skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Collabora is just like libre office. It is essentially a libre office thin client. The downside is that it loads an entire libre office on the server with every open window on it. I would like to try OnlyOffice sometime as the developers say it is a client side webapp. They also say they aim for maximum compatibility with MS Office. I am surprised it gets little mention on HN.
What problem does Australia have that could possibly justify this? Gangs in Sidney? Drug traffickers from New Zealand? Terrorists from Vietnam?
A list of sites doesn't make a whole lot of sense IMO because they regularly borrow reports from each other, and the list will always be incomplete. The key in this case was this line, which links to the Times article:

> In comments reported on Saturday by The Times of London, Poulson cited as an example of the anti-leak culture an an unnamed senior engineer taking the microphone at an all-hands meeting to yell “F— you leakers” at his colleagues.
I'm offended by these now $1K iPhone models, I'm getting off that train.

I want a tiny phone to do sms and emails. The only thing I might miss is maps ... but that could even be done on a smaller phone if Google removed all that crap from the screen as we try to use their maps ...
EasyData: A simple and lightweight database/graph library
US exceptionalism is referring to the original comment I responded to, not yours. Now maybe that comment was just interpreting "every free software developer" out of context, but it certainly fits the common pattern of myopically ignoring a trend from an imagined immunity.

USG basically tried once to mandate backdooring encryption itself - in the 90s, when the entire topic was only relevant to a small community, there was basically no low level "street crime" involving encryption, and doing so required restricting individuals' distribution of software.

The renewed push is based on telling commercial companies that they have to setup their systems to assist the police, completely in line with precedents like CALEA. The much more diffuse tech-using community is already primed for heavy handed authoritarianism based on how these companies already operate, and also in general due to being pumped full of the terrorism by the 24/7 "news" cycle. I'd hope you're right that the US has constitutional protections to backstop this, but from my perspective those "protections" serve more as coping mechanisms rather than as effective restraints on government power.

I can perhaps see a legal exception for US Free software devs who aren't working commercially, but I can just as well see a malinterpretation declaring them as engaging in commercial activity ala Wickard v. Filburn.
> only 2 MPs voted against it

Have you got a source for this? I read (can’t remebemer where, sorry) that most Greens senators voted against it. From memory, Di Natali and SHY were in the list.

The legislation was waved-through by Labor because there is an election coming up and they were afraid to be labelled as pro terrorists and child molesters.

This site has sources: https://alp.fail
No it's not exactly new, but this study used a widely available strain of bacteria. Additionally, this study seems to dig deeper into the physiology of how the introduced bacteria ameliorates the symtopms of autism (improved ion flow causing social interactions to be more rewarding).
This result is an amazing twofer. Not only do they give a formal probabilistic perspective on how deep nets fall into local minima, the result proposed a way to reduce two "voodoo parameters" - learning rate and batch size - to one, by showing how to pick the other in a way that is optimal for expected generalization.
I use Json or ini files.
Regenerative braking gets you basically nothing on long steady-speed routes. Energy leaves the system primarily through air resistance and to a lesser degree mechanical and rolling resistance. Trucks crossing the country can go 60mph on cruise control for hours on end.

Regenerative braking helps more for stop-and-go driving in cities but it's basically meaningless for long-haul trucking or shipping.
I'm not a Lua user, so I thought I'd ask why one-based indexing is a flaw. As long as it's consistent, does it really matter?

As someone who is forced to use VBA, it sounds like Lua could be worse
My first real 3d program was impulse Imagine 2.0.

Was intrigued by the caligari ads though.
I guess its not mutually exclusive. Buy a house now, then sell it a few years later to retire somewhere else.
You kind of need a smartphone to talk, to move around with, small enough to keep in your pocket.

You need 'something with a keyboard' to do regular stuff.

Nobody needs a tablet.
This is usually always specified to a complete degree in research papers that address this issue. I work professionally in computer vision and image processing and have never once encountered a mainstream research paper where the definition of the data generating process under study was not fully and unambiguously clear.

Can you point to examples where this was problematically under-specified?
Being the the country with the weakest civil rights protections in the 5 eyes allows us to be used as a test bed.

If this thing goes smoothly, expect the same to be attempted in UK, US, NZ and CA.
The ICAD System. Common Lisp based knowledge based engineering platform, including solid modeling kernel. Started on Symbolics machines and ended up on Allegro Common Lisp. Purchased by Dassault Systemes (800 lb gorilla of the CAD world) and shut down.
The best propaganda is whatever truth the other side is avoiding.
James Randi has been caught outright lying and is not to be relied on:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/11270453/...

http://zthoughtcriminal.blogspot.com/2013/04/randis-involvem...
I'm also a big fan of Windows Phone and am sorry to see its demise. While Android and iOS now share many similar UX interactions, Windows Phone, in contrast, is a refreshing change.

