skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite Pyolite has a miserable performance (20MB of downloads), the overall project direction is correct.

I said this already 10 years ago: We don't need more cloud computing but need to empower users end devices again. Jupyter is typically operated on powerful notebooks and not on mobile devices.
OK, thanks. I have two questions.

1. If I were to lend you the deluxe magic wand, what changes would you decree that would cause everyone else to get better?

Now let's quantify the effect of those changes.

2. If instead of the billionaires getting richer next year, rather, because of your changes, the delta of their projected wealth increase goes to everybody else, how much better off would that make the average person?
We don't know that it's really I/O, as in "pushing some bytes to the system". All we know is that the author saw a hot method called "write" and stopped the analysis there. It might well be something like messing around with character encodings to get those bytes in the first place.
Apps that are not have a good export story should be considered as keeping your content hostage. Either treat these as ephemeral, syndicate the content into them or switch. Your content in their app is lock in.
That sounds more like a break room, a wellness room reads tocmr as more of an escape than somewhere to kick back to. I do agree that they could do more though!
This concept was produced in 2017. There hasn't been any news about it since. BMW in 2017 had a similar self-balancing concept bike with some kind of AR goggle HUD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXMGi9kQ3TE Also vanished. Honda had one too, also 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLZ6U71y700 Vanished.
Actually yes.

They try to sell us external/internal Auth service, similar to KeyCloack with their support. What pentesters want to achieve is not improved security, but to sell their services as DevOps and developers. This were not what we expected from pentesting.
I can understand why you might presume it's shallowness but it's really a type of etiquette. Similar to offering a handshake. I'm Scottish rather than American but here babies are often encouraged to smile at family and friends. It's exactly the same as teaching please and thank you
On my travels, I have met several people who, after living in Brazil for only a few months, learned to speak Portuguese fluently. This always impressed me hugely, because English speakers normally have a really hard time learning a language that has "gendered" nouns and inflected articles/adjectives/pronouns, for example... but many of them seem to do just fine! But I met enough of them to now think Portuguese must be quite easy to learn (or maybe, due to the fact that they MUST learn Portuguese when living in Brazil, given most people only speak Portuguese there).
No, it indicates being an idiot (and/or a fake). The old ones had it right.
If you're not well; you shouldn't have to work.

This is unacceptable.
It's a translation of the Japanese at [1].

The original text is reasonable as Japanese advertising copy, but advertising copy usually shouldn’t be translated. Instead, it should be written anew in each target language, sometimes with different content and graphics.

I worked freelance for twenty years translating Japanese to English, often advertising copy like this. Though I did my best, I was rarely satisfied with the result unless I was able to work closely with the Japanese client and write something original in English that met their needs and was appropriate for the target audience. Most clients didn’t have enough time, money, or awareness of the drawbacks of direct translation to make that possible.

[1] https://global.yamaha-motor.com/jp/design_technology/design/...
Same here. Shocked that managed to get past an initial beta.

It defeats the entire purpose of pinning.
I hate jinja. I really don’t get it. So here’s a complaining reply, so you hopefully won’t feel as alone.

When using jinja2 for website builders, it just feels like a poor version of old school php.

I’ve also seen it used for generating json/yaml config files, which to me is absolutely bunkers compared to just building a dictionary in Python and exporting it.
RetroArch 1.9.4 Released
Can you imagine how this would work in reality.

Worker 1: "Where's Jerry?"

Worker 2: "Oh, he's in the booth again .."

Worker 1: "What a loser .."
If this is happening more than one thinks, wouldn't the people at YC be trained to pick up on these signals?
Focus on Your First 10 Systems, Not Just Your First 10 Hires
Libretro Core Updates/Progress Report – April/May 2021
Great. Could you tell us what scientific fruits have resulted?
I think people just like to make this kind of comment to sound deliberately contrarian. And smarter than they really are, also.

Can you elaborate on what is "out of date" or "not all that relevant" about the books?

