skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Amsterdam, the cashless option is for security reasons: too many violent, & armed robberies on the smallest of shops. They need to protect their employees, and since only the hardly visible police and criminals are armed: what can you do?

As much as I dislike it (you will loose me as customer too), I understand their logic.
To deorbit a satellite, you need an antenna (to receive the command), electricity (working solar panel / battery), working on board computer, fuel, correct attitude determination. So basically you need a full working satellite. As soon as one of these element fails, your satellite is dead. At 10-20 k dollars per kg, you dont want to add another satellite to your already expensive satellite.

Concerning rules, there is some progress, because nobody wants a Kessler syndrome, too much is at stake. For instance, European satellites are launched only if they naturally deorbit in less than 25 years (for LEO, of course. Above a certain height, atmospheric drag is too weak).
I'm naming my server Godwin.
Catwigs: A Conversation with Your Project
Some older houses (< 1960, mostly early 20th century) have had 2 phase 127v systems in place in the Netherlands (either with or without neutral). They have gradually been replaced by 240v.

Maybe this is the reason people still talk about 2 phase systems.
There was a post on slatestarcodex [1] a while back that talked about various models/conceptions of both schizophrenia and autism as well as the associated personality traits etc., which I found quite interesting.

1. https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/12/11/diametrical-model-of-a...
I know a bit of Japanese and it didn't strike me at all. Is it just the "baka"? :-)
What would it mean in Japanese? If you know a little bit of Chinese as well, you could read it as 我 + ばか – meaning something like "I'm an idiot", perhaps. :)

But then again, I guess an amusing meaning can be found for any word if you allow interpreting its parts in different languages.
The realpolitik answer is that this is where the barbed wire ended up in the war between copyright holders and internet companies. It's a situation that satisfies nobody, but both sides get to continue making money. Justice has very little to do with it.
Branch prediction is a very good optimization though, you'd lose quite a lot if you forbade people from using it.
With regard to the details sure, but the fundamentals should be studied and understood. That's why this blog is not attempting to recreate the entire of Microsoft Excel.
I imagine most uses call for flat leather rather than curved.
Germany is one of the few countries that do this though probably because it's common to have electric heating for the house. In such cases you can't get too far on 240V (which used to be 220V not long ago). If you go to the south or the east the chances of having 380V in anything but new buildings are low.
man, watch the PBS YouTube channel SpaceTime. They're short, informative, and very well done. they dedicate a handful of episodes to getting you ready for Hawking radiation.

https://youtu.be/qPKj0YnKANw
Epstein
I also wrote my own static blog generator. It's available as either a Perl or a Python program [0]. I use it to write a static microblog [1].

[0] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog

[1] http://plurrrr.com/
You obviously have never thought about the use of PoE. You just cannot compare PoE and USB-C Power delivery as these are made for entirely different applications.

I'd rather buy a WiFi router that gets its power over the ethernet cable that I have to run to the location I'm putting it anyways rather than place a USB-C outlet next to it so I can power it via USB-C. Same goes for small switches and other network enabled equipment, especially IoT stuff (if it's wired). Also, having one beefy PoE enabled switch in the basement providing power is much more efficient than having a bunch of small transformators around the building.

Now, charging Laptops on the other hand is a completely different story.
Thank you for taking the time to write this :)!

I populate some things based on the domain but not all that you mention. I like these little smartness things and I want to do this. It's one of the things I'm going to try to make this autumn :).
In France only few people have 3 phases.

But I think the a reason why high power appliances are more common in Europe is simply because the voltage is higher. Double the voltage means you can pass double the power over the same wires.
It's always been just off the continent. I think they'd sail away if they hadn't been tethered to us by that tunnel.
> the information about what collided and when is carried away by the radiation

This is where the thermal nature of the radiation emitted by the black hole comes in. Physicist use the term "thermal radiation" to mean it is in a mixed state that cannot encode information (crude analogy: as if someone has pressed all the keys of a keyboard at once, you see that some keys are being pressed but this "signal" cannot be decoded).
Show HN: Using GitHub Actions to create dynamic Twitter cover photos
Hot Reload in ClojureScript
Before dismissing this (although I suspect it will be flagkilled anyway), it's worth noting that the author is a Conservative, and the former govenor of Hong Kong.
> confined by SELinux

Only on platforms that use SELinux though.
We're at a stage where ignorance is celebrated. The EU has been attacked by the press so much people blame it for everything.

This week a football pundit blamed the EU for a recent handball rules change[0]. On live TV. What hope do we have?

Frankly, we are an embarrassment and don't deserve the EU.

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/...
As a newish manager this is something I find difficult to convey. If someone wants to go down a rabbit hole for a day or two and nothing is on fire, by all means. But you can’t do it every week and you can’t disappear for weeks at a time.

