skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this thing is nowhere near finished. once the api is stable i will write them and make more demos. if i did all of that now i would have to do 10x the work on every api change.

the purpose of posting it here is to hopefully get some alpha testing and feedback for more use-cases so it can be polished outside of my isolated purposes.
Blind man sues Domino's Pizza over website accessibility
> Independence is a strong part of the character of the people of the island. We’re not part of the UK, or the British Isles – we’re Manx

It should be noted that this is more aspirational than reality. It's not just the currency that's tied to the UK's pound, a lot of legislation is normalised between the two. The tax situation aside, it's more a part of the UK than some Manx residents like to think (and even the tax serves a purpose for the UK). This is unsurprising as most residents come from the UK and it is almost completely dependent on the UK. That said Tynwald (Manx government) can and does make laws that differ. Relatively recently its abortion reforms were in the news.

A geeky aside: Linux enthusiasts may know the Isle of Mann as the home of Mark Shuttleworth (creator of Ubuntu).
There was no explicit mention of "there's less work for them", but making the point of "workers with a very high job security" had (imo) no other purpose but to imply that those people are here to stay and that one has to find a way to make them useful (otherwise why bother mentioning that?). It was my reading of it.

Anyway, in case, I just wanted to expose those facts :)

Totally agree with your analysis about Orange.
Apple intentionally held back mobile web that companies cannot build mobile web apps that are as capable as native apps.

So this is partly why we're all at the mercy of walled garden App Stores.
You missed the "slightly" part of the embarrassing. You can find other more embarrassing things I wrote when you search for my email-address. Re-use of slightly embarrassing passwords is not worse than re-use of any other unique password.

Also https://www.xkcd.com/137/
Ask HN: Why is time tracking valuable for your team?
I'm doing some research for a time tracking product[1] we're developing. If you do time tracking, I'd love to hear some insights about what value it brings to your team.

[1] https://v9.assista.camplight.net/
The UK spends just over 2% of GDP on defence. It's not a big part of the budget. Total government spending is around 40% of GDP.
digital cameras have far more moving parts than a rear view mirror assembly.
Why do people expect Apple to be their friend?
Both links say the same thing - one old man, an expert on the history of the CCP, says Xi Jinping has a low level of cultural intelligence. They don't support the idea of this being a widespread notion.
No need for a warrant. So pretty much anyone or anything that is in line to cross a border is automatically fair game. I'm sure there's case law on this. For example suspicionless DUI checkpoints have been ruled legal because the supreme court views it as a minimum intrusion and for the greater good. So wouldn't surprise me if similar grounds are used in the border case.

However some state courts have said DUI checkpoints are illegal under state constitutions. For example in Texas, however Texas has border patrol checkpoints. Never knew of that from being from the midwest, but I follow some full time RV vloggers on YouTube and learned about them. It surprised me, since not leaving or entering the country so never expected that traveling within your own country. Within 100 miles of the Mexican border, both permanent and temporary. Then recently in the last several years they do them now for the northern Canadian border too. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont but temporary for a few days a year. Some people live and work near them so they have to go through a checkpoint every single day, and traffic backups too. So annoying for the local residents, and also might discourage some tourism too, hurting their local small businesses like restaurants.

They are supposed to be checking for immigration status, but even looking for other things such as drugs. Even though drug checkpoints in themselves were ruled to not be legal. Since weed is legal in California, federally it's still illegal. So if you drove across California with weed, you could still get in trouble. There's some videos of people challenging them and refuse to answer if they are a citizen. Even border agents claim their dogs can smell if someone is an illegal or not too. So I guess illegals and citizens suddenly have a different scent.

