skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We’re talking about who to put in charge. The US was built with basically just a few kinds of people in charge: farmers, lawyers, businessmen, and military officers. It was already wealthy before there were any Ivy League professors doing anything.

There are countries where the government was heavily influenced by academic theories. Marx was a PhD and a professor and his political philosophy was the basis for several quite unsuccessful efforts at governance.

This is not a knock on academic elites in general. I want them sitting around and building the Internet! But I want a farmer actually running the country.
Is that not also true for cycling? So many people I know purchase so many expensive upgrades for their bikes.
The reason he is in prison is because he sabotaged Hillary's campaign and because he has actually committed crimes.
The line isn't gas stoves. It's gas connections to new houses or businesses. Once you have gas connected you have gas hot water, gas heating, and oh yes, gas stoves.

I suspect a lot of restaurants will move to bottled gas for cooking while using electricity everywhere else. That way they can still get the flame seared taste or the feeling of control they don't get with an electric or induction cooktop.
This is bizarre. After you pointed out my error, I went to Wikipedia to verify before saying anything more. I was wrong originally; you, me, and your link all know it. But Wikipedia says it was AT&T that first carried the iPhone [0]. I assume it's because AT&T bought Cingular, but it feels off not noting that it was branded under Cingular instead of the separate (at the time) AT&T.

It's an eerie feeling finding errors or omissions in what is commonly used as an irrefutable source of truth in the modern world. I appreciate the correction though!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Mobility#iPhone
Dell Xps 13 Developer Edition availability?
I'm a very happy Xps 13 9343 (2015) developer edition user and think of buying a new one.

For some reason dell does not offer the developer edition in europe even though it's being sold in the US for about a year.

I tried all offical ways I found to contact someone at dell and even resellers to get any information on this.

I also contacted @DellCares on Twitter, but did not get a response.

Since it seems like there are always people who know stuff on HN:

Why is it that I can't buy a Dell Xps 13 Developer Edition in Europe?

All the best, Martin
This is mostly in the realm of computer vision, but I would recommend checking out AlexeyAB's fork of Darknet: https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet It's got decent CUDA acceleration, I personally run a GTX 960M for training.
Biomass is not number of individuals. I could have 10.000 trees at home if I would want it.

I can assure you that Google earth still show trees that were chopped some years ago; and sadly both wildfires and megafires are very real currently.
Have you ever tried to send an iPhone to a recycling service? I have. They are extremely diligent about ensuring activation lock is disabled. If you can’t unlock it, the recycling centre will only pay you a small fraction of what they would otherwise.

The point is, this is a solved problem.

(This was five years ago, by the way.)
Law in many countries allow the justice system to confiscate items used to perpetrate a crime. Like a car used in a getaway, or a gun used in a murder (regardless of if it was legally owned to begin with).

Sweden even allows the state to confiscate any belongings of a criminal that are “reasonably believed to be the profit of criminal activity” like expensive watches, jewelry or sports cars.
The writing is on the wall, period, it's just a matter of time. As renewable usage increases, industrial and power grid use of natural gas is going to decrease. Period. That's the whole point. The reason natural gas is so cheap is that we use so much of it; when that starts to change, it'll be prohibitively expensive for restaurants to cook with it. It might get replaced with something other than electric, but fossil-derived natural gas is going away, and cooking is no exception.
What crimes? He just published leaked documents just like New York Post and The Guardian did. Wikileaks just happened to be first.

There is no evidence of hacking since this key witness admitted that it was made up.
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I know that tesseract uses leptonica which does have capabilities of binarization and thresholding. Interesting that it's not enough.
On the exact same hardware linux always felt much faster to me, I remember doing stuff like resizeing finder windows vs KDE's dolphin, finder would be all janky and laggy and KDE wouldn't miss a frame
I highly recommend the documentary "Riot On!". Great documentary, great cinema, and great entertainment. "E-Dreams" and "Startup.com" are also very good. All of them on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0lrIi0ce5E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j847rYNo2G0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fd8pdniJZk
Look back at them - these stories are always about NSO group, the same company.

Nobody mildly self-conscious with a shred of ethics works there.

It's not fair to an entire industry to be painted in this light because of one bad actor.
What did you do to elicit that response?
This tool works with the author’s intended layout, a big advantage over autoformatters which destroy and replace it poorly (it’s probably an AI-complete problem).
Ha!

I was already typing this before your comment articulated it excellently.

Dang, I am assuming how people see comments is randomised? So the part 2 of the comment (those that did not make it will all have an equal chance to be seen).

Assuming it is not asking for too much customisation, these summary threads can go down much slower than the usual one person Launch HN.
Show HN: PostalCodes.app
What you wrote sounds to me a bit like claiming that it's impossible to qualify paintings as beautiful or not, so therefore there cannot be any art museums
Ah yeah dude. I'm having a midlife crisis too. But the dot-com era was only about 97-99. I miss the bitcoin casino era, when anyone who could write a poker parser could make real money. Wait. I miss the time when we got our news from 60 Minutes and Peter Jennings.

