skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Media is clueless as usual. Are people spending gold bullion/coins? Nope. The government independent value store is the value of bitcoin.
it's a pearl-clutching misogynistic and *phobic tabloid. wikipedia doesn't allow citations from them either

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/08/wikipedia...

https://stopfundinghate.info/2018/02/21/online-advertisers-d...
Psychological Short Film Online Release / 4K
This is, unfortunately, so politically unpalatable that will only happen when it's too late.
And if it's not the majority definition and does actually not improve the search experience, the market will punish them for it.
I'm nearly degooglized (youtube vulgarisation videos are hard to pass sadly), i'm not a fan of their policies and their control of the market, but come on, this argument do not stand.
The girl in the article under discussion was raped by two men at age 14, then mistreated for years by the healthcare system that she turned to for help in the aftermath of that.

I was raped at age 12. It took me two decades to recover, and I got vastly better support than her.

Lots of tape victims seem to never really get over it. Most of the world seems to not know how to heal that kind of trauma.

I cannot imagine that a single dose of a drug has any hope of fixing something like that. If you cannot trust anyone around you because of a long standing track record of mistreatment of you, taking happy pills to make you happy with this horror show sounds like a really bad idea to me, one that would reduce your ability to adequately self advocate in a dangerous social setting.

I also live with an incurable medical condition that is classified as a dread disease because it so negatively impacts your life.

On the upside, I am getting healthier when the entire world says it cannot be done. As my physical health improves, my suicidal tendencies are trending down because I'm not so extremely miserable 24/7.

On the downside, basically the entire world is openly hostile, openly attacks me for talking about that, openly dismisses me as a lunatic who is making that up, openly discriminates against me over that -- for example, I've had moderators on multiple forums tell me I'm the problem when I got attacked in violation of the rules and I got thrown off instead of the people attacking me -- and on and on. That alone is enough to make things look pretty damn hopeless.

There is no winning here.

And that's for someone miraculously getting well when that's supposed to be impossible. If I actually was facing the steady gruesome decline my condition is supposed to cause where life is horrible torture today and you can count on things just getting steadily worse for all of your tomorrows, I would have killed myself ages ago. There is no fucking way I would fight to survive with such a prognosis.

Many people need solutions for torturous health issues or torturous social problems rooted in the bad behavior of other people. For such people, seeking to tweak their brain chemistry like they are the problem that needs to be fixed is part of the problem.
Looks like the site drops in the rankings because it's not mobile friendly
https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/7466306?msgid=7...
What 'Sign in with Apple' Means for Tech Professionals
> I just don't think the US has a culture that considers feet to be a valid mode of transportation.

it almost as if we've had decades of social and political lobbying to get people to walk less and use cars
I mentioned in my comment, but I think they have been struck with a manual action from Google. Reference: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9044175?hl=en
I am not conflicted at all, Daily Mail clearly gamed the system in order to inflate their clickrate.
System was updated to make it harder to be gamed, inflated clicks are back to what it suppose to be.

Maybe instead of trying to sell drama and rage headlines they could focus on actually producing worthwhile content... but then again its Daily Mail.

What would be interesting is to see how other papers were affected by this.
Crypto startup hacks itself before hacker gets a chance to steal users funds
Does that explain why I am not allow to foolow the original link with Lynx? 403 forbidden. Now I am guessing I am hitting a sort of paywall that refuses to cooperate with plain text browsers?
I'm really fond of the areas I've been where the only cars allowed on many streets are things like delivery and service vehicles.

I would expect that that kind of environment is actually a net improvement to accessibility for people with disabilities. It's probably quite annoying for people who use wheelchairs to get around a lot of places without a car, simply because the sidewalks are so frequently blocked off by people who've parked their cars across the sidewalk. There's one man in my neighborhood who frequently has to go out in the street to get around those sorts of obstructions, and is then stuck out in the middle of the road until he can get to the next wheelchair ramp in order to get back on the sidewalk. Limiting private car usage would admittedly only remove a portion of the sources of obstruction, but it would get rid of essentially all of the safety hazard that he has to take on in order to get around them.

And, especially now that cars are going electric and getting quieter and quieter, I would guess that restricting unnecessary car usage could be a big boon for blind people who want to be able to leave the house without a chaperone. I had one acquaintance who would essentially Uber everywhere - at great expense to herself - because she just didn't feel safe even trying to cross the street.

(Heck, I'm sighted, and sometimes _I_ don't feel safe trying to cross the street, especially later in the evening when a sizable portion of drivers are intoxicated and really are not watching for pedestrians.)
Well, the article states that

> Some modern scholars question if the brazen bull ever really existed, attributing reports of the invention to early propaganda.

However, it certainly wouldn't be the most barbaric form of execution humans have invented [0].

> Pendulum: A type of machine with an axe head for a weight that slices closer to the victim's torso over time.

