skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A certain type of store should want that. I doubt a store that spend huge amounts of money in stocking their shelves with books will get as much out of it as a coffee shop.

That said, my local B&N has a Starbucks inside (and a Peets 40 feet away directly across a small street), but I doubt they get more than a small fraction of the revenue from the Starbucks, and at around 4-5 times the floor space as the Peets.
We have no trial version to download right now unfortunately. If you want to try it out feel free to send me an email at julian@effortless.app and I can send you a promo code to download it for free from the app store.
F# Linear algebra with type-level dimensions and static checks
With ad networks you didn't click on some shady link. You just get the malware Javascript served. Without clicking or visiting anything shady. Reputable sites deliver malware through their embedding of ads.

That's not theoretical (like your "but HN could deliver malware, too), that's reality.
Not really.

It‘s mostly a blend of many different tutorials/blog posts/forums on hostapd, raspbian, dnsmasq and the likes.

I took notes during both times when I set this up (first time the sdcard died shortly after, no backup of sorts; second time some changes in drivers, raspbian lite and other tooling were different so I had to start over).

I thought this project would make a good first blog post, maybe I can gist some steps / bullet points next week or so.
All the try(), catch(), and onerr proposal are ugly patchworks. All I need is to be able to skip the != nil and just be able to write: if err { ... }
No backdoor this time, but a private (!) key.

No idea what the private key is used for, but doesn't look like you can use it to log into the device.
Using Image Classification to Build a Digital Forensics Tool
It's uncouth and a rude display of privilege to be smug about the fact that English is by far the most supported language on the Internet.
The 737 MAX is aerodynamically stable. MCAS isn't even active while any flap is extended. MCAS should be active only at angle of attacks, which wouldn't be reached at extreme angle of attacks. The sole purpose of MCAS is to emulate the exact reactions of the older 737 machines in this domain, as this was required for maintaining the same type rating. That is also the reason, the pilots are supposed to deactivate MCAS via the runaway stabilizer checklist. This software isn't required for stable operations of the airplane - Lion air had a MCAS malfunction the day before the crash, but disengaging the electric stabilizers solved the problem and they were able to finish their flight without incidents.
EPA’s Animal Testing Phaseout Could Kill Toxics Regulation
Keep in mind that Firefox is a "user agent", their job is not to make websites happy, it's to make their users happy.

Ad-blocking is a lot like using a DVR, or a VCR. Someone sends you data and you have the right to not view all of that data. The company has the right not to send you the data if you don't pay for it, but they don't have the right to tell you that you must view all of it.
I mostly wanted to question the

> Openssl is known .... for its kitchen sink

and then juxtaposing it with forks of it that retain a lot of its features and compatibility with it.
Any internet engineers privy to what's going on the last few days, at a global infrastructure level?
I agree, this is a bigger and really dense cluster, but remember that e is just the average (mean) cluster size. There will be clusters bigger than it.

My point is simply that our intuition of randomness biases us to see meaning in clusters when there is none in the first place. In other words, we need to intentionally shift our prior on how unlikely this event is. Yes, it's still unlikely, but it's not as unlikely as you would think.
> 82% people in Bangladesh.

82% of Muslims, who are 90% of the population of Bangladesh, so it's 74% of people. Further, only 39% of those 74%, so now we're down to 29% of the population, believe sharia should apply to non-Muslims. I can imagine reasons why even those 29%, much less the other 71%, might not want to vote for an Islamist party. Lastly, I don't know the first thing about Bangladesh politics, but apparently the largest Islamist party was banned from national elections:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Jamaat-e-Islami

Your first link is a torturous opinion piece (oh irony) by a Cato Institute member[1]. I'll leave it at that.

1. https://www.cato.org/people/thomas-firey
Indeed. I love the symmetry of state/national legislation skepticism (pointless, all large jurisdictions need to coordinate) and consumer behavior skepticism (pointless, need to vote for legislators who will pass laws impacting all consumers). It's a dynamic problem; most likely any one individual jurisdiction's or person's particular decision isn't going to change global outcomes, but it's hard to see how to get on a better global path without lots of decisions aiming for that at every level.
TensorFlow Lite Ported to Arduino
You are not alone! I like it too, I’ve never had the reliability issues.
Starts to sound like a library with expensive books when you put it like that.

