skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a lot of exposure to this company and their employees, and you present something here that is quite far from reality.

The decline of physical mail is undeniable, but it's also La Poste that delivers the vast majority of the packages coming from e-sellers (and we all know that's just been increasing over and over). Also, the "high job security" you talk about does not exist in this company as pretty much nobody is hired as a "fonctionnaire" (a state worker) anymore, and it's been years now. The workers in La Poste suffer from a very high pressure from middle management who cuts jobs and readjust "tournées" (a mailman perimeter) incessantly, with the same "there's less work than before" excuse. The reality is that these people work more and more (significantly), work conditions are worsening drastically, and La Poste employees have one of the highest depression and suicide rates in the country (more than 40 last year declared in their farewell letter they committed suicide at least partly because of the job, I let you imagine how many more were not counted).

This new product (while I think it would be really great if workers had enough time and an appropriate training) is unfortunately just another way for the company - and it'd be fine if it were not, again, to the expense of the workers - to make more money. Implying the main reason is that workers just don't have enough to do anymore is just not fair.
Not really- a single base-pair can change the entire tertiary structure of a protein. Which is something computers are not great at predicting. Depending on how you calculate it, 1 "cycle" of life can be worth trillions^2 or more cpu cycles. It's a meaningless comparison, as presented.
Nice and fast!

There is a tiny bug, if you want to call it that: When you drag to select a period and go over the edge of the chart itself and go back, you can't finish selecting the period and have to start over by clicking a few times.
Nothing in Twitter photo statement talks about privacy. It's clear why the app is problematic: It's being used to target law enforcement, putting those people into danger. The debate here should be between the tradeoff of said danger versus the dangers to the protesters, factoring in the standing-up-to-China.
Oh yeah, absolutely! I'm on Salvatore's side here: English pronunciation is just plain random
List of businesses who have capitulated to china

https://github.com/caffeine-overload/bandinchina
I've fallen for these mega-corp's marketing bullshit many times over the years: It's easy done!

It's also easy to forget that they only care about appeasing shareholders and the way to do that is to make money.

At any cost!

I am currently working on a (personal) .NET Core project so I'm using Windows 10 but when it's up and running I am going to spend some serious time looking into Linux instead and developing my .NET core stuff there. I'm also waiting for the Librem 5 now: All other phones are thinly-veiled spyware as far as I am concerned.

*takes off rose-tinted glasses!

Edit: changed focus from Apple to mega-corps instead
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Stupid question but how do you actually type on that thing? I don't see anything resembling a keyboard.
In some sense that makes much more sense - the people are starving? Well, supply more grain then.

Doesn't quite gel with modern manufacturing, though!
And next up is Google...
Yep, exactly. Diet, education, illness etc. all take a toll on IQ.

People sometimes think you can't really change IQ via environment but that's because we've worked really hard to eliminate the things that can limit it.

(Plus the Flynn point is that some of the rise is about abstract sophistication rather than actual intelligence rising, people just getting better at what IQ tests test, which would be lower too.)
Not sure why you're being downvoted. I struggle to think of a legitimate business use for that kind of thing.
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There are a lot of mom and pop shops, which just do what is their passion and they want their customers to be happy. Money is just a means to support themselves. E.g. I frequented a lot of local record shops and it was clear that their owners did not want to get rich. They would talk to you for 15-30 minutes about bands and new releases, even if you just bought one record with a < 1 Euro profit margin. They just loved music and they enjoyed customers that loved music.

No profit-driven company is your friend. When it's about profit, money becomes the end.
How do I vote against US policies if I’m not US based?
FWIW Wikipedia agrees with you. I thought millennial were later.
It's always that kid. I did something similar in high school with luckily no serious repercussions but yup it was another kid who ratted me out. I could have changed my grades and stuff but luckily I was pretty content. The network admin who I really looked up to and asked lots of technical questions vouched for me. I think the fact that I only played around with the admin account for fun and never touched anything else helped my case.
A minor addendum: in Berlin & Brandenburg it's 6/6 years rather than 4/8.
England / UK invented capitalism. In 1831 you already had GB. (correct quote was that you got 3% of the population as voters - but you argue that it doesn't matter anyway) I don't quite understand what kind of freedom they had at a time when the body that coins all laws was determined by 3% of the population.
The FBI specifically asked Apple to backdoor that device, rather than handing over encryption keys that they already kept.
It depends a lot on luck, school teachers and parents in local area.

The level of bullying other describe here is not possible without enabling from adults. Likewise, seeing how it plays with my kid, teachers who cares and know what to do can really make difference in how kids treat each other.
C++/WinRT and xlang repos (status update)
How do you separate avoidance of tax with competition between taxation venues? The IOM (and other small jurisdictions) cannot compete with larger countries on manufacturing and other big industry, but their small size and low cost of government allows them to be very competitive with Tax. If an individual is able to move his finances out of a country to a more competitive jurisdiction, isn't' that the fault of the original country rather than the more competitive one?
Yes, Isabelle is the best system for this style of proving right now.
Europe’s most active volcano reveals its strength through low rumbles
I'm actually quite surprised that iMessage has seemingly flown under the radar in authoritarian countries for this long…maybe nobody uses it there?
GNU Readline, for those who doesn't know, also comes with vi mode, where you can search with '/' and '?' keys. You can enable it with 'set -o vi' in bash shell or putting 'set editing-mode vi' it in ~/.inputrc.

If you put it in ~/.inputrc, you will get vi mode in all tools/shells which are using Readline like mysql, rlwrap, psql...

https://github.com/pkrumins/bash-vi-editing-mode-cheat-sheet...
Understanding SE Through Quantum Mechanics
And that brush and tree maintenance is way cheaper than the cost of lost economic activity these intentional outages will generate.
It's a liability waiver shakedown for sure.
I really liked the tracked system in the Netherlands. I feel like it really let the higher tier learn at a faster rate. Do you have links to the studies?
So many times this - there are many factors that are correlated to being rich and healthy which are do not present a suitable intervention opportunity.
Satellite communications open source code
Neat. I'm curious to know how you found setting up your own email server. What about spam management and keeping your domain on the whitelist?
Casual drug use is easily placed into your normal life. You do some MDMA or LSD or alcohol over the weekend and you're back in action on Monday so long as you regulate your frequency of raving.

I think I've figured out how people don't make friends though. They find identity reasons not to. "I have values and responsibilities. I cannot do this thing." Or "I am an X. I cannot hang out with these people."

Genuinely I'm quite happy with my friends. We hang out absolutely sober now and run 10ks and half marathons together. We have each other's location shared and meet many times a week and occasionally randomly text to see if we want to hang out.

I made the majority of these friends after the age of 30 and everyone told me you can't have this spontaneity at this age. Turns out you can. You just need to find the other people.
Is a minified reframe app smaller than a react/redux app or a elm app?
It's more: this is how we have to get to work so go back to your book :D
Can you give a few examples of ways in which a US citizen is more free than I, a UK citizen, am?
People want to join anywhere where it's economically better. Following the victor, whoever they are, whatever they believe, is a common feature of all empires.
The reality is that most people are too busy for either politics or morality.
thanks!

i should bind the mouseup event at the document level instead of chart level and clamp the min/max ranges.
We're working at the same location. On the same codebase. With the same access to our version control and issue tracker. There is full transparency. We even help Vy train their new hires.

We're incentivized to work this way because that makes the customer feel safe. Which is how we win contracts.
The problem isn't the now, the status quo. It's the trajectory where things are headed.
> we are protecting the rights of law abiding citizens

I find it very interesting when people say they only protect the rights of "law abiding citizens", since this is usually just a veiled excuse for "we don't think people who break the law should have rights, actually, you shouldn't have rights because you might break the law too".
I see where you are coming from but there's a scale-aspect to this.

These entities aren't traditional companies, like your local newsagent or plumber or whatever. They've reached a level that they can influence governments and can control entire populations (to a degree).

They have immense power and can effectively wield it as they please to further their own ends.

They are related to small local companies only as they have to file a tax return... that's about it!
Aren't wind turbine blades made of generally annoying/nasty stuff such as various interesting epoxy components and glass fiber?
I've seen how sick working with manufacturing can make people, so I'm not sure I'd want kids exposed, since they'll crawl around on them and touch them, likely wearing the material down and releasing small particles that may get into the skin or airways.
Yes, and the choice is embarrassingly simple, especially for multi-million - or billion - companies.
> The temptation of a smartphone for a thief is dropping, thanks to Apple’s decision to implement a remote kill switch via Find My Phone that can erase and disable a phone once it’s been stolen or gone missing. A new report from Reuters found that iPhone theft dropped by 50 percent in London, 40 percent in San Francisco and 25 percent in New York.

https://techcrunch.com/2015/02/11/apples-activation-lock-lea...
I don't disagree, but good vs bad error messages can be the different between a project that people love and contribute to and a project that people find frustrating and bombard with issues.

Keras is great about error message[1] and it's part of what makes Keras beloved (and heavily contributed to).

[1] https://blog.keras.io/user-experience-design-for-apis.html
My main disappointment was that it's synchronous. Synchronous BFT algorithms seem like an old and already solved problem, with many already existing implementations. So I don't see exactly why you'd develop your own, especially since it's quite hard to get right. Maybe I missed some revolutionary performance increases back when I read the paper.

