skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m looking at a Xamarin Forms app I develop commercially as I type this. It targets Android, but could have supported iOS and Windows from the same code base. Most of our non UI code is shared with WPF and Web apps. All of the UI uses Xamarin Forms and SkiaSharp to render custom UI elements. It will be ported to Maui this year and we will be making a Windows, iOS and possibly Mac version.
My understanding is that in the USA there are a lot of cases where gambling online is legal, but where it is illegal for banks to process transactions relating to those services. In such cases cryptocurrency is helpful, even though the wagering is not illegal, and the casino itself is not illegal.

There are also cases in my own country where cryptocurrency is very useful for gambling, with nothing illegal taking place.
> We lost this in the age of USB..

And got it back with rpi with true gpio pins
“A Drop of Freedom” reminds me of Apple's old flower wallpapers with the black background
Divorced and looking back, the root cause of this (in my experience) is a lack of empathy. Love is easy to come by while empathy requires walking in someone else's shoes. I understand this Same Fight because I lived through that. It is never about that thing, it is about not being seen. As the author is processing his divorce, it is good he sees that there is value in doing something selflessly. However, I can't help but wonder if he isn't missing the forest for the trees. Maybe this man truly doesn't care about order/structure/cleanliness in any area of life, but I have to imagine there is at least one area that they are meticulous about. Whether that is his tools in the garage, his golf clubs, his home theater setup, etc. Would he have reacted in the same "... in the grand scheme of things, does it really matter?" nonchalance if his wife started leaving screwdriver in the bathroom and hammers in the living room or if his golf clubs were thrown on the floor under bags of trash? It feels like he stopped after he learned the first lesson examining his divorce and didn't finish.

I think a lot of people would be well served to make a simple list of the life tasks that each partner currently performs. Then (where work schedules are possible), switch for 60 days. Anyone can grab groceries one day and it is no big deal. Force the other person to plan weeks of meals, keep the pantry stocked, etc. shines a bigger light on the unseen work and value each partner is providing. I learned this lesson the hard way and am better for it. Empathy is hard won and we need more of it. Apologies to my ex-wife for not being the person I didn't yet know I could be.
I can't recommend this book enough on the topic. TLDR Women are more picky then Men in the courtship marketplace, and finding a partner with matching values is most important to growing and staying together. People expect a fairy tale, when they're signing up for a job (relationships require work and effort).

A quote from the author 10 years post publishing: “I think the book is really, ironically, about having higher standards about the things that matter, like the character qualities, generosity, kindness, reliability, and not getting so hung up on things like, you know, whether you’re going to go on a second date with a guy because of how he dressed.”

https://smile.amazon.com/Marry-Him-Case-Settling-Enough/dp/0... (Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough)

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23687614M/Marry_him

The Atlantic piece that was the genesis for the book: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/03/marry-h...

https://jezebel.com/lori-gottliebs-marry-him-was-always-a-ca...

EDIT: @300bps (HN throttling, can't reply directly) Indeed. The book covers exactly this (census data for the dating marketplace and the dynamic between genders as age brackets tick upwards). The market is great for women 21-30, and it rapidly declines after 35. You can borrow the book from the Internet Archive with the library link I tossed in this comment for more context.
f-numbers do not have the same meaning across different sized sensors. For example, f/1.5 on the iPhone is equivalent to f/8.2 on a 35mm camera. This is pretty slow by the standards of full frame lenses, and as you can see in my other post, it is not expensive to acquire much better lenses than this that will achieve much better results with less effort.

See the chart on the first page of this article: https://www.dpreview.com/articles/6780391159/all-apple-iphon...

For a detailed explanation of how to compare f-numbers across cameras have a look at this article: https://photographylife.com/equivalence-also-includes-apertu...
Could not agree more. We keep moving the goalposts for what constitutes intelligence, perhaps that is a net good, but I can't help feeling that we are taking incredible progress for granted. Both DALL-E and large language models (GPT-3, PaLM) demonstrate abilities that the majority of people doubted would ever be possible by a computer 20 years ago.

Imagine telling someone in 2002 that they can write a description of a dog on their computer, send it over the internet and a server on the other side will return a novel, generated, near-perfect picture of that dog! Oh - sorry, one caveat, the legs might be a little long!
FWIW in the US this is called "artisan bread", as opposed to supermarket bread. You can get it in bakeries in every major city, and at farmer's markets, but not most supermarkets, especially not outside the city. It's really popular in San Francisco for example.

