skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there any health concerns about using X-ray constantly for communications? For example, should astronauts performing EVAs take care to avoid the area around the antenna? Or is there enough ionizing radiation in space already that adding some X-ray in the mix won't make any difference?
So... the contextual advertising is not sticking uh?
Excellent demonstration at 6:52 here:

https://archive.org/details/GDC2013Pavaheau

Even 5ms jitter is perceptible, and 10ms is obvious when compared directly with 0ms.
> he complained about…paywalls

I'm not really lawyering about this. Hacker News doesn't really do paywall discussions, since they're off topic. I don't have a particular opinion on this issue but I do care about minimizing off-topic discussion, hence why I felt like I could remind Browun of the FAQ.

> So, it seems when posting a paywalled article the poster should comment the workaround to stay within the spirit of the rules.

Exactly: Hacker News encourages posting a workaround rather than discussing paywalls in general. If the workaround is of suitable quality/authority I think it generally replaces the link anyways.
This excerpt summarizes the author's chief complaint:

For most of us, they easily soak up far more time than they save, capturing our attention dozens of times daily, and directing it to gratifying but mostly forgettable activities, usually infused with advertising.

I empathize. I just set up a new phone and was frustrated by all the unwanted notifications spammed at me from my OS and the latest versions of so many of my apps. It seems a lot worse than the last time I did this few years ago, and I'm constantly tweaking settings to stomp them out.

This began as a surgical exercise - usually I don't want to kill all the functionality, just turn off the specific alerts I don't care about. But it's gotten to the point I feel like I'm waging war against an ecosystem of developers intent to squander my attention without recognizing it's an incredibly scare and valuable resource.

Messenger in particular was so difficult to get to shut up that I just wound up removing all Facebook's apps. They're not the only offender. If you have an Android, go into App Info for Google Maps (edit: then tap Notifications) and look at the sheer volume of stuff it wants to nag you about.
"Once the browser has matched a conversion against a stored ad click, it sets a timer, randomized between 24 and 48 hours. When that timer fires, the browser makes an ephemeral, stateless POST request to the same well-known location."

Alternatively, once the ad fraudsters have decided to scam an advertiser using this system, their ad fraud programs make a series of POST requests to the same well-known location pretending to be copies of Safari that have seen conversions from this ad campaign. The only way to detect this fraud would be to match up actual orders with claimed conversions from a particular site, completely bypassing the intended privacy protections. (Which probably wouldn't be that hard in some circumstances, but fraudsters would of course get to target the scenarios where matching up orders is hardest.)

Like, as far as I can tell, this completely fails to provide attribution data that advertisers can trust at all because it relies totally on the honesty of software installed on end-user devices. It will also fail to provide the stated privacy level in many situations, such as when the user keeps the same unique-ish IP address for several days. The only thing it seems to achieve is good PR for Apple, who will get a bunch of stories from credulous reporters about how they're trying to improve user privacy and the evil adtech industry is thwarting them because it wants to know everything about you.
I only use my phone for taking photos so I can remember what I saw or as reference to what I am doing. I wish there's an app that could tag the photo automatically so I can search it and reference it again.

The only time it would ring or get a message is if there's something important from my wife.
Yeah, Word-style "WYSIWYG" versus LaTeX-style source-code + compiling is really a pretty big philosophical difference. Some people much prefer the latter, and will avoid WYSIWYG LaTeX tools. The marked up source code gives you much better control, and you can use semantic macros that for example allow you to change how you format vectors or chapter titles etc. across the whole document easily.

See a marginally relevant xkcd here: https://xkcd.com/2109/
I was wondering why you were being downvoted, as the point seems pretty valid. Privacy is as big a concern to the vast majority as right-to-repair is. I suspect that right-to-repair occupies an even smaller mindshare than privacy does these days too. Eitherway, it's all sub-par, and that's a real shame.

Then I read the article, and realised the paragraph you're partially quoting is saying the same thing:

> The proposal is consistent with Apple's attempt to occupy the moral high-ground of technology by championing privacy at the expense of the surveillance capitalism embodied by Google and Facebook. Note this is for Western iThing users only, if you're a Chinese customer privacy is just a distant dream.

Unfortunately, while The Register's entire article is written in that tone, when a comment does it, it doesn't translate quite as well.
Curious to know where your fiancée is from and how different the business school's culture is from other schools in the region.
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_does_the_plasma_sheath...

> an electromagnetic wave can penetrate the plasma if the wave frequency f is higher than the electron plasma frequency.

X-rays have a much higher frequency (i.e. much higher energy) than the radio waves we normally use for communications, so it can punch through the noise of charged particles that makes up plasma.
Seven Years of iPad as My Main Computer
The French economy is always bad. In 2007-2009, unemployment was at record lows, but still 7-8.5%. The French model is that the government keeps your employer from firing you. Great for people who have a job, not so great for people who are looking for a job.
I believe the above poster meant “public service” as mentioned by the top-level comment, or “government-owned.”

