skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe a feature that, given a picture of a serial number, the revision can be decoded.
At a certain point it sort of feels like you're creating a different, parallel game that hangs off of the "main" one. It's definitely worth trying, but I wonder when it makes sense to identify those elements that would make an action adventure/shooting game playable by a blind person and then use just those elements to make a new game that is natively playable by blind and sighted people alike.

I wouldn't presume to speak for others with a different experience from myself (and it does seem [1] like some blind users really like what TLOU2 had to offer), but as a fully-abled gamer with limited time, even I sometimes choose to watch a streamer or even a YouTube summary in cases where I'm interested in the story or whatever but don't feel up for playing a thing myself. I wonder how this option stacks up against what TLOU2 was able to deliver.

[1]: https://caniplaythat.com/2020/06/18/the-last-of-us-2-review-...
Isn't it interesting how demonstrations contrary to the regime tend to be treated as criminal non-protests while demonstrations amenable to the regime tend to be treated as "legitimate" protests? Certainly this classification cannot be derived a priori in any other way; for example, the regime media generally treated vastly more disruptive and destructive demonstrations in 2020 as "legitimate" protests despite those demonstrations involving ex ante illegal activities like arson and theft.
It's part of standard building security in numerous large cities.

There were a number of incidents in which attackers gained access to office towers with deadly effect. One that comes to mind is the 101 California shooting in San Francisco in 1993.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/10-YEARS-AFTER-101-Calif...
"It's impossible to say for sure but had not a lot of resources been taken from civil society for these projects, there is a chance that there'd be a demand to do it in a more effective and long-term way from the very beginning, and this is my point."

Would you say the same thing regarding the Department of Defense and the Pentagon budget? I have heard good arguments that the military industrial complex is largely a bureaucratic deadweight cost to society, with few benefits (and generates the largest loss of life through Democide: https://hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM ). Anyway, I think perhaps your argument fits military waste spending even more than it does with regard to the space race and NASA. Or maybe it's just a characteristic of State spending in general (like the infamous story of a $640 toilet seat https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/only-the-pentagon-... ).
Entschuldigung! edit: Should be fixed now.

> The intro text should be kept in German regardless of target audience, it sounds so much more badass that way.

Thank you :)
Pluto is that app for me coupled with a simple portable install.

Installing on windows (workday I'm consigned to flames of woe) is simply a matter of downloading portable install .zip file, a simple startup .bat script[0], 'add Pluto', 'import Pluto' and finally 'Pluto.run()'

I now have an Observable-like[1]notebook with all the Julialang goodness without running an installer

[0] my julia.bat looks like:

@echo off
@REM see https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/environment-variables/
@REM %%1 is the project directory
set JULIA_PROJECT=%1
set JULIA_DEPOT_PATH=%~dp0JULIA_DEPOT
set JULIA_BINDIR=%~dp0julia-1.7.0\bin
set PATH=%JULIA_BINDIR%;%PATH%
%JULIA_BINDIR%\julia

[1] https://observablehq.com/
I second this one…

I can’t think of a single product in this world that truly sells itself.
Totally employable.
I’m Canadian, I work in healthcare. Around half the healthcare workers I’ve talked to want an end to mandates and passports. At this point, the vaccine mandates are ethically speaking, on thin ice as well. Autonomy and freedom from coercion is fundamental to informed consent.
>The 90% imposing unwanted hardship on the 10% is also easily described as tyranny

10% of people oppose nearly everything and it isn't tyranny so, unless you're an anarchist, your point is ridiculous.
Why though, can't you keep a paragraph of text in short-term memmory?
The government is monetizing it's credit just like how you are monetising your personal credit when you take a loan.

When normal banks give you loan, do the deposit holders also not "have" the money?

The banks create money, just not out of thin air: there's something of equal value exchanged in return
> specify a generic target and then having a documented manifest format sounds nice to me?

It worked this way in an earlier iteration. I just wanted to make it simpler. I'll probably circle back and re-enable some of the more custom setups.

It does allow to you generate the apps and installers locally, but they are still "connected" to the cloud (NPM) for downloading the actual jar files and performing updates.
Most people in an organisation have, very roughly, the same desire to do their jobs well. There are outliers in either direction.

If most people in an organisation are not interested in doing their jobs well, then something about the organisation is incorrectly set up. Humans have intrinsic motivation driven by autonomy, mastery, and purpose. If the masses of people don't want to do their jobs well, the organisation has taken too much autonomy, mastery, and purpose away from their employees.

If most people in the organisation are willing to do a good job, but some outliers misbehave, there are, as another commenter mentioned, standard ways to deal with that. (Mentorship, counceling, retraining, warning, firing.)

