skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I find this super cool. I love analog solutions to engineering problems.

This is about optical wavelength length scales -> feature sizes << 1500nm for infrared

3D printers’ feature sizes work for giga hertz waves (as a guestimate) assuming:

- The features can be printed - 3D have limitations after all.

- the materials that can be 3D printed are optically suitable.
I am so happy that HN also includes links like that.

For me as a wannabe software developer there is nothing to learn here.
But for the sake of procrastination these articles are invaluable !

Srsly thank you for posting this here.
I'd love to see what Richard has to say about this.
They should have a site for the German locale which is what myclinet does - same problem occurs whit competitions you have to exclude states that don't allow some types of competition.
In addition to what other had said, I think that, since there aren't any money to be made of debian repos, unlike the app store, shady actors won't be likely to bother.
It is also much easier to use open source work as demonstration of competence to land consulting gigs or a job, compared to proprietary work.
AWS is an expensive cloud provider. If you commoditize it then then Amazon will either have to charge less (= less revenue/profits) or user will switch to cheaper cloud providers (= less aws revenue/profits). That is the point the article is making.
Permenant winter time means that school hours in Winter are entirely contained within sunlight hours. Permenant summer time means that kids are walking to school in the dark. I'd rather not have them hit by drivers also driving in the dark.
How to use Redux more easily?
I've seen those. We also can get A55, A75 but notably not A76 either. And what's there is... terse. But generally OK (not a fan of the blank spot in latency/throughput tables, regardless of who is doing it). Sadly, ARM is the exception - Ampere, Marvell/Cavium and Apple don't have a _whiff_ of information like this out there.
This isn't the first time someone has claimed to have deciphered it. What's different this time?
EU Elections are coming up. Vote for the pirate faction in your country or check who voted what and only vote for those parties that voted against A13 or if there are none, parties that are vocal against A13.

Same goes for your countries own election cycle.
This is a great day for creators in the EU. We are finally going to be able to upload our creations safely, in a platform that nobody will ever pay for.

https://www.article13.org/best-of
Goldman Sachs hints that Apple new credit card will be rolled out international
not true - you can have a program that is free of data races but still contains race conditions. Rust prevents data races.
Aphex Twin (anonymously) put some previously unreleased material on SoundCloud a few years back that is from that era.
That's something I've been wishing for, yes. It would certainly be the best possible outcome, although I am not sure how the entire thing will actually unfold (I don't think anyone can be sure about it yet).
ooof, that's a big no from me.

article 13 is a over-step and is being pushed by the music industry to inflict copyright on fair usage that happens on YouTube.

not only is it a pile of shit, it has deep affects on every branch of the internet!

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/eus-copyright-proposal...
Sorry, I voted for the Pirate Party the last three times, and they still didn't get enough votes for even half a seat the last time. There's a limit to how often I'm throwing my vote away. Luckily there are a few other parties with sensible policies.
This is a crucial point. Vendors these days (at least the good ones) properly package their goods with vapor barrier vacuum-sealed bags. Even better, some use Mylar bags which provide a nice metallic aluminum barrier.

You could hold a Mylar bag of weed up to a well-trained drug dog, and it would not trigger. (Unless commanded to falsely by the officer, of course :)
You'll probably be locked out shortly if you haven't yet.
The way to think of it is that the FCC needs to monitor communication. (Possibly also other arms of the government.) If they can't eavesdrop, then that is an issue.
You have misinterpreted that particular bit of economic wisdom.

"Anything that people will do, they can be paid to do." This means that, if people are already doing something, then it is possible to form a market by compensating them and claiming that the compensation is due to what they have done. However, it does not mean that things which you intend to do will be compensated.

It's painful to listen to the same tired anti-Free Software arguments. You feel that money is a reasonable yardstick for value, but if it were, then most commercial software would be given away, since software is merely information (a collection of bits) and information markets always have a degenerate behavior where the value of any particular piece of information tends towards zero as the number of people who know it climbs. (Formally, these markets have the quirk that every purchaser becomes a seller, causing the market to spiral into a degenerate shape.) Indeed, SaaS embodies this economic lesson.

