skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've created site for POS to print ads and coupons on receipts
One would think Android phone makets would take this as opportunity given the massive uproar. But instead they are absolutely determined to blindly follow Apple off the cliff. Now many major Android phones have not only removed headphone jack but even introduced unnecessary notch even though they don’t have FaceID!! The lack of independent thinking is stunning among leading Android phone makers and very sad thing for consumers in this duopoly.
First, let's not call each other names. I certaninly don't support Assad, just as the fact you (or I) don't support Assad certainly doesn't mean you (or I) support ISIS. Our ennemies' ennemies are not always our friends.

Now, I just reported the fact that France said back then "we have evidence", but didn't show it at that time. Then they published an official report [1] a few days later, basically saying "oh, we have good reasons to think it's true, with a high degree of confidence" (haut degré de confiance). Basically, that document says

1- there was probably a chemical attack a few days ago
2- it would be strategically a good idea for Assad to use chemical weapons.
3- we have not heard about rebels acquiring chemical weapons.
4- therefore, Assad is responsible.

That's what happened at that time. Now, if you have a document from April 2018 giving factual proofs, and not just mentioning a "high degree of confidence", I'd be glad to revise my knowledge of the situation.

[1] https://www.defense.gouv.fr/layout/set/popup/base-de-medias/... [pdf][French]
>Edit: do any of you want to join an online cyberpunk community?

I'd be interested in that, but I stopped browsing Lainchan a while ago, for instance.
Can you add anything specific to Data Scientists in particular? I am in this field and would like to improve further. Any pointers would be helpful. BTW, Nice post. +1
> administration differences is the most direct effect of systemd, but after learning its various compatibility layers and watchdog functions, it can be tamed to a great helper.

It's both a negative and a positive. It's a change for sure but nowadays I can log into an ArchLinux, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian,... machine and just leverage systemd instead of whatever local idiom (and its various assorted corner-cases) the distro decided to use. It's becoming the happy path of the XKCD comic about standards.
So Apple is effectively holding you hostage.
in three years (starting 2017) Bitcoin will go to $500K he said or he'll eat his thing on TV. Maybe he wanted to do it anyway so he gave a non-realistic price target :) ? https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/887024683379544065

No doubt he must have made money pumping crappy coins on Twitter
Confirmed - XR didn't come with it, only lightning headphones.
One glaring omission is metrics.

In the production grade checklist, there is nothing mentioned about metrics.

Infact there is no mention in the post of metrics or graphs.

This implies that everything is done via logs, which is just horrific at scale.

Everything should emit metrics:
o hits per second? metric
o Memory use? metric
o upstream service response time? metric
o That new lib you wrote? metrics

This is especially important with microservices. Open trace is grand, but thats for after you've found where the problem is. Your metrics should be your single pain of glass that indicates the health and performance of your system.
Yeah, that's a fair point. React isn't purely functional, but in practice I'd say it still leans heavily toward a functional approach

You're encouraged to keep state only in top-level components, or in a functional-style state management library like Redux, and pass the data as props/parameters to pure components that are just functions. There's a huge emphasis on immutable data, and composing your various components/functions, passing them as props, etc.

The fact that React switched to using classes makes it seem less functional than it is, and honestly I'm not entirely sure why they decided to do so.

Anyways, you're not wrong, but the point I was trying to make is that React is definitely much more functional than other/older approaches to GUIs, and is popular in (large?) part because of that difference in approach.
Dutch DPA: Uber fined for data breach
No because at least they give you the prices! MS would always say you need to 'get a quote'...
I thought he sued because he was on the list only for a very short time when sales numbers justified a longer time. This is wrong and I should have written "had not been". Thanks for the hint.
Very cool to quickly estimate the errors in certain number regions.
Nor does he mention horse shoes, and eating knives in an age where nearly everyone carried their own personal knife for food. Then there's the other cutlery and kitchen equipment, and the scythes and other tools to grow and harvest that food. The bands for barrels and wheels. The linchpins for those wheels.

