skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The design of your website blew me away. It’s brilliant.
Note that when exporting weapon systems they need approval from DoD and other federal agencies. But tear gas is not covered by those export laws. Just DoC which isn't a big deal.
Haha, missed that. Thanks!
The press has done a good job of scaring the shit out of people:

> 54 percent of adults agreed that climate-change threatens our extinction as a species, a poll by Comres found, compared to just a quarter who disagreed.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-britain-protests-climate-c...
coincidentally i am watching these treasure trove of videos:

https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Vannevar+B...

after reading the above, highly recommended to watch those!
Oppo released a similar app few month ago : https://venturebeat.com/2019/06/26/oppos-meshtalk-technology...
What are some examples of things where you can get fined or put in jail for what lay-people might consider an honest mistake?
This would entirely depend on population density and how often people are in relatively crowded areas. Something like this may or may not work in an apartment building, but it seems like it would definitely work on crowded city streets, particularly if you allow for a transmission delay as it spreads from one device to another.

(And to that end, in a big city like Hong Kong, you probably wouldn't really need massive adoption, just a few % as you are in close proximity to hundreds of people fairly regularly).
Yeah, sorry about that. Couldn't you figure out that I was talking about the proverbial Iowa and boy scout (e.g. "not a worldly type"), and not necessarily the actual one?
It's really bad, and getting worse. Worse than mainstream sources have the guts to report: https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=8433

Honestly, I don't have much hope, but we have to at least try. Future generations will curse us for our indolence.
I wonder if it's feasible for cities to implement infrastructure to help during times of large gatherings.

During the NBA championship parade this summer every cell network in Toronto was basically shut down, even with extra capacity along the parade route. If there had also been the bandwidth of a series of 'permenent' Bluetooth nodes, I wonder how that would effect things.
Ask HN: What if you could pick your amenities as a tenant?
I'm thinking about building a product for rental companies & independent owners to offer tenants the ability to select services and experiences as amenities.

For example, let's say your apartment company allowed you to select amenities ranging from dog walking services to a monthly subscription for Instacart. You get to choose what you want, and you can change it at any point. They cover the cost, and you get the amenities that you want.

This thought inspired me after moving into a small apartment complex that didn't have in-unit laundry. I thought it would be great if my landlord offered digital amenities since they couldn't provide physical ones like a gym or a laundry room. I would love to have a subscription to a laundry service.

Any thoughts, questions, or feedback is much appreciated! Still in the early phases of what I'm thinking.
It's hard to read your position here. I agree that many people would let greed overcome them, but you seem to actually be saying that's not a problem, and even going as far as saying that allegations of rape are being manufactured for drama. Not good
> There should never be the case when it says a train is 8 minutes away and a train behind it is 9 minutes away when a train gets to the station in 2 minutes and the train behind it gets to the station in 5 minutes.

This is like complaining about a car trip taking less time than Google Maps predicted, due to an accident ahead of you getting cleared up before you reach that stretch of road.

Unpredictable things happen on public transit: sick passengers, police activity, signal problems, mechanical failures, cascading delays causing platform crowding and longer board times. These things cause delays, and then on the tail-end of the event, sometimes they cause trains to be "early" when the delay clears up. Even then, though, in my experience it's pretty rare that the train comes before the time on the countdown clock.

All things considered, I find the countdown clocks to be pretty accurate a vast majority of the time. And they're certainly a huge improvement over how things were before they were installed: a loud beeping noise about a minute before the train arrived, sometimes paired with a muffled inaudible announcement from the station attendant over an ancient PA system.
"russians (and other citizens of soviet union) transitioned from serfdom to (at the time) bleeding edge political system"

This is a VERY unfortunate way to distort the truth.

Bolshevism was just another versions of slavery / serfdom.

The liberal democracy, as practiced in the West, was actually bleeding edge: commoners having rights and exercising them.
nice. clunky but it works.
I didn't hear about the evils of Jeffrey Epstein. In fact I didn't know the guy at all.

But to disprove your point. If I go back one year with the wayback machine and look at his wikipedia the first sentence on his page mentions he is a registered sex offender[1].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180807122025/https://en.wikipe...
People really lack imagination, to comprehend how poor life can become without going anywhere near a threat of extinction.
Isn’t it more morally bankrupt to not deprive a scumbag of his money when given the opportunity?
It's that too. My point (still) being that passing state keys is old, common and still in use.
That is a misrepresentation of the article's argument.
If the browser honors a SameSite policy on links it's the browser that's broken.
Yes. It does. Money changes minds. And if you believe it does not, I have $100,000 that says it will.
KDE Decides the Three New Challenges: Wayland, Consistency, and Apps
>Many have made up their mind, and the trials (in their eyes) are only a confirmation / barrier to the adoption.