For a while I was trying to peddle a metaphor about deposits and withdrawals from a reputation bank, but it didn’t seem to land.

Edit: pedal -> peddle
Finding the Edge in VC
Review of the Surface Pro as a Graduate Aerospace Engineering Student
That needs a subscription, does it not? What is available are some of the full entries for just a small selection of the words.

e.g. the word of the day on oed.com is "quarterstaff" which gives the full OED entry, but type or click "quartet" or the other linked words, then you're returned to the homepage, and a subscriber login pops up. There's a £90 instead of £200 for a year's personal sub offer on the front page too.

I can buy the Compact Oxford for that. After seeing mention in this thread of its tiny price on Ebay, and a quick search, I may very well spend £20 or £30. :)
Datomic: Tuples and Database Predicates
The 2 dead-simple reasons your business should use Angular
Shopify Removes Beeketing
On your sign up page, this one sentence isn't quite clear to me. - "That's a total, no matter how many people your are."
France and Belgium also have electric heating in most houses, and electric heating always runs on 240V. It really works just fine.
Pyramid Scheme
U.S. tech companies are building a Chinese-style social credit system
I see a few on iOS from time to time, but they are blocked by Adblock Pro with a hosts file listing Facebook servers.
I imagine anti-lazyloading extensions will start appearing soon.
A group with a self interest to have a certain outcome exist find that outcome to exist. It's a bit hard to say that this is a well made study with that conflict of interest involved. Don't get me wrong there are definitely problems abound and studies to support that position, I just don't think Bustle or Sky are the rigorous organizations to lead that charge. I was never encouraged to go into technology, my family wanted be to go into law. I went into tech well before there was any real indication in schools to do so because it made me feel less lonely. There's also the risk of trying to over correct and pushing people into careers that they aren't suited for, and that affects both genders as well. A more troubling correlation has been that women enter a traditionally make dominated field pay for everyone in that field goes down. Why we would suddenly value a field less because of gender is an interesting problem to understand. Another issue is that traditional gender roles for parenting may contribute to the problem. There's no way currently to address that problem without massive societal changes or law specific to address that. The issue is more complex than just a simple men are told to go one place women the other.
Around 2000 I was working at the small bank that had servers named by currency. Development server happened to be "dong". Eudora had some spicy language detection and used to show me some red chili peppers every time I'd mention that server in email.
I am guessing that naming the gene after him is a sort of sarcastic rejoinder - a bit like naming a line of meridian after a flat earther?

I get it but there are dozens of not hundreds of people who have put in decades of work each to discover and enhance our understanding of this gene and its medical links - they would be better candidates. Or perhaps they could choose to name it.

But celebrating a fraud and "fake news" founder ... even sarcastically does not sit right with me.

Happily I saw a dog turd on the street a while back - we could name that after Wakefield. Perhaps put it on Google maps.
> This is where I'm not so certain about. If they add a keyboard and notepad that lets me take audio myself, then where is the significant difference in adding software that makes it easier for me to do the transcription? Is there a certain level of ease that anything easier than that becomes illegal?

I don't think there's any uncertainty here. They're creating a text version and distributing it without appropriate licensing. If they give you a notepad, and you happen to write a text version, it's not them creating or distributing it, but it's still unlicensed. If it makes its way on their platform in some way, they're going to need permission, again.

Further, I don't understand why anybody here is giving Amazon the benefit of the doubt. If they want to do this, they can negotiate the required licensing from the publishers. The fact that they've done it without doing this or even discussing it with the publishers shows their clear intent to do what they want, regardless of how much it runs afoul of any laws, simply because they're big enough to fight any lawsuits for ages.
Not that the situation in the continent is any better than what you describe, heh?

Greetings from France.
The publishers have been strong armed by Amazon for well over a decade. Apple was sure and forced to settle by the DOJ for giving publishers more control over what they could charge and it strengthened the hand of Amazon.
Hot-plate-only electric stoves are two-phase. Electric stoves with integrated oven are usually three-phase.
The over the top rhetoric is getting tiresome. It’s become trendy to dismiss every legitimate viewpoint you may disagree with as being the harbinger of the end of civilization. Of course Britain isn’t a “failed state.” It’s a sovereign country going through a contentious internal debate on disengaging from a multi-national trade union.

By the way, the “enemies of the people” quote is from a Daily Mail headline, not anyone in government as the author implies.
Simulating Crap Networks on a Raspberry Pi (2018)
I'm missing why this is a bad thing?

It make polyfills way easier, and makes it drop-dead simple to programmatically toggle lazy-loading on existing elements.
Good point about the difficulty of finding incremental changes. Maybe it's better the other way round: Pick an arbitrary commit and only roll back the changes it introduces to one proof. This would model the situation where a programmer has just changed the code and is now setting out to adjust the proof.
CamelotPro – A PRO layer on an OSS library to extract tables
CamelotPro is a layer on camelot-py library to extract tables from Scan PDFs and Images.

