skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Although I think it's weird the number of (mostly foreign) entities that only provide GB as an option for country rather than UK.

For some reason that I've never understood, the ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 and alpha-3 codes for The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland are "GB" and "GBR" [1]. That might have some bearing on this.

As a brit as well, and as commentary for others who don't live here, my perception is that the term "Great Britain" isn't used a lot nowadays - either as an informal synonym for "the country called the UK", or as the formal name for "the part of the UK that isn't Northern Ireland". It does get used for things like "Team GB" (the UK Olympic team branding, which includes athletes from NI) and probably other sports-related stuff. Its all very confusing...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes
:eek:

Looking at that again I really didn't choose my words very carefully, sorry. No published books here! Two exceeedingly minor scientific papers, but fortunately my misdeeds in school Chemistry were long forgotten by then.

OT but interestingly in German there's a clear distinction in such cases between the word "Buch" (= book, of the sort that you read from) and the word "Heft" (= exercise book, of the soft-bound variety that you write in).
> 2. Any other case - never share your expectations until the end of interview process and untilyou know what’s the salary band/level they estimated you. Then negotiate up to max of that band (based on your research, again)

What would then be a polite way to respond to the question 'we are hiring globally, what are your salary expectations?'
I have been a Blender user for over 15 years. While the UI had a learning curve it always made sense to me. With Gimp this is not the case. I sometimes wonder if the people who built it also use it.

Blender was designed from day 1 by and for working 3D artists that had to deliver real commercial projects. Gimp started as a university student project meant as a platform for playing with different image processing algorithms. Those roots clearly shine through for both projects even today.
Kudos to Spotify for supporting libspotify and its use-cases for so many years. I'm sure it hasn't been easy and that copyright owners haven't been very fond of it.
I had a lot of success using FastSpeech2 + MB MelGAN via TensorFlowTTS: https://github.com/TensorSpeech/TensorFlowTTS. There are demos for iOS and Android which will allow you to run pretty convincing, modern TTS models with only a few hundred milliseconds of processing latency.
> These "slow iPhone 13 mini" sales are more than all Google Pixel phones sold in a year. Think about that.

That really doesn't say much. Google has never figured how to sell hardware, nor shown the will to learn. If Google was trying to sabotage the sales of the Pixel line, it could probably not do a better job.
This is my strategy for dotfiles. My home directory has a .gitignore with "*" in it. I will "git add -f" any files I want tracked; git is extremely efficient at ignoring the rest. It doesn't require any frameworks, symlinks, installation scripts, elaborate tutorials/manpages, or any other voodoo.

To move in to a new machine - unfortunately you can't git clone into a non-empty directory, but the commands to work around that are simple enough to remember.

https://github.com/rollcat/dotfiles
It’s being used during massive storms and other serious emergencies in the Netherlands.

There was a big 100mph+ storm a few months ago and they sent out an alert telling everyone to stay inside as there were literally trees getting ripped out of the ground and hitting people.

That was the first time I ever saw my phone use this functionality, scared the crap out of me.

Amber alerts specifically I have indeed never seen, ever.
> mkdir drafts && echo '' > ./drafts/.gitignore

thanks for the tip, is there a way to hide files at root level? I want to hide some .env. files
With "intelligence₂" we mean "the ability to produce a usable solution replacing the work of a professional in a specific task". It is a consolidated use with a pretty long history, and whether the task-generalist ANN offers a breakthrough for intelligence₂ has to be discussed.¹

With "intelligence₁" we remain referring to "the ability to reflect on world representations achieving (recursively) refined concepts and selectively producing founded conclusions". It seems that the research relevant to this submissions is still alien to the context of AGI.

A claim that "this is the Dawn of It" requires clarifications and demonstrations (meaning, explicitness in clarifying why).

--

¹Some argument that it goes in that direction is in the Introduction: «Historically, generic models that are better at leveraging computation have also tended to overtake more specialized domain-specific approaches (Sutton, 2019), eventually».
I bought Affinity Photo and it's not a PS replacement for many common tasks in the latter.

Particularly working with masks/alpha channels is sub par.
The developers are aware but a fix has not been release in years. Users request about this regularly but nothing happens.[1]

1 https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/109734-fea...
We had a maths lecturer who got us to buy their text book. Turns out the text book was just copy pasted sections from other maths textbooks in one book. Cost 30 quid, had the old page numbers and was therefore a confusing mess throughout.

My tutor then pointed me to a better maths textbook which was actually worth the money, shame I didn't know about that before!
Under normal circumstances the difficulty with the western diet is getting enough nutrients, but not too much calories.

I meant the combination can be a challenge if your on a narrow time feeding window.
> Your comment further shows how disingenuous their stance is

Does it really? I think it just shows that you didn't know about something they offer, and decided to attribute that to them being malicious.
In 1953 a lead physicist lost the project of the H Bomb on a train
> Of course. But I have to tell you, they skilfully sidestepped it by blaming an firing a TA, who I happen to know was entirely innocent. The actual culprit is still a senior professor at that university.