For those of you haven't tried a Windows Phone, this video gives a good overview of some features:

I Used a Windows Phone for a Week in 2018! I Will Miss It:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2yzrZvZU6E
You're arguing about who counts as a country's "own people", and in the sibling comment, whether limiting immigration is in the interest of those people.

In my comment, I raised neither point.

You are not addressing whether a country prioritizing it's own people is morally defensible - the core point of my comment.
It still exists, and version 10 was recently released.
The author makes two errors in his analysis. First, cryptographic signing and identity management exists today, and long before blockchain was ever even proposed. It’s SSL and other public key encryption systems.

However, that’s relatively minor when compared to equating “Permission to link to a document is explicitly granted by the act of publication”, to copyright enforcement. It’s not. It’s literally no different from the web today. You give something a URL, I can link to it without your permission. It may be couched in legalese, put it’s defining existing behavior and existing norms.

Fine, the author doesn’t like micropayments. That’s their right. But it seems like the author’s frequent stark pronouncements of “copyright enforcement should not be in a tool for readers or writers” is a bit naïve in light of digital distribution, or honestly distribution by any method. A physical bookstore selling physical books, can be considered a tool for readers and writers as well.

Perhaps the author can weigh in, and illuminate what forms for monetary compensation would be acceptable. Patreon style tip jars, and advertising, but nothing more?would that even scale? I personally doubt it.
How does it do that? I've never seen anything of the sort.
What an interesting idea. Sort of, isolate out a graph of concepts from a language, and pull it out into its own language.

I do wonder why the author believes you need a separate language for this. Why not a DSL, or even a regular library in your popular language of choice (Scala, Haskell, JS, etc.).

Is that a reasonable approach too? Or is some part of the toy language approach lost without perfect domain-specific syntax, or because of parts of your host language leaking in?
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
Shorten’s strategy to lose the battle/win the war has soured my view of him forever. He’s revealed himself to be a man of no principles.
Well, you had Lisp structure editors already in the 60s. Doing it graphically doesn't really add too much to it. If you read the manual for BBN Lisp, you can see that it did end 60s / early 70s more than many current systems do - like managing source code, working with images, structure editors for code and data, sophisticated user-level error handling, etc..
They should name the new platform Relbmut (inverse of Tumbler).
This could be partially fixed by promoting "data" to be a new general HTML word:

<DATA type=application/foobar encoding=base64>
....
</>

which could include application/json, application/epub+zip, application/pdf, whatever. If the browser knew how to handle it natively, great; if it knows how to invoke a helper for that, good; if nothing else a link appears to save it as an individual file.

If you give a DATA entity a name tag, you can use it inside the same page anywhere a suitable use occurs:

<DATA name=parrot.jpg type=image/jpeg encoding=base64> ... </DATA>

<IMG SRC=#parrot.jpg>

Best if you make all the attributes of the original tag follow along, so:

<DATA name=#parrot.jpg alt="Parrot Rights Now!">...</>
Typed literal macros [0] are a principled way of integrating these kinds of mini-languages into a bigger general-purpose language.

[0] https://github.com/cyrus-/relit
That is not a new find. They found it like 2 years ago but USGS said it only contained 20 billion barrels. It is often that these finds get revised upward due to improved technology and the such or better scientific tools being used to analyze the formation.
I am a long time Pythonist and I started with Rust a year ago. Rust has become my goto language now. I mostly use python with the interpreter nowadays (as a enhanced calculator) or for scripting.

Rust has such a great tooling. In Python starting new projects, remembering whether to use pipenv pyenv, pew, pip virtualenv, which file was supposed to mean what feels much much more convoluted. In rust this is a two word shell command.

The compiler will fuck with you more than you would like, but if you don't fight it, but try to figure out why it is right, you will find that most compile errors are totally for a reason. I had FAR less runtime errors with rust. If the code compiles it is either code with a logic error or it just works as intended.

And it is performant as hell.
Are you sure? Among the reddit snobs not posting "original content" is frowned upon
I've had PVC's too. Getting enough sleep is what takes care of mine. When I get overtired they start to come back.
>I think the best experience for developing rust right now is in VScode or vim, IMO.

Intellij + Rust Intellij plugin is probably the best, in terms of actual usefulness (code completion etc) and stability.
That's an excellent point. Strange enough, you described the original ethos of google news. Google news was created in the mid 2000s to give a broad and counterbalancing view of news. It was intended to show not only what "we" were saying about an event, but also what "they" were saying about it. This naturally didn't sit well with our news industry and it didn't well with their news industry and they pressured google to curate and localize the news. For a brief period of time, when idealists ran google, google news offered a broad view of the world. Sadly, now everything is localized, even search.
EU's reliance on russian gas could come to an end though because the USA is building many new LNG export terminals.
Anything that may not be considered politically correct?
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Well, as of the last announcement, "gave". The NSFW thing seems to be throwing out the baby with the bathwater, particularly since the way they are flagging content seems to be error-prone.
I watched the whole video. There are not many videos where people film the whole process. Though most people also have their shirts on.

