skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're conflating issues. Software is already better at transcribing than humans. [1] And lawyers will verify the contents whether it's done by software or a person, because neither is perfect and their job is the higher-level intention of the document, not the copying of words. But they still like the machine saving the human from tedious work.

1. https://www.nuance.com/dragon/business-solutions/dragon-lega...
> Because it's being used to drive wages down and American workers are getting fired from their jobs.

That is a myth. Every single study done in this area shows very clearly that skilled immigration helps the economy and creates jobs/increases wages. It's weird that tech employees who make six figure salaries the day they graduate are the ones blaming H-1B visas. Chances are you wouldn't have a job (or at least a much more shitty job) if these immigrants weren't here building the entire US tech industry for the last 40 years.
Because apps change.
Because developers will just submit a first version which follows the rules, and then just put anything non-compliant in the update.
Show HN: MPLG – Matplotlib GUI, design plots visually and export as Python code
Of course there are shortages in jobs with bad working conditions and low pay in other EU countries too - but, due to the continued access to workers from poor EU countries who are willing to do these jobs, these shortages are not nearly as bad as in the UK. So of course it's Brexit related!
This is not "meaningful to women", it is meaningful to all.
Show HN: Mantis is an embeddable business phone in the browser
Paper, meet fire.

Seriously, though, there have been a lot of instances throughout history where scrolls and books have been burned at the order of the state. Perhaps the most famous example of this is the burning of the Library of Alexandria:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria

So I don't think paper is necessarily a "better" alternative.
There is no scientific method.

> Now let us begin our course. The course is in scientific method—it is called ‘Introduction to Scientific Method’—and the first thing that I want to say as an introduction is that this is a subject that does not exist."

-- Karl Popper

https://twitter.com/DavidDeutschOxf/status/14391227643261255...
There is no equivalent to "neither true nor false" in classical logic, because in classical logic there are no propositions that are neither true or false.

Actually, there is no "neither true nor false" in intuitionistic logic as well, because there is no True and False in a first place. There is only Proven and not Proven.

Don't think in terms of true and false, think in terms of proofs
Looking at the 9to5mac comments... Yikes. People seem to really misunderstand the difference between something that actually has to be repaired/replaced by a manufacturer (pretty much nothing) and deliberate vendor lock in.

Even when it comes to vehicle repairs/replacement of things like transponder keys which are tied to a specific vehicle, it would be just as secure and simple to have a method for the end user or 3rd party repair shop to program the transponder. The fact the tools are only available from the OEM dealer and certain repair shops is just obfuscation not security. Pretty much every transponder implementation gets reverse engineered which is sold to companies that make things like remote start modules, etc.

There is absolutely no legitimate reason to not let user's manually authorize a new screen or other components.
Yeah, matey! Oz too! :D
A lot of things are changing during evolution. For example the genes that were beneficial to human in ancient time give high diabetes risk in modern society.

As to cooperation and competition, war is part of evolution that leads to the formation of modern human. But with invention of nuclear weapon the original rules that benefit to whole specie (but not individuals) are not applied any more. So Chomsky's view might just happened to match a modified better pattern then the politically incorrect but factually correct "fundamentally unjust universe" view that I partially agree with
Jevons paradox – Using resources more efficiently drives higher consumption
> lowers the wages for high skilled positions

This could be viewed in a lot of ways. In theory a severe labor shortage in an industry could cause a massive increase in wages. However that may not be sustainable long term and could lead to industry collapse if it can't compete with other countries who are
not experiencing such severe shortage, or if the market demand drops significantly due to increased prices.
In theory, you could do a 180 turn on the content of your app with every update. So a permanent green light would do more bad than good
Even if I could see the full back of the car I think I'd still risk a brain-fart. It's like a driving Stroop Test (where words like "blue" are shown but you have to say what colour they are shown in, not what colour they say).
My point is that there are winners and losers here. It sure would have been convenient for the rest of the UK if they had carried on importing cheap labor, but that wasn’t what the Brexit-voting working classes were thinking about.
Only the other player can challenge a move as illegal, right? If they're dead, they won't challenge and won't move, and thus lose?
using that page on a desktop environment makes me feel like docker actively wants to hide the steps their hosted docker containers take

i had to scroll up and down every time after clicking a line just to see what was obscured by the 80-character limit imposed on my 21:9 screen
tl;dr: Mantis is a live-audio chat widget which can be embedded into any website with two lines of code. It's primarily intended for sales and support, and can be used to quickly answer site visitor questions and learn more about user needs. This will hopefully generate more leads and conversions, and give your customers the painless, white-glove support experience they desire. Come give it a try - I'll be around the rest of the day taking calls!

More details:

I'm Seth, the creator of Mantis. In the spring, I (re-)launched roundtable.audio here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26856883), and decided shortly after to pivot to solve a more immediate business problem.

