?
I also wondered this. I suspect that, like a lot of Go code, the gRPC internals are nonchalant about starting goroutines for fairly small things, because Go's scheduler is quite good. In the single-core case this may therefore involves a lot of goroutine switches. Go moves up the list rapidly in the 2 and 3 core case - the 99th percentile is pretty bad, and I'm not too surprised because Go has a GC, and my experience is that gRPC in Go does a lot of interfaces/reflection wrapping and makes a lot of garbage - the requests / responses are not pooled and at least in our gRPC APIs, the response often contains enough slices of the request I expect it keeps most of both around for too long.
Please don’t give them any ideas.
ZA̡͊͠͝LGΌ causes "Invalid MD5 checksum on messages"
Can see the use for Amazon (if it's an order directly from Amazon, not a third-party seller) but eBay is a bit harsh. Lots of smaller local businesses doing honest business on there, getting a wider reach because of the platform.

Maybe they'd make a bit more directly rather than after eBay's cut I guess so there's that argument.
Yep. There’s a reason they have not become the dominant mode for living. Moshavim were already an exit strategy for many. I’ve seen similar internal conflicts and power issues in anarchist communities and worker co-ops in Europe too.

Still, I do appreciate that in the early days kibbutzim were a pragmatic and necessary strategy for group cohesion and cooperation under stressful conditions.
If they remain bidenbucks when spent, why would any merchant accept them for anything?
> Only if you have it enabled.

What? If you back up your messages, don't you get the messages from your contacts? Why wouldn't they get yours?
Point taken.

As I think about it more, this is an article that could be written about anyplace in the US.

NYC

Boston

Austin

Seattle

Charlotte

Madison

Portland

Raleigh

Minneapolis

Asheville

Atlanta

And so on and so on.

Same characters and all. Only differences would be small differences in industries.
I’m going to challenge your assertion of “not being good at frontend” based on this submission heh. You should try to stop seeing yourself that way.

I dont’t like frontend work, but that’s different from being bad at it. :)
What struck me the most from this article was that he has had multiple strokes and was hospitalized for two weeks once.

His diet doesn’t sound the worst, he seems to be active, just genetics? The beans every morning? He didn’t mention what he does for dinner.
Apart from the solving problem with paywall, Sci-Hub UX is 1000x times better than official journals. It's basically a Google of scientific articles today.
The bird is going off of the 50-day moving average
The problem solved is that spaghetti isn't the ideal pasta for a lot of sauces. At least if you'd ask the Italians:

https://hospitalityinsights.ehl.edu/pasta-shapes

With that in mind I wonder how the average Italian would feel about this technology - conservative? Or excited to try out new designs?
That's my take too. Also for The Weeknd it's especially true with early releases, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPp5Ty9EE6k. On the hip hop side Lil Peep (RIP at 22 unfortunately) is also typical of that blend, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAMgQQMZ9Lk or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOujzvtwZ6M, with a huge 90's alt rock vibe.
How this compares to other countries?

I suspect that if some other country has exactly the same quality of medical care, more people die from medical errors in the US simply because doctors have incentive to order treatments even if risk/reward ratio does not justify it. Especially when patients are elderly.

More treatments leads to more errors with the same error/treatment ratio.
Not if it replaces wood products that fully biodegrade (even tho many are chemically treated in other ways). That'd be a net loss, and I could see it being huge in terms of additional mass of plastics being added to the environment.
Rewriting a silly library like numpy or spark from scratch to make your life easier? Rewriting numpy in java for speed? Hell rewriting spark in java for speed?? That’s a hugely massive undertaking that wouldn’t gain you any benefit.
Trustworthiness is a prerequisite to doing science. If you can't trust the scientist, you can't trust the science – that's why academic careers end when scientists are discovered falsifying results.

Further, scientific claims should be evaluated by scientists, not laymen. Since this person isn't even a scientist, actual scientists needn't deign to evaluate these claims.
It seems like it would be a more natural for representing the number when communicating with a human.

But that's not what we're doing here, so it's not entirely relevant.
A fellow HNer and I just yesterday released some maps where we take aerial and/or satellite imagery and combine it with hillshade to create high resolution map art.