Of course, the advantage of B&N is that anyone can pop in anywhere. A library doesn't make as much sense in an airport or mall.
False dichotomy. There's certainly a middle ground between allowing corps to get away with whatever they want with a mere slap on the wrist, and fining them into bankruptcy.
I think the technologies we need in order to change culture are in the realm of creative destruction, as in creatively destroying certain structures that keep the economy from working in a coherent way. Three things that come to mind are:

1. Knowledge. Making sure the intellectual richness of humanity is accessible to everyone. The technology is already there but the rent-seekers keep subverting progress through technology, law, and (pseudo-)morality. To address the issue of morality, we should promote the distinction between property and possession, and make sure property is seen as something that is subjected to the interest of society. Hence, why we need limits on intellectual property and other forms of property.

2. Commoditization. This goes back to knowledge from the previous point, but also to complexity in general. The idea is that certain products get turned into commodities (products with uniform standard characteristics that don't require much consumer choice) while others get turned away from being commodities. The process is currently too driven by ignorance/incompetence and greed, and I don't think it is easy to say where one ends and the other starts. So people end up needing three different computers (laptop, TV, cellphone) instead of one that can be adapted to different situations. Or they end up having to buy the entire computer instead of fixing one replacing one part of it. Technology sometimes does not integrate well. The need for choice ends up being created where it should not be. Capital ends up rewarding the unproductive, and the producers find ways to escape the effects of competition. Advertisement very much cultivates the element of ignorance that is behind this process. All the fake choices of food in the supermarket made out of different combinations of the same low quality commoditized ingredients. Meanwhile crops are becoming all the same (3/4 loss of diversity according to the FAO), at the expense of nutrition and adaptability. Life is becoming uniform in order to adapt to the machine. It's a long subject, if anyone knows of a good author that treats it I'd be interested in reading her.

3. Debt. The debt based economy introduces a paradox, by which too little scarcity is dangerous, because it means that products cannot be converted into enough money to pay the banks. This is clearly a big obstacle to progress. In practice it makes us act as if employment and economic growth are more important that health and soil. We need to come up with ways that allow people exchange the fruits of their work without relying on debt or on so-called liquidity. The availability of goods and service should be enough to allow their exchange not some abstract concept of "health" of the financial system. I think digital currencies can move us in this direction.

In summary let us make the economy work by taking into account the ecosystem, rewarding work and creativity above capital ownership. In the last two points, I see a lot of opportunity for promoting closer human and ecologic relations at the local level.
Dude that's horrible.

Let me try to be delicate.

Those "police" should fear ubiquitous surveillance, not you.

We have to exercise our democratic power to make sure that e.g. Internal Affairs can find and deal with criminals who have infiltrated police.
Consider also that dogs have a shorter generation time than humans. Most dogs have eaten a grain-based diet ever since their domestication, because it's cheapest.
Funnily enough, I've used Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 for a decade, and its split design forced me to learn touch typing because I've always tried to cross that gap and landed in the split.

Also after getting used to it, it was one of the most reliable and comfortable keyboards that I've ever used. However, I've eventually wore it down and its keys started to get heavier. So, I moved to G710+, and I'm very happy now.
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.

I don't even know if fourth of Fifth is confirmation.
Apple Store Connect is down for while
"Clever" is not exactly the word I would choose to describe the situation.
Good article about often overlooked aspect of our devices.
Sure non-profits can probably put hundreds of dollars a month towards mailchimp. But don't you think that some non-profits would rather put that money towards whatever their non-profit is about? I don't get what's so hard to believe about that.
I note that you didn’t answer the question. It may (or may not) be reasonable to want a Big Swinging Dick military that goes around devastating third world nations, but it isn’t defense.
Specific question: are the keyboard shortcuts accessible from anywhere? If so, using them would mean I couldn’t close a browser tab or reload a page, because it would be forwarded to Effortless instead, right?
Agree on supporting Rust Analyzer. The project recently published an update[1] on the status and future plans.

[1] https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/rust-analyzer-status-openco...
"He and an army of volunteers have over the years gathered as many as 80 million insects that are now floating in countless ethanol bottles."

Ah, that's where the insects went!
Thanks for the clear statement of the distinction! I only knew "facetious" (and always with the sense you state), so my vocabulary is bigger now.
What's with the commas at the start of lines?
Good Idea, I will try that
Universal Basic Income: The Economic Value of Post-Scarcity
Also “notification” was spelt incorrectly on that screenshot too
Maybe some submarines are cutting some deep sea cables? In actuality it's probably massive backbone upgrades that are classified, the NSA has to obtain real-time data from somewhere.
A carbon tax would indeed have been great, but unfortunately what was proposed was cap-and-trade and a bunch of "green jobs" pork. Better than nothing, possibly, but even so as likely to affect the international consensus as a zero-emission Oregon to affect the global temperature.
I'm doing everything I can in my own yard: growing vegetables without pesticides/herbicides, growing wildflowers/natural fauna in the majority of our gardens, etc.