If you're anything like me, you hate live chat solutions as they exist currently, especially when automated. When possible, I always prefer to pick up the phone to have my questions answered quickly by a real human before making a buying decision. It's hard to believe that in 2021 the best we can do is put 10 digits on a website when we want to enable audio-based support.

As I was building this out, I realized it can also be a powerful tool outside of the typical sales and support contexts. Everyone knows it's important to talk to your customers when launching a new product or startup. As a founder, it's still possible to have these customer conversations yourself (doing things that don't scale - the YC gospel). Mantis can offer a customer interview hotline directly to your site. I plan to use Mantis to iterate on Mantis, so perhaps it can be useful to your tech-oriented product too. This re-surfacing of an HN post last week captures some sentiment around this idea (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28594313).

The core product is ready to go, and I'll be rolling it out slowly to start. If you're interested in trying it, add yourself to the waitlist on the landing page or email now@mantis.chat with your intended use case. There's so much cool stuff to build on top of this, and I'm excited to share more as I progress.

Come by and have a chat with me by clicking the black button in the bottom-right corner and clicking "Join Audio Call". I'm excited to hear what you think!
Stop making employees turn on webcams during meetings
Where is the joke? This sound like SOP.
You should really read past the first sentence before replying. I have no problem with immigration, only the H1-B system.
“My point is that a low center of gravity and higher downforces are positive influences on a car.“

You dont add mass just to lower CoM. And downforce from added mass sucks: the downforce, Fn = mg, from weight cancels out

Slam on the breaks. Traction is F = u m g. acceleration is F/m = a

M cancels out so weight doesnt help you. It appears to come out even though.

Except it doesnt cancel out. Traction scales sub linearly. So your stopping times go up.

Same thing for every part of the track.

Corner? Turning torque is proportional to mass. Traction is sub linear to mass.

Acceleration in a straight? Power is constant wrt mass so accel is inverse proportional to mass.

And to all of this you have to add the aero effect which add to mass downforce and aren’t proportional to mass.

So traction becomes:

Ff = u(Fn) = u(mg + kv^2)

For high speeds v^2 dominates so Ff is constant with m so:

A = Ff/m.

Or acceleration is inversely proportional to mass for any driver action.
Designing for minimum maintenance is nice when you're working on something for "yourself"... not so much if you're creating something for someone else. Since designing for minimum maintenance takes additional time (and money) and most stakeholding entities (contractee, employer) will want the job to be done as soon as possible (and only THEN worry about upkeep), this can easily prevent you from "doing the right thing" simply by the nature of competition. Not to mention the elephant in the room - that minimum maintenance often means less money for the person doing the maintenance, i.e. "you". Vendor lockin is an issue only if you're not the vendor.
> Everybody with a reasonable mind knows many southern border crossers are not refugees but illegal economic immigrants.

This is an extremely political opinion, not a "reasonable" one.
Sure, but my point is that cases like this are possible for the same reason that the US is able to own 80% of the software market. You can’t expect to have one without the other.
Apply that logic to any service where access is a privilege and see how that works. (i.e. getting away with doing whatever you want once you are inside restaurants, forums, HN, etc.)
> “After the end of this year, the extension will be in ‘maintenance mode’ for 2022,” said Alexis Hancock, Director of Engineering at the EFF.

> Maintenance mode means the extension will receive minor bug fixes next year but no new features or further development.

I'm at peace with that. HTTPS Everywhere is great and I've been using it for years. In the last year or so I've been using its HTTPS-only mode, and I very much prefer that to that of the Firefox built-in equivalent. Didn't even know Chrome had this option - I'll have to enable it there.

Thank you, EFF!
It's almost like we should have some sort of text we can all copy paste in our repositories to indicate this sort of thing.

Mine will always contain: THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ...

And then maybe we should add something about that people can actually use it if they want to: Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files ...

Should try to start this is an effort for real!
I can’t see clear to what other point you could possibly be trying to make in this context. Perhaps you should clarify what you meant then?
So the expectation is that 5000 visas will be eaten up by EU truckers who occasionally bring their goods to the end destination in the UK? That wouldn't help very much and they would probably not want to issue that kind of multientry visa (on such a small scale) if they want to fix their problem.
There's more than 100k UK HGV license holders who are currently not driving commercial vehicles (ONS stats, I can't find the document unfortunately.)

The haulage industry is ruled by a cabal of wideboys addicted to slave labour. They have the government bent over a barrel and know they don't have to increase salaries or make the working conditions tolerable.
Tremor–A quake-style drop-down browser you can open from anywhere
Would be interesting to have a catalogue of endangered protocols/knowledge bases - similar to the endangered species list.