The website is our work as well. Would love feedback from the HN crowd. Happy to answer any questions as well.
It would have to be a /very/ big favour to sell out a CIS citizen.
> 1 trip to a specialist camera store wouldve solved his problem.

Why not both? There’s a lot of web-first brick & mortar companies coming up these days. Coolblue is a good example in NL. They offer expert advice at their stores, and an amazingly modern website experience at the same time. Inventory is all managed via warehouses, like Amazon.
Sure. I'm not going to get into an emotional argument with you here.

These are complex questions, and we're not going to settle them here conclusively. These discussions have been raging for hundreds of years. I was just offering a perspective wrt one of your questions.
Shouldn't that be:
“What do you mean, an African or European Swallow?"
> Harvesting information from people when you don't absolutely need to is bad, always.

I think it's easy to justify a need for it. For example, insufficient information to address wider problems and understand usability in the software. Done, need justified.

> the history of tech is rife with examples of seemingly bland info being pieced together to reveal something that was supposed to be secret.

The history of human interaction with anything is rife with examples of seemingly bland info being pieced together to reveal something that was supposed to be secret.

> Beyond that, if a mechanism for spying is constructed, there's nothing to stop it from being hijacked to collect other information down the road, either by bad actors or the new owners themselves.

There is nothing stopping anything from being hijacked to collect other information down the road, either by bad actors or the new owners themselves.

> "Telemetry" increases the attack surface of a fucking free audio editor for no reason at all.

I just gave you a reason. You may not like it, but it is a reason and it is a valid reason.

> "But we have to spy on users or we won't be able to fix bugs!" is the laziest thing I've ever heard

You even acknowledge that it is a reason, you may not like it, but it is a reason.

> The real reason to collect this info is so you can start doing fun things with it, like targeted advertising.

Yes, let's make targetted advertising based on the session time period, audition crashes, usage of effects, sound generators, analysis tools, file formats along with OS and Audacity versions???
A Writer from the Future: Who Was Sci Fi Iconoclast Izumi Suzuki?
I like all of Earthsea. But what really surprised me about the Earthsea "trilogy" was how interesting the later three books were, and how much they subtly reflected, I suppose, changes in her philosophy about feminism and culture. [For those of you who don't know, Le Guin wrote the original trilogy early in her career, then wrote the last three books much, much later, with a big gap between].
California receives $12 per resident in Federal aid, Florida receives $2187 per resident.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/federal-aid...
As a huge fan of the Wizard of Earthsea, I could never bring myself to read the other big wizard school books: Harry Potter.

Harry Potter just seemed so trite, superficial, and generic by comparison.. but since I never actually read them I can't say if my impression of them from the outside was accurate.

Would any other Wizard of Earthsea fans who've actually read Harry Potter be so kind as to compare and contrast the two?

Is Harry Potter really as atrocious as I'm dreading it is?
The author of this post was a recent guest on an episode[1] of the Rails with Jason podcast. She discussed the book she's working on, which I believe is based on the series of blog posts of which this one is a member. The episode was a bit of an introduction to garbage collection in Ruby, as opposed to the deep dive into one particular aspect in this article.

https://railswithjason.simplecast.com/episodes/093-garbage-c...
But how many of these deaths matter?

Did the doctors actually kill them, or did they fail to prolong their life another few days of misery?
> I am missing out on communications from my employer since they insist upon using WhatsApp.

Is that a company-wide policy or just between eg. you and your team? Which country?
It hasn't been true since C99, at least -- C++ didn't adopt C99 designated initializers.
> AFAIK explicit content is allowed in AppStore as long as you're clearly separate it from non-explicit with a setting.

Example: Telegram blocks channels known for containing porn. You can disable the block, but only through a setting in Telegram Web (and no mention of that is allowed inside the app).

I think that’s stupid, inconsistent, benefits nobody and only makes for a bad UX, but I guess the argument, as always, is “think of the children”.
Agreed, it’s a default choice with vague implications to the average person.
Authors can hum and haw over estimates all day, but at the end of the day if we don’t have required reporting we will never know. That would be a good first step.
You’re assuming the CEO is not an uncultured bigot and xenophobe with life experiences that reinforce this condition.
This has been illegal for a while. You can't photograph people if it shows their helplessness[1]. The examples I found (I wrote this article) specifically mention people photographing accidents.