That's the reason blacksmiths were the linchpin (sorry) of their village. They were the toolmakers of their day.

Even militarily it's strangely lacking. No mention of the million arrows an English expedition might take to France. That needs a million arrow heads. There's a surprising amount of work goes into a bodkin or broadhead, needing hundreds or thousands across the country to contribute.

Yet the author is studying for a degree in Medieval Studies and I've just read a bunch of history books for fun.
> France had no problem supporting the conflicts in Libya and Syria that sought to accomplish similar outcomes as in Iraq (remove & replace Gaddafi and al-Assad).

And if the US had argued for invading Iraq on that basis, maybe we'd've supported it. But of course we're going to oppose an invasion when its proponents are basing their arguments on a blatant lie like the 45 minute claim.

(If the US/UK thought there was a good case for invasion on genuine grounds, why did they feel the need to lie?)
So what are problems then? I mean, we live in a world where we have NP-Hard problems every day, but once you get used to being satisfied with a 95% correct solution it is no problem living in this world.

So yes, you can get used to such things and in the case of Smalltalk, it would actually harm the beauty of the language to evaluate that expression differently. Nevertheless, you could also argue that a language which doesn't respect one of the early rules every human learns in school isn't best for being used by humans ;-)

So let's just say it is not binary (just 'yes' and 'no') and PHP is just a language which happens to bring a few more unnecessary challenges for the developer (like the inconsistent function names).
Google accused of GDPR privacy violations by seven countries
I was wondering why they hadn't implemented video annotations for their mobile apps yet, I guess I have an answer now lol

Fuck Google by the way, I know of many videos that will lose their meaning without annotations.
> The only thing I can come up with is to allow a “thinner” design.

The thinnest iPhone ever was the 6s, which had a headphone jack so that doesn't hold water.

The only justification that I know that works out is that by removing the headphone jack you do free up a bunch of space inside the phone, which can be used for more electronics or battery.
One of the reasons people buy expensive tech is that it comes "batteries included" so to speak, the idea that to do something as simple as use headphones requires making another purchase after you've just spent $1000 is pretty antithetical to that.
Consumer groups across Europe file complaints against Google for breach of GDPR
http://ps-2.kev009.com/rs6000/aix_ps_pdf/programming/using_s...
Jack Ma Confirmed as Chinese Communist Party Member
European consumer groups want regulators to act against Google tracking
To the original commentor's point, certain people, institutions, & pools of capital have inordinate influence over the policies, politics, & markets that determine how food, energy, & goods are produced & consumed. We have had a surge of global scale projects, such as the green revolution & multi-national corporations, which comes with global issues.

If we had more localized economies, there would be less need to transport all sorts of goods across the world; and there would be more employment. Redundancy would be beneficial to local cultures, as it encourages local autonomy. Instead, we have increasing centralization, which has yielded the same degregation with increasing scale. Maybe we need to rethink some of our presuppositions.
I also like the usage homogeneity, but not everyone thinks the same way.

I also like the loginctl and service auto-recovery functions TBH.
Simple Task and Bug Tracking System
Not yet, that I know of. But I have sent a inquiry / request to the producer Nicolaas Veul. I agree it would be great if that was added.
The irony in all of this is that while trying to push for a wireless and one universal port(USB-C), we ended up with more cables, dongles and adapters than before.
The radiator is your phone. The wireless headset does a lot of receiving and very, very little radiation. That's why those tiny bluetooth things can have many weeks of battery lifetime on a battery the size of a fingernail: They don't radiate much energy either towards your brain or towards the phone.