Worse, you've confused giving away Free Software with giving away hours of labor to startups. These are very different situations, and I think that you know it, but by confusing them, you get to claim that FSF and GNOME are as exploitative as Y Combinator. To give you a clue, one side backs Free Software, and the other side doesn't.

Hearing a cultist of finance decry the cult of Free Software is pretty cute. Of course you're gonna be uncomfortable with our model and the fact that it gets shit done. Either loosen your mind or continue to be uncomfortable.

The things you've said have negative value. Indeed, you are not helping the situation personally. As a result, I'd like to invoice you.

Ending thought: Isn't almost all software actually shit? Why do you think that it has value?
Any mirrors? It's all dead already.
Sure, but there's no reason you have to do that in the kernel.
And the Commission can ignore both, if they feel like it.

That's a very long way to anything that resembles democratic control.
I don't see how this is in violation of 3.1.2 [0].

There is no mention of "you must include how to cancel" (it does say you can cancel at any time), and I don't see anything else Apple may be violating.

The Privacy Policy requirement in 5.1.1 [1] already doesn't apply to Apple's apps since the News+ subscription is tied to your Apple ID, so you have already accepted Apple's privacy policy.

0: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#sub...
1: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#pri...
Researchers develop method to potentially avoid interruptions caused by jammers
This'll give the EU few more years of solid Google funding
10% of Americans do not eat their own food exclusively.

I think it’s more likely that 10% buy exclusively organic, and that the organic label is more honest than I thought. But that stretches the imagination too (do these high income individuals not eat out???)
Can we get votes per national-level party (e.g. Labour, Conservatives etc.)?

EDIT - at least here's how the parliament groupings voted - https://twitter.com/Senficon/status/1110552457682264065
In the US you need to register as a non profit, have a board of directors, etc.

Even an LLC or INC that loses money is a "for profit" company. Most VC funded startups fall into this category where they lose money each year with the goal of eventually turning a profit.
>One of the most striking conclusions of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is that the trajectory of light curves in the presence of matter.

A good example of "garden path sentence" [1]. "The trajectory of light curves in the presence of matter is what?". It took me a while to realize that curves is supposed to be a verb and not a noun.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
The Daily Miracle: Finding Magic Inside the Times’s Printing Plant
Check out ATerms, it’s a storage (and in-memory representation) designed for storing ADTs:
https://github.com/cwi-swat/aterms
Were there conspiracy theories about this too? Just by looking at the images I always felt like the general idea of the manuscript wasn't so mysterious.
Businesses historically catered to a lot more expensive to implement laws. Personal data territorial hosting, years worth of logging for law enforcement, content filtering compliance, and it was barely on anyone's radar.

Reddit and other social networks rally users against this law however as it's contrarian to their bottom line and growth curves. It is important to pause and consider if the law (certainly promoted by large copyright holders) harms these networks, individuals, or society at large.
HackerRank report shows Gen-Z women are ready for the tech workplace
> Need a citation on this being “common.” Would also need some proof of this happening in Paris. Otherwise, we’re going into conspiracy theory land.

I'm not familiar with the French secret service, but since I've seen proof of this technique being regularly deployed in other countries it would just seem common sense to me to think that the French would do the same.

Cossiga's "confession" is even on Wikipedia (https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Francesco_Cossiga), he said in short: "the best is doing what I used to do when I was interior minister: let them protest, send the Police home and infiltrate protests to make them destroy the city. Then, when they lost the public opinion's approval, beat them up until they can't walk and the protest is over."