Edit: to be more clear, as in contrary to “private, corporate” mentioned above.

Hence why one refers to work in the private sector, which could mean a privately-owned or publicly-traded company, but not something government-owned/operated.
Given the educational level and mission dedication of the telecom staffers it seems like the company missed opportunities in both cases to focus the capability of their employees towards something innovative.
"So, what's our next step here?"

"I'm not sure, let me just look at 'your-anus' for a minute."

"Um, sure ..."
I don't know what it's like in the US, but in most countries gambling is very highly regulated for good reason. Buying stocks on the stock market with little to no information is basically gambling, the difference is that you have no idea what your odds are, often the cash out terms are unclear and the broker has no financial restrictions on letting you bet more than you can afford.

In fact, I know in the US you need to be an accredited investor for some times of investment for exactly this reason - it is so easy to get ripped off.
What is with the irrelevant stock photography throughout the post?
I seriously doubt any successful software company is firing engineers for introducing bugs. They'd have no employees.

> One Google engineer from back then says the most remarkable thing about the co-founders' code was that when it broke, users would see funny error message: "Whoa, horsey!"
So a well known Dutch newspaper being bought or strongarmed by the Cia/Trump/Whoever.

Or a company whose execs are literally CCP party members, spying for the party.

I am going to go with story 2 here. Occams razot.
But public services and government owned are also corporations. Corporation doesn't mean 'for-profit public company'. It just means a group with a legal identity.

For example British Broadcasting Corporation.
Interesting - I have had good experience with Celery, so interested to hear more about the problems you encounter. In particular Celery provides all the features that you are looking for so it would be great to know more about your specific issues.

Can you elaborate on your set-up?
I think this is routine statistics.
50 years after Apollo, conspiracy theorists are still howling at the ‘moon hoax’
Yes, public servants are guaranteed a job for life, so they get neither severance pay nor unemployment if they “chose” to resign.

Nowadays they can ask for a 3-year pause (e.g. to create a startup, etc.) but those plans come from the “flexible economy” and were introduced only recently.
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If you care about precise formatting, it's much easier to use than word. LyX encourages you to use defined styles and avoid formatting quirks, compared with Word where you need to be very careful not to insert little inconsistencies.
Why wouldn't 65536 separate velocities not be enough, even for the most expressive drummer (or indeed for any other instrument)?
That means that natural language is not intrinsically ambiguous and fuzzy, and removing the features that cause ambiguities would create a Constrained natural language, far more clearer.
Or is it the word Subset that you want me to explain?
Think of it as an investment, think of what you get in return. If you didn't have her how would your evenings and weekends be? What would you be willing to pay for that?

If the answer isn't "whooo, a whole lot more than $4k" then you have massive problems with your relationship.
what is experiential retailing?
If right to repair really was just about user rights that would be fair enough, but it’s also about requiring bigger, heavier, more fragile and more expensive products. As a user I’m all for user rights, but I personally doubt the advantages of the government telling companies how to design their products beyond things like health, safety and environmental protection.

I don’t think users should have to worry about products being safe for example, but I think the trade off between repairability versus other desirable attributes is something best left to user choice.
What is VPN? A look at different protocols
It doesn't look like there is even a need for quantum proof algorithms. An Epyc CPU with 32 cores has 20 billion transistors. Even if we can build qubits as tiny as a transistor you won't be able to break RSA with ridiculous key lengths above 2000000 bits. In reality qubits will be bigger than transistors, not all quibits can be active at the same time and there won't be the same exponential growth in the number of qubits as we have seen in conventional computers.
macOS X GateKeeper Bypass
try https://idbloc.co

It’s a good habit never to give it out
I think tax might complicate this.

But, remember, familial power tapers with time, no matter what. And in time you might value the power and leverage that you have to deal with children who display a shocking lack of sense.
And, when needed, LEO tracking devices.
If anyone is interested in developing zettelkasten app based on keyboard shortcuts + vim hit me up at artur (at) qnsi.io

I want to open source it in the future. It is electron app soon to be written in typescript
See how far you can push it out until it collapses.
>Interesting story, but what are we supposed to "learn" from it? Obviously we won't use this company for bookings, but what's the bigger takeaway?

Why there has to be some "bigger takeaway"?

The title of the post itself says "Amoma.com is a scam". It doesn't say anything about teaches us larger things about life, the universe, and everything.

It's a personal story that explains why Amoma.com is a scam, and what happened to the author.

Not everything is some guidebook, or research paper, or philosophical study. It's a blog post.
I don't even think it will be close to 'routine'.

Where are you going to get the comparable data?

