skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if we'll see more standardization in electric vehicles so that fire departments don't need specific vehicle training to know what to cut and where.

Although we haven't seen that yet with hybrids (that also contain potentially hazardous batteries) that have been around longer.
Trump's Social Media Summit and Me
Depends on if the contract allows it or not. Companies sometimes prohibit this due to non-disclosure agreements or security concerns.
Can you really put a number on this level of skill and productivity?
I think the immoral part was that he would do the interview and get the job, and then hire someone else to actually do the work, which he submitted under his own name.

He wasn't honest with the companies that the work product was not his.
Which 40W lasercutter is 300 USD? The cheapest models I know (4040) are 800 USD + taxes.
I like that Bellard released the source code in old school tar format rather than on github. The world's code collaboration platform is of little use to the world's best programmer.

Hopefully QuickJS won't discourage the author of Duktape from making future releases of his incredible small low-memory JS engine.
That's horrifying
Might not want to post that here if you intend on keeping that account - https://www.upwork.com/legal#noncircumvention
No, I was indeed talking about guix.
Technology can help Africa's farmers
This comment and most replies use "carrier" as shorthand for "carrier and/or manufacturer". This looks funny to me because my carrier is T-Mobile and doesn't add bloatware AFAICT. Using "manufacturer" as the shorthand would make more sense to me.
That's a pretty standard range for high level consultants. Bellard can definitely bill well above that, if there are tasks that require his talent.
Would also be interesting to see how this GC runs in threaded or multi-instance environment. For example, Nim (the language) can produce libs by having them link to one dynamic lib containing the RT. Other compilers, like Crystal, don't support this outright.
I'm using Airflow for a lot of critical tasks and it works really well. But I agree that Python may not be the best language to implement a workflow engine.
How much tax is enough tax?
Samsung started as a grocery store.
I don't think you can use "no human discriminated against them" as a defense. It could still be constructive discrimination.
3/4 years clearly means "3 or 4 years" and not three-quarters of a year. MS Word probably autocorrected 3/4 to ¾.
In contrast, Apple did forbid carriers to block software updates in it's contracts with them.

It's a matter of who you think your customers are.

Google sides with advertisers, device makers, and carriers and not it's end users.
I think the answer here depends on how much trust you have for the different levels of tech in your phone. If you don't trust anything, the answer is install a hardware switch for the microphone or cover it with a sound blocker when you're not talking (just like if you don't trust your laptop's camera, put a piece of tape on it). If you trust the hardware, but not the OS, install something like Lineage to replace stock. If you trust the OS, but not the apps, uninstall any app that might have access to the microphone (especially "bad actor" apps like Facebook) and only use web versions.
One of the game-breaking things about the older JavaScriptCore engine on Android was that when I debug on Chrome, it has a totally different engine (V8) so, there were code that ran correctly when debugging but crashed on-device.

Will Hermes be able to solve this debugging issue?
Ask HN: How do you find new trends and innovations in science and technology?
Hi HN, I'm looking for websites that you go to for new trends, technologies, innovations, and research. There's a bunch of "trend-watching" sites, but I don't find them useful, scientific enough or easy to read.

My favorites are probably https://www.sciencedaily.com/ and https://www.psychologytoday.com/ but I'd love more tech and science related sites.

Thanks for any suggestions!
Ask HN: How to write copy that converts?
I sell online courses (related to mental health). Most of my content is free, and this is the only thing I sell.

I'd like to know if there are any good resources (books/articles or just wisdom etc) that have helped you.

