skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Surveillance Camera Man” should continue to exist and raise awareness. It’s much, much worse when a camera is not held by a human and is instead fixed in a known location, plugged into mains and is constantly feeding footage into a large network of face/stride recognition software; yet most people are entirely oblivious to the latter happening all around them.
Recommended this yesterday to someone here. It is an Android app that lets you choose per app, which outgoing connections are allowed. Comparable to uMatrix in the browser, but selection is less fine grained. Pretty eye opening. If you value your privacy, give it a try.
That means favouring bigcos vs small indie shops with the resources to only develop one platform at a time. Your call, but I find that a strange prejudice to choose.
The title here can be a little misleading as the "Community" tab is the newer thing, and that's in fact expanding.
God I hate websites that mess with the back-button.

This site adds an extra copy of itself to the history every time you try to go back. It's such a rude, ugly thing to do and the practice appears to be spreading.
I'd like to see the quotas like Amazon has for the warehouse workers be set by having the management team, C-level, Board of Directors, etc work the roles for a week doing those jobs. Then average their productivity rates and that becomes the maximum that could possibly be set as a quota.

It seem that far to often management just keep increasing the productivity requirements, squeezing more and more blood from the stones of the workforce with zero regard for the health and wellbeing of the regular employees.
Kudos and thanks to Dom Hodgson.
It's not the first time I complain about these articles from the same company popping up onto the front page, and I am really wondering how they are consistently doing this.

For a format that is easier to consume and isn't marketing content, see:

https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS
Is there a specific reason you are against non-M4A type systems? As far as I'm aware Germany and France for example have universal health care but not single-payer.

The issue in the US seems to be some people with good jobs have health insurance they're satisfied with, and so don't want radical changes. So it's harder to form a political coalition to change health insurance for everybody, than it is to just fix the situation for people who don't have anything.
>Make sure that you are not confusing "Parker Jotter" with "Parker Classic"

I don't think so. It is a "Parker Jotter Standard CT Ball Pen".

>You can find Japanese offerings on Amazon India and if needed, get it directly from Amazon Japan (i do both). You can also contact the resellers (who import from Japan and sell on Amazon India) directly for a better deal

Won't this be too costly due to import taxes?

>These guys are very good and are optimizing their product based on their available skills. Making a nib requires metallurgy, high-precision CNC etc. which as small specialized Artisans they cannot afford to setup.

I think Ratnam makes the complete product. I must say that I am not much into Artisanal pens though. Similarly I am not much into funky anime type colored pens from Japan. :-)

>Finally, i should note that a lot of branded Pens are manufactured in India; eg. Parker Pens are manufactured by Luxor India and exported.

I don't like Luxor very much. I think there are quality control issues with the Parker pens as there is a lot of rattling in their jotter pens. I researched and found that it is not universal and was pretty pissed off as the Jotters are not cheap. Another reseller is Linc who are resellers for Uniball and they don't care about what they are selling. Similarly Pentel has a measly collection even though they have a manufacturing plant in Gujarat.

In my school days I used to use a Hero Fountain pen (Currently Shanghai Hero group) which was pretty good and my daily driver. My mother still had her beautiful Pilot pen from the 70s which I started to use later. I also sometimes used to use my classmates Butterfly pens too. I bought a Hero fountain pen in 2008 and it was horrible. Not sure what happened to it.
I doubt the fictional mission statement of Jerry Maguire was written to include the spelling errors that would develop the character so the analogy does not hold, also I think Jerry would have used a spellchecker - although why Crowe doesn't is open to question.
Are they?

Maybe. What if it is like forest fire prevention? The dead timber accumulates, and thus when an uncontained fire breaks out, it is 1000s of times worse as a result.

Fully managed forests, sometimes have controlled burns now, to prevent this.

Are nukes like this? Maybe, for tension can build, and build, and then?

Note: I don't know an alternative.
I think the same is true for all social media. When you initially join, one of two things happen: 1) you find a small niche group of people who are nice and you have something in common with, the platform quickly finds its place in your mind and "Most visited" section of about:newtab OR 2) you get faced with the most generic, get-rich-quick ads/posts/rants and quickly get a sour taste for the entire platform.

Probably HN is the only place I've actually felt (1) while everything else falls into (2) after just a day or two.
Is it really that strange? His reported death fits the current concern...

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/my...
Let‘s keep this complicated please. Most code on back and frontend are written in something starting with ‚Java‘ which is compiled to an intermediate representation which is interpreted and on demand compiled to machine code which is interpreted and executed as micro-code.
Upside-down rhino research wins Ig Nobel Prize
Singapor only has "Free Elections™" where the opposition is strictly controlled and not allowed to win more than a token number of seats. See also: Nicaragua, Venezuala, etc...