They also board buses and trains such as Greyhound and Amtrak going seat to seat asking people of their status. The ACLU has been asking Greyhound to stop allowing them to do this since the buses are considered private property, but there's also arguments since they are commercial they are subject to different laws. https://youtu.be/0SxHkFZV4fw here's an example of one before getting on a bus or train at the station. here's one in Florida https://youtu.be/U62XSk8uQtU

Phoenix on a metro bus. https://youtu.be/XgQVrBGlqx8

Spokane, WA City Council had a issue with it too. https://youtu.be/xHKk8oZLA1s and https://youtu.be/GjbLJqvZVDo - They get on the bus and go seat to seat asking asking what country they are a citizen of and where they are going... You don't have to answer but cases where they have taken people off the bus and can make you miss it. Pretty sad traveling within the same country or even city. I think they should keep border security at the border and secure the border itself.
Google hast the most transparency for your data. Google was one of the first to allow you to download it. It shows you all services you use. It tells you constantly that this is the case.

It has the best 2fa.
No permanent friends, only permanent interests.
I don't see that implication. I mean, the article is basically Google taking credit for going back to user interface design principles that Apple pioneered 12 years ago; whether Apple got its kudos back then has no bearing on whether Google's disingenuously backtracking on some of the major design features of Android's HIG and much of what makes the Material design … well, Material.
Thats's nonsense. You can install any app you want and google has no way of deleting it from your phone.

You can root your phone or install completely different OSes.

It may not be ideal but it will definitely aid you in circumventing the government.
I've lived with roommates before and I do agree with you that it's a lot better than living alone in a small space if the rent cost comes out to be the same. If you're an introvert it can get annoying though. There's trade-offs to everything.
I had packages just gone on enough occasion s.
After living in the UK for a year and encountering this tax system firsthand, I'm convinced that one of the main reasons for Brexit is that rich people in England are worried that EU tax harmonization could one day take away their sweet loopholes and convenient neighborhood tax havens.

I've personally benefitted from the system as a "resident non-domiciled" foreign citizen. But on the whole it's not fair to British taxpayers, and it's not fair to the rest of Europe to be a punching bag for this secret agenda whose enacters care more about continued personal enrichment than national or European economies.
They don't actually work on Arch - it's the only distro without official .NET Core SDK package, and the community-provided version has too many issues (https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/cx64r5/the_state...). Not sure if there is 3.0 SDK yet.
Thank you for a comment coming from a position of genuine compassion for people who may not have had many opportunities in their life to train their minds.

The description of cranks as old, retired males with a minimal mathematical background given by U. Dudley seems to agree with what you say, btw.
You don't get to be headmaster of a school without wanting to feel power over the kids.

And if that's the only power you have in your life, you'll protect it viciously.

Teachers are usually in it for the warm fuzzy feeling of doing something good, but I've never met a headmaster who didn't behave like I described above.
These look neat but they all seem to be targeting a subset of C (e.g. no struct support) instead of the full thing (even if we include stdlib). Only exception seems to be SmallerC (which as expected is larger than the other compilers/interpreters that only support a subset).
Please, be serious for a moment. It would have to be an amount of money to be worth the risk and therefore show up in quarterlies. Also there would have to be a buyer. And there would have to be a bunch of companies Apple shopped their data to. And thousands of employees and ex-employees. You really think Apple could keep a thousand ex-employees quiet? Think about it for a moment—if they were doing it, its leaking would be a certainty.

And if it leaked, Apple would be in very deep doo-doo with easily the largest class action the company has ever been hit with. It would be an unacceptable risk to even contemplate such a stupid idea. All for what, a few extra pennies?
Fortnite Following Next After NBA and South Park?
Another thing that I'm really surprised about is the salary range for the C++ developers with RTOS experience. In case we compare this with frontend React developers, then difference will be more than 50% (React guys will be paid more).
According to my understanding C++ development for projects that require RTOS is much more demanding in terms of skill and corresponding experience. I would also assume that there are much less developers with VxWorks experience: within my region I may find around 40 people with VxWorks in their CV on the job board against 1000 developers with React experience.
I really hardly get the economics of the modern IT job market.
Vote with your $/£/€/etc.
Not much of a difference in the case of China, the keys to iCloud and just "following the law".
It's not impossible, just isn't very probable.
Going through the reasons for these rejections, most seem perfectly reasonable, and few are complete rejections.