How important is copy on your landing page? And what are some tips that helped you convert more?
And almost everything that makes Android what it is outside of China is also closed source - Google Play Services and the drivers.
Well it works better than osmosis..
Isn't this a solved problem already by putting cameras in space?
> The Komsomolets sank in the Norwegian Sea in 1989 after a fire on board killed 42 sailors.
People are worth what most companies are willing to pay them.
Exactly why having a simple to set up platform is valuable. It allows you to focus on the things that create the product or visibility of the product.
Why isn't the solution then to force all companies doing business in France to register with the French government and pay taxes on the portion of revenues derived from France?
Hiring Remote Teams
Note this is from the perspective of a security decision maker, like an IT administrator. Policy-wise, users can't be forced or trusted to create excellent passwords on their own.

But as an individual, your passwords do matter. It makes a world of a difference to use a password manager and long, completely random passwords - such passwords are immune to all sorts of cracking attempts, and using them can often make MFA unnecessary/redundant (though using MFA always reduces your personal attack surface).
I agree that moving away from one-person-one-vote creates a market that incentivizes passion, whether angry or not. Even false passion. The people that disagree tend to talk about "greater social utility". I just don't think there's a way to reliably measure degree of passion without falling into self-worth questions. Like, someone wise might want to avoid confrontation, someone idiotic might have a trumped-up sense of self-importance. (No pun intended honestly.) One-person-one-vote is the best way we've come up with to avoid that, treating every voter as having equal worth.
You can get SIMs from carriers that allow you to forward the traffic to a VPN server of your choice (often used in enterprise to make mobile devices part of the internal network without a battery-consuming on-device VPN client).

If you’re in the UK a company called Andrews & Arnold (no affiliation besides being a longtime customer & reseller) provides those out of the box with no setup fees and an “okay” price per megabyte of data. Otherwise get in touch with carriers but I think most of them would have a setup fee.
I've used Privacy for a while absolutely everywhere and never run into a problem getting the card accepted. Who doesn't take them?
Filling Backyard Pool with 20 Gallons of Dish Soap
Is there a newer channel to compare to?
I think it comes down to economic warfare. The us abuses it with its allies and thats just retaliation.

Herés a video in french explaining it better than i can: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dejeVuL9-7c

Maybe YT knows how to translate live ? (Nlp + gtranslate ?)

My point is: in order to understand this chess move (and judge for yourself whether its a smart one or not), you have to understand the previous moves on the board (from « allies » and « ennemies », or just « economic partners » as de gaulle would say).
Lets ask a reasonable question: who wants the zoom webserver running on their systems providing a backdoor.
My company uses Upwork (as a services buyers) for hundreds of contracted hours per week, and have been for many years. We’ve never required any contractor to use screen recording for hourly work — that is optional — and have never heard of anyone using a webcam. We’ve also never disputed a single hour of work that a contractor has billed, nor have we heard any of the dozens of contractors we’ve hired mention this as an issue.

I think you might be extrapolating from a single bad data point (never a good idea, especially for a data scientist) and reaching an incorrect conclusion about the Upwork ecosystem.
Awesome work! Excited to see all the apps popping up based on Blockstack.

Your trailblazing with the SEC is impressive, thank you. I’m unfamiliar with Reg A — after the one year lock, can I transfer Blockstack tokens freely to someone else?

Do you see a future where Blockstack tokens are no longer considered a security?
> This holds for all businesses, not just large tech companies. So why is the tax focused on the latter?

Because they are those who could and had the resources (legal and financial teams) to avoid said taxes, until now, and they happily did so (ie billing through Luxembourg or Irish post boxes). Not that I'd condemn it. Countries and laws were just to slow in catching up.