What a lot of people miss about these books is the joy and wonder Feynman brings to the subject. There are a dime a dozen more appropriate books to study for in preparation for university exams for example. And while they contain fascinating material, they tend to be quite dry & drab in their presentation.

Feynman's infectious love of physics and exploration really shines in these volumes and for me that gives them value in a different way to most textbooks. There is more to life than passing university exams and if someone can make a subject like this both accessible & enjoyable that is quite a remarkable achievement in my opinion
How do you pronounce it? The name sounds dangerously similar to MOTOrrhoids - at least in my language.
Twisted, any guesses as to what was going on?

Physical harm? Malnourishment?
Quantum-Safe Trust for Vehicles
Not really, because they met at different times.
This is a really nice project. Along with the crowdsourcing nature an open and FOSS approach is a good fit. Do you consider open-sourcing?
Worst thing is that they are ruining it for everyone. Loud pipes, racing on the streets - causes more and more noise laws and motorcycle bans, making it harder for everyone.

Also looking forward to ride electric. Currently, the range sadly doesn't enable what I want to do with my bike - ride it out of town, to the mountains, where there is no infrastructure. But hopefully soon. For inner city commuting, electric bikes are already a great fit - prices are the only problem left.
> Here's the summary: [...] But running multi-process is heavy on the JVM as it has to load the virtual machine and JIT for every process start, special when the processes are short lived.

This is a valid summary of some facts, but not of the article or facts relevant to the article. Some quotes:

"Jekyll is not forking processes, so that is not the issue."

"The area where JRuby and TruffleRuby shine are long running processes that have had time to warm up. Based on suggestions I put together a repo of a simple small Jekyll build being built 20 times by the same process in a repo here. After 20 builds with the same running process the build times do start to converge, but even after that MRI Ruby is still fastest."
I really appreciate your blog, and especially find articles like "Design Better Forms"[0] very interesting, if even to provide a nice check-list of do's and don'ts to keep in mind. Thank you for the articles you write.

For NextUX, while I may not have a need myself, I've forwarded the link to my fiance who is doing internships via MBA program – having a need for tools like this – and heard back, "this looks very useful".

Good job covering a lot of aspects of UX/UI, and I wish you the best of luck!

[0] https://medium.com/nextux/design-better-forms-96fadca0f49c
Have you seen Memento? It's a murder mystery that scrambles time. Much better than The Matrix.

There are two interwoven threads in the film, one in colour and the other in black-and-white. The B+W scenes are in chronological order, the colour scenes run backward in time. Colour and B+W scenes alternate. They meet up at the end - the murder scene, which in any sane movie would be near the beginning.

The protagonist has lost his memory, as a result of a bang on the head during the murder; he has no idea what happened "before the beginning".
B/D :Found job posting in LinkedIn with Visa sponsorship. Contacted manager directly as I was "overqualified" for the role.

Job requirements was for "4 years of experience" as engineer and I was working in Indian IT services company as Associate Architect for 11 years without any on-site experience.
It is scaremongering. Synthetic cannabinoids are commonly sold, but they are not commonly sold as cannabis as berndi suggests.
That's an enjoyable article, but geez is it light on details.

The one tangible instance mentioned is the Spice Girls hack — but follow the link to discover they didn't even use pwn, but 0wned!

I tried searching a few pre-00s bbs/usenet archives but could only find a couple of gaming-related instances. [1][2]

It'd be pretty interesting to see some hacking groups usage in the 80-90s. Maybe someone with better access to archives could see some trends?

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/alt.games.everquest/c/GN9tm8Esrw...

[2] https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.computer.ultima.online...
What about when some founders put in capital, say one founder puts in $100k? Do they still need to vest?
>But over time I began to suspect, then later those internal emails exposed in the lawsuits made it clear - apple was holding everyone's messages hostage.

In an SQLiteDB any programmer can learn to navigate, and any third party can build a tool to export them?

