skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that there's been massive system creep from what was originally an operator's permit (drivers licence), to a general identity document, to now, an internal passport (effectively) and anti-terror security document, and the impacts this has on ordinary citizens, let alone those with no fixed address (itenerant, contract workers, homeless), as well as service standards varying greatly between (and often within) states, means that the weeks- or months-long process can mean a slide into months or years, sometimes a life, of undocumented hell.

All for purposes of little or no benefit to those most directly harmed.

I'd realised this reading an otherwise feel-good story of a homeless man who'd helped a stranded motorist, who returned thee favour:

...After moving around the country for a time, he came to Philadelphia a year ago with a job lined up and some money to buy a truck. But soon after the job fell through, leaving Johnny surviving off meager savings.

Later, he lost his paperwork, rendering him unable to work. One night on the streets turned into a week, and ultimately a year of homelessness....

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/articl...

This is largely imposed for the benefit of the airline industry.
The only times I've had trouble telling the difference is immediately after waking up. Especially after the false awakening lucid nightmares mentioned below. Turning the lights on and walking around for a minute is enough to dispel any doubt. Dreams are a different reality, and being so familiar with this one its easy to figure out when you're "home"
I had the same impression. I think the authors are taking what's simply a previously-unacknowledged dimension of sexuality (time) and reifying it into an orientation in and of itself.
VTVL were mostly suborbital toys and demonstrators. None of the major launch providers were actively developing recoverable, orbital boosters. As for Spacex influencing Blue Origin, I mean that spacex has set the tone for for what is possible and this has almost certainly helped inspire and drive Blue Origin's products.
>Is it a fact that X is "smaller" than Wayland, and more resource efficient?

This statement doesn't really make sense. Wayland is just a protocol, and you can build bloated compositors on top of it -- just like you can build really tiny compositors [1]. xorg-xserver on the other hand will always have the same level of "bloat".

>X was designed with far more ambitious goals than Wayland

This is hard to say. Wayland has been designed to be flexible enough to allow for a clean base that can be used in mobile UIs, IVIs (e.g. plane UIs), VR and so on (without hacks).

[1]: https://gist.github.com/SirCmpwn/ae4d1cdcca97ffeb2c35f0878d7...
I'm very interested in lucid dreaming but I have never been able to lucid dream consistently even using a lot of standard advice ("Be aware if you're dreaming", etc, etc).

It seems as if anything that allowed many non-lucid dreamer to lucid dream consistently would have to be more than a placebo effect.
I think service workers are the biggest foot gun to web development. There are so many issues you bring to the table just to have offline capability.

First you have to design a service worker that can intelligently download new updates to your app, relay to the user there is a new version, and you have to make sure you support changing apis as clients can be using the old versions of an app for a long time.

You have to design self destruct logic because your service worker itself can have bugs and break your app. In addition your self destruct logic can break.

You also have to make sure you service worker does not infinitely cache an old version of you app, because it will never expire without correct logic. You cant just assume to download higher version numbers, some times you want to revert to an older version of your app.
Autocomplete means I type less than six keystrokes for most of my uses of a variable.

“Fewer characters” seems to be the domain of people who place little to no value on good tools. In the worst cases they make choices that are actively hostile to anyone else using better tools.

See also the Toxic 10x-er, who is really a 3x who makes everyone else 2/3rds less effective.
May I recommend

https://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Colu...
Right, but you can still buy these chips after they have made it through this process. There are many ARM chips with decent performance that you can get as a SOM. Some of them even have decent documentation.
Chronological ordering of tweets and seeing only the interesting ones are not mutually exclusive.

It's more coherent to see tweets in chronological order even if you're only shown what the algorithm believes to be important.
Will give that a try tonight. Have to warn you that right now 1 of my DIMM was bad, so the system is running with only 15 DIMMS (which is an unsupported config) so the results might be suboptimal until I receive a new DIMM from the seller.
No, it won't work.

There are some possible replacements (e.g. [1]) but it's still a work-in-progress.

[1]: https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols
Apple came aboard with iOS 11.3.[1][2]

[1] https://webkit.org/blog/8090/workers-at-your-service/ [2] https://caniuse.com/#feat=serviceworkers
I'd be curious to see what processes are in place for testing the failover of these control systems. (For example, do the teams failover to the local cooling system during DiRT?)
A seed-stage accelerator for women in STEM
> Grey/Gray gets me every time.

GrEy for England, grAy for America.
I agree with the GP. The book just went round and round on the same topic. You'll be better off reading a summary on Blinkist or elsewhere.
I'm sorry to say, this type of outburst really has no place in a civilized discussion.
no way i would read an entire book, to write a small summary, and then get only 50% of "profits" (even if it is changed to 85% (still says 50% for me)). On top of that there's no clue how much that would be. You're basically asking people to work on spec for have of some unknown future profit. The word "distributed" makes me concerned too because you may mean, " we take all the profits and distribute them evenly across the people who wrote summaries" which could have dramatic consequences for pay vs work.

Without any real numbers i see no reason to believe that this would result in anything more than working for WAYYYY below minimum wage. Remember, it takes a while to read a book and you're asking me to do it as a way to "make money".

Also, i don't understand how someone "liking" my review converts to "profit" are they paying to "like" it? That seems unlikely. If not... i'm not seeing where money ever enters the system, and thus how profit is ever generated and thus why i should ever expect to earn anything from my work.
Don’t forget in most cases the tips don’t actually go to the drivers. Doordash may guarantee the driver will make $7 for a delivery, then if you tip anything under $7 doordash will just pocket it. Seems like a good business model.
What data does Tesla actually collect? They are very vague on this point, but people act as if a Tesla driving around is collecting the same quality of data as a Google self driving car. On this point I am highly skeptical.
Bringing Formal Methods to Industry
Bisexuality doesn't mean you have to be equally attracted to both genders, there is already a subdivision of bisexuality into "preferably heterosexual", "both" and "preferably homosexual", this is merely more fine grained.

The difference to heterosexuality would be that everyone is a little bit attracted to the same gender or other gender.
Only because I am not. Troll.
In England the protected title is "Registered General Nurse" or "Registered Mental Health Nurse" - a registered nurse is qualified to a certain standard and has a professional registration.

Nurse isn't a protected title, so it's possible a school nurse has minimal qualification and no professional registration.

I dunno if it's similar in the US.
Biggest Contagion Risk to U.S. Stocks Isn’t Turkey It's a Deteriorating China
Yeah. It's the other way around. Science is about learning. Engineering is build things based on knowledge gained from using the scientific method.

Building things without using scientific knowledge is not engineering. It's hacking.
Were there other launch companies hiring engineers to do what Spacex did? Put another way, while the engineers are certainly talented and skilled, without a company hiring them and directing them in the same direction, they would not have developed the skills and careers that they did. Had one of these engineers been hired by ULA for example, they would have probably been far more constrained than they were at Spacex.

Musk created the environment and goals that let these engineers achieve incredible things. Without that environment, I don't see these engineers having the same accomplishments.
Nothing stops you from building a very small Wayland compositor.
AI and Neuroscience: A Virtuous Cycle
It's expected but not appreciated. I grew up learning fairy stories about the magical rainbows George Washington shat at his enemies, the evil evil British. Learning that the people entrusted to teach you something were incurious ignoramuses reading from little more than a propaganda sheet is upsetting.
your link points to the data warehouse toolkit, not the ETL one.
Short names are useful when the definition of the name is only a few lines away. If 'n' is defined and then used within 5 lines, you have the definition right there in front of you.

I would invest effort in making the definitions of local variables easy to read, while keeping the names short. (And keeping the functions themselves short so there aren't many locals in scope.)
History of T (2001)
TRUSTORY - What I wish I knew about fundraising as a first-time founder
> The ME is required for system bringup

Because Intel makes it required, or is it technically required?
Which is why the next sentence (that you cut off) says

> Complain about what they're used for and the closed source nature of their code.

All of these cores will have the ability to have network connections because they'll bringup the whole SoC including the network MAC.
Interesting. For me, the underlying mechanics won't likely be remembered, but the big takeaway was a better understanding of what character sets are, why they exist from a historical perspective, and why I should care... That higher level context makes character encoding issues seems less scary and more worth trying to understand.

It's too bad he may have gotten some technical details wrong, but I found it refreshing to get a somewhat entertaining "story" along with some of the details.
You are the one taking it out of context. You are forgetting the rest of his tweet stream where he says "the only" thing in the way is a shareholder vote. High level discussions about possible billion dollar business deals happen every day. Without an agreement (e.g., term sheet), they mean nothing and certainly don't mean "funding secured." If Musk had come back immediately and said "I meant funding to be secured." It would have been a much smaller deal, but instead he doubled and tripled and quadrupled down. And now we know for certain that funding was most definitely NOT secured.
I think my memory inflated things a bit, but I usually check MSDS for personal protection and waste disposal. Both entries for a water are a little vague and overly cautious.
> Tonträger

Closest word in English is phonorecord, it's not really used by the general population.
What about music boxes? Those go back farther and were a format of music. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_box
Show HN: The sun clock starts ticking
So maybe, just maybe, there isn't a thing such as "best general" and to try to create such a title is a misguided viewpoint on history.

Not everything has a best or worst. This kind of reductionist thinking is wrong.

If it's something like a "just for fun" project sure fine, but this is not the way to evaluate wars and peoples.
That really isn't true at all. Ya, they have a high-ish merchant charge, but you don't see that as a consumer.