But critically, the standard ways to deal with struggling individuals should not be applied if there's a large majority struggling, because then the problem is in the organisation, not the individual.
They had several side by side comparisons on straight vs rounded. Which one(s) didn't you agree with?
> A "protest" that prevents people from crossing a border or shuts down a city isn't a protest. It is hostage-taking.

If I go through your post history am I going to see a consistent belief expressed in mid 2020?
In the early days of the internet you could tell CA startups from NY startups based on whether they allowed searching by state or zip-code + radius.

(Spoiler: NY was "Search by State", CA/TX was "Zip + radius")
That's the case with all employer policies; health insurance is the same way. Because the employer guarantees it for all employees, and has no reason to hire only unhealthy employees, the insurer can cover all the employees at a fixed rate; the risk is balanced out. Even then, as you note, there's a year's lag on that policy (probably because the employer didn't want to cover that extra risk in premiums for every employee).

Universal healthcare also works due to this assumption; everyone is paying into it, so the cost of the most expensive (the sick) is balanced by the cost of the least expensive (the healthy). As the former outpaces the latter, the premiums for everyone grow.

It's also why the ACA in the US mandated participation or a fine; to make it more affordable the healthy need to also be paying into it, but the healthiest also tend to be the youngest, and the least likely to buy insurance, whereas the older and sicker would all buy in (and now have to be covered), and that would make the premiums untenable (leading the moderately healthy to decide not to buy in, causing an even bigger issue, etc etc, until it doesn't make sense for anyone). And why prior to the ACA, you needed a physical, and pre-existing conditions generally led to you being excluded.

But, while the US has changed with regard to health insurance, it still is the case that if you want LTD as an individual, expect to have questions about your health, if not an actual physical, just like life insurance does, and to have it denied, or have insanely high premiums, if you are looking likely to need it.
That's likely a building security practice, and the hiring manager never sees your id. That's a bit different from the hiring manager themselves asking for it before even being willing to talk to you. And building security is likely to let you through with a convincing story if you know what name they're looking for, after noting the name on your id for reference in case there's a problem.

At any rate, the article is right, this probably causes problems for some candidates (especially, but not exclusively, trans people). But if it's common practice in NYC it's likely most local candidates are used to navigating it. That's less likely elsewhere.
Split the browser into two separate platforms, for apps and for interactive documents.

The app platform should focus on covering app scenarios, but with better privacy protection mechanisms.

The document platform should focus on hypertext and not feature scripting, but there should be features built in for handling live refreshing feeds of content.

Of course nobody would ever want to use the document platform since you won't be able to control the user. But it'd be nice.
Very wise and true - only demonstrations for correct things are protests. Demonstrations for incorrect things are terrorism, brainwashing, etc.
Trello. Word. Excel. Gmail.
> I can see someone overlooking the need to support address corrections because that is probably a rare case

In my experience working working in tech support at a company that encouraged us to fix whatever we could do like as, service address and billing address changes occured everyday,multiple times a day.

At the time I was there that ISP had fewer than 200,000 customer, wasn't even one of the big players at the time.

Intenode in Australia, based in Adelaide, circa 2004 through 2010.
That actually sounds like an amazing way to get another year of introductory pricing
Thanks for the kind words. Looking forward to seeing how devs will use it.
> You're comparing a law with a punishment

I'm not, "loosing your job" is not a punishment, it's an effect of the mandate. The punishment would be being fined or going to jail for still driving a truck despite the mandate.
Interesting question. It’s getting insane lately how many loops employers now have to jump through in order to avoid lawsuits.
It's a cliche joke, but recreational drugs do not need advertising.
You're aware that you can transmit the virus while being vaccinated, right?
You think Google's politics are better than Mozilla's?
Tonight we're going to party like it's 1999.
IMHO, the core epiphany in "servant-leader" is not about inverting authority, but about understanding that needs for high performing teams come from the ground up.

On the one hand, it's about solving problems so your team isn't even aware of them (typically, politics and spec stuff).

But on the other hand, it's about listening to your team and working on problems they tell you are problems (e.g. non-coders in stand-ups).
Since these comments just seem to be suggesting alternatives or chiding this font for its price tag, I'll jump in and say that I bought it about a year ago and absolutely love it. There was definitely some sticker-shock at the price at first.

After staring at MonoLisa in editors for 8+ hours a day for over a year, I can say that I _really_ love this font. Installing it is the first thing I do when setting up a new environment. It reads well in code and in the terminal, and I even wrote a significant amount of prose (60k+ words) in it and it was a pleasure. Definitely do not regret spending the money.
Ok, great advice, but what was the dynamic between customer build outs and sales?

Are you selling basically an as-is product? Is there customization required (preloading data, training, etc) to 'make the sale'?