Mesmerizing.
Yeah, just remember not to go to Australia on holiday. It's more of an issue for companies that have a business presence in Australia, the usual suspects that sell proprietary software or advertising there. It also makes it hard to trust software developed in Australia.

Perhaps people outside Australia should also be wary of software from companies that do business in Australia, if there's any reason to think that the Australian government may want your data.
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Tumblr was pretty terrible at handling CP reports. Like, I reported someone who posted sexually explicit photos supposedly of themself whilst admitting they were underage, and it took two months for Tumblr to send a form message saying they were looking into it and might or might not do something.
> It’s not. The only caveats are that you have to mark porn as porn, and you’re not allowed to get paid for it.

For now. Twitter is subject to SESTA and FOSTA just like Tumblr and Facebook are, so it's only a matter of time before they follow suit.
The only way you are going to get 5+ years of fast security updates outside of iPhones is unofficial Android ROMs such as LineageOS. My 6 year old Nexus 4 still gets updates that way.
News about fossil fuel prices or about birth rates seem to get exactly the opposite reaction at first blush than I think they should have.

A smaller population and sustainable practices mean we as a species may actually avoid a catastrophe.
>he loved seeing ads
It's amazing that there are still people who even see ads.
Have you read My Secret Life? Let's just say there was a lot of sex in the Victorian era.
OTOH, Wayland is able to run software written in the 80's without it realizing. That's quite an accomplishment.
World Food Prize
> Every president since the 1970s oil crisis has talked about energy independence. Now we're there.

Sure. This gradual trend has been a long time coming. I agree it's hugely significant, but I object to the attribution to Trump in the opening paragraph of the piece.

> Now we can start to disengage from the Middle East and let them sink back into the sand.

I agree there are huge benefits to the US in ceasing to fund the Saudis in particular, and to a lesser degree, other members of OPEC. Re "disengage" in particular, I don't think we should totally tear down diplomatic relations and abandon foreign policy goals, though. Maybe that's not what you meant.

> That would save the US a trillion a year.

Where does this figure come from? What are you comparing? Our oil production rate didn't change overnight and it seems unlikely that the difference from yesterday amounts to $2.7 billion per day ($1T annualized).
Apple should suspend selling any products into Australia and announce layoffs of all Australian employees for the day before the law goes into effect. The Australian market is small enough to make a stand without impacting the bottom line.
That’s very cool. Numba and Cython work extremely well with virtually no overhead or extra effort on my part, so jax doesn’t seem like it would buy me much for most of my work. But I can imagine a lot of projects where jax woukd be useful, and I plan to keep current on best practices for it.
> It took longer than expected, but the governments have finally decided it's time to ruin the internet. I am going to go be a carpenter or something.

Honestly, not bad advice.
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> Are there stable libraries for interacting with MySQL/Redis/Postgres asynchronously?

> > If you want an ORM the thing you want to look at is diesel. I'm not sure if it's async or not.

Diesel isn't async yet, but interfacing with it in async frameworks such as actix seems to be pretty straightforward: https://actix.rs/docs/databases/
The processor speed hasn't mattered to me for the last few years. I'm still using an "old" Galaxy S6 and it does everything I need it to just as fast as the day I bought it. I don't plan on upgrading anytime soon except maybe a battery replacement at some point, but a charge still lasts me most of the day. I'm not a part of the rat race for the latest and greatest to run apps that I don't care about, or want. I used to. Most apps are crap imo and a waste of time. I use my phone mostly as a work and communication tool and really just have like 5 apps installed. I've removed myself from the pointless yearly upgrade game. I no longer care about having the newest and shiniest gadget in my pocket. My quality of life is improved as I don't spend much time on my phone, and I've saved quite a bit of money since I bought the phone outright at the time of purchase. Nothing during the last few years is really revolutionary. You can throw more resolution at it and my eyes see it the same. I mean on something that is 5" or 6", 1080 looks about the same as 4k. You can throw in a higher clock speed and more memory, but my apps run just as fast.

> That is not a long term solution for most people.

I agree. Someone just needs to make an app to install roms from a repository source easy, so anyone can do it. Like how easy it used to be to jailbreak an iphone simply by just visiting a website and pressing a button.
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When I was experiencing audio issues on Debian, in 2003 or so, Fedora was, indeed, better.
Some modern luxury cars have this feature built in. And what’s racist about avoiding dangerous areas?
> Nothing is actually getting any better.

This is an outrageously strong statement. Many of the things that have gotten better in history have benefitted from the state changing laws, but many many things improve without that. It’s important to remember that politics are only a component of society.

