skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they had gained air supremacy over the Channel, the German's first move probably would've been to start shelling the southern coast of Britain using a low-value naval asset. If the Brits send in a warship to stop the shelling, attack it with the Luftwaffe. If the Brits don't send a warship, keep on shelling with the goal of preparing a segment of the coast for the landing of German troops.

The Luftwaffe had about 2600 planes in 1940 and the ability to build as many airstrips as they pleased all along one border of the Channel. What do you think the chances were of a British ship or task force's surviving a single mission into the Channel? I agree with what you're saying that the Brits would've been willing to risk their entire Navy to stop an invasion of the homeland (which BTW was the original reason for the creation of their Navy centuries ago) but would that have been enough? (And if they lost most of their Navy, would they have been able to continue to feed their population? Remember that the Brits were dependent on food from overseas.)

If some power wants to attack a US aircraft carrier, they face the formidable task of finding it first. On the open ocean this is very hard: during the Cold War, the Soviets deployed an entire constellation of satellites for the sole purpose of locating US carriers in the North Atlantic (then transmitting the location to their submarines and long-range bombers). I mention this because the reputation for awesomeness earned by the British Navy before WW II was earned mainly in unconfined waters; against air power and subs, it is much less powerful in the confined waters of the Channel.

Also, look what happened to the British Pacific Fleet the next year when it dared to sail within range of Japanese aviation assets. And I think that happened in unconfined waters.
I never understood the logic behind taxing large internet businesses.

The idea behind taxes is that you use some public resource and you pay for that service. You own a home in a neighborhood, you pay property tax that funds the schools. You drive a car, you pay gasoline tax that funds the streets. You hire workers locally, you pay the tax to pay back all the contributions public institutions made to adding the skills to the worker.

But the idea that a company like Amazon owes some tax to France doesn't make sense. Sure the delivery person uses the roads, but they pay the gasoline tax and the delivery company pays taxes. What public resources did Amazon, a US company, use from France?

The other theories of taxation is that it should be used to raise revenue from the best means possible. I disagree with that framework but applying taxes arbitrarily hardly seems fair or the best way to raise revenue.

The other argument is that the government should "level the playing field". But again arbitrarily punishing or helping some corporations opens up the possibility of corruption and corporate meddling as corporations look for favors. Much of the edge Amazon has versus local retailers is that it is more efficient. It doesn't take up store space (and pay taxes on the land) and it doesn't have to hire a lot of local workers (and pay taxes on their salaries). It's simply more efficient and its services are appreciated by the consumers.
I was reviewing the graph and was surprised at the rankings of things. Frankly, there's a lot more "not illegal" things going on in Tor than I would have expected. I expected there was a reasonable amount, but not representing so much of the total[0].

It's a double-edged sword in a way -- more people using the project for doing non-illegal things means perhaps the moniker "Dark" could be replaced with a less hostile word (Private? ...no...)[1].

Bad, in that, it speaks a bit to users making inconvenient choices because they perceive their privacy is threatened enough to warrant it.

I was glad to see that they scrubbed the content -- would have been one scary tarball to download, otherwise, and very illegal for them to post considering some of those categories. It makes me wonder how they avoided running afoul of the law just collecting/viewing it for the purpose of scrubbing it, but IANAL. It'd keep me from being involved on any project like that, though!

[0] I'm eye-balling the counts for a few categories in addition to the obvious "other-not-illegal", so it's probably not 100%, and I'm assuming US law (specifically WRT speech)

[1] I get "Dark" is meant as "invisible" and it's perhaps even a more accurate description since it's not completely "invisible" unless you take additional steps (and the software contains no known flaws), but sufficiently invisible for most adversaries. However, it's spoken in the same breath as "drug/theft markets" and is used more like "dark alley". Not sure there's a better term and I'm probably bike-shedding, anyway.
Scientists turn to 'laser accurate' model to test Stonehenge acoustics
It's so stupid. Makes me want to just fork the browsers and add blatantly obvious protections like this if I can find the time...
I just hope the US does not "retaliate" on this. EU entrepreneurs are too dependent on US businesses.
Which search engine are you using now instead of Ecosia?