I think it's just normal business.
Google has an interest into generally narrowing your results so it's easier to shove you through their hoops (advertisers, etc) and this behavior is becoming more common and a frustrating experience for me as well.
"Predicted giant flight velocities exceeded 90 kph and, in that 90 second flapping burst, giant azhdarchids would cover several kilometres - plenty of distance to seek areas of uplift such as deflected winds or thermals."

I have a small issue with this statement. 90kph for 90 seconds is only enough for a bit more than 2km of flight and probably even less since accelerating to this speed would take not be almost instantaneous either.
Making of Muster [JS state library]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s43yLMgXXOU
I don't know whether Article 11/13 are good or bad (although at first glance they seem to be bad), but I don't think this attitude of "forcing freedom" onto others is good.

The entire attitude that I should "regain [my] freedom" seems condescending. I don't want to use a P2P alternative to YouTube or Reddit, because 99% of the content is on Reddit/YouTube.

I'm well aware that YouTube collects and sells my personal data, I just don't care.

The idea that legislation is good because it forcefully restricts my choices (indirectly, by harming YouTube), thus preventing me from harming myself seems to be a form of unneeded parenting/hand-holding/babying that I'm not a fan of.
I always think a bit of drum and bass will start playing at any moment listening to this[0]. Aphex Twin's music is so random at times

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_MRe3JwFc8
Oracle customers fear its reaction if they use Amazon's or Microsoft's cloud
Don't get your hopes up too much.

This blog post from 2017 looks at a draft of the document: https://ciphermysteries.com/2017/11/10/gerard-cheshire-vulga...

It's not really a favorable review.
> The day the Internet died.

No. The day the ”Upload Other People's Work" Internet died.

> what we're likely to see is a massive spike in people streaming video over encrypted tunnels

Or just creating their own content. Wouldn't that be awesome?
My thoughts exactly. I've been on the internet for 25 years and this claim was one of the very early things I remember seeing and has popped up every 5 or 6 years since. I won't hold my breath.

In fact the entirety of my knowledge of this document is as a result of reading the claims of people online who've claimed to have deciphered it.

Edit just to add: Personally I think it was created as a work of art and has no hidden meaning.
Yes. For-profit is a de-facto legal term, and includes every enterprise that isn't registered as a non-profit.
https://brain.fm is cool too
This is something I have never really understood. If your neighbors can hear or smell your hobby, then you are not really staying contained on your own property and neighbors who complain are not trampling your liberties, just asserting their own.
How the Bicycle Paved the Way for Women's Rights (2014)
The kernel switch for channel communication seems like a big performance hit just to stop "sharing memory". Why not allow shared memory with negotiation on the communication protocol? The OS software could share memory, but only use protocols that are strict, simple, secure, etc...
Meh, anything labelled "non-violent" is bound to be an ineffective waste of time. Pass.
You're assuming 20 hours is worth the same to everyone. When I was a college student, even $100 would have turned me off from publishing an app.
European parliament votes to delegate summer time rules to member states
The Internet Archive snapshotted it today: http://web.archive.org/web/20190326133103/https://ling.auf.n...
I though this was supposed to happen after the GDPR was made law... still waiting.
A small generative system in ClojureScript and Three.js
I suppose when it comes to opening a line of credit - being able to sign up and have everything approved and ready to go in minutes (at a reasonable interest rate) is the differentiator here.

The products offered by Revolut, Monzo et al are debit accounts, when you open an account with them you're not opening a new line of credit. With a debit account I assume on the whole the level of risk which the bank takes on is significantly less than opening a new line of credit.

As for the features you mention I concur - these are all well established here in the UK.
Nice. This brings back some great memories. I used to do a similar one-liner that alternated between white and black blocks, which created crossword-puzzle-like patterns. I'd sit across the room and squint at the display, hoping to see some sort of emergent pattern.
No one can be De Gaulle again, he.