How on earth does one show 'causation' for any of this?

There are tons of Chinese factories, and others all over the world with considerably worse conditions wherein nobody is committing suicide. People living in ghettos don't even commit suicide at alarming rates.

'Suicide' is actually a contagious behaviour, when a child in a school commits suicide, often there are others. This we have some data for.

Layoffs and crappy work conditions are basically normative in a lot of the world, and not uncommon in the Western world, but I don't recall any cases of this kind of thing happening.

While I think there's no doubt difficult work conditions are surely going to help to create 'conditions' for negative outcomes, I think 'causation' is going to be impossible to prove directly.

The other thing here is that people make choices in life, it's another stretch of responsibility for someone to assert that the company made or induced them into making these choices.

If Orange was skimping on safety gear, and we saw a spike in related accidents - then I think this is the 'statistical case' and we can show causation and direct responsibility. But suicide, although tragic, is a different scenario altogether.
True, but these things add up. It is definitely not a problem at one spot; make those spots 100 and the problem manifests itself very obviously.

I am a fan of expressive and readable code as well and have fully migrated to functional languages in the last 2-3 years. But I don't think in JS we have the luxury to ignore a 945x performance improvement on a very low-level building-block function. It's used in thousands of places.

So you know, I agree with your premise. As a compromise I'd make an utility that reads much better than `Array.push` but still uses it internally (if such a tool does not already exist).
If corporate policy is so bad it provokes a wave of suicides then there will be a lot of evidence available. That level of pressure is not subtle.
Well I guess they also have to make this possible as it is one of the principles in GDPR. Data portability
For example in my country corporations are strictly for profit. It is also not just a "corporation", but a "business corporation" (there is no "corporation" by itself). Public companies are either publicly traded private companies and the state holds stock, or "publicly-owned enterprise" or another special category.

The point was that I think there is value in distinguishing public companies and private companies because it's completely different from employee's and career viewpoint.
The more I think about it the more feasible it actually seem. Sony doesn't have a market share that's proportional to their technology at the moment but they can actually occupy the high-end lines in this new ecosystem.
WSJ article today: “Along the way, Huawei has been dogged by al­le­ga­tions that its gains came on the back of copy­ing and theft. A re­view of 10 cases in U.S. fed­eral courts, and dozens of in­ter­views with U.S. of­fi­cials, for­mer em­ploy­ees, com­peti­tors, and col­lab­o­ra­tors sug­gest Huawei had a cor­po­rate cul­ture that blurred the bound­ary be­tween com­pet­i­tive achieve­ment and eth­i­cally du­bi­ous meth­ods of pur­su­ing it.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/huaweis-yearslong-rise-is-litte....
We've got a large influx of these people in Poland during quasi colonial privatization bonanza in the 90s and 00s (e.g. see the history of Orange in Poland, most "Polish" premium vodka brands, retail, strategic industries like energy have just too many examples). Now this caste holds a fair share of the country's economy as the top executives.
Just so you know, about a month ago I signed up to twitch looking for live coding. Couldn't find the appropriate category so I gave up. Is it really so difficult to add such a category?
Right. The developer made the bug, perhaps QA should have found the bug, perhaps the project manager has the responsibility. There is no single person to point out.

That said, it is not normal, in my country at least, to fire people.
What was Knuth's complaint about phototypesetting? I know nothing about this, but isn't the problem that TeX solves that of layout of characters? Which seems like it would still need to be done by either hand or electronically for phototypesetting.
The main problem with lyx is with the lyx file format. If the "native" file format were plain TeX or LaTeX files it would be much more useful, facilitating the collaboration of lyx and non-lyx users on the same file.
How about controlling a band consisting of robots playing real instruments? [0]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7nMZvueKNQ

> Compressorhead are built out of metal scrap, most of the movings are made with electro pneumatics. It is controlled via Midi. There is an interface that changes the Midi signals in switch signals for the electro pneumatic valves…,” Kolbie’s voice drifts off. He has soon got his face in a Robotics for Dummies manual. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressorhead

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20181016144145/http://www.gibson...
Technically, it doesn't prove anything, as there are plenty (presumably prevailing) other correlations. It does make it slightly more probable.
>I don't even think it will be close to 'routine'.

>Where are you going to get the comparable data?

>How on earth does one show 'causation' for any of this?

Is called epidemiology

>Layoffs and crappy work conditions are basically normative in a lot of the world, and not uncommon in the Western world, but I don't recall any cases of this kind of thing happening.

Do you know many farmers?
As I said, the trial is not about these suicides, but about a company-wide harassement policy.

I meant it as "alleged side-effect".
Reminds me of this: https://projectfailures.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/project-fro...

Discussed here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16793884
I've been looking for something similar to a browser history, but it actually snapshots the text/images for each page so that I can search it. Ideally it would be OSS, self-hosted and cross platform so that it can feed a repo from desktop web and phone.

