skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I just say how much I hate those? It's not like someone is going to verify it, and I have no idea what happens with that data, either, so I always put the wrong date. If, that is, I even bother to do that. Most of them are easily bypassed. This idea that these are somehow legally required boggles my mind. You don't ask my age before advertising to me...
> If one of them just doesn't want to listen, just hear themselves talk, what can I do?

There is no magic trick to make people do what you want them to do.

> me telling them that I'm not willing to talk to them if they're not willing to listen

Well, that attitude isn't going to fix any of your problems. Review the fine article; Heading 1, "Observations vs. evaluations". I might try ask them why what you are saying doesn't seem to provoke much of a response, but honestly you aren't going to get much joy out of an internet forum for solving communication problems.
They must have missed that episode of Silicon Valley
>This is why you should block ads and trackers even if you're not a Facebook user. I have blocked all their domains in my hosts file also.

...but that's such a myopic view of the problem. Facebook has this data. There's an entire market, intentionally kept from the public, that specifically deals in the selling and trading of profile data. This is why the concept of "shadow profiles" is important.

Let's say I have three friends who are on Facebook and I am not (which I'm not). Those three friends upload my contact details to Facebook and, from these three data points, Facebook can derive certain assumptions:

Sex from my name.

General age-range based on my friends.

General occupation (let's say all three are co-workers or previous co-workers)

General interests based on their interests.
etc.

So, now Facebook has an ad-targeting profile of me. All they need to do to get more information on me, regardless of I'm blocking their specific domains, is to purchase correlating ad-profiles on what I'll call the advertising market.

So, my credit card purchases, my Google search history, etc. can all be correlated back down into this one shadow profile that Facebook holds on me and this can, in turn, be used to target ads to my friends. Not only that, but if I ever do sign-up for Facebook, they can immediately start targeting ads to me. (read: I'm not a net-advertising loss for being a "new user".)

I'm not saying that you shouldn't block Facebook domains but I think that, in the overall scheme of things, it's tossing a drop of water onto a raging bush fire.
Yeah. I back up a few terabytes a day with no problem in Bacula.
The Machine As Author – discussion about copyright
Interesting point: while the software is free, the web interface (webodm) seems to have a paid service integrated to process the images in the cloud (webodm lighning [1]). Since resource demands seem quite high (lots of RAM for larger image sets) this looks attractive and seems like a good way to finance an open source project.

1: https://webodm.net/
> The other component is that once they have the phone number, they can do anything with it they want

Unless you are an EU-citizen.
"...that is not my cup of tea. Do you have that phrase in Belarus? Or do you say, "Not my glass of vodka"?" unbelievable.
It's up to the wealthy to save us helpless souls now
It's similar to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangjie_input_method#Early_Can...

A particular "feature" of this early system is that if you send random lowercase words to the character generator, it will attempt to construct Chinese characters according to the Cangjie decomposition rules, sometimes causing strange, unknown characters to appear.
Not really. Lysenko's ideas sort of imply that you can "will" biological changes. A giraffe can "will" a longer neck in its offspring by stretching its neck to reach the top of the branch. Nothing could be farther from the truth about how biology works (as far as science understand biology). Evolution, genetics, and epigenetics are really more a process of luck and trial-and-error at the molecular level.
automated incompetence

I'm going to start using this term.
This is what I don't get. Twitter is a company, a social network which has its own internal rules.

When you sign up, you accept the terms & conditions, now which requires that you have a valid phone number to use the platform. If this is not convenient for you, why should Twitter change? Why not just move on to other services?

To me it seems like that people want to be part of the "community" and sign up on the platform, but still dictate their own rules. Why would Twitter consider such users?
Mcdonald's bites on big data with $300M acquisition
How do you guys feel about kernel written in C++? Seems strange to me.
The New Yorker perhaps? Generally they have a reputation of taking pretention to an artform and judging by their age that may have been influenced by per word payment scales.
Right but not all reflect the same principles.