On the rest, we differ. I'd say that these events are very, very concerning - especially given that the team in charge of the country is clearly not as experienced/diligent as the previous ones, yet.
Sorry -- not all affected platforms are run by "big corporations". All for-profit plateforms over 3 years old are affected, even small ones. This will severely harm the EU startup scene in that category.
i generally avoid looking at other peoples code unless 1) it's written for teaching purposes and aims to teach a concept I want to learn or 2) I have to because i'm having integration problem

I think looking at well-written code is a great way to learn best practices, but I think it's quite hard to do that in practice and probably not the best way.

there's a lot of garbage code out there and even if the code is good, often times you find that it's super out of date (using an old ass version of a language) or the logic is pretty obfuscated by unessential (to you) backwards-compatability / cross-platform compatability checks.

there's also a great deal of context around the intent of blocks of code that you don't have when looking at open source code in isolation in the example you gave. Some lines might seem like nonsense until you read the PR and understand the tradeoffs made at that point in time.
Well. He is seen as right-wing in france (i.e close to the money). Average older citizen do like people who will protect their rent system and who seems to add stability, that's why they voted for him. Wheras most of my non-economically challenged younger friends prefer a bit of chaos and a high-ish inflation, and did not.
Pairs well with https://www.birdsong.fm/ :D
> The European Parliament has backed a proposal to stop the obligatory one-hour clock change which extends daylight hours in summer EU-wide.

> which extends daylight hours

No, it doesn't. The number of daylight hours is exactly the same no matter what your clocks do.

All DST does is force everyone to change their schedules so that they wake up earlier, go to work earlier, come home earlier, and go to bed earlier. It effectively forces businesses to open an hour earlier and close an hour earlier because of society's expectations.

When you describe it this way, the entire process sounds like something that takes place in a totalitarian state run by a crazy person. Yet here we are as a group claiming it somehow helps farmers (it doesn't, it makes things more challenging for them). The only people who truly benefit from DST are golfers (and golf course owners) who can leave work an hour early and get in a few more rounds.
The best $5,929.10 I ever spent: moving back to the Midwest
In contrast, if you look at the astonishing upsurge in the FT8 activity, it can't be just new kids.
"About us

We are EUROPE FOR CREATORS. A gathering of professional organisations of writers, musicians, producers, comedians, films makers coming from all over Europe.... [snip]"

Translation: "We are GEMA, BPI, ...., and we make our money from creators' work. And we want more! More!"
Probably not, as self-hosters are disproportionately affected by spurious or malicious copyright claims (they don't have the pooled resources to fight).
You sure about that?

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42580523
Who’s saying it doesn’t work? It works, poorly.

As in, with poor results. Which is exactly how it does work when it is working. Almost invariably the results are poor because so many of the voters are ignorant.
Great documentary, going over ww2 week by week (still ongoing).

Here's an episode at the start of the Winter War[0]. The whole series is worth a watch though.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUwCd-j5xL4

Edit: Related, the same people did an entire week by week version of WW1, The Great War (now complete)[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FgaL0xIazk&list=PLB2vhKMBjS...
most content based on copyrighted material is bland and low brow entertainment. this regulation will force creators to think a bit deeper about what they are actually putting out there. and i don't mind if 50% of YouTubers are forced to actually find a real job.

having said that, it's still a stupid regulation which shows EU parliament's incompetence in this regard.
Those are the new regulations that were stopped by this court case.

The government said that this type of copying would have minimal impact on the rights-holders. Those rights holders disagreed, went to court, and won, and so now format shifting is not legal.

The court case is here: https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2015/1723.html

It's long and complex. The first few paras are a good introduction.

EDIT:Genuinely baffled that this link to a primary source has been downvoted.

Currently, because of this case it's not lawful to format shift. I'm not saying that I think this is a good thing; I'm describing the law as it is in England.

Using the Guardian sources linked above:

> The high court has quashed regulations introduced by the government to allow members of the public to lawfully copy CDs and other copyright material bought for their own private use.

[...]

> On Friday, in a further decision, he said: “It is clear that I should quash the regulations. I make clear this covers the entirety of the regulations and all the rights and obligations contained therein.”

