skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have felt it since long, that phone calls should be like emails. For example, the ring should include an (optional) recorded subject of the caller (of course, may be heard on demand, by the receiver of the call for privacy reasons). In fact anyone not in contact list, should be required to send a brief voice subject/purpose of calling, which may be limited to 10 seconds. Also we should be able to respond by pressing a 'Not interested' button.

This will take the problem of spam away.
I'm pretty sure that the researcher didn't come up with the headline, its journalism in the Trump age
Awesome work. Now make it emit keras/tf/torch code!
Almost none. I had about 6 digits savings and it went down 5 digits a year.

Salary has gone up about 30%/year and I invested very heavily in that. But even with no savings, I'm much safer than I've ever been. Good insurance coverage, lots of job opportunities.

For context, about 80% of the region has no disposable income and the median annual salary for a senior engineer is US$20k. Household debt is 82% of GDP, so basically everyone owes each other, and payment often comes late.
And also it shows they don’t use their own products (the Reply All typo should shock the guy who owns the UI). The one software the dev team does use is Visual Studio, and it shows. It keeps evolving, not frozen in time in the 90s, the evolutions make sense, they are user centric, pretty much every version is a visible improvement over the previous version (except vs 2013). It’s basically the exact opposite of Office.

That theory breaks on Windows though. Is Microsoft a MacOS shop?
> I'm having trouble pinpointing a reason why it's bad … $20 per month is pretty substantial compensation

But Facebook's competitors did not consent to their traffic being spied on and had a reasonable expectation that their traffic would remain safe from this type of intervention on iOS devices. Ignoring the ethics of paying users for data and so on, this seems like a straight up case of industrial espionage. The article says that this is how FB spotted the rise of WhatsApp, and presumably informed the offer. They would have known exact usage information, this is espionage via surveillance.
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Higher taxes is a form of compulsory savings. If they get sick, they don't go bankrupt.
You, of course. No one is arguing that you should be forced to sell your privacy.
I'm excited! It's not the first time I see a project like this, so I hope you gain a lot of traction.

One thing that I immediately thought about: I'm preparing to ramp up a (non-tech) YouTube channel and I'm a bit worried somebody will claim ownership of any do-whatever-you-want free music I would use to de-monetize or copyright-strike my channel. I know big sites like Epidemic, AudioJungle or Audioblocks have some sort of legal structure in place to protect their commercial clients. Any thoughts on that?

EDIT: I can't grammar.
Shouln't web certifacates be supposed to solve the identity issue !? It's not the first time Google tries to kill the URL though. The reason why Google want to kill the URL is that they want to replace it with a Google search bar, and that instead of typing in a URL you make a google search. Google pays browsers a lot of money in order to make the url bar work that way.
Curious. Regan got burned as an actor with the obscene rates. Never viewed him as having a personal beef before, now it makes sense.
That's a great question. Although I don't encourage anybody to expose this to any network they don't trust, it was a concern. I was previously passing the incoming path directly to ServeFile[1] which handles this, although I have since put in a filepath.Clean... I've tested this in browsers and with curl and it looks okay, I'll take a closer look at this though.

[1]: https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#ServeFile
Ask HN: Any software companies whose product is good for planet earth?
I'm making a job board for devs who care about the environment.
Do you know any software companies whose products reduce CO2?
This is observational, but I notice older hiring managers are more ok with hiring older applicants. Maybe there’s some kind of relatability or something, but the older hires actually turned out to be cool, insightful people. It’s even pretty funny when they joke about age in a self-deprecating sense.

Consequently, I’ve seen that younger people are more wary of hiring people too far removed from their own demographic like there’s a forethought a 40+ dev is going to be some burdensome fart from an AARP commercial.
im gonna give them the benefit of the doubt. Israel has a strong tech industry with funding to boot.

the method they described is convincing. 3 separate mutations cannot occur than just 1. why stop at 3, increase the number so the cancer cell can never catch up.

lets see what they say.
Yeah, I wouldn't use tox after reading this.

https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426
When I worked in the Mission we watched a small homeless encampment run a bicycle chop shop wide open in broad daylight for over a month. Police regularly came by, nothing more than an old tarp was used to try hide the bicycle operation.

Increased surveillance would have made zero difference. For whatever reason the activity was simply tolerated.
Yes, for certain older relatives who are vulnerable to phone scams. I think you should market it that way.

