skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny because McDonald’s is now featuring items here in the US that are popular overseas. Currently they are featuring a Grand McExtreme Bacon Burger from Spain and a Stroopwaffel McFlurry from the Netherlands.
> accountable for any problems and for waste cleanup

These are companies, not people... $10 buck says if one of these things hits your roof, Amazon will just give you a $100 gift card to Amazon.com
So basically every nation today is gearing up for their "great Internet firewall" and those entities which resist are "Internet villains".
https://kopi.cloud

It's an email forwarder that lets you hand out burner addresses so companies/sites don't have your real email address. Kopi supports replying to messages too - so you can have whole conversations without giving out your real address.

Not just useful for website signups etc. - it can also be part of a strategy for de-googling yourself.

You can re-direct specific mail forwarders to publish mail as an RSS feed (useful for Github, StackOverflow, etc.)

Just finished implementing "bring your own domain" functionality, so you don't have to be locked in to the Kopi domains.
"standard StarLink"?

StarLink doesn't exist yet, and when it does, it doesn't seem unreasonable to think that two satellite constellation providers could serve the HFT market and both be profitable.
> Starlinks costs per unit bandwidth are almost certainly far lower

Interesting, how do you know that?
This is already achievable using annotations in Java or attributes in C#, in a less verbose way. You just tag your method parameter with `@Valid` or `[Valid]` or what have you, and the framework you're using automatically ensures that the validations you specified on the data model are valid at that point in time.
As well as the other methods in this thread, check out Windows Privacy Dashboard. It's got a simple toggle to turn off almost everything ad/privacy/telemetry related you can think off.

https://wpd.app/
Record and book stores as well.
Right, I made this point kinda of in another comment. It really depends on how you want to frame the conversation. I agree with the general argument that randomly stopping and questioning people because a computer hit sucks, but knowing UK law enforcement they likely politely stopped the suspects and asked to see ID. Once they provided ID they were free to go on about their business. This technology is catching a ton of people that would otherwise not be caught.
There is a tool to generate YAML from Dhall, but there are also language bindings for Ruby, JVM, and Haskell with more on the way. I don't think generating YAML will be a main use case for long.
Yes, clearly suggesting limiting reproduction is equivalent to suggesting a person should kill themselves /sarcasm.

Many of the world's problems are a result of overpopulation. It is not an unreasonable point to make that individuals reducing reproduction world wide could help.

P.s. no need to now reply to me explaining how impossible / impractical / unfair / unimplementable such a suggestion might be.
I just don't understand how people continue to believe that Bigfoot exists. The footage from the 1970s, once stabilized, looks embarrassingly like a man in a gorilla suit. Plus they admitted their faking it. The fact people still believe this makes me understand exactly how conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers believe what they do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q60mSMmhTZU
Very interesting, McDonnel Douglas was the company that gave us the DC10. I particular remember that since they weighed up the legal costs of when it would crash with applying a fix; rather short sighted.

https://www.designnews.com/aerospace/designed-disaster-dc-10...
People used to working with software usually fail to appreciate how slow and expensive building real infrastructure is. It's just a lot of hard work of the "Dirty Jobs" variety. Obtain building permits. Upgrade local grids to handle the load. Dig trenches. Run cables. Install chargers. And then deal with ongoing maintenance from environmental exposure and vandalism. All of that will take years and years regardless of the potential benefits.
Coding and Poetry – Writing both allowed me to create a unique style
I know of "towns" that are the ~4th largest city in the state. Their economy is tourism based calling themselves a town and having a town style government fits their brand image better.
I tried factorio several times and it didn't click for me as a 'crack' game. And I'm a software engineer, and I've loved computers since I was 5, and I spend most of my free time on my computer.

I didn't learn to write code until I was in my late teens although. Ultimately I've found factorio a rather tedious game, that kind of reminds me of my job. I also tend to not code things for fun, seeing how it will ultimately turn into a large project I won't have time to maintain. Kind of like how mechanics don't like maintaining their own cars.

It makes me wonder sometimes.
Chef behind ‘dark kitchen’ says UberEats made him ‘invisible’, leaving him broke
May I draw your attention to my old comment here, as well as (more importantly), the entire thread of even older comments /it/ links to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19959687

Which I shall also link to directly, but the above also has some relevance:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19864808

See especially here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19867532

And here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19867467
Is electric AWD more like a low-end AWD (like Haldex) or can it actually compete with quattro?
The ITU is the international body that assists with coordination among nations and their satellite systems.
> in particular, there is no interpreter/library to ingest Dhall from the configured application itself

Not true. Perhaps this needs to be highlighted more prominently on the homepage. There are directly language bindings for Ruby, Haskell, and the JVM with more on the way.
Ask HN: How to access user's computer from website using client-side program?
I want to create a website and a client-side program that would allow me to perform some arbitrary task (processing an image, computing a gradient, etc.) in the user's computer when they visit my website. It is important that I am using the user's CPU to perform the task rather than a separate server. After cursory research, I believe this is possible with a client-side program (such as a remote desktop connection), but I am not sure how to approach this problem the best way since I am new to networking/servers. How would you recommend I approach this problem and how would I build such a program?