One was rejected simply because that journal had too large a backlog to handle new submissions. One journal didn't like the authors title and published it after the author agreed to change the title. There are a couple of cases where a journal said the topic wasn't really relevant to their journal, and the work then went on to get published in more relevant journal. In one case they said we like your work and think you're on to something, but your conclusion is too strongly worded given the data you presented.

In no case did the journal or reviewer state that they thought the paper or research was straight up wrong.
Was there ever a dream of the internet promoting specifically left wing democracies? I don't remember any of that in the early days. Surely the opposite - a lot of early hacker culture was libertarian in nature. You seem to simply describe anything not left wing as "grassroots nationalism and fascism" but that's not a reasonable view.
I did it each time I got new iPhone before "transfer data to the new device" was available. No issues.
There is a vast pent up global demand for electricity around the world. Africa needs electricity, China needs electricity, India, etc.

The world is changing but at the moment that electricity largely comes from burning fuel. And if it makes sense to mine fuel when the payoff is X, then if still makes sense when the payoff is X + something (as it is when efficiency improves).

It is a very safe assumption that Jevons's paradox applies to electricity consumption, there is no need to show it. Take a look at US coal production [0]. There is no evidence there that energy use from coal will decrease with improved technology. That is 150 years of technological innovation and we're basically seeing a linear uptrend in use. If domestic use levels off there will be exporting. That production is not going to go down without an uneconomic political intervention or literally running out.

Now I'll agree that Jevons's paradox does not apply to everything [1]. But energy in general and electricity in particular it is painfully obvious that there are more potential uses than there are efficiencies in the world. Give me cheap enough electricity and I can do anything; its use will not be suppressed by reducing need for it in specific cases.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining_in_the_United_Stat...

[1] Also my name isn't Bob.
Shark-like “Invictus” is Bell’s bid for Army’s future attack-recon aircraft
There was a recent trend, since mid 00's, that some organizations have the world best interest at heart.
I'm off shooting cats through two slits I made in my living room wall now, to prove or disprove you. For Science!
Are there any (I speak as not-really-a-JS-person) frameworks on the opposite end of the spectrum, for when performance isn't (yet) as important as fully featured interactivity?

I'm imagining a sort of library of pre-made chart styles for different purposes with different sorts of interactivity or sub charts already built-in, such that using it is as simple as `fxSecurityWithCandlesticks(mydata)` or `cmpRegionTrend(region1data, region2data)` etc. for when I just want a working chart and I'm happy to mangle my data to fit the prescribed API, not to build it up to fit my data.

Everything I've seen has varying levels of simplicity, and may make it quite easy to add bundles of options for candlesticks or a second line or another chart underneath allowing the range to be easily selected, or whatever, but even if there's examples of different usages, it's still 'copy and paste' rather than 'use this function'.
I dont think the comparison with the black population of the US is warranted. I might be lucky enough that i didnt get into contact with what you describe, but the main problem as I see it, is different to the US the difference in first language. The problem in my cousins class isnt that she is the only one with a German last name, but that she is the only native speaker. You dont have a level field if you dont speak the language to a useable degree and if your language level is below A2, you dont have much chances for playing along in the first place. I am not going to disagree, that dumping kids with lacking German knowledge into the Realschule is horrible, but i dont think thats racism. Differently put, you are not going to end up in Realschule because you are the son or daughter of a Turkish migrant, you end up there because your German is lacking due to it not being your first language. Thats not fair either, but there is a difference between being discriminated for your language skills and your ethnicity.
The TT is the only reason I know of the Isle of Man. The current lap record is 16 minutes 42 seconds at an average speed of 135mph!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Man_TT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmNXCJt7K3Q
I'm curious as to how China is "Leninist" at all. The fact of rule by one party that claims to represent the working class does not a Leninist state make.
Using an additional burner phone won't cost much and it's probably better than relying on a second device for unlocking your phone, or wiping your phone and restoring it when you arrive, because it's less time consuming and won't raise as much suspicion. I've heard of people shipping their phone to the destination before they fly but I'd be concerned if it gets lost or tampered with.
Apple's own statements on the matter are vague and you'll need to dig through their ToS, but here it is anyway:

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208351
My broader point is that you as a consumer have no means to directly affect the decisions being taken by companies, other than choosing with your feet and go buy to another company or, in the case where there is no real alternative to big techs, boycott.

Now, at this point, it occurred to me that if I want to access the market being created by Apple Store, I have to comply with the rules of that market. That's it. Protest is futile if you still buy the next iPhone. Buying is another way of saying "I vouch for what you're doing".

Are there alternatives to not buying their stuff if you want to alter in some way how they act? My opinion is there aren't. Thus, the consumer is a means to an end. If there are no consumers, I must pivot my strategy in order to have them, but make no mistake here: Apple isn't here to make the world a better place, but to make money.

You can see other places where this has happened (and in this, other explanations may also fit). Say, for instance, taxis. They used to be bad and expensive, but people had to put up with it because there were no clear alternatives. Like the Big Swinging Dicks in Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker, they can be rude because they have the power to be rude. Now, enter Uber, or a broader competitive landscape in the municipal bonds, and these behaviours are gone.

Compare how a taxi driver treats you in San Francisco vs how you are treated in remote places where Uber hasn't landed yet (Santorini island in Greece is the first one that comes to mind to me) and you understand that monopolies breed this sort of reckless behaviour towards their users.
if you've seen tailess cats in the UK (I know you refer to the wider commonwealth), they would not be mutilated, at least legally, like that.

tail docking, ear docking, declawing, descenting (of ferrets), is illegal unless for the health of the animal or for a few working breeds where the dog is a working dog.

(England and Wales do have some different laws on this than Scotland and NI)
Are sensationalistic science sites allowed?
> it is less than my cat...

Wouldn't it be ironic if decades of misdirected science could have been avoided if Schrodinger put his hamster in the box.
They could parallax though, so that doesn't seem like the best argument.

They could also use complex optics like "plain lens" with a "fish-eye border", or highlight obstacles by boosting colour contrast or adding in non-visual sensor data.

If cameras are that much better we should be getting vehicles that use both (which we do for rear-view but not side-mirrors AFAIK).
google 2fa is the same as apples for the most part.
> We have moral and ethical standards just like everyone else.

No, you don't. If that were true then you wouldn't be working at Google. Google has already passed the threshold were you can claim bonus points in the ethics department just for working there. That ship sailed long ago.
Apple has advertising service lines though - https://searchads.apple.com

Which is essentially selling data in the same way that other advertisers do…
I'd guess that most VxWorks projects are for governments so the pay is not that great.

On the opposite side a private company that makes billions $$$ with its website should be more prone to pay its devs better.
Off topic for this particular submission but on topic for Twitter submissions in general: is anyone else rate limited like 90 % of the time when accessing Twitter using the mobile browser on mobile data? Maybe it is because I'm signed out of Twitter in Safari, but I can't read most of the tweets and threads posted to HN.
> You know, we, working at Google, are people, right? We have moral and ethical standards just like everyone else.

Could’ve fooled me. Or maybe your standards are just particularly low. Do you mind explaining where surveillance capitalism fits into your principled worldview?
My grandfather ran a company that designed sawmills. During the 70s and 80s, he did a lot of business in the USSR and he has told many stories from that crazy time. I don't know if he ever was involved in bribery (he has alzheimer's now so even if I asked him I don't know if I'd get an answer that makes sense, and my grandmother has no idea) but he did however experience the corruption of the communist party first hand. