skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another one, yeah!

I hate this: while Apple and Google dominate the whole market and you can't buy a smart-phone that can be secure and does what you want without compromising privacy the FOSS community fights against each other.

Instead of focusing on ONE OS that is open and secure and runs on most of these devices, everyone has to invent their own wheel: postmarketOS, kaiOS, ubuntu mobile, sailfishOS, lineageOS,.......

Instead of one solution that is good enough to compete with the big ones we have hundreds of solutions who suck - each in it's own way. That's why there is still no alternative to Photoshop or Acrobat in 2019 - very sad :-(
Show HN: My First iOS App
Wow! If I pay too much attention to the background junk in dreams sometimes it looks like this. Plausible from a distance, but utter nonsense on closer inspection.
I've experienced this, not as a result of having a stroke, but as a result of severe dehydration and depleted potassium making parts of my brain shut down, or at least malfunction horribly. It is terrifying, and even looking at this picture makes me begin to feel the panic I felt during that episode. I could not identify anything, or figure out the connection between what I was touching and what I was seeing. Bath taps became cats, my hands were strange alien objects that kept intruding into my field of view, the ambulance was some kind of great bloody animal that I was about to be fed to. I screamed blue murder and wept while clinging to a towel rail, apparently, until the paramedics sedated me.

It's hard to quantify just how scary losing that connection to reality is.

I need to go have a cup of tea. Looking at that has really shaken me.
A high performance CSV parser in Swift which complies to RFC 4180
Mozilla wanted really FOSS. KaiOS never released source code. When asked they always tell me that contact vendor (who do not want to release). You cannot compile and install your own KaiOS
There's no "merely" about it. ML algorithms are decided on historical data, and it's not surprising that historical data has historical bias.

There's little "amusing" about a piece of software that re-enforces prejudices, only now in a way that is supported by a technology culture which prides itself on blind faith in machines. For victims of those prejudices, it presents a real and terrifying future.
Utterly horrifying. No better than terrible slavery - while Bezos travels by private jet and enjoys his luxury super-yacht

http://superyachtmag.com/2017/08/06/456-foot-lurssen-superya...
It probably is. Lead seriously messes with humans. It likely crashed Rome, and the pattern of "ban leaded fuels => crime rate falls 15 years later" has been demonstrated in multiple nations.
Ecuador Says They Were Hit by 40M Cyber Attacks
One of the developers here. We worked three years to make Uppy the best open source file uploader the world has seen. Looking forward to your brutally honest feedback! Happy to answer questions too.
There are plenty of ways to arb without actual settlement to USD. Look up "statistical arb".

Even without stat, all you have to do is go USDT <> USD <> BTC or similar and take the arb across multiple pairs. It's a game of musical chairs until someone with enough cash decides to break the peg
KaiOS is run by "Operators and device manufactureres" like Reliance, by bundling proprietary code. Not truly OSS.
Thanks for pointing it out, will take a look at it. Sounds like "my kinda" approach to circuit study.
Have a look at Matrix and Riot.im - slack has a ton of traction at our work, but trying to get people onto that.
Yet another instance of Newspeak. It's quite common nowadays in the real post-1984 world.

The good news is people can recognize it for what it is.
That's disturbing. Rather than producing "human-like brain waves", we stay with growing mini-brains with worm-like or insect-like brain-waves for a very very long time until we master simpler neural systems. We know so little about the brain and consciousness that I think we should err on the side of caution. 100 years from now, imagine if we learned that these "mini brains" had semblence of human consciousness that we weren't aware of. It would horrifying.

But I also don't know how we can advance in neuroscience without taking some risks. So much of knowledge and advancement requires us breaking things apart and making mistakes. Maybe the risks are worth it especially for something as important as knowledge of the brain and consciousness. In many ways, is there anything more important than that?
How did you find that old URL? I mean, the new blog post has a different URL... Did you use a search engine or some kind of browser extension?
Because the sort of person who thinks it's okay to rely on an algorithm to fire people doesn't care about their employees, but cares a lot about not getting called out for it. They think they're clever but I'll be damned if I'm ever going to work for a company like that.
Salo is not lard. Salo is cured bacon without the thin strips of meat.

Lard is closer to margarine.
Thanos Implementation in Kotlin (thanostlin)
> The rates are the cost of buying/selling bitcoin on both ends, let's call that 20 bps on each side, and then the cost of a single bitcoin network transaction, which is about 66 cents at the moment, if you're willing to wait 6 blocks [1]. So, to send $1000 it'll cost you 40 bps + 66 cents = $4.66.

Don’t forget to add in the currency conversion fees on either side since most people transfer money to use it.

Walmart charges $8 for the same service. There is some potential savings here but it seems unlikely to argue that Bitcoin’s enormous costs can be justified by the number of people who need to regularly do international transfers and, if everything is lucky, save a dollar or two on the transfers.

