skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will be interesting to see how this plays out wrt GDPR
I realize this is a very personal thing, but I've never had a problem with this.

So what if they see me naked? I don't care. There's nothing harmful that can come from that information.
Seems easy enough to set up the SDK: https://gitlab.com/shaktiproject/software/shakti-sdk/blob/ma...
Good job, EU! Squelch your citizenry in the interest of the copyright industry. Content filtering is draconian and fundamentally opposed to a free and open society.
Got a few paragraphs in before finding out it's behind a paywall that's only accessible from a few countries.
How Powerful Is Our Subconscious
Yandex allegedly attacked by Western intelligence as part of cyber espionage
Sorry. That was not my intent.
Why Our Postwar “Long Peace” Is Fragile (2018)
Excuse my curiosity, but what are numbers that you would find acceptable as targets?

Or - if you prefer - what is the "reasonable" percentage of issues - timewise - for an internet service?
I used to use paintshop pro when it was basically just an image viewer / converter, it was interesting to see it turn into a paint program in its own right.
Why the 'we'?
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-carbon-emissions-in-... - etc.,
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2017/10/24/yes-the-u-s-... (2017 admittedly).
Fungi are not plants though. Fungi are actually more closely related to animals than plants [1][2]. Plants not getting cancer is irrelevant when talking about cancer rate in mold/fungi.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opisthokont
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukaryote
Paywall alert. The article does not mention till very late that it's paywalled.
Hmm... you may be right. But on the other hand, is the steak licensed and copyrighted?
I was thinking the same - for years, there was no other like it. There are some others now, but none as mature as Painter. For classically trained artists, it is an amazing piece of work. However, I would be curious if the market of fine artists who want to work in digital format is large enough to make it a profitable product line.
I think that's unlikely. If I am not mistaken, the EU directive will not be implemented for another two years.
Would Obama, Trump, and their wives be happy to have their scans available for public viewing? If it's obvious they wouldn't, it should be obvious it's an invasion of privacy.
Wear an eyepatch?
Fast radio burst pinpointed to distant galaxy
Another male friend of mine, working for a U.S.-based tech startup, told me the following story: They are hiring a backend engineer right now. What applicants don't know: They want to hire a woman. Word came down from on high, that a team of 10 backend engineers being all-male is a situation that's going to end.

So they're hiring a woman, doing whatever it takes, as in: (a) making a conscious effort to lower the bar (b) making up a role that they don't even need with a job description that will appeal to women (c) paying high premiums for recruiting channels that will deliver female applicants (d) running the process in such a way that, unbeknownst to applicants due to legal ramifications, all applications by men are dead on arrival.
Anything like paranoia would be a (clinical) issue only so long as it cripples your life - say if you refuse to browse the Internet at all despite this having detrimental effect on your well-being/lifestyle etc. Being cautious with your browsing habits is magnitudes away.
I am from India. My use case for traveling is personal family vacation. I find it frustrating to book flights and hotels for personal vacations.
I've used them about a handful of times by now. Only once was I the sole occupant, and in that case it already had another pickup lined up after my stop.

I don't really pay them much attention in traffic, but from my very limited experiences in them, utilisation does not seem too bad.
Just yesterday, I read about a dutch university (Eindhoven) that wants to only hire women for the next 18 months (and give them a bonus 100k€ grant on top that male hires wouldn't get).

I am 100% pro equal rights for everybody, but this is just the opposite, and all it will achieve is to create tension, prejudice and anger towards women hired under this rules.
What a horrible site, it tries to hijack the back button, full screen cookie warning and uBlock has over a dozen items blocked.
Aneutronic Fusion
I believe smart contracts could solve this. (I am not endorsing Ethereum.)
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT Faster Than Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 in OpenCL
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Thanks for the suggestion - I’ll try filing a complaint and post back with any results.

Apparently there has been various success with users posting on HN to get visibility to an individual ticket, which is a messy way of triage, but users are clearly running out of options.
For the record: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism

The NAP comes from libertarianism, which is as far as you can get from anarchism.

Anarchism means free cooperation between people with no transcendental rule apart "everyone is equal", while libertarianism (and the NAP) means "private property is paramount".

Anarchism was born in the 19s century as a part of the socialist movement, while libertarianism is an alt-right movement which grew in the US during the cold war, as a reaction to socialism.
Nothing you've said here would make me want to go back to 1996 and take a flight, granddad.
Ask HN: Best place to maximize value of incomes?
Hi,

I was wondering what would be, in your opinion, the best place to live in to maximize your income "efficiency" ? (What you get after all taxes vs what your employer pay)

For example, in France/Paris you got 'only' 37 out of 100 €

- For a salary of 70k€/year

- The employer actually pay about 105k

- After all taxes you actually get 46k

- The is a tax on all good (VAT) of 20%, so the buying power of 46 is about 37k

How is it in your country ?
But that's the only way to make an existing pool bigger, isn't it? Replace each disk, one at a time, and then auto-expand the pool at the end. The usable space doesn't change until the pool expands at the end.