> That is the most ridiculous hyperbole I have ever heard.

That's an ironically hyperobolic statment itself.
OOOOR ... people with low mood tend to be less able to engage in activities?

It reminds me of that joke: a biology professor is teaching physiology. He takes a frog and says "jump". The frog jumps. The prof then chops the frog's legs, and says "jump" again. The frog now stands motionless. "We conclude", says the prof, "that a frog's hearing depends on its legs!".
They are clearly making things up as they go along. Its one of the downsides of getting a 80 yr old dementia patient elected.
But value is not absolute.

I broke my 6s home key last year. The phone was 5 years old at this point. Apple would fix it, for $200 or so. A local guy fixed it for $30. But there is a difference (I was made aware of by both Apple and local guy before choosing):

Fingerprint reader would only keep working if Apple fixed it. Was it worth $170? Not to me. It might to someone else.

In this case, it’s way after the end of AppleCare. But these values (working fingerprint reader, and in general Apple certified original parts vs aftermarket) has a value that differs among people.

Apple decided they prefer to cater to those with higher value for this stuff - and they likely are right economically, as it likely lets them capture value in other places in the ecosystem.

P.s. still typing this from the same 6s.
War is tough and horrible. Any person can see that. There are many complex reasons why the larger Afghan army could not stand up to the Taliban, and while the situation is not comparable at all to the Chinese military, my point is that around the world, there are military units that aren't prepared or willing to fight the wars that their politicians wage.

I do wager that China's PLA would win a war that involves Taiwan, just due to sheer numbers and resources, but that the experience would be so bitter that the PLA would lose morale in various respects. This is partly because they don't actually have real war experience in the modern era.

Even armies with real war experience can get bitter. Armies without real war experience that suddenly get thrown into the fire, I'd wager that they would get even more bitter. PTSD and suicides would only be par for the course, the real issue would be inexperienced soldiers starting to question "what are we really doing and why am I killing people, do I really believe in what I'm doing?" I wager it would create cracks in what is currently a fairly unified country in China.
Absolutely agree.

But this is political in current situation, which I don't like.
Fantastic. Thanks for the quick addition.
>It’s forced manual labor, done for the benefit of the non-imprisoned populace.

From what I understand, when the media talks about an Apple supplier exploiting Uighurs for example, they're talking about a factory that employs willing people and others who are forced to find a job or else they'll be sent back to a detention camp. This is terrible, but it's not comparable to being sent off to a laogai camp.

>Mass shutdown of factories might actually spur some protest from the general populace and shed light on the plight of the imprisoned.

Someone desperate for work won't give a damn about the plight of others. This goes for the Chinese who will angry at what they perceive as western hegemony, and the people who would lose their jobs at home.
Damn, I wonder about this too. Not to defend nukes (and I know you're not defending them), but I find it hard to believe that the apparent progress enabled by them is sustainable in the long term. And by "progress" here I mean, (a) large countries can no longer engage in total war, and (b) smaller countries are getting their asses kicked in proxy wars (e.g., Korea, Vietnam, Iraq).

Have we really left total war behind? Is it really, finally, to awful to contemplate? That would honestly be a huge step forward for humanity. It seems too good to trust. This isn't the terminal phase of history; 2,000 years from now this may be a blip.
> Web apps (or electron apps) are always worse than a well-written native counterpart in every verifiable UX metric

Seems like you have the data to back up this statement so if you do, please share :) I'm especially curious about the notion of "every verifiable UX metric" as UX tends to be very subjective. Could you please share what metrics these are that can independently confirm that a native app is always better than a web app?
You know perfectly well what about them.
How much VC hype was due to sincere wish to promote something they believed and found use for and how much of it was shilling something that they have invested in.
I'm not that active on Twitter, but for a while it was like a gospel "Clubhouse is the future"
Linked from that page:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/facts.htm...

So yes, that's really strange. Correlation != causation.
When Chinese food is not Chinese
So they vaccines work, you just need to take them every 6 months or they dont work...and they haven't been updated for latest variants but mandating their universal use isn't putting selection pressure which will cause further 'breakthru cases'?

The anti-science of your belief system is pretty astounding.
Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times
Ship / show / ask: a modern branching strategy
I share the same experience.

I would even go further and say that when you have clearly set boundaries between teams in functional terms it goes bad. Like "backend/frontend", "dev/qa", "dev/ops" ,"engineering/business".

For me the most effective thing that I see are cross-functional product teams that have their own goal to ship things and all roles within that team.

Unfortunately not all software can be built that way and there is a lot of productivity loss, because you might not have enough work for some roles. Like ops engineer you will need at the beginning to setup infra and then he might be helping out here and there, but it is not going to be full time job on one project. Then QA might have "quiet days" because devs will have to work on things for couple days before delivering something.