> Sure, and those are real challenges of using cryptocurrencies right now. However, they're also extremely solvable problems and people are working on them.

“Extremely solvable” but unsolved a decade later suggests that they are not in fact that easy and will end up making the cost even less competitive. People have been preaching that Bitcoin will take over for years but even most advocates don’t use it for a non-token percentage of their transactions because it’s simply not financially sensible to do so.
Be wary of robot emotions; ‘simulated love is never love’
It's basically a giant game of chicken AFAICT, because tether is so endemic to the market that if the market as a whole gives up on that valuation then everything goes boom.
At least there won't be any gender/race bias.
> One of the world’s most widely traded virtual currencies

Looking at coinmarket cap just now it's No 2 by 24hr trading volume. Bitcoin $18bn, Tether $16.5bn, Ethereum $8bn, all others less than 4.
It's like a snippet from an xkcd comic
I tried, but the resolution of my original vive is not sufficient. Also not seeing your keyboard, mouse and hands (even knowing touch-typing) is quite a hindrance.
Overall I don't think VR is going to be there anytime soon. AR has a better chance, but they need to seriously increase the quality / size of the displays.
The Great Space Wait-How Virgin Galactic Kept Ticket Holders’ Interest and Money
Only three days ago the NYT published "I Used to Work for Google. I Am a Conscientious Objector." and already we see that someone has coded a automated employee firing system. I assume the same culture that developed the idea persuaded the programmer to implement it.

Software is eating the world, but often not in the way we believe it to do.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/opinion/google-privacy-ch...
The second paragraph describes why iFixit took it down, you are correct.

But I think the GP's "they" means Samsung, not iFixit, and "why" means "why would Samsung do this stupid thing that will obviously attract attention to the issue"
Another commenter posted it[0], but it's more likely that the banning of leaded gasoline in 1997 precipitated a drop in violent crime 15 years later.

Reductions in lead pollution => a drop in crime ~15 years later is a pretty consistent pattern around the world, regardless of what other approaches the nation's took to combat rising crime.

[0] https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/03/ecuador-phase...
One of the big reasons for electronic shifting counter-intuitively applies to “daily riders” more than to race machines, even though at current prices, electronic shifting is rare on affordable bikes.

That reason is that once you have a solenoid, sensors, and a CPU in the mechanism, you have a self-adjusting shifter. The more gears on a derailleur-type system, the tighter the spacing, and the sooner a mechanical shifter needs adjustments or replacement of the cable.

Electronic systems can adjust themselves as needed, offering a massive potential for affordable bicycles to “just work” for people who don’t have the inclination to fiddle with their own adjustments.
Wow tone down the design. What's going on here.
I think that was just honest, not anti-bullshit. It would be anti-bullshitting if you said you don’t know about some technology, but in fact you do.
It's a warehouse. We life in the 21th century. In theory if we would sit together and structure the existing workforce without all the bullshit overhead of accounting, bullshit jobs and priorities life quality and sustainability, no one would need to work and we could achieve this in the next 5, 10, 50 years.

I get that amazon should pay there workforce properly and as long as we have this, it should be something people can and should do in a social way but Baltimore is a US City, they don't even have a working health care system.

A warehouse job is a warehouse job. No education needed, why wouldn't a computer system should not fire people on simple productivity numbers?
For anyone wondering what that is:

> The song is intended to sound to its Italian audience as if it is sung in English spoken with an American accent, vaguely reminiscent of Bob Dylan, but the lyrics are deliberately unintelligible gibberish with the exception of the words "all right". Celentano's intention with the song was not to create a humorous novelty song but to explore communication barriers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol
Yeah, if you are that far up the ladder. If you are the regular Joe just wanting to buy some groceries, chances are those are 50% more expensive in the same climate.
To derail on the sentence:
"Approximately" so later they can say that it was actually 200 or 400.
"related to productivity" hints that they turned over some more but not related to productivity as to lower the precision of this number even more.
"in this timeframe" put all this in a timeframe said by someone else.

Every part of the sentence works hard to make the number 300 more imprecise. I think he talks like this because he has no idea about the actual number.
This should even be a course in itself. How to parse new complexity.

I was happily surprised to read about Thevenin/Norton rules to turn sub-circuits into a virtual ESR element. Very tree recursive.. very interesting.
I think it is almost a non feature that gmail provide a choice of white space. As though a manager was too magnanimous in deciding so told his underlings— surprise! You’re all right! Let’s give the users a choice! Meanwhile the average user clicks whatever word they think is best and never looks at it again. Nothing solved. I really wish they just let the nerd who started gmail be a dictator for life. Don’t fuck with success.
I generally stick to only 1 level of nesting - I still find that really beneficial.
Oh man, I thought the same thing! I though to myself "all that electricity needed to maintain the blockchain, and they want to handle climate change?!"
A while ago, I had a migraine with stroke-like symptoms in the other direction: I could form thoughts in my head, but could only get a garbled mess out of my mouth. As a knowledge worker whose most important asset is his brain, this was one of the most terrifying experiences in my life.
PepsiCo suing small-time Indian farmers for growing potato that belongs to them
I disagree that it's a 'perfect analogy'. Jabberwocky is a poem created by a human that, while it contains made-up nonsense words, still makes sense. (The hero seeks out a fearsome monster, fights it, is victorious and is lauded for his victory on his return). The poem is aesthetically pleasing and intentionally playful in containing an element of nonsense but not too much.

