skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting article. Anecdotally, I know several of my friends who have downgraded their phones from various smartphones to a simple flip phone or even no phone at all.

One of them introduced me to the Light Phone (https://www.thelightphone.com/) which seems like it is in a similar vein, even if it costs more than a 10 year old flip phone.

I wonder if this trend away from the "always-on" status quo will continue in the future.
I see that you are a man of TeachLead as well
I indeed hate some of his content, but that talk is great. Otherwise you're doing a strawman.
Woke(n up) European here. As you predicted, now 'yourbandsucks is grey and 'api is in the clear, and the day here has only just started :).

Also strongly agreed about timezone karma - I would love to see some analysis of how upvotes in discussions like this fluctuate based on which part of the planet is exposed to sun at a given time.
The Quest for the Best Bus Stop Signs
Was it? Because I have no clue what the poster was referring to.

And economists have been writing code since PL/1.
This mother seems very disrespectful of her son...

Her children are not her chattel to do with as she sees fit they are human beings with thoughts and feelings of their own that need to be respected.
Here’s a framework that helps generate documentation similar to Stripe’s: https://github.com/slatedocs/slate
Incidental, but almost all plants pollinate by wind, not by insects (and even fewer by bees): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemophily
>> I mean that guy snitched on the good guys, and Chelsea Manning was a really good friend of his. Who the fuck does that?

Any idea as to this motivation for the type of behaviour?
You had two years. Plenty of time to figure this out.

Also: is this your line of reasoning? It’s really weak. To take it to extremes: “we’re still using asbestos and lead pipes because the legislation was nonexistent when we started using them”.
Also stories like this will be passed down for generations to recruit new jihadists/terrorists. They use this stuff as proof that the USA is anti-muslim or to prove that there is a war against muslims going on. You simply cannot bomb your way out of resolving the terrorism issue. This will probably have the same effectiveness as the war on drugs: lots of money spent....little to no impact on drug smuggling/drug abuse etc.
The post talks about coin flipping, or 0/1 classification. Many competitions use different scores however - multiclasses, learning to find bounding boxes of objects, etc. It is much less likely to find "good" answers on the test set by chance. I think the points in the article are important, but with this context become a non-issue, when a random answer is unlikely to be correct.
Smart kids.
Efficient Lead Discovery Tactics Released at BOC Sciences for Drug Design
- Windows Terminal is nice but the windows command line is not. I don't like PowerShell, it is too verbose.

- WSL 2 is not stable and it is only available for the Windows Insider program. And it does not have X.

- Windows 10 drivers sucks. For example, Intel Graphics drivers has a lot of bugs.

- ClearType has been improved but Linux and Mac font aliasing is a lot better.

- I cannot upgrade my laptop to the last Windows version because something about the seller. The Windows Update does not give me the option.

- Windows really need a package manager. And not, Chocolatey is not enough.

- Windows desktop is nice but is not for me. I would like to remove the task bar and install something like i3wm.

- NTFS is getting old and it is very slow if you have a lot of small files.

Windows is nice to a light development. But if you really need a complete solution you have to search for alternatives.

PD: I have nothing against vscode :).
You don’t need a trial to be transparent. You only need to present all the available facts, and hopefully they would support the decisions that were made.
It's about liquidity. Education is a very illiquid asset.
It’s a shame the Mother can’t see this
Greyhounds make great pets btw. We have rescued 4 ex racers and they have all had the gentlest, lovely temperament.

They don't need loads of exercise (contrary to most people's belief) - in fact they are often referred to as 45mph couch potatoes...
Free React Native Templates in 5 Best Sources
>>>Why are we there?

1. So the CIA can smuggle heroin to big pharma, and fund black projects. (largely unsubstantiated position)

2. To occupy overland energy routes, disrupting the ability of China to build infrastructure linking to Iran. The whole One Belt/One Road thing is intended to construct an alternative to China's very vulnerable maritime lines of communication, reducing the risk of a resource import blockade by the US Navy. They can't get a oil or gas pipeline from Iran if the A-stan government is in the back pocket of the US, and US military bases sit astride the route.