I understand huge enterprise companies that they want to have "QA" "Dev" "Ops" just as a pool of reusable people, because they have to hire them full time and keep occupied.

What I see in the wild is that there are some long running projects that evolve all the time and those can be such teams as described earlier. There are ad-hoc projects that might pan out or not, maybe it would be better to hire freelancers, see if project turns into long runner and if yes, hire a proper team to work on it.

All of that requires unfortunately a lot of knowledge and work and a lot of political power inside of a company...
First of all, the nucleus is held together by the strong nuclear force, not the weak nuclear force (the weak force causes certain kinds of decay, such as a neutron to decay into a proton and electron).

Secondly, as soon as you have multiple protons, the repulsion from the positive charges will be much, much greater than any dipole attraction.

Finally, physicists have done a lot of really precise measurements with subatomic particles, and I don't think a dipole interaction like that would match the observed results.
It would be interesting to see pictures and videos of lightning strikes.

There are plenty of such pictures. There's a big collection of lightning strike pictures for the Empire State Building, which has been used for lightning studies since 1935. It gets hit about 25 times a year.

The headache for wind turbines is carbon fiber. Fiberglas blades are good insulators. Aluminum blades are good conductors. But carbon fiber blades are resistors, so they can be heated and burnt by lightning. This is also a headache with aircraft using carbon fiber. In both cases, metal has to be embedded to provide a conductive path.
So go ahead and take 5 of them?
As a mathematician myself, I highly doubt it would be readable for non-mathematicians. Typically reading math books is work, even for mathematicians, and not so much something you do to relax in the evening.
When is the last time you were in Germany? Was it perhaps in the 80th around Berlin?

The only reason why it's rarely a topic is because people just don't care enough to start talking about it.
The latency of a communication travelling at the speed of light from say Japan to New York, is noticeable to humans. If you've ever tried to SSH into a machine on another continent, you know the feeling.

Even if the server is nearby, there's still many things that can add latency, most of which are not controllable (e.g. wifi interference, bad routers, bad ISPs, train tunnels).

So in general you cannot move all functions to the server because it will be terrible for UX. e.g. Google Stadia.
> I, for one, would absolutely oppose going to war against Germany for the sake of Jews, instead preferring that that money go to humanitarian causes that would help Jewish suffering under a Nazi regime.

Neville Chamberlain, is that you?
Of web development skillset, maybe. Of software engineering, not even close!
Humans are not rational creatures. Our beliefs can override rationality & that's true regardless of how smart you think you are. That's why you have Christian Scientists being convicted for child abuse/neglect for not providing a reasonable standard of medical care ("reasonable" being defined as "commonly accepted behaviors in our society"). Similar issues around beliefs would apply around vaccines, especially with extremely high levels of mistrust of the opposite party AND a historic amount of anti vaxxers generally. Would Democrats be accepting the vaccine so quickly if the bulk of the rollout happened under Trump? I don't know but I certainly had misgivings that the Trump government was playing politics fast-tracking the vaccine that evaporated when Biden came to power for some reason. I probably would have still taken the vaccine, but is that because I'm being rational or because I'm anti anti-vaxxers?
> If you have a better way to "disable" copyright than copyleft then I'm sure it would supersede the GPL.

In absence of copyright anyone could publish binaries build on GPL code without sharing the sources. So a central feature of the GPL would cease to be if copyright was in any way disabled. Saying the GPL is about disabling copyright is about as true as McDonalds being about healthy diets.
> The arrogance is something to behold.

It just reads like honest befuddlement to my eye. Basically “Wouldn’t it be easier if they just explained?” To which I 100% agree. I don’t think wanting an explanation is arrogance. I think this strikes at the core issues of our society. The primary mechanisms the government uses are punitive when they could instead guide and gently correct mistakes particularly where malice was not involved.
Just to add some reference to why it can take a long time to start a REPL (for example):

> As it turns out, Clojure start time is a complicated and multi-dimensional topic. Clojure projects are slow to start not only because of JVM — JVM itself starts in ~50 ms — but because of JVM specifics the classes are loaded slowly. Clojure projects are slow to start not only because of Clojure — Clojure itself starts in ~1 second — but because of Clojure specifics, the namespaces, especially not AOT-compiled one, are loaded slowly. And so on.

http://clojure-goes-fast.com/blog/clojures-slow-start/

A more recent comparison of Clojure, Java and some other Clojure-inspired languages:

https://stuartsierra.com/2019/12/21/clojure-start-time-in-20...
I suspect the answer is related to the Expression Problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_problem
they may be referring to the Bodybuilding.com Bodyspace app which has many fitness routines.
Corporate Typefaces
That isn't quite the same thing. Both electrostatic and magnetostatic interactions are mediated by the same boson (photons). Whereas each of the four fundamental forces have their own set of bosons (W and Z bosons for weak, gluons for strong, and the theorized graviton for gravity).
For those interested:

Assume a formal language that can model the natural numbers.