Have you asked these people if they feel testing is unnecessary? Proponents are generally arguing against the ongoing prohibition, and their certainty and urgency could still involve clinical trials.
If you're looking for recs, check out librarything. In general it's worse than goodreads on almost all dimensions, but their recommendations algorithms are great. You can import your goodreads list, so it's no big ordeal.
Is there actual proof of the government knowing about Epsteins actions and looking the other way because of his donations? I find that really hard to believe...
> Uncomfortable living condition are not much better

You think uncomfortable living conditions is only marginally better than complete extrnction? You’re proving the OP’s point about hysterics
Primarily for cosmetics since it generates much less brake dust, but it's also has a shorter stopping distance due to increased coefficient of friction from increased contact area and seems to be more resistant to fade.

https://thebrakereport.com/porsche-surface-coated-brake-pscb...
It does not hop outside of the defined unlicensed[1] 2.40-2.48 GHz band. If you can block that whole band, BT doesn't work.

[1]: In the US; it's complicated. Tl;dr is http://afar.net/tutorials/fcc-rules/ , much much more verbose is https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/retrieveECFR?mc=true&r=PART&n=p...
Previously working for a company that did create some less than lethal equipment, I can say few main reasons. One being proprietary knowledge into the devices as well as capabilities to get specific chemicals required to manufacture some of which are highly regulated. The other and probably the largest reason is the margins (profits) and quantities produced are not that large. This is normally why you see defense contractors who have other means of profits do this since its something they can bundle into a sale for law enforcement. That would be my main guess for import low need and cheaper to just import stock vs setting up an entire factory not to mention the requirements necessary to store the chemicals safely. The image in the article does do a good job of showing how they have physically separated the buildings on the property.
Now try applying it to other groups of people.
Is the critical thinking "Epstein did bad things. Therefore, everything Epstein did was bad"?

Critical thinking can tell you there is a higher chance the women were sex trafficked considering the employer and his immoral proclivities. It can't tell you if they actually were or not.
Exactly! We're not "doomed": https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/c5rjs2/its_that_eas...
Normalization of what ?

1. Normalization of the act of associating with someone that commit transgressive act

or

2. Normalization of the transgressive act itself

I agree with the first one but not the 2nd one.
Money is the root of all evil.
> What’s wrong with having an upstream provider for caching close to the user and other features when you’re not under attack?

The problem is that you are basically mitm:ed all the time.
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> IMO leaders should let scientists focus in crunch time.

What do you mean "focus"? The landing mission was not controlled by the scientists at all. The mission was taken over by the lander and was automated. The lander chose the landing spot and the trajectory. The scientists could do nothing but just monitor the data coming in. Modi being there or not being there would not have changed the outcome. So stop this canard. It is getting ridiculous now.

And Modi's presence won't change anything. They have been working on this for 12 years. If you think Modi's presence would make a difference you are just insulting the Scientific minds that work in ISRO. He went there to support his team as he heads the Department of Space. A leader always is with his team during tough times. That is all there is to it. Trying to see political angle in everything has become a stupid habit of the left brigade and to such an extent that they do not care about the Country anymore.
Transcript of relevant section:

https://youtu.be/VD1cP8SK3Q0?t=244

> VICE News: In terms of privacy as a human right, does that apply to how you do business in China?

> Apple CEO Tim Cook: It absolutely does. Encryption for us is the same in every country in the world. We don't design encryption for, you know, for the US and do it differently everywhere else. It's the same. And so to send a message in China, it's encrypted. I can't produce the content. I can't produce it in the United States either. If you lock your phone in China, I can't open it.

> The thing in China that some people have confused is certain countries, and China's one of them, has a requirement that data from local citizens has to be kept in China. We worked with a Chinese company to provide iCloud. But the keys, which are- which is the "key" so to speak, pardon the pun, are ours.

> VICE: But haven't they moved to China, meaning it's much easier for the Chinese government to get to them?

> Cook: No, I wouldn't- I wouldn't get caught up in the, uh, "where's the location" of it. I mean, we have servers located in many different countries in the world. It's- they're not easier to get data, uh, from being in one country versus the next. The key question is, how does the encryption process work, and who owns the keys if anyone. In most cases for us, you and the receiver own the keys.

VICE interviews are not held under penalty of perjury, of course, but we may give Apple's CEO the benefit of the doubt.

As Mr. Cook acknowledges, Apple did make significant changes to iCloud data storage for Chinese users, though he suggests in "most cases" users have control over encrypted data. The encryption angle was addressed in the article from Amnesty International as well.