I'm much more comfortable to give some information to Microsoft then giving more information to Google so they can add it to my profile they already have.
One other thing to keep in mind: the fact the the spacecraft is still operational means that all those engineers will still have jobs tomorrow :)
There are companies that will "loan" you the money based on your share values, and you pay back that loan when a liquidity event occurs.
There is not enough data in this study to conclude either way about artificial sweeteners
How long have artificial sweeteners been on the market? How many people only drink artificially sweetened drinks?
So this person 200k years ago was roughly 10000 generations ago. That's long in human terms and very short in the history of the earth.
Does it strike anyone else as odd that the two skulls found practically "nose-to-nose" are 40,000 years apart in age? How do two humanoid skulls coincidentally end up right next to each other with 40,000 years gap between them?
The Pythagorean theorem 12 centuries before Pythagoreas
Aside from naturally occurring micronutrients, fruit juice isn't that different from soda. I'm not a chemist, but I think it's largely just different ratios of sucrose/fructose/glucose.
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Aren't those nuclear missles technology that should be recovered or guarded?
As someone who has been in that lower income bracket and is now comfortably upper-middle/lower-upper class, yeah its' definitely way easier now than when I was working a factory job. It's certainly not easy. I can't buy a Tesla and don't make 200K, but we're not worrying most months about putting food on the table like we were when we had nothing. I don't know that I would call anyone who still has to work to make ends meet rich, we'd lose everything with a few months of me being unemployed because we still haven't made enough to pay off our pre-existing debt. Is that still rich in your eyes? I've never made 200k myself, but I do pretty well for the area I'm in.
They say on average you need 45 searches to plant a tree.
> company that's selling ads to a French company that wants to show those ads to French users is doing business in France, end of story.

yeah, so taxes make sense to pay for the roads, bridges and healthcare that these ads are using.
”The Titanic took hours to sink but the Hood, a ship of similar size and weight, was gone in mere seconds after being hit by the Bismarck's deck guns.”

Unfair comparison. The Titanic wasn’t shot at, and it didn’t carry tons of high explosives.
I freelanced on Upwork for a bit. It was all the worst aspects of having an abusive boss (the platform itself), and all of the worst aspects of freelancing (unpredictability, getting ripped off by shifty clients).

"Creepiest shit ever" is a pretty accurate description of Upwork. If Upwork's attitudes and policies were described to me in the 90s, I would have said it was lame, unrealistic science fiction with an over-the-top villain.

If anyone wants to do freelance work, I'd recommend marketing yourself directly to local businesses, print some business cards, schmooze. It's about as much work and stress as using Upwork, and you don't have a misanthropic middleman taking their cut.
Only those are earned
well there's usually a bundle of shit in a carrier OS, it's just not profit from you.
The VPN access works over remote desktop. Should've probably made that clearer from the start.

I don't know if this is specific to here, but you'd have to toggle the VPN explicitly on and off and with another password, separate from your user account. Along with the usual drill to have another password to access the machine and lock it when you're away. I agree it ultimately comes down to trust however.
So people who drink coffee are doubly impacted due to the acrylamide and the sugar.
Fruit juice and soda are effectively the same to your body. They’re both high-fructose liquids which spike blood sugar and lead to insulin resistance. The only meaningful difference is that a fruit juice probably also includes some vitamins that the soda doesn’t.

Sources: anything published by Dr. Robert Lustig @ UCSF
Page said you are looking for a name: LapWrap
Because it is a telephone first and portable computer second.
After film director Stanley Kubrick dies, writer goes through hundreds of meticulously organized boxes in search of clues to understand him.
Not quite. They're supposed to be drinking coffee without sugar.
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Would be cool to see a heat map of this, or a historical view you can scrub through.
Kinda. If it's strictly for personal use and not shared, there's no obligation. If the user is distributing the script in any way, they would be obligated to "share" the changes to the world by having it be free software as well, yes.
Interesting. I've kept my accesses aligned, but noticed that unaligned ones worked. Didn't know about the exception mechanism behind, but yeah, should have err... expected it.

By the way, you can also opt to crash on x86. Just need to enable bit AM (Alignment Mask) bit 18) in CR0 (kernel stuff) and AC (Alignment Check, also bit 18) in EFLAGS.

After that point, unaligned accesses trap. I use this in my CPU JIT/dynamic compiler to trap target unaligned accesses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_register#CR0
Does the fiber in the fruit negate the cancer risks? If not, would it be logical to say fruit is now linked to cancer?
But the acrylamide in coffee is a cancer risk also.
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> What public resources did Amazon, a US company, use from France?

Digital infrastructure, anti-poverty programs that mean potential customers still have something to spend, financial infrastructure, legislation, ...
Artificially sweetened drinks are extremely bad. Refer to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30802187
There is actually enough in the oceans that people have proposed concentrating it for commercial extraction. Probably not viable, but surprising to think about.
You forgot healthcare costs. Many businesses either don't offer or have really, really bad healthcare options. Why it's still considered something tied to businesses and not the individual I don't know.
There is one in Laicaster square to repel pigeon from a Swiss clock. I hate it.
I found work through Upwork when I was starting out as a dev and actually had a pretty good experience. Just like on the hiring side, there are a lot of bad clients you need to filter through but there are plenty of reasonable people looking to hire on the site.