If you want to jump on the China principles bandwagon that’s your right, but you have to realize the principles allow for different outcomes, some more or less universal or inclusive or exclusive.

Put another way, would you propose the US (or Europe) adopt Chinese styled principles and use their influence to project them? Would that be a good thing?
Well now its official.

https://imgur.com/a/3E4gAG5
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Often, the most concentrated the message, the higher the impact. Sometimes a single sentence followed by silence is more powerful than a 1-hour talk. Counter-intuitive (but who said communication was straightforward).
One of the few videos I have bookmarked because they are inspiring and relatable is [0], which is a "Top 10 games you should play"-style list, but is actually called "Top 10 Games to help you through the holiday season".

It is incredibly heart-warming to hear that others like me struggle in the same manner, and much of the narrator's intro focuses on the genuinely helpful intentions behind the recommendations.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQbc8uG5asA
The Responsible ML Principles: A Practical Framework to Develop AI Responsibly
There's https://commonsclause.com/ which has been much discussed on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22commons%20clause%22&sort=by...
Ignoring whether good or bad they will be “cool” wherever they project power and influence.
I use DDG as my main engine and I find that to be true. Unfortunately even Google's become pretty bad, I never know when it's going to ignore one word of my two-word query.
The headline sounds like an interesting premise, but I just don’t have time in my life for articles with piss-poor writing anymore.

The first paragraph retells a hot take about history that would have no substance if the speaker wasn’t deliberately playing dumb about the word “man” referring to humankind and not just historical men.

Reading such trash is a net negative to the psyche. So I’ll cut my losses and close the tab.
I refuse to port my desktop application to Android and iOS because of stories like these. If I wanted to gamble my salary, I'd go to Vegas.
The web burglars trying to break in every second
The payment industry as a whole is in the stone age.. ignoring the antiquated technology behind it all there are still a ton of industry discussions about even allowing now-legal medical marijuana dispensaries and things like that to become customers. Given that it all goes back to Visa/MC/Banks I don't expect it to change much soon.

(I work in payments)
Apple hasn't patented cash back, no fees, or ease of use. The other banks are free to copy most of these ideas if they're prepared to.

Look at the personal finance scene in the UK—it's one of the more vibrant markets for banking right now with the likes of Monzo, Revolut, Monese, and countless others. Convenience and simplicity has prior art there.
Mass facial-recognition surveillance, so hot right now.
Angular schematics is a framework for code scaffolding with wide use potential
Someones we all need a vent. If you hold someone the space to say what they need to — and truly know they've been heard, that opens up space for them to hear.

Frustrating sometimes? Definitely. But it works.
Rambo isn't pro-USA is it? Surely It's the story of man fucked over by his country, and the opposite of what you're saying?
As much as I dislike the Chinese state, I must say that I also want to learn Mandarin for this reason. I learned English for cultural reasons that are also related to the imperialism of the USA, so why not Mandarin?

Can anyone advise me on an efficient way to do this?
React-toastify v5 is live
> That's very surprising that you mention iOS as being stable. To me it's the worst offender. Most of the apps I worked on needed to be updated for every single iOS release because of deprecated APIs.

As a user, I concur with this. I can install Android apps created in 2012 that still work in Android 9.

In iOS, I remember that each major update made half of my apps broken (in some cases, completely broken).
Another invaluable reason for IRC log bots. Maybe we need Discord logbots too? I am no fan of Slack for open source projects / free communities though.
We mainly changed our focus from protecting multiple users from each other to protecting multiple applications from each other. But Android always had the latter model. Apart from that I don't think a lot has changed from 2009 to 2019?
Pretty sure F# allocates like nobody's business
And what, we shouldn't care because of that?
That's really nice and has potential practical applications, but I was hoping for more of a narrative description, like "the little man in the big house with the sea in front of it" or something similar (very unfortunately I don't know Chinese, or its writing system, so I just made that one up).