This picture, on the other hand, is nothing like a 'visual nonsense poem' for me. It's artificially generated and not aesthetically pleasing. It's mildly disconcerting and beyond that, uninteresting.
I'd say that lowering the rate of murder is significantly improving the lives of the people it applies to. Not to mention the sense of belonging people get from a cultural center. This methodology works because people are happier. There can be no downside to that.
I think you are being quite harsh, net labels are fine for embedded/digital stuff, which generally consists of quite separate functional blocks with few, easily reasoned signals between them (e.g. power + I2C). A lot of Sparkfun's products fall into this category.

The Arduino Uno by contrast uses routing too much in my opinion, and is quite hideous: https://www.arduino.cc/en/uploads/Main/arduino-uno-schematic...

If you look at say laptop or SoC development board schematics, they are full of net names, and they certainly aren't using physical pin positions. In fact quite the opposite, one physical device is often split into multiple schematic symbols (e.g. supply rails are one symbol). For the overall system, they use a block diagram or hierarchical schematic. Here is the BeagleBone schematic, which I think makes good use of net labels, e.g. the BAT connection on page 2: https://beagleboard.org/static/beaglebone/BEAGLEBONE_SCHEM_A...

I will agree with you on net names for analog systems, such as audio amplifiers or complex power supplies. There, net names can quite often be misused, as you need to keep more connections in your head when trying to understand a circuit, and it is much harder to remember all the net names than see a direct connection.
It kind of reminds me of https://idiallo.com/blog/when-a-machine-fired-me
> Amateur is ad hominem, and also simply incorrect.

You're right. I do owe you an apology for that. Sorry.

I still find the circumstances _around_ license discussions like this to be filled with a frustrating amount of amateur lawyering that can be misleading and dangerous. As an open source developer and content creator, I can't tell you how many times I've come across something in GitHub with a "clever" license and thought "great, now not only can I not use any of this, but I see a whole contributor community who clearly believe they are contributing to an open source license when they very much are not."
I imagine there could be something very much like a bank run where people sell there tether for something else till the USD reserves run out then suddenly it goes from 99c to 0.1c.

Given the shadiness of the operators they might not even run through all the cash but when half is gone steal the other half and disappear. Or something along those lines.
Traccar – Modern GPS Tracking Platform
Shouldn't joins be explained as cartesion product instead of venn diagrams [1] when co-relating with sets?

[1] https://www.textbook.ds100.org/ch/05/cleaning_structure.html...
I mean it’s certainly dehumanizing but... they’re not being whipped to death after working endlessly in the hot sun. I’m not saying it’s not awful working conditions, but the ability to leave alone makes it better than slavery.
If you change location settings in kai os it still switches on the location by itself...
For the current mainstream idea of a smartphone sure. That said foldable screens could be of amazing use for a lot of things:

- construction site worker maps
- office replacement of tablets
- very small when folded smartphone
- runners
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.

As long as the check clears what is the problem with implementing stuff?
No what I mean by move something I mean adjust HTML structure, and deeply nested stylesheet means less flexible code. You can move anything within a BEM block without breaking style, instead of couple the CSS and HTML structure, which doubles every change.

And BEM is a workaround of names pace, not nesting. Nesting is not what CSS lack of. Instead what CSS really lack for is basic abstraction like function (same as function component in react to HTML). Given CSS is basically similar to key value pair (data), a first class function model would solve most of the problems - reusing, encapsulation, abstraction etc.
BBFC (UK Censors) publishes standard for online age verification [pdf]
That's an overly rosy comparison of money transfer fees. To make it a little more fair, it makes sense to compare against a competitive money transfer service rather than typical bank fees... For example transferwise offer transferring $1000 to Euro for $6.86 total fees, at the mid-market rate, including the depositing fee. Depending on the bank networks on either end the transfer can be instant. In a way transferwise operate like an exchange only it's FIAT-FIAT rather than FIAT-BTC-FIAT.
To compare you would have to take into consideration the bid/ask spread of the exchange on each end of the transaction for BTC, in addition to all charges on both ends. The bid/ask spread varies wildly from exchange to exchange. I'd be impressed if it were to cost less.
New Hubble measurements verify universe is broadening quicker than predicted
Hah. Having crohn's disease I would be royally screwed. =/
Not necessarily. If it fired people who listen to rap music while they worked, would it be racist? Some might argue— no— because it also fired white people who listen to rap. But it would be a rather obvious discriminatory practice. Now we must use our imaginations to consider less direct examples of the same phenomenon. For what it’s worth, I have no reason to believe that amazon is not an equal opportunity human soul extraction and disposal system.
You are right. My apologies - I should have said: "just a bit better than slavery".
The Treaty That Forced the Cherokee People from Their Homelands Goes on View
Jeez, I just googled their name and it's just page after page of blogspam written either by someone in their company or some block chain blog. "oh you mean I can buy carbon credits AND make money?"
> “Go look at any desktop app and tell me how many have a huge fucking logo in the top left,” rants Leggett. “C’mon. It’s pure ego, pure bullshit. Drop the logo. Give me a break.”

