skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe that's the main use case for this project. The main use case for stuff like this is if you're using some external API like Zuora or Twilio that needs to hit endpoints on your local test box. Something like this allows them to actually contact your machine indirectly.

I've used ngrok before and it's a great solution for quick tests. I guess this is an open-sourced version of that.
Porn pirating lawyer jailed for five years
Bubble Tea Shop Brand Name Generator
In case anyone is wondering about the KGV class:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_George_V-class_battleship...
See the examples. The backslash appears only in the function signature, but not in the function itself. You have to declare that you are using sigil-less variables somehow!
Looking at the list, and as a citizen of an European country: yes, please, do pull out.
Firefox Mobile is dropping extension support for awhile: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/574
What I mean is, let's say this process is able to sequester sufficient CO2 in the form of bicarbonate to lower us to a conservative 300ppm CO2. At what point, if any, would we be turning the ph of the ocean to be too alkaline?
I don't know why you just ignore to comment on the justification given: that big tech companies engage in blatant tax evasion.
He does it again. The other small footprint engine used to be Jerry
There is plenty of evidence that artificial sweeteners spike your insulin in the same way that sugars do[1], leading to adverse effects.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3772345/
When is the best time to clone your dog?
This study says: With respect to cancer, you’re better off with Diet.

It does not say whether you’re better off with Diet from non-cancer perspectives - such as diabetes, obesity, endocrine system disorders, osteoporosis, tooth cavities, and so forth.

Generally people say “healthier” to mean “will I die sooner”, so the study you should be looking for to answer “healthier” is likely a relative comparison of mortal causes and age of death between soda and diet drinkers.
> UpWork doesn't do filming using your camera, only takes a picture every ~10 minutes.

And how can I, the person being filmed, verify that?
France government approves 3% tax on internet giants
I would be happy if those spy organisations like Google and Facebook would leave my country.
Right. With the current title my first impression was that it was like a Unix shell with Common Lisp somehow as the shell language. I mean the shell is the tool Unix power-users mostly use to automate tasks.

It might be a good idea to add screenshots or a gif or something to the README, and I see they've realized that.
probably also some small businesspeople of the herbalife/lululemon type...
Can't you just buy juice with pulp if you want fiber?
Turquoise Siberian lake loved by Instagrammers turns out to be toxic waste dump
Seems to me the client got the work for nearly free (gaming the system time only) - I see nothing in the article about UPWork requiring the client return work product as consequence of payment refusal.
>I'm pissed off that it's families and cyclists that somehow bear the enormous responsibility for improving driver behavior and justifying road infrastructure

It shouldn't be this way, and I agree with you that the burden should be on car drivers.

However, I don't think it will be enough of a consolation for most of the parents in a situation where their kid on a bicycle got injured or, worse, killed. Not many parents would be willing to accept the trade-off of potentially sacrificing health or life of their child in the name of a greater good. And I am saying that as someone who doesn't even have children or ever plans to have any for rather selfish reasons. I can easily imagine that people who actually have children probably have way stronger feelings on this than me.
With all due respect, I think you're mistaken. I think you are assuming a game that doesn't allow long periods of pause must be completely reactionary, but that's not true. I've been playing and watching competitive starcraft for well over decade. In competitive starcraft you need to master both micro/reactionary strategy, as well as the ability to predict and respond to your opponent over medium and long run horizons.
I spent the whole time reading the article thinking "so you got scammed by people looking to find a way to hide prejudice behind ML? What a surprise..."

Maybe the lesson here is that people doing unethical things will take the opportunity to do more unethical things, like not pay you, and it may well be in your self interest to apply your ethics when choosing a job? Upwork doesn't look great here, but seems like it's hardly the whole problem.
You can always use greasemonkey/tampermonkey extensions, the HN markup is pretty straightforward...

I think Common Lisp specifically is enjoying a bit of a spike in popularity (at least on HN, I've noticed a lot more front page stories over the last some years than previously) especially as more people realize it's out of the box way more powerful than what you find in SICP's Scheme. (A few offhand things one finds: type declarations with compile-time error checking in the most popular implementation + type info used to produced optimized assembly you can immediately inspect, non-braindead OOP, non-braindead error system, multi-million line software project existence proofs, long history of useful old code that still works like an inline arithmetic reader macro...)
That doesn't make any sense. I am actually delivering it to customers myself, run the accounting, run the store. I don't use their real estate, their roads, electricity, anything. How is it anything like putting my product in their stores?
What if I repeatedly click on ads by advertisers I dislike?
Right. This approach becomes evident when a manager refers to developers as "resources".
That Microsoft "Dial" was the triumph of gimmickry over functionality.
And those large corps are providing jobs to those employees nurtured by the state, being paid taxable income.
> it's beyond stupid that 4000 lb cars driven by people who don't even operate the vehicle that well 'share' the road with 10-30 lb bicycles.