(Digressing, I wonder how much radiation incidental WLAN use on a phone causes, compared to a bluetooth headset. I mean things like googleplay chancing to upgrade a few apps via WLAN while you're holding the phone against your ear.)
Saudi Arabia Set to Launch Official Cryptocurrency in 2019
In a move to calm down nervous cryptoasset investors, Bitcoin enthusiast John McAfee released some words of encouragement via Twitter. For ardent followers of the cryptocurrency market, more often than not, McAfee has some unrealistic expectations. Well, the 73-year-old tech veteran took to his Twitter handle on Tuesday to share some advice with his followers.
The point of imageboard-style thread pruning isn't to erase the content from the Internet (after all, there's a small archive for every board on 4chan on 4chan itself and much larger ones elsewhere on the net) but rather it's to keep the content fresh and encourage new material rather than ruminating on old material - it's much easier to notice new posts when threads are small, instead of scrolling through 1000 posts that most people never bother to read. HN deals with it with the fact that if you comment on a HN post two weeks after it was posted then it won't bump the thread.
here you download
https://clashofmagic.xyz/
>but I presume Germany can't really avoid cold harsh look at the topic of WW II for example

I'm sure they could find a way to avoid it. From what I've heard, talking to German citizens, Germany has made the choice to confront their history head-on, with no sugar-coating. They don't protect small children from learning about it. Everyone knows.
That very much depends on the domain. In this case, I suspect it would be considered phenomenally good since a human would achieve a much lower number. Conversion rates for web ads created by humans are typically not more than a few percent.
For the programs I write, I'm sure the majority of function invocations do only a partial transformation (i.e., result in an invalid state).
Yes, Arm does feature hardware virt and it works similarly to other architectures
This all seems very similar to the public information services from Raymond Briggs rather depressing sequel to "The Snowman", "When The Wind Blows".
What about the Budapest Memorandum?
I use an ARM laptop for travel. I've had a lot of problems with running Python code. Mostly data-science related. A lot of recompilation is required, which is a hassle. Also, sometimes you'll be constrained in what libraries you can use, because some of them simply don't work on ARM, due to ARM specific bugs. NUMBA is one that caused a lot of headache, but I think they got it fixed since.
In many feudal societies, metal was a controlled substance especially among the peasant/serf populations. If you look at the architecture of most residences from the medieval era: thatch, wattle-and-daub and not a lot of hinges or nailed together things.
Show HN: Use vim to cat files in style
If I'm forced at work to work with mediocre FOSS stack without support culture (even for paid tiers), it is about me. I'm not choosing to work with a subpar farce of a technology like npm, it's forced upon me.
I guess it depends on whether you define "ears" as "the general vicinity of" or "the actual thing" - I had expected that the former definition was evident but forgot this was HN ...

It's digital all the way to your ears in that you don't need to decode and then reencode, thus eliminating that intermediate "lossy" analogue transition phase. So yeah digital all the way, and by implication "lossless" because of that.
What does cpuinfo display when the CPU lacks the cpuid feature?
Check out https://twitter.com/systemdsucks

My biggest personal grievance is how it handles DNS or rather how unpredictable and undocumented the process is. If everything fails, e.g., they actually hard coded usage of 8.8.8.8. Not sure if that’s still there or configurable. The handling of actual security reports and CVEs is rather bad and you can see many examples of that on Github.

I’m not anti systemd and overall I welcome lots of contributions Lennard made in the past (pulseaudio, e.g.). With systemd it’s just too much functionality in one place. Do we really need an NTP alternative in systemd?
Speakers and microphones just need a bit of gore tex. These are off the shelf parts, and companies like Apple etc can easily spec their own.

https://www.gore.com/products/categories/venting?view=portab...

I agree that it's also really easy to make 3.5 mm jack sockets waterproof.
It doesn’t help: the president just accepted what was being told to him. The scientists helped making the bomb because they believed that the nazis would gave been faster otherwise.

But those that actually decided carefully planned to kill the whole cities, for a long time, and only “to see the bomb’s power.”