Most other businesses couldn't (and still can't) go around playing with loopholes because they don't have the means to and most of their goods are, well... physical.
> he was constantly surrounded by large bodyguards

This (and indeed, the Coldstream Guards more generally) appear to be a recurrent problem for French leaders:

https://s-i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/237977/slide_237...
There's at least two years of work in there as Fabrice Bellard's side project. This would mean about ~10-15 man-years of full-time work for a small team of experienced engineers, which is about what it took for jerryscript:

https://github.com/jerryscript-project/jerryscript

Granted, the targets aren't exactly the same (micro-controllers vs very small lib), but benchmark differences are impressive:

https://bellard.org/quickjs/bench.html
No one that gives it more than a passing thought could fail to realize that there has to be some human interaction. Someone has to do manual transcription to check against output for some portion of the data.
Most of the time, the app's directory in Application Support has the per-user configuration files. And games put their saves there. In both cases, I really don't mind the files staying. I can always change my mind, reinstall the app and resume where i left off.
Pinkies suck. alt on windows was fine, but ctrl's keyboard mappings on windows / linux has always been a pain for me.
Did you mention postal services? You mean like US, where only USPS has the right to put mail into your mailbox... and it's a federal criminal offense for anyone else to deliver mail into your mailbox?
I Tried Emailing Like a CEO
How could we easily expose syscalls to `qjs`? Deno is just a Rust IPC/syscall layer glued to V8 really...
> Based on our studies, your account is more than 99.9% less likely to be compromised if you use MFA.

An important thing to remember here is that MFA works with a password. Otherwise, that 99% goes down dramatically because I can just steal your phone/Yubikey/whatever.

This article isn't suggesting that we get rid of passwords. It's suggesting that the energy we spend making sure that passwords are good would be better spent encouraging users to enable MFA.

In other words, having two relatively weak authentication mechanisms that must be used in tandem is still better than having one strong authentication mechanism.
Why aren't services, of any sort, taxed in the USA?

We don't tax legal services or doctor visits. None of them.

But we tax groceries.

Incredibly regressive.
I’d just like to point out that Shopify isn’t a closed platform. Shopify has the concept of a private app that is not in the app store and not approved by Shopify. So a store can either build/hire an agency to build their own unapproved app using a wide variety and growing set of shopify apis. I’ve made a lot of money doing exactly that.

There also are a number of apps who choose not to be in the app store and not give up 20% of their revenue and instead market on their own.
> Google accesses a market of French advertisers, and that market exists because of French government.

Why don't you try justifying that one? Because I posit that if the French government didn't exist the market would exist anyway.
You should never trade privacy for "security". This is some Commie bullshit.
Any cost savings likely will not be very noticeable, in part because the technology doesn't do very much. It is directed at finding prior art, classifying inventions, etc. That work already is often outsourced overseas. The stuff that makes patent legal services expensive (e.g. having an engineer explain how the invention works so a patent can be drafted) remains quite outside the reach of existing computer technology.
So it's the difference between setting up a store (Shopify) and selling to a store (Amazon)
> Speaking of obnoxious - they don't let you hide your profile either, you have to completely delete it

Of course not, because then the people who pay them money would get fewer results in their searches! And they don't care if you delete it because they keep all the data anyway.
I've been intrigued by Blockstack, but cautious about the token sale. Am I correct that the tokens that go on sale will also be later mined at a yet-undecided-upon formula?
Sorry, long day. Will get back either this eve or tomorrow morning.
It was prompted, it's just that the match for the activation phrase was incorrectly identified.

That's not the same thing as the near-universally believed internet truism that these devices are always listening and sending recordings home.
Hmm? It's trivial to configure site-specific exceptions for any decent ad-blocker, no?
Ah yes of course – thanks, works as advertised now! :o)

Really cool stuff!
Keep in mind that "cancelling" by expiring your card isn't treated the same as an actual notice of cancellation.

Some companies will send you to collections and ding your credit score for "missed payments", whether it's due to a cancelled card or any other reason.
AFAIK not.
While I appreciate your perspective, I can imagine there’s a lot of people hiring that have zero idea how developers & data scientists work and think screen recording is a brilliant idea and thus insist on it.

I’ve seen a lot of really shit job postings on Upwork & similar freelancing platforms that confirm the person posting the job has no idea of what they’re doing.
And the US involvement in Vietnam independence was closely tied to the US needing France for a united NATO front against Russia (at least in the beginning). Without US support for keeping IndoChina, France was threatening to not be a part of NATO.