I feel like if I just told some of my relatives about it without it being marketed, they would think I'm the one scamming them.
In theory, yes. Rays get bounced around from a light source until they hit a camera (or decay below a threshold). The net intensity is recorded for all the rays in the camera plane. Computing the net intensity is a reduction over all the rays hitting that pixel in the camera plane. Then you have NUM_BOUNCES many map steps to compute the position and intensity of the ray after each bounce. So in theory these map and reduce operations could be expressed in a database context.

In practice, does it make sense? Not really since each ray is not the same amount of work. One ray can go straight to the camera. Another could bounce many, many times going through many objects before hitting the camera or dying out altogether. GPUs are terrible at handling workloads with high thread divergence (some threads run much slower than others).
I would just sign up for it and use on a seedbox.
I guess unemployment preserves.
... I am using Apache Pulsar to replace current Kafka setup
* Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system
"The book was chronicled in an episode of WGBH’s NOVA entitled “The KGB, the Computer, and Me”, which aired on PBS stations on October 3, 1990"

I think it's this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcKxaq1FTac

Oh,me I'm ROFL: an actor is identical to one of X-Files "Lone Gunmen". When he explains the beeper to his wife I needed the oxygen. It's like "Doctor Who vs hackers" :-)
If you sell one of your kidneys, you could buy even more phones and increase your profits while at the same time screwing over Facebook by giving them mostly useless data.

Just make sure you don't post your plan on HN from the phones, they are intercepting all internet communication after all.
Right, closed just few hours after being published here. Good decision.
You still can't actually change your billing country in Office 365 without starting over with a new account. Even support can't do it.

https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/273493-office-365-adm...

It's a complete shitshow.
My friend is a pharmacist that taught himself to code and is doing an AMA
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Sure, but this concern should not be seen as an argument against building nuclear power plants - the same way no reasonable people considered Challenger as an argument against human space flight in general. Challenger was about learning the lessons, and doing better the next time. In case of nuclear power, it's also worth pondering the disastrous consequences of failing to switch away from fossil fuel power generation.

And as a side note: we have to somehow learn to deal with "inevitable human error and conflict of interest" in events where failure near population centers might be catastrophic. We either have to, or give up on a lot of progress. Quite a lot of interesting technologies and research areas involve managing higher and higher energies.
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It is better to make separate ringtone for your ringtone for both.
Obviously kids are not buying their own phones, but someone is paying for them in some shape or form (hand-me-down phones are not free either).

The average selling price of iPhones has gone up pretty sharply. We don't know yet if that is what's behind the drop in sales because China is such an idiosyncratic market, but I think the answer matters.
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It would be ironic if an incredible invention like a cure to cancer went unoticed because everyone thought it was fake
> So IRS is just gonna accept that you made $241,000 and just that dealing drugs

No, they are going to accept that you made $241,000 in regular income from sources that do not provide W-2s, 1099s, etc. The “dealing drugs” part is not part of the filing.

> Tax return is step one, if red flags are raised, it's audit time with explanations, witnesses, ledgers etc.

Red flags are more likely to be raised by living beyond the means suggested by your reported income as by reporting income with no apparent source; IRS audits and investigations are looking for evidence of concealed income or other evasion of tax liability, not satisfying curiosity about the sources of reported income otherwise, and the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination applies.

It's true that laundering money so that you can avoid both reported income with no apparent source and living beyond the means of your reported income is a common technique (though still technically usually tax evasion, since it usually involves concealing some part of the gross income which is expended in the scheme, and that income is taxable and you cannot deduct illegal expenses against illegal income, so the cost of laundering is not deductible.)

> No doubt in my mind that agencies talk to each other, formally or informally.

Well, they certainly coordinate in the direction that gets criminals who conceal the details of their other crimes well enough to complicate prosecution but evade taxation busted for the tax offenses. The direction you are concerned about is less evident, though.
Gig workers are employees, I do not understand how they get away with the outright lie that they are contractors. In Australia we have laws to ensure this does not occur and they were enforced until rideshare and delivery companies showed up.
> absence of negligence

As I understood things, that bit is being explored in court and it's looking rather grim for PG&E.
They also likely would not want to draw attention to this: https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/01/06/coal-fire-sink-the-ti...
> I'll wait for more information before making such strong claims as "obvious quackery".

IMHO science works the other way round.
A simple UI change like making the root certificate trusting UI look like you're about to do something extremely dangerous would likely stop a lot more users from giving their data away like this. But instead, Apple shows you a benign-looking "warning."
Finding a mentor is really hard. I've been trying to find a mentor since a year now or more. Either I get ignored, and if people agree they just can't spare time then I also don't feel right to nag them with questions.
Yes, not portable.

Regarding the car or work, the noise ratio was so good that I archived to VHS, then worked from there multiple times where needed. Was basically CD quality. One generation down from that pretty much was not a problem in the car.