Since the changes to iCloud for Chinese users in 2018 postdate the court filings in 2016, it does seem reasonable to feel less confidence in previous assurances with regards to China. They are not as ironclad as "threat of perjury" might suggest, at least.
In practice, most CAs are over-charging for what should be highly automated (like LE). Other CAs also push EV and other certs that cost more, but don't really add much value in practice.

In the end, the "free" version is good enough for most people. I would suggest if you're using it in a commercial environment that you consider setting up a scheduled donation. Which likely does help a lot for what they are doing.
I agree with your fundamental epistemological stance, but disagree with the conclusions you draw.

On somewhat of a tangent, it's fairly uncommon for people to call SQL a "programming language", but you actually can program quite a bit with SQL; even without the recursive common table expressions you allude to, you can do surprisingly complex computations with it, and even define functions in the form of views, as long as they are finite. Certainly neither NAND nor evaluating polynomials poses any difficulty for SQL. In fact, here's an example of arbitrary polynomial evaluation in SQL which works in MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres, Oracle, and SQL Server, in this case evaluating 5x⁴ + 2x + 5 at the points 0, 1, 2, and 3:

select x, sum(a * power(x, e))
from (select 3 as x union select 0 union select 1 union select 2) xt,
(select 4 as e, 5 as a union
select 0, 5 union
select 1, 2) t
group by x;

(In SQLite, you easily can evaluate a particular polynomial, or, with a bit more hassle, any polynomial up to some finite degree, but evaluating an arbitrary polynomial would seem to be out of reach without using recursive CTEs.)

Returning to the subject at hand, I have occasionally heard people saying HTML is a programming language. But I think they're just mistaken. Presumably most people at some point thought the world was flat; we shouldn't attempt to explain away their error by saying that they meant something different by "world" or "flat" than we do. Some people think vaccines cause autism; this isn't actually because they're using the word "vaccine" or "autism" in a different sense than we are. They're just wrong. (As for the people who think organic food contains no chemicals, I'm not sure; I think some of them are just wrong, while others are in fact just using a nonstandard definition of "chemical", meaning something like "pure chemical" or "industrially produced chemical".)

In the same way, people are just wrong if they think HTML belongs to the set that includes C, Forth, Smalltalk, Prolog, Fractran, Lisp, Brainfuck, Haskell, VHDL, amd64 machine code, Malbolge, Scratch, Octave, Python, and R, rather than to the set that includes CSV, JPEG, Word, and URLs. Similarly, bash clearly belongs to the former set, and Excel (without macros) and SQL arguably do.

In a lot of cases, they seem to be reasoning based on shallow surface features like the use of plain ASCII text files. (You can see several examples of this even in the thread here, such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20906702.) This is similar to the neural network that learned to recognize photos of tanks based on whether the photos had been taken on a sunny day or a cloudy day, or the people who think I'm "hacking into systems" when they see me using a terminal emulator --- an understandable error from the ignorant and foolish, but not one we should allow to confuse our own thinking.
They don't have to answer to their citizens if things go awry.

Plenty of opportunity for cost cutting.
There's a small problem in that jamming BT also jams some wifi. I don't think China is ready for the economic experience that is a world sans wifi.
Is that “reasonable” for someone building a warship similarly “reasonable” for someone competing with wind and solar?
I went on vacation to St Maarten around 2010 and when we were getting off of the plane Epstein's private jet landed. We were wondering who it was so we asked a group of people who were working at the airport and they told us that it's Epstein, a pedophile billionaire who keeps flying in to have sex with underage girls on his private island. Given their nonchalant response it seemed like it was common knowledge on the islands.

We asked our taxi driver about it on the way to the hotel and he knew about it too.
To understand climate change, you must first understand clouds
`out of embarrassment` - I'm getting shushed when I yell out loud for my boy to come in to watch some youtube. Not because she thinks putting him in front of apple tv is bad parenting, but because the neighbors shouldn't hear it.

What I like is when other parents open up about their experiences. There seems to be a big chasm between official and de-facto parenting.

When pressed, at least, the grandparents that just gave us the look because our three year old can pinch-swipe open up how they did the same with us back then, just with older tech.
Everyone who likes C++ will tell you which parts they like and how powerful they are :-).
Isn’t this just another example of what you’re replying to? UK’s VAT sounds appallingly high to American ears too, but it isn’t really meaningful to compare a single type of tax in isolation.
Complete extinction is probably off the table. However, deaths of billions and wars over the remaining resources is quite likely if we hit the 4 degrees point.

I think “doomed” is appropriate in that context.
Different levels of physical affection often make it clear. Put another way: you can't always rule out wife. You can often rule out daughter. But we also don't particularly care about being accurate all the time.
>Having young girl-friends is not the same as sex trafficking, though, or is it? I thought sex trafficking would be luring girls out of their country with false promises, then burning their passports so that they can't flee

Well, that pretty much sums up what Epstein did.