Sorry but the "internal emails" prove nothing about Messages. It's just a quick and dirty implementation that "works good enough" for reading the latest, but not as an archive.
That's really interesting. Funnily enough in the UK it's the opposite. The further north you go the chattier and more friendly people get.
For what it's worth, I feel similarly.

I've just deleted the longer part of this comment because we've had this discussion in private mail several times, but for the record: I think you're focussing too much on naked words, and ignore evil behaviour (like intentional misrepresentations of the other one's position) too much.

I'll concede that your job is hard and you're doing a mostly good job. I just think it could be better.
MeshLab 2021.05
For serif, I want fonts to be fancy and elegant and I'm in love with Charter/Charis in that regard, and I also really like Computer Modern fonts - but that might be just nostalgia.

For sans-serif, I want fonts to be playful and cute and fun - and Fira Sans is exactly that.

For monospace fonts, I just use Iosevka and Source Code Pro, because they are pretty in my eyes and most of all get the job done.
There's just something about Gorey's macabre artwork and his grim Victorian-styled pen-and-ink drawings.

This page shows the full set of his Gashleycrumb Tinies that you quoted :
https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/01/19/edward-gorey-the-ga...
Is it that obvious? Who is this “I” you speak of?
The biggest tell that Bob Martin isn't operating from direct experience and first principals is his 180 from object-oriented to functional programming. You don't get a dichotomy like that if you derived your opinions. The principals that functional programming is built on, what actually provides benefit to the program, would have gradually permeated the earlier teachings, they wouldn't just come out of nowhere and flip the entire ideology.

He's selling a product. He'll say what sounds convincing and he won't say things that are true but unpopular (or boring). I don't think it's deliberate but the end result is similar.

One point I do think is relevant though, is that smarter people and better programmers can cope with more complexity in one place. Carmack can probably cope with a lot more state/lines/whatever within a single function, whereas chunking everything up into a form digestible by 5-year-olds is sometimes necessary for your code to be approached by a junior. But the consequence of making dostoevsky digestible by children is that you either remove a significant amount of the content, or the book becomes hundreds of thousands of pages long. And it raises the obvious question, do you want your 747 designed by juniors?
I lost a lot of respect for YC when I realized they invested in a startup that sold laundry detergent with a manly scent. The founders I think were from Stanford.

So yeah, I don't think they are nearly as good as they say at judging startups. I believe a lot of it is based on signaling from founders and already successful startups applying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lx0ZJGgsFs

Here is a video demonstration,
> Like playing your music through a loudspeaker in a public place.

You're in luck, that's exactly what electric cars will do instead of being quiet!
Ahh, that makes sense. Yes, unfortunately there's too much cultural context in advertising copy for it to translate even loosely.
Or they could just spend some time literally anywhere else after work, like visit a park. Though that may be difficult after a 12 hour shift.

A company that indirectly punishes people for bathroom breaks can only end up abusing such initiative. If this booth is ever widely rolled out, it will eventually be used to weed out "low performers".
What did the Ukrainian do to make the American uncomfortable?
The article mentions 2 examples in the 1st paragraph. Maybe not common, but to each their own.
> That attitude basically endorses the idea that the spec is God-given

That's a tad over-dramatic. And context matters, surely I don't need to remind you why Google is spending so much money on Chrome?

Having a company control 70% of the browser market is bad enough, we don't need people telling them to go ahead and ignore specs, remember that they don't make those decisions out of goodwill for us.
"Version 1 should have been the finished product".

Well, what products have you shipped mr Dijkstra?

I think the cure for Dijkstra's snoberry would have been to have him be poor and forced to work on the software development industry (or even worse, the enterprise) for a year or two, under the terms of some manager(s) - not as a researcher at Burroughs.
Barrels and Ammunition
With the pandemic having seriously blurred the line between work and private life, I feel that all social networks, including LinkedIn, have degenerated into political shitshows.
MeshLab — is the open source system for processing and editing 3D triangular meshes.