[...]

> The changes had come into force last October under the Copyright and Rights in Performances (Personal Copies for Private Use) Regulations 2014. Prior to 1 October, it was unlawful, for example, to “rip” or copy the contents of a CD on to a laptop, smartphone or MP3 player for personal use, although the format-shifting activity had become commonplace. The regulations introduced an exception into UK copyright law permitting the making of personal copies, as long as they were only for private use.

The law said format shifting was unlawful. The government introduced regulations to make format shifting lawful, but they didn't include mechanism to pay the rights holders. The judge ruled against the government, those new regulations were quashed, and format shifting became unlawful again.

Here's what the judge said: https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2015/2041.html
Sunvox has a js lib now?!?!? YAAAAS
Vive Focus Plus Ships April 15 for $799 with Business License
A carbon tax would be nice, but I rather see in EU a complete ban on burning coal, oil and gas for electricity. From there people can do what ever they want to solve the energy shortage during production lows, be that nuclear or other solutions.

I doubt we will see any reasonable economics for nuclear as long coal, oil and gas is allowed to be burned.
I've also heard good things about "The Art of Hard Conversations: Biblical Tools for the Tough Talks That Matter" [0] and "Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most" [1].

Can anyone comment on the relative merits of these articles' / books' approaches?

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Art-Hard-Conversations-Biblical-Matte...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143118447/ref=oh_aui_sear...
The congestion charge has done nothing to clean up london's air.
Especially when the headline a month ago said it was a phonetic transliteration of Turkish speech, with a formal, poetic regularity. A claim which sounds much easier to prove/disprove than "a scheme mapping of letter substitution, resulting in Vulgar Latin with no grammatical and syntactical structure."

http://www.openculture.com/2019/02/has-the-voynich-manuscrip...

"Maybe that’s because everyone’s got the basic approach all wrong, seeing the Voynich’s script as a written language rather than a phonetic transliteration of speech. So says the Ardiç family, a father and sons team of Turkish researchers who call themselves Ata Team Alberta (ATA) and claim in the video above to have “deciphered and translated over 30% of the manuscript.” Father Ahmet Ardiç, an electrical engineer by trade and scholar of Turkish language by passionate calling, claims the Voynich script is a kind of Old Turkic, “written in a ‘poetic’ style,” notes Nick Pelling at the site Cipher Mysteries, “that often displays ‘phonemic orthography,’” meaning the author spelled out words the way he, or she, heard them.

Ahmet noticed that the words often began with the same characters, then had different endings, a pattern that corresponds with the linguistic structure of Turkish. Furthermore, Ozan Ardiç informs us, the language of the Voynich has a “rhythmic structure,” a formal, poetic regularity. As for why scholars, and computers, have seen so many other ancient languages in the Voynich, Ahmet explains, “some of the Voynich characters are also used in several proto-European and early Semitic languages.” The Ardiç family will have their research vetted by professionals. They’ve submitted a formal paper to an academic journal at Johns Hopkins University."
It's unfortunate that Spotify's podcast functionality still sucks. Podcasts have been shoe-horned into Spotify's usual UI, making the app less usable than, say, Pocket Casts. Also, because the app insists on recommending podcasts to my locale and has no way of changing this, I'm presented with shitty Swedish podcasts instead of international ones.
Show HN: SLAO. Node.js and Express monitoring the simple way
This is great news, I've been waiting for an alternative to Twitter to take over its dominance.
> If people were able to vote directly Art. 17

The cynical in me would complete the sentence with
"...a vast majority would not even understand what the article is about"
Okay, I can see what you're getting at. I'm still not convinced that this move is the right way to go about it, as compared to simply keeping an FOSS license and setting up consultancy payments or similar (as they had previously) - as others point out, the commercial licenses can be a serious pain to navigate in many companies, that can significantly reduce the benefit your product offers.