I'm asking because I'm in an interesting position where I have a very nice platform, but it requires solutions specialists paired with salespeople, so outstripping specialists with sales growth isn't as productive.
Me and my two co-founders are asking ourselves this all the time, and in retrospect every strategic change could have happened sooner if we had learnt faster and kept “doing things that don’t scale” as PG famously wrote years ago. The funny thing is that we think we are doing great in that regard only to realize again and again that we have to iterate faster and stop the urge to prematurely optimize for scale.

Our latest learning that we retrospectively should have seen earlier is to get rid of our fear of becoming consultants. We come from a consultancy background and have seen to many startups around us wanting to build products, but taking on consultancy assignments leaving them no time to build their product. We have been so determined not to fall into that trap, realizing now that we have missed out on some great opportunities when selling to enterprises.
For someone who is trying to return to regular walking/running, I find a mix of both works well for me. Stretch and start walking faster to warm your body up, run until your heart/legs don't want to go anymore, resume walking to recover and then run again and so on. I find that doing this creates less resistance in my mind because I'm more attentive/easy going with my body and the overall session is less punishing - that makes going for that next session psychologically that much more easier, which is the key to maintaining a regular schedule, atleast for people like me who do not "love" exercising.

PS: also, I bought a smartwatch that shows the stats etc which is kind of a fun target to meet/improve upon - not sure if this "gamification" is a good idea or how long until the novelty wears off but its fun for now.
The amount of object-level thinking on modern HN is disappointing but not surprising. Even as recently as 5-6 years ago you could generally rely on HN users being smart enough to at least comprehend the meta-level issues at stake; there no longer seems to be much awareness at this level.
The media does enough.
KPMG in Canada adds Bitcoin and Ethereum to its corporate treasury
Maybe minecraft :/
the more unvaccinated, the more spread, more mutations, and more risk of continuing pandemic for years.
I definitely think both extremes become... extreme. The freedom to drink alcohol while driving your car down the sidewalk without a license as people dive out of your way is also pretty anti-human!

Of course, we could allow that freedom and then just penalize people in court when they happen to injure others with their car. But it might be even more dangerous to set a precedent where you can take someone to court for transmitting a virus to you, or get charged with murder for being part of a transmission chain that results in a death.

Anyway, so I agree with you that it's about balance, and I do agree that Canada's policies are not getting that right (and, in many instances, lacking common sense).
Some languages don't let you skip the braces.
The main selling point to me for the file system access api is the ability to write directly to the file system on the device but from what I could understand in that blog post is that the 'files' that you write to don't actually map to the device's fs itself. Has anyone used it to write to an existing directory or is it just an alternative and more familiar interface to indexedDB?
It's great and I'm using it for https://sqliteviewer.app.

It would be even better if it allowed partial reads/writes with offsets, but alas, security concerns seem to block that.

I'm looking at the File Handling API[1] next to let the (installed) web app open .sqlite lite files from the OS file explorer.

[1]: https://github.com/WICG/file-handling
Compiling multiple dispatch is very difficult. There are a potentially infinite number of methods to compile.
Yeah hierarchical file systems are not the one true way to organize your data.

But from my understanding, the user grants access via this API on a directory based level when the website asks for access to one directory. If you have no concept of directories, or you put everything directly into one directory, it's tough to make this restriction useful. So in this instance, knowledge of hierarchical file systems is relevant, even if new operating systems make this knowledge increasingly obsolete.
How long before game freak uses something like this to create new Pokemon?
small data point to add - I witnessed the workings of a few locations watching via close peeps that work at a few.

Most of the 'workers' have to accept a certain lifestyle - and changing that appears hopeless; striking - to form a strike to get a few dollars raise sounds awesome in the newspapers and political rallies.. but it would not be enough money to move out on your own and live an independent lifestyle - so it'd be a risk without enough reward.

Even just the risk of being out of work for 10 days for these folks would be devastating in many cases.

Since the pay is less than half the living wage (in this neck of the woods) - you can get away with some things that would get you terminated at most 'higher brow' organizations.

Now the union was very helpful when multiple attempts to communicate and stop serious harassment from management was an issue.

The managers are like a protected class, and even with multiple documented discussions about serious hate and attempts to put a worker into physically (and mentally) dangerous situations over and over again - communicating this via other managers and corporate regional management.. taking the steps to hand that info over to the union - attitudes changed quickly, and it all stopped - and managers were assigned to new stores before too long (second part could be coincidence - they seem to rotate managers around stores often, and I think/feel they sometimes do such to put them in a position where they will quit on their own, or get into a civil lawsuit with people from the new store, giving them cause to terminate without 'firing'). - They have internal rules about how to label the rare 'firing', can't remember what they call it - and how it's all documented and blah blah.