I found this out because I brought some bread from back to the suburbs to my parents, and they thought it was awesome, and had never had it before ... ! I haven't lived in the suburbs for ~20 years so I forgot that the availability of food is different.
Show HN: I made a country guessing game
Guess a country based on 6 textual clues.
and their super-fast blockchain manages 70tps ... compare hundreds of tps on other non-PoW blockchains, e.g. private Ethereum
You're telling people to do more research but don't understand how photography in general works.

The speed of the lens is not the main factor. A Micro4/3 lens at f/2 is cheaper than a full frame lens at f/2, which is cheaper than a medium format in turn. The iPhone's sensors are much smaller still than FF.

The lenses on the iPhone are equivalent to some of the cheapest lenses in any given system.

Indeed, a comparable system would be the 10-18mm EF-S plus whatever kit lens you have.

Talking about relative aperture and angle of view at the same time is incredibly misleading. If you want to talk about angle of view, you need to use absolute aperture.
How does a process work that makes Iron from Rust using only electricity?

Conventional blast furnaces use a reducing gas or coal for the reduction.

The website has no link to anything concrete here (but mentions conventional furnaces).

And also, how on earth do you make iron dust from the iron after reducing it back from its rust state?
It’s not really about being justified, it’s about being gentler with people. We don’t have to jump all over each other, there is another way.
>Is that so? From where I sit, it doesn’t seem access to the world’s information has been a factor in how “smart” people are at all.

So there are other factors other than 'smart' like blood pressure, stress, distraction, addictions. I'm not saying mobile phones have not come without troubles.

50 years ago the 'smart' people were your jeopardy folks who had tons of facts memorized. You can just google all those things instead and be just as smart. It is a reality that today someone with a cellphone is tremendously smarter. Better yet, simply having advanced science our facts are even better.

>Slight aside, can you look up a single education metric improving since the creation of the Dept of Education?

When the movie idiocracy came out it was common to show this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

Not even taking cellphones into effect people are tremendously smarter today.

You're also probably seeking: https://www.oecd.org/education/ where they track these things. They've expanded to other stuff that I don't necessarily agree with but to each their own.
I spent some time evaluating all the available dotfile managers a few months
ago and settled on chezmoi: https://www.chezmoi.io/

I had initially been turned off when I first encountered it, because it seemed
overkill for (what appeared to me) a simple task.

But the problem of managing a relatively small number of dotfiles across a
relatively small number of machines with small differences between them and
keeping them up to date proved to be MUCH more complex than I imagined. Copy
things around by hand, and then later distributing them via source control got
hairy very quickly.

I finally realized all those features were absolutely necessary to manage
things sanely, and once I took some time to learn how to do things with
chezmoi, I have never looked back.

In addition to its docs, I found the authors dotfiles repo on Github to be a great help on how to set things up: https://github.com/twpayne/dotfiles

(FWIW: I have never used NixOS/Home Manager, so I can't really speak to how it compares to chezmoi.)
I once saw the marriage advice that everybody, no matter how great their relationship is, should meet with a marriage/relationship counsellor on a regular basis, because, that way, any issues the two of you may have gets dealt with while its still a small thing and is never given a chance to turn into a big deal. Doing it with a counsellor means you have a safe space with someone who knows how to deal with issue during which you can work out problems, before they turn into real problems.

I'm not married, so I dunno if it works, but it sure sounds like sensible advice at least.
The SEC stated a few years ago it doesn't regard cryptocurrencies as securities, so that's why they don't police it. (IMO they are clearly securities, but the SEC may not want to allocate resources to policing it.)

What many people don't realize is that insider trading of assets other than securities could still potentially be criminal fraud. However without the SEC, there is no specialized police force for addressing it.
I’m all for this but part of me gets a very “Brave New World” vibe. Are we all going to have to micodose shrooms to tolerate our prosperous progressive society? It’s seeming increasingly likely.
Before they get this program for the 'old and busted' way of owning technology they need to get their offering of the 'new and useful' way of owning technology up and running.(https://www.wired.com/story/apple-iphone-subscription-roundu...) This way they can farm the repair work out to their certified network and keep a handle on parts distribution to the 3rd party repair niches.

I am of the mind that self repair on a leased device will void agreements.
Because it was _holy_ water that damaged them because they are demons not aliens in the movie. There is actually no scene in that movie of a spaceship or anything that indicates it's aliens
FYI, if you are struggling to find the link in the post like me:

https://usage.ai
You definitely need to slice and freeze it! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31015602

No preservatives necessary. You just need a freezer and a toaster.
Tim Cook can rail against the digital stalking of the "data industrial complex" because Apple isn't built to amass, analyze, and sell the data that they do -- and could -- collect. I would like to know, however, how much they are being paid in servicing warrants for information about their customers. Every Apple device phones home to Apple with massive amounts of data about apps used, where you have been, etc. Officially this is for debugging purposes and so that Apple engineers have in-the-field data to reference for improving their devices. It's also a wealth of information that could be sold at some future point... and it's not like Apple is on record as using their massive cash reserve to pay Contempt of Court fines for telling the Feds to pound sand when they come around with a blanket warrant for all usage info about a person of interest.
What a painful article.