Would you or your friend still need to fear reprisals if you're naming names now? If not, given that normal channels have failed that all sounds sufficiently bad that at least naming the university and department might be worth considering.

> there are ways of being cocooned and cloistered in academia which isolate one from conseqences found in the world of real business

Given your experience, I'd be very curious to hear what the main mechanisms your witnessed for side-stepping consequences for psychopathic behavior actually were. Since academia only involves spending other people's money without any direct test against outside reality, it stands to reason that it would be much more vulnerable to capture by colluding bad actors than business, where beyond a certain point of organizational pathology the money stops flowing in. There's of course also at least one mechanism designed specifically to cocoon people, namely tenure. But my guess would be that the main way it encourages the psychopaths is not so much that tenure protects them, but that having veto power over other people's tenure is a very good tool to enforce compliance.
Ok, I get it, state of the art TTS uses AI techniques and so eats processing power, buuuuut seeing that much older efforts which ran on devices like old PCs, the Amiga, the original Macintosh, the Kindle etc. used much less CPU for speech that you could (mostly) understand without problems, it may be worth exploring if it's possible to write a better "dumb" (i.e. non-AI) speech synthesizer?
Could you share some of the books you've read? I think I have a better knowledge of the history than the average English person, but I'm also very conscious that I've probably only scratched the surface on a very complex and tangled history.

I've heard that said about the IRA by people from the UK intellegence/security services. There was a level of "trust" and predictability between enemies that made it possible to negotiate a peace and to have channels of communication between them which were essential in the early days of the peace process.

I think it helped that there was a comprehensible end-goal for the IRA. This contrasts with the current rather nebulous aims of islamic and far-right terrorism in the UK, and their rather chaotic, ill-disceplined and isolated little groups.
As others have said: the problem is the device's display size.

If you compare the size of an e-reader to actual published books, you'll find that the smallest devices are roughly the size of a 4x6 index card. Most trade books measure about 9" diagonally, and in my experience, you'd want a 9" -- 10" device for most reading, possibly a 6" -- 8" minimum. Given that an actual device loses some area to bezels and controls, the translation isn't direct, and you're suffering either larger physical device dimensions or smaller screen size.

I purchased a 13.3" device specifically for use with textbooks and scans of small-font, multi-column articles. It's a bit on the large size for standard text (though can be read landscape-mode in 2-up format), but the ability to read almost anything without requiring in-page zoom and navigation (which is well-supported) is a major benefit.

The device has also convinced me that virtually all the supposed disadvantages of PDF or similar fixed-dimension document formats (e.g., DJVU) is not the document format but the display properties.

I'd recommend:

- Typical fiction or nonfiction text: 6" minimmum, 8" preferred.

- Technical books, some tables / diagrams: 8" minimum, 10" preferred.

- Textbooks, technical articles, old scans: 10" minimum, 13" preferred.

Comic and manga fans will also probably prefer 10" devices.

Then there's colour, though AFAIU size formats are more limited (8" and/or 10"). The fidelity is low --- more a low-saturation 1950's-era palette, though with much better resolution. Colour cuts resolution by a factor of three, so 220--300 dpi (typical of current devices) falls to about 75--100 dpi. I've not experienced this directly, so can't say what the net appearance is.

I wouldn't mind colour for some articles, mostly for graphics and visuals where colour differentiates values being presented. Though I'm rather enjoying my desaturated B&W world.
So the aPhone 2022 then?
It still sounds like a very scary experience
Besides the enterprise grade tools I've been using Glasswire. It's like LittleSnitch for the Mac.

They aren't a huge security company so I don't know how easy it is to escape detection however their verbose reporting of application version changes, protocol usage, destination lists, and integration with Virus total gives me some sort of confidence.
The Google documentation regarding Oauth access to Google APIs including Gmail explicitly mentions this requirement. It should not have been a shock to the author. Also this requirement only applies if the app is intended to store the data on a server. An email client which directly accesses and locally stores the email would not require a security audit. Pegasus would not be the 1st email client to use OAuth2 with Gmail and others have not required an audit. Some of the newer email client services which implement advance features by downloading email directly from Gmail to their own servers on the backend to do processing of the email would require a security audit.
If you do `echo .gitignore > .gitignore` and then somebody elses commit a git ignore, and you pull from that repository, your local .gitignore will be silently overriden, and you might add untracked files if you have the bad habit of `git commit -a`.

