skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In any case, the cat is the boss in all instances. My cat is very disappointed in me right now that I can't stop the onset of winter and demonstrates it very effectively!

There is probably some space-time position where he is completely content but I think that's rarer than seeing him in two places at once.
> My company worked on designing this product.

When you say "this product" does that also include the electronic time-tracking on postmen which prevent them to talk with people for free?

Because most of this "product" formerly came for free when postmen had enough time and no constant spying on their movements. Them someone realized that elderly people complained about the lack of interaction with postmen and decided to make them pay for it. Is that what you call “designing a product”?
Ask HN: Any startups here using home NAS cloud services?
Anyone here using home hosted NAS servers which have added services for cloud messaging etc instead of Amazon/Google? Pros/cons? Experiences? Also, how are you handling backups?

See one example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQGpP7kuHZE
I don't think the 2d version is in realtime. I checked on google maps the journey from Shinjuku to Yotsuya on the red line is 11 min long, but on the 2d map the train does it in less than 10s. Plus, each time you reset the page, the positions of the trains are reset.
Still it's cool way to see the activiy on the subway network.
That would certainly explain their position and also the kind of persons who are pushing for No Deal.
Some do, some don't. Those who do have not yet found anything nefarious but it certainly is possible for some bad apple to end up in the pile of code which makes up an Android distribution. The difference between the paradigms is that it is possible to tailor an Android distribution to your needs (which includes leaving out Google-proprietary code) where it is not possible to do so for iOS and its derivatives.

Where (AOSP-based) Android users can 'trust but verify' (a contradictio in terminis given that those who trust should not feel the need to verify) iOS users are left nothing but 'trust'. This trust has been broken several times when it comes to the PRC.
To prevent the protestor to use the app for guerilla tactic. The protestor are known to ambush police if their number is small. And to play cat and mouse with the police to vandalize
You are kidding yourself if you think that system isn't also driven by racism. A few decades ago it was virtually impossible for Turkish children to attend Gymnasium, regardless of the grades.

It is hard to quantify, but the attitudes of teachers, in elementary school and beyond, does shape this process. If they don't believe those children can catch up, they won't...
Elm is a frontend language. Java works on the backend.

At Vy, Elm is used for frontend, Java and Kotlin for backend.
As I just learned: Android limits password lengths to 16 characters, so you can't use passphrases.
"Google is willing"? You make it sound like there's a person making a decision. The system is automated, there's no mechanism for employees to be unwilling.

A lot of effort goes in to ensuring that audit trails are non-optional.
How would that be easier than VAT fraud in the UK proper?
These will break more often, and be expensive to fix; the result will be that lots of cars will be on the road without a rear-view.
Is there any evidence that segregation is actually better for more intelligent students? And to what degree at what cost?
right! It's not about free speech. It's about boycotting the support of splitting a country!!!
Superposition is not stopping as far as we know it.

Cat typically weighs 3,6 – 4,5 kg. De Broglie Wavelength of 4 kg cat moving 1×10^-10 m/s is 1.7×10^14 m.

You cat is in many places at once, those places are just very close to each other.
Apple mightn't be your friend, it's true, but it's not as though they're blocking the web app version of this which has been available to any device from day 1.

I'm not stating this to defend Apple, whose decision I also find questionable (although relatively consistent with some other rejected/pulled apps, like the one for locating and avoiding alcohol-testing checkpoints), but rather to give us all a bit of perspective — the same information remains available and usable via a web app, probably the better place for it anyway as then no store front can limit it.
I used to when I worked at C-Cube/LSI Logic. We had a multimedia processor (MPEG-2/H.264 encoder and decoder) that was SPARC based. It was used in DVD recorders, D-VHS decks (if anyone remembers those), set-top boxes, satellite downlink receivers for cable TV headends and other MPEG applications.

My favorite part of VxWorks was WindView. It's an awesome tool that shows task execution.

http://www.w6rz.net/windview.png
Sorry, my mistake. Jan 2020 indeed!
Could a habitable planet orbit a supermassive black hole?
look, i get it. i'm not offended. but i want to keep lib size minimal and adding validation and error messages will bloat it. a lot.

i typically add them (or update the docs) once users encounter problems and open Github issues (reactively). doing it proactively is a waste of time (for me).

i accept the criticism. i just don't have the necessary free cycles to address it.
The Air Above Antarctica Just Got Very Hot Very Fast
please stop turning cars into smartphones.
Probably a politician.
Why did the big 4 consulting firm think that it was so important to hide the laptop data from the government during the border search?
Examples: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/09/eu-takes-act... / http://www.iomtoday.co.im/article.cfm?id=43959&headline=Euro...
By that definition any law stands in the way of freedom. You're not allowed to kill people in the US, so would it be a more free country if that law was not in place?

From my cultural upbringing having regulation in place to steer society does not stand at odds with freedom. And that's also by my cultural background not "convoluted".
The basic idea is that people are being disproportionally taxed, usually in favor of the rich (i.e. people who have owned property in high CoL places for a long time). By raising the taxes on these people to "fair" levels, a bunch of good things happen.

First, a lot of property is opened up to the market because people are now willing to sell it, which should lower housing/land prices in general and enable more development. Second, the state gets a lot more tax money to use for education and whatever else.
Capitalism is founded on the idea that if we let everyone focus on making money for themselves however they like, the emergent feedback loops will sort things out and we'll have a world where everyone's needs are met.

In the past two or three centuries we've identified a lot of ways in which this turns out wrong. There's a kernel of a really good idea in there, true, but it also needs a lot of tuning.
> Everyone is looking for React or Vue or whatever developers. Have companies stopped looking for Developers who have solid grip of Javascript who can pick up any framework?

That's just a symptom of the commoditisation that developers themselves have been so happily furthering for quite some time by identifying as a set of TLAs rather than as business / automation / efficiency problem solvers.

"React", "Vue", "Whatever developer" in that case is just a further specialisation from "JavaScript developer". It's not fundamentally different, though.
I have a lot of privacy concerns with Google. But they have also enabled my phone to run on mostly Open Source code, both OS and applications. This is important to me, and for that reason I bunch them apart from Apple and MS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer_8
GraphQL Saved My Project
Just because you pay for something doesn't make the incentives to screw you over to get even more money go away.

Does it? Various user-blaming shenanigans, when Apple messes up their HW design can serve as an example. "You're holding it wrong", "You're putting the phone in your pocket", "You're using keyboard wrong in a real world with dust and stuff", etc.
"Carousel fraud", involving moving goods in and out of the EU and reclaiming VAT, maybe? Or the private jet / yacht scheme I mentioned above.

I remember when Amazon shipped all their CDs from Jersey to avoid VAT too.
Here's a breakdown on the most important info in the new guidance: https://www.cryptotrader.tax/blog/new-irs-cryptocurrency-tax...
Maybe, or maybe not. My personal opinion is that even thirty years ago it seemed stupid to bet almost all resources on a theory that was too complex for anyone to even produce any testable predictions. And I think it is even more stupid now, when the main result of the theory seems to be that it's not possible to use it for any prediction (10^500 possible universes, it's not possible to say which one).
> Apple makes money on their HW and their media sales and application sales.

I don't see why they can't make some extra by making you the product as well.

Also, people who are into Apple are known to be willing to pay for stuff. A very lucrative group for everyone.
> people who like learning new things

Problem is that also attracts those where new technologies is not a mean but the end goal. So when they start to get productive in the "new technology" (that's now "one year old, ugh") and if the shop ain't up to the task of rewriting everything every year those people move on to the next hype baby [1]. Being a geek-magnet should be a very minor and explicitly stated short-term factor in deciding what tools and technologies to use.

[1] Yes, this is anecdotal and based on one former colleague!
First of all is the EU not Europe, secondly the UK can leave it. They just are not capable of politically surviving the consequences of leaving it. Countries in the EU can leave the EU a right that states in the US currently do not have about leaving the USA if they so desired.
I don't think services have to be open source for us to trust their privacy. In the context of Apple there has been enough conflict in the press with the FBI and other authorities that their actions speak enough I can trust them in the absence of source code.

And I think there is enough financial strategy for other companies - such as Samsung, who for example sell smart TVs at a loss to recoup money from Ad/tracking information sourced from the tv - to know that others are trying this while Apple doesn't seem to be.

on iPhones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–Apple_encryption_dispute

and Smart TVs: https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-to-turn-off-smar...
Global Censorship on Revolutions?
Not sure about how newsworthy this is, as it seems rather obvious and is based on different newsworthy sources. By itself, it is not high of content though.

Still, discussion about this issue is worth it.

Given the author's other post on Twitter

> In the 1930s and 40s, Thomas J. Watson’s IBM punch-card mainframes helped Hitler perpetrate the Holocaust.

> Imagine what IBM Watson can help dictators achieve today with AI.

(Apart from having to think about China's credit score system about which a Black Mirror episode is devoted already.)

This made me think of the tangent of the book IBM and the Holocaust [1] which is still on my to read list. AFAIK, in my country (NL) IBM's machines were used to sort based on religion [2]. It is a major historical reason why one's religion is nowadays consider PII. Of course, it is easy to check is someone regularly buys kosher or halal meat at the grocery store...

Data is a ticking time bomb. Or, as Bruce Schneier wrote in an essay, "data is a toxic asset." [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_subsidia...