3. To present the risk of a 2nd front (1st front = Iraq, Persian Gulf), boxing in Iran. Not a major jump-off point for a land invasion (due to logistical constraints) but could serve as basing for aviation assets and special operations raids into the parts of Iran on the eastern side of the Zagros Mountains.

Personally, I don't think any of those reasons is valid for staying there.

>>>What’s the threat, again? I forgot.

Basically we've spent decades playing whack-a-mole, attacking symptoms instead of root causes. And one of those root causes is....our mole-whacking kills far too many innocent civilians.
Watching a friend of mine land her dream job and imbibe the KoolAid has been very interesting...
Yeah, but that's averaged across their global users. Stands to reason that most people in developing nations will not pay $25/mo to access Facebook; nor is their data worth that much.

Ergo, Facebook will charge a different rate per nation; per state; ideally per user (they already have all the data they need to calculate exact revenue per user based on their data).
Slate: Beautiful Stripe-like documentation generator
I think that there is an inherent difference between drone killings and atrocities committed by people.

The drone killings are anonymous, out of the sky, with no idea who the guilty party is besides a nebulous "USA" or "the West"; a vacuum of information besides a robotic, faceless apology in a press release (that is itself just more insult, more humiliation), and the knowledge that a foreign country can reach out and murder people living next door to you without consequence. The humiliation and rage and sense of powerlessness and living every day knowing that they'll do it again and nobody will do anything about it simply festers. These are key ingredients in growing terrorists. This is how you make terrorists. Humilation and anger and a sense of powerlessness and that the perpetrator will face no justice.

When some idiot boy shoots up an office in Paris there's a guilty party, a reckoning with a body (or an arrest), a name, an investigation and professional state employees actively going after someone, actively pursuing justice (very different to the state doing no more than shrugging and saying "yeah, that's the USA for you, they murder you and your neighbours, nothing we can do about it"). There is a qualitative difference; the key ingredients above aren't present. Even if the terrorist gets away, it's recognised that it was an individual(s) and that they are being pursued; someone is seeking justice on your behalf.

If a single drone strike is how you create terrorists, what is being created in Europe?

On the face of it, not terrorists.
Nah, like any bad analogy, it can be stretched :) Once you've moved past the "lies-to-children[1]" version, you can ascend to the real meat of the burrito: https://blog.plover.com/prog/burritos.html

And once you've fully grokked burritos in terms of monads, you can finally reach that zen level where you solve your problems without even a single line of code (because you've started working at the burrito shop instead: http://chrisdone.com/posts/monads-are-burritos ).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie-to-children
Most of these requirements are perfectly reasonable and i don’t see any that are technologically difficult to implement unless you underlying business model relies on selling user data without regards, in which case, good riddance.
This looks like a smart kid from the description given. It's possible that he spent a good time reading recent literature about the drawbacks and decided not to join the masses. Or he just thought twice before following everyone. Either way it's always refreshing to find very young people doing different stuff by themselves as it's specially tough not to follow the trends during that age.

I also noticed that there's something different compared to when we were teens which we often forget and it's that there are devices (smartphones) which are used as extreme surveillance tools by some parents. It'd not be unreasonable to think that this only reason may make the devices much more unattractive to them.

Edit: verb typo.
As a chemist I really enjoy this. It only gets scary where he details that you can buy HF hydrofluouric acid over the counter... That is interesting to say the least. Can't buy that anywhere here...
1) Whataboutism

2) False equivalent, if you think the USA should be held to the same standards that we hold the terrorists to then effectively the USA have become terrorists as well.

3) The EU has taken its attacks so far quite well, no other countries were invaded, no mass deportations or murders of muslims or immigrants have happened. Unfortunately this bs has shifted the political climate.

Please try to argue your case better.
I would put some numbers to each risk.

Like: 1.5% of neurosurgeons suffer an injury that prevents them from performing surgery. Then adjust all calculations based on this.

