skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you look young, how can you even buy alcohol or cigarettes (in my countries case even energy drinks) or get in a club?

It is possible to go your entire life without ever doing any of those things, or having any desire to. And as a general rule, it's the people who are of legal age who least care to do them. Also, some countries don't have age restrictions on such things to begin with (or don't enforce them at all).

> post office when receiving package

Who goes to the post office to receive a package? They come to you, and are then satisfied by the fact that they delivered the package to the address on the label.

> getting drivers licence

This a major reason why this is pointless. If you're going to have an ID, how do you identify yourself to get the ID? It's fully circular. You can't prove who you are unless you can already prove who you are, in which case you already have an ID.

In the US a large percentage of the population don't have passports. When you get a driver's license, they nominally ask you for some other ID, most of which (e.g. birth certificates or company/school IDs they have no way to authenticate) are trivially forged and useless at proving the person is who they say. Because it has to be that way -- you can't make having an ID a condition of getting an ID.

The whole idea is silly. Identity is context. If you create an email address with Google, you set a password. Then Google knows you're the person that email address belongs to because you're the one with the password. Your government "identity" has nothing to do with it, nor should it.

> opening bank account

The only reason banks care about this is that the government requires them to. Otherwise they would be completely satisfied to give you a numbered account with no person's name attached and simply put a hold on your deposits until after they've cleared, as they do for most anyone regardless.

> getting loans etc.

To get a loan what they care about is whether you're creditworthy, not what your name is. Prove that you have a job and a history of paying back debts, or post some collateral, that's what they want.

One system by which they automate this is to have credit reporting agencies that aggregate this information and associate it with your name, but there is no inherent reason it has to be done that way -- and some good reasons not to. See Equifax data breach.
It's gone from there.

Maybe point to https://www.apnews.com/ffb2032c9c034433bc6d42a62fc41177
Some GPS receivers may malfunction 6 April 2019 due to the GPS Week Rollover
IF 99.99% of society is against something, there are still hundreds of thousands of people left to fund it.
In other news there's a GPS epoch arriving this April: https://www.spirent.com/blogs/positioning/2018/january/gps-r...
Most DSLRs these days use CMOS sensors.
This is roughly how I feel as well. I'd identify it as a period, though, around 1900. Throw in Ravel and Mussorgsky, Copeland and early Stravinsky.

I also feel like there's a similar sweet spot for Jazz in the early 1960s.

However, I suspect this conviction has more to do with personal taste than with absolute realities.
Protecting AI against spoofing attacks is a pretty active area of research right now.
Possibly it is only in the summer - I traveled from Hamburg to Copenhagen in November 2017 and there was actually a bus segment from Hamburg to Puttgarden. Then we got on a train which was driven at most 0.25 km onto the ferry.

I tied to book a 100% train/ferry route and it wasn’t available for my travel dates.
Refusing to provide a demonstration of the statistical technique on a toy example constructed for pedagogic purpose, hardly constitutes as a "debate". I would file that under: using a lot of words to avoid answering a direct and fundamental question
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Mathematically, never. :)
Asinine License Terms?
“We get tens and tens of questions each week that we can’t answer,” says Post.

Like what does dozens mean?
Yeah but paypal is just an intermediary. You can use Stripe or pretty much any bank.

If visa/mastercard tells you they will block payments to that website because they don't like your ideas, that's the end of it.
Pointless in the sense it is just a game in a proprietary development Env which may be Smalltalk and cannot be extended.

What we to do. Play the game ?
Chrome DDOS
This simple bit of code makes chrome unresponsive across all tabs/windows

tested on Chrome 71 Linux, Mac, ChromeOS and Android.
Firefox seems to do a better job and yielding to input.

demo link https://jsbin.com/banawajeru/1

warning it could force you to have to kill chrome process in terminal
or just click close tab and wait.

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Dead Browser!</title>
</head>

<body onload="kill()">
<script type="text/javascript">
var i = 0;
window.addEventListener('hashchange', function () {
window.location.hash = '#' + (i++);
});
function kill(){
window.location.hash = '#' + new Date().getTime();
}
</script>
<h1>I thought each tab was Isolated?</h1>
<a href="https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/process-models">https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/process-models</a>
</body>

</html>
I didn’t mention that I use
ibuprofen like candy. Why
else do they come in such
jumbo sizes at American
warehouse stores?

Uses ibuprofen like candy, gets fibroids, suffers hysterectomy.

Given recent findings regarding the nature of ibuprofen as a likely endocrine disruptor, tending to feminize males, particularly in utero, I’d say this article is pretty interesting for at least one other reason.
Wouldnt that line of argument lead to believing that drop in barometer readings cause storms ?
> there’s better ROI in just about any other form of renewable

What? There really isn't. Solar power is less than $1/watt, basically maintenance free, can be directly used or stored in batteries, and (if you're using rooftop solar) requires almost no additional infrastructure or land usage.