$ for repo in alice bob; git init $repo
$ git init --bare shared
$ cd bob
$ touch foo
$ git add foo
$ git commit -m "Initial commit"
$ git push ../shared
$ cd ../alice
$ git pull ../shared
$ echo bar > .gitignore
$ git add .gitignore
$ git commit -m "Add gitignore"
$ git push ../shared
$ cd ../bob
$ echo .gitignore > .gitignore
$ git pull ../shared
remote: Enumerating objects: 4, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
remote: Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), 272 bytes | 272.00 KiB/s, done.
From ../shared
* branch HEAD -> FETCH_HEAD
Updating 343eb88..3701fae
Fast-forward
.gitignore | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
create mode 100644 .gitignore
$ cat .gitignore
bar
The true masterstroke though is shutting down Heroku so that the negative press of this doesn't affect it. "What is dead may never die!"
This reminds me of voice dictation history. I remember using dragon and other upstarts, on a 486dx notebook. I could discuss with the laptop, ask instructions, receive answers, and control verbally all options, actions, and programs. At the same time, do dictation in different fields of study - training required in geology words or engineering words for example - which was remarkably accurate.
So you could turn on your notebook; start running programs, verbally type (dictate) a report , save, format, print, it email it - then turn on a music player or watch a movie.
All without touching a mouse or keyboard.
This was in a busy room, with a party by the way.
Everyone said, just wait until computer speeds are faster!
But all the software was bought out by Apple, Microsoft. It didn't get improved on for over 20-25 years, and still not really f functioning. (Except siri Google etc.) the
13.3" Onxy MAX Lumi, and it's fine for lap reading.
Now you're getting even sillier.

Prepayment doesn't matter.

It's to do with regulation of the energy being produced and exported into the grid.
Magit also makes this easy. One of the main features of magit, I think.
The OAuth flow is better. It is easier for users and supports many more methods of authentication.

Really the biggest downside about the OAuth flow is that it requires a relationship with Google (a client key). If this could be a fully decentralized standard it would be fantastic.
I prefer to list individual directories and files in my ~/.gitignore so that I see when new files show up and I can decide whether to ignore them, commit them, or prevent them from getting generated.
I'm closer to the second figure working in the UK, actually. You won't certainly get $60k/yr working for one of the FAANG offices in London.

In fact, how many US Netflix employees are actually earning $500k/yr like we were discussing upthread? I doubt that's the salary of a junior frontend employee. If it is, good for them. I don't think my quality of life and happiness would change dramatically between $250k and $1M/yr, but apparently this is so hard to convey to an American audience that thinks more money == more happiness.
Wait until you discover LibGen and ZLib.

There's also Gutenberg, Archive.org, and numerous other public-domain e-book collections such as StandardEbooks (https://standardebooks.org/)
follow up here: https://www.percona.com/blog/comparing-graviton-arm-performa...
I'm willing to assume this is not a misunderstanding at all. It's either satirical or pointing out an effect which at first blush might seem counterintuitive. I found it amusing.
I feel like I'm not articulating my predicament properly. My concern is not a lack of self-confidence, I know that I am good at what at I do and my resume and references reflect that. What I am concerned about is that someone else who is just as good at what they do, but lives in a country with a lower cost of living, then therefore ask for substantially less when asked for their salary expectations, and will therefore likely get the job, which then creates a race to the bottom of sorts, because to stand a chance of being hired I then need to lower my salary expectations to be lower than theirs, and so on, does that make sense?
What the fuck is end-to-end text? My Bullshit-O-Meter is off the charts. End of what? I only know end-to-end encryption.
The current UK government's resitance to dealing with it's part is (as a Brit) incredibly frustrating. Many of us want this dealt with properly, and to build better relationships but there is a strong resistance to any self-reflection about any of our past.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2I/Borisov Has quite an interesting story.
Any takers for a bet on when Google will axe App Passwords?
are you ignoring the main point too, or simply missing it entirely (repeatedly)?

the fact there exist some applications (databases, applications using maildir) that correctly use write barriers doesn't mean all applications are always consistent on disk
No, you're mixing up concepts. Public schooling is to do with equality of opportunity.
Truth. This electron crap is really a disgrace to computing.

They should provide something like foobar2000
Amazon popularised e-readers and they pretty much own digital publishing.
For normal users it doesn't matter that the books they buy from Amazon aren't epub- seriously do you think they even know what that means lol?

And for the rest of us Calibre converts anything in 30 seconds.
Yes, but you would expect that the product was designed that this downt occur in "regular" conditions. Unfortunately many products unavoidably throttle themselves. This is likely because they run cool long enough to get good reviews and benchmarks so longer performance doesn't really matter to them.
The Blender story is quite an impressive one of iterative development. Ton Rosensaal very explicitly doesn't want technology for its own sake and wants to "get it out of the door", but does it all while keeping an eye on it being usable for creatives (now more than before, but the ground work was laid long ago, see everything being animatable)

Great interview with Blender Guru: https://youtu.be/qJEWOTZnFeg
There is a big difference between wealth and monarchy. You aren't ruled by people with money, although one of them might offer you a job.
So Topicbox is annoying to use, overengineered and just plain aggravating?
About 6, maybe 7%.
Thanks, I hate that I know this now.
Am resisting the urge to grab someone's comment from here, change a couple of words, and repost it as my own "related plagiarism story". ;-)
Ask HN: What psych* disciplines can be considered as Evidence-Based Medicine?
A "psych" in the title means Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, Psychological operations - all studies of the human brain which are not Neurophysiology and whose names derive from Psyche (mythology).