Consider the set of all provable statements. This is countable because it’s a subset of the list of strings of a finite number of characters, which is countable.

Consider the statement “Statement N is false”. This is both a valid statement and
cannot appear in the list.

Godel proved significantly more than that, but that’s the basic result. It’s basically the same as the diagonal argument of real numbers being uncountable and it’s also basically the halting problem.
Why would "open kimono" be "inexcusable"? It just means "without hiding anything". Like almost any abstract expression, you're taking something concrete and using it in an abstract sense, it doesn't mean she should actually be naked, even as an innuendo.

I really don't understand why it would be offensive. Is it because kimonos are (originally) an "ethnic" (i.e. non-American) thing? Or is it related to the American panic about nudity?
I assume other countries allowing boxing matches?
> It seems like support for live edits, so you can edit the theme with immediate feedback, is far more important than this sort of compile-time checking?

Maybe. But this talk wasn't about the best way to pool a colour picker, I assume, but just used that one as an example for showing some programming techniques.
lua close to kernel is part of FreeBSD. they are leveraging an execution environment which exists in boot time, for the OS. the bootloader does lua.
> Or are you claiming the boosters have been upgraded with latest variants?

Ok, what would YOU do if you ran Pfizer or Moderna?

1. ship v1.0 of your vaccine with mRNA designed for the original COVID variant

2. modify your vaccine to be effective against the delta variant?

As expected, here is a joint statement from Pfizer and Moderna stating exactly that. [1]

[1] https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
While the author is not someone who is an authority - she seems to pointed out interesting thing out.

I don't read it as something "true" or life changing. But it still is interesting enough that it sparked conversation. Conversation on the topic I am interested in and I am happy to read the comments on the topic here on HN.

Beauty of things going viral is that someone who is not an authority figure can share interesting thought that will be passed along.
>>If you're still outside and it's 'snowing' ash you're already dead.

Are you sure? Even from this article - Pacific Islanders came out and even licked the "snow" curious what it is, yet only a single death is attributed to it. Shouldn't they all have died if it's as bad as you say?
FWIW, I would have read "v." the same, as "v." is also an abbreviation--mostly used in legal documents and court cases--for versus.
Yes they are. It’s not like brush accumulation.

With technology open war became more and more destructive until it passed the threshold of there no longer being a point. Two modern nation states can easily entirely reduce each other to ash in a few hours, and not before the other side can do the same.

Precision weapons also make nukes unnecessary in large ways.

It’s not about tension, big wars are pointless suicide pacts.

The big world wars were about nations feeling powerful with new technology and wanting to build on that power, that’s not the case anymore. No nuclear powers are going to think they’re better off after a war.

There’s not tension building to explosion, war is obsolete between technologically advanced states. Proxy wars, civil wars, and border skirmishes are all that is left or will be until there is a major technological change that changes the cost/benefit of war.
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I don't think that captures the aspects people care about most of the "program state" that people care about is unrelated to I/O - particularly in Haskell, people care about programs that are essentially "evaluate this large equation" where there's only one piece of output at the end, but might be a lot of intermediate computation. And the details of what's stored in memory aren't what matters - after all, Haskell very deliberately makes no distinction between a plain value like 3 and a large and complicated thunk that will eventually evaluate to that value - but if you just measure the minimum number of bits required to store something equivalent then you've assumed away the whole evaluation of the program.

At least from the functional perspective you're coming at this from the wrong end in the first place - you're looking at it operationally rather than denotationally. The point of saying that there's "no state" or "no mutation" in a functional program is that there is no such concept at the semantic, code level: when reading any given piece of code, you don't need to think about state to understand what it's doing.
I can see how one could arrive at that cynical view but in the end it's not tenable. What's code poetry good for if nobody uses the result? Conversely, your product will eventually stop working if the code is a hot mess. It's always a trade-off and bad management (by whomever does the managing) can make some of the goals harder to achieve than they need to be.
"He's very well known in the US, except by the people who live there" isn't much of a position. If you want to talk about whether he's well known, you're stuck with the fact that nobody knows who he is. Those aren't distinct concepts.
Now Korea has "TOS" Apple doesn't like... Welcome to the other side, Apple :P
Describing yourself as a backend or frontend engineer is all about having the power to say 'no'.

I describe myself as a backend engineer, and I refuse to touch your legacy frontend code or own any frontend code.

If you are unable to understand it, companies that do are a dime a dozen in the current market.
UK suggests removing EU’s human review of AI decisions