CamelotPro is no different from the original Camelot to code, it comes with extra flavor="CamelotPro" in read_pdf(), along with regular "lattice" and "stream".
I notice that some USB adapters don't fit in some extension cords because their pins are slightly out of alignment. No idea why they do that, but it's getting annoying.

As for electrocution: I can speak from experience, having been electrocuted by my 3 year old son when he wanted to turn on the light while I was fixing it. Really annoying, but it didn't kill me. (There might be some selection bias involved, though.)
The Hard Truth: Nobody Has Time to Write Tests
It's the "belt and suspenders" approach to vote manipulation.
But surely there's ways of doing that without making people lose their focus.
Your sarcasm was too brilliant for HN - they couldn't handle it here.
Let's not forget that the state is not just the politicians. When we talk about failed states, it's often not just that the wrong people are in political leadership positions, but that everyday responsibilities of the state are not being fulfilled.

So for instance you have countries where you don't expect the police come and help you if there's a crime. Or where kids aren't offered education. Those kinds of things certainly are also the responsibility of the political leaders, but it will probably be a while before they break down in the UK. There is at least some institutional memory in the civil service that will allow things to keep going for some time. Belgium ran for a while with no government.

"Yes, (Prime) Minister" was very much about this; whatever fool is in power doesn't matter terribly much, because there's capable people in actual power.
In Rust (end even C++ afaik) it usually makes more sense to let the callee decide. Does it need to own the value? -> Call by value. Does it only need to inspect or (visibly) mutate the value during the function call? -> Call by reference (modulo optimization concerns).
The Great Currency Race: Who will win global reserve status?
In China, the government has the ability to make me disappear whereas a silicon valley corp. can't. That's the major difference here.
Written by Chris Patten, a long time Conservative party member that has always been very pro-Europe. So of course he thinks leaving the EU is a disaster, because it goes against his long held belief that the UK should be all-in with Europe.
Humboldt is a very fascinating character, who sadly is often overlooked. If anyone is interested in learning more about him, I strongly recommend this biography by Andrea Wulf: https://amzn.to/2KWiy36
There are people with strong beliefs and opinions they are ready to fight for - within the frame of their daily job, using their free time, their own money etc. All this without being enthralled to a "bigger entity", as a part of a conspiracy, serving a special interest playing power games, or simply someone paying them. I am one of those people, in agreement with this post, I can see the OP being in this category as well. If this is all too surprising for you that is a reflection on you.
Of course I agree that distributing a book as text is basically nothing compared to producing and distributing audio. Making an audiobook (for the most part, I assume) requires the the book text exists in the first place, so the book text is a sunk cost in terms of production.

Once you write a piece of software, it is also a sunk cost. Therefore I guess you shouldn’t be able to charge for it based on the number of people who are using it?
One particular figure that illustrates the magnitude of Humboldt's work is that there are more plants, animals, minerals, and places named after him than any other person [0].

[0]: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-wulf-rediscoveri...
Delivery Oriented Stand-Ups: Bring the Focus Back
Haskell Summer of Code – Hadrian Optimisation: Final Report
Can you tell us about the backend stack of this venture?
I'm pretty sure this didn't use to need an extension, at some point I definitely had my new tab just set to "about:blank" which accomplished the same thing.
How did I not know this existed? This is perfect!
Hello All,

I'm new to the community, heard this is the best place to receive valuable feedback as well as attract early adopters.

To make it one stop place for developers to extract tables, we built camelotpro, a wrapper on OSS, camelot-py.

Thanks,
Aks
https://github.com/ExtractTable/camelotpro
The open source Odoo does that too
Is it not a common trope on HN itself, the software engineer who stridently argues that their service is good because it has $list-of-tech, ignoring the users who don’t like it?
There were no guidelines for fecal transplants. Then, a patient died
> This would be the case that I referred to in the second paragraph of my last comment. I would agree if we were talking about explicit type checks, but a portable Common Lisp program cannot consider implicit added by the compiler to be part of the programs semantics, because a compliant implementation is not required to add any type checks.

Hence if you want to talk about portable Common Lisp, you cannot achieve any type of soundness!

> This would be where our view is different. You consider soundness to be a guarantee given by the compiler, while I consider it a property of the program itself (which can sometimes be checked by the compiler, and sometimes by the programmer).

Your view is wrong. Read about type system soundness here https://papl.cs.brown.edu/2014/safety-soundness.html
> Germany is one of the few countries that do this though probably because it's common to have electric heating for the house.

In Germany, electric heating for the house is very uncommon (in opposite to France, I think) for the reason that in Germany, electricity is rather expensive.
Fast async HTTP client in Python
The problem with cockpit is that it lacks almost everything, while webmin has modules for almost everything. I regularly look for webmin alternatives, and though there exist a couple of nicer, cleaner ones none has more than 5% of webmin's functionality.
I had a similar approach with the following equation:

What does the infinite series of 1/(k^2) converge to for k=1 to infinity.