So when someone tells you "This was happened because of X", you ignore what they say as these conflicts are always complicated and have a long history.
I tend to think that some of the issue is that people use the word "art" to refer to things that are different concepts.

I tend to feel that for something to qualify as art it has to have both philosophical merit and aesthetic merit (although I don't think the aesthetic necessarily has be be beauty). In my opinion, artists that emphasize almost exclusively the philosophical aspects of their art would be more accurately termed activists or political cartoonists; while artists who focus purely on the aesthetic aspect would be more accurately termed something like artisans.

However, that's definitely heavy into the realm of opinion and even then there are definitely huge gray areas.
The biggest self deception the industry has about computer algos and especially machine learning is that it is somehow objective.
I think they're referring to actually cancelling the service, rather than unsubscribing.
It's impossible :P
My family has always been a Toyota/Honda family but my sister broke from the pack and bought a Ford Focus. She had to replace the transmission within a year. Once she sells it, if she buys another car, she's going back to Toyota/Honda.
All I can say is....Yikes.
A large number of people already believe that devices and apps are constantly listening and sending recordings home, despite there being no evidence for that. It's a rampant belief supported by "I was talking to Jimmy about these shoes, and suddenly I got ads for those shoes!"
https://blog.ecosia.org/content/images/2019/06/Financial-Rep...

From their infographic, you can see that Ecosia donates 51.6% of its income to planting trees, the rest going to employee incomes, reserves, and "spreading the word".

You can save yourself the extra step and simply donate to the foundations that Ecosia donates money to:

edenprojects.org
hommesetterro.com
greenbeltmovement.org
itpa.org.br
Facebook, Carnegie Mellon build first AI that beats pros in 6-player poker
This is hindsight. When Amazon started, it was a pure e-commerce play. It later evolved into the company you describe.

For example, they signed a bunch of exclusive supplier agreements for their store. Then, when they launched Marketplace, they got sued by some of those suppliers for breaking exclusivity.

E-commerce success created the cashflow and in-house expertise that allowed Bezos to explore other markets. Some succeeded, like Marketplace and AWS. Some did not, like the A9 search engine and Fire phone.
T-Mobile does add software to phones. Wi-Fi calling requires T-Mobile-specific OS-level modifications. You won't be able to use it on unbranded unlocked phones. It's definitely not bloatware though.
Advances in genetics technology have opened up massive new troves of data in just the last few years - not just in analyzing old bones, but in analyzing the genomes of millions of living people to trace their ancestry. It'll be some time before all the new information gets integrated and synthesized into new theories.
Ok, yeah, we're on same page now. Far as Cryptol, I wanted to seeif it could be extended to generate FaCT which generated constant-time code. It would also generate C to check with SAW or other tools for extra checking or situations where side channels didn't matter. Could also be a tool that checked equivalence of the two at source or object code level so any checking of C code applied to FaCT.

That should cover most of the problem areas. I still think C itself or SPARK Ada could be modified to do what FaCT does. Some subset at least. Then, one can eliminate need to build FaCT-based tooling. So, those were the ideas I was brainstorming at least for what applies directly to those languages.
Interesting. Tesla seems like a lot more cumbersome vehicle to perform dash evolution/extrication due to the presence of the high voltage battery.

for example, in a traditional vehicle, a dashbeam blowout is performed using a higher speed ram. Without this, you have to make 3-4 more cuts to the vehicle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n65nm5yQKs

Tesla model access for the rocker channel is also inconsistent and a little scary. Rocker cuts made to the X for example seem to be permitted, however in the model S they might be lethal. I really wish they had more in the series on this.

disclosure: I was a volunteer firefighter for a few years after highschool.
I understood it was about Perl 6, but I thought the article was starting off with some pseudo-code or some other language.
But is it also natural to assume that this is done without explicit consent? With telemetry data for applications you can usually disable this kind of inspection of your data.
It might still be vulnerable to stagefright, exploitable over MMS.
Somehow the math doesn't add up for me.

If these numbers are to be believed, planting a tree costs maybe 50 cents, max. I am....skeptical.
Has any country explored options for shifting to a revenue tax to eliminate such games entirely?
A lithium ion battery doesn't cost anywhere near that much, its either poor design and/or profiteering on the device manufacturers part to charge that much for a $15 battery to be replaced.
Well by definition, something that kills you is less than optimal (unless death is your goal).
Help, I can't stop playing Crusader Kings 2 on holiday
Having a regulated token offering means hopefully that not only traders and hodlrs will buy the tokens but also real users, all the real users who use already the decentralized blockstack apps and all the users who will use them because they want to be in control of their data.
I do this for a living. As head of digital and editorial for a major publisher It's absolutely not suicide as we are extremely successful with our Google traffic without AMP. In fact MANY publishers don't use AMP -- I would say most don't (at least that I talk to). Most of us don't like the trade-offs And I talk to a lot of people who do exactly what I do (conferences, private mailing lists, etc.). And its absolutely not true that Google serves almost exclusively in AMP, as we get 80-90 percent of our site traffic from Google and, again, we don't implement AMP. Remember that page load as a factor is looked at completely independently from AMP (Google has verified this -- one of the few factors they've verified how it works), so it can help you with load but if you build your pages correctly and don't use it it's not a punishment. Even within Google news you can turn off Google pointing to AMP versions of your story -- it's an option right there you can click. So yes, I would disagree with you that not using AMP hurts you, and I've talked to publishers who have gone back and forth and that's how I know it's minor boost. But I'm just some strange on the internet so no need to listen to me -- you can believe what you want.
There should be a summary of all legal policies tbh
That was in '08. I think that might have been before the decision came out about that.
Same! Identification. Except at work mostly, as there is an ocean of identical machines.
Most of current day France was also acquired by force and much bloodshed from people speaking other languages.

I don't think the continent argument holds any moral value. Algeria is not far from the rest of France.
"because it can always service it nominally by creating the money"

The Eurozone would offer a counter example.

I suppose if a nation issued enough inflation linked bonds it could also get itself into trouble that way. In general though you're right, inflation is the big risk.

"You don't think a junk bond, a mortgage and a government bond are different things? "

That's actually the example I was thinking of.

I think they're both bonds. To take it back to your original comment, I don't think something stops being fractional reserve banking just because the money is put into low risk loans, its the same overall business model, paying out less in interest then you get in.

"What asset has lower risk than a short-term government bond?"

Good question, depends on the risk though. Theres a very high risk that you'll lose out to inflation in the long term, so there's a argument that stocks are safer in the long term.
Bank deposits in my country are govt backed up to a certain amount and pay slightly more, so that's as safe as, and has a better chance of beating inflation.
The point is that wealth is distributed along a power law and people making $200k/year from a W-2 job are not in the meaty part of the curve. You seem really invested in shaming them and demanding they pay more in taxes when if you're making that as a wage you're probably already paying close to 50% of your income in Federal and State taxes. At the same time they don't qualify for many of the deductions and subsidies that lower income people would so they're already paying more for the same things. How much more do we need to take from them?

Yes, if they are in any way reasonably responsible they can live comfortably and have all their needs met. That's great. We should work on extending that possibility to more people instead of taking it away from one group of wage slaves and handing it to another. Meanwhile people making orders of magnitude more money are paying 15%, 10% or 0% in taxes. That's the "upper class" for all practical purposes.
Some Node APIs could probably be implemented using the std and os modules[1], but others (e.g. networking) would probably need to be implemented via the C API[2].

[1]: https://bellard.org/quickjs/quickjs.html#Standard-library

[2]: https://bellard.org/quickjs/quickjs.html#QuickJS-C-API