skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I first heard of this project I thought "Well, that's insane, it will never be finished, and will surely be abandoned in six months". Glad to hear that it's making good progress! I love it when I'm wrong about stuff.
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Unfortunately those are the official icons - they don't provide SVGs or higher res images through their brand guidelines. I wasn't sure if it'd be worth finding copies of them elsewhere.
Why?

Note that the security stuff makes nice headlines and is concerning, but isn't responsibility of ICO, so likely played no role in their fine.
For strength training, I can only recommend the "minimalist routine" from the bodyweightfitness subreddit[1]. Basically, push-ups, rows, lunges and planks. Works all major muscle groups, needs very little to no material, and will not take more than a few minutes, every other day. A good example of the 80/20 law: that and a few cardio training (can be as simple as walking everytime you are given the opportunity) does not seem to be a lot, but it's way better than nothing.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/comments/6u0nne/c...
What about the variation where you're not a high profile target and you know it?
Globally, Almost Four Out of Ten Music Consumers Are Pirates
Have you even considered OpenJDK and adoptopenjdk.net ?
The 18 year old American driving around the world missed Taiwan and was intercep
To anyone wondering why this might be a good idea, there are some interesting comments in a GitHub issue (https://github.com/Wilfred/remacs/issues/305):

> For users, I hope Remacs will be faster (it's easier to optimise), more robust (we have stronger type checks and the ability to add unit tests), better documented (see #262) and somewhat more featureful (we have some ideas for solving the dumper problem that would allow users to dump their instance as an image) than GNU Emacs.

> I think we will get problems when the current generation of emacs devs retire and there's a better chance that emacs will survive if we try to make it more appealing to young developers. Rust seems to be a good option.
I think in all case I'm better when I can choose between mlab or Atlas than when I've no choice. The US has an history of allowing monopolies that I really can't understand, for exemple Facebook acquisitions or more recently, GitHub.
Thanks. I will be watching all his stuff. I hadn't watched Inventing on principle when I commented before...I came back to say - I think it's the best tech-related talk I've ever seen. Well, so much wider than just computers or programming--although mainly about that on one level--but it's about one's life, purpose, meaning in life etc. The first computery talk I've seen that seemed wise, strikingly so, not just smart, clever, cool, brilliant, innovative etc. Thank you HN!
Apple Said to Have 'Dramatically Reduced' iPhone Repair Fraud in China
1. yups. this needs a law.

2. why not radical? we have "good enough" plant-based replacements, and these will improve a lot when meat/dairy/eggs/leather simply becomes out-lawed. (needs a law too) why point one "stop immediatly" and point 2 being just reduce as a personal choice?

3. this i do not get. we have seen (again and again) that educating women greatly changes the reproductive rates. we can just do that! the one-child policy was disasterous for china, and while it may work in the dev'd world, it is the undev'd world where the reduction is badly needed and where the china-disaster is likely to repeat itself.

also, with 1 and 2 in place, we have prolly no need for the one-child policy. we'll have food and land plenty!
No that's not what I propose and I also don't think that's what op proposed.

If you read the comments again you will see that all that was said is "you won't change the outcome this way", which means that political action alone is not enough.

Look at what's happening currently. All that fear and doom may lead to political decisions, but have they changed the carbon level in our atmosphere? You try to regulate something without looking at the overall outcome. If you want to do something, it's much better to do something positive, e.g. passing subsidies for renewable energy tech.

I think it doesn't make sense anymore to discuss this here. HN is not a good place to discuss different opinions which could be interpreted as being political. The people with the downvote power decide what's valid and what's not.

It's sad as otherwise we could have a fruitful discussion here.
lmao how is paying the companies responsible for this possibly a good idea?
> The odds would be extremely low

That's why I have trouble believing this story really happened. Simpler explanation would be that money simply changed hands for reasons unknown (bribes, etc.)
True, but these are small players, not enormous corporations, so I'm less cynical.
Did you look at Azure cosmos? Is that compatible with your setup?
Pretty cool article. To me it explained the basics in reasonably simple language.
Why the Chinese? That makes zero sense. Much more likely the US who want more casus belli to go after China. Wouldn't be surprising at all seeing the moves by the US gov so far.
it is google because they have the largest pot of data which allows them to very granularly target you with confidence. Whatever data the shady small business had, it was probably partial, old and outdated.
I agree, on both counts. Rereading my post now it seems hopelessly pessimistic, and negative. I was mostly just trying to explain what we can expect to see as we approach 2 degrees of warming. We won't get to to zero carbon in the next 12 years and we won't avoid at least 1.5 degrees warming.