What other renewables are better than this?
It's not enjoyable, but it's still the right thing to do.

As for the logistics, each member of staff can be talked to by their immediate manager, making it scale easily. Matter of fact, this once happened to me, and my boss was as clearly upset to let me go as I was to leave. But everyone being let go was informed and given their notice as soon as the workday started, so there was no uncertainty or delay.
While there have been cases of that the average person is going to fullfil their obligation and collect the check. Any manager that really is concerned about theft and sabotage in that scenario should not be a manager. Employees steal and sometimes sabotage while gainfully employed too.

Everyday the company is already risking that.
I really don't like the _NEW suffix, as in SO_TIMESTAMP_NEW, opposed to the normal SO_TIMESTAMP64 naming scheme, as in the function names. But it renders the existing names as old and outdated, so it does make some sense.
This is actually how several LIDAR scanning stations are allowed to be called class I (or maybe II) devices. The lasers inside would do bad things to your eyes (easily class 3). Because they're pulsed and spinning, the odds of you getting multiple hits to your eyeballs are quite low.
Must be great for morale.
I don't see any real possibility for decentralization so long as HTTP(S) is the protocol of the web.
The one I feel like I'm missing the most from is Mozart. To me Mozart sounds so trite, mannered, frilly, wimpy and boring. "Deeeeeee deedlee dee dee dee dee deeeee dee..."

FWIW, my favorite Beethoven pieces are the ones that sound the least classical in harmonic language -- especially the Waldstein Sonata and Sonatas 30-32.
Too bad he's not releasing code for the smalltalk VM. I would LOVE to program for cell phones using smalltalk. The whole pharo VM is like 60 megabytes or something insanely low.
That's because the DoD is probably the most cash-strapped ministry of all ministries of all nations /s
I think that is unfair. No single book, except for a tome will cover all the bases. On the other hand if one does write such a tome it sets the author up for a low brow dissmissal - the author is incapable of giving a brief description and is too technical...TLDR.
Sure, but you get impression that spacex is actually serious about its mission, unlike most companies with those kind of pages.
The writing linked there: https://anna.ps/blog/how-to-use-land-registry-data-to-explor...

Interesting tidbit: "The government only released this INSPIRE data because of a European directive, which it tried to oppose."

Yay Brexit!
I don't understand how anyone in the world accept such social contract of being laid off anytime for arbitrary reasons.

If you create a company, you take care of it and all of its members. If you have to cut expenses because the company needs to be "leaner" then you cut the salaries starting from the top executives. Eventually you fire management, because the state of the company is in part the result of their decisions in the long-run.

Will the 10% of the employees be the ones who are already in the less comfortable financial and social situation in their private life ?
I am not sure why you're getting downvoted. Imagine if Apple/iPhone lost 10% of its growth, people would start panicking. Context is extremely important. 10% of a dollar is not a lot of money, but 10% of a billion USD would be many times what I'd need for the rest of my life.
This works similarly in Finland.

Form auto-population by ID is rare here, though.
In the olden days before the CC Audio I just crammed a wire between two pins in the vga port if the adapter and put some glue on it.

There's guides for this, works flawlessly.
How's the saying go? En svensk tiger?
>So what happens if it's Monday morning and I didn't get an email?

You still have a job.

>Am I still employed?

Yes.

>What if there was a glitch?

This seems rare, and it seems like people would double check to ensure this doesn't happen (and if it did, to re-send an email).

>What if I show up and I'm escorted out?

Sounds awkward at worst, but now you know.
"SpaceX decimates its WorForce" would have been just as correct but then Swat Teams might have moved in :).

On topic, probably just cutting out the fat (I'm sure most companies can fire 10% and a month later very few would notice the difference). But then, why not move them to R&D? I doubt SpaceX has cash problems to fire (more or less) essential workers.
I cannot really see anything that wrong with this. I mean most (=all) never post anything on Stackoverflow although on some occasions I strongly encouraged people to do so because they'd otherwise run into problems - sometimes I even posted questions for other people.

The point is: the hurdle to contribute or even create is quite high, no matter if it's on the internet or in the "real world".

Stackoverflow is not a magic community, they have guidelines otherwise their content won't work so well. Same goes for Wikipedia. As a matter of fact, either you know how these sites work and what is expected or your content gets downvoted and eventually removed. Even HN works like this.

So yes, then there is a small percentage of users that took the hurdle to internalize how things work. It's much easier actually when you do it regularly. In fact I used to be Wikipedia contributor but I gave it up because it's time consuming and frustrating. If you're not a frequent user, you can correct orthographic errors, anything else is pointless unless you're a writing genius/journalist.