I don't think that something like that has been done before, but I think it's within the reach of the current state of the art for character recognition and image captioning.
I cannot access this website (from London). I get "Web server is down" and ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT.

Since people are upvoting and commenting, can someone share this article?
I learned about Non-Violent Communication at a programming conference when the speaker said: "If you want to be a better programmer, read this book"

Such a game changer in my pull request comments and life.

Non-violent Communication is not easy, it takes continuous practice.

I even blogged on each chapter: http://redgreenrepeat.com/2017/05/12/nonviolent-communicatio... and still feel I can improve my communication, especially when I get emotional.
Should be subtitled "Twitter prepares to lose more than half of its users"...
Great article and very timely as I need to have a difficult conversation with a co-worker today! :)
Rancher 2.2 Released
„German newspaper FAZ reports its investigation found strong indications that Germany traded its support for the #copyright deal for French concessions on Russian gas #northstream2„

https://edition.faz.net/faz-edition/wirtschaft/2019-03-26/f3...

Via

https://twitter.com/Senficon/status/1110278976654794753?s=20
I mean, seriously.

AWS has EKS and as far as I know, it added many K8s features to ECS in the last years. So even if you are one of the unlucky people who is locked in by containers, there are plenty of options to run K8s managed and unmanaged on AWS.

This discussion sounds like some taxi driver who insists on only driving a taxi build by themselves instead of buying a car build in large volume production.
Hm, interesting, thanks.
I can't even begin to relate to this point of view. Why does everything have to be side-taking, where nobody is allowed to be accused of anything if somebody else, now or in the past, has committed even just the same genre of crime? And why the smug "amused" line? To me, it's all terribly demoralizing.
Who vs. Whom: How to Determine Which Word to Use
Where Kops is a command line tool with subcommands like create-cluster and update-cluster, Keights uses Ansible roles with CloudFormation underneath. This works well to manage the cluster from CI/CD, where updating the cluster is just updating the version in requirements.yml and retriggering the build with Ansible. Creating or updating the cluster is the same process.

Keights also relies on kubeadm, which is released along with Kubernetes, so it can be up to date much quicker than Kops, which is several releases behind. Kops is a surprisingly large amount of code and probably needs significant changes between each release, whereas changing Keights to support a new release usually just means modifying the Kubeadm config files and changing dependency versions.

At the last two companies where I worked, they couldn't use Kops because it checked for an internet gateway on the VPC and failed if one was not found. A lot of companies have centrally controlled Amazon accounts with locked down VPCs and no ability for most teams to modify them. Keights was created to work even in such environments and assumes that your network is already set up how you want it.
> Their business intent with Fuchsia is definitely not clear so it's a honey pot for speculation.

From what I've heard Fuchsia will feature a deeper integration of Google services than Android. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhX6cANaJ6o
Expressing our feelings is powerful way to connect with people, by helping to create empathic attunement.

Forming a connection is critical when communicating in a difficult situation. It might seem like 'fluff', but I believe it's what separates the mediocre and great communicators. Sadly, logic is rarely enough.
Europe’s controversial overhaul of online copyright receives final approval
>> It's a crutch that holds back API design

When I read that I caught a hint at a problem. API design should not be an ongoing activity. People should design a new API and then we should all use it for a long time. If it's frustrating that POSIX is still used, you might want to consider that stability is the feature that keeps it around.

Perhaps it's time to reread Joel on "fire and motion":

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/

I'm all for this Fuchsia thing, but they claim to have the experience to design something better so do that and let it stand. Regular software updates are actually a sign that you don't know what you're doing.
Thank you for your input.