I agree, but how do you get from there to "bicyclists are the problem"? Neither type of driver conduct their vehicle very well (only humans, after all) but one is infinitely more fatal than the other.
I sympathize with this. And I, as a biker, don't really like being passed repeatedly either. But there are few good options: stopping in the bike lane but behind you defeats the purpose of the separate lane; I can join the car lane, and sometimes do if the flow is indeed slow enough, but then I risk being in the way if things do start moving faster, and/or pissing off a different driver who wonders why I'm not in my own lane, even though the average speed ends up being the same.

I'd suggest that the driver that is repeatedly getting ahead and then finding herself waiting at a stoplight might try driving slower between the lights, but that depends on the road conditions, and whether the lights are actually correctly timed. And on short blocks it risks causing jams. There's not really any way to apportion blame: it's a situation where it's hard for any of us to win. Maybe we just have to try to relax and get along as best we can.
Could you build DeFI apps on Bitcoin?
That’s true. I guess I jumped the gun on that one. However, “nobody between you and us” still feels disingenuous because you have to dig quite a bit to find out that they use Bing on the backend and then leave concluding that “us” also includes Microsoft as the responsibility of the user. The average user isn’t going to make that connection because they’re not likely to be reading through the privacy policy or digging through the FAQ to discover they use Bing.

I think their page touting “privacy” should clearly indicate that they use Bing and that your privacy is ultimately beholden to Microsoft, not Ecosia, especially since Ecosia is happy to send unique identifiers to Bing for personalized search results as default.

It feels like a deftly move to offload their own responsibility to then be able to tout privacy as a selling point because they themselves don’t do anything with your information, Microsoft does.
No.

VAT is basically a tax paid by people. Companies don’t really pay VAT, they collect it from the end-customers and pass it to the state.

Relying on VAT alone skews the burden of financing the state on the people only, which means no participation from the companies that make money without directly contributing to the country’s expenses they benefit from.

It also disproportionately disadvantages companies that also employ people and have a physical presence in France and have to pay taxes.
They're specific to the problem domain, which happens to be cross-field.

The venerable `make` is a DSL. awk is a DSL.
Soda is addictive. At my worst, I drank 6 Cokes a day. I've been a heavy Coke drinker for a long, long time. I have a psychological dependence on it, so when I'm particularly stressed, I need to guzzle it down.

I'm down to about 1-2 Cokes every week. I will crumble and drink a 20 oz Coke about once a week and drink water or ice tea (either unsweetened or low-sweetened (90 calories)).

The irony is that an equivalent glass of milk has 2x the number of calories as Coke, but I'll drink a glass of milk a day for the calcium, etc.
> All of those can be applied to any company however.

And they tax any company that fits the profile, be they German, Japanese, Chinese, French, or, god forbid, US-American.
Apple's situation is completely different from Android. Demand for iphone devices was the leverage Apple had over carriers to do this, and it's not a fragmented ecosystem in the first place.
There are plenty of HTML-to-PDF web APIs though so if you want to spin a SaaS off of it you need to spend more time than just host it somewhere, e.g. some kind of market differentiation, SEO, work out pricing etc. If you're a lone developer sure, you can probably get to beer money profit quickly and kinda leave it there but your company needs to weigh the perspectives of a spin off against resources they remove from their "core expertise".
Warehouses: Last Week Tonight
If you have money you're allowed to spend it on whatever you want, but if you love animals know that in the US we euthanize 1.5 million often perfectly healthy pets a year.

Donating $50k to transport pets from areas where they kill to areas where there's a shortage of adoptable pets would make a big difference. By my estimate, you could save about, say, twenty semi truckloads of animals.
Yeah right, who'd even notice Alibaba?

FYI, Alibaba's revenue (~56B) exceeds that of Ebay (~10B),
Uber (~11B), Expedia (~11b), Twitter (~3b), Groupon (~3v) and
Tripadvisor (~2b) combined.

Yes, Amazon/Apple/Microsoft/Google/Verizon are still huge. But it doesn't mean there aren't other big fish out there.
> If you don't click on ads, or have an Adblocker installed, you generate no money for Ecosia. Thus, no trees get planted.

Do you have a source/reference for this?
I have a Surface tablet for drawing, and I hacked together a setup where I draw with my right hand and hold a PS3 navigation controller in my left[0]. The buttons are mapped, using XPadder [1], to keyboard shortcuts (layer up/down, undo, etc) and the joystick I use to pan around. I don't use Photoshop, but I think most of the common functions can be reached via keyboard. XPadder is sophisticated enough to allow for modes, e.g. holding R1 changes the meaning of all the other buttons.

There are still some features that I want which I think would need an exposed API. For example, setting an anchor point on the canvas, then triggering a quick jump back to it.

[0] https://www.gamestop.com/ps3/accessories/playstation-move-na...
[1] https://xpadder.com/?lang=english&country=US
I believe the smaller one was called the Kursk
this is not valid Perl, its Perl 6.
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I'm not sure if you're talking about nextflow, but it has support for many different job managers (slurm plus like ten more), AWS batch, and Google cloud pipelines.
quickjs.c is a 47,842 line C file. I think that sets the record for the largest handwritten file I've seen.
Amazon is not paying the VAT, the customer is. They are just here to collect it.
Any transparent ones, or ones that match the color of the laptop exactly?
The gig economy sucks.... surprise!
Orange juice from the grocery store isn't fresh. It's squeezed, then boiled until it's white, with orange dye added. Sugar and flavor packets are added to it.

Truly fresh, unpasteurized orange juice only lasts a few days.
While it may be reasonable to assume that the actual hardware architecture may vary between Android phones and iPhones, how is it that one is made with raw materials that are "far more toxic" than the other's?
The economics of train routes are dictated by how many paying customers you can move per hour. If everyone carried a portable bike, you would increase the potential user base of the routes, but decrease the customers/hour. (When trains are near full, and to be economically viable, they need to be, loading/unloading becomes a major bottleneck and everyone carting around a portable bike would really slow that down.) Even if you build new routes for those people, the amortized cost per user you can fit in the train is going to go way up.
At first I said why websockets, when you are using go you could simply had done TCP sockets. But then I realize websockets is probably the right choice. This allows you a single listening port for both inbound and outbound connections as you can simply route /api/proxy or proxy our whatever you are using as your endpoint.

At first I did not like it, and responded like others, over kill for something many people can do (or are doing) without the aid of a fancy tool like this. But then I realized trying to covey to others who are not system programmers how to setup something and realized I would rather spend my time doing something else and just point them to a tool.

Good job on this!
A security patch that includes spyware. That’s pretty awkward
This really feels like greenwashing to me.

The purpose of ads is (1) to make you buy something you didn't need before the ad made you aware of it, or (2) to make you choose the advertised brand amongst competing brands when you buy a product comparable to the advertised one.

Runaway consumption is what has gotten us into this ecological mess in the first place.

Watching ads to replant trees just sounds very strange.
Please take off your selection bias glasses and start observing the behavior of all motorists through the same lens that you use to view cyclists. I think you will find that the proportion of bad behavior is not meaningfully different.
I'm saying if the EU states all worked together on taxation rules none of the tech giants could take advantage of them. Also Google could do a little payback by moving the higher pay jobs from France over to neighboring countries like Germany.
Tobi is like a younger Jeff Bezos :) I binge listened quite a few his podcast interviews https://lnns.co/aECRtZ2fNn9
Which is a good thing, too, as it incentivizes decentralization.
> Again, chicken and egg. You need density to get to a point where non-car commutes are practical, and you won't get that as long as you build car-first.

The simple fact that you're missing is that the country is already built.
Despite understanding the purpose and value of telemetry for developers, the constant attempts to hide telemetry behind something else (not just by MS) makes me incredibly suspicious.

With MS especially it seems to be that -- considering the backlash against Windows 10's telemetry -- if they wanted people to stop raising eyebrows and sounding alarms, they'd be a little more transparent about it instead of continuing to be shady about it for whatever internal reasons they likely have.
Crazy the Washington Post is becoming a huge tech company
anyones you can recommend?
Nearly 98% of Japan's population is ethnically Japanese. There are multiple reasons for this but a big one is how long the country maintained isolation up until recently, historically. I don't know to answer your question, people are people, but hopefully that gives you context.
Club soda works for some people
We have done some internal tests of Hermes on a RN experience within Microsoft Office on Android.

Currently we use V8 with bytecode caching on Android, since it provided better startup performance than the JSC engine that normally ships within RN. So the baseline is likely already faster than stock RN.

V8 runtime Memory Impact: 30MB
Hermes runtime memory impact: 21.5MB

V8 time to interaction: 1.4s
Hermes time to interaction: 1.1s

We have done similar experiments on a full react-native-windows application, replacing the Chakra JS engine (also already with bytecode so faster than stock RN) with Hermes and had app boot time on a low end device go from 3.8s to 3.1s.
Did the antennas help? Of the four, my original right is the worst with signal. The new pair has the drift issues while the original pair still has no drift issues. The new left one is the one that sporadically drifts whereas the new right one is the one that is consistently OK until after coming out of sleep.

As you can see, playing with reliable controllers now requires a bit of a decision tree navigated via the controllers current moods...
Which China tariffs? The extreme ones China had been using the last few decades or the recent US ones in response to China's longstanding tarriffs?
Is it possible that the statement is about a pesticide product containing boric acid or a sodium salt of boric acid, and that the abrasive element in said product is not the boric acid?