And I'm growing sympathy for insects in my children! My daughter is obsessed with ants and we're getting into my childhood hobby of farming ants.

Etymology is almost as cool as mycology. I love insects, arachnids, and all of our crawly little friends!
Would love that for iOs, or an iPad Os widget. <3
I'm actually sad I do all my dev stuff via blink.sh now :(
The Japanese during WWII, critically short of petroleum (consequence of US submarine patrols) experimented with producing aviation fuel from pine root turpentine.

The practice would have required immense numbers of trees (the number 1,000, per flight, comes to mind), and denuded forests.

It's not clear if the method was used militarily, though there's some documentation that turpentine fuels were used by civilians at the time (http://www.smokeriders.com/History/Honda_History/body_honda_....

Source: Daniel Yergin, The Prize.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/prize-the-epic-quest-for-oil-...
If that is a problem, I'd rather have it sync with something like nextcloud instead of just another flavor of untrusted proprietary service.
> In this environment will meaningful[1] political action even be possible?

No.

Anything else you want to know?
Makes it easier when commenting out. Use this trick for SQL and JS too (to prevent trailing comma issue)
Stories like this are often instigated by someone inside the organization with an agenda. They reach out to a journalist, give some quotes anonymously, and put them in touch with others in the company that are allies and will also give supporting quotes.

This article feels like an article designed to pressure Marc Lore to leave.

Losing $1B on $22B in revenue, after just 3 years of really starting this bet is nothing!
It's also worth noting that there were two 717s, the first was indeed part of the 720 & 707 family. (it was the 'commercial' designation of the C-135 when sold to france for use as a tanker)
This is a common convention in some languages, most often functional languages in my experience. I associate it most with OCaml.

So it's not so surprising to see it here, seeing as Dhall is written in Haskell.
Nassim Taleb authored a paper arguing essentially the same thing, only he corrected for population size:

https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/pinker.pdf
It's a very interesting checklist, but I wonder if there's (m)any startups that make it to due diligence and then fail to (literally) check the right boxes.

Disclosure: I'm on the technical advisory board of round2cap.com where I also do technical due diligence.
> This seems like classic short-term thinking in an ossified organization.

Yeah, unfortunately this is very common. There are good reasons for this. If you're a public company, your financial health is being constantly scrutinized by wall street which will punish your stock price (and thus, executive compensation as well). Which incentivizes short term planning, and long term investments need to pay some sort of dividend, or else it will become a closely scrutinized and wildly unpopular.
Not to be facetious, but why exactly do you trust Apple to delete your data after some time? What has Apple done or said to earn your trust? Genuinely curious.
No blog post yet but I'm happy to answer any specific questions here. Effortless is a fairly simple app although there were some tricky edge cases to handle like when the task name is too long for the menu bar (especially when dealing with multiple monitors), and how to update the current task in the menu bar when making large edits to the task list. Making the app simple to use and cutting down the list of features to the bare essentials was also a process that involved a lot of iterations and talking with early users.

I learned Swift and native Mac app development in order to develop Effortless and have since fallen in love with Swift. It has replaced Python as my language of choice for many tasks.
And if you make change to easy, you get weird Frankenstein technology stacks urdened with technical debt, so you need competent managers to hit a good middle ground. And you need competent executives that can set good goals and provide enough resources to achieve them.

Basically, you need competent people at every level. That said, since the competence of a level is directly controlled by the level above it, I guess it does just boil down to bad execs now or at some point in the past (or a good strategy not just working. The world isn't that deterministic).
This is the larger problem. There are plenty of aero engineers that are brilliant programmers yet the reverse is a much smaller number. Add to that, aeros that can code are far more expensive than software engineers, it becomes easy to see why they outsource to software people.
This is also perfectly normal for the Internet, yes? If you have a server with an IPv4 address, expect many attempts per day.
Just be sure you read decent, science based material on the BARF diet rather than just anicdotal forum post and people pitching their 'alternative' products. I've seen a very large cross section of pro-"raw food" and anti-vax attitudes in pet owners. That should be a huge red flag. Not that raw food is necessarily bad, but that the people pushing it are not often critical thinkers.

https://avmajournals.avma.org/doi/full/10.2460/javma.243.11....
Read Statuses (Superhuman)
I agree mostly with the sceptic takes on human nature. One thing that rubs me the wrong way, and I think is increasingly common when 'human nature' and also evolution is utilised, is a very hard determinism, increasingly popular in some political circles. Such as "if science discovers this or that about human nature, we'll have a much better grip on how humans behave or ought to behave".