I want to point out though that you propose "I might try ask them". I want to point out that that would get no response. That is the whole issue which I'm trying to find an "out" for.
It uses a preinstalled anchor point which would not be something big, exposed to the elements. One can use multiple anchor points. It will be difficult to mount something or buckle up if it is hanging outside the window.
This article is a bit superficial. CCD is more than just pesticides killing bees. The invasive varroa mite is likely a big factor. It’s a good thing that he is taking care of bees. The solution might be more complex than sanctuaries though— IE how can we reduce the mite population?

Potential CCD Causes According to EPA:

... researchers who are leading the effort to find out why are now focused on these factors:
Increased losses due to the invasive varroa mite (a pest of honey bees).
New or emerging diseases such as Israeli Acute Paralysis virus and the gut parasite Nosema.
Pesticide poisoning through exposure to pesticides applied to crops or for in-hive insect or mite control.
Stress bees experience due to management practices such as transportation to multiple locations across the country for providing pollination services.
Changes to the habitat where bees forage.
Inadequate forage/poor nutrition.
Potential immune-suppressing stress on bees caused by one or a combination of factors identified above.
Genome engineers made more than 13,000 CRISPR edits in a single cell
"THE Taiwanese money man comes once a month. An official from the local embassy, he doles out $US4000 in Australian currency to every one of Nauru's 18 members of parliament."

"Indeed, it dwarfs the salaries of Nauru's politicians: MPs earn $200 to $340 a fortnight."

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/if-youre-w...
Facts are outside the realm of humans, unreachable. Humans can only have observations, hearsay, and opinions about what the facts are. That's why we have scientific opinions and judicial opinions. A statistical analysis with a confidence interval or a p-value is a measurement of how strongly someone holds an opinion based on their observations.
> I feel like there ought to be a google competitor now that google is so crappy.

I switched to DDG on my phone and it’s good. Recommend it.
I won't lie... NVC is really, really hard to achieve. But sometimes it's worth risking making mistakes to achieve your goal.
I've only watched the trailer but I liked the part where the protagonist forces the tank to stop by standing in front of it, a bit like the famous tank man picture
It should say... mobile phone as I'm sure this won't work with my landline.
Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20190326103055/https://china-und...
Me too. It’s a nice project, but expensive for small projects.

I really wish there was just a better alternative to pdf that lets me “print” a single pretty file that has everything a reader needs.

My dream is that Microsoft finally buys adobe and becomes a saint by making a full oss pdf implementation that includes a wide variety of language libs.

It will cost a lot but further differentiate then from google and amazon similar to buying github and not screwing it up (hopefully).
Well that is something I can 100% relate to, but it's not the situation I was thinking of.

A typical situation would be someone trying to deflect blame by ensuring they have talked to someone else before making a mistake, just so they won't take 100% of the fallout.
I will now start my move out of the EU. I know how heavily restricted Internet feels like from my frequent Iran travels, and I will move out of any country that moves 2 inches in that direction, whatever the "good reason" might be. Politicians felt like your regular corrupt banana republic representatives this time. And now they know how to get away with this, they will try it with something different again soon.
> I guess those Red-Hat boxes at my parents' basement are a piece of imagination.

No, they are not, but Linux distros were never small (except Slackware & Gentoo), so many of us were unable to download them (with 56kbps modems). We bought the complete CD sets, which were essentially repositories on CDs. I had SUSE 6.0 box set.

A generation has abused university networks to download ISO files and write them to discs. That's why most universities had local repositories for a considerable amount of time. Many still have. The place I work hosts country-wide official repositories of most Linux distributions.

> Great, and how much money do they earn from it?

Why not ask to the non-profits which govern the money and assets of the Debian and other projects? The page is here [0]. Looks like Google is also a donor in SPI which hosts Debian, PostgreSQL, Arduino/ArduPilot, Arch, etc.

BTW, most Debian and open source developers don't do it for the money. They build the software for fun and use their skills in their day-job to do their work. Also, there are many developers paid to work on open source code and implement the required features. Glibc's developer is (was?) an RH employee for example. Intel pays developers to implement their open source network and graphics drivers. AMD's both open and closed source driver teams (yes there are two, isolated teams) are on AMD's payroll.