That SONY seems pretty cool! I would have used it a lot, had I one to use. :D

Older, often vintage, audio gear is just so damn cool!
Thanks for creating this!

One thing I noticed: I just wanted to buy you a coffee, but the help-me-stay-add-free button at the bottom kept moving away because of infinite-scroll :)

Regarding staying ad-free, I'd say it really depends on what your goals are and what your actual product is. I'm not a specialist (by far) but I'd first try to validate the market fit before trying to raise funds (Kickstarter or however else).
Marketing and UX Personas can be the same thing, the problem is that they are often defined for completely different touch points ( TV vs. Software) so the requirements are different and the results are different. Mostly this is confusing for everybody, an additional factor is that most UX teams know how to work with personas and how to develop them. But most ad agencies and marketing departments don’t. This makes their personas often rather weird and unhelpful. It’s often a target group personified ( the whole target group).
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Uber requires you go to arbitration in the Netherlands, illegal in many countries but they just leave it in the contract.
Immensely more powerful than at any of those points you have written. Today at a push of a button it can eliminate most of the world as we know it. Remember, it had to fight civil war to prevent people owning other people.
Antivirals are not a drug, it's an entire class of drugs.

The point is, a cure for cancer makes no more sense than a cure for sickness.
Functional-TypeScript: TypeScript standard for rock solid serverless functions
There is no such thing as free lunch, they say. Then are free Bitcoins
8 bytes??? Are you sure you don't mean 8 * sizeof(class)? That's just ridiculous.

Regardless it would be nice if one could specify the block size as an argument. I suppose I could write my own allocator, but it's just too much hassle for such a simple thing as storage.
This is critical infrastructure. The risks must be socialized IMO. That makes you wonder if power infrastructure should be left to private enterprise to the extent it now is, but frankly I doubt a state-owned company would have been better prepared, either. People want cheap energy either way. Requiring companies to be able to cover the costs of natural disasters would be politically difficult because it would raise energy prices to the consumer, regardless of ownership model.

I wonder what model of governance would properly account for rare disasters. A disaster fund? Of course, if wildfires become more common, as it seems likely, then in a sense this problem should solve itself one way or the other because it will not be possible to run a company like PG&E very long without being able to cover the costs incurred.
This is an excellent list. I've recently graduated with an EEE and have been trying to learn PCB design, so thank you for posting this! It's hard to keep to best practice design if you don't know what best practice is...
You can just create an account, add your friends, and login occasionally. If your friend contacts you, you simply ask them to chat elsewhere.
The infrastructure wouldn't be much more than Signals, surely?
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ZZ closes all your tabs and windows. `viewconfig nmaps` will show you all the normal mode binds, if you're curious.

I'm reasonably happy with "x" for stop.
AWS lets you uplod Flink programs to process to Kinesis streams, and Google Cloud also has support for Apache Beam
Yeah textarea and also keyboard events. I was wondering because the comment to which I was replying implies that wasm could make the browser the defacto framework for cross platform code. But I don't think this will be the case if the native APIs continue to be low performance.
Yes, but the question is whether that translates into lower usage share or if it's just a reflection of the fact that the useful life of iPhones is longer than that of Android phones.

Also, I am more interested in what's going on outside of China, because China is not representative of anything else for various reasons.
Administrators showed a lack of interest in supporting nuclear energy designs that don't come with "weapon grade" by-products since the 1950s, even if they're potentially safer.

That's a somewhat different scenario (scientists saying "yes, but" and administrators saying "hell, yes!"), but it's still pretty interesting to see what the push for nuclear power (eg. France's strategic reliance on it, UK's new reactor that is dead on arrival economically, or Iran's interest in obtaining the means) is really about.

On the other hand, China and India apparently were looking into building systems that are safer with no weapon grade by-products.
Except it’s a very one-sided deal when “you” doesn’t fully understand (or even begin to understand) what’s being given up.

Find me five people off the street who can explain the implications of tapping yes to install that root cert.
related: Dunning–Kruger effect
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First comment I've seen from you I don't agree with. Not at all comparable. A Challenger disaster causes very little collateral damage. (Except fiscal.) A lot of people's lack of objection hinges on, dare I say, on the attitude "let them launch their over sized fire crackers into the sky, I don't care as long as it doesn't fall down on my head".

Nuclear has the potential to create a whole no-go area around it. And I have very little faith in us humans as a wider group to learn to deal with conflict of interest. I believe mitigation is better. Widespread solar and other distributed tech like that might not hold the raw promise of nuclear but I hope it will give us a more robust energy system in the world, harder to disrupt either by malice, conflict of interest or by accident.