> Scaphism: An Ancient Persian method of execution in which the condemned was placed in between two boats, force fed a mixture of honey and milk, and left floating in a stagnant pond. The victim would then suffer from severe diarrhea, which would attract insects that would burrow, nest, and feed on the victim.

> Blowing from a gun: Tied to the mouth of a cannon, which is then fired.

> Blood Eagle: Cutting the skin of the victim by the spine, breaking the ribs so they resembled blood-stained wings, and pulling the lungs out through the wounds in the victim's back. Used by the Vikings.

> Flaying: The skin is removed from the body.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_methods_of_capital_pun...
Their articles are full of mistakes. It isn't uncommon for the labels under the photos to ID the incorrect people. I wonder how much of the writing was original and how much was re-writes of previous articles or other publisher's articles.
> there is no online tool that approaches the bandwidth of two people in a room with a whiteboard.

VR will change that at some point. Even in today's infancy, there are some VR apps that give you that sense of presence with all the other tools needed and then some (whiteboards, screen-sharing, projecting your desktop on a huge screen, etc...)
It's worth doing on a $500+ tire. It's not worth doing on a $100 tire.
Does knots even make sense outside of the context of being located on a sphere?
My Dell P2715Q also came with its own stand, and it is sufficient for me.

But if you are using a six year old, $200 monitor you're not the market for a display like this.

Counterbalanced, Humanscale stands go for $400+ Nice equipment is expensive--it is the whole point of this release.

https://www.humanscale.com/products/product.cfm?group=m10
We don't use the imperial system for space, but the American readers do.

https://www.space.com/3332-nasa-finally-metric.html

I'm just as guilty as the next person when I post numbers. Occasionally, I'll also show metric. However, as an old(er) dog, my first instinct is to use feet, miles, etc.

Perhaps we should agree to use only the metric system on HN?
Sorry to hijack the thread, but I am so excited by this. I have always kept my developer log in vim, and I basically run my life from it, but I've always wanted inline preview, a system wide hotkey, and cross platform file sync that doesn't require giving my unencrypted data to a cloud provider. I have found a lot of markdown apps with preview and sync, but none of them support vim bindings, which is a deal breaker. I looked for so long that I decided I would have to build it myself, and then I see this! You have a new customer. :)

Edit: before anyone chimes in, yes I know you can use quake-style terminals, and rsync, and any number of vim plugins, but I need it to work seamlessly on all three desktop platforms.

Edit 2: and it has mobile support too! This literally checks every box I had in my feature list.
This ignores that during the Cold War there were more than just "democratic and communist governments". There were also plenty of military dictatorships, authoritarian one-party-states and theocracies, and a fair share of those were firmly in the USA's sphere of influence.
> Describing Google's data collection practices as "opt in" is a bit generous.

Maybe it is not clear but I was talking about location history.

At least I think I had to opt in to that at some point.
At least it wasn't...

Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft grabs close-up 1/10th of an American football field above asteroid
Did Alooma really stop support for Redshift and Snowflake? Officially they say they still do https://www.alooma.com/solutions/data-warehousing

Maybe you're personally noticing a difference in the amount of support before and after the acquisition?
Oh, I can tell you what is going to happen. It is going to be killed in about 2-3 years.
If they’re selling to the Enterprise, high touch Sales is something they will need to learn.
What Companies Would Owe You If You Owned Your Data
To take this a bit further:

As a psychologist what I've grown outraged by is the hypocrisy of current approaches to suicide, in that they are all focused on stopping suicide, but not the pain that drives it.

We talk about taking away guns and pills, putting up fences around parking ramps and bridges, monitoring social media, and so forth and so on. But we do nothing to address the psychosocial ills that drive the suicidal person to their state.

Labeling the suicidal as "mentally ill" does nothing but allow the living to wash their hands of the accumulated insults that drive someone to where they are, to feel good and then walk away from the most difficult issues to address. It places the blame on the person who is suicidal. It's not about protecting the suicidal, it's about protecting the living from guilt.

Sure, there are many people who obviously suffer from some sort of biological insult, but there is also a large grey area of those who have some kind of handicap, who are then thrust into horrific circumstances on top of that. And there are those who just get a bad lot in life.

These issues are spilling over into euthanasia in a way that's starkly highlighted by this case.

I'm not saying healthcare professionals should be forced into something they see as murder, or murkily close to it. What I'm saying is that as a society, our focus should be less on preventing people from accessing the means of suicide -- or euthanasia as the label may be -- and more on the sources of pain that drives them to it.
> Do you really, like I mean _really_ need your stuff..hours after ordering it? No, you really don't..It's a convenience

The same could be asked of 2-day home-delivery 20 years back, or 2-day world-travel 200 years back. Yet, here we are.