You can also go with debit cards if you want to, the only extra step is entering a PIN sometimes (for some purchases over some amount).

In Australia, they have it even better by having much more pervasive tap to pay in place. Why would anyone choose Alipay over tap to pay? You would have to be nuts.
The Oldest Trick in the Book (2017)
Wouldn't you say that's the general consensus if the work is considered important ?

The British museum paid for most of their artworks. Granted, probably not what they were worth, but certainly a price the sellers were willing to accept.
Ask HN: Has anyone used Fairpixels Pro?
I'm trying to start a new project but I'm terrible at design and design is pretty crucial for this project. I saw this: https://www.fairpixels.co/pro/ and it seems like a decent deal: $4.5k/mo for basically all the design done for me (in theory).

Has anyone used this service before? What was your experience with it? Are there other alternatives to solve my problem I should consider?
Why do women live longer than men?
Correct, which is to say that no, the museum pieces will not be repatriated voluntarily. Make a cash offer if you want them so badly.
Founder of Wefunder here.

50% of Wefunder's team of 22 are women. So we're passionate about helping more female founders, particularly inspiring very early-stage ones that this path is possible.

We're open to any ideas on how we can make this better!
Try skydiving. It’s so memorable that the exact sequence will be distinctively recallable.
This is common argument that comes up in the MJ debate and easily defeated.

Besides, you can apply the same "supporting cast" argument to Lebron. Lebron pioneered the approach to forming super teams to chase championships in the modern NBA. That garbage is now rampant thanks to him. (Remember when David Stern blocked the trade of Chris Paul to the Lakers due to "competition concerns?" Boy that seems laughable now)

(All this aside -- Lebron's a great dude, great role model, etc)
Next FAANG in what sense?

If you're talking about "next technology-first unicorn that's going to make it big in the next 10 years", good luck. That's what everyone and their mother has been looking for in the past 10 years. These tend to get eaten up by an existing FAANG if it looks like there's a good fit.

There are also plenty of other companies that have FAANG-levels of name recognition but probably won't get to the same size. These are your VC-driven, trying-to-dominate-a-market-but-it's-hard (ex. Ubers/Lyfts, bikeshare-of-the-week) and doing-well-in-a-niche-but-not-as-large (ex. Square) companies.
Thanks for the info, I had no idea about TikTok. Also, I don't think you needed to be downvoted in the parent post.
Do they actually care about such rights? I've read somewhere that there are mobs for things such as fairness, where people will even take justice in their own hands if the courts don't do their job, yet the Chinese for the most part don't care about freedom in the Western sense.

Why is it that more people seem to get riled up over a lady killing a cat with her heels, as in the horrifying event of a decade ago, than censorship of over a billion people? It's not exactly a secret.

Yes, the presence of Google might add a bit of legitimacy to censorship outside China, the slippery slope which is to me the real danger. Inside the country, though, I doubt it would make any difference. I have a hard time imagining millions or even just thousands waiting for Google to come in and... do what? Show uncensored results, only to get summarily blocked within minutes? I'd be surprised if there were that large of a group whose opinions would be swayed by what Google does or does not do. Or that they're ready to start protesting, only to be discouraged at the last minute by this new censored search engine. You'd think that by now you would have heard about them.
And if it doesn't reflect the culture of either? Does it no longer belong anywhere? I suppose it must be possible for it to belong in a nation whose culture isn't reflected in the art, since many nations have historical art that doesn't reflect their contemporary culture.

The idea that millennia old artifacts automatically belongs to a person or group because they live in the kind of area where it was made a thousand years previously just doesn't seem very satisfactory. Maybe it's the word "belong"; historical, meaningful or significant art feels like it shouldn't "belong" to anyone in the same sense of "belong" that I can own a tin of peas.

Cave paintings in El Castillo, 40000 years old. The word "belong" really doesn't feel right.
Regarding password storage with GPG, there is pass(1) (https://passwordstore.org) which is a wrapper around Git and GnuPG, and there are a number of front-ends for it. :)
Ask HN: Is a PhD in theoretical neuroscience or ml worth it?
I'm a master's student at Harvard, where I've been studying computational biology and artificial intelligence. During my studies, I've had a lot of intuitions about new neuroscience inspired architectures, which I write about here https://medium.com/technomancy.

With the plethora of job openings and startup resources, do you think doing a 4-6 year phd is worth it if I want to advance ML and AI by building new theoretical architectures? Is sticking to openAI/deepmind/google brain/FAIR residencies or fellowships better? Or should I just say screw it an apply as a deep-tech/moonshot startup at Y Combinator
This is absolutely the stupidest statistical ‘proof’ I’ve seen yet. Not even going to mention how asinine it is to attribute army victories to generals without looking at specific contributions those generals made. What did Napoleon contribute to his victories, tactically and strategically? Very little, his army was leagues better than his opponents.

What did Hannibal Barca contribute? Everything. Every detail of his victories is traced back to his decision making and the force strength of his opponents vastly outweighed his.
Wayland and X11 are complex in different ways. Wayland is a simpler spec without years of cruft, but it is much more complex to write a Wayland compositor than a X11 Window Manager. There are libraries like wlroots, but they are opinionated. And it will still take years for Wayland to match X11 feature wise (screenshots, eyedropper tools, a remoting option, restarting the window manager or compositor independently of the desktop, and so on).

I fear that the switch to Wayland will slow down experimentation in the field of window management, because it makes it hard to quickly do something different. Which would be ironic given the goals of it.
China uses ethnic harmony as a justification for their whole censorship regime.
I would like to see a sample. I am, also, annoyed a little by the three "Apply to contribute" and the "Write & make money", all on the same page.
Suppose I'm Tim Cook and refuse to participate in the Chinese market. No iPhones for you. Who is hurt? Mostly Chinese people. They get a crappier phone with less security and privacy protection. I'm also hurt financially. There are a lot of people in China. Real people are getting hurt, and the political situation stays the same. Political change will happen in China when it does. It feels somewhat inevitable to me but one thing we can't do is force democracy on them. They have a lot of "anti-imperial" ideas in their culture due to many invasions from Japan and other western nations and for the idea of democracy and free markets to really take hold it needs to come naturally from China itself -- not through economic pressure from US companies.
They knew how the materials worked, and we've pieced together how and why the various steps taken in the aim of conservation were taken.

Here's a 2014 paper on the history of the scroll, including a fairly detailed section on the conservation & restoration efforts since the piece arrived at the British Museum.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291523444/download
You might try exploring the emotion you are left feeling after the recurring experience.

I’ve found that my dreams are a space for me to integrate experiences.
> Of course, such hypocrisy is not limited to Greece, it is rather ubiquitous in modern democracies.

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. " - HL Mencken.

Presumably Greece is in the getting "it good and hard" phase.
The summaries are currently available after starting the trial. I think it needs more work to show those people didn't contribute those book summaries but rather recommended those books.
This is a marketing misdirection; to compare these companies as if they were leaders in facial recognition is suspicious, nearly fraudulent. They are far from it. These companies are merely brand names laypeople recognize. If one wants to know the leading contenders in facial recognition, formal tests are performed and published by the NTSC every year: https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/face-recognition-gran....

Not to mention the article does not address any real world key points of using FR. Their usage rages are a joke; real world scenarios begin at 100K much sooner than a month, and are typically measured with these numbers per minute or hour. Real world usage of FR at the rates of these services breaks banks.
Building Battleship in CSS
but why? From first google search result (https://hackernoon.com/currying-in-js-d9ddc64f162e):

function sum3(x) {
return (y) => {
return (z) => {
return x + y + z;
};
};
}
console.log(sum3(1)(2)(3)) // 6

How is this cleaner than?

sum(1,2,3);

I have seen examples like this before, but I don't understand the point of this either. I guess I will read up on currying more, thank you.
Slightly related - not much a fan of hackernoon. The electric lime green banner at the top is essentially blinding. I had to zap the element with Ublock Origin just to read the article comfortably.
It wasn't designed for the plugin I just used to do a lot of game jams and used his art packs so they're my goto for placeholder art. Before I officially launch the plugin I'll get something more customized
As strange as it sounds, I find that spinning on my axis to stabilize the dream reality really helps.

The dream getting unstable feels like how being extremely tired in real life feels like. Your vision might get slightly blurry, your head will feel like it is moving back and forth, left and right, if that makes sense. And then you lose control. Unless you do something to stabilize the scenery. I find that spinning helps in these situations. Brings you right back.
Australia originally was a prison colony.. so its good to see that they are getting back with their original mission statement. All this democracy BS was just a phase thankfully.
Yes, but that is quite different from being complicit in it. She isn't as bad as Modi who had first-hand involvement in a Muslim massacre.
Odroid boards are pretty great, they took end-user needs seriously when designing the their later products.

At the time, they sold one of the only consumer ARM boards that had a separate controller/bus for their gigabit ethernet and USB 3 controllers[1].

Hardkernel has also been patching new kernels for their boards, which is a breath of fresh air. Usually, consumer ARM boards, other than Raspberry Pi Foundation's offerings, are tied to single kernel release and, unless you wanted to commit a lot of time to building your own patchsets, they'd never see a kernel update.

[1] http://www.hardkernel.com/main/_Files/prdt/2016/201602/20150...
You mentioned the firmware is open, but I couldn't find it anywhere. Could you post a link, ideally to the Git repository where it's developed?
I greatly appreciate this attitude, and now I want to donate. Do you have a donation option?