Bit of a tangent: just occurred to me that part of the story arc for the show 'Mr. Robot' is hackers trying to erase an entire knowledge base - the debt history of billions of people. The protagonists try to achieve this goal by peaceful means, but...okay I'm going to stop spoiling it's an awesome show check it out.
You are totally right, I completely forgot about it (well I had a photocopy of it when I was a kid...)
That's how Steam works. I think it's a much more dev-friendly policy, because in practice there's really zero reason to review Adobe or Microsoft or OmniGroup app updates since you know they won't turn into scam apps overnight; it's weird to me Apple hasn't done a "Trusted Developer" program to exempt the biggest devs from this headache. There's no reason why the weird clone apps (like the app that shows up 3 results down, when you search for "1Password", that trashily has the exact same blue ring and keyhole but slightly different background) should be treated the same as apps by hardworking, honest, trustworthy developers. People would cry foul for unfairness but there's also no way of letting the hundreds of thousands of App Store devs all submit updates with no review, you'd end up with something like the Chrome Web Store where apps get bought and filled with malware all the time.
Mandatory, universal indoctrination of the youth by the state long into adulthood wasn’t even normal until about a century ago. I suppose the Ottoman Janissary Corps is the only older example I can think of.

Outside of knowledge-based fields, most adults I know obtained all of their practical knowledge in the course of their careers.
Because the definition would be circular.
Just looking at the video in the tweet had me slightly confused. Arrows are powerful.

It's like those puzzles or quiz's or whatnot that have the word "red" written in a blue font. Of course everyone can read the word, but in split second decisions the brain is going to grab whichever details it can.
Though say for argument's sake you just want to reduce road deaths in total. Wikipedia has the annual world total at 1,350,000. Tesladeaths.com had confirmed Tesla autopilot deaths for 2021 at 10. On that basis you might want to crack ahead with developing self driving to bring the 1.3m figure down at some point.
I believe quite a few of those blind-accessible apps also use touchscreen gestures, accelerator, and buttons for inputs.
The ImageMagick documentation for this technique recommends blurring the black circles:

https://legacy.imagemagick.org/Usage/fourier/#noise_removal
The problem is that, it's for a few months only. So it's more like 17K opportunity before tax. Who exactly will leave current job that pays, let's say 25K/year, to make one-off 17K? People who make that amount of money can't really afford having a sabbatical.
Same thing with toilet paper/paper towels ar Costco.

I heard on the news Costco was limiting again. Every person had tp in their cart.

Every other store stock is fine.

(I bet a Costco MBA thought this would be a great way to sell more? Let's create an artificial scarcity problem? Anything to increase head count!"
Yeah, there seems to be tons of data showing this. Even that illegal immigration is a net positive to the economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impact_of_illegal_imm...
IMO the biggest EV issue we have in the UK is that fact that about 2/3 of the country has no off-street parking.

No home charging puts a lot of pressure on expansion of infrastructure before it’s feasible for everyone.
> immigrated to the US on H-1B for tech jobs 20 years ago

They didn't immigrate, they came on a 3-6 year work visa and chose to get 3 year extensions. I wouldn't choose to settle in a country if all I had was a 3 year work visa. They're not "in limbo", they're people working on 3 year work visas. If they're unhappy they're free to move back to Bangalore or wherever they came from.

I have no problem with making life easier on them like allowing someone on a 3 year H1B visa switch companies without penalty, but you're trying to stretch a law allowing 3 years of work for workers we supposedly can not find in the US into a promise of a green card, and it is not. If what you're saying is the case, the H1B laws would have never passed. An inch was promised and you act as if it was a promise for a mile.
The extra cost and larger size of a Ara type phone may just make the product too niche for a company the size of Google to bother. Companies like frame.work, System 76, etc. show that smaller companies can successfully market more niche products.
It was simply an expansion of that particular gene variant, but yes, I would assume there is a correlation between coffee intake and impulsive crime in some genetically predisposed subpopulations, but I cannot say whether it is linear, nonlinear or perhaps inverse.

What I can definitely tell you is that there is a positive correlation between heavy coffee intake (>= 8 cups per day) and suicidality. I assume that is the result of the anxiogenic and impulsivity-increasing actions of particular Harmala alkaloids, namely harman and norharman.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1007614714579
A part of the RealClear umbrella is RealClearReligion. Lol

Garbage site, take a look at this article (if you can even call it that):

https://www.realclearreligion.org/2021/05/18/lgbt_conversion...
Someone has made this http://turbomaze.github.io/JS-Fourier-Image-Analysis/. I am sure a web version where you can manipulate the FFT and see the image reconstruction live should already exist somewhere.

