skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Afaict checksums only cover metadata and it doesn't do any read integrity checking, isn't that bad when talking to raw flash devices since it relies on them accurately reporting errors?
Hmm, I don't remember, but I doubt it. The point of FB Messenger using XMPP was that you could add your FB account to your XMPP client and chat with your friends from there
Thanks for that, it does have much cheaper options
Personally only some small fraction of the creators I watch on YouTube monetize their videos and all of them have another source of income in addition to that (paid promotions, merchandice, pattreon, concerts etc.)

I think everyone would be happy without the revenue sharing.

What we really need is a good video podcast viewer.
We don't want a society where parents have to helicopter their children. We want a society where parents can give their children gradual access to freedom.

> We can go back to how parents blame everyone but themselves when their kid steals their credit card to buy, say, loot boxes.

This is a completely different problem. Content is made for children. Those content creators don't want unsuitable ads in the content. The children enjoy watching the content. Those children don't want unsuitable ads. The parents are happy for their children to watch the content. Those parents don't want unsuitable ads.

All YouTube has to do is give content creators a checkbox: "Is this content aimed at people under 18?", then not place ads for gambling or alcohol or horror movies etc against that content.

YouTube needs to be aware that regulation is coming, and they're not going to like what the EU will impose.
In 2005, I created Prototype, the first of a generation of JavaScript libraries designed for building modern web applications. Prototype was based on a far-out idea in a time of stagnant browser innovation: what if we fixed the deficiencies of JavaScript by augmenting its built-in types with new behavior?

Good lord. It's so obvious that this causes breakage all over the place once the API changes. How could anyone think this is a good idea?

After some time, though, it became clear that Prototype’s core idea was at odds with the world. Browser vendors responded to the JavaScript renaissance by adding new APIs, many of which conflicted with Prototype’s implementation. And developers began to show a preference for small, self-contained, modular libraries over more monolithic frameworks.

No, not "after some time". This is common software development knowledge since the 80's that you and other people just rediscovered. Please don't blame the world for bad design caused by ignorance.
This will give you a picture of how Kashmiri youths where radicalized and poisoned by years of propaganda and turned into fighters for Pakistan.

With the current situation, a plebiscite is out of question.
Not French, but moistening the baguette, putting it in foil and back in the oven for a couple of minutes gets it back to almost new state, and still nice and crusty.
It's the horizontal stabilizer. Which has two parts. The control surfaces controlled by the pilots yoke. And the trim system which adjusts the entire horizontal stabilizer. MCAS uses the trim motors.
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Hey dang,

Quit posting unsubstantiated comments.

If you're going to comment, please post thoughtfully and follow the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. If you can't do that, please don't post until you can.
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I wonder if there is a business there for some startup to host the always on part for SyncThing users.
> You're literally talking about a video you let your child watch, while bemoaning the FCC needing to step in.

But other video providers can make sure that video and the ads placed against that video is suitable for children. I can let a 7 year old sit and watch uk ITV kids content for an hour and I know it'll be fine. I cannot do that for YouTube, because YT ignores the regulatory framework.

That framework is largely voluntary, so sure they don't _have_ to comply with it. But whenever this comes up (especially with taxes) people say "if you don't like non-compliance with voluntary regulation just change the law". And then, when the law is changed (eg, GDPR), people lose their shit and talk about how restrictive the law is.
I was one of the kids who peed himself in class due to one of those teachers. I had asked three times to go. Ripe age of of 12 no less.

It destroyed my fear of and respect for arbitrary authority instantly so I look back on it as a good thing today. I realised that rather than my peers turning on me on a shame basis they turned on the teacher because it was going to be them next.

It also positioned me well for dealing with the somewhat backwards ideals in my own childrens’ school.
Thank you! I will use that attribute wherever I can.
If you aren't expecting YouTube to pay you, the list of problems that content creators has with YouTube shrinks dramatically.

The remaining problems are largely due to copyright enforcement and abuse... Which don't just magically go away, just because you're not doing revenue sharing.
Skype upgrades its messaging feature with drafts, bookmarks and more
I’d wager yes firmly, a privacy invasive technology does not just fall from the sky. Salespeople are pimping it hard, and the world incrementally becomes more like a dystopian hellscape
Eh. That's where I stopped on Learn C the Hard Way too. Hopefully I can find some diligence in myself to finish it -- the webserver less looks the most interesting to me.
Neither Baltimore or San Antonio are in Canada.
Perhaps. However - "the magnetic axis of Uranus, for example, is inclined by as much as 60°"
n-gate has your number pegged, comment thread. the summary is succinct, brutal, and highly comical.
> They need to get the developers back and that can only work with a massive investment in the firefox dev tools as they are far, far behind chrome devtools.