Nobody ever complains how insane they are working 10+ hours a day for an unstable job and oftentimes bad salary.
Teach-Code, Learn to code interactively
That's great! There are many issues with trusted setups that people aren't paying enough attention to.
https://github.com/zabirauf/pichat is this not it?
Diesel locomotives with mechanical transmissions are rare today, but they do exist. Hitachi still makes such transmissions.[1] Here's a train in the UK equipped that way.[2]

[1] http://www.hitachi-nico.jp/en/product/land/transmission/dies...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdFCQE61mSA
>How out of touch do you have to be to expect

OK, this is not a constructive dialog.
I'm pretty sure the ads will keep working :P
Its gravitas comes from indiscriminate killing, not from the number.
One of the coolest part in this video is how Knuth insist on computing all fundamental constants to 40 digits and how it saved him 3 times!
technically the whole criminal judicial system is a licensed murderer
How France redistributes more from rich to poor than Sweden
Yes and its justified!11 Google Reader was great :-)
What about when people get comfortable and stop performing at initial levels. Or if you realize you have too much middle management?
The Eureka Moment That Led to an IOT Startup
At least in this community setting this number has been increased to 1% from around 0.001% in the traditional ways or content distribution like TV and magazines.
Apart from dependencies and devDependencies, it would also be helpful if it listed out any CLI commands it adds via the 'bin' field, and a license explainer.

Also, a small bug: If there is no devDependencies, it says 'Package has no dependencies, try devDependencies'.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15452536
CES 2019: 6 Trends of Mobility Market
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apps do it on first install, why shouldn't browsers do it on a website's first launch?
> It is possible to go your entire life without ever doing any of those things, or having any desire to. And as a general rule, it's the people who are of legal age who least care to do them. Also, some countries don't have age restrictions on such things to begin with (or don't enforce them at all).

Yes it is possible but you are describing outliers. Which first world country doesn't have age restrictions on alcohol or tobacco?

> Who goes to the post office to receive a package? They come to you, and are then satisfied by the fact that they delivered the package to the address on the label.

Envelopes and small packages (which fit) are left in mail box. In order to get everything else you have to go to your post office. Courier services deliver package to you personally and they don't leave it at your doorstep so anyone can steal it.

> This a major reason why this is pointless. If you're going to have an ID, how do you identify yourself to get the ID? It's fully circular. You can't prove who you are unless you can already prove who you are, in which case you already have an ID.

I don't really know how it is done today but in theory you could prove it by taking DNA/fingerprints at birth and registering accordingly.

> The only reason banks care about this is that the government requires them to. Otherwise they would be completely satisfied to give you a numbered account with no person's name attached and simply put a hold on your deposits until after they've cleared, as they do for most anyone regardless.

We are talking about reality not a situation where government regulations doesn't exist so there is no way of having a bank account if you don't have some sort of ID.

> To get a loan what they care about is whether you're creditworthy, not what your name is. Prove that you have a job and a history of paying back debts, or post some collateral, that's what they want.

This is just plain wrong, they care about the identity in case you stop paying so they can go after you.

P.S. You also need ID to own property, companies etc. I can't deny that if you are living in the middle of woods off grid you might get by without an ID but if you are an average person you will need an ID eventually.
Emacs with evil-mode (or spacemacs, but that's just Emacs with evil and other stuff). Emacs allows you to very easily treat everything like text, and evil provides the best ways of navigating and editing that text. You get a very powerful set of tools to operate on a universal interface.
Requesting feedback and reviews for my tech news site
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Could you explain to me, a newbie, what Beaker promotes and what its advantage is against browsers that use HTTP?
Another one for SDL2/Lua is LÖVE: https://love2d.org/
Unreal Engine 1.x is retro
These products have Enterprise customers with long term contracts. Same as core GCP services.

They can't be turned down for any reason. End of story.
Neat little program! Looking at the source, it simply polls until the computer is connected to the internet and then executes the command.

It would be nice to have this run in the background as well.

Anyway, great idea!
At that price point just getting 1-2 years more use out of them would be worth it to me.
Decline in iPhone sales damaging Taiwan's economy
Good point.
Do you know many people died in Chernobyl? 31 during the accident. 11 since (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster).
Do you know many people died every year with fine particles? 2.1 millions.
Nuclear is even competitive with solar panels in terms of death. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents)

Death is of course not the real measure. But it gives you a real insight of the dangerousness.
You could try making it wireless rather than put the logging on the gun. Something like an Esp8266 might do it if you buffer the measurements. Also look at the Particle Photon which will do TCP out of the box. Squirt the data to a pi and do the logging on there.

Your problem is that you need to find some asynchronous storage or transmission method. For example in barebones avr, writing to the spi data register initiates a transfer, but you can do other things while you wait ~8 clocks for it to send. Interleaving like this can go quite a long way on 8 bit hardware.