You don't even need to burn passports, you can psychologically manipulate, threaten, beat up, hook on drugs, pass to friends, parade your powerful connections (event to the law), explain how they have no alternatives, and so on.

Especially if you're a ultra-rich mogul with personal guards and powerful friends, and they're some teenage girl from some poor eastern european family that you promise money or to get "exposure", and so on...
I haven't looked into his case. What was his method - what did he do, so that the girls couldn't call for help?

I think classically they are made to be illegal (no passport, have perhaps committed crime of prostitution, so they think they can not go to the police). Is that also what Epstein did?
Here is what Epstein's background had to do with it: there's good reason to think that much of his wealth came from blackmailing other people that he encountered or lured into the circles of organized sexual abuse, and that this fact was widely known. That's why Ito at the MIT media lab wrote to his colleagues that epstein's donations should be listed as 'anonymous' to minimize the scrutiny thereof.

If you are having difficulty understanding this issue then you are either immature or socially illiterate. You might as well ask what harm a cancer on one of your organs is since it hasn't metastasized yet.
It's complicated, and it's going to take a long time for historians - and multiple books - to untangle the failure.

But so far as I can tell it started because Bohr was a bit of a tyrant and didn't like having the Copenhagen Interpretation questioned. So that set the tone for the first few decades. And QM was still developing, so it was more important to solve specific problems than worry about generalities.

After that, progress was still being made on the Standard Model, so there was academic selection pressure pushing graduates towards PhD specifics and away from more philosophical speculations about Quantum Origins.

And after that the String Theory people were much better at aggressive self-promotion than any of the competing QG theories. So something related happened again.

Now there's no data to allow further fundamental progress on the Standard Model. SM alternatives continue being ruled out. And String Theory has run into very serious problems, So there's more interest in Quantum Origins and alternative QG theories. The odds of a big breakthrough are very low, they're higher than they used to be.

And also it's really kind of annoying not to understand what's happening.
Sign up for Credit Karma? That claims to be, and IMHO is, "free credit monitoring". It'd be interesting to see if that is an acceptable answer.
Why was he running around free then? Had he already passed his time in jail?
No, it's "Burning Saudi money", so maybe morally OK in the end?
I already have a Paperwhite and it's quite good, but the plastic degraded and is now sticky, the CPU is slow and doing anything takes a while, and it doesn't have the very handy buttons earlier versions used to have. I was wondering if there was anything available nowadays that was much better, basically...
But countries with high nuclear usage, like France, show that doesn't have to be the case.

Except France isn't really building new power plants either, and the one significant project they do have is way over budget and years behind schedule. They're keeping the plants they have running for as long as its reasonable to do so, but as it looks now they're not going to be replaced by new nuclear plants as they get decommissioned.
Created an account to say how much I love this. I'm all for learning your stack well enough for confusing situations but you expect better from AWS.
Your question reminds me of when I first learned it was possible to write programs without line numbers. It took me a while to believe it.

I suppose you don't think programs in Scratch, Flash, or Labview, or output from a compiler, are programs?
The GPL Is Not a EULA
morozov is more like an academic than a journalist
Heh, doesn't look too bad. Isn't the whole "full mobilization of all of humanity for stopping global warming" even worse?

Coral reefs are useless, 24% of global population facing water shortage is bellow the current figure of 25%, less food supply but then again we reproduce tremendously we need some way to keep the population in check.

I think we're good. I'm ready to buy cheap property in Siberia and watch it's real estate value go up.
It does when you know the donor is awful and you conceal the origin of the donation.
not very different from grinding leetcode to land a gig at FAANG

We are not really different from 'those types of employers'
Seize the means of production!
Thinking like this, it fits the pattern of other coreutils tools:

$ mv existing_path new_path
$ cp existing_path new_path
$ ln existing_path new_path
> Is this like saying, programming isn't hard if you choose easy enough problems to solve?

No, this is saying that things don't have to be as hard as we make them. You don't need more than a hundred people to run a top-ten website, and that shouldn't be surprising. It is surprising only because we are so good at making things overcomplicated.
C, C++, perl5, possibly python (not sure there), and any jvm language if you use the jvm version.
How is it optional?

If the point of comments is for them to be read, then there’s no negotiating on this point. If you’re just posting for fun and don’t care if people can read what you’re quoting and writing about, then why are you posting at all?

HN is a place for discussion. Using code blocks for non-code citations hinders discussion. Now that you know this, willfully using them for that purpose is antithetical to good discussion.

I’d love to hear a case otherwise, but I can’t see how to construct one for you.
Thanks for catching the link problem. Is there an authoritative site you can point to?

Is this it? https://www.bridgefy.me/?ref=producthunt