skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh good! I love Gusto, and their customer service has been stellar.

I hope this allows them to get into more areas of payroll that I hate dealing with, like worker's comp insurance, or just managing my insurance for employees in general. That's my biggest sticking point, especially since I have people working in multiple states.
UK Consumers Cool on Huawei
Easy slack v4.0 dark theme
Or, more interestingly in the US, you'll say "I please the fifth," and "I want to speak to my lawyer" and it won't be an issue.
We have something like 250 hectares of forest in the region East of Besançon, last summer we lost about 600 non warm climate pine trees[0]. This summer is not going to be better.

We expect to lose all of them (at the moment about 125 hectares of trees) within the next 25 years. We think about introducing pine trees from Corsica, because they can support both heat waves and cold waves. The goal is increase the amount of deciduous trees and get the new pine trees just for the diversity. You want diversity to better resist
diseases and parasitic attacks.

Pine forests in France north of the 45 parallel have no heat resistant pine species and you can expect to be removed from the map if no actions are taken. Deciduous trees better support the heat waves because they lose the leaves and this reduce the drying.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinophyta
Right now they're being sold as an expensive novelty, but the producers are being open that their business plan is undercut meat on price and move downmarket.

That's a direct threat. Meat producers are probably imagining something like 10% beef / 90% artificial meat filler burgers being the norm for cheap ground beef.
Omg this is gross. I definitely do not want random recruiters having my phone number...
"The only reason people use HTML email is that it's the default. Not that it's better in any way."

There are people in this page of comments right here, explaining their use of HTML, their reasoning for using it, and how it's better in many ways.
AFAIR from "The Red Queen", that means female genome is the original one (two XX chromosomes). We men have an Y chromosome which is a "depleted" or a lame chromosome that's encoding barely anything more than gender information.
It's impossible to be a fully functional human with two YY chromosomes. And XXYY has their own set of problems.
Yes really. Take a look at the mails I use to discuss things with my customers.
I think it is and it should be fine. Unless of course there is memo that EU should be able to fine whenever they deem fit but people must not allowed to criticize EU behavior when they find it egregious.
Your different perspective boils down to "it's ok to lie and mislead people with food labeling if its in a good cause".

So you would like corporate interests to just say whatever they want about the contents just because you THINK it might be better for OTHER people to not know what they are eating?
I have been using this plan for a few months on and off (they have been trialling it for a while and it's also weekly billed) and I couldn't even notice any difference on my OnePlus 5.
Ditto larger and more organized criminal organizations.
Will you still read Gizmodo or consider it a trustable source?
It'd be nice is encryption fell under the 2nd amendment. It's been classified as a munition before, and with the creation of USCYBERCOM, the govt has a vested interest in ensuring that it's citizens have experience using encryption software.
The article is available here, in open access: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10933-3
So this was the reason netflix killed its airplay support?

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/6/18298146/netflix-confirms-...
same blanck for me on latest FF.

Removed ublock for app

still blanck

ping me when solved :)
People use bold and italics, section headers, inline images, tables, text highlighting. The list goes on. Is it really that hard to wrap your head around the fact that formatting is useful for communication?
They don’t like to include meaningful details like that because they are likely exculpatory. Much better to use loaded and meaningless terms like “logic bomb”. People already hate and distrust programmers, programmers who “plant bombs” makes for good prosecutorial business.
Look at it from a different angle. The fine to the company should be big enough to make it painful to continue the behavior in question. As such, the bigger the company, the bigger the fine.
Why not tell him to stop? Why wait until years later? The problem is that their actions make it clear that they didn't have issues with his conduct. Rather, they decided to cut costs and as a result decided to retroactively reexamine behavior that they had clearly condoned, at least implicitly, years later.

He wasn't acting in bad faith - when they asked him to make changes to his behavior with the pass, he did. Every indication is that if the airline had politely asked him to stop booking flights and canceling them without a good reason, he would have. They were, on the other hand, clearly not acting in good faith. That's the issue.
> The Netflix UX and video quality are leagues ahead of Amazon Prime Video.

The UX for both are bad in different ways. Amazon's wastes a lot of space but Netflix autoplay trailers annoys me to no end.

Perhaps the quality varies at lower resolutions but, at 1080 and 4K, I haven't noticed a difference.
Equifax shouldn't operate, especially after all that. Atleast, with facebook, for the most part, you willingly give information. You can't do anything without data getting submitted to equifax.
"Because they make you think about the music. And when you're thinking about the music, you aren't hearing it"

-- Alan Watts, more or less
They already have Airtel billing, it was part of Airtel Thanks offer where three months was given free.
My Raspberry Pi 4 arrived today, so I'll be setting up some similar experiments to see how it performs.

