skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems utterly unlikely. For guy who is reliant on intellectual property you'd think there's loads of options.

But the other thing to know about the tie-wearing professions is that although one guy says something, another may say something completely different.

Aside from not being alive, what prevents Terry Pratchett from moving to some island to write his next book?
I'm not sure what your message is supposed to be saying / bringing to the table.

Also, what a very localised generalisation. The article is about how the dominant app in China is faring in India. Other countries have different usages.

Eg near both india and china Line and fb messenger are dominating Thailand while Whatsapp has trouble there (lots of people have it, nobody uses it), snapchat is still hisptery/rare, wechat is limited to chinese expats and nobody has even heard of telegram.
Mass action against Google over iPhone data blocked by London court
This article does however say that after this period you can just request a new one for 24€. No further tests are required.
> See it with your own eyes

I'd love to. You need to show it on this page.

Even if a screenshot (or screen capture, or some code) is pretty useless, it helps give the right context, and tells me this is actually a thing, and not just a hope.

This [0] should be front and center.

[0] https://alan-platform.com/pages/tuts/helloworld1.png
The problem is that the bad guys also have access to this technology. So they can just tweak their designs until the scanner says it's ok.
Is it really? I imaged Copenhagen being capital of tech and pharma in Nordics. Am I wrong?
And the zero examples you gave prove what exactly?
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Where's the blog post? :-)
You seem here to be asserting that "not feeling/being inferior to the people around you" is some kind of intrinsic human right?
Can someone explain to me why planning a ton of trees to suck up excess C02 won't work? It seems so obvious and simplistic that it must have been thought of already so I can only assume that there are problems with it.
I wanted to buy an apartment in Lisbon (I speak Portuguese). Forget it. You don't get anything decent below 500k (speak Golden Visa Program). Big chunk of change for a comparably poor country.

"visa issues"? Portgual is Schengen. You need a residence visa if you want to live there. Possibly but far from trivial. On the other hand, if you want to buy real estate anyway and can cough up 500k you can go the golden visa route.

You may be too late for Lisbon. Also, Overtourism becomes a problem.

Braga sounds interesting. Had not time to go there. Wanted to check out rafting. Also, summers may be milder.
>that's a silly statement, as that would make it a firmware attack, not a hardware attack

Original parts can also have attacks not in firmware, without changing the transistor layouts, via dopant attacks [1, paper at 2].

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262211582_Stealthy_...
[2] https://sharps.org/wp-content/uploads/BECKER-CHES.pdf
Since Samsung is a corporation, it tells me that grommeting cost more than $0.
I feel like this is common sense of reasonable people doing their job. It’s not rocket science.

It urks me that such blog content is considered valuable advice. I think this more is a reflection of our current society and I don’t mean this as a criticism of the article or poster. I just wish our society would employ empathy and manners.
Superluminal – a new performance profiler for Windows
That's great if you're looking for whole extra boards in a device with grams or tens of grams of additional mass.

These surface mount components are so small that the variation in the volume of solder on the joints alone would render your technique moot.

Add to that, the fact that manufacturers often use multiple suppliers for parts, they could have different materials, densities and casing designs, this particular problem is beyond weighing.
One more thing is the reason why the neighbor called the cops. Oh no, a naked man! Babbling nonsense! Help, I'm victimized, someone help!

That reminds me of one of the few times I was in the US, in my undies in my motel room, minding my business. I guess the blinds were still open, only covered with a white curtain, and some middle aged woman must have seen me. Immediately called hotel security on me. People in the US are obsessed with seing anything naked it seems.
Intelligent Edge Computing with Intel Movidius NCS and Go
Does anyone have any current info on native Python support in Excel? I recall Microsoft announcing they would offer this at some point in the future. I would really really prefer it to VBA.
How did early smartphones use them..?
Yes, but that’s just the document. You’d apply for a new card and that’s it. No tests or anything required, just an up-to-date photo.

„Nach Ablauf der Gültigkeit des Scheins kann er einfach neu beantragt werden.“
dell latitiude 5491, its a 14" beast running the awesome 8850H processor and it has dramatically improved my productivity, very solid built as any other latitude
I think it's all relative... I have two colleagues who moved from our offices on the Riviera to our offices in Stockholm, and they gained about 15% take-home salary each, with cheaper rents and public transport. I really don't think anyone's life in Sweden is garbage, as long as you can stand the winters
Hi all

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This happens in every intelligence service, in every country.