When I was in high school, I spent weeks going down this rabbit hole of mathematics, failing to solve it. Years later I discovered that this equation is a special case of the Riemann Zeta Function, which was also first studied by Euler. His proof is really elegant. The funny thing is that with some math equations, sometimes you intuitively can see that there is something important or far reaching about an equation, even if you arent skilled enough in mathematics to discover it. Some kind of curiosity draws you in
It's not as surprising when you consider that moving the value into the function also makes it permanently unavailable to the caller. So what difference does it really make? The semantics are the same either way. The lifetime of the object ends within the function.
Seems like the image service the author is using is down because of traffic…

https://placedog.net/400/400
European here. Can't they just use national ID card like social security number?

Here, every national has a unique citizen card, but in the US it's stranger, using driver's license since there's no citizen ID...
The ex-PM called Remainers "Citizens of nowhere" though, which is still pretty bad.
Caro avenger is an interesting name for a diamond :)
https://handwritingsuccess.com/write-now/

Teaches you how to print in a simple italic hand, then the same in cursive by connecting the letters you learned when printing.

Avoids curly 2s and Qs, e.g, as unclear.

Interesting bits of writing history.

Entire book written by hand in the subject style.
Not to mention that they're breaking the license by not indicating that they've made changes to the original work. As far as 2) is concerned, that's allowed by Creative Commons Attribution, but it must be indicated that the changes were made. Just the fact that they've cropped the video makes their video a modification.

From[0]:

> How do I properly attribute material offered under a Creative Commons license?

> You must also indicate if you have modified the work—for example, if you have taken an excerpt, or cropped a photo.

[0] https://creativecommons.org/faq/#how-do-i-properly-attribute...
AFAICT electric heating in houses is not common at all in Germany. It would be ridiculously expensive with local electricity prices. A few households have night storage heaters. A few others have heat pumps.
Backend is Clojure, frontend is ClojureScript :).
I unfortunately prefer the economics of a self-strenghtening friction "buckle" on my belt.
Until recently I used a simple fabric belt which had thicker (2mm) warp on the edges than in the middle. The yarn was about half the diameter I'd guess compared to typical backpack straps, but cotton or something less rough than what these typical straps are made of. It was about 2 inch wide.
The "buckle" was just a pair of 3mm non-stainless steel wire formed into rectangles (2inch by 1.2 inch), which the belt was pulled through and about an inch of overlapping belt was sewn together almost aggressively. Usage was "wrap around hip", "pull free end from the back through both rectangles", "split the rectangles a bit from each other", "loop the free end around the outer rectangle, and thread it back between the incoming strap and the other rectangle", "hold buckle-side end of belt with one hand to the side (still contacting your body), while pulling the free end the other direction (tangentially to your skin at the point the 'buckle' touches)".
This results in the looped-around rectangle being pulled against the other one, which squishes the belt between them _and_ creates a slight bump the incoming belt is going around before the rectangle side it wraps tightly. If the belt isn't too smooth, this is self-locking while under force (your body is elastic), and to unlock, you just twist the rectangles around your the long axis of your spine to decrease the bump from the looped-back part of the belt. You can do that by bracing the hand with the outside of the intermediate phalanges of middle and ring fingee, while reaching with thumb and index finger to pull the steel rectangle's corners with a slight pinching force (that is just trying to shorten the larger dimension of the rectangle).
This means that loosening to drop pants that drop to the knees if the belt is gone is a 3 μstep action done blind with one hand (touch belt/buckle with supporting phalanges, pinch corners, twist and pull away from your body to create some slack. This takes half a second.

My new buckle is a case the loose end is threaded through, which has guide slots in the sides facing your nose and toes (respectively) for a pin that is self-locking by pinching the belt between it and the inside of the side of the case facing away from you. This requires two hands to reduce load on the buckle, followed by pinching the pin where it pokes it's rounded ends through the slots to pull it out of the self-locking end of the slot.

I preferred the old one, but how to find a good belt like that? Also, it tends to look tattered/unprofessional with the friction-damaged fabric belt and the non-shiny (not obviously rusty) steel wire rectangles.

If anyone knows a source for such at sane pricing, I'd appreciate sharing of knowledge.
Does it really help to learn English to have a poorly transcribed audio version because Amazon doesn’t want to pay the license fees?
I haven't ever heard of the explanation you offer for why thoughts are helpful (having the appearance of control over an apparent illusion?).

Thinking is required in buddhist practise, it's just not thinking about anything you please.

Also, one usually deals with the coarser forms of suffering first, and no special esoteric philosophies and techniques are needed to address them, usually just clear thinking and problem solving is required.