[3] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/03/data_is_a_tox...
I'd say no to that, aside from the reliability and KISS aspects of this, there is one thing cameras won't be able to do properly: parallax. In tight parking spaces or near curbs I will often move around in the car so that I can see obstacles without having to adjust the mirrors.
it's on the bbc website? the British public do generally have a good idea where IOM is.

plus the subheader:

>Despite being ringed on all sides by the UK – Northern Ireland to west, Scotland to the north, England to the east and Wales to the south – the Isle of Man is not actually part of it.

does tell you quite well where IOM is.

feels like complaining that an article on the NYTimes about Connecticut vs Pennsylvania doesn't show a map of the USA indicating where the states are.
Japan ninja student gets top marks for writing essay in invisible ink
it's kind of funny, but makes sense. if you think about it the gold standard for computer vision is humans but people are pretty bad at reading upside down text (if you're on mobile you can try it but don't forget to lock orientation first!). the same is true of upside down images as the famous "Thatcher effect" illusion shows: http://thatchereffect.com/ shows it pretty clearly.
Startup Hitches Ride on ISS to Make Space Meat
I think it only got worse. What you describe was also point of view when i had to decide between Realschule and Gymnasium. Its not so easy to justify sending your kid to a Realschule anymore. Most people are aware that its likely a dead end for their kid. On the other hand, Gymnasium got also a lot more stressful for kids with the change from G9 to G8 (reduction from 13 years school in total to 12). Either way, i can just feel extremely lucky that i didnt have to go through that. I doubt it would have turned as good as it did for me today.
> Also, what if a fire still happens, and people don’t know because the power is out?

Good pount! If a tree falls in the forest, will it make any noise?
> No one wants to feel like someone is tearing apart their code.

From my perspective, not everyone is able to conduct a code-review, even if the knowledge is there. As a reviewer, you should be able to communicate in a way the person being reviewed doesn't feel "bad". It's not easy, and you definitely need to know the person who's code you are reviewing.
> The landscape is changing, it needs to evolve with the new world

To be fair, this is not much the natural evolution of the landscape but the political decisions from the European Commission pushing on its “pro-competition”[1] agenda.

[1] you may want to call it “neoliberal”, and you'll be right.
Awkward, that episode is not awailable in Sweden on their homepage. You get redirected to another site that does not have season 23.
The more complex steps it has, the harder to investigate.
Bigger glass standoffs, hydrophobic coatings, heating, and positive air pressure curtains. All that worked well enough on airplanes.
This is my take on the latest ruling by the European Court of Justice. Please do go through it and let me know your valuable opinions.
in addition to settings mentioned in the article, I have these two settings as well:

"\C-d": unix-filename-rubout

this allows me to delete complete filenames to the left of the cursor.. by default, you have Ctrl+w that deletes till whitespace and Esc+backspace that deletes words, but what I want most of the time is deleting filename

set echo-control-characters off

this is occasionally useful for my workflow, when I use Ctrl+c to abort currently typed command, I do not like the control character mangling the command in case I wish to copy paste that command again
That would really depend on how you define freedom, if you look at it theoratically like "free to do whatever you want". Then maybe, if you look at it from the perspective of "an individual can garner freedoms through work" they are far more likely to do that in most other western countries.

You are far more likely to not have to worry about things like healthcare in european countries than you are in the US for example. You are far less likely to have to work multiple jobs to sustain your life. 'Class'mobility is far is better in most other western countries as well.

So if your definition is "free to do whatever", this also means other people and corporations are free to screw you over. And you would be right that in that regard the USA is freer than other western countries, but it infringes upon personal freedom, and in my opinion, that is the kind of freedom the USA gneerally says they're all about.
remember, with a broken camera mirror, you car won't even start ;)
Gitlab-teams: Be notified in realtime on merge requests and more
View your own defined Gitlab teams Merge Requests live-updated without effort (i.e. the missing thing from Gitlab).

This project is only a frontend app based on Vue and RxJS. This is still a WIP: No error handling, no tests, etc, but it works pretty well for now.

App is live on https://gitlab-teams.netlify.com, only store things in your browser (cf sources at https://github.com/chamerling/gitlab-teams)
Bug estimation: to be or not to be?
If the automakers manage to put the camera inside the car body, it probably would be a lot less likely to break. It might even be cheaper to fix - a rear mirror assembly has quite some moving parts and need to be painted to match the car
> read the docs

I would read them if they were linked from the readme :)
your argument does not hold water since there are many more alternatives to use. You are in no way forced to use either of these services.
"The Island's climate is temperate and lacking in extremes, due to the influence of the surrounding Irish Sea. In winter thunderstorms, snowfall and frost are infrequent, and even when snow does occur it rarely lies on the ground for more than a day or two.

February is normally the coldest month, with an average daily temperature of 4.9 C (41 F), and July and August are the warmest - with an average daily maximum temperature of around 18 C (63 F). In summer April, May and June are the driest months whilst May, June and July are the sunniest.