But this disregards the dynamism that is central to acquiring knowledge. Once we understand "human nature" if it at all meaningfully exists, this also opens the door to manipulation, which destabilizes the whole enterprise to begin with.
> Are you talking about Samsung Fold? Because they didn't sold not even 1 of that.

Eh, true - but only because the test units sent out to media outlets and tech journalists started breaking[0].

> You should be careful what you wish for. If companies were fined billions of dollars for faulty products, in a couple of years you'll have nothing to complain about. And not because everything will be amazing.

> Just imagine if Microsoft/Apple/"Linux" was fined 1 billion for every major flaw in their OS. Are you personally willing to accept $1 mil liability for any major flaw in the software you wrote in the past?

I don't think that's what the parent commenter was asking for, they specifically called out the marketing claims. Which, I think, is completely fair. re: folding and waterproof devices, Samsung intentionally marketed those features of the devices and well, they don't really work. True, they never actually sold the folding devices, but it was because of the feedback from testers, not something their internal quality control caught.

I definitely don't think every software/hardware company should be fined $1M-1B for major flaws, but if you're deliberately marketing a feature which either doesn't exist (salt-waterproofing) or doesn't work (folding) either intentionally or due to QA/QC negligence on your part... I definitely think you should be fined for misleading consumers.

I won't comment on their batteries - Samsung never marketed their phones based on how safe their batteries are.

But Samsung has been repeatedly caught using stock photos from a DSLR and representing those as images captured by the cameras on their phones[1]. I'd certainly say they should be fined for that - that's intentionally misleading consumers re: the capability of the product.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/22/18510871/samsung-galaxy-f...

[1] https://petapixel.com/2018/12/05/samsung-caught-using-dslr-p...
Ask HN: Resources for Learning about Energy
Title is intentionally open-ended. I want to be way more educated about how our energy infrastructure works, the role of energy in society, the pros and cons of each form of energy, and so on. Any book, podcast, course, forum, and so on about anything within the realm of energy is fair game and welcome. Thank you.
Harari is an academic, and includes a copious bibliography in his Notes section, which would be a good start.
Wait... so you're not part of a massive global conspiracy? :(
I have the 13" late 2013 Macbook Pro i7, 8GB. It is working perfectly fine, and as fast as it was on day one. Never replaced a single thing, and never had to do hard-drive wipe. The only problem I have is that, it is a 512GB SSD, and I have no free space left.
Actually there are not many actual conspiracies listed there.

I will start :

- All the companies in the list are getting rid of their Huawei dependencies, replacing routers by domestic ones.

- China is flexing its muscles in the trade war : look, we are creating some instability in your e-commerce. Wait until we attack your infra ( electricity, water )
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Donating to Cool Earth: https://www.coolearth.org/

So far, 2,800 trees saved, equivalent to taking 595 cars off the road for a year.
I mean, he wasn’t wrong to argue that war was irrational, he was wrong in assuming that the leadership of the time was rational..
Google for “medical startups in $my_area.”
Opsian Talks to Aleksey Shipilëv about JDK Updates
> I've been looking for a Linux laptop with similar specs to an mbp but it simply doesn't exist.

I don't believe you've been thorough enough in your search.

Great Linux laptops are often deceivingly marketed as Windows laptops, and you should expect the pricing to be similar to the MacBook.
Berkeley University website on physical rotations
DOCX, XLSX are also just ZIP files with the extension renamed.
I don't get why you'd build a language in 2019 which disallows a trailing comma in lists.
In other words, they don't have a way for consumers to set a retention policy, like businesses typically do for email. You have to delete things manually.

It seems pretty clear that there are lots of people who want this and I'd be surprised if more companies don't start doing it. Snapchat made its name with auto-deleting videos.
There is one global keyboard shortcut that is available everywhere, and that can be changed from the preferences window. You can change this shortcut to be something that doesn't conflict with any of your existing shortcuts. The other shortcuts only work once you've pressed the global shortcut. So for example, if your global shortcut is (the default) ⌘E, to open the task list you would press ⌘E and while still holding down command press F.