So the union is helpful for the workers in many ways - but it's not going to be that helpful in raises wages for the average worker there, as kroger and DG have no problem shutting down a store that is under threat of raising wages, there have been a few in the past couple years.

now I'm sure the union that deals with the kroger truckers is able to negotiate good wages and insurance and all that. But the worker bees at your kroger are there because they can't make it at many other places, and they compete for these bottom feeding jobs with a lot of other dysfunctional/or and under 18 people.

just a third party observation from a few stores and a few people as I listen to their stories and watch what happens, small data points compared to nationwide I'm guessing.
Seconded. It’s pleasantly playful but not so much as to distract. Very happy with it.
> A key challenge: very few labs have enough data.

It is also getting harder, not easier, to get.

I am working right now on a retro synthesis project. Our external data provider is raising prices while removing functionality, and no one bats an eye. At the same time our own data is considered a business secret and therefore impossible to share.

As someone who does NLP research where the code, data and papers are typically free, this drives me insane.
We are the only honest people here.
It's not just easier to use, but more powerful in many ways. A huge advantage of CUDA is the ecosystem of high quality libraries, including cuBLAS, cuDNN (machine learning), CUB, and Thrust. In the compute shader landscape, there's nothing remotely comparable, largely because GLSL doesn't support abstractions to express concepts like "do a prefix sum (scan) with this custom monoid", so you end up having to custom code everything yourself in C.

In more recent iterations (ie since Volta/GTX 20XX), CUDA also supports independent thread scheduling (allowing mutexes with thread granularity) and cooperative groups. For really advanced workloads, that's well beyond what compute shaders can do, and I suspect it will be a decade or so to catch up, if they ever do. Of course, part of what I enjoy about compute shaders is the challenge of making algorithms run well in a more constrained computing model.

Nvidia does not hinder Vulkan compute in any way. I have a bunch of experience with Vulkan implementations and Nvidia's is certainly one of the best. In particular, their implementation of the Vulkan memory model is top-notch, with no correctness issues I've uncovered, and with a measurable performance improvement from using the fancy atomic semantics over older-style barriers. In fact, this is arguably one way in which compute shaders are more advanced than CUDA, which still does not have a formal memory model.
You can run Linux distros on non-rooted phones with UserLAnd. It is still receiving updates on the Play store. It uses proot intead of virtualization. I hope this new feature ends up being more accessible to people, but until then, I will try to make UserLAnd useful for everyone (I am the developer of UserLAnd).
Atlassian software
Following Pareto principles: 80% of tests should be convered with good static typed language and a clean, layered structure.

Only 20% left is to focus on testing business logic.
Adapting computer vision models for time series and automated EEG review
Nah, seems like a content marketing piece, and frankly one of the better ones I've read recently.
U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline
You think that the onus is on the sleepers rather than the protestors? Why should the sleepers have to put up with endless noise (along with the damage that sleeplessness brings) just so another person can exercise their right to free speech?
UserLAnd is still getting updates on the Play store. It can run multiple distos without requiring a rooted device.

note: I am the developer of UserLAnd.
I’m barely even a layman at machine learning or quantum mechanics. But isn’t a large essence of quantum mechanics essentially a love fest between probability and physics? And people keep complaining that AI/ML is just lots and lots of statistics? Should I be surprised that heavy duty statistics computing has a resonance with statistics of physics?

I admit I only skimmed the article past the opening paragraphs (see layman).
There's a lot that can be learned with building-block based experiments. If you do a building block based experiment then train a model, then predict new compounds, the models do generalize meaningfully outside the original set of building blocks into other sets of building blocks (including variations on different ways of linking the building blocks). Granted that's not the "fully novel scaffold" test, however it suggests that there should be some positive predictive value on novel scaffolds.

We've done work in this area and will be publishing some results later in the year.
Ask HN: Who Profits from IoT Market?
The devices themselves surely yield low margins.

I could see how smart TV can play ads to make more money so there's that.

Is the usage data really that valuable?
The article is in Russian, but last time I checked, being a Russian national =/= being a different race. Nike may have acted in a discriminatory manner, but that isn’t racism.
Because the culture so complicitly provides it, while at the same time outlawing it: movies, music and even the LE efforts: drugs busts and drug wars. All of that is a form of advertising.

In a sense it's the perfect advertising (by both being 'free' and 'covert'), supporting the perfect industry, perfect only in the sense of a feedback mechanism ostensibly designed to stamp it out, only ends up perpetuating its profitability, by squeezing the product between its free advertising and its illegality, inflating prices and profits.

I know this is a potential flamewar topic--I'm sorry. I tried to just state what I think about it here. If you downvote/flag I'll delete it...I don't want to start another flamewar.