Wind generally travels southwesterly, although the rugged topography means that local effects of shelter and exposure are very variable. Sea fog affects the south and east coast at times, especially in spring, but is less frequent on the west coast.

Rainfall and the frequency of hill fog both increase with altitude - the highest point of the Island (Snaefell at 2,036 ft) receives some two and a quarter times more rainfall than Ronaldsway on the southeast coast, where the annual average is 34 inches (863 mm)."

That's why the Isle of Man is a tax haven. It's beautiful if you like bleak islands.
Why there is no such thing as a ‘normal’ brain
a NAS
>Recently I blogged a safety warning that according to a source I consider reliable, a “women in tech” pressure group has made multiple efforts to set Linus Torvalds up for a sexual assault accusation.

I'm not going to address this at all, since as far as I can tell this is just rumour and scare mongering, I'm not sure the merit in talking about it.

>I’m not going to analyze SJW ideology here except to point out, again, why the hacker culture must consider anyone who holds it an enemy.

To advocate for considering an ideology as your enemy without defining it, talking reasonably about what it advocates or who supports it, seems like a bad idea.

I actually think the tenets of meritocracy isn't incompatible with social justice to a certain extent. The problem emerges where proxies for merit are used. For example, SV hedge funds keep throwing money at 20 year old Harvard drop outs not because they have merit, but because they look like Zuck. Yet every one of them will tell you about how much of a meritocracy SV is. Again, when you look at any online community the position of a contributor is often more important than the merit of their contribution (I'm looking at you, Wikipedia, Stack Exchange).

A valid point in the social justice movement is that often the people talking about meritocracy only have a meritocracy within the very homogenous in group that has traditionally dominated technology- young, male, often libertarians, often with very limited social skills. Which is why open source projects often have arseholes contributing - because they don't see merit in being able to work with others, but they do find merit in very stridently arguing your point.

It seems that despite proclaiming a fetish for meritocracy, this blogger seems to be advocating not to apply a meritocratic approach to complaints about the community he works in. The problem I see with this is that the hacker culture simply isn't as inclusive or meritocratic as it claims, and there are real structural issues that have emerged over time repeatedly. Yes, there are idiots who know nothing about actual hackers that make unwarranted complaints, but if we're not dismissing those complaints because they have no merit, then are we really being meritocratic in the first place.

So often I come back to the same thing which is that people seem to think that telling me you value something is the same thing as valuing it. You can say your community is meritocratic until you're blue in the face, but that doesn't necessarily make it so, and if you're unwilling to actually engage with criticism then it doesn't make your protestations very convincing.
Big companies usually have (from my limited experience) salary ranges per level or title.

This has a few implications-

- Anchoring might work to some degree since the company have some freedom in deciding the salary

- If you cross the upper range one of two things can happen- you will be declined and get (or not) a counter offer, or you'll be bumped to the next job level (engineer to senior etc.) if the company really appreciates you.

- Future salary raises are also bound to the same ranges, this means that if you start at the top you will have lower raises, or more pressure to move to the next level
Apple only cares about privacy because it's a threat to Google and Facebook's business model. They don't care about privacy, they only care about "caring about privacy" when it is good for their business.
Links:

- Sources: https://github.com/chamerling/gitlab-teams
- Netlify app: https://gitlab-teams.netlify.com
Complete speculation, but maybe Apple wants people to use the app while having plausible deniability by removing it from the store. Banning the app for the first time made it incredibly popular, so a huge number of people would have probably downloaded it as soon as it came back on the store. Then, after a bunch of people download it, they ban it again to appease China. I bet more people downloaded the app this way than if they had just banned it today for the first (and only) time.
The untapped potential of the ‘longevity economy’
So one random person makes some weird and illogical comment (over pull requests?) and "us hackers" need to "eject the SJWs"?

Maybe just ignore the comment? This sounds more like a troll post than any legitimate concern. Even if there is a sincere person writing this, why feel the need to respond to it so vehemently? This is some lizard brain shit-stirring to the max.

Outrage to combat outrage? Try indifference. If you don't like "social justice" then don't care so much about social justice.
Visualization tool for price bubble of Bitcoin
"until the kids come from middle school and cannot find a job that easily, often ending up doing completely stupid work like cashier or whatever else for the rest of their lives."

Your comment took a strange turn there at the end. I don't know even a single person that went from middle school to the job market. And if someone does, the job market probably won't be very good, that's common sense.
Indeed, and the countries that want that money can use force and other means of persuasion to take it. International law is a farce.

“The strong do what they will and the weak suffer what they must.”

The US or other Great Powers can force less powerful countries to do what they want, when they want to. If that’s protecting the holdings of US companies in Latin America or dictating the tax policies of other countries the disrespect for other’s sovereignty is the same.