This isn't a universal truth -- I consider them much better in many respects. It's much better to point out concrete deficiencies as these can be acted upon.
The EU doesn't prevent the "bad" startups from existing. They just prevent them from starting in the EU, which means the EU misses out on a lot of the potential upside.

Companies like Microsoft, Google, Uber, Facebook, and PayPal started in the US, but they eventually expanded to the rest of the world. Since those companies weren't founded in the EU, EU workers missed out on being early employees. That means those company cultures are far more American than they otherwise would be. The EU missed out on having those companies headquartered in Europe where they'd create more jobs, more wealth, and more profits that could be taxed. Having them headquartered in the EU would also make those companies easier to influence.

It's hard to quantify exactly how much these things matter, but I think the long term cost is far higher than the consumer benefits of GDPR.
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That sounds like the perfect way to test stolen credit cards. In high-risk transactions, Stripe uses SMS 2FA so you're back to needing a SIM card.
That’s likely. School IT is fraught with cash back handers and lies at least here in the UK.
Why can his password even be reset remotely, and not something done by other company employees (HR, etc)?

In an enterprise setting where people work in an office I don’t see the point of allowing self-service password resets. It opens you to huge risk for very little upside compared to having to physically walk into the office (if you aren’t there already) and have HR/line manager/etc do it for you.
I would assume that "almost always" is a common English phrase that has been adopted by probability.
> We want a society where parents can give their children gradual access to freedom.

Of course. There was another submission under which the US was called out for having less of that in comparison to Europe. As I said, kids are free to be kids around here in Eastern Europe, there are lots of playgrounds being built for them, they are usually allowed to go to school and back alone, and so on. Kids' freedom is less restricted in the name of safety.

> We don't want a society where parents have to helicopter their children.

I am not sure what exactly you mean by this. What I am trying to say is that if someone's kids buy something with their credit card, then perhaps they should find a solution to that within the household (parenting) instead of asking the Government to step in.

Regarding my example, I only meant to bring up the trend which I observed lately that some parents put the blame on everyone else but themselves, that is, they do not assume parental responsibility.

> All YouTube has to do is give content creators a checkbox: "Is this content aimed at people under 18?", then not place ads for gambling or alcohol or horror movies etc against that content.

Yes, I do agree with not placing ads targeted for adults when the videos are targeted for children. There is a solution to it right now though, namely ad blockers. Parents could install or ask their kids to install, say, uBlock and perhaps even uMatrix. They do not have to wait for the regulations. :)
Isn't that sort of what you would expect from a doorbell maker? Using facial recognition as part of the unlock? It's almost too obvious an idea.
Eh.. TF2 you could get things that change how you play

Fortnite (and other cosmetic only games) do not alter the game play
ähmm, no? Counterexample: 1/3

>every nonzero TERMINATING decimal has two equal representations
It's covered by recital 43 which deals with public institutions and power imbalance.

There is no practical way for a student (or their parents) to say no, given the circumstances.
>Beginning in 2016, according to one source, Ring provided its Ukraine-based research and development team virtually unfettered access to a folder on Amazon’s S3 cloud storage service that contained every video created by every Ring camera around the world.[1]

Is that why Ring has it's RnD in Ukraine, to be away from US and EU privacy laws?

[1]https://theintercept.com/2019/01/10/amazon-ring-security-cam...
These programs are then broken, IMO. A non-filesystem-tool program shouldn't break the filesystem abstraction for no good reason. Being able to symlink configs or binaries is an important feature.
The interesting thing you can derive is what the lower bound is on the diameter of the imaging system via the diffraction limit. I get about 1 meter (but have fat fingers and sleep deprivation). Which is big, but not crazy big.

Edit. 224 is supposed to be a variation of this guy [1], which has a 2.4 metre mirror (which should be more like 7cm on the ground).

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennen
Don't get mixed up in that crowd op. theoceancleanup is mostly just a pr stunt. Some young kid got popular support for a bad idea and now he's doubling down on that bad idea for fear of being pilloried for wasting 6 years and millions of dollars on a dud.
this is great! installing tonight
thanks a lot. if you found any issues and/or had any questions while using this, there is a gitter chat room where you can ask them: https://gitter.im/connectv/community
SOrry if my point was not clear enough.

I did not say RFID or a mobile phone is biometric information!

I was saying that such datasets can be matched up to another dataset that holds individual information and as long as those datasets are seperated in the right way, you can skirt around this whole area and still have the same problem.

But people seem happy to allow that.
Google closed that as Won't Fix, they are very opinionated and steadfast in their opinion as an organization.