If you're interested in why I am trying to do this, look here: https://github.com/ktian08/decentralized-labor/blob/master/README.md
OK, I guess you need Born's Rule, too. But so does every other interpretation, including the Copenhagen one. My uneducated guess is that there's some geometric reason for it that hasn't been discovered yet.

> to get the same predictions you have to put the collapse back in somehow.

This part is just not true. There's no collapse and no formal "measurement" in MWI. You seem like you might have some misconceptions about MWI. I would urge you to read more about it rather than discussing it with amateurs on HN.
Same thing happened in the UK with BT.

Usual privatise the profits, socialise the costs.
Fake Samsung firmware update app tricks more than 10 million Android users
I assume - I don't know, but my guess is the 81% are simply quickly stopped asked to prove their identification. Once they show their drivers license or any other basic form of ID that proves they are not the suspect they are free to go. I highly highly doubt they are detained, frisked, or even slight questioned beyond being asked to proof who they are. To me, that seems reasonable. In fact I've been randomly asked to show my ID in various countries - cop simply stopped me and asked me to show my identification.
BlueKeep vulnerability scans detected last 24 hours
Right, which is why my example used its cousin, apply, instead of lapply. apply over the row margins of a data frame does not have an equivalent in tidyverse.
Taxing Multinational Corporations in the 21st Century
They're playing the (somewhat) long game. While the portion of the world that doesn't internet access right now is generally poor, adding an internet connection to that populace will drastically speed up their development. This then gives Amazon new customers.

Their options are either wait around for 3rd world governments to build the infrastructure to get them those customers, or do it themselves faster.
I cannot imagine a stronger endorsement of DNS-over-HTTPS than the content of this article.

How do I set my router to proxy all outgoing DNS to HTTPS?
Neural Image Captioning
A lot of the problems with the original that were blamed on bad power supplies were probably issues with the Pi itself, to be fair. For example, as originally released connecting any USB keyboard or mouse would cause the onboard USB hub to fall over after a while due to a spec violation. There was a long list of supported and broken devices on the wiki, with the non-working ones being accused of drawing too much power, but in reality the problem affected every USB keyboard and mouse. When someone's Pi fell over despite using supposedly tested and working devices, guess what was blamed next? That's right, the power supply they were using. Inadequate power supplies became a handy scapegoat for every single Pi reliablility issue.

(Eventually, some outside engineer with a USB analyzer got fed up enough to track down that issue. The Pi Foundation didn't spot it. They almost never do.)
Two rings, one with 3 colors and one with 2 colors? Seems pretty simple.

"2018 MacBook Pros support green-purple for the highest feature set"

Far simpler than things people use every day: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_color_code
The summary from Techmeme is solid:

A Google Play app called “Updates for Samsung”, with 10M+ installs and no affiliation with Samsung, tricks users into paying $35/year to download firmware updates.
Yes, I was asking for their meaning there, not trying to discuss the borderline meaninglessness of the word.
Both Clojure and Eta bindings should allow really anything on the JVM to consume directly.
Stopped reading after reading main() returning doesn't end the (interactive) program and you have to manually hookup a signal, otherwise the program will continue running indefinitely. Seems error prone and very counterintuitive to me.
"This doing of something about disputes, this doing of it reasonably, is the business of the law. And the people who have the doing of it in charge, whether they be judges or sheriffs or clerks or jailers or lawyers, are officials of the law. What these officials do about disputes is, to my mind, the law itself.
...
And rules, in all of this, are important to you so far as they help you see or predict what judges will do or so far as they help you to get judges to do something. That is their importance. That is all their importance, except as pretty playthings."

Also see:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-07/the-fe...

...in which Matt Levine juxtaposes the concepts of going by rules versus what he calls "legal realism".
Y Combinator’s own Garry Tan tried it with posterious and is so far succeeding with posthaven:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Tan

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous

https://posthaven.com

Our pledge to you: We'll never get acquired. We'll never shut down. You pay. We keep the lights on.

What would it be like to make a service that lasts for 10 years? 100 years? That’s what we’re trying to build at Posthaven. We’re as sick as you are to have to switch services every few years, or worry about running your own servers and getting hacked all the time.

To do that, it’ll take a small team of engineers who quietly maintain the software like a constant gardener, quietly doing the right things over time.

That’s us.

Simple, easy blogs for $5 a month, forever.
Final trailing comma is not in the standard yet, but will be soon
> Having a filter of you have to bother to register and bother playing a small a fee means you get to decide if it is worthwhile or not.

Sure, but my point is that there a number of cases where having to make that decision doesn't really have good results. When you're a professional you can make a point of explicitly copyrighting everything. When you're just some random person posting stuff on the internet because you think it's cool (like, if you write a short story in a Reddit comment), you are not realistically going to bother to copyright it all simply due to the inconvenience (and if you have to pay a fee you're certainly not going to), so I don't think requiring this has good results in this case.

> This system worked quite well before implicit copyright.

I mean, certainly it did, no question there, but I'm wondering if we can do even better by getting the advantages of both. I'm not sure your replies are addressing this point, really. Like, could you give an example of a case where my proposal would seriously fail at the goal of preventing a copyright snarl?
Seeing as the tidyverse is pretty much your invention, its well within your purvue to define what is in and what is out. I do think, respectfully, that both the op and the general sentiment article have the right of it.

Data.table and data.table-esque notation represent such an improvement of tibble/dplyr, that within my company, we're making a concerted effort to purge all tidyverse packages from general use (less ggplot). When new developers come on, if they are coming from tidyverse, their first task will be something involving pipes and data.table. Tidyverse was fine in school. It doesn't pass muster in production, at least not in our work.

Data.table syntax is simpler, easier to read, easier to teach, and orders of magnitude faster. It plays nicer with other packages than the tidyverse (if it fits into a DF, it almost always fits into a DT, and i've never met a tibble that I didn't wish was a data.table), and since almost all of our datasets are 10's to 1000's of millions of lines long, the decision was really made for us.
Nah, is good only in a very narrow specific sense but is still damaging in the big scheme of things; by perpetuating the "lobbying-based-democracy" instead of trying to achieve actual democracy (as in vote for nature conservancy, vote for better education, etc)
ROFL.

That's possibly so, but for MSFT that's the pot calling the kettle black.

MSFT has a very long history of ripping off stuff. Especially from its partners, and especially in the mid to late 1990s.

Among others: (From Wikipedia)

STAC: STAC's File compression stolen to be released as MSFT's DoubleSpace.

Sendo: Microsoft was to deliver code for the StingerOS by June ... but by December not enough code had been delivered by Microsoft. Under the deal, if Sendo was declared insolvent "Microsoft would obtain an irrevocable, royalty free licence to use Sendo's Z100 intellectual property, including rights to make, use, or copy the Sendo Smartphone to create other Smartphones and to, most importantly for Microsoft, sublicense those rights to third parties."
I thought the same about defect free LCD panels. Now they are cheap enough to make a house out of them and they have replaced billboards that used to be made from paper.

One thing that has changed is the structural value of the roof of a car. In the olden days the roof was a vital part of the safety cell. Now it is not quite the same. The A-pillar has been toughened up and the engineering for the roof is different, hence the all-glass affair on the Tesla Model 3 and other marques.

Elon Musk said there was no point in having solar panels on the car and that those would be best kept roadside for generating power that goes into the grid.

He was right.

But you are not going to persuade your supermarket to cover their entire parking lot with solar cells so your car can park in the cool shade underneath them whilst getting free power.

If solar cells can be as good as printed and be an integral plart of a car in the place of steel, paint, glass or carbon-fibre then they don't have to make commercial sense in the rational way that Elon Musk outlines. When I get my EV campervan in 2025 I hope the roof is festooned with solar panels that are not some bolt on but integrated into the design. If I am parked up somewhere and they give me enough power to make myself a cup of tea and power my laptop then I would be happy with that. If they were a $5K option then they would also be a $3K add-on to the resale value of the campervan. If I kept the van for ten years then $200 a year for that month of use I get out of the van might be more expensive than supercharging the EV for pennies but I would still just like having such a space age feature.

Nothing really makes sense with autos. There isn't such a thing as a stripped down utilitarian auto. It is all a matter of degree. Some people pay for carbon-fibre cup holders. Or fake carbon fibre hood scoops. Or extra titanium bits for the exhaust. Or, perhaps more relevant, a cabriolet top that retracts at the touch of a button at speeds up to 25 mph. If that makes sense to people - and it does - then solar cells on the bonnet and roof can easily be foisted onto the marketplace.
The bigger issue is all these satellites outnumbering the total number stars visible from Earth. It has astronomers worried.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/01/science/starlink-spacex-a...
Toyota Prius had (has?) something similar. They had this add on where they install a 100W panel on the roof to run the car fan to vent outside air in and inside air out. One of my coworkers had it and the car temperature was significantly lower during the summer days during lunch.
At a previous job the most exchanged part was powersupplies for routers and fiberconverters. For some shipments we had more than 50% failure.
There's a semantics issue at play here. Buried about halfway down the article is this:

"One obvious question is what people mean by “political correctness.” In the extended interviews and focus groups, participants made clear that they were concerned about their day-to-day ability to express themselves: They worry that a lack of familiarity with a topic, or an unthinking word choice, could lead to serious social sanctions for them. But since the survey question did not define political correctness for respondents, we cannot be sure what, exactly, the 80 percent of Americans who regard it as a problem have in mind."

In other words, the anxiety is not "oh god I'll have to treat people with basic respect." The anxiety is "oh god they'll cancel me if I make an honest mistake," and possibly "the ensuing social dynamics will mean I'll be out of a job."

I'm a trans woman. I get misgendered a lot. Trust me when I say that we can tell, by and large, when it's an honest mistake. The people who are doing it just to be malicious are easy to spot.

I'm about as far left as they come and I think "cancel culture," by which I mean the practice of cutting off everyday, actual social interactions with people who say something wrong, is the real problem here. You see it a lot on Twitter, especially leftist Twitter, because there are a lot of people who use social media explicitly to harass others, and so people who don't want to be harassed adjust their priors accordingly and quickly. And, yes, some people do it for the social clout of showing off how woke they are.

I think the fact that people are expressing this specific anxiety, rather than spewing obvious racism, says they want to do better but fear they aren't being given the chance. This is irrational.

If people correct you, they are giving you a chance. They're not going to turn around and tell their friends that you messed up, except maybe to vent. It won't spread like a rumor. That's all in your head. If people cut off contact with you because of one thing you said, continuing to worry about it or spend time with them probably isn't beneficial to you anyway.

On the other hand, if you want to be in someone's good graces, maybe you should listen to them when they tell you how to address them.

We call it "political correctness" because of politicians. We hold politicians (and writers) to one standard _precisely because they have the time to compose what they want to say._ We do not hold our friends to the same standard.
> Are Puerto Ricans not Americans?

Well... sort of? The short answer is yes, of course they are. But I don't think they quite view themselves as the same as other US citizens exactly. Both US and Puerto Rican courts have repeatedly recognized Puerto Rican citizenship as distinct from US Citizenship, as does the EU. Spain, for an example, allows Puerto Rican citizens to become Spanish citizens after living in Spain only two years (as opposed to ten years for other US citizens). The CIA World Fact Book defines the people of Puerto Rico as "Puerto Rican (US Citizenship)", as opposed to the entry for the US which defines the people as "American".

Considering that statehood movements in Puerto Rico have historically been dismal, I suspect they like to be straddling the line of being "American".

I'm not sure who would find financial or other benefit from acquiring Puerto Rico from the US, and independence votes there have been even more unpopular than statehood votes. So I don't think they'll be separating from the US any time soon. But after much rhetoric from Trump and other Republican politicians, I'm sure there are plenty of right wing folks that would delight in seeing them go.
I think this is great advice and I tend to agree with it.

However, TechLead has recently given me pause. He spun up his YouTube channel and then quickly monetized it by dropping Paypal links into the video descriptions. He later made a video talking about doing this and how he thought it was a waste for people wanting to sell dresses, for example, to build a site with a cart and checkout, etc, instead of just selling right where their audience already was.

At the size his channel is now, I think it's a bit crazy of him not to have a site, but he's had larger success as an entrepreneur than I have thus far...
If this is the video I'm thinking of (I can't watch it at the moment), on the "Half as Interesting" (?) channel, I'd suggest checking out the other videos on this channel as well as the "Wendover Productions" channel (both by the same guy, AFAICT) if you found this one interesting.

I just discovered these two channels in the last week or so and there's a lot of interesting (to me) videos on them.
https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/c9fwby/why_d...

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Yeah, agreed entirely. It's not the best document. But "solar panels never killed anyone" just turns out to be not true is all. It turns out everything has risks. I find post-construction rooftop solar to be a perfectly acceptable risk, personally. Grid-scale solar not on rooftops is even better.
There's no ID requirement in the UK[1]. Driving licence forms a de facto ID for those who have one, but you don't even need to carry it when driving, let alone when walking! So potentially gets far more involved, and yet another small chip is taken from those Peelian principles (Policing by consent by citizens in uniform).

[1] There's several voluntary ID schemes for younger folks to prove they're old enough to be in a bar, buy alcohol or cigarettes etc.
I think any one making the point of speed of development have seriously missed the boat. Lets be real: tibbles suck. Once you get the hang of data.table syntax for matrix operations, its superiority becomes impeccably clear.

I run a data science group a large geospatial company and we develop day in and day out in R and python. We've purged tidyverse as much as possible from all of our code base. We've moved completely over to data.tables, which make the vast majority of the tidyverse irrelevant.
As you can see from his skeptical remarks about Gaia consciousness in this post, he's pretty sane, despite sounding weird. I've enjoyed reading his blog The Archdruid Report, which I'm disappointed to see he deleted.