Personally I am in love with things like nuclear fission powered rockets (nuclear engines could be started from bases in high orbit to avoid spewing dirty stuff into the atmosphere), submarine derived nuclear mini electric generator stations towed to coastal cities, fusion research and all that. I hope humanity in the long run will make use of such things...
What's the alternative? Outlook is an offline app that most employees (technical and non-technical) know well how to use. The only other alternative (for enterprise) seems to be IBM Notes and that one isn't necessarily better (and often less liked by employees in my experience).
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Now you actually do make me have ill will toward #2. Enjoy your $20. A free lunch/month, right?

Edit: and now they shut it down. You can thank us privacy advocates later.
https://jira.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-8033
It's good for calculus too - I remember watching his videos on calculus before I went to uni 10 years ago so they may have improved even more now.
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We should tip shoppers with Venmo, Cash App, Paypal, etc, when the shopper delivers.

Instacart won't see this transaction and therefore won't reduce their wages.

Less convenient. But this policy is unfair.
ACH routing cost within the US is less than 2 usd (check with your bank)

The problem is with the chargebacks

If you’re a startup (just started), chargebacks will be unbearable as it is hard to acquire new customers

One customer that paid 5 usd and did a chargeback, will cost you 30 usd (your earnings from 6 clients)

Best is to ask the customer in this case if he can pay per year or just old fashion bank transfer, it sucks, but these will be customers that will be more serious to stay and to use your product
Nice start!

However, to be honest, I see no advantage over Jekyll.
A nice side-project to learn go on one hand, on the other, does not bring much to GitHub pages.
FYI GitHub Pages is merely running Jekyll (jekyllrb.com) with a couple of commonly used plugins. If you want to test you site locally you'll be better off using that.
Like Tensor Processing Units?
And also (in Europe) most of the time you just add enough tip to round off the number. E.g. if it's 390 you pay 400. Locals (mostly) never tip too much. Particularly in countries where people eat outside often, e.g. Italy. You add that little extra to round up the total, never mind how many people you are in the group. Tourists usually tip way too much.

There's no tipping in Japan, and people get offended if you try to tip. If the taxi is 1963 yen, you pay 1963 yen (or get back the change to make it so). It's lovely. And the service is great.
Skepticism is essential in science. Gut-feelings based on newspaper articles have no place there.
What if you don’t live near an Apple Store like a lot of people do?

Saying that it’s not hard for a person to get in contact with someone working at Apple seems like a pretty biased view.
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Url changed from https://boingboing.net/2019/01/29/fiat-lux.html, which points to this.
What compelled you to replace Kafka with Pulsar?
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>Apples moves don't matter

I think this claim is not on very firm footing until we learn a bit more about how Apple's higher average selling price is affecting markets outside of China.
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If I remember correctly, in MSVC implementation if sizeof(T) is greater than 8 bytes then each 'block' is just one element (also blocks aren't contiguous). So effectively, MSVC implementation is useless.

Boost does have a a deque container where you can specify the block size using type traits, but from my experience boost's deque wasn't such a good implementation performance wise.

But Clang's libc++ implementation is very good performance wise and even beat std::vector in some cases.
are more episedes of that series available? I can only find the first one and the date's february 2017.
The Office365 status page now states "There are currently no known issues preventing you from signing in to your Office 365 service health dashboard." and when you click the link and are forced to login (now that auth appears to be working for me at least) you're presented with an error preventing you from seeing service status or historical events stating "You don’t have permission to access this page or perform this action."

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/pALWiIR
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you may not feel immediate effects but at a societal scale it does come back to bite you
What would be a procedural win in this case?
The first two points are unreasonable.

If someone gets into your house to steal your lighbulb and cut it open, you probably have bigger problems than your wifi password being stolen. Realistically you probably had it written on a post-it note on the router or your fridge.

The second is the same, if someone not only steals the bulb, but also writes a replacement firmware, flashes it, glues it together well enough for you to not notice, and then breaks into your house again to replace it without you noticing, sure they can inject packets into your home wifi, but they already have access to your house, why not just mess with your router directly?

The third is inexcusable, yes
Wrong, if you're struggling to survive, "stealing" from the comfortable is absolutely morally right.

The fact that people are forced into such awful situations strengthens the message of helping the downtrodden: Everybody is entitled to the necessities of life, so as to never be placed in such a predicament.
I'm not a machine learning engineer, so I'll ask the dumb question: why is visualizing this flow important? What's the benefit?