It did make me nervous having so much of my income tied to Upwork and there were a few things that seemed like minor red flags, but I didn't have any awful experiences with them.

Someone with a few years of experience probably has better avenues to look at for work but it could be a good option if you're looking to get experience and build out a freelance network.
5400rpm hard drives are fine for the education market, where the cost of upgrading to SSD adds up fast across hundreds of computers.
I am not sure if this completely answers your question, but I am talking about XML in a SOAP based architecture.
> Google already fixed at least one of the Android exploits used by "Agent Smith,

Google can't fix it due to Android fragmentation. Millions of devices will never get this update.
> The government does a lot of dumb things but I do not think the entire TSA would exist if it was only 5% effective.

What if it's 95% effective at providing jobs and funnelling money from the government to private enterprises (who just so also happen to lobby for more laws and such that just so happens to also support the expansion of the TSA, or purchasing, or hiring, or...).

Basically - you assume that the purpose of the TSA is about security.

You also make the assumption that, even if it were about security and everything was on the up-and-up (yeah, right) - that if it were only 5% effective that it would be shut down. I am almost 100% certain that there are and have been many, many programs in the past that have lasted for a far longer period of time than the TSA has so far, which were/are less than or equal to 5% effectiveness for their supposed purpose.

Again - likely because their primary purpose has no connection to their actual purpose, which is the funnelling of money from the public coffers to the private sector.
It is not. I've been using DuckDuckGo before switching to them, for me privacy is a big deal. When I first saw ecosia, I thought it was similar to DDG in terms of privacy(Probably because they had pro-privacy phrases).

I know it's not a problem for most, especially if they are using search engines like Bing or Google. And I believe it's better to use ecosia than using say, Bing or Google.
Quite a bit of the modern capitalist system revolves around hiding exploitation, violence and slavery from the people who benefit from it.

Arbitraging evil, in a way.
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>Their rules state that you must have the Upwork Desktop App on you computer which installs some sort of video malware onto your laptop AND have your webcam visible and on at all times so that the customer success agent can audit that you looked like you were working through the webcam while staring at a screen. How is that not the creepiest shit ever?

Compare this to the Upwork App's description https://support.upwork.com/hc/en-us/articles/211064098-Log-T... .

It seems pretty reasonable. By default, it snaps a picture every 10 minutes. If you do not want to upload a snapshot, it removes the 10 minutes from your recorded hours. It captures info about how often you used keystrokes and clicked, but not what you typed or clicked.

The benefit of using the app is instant approval and payment.

On my reading, it looks like the author failed to take a 10 minute survey in 3 days, losing his work hours. That seems like a pretty reasonable ask that he failed on.
In the class action lawsuit against Google, Nexus 6P customers said their devices were shutting off unexpectedly while reporting that the battery still had a 60% charge.

>In April of last year, a class action investigation began concerning Google, Huawei, and the Nexus 6P bootlooping issues. Many users were reporting issues with the Nexus 6P shutting down randomly, even when the battery was showing up to 60% charge.

https://www.xda-developers.com/google-huawei-nexus-6p-class-...
If the community wants to have a say in go's future without Google's veto, then the community should just fork the code and move ahead.

Otherwise it's still Google's thing.
Given the effect of social networking products on mental health, in this light it absolutely makes sense for countries with nationalized healthcare to tax big tech
I have used Turtle for 2 projects and had an exceptional experience with both.

Very well vetted devs, excellent platform and framework for managing them, and human customer service at (currently underpriced IMO) $55/hr.

The two apps I’ve used Turtle for:

- React site for my business
- Ongoing Node integration work at about 10/hr per week.

https://www.turtle.ai
They needed a toilet specialist?
Fundraising.... I kid I kid
There is no evidence that the content of acrylamide in coffee is concerning. Nevertheless I agree that acrylamide is a general concern, and its levels in foods and drinks including coffee needs to be regulated better.
Ngrok is closed source, I do explain the differences in the post. Ngrok is also almost always banned..
I'm a strong advocate for digital privacy and opposed to the majority of data collection that occurs, but this comment is FUD. None of the info that you listed would be private if you used Bing normally, so if you're worried about them having that info you'd need to stop using search engines all together

>So when a search is done, our IP address is send to Bing.