Just as important, when “nothing” doesn’t happen, you can also get laws that make things worse, such as the encryption backdoor legislation.
As another person mentioned, if you have gmail and visit here, google knows about every purchase you have made, the price you paid, etc: https://myaccount.google.com/purchases

They're not reading your emails, right? How else would they know this much information?
I wonder how performance compares to cupy : https://cupy.chainer.org

Seems a little limited in terms of supported operations for autograd compared to Chainer:https://chainer.org or Flux:http://fluxml.ai

Really cool to see though! XLA/TPU support is awesome.
"Uber revenue growth slowed in the third quarter to 38 percent. It lost $1.1 billion on revenue of $2.95 billion."

Interesting world where a company is valued at around a $100 billion, has consistent losses around 1/3 of revenues, can hope to have a successful IPO.
You have literally source of that stated in the article. Also, I hold no positions/stocks in either red, green or blue team.
That's a vapid statement. Everything may or may not be a treatment for any ailment.
It's possibly a good commercial decision given the size of the EU market, but a lot of people seem a bit delusional as to how much of an authority the EU is. They can't compel people outside their jurisdiction with the GDPR, anymore than Australia can with this law.
Yeah. The downside of this is that it gives countries like Russia an outlet to slip in pro-Russian propaganda through outlets that people come to trust based on their other reporting. There are basically two responses the US mainstream media could've taken to this - open up local platforms for those non-aligned views so that Russia can no longer leverage them, or use it to claim that non-approved views are just Russian propaganda - and they've gone with the latter.
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Maybe hypothetically. But in this case we know that we're talking about China so there's no need to speculate about relative autocracy, corruption and repression.
Yeah, and I guess most contractors would refuse to have anything to do with the project once they found out what was involved.

Actually I'm not sure you could hire a contractor, since you'd probably be under a secrecy constraint and wouldn't be able to tell them what needed to be done.
Problem is, your average employee has no power to make a change to the rules. Maybe if there was a union involved. Typically though the people who abuse the rules and the people who make the rules are the same people.
They don't, and the Huawei CFO doesn't deserve to not be in prison either. Your argument is reductionist to the point of stupidity.

I'm glad the Chinese have this belief that foreigners do not deserve a level playing field, they will get the same curtesy.

> No foreigner can just come to the US to work or try to make a fortune from scratch.

they can. You can start a business in the US as a foreigner and you will be treated the same as any other American.
Surely, a correlation would have been found by now? Any data on it?
Oh, I know that there is porn on Twitter. But I wasn't really referring to porn. It's all of the other stuff that Twitter censors/ shadow bans.
I have not read much on mouse models of autism, but I seem to recall an undercurrent of scepticim in comments from autism researchers. Here is one article to that effect: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/the-limi....

Certainly research on mouse models of autism is a big deal: I see summaries of new such studies multiple times a week.
I'm hoping https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/light-phone-2#/ is successful.
I think Smalltalk would have been better received had it been molded into an operating system instead of sitting on top of another operating system

Actually, it started out as an OS and was molded into a development environment.
Via subreddit rules. If you link your work and then say “I made this” you get criticized for self promotion. You almost always need a 3rd party to introduce your work.
> being required to do an act or thing in a foreign jurisdiction that would contravene the laws of that jurisdiction is a defense for non-compliance

There is no law in the US prohibiting me from creating an alternate login screen for one particular customer just in order to capture their login password. So as a US citizen I have no defense within Australian law against an Australian demand that I capture the password of one of my users... perhaps a parliament member of the Australian opposition.

I can choose to simply ignore the demand. The US will not extradite me for violating a foreign law that does not have an equivalent in US law. But I suppose I can never go on vacation to Australia.
If only they did that. That would definitely have an impact. More non tech people will wake up and start asking questions locally in Oz. At the same time, Apple will show that they are really after people's privacy.
The iPhone’s high pricing should actually be very good for the environment. People will look after their phones because of resale value, iPhones can be repaired by professionals and will be repaired because of value, and for the same reason parts can be salvaged. A cascade of products through second hand markets to meet various market niches is much better than manufacturers selling disposable directly to those niches.
It's good and bad in the same way a crack head finding a suitcase filled with crack is good and bad. In short it's catastrophic to anyone who cares about tomorrow.
First of all, Waze was an acquisition and the users/following of Waze is very different from Google Maps. It's a niche product to be honest. Google Maps already absorbs the most valuable information from Waze. I believe that's how they show accidents and road closures.
Zune. Yeah technically hardware too but it was an amazing music player with some good software too.
Yet he seem to have a basic problems with plural.

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The VB GUI editor and IDE generally were a fair ways behind that of Delphi, back in the 90's. With current Lazarus/FreePascal open source Delphi clone you can get a feel for it