Reminds me of my relationship with my mother living with her as an adult because I got very sick.

She would fight tooth and nail for an apology over things like this. Even if it was a minor thing that only happened once. In the end, she would consistently make me feel like a horrible person even though I _did_ contribute to helping in the house, if not perfectly. My emotional hurt was never accepted as valid, but anything that would trigger my mom was considered huge. It felt so one-sided.

I was eventually asked to leave my parents house. As a single guy with health issues that make getting by tough, the sort of relationships issues described in this article makes me despair about ever getting married, even though it is something I'd very much like.
>What's the current state of the art of embossing printers? Does this sound feasible?

No idea, I've just seen a few posts on slashdot and reddit over the years with blind users having enough fun to make it worthwhile.

Apparently there's been some talk among the nethack devs to make it more accessible, but their dev pace is glacial.

Might be an interesting side project to make a roguelike for blind users.
- 20 different types of roti to try out if you thought all Indian breads are the same: https://www.innfinity.in/food/types-of-roti/

- 15 Best Indian Bread Recipes: https://food.ndtv.com/lists/10-best-indian-bread-recipes-146...
There never was a chance for them to be used in an official/governmental process because they don't offer anything there. Those processes require a trusted authority to work correctly. Why would they bother "decentralizing" something like this to put it on a blockchain, entrusting it to some unknown third parties to run the network? There's no point to that at all.
That would only catch files with "remote" and "machine learning" on the same line, right?
First time I ever came across Game Of Life was in an interview test for a tier two tech company you will have heard of. I managed to get a working implementation in 45 minutes but didn’t get the job as my solution was “inelegant”

Of course it was! It was the first time I’d ever come across it (self taught dev, electronics degree) and I was actually pretty pleased with what I did under interview conditions after 2 other coding tests.

Anyway, it was an interesting test, shame I didn’t get the job - especially since I smashed the LRU Cache and compression algorithm tests.
I think OP will live.
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How much time have you spent looking for great, unique designers? Not just digital but physical too, on local messages boards, farmer's markets, at local schools?

How much time have you spent looking for unique "electronic dance music"? Have you gone to small local events showcasing house, techno, grime, etc? Have you found the small sections of the internet where people are innovating new electronic sounds?

How often do you search for unique audiovisual content creators? On the large sites sure, but everywhere in between?

A low cost of entry, combined with a low overhead to find something close to what you want, means that, sure, there is both a lot of sameness and that sameness seems to be staring you in the face.

When you look below the surface though, a huge amount of content is getting created, by people who in the past might not have been able to. Electronic music artists who couldn't afford physical synths, drum machines, and recording equipment. Visual artists who can do more with a phone than almost anyone with specialized cameras.

So peak homogenisation? No.

Peak content output per person? Probably also no, it's still going up, but I suspect this is what you are observing.
> almost a thoughtcrime

We’re free to discuss how Pyongyang can evade sanctions. In public, right here. We’re not free to travel to North Korea and say “here you go.”

It’s not a subtle difference.
New Study Reveals More About How Metabolism Works
Strongly disagree. Science is based on fact and whether models fits observations.

Politics and core values is more like fashion and there is no right or wrong.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem : science advance is about "is" statements, and core values are "ought" statements.
I've heard it said as "Love requests; it never demands"
My post was correct and the person who was responding to me is incorrect. I did not mean to sound dismissive -- I intentionally put multiple paragraphs congratulating the artists and praising what can be done with cell phones in order to try to avoid that look. But it is important to realize that these awards are marketing and marketing needs to be interrogated, IMO.
You can buy a competent macro lens for around 200$ (the Canon EF 100mm macro), and camera to slap it on for around 400$.
Gave up on my dreams of my own start up, making the world a better place, doing something creative for work.

Now I am just a team lead and just trying to climb the ladder.
And they think people would be happy with that? After the Google and Apple App Store drama? Think ~48% is a bit too much.

Especially, like what the article said they complained about the 30% fee at the App Store's. Why don't they set a good example?
If you click the link, you'll find out :)
It sounds like Wikipedia isn’t really wanting for money.

