skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I enjoyed this article very much. I still use SendMessage and heavily rely on pinvoke.net mainly for automating other programs. I have to take this opportunity to ask the crowd are there better resources or better tools for automation? Being retired, I mainly automate for my own amusement, websites and games on Bluestacks are my primary targets.
My point is that the dodge wouldn't work if the company had to actively assist in making the product work on a highway and had enough data to determine that the product was being used on a highway.

The dodge relies on customers being in control of whether the law is broken. You can buy any of these products and use them only in a car that you tow between locations where it's legal to use. The dodge works because the company can't tell whether that's what you're doing.
Automakers seem to be in love with leases and they're pushing them hard, so I can see them prioritizing features that makes leasing more attractive.
I’d love to see someone run a perfectly great influencer Instagram where if you can’t verify a purchase within 28 days you are permanently banned from following them.

Not because I think this is healthy, but because I think people will complain loudly and campaign to have them boycotted for demanding proof of their “influencer” status resulting in money spend.

I think such a thing would shred the influencer concept to bits, and so all the other influencers would react out of fear for losing access to the “exposure economy” they leveraged their status to create.
>This is legitimately the most pretentious HN comment I've ever read, and that's a very high bar.

Or just one that tells it like it is.

Not everything is of the same level (e.g. Bach and Nicky Minaj or Coltrane and Vanilla Ice), and not everything is equally "subjective". The same that goes for music, goes for literature, cinema, and so on.

Sure, USA was founded on a populist ideology, where no individual's tastes and cultural development is lesser than another's. Well, not all cultures agree with that.

>I too dismiss things that people enjoy as "crap" because I have such a gigantic brain from reading philosophy and looking down everyone else, and belittle them for believing that they read and understand fast in the wrong type of book.

Well, at some point someone has to belittle if not the people, surely the wrong type of book -- in other words, put it in perspective, not everything is a diamond -- else there's no art and no culture, just an indistinguishable blob of different works.
Personally I think it’s not a ‘sudden’ paranoia, it’s an overdue one.

China has made it abundantly clear for a long time that it considers the US to be an ideological enemy, a military rival and a target for economic and geopolitical warfare.

Since ~2008 / Xi Jin Ping took over, its also been fairly clear that China has no intention of liberalizing in any sense, and the government is actively working to undermine the US/European model of a harmonious world.

However, US government policy pre-Trump basically assumed that China was going to liberalize and play by the (US/EU) rules.

I’m not a Trump fan by any means, but regarding China I think he is the first to drop the pretense that China is a friend of America, and now the China hawks in the media, government and military are all piling on.
> There’s no dial in the TM3, because the lights just always do the right thing.

Do they go into parking lights only as requested by signs when driving onto the washington stste ferries? Or do they shine the bright headlights at the ferry workers?
I prefer it for

1) Less tokens: less noise, more signal. `a + b` is the important part, let's not obscure it.

2) Lexical `this` binding.

3) Shorter and less likely to line-break.

4) No hoisting when used with let and const

5) Actually const when used with const. const module exports are faster.
IG is full of bots that follow you randomly. You dont need to be doing it on purpose to be swamped by them. Twitter isnt the only platform with a bot problem.
I saw the point you made in your top-level sibling subthread and acknowledged it in a parenthetical to my post. I was trying to talk about a different situation, which doesn't necessarily apply to this specific case, but rather is interesting to consider in general as a response to the question "why couldn't someone with a million followers on Instagram monetize those followers?"

Let me reiterate: there are people with a million social-media subscribers of "real audience", who still could not sell a single T-shirt. https://chubbycattumbling.tumblr.com/ and whatever the equivalents of such blogs are on Instagram likely have a million+ subscribers—real people—but also have built no "personal brand", and therefore would generate no interest in products marketed under said personal brand.

Casey Neistat and MKBHD aren't superstars because they have millions of followers. They're superstars because they've been marketing their personal brands from the beginning, and so every (real) follower they've gained is also a fan. But this does not apply in every situation.

(It especially doesn't apply to corporate social-media outreach, something of interest to the HN crowd: just posting cool stuff your startup made might attract a "real audience" of people who want that stuff... but unless you're branding that stuff as yours when you do that, you won't be able to later convert that audience at all. That should be obvious to someone who's job is "social-media brand manager"—but it's not obvious to someone who wants to get rich selling merch to Insta followers.)
Initially I thought Amazon Choice meant it was their own product, and figured that they'd want some minimal quality standards associated with their name.