Would love to hear more about the issues you found with the USB chipset though!
Clearly the antitrust investigation is really about strong arming big tech into putting in backdoors. Republican administrations for decades have been weak on competition law, they have little problem with mergers and conglomeration, and have no concerns for consumer protection, or a belief in a broad privacy right. And that's because they believe those things are adequately addressed by consumers making informed choices, because consumers have all available information.

I'd bet all the tea in China that they drop the antitrust investigation in exchange for backdoors.

If these companies continue to base their businesses in large part on services, they will need a trusted cryptographic method for protecting customer information. If these companies regress into being strictly product and advertising businesses, what is the loss of value? And what kinds of businesses fill the void? And will those businesses even be based in the U.S. if the legal regime mandates backdoors for all businesses? Besides, on what basis does DOJ require only big tech provide a backdoor?
It's not an implication; it's mentioned in the article:

>the FTC alleges that Facebook violated the FTC Act’s prohibition against deceptive practices when it told users it would collect their phone numbers to enable a security feature, but did not disclose that it also used those numbers for advertising purposes.

>The FTC also alleges that Facebook misrepresented users’ ability to control the use of facial recognition technology with their accounts. According to the complaint, Facebook’s data policy, updated in April 2018, was deceptive to tens of millions of users who have Facebook’s facial recognition setting called “Tag Suggestions” because that setting was turned on by default, and the updated data policy suggested that users would need to opt-in to having facial recognition enabled for their accounts.
Yes that's me. Hi there.

I use fathom on one of my sites and I like it. I was just replying to someone who said people could just use access logs instead. Some don't like adding JS to their site I guess.

Ad blockers will also block requests to the tracker.js if you use analytics.domain for example.
> The only time the OP suggested it as a replacement is where there is no alternative, which is perfectly reasonable.

Thank you, you got my point.

> War films are not a substitute for combat training because they are not supposed to be. The remainder of this argument is for the value of fiction, which seems a little unnecessary.

War movies can depict war as something awesome as well as something awful. Needless to say, there are movies that depict war the former way and movies that depict war in the latter way.

The very same way, there are many kinds ("genres") of porn that illustrate sexuality in many ways.
Just wait till he discovers minecraft...
React might be a UI library, but the post doesn't describe the concept in terms of application in a UI library, but as a general concept (examples given include logging and exception handling, and are not tied to UI needs).

Second, React might be a UI library, but its need / uses / limits in using for something like "algebraic effects" could be similar to the ones encountered 30+ years ago in non-UI domains.

Not to mention the biggest fault in this comment: the domains where Dan got the idea of Algebraic Effects from are already non UI -- he got it from functional programming research in non-UI specific domains and languages.

Which means that he could just as well use the original, also non-UI, concepts, was he aware of them.

A more valid response along your reasoning would be that of course not everybody can/knows every prior art. That's true, and valid. But the argument that prior art is not relevant in this case because we're talking about UI is not...

>It's a nice trivia, but what should we do with this information?

Evaluate it, enrich our understanding of it, find prior uses and limits (and not just the current re-implementation of the concept) and so on?
Around a ~6MB interpreter for those curious, not bad.
I started freelancing in 2014 and somehow ended up only working for US companies after 4 years.

Even german startups feel to be a few years behind.
> "For those of us that don't care for the latest FPS or Battle Royale, the games industry is going perfectly fine."

As players, for those who care about these AAA games, it is perfectly fine too. Better than fine, it is great.

The argument of the OP is that the industry is not fine. And I think that includes indie developers. It is not an easy industry to be in. Lots of stress, uncertainty, and failure for indie developers. Take a look at how hard is to make a good game after a successful Kickstarter campaign.

If you, as a player, only care about the couple of indie games that are great and don't care what's going on behind the scenes with the thousand of indie developers that are struggling, that's fine. But that's not the point of the OP
Yes, walking on a road is unsafe. Glad we settled that.
That's called interleaved posting and it's the preferred style: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_styl...
New 'Lockdown' Firewall [iPhone] App Lets You Block Any Connection to Any Domain
>And you can get to cash flow or fail faster. Etc.

I think this right here is the key. Game development takes forever, especially if you're starting from scratch. Shovel Knight took 2 years to make, and that was a seasoned team with lots of professional game dev experience between them.

Compare that to another typical business venture that people with limited experience might to go out on a limb with, like opening a bar/restaurant. You can go from concept to having butts in seats in way less time than that. You'll have an idea about how well you're doing early, and it's also something you'll be able to iterate on to improve and keep working at for little additional cost.