But I honestly DO believe that we WILL see a downward trend in he next 12 years. We won't hit zero but i would hope we'd hit pre 2000 levels. And I also believe that even though we're going to suffer, technology like carbon capture and geo engineering will play a role in the future. A recent study suggested painting rooves and footpaths white in hotter countries would have the equivalent cooling effect of taking every car off the road for 50 years. Measures like this will help. Fusion power works. ITER in France will generate 500Mw when operational in 2025, and pave the way for more fusion globally.

I think we can fix global warming, but its to our eternal shame that we're going to be fixing it rather than preventing it
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I don't think we should, but here's some things that I think we're capable of:

* We could use atomic power, but not to replace oil: we irradiate or directly bomb the main global oil reserves so they are rendered unusable. Both Russia and the US have the power to do this many times over. That would mean World War III, probably. Which would also lower the CO2 levels.

* We can inoculate 10 or 20 people in densely populated areas with highly contagious virus, trigger a pandemic and see the numbers go down.

* We can simultaneously fund anti-vaccination groups, and decrease the funds for the public health organizations like the U.S. Food and Drug administration, worldwide. That could have the same effect, depending on how vicious the viruses we get are in the next 10 years. Super-flu would be fatal enough.
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This presentation covered multiple topics.

Alex Jones was not banned for targeting children, and "Think of the Children"-style arguments were not used in his case.

We're talking about elsagate here, right? "Peppa the Pig" snuff videos? They're aimed at toddlers. They game the algorithm because toddlers select videos from YouTube's suggested videos basically at random, so all someone who wants to monetize a video has to do is make sure to hit as many categories as possible. And they make it snuff, because.. Well, I'm not sure why but they do.

This isn't about teenagers or even pre-teens going behind their parents backs, this is about toddlers vegging out in front of YouTube on a tablet. Basically this generation's TV babysitter.
And posted about it on his own subreddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/jonluca/comments/9mvg4s/bruteforcin...
Good point, but isn’t that done automatically by whatever tool your using?

And if the table your selecting from is big enough I would expect that this setup would be faster but it’s hard to say. It would also more easily guarantee that your results will be consistent.
Seems like this applies here - https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/04/24/survival-of-the-medioc...
This is interesting. No idea why you were downvoted.
At my workplace we have a room with gym mats, wall/pull-up bars, a kettlebell and other things like foam rollers. Should be the standard everywhere.
Do you think a statically-typed language could ever be a "contender" - i.e. compete with Python in terms of ease-of-use etc?

Nowadays, I don't think any new, dynamically-typed language has a chance to become mainstream.
The same could be said for online banking and deposits. There are efficiency gains to be had by taking additional risk.
Nvidia Launches GPU-Acceleration Platform for Data Science
Why is printing 'B' so much slower than '#'?
Sounds like you need better friends.

The only way GDPR could kill a business in the conception stage is if the business model was to secretly collect user data and sell it for profit. A business that can't get started due to GDPR is a business that never deserved to exist.
> funds exist and are locked before we meet

What does locking funds entail?
I was choosing a new Android phone last week. Step 1: sort by headphone jack.
At the same time, the lack of even basic protections is alarming. Don't need software controls to lock out USB drives, when there is superglue in the ports.
The private/secret repos I'm talking about? They're probably operating under Fight Club rules. If you aren't plugged in, they don't even exist as far as you are concerned. You don't even know you're missing out.

I don't think this is staying out of the community. It's staying out of a community by forming another community, complete with its own set of good/bad people, rules, and expectations. Indeed, this is how many popular communities began - small, insular, quiet, before growing larger as human constructions frequently do.
What Is a Security Token? A Detailed Guide to How They Work and Their Impact
Something which I have found helps me when I'm in one of those motivation funks which last longer than a day and which I can't seem to shake is to spend a bit of time consuming impressive work that other people have done in fields outside of software development.

There's something about spending time in an art gallery, a library or even taking a walk around the central business district of a major city checking out the more impressive buildings and absorbing the pace and atmosphere that seems to wake up what I would almost call a competitiveness (in the sense of "shit, all of these people are doing such amazing, focused, long-term and brilliant things. I should get back to work", but truly without any elements of self-pity that might be read into that if I don't spell it out) on top of the other more general inspiration which these things give me.

For whatever reason, it seems to be more effective if these works are outside of software development.
There was another HN thread with BrendanEich in it talking about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18119367
As long as DNS is insecure, Security Services can intercept and reroute IP addresses to send people to the security services version of the internet for brain washing. Installing a fake Certificate Authority on a computer through a zero day remote exploit or domain server hijack from a compromised router lulls users into thinking they are looking at genuine websites, but who knows what secure websites are signed by Digicert or some other CA? Just because its secure doesn't mean its not fake. IEEE standards are woefully inadequate and not joined up, but then one of the largest companies in the world namely Microsoft took 17years to roll out Address Space Layout Randomisation in Windows 10, coupled with Intel pursuing speed over security something which is mutually exclusive due to their chip designs, something ARM recognised a long time ago, so is it any surprise that the IEEE standards are where they are today? If you want to get a headups about what exploits are a problem get involved with the IEEE to find out what standards they are trying to improve to solve some hacking problem. The window of opportunity is open as long as the IEEE takes to finalize a standard.