In general, German photography laws are pretty strict. I like that it prevents things like Worldstar or /r/publicfreakout. People can still have a reasonable expectation of privacy, even when they leave the house.

[1] https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/photography-laws-germany
I agree that it was harsh for me to focus on the desire for prestige. It would've been kinder of me to focus on the need for the professor or apprentice professor to remain employed and, like you say, to have a positive influence on the community of professors.
I prefer to buy at brick and mortar but I question this reason for it. The guy in the plumbing section of the hardware store probably knows where things are on the shelf there, but probably has not done plumbing themselves and probably can't answer my DIY question about what product to use. For that, I end up needing YouTube.
No. Unfortunately we're not able to image any blackholes _that_ well. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/black-hole-i... is an example of the best we've been able to do.
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> First there are a couple of different issues. Deciding what’s on the App Store is one issue but payment processing is a potential separate issue.

This is all the same issue -- whether there should be other stores. If there are other stores then the other stores could filter apps differently and use other payment methods.

> Second 30% May have made sense once when this was a small business. It’s not anymore. Apple is inviting these lawsuits by simply not throwing big publishers a home with reduced rates.

> Third, the whole tax on digital purchases is completely arbitrary. There was a time when Apple was working out what to do with Amazon and that’s when this role came about. Not being able to purchase kindle books just highlights the artificial and arbitrary nature of all this.

Other stores could also charge lower fees and not charge any fee for digital purchases, and provide competitive pressure for Apple to do so. This is probably the largest reason they don't want to.

> Fourth, at the risk of offending HN folks who self-servingly believe everyone wants or needs side-loading apps, most people benefit from the filtering of apps. Side-loading and unrestricted third party payments would simply be another attack vector.

Nothing about third party stores prevents filtering. It only provides a choice of who does the filtering separate from your choice of hardware and operating system.

But naturally if anyone can operate a store then you can operate your own and do your own filtering. Maybe most people don't want to do that; that's fine. They don't have to. Anyone could still choose to leave it to Apple or Debian.

> Lastly, a bunch of different app stores is a terrible user experience. Just look at the friction of finding which streaming service has a particular movie or TV show.

The problem there was never finding which service has it. There are several interfaces that allow you to search through all of them. The problem there is that you have to pay for each subscription and nobody wants to pay a monthly fee to a thousand separate subscription services.

But there is no monthly fee for an app store app. It's not a subscription service.
I don't know why this is flagged. It's a legit entrepreneurial story(We can't know if the the claims are true but the story is a legit one).

At first it was hard to understand what it is all about and sounded like get rich quick scheme but essentially it is about someone building a service to check the authenticity of physical items.
I just wanted to reply to say thank you for that WalletHub link. Given the growing possibility my company will accept remote work, I'm more seriously looking into moving in order to minimize my CA induced tax burden, and I've always simply assumed that I was simply looking for places with no income tax. WalletHub's methodology that also includes property and sales taxes, AND presents them each as a share of income, makes a lot of sense, and has definitely changed my thought process significantly! Thank you!
I always wanted to go on a kibbutz but have never even managed to visit Israel. One day, perhaps.

I ended up spending a decade living in a warehouse community, wherein ours had 20+ people downstairs, 15+ people upstairs and a number of similarly-sized units as neighbours.

The model is different, of course, but the insularity of community, pettiness and sociopathic/nutter-members you hint at in your post was very much in evidence. Gets tiresome and clogs development.

I now live in a normal house, and am much happier for it.

Good times though!

- ed - minor addition
In a way, you are lucky if the journal has outsourced typesetting to some low-quality shop. Some for-profit publishers demand that the unpaid editors do all the copyediting, proofreading, and typesetting, and just provide the publisher with a camera-ready PDF. The for-profit publisher no longer provides any of the added value it once did. (Only distribution is left, and that isn’t a big deal, because even old-school non-profit learned societies manage to distribute their journals to libraries around the world.)
By her own words, in creating and maintaining Sci-Hub, Elbakyan was driven by communist ideals: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc850001 https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc920674

Interesting to observe how it overlaps with this conception of the hacker spirit.