If your game goes out the door and is a dud, though, you're kind of fucked. If it has "good bones" you can put in some extra work and get it to good, like "No Man's Sky" or "Warframe" managed to do. But if it's just fundamentally not very fun, then you're back to square one. You can't even sell your codebase and recoup some of the sunk-cost the way you could sell your space and decor.
Serious answer: the court has ordered them to wire transfer it within seven days- it’s currently in escrow with their lawyers. Probably FedWire.
As a game industry git newbie that was used to the Perforce client for managing versioning and visualizing changes, this app has been a huge blessing to me.
"others providing food preparation for us is economically broken".

Shouldn't it be more efficient with mass production of meals? If economic efficiency is the goal, people would eat in neighbourhood rotating menu restaurants. Like a Soviet kolkhoz or any army camp.
you're being dismissive because it sounds like a such an RCE could only be the result of gross negligence. let me paint a more plausible scenario.

many gnome-based distros (fedora, for example) ship with firefox and the "gnome extensions" plugin for firefox pre-installed. this extension allows you to install extensions directly into your shell from extensions.gnome.org just by clicking "install".

suppose an exploit was found that allows sources other than extensions.gnome.org to trigger the firefox plugin to install a shell extension.

seems much more likely now, doesn't it?
AI for Climate Change
Wow, his internship host was Jeff Dean?

I knew @colah was amazing (his neural net articles come to mind), but this is a whole other level of awesome.
This is interesting, because I was just thinking the other day how easily I can summon various emotions. I can think about my family and the people I love, and feel happiness and warmth. I can think about the cruel things humans have done to each other and feel despair. I can think about people I have lost and feel sad.

I actually find it quite easy to choose the emotion I want to feel.

I guess the difference is that I am not 'pursuing' positive emotion so much as summoning it by my thinking.
Seems like a failure of the tech community that most people don’t understand the ramifications of backdoors. People can also point to the example of China where there are indeed government backdoors and things are fine (from the government can get access but others can’t point of view). Clearly we don’t want to be like China in this regard but it does give an example of a “working” backdoor setup.
This plus the CLOUD Act would essentially do that
I'd be really curios to know who funded this research, and to understand the eating habits of the scientists involved.

There was a lot of research that showed smoking didn't cause cancer and we all know how that came about.
Yes it is. Around here few different restaurants have added impossible meat as an option. And I have tried it in different forms as a burger patty or as a burrito filling. I can't say that the taste is the exact same as beef but its close enough and its good enough.
I need a nice git client for Linux..
> corporate interests...highly processed

Using phrases like that might pander to a certain crowd, but it doesn't help your argument. Personally, I'm less likely to trust someone who uses phrases like that because they lack nuance and signal that they're not really here for a constructive discussion.
We don't need to make arguments like "I trust the state, but what about criminals?". All US administrations have exhibited strong evidence of criminality and work to suppress dissent and oppress minorities. The current administration makes AG Barr's machinations exceptionally clear as they employ an ever more viscous kidnapping force and (incompetently) attempt to start wars around the world.

If you want to be able to resist these assholes (e.g. having anti-war or anti-ICE meetings that aren't snooped on, enable whistleblowers, etc), you need secure communications. Don't give them a backdoor.
Is this true only in the US? Or can Facebook argue that the settlement with the FTC effectively indemnifies them across other jurisdictions? I remember there being something about courts in different countries respecting each other's rulings, but not sure how such an argument would play in (for example) the EU.
Wow, this has big implications. Seems we are leaving conspiracy and entering into something else.
This isn’t unique to car AI, every software project looks doable at the start, you can even get “90%” there where it looks and feels like a real solution. But then real life usage testing starts or the implementation process exposes a thousand small problems you didn’t except in the last 10%, or your own original design wasn’t flexible enough for some constraints requiring a significant rethinking of that 90%. Just ask Jeff Hawkins.

This is going to be a huge business opportunity for car manufacturers and software companies, two industries with access to plenty of capital. So the not being left behind risk (FOMO) is naturally going to be high.

Combine that with potentially saving hundreds of thousands of lives from car accidents and being able to look at your phone instead of driving (freeing up countless human hours) and you have the recipe for extreme optimism.

The only important question is whether x company overpaid in the short term for acquisitions or scaling up ... and/or lack a runway to really achieve their goals. Otherwise it’s pretty par for the course, especially for software/innovation at this scale.

It’s quite possible we’ll hit these goals sooner now that industry went full bore on solving these problems and we’ll benefit as a society in many ways besides transportation from the AI work.

Most importantly, who cares if some pension funds and wealthy investors involved in high risk capital investment lose some money in the short term.
Extending the Linux Kernel with Built-In Kernel Headers
Your post history shows that you do this a lot. Just wanted to let you know:

> Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Wireless sensor/actuator network with CC430
This is fantastic! Very useful, especially for those of us who still think best with pen and paper.
This article defines great and the best engineers by:

“For the purposes of this article, we’re arbitrarily defining “great” candidates as those scoring between 95th and 98th percentile on our technical interview, and “the best” candidates as those scoring at 98th percentile or above.”

A test that they’ve come up with internally. What makes this company an authority on determining great and best engineers purely on data structures and algorithms style interview questions that most likely a recent grad will be efficient with (for software engineers anyways*).

This article is standing on a house of cards. It’s first principles lack and the assumptions it makes on top of those first principle is highly questionable.

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Some jurisdictions do (in Europe, for example).
If he doesn't right now, he soon will. That will mean first, random government checking whether encrypted comms are backdoored. If they discover that some are double-encrypted, and the inner encryption isn't backdoored, then they will do what we right now call MITM all encrypted comms. By law, with harsh penalties, because that's how we roll in the USA.

I think this is just another step in a War on Change. Snooping was good when the bulk of the comms weren't encrypted, and cellphones could be confiscated and read because plaintext. Change to HTTPS, dominance of a cellphone company that isn't too compliant, and here's a change that needs to be reversed, to be stopped.
> Somehow I think if the poster conspired to steal your own cell phone, you'd feel differently

I'm not sure I would, depending on what you mean.

Would I be more upset about someone conspiring to harm an individual as opposed to taking investigative actions that MIGHT harm a company by spreading information? Yes.

Would I feel that someone stopping their conspiracy to steal my phone when I caught them and called them out wasn't enough? Probably not. There was bad, it was stopped, that's still a good ending.

Would I be nervous that whoever was so conspiring wouldn't just stop when asked? Yes, admittedly. But that doesn't mean that harsher punishments actually fix that.
I routinely take day trips on the weekends that are in the 150 to 250 mile round-trip range, often two in a weekend. Doing that routinely in most electric cars I've seen wouldn't be feasible. Trying to rent a car for these trips would be a headache as well, and expensive. I think I've had one weekend in the last two months where I haven't made at least one of these trips. Until electric cars can make these kinds of trips commonplace, I won't be getting one.

I don't live in a city, I live in the country where everything is far away from everything else.
What If Consciousness Comes First?
PC-NFS 3.0.1
> We don't let margarine be called butter.

What about “peanut butter”?
> IANAL, but I'm fairly sure banning "stuff like the GPL" would mean banning every EULA and software license, as that's really all the GPL is.

You can specifically ban (or make unenforceable) any subset of copyright licenses without banning copyright licenses generally.
DIY Desktop Laser Cutter
I checked ~10 AP videos but they all had disabled comments so it's probably their default.
Its a good quote but I don’t think society and world can support this. Why is there a room to begin with and why do you have to be forced to sit down in it. Completely counter intuitive. Same reason why meditation works for those 20 min.
How not to sign a JSON object
I'm sorry are these not corporate interests?

Are these not highly processed foods?

Is it difficult for you to accept that because you want others to not eat meat?
Plus the question of that server in the Trump tower that was communicating with another server in Russia - that went silent when it was found out.

...and then that fire in the Trump tower - I wonder what went up in that besides some oligarch's possessions...?

This whole damn thing is rotten, it stinks, and I for one am getting sick of it.
It's either a false flag or fear mongering, neither of which should be used to take away rights.
Ironically, the term "hamburger" might lead someone who doesn't know its origin to expect it's made with ham.
"We are confident that there are technical solutions that will allow squaring circles without materially making them not circles."

Or drying water, or any number of other impossibilities.
Basically I have my Gmail work account on my phone but I'm syncing it manually, only when I want/need to consult it.
Wait, so they brought on a Google Assistant engineer to talk about Google Search and News results?

And he admits he has no "smoking gun"? And also says Google Assistant has no bias? And uses appeals to authority ("I have a PhD in CS and have worked at Google for years")?

Basically, the whole interview boils down to needing to trust this guy who isn't a known public figure with a proven track record.

I'm hungry for Big Tech insider info like many people, and I'm not naive enough to think Google is benevolent and unbiased, but this is starting to look like controlled opposition.
Yeah but what's to stop a bad actor simply switching to a provably secure cryptographic system or app? Don't forget there's an arms race going on, where bad actors consistently try to outpace law enforcement by switching to provably secure and private systems. Take for example when 3DES[0] was discovered as insecure and all the criminals switched to AES[1]. And don't forget the old adage: If you outlaw encryption, then only outlaws will use encryption

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_DES

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard
If I remember correctly, even the isolated work profile can add certificates on android. Probably the only reason I don't use that either.