If necessity is the mother of invention, laziness is the father.
Craftsmen are private citizens too, their vehicles are their personal property. Many delivery drivers are also owners of their vehicles, and do delivery on contract. Not everyone is employed by huge corporations who got exceptions.

We (me and my wife) were just renovating an apartment in a city center, where the traffic limits apply. The problems the craftsmen had are real, and I speak from my own experience. Many times the solution was be bold and hope cops will be sympathetic. They were, though we got the recommendation to sell everything and move somewhere else, where there are no such problems.
There has been friendly contacts with them according to Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese#Shipwrecks
If that brought a tear to your eye, you might enjoy:

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53816 "Puls" by Řrřola, 256b, MS-Dos

Along with this interesting explanation https://meatfighter.com/puls/ of what's happening with the "binary-search" raytracing, lattice-effect, and tricks to make it fit in 256b.
> By using Square Point of Sale, Customer Engagement, Appointments or Employee Management, Square Online Store, and any associated products and services (the “Services”)

It looks like it's a lot broader than just the Online Store, although it doesn't mention Payments specifically.

Still, "any associated products and services" sure seems like it would cover Payments as well? What's the dividing line for a product that's associated with the Online Store?

EDIT: This specific clause is listed under section 3 "Online Store", so it does seem likely to me that it's not meant to apply across the entire TOS.

Still a weird restriction for the online store, but given that there's also a non-disparagement clause right under it, it's certainly not the most egregious thing in this license.
This will be a great addition into GCP. Data Studio is decent but can't compete with Tableau, Qlik, etc.
I’m surprised they didn’t house a mirror on the craft to aid in illumination
It should be their duty to be transparent about the matter.
Japan’s Hikikomori Already Faced Stigma. Then Came 2 Shocking Acts of Violence
Cryptocurrency Signals with Magical Accuracy
Ethanol has downsides too, like eating up the rubber bits in your fuel system.
Last Blockbuster Video on Earth still uses floppy disks
> act as if this is bad thing. The last thing I want is another bespoke logging solution or ORM.

I didn't quite capture the nuance of what I meant. Sorry about that. Of course if a third party does what you want go for it. But in the situations I'm thinking of, sometimes it's not and people just force their requirements into a suboptimal model. Form validation libs are an obvious example. High level chart libs are another think highchart vs D3)
Blockchain systems are a funny case in that they don’t really need much network traffic for consensus, but they do need a whole lot of messages. All the “traffic” in a [proof of work] blockchain system consists of messages the nodes generate internally, and then discard because they’re not ‘convincing enough’ as a proof of their leadership. But yeah, if you count all those “attempted and discarded” messages up, there’s roughly a gajillion of them.
Show HN: Completely Free Comic Illustrations for Your Projects
Something tells me you have a higher likelihood than most of attaining your goal...
That sounds like an urban legend, but there might be a kernel of truth hidden in the story.
You should be happy that they don’t measure it in “baseball fields” or something like that. That’s how usually things are reported.
We use Hulu Kids, since it's just proper kids shows and not the mind-numbing unboxing and algorithmic crap on YouTube Kids.
Sony owns a content distribution network, record label, gaming studio, film studio, tvs, phones, media players and storage medium - basically they own the _entire stack_ and yet Netflix and Spotify managed to wade into their territory and outmanoeuvre them.
Actually, you can have Javascript in PDF nowadays, so...
Wow, this is super badass! A few people mentioned email, Instead of making a hosted email system, how about a client for IMAP? PS I couldn't get create contact to pop up a dialog (Safari w/ublock origin)
Trusting Wikipedia as a source here? Pretty ironic. Of course the Guardian (a competitor) was happy to quote them as a reputable source.
> And incredible motion, the spacecraft is whipping by the asteroid quickly

No it's not. The whole point of the Hayabusa2 mission is to go to the asteroid and stay there. In fact it landed on it and grabbed a sample back in March.
I'm curious what this means for folks that opted to use Looker for their embedded analytics and if that's something Google is interested in supporting over the long-term?

I'm also wondering how this affects pricing over the long-term and whether this becomes a replacement for Data Studio / commoditized analytics platform to make GCP more compelling?

Would it be in Google's interest to offer this for free (or at least with very little up front cost) in the interest of competing with AWS?

As a sidenote, Looker is a great platform. I evaluated 8 BI platforms late last year, and it really stood out (LookML, Git integration, awesome charting widgets, customization, etc).
AFAIK
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_mile, nautical mile used to be defined as 1/60 of a degree of latitude, but is now defined as exactly 1852 metres. So feasible to use even in space, although unusual.
It would be great to have these listed on the right and permanently linked (like StackOverFlow). We could crowd source submissions that are resubmits.
As father of chemical weapons he oversaw their use on the battlefield and gave the world Haber's rule for more effective mass gassing. Mustard gas too, and I think he even had some part in development of Zyklon B.