Here's another thought: We've never had it so good. We can write anything we can dream of, on any device, and deploy it anywhere, without corralling physical servers or prepaying for bandwidth. If you dream of it, you can make it. There are literally children playing with neural network APIs in ways that would have been inconceivable a decade ago. They're going to produce some amazing software.

Me - I'm a bit of a 90s dot-com casualty, secure in a career but lost the move fast and break things mentality awhile ago. I make sure to keep myself up to date. Part of it's just keeping your mind alive to new ideas.

There is no - I repeat no wonderful fairy tale to tell about the years from 97-99. People were just as rapacious and greedy as they are now; they were using cruder tools but it was the same thing. The open web existed, still exists, and will always be buried under a mountain of corporate shit; that doesn't mean it isn't the font of creativity. We get old but the things we build survive in new forms.
I don't know if this addresses your question, but electricity surpluses are exported between countries belonging to the same wide area synchronous grid:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_synchronous_grid
+1 for the cli rename.

On some distro's you can just do `apt-get install ag` for silversearcher-ag.

So "ag" is pretty common for the great silversearcher-ag tool.
unlike you, who are clearly not morally outraged
I disagree.

It is not impossible to measure quality, once you accept that quality has many definitions and therefore requires many contexts incentivizing different versions of it for different purposes and audiances.

And that diversity would be a very good thing.
> Consider doctors, who are extremely busy in their profession. Although, doctors do not spend enough time talking to their children, somehow they turn out to be alright.

Is this something you know, or is it something you think is true? The reason I ask is because there are quite a lot of doctors in my extended family, and they spend a lot of time with their children. That’s obviously very anecdotal, but working long hours and sometimes being called in to perform long acute surgeries doesn’t seem to impact their family lives much.

Part of this is financial. You simply have more time when you pay other people to clean your house, do your laundry and keep your garden and can get restaurant quality take-away delivered when you’re too exhausted to cook. Aside from paying people to do things, you also expend so much less energy when you never worry about money.

Another part could be the kind of people they are. I have ADHD and while I’m well functional and have been for years, I just don’t have enough energy to lead a life that’s on equal grounds with my counterparts in other municipalities, even with medication. As a result I’ve had to balance my work-life and my career so that I only rarely work more than 37 hours in a week (paid lunch and extended travel times included) and when I do work more hours, I make sure to work less as soon as possible so that the total gets to be 37 hours per week over the year. I have absolutely no regrets sacrifice a little of my career (which is of course made easy that it is still a great career despite the sacrifices) to have more energy for my family. It did affect me when I had my first child, which is where only having energy for 1.5 full time jobs first caught up with me, and I was quite depressed I couldn’t lead the life I had planned. Once things “fell into place for me mentally” I’ve never looked back. Here, years later, I’m actively trying to find ways to work even less. The reason I use myself as an example here is because my cousin is a leading surgeon with a doctor wife and 3 children, and he is able to put as much energy into his children as I am without the sacrifices.

Becoming a doctor is extremely taxing in my country, so it goes to reason that the people who come through it are simply people who are fortune in the energy and structure department. Which could likely also helping them to have more energy over all to invest in their children.

This is anecdotal like I said, maybe the doctors in my family are just special, but unless you have some sort of data to back your claim, you might want to be careful about your assumptions.
You're missing the point of my reply, the risk is the same: potentially exposing your biological gender and detailed attributes to the world.
In that case, the same information written down instead of spoken won’t help either.
> As sombody who always buys unlocked phones I have no expectations from my carrier to support or replace them.

As someone who buys unlocked phones, I wouldn’t use a carrier who didn’t support them. They’re a bad abusive carrier not worth your money if they do not.

I don’t understand why anyone would be more ok with their cell provider dictating what device you can use than they would be with their internet provider dictating what computer they can use.
This seems a bit over the top to me. I don't think I agree with your overall sentiment, even though I share some of the fear.

Our phones were certainly not designed to be surveillance devices, that's just a side effect of having one central device that includes pretty much all of your life's data. As convenient as it is to have everything that matters to you on one device, it simply makes spying that much easier.

I'm not going to go into the smart home debate. I personally don't think that most smart devices are actually spying on you, though a lot of them are security nightmares and could be easily configured to do so by a malicious third party.

I don't share your sentiment towards the guardian at all. I think it's important they are writing articles like this -- thereby doing more to put an end to it than most. You not using a cell phone and telling your friends not to either is likely not having as much an impact on the public as such an article does.

That last sentence of yours pretty much makes any debate pointless, however.
Assange's main mistake is that he underestimated how corrupt politicians are and how apathetic citizens are.