In Arduino, there may be a lot of safety checking and blocking going on. Other chips (eg ARM) can do things like DMA where you can route data from eg a serial port straight into something else.
He's like Cassandra, fore-telling, but no one is listening. Hard to fight against a mountain.

I suppose Google and the rest would be the trojan horse?
The Fresh Start Effect: How to use new beginnings to persuade others
Hulled hemp seed sells for about £10 for 200g in my local organic shop. Then there's oil which by many measures is healthier than olive oil.

Apart from food and CBD, hemp is generally more environmentally friendly than cotton and grows in a far wider range of climates and is softer than the fibres you mentioned.

Then there are cosmetics, hempcrete, animal feed, bioplastics, etc...
Show HN: PaperSurvey.io – Effortless paper survey solution
If single employees fail to perform, they should eventually be let go - idealy after given the opportunity to fix their performance.

The cancellation of a major project also might make a whole department obsolete.

But a blanket lay-off of 10% of the work force for a company which claims to be healthy, that is quite employee-unfriendly.
The VM is VisualWorks, a commercial? product.
Which is logical as the store handles payments. The creators don’t have your financial information, how could they process a refund?
Satellites are that expensive in large part because if you're spending hundreds of millions on a launch anyway, you can't afford to launch ten cheaper satellites.

To be a bit hyperbolic: if launches were cheap enough you'd have amateurs launching stuff hacked together in the garage, knowing if they fail it doesn't matter - they can just try again.
Doesn't work for me either, on Firefox Developer Edition 65.0b10 (64-bit) with no extensions enabled (disabled them all to double-check it wasn't one of them blocking it).

Works fine in Edge.

It's purely the loading of the Hot sidebar, everything else works fine. It has already helped me find a few new subs I didn't know existed, so thanks!
Facebook,Mozilla others take on India's proposed new social media regulations
> It's generally safe to assume that you're not going to think about this for ten seconds and discover a danger that has been missed by every single person to ever contribute to the exposure limits by thought or by case study.

Not safe to assume the risks don't exist just because they aren't mentioned in an Ars Technica article.

I would have thought it would be safe to assume a company wouldn't mount a laser on a car that would permanently ruin peoples cameras, but here we are.
It's at least interesting from a technical point of view that this is possible at all. Who knows, maybe it will inspire someone to make a free implementation.
Lake Misurina, Auronzo Di Cadore
> Seems you have to be current on your account to port your number

This is illegal:

“Once you request service from a new company, your old company cannot refuse to port your number, even if you owe money for an outstanding balance or termination fee” [1].

Author should report Google Fi to the FCC once the government is back online.

[1] https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/porting-keeping-your-ph...
A good benchmark for nuclear vs wind turbine is France (2nd country with the most installed nuclear power) and Danemark (Can run almost entirely on wind turbines). Well, France is producing about a factor of 2 or 3 less CO2 than Danemark.

Another important point. France is producing still far too much CO2 because nuclear is just about 20% of its energy consumption.

So let's not focus on electricity, but let's stop using fuel for transportation and gas for heating.
Trying to build a better bombsight that challenges or bests the accuracy (or lack thereof) of the Norden Bombsight would be a cool Mythbusters episode.

The myth to bust would be whether the Norden Bombsight was actually useful at all.
This really shows the power of money, size and market dominance, and on the consumer side of course the power of the business model of providing 'free' products and services. Convenience, network effects, FOMO, and very little awareness of what the dangers and capabilities of progressing surveillance capitalism now and in the future are, or the impact of (big) tech on society.

There are hopeful trends, but it is a David against Goliath fight, going back and forth and really slowly.
He'll have to prove that ownership, and I know a pretty good lawyer :)
BitTorrent Lessons for Crypto
that was my same thought too, if you ever saw a tobacco leaf and a Marijuana leaf. Even the green shade is pretty different. Now, the Castor Oil Plant[1], which is planted for it's oil, can be confused with marijuana from distance to the untrained eye.

1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricinus
I don’t think it would be that hard to build an update system where not everyone gets updates at once, and you wait for consensus among early adopters before forcing it on the remaining users.
It is not exclusionary. By capitalist logic, a company grows because it makes profit from the market, if a company can't do that or lose its source of investment, it needs to shrink or disappear. What you describe is more like a political entity, where the leader is elected and responsible for the welfare of his/her electorate, and if he/she fails to perform, he/she will get booted out. But that is not a company.
You make a good point about the need for triage. One of the things that In or just setup at work, all bugs get the bug label and a severity, even if someone just saw something odd and we're not even sure if it's a bug. Since everything goes on the same pile, you end up with a lot of junk mixed with the important stuff