If only the world had many more Alexandra Elbakyans, and fewer Elseviers. Humanity as a whole would be a lot better off without the capitalists ruining everything with their insatiable greed.
That‘s a good idea! I will play with PostGIS and assigning every record a random position on earth.
I'm a big Le Guin fan and I consider her books to be sort of like "anthropological science fiction," as in they're focused on the societies and people of science fictional societies and less so on the science behind those societies.
'allows pauseless garbage collection regardless of the Java heap size'. I thought this is not possible.
Ironic that the Guardian is published by a sociopathic corporation, at least by its own conception.
I can't tell if you're trolling, but in case you're not and unless you think there's a mathematical certainty to your argument, you might do well to spread your bets.
> What goes up, musk comes down.

Intentional or not, I enjoyed the "musk" here as a serendipitous spelling.
What I've been very interested in lately is whether there's a way for us to enable local food production (local meaning on the individual/family scale) via some technological or business innovation. Maybe something along the lines of automated remote farming which would factor in the lack of local space to farm + time limitations.

Something that concerns me personally is the globalistic nature of the food supply chain and just from a risk management perspective it would be great to push it into a more localized state. But I don't think a world where everybody moves to homesteading is realistic, quite the opposite.

Just superficial pondering. If there's some nice initiatives / startups / other working on this would be keen to learn more about them.
It is in Germany too. You are generally entitled to your own image.

https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/photography-laws-germany
Content many parents want to keep away from their children
What chips can be targeted by C compilers today that don't use 2's complement?
This is dangerous. I specifically don't want 2FA on one of my Google accounts because I only have one phone number tied to one device, and this decision by Google to enforce 2FA is going to lock out millions of accounts since some people like to have two Google accounts for compartmentalization reasons (one account for work and another one for play is a common thing to see). So now I need a second phone to get 2FA prompts on the account where I don't want 2FA turned on.
I have no idea why this is posted on HN.

There was an another story here a few days ago about some economics professor turned hardcore free-market objectivist, becase he lived in a kibbutz in his youth.

Look, it isn't for everyone, but why not let people live how they want. Some prefer giving up some personal liberty for the collective communal experience.
To put your accuser in the nihilism box does not absolve you. It would be extremely unlikely for you to not be a active participant in the process of making the world worse.
"Someone" here is the same compiler you're trusting to optimize your giant arithmetic expression of the same idea. Your statement is internally inconsistent.
Note to self: if I find myself in the crosshairs of the US government, move to Russia.
It was that previously these publishers were printing and distributing journals, before the internet.

Some of the journals are naturally more prestigious than others. Academics want to publish in these famous journals. The name of journals they publish in carries lot of value for an academic's career. (That's what matters for the big head dudes who manage funds / promotions, they don't understand all these open access stuff.)

Thus, the publisher has a monopoly or oligopoly on high value journals, new open access free as in libre journal cannot establish itself.

Even if you're a well meaning academic who wishes not to contribute to this oligopoly, when you are young you don't want to risk your career. When you're old there are other young people under you and you don't want to risk their career.

The big ~~head~~ belly dudes in positions of power are ones who need to understand this.
> as well as a magic system incorporating “true names” of things, a concept used in many other fantasies such as Eragon.

Er... also was a pretty important influence on one of the most important cyberpunk works of all time...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Names
Thanks for sharing.
I love a book called 'What the Robin Knows'. It's about the knowledge of birds, and the insight they give other animals.
My gut tells me it's mainly due to the patient-to-nurse/doctor ratio. Like how I manufacture bugs when being rushed through a sprint with to many "points" committed. If I can pay attention and think about the task at hand and see it through, my bugs reduce dramatically. On top of that the quality of the solution is much better.
Yes, that's why I mentioned Facebook forcing users to subscribe through a web browser as that would be out of Apple's control.

AFAIK the rule is that users can subscribe to a service/product outside of an app and use their account's status on the app, but if the user wants to subscribe from within the app they need to go through the App Store subscription service.
A kibbutz can be a nice place to get ones mind in order I think.

My brother was depressed at some point and didn't feel motivated anymore with his software engineering job. At some point he got so annoyed with his life and job that he decided to spend some time in a Kibbutz. A half year.

He got some food and lodging and a small amount of money which he would spend in the weekends. While at the Kibbutz he did some gardening, worked in the kitchen, etc... He enjoyed his time there.

And now he's back into a software engineering job :)
Startup employees should pay attention to Biden’s capital gains tax plans