I wonder if he would have started Wikileaks if he had understood human nature. What's the point of helping society if it's a steaming pile of crap?

This is a lawless dog-eat-dog world. The laws only serve criminals who are able to disregard them and not get caught. These are the real beneficiaries of our system.
Mailbox locking in ImapFlow (Node.js IMAP client library)
The elites at any given time are actively promoting this premise. But, seeing how elites get wiped out and replaced now and then, and society keeps going on, I think this "basic hierarchical nature" very much ought to be questioned by anyone who does not fancy becoming part of the current or future elite themselves.
Nice, looks good! I would suggest increasing leading in the paragraphs when you view a specific drug, they're a bit close together and make reading difficult.
He did not sabotage anything. Hillary sabotaged her campaign all by herself creating those documents.
That's not my point: How would they tell they your transaction is not legitimate, but the result of cracking the code? How would some random wallet owner influence local police?
Twitch Streamers Can Now Avoid DMCA Notices for Playing Copyrighted Music
Hi! If I understand correctly, you're working for a foreign company but living in the UK and hoping to go on UK payroll?

We support UK payroll, but there's a few other hoops your company may have to jump through in order to employ you in the UK.

Things to be aware of are whether your work in the UK will trigger "permanent establishment", which could have corporation tax implications for your company.

If your employer has a UK entity we can support them, but if not you might want to suggest a Employer of Record setup to which will abstract away a lot of compliance headaches for your company (e.g. https://www.letsdeel.com/ , https://www.boundlesshq.com/ , https://remote.com/)

Hope that helps!
> Hmmm, seems like a lot of people involved in this case should be fired,

"Fired"? This is tampering with evidence, contempt of court, filing false reports and so on, all done repeatedly. People need to go to jail, because people go to jail for those crimes and for lesser crimes as well.
> No, because our court system could prevent any censorship that infringed on our rights

No they can't. The legislature would. Do you trust Nancy pelosi and Ted Cruz to write censorship rules you agree with?
Vulkan on Godot on the Mac is using MoltenVK[1]

[1]: https://twitter.com/reduzio/status/1215284328390889474
The Internet History Podcast is excellent :

http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/

It was created while writing the book 'How the Internet Happened' which is referenced.

The episodes on how Google got to Adwords and the episodes on browser development are particularly good.

It's a real treasure trove.
I think it's good to have visibility into something like this, but I worry that we aren't typically getting meaningful discussion since people have dug to the Earth's core to fortify their positions on topics like this, and I'm not sure what the appropriate frequency of reposting should be.

22 days ago (572pts): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27642660

19 days ago (14pts): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27673180

18 days ago (11pts): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27686753

16 days ago (1110pts): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710075
>and it just keeps getting worse.

Is there any evidence for that because my perception is it has become much harder to exploit systems.
On ours it's the same thing: You've just added time, i.e. told it to go for thirty seconds or three minutes or whatever, so it starts doing that. Feels quite obvious and intuitive to me.

"What, you didn't mean tomorrow or next week, did you? I'm not one of those fancy models with a totally unnecessary timer, you know, so I'll just assume when you tell me to do something, you mean do it NOW, like any sane person (or appliance) would", I can imagine it saying.

Now if only kids could be equally sensible.
Grow your own with the Raspberry Pi for less than 30 dollars
‘Boys' Love’ dramas dance around China's LGBTQ censors
Paranoid NixOS Setup
The point is that if they're simply responding to consumer demand, then it's collectively us who are the censors.
>London has ~700k cameras

A fact that often scurries across my mind when I read about some crime caught in 4k (especially home security cams) for which the police are unable to find the culprits. Are all those cameras actually on?
Is public knowledge than most smoke in wildfires is water. If we see white smoke, is water vapor (mostly).

Unlike volcanoes, any temporary cold effect from clouds would be negated by the permanent destruction of the forest.
None of the charges against him are about anything that happened past 2014, and the only crime he has been convicted of is skipping bail, for which his prison term has already been served.
GBoard, at least, has a "block offensive words" option under "text correction" options. I think it makes sense - as bad as it is to accidentally type "duck", it's worse the other way round.

Context helps - if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck etc...

Edit: this is a possible alternative meaning for "Duck Typing"...
env() – CSS
If you use the build-std nightly feature you can compile the entire standard library, even for a custom JSON target file, and it goes pretty quick. With a bit of attention that feature would be just fine at filling in the gaps in rustup’s prebuilt targets.

But Zig’s approach isn’t actually about making everyone compile more things from scratch. It doesn’t compile libc from scratch any time you select a new target. Reading the article you can see the extreme lengths it goes to to avoid this.