Imo async BFT algos are much more interesting since they can actually fit the attacker model of an open network like the internet. Nobody can give you any guarantees (in an absolute sense) about message delivery times and hops can arbitrarily delay your messages.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but this is a difficult call, and we should think about both sides of Apple's decision. If the app really is being used to target, and thus endanger, certain individuals, whether or not they're law enforcement, that is problematic, and makes unclear what the right decision is.

If we change the circumstances, imagine there is a new Uber-like group transportation app that helps people get around safely in the US. But it enables racist groups to systematically harm civilian groups, and is actively being used to do so. Would the US ask Apple to shut them down? Should Apple shut them down?
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> The protestors always try to find away to ambushes the police.

So then why ban the app?
What's the point? Anyone can buy fake id scans for $50 at most, $20 if you aren't getting ripped off.

Blizzard obviously doesn't authenticate these IDs as that isn't really possible.

The fact that you can do essentially anything to a Battle.net account with just an ID scan is a huge vulnerability.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_night_vision#Automo...

Tested cars unlikely to have the feature
Your dates are off, as per [1]

"HKmap.live, [...], received approval from Apple on October 4 and was made available for download on October 5, according to the developer"
I appreciate that you're mostly sticking to the right side of posting respectfully, but you're still breaking the site guidelines by using HN primarily for political and nationalistic arguments. You've posted many dozens of comments in the last week, apparently about nothing else.

Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended? As you surely know, this is a site for intellectual curiosity. Political battle, especially about China, may be dominating the threads lately, but that's not a stable or ok situation—that's the needle going into the red, and we need accounts like yours to not just constantly be ramping that up and making it redder and redder. (I know you're not the only one.) If that happens, eventually the pressure hits a breaking point and the whole thing blows up. I had to go a long way back to find a comment that was distinctively about something else (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20060328, if you're curious).
However, out of that list of four, Apple is the one that I have seen being “least evil” with me and my data.

Google dropped their “don’t be evil” motto for a very damn good reason, and the safety of their own app marketplace is a fucking joke.

Facebook is even worse than Google, in that it has never stopped trying to appear innocent of wrongdoing while paddling like mad under the surface.

Microsoft… has gone all Spyware with _all_ of their products as of late, although at least their business-class stuff is moderately neutered.

Apple may Hoover up some data, but it does at least employ actual security and privacy in many places. They make stands where it makes sense to take stands, and they bend in the wind where the hurricane would snap a stiffer branch. Finally, their walled garden - although not perfect - is far safer than any other one out there. They make missteps just like any other entity run by humans, but a fair number of their actions do point in the correct direction.

If given no alternative choice that is evil-free, I will chose the least evil option as my vote. Apple it is, at least for all my personal devices.
Title misspelled; "lots of cash"
>for several hours of being able to do what I want while the car

One word: Chauffeur

>The AI processing time to recognize things in a frame needs to match the framerate

If you're talking about framerates at all, you're still missing the point. I'm talking about human ability to predict and anticipate. The fact that a human can brake before there's anything in the frame to even detect. We've (humans) got a head start, so the speed of the AI isn't all that important.
In fact they did attract foreigners, how many businesses want to cozy up to them?
Some countries would very much like to deal with their citizens the Chinese way too.

They do not need anyone to migrate, which is entirely different.
One of my friend groups is around this too but I don't think it's lame at all! I find we have that same sense of camaraderie online as I do with my soccer team!
I've tried to use TCC to see if it's possible to use it as a scripting language in a C++ project, and it seems to work pretty well.

(I've heard about chaiscript, but it seems way too big)
also, spot instance is dead cheap. a reduction of 60-70% in cost is possible with the use of mixed reserved instances and spot instances.
You could run KA9Q NOS under Coherent, which provided TCP/IP over serial line. Not many people used it, though. Most used UUCP. Personally, I cared neither about X11 nor networking and I know I was not the only one, so the decision may have been solid back then. Of course this changed very quickly in the following years. Bad timing, I guess. The shutdown of MWC was really sad, Coherent was my favorit OS, and I still have a few VMs running 3.2 (286).
The Manx do pay tax, up to 20% income tax and 17.5% VAT (sales tax). Yes, it's low, but a little place with no need for military is cheap to run.