I think you're thinking about adding a new vdev to an existing pool to make the pool larger. This is almost always a bad idea, because like you said, the writes all end up on the new vdev.
I designed Qanairy to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to automatically generate and maintain user interface tests for online websites and applications. If you have ever been responsible for scripting automated tests for a user interface, you are well aware that the process sucks and maintaining tests is a nightmare that never ends. With Qanairy, our goal is to make UI testing more enjoyable and less time consuming. We are currently in public beta, and we would love feedback on what we can do to improve the service.
I really doubt the recording is actually deleted from all of their servers. Wouldn't be surprised when a few years from now there is another news item about how they accidentally kept these logs in backups or how they were shared with law enforcement or ad companies.
This is important, not because of Appalachia but because of art itself.

As a history buff, I have a difficult time watching many "based on a true story" movies or movies claiming to represent some important person or event in history. It's for the same reason: people consume information through narrative, and narrative forces reality into predefined tracks. This means that any art form claiming to represent a people, region, person, or event must necessarily be lying to you. The better the art the more likely the lies are big ones.

And so storytellers are forced to lie, both by drastically-reducing scope and by smoothing out the edges. Then they consolidate characters, generalize over things that are not part of the narrative. They find a hero. They bump the contrast up a bit to make the narrative consumption more enjoyable.

I love this, I love art and storytelling, but it means that there are great masses of people who don't know jack squat about a ton of topics that they think they do.

I grew up here. I've traveled all over, spending quite a bit of time in SF and other very cosmopolitan places, but this is home. If I were forced to scope it down, I'd probably start with the mountains, then the coal mines, then the Scots-Irish cultural backdrop. The writer made an astute point when they mentioned all the outsiders passing through and screwing us over in various ways for their own selfish reasons. That's been a persistent theme, but it is slowly dying off. There's also the tent revival culture, but that's also going away.

The only other generality I'd add if I were scoping down a story about this place is the stereotype of the ornery eccentric. This character has been played up for comic relief over the years, many times making them out to be simpletons. Instead, there are a lot of PhD-level folks who just don't give a damn about society and don't want to. They're nice enough. They just want to be left alone. You find that plenty of other places as well, but Appalachia has a long history of those folks and we tend to cherish them, even if we're making fun of them.

Andrew Jackson almost beat a man to death with his cane after he tried to assassinate him (His gun misfired. He grabbed a backup. It also misfired. Jackson commenced to beating on him and had to be pulled off). After the Civil War, Ewell went back to his home, picked back up his law practice, and started writing books about what a bunch of jackasses all those people who misunderstood the war were. We always wave at people here: the best way to tell if people are from far away is when they don't wave. Had a neighbor once that when I waved at him he would make various obscene gestures and curse. He just wanted to be left alone.

I wouldn't live anywhere else, and it's not because I haven't tried out a bunch of other places. There's something about the mountains that keep calling me back. I don't know what.
That these skewed measures favouring women exist, does not mean that discrimination and sexual harassment towards women doesn't also exist. Sexism is still depressingly common. These measures seem like a very heavy-handed way to even the scales, but it tries to fight a symptom rather than the cause, and it's probably not very effective at that.
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I am curious about what will happen to gravit designer which was recently bought by corel.
I argue that it must be stopped in its tracks right now for two reasons:

It has potential to undermine the monetary systems of poorer nations, in essence (re-)colonialising them on the currency front

It has the potential to destroy decades of efforts in achieving monetary transparency and fighting money laundry on a global scale.

Even though some of the more libertarian minded contributors here seem to think that fighting money laundry is a bad thing I can assure you that it's not.

In addition I'm a bit flummoxed about the trust you seem to have in Facbook and they doing the right thing. A trust which is absolutely not warranted when I look at the short and dirty history and the constant lies and evasions of this company.
> as Westerners

What distinction are you trying to make here? Many Western governments ( namely, the US and its closest allies) engage in warrantless wiretapping, unlawful search and seizure, imprisonment without due process, warfare without democratic authorization and even taxation and regulation without representation. None of these matters register on the radar of public concern. So can we, as Westerners tell the difference? Apparently not, but we sure are smug about our geographic orientation.
I missed that! That's very interesting.
Default is 50:50 because you will be working together for years in good and bad times. I'd see it only changing when one person already put it money (more than the other can afford), there's an existing working MVP by one person or extensive market research (almost validating the business idea) by one person that can't be easily replicated. With a tech product it's possible the tech person feels he's putting in more hours. But the business won't work long-term if the second person isn't there and ready to do all the small (and big) distracting stuff, e.g. opening bank accounts, filing taxes, travel, writing documentation.