Explain why you believe that's a negative? If you use Bing normally they would know your IP as well

>user agent string

Again, using bing normally will allow them to see this information

>search term

Obviously required to be sent to bing

>some settings like your country and language setting

Again, this is information that would be available to Bing if you use their service normally
Yeah I know what I'm doing this weekend... I want eyes on everything
Fructose in actual solid fruits in moderation is fine.
GitHub worked well for me when I was hiring freelancers in the past and nowadays when I occasionally freelance.
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I've been using UpWork for over a year now and never had a dispute so far.

The author is right in saying that UpWork only guarantees payment when time tracking using their app. Where he is mistaken though is where he says that the app requires camera to be on at all times. There is such an option but personally I'd never go for a project like this. And yes, the app will take the screenshot of the stuff you are working on.

I don't get why author's customer would launch a dispute over not completing a 10 minute survey. Given that it was an hourly project I bet there were issues with communication and perhaps the author should have double checked with the client before closing the job.

UpWork is far from being flawless but for me it has been working quite ok.
I'm always curious to see Shopify compared to something like Square's ecosystem.
From the carrier: yes.

The phone subsidies (in the US at least) are very reminiscent of the old leased phones of yore.

But if you look at the actions of mobile phone carriers and ISPs they're desperate not to become dumb pipes. They design all kinds of clever mechanisms and marketing strategies to distinguish themselves.

> Is there actually profit in providing more than that?

Well, in a free market, competition is intense. So if they can find ways to distort that, then yes: they will make more money. Many of us don't have much allegiance to particular gas station brands. But they create rewards programs to try and get some of that loyalty. Otherwise you just compete on price.
The US administration is presenting the new tax as if it was specifically targeted to US companies because of their origin. Like a tariff.

It is not the case at all. Yes the biggest tech giants that do not pay enough tax are mostly from the US (also other companies from other countries are affected too)

But it is not because they are from the US that this new tax is created. It is simply because they don't pay enough tax
How to convert your existing Redux containers to Hooks
Bird lost $100M in Q1, with revenue shrinking to $15M. Has ~$100M cash left
Using "infinite" when you mean "lazily generated" is a large source of confusion for learners of math, computer science, and programming.

Infinite things don't exist in computing, and infinite things in math are not the same as lazily-generated things. Conflating terminology makes the truth harder to understand. People prove statements about infinite objects and then misapply them to lazily-generated objects.
Solid fruits are not linked to cancer, although the pesticides in them can be carcinogenic.
Sogeti is also very large, founded in 2002.
> We don’t create personal profiles of you based on your search history. We actually anonymize all searches within one week.

> Many web services collect user data in order to sell it without asking your permission. We don’t sell your data or your searches to advertising companies.

> We protect your searches from potential eavesdroppers with a securely encrypted connection. This way we make sure that nobody between you and us can see your searches.

If they’re just handing everything off to Bing wholesale, are these quotes either misleading or straight up lies? The first one I’m confused about with the “anonymize all searches within one week”. I don’t know what that means. The second seems like Bing could still do those things. And the last one would be a lie considering Bing can see it.

https://info.ecosia.org/privacy
well, it only "makes sense" in case you are literally insane
This sounds extremely exciting and it looks like a lot of thought has been put into this. I’m looking forward to try it out.

A lot of comments here are coming from an anxiety that is caused by many years of dealing with fragile deployment processes, but I like the boldness of Dark to just bypass all that and make the fundamentals safe and solid.
You and maybe a dozen other people. Social media is worthless without widespread adoption.
It's not my understanding that most inventors are recognized and/or wealthy. I feel like the cultural references we know are the exceptions that prove the rule. Edison, for example, is credited with inventing the light bulb. He was definitely wealthy, but there were a number of other inventors who contributed but have little to no recognition and did not become wealthy.
Try it :-) look at the video and how fast the connection is established.
Trump is right on this one -- this measure is definitely anti-competitive and specifically aimed at American tech companies. I hope he is swift to retaliate with appropriate tariffs.
Failing to do so will bring a wave of random EU taxes on American tech companies, which will eventually lead to lower profits and engineer salaries.
Whether or not you'll be able to sell shares (and at what price) depends a lot on which company it is. A random startup won't yield you much, a unicorn will do better -- depending on the valuation.

I looked into buying pre IPO Spotify shares through both Equityzen and Sharespost before, and Equityzen seemed (to me) to be the most structured.
Well, to turn the question around, how much money are you personally willing to lose on a failed project? And how many times will you back a artist that has failed? The natural human tendency is to only back 'all star' teams when it comes to such projects, or even when considering which OSS project to contribute to, or which startup to join, etc, etc. A 'winner' does more than just win, they create a positive energy that attracts people to their cause. While failure may be important for progress to happen, the key here is of course that progress must happen for the failure to be considered "good".