Seems like something as simple as a firefox add-in would be useful.
I'm waging war against an ecosystem of developers intent to squander my attention

Not sure if you are being deliberately glib, but yes, that is exactly what is going on. They know damn well that your attention is valuable -- to them -- and they know that it is limited, so they are in an arms race with each other to capture as much of it as possible.
Thanks! Next time, I’ll name better one LOL
>For electronic drums I would of much prefered at least 24bit. Volume is by far and away a drum's most expressive dimension, so it will be limited by a 16bit velocity range.

It wont be limited at all, real human players have no control as subtle as 256 levels, much less 65K levels... Nobody would even notice anything...
I'm always wary of stories such as this one. Everytime I encountered people complaining they were doing everything by the book while that one guy/gal over there gets all the credit doing mediocre work, there were more variables involved. Maybe H is a close friend and S has a bitchy resting face the author can't get past, or maybe H takes so long polishing his/her code and understanding business requirements that management never trust him/her with bigger tasks, while S gets the proverbial thing done fast and good enough for the business meeting next week. Don't get me wrong, I love me some beautiful and tested code that works well, but it takes time, and sometimes time is imperative when you care about money, and in a business setting, that's always.
On iOS you can hide Safari in Parental Controls
Tomcat is a web server. Possibly thrown in as a word to be more verbose when making a point.

To me, size of the image is more important than the number of servers in it.
Well I didn't read tfa, but I disagree with the title.

I use the camera, document producing capabilities quite frequently in my work, in addition the regular features of loudspeaker conference calls (when Skype for Business fails) and so on.

I only take time to play with it, when I'm bored on plane rides.
China unveils prototype maglev train with max speed of 373 MPH
Starlink satellite-train visible with the naked eye
There is no need to run a server. This is only about the "fork" button. You could but GitHub.com in the place of example.com. Git hosting existed before GitHub.
I don't disagree, but the way Erlang (and thus Elixir) does it is that you get a small stack space to contain your immutable data -- and when you unwind the function the stack just gets thrown away instead of involving the GC which I'd argue is still plenty fast.

I do agree that copying stuff around is generally expensive. I am just unsure how expensive it is in smaller functions that aren't called 10_000 times a second.
The issue is that we have to make a decision under uncertainty. And fast.

Context matters as well. Look how China treats its citizens, and those abroad who critique the CCP. Look how it has no ethical issue to control and spy upon every Chinese person within its borders. It has no state philosophy that would forbid it. Why would you think they would not spy abroad?
And again, CCP members controlling Huawei is a fact.

Look how the doctrine of ip theft has been pushed even in past plans like china 2020, and how often unlicensed and nearly identical products and tech showed up after being stolen by someone. And Chinese politicians masterfully promising betterment and market access to EU politicians and giving nothing in the end.

There will never be a smoking gun. But to say its based on lies without evidence is, i think, misleading.

For years all this has been happening. And the damage to non Chinese tech and industry has been huge.

That is why it needs to be up to every country to choose whether to make deals with Huawei and the CCP or not. Judge the evidence, and circumstances.

If you wait too long, the consequences are clear. The US has decided it has seen enough, and Huawei is not a sincere market participant.

THEN, you have to take strong measures. If there is ip theft. If there even is spying, THEN you can not fight it by half measures.
It doesnt work. Huawei denies and goes their merry way until it is untouchable.

Its a game of chance, not certainty.
I once had a dream that every new synth, sampler or drum machine I brought into my studio would automatically recognize the local MIDI network, joined it and would pop up as a new device in my Cubase sequencer.

All wireless of course. Like Bluetooth but actually working. A man can dream.

PS: it would also stream multitrack audio over ASIO wireless and expose its inputs and outputs.
Basically the vibe I get after a few years on HN

Small company : fired. Assume someone out there is better than you. Unethical due to desperation. Probably why company remains small unsuccessful.

Medium: Put in blacklist and harassed with reviews until you repair your credibility or leave voluntarily.

Large company: Can’t fire you as that would affect their reputation. Alienation within company until you repair credibility or leave.

The large company description is speculation on my part and could be wrong.
Reaper will probably have it quickly. They update it at least once a month and don't have any need to upsell to the next version or tier.
Maybe you know this, but LyX is somewhere in the middle.

You can see roughly what you are doing while writing, which makes some things much easier. Especially typing in large formulae (and double-checking that you didn't make a mistake). Although the way you enter them is more typing than point-and-clicking.

For something like changing how the chapter titles look, you are pretty much back in the world of Latex, trying out some macro to change all of them.
You know what's a great incentive to actually care about this stuff? Legal consequences for not caring about it.

Anyone conceivably responsible for ignoring the developer's complaint should be on trial right now.
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