There's plenty of countries with lower rates than that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates
Yeah, good point on suing, I know I've heard suing the feds is a whole other ordeal than suing states or political subdivisions such as cities under the state. For the states/cities, it's a section 1983 lawsuit, while the feds they refer to it as a Bivens action. Sadly though people can't afford that, but I know some lawyers will take a cut if you win.... but some lawyers don't even want to help because they want to be friends with the judge and prosecutors. If you go after them hard on a civil rights case, they might be less likely to give your clients deals on traffic tickets. Just seems our entire system is rigged.

Also, read stories of them saying you have no rights to an attorney or even to film them since they don't technically consider you in the US. You are in some limbo between countries. An entirely different ballgame than a traffic stop. But some of that stuff might just be some misconception, some they can lie to you but you can't lie to them.

Also stories of citizens, especially minorities who were even born in the US who say sometimes they get more trouble entering their home country than other places. Pretty sad stuff, I don't know if it's worse with the current administration or if this is a thing. Not something I've thought much about really much before but seeing it in the news more and more, pretty concerning stuff that seems to go against the founding principles of this very nation.

Then watching Orange is the new black, even though it's scripted it does touch on some very real issues. I don't think most people really think about these issues unless it affects them directly, but some pretty horrible stuff going on. The private prisons are contractually guaranteed a minimum number of inmates for example, and you can even buy stocks in them. So then if you are a shareholder, I guess more crime is than in your financial interest so the prisons you own a small piece keeps making money. Doubt any of those shareholders would even want to live anywhere near the prisons they invest in though either.
I'm surprised to see so much unconsidered support for PG&E here.

It's not about holding the utility "liable for fires", it is holding them liable for gross negligence by failing to perform critical or routine maintenance. These aren't difficult or impossible problems. The Camp Fire was caused by a system that was significantly overdue for upgrading: https://www.wsj.com/articles/pg-e-knew-for-years-its-lines-c...

Time and again, PG&E ignored maintenance requirements and funneled profits to execs and stockholders. The San Bruno pipeline explosion was also entirely preventable: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/How-PG-E-missed-chanc...

What's more, PG&E falsified safety records as a matter of course: https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/15/us/pge-falsifying-records/ind...

So PG&E showed tidy profits by ignoring their infrastructure and doing it so completely that their people on the street simply lied about maintaining things because no one cared... until stuff began to systematically began to blow up and burn down: https://www.abc10.com/article/news/investigations/the-histor...

The problem is one of accountability. PG&E execs roll from court case to court case but face no risk of personal jail time for decisions that have caused tens to hundreds of preventable deaths: https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-pge-c...

So the courts get more and more frustrated, fining PG&E larger and larger amounts. But the utility never actually fix their known problems, they simply pass the bill back to their customers, declare bankruptcy and, at this point, turn off the power preemptively as some sort of power move to try to force government compliance.
I think that if someone boasts that they've cracked everyones password, reporting them is the right thing to do.
I'm not really a .net person, I'm mostly php w/ some nodejs/golang/elixir but I tried .net and tooling and things at least work now on arch linux where I don't think they would've 5-10 years ago.

Apple's imho one of the worst players, they have the most closed ecosystem imaginable it should be illegal to require a developer to buy your hardware just to develop apps on your platform. I'll never support or use an apple unless mandated by a client and they'll need to supply the hardware.

Google's bad too but at least I can side-load apps and install custom rom's easily enough.
> I and people I know have been watching events unfold in Hong Kong with a feeling of helplessness and distance

Thank you for keeping an eye on HK. How you can help from abroad:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/cv0ws4/how_can_yo...

If you're in the US, contact your senators and representatives to voice your support for passing Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act. May be Global Magnitsky Act sanctions against Chinese officials also (much like the recent visa ban for Xinjiang officials).

Boycotting Chinese companies/products may also be useful in the long run.
I did exactly the same thing. Wrote to a file on my personal network share and then did this:

out &h64&hfe

Instareboot on a DOS machine.
After a long discussion with little alternatives, my little cousin went to a Realschule mit Förderstufe. The problem with the school has less to do with ethnicity as i can see it but the fact that large parts of her class dont speak German good enough to be educated in it. And that they are not grouped up by language to help them catch up in their first language. Pair that with the "slower learner" approach and all of those kids are simply left behind. I dont think its an issue of racism but simply abandoning anyone who, for what ever reason, cant hold the pace. Simply no parent wants their kid to be in such a class with two multilingual teachers to at least partially cover multiple languages to try to communicate with the kids in their class. They have to deal with the consequences of not thought trough political maneuvers. And the kids who suffer from that are generally those that already live in precarious situations. Painting it as a problem of racism, misses the point entirely from what i have seen and I think framing it this way is deeply counterproductive when it comes to these fundamental issues of our education system.
So much this. While tricks like the OP's do make history search just bearable, fzf just makes it how it should have been from the start :)