The main thing that’s missing from Rust is target-specific libc.so/etc, and an appropriate linker for every target. If you try cross compiling anything, you will soon run into this problem; your system will not have the correct target libc or an appropriate linker. You can generally only change one part of the triple before the experience starts falling apart. I can cross compile for iOS/tvOS/etc on my Mac; that’s about it.

Zig manages to solve this for all its targets by pre-processing simplifications of the various libcs, which are then bundled into the Zig binary (as 3 very small files). It generates a useless but linkable .so file from the preprocessed files for any target on the fly. It gets you the correct libc headers. Then it uses LLD instead of making you hunt around on Ubuntu forum posts finding and downloading the correct GNU linker for your specific architecture. So you don’t link to a real libc, but you don’t have to compile one either. (Until you want to execute a binary with QEMU, but usually non-simulated target machines have a libc.so already.)

(Aside: Golang solves this by not depending on libc at all, by reimplementing most of it including the syscalls in Go, and I believe by using its own multi-target linker. Many pros and many cons, but an approach Google is happy to sponsor.)

If you’re saying this approach would be infeasible for Rust std/core, then yes obviously. It’s statically linked, you can’t get away with a fake .so file.

But that was never really the issue. Rustc can build std’s rlib files for any target effortlessly. And yet cross compiling is still a pretty poor experience. The state of the art for Rust developers at the moment is rust-embedded/cross, which solves the same libc+linker problem that Zig does, naively, by literally using Docker and per-target Ubuntu images to download prebuilt GCC and libc packages from Apt. Basically we can do way better than that, because Zig showed us how.

See this Dockerfile for what I mean: https://github.com/rust-embedded/cross/blob/master/docker/Do...
CCTV in his cell conveniently malfunctioned. Psychologist took him off suicide watch when he clearly shouldn’t have been. Occam’s razor is invoked far too often here.
When we tech people warned about this, the answer was always "I got nothing to hide". Now that it affects journalists, they are all shocked and write articles. We need till it hits politicians, then we can have new laws.
I did this in the Sonoran desert with my 15" MBP when the temperature was pushing 50C. Had a stack of those giant ice packs from some meal delivery service. Worked with the laptop sitting on the ice pack and a towel until it was completely thawed after 4-5 hours.
I've been looking for something similar with hadwriting recognition in mind (and maybe math formulas). I got a few leads (unfortunately I don't have the list at hand right now).

Any open-source solution you'd recommend for handwriting recognition?
Well, objectively, you can't have an art museum that has only beautiful art in it, since beauty in art is subjective and non quantifiable, so yes there can not be an art museum that has only beautiful paintings, and the beautiful paintings that supposedly are there might only beautiful to the eye of the curator.

Either way, the point is not wether or not you can have a place with discourse with the all good qualities described, it is more so that because those qualities are not quantifiable, it is impossible to know for sure.
Absolutely untrue. My M1 Air does not skip a beat at all even under sustained load. Barely gets warm.
Leptonica appears to use Sauvola binarization instead of the improved Wolf version.
I’d rather Apple be the ultimate technical gatekeeper than to have a device which, for all I know, comes pre-rooted by my dystopian government. Or where apps are distributed openly and are thus potentially loaded with spyware.
Ah, the nostalgia. More than 10 years ago I wrote a local adaptive binarization tool to improve Tesseract's results, and the upstream still hasn't picked up the idea.
Isn't that a large part of the open-source nature? Audit the code or hardware designs yourself, determine their trustworthiness from that. It's much harder to trust something when you can't examine the inner workings of it.
"free solar panels on CraigsList. Must be gone in 1.5 days. Must sign a liability waiver before removing--via email."

Gone.
That's definitely a twist made the person who posted the link here.
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And the difficulty adjusts correspondingly. Bitcoin doesn't care...
The most comicbook supervillain event so far was that Pfizer deliberately slowed down the Covid vaccine until after the election so that it wouldn't help Trump politically: https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1413658719938748428
> LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Around 4.5% of all bitcoin mining takes place in Iran, allowing the country to earn hundreds of millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies that can be used to buy imports and lessen the impact of sanctions, a new study has found.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/iran-uses-crypto-mining-l...
About the "sonification" of computer processes there is this experiment, recently shared on HN:

What Does the Event Loop Sound Like?
https://medium.com/att-israel/what-does-the-event-loop-sound...
In the UK, pretty much anywhere that uses electric heating will be resistive: either night-time storage heaters or just straight-up electric radiators. Heat pumps are still exceedingly rare.
hah, it's funny. i come at all of this from a sensorimotor control view (even though i was very interested in speech and language- as for a cs person discrete stuff is easier to reason about) and while i can appreciate ideas like this and the shenoy lab stuff, when i worked on this stuff in practice we had no discrete symbols as we decoded continuous variables like positions, velocities, angles and torques- which didn't seem to have clean mappings into comms/noisy channel theory/info theory.
I'd imagine that will be too loud to be practical.