As with everything: to know if a single flip coin is going to be heads or not is basically impossible, but over a large enough number, you can be certain the number of heads will be close to 50%.

A single neurosurgeon? Who knows?

The entire population of neurosurgeons? Now we can use actuarial science and measure everything in micromorts.
Facebook Employee Fell to His Death at Menlo Park Headquarters
Digital Language Death
If you read closer, you‘ll notice a lot of stylistic (self-)irony and exaggeration between the lines. The last paragraphs clearly give away that she‘s very much respecting their kids.
It gets the job done. But maybe that's not the UX itself but Booking.com's usual "no payment, free cancellation" deals. I often just find a hotel that looks okay and book it straight away. I check out the reviews later and cancel if something doesn't look right.
Inspiring. Just when I was thinking our culture is "doomed" the young ones surprise me like this. Wish the best to the family.
.308 has 50% more energy than 5.56, but 5.56 has 4 times the energy of 9mm so it still has plenty of power.

Also .308 is far overkill if you hunt the common small deers, people use it to hunt big game deer, for example moose.
Sounds like you need a Data Privacy Infrastructure provider so you don't have to worry about the implementation details. The startup I'm working at, https://transcend.io, offers that.
The second one has a much higher barrier for users, as they now need to hand over their credit card information.
> I strongly suspect that if you asked people 50 years ago whether it was ok for companies to eg. track everywhere most people go, I think the vast majority would have said no. Google et al. just started spying on everyone without any serious debate over whether it was right. Then once people caught on, they either had to stop caring about privacy, or they had be Richard Stallman and eschew pretty much all mainstream computing technology.

Sure, but if you had phrased the question more fairly and said "Should it be ok for a company to give you free services in exchange for tracking everywhere you go?" I think almost everyone would have said yes.

> If someone went back in time to tell people that this new internet thing was going to lead to the US having more surveillance than East Germany or the Soviet Union, there would have been laws passed and systems designed from the start to prevent it from happening. The fact that it didn't happen this way, and our culture's privacy norms have been destroyed as a consequence, is more reason to act to prevent further damage, not a reason to just give up.

My intuition here is the same as yours. That this is a bad thing. That privacy matters in an intrinsic sense, not an operational sense. But i'm not so sure that's really true anymore. The privacy ship has sailed off into the sunset for a while now, and at least to me, the harms don't seem that substantial. All that data is mostly used to give me ads that are more targeted to what I might want to see anyway. There certainly could be lurking latent risks about, but it's a little hard to see exactly what they are.
Note: we also build+boot under CI:

* arm (v5, v6, v7)

* arm64 (v8)

* ppc32

* ppc64

* x86_64

* mips

https://travis-ci.com/ClangBuiltLinux/continuous-integration...
I have played around with erpNext in the last few weeks. It looks very nice with lots of functionality and good API. Its also open source.

You can find it here - https://github.com/frappe/erpnext

Its more full blown ERP then just accounting software though.

They seem to have separete project for only accounting as well:

https://github.com/frappe/accounting
It’s kind of disorienting to read that. AFAIK, Chelsea was never friends with Adrian. Bradley, on the other hand, was.

Must we rewrite history?
After having just spend most of the day yesterday trying to nurse a failing Kubernetes cluster back to health (taking down all of our production websites in the process), I’ve come to completely loathe it. It felt more like practicing medicine than engineering: try different actions to suppress symptoms, instead of figuring out a root cause to actually prevent this from happening again. While it is a pretty sweet system if it does run, I would strongly advice against anyone trying to manage their own cluster, as it is simply to complex to debug on your own, and there is preciously little information out there to help you
Here is Nitzan of Future Nine (a pure-VoIP company) stating that Stripe does not service VoIP providers: https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r29552956-

When I asked Stripe Support about servicing VoIP companies last year they referred me to the prohibited businesses section and said:

"Historically we have seen that the telecommunications industry is one with too high of a likelihood of customer chargebacks. These need not necessarily be chargebacks in fact; the likelihood of potential chargebacks is also a deciding factor in our deliberations."
If I got you right about ssh-agent, there is a console frontend https://www.funtoo.org/Keychain.
Romania is waiting for Stripe too! Guys, please. What is the hold-up?! It's all EU anyway...
> much safer than delivery vans

What makes you write that?
And the moon! But at too small of a frequency:
https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/public/ask/2519
I don't get that at all. She seems like a caring mother. Of course she is going to show them the things she knows. We are only human.
Yep, almost too good to be true.