EDIT: This fork allows drawing over FFT https://geeklogan.github.io/JS-Fourier-Image-Analysis/
This article is very well written! I remember having a similar experience creating a bandpass filter by computing FFT, multiplying by a Gaussian, and inverting the result. I swear Gaussian functions are just one of those things that you can insert anywhere and it'll just work out.
Well yes, he is an ‘influencer’, but the term ‘tech reviewer’ is more useful. Most people wouldn’t call Roger Ebert an influencer, even though he also had influence over people’s buying power, but it would be more useful to call him a movie critic imo.

Call people models, or actors, or by their actual professions that made them famous - they are all technically influencers but why pick such a generic term?

Otherwise IMO it’s a non-descriptive title that can be applied to pretty much anything in the public sphere.
I am living in Germany and have not heard about any driver shortage here, but have read about the shortage in the UK.
There is nothing political about it. Either they are or they are not. Either I am wrong or I am correct. Asylum seeker != refugee.
Picking one data point to generalize like that is beyond sample bias. Everyone with strong passions thinks the moderators are secretly on the side of their enemies. Sports fans think the same about the refs.

Would you please stop creating accounts to break HN's rules with?
> All the demoireing guides tell you to apply a sharpening filter after [blurring] to compensate, but that’s like reheating cold pizza.

What a fantastic analogy. I wanted to stand up and applaud the author.
I'm sorry, which post do you mean? Who said 'something like "we can't test these things enough"'?
Estimating a task and estimating a program of work are completely different things. Task estimation is only ever accurate in aggregate. If you can estimate free of outside influence (ie gaming the system) then you can assume an equal amount of over and underestimation making week by week velocity relatively stable. Outliers happen no matter what. Estimating a program is mostly futile. Not because task estimation is impossible but because project requirements are moving target. That's pretty much the whole point of agile. Ability to adjust to changing priorities comes at the cost of predictability but it's a worthy tradeoff because building the right thing trumps everything else. You can measure your completed backlog against the outstanding backlog to get an idea of progress and forecast when you'll hit the 37th next priority but that isn't necessarily going to the day that you're "done" because priorities shift.
125k is rather large where I live, large enough to make it one of the countries four major cities. But fair enough, if you talk about large cities as Berlin, London and other cities with millions of people, the argumentation changes.
The point is that it is way more than Lizardman-territory. If I were at the PC I'd have just copied the data out in full but I was going from memory on my phone.
James Bond is a fictional British spy who works for MI6, not the CIA. American cultural perception of the CIA is not great.
Wow. From your link:

“[EU licence holders cannot] check how many points you have in Britain using DVLA online services, even though they DO put penalty points and other information on your record. That puts them in the worse position when competing for jobs with UK licence holders, as many companies, third party licence check services or insurance companies simply won’t bother with checking the record of the UE licence holder, as it is simply too complicated. Of course, you can solve this problem by exchanging your EU licence for a British one (which, to drive trucks, you have to do after a maximum of five years, or when you hit 45 years, whichever is later), but with Brexit, many drivers – younger, or those who just wanted to come here for a short period of time – are not willing to do it now, as while EU licence is still valid in Britain, British licences are not valid in the UE any more, which means that they would need to obtain International Driving Licence to go for holidays to their own country, and if they decide to look for a job back in the EU, they cannot even start until they exchange their British licence back.”
For security/compliance reasons as in don't trust the developer by default. To be honest, i appreciate this concept as it makes the store more secure for the users.
Upper management should be ok with estimates expressed in sprints.

As long as your team manages to finish sprints, it doesn’t matter how you are estimating (or not) the tasks inside of a sprint.

Sprint tasks are for internal (team) use only, including the management inside the team. But people outside (and up) the team just need your deadline commitment.
The promised inch is effectively a mile for anyone born anywhere but “Bangalore” as you say, so why the griping?
Use the Docker image, here's a tutorial written by someone I helped migrate MySQL to Postgres entirely in Docker (because they also had troubles with running it locally):

https://dev.to/narayandreamer/mysql-to-postgres-migration-us...

I recommend the Docker image over downloading and running it locally anyways tbh -- you can just prune Docker images to remove stuff without needing to remember to delete it, and you don't have to copy it to your bin dir in PATH.
I doubt the people you listed would have the ability to pull it off. Intelligence agencies like the CIA or Mossad could though.

I think the secret to understanding Epstein is staring us in the face: Epstein was an intelligence asset. He himself bragged for years to be in intelligence [1], Alex Acosta was told to give him a lenient plea deal because he was "owned by intelligence" [2], his partner's (Ghislaine Maxwell) father was a Mossad spy [3]. US and Israeli intelligence works together on a lot of things, I wouldn't be surprised if both were his "clients".

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/jeffre...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Acosta#Non-prosecuti...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Maxwell-Israels-Superspy-Gordo...
For any fans of Karl Pilkington's rockbusters, "Phil McCann" is a source of infinite clues.
C++ Linux Kernel Module with C++20 concepts fast_io library