Now that I know that it was an algorithm, I think that years ago it may have indicated quality products, but as the review system and other aspects are thoroughly hacked/gamed, it does the opposite. I've been purposely scrolling past Amazon Choice items for a while now

Actually, I think I am going to drop Amazon Prime. Only money is going to convince Amazon to right their ship.
Thank goodness for Safari's reader mode. This article was unreadable without it. Why do people do this?
> unusual but not unprecedented

> the melt season was "happening about three weeks earlier than average, and earlier than the record-setting melt year of 2012."
They already do this for access to a “private” account.
Global heating to inflict more droughts on Africa as well as floods
When growing up in post-communist eastern Europe, I was a huge fan of such laws. Ill-gotten gains, many rich people with unexplained wealth. Partially tax evasion, but largely theft and receiving bribes. Especially for corrupt politicians, I think such law is necessary.

The problem is selective enforcement.
The kicker: The burden of proof falls on you,
not the government. If you don't prove the funds
were clean, Her Majesty may be presumed entitled
to keep the goodies.

That doesn't sound too goo- oh,

The asset must be worth at least £50,000

Given that the average annual income of someone in the UK is 22,000£, and there are currently 4 million children in the UK that cannot afford to eat (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/sep/05/four-million...), with a preliminary study from the UN claiming that 8.4 million people in the UK are affected by food shortages, this just falls under 'rich people problems'.

Besides, if you buy something that is over 50,000£, surely you would keep the reciept for insurance reasons, or just plain book-keeping. If you don't, and the taxman shows up and asks where you got it, then that's your fault for not having possession of those records. If you can afford to buy a single thing that is twice the average salary, then you can afford to pay someone to do that book-keeping for you, surely.
How does that sentence apply to playing chess, go or StarCraft II?

We can easily simulate humans using an extended version of Lattice QCD [1] that consider the other forces, and get an accurate simulation of a human that can talk. It is discrete, so it is easy to model. The only problem only is the scale [2], so we can model humans mathematically as well as we can model playing chess, go or StarCraft II.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice_QCD

[2] I'm not sure about the state of the art here, but I guess the biggest models have a few dozen of particles. For a human you need something like 10^28 particles, and a human with a home needs more [3]. And the complexity of the calculation grows exponentially, so the run time is like e^(10^28) bigger than the current calculations, but mathematically I doesn't matter.

[3] Do you think that's air you're breathing now?
Discord does not insist on these things. Discord knows the email address I gave them and that's about it for mandatory information. They could eventually ask for these things, sure; but they do not right now.
Uniform Structured Syntax, Metaprogramming and Run-Time Compilation
At some level, this law is a response to how slow the courts are in enforcing other laws. In the case described, the money is surely the proceeds of a crime. But it might take 10 years to prosecute that crime, given multiple jurisdictions and a well-lawyered defendant. Meanwhile, the money causes harm by distorting the economy.

So I understand the desire to do something in the meantime. But let's not lose sight of the proper solution: swift justice for the actual crime.
Reading speed is highly correlated with the difficulty of the material. And even this factor varies from person to person because of different backgrounds and interests. For me reading speed and a quiz on the material afterwards are useless indicators of someone's overall speed. Every person should read as fast or as slow to full grasp the material.
This makes sense. Back in 2010 I had a strong following on Tumblr and I realized years later I could have easily sold products and made decent cash so many of my followers had a personal connection with me due to chatting on different platforms and getting to know me. But I didnt want to "sell out" so I never shoved ads on my blog or spammed products. That seems to be a thing I see moreso on YouTube and IG anyway.

Sure some artists would advertise swag they were selling on Tumblr from time to time but they make awesome art why shouldnt they be allowed to sell swag? Artists got to eat too.
You hit upon a very important point.

Suppose that you have a 2 planet system: A sun type star (mass 210^30 kg), an Earth type planet 1 AU from the sun (weight 610^24 kg), and a Jupiter type planet (mass 2*10^27 kg) that is 1000 AU away from the sun.

The distance between the Earth type planet the center of the star could be nearly constant.

The distance between the Earth type planet and the barycenter would not be nearly constant -- it would not "orbit" the barycenter in a circular orbit.

I may be wrong and I would be very happy if someone corrected me.

(Note: I think the barycenter would be about 5 AU from the star!)
> She likely used bots to boost her followers and raise the status of her profile without actually building engagement.

This is missing the point entirely. Comments on the OP notice that she had good engagement in her posts and good evidence that the followers were real.

The bet seems to be that the product planning and marketing were real weak.
> 1. Are you ready to throw away all that knowledge?

This is a massive fallacy. Rewriting code does not have to throw away knowledge. The old code is a specification for the new. You just have to read it.

I've been involved in several successful rewrites and I always use the old code as a precise description of how the software is supposed to work. You have to take the time to understand it. And if you don't understand the old code, you really shouldn't be rewriting it.
Ask HN: Should I start a startup in Australia?
For those living in Australia, is Australia a good place to start a startup? I have an idea for a startup and I am open to launching in the US or Australia. I generally think its quite easy to set up a company in the US, but is Australia worth it?

1) How hard is it to start a company there and close it if it doesn't work out

2) Is the market even big enough for a startup? I find it odd how there are so little known startups from Australia
If you haven't seen this before it might interest you. Nolan worked on offloading most of the work to threads to achieve 60 fps on mobile.

http://www.pocketjavascript.com/blog/2015/11/23/introducing-...
what motivated those rewrites?
Why Can’t Everyone Get A’s?
I’ve heard great things about https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Grow... as a general set of advice. The Rands leadership Slack is also a great community.
They could simply check that only processes with the same privilege could communicate this way... not to mention the desktop user on Windows is usually the owner and has administrator privileges anyway.
We're going to go extinct because we're clearly incapable of prioritizing the survival of our species over short term conveniences.
How to Publish a Python Package to PyPI: A Comprehensive Guide
Legal responsibility for murder is apportioned to individuals, not “communities”. And that’s a very good thing.
> I suspect you do have an enemy. It might be rural people, southerners, Christians, or people who want to win bigly.

I am not at war with any of those people, although I might disagree with them and oppose their policies. There's a difference between an enemy and someone we disagree with.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/539747/winners-take...

Great book on this very topic!
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Maybe you don't owe the person you're attacking better, but you owe the community better. Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines and taking the spirit of this site more to heart when posting here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You might also find these links helpful for getting the intended idea:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
Dog whistle examples are not even obscure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthys
Automated End-to-End Fact Checking with Deep Learning
It’s about public companies needing to keep earnings growing. You can cut $5 of cost out of a product and lower the price $0.50.

My grandparents camp has a washing machine and fridge from the 1950s, still going strong. Meanwhile I’m on my 3rd washing machine in this house since 2010.
For transmitters, sure, that might work with a lot of caveats attached. For example, you need to repurpose wires on the PCB to act as antennas and then hope that the shielding around the elctronics will be transparent enough to pick anything up.

But getting the information to be transmitted is a lot harder. I don't know what kind of component this is, but I suspect that not a lot of PCBs have direct access to that kind of high level information (assuming that there is a kind of system bus that even passes such data around...).
People have been taking plenty advantage, they are an indispensable tool to turn all of these CPU bugs or DRAM attacks into working browser exploits. Also those bitcoin miners of course.

Maybe if no one else is taking advantage it is time to simply throw them out.
Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast(ADS-B)
Not true. A person can manage maybe 10 other people max. Beyond that, you start delegating.

So really there's no practical difference between a company of 11 people and a company of 11000 people from a management perspective.

The technological/practical concerns you'll be dealing with are totally different, of course, but as far as 'people management' stuff goes, there's little difference.
Apple Engineers Explain $999 Mac Pro Stand
Excerpt:

> From the earliest age the new child of America will probably be counseled to: "This above all--play it cool; keep your nose clean; don't take chances; do what you're told; don't argue with authority. And remember: nothing you do will ever be forgotten and anything can be held against you. . . . Great pressure will be placed on American citizens to transform from free spirits who do not fear living their lives as men (with the assurance that if one fails one can always try again) into a new nation of tightrope walkers.
Ostia Antica is often overlooked. This is a smaller Pompeii.
“Dur­ing her news con­fer­ence, Ms. Lam pinned blame for the chaos on the gov­ern­ment fail­ing to ef­fec­tively ex­plain to peo­ple why the bill was needed, rather than con­ced­ing pro­testers’ ar­gu­ments that the law was flawed.”

Politically savvy approach, but completely ridiculous. HKers understand exactly what this bill would do to them.

Nothing makes me more angry than bureaucrats with bad intentions treating the people that pay their salaries like children.
Reminds me of Mark S. Miller's classic:

"A Computer's Perspective on Moore's Law: Humans are getting more expensive at an exponential rate."

https://web.archive.org/web/20070203034530/http://www.caplet...
For timeouts etc ok, but one serverside call failure, shouldn’t hang the all application.
That's not how PCBs work at all. Dear god.

Such mission critical to EMI designs would be submitted to full spectrum EMI tests once assembled (hitting it with noise of all kinds of frequencies AND testing it for leaks of all kinds).

Causing a bare board to fail? lol, perhaps if you have an atomic disintegrator.
Assembled boards with actual components? Now you have something you can actually fail but this PCB house does not do said assembly nor have access to that.

Figure out what data? Completely impossible. These are just copper traces. They don't get told "Mr Copper trace, you are going to do i2c and send XYZ data! and you are going to be a pci express and send ABC!" at the fab. Jeez.

Now a real cause for concern, if say a state actor had access to the completed assembly going into the planes, they could identify a place to embed a backdoor. The state actor controlled PCB house could then embed the backdoor into the PCB itself.
But at that point you have 2 different security breaches and the PCB guy is probably lesser of your concerns.

The dumber thing would be to alter the current carrying capacity of power traces which tend to be obvious staring at a board. But it would just identical to trolling by causing boards to fail and eventually get it investigated and your supplier contract revoked.
Why an Airbnb IPO Could Be a Colossal Failure
It contributes its share.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=msn.com%20points%3E30&sort=byD...
Your claims aren't credible without sources.
Sure, it may not be as helpful as manufacturing the ICs, but planting ICs in assembled PCBs is actually pretty straightforward, the way I see it. The marginal cost advantage, if any, of manufacturing the board with this company, is probably offset by the cost of verifying to satisfaction that there are no unwanted ICs embedded in the PCB.
The slippery slope is the definition of important.
Note that the article only covers PET. Some polymers are much more difficult to decompose, e.g. PTFE.
What is the relation of cladding vs. content in a fuel rod?
AFAIU any used fuel rod needs to be disassembled to be freed from its cladding, and only then can be reprocessed by whichever means to make new fuel rods with new cladding, which leaves the old cladding as irradiated trash. Am i popping a bubble there? Or is there a way to somehow melt that stuff into new cladding. Anybody thought about that? I mean, just look at the pictures in

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Fuel+Rod&t=ffsb&iax=images&ia=imag...

or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fuel

Anybody thougt about that?

Edit: I mean even IF used in molten salt reactors where there are no rods and therefore no cladding, what happens with the old cladding? That's not just some tinfoil where you could make hats out of it!
Apparently some (most?) charity shops will accept unwearable clothes for rags, would be no point if it all went to landfill.
This tactic of appropriation for political ends is sometimes referred to as entryism, and while it's not confined to any one ideology I think the right is somewhat better at it because it's consonant with the idea of machtpolitik and gaining territory by seizure. Given the difficulty and costs involved in contesting physical territory, securing virtual territory (from dominating a forum to 'owning' a particular word or phrase) is a necessary precursor to control of a larger battle space.
I'm looking for what's not there: An informative title! Heh heh. Seriously though, this might've been one of those rare occasions when improving on the original title might've been warranted. Something like "The Value Proposition of DNSSEC" or "Is DNSSEC Worth It?" (though the latter starts to sound like clickbait)

For the record, the HN submission guidelines encourage changing the title if it's misleading, but not if it's vague.
> submitted to full spectrum EMI tests once assembled

Under all internal running conditions? That's not feasible.
this has been happening a long time in hip hop. there’s people with millions of real followers on instagram because of their antics. but when their album comes out they don’t even get 10k sales.
A single application blocked on a reply is very different from all applications halting because someone won't yield in a cooperative multitasking environment.

I would also say that anyone who sends a message to all top-level windows should use SendMessageCallback or similar so they can handle a reply asynchronously.
Franco Zeffirelli, Italian Director with Taste for Excess, Dies at 96
Why do you think electron is more popular than sciter? They seem to target similar things? Is 'sciter html' a bit different than 'chrome html', so you can't make a web app out of the same code base too?
The notion that when a group or person is accused of being racist/fascist it inevitably makes them then embrace that ideology is just not credible. Denouncing racism is easy enough to do, but they didn’t, or they did insincerely.

The alt right sells victimhood as a reason to be part of their in group. It’s constantly pushed that white males are under attack. They aren’t.
Sure, San Diego is better, but "rubbish"? It makes me think these people have never lived in a places like Montana, Nebraska etc. where if you aren't soaked with sweat and covered in mosquito bites your face is stinging because of the biting cold.

In locales with bad weather you are comfortable maybe 3-4 months out of the year, in places with good weather you are comfortable with little accommodation, e.g. AC, heating, clothing, for most of the year; San Francisco has demonstrably okay weather, it is boring and not "perfect" but far from rubbish.
This rubbish does not deserve to be on arXiv, let alone HN.
If I were China I would take steps to ensure the boards degrade after some years. That would ensure they pass inspection and get installed. Then the parts can start falling off.
The Empty Storefront Crisis and the End of the American Dream
Target Registers Appear to Be Down Nationwide
Even in free software, do you audit everything you install? Information security is only as strong as the weakest link.
The Economist is one of the most serious source in the business.

And yes, this is factual and does not come from the Economist:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48470623
I specifically read in the article that I linked above that the reviewers supposedly have a disfavorable view on 'hot loading' code externally, so that developers would not swap in different code than the code already reviewed...

Hmmm. Do you know if "major" extensions such as Boomerang, etc. typically update their extensions on the store, or do they do exactly as you say -- leave the store extension alone as much as possible, and update remote code?

Thanks for your input!