Is the whole thing a novel/fantasy or does that smart kid really exist ?

Go kid !
Remembering When London’s Pubs Were Full at 7 A.m
That’s nothing new, though. If you have a memcmp that isn’t memcmp (and don’t explicitly call a lib-provided memcmp anywhere) and build without libc, your memcmp will incorrectly be used, too.

MSVC is even more notorious for this kind of issue, silently adding a number of function calls it assumes the standard library will provide even when your code doesn’t use the standard library at all.
How the Greeks knew Earth is round
I think the international expansion is still your weakest point. We've been waiting for Stripe in Romania for years now, and it's an EU country...
How the Chemical Industry is driving growth with digital transformation
In English, think can mean lots of things, probably 27 at least.

I think about my exes a lot even though I don't think much of them. I think I'll go now. I'm thinking of a number. I'm thinking of changing careers. I'm thinking dinner at 8. I think a lot, I think. I think not. You think? Thinking of you. Think again. Etc..

Though my favorite productive English verb is still 'to get.'
Did you really read the article? Or are you talking in more general terms?

The mother is full on accepting of her son and use it to question her own motives in life. As a parent, I found the read very refreshing.
Even more papers at VLDB 2019 (that I didn’t have space to cover yet)
ImageNet Roulette deliberately uses a terrible categorization scheme that has long been acknowledged as so poor as to not admit meaningful results in order to make the highly political point that ML should never be applied to people. There's a reason most people scrub that whole piece of the taxonomy before training.

Good Resnet models trained on ImageNet (the good parts, not just people) tend to result in state of the art results for almost every transfer-learning domain they're applied to.
Install k8s with a/p/c/s. :)

K8s is not about configuration management, it’s about dynamic application management.
Some parts infringe on areas where CM tools work as well, but k8s is all about managing containerized applications.

Trying to set up flows for ”works on my laptop”-dev, ci/cd, loadtesting, a/b tests, canary releases, autoscaling and rollbacks for multiple teams of devs?
K8s really simplifies these things.

The idea is that you have one api spec to rule the whole stack (from a dev perspective).
If you go down a more light-weight stack, a lot can still be achieved. More duct tape required though. That being said- I love duct tape!
> Even if the terrorist gets away, it's recognised that it was an individual(s).

That's a tough sell when (large) parts of communities are complicit, hiding, funding, supporting the individuals.

It's my impression that the primary difference is that we expect better from advanced nations and their citizens, not that there's a large difference in behavior. Denmark officially murdering people because of their sexual identity would be a shock. Saudi Arabia doing the same isn't, because we don't see SA anywhere near the level of (cultural, social, civilizational) development of Denmark. A child throwing a temper tantrum is normal, an adult doing the same raises suspicion of delayed development.
You must be joking, she wrote the article silly.
Someone wants C to look like Haskell?

(as always, the Haskell users have taken it quite a bit further: https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig/#hasklig--ligatures-for-code )
Much better indeed!
An important detail here is that in Switzerland it's somewhat normal to simply never pay back your mortgage, so many people will keep around a bunch of debt because it doesn't make financial sense to eliminate it.