In the mean time Happy Hardware Hacking because you know your existing security methods cant detect it, but your CPU fan may be the only indicator you have that some malware is running alongside your OS, in a QubesOS/Hypervisor style manner with a coreboot/libreboot bios gone rogue.

Prove me wrong!
Ask HN: How many of you does really use PayPal?
The FDIC insures deposits up to a limit, whether or not one uses online banking.
An introduction to ACID guarantees and transaction processing
On a sidenote: Please be aware that they didn't start free - I used them before their current pricing tiers and happily paid about about 25 € for their entry- or mid-level tier. Sometime after the new plans kicked in, I realized that I'd loose absolutely nothign by downgrading to the free plan.

It still sounds to good to be true, but I just wanted to point out that they charged for their service when they were much smaller.
My toilet paper at home has four layers. (Same amount of relevance)
Yes, iTunes or Prime pages still show a 'buy' button which is confusing.

I think people understand it better nowadays though, as they get burned more and more with services that don't work on a specific device, or the service shuts down. Or more probably they cancel the monthly payment and all the stuff they 'owned' can't be watched anymore.
> So what can we do so our children don't live in some ghastly hothouse world?

How about stopping with the apocalyptic hyperbole?

> The scientists have told us its our final chance....

And "scientists" have been telling us that for decades now.

> I feel like the young people need to take charge of the world because the older generations have had their chance and not fixed it.

Or the old have lived long enough not to buy into hysteria. Maybe the older people are just wiser, better educated and have more experience? Or we could let the young people, who know nothing about anything, take charge.

> What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe?

Nothing. No more than we can prevent solar flares, tornadoes or volcanic eruptions. We simply have to deal with it.

Climate change occurs naturally. It has existed before the industrial revolution. It has existed before humans. It will exist after humans. Trying to prevent climate is like trying to prevent the sun from rising in the east.

Is there room for us to mitigate human contribution to climate change? Sure. Would that matter. Probably not. Are there other areas we should be concentrating on? Yes.

Environmental preservation ( forests, rivers, oceans ... ). Species protection. Build better and walkable cities.

Global warming ( rebranded by PR firms as the silly "climate change" ) isn't the first apocalyptic hysteria by "scientists" ( and by "scientists" I mostly mean politicians, corporations, lawyers, etc trying to profit ).

Here are some of the "end of the world" events cassandrized by "scientists"

Climate change. Global warming, Global cooling ( from 1940s to 1970s ). That's right folks, before we were going to boil to death, we were going to freeze to death. Of course there are the supervolcanic eruptions. Asteroid strike. Of course dire warnings of nuclear holocaust. Then there was malthusian prediction of death by population growth. Boy was he wrong about that one. "Scientists" even warned of extinction of humans by race mixing - look up social darwinism. Now we laugh at that.

So take a deep breath. The world is not going to end anytime soon. Climate change happens with or without humans. We'll adapt like we always have.
Hey,do you have a resource or any tips for infusing alcohols? I'm interested in learning more about it. Thanks
How did that democracy work with articles 11 and 13?

The European Union is the antithesis of democracy. If it wasn't, those directives would never have passed.
You mean you read blogs where people claim that amount of profit over a span of 3-6 months.
> I don't think we (the world outside China) shouldn't be a bit worried given in what position _we've_ put China and how strong they are now

At least China won't be as dangerous as the US or the Soviet Union in that it has absolutely no interest in enforcing its political ideals on other places or becoming a world police. I see no real reason why people should be worried about the rise of China as if this will turn the whole world Orweillian. China has its own way of organizing the vast and complex country and it's hard to come up with better practical solutions. Still if one doesn't like it they can just live somewhere else, and the authorities don't care, as long as it doesn't hurt Chinese business.
There is no hacker. Justin's been doing it to himself. He has dissociative identity disorder
Same here. Nothing like a sprint to the trainstation to wake up.
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I've investigated claims of Russian-controlled political bots on Twitter several times. The stories always collapse when inspected carefully. Indeed it's common sense it would be this way because most of these stories appear to blithely assume Russia has built bots that can pass the Turing test, which is implausible.

I don't believe there is any need to censor such "bots" because they don't exist. Instead they're the creation of:

• Bad, agenda driven journalism.

• Bad, agenda driven academics who are looking for topics to write papers about that might have social impact.