Open Source software is sustainable. You pay for knowledge and the effort, not the code.

[0]: https://www.debian.org/donations
>> (...) in Greece or Turkey forming a ring with your index finger and thumb to indicate everything is A-OK could get you in trouble.

I'm Greek. I'm not sure what that refers to. I think they mean that we use the gesture to indicate the number 0, or, more rudely, the anal orifice (often accompanied by inserting the index finger of the other hand into it to illustrate penetration).

This gesture can indeed be interpreted like that. I think those are rather obsolete meanings though. Mostly I've used the gesture myself to say "everything OK". I suppose this is the equivalent of loan words, in this case, from the more common usage of the gesture in Western Europe.

Edit: Oh. Now that I think of it, there is also a further interpretation of that gesture to indicate a tiny size. Meaning, of the human penis. It's true that its original meanings were always quite rude.
which browser doesn't show that right? chrome and firefox have connected lines for me
https://www.thenational.ae/uae/high-rise-escape-chute-could-...
Wizard Kit: How I Protect Myself from Surveillance
Where are you moving to ?
Wonder how everyone here who keep praising and extolling everything the EU does has to say about this.

Edit: being downvoted to oblivion suggests either that they are in denial or there are many paid shills around or both, either way I rest my case.
AutoMapper's Design Philosophy
https://patents.google.com/patent/US4951779
Not as good as google, but it still makes sense to make it (or something else) your default search engine for those 99% of times it actually works just fine.
Key Trends in Machine Learning and AI in 2019
I would expect that this model is informed by the several species of bat that use this method, and by the size and structure of the limb bones, which would be a clue to the forces being used.

If the animal can just get itself gliding, I think it is possible to continue generating lift even while raising its wings into position for a downstroke - what it needs to do is maintain a positive angle of attack while doing so. At least when they are not hovering, birds continue to generate lift on the upstroke.

A headwind would make it easier, and perhaps that or a downslope might have been necessary.
A Walmart study shows its monopoly over shopping cart and other areas
This seems to be blog spam of https://rsf.org/sites/default/files/en_rapport_chine_web_fin...

I thought they at least did some work to summarize the report, but even the text of the "Summary" section is lifted directly from the foreword.
Same here, from Sweden can't access
Largely NodeJS with https://www.npmjs.com/package/serialport but for some of the more ethernet-centric integrations I've been using C++. I haven't gotten to dynamic frequency setups yet, I've actually been lazy and using 2 of these on each side to act as separated TX/RX in different frequency bands. Certainly doesn't scale past a dozen but it made things a lot easier to get started.

I'm curious on your choice of optimization algorithm to balance cell size/interference with relay congestion.
Well, if their plan is detecting opioid residues on the outsides of packages, they must be aiming for at least nanogram detection limits. Because they're counting on sloppiness in weighing and packaging. And those levels are far below toxicity thresholds, even for fentanyl.
My immediate thought is this could help out Mayan orthography, which is notably “computer proof”, even though it’s a mixed logography. (Mayan would need a 3rd marker for depth order, and marker(s?) for occlusion info.)
Regulation is communism! Let the Free Market (tm) sort itself.
A good manager will 'stop the shit from rolling downhill' onto others and will give their people the tools they need to succeed and get out of the way.
The British' principles gave us the Kashmir/Pakistani conflict, and (coupled with France and various other European nations) numerous civil wars across Africa.

The US' principles gave us decades of corruption and drug trade in South America.

The USSR's principles gave us the iron curtain, and the Afghan and Czechen rebellions.

I'm sure there's nuances all around, but let's not pretend the previous perpetrators were a shining beacon of morality.
You don't need source code for that. Photos are copyrighted by default, so it's IP. Some companies demand all IP created in spare time.