When you get a mortgage it's usually broken into two amounts: an amount that you have to pay back (~30% if I remember right) and an amount that you don't (the rest). You can simply pay back the first amount quickly then pay interest on the second amount indefinitely. Interest rates here are extremely low (even a 15-year fixed-rate mortgage can be had for <1%) so you can keep the low interest loan and put the money elsewhere (e.g. stocks if you like to live on the edge).
And I am sure Rust folks are happy there is a place to call their own (.rs for Republic of Serbia, since .s[erb] was taken long ago :).
There are $40 smart watches for kids that have a sim card and no location tracking. Perfect. They Dick Tracey when they want. We can let them play on the streets of Amsterdam and just call when it is time to come home.
Why Starbucks is now on Hong Kong protesters’ business boycott list
Keep making the biggest problem of Linux bigger, please... Yeah, this problem is "fragmentation", and it is not solved with "simplicity".
I wonder if her children's reluctance to embrace smartphones is completely caused by the way she uses hers? If so, maybe we will see more children rejecting them as the 18-25 range become parents. I think many of the people I know in that range would do the same things that she was doing.
I personally read Ars Technica (and am a subscriber), which I feel fills this niche (maybe that's not what you are looking for?)

Even though most of their articles are IT-oriented, they cover quite well major scientific publications in various domains.
Accroding to Chinese law, airsoft BB is illegal, that might sound absurd, but it is the law. And it is selectively enforced.
There are stories that people get penalty just for selling toy guns, http://news.sina.com.cn/pl/2016-12-31/doc-ifxzczfc6640913.sh... in Chinese). It cause some discussion and debate on the internet and within the law realm, but by 2018 the supreme court gave some guidance for such case. https://www.spp.gov.cn/xwfbh/wsfbt/201803/t20180328_372604.s...
Personally I don't think it is a leverage for the trade war, the laws in China is not so mature as in US, and tend to be more tough when it involves guns.
edited for spelling error.
Maybe it's not designed for leftist cuck faggots?
They were hugely disruptive and set off a massive extinction event... not to moralize the actions of cyanobacteria (who obviously act without agency), but the only reason we think what they did was fine is that we breathe oxygen!
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If you like that, you should visit https://reddit.com/r/unixporn
I doubt this to be true honestly, because having user data worth selling already implies you to have a certain size. The request are reasonable and the dismissal with reference to difficulties startups might face is probably not applicable.

But if that is really a problem, just apply the requirements to companies with a minimum amount of users. Venture capital funded companies don't need to cut corners and shouldn't be allowed to when it comes to privacy.
Not that this isn't a tragedy (and/or mass murder depending on your viewpoint), but I don't think hackernews is the right venue for this.

Hackernews should try and keep to tech and away from politics or its quality will continue to degrade. For instance the comments here are mostly not saying anything that hasn't already been said a thousand times before (is this just outrage porn?).
Hopeless? Aye.

I think part of the problem is we have become so hugely separated from the natural world. Nature and the environment isn't part of many people's lives, at all.

Go outside and look might reveal a few artificially manicured bits of monoculture grass, endless asphalt, concrete, poles, boxes and wires. Meat, milk, fruit, veg comes in plastic packs, and quite often ready cooked and prepared.

One of the things that stuck with me most reading The Uninhabitable Earth - the most strident and urgent call to action on climate and environment I ever came across, was in his preamble. [paraphrasing badly from memory here] He talks of being perfectly chilled at achieving growth by imposing a cost to nature, he's just not a "nature guy", and wouldn't dream of going near it for a holiday. It's OK to crow about being top of the food chain. Something about not caring about the cow so long as he can get the hamburger, not seeing an issue being a good city dweller, with completely separating ourselves from nature, from paving the planet in concrete and getting everything in packets. Sure, he goes on to say how he misunderstood, but FFS.

OK, now I start to appreciate the scale of the problem.

Hopeless? Feels that way, doesn't it?
For my parents, having their own car was freedom, as their parents didn‘t have them when they were young.

For me, the internet is the world I discovered for myself, first in the age of BBSes and an early WWW before any of FAANG were even born.

For kids, how better to make a difference than having none of the consumer devices that everyone including their parents carries around.

Kids need to make a difference, as we all did. It‘s in our genes and we better learn from them.