One advice I have is to start with a simple document even before incorporating. It should list which ownership you agreed on and that everything you build and create (e.g. a logo) is owned equally by both (not the person who e.g. paid the logo designer). Ideally it also has a clause what happens when one person wants to quit (or simply stops working) because with 50:50 you have a stalemate where one person wouldn't be allowed to just take everything created and continue.
That is correct, but it doesn't answer the question whether it's Bytes or bits (which makes an 8x difference).

Given that the reported values don't care about the "m" (which means "milli" -- clearly doesn't make sense for bytes), I don't think we can rely on the casing of the "b" to tell us the answer.
We'd need a hard definition of "quantum supremacy" -I believe there have been several press releases claiming this already, and I think you agree with me that there are no such machines at hand.

There's this ethereum thing called Augur we could use to place the bet, though that's an interesting bet in itself (ethereum and auger being around in 20 years is not a sure thing). I suppose also "long bets." If you google my name you can find my contact info.
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It keeps happening with their draconian regulations. After the privacy/data protection bill, I hear that the european market for online advertising imploded trying to meet regulations and Google Ads gobbled up some 30-40% more market share in Europe. It came down to the fact that Google was able to meet the regulations fastest, and achieve informed user consent across a wide userbase dramatically faster than small local outlets, so ad buyers flocked to the fastest and widest game in town.

One example: https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/image002.p...

Seems more true than ever that big regulations create big business moats that big businesses can easily absorb, but which demolish smaller businesses.
The banking system is decentralized too, but the word has a specific meaning in cryptocurrency circles - which I think Libra is invoking. I do agree that currently the Bitcoin mining/transaction system is centralized to a few very large mining pools.
I think you are right. Where I’ve seen success in “the boring middle” is when an appropriate amount of tension exists in the engineering organization: you want some teams and groups pushing to try new things, but they need to push against a boundary - preferably something, not someone - and the boundary should define your organization’s best practices and standards. This way a team doesn’t get to sneak clustered Mongo into the cloud and make your ordering systems talk to it.

But over time boring IT turns into legacy, and without some tension to the system pushing it forward your standards end up locking you into legacy forever.
Especially in Europe, it's very clear that in tech, there's a huge unfair bias for women. I mean look at the speaker lineups of conferences and management / tech teams of large tech organizations. It's hard to spot a single man among the ranks.

https://corporate.zalando.com/sites/default/files/media-down...

https://www.curry-on.org/2019/
FaceTime in iOS 13 will artificially re-point your eyeballs
Former Google exec, Android founder accused of having a 'sex ring' in complaint
It's not, but metaphors and analogies only go so far :)
Your example shows that merely being better or more useful is not enough. Bullies get to the top of the hill not through competence, but through bullying.
Not only that, the GDPR settings take what is seemingly an infinite amount of clicks to actually see the options, and then you can't even properly opt out.

That was enough for me to skip this one.
Before I put my first zfs system in production, I prepared for the following scenarios, using the actual hardware:
Corrupt bits on three disks.
Cut power to disk
Pulled disk out while running.
Decided I hated a healthy disk and replaced it with a different disk.
Pulled a disk from the zfs and the root mirror and installed a new root mirror without backups.
So I now know that it has the ability to recover from most things I could come up with.
If I had only kept notes on how to do it, but I deferred that with "I'll do the google and maybe setup a play-system in the same state to test stuff before doing it on the real system".. not a good admin this one (me, myself, not the author, kudos for them to write about their experience and make us all smarter)..
I can't help but think all this image recognition/manipulation tech being silently applied is a tad creepy. IMHO going beyond things like automatic focus/white balance or colour adjustments, and identifying more specific things to modify, crosses the line from useful to creepy.
This page was empty for me, I had to open the Alexa app and do it from there. It isn't clear why, as the random trash alexa misinterpreted and added to our shopping cart was in the alexa cart ok...
Is there an advantage for Spotify to allow 2 more years of copyright-infringing uploads that they have to clean up later?

Is there another plausible reason for Spotify shutting down direct uploads that's unrelated to copyrights?
...and since parent was specifically referring to ebooks:

- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is not available for purchase in the US: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/J_K_Rowling_Harr...

- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is not available for purchase in the UK: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/J_K_Rowling_Harr...

I'm currently in the UK, with a US-based Google account. If I'm logged in, I only see a "buy" button the second link. If I'm not, I only see a "buy" button on the first link... but Google doesn't allow me to complete the purchase, as it forces me to log in and then recognizes that it doesn't sell that ebook to Americans.
This one, TU Eindhoven?

https://www.tue.nl/en/news/news-overview/17-06-2019-tue-vaca...