That's why intelligence personel are themselves usually subject to surveillance and intelligence.
Why so? ProtonVPN explained the situation quite clearly though I don't understand why you wouldn't trust NordVPN. Just because they are advertising? Or 'military-grade encryption'? They aren't misleading really, even if it is a marketing gimmick. And who runs it... Well, it is a caveat with most of the VPNs. Because of the delicate nature of them (cybersecurity service, various jurisdictions and such), you don't really know. It is a matter of trust, more than anything. I know that I trust them more than my ISP, that's for sure.

Running your own VPN doesn't really anonymize you though. And like you said, depends what you want from the VPN really.
> that our police do not go around shooting and handcuffing people all the time

As a lifelong UK citizen (well nearly lifelong), I think our police can be somewhat heavy-handed. The first graphic in this piece [0] gives me some cause for concern, and that's just the UK number.

As a regular visitor to the US, with family living there, I find reactions like yours very common and deeply saddening. Sure, I probably won't die next time I go but how is that the bar?

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/09/the-counted-...
> We don't have facts here, just competing claims.

This is not a case of competing claims. Believing that publicly traded companies would vehemently lie instead of keeping silence or use weasel words is essentially preferring conspiracy theories.

Presenting such a case without hard, verifiable evidence is ludicrous and only works because many people are susceptible for a bad company/bad government conspiracy narrative.
[Screencast] Service Objects for API Interactions with Twilio
And they're probably scared because of the Galileo antenna[0]. Of course, this was a long way back and they should've learned... But still until it deploys succesfully, they'll be anxious.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(spacecraft)#Main_ante...
I think the biggest problem is their training. I was on a base police detail as a temporary duty for about a year and I often see things like this and the police act exactly as the training I had taught. The "force escalation" went ask -> tell -> make, and they try to instill a paranoia that everyone has a concealed gun by default and should be treated so. I think I have the old training manual laying around somewhere still.

Training about recognizing and handling disabled persons should be mandatory, I received none. Also, clearly what is considered "deadly force" should be re-evaluated. Injecting someone with sedatives without knowing their medical history definitely seems like it should be on that list.

One of most disturbing things I remember from the training was an instructor telling us "It doesen't matter what really happened, what matters is how you articulate what happened."
> A certain malleability is a basic requirement to work in an organization and whoever runs counter to the culture will not have an easy time and may have a very short career.

This is part of what civil service procedures and the unionization of police is supposed to solve. You're supposed to be able to stand up for your principles, and prove to the governing body (Civil Service) that you were justified, and part of the union's responsibility is to watch from the outside to make sure you're not railroaded. Instead you end up with CS commissions disqualifying applicants who admit to smoking pot 12 years ago when they were in high school.
> struggling when using a desktop computer

They're not native with the desktop computer metaphor, but so what? Why does that matter? Why is desktop computing the true computing that identifies whether you're native or not?

And of course, none of this has anything to do with computer science, does it? You can do good computer science with a desktop, a tablet, or a pen and paper.
TL:DR WeChat was too big for phones back few years ago when many people didn't have space to spare and data was expensive and slow. WhatsApp compressed files so they loaded quicker and you could keep more of them.

Then in 2016, Tencent for some reason invested in Hike Messenger when it was already in trouble. Hike was created by the son of a telecom guy. Sorta if the son of Verizon's CEO created an instant messenger app and got investment and support from his dad and the company.
Why is the Hubble out of date?
I don't understand how blackmail works. If anyone tried to blackmail me, I would find them and then throw them down some stairs and then kick the shit out of them until they understood the situation. I think only meek people allow this crap to happen to them.
Relative to so many European destinations, I don't think there are a huge array of options in Porto. It's mostly a student and tourist city, so that's who are catered to. Food is poor, and nightlife is poor.

There are higher quality places like The Yeatman, but this is not somewhere the average tech worker can eat regularly.
And, how is complexity caused? What are the origins?

It is caused by bringing together unrelated things.

It is caused by violating the single responsibility principle.

So, we isolate state from communication. We separate interface from implementation. We see as many, where others see one. We try to see the network of dependencies, where others see a single line of code.

Using this new perception, we find that the large application entangles the change of (code) state of one part with every other through its deployment. The static typing guarantees only validate one specific instant in time, but nothing about the future or the past.

So, take a step back and see the deployment of code as a functional part of the code. Now the monolith forms complexity and the microservice isolates it to the minimal surface.

Take it one step further, and we see that the actor model is the exponent of this idea. Late binding, late dependency tracking, programming by behavioural contract.
Why your company should own its data
So I think they were related, due to there being some law about writing off artistic ventures. Unfortunately I don't really understand the details.