Boric acid, or B(OH)3, is the mineral sassolite, and has Mohs hardness 1. [0]

Boric anhydride, or B2O3, has a Mohs hardness of 4. [1] It is not boric acid. It converts to boric acid in the presence of water, and is hygroscopic, so will also do so in the presence of humidity.

Borax, or Na2B4O5(OH)4•8(H2O), has a Mohs hardness of 2-2.5 . It is not boric acid. It converts to boric acid in the presence of strong acid, and is considered a hydrated sodium salt of boric acid.

Diatomaceous earth is a sedimentary material, not a pure mineral. It has components of different hardness, the relevant factor being the crushed frustules of ancient diatoms, or diatomaceous silica. "The ultimate hardness of the diatom skeleton is between 4.5 and 5 on the Mohs' scale.... The friability, or the propensity of the skeleton to break down, rather than to abrade, renders a measurement of hardness meaningless without also a consideration of the particle size." [3]

The "not even close" text was the actually quoted text "the gift that keeps on killing". Quoted from the cited source? No. The other dubious hyperbolic phrase was "the effect is like shards of glass cutting them apart", which also does not appear in the cited source. "Shards of glass" does bring to mind a broken diatom frustule, which is literally a shard of sharp silica when viewed under a microscope. There's quite a step up in intensity from "related chemicals may be abrasive" to "this exact chemical is like sharp shards of glass".

Your sources are a company that sells microscopes and "about us" copy for a company that sells mineral borates. I'm not certain what borate it has with a Mohs hardness of 3, but that means it can scratch a fingernail. Try it at home. Grow the biggest boric acid crystal you can, and then try to scratch your fingernail with it. About the only thing holding it together as a solid at all is hydrogen bonding and van der Waals forces. There is nothing there chemically to give it hardness. Individual molecules flake off readily.

So no, I will not apologize or concede.

[0] http://webmineral.com/data/Sassolite.shtml

[1] https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/boric%20anhydride#...

[2] http://webmineral.com/data/Borax.shtml

[3] https://www3.epa.gov/ttn/chief/old/ap42/ch11/s22/reference/r...
> Audio snippets are not associated with user accounts as part of the review process.

This is a bold claim. The VRT journalist were able to re-identify few data subjects and confirmed with them that their data was being listened by Google contractors. "‘This is undeniably my own voice’, says one man, clearly surprised." wrote the journalist.

> The Google Assistant only sends audio to Google after your device detects that you’re interacting with the Assistant.

Well, this is not what the contractor said [1]. The contractor heard private conversations, sex scenes, and violence including "a woman who was in definite distress".

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2019/07/10/google-employees-are...
Not intentionally, but generally yes, just by forgetting a glass. However, it also has not happened recently, I don't drink any kind of bought juice any more. I squeeze it myself.
The "... but it's natural" argument is insane.

"Natural" poison Ivy, sharks, and fire vs "unnatural" antibiotics, chemotherapy, insulin shots.
I'd add to that list the Sony Walkman, the manual typewriter, a telephone modem with the acoustic coupler, and the VCR
Congrats on the impressive progress.

How did you get started/what steps did you take? Was it a straight switch to water (with occasional back-slide), or did you just slowly progress away from the soda one drink at a time?
I've heard cool things about noisebridge. I also know lots of people in the bay area who do maker type stuff. It's just more distributed.
The World Is a Playground
Foreign business which are not internet based pay taxes. Your point is irrelevant.
Looks like they were acquired by Capgemini
The death of candour in the age of surveillance
Honestly you need more than just one or two data points to conclude a substance is addictive. For pretty much anything you could always find a small number of people who have trouble avoiding it.
I've heard that. I tried it, but I just love caffeine too much.
Google admits listening to some smart speaker recordings
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I wonder how different jslinux (obviously) would behave on it.
You can replace an apple battery for $69. It was $29 for a while after the ios 11 battery troubles.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2018/09/13/a...
> All money made on the white market in any country is facilitated by that government, and taxes are paid on all profits to pay for the services which allowed the profit to be made.

So any taxation is justified?

> It's not arbitrary to expect businesses to pay for services they benefit from.

Any digital company with revenue of more than €750m ($850m; £670m) - of which at least €25m is generated in France - would be subject to the levy.

That sounds arbitrary.
I don't know man. Battery replacement costs $69 or $49 depending on model. Not sure at what price you buy your phones but...

https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/battery-power
I concede, "fundamental property" is a bit more poetic than the strictest version of that term. I'll stand by "inevitable" though, by sheer numbers it just HAS to happen by sheer chance alone (or so says my deepest heart of hearts backed up by my brain reading up on state of the art cosmology, biology, and material science).
Please don't confuse the US with our government! (or, rather, with the subset of people in our government who happen to be talking at a given time---there are many levelheaded, effective people working in our government who never enter the spotlight)