MeshLab 2021.05:

- Changelog - https://github.com/cnr-isti-vclab/meshlab/discussions/992

- Downloads - https://github.com/cnr-isti-vclab/meshlab/releases/tag/Meshl...

> NOTE: Builds with a "d" sufix in a version number (i.e. `MeshLab2021.05d-.`) stores data with double precision!

PyMeshLab v0.2.1 (based on MeshLab 2021.05):

- Downloads - https://github.com/cnr-isti-vclab/PyMeshLab/releases/tag/v0....

> NOTE: PyMeshLab is a replacement for `meshlabserver` — a MeshLab CLI.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeshLab

[1] https://www.meshlab.net/
Isn't louder == safer?
I don't see a problem to solve there. Every conscious creation has a limited number of sensors and limited processing capacity to work with, as such they can be recreated with enough research and resources.

The flashlight in that example will never experience darkness, just like we will never experience lower or higher dimensions. Or dare I say, a different galaxy. But we could simulate them, so that's also experience, even if not accurate.

Imo, an autonomous robot/car would be no less conscious than a cow. The experience is simply limited by the hardware/software available.
related -
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/06/26/the-ori...

>No popular idea ever has a single origin. But the idea that the sole purpose of a firm is to make money for its shareholders got going in a major way with an article by Milton Friedman in the New York Times on September 13, 1970.
The history of Western philosophy has amply demonstrated that investigating the grammar of language is not a useful way to find out how the world works.
'Unique fingerprints' in Covid-19 could only have arisen from a laboratory
Ask HN: Easiest way to build something I can use across devices?
I want to build something pretty simple with python, all it needs to do is take a text file and based on some tags generate a queue each day.

What's the easiest, least painful way to do this such that I can use it across computers?

Ideally something that would still let it work offline too, if needed. If it works on my phone too, would be nice.

My python knowledge isn't that deep so can't do anything too complicated
We sent few million emails using SES over few weeks, Sendgrid's deliverability was around 12 times better than that of SES.

Don't get me wrong, it might be perfectly fine choice for smaller projects but it is not a solution you would rely for scale. You have to build your own mailservers with warmed up IPs.
Digital currencies, DeFi and the impact of the next Carrington event
Ukraine has a lot of Russian speakers, I would think most of the population can actually speak Russian, or a mix of Ukrainian and Russian (given the similarity between the languages)... on TV, it's common for people to switch languages mid-conversation, for example...

With that said: Ukraine is a big country with a very strong culture that differs from Russian culture in (for us, foreigners) subtle ways. Near the border with Russia, however, Russian culture is stronger, hence some regions even associating themselves more strongly with Russia than with Ukraine (Krimea was one of those regions, by the way, which may explain to people who are unaware of this situation why there was no popular revolt - quite the contrary - against the Russian occupation).
In the UK I believe it's defined in terms of 'reading age' (12?) which, if you don't have that either, is a sort of expected standard of reading ability at certain ages; so teachers can say at parents' evenings 'oh little five year old Bobby already has a reading age of 14, doing really well', or 'I'm afraid 10yo Sam needs some extra help, with a reading age of six currently...' etc.

So, in short, I think literacy level is reasonably quantifiable, and by 'just barely literate' I meant 'sufficient to be called literate but no higher', right on that boundary.

I don't know and wasn't suggesting anything about the current actual make up of literacy in the US; I was just replying to '50% are below average' which is of course always going to be true in a relative sense, but you can shift the absolute values up; it doesn't mean 50% must be illiterate or anywhere close, or any at all even. (Unless you define it as less lettered than average I suppose!)
Photoshopping Drawings to Reality is easy
No, cars are isolated.