The idea was for people to spend at least a couple of hours a week listening to and commenting on the music of P Diddy. I'm not sure how it connected legally on his side of the deal, but I also got this feeling that my musical input would not have a great impact on the artistic vision of Mr Diddy.

The poetry one was some guys who somehow found out that you could publish a book of crap poetry and write it off as a loss. Some spidery network of entities would in effect use this to reduce your taxes by a lot.

I know of people who've had the court rule against them, and they ended up in massive trouble.
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Hi HN!
We wrote this CLI to explore migrating from Firebase to Postgres as easily as possible.

We use Hasura[1] to generate the realtime GraphQL API on Postgres automatically. The CLI tool's work then mostly boils down to 2 things, which we do in phases:

1. Phase I: We migrate firebase data nodes to Postgres tables in a fairly naive way. We setup automatic IDs and parent-child tables and set up relationships between the tables. This gives you a write-many type GraphQL API on postgres. Realtime GraphQL with subscriptions and live-queries replaces firebase realtime

2. Phase II: As an optional next step, we try to normalise data by detecting overlapping data between tables. We delete "subset" tables and set up relationships to the superset table.

I've written up a blogpost with more details here: https://blog.hasura.io/firebase2graphql-moving-from-firebase...

[1] https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine , https://hasura.io
I believe they canned it and went for javascript instead.

Which if they also enable webassembly in the future is cool, because it means you will be able to run pretty much any language.
+1 True

Though, traveling while on "vacation" and moving to a place are 2 different things. You could get a very positive vibe when you visit a new place several times because "entertainment" is roughly 80% of your goal. But from experience, things usually don't turn out that well when you settle and dig a little more by doing "boring" stuff. Things that travelers don't have to think about. But it goes back to your second point: "people adapt to wherever they are".
The waves caused by the RCS pulses were stunning. Heavenly. It was like a special effect.
Eh, I'm not sure there was a "criminal case". The cops were working as security staff of the place, not on duty; seems reasonable that they would have a word with someone trying to break the movie theater rules. It's the escalation from "having a word" to "forcible removal" to "on the floor not breathing" that is absurd.
Do you have data to back this up?
(Mis)adventures of building a chat bot
I have watched multiple hearings on the US Senate Judiciary Committee in the last few years, and was surprised how many people managed to do both, not to lie and not to reveal the truth, by making huge statements with extremely carefully picked up wording.
What does Dreamforce have to do with it? The homeless problem in SF has nothing to do with access to food, water or clothes.
how are regular people meant to get back on their feet when extreme gentrification prices out everyone who doesn't work in tech? I find it hard to imagine a path from homeless heroin addict to making $2500+/month to be able to afford to live in the area.
pretty much everyone pro-gun and anti-gun
agrees that guns aren't the problem, it's
hothead officers who don't de-escalate

I don't think it's realistic for America to get rid of guns.

But it seems to me a lot of American police practices that make de-escalating hard come from officer safety concerns, which come in part from the availability of weapons*

Pointing your gun at someone from 20 feet away and not getting closer until they lie face down on the floor is probably great for officer safety - but not exactly conductive to non-shouted conversations or de-escalating.

* Of course knives are also an issue, so a gun ban wouldn't eliminate the problem even if such a thing was possible.
More Tesla propaganda. "Lowest probability of injury." What utter bullcrap. How about we do better a driver training? Last I looked, that was the easiest to implement solution technologically but we never attempt it.

I am going to laugh so hard when Tesla's debt situation finally puts them out of business and all these smug pricks who drive those stupid cars are stuck with the worst white elephants the world has ever experienced. You paid how much?
> Microsoft announcing they would offer this at some point in the future

No, the ran a consultation asking whether there is interest, got overwhelming support for it, but have not commented on it since.
An oKay name ...
Prop 47 imposed this state-wide. Its why package theft is such a huge problem now - its a catch-and-release crime.
I prefer Portuguese people since I speak Portuguese and Portuguese are much more welcoming and friendly. This could change with overtourism which also makes Lisbon comparably expensive. Spain is more diverse and still has cheap big cities. Cheaper than Lisbon.
Malware hits medical devices at 18 percent of healthcare orgs in last year
But that removes choice, which diminishes your freedom as a person. I'd rather have a canteen where you can pay for food or go outside and be paid so I can afford that.
I'm assuming it's been successfully used both by, and against, the US for many years.
How an Extremist Government Treats Girls and Women
>some people noted that some 'hardware' attacks can't be seen because they use original parts.