• A desire to de-humanise and silence people with conservative opinions.

Clear examples of these three are described in my essay here:

https://blog.plan99.net/did-russian-bots-impact-brexit-ad66f...

The third is also quite clearly seen in the recorded conversations with Twitter employees, one of whom said:

https://twitter.com/project_veritas/status/99675939690561945...

"Just go to a random [Trump] tweet, and just look at the followers. They'll all be like, guns, God, 'Merica, like, and with the American flags... like who says that? Who talks like that? It's for sure a bot."

Obviously this Twitter engineer knows full well they aren't bots. What he means is, we ban accounts we think are bots without worrying about it, so if I can create a confusion between "bots" and "conservative Trump supporters" then maybe they'll get kicked off Twitter more easily.
Very regular, i do all my internet payments with them.
Interesting follow-up : Interview w/ Principled Technologies on Intel Testing (9900K) - https://youtu.be/qzshhrIj2EY
There may be a confusion here, I'm referring at Private Healthcare and not Public Healthcare run by a private company.

Spain sometimes subcontract public healthcare to private hospital. However from a patient point of view, you are still treated as a public healthcare patient (i.e. you pay through your tax and the government has a specific financial agreement with the company running the hospital).

Otherwise I'm confused by France model. What's the business model of a Private Hospital is they receive no money neither from the Government nor insurances nor their patient ?
I’m not sure why you think 4gb of RAM isn’t enough. I was using a pixel 2 with 4GB up until a week ago and it still runs perfectly.
This article is more focused on how you should approach organization growth and re-structure.

Had see a company going through rapid growth I see some good tips there.
> pyinstaller main.py

One issue with PyInstaller is that it doesn't create a proper standalone binary. It either gives you a full directory tree or, with `--onefile`, an archive which self-extracts into such a tree.
Please enlighten me!

Would love to try out something new.
Or Steam.

All the games I have there should be inheritable. Also, I'd love to be able to put ones I don't play on sale. But that's obviously not going to happen.
I find Bellingcat about as credible as Crowdstrike... a lot of solid, interesting evidence, and then a tail end of questionable conclusions that seem out of character.
Democracy does not mean that every decision is good.
Scientists Bringing Extinct Species Back from the Dead
Through ubiquitous tracking.
OK so what are those efficiency gains?

Both scenarios require review by well trained specialist experts.

You can also similarly “gain efficiency” by signing complex contracts without consulting attorneys. Many people do for smaller scale agreements.

Where does the part happen where using computer code is cheaper than using a piece of paper?
> The usual pattern is a post or response to a bug report, patch or question that is generally helpful but at the same time needlessly nasty or snarky, and with a I-know-better-than-you attitude.

The most infuriating responses come when I've put a bunch of time into constructing a careful bug report (maybe several hours after narrowing down the problem), and some idiot comes along and closes it, telling me to post support questions elsewhere. It usually takes the form of bug report -> here's a workaround -> no, doesn't help -> idiot jumps in and says "Please file support requests elsewhere. I'm closing this."
Sounds like a job for Thanos (the last avenger movie) ;)
Definitely true!

But as in the precise situation you described, this can leads to discrepancies in result. So if you're coming from Matlab of R (or even Pandas), this can help to know that in Numpy the default is not the usual statistical one!
One of my professor used to say that you can do derivatives of every functions, it's mechanical, but you will only be able to find exact solution of an infinitesimal fraction of diffeq, and thinking about that, the same apply with integrals.
Currently the Nokia phones are the best option for it.
The time spent "improving" in the terms of the project is time not spent improving in areas that matter to you (or your employer) more. If the fix works and the itch is scratched, extra time spent developing specialized knowledge about that project's build/test systems or standards or personalities for is likely not time well spent, especially if the likelihood of submitting a second patch to the same upstream is low. If you plan to keep contributing over the long term then sure, but that's not the only case.
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The headphone jack removal problem is entirely solved by a $10 dongle that (I think) comes with the phone unless you need to charge and listen at the same time, which is an edge case for most people.
Back when I worked for an early online service (Dialcom) we had sold a big contract for email - the CEO of the company was pissed of with the performance and wrote a personal letter to the CEO of British Telecom (*our parent) at his home address.

At the next main board meeting our Director got handed the letter with the comment "one for you to sort out" - which is why we set up an entire Pr1me 750 for that customer.
How is that related to their carbon policies?
Six out of ten being legit is what surprises me here. That's pretty high.
Or you force yourself and get the thing done on your list ... but discovered later that it was just a half baked solution creating all kinds of other problems later.
Coding when too tired is really, really not a smart idea.
You don't need a Lagrangian to invent mechanical ODEs. You could talk about mixing tanks, objects under complicated forces, and so on with a lot less background information.
Please share, that's fascinating