Safe driving practices are safe. Like knowing the perception psychology that makes it hard for cars to see you and try to counter that.

https://youtu.be/x94PGgYKHQ0
If you were going through a tough relationship patch, would you choose to sit in a phone booth to spend 15 mins watching wellness videos?
There’s also a great comic book by Joe Sacco called “Paying the Land”. It’s an illustrated reportage where he travels to indigenous communities in Canada and recounts their stories. Resident schools and their destructive effects on individuals and communities are a recurring theme. I love the book, but it’s a hard read.
The solution I use for local jupyter notebooks is nteract [0] which is like a standalone application that can edit/open .ipynb files.

It has a few quirks, but works quite good for daily use.

[0] https://nteract.io/
Yes it is. I'm not a fan of motorcycle racing in the city but I used to commute using a scooter and I'd never do it on a completely quiet machine. Car drivers are already pretty oblivious to smaller vehicles.
Kleptocracy is more publicized when it comes to Russia, because it's an internal affair. If the same kleptocrats just sold to foreign companies who bribed and plundered the country, like in Yeltsin's years, you'd hear 1/100th the stories.
> I'm not totally against the people centric model. I think it can work well in social networks like Facebook and Instagram that are more friends and family focused [...]

I feel Instagram is 100% influencer focused -- i.e. sponsorship focused -- with just enough "friends and family" to not make it feel like an advertisement show.

You know how music on a commercial radio station is there to fill gaps between ads? That is Instagram and Facebook! Same concept but "done with computers". :)

Not judging, just expressing my disappointment about the lack of honest separation between ads and private life.
Why your tech team isn’t delivering
If your customized experience on a website is drastically different from experience of many other people on that same website, you by definition operate in a filter bubble, regardless of whether it has anything to do with politics.

You cannot use this customized experience as the sole argument to imply that experiences of other people on that website are somehow abnormal. When customized feeds and algorithms are in play, there is no such thing as "normal" experience to begin with.

Another layer to this issue is the fact that Twitter (unlike some message board from early 00s) is big enough to influence society at large, so while you might decide to ignore a particular drama, the drama might not ignore you. Because of that a lot of conventional wisdom about "The Internet" doesn't really apply.
> Your willingness to help is nulled by your lack of initiative.

I understand your point and i know it's a difficult question to deal with sometimes, especially during depression.

But remember that you're not those people's top priority. That sentence means you are allowed to ask them for stuff, but it doesn't mean they're going to drop everything and take you into their care right now without you taking a few steps on your own. They consider that you have enough of your own agency.

Your willingness to be helped is nulled by that same lack of initiative on your part.

A trick is to find something easy to ask for, as a go-to response to that. For example, the next time someone says that to you, you could answer:

"Actually, life has been tough lately, a beer would be nice".
Those are text-only bridges, I thought.
Terrific looking bike.

But

> “MOTOROiD, stand up!”

Why do we have to shove the voice assist in every conceivable gadget adding yet another point of failure :-|
Loom hiring already went through that - if it getting what you are saying.
Yeah, your loud pipes don't help the fact that most people can't handle driving without intentionally distracting themselves with music, apps, or phone calls. Driving a car is too easy a task and requires just enough focus that people go on mental autopilot and ignore outliers like motorcycles and bicycles.
I just looked at it again, and it's still on chronological, even though I haven't touched it in months (I usually read Twitter through tweetdeck). I'm actually surprised.

But you're right in that the changing-back behaviour was there some months ago. I don't know if they gave up this user-hostile behaviour or if they segment the user base in several groups and I'm lucky.
Actual latency has improved, but clock-relative latency hasn't.
So what?
It's so strange to read comments from people who think there's nothing to explain. It must be just as strange for those people to hear from the other side of the debate.

To me it seems so obvious that there's an explanatory gap between any functional explanation of behaviour and information processing - and the feeling of experiencing something. The various thought experiments around p-zombies crystalises this for me.
the devs here, like elsewhere, rely on twitter to discover new ideas, tools and projects though. Hackernews is broader and not customizable