You can have original looking part. Imagine a 8Mbit SOIC SPI NOR flash chip. Looks the part, belongs in its spot, you decap it and it sure does look like a flash Die with its normal Flash controller. Now consider this: http://travisgoodspeed.blogspot.com/2012/07/emulating-usb-de...
I cant find it right now, but Afair Travis (or maybe it was hak5 RubberDucky folks) noticed early on that its pretty trivial to detect what is happening on the Host side of the interface - what operating system am I plugged into and at what phase of the operation are we on (bios query, OS loading drivers).

Imagine a Flash chip that is able to tell (power sequencing, timing and order of commands) if its booting a particular controller on the board, or if its being read in a flash programmer. Flash chips have processors running their own firmware nowadays, turtles all the way own.
Tesla is a young car company - yet they’re punching above their weight so easily. I’m aware of the safety benefits inherent in the skateboard-battery chassis design but that doesn’t account for all of the safety accolades they’ve received. Why aren’t the other automakers doing as well in the NHTSA tests as Tesla?

Cynically I’d suppose the incumbents are heavily optimised to maximise shareholder value so vehicle safety might actually be reduced to maximise profit given expected liability from damages (Fight Club comes to mind) while Tesla is still idealistic and expends a certain amount of profitability for absolute safety. Is this really the case or is there a better explanation for it?
It's CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, there's a license link on the top of the page.
But is it sending a message, or just making small talk.
This isn't as bad as it sounds - it only works if the attacker has access to the management interface. If you're exposing that unfettered to the web at large, imo you deserve what you get.
Framed like that, it's basically the trolley problem[0]. For which I don't think there's a good answer.

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
Thanks for the feedback! Luckily you found the tutorial :) It's indeed a real thing, so a screenshot has been added!
The "premises" being the world, given that he was selling Interpol data?
As the previous reply kindly indicates, I am talking about more fundamental technology development. Basically the R of R&D and not just development. For example, our portfolio includes companies like Stratuscent which is using tech from NASA to develop an "electronic nose" using machine learning, Aerial which extracts people's position/activities by analysing wifi signals, Airy3D which is developing a novel image sensor that can capture 2D/3D/lightfield all in one package, etc..

We work with 50+ universities across the globe on the fundamental research and then incorporate the results in new tech companies like those above. Great fun :)
Five percent is very much non-zero and scarily so. And this is just for the vehicle occupants, not counting damage and injury to other people hit by a vehicle. Whilst we can applaud the work done, there is much more to do.
Interesting, I wonder how much of this is from the advantage of the car being a EV. Not having a huge engine on the front or a "transmission" probably gives a lot of freedom on how the chassis can be designed. It must of been really fun designing the car frame.
A Taser is not designed ("entire idea") to injure or kill with electricity. It's designed to temporarily incapacitate, with a side effect/risk of injury or death.
I'm not sure I see anything substantive or credible in the denials by the various companies. If they haven't been issued gag orders, which is quite likely for something of this scale, perhaps it's just in their best interests to deny this.

There is suggestion that at least one of the companies involved is lying about related goings-on.
Cops don’t enforce most drug laws and property crimes here, I suspect that’s what he means. So the SFPD is really uninvolved and doesn’t like to cite or arrest homeless people unless they are violent. It’s like a low level state of anarchy being allowed. If a homeless person decides to camp on your property, good look getting the cops to remove them. You need a special sign displayed that you have to apply for and pay for to even remove trespassers... the whole city is structured to allow petty crimes.
Making the same point, after every major rampage in the US, The Onion runs a piece with the apt headline

"‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens"

https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-na...

https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-na...

https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-na...

https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-na...
Not that Alan though ;)
My anecdata says otherwise. I still work for a Swedish company and visit frequently. I still know many tech workers who's lives are miserable, quite frankly.

If you go to live and work in Sweden, where will you actually stay? You can't rent an apartment — the waiting list is around 16 years for a decent apartment in the city. It's even several years wait to rent an apartment in the ghetto.

How did your colleagues find apartments? If they didn't buy places or have apartments provided through their employer, I'm guessing they're sub-letting through Blocket.
I disagree with your strategic view for what one should do after launch.

I think the focus should be meeting the needs of actual customers. And an intro video for people who are still deciding if they will give a chance is not one of those needs by definition.

Right after launch, you want to iterate the product for your actual users. After-launch is not growth phase, is product/market fit phase. Some friction that filters out customers that are not of the early adopter profile might even be desirable.

The only exception is if you do not have enough customers to get feedback from, then you work on this sort of thing.

An important, if subtle, point is that I am not against sales in this early stage, I am all for it. I am against investment in inbound growth-only tactics. Founders doing early sales can both overcome any deficiency in a landing page, learn about what is the best message, and improve their product along the way.
Some description of language proficiency standards here [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_R...