At present, I have only one example of an unbearable truth that follows from these fields - the Weber–Fechner law [1]. It seems that this single law is the origin of a brand new mental discipline called Psychophysics which has given us cool things like some lossy digital formats - but it seems that Psychophysics is not even close to the Medicine I am asking about.

If not using all kinds of euphemism, my question could be read like this "Are all psych medical workers just a scammers?" but of course that's not the level of harshness that I want to establish, because mental professionals have some amazing skills to make some bullies the loser in a discussion. It's just that I have a feeling that these specialists are not from a discipline that I can trust, but I have no facts other than the well-known crisis of replication in psychology and medical research [2].

So let me formulate a friendlier version of the question: is it worth trusting any psych* specialist if all their knowledge come from unreliable sources like astrological-fashioned theories of interpersonal compatibility, and all their methods seem to be aimed at fooling around like a Scientology's E-meter based polygraph? I once used to cheat a lie detector in an interview to cover up some issues that I don't want my boss to know about, so after such a success, I will never go back to believing in mind-based fields of "scientific" knowledge unless there are really strong arguments.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber%E2%80%93Fechner_law

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
I don't think that's what Google are saying here. I think the sentence is referring to Google user data; as long as the Google user data or credentials to access it does not touch another server, the entire thing does not apply.

In fact, in Google's guidance on this subject, they say:

> Local client applications that only allow user-configured transmissions of Restricted Scope data from the device may be exempt from this requirement [to get a Letter of Assessment].

And in another FAQ:

> Local Data Storage: Local client applications don't need to undergo a security assessment because data is run, stored, and processed only on the user's device. Local client applications that only allow user-configured transmissions of Restricted Scope data from the device may be exempt from this requirement.

My feeling is that the author of Pegasus Mail has checked a checkbox incorrectly somewhere, or alternatively has not implemented the desktop oauth2 flow correctly.
I'm emotionally involved to zero extent, which is still enough to make that statement. If you have an objective point to make then great. But there's no point assuming my emotional state and then writing about it.
It vaguely reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox
I feel like the watermark is the best part. People like that "homemade" look.
Sparc, Solaris, and various zfs based products that Oracle sells still have a shelf life of a decade, give or take. There is little reason for them to do anything.
You can get a Kindle for 89 euro. Amazon, smartly, subsidises their products.
The cheapest competitor is at least double that.
I use `git add -p` regularly, and it's one of my major pet peeves that it doesn't include new files. I constantly forget to include those in commits because of that.
This really confuses me too.

When I work in pomodoros I can take short breaks every 30 mins and they seem to help - precisely due to the stepping back and rethinking you mentioned.

Other people have commented to me how context switching is not so hard for them.

I think there is a “deep flow” state, but it’s not actually so productive - you just feel focused and do a lot of work, but it might not actually be in the most efficient direction.

So I feel there’s this trade off between “flow” and “managing yourself”. I guess hackers of repute just flow so much they compensate for their lack of self management.
For the record, tabloids in Britain are the equivalent of Fox news / MSNBC, they are gossip because they are for-profit organs responding do demand. It seems... not wrong, but a little odd, to open with that as a criticism of insufficiently pro-business cultures.

Big question: do you think business ultimately needs to make stuff? If you do, then the challenges include securing reliable raw materials now that just rocking up somewhere with a big boat full of men with guns doesn't work. Not to mention reliable energy - most customers do not like it if your delivery date depends on the weather. In fact, they really don't like it and will happily pay for some other less carbon-conscious nation to produce it on time. Oh, and having good trade relations with the exceedingly industrially capable neighbours, who should be a manufacturing ally.

But solving those requires having enough people who care. Was it Tim Cook who said something along the lines of "you could fill a conference centre in China with people who just knew about fasteners"?

If you think business doesn't need to make stuff, or "pay enough taxes and abide by enough regulations", well... I'd have to agree with neilwilson. Why should I care, because frankly, what I've seen from the last decade has been Ponzis, gambling for children, money laundering for the worst people in the world, labour law dodges, and 140 character parodies of "debate", and I'm not impressed.
Fairly sure battery estimation is rubbish. I've seen huge amounts of battery life between 20% and 0%.
Something like Reaper's action search. I can't find anything 99% of the time, but I don't have to since everything is one Shift+? away.