Meh. I’ve donated in the past, but will just look for different charities in the future.

Non news article imo.
It's because the hook is a real bad example. He's not entirely in the wrong on that one. While I will trust his judgment that there were other problems and that he was in the wrong in those, the glass was one where she should have given in.
My son graduated from high school, possibly a pathological one, but it seemed the main subcultures were "black kids who like to jump over white kids", "fat kids who don't identify male or female", and "people who put up black lives matter signs in a place that last saw a black person in 2007".

If you actually knew them you'd know there are some atomized individuals who "think different" like the Chinese incel who was begging his mom to pay for plastic surgery. We keep rooting for him to run away from home and live in a "Fight Club" house. He dropped out of the blackpill cult he was in because he didn't want to associate with Indians, so now we're worried he'll fall in people who incite violence.
I recall dragging my massive second-hand Zenith 286 "laptop" into school and serving out zshell assembly programs to people with my homebrew GraphLink. I even sold a couple of them. Many a math class spent playing tetris on my TI-85...
I don't recommend anyone to swap from JIRA. Stability is probably more important for a PM tool, but for new projects trying out something new makes sense.
I wasn't making a claim. Just curious if you had something other than ideology to back up a bold claim. Clearly not. You ought not to spread misinformation, but I can hardly stop you. The fact that you claim to have two separate antivax doctors is enlightening enough by itself.
>star headed monstrosity pointing to doom from the heavens

Could someone please feed that to DALL-E?
To be specific, top end gear has heavy torroidal inductors and transformers to keep the current flowing.
I would walk away too. It is not about the glass. It is about ‘not being heard’. It is highly disrespectful. It is about his upbringing and a peek into his entire attitude towards others. It is also about his parents marriage or other marriages he has witnessed..and how he is trying to mimic it..because that’s what children do..internalize and imprint what they witness. I am reminded of Philip Larkin’s “This Be The Verse”.

I don’t give marriage advice to young girls, but if I were to..I would tell them to run..not walk away..if the potential mate cannot clean up after themselves.

To me, it’s a ginormous red flag if a full grown adult is messy..can’t make the bed..doesn’t pick up after themselves, leaves dirty dishes all around.

There is also a cultural caveat to this. I am Indian and boys are coddled more than girls(in my generation). A man who cannot take care of his mess screams mommy issues. There are other cultures too where boys are more prized than girls. I suspect it is not so much in the west. It seems like all kids here are raised by the state in public schools. I have some other thoughts but it’s best I keep them to myself.

My first thought was to suggest that no one should be taking marriage lessons from someone whose marriage has failed. The author includes himself as well when he says ‘this is how well intentioned people fall apart’. That is laughable to me. This is a passive aggressive dude who shouldn’t be married in the first place. She was honest in expressing her expectation and he wasn’t.

My second thought is that all marriages are short lived. When children are born, couples become child rearing partners. These partnerships last as long as the children are alive and mostly children outlive the parents.

Many marriages fray when parents become empty nesters or when tragedy strikes. And this is absolutely natural and necessary for sanity of human beings. The expectation of long perpetual marriages until death do them apart is macabre and the seed for future co dependency issues.

Renegotiating marriage terms every 3-5 years is the one of the ways to maintain healthy marriage partnerships. Marriages(long partnerships) and monogamy are not compatible with human nature. If that’s the desired outcome, there has to be an external force acting upon it continually to maintain integrity.

As far as ‘the little things’ are concerned, it is no different from what one may experience with room mates. I would recommend putting everything in writing and if possible, have separate rooms and/or bathrooms plus a shared bedroom. But that doesn’t make marriages natural either. Long successful marriages are not one long partnership..it is a series of multiple short term contracts negotiated between partners.
Why Dropbox Wants to Be the Next Atlassian–and How It Could Do It
Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of your equipment is pretty much the secret to ... everything, including knowing the internal software results you get ;)

When photography was a bigger hobby for me I had an old digital camera that had a great lens, but tiny sensor and could be slow exposure wise. It did have a great set of built in color modes that I had trouble emulating in software ( and didn't want to spend time on that a great deal ) so I kept around and got a cheap-o mono pod and blamo it's slow nature was less of an issue.

Folks with fancy new equipment seemed to struggle emulating what I got with relative ease.

Now I probably couldn't emulate what they did in many situations, but I didn't try either, I knew what that equipment could do and it worked.

The world of photography is a funky world of pixel peepers, TRUE---ish advice, and folks throwing tons of money at equipment and software and hours of editing and ... just sticking with some specific equipment for a while / learning it's nature can save you A LOT of time and money.