Most of the scientists objected.
Google Domains is cheap, and has a simple, fast interface (lightyears easier to use than GoDaddy, for example). No idea on if there are many missing features. Surely they have integrated it with APIs by now so you could programmatically add domain names, if needed.
The power dynamic: You're seeking a job and mostly at a younger/lower power position and might not be able to question the founder too much. It's the kind of soft power that the #metoo movement has talked about. Unfortunately, there are people who are ready to misuse that.

It's worse than when negotiating with a bigger company actually, cause there you're just negotiating with HR department employees who would follow the law more closely. At a large corp, you largely get what you expect.

Be very wary of what you're promised and told. I, unfortunately, was burnt by this. I largely trusted everything that I was promised/told about the company performance. But it was all hoax.

So an additional tip: Cross-check with your friends how they feel about the company. Make this effort even if you are a bit introverted and don't like discussing job offers etc with other people. Match what your research about the startup tells you with what the founders told you about the company performance. Look out for red flags.
If you use a modern gitops CI/CD type workflow building containers automatically then you don't need to worry about the manual building part either - this can be done cleanly with automation
Surely they do, all kinds of "cloud" companies were their favourite milking cows in the last decade. I believe Amazon's primary motivation for going as far as buying an own chip company was to, at least, send Intel a signal "would you lower the price tag?"

That "cloud" industry is approaching the point of market being fully served, and everybody starting to focus on price. Amazon surely wants to be at least prepared for that, if not having a plan to undercut everybody early on ARM based hosting.
It's still insanely cheap. You could have millions of executions per month and only pay $0.50. But if you needed to, it could scale up to billions of invocation nearly instantly, something a standard server would have trouble doing as easily as Lambda does.
Meetup.com has issues. Their recent site redesign pushes people not to be loyal to groups and use it as a "what can it do for me right now" It's killed group identities and there have been a loss of groups. (Orgs have complained very loudly.. but meetup doesn't care)

I've seen this happen in my group and we're looking to see what's next.
It all just works well. I've been actually running Node on these instances for a while and it's awesome.
we will need a firefox extension that reads the description and overlays the annotations on the video at the appropriate time. otherwise it's impossible to do that for any serious video
I do not understand the "ly"-suffixed app name trend.
Are you referring to Gaddafi?
Eh, most people used wooden or ceramic eating utensils. Except the rich of course. There is a reason why a metal utensils set was dowry...

The other stuff, indeed.
The article is a shallow editorial not a major work on medieval history.
I'm preparing to jump ship. I think my phone has 18-24 months left in it, but I'm already refraining from getting locked in into iOS-only apps, even though (e.g.) I just discovered Omni products which seem, forgive my french, amazeballs.

The problem is that App Store performance is a much noisier feedback channel back to Cupertino.
If you can't recognize that this game will be mediocre at best, I'm already sorry for the amount of disappointment you will have on release date.
The FDA just approved a drug that targets cancers based on DNA
You can get the aforementioned Huawei 8-inch tablet in Europe. You can't in the USA. So there does seem to be an impact on Huawei consumer stuff.
I use Google Domains. They offer a refreshingly clean UI and they're relatively good with computers over there.
This is the quintessential Eastern bloc experience.
When did England invade France in the Medieval era?
>Yet the author is studying for a degree in Medieval Studies and I've just read a bunch of history books for fun.

Often there does seem there must be a more meritocratic way to organize the merit of intellectual endeavors than what Feynman said could be "rotten clubs," academia. Surely academia is not the worst model, but with the tech we have today it seems quite medieval (sorry).
> “What I’d really like is a way to make purchases anonymously from various kinds of stores, and unfortunately it wouldn’t be feasible for me with bitcoin.”

> “I wouldn’t want perfect privacy because that would mean it would be impossible to investigate crimes at all. And that’s one of the jobs we need the state to do.”
> Cross-check with your friends how they feel about the company.

This is very important. I have a friend who took a job at a Mysterious Fintech Startup - he told our social circle in the pub and the entire table collectively groaned and encouraged him to find something more stable (red flags involved being paid pre-tax, etc).