Sure, not many desktop apps have a huge top left logo, but almost all websites do. Acting like this is a unique failing of Gmail is strange to me.
Not all blockchains use a lot of electricity.

Electricity can also be generated in large quantities without changing the climate.
AIs should have the same ethical protections as animals
Well at some point that engineer should ask themselves why they're writing that procedure for a company called DestroyBaghdad Inc.
Think about this: those same students could do a nanodegree since there are for requirements to signing up for one.
https://hexcolor.co gives information about colors including color models, triadic colors, monochromatic colors and analogous colors calculated in color page. HTML color code is an identifier used to represent a color on the web.
Meh. Göbekli Tepe called, it wants the kids to learn how to cultivate a lawn, and then .. get off it.
> the kind of people who memorise answer books, question lists, etc. - will outperform people who are smart and skilled

If people who just memorize can outperform smart people, it just means that the one conducting the interview is not really smart, and so incapable of recognizing expertise.
Guess I'm a robot then.
It's likely the same that happened at Amazon. The programmer probably didn't create a procedure to fire people, instead it forwards matching data sets to another system. The programmer of that other system implements procedures for terminating employments given a list (which could have enough ethical use cases). Putting both together results in an unethical system but I doubt everyone involved knew about that.
At my previous employer we used the AWS managed ES product for an ELK stack that was ingesting terabytes per day. It was painful, and we eventually moved off it, but it was still valuable for the training wheels it provided. If the developers had been better at logging it’s possible we would have been happy to continue on the managed product.
Yes, CSS modules is pretty good. But most of the CSS-in-JS solutions could let me omit an extra loader since they're just JS.
It fired by the worker's output. Any racial bias in there is likely due to a deeper racial inequality (e.g. differences in health care access which can lead to worse performance) rather than the algorithm itself.
Very good arguments against branding goods as services. In B2B the idea of indefinite free support is clearly recognized as sign of something shady/unsustainable, yet here we have gaming publishers repeatedly defrauding the public with no consequences nor larger stigma.
Use pyenv and Pipenv for your Python projects
How to gain more independence of mind
Technology Could Revolutionize Refugee Resettlement
Money. It's useful to have more of it. Or just fun. Solving hard problems is rewarding.

There us subset of us that will play Ender's game even if we know beforehand it is not a game just for the thrill.

The dystopia is coming, you can only influence which kind and whether you will be near the top.
>What we need is a book that does the following: Break down REAL circuits from the wild, explain each module in isolation, then explain how it fits into the larger system.

Exactly! As an example, textbooks give the schematic for RC/RL/LC/RLC circuits and their functionality in a isolated manner. But in a real-world product they are amongst a whole other mass of modules and probably drawn badly in a schematic. How do i identify these combinations, infer their input/output and make sense of the overall PCB functionality? I would imagine this knowledge would be most practical and useful in the real-world.
“The bottom line, as Drum points out, is that “even moderately high levels of lead exposure are associated with aggressivity, impulsivity, ADHD, and lower IQ. And right there, you’ve practically defined the profile of a violent young offender.” [0]

Have never heard of this research/correlation, but pretty interesting how it holds across models.

[0] https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposur...
Historia Civilis recently did a great video about this as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD-R35DSSZY
> Instead of one solution that is good enough to compete with the big ones (...)

The problem is that 'good enough' is not good enough. Why would anyone throw away their investment in apps and accessories they bought for their current phones by using a phone with a new OS that has little to no market support, no apps, no nothing ?

The only way to break open a market like this is by leapfrogging the competition and offer something so compelling as to offset the initial lack of support. This is how the iPhone and Android devices managed to break Nokia's dominant position in the smartphone market.

This is why BB10 failed, they were just catching up to the dominant players, and even while they had a great implementation it was just more of the same. The only thing that can threaten the current duopoly is something that offers a significantly better UX.
We don't have a definition of consciousness that allows us to test whether something is conscious or not, or at least I never heard of one.