He was completely unapologetic about it - he thought gas a better form of killing.

Both his wife and daughter seem to borne some guilt from his poison gas work. His wife committed suicide a week after Ypres - though some have disputed if it was connected. His daughter's suicide was on learning her research into poison gas cures couldn't be continued.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber's_rule
But this whole rhetoric of hero/savior and agressor are largery inadequate to war conditions. Tell me, what was Finland? Was it a victim (attacked by Russia) or an agressor (joining the Axis)? Or maybe it just wanted to live in peace, just defending their territory?

And more importantly, the war was a tragedy for all people. Especially for the millions of Russians. They didn't want to go to war, they wanted to stay with their families, but they had no choice, otherwise Stalin would have them killed. These poor people suffered enormously and most were killed leaving widows and orphans. Putting any label on them, like 'agressor' or 'hero' is so terribly inadequate.
I'm surprised that privacy focussed Apple allows you to leave your phone broadcasting itself indefinitely.

At least that's how I presume Airdrop works.

I'm surprised they mention getting lots of requests can crash or slow down the phone.
I should have said "actively supporting" or "actively developing." This is something I heard from one of their customers, which means their customers are noticing a difference.
Communications point: the several pages of diatribe before the presentation of your product is in the way of expressing the more material value of what you are doing, i.e. the 'product'.

Your specific worldview is going to be less interesting to most people, outside of HN'ers who probably don't mind.

You can summarize all of that in a tagline, and tuck away the elementary school valedictorian bits on another page.

Also, the registration process before we even get to 'see what this is' is a little much, it'd be nice to be able to 'get in there' without having to give up my email address.

So try to get to they 'why it matters to your visitor' much quicker.

Good work though.
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Some would maintain that being a legal analyst requires you to be artificially stupid because you are looking for loopholes and trying to avoid being trapped by ridiculous edge cases, whereas AI is trying to find a general solution that will work in 6-9s cases.
The smartest people in AI teamed up to make robots
Do you just use 0.411 for countries where you have no COL data?
> Code is free and open source, but 98% don't have the time/the knowledge/the will to self host

The vast majority of people who use GSuite won't understand or care about the OSS angle. Even if they do, they won't have the sophistication to examine your code. Thus, they must simply "trust" you, the same way they'd trust a corporation like Google.

People who really care about OSS are more likely to choose a more established solution for each use case (ie. Nextcloud for storage), and to self-host those solutions.

> will happily be us to manage and secure their data (like DropBox)

Again, if your edge over Dropbox is "we're open source!", I think this is just not compelling to most potential users who still want someone else hosting/managing their files. In that case, the open source transparency doesn't even mean anything, because the code in your repo isn't necessarily the code you're running on your servers.

In my case, I don't trust Dropbox, but I want their infrastructure. So I use a third-party encryption tool to ensure that they don't have access to folders I want to keep private. Best of both worlds.
I tried this, but whenever the child account needs approval, your done. You can't approve anything so your child is stuck.
Not the best advice, but: alcohol
Let's help QueryProvider deal with interpolated strings
2021, actually: https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/16180/what-is-hans-r...

That's just the earliest he's eligible for parole. The interesting question will be if people are still okay accepting commits from a murderer. Most businesses don't want to hire felons; even though we ostensibly have the concept of "pay the penalty and start again", felonies tend to be too egregious. I wonder what the Linux maintainers will do with respect to that.
As far as I know these things are designed for scientific value and not for producing cool pictures for viewers. I am sure they are getting the best possible value for their budget with whatever they designed.
Plato explored this idea (that democracies are precursors to tyrannies - see Andrew Sullivan's article about this here: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/04/america-tyranny-donal...
quite interesting:
https://www.humanrights.gov.au/our-work/rights-and-freedoms/...
Cars are racist? Drivel. Los Angeles and the automobile certainly have an interesting and complex history, but not as an instrument of oppression. Just the opposite. Cars have given everyone more freedom than ever.
Too much money (and too few places to invest it)
I'm not really a cat person but I enjoyed it anyway (even if it got me in the feels). I am glad it was posted as I doubt I would have ever come across it otherwise.
>If tourism is a capitalist phenomenon, overtourism is its demented late-capitalist cousin: selfie-stick deaths, all-you-can-eat ships docking at historic ports, stag nights that end in property crimes, the live-streaming of the ruination of fragile natural habitats, et cetera.

What is this even saying? How is this attributable to specifically capitalism and not humanity in general? After the hypothetical revolution how will people magically stop being annoying tourists? Will there be controls on number of travelers and their behavior? Will nobody have the means to travel? Not be allowed to travel? What?

Or does the The Alantic's editorial process allows the following format to grace their pages "If [obvious bullshit], then [invented nonsense from a faulty premise]."?