I doubt they will take Linux outside their own walled gardens seruously, Google has already shown their indifference to us Linux users.
PayPal. Is it not the only payment app with protections? Otherwise all credit card use is also protected, even if you just don’t want to pay.
Although that sounds like fun (for certain values of fun), the issue would exposure during fabrication and possibly during destruction of nano tube containing equipment.
Most of the people I watch have complained about copyright strikes and having their channels completely deleted without explanation (extractions and ire is an example of that.) More than their fear of demonization (I’ve only seen one complain about that.)

Most professional youtubers don’t seem to trust YouTube’s revenue sharing so why bother with it?
> get the AST (a data structure AFAIK)

how?
"Statutory rape laws say it doesn't matter if the minor consented" that is probably an extreme example that some might find unpalatable, but it does support the point.
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As its name hints the Consortium is intended as a way for organisations to work together. This seemed like a natural fit for the Web which had all these exciting startups in the Valley and around the world. If you look at something like the IETF where notionally all participation is individual and organisations are acknowledged only as the employer of an individual contributor you see plenty of stuff getting done that is blatantly, even explicitly, done on behalf of that employer. So why not cut out the middle man?

But it turns out that's probably the wrong shape. While some stuff at IETF would get done by "any Google employee" or "any Microsoft employee" or "any Cisco employee" plenty of stuff that actually gets done is because one or more specific people cared about it, regardless of their employer or occasionally even if they don't have one.

For years it was literally impossible to work on W3C standards as an individual. They eventually fixed that, but the message sent echoes forever, "Go away, we don't care".

I like Tim (he is a nerd, he used to derail our apparently serious board-level meetings with his IT problems), but my impression is that one of the things that lead to the W3C was that Tim could see from pretty early on (certainly by the time W3C is founded) that there's a lot of cash sloshing about for his Web, and of course it's the nature of the beast that Tim doesn't automatically get a slice. That's part of the reason other systems didn't get traction - nobody wants to pay a toll. The W3C is a way for Tim to get some of that money for his pet projects.
Ahh yes, you’re right. I completely misread the GP. Thank you
A school performing face recognition is a joke when it comes to privacy.

Coming from billions dollar business, storing document copies, required by law for certain type for contracts, securely is a HUGE burden and liability (aside the permission management, etc.) alongside the necessary audits - both internal and external.

Having footage and training data on kids would be a resounding 'no' from me (both as a parent and engineer). Schools would never, ever have enough resources do to it properly.
In this particular instance they need one bit of info: "present" and that should be it all.

The fine is well justified, considering someone won a contract to install the system without any oversight from the school.
For largish problems, a general idea of the key structures and abstractions.. what's desirable, what's not... It becomes hard to think of how certain parts of the system mesh together... At that point, to avoid analysis paralysis, I write the scaffolding and some tests to see how the API feels... Most often, doing this clarifies stone assumptions that I was perhaps inadvertently making and leaves me with a path forward (after moving things around a bit)

So definitely iterative..

Whenever I've tried to design completely, it's rarely worked well. What has happened as I've grown older is that most parts of the system are orthogonal to others and it's usually not very complicated to compose parts together. So that leaves me with focusing on the core problem more up front and then layering in the other needed (but known) parts
Robots should have googly eyes
This is amazing! Google could now build a chording keyboard, without the extra device needed.
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Where we are now is not necessarily where the standardisation process has led us. There's a very powerful tech oligopoly that has taken over some time ago.

I'm not sure there's anything the W3C alone could have done to prevent that, even if they hadn't made any of the mistakes they have made.
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Why solution in quotes?
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Symlinking configuration files is the approach behind GNU stow. I version my dotfiles in a repository, and on a new system it’s enough to simply run:

cd ~
git clone <dotfiles repo>
cd <dotfiles repo>
stow <profile|vim|ansible|bin|...>

Every piece of software I use plays well with it. If I were using Dropbox, the announced change wouldn’t break my workflow.
But there's no reason you couldn't use it as an ultrablack pigment layer and simply tolerate the presence of some highlights. Wouldn't even have to be 'matte' surface, you could put a high gloss surface on there and still have it be different. Because it isn't just black paint, because it's a sponge-like structure inside a medium, that means you can use it as a simple pigment in a normal paint job, and it would be blacker than normal pigments in that context.

Might be possible to make an 'ultra gloss black' in that way. Highlights would reflect, but anywhere that isn't a highlight would be the depths of space. The glossier, the more extreme the effect.
TBF I don't know how common it is as Python's AST API is pretty gnarly (not to mention really hard to work with / debug as it will usually segfault if you look at it funny). And IIRC the error messages coming from there are significantly worse than those coming from source.