Where did you read about "18 months"? Sounds like "first 6 months" to me. In my experience searching for good academic staff, especially in fields with a lucrative industry takes ages, so I wouldn't be too sure that there will be a strong discriminatory effect when there are not that many women to recruit anyway.

I agree that this move is not the best one. It will end up sending the wrong signals again, which will just lead to backlash on women working in STEM fields. Attacking with opposite discrimination is certainly a bad temporal fix for an existing systematic bias and the tendency of men to downplay competent women.

However, this tendency costs society a lot. It is a fix at least. Someone listened.

I wouldn't expect that they want to make this permanent once things have equaled out a bit.
I had a pascal turbo vision accounts app. The client decided to share the data between two machines over a 10baseT network. With the exception of an occasional, but fully recoverable write issue (the user just had to retry their last save operation), I didn't have to lift a finger to get it past y2k. Mouse, printer (serial and parallel) were no problems. Good times.
Based on https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/personal-income-ta... some countries have 0% income tax.
I wish I could upvote you twice - I just finished a multi-week effort to unwind (defuse?) some of the resume-driven architectures that were left behind when resume-driven development was successful.
It's safer than a credit card, since payments happen by sending currency (like cash) rather than forking over bank or credit card credentials to a website (the equivalent of forking over private keys)

Why should it be safer than paying by credit card? If a payment is fraudulent it's not my problem and I get refunded. If the service I paid for isn't received or is not as advertised I have the means of a charge back. With crypto no matter how turn it it's gone. And looking at customer service at tech companies I put exactly zero stock that I get help from them. So I think you have that backwards.

Transaction fees are far lower

Says who? We don't know that yet, do we?

Edited to add: I think the comparison between handing over my credit card number to a website with handing over my private keys is beyond ludicrous.
Most likely explanation - nobody was using it. They only introduced it as a beta feature recently, and you have to use a distributor like CDBaby or distrokid to get your music onto other streaming sites anyway, so unless you were only interested in Spotify there was no point
Canada does not, at least not while traveling to the US
Link to original article: https://www.mpg.de/13630963/max-planck-gesellschaft-veroeffe...

I'm hesitant to include "in German" as the summary is chock full of anglicisms such as "mobbing", "dual career", "work-life balance", or "code of conduct" which mean exactly nothing in a scientific context. I'm not trying to downplay any results the survey may be showing, but what is "mobbing" anyway? If you can't think of a satisfactory definition in English, think about the even more diluted meaning of this term in German where there's a habit of brainlessly using anglicisms to hide lack of clarity of thought, and even to make up pseudo-English words.
> I remember being excited about the possibilities of a new, paradigm shifting HDL.

2012 was a long time ago. There are plenty of RISC-V core implementations using Chisel and other "paradigm shifting" HDL tools.
"how some evolutions preclude whole swaths of that space"

If I remember correctly, Kevin Kelly's "Out of Control" introduced me to this idea, of a kind of but not quite meta-evolution:
https://kk.org/mt-files/outofcontrol/ch14-a.html
Middleware might have Metal support but not be used by the game nor tested. And not everyone is going to redo testing and QA on niche backend.
Yeah exactly. Stop being depressed and just be happy! Easy fix. /s
I think bullying and gender issues are just a symptoms of a deeper problem nobody of the responsible likes to admit: academia has a strong hierarchical structure of power which necessarily leads to abuses of this power. We already solved this problem for politics long time ago by inventing democracy.
I think the deal with a lot of those materials is that at the time they were seen as “new” and “modern” and “synthetic”.

Kind of like when aluminum became a du jour metal and things traditionally made from other metals suddenly had to be made with aluminum —nowadays we think of aluminum as cheap and disposable (depending on application), but for s time it was the “Titanium” of its day, and the same for those other materials.
I've asked it here now: https://github.com/timberio/vector/issues/568
This makes sense up to the point about 'the human version of the "contentid" algorithm'.

The record label arrangement makes the record labels the only valid source of original music.

The government issues copyrights. Looks like "human" governance needs to catch up, and issuing agencies need to provide "algorithmic" means to verify the copyright status of any content.

[without wasting too much energy ..]
I think every single person in charge of a production storage system has pulled their hair out for a while dry running these things. If only we built playbooks for our software that showed exactly what to do in these simple failure modes.

This post is a very strange failure mode so it'd probably not be in that guide.
Comparison photos here: https://twitter.com/WSig/status/1146146914985009154
Cars sitting idle 90% of the time is a feature. If my car was utilized 100% of the time then it would wear out within a single year.
It's basically throwing money at a problem and hoping it solves it. But money or funding isn't the problem.
Techcrunch links should be banned imo..
And thus we created the protomolecule...