They went bust a month later, a day after he decided jumped ship.
So it’s worth it for you to have other people fix your problem for you (for free!), but not for you to do it yourself?
I have seen the lack of social proof bury all kinds of promising businesses. We live in an age where people demand authenticity and unique experiences but few are willing to take even moderate chances to gain those experiences.
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can someone clearly explain the pricing for this?
Do you not use mobile phones against your ear either? Bluetooth earphones are mostly receivers and are several orders of magnitude lower power than a mobile phone transmitter. In fact they're a lot lower power than most domestic landline walk-about DECT phone handsets.

Where does the force come from? Are you required to use this kit for your job?
That's why the personal knife was so important as most of the rest wasn't metal. :)
I can sympathize with that. But I think Rich made a very bad choice of rhetoric, and this is probably going to bite him in the ass.
(CloudFront, not CloudFlare.)

So CloudFront added support for custom origins a while back (making it more like normal CDNs) and with Lambda@Edge you could direct the user to the correct region.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery...
Long time ago tried Gandi.net because of their "no bullshit" policy and stayed with them because it's true. Also looked at namecheap but when they insisted on copy of my id it ended with me never returning.

I use Kimsufi for hosting and never had any issues. Was a customer of online.net at the same time but only until the recent price hike.
How deceptive design lets Google track users 24/7 [pdf]
I was hoping for something in the $0.10 /month range. An A53 type multicore ARM CPU works out at only $5 or so to buy, and only $3 per year of power to run, so a timeshare on a single core of that machine ought not cost much!
Terraform code is easily 10x as verbose as normal code, and it involves a lot of copy-and-paste.
I've been using namecheap. Their panel is straightforward, and prices are ok. $10/year for which tld? If .com they should be close, but above your target. For other tlds they have long price list.
Personally I feel like makers saw an opportunity on 1) boost sales on new headphones 2) get rid of the cable hanging around.
I can understand and feel your fathers frustration trying to use wireless headphones, on the other side if they never ever get rid of the headphone jack then users are going to end up never getting trained on how to use wireless headphones.
Generally with leaps in tech there are leaps in reduced accessibility for older people, and with how fast tech is changing I can’t see the current older generation getting more familiar with tech.
Although give it a generation more and people that are currently 40 will be able to adapt new tech much easier and accessibility is going to be much less of an issue for the foreseen future.

Also at the end of the day I think there are adaptors that convert the jack into whatever port your phone has. I know it’s not ideal as you get more pieces to carry around and you might lose them but again there is a solution.

Also I have to state the fact that I was highly against not having a headphone jack as I own several pairs of good headphones with jacks and also I just didn’t like that change. I adapted and tbh I am much happier with Wirless headphones right now and not having those cables around me. Battery life could improve which am sure it will with time and I won’t need to charge them every so often but over all I am admitting that I was mistakenly thinking that wireless headphones and no jack sucks.
The Hundred Years War, 1337 to 1453. Henry V and Agincourt etc.

Edit: Dates :)
No Fake News: NASA warning massive asteroid heading toward earth
There were two large-ish stories about domain registrars around two months back which triggered some side discussions about various registrars and their pros and cons if you dig a bit:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18059792

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18083641
How do you suggest finding trusted maintainer who would not turn malicious at later date?
In order to set some of Fastmail's domain security features (SPF, DKIM) I needed to add some txt records to my domain. My previous registrar only had some predefined fields in their web-form (like MX- , A-, AAAA- records, etc.) but there was no way to set these custom txt records.

After some research I landed at Hetzner who allow me to just edit the BIND zonefile according to my needs. No oversimplification that takes away features but also no hand-holding. I don't know why you asked for a 'nice web panel design' but afaik these providers usually don't have the HN-audience as their target. They target those 'non-techies' who need some sort of web-presence and to limit their support-needs they usually dump-down the UI to the basics.