Third-party packages do make that somewhat better, but still not great. IIRC Jinja compiles templates to Python source code then compiles that to bytecode using the relevant builtins because it's simpler & more reliable than doing straight AST manipulations.
This wedges Dropbox in as a critical system dependency.

Dropbox screws up - and you no longer have your core config files needed for basic system operation.
That has become a major source of problems in my household. I don't live with my girlfriend and her 4 kids (my stepkids, I'm not disowning them, just explaining quickly the situation). Youngest son has a PC, and due to experience gained with the older son (now 18), his account is locked down and I'm the admin on the system.

I often have to use TeamViewer to access the PC to allow Fortnite to upgrade, and they don't understand why I still insist on this - my warning about just about all the possible negatives have been completely ignored, but I'm sticking to my guns. I know I'm fighting a losing battle and eventually will have to give up on this, but at the moment, it's working. I'm sure most people have given up, made the kid and admin and the computer is awash with issues as a result.

Obviously if I'm not available (which is often the case as I'm self employed in a number of roles, most of which mean I can't be available instantly), then it has to wait, and you'd think the world was ending!
Graham Hancock is not an archaeologist, and actual archaeologists disagree with him. That "impressive" evidence sounds like cherry-picked non-sequiturs.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-there-wasnt-an...

https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/defant-analysis-of-hanc...
Thank you, I left him for impossible...
The fine feels as a millionaire got fined $200 for the same violation.
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Some cell types simply stop dividing as a natural part of the lifecycle
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayflick_limit
It's because they have too much DNA damage.

Aging is a complicated process we don't understand.
I mostly disagree, while it is unknown how much of ageing is not a cause of DNA damage, I expect by far most of it come from DNA damage.

Btw: are organelles just protein complexes?
If so organelles are made by DNA too.
FYI this is easier to do with GNU stow, which can take a directory of configs and symlink it to another directory (like $HOME).
I don't know much about JavaScript. Are you saying that Prototype was replaced with bad code? Or was this not directly related comment?
https://docs.python.org/3/library/ast.html
ast.parse(inspect.getsource(func))

doesn't work in the python shell though.

You could also decompile the function's code object.
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I'd rather not include a third party either. Then I would have to do all the GDPR work to disclose what do they get, how do they store it and so on. Ideally Apple would provide some framework to do basic functionality analytics.
Facial recognition can raise privacy concerns but it does not necessarily erode privacy.

Schools have a duty to provide a safe environment, including keeping track of who's on school premises, where pupils are, and whether pupils are let to leave premises when they are not expected to. Obviously the younger the pupils the stronger those duties.

For example, facial recognition could tell the system that you are in the library but doing so would not erode your privacy in the library at all.
Decentralisation will never happen on a scale that will affect significant web traffic.

However, there is another model for web apps, not purely decentralised, but a practical option where traffic is not funnelled through a small number of big players. Let's call it the WordPress model.

Consider the following: WordPress is an example of a profitable open source app that can easily be installed on countless shared hosting platforms or on a VPS. It's easy to switch hosting providers when you want to (rather than be locked into one provider). You can take your data with you when you switch. The popularity of WordPress means that one-click installs are widespread. Many providers also offer a 'managed' service where they take care of back-up and updates. But crucially you're still not tied to a single provider.

Now imagine if all web apps were as easy to install on the server via a one-click installation like WordPress. Unfortunately, there is no common standard or API for software installation on the server side, and this lack of an easy installation process for everyone severely limits self-hosting websites and apps.

Many developers think deploying a server-side web app is a non-issue, or they erroneously think that installing Cloudron/providing Docker instances/typing command line instructions are all "easy". Have you seen the server deployment instructions for "web friendly" languages like Ruby and Python? They're ludicrously complicated. Developers are completely blind to the complexity and see nothing wrong in such installation procedures.

The result is ever-growing centralised software through the SaaS model which beats the self-hosting alternative in simplicity every single time. Imagine if your local desktop apps were completely controlled, tracked and even terminated remotely by one provider - don't like the though of that? Yet, that is exactly what the centralised Saas model enables and nobody blinks an eye.

I wish there was some momentum or traction in making server-side web app installation as universally simple as a one-click WordPress install for all for all web apps. It would unlock countless opportunities for developers to reach more users or customers. I'm not one for conspiracies, but I wonder sometimes if developers actually prefer the complexity of server-side installation because it makes selling a SaaS solution much more attractive over the ludicrously complicated self-hosting option.
Do you think it could be used by an AI? Use cases for natural language understanding?
I can think of a few HR departments over time, that would make the worst school experience look like a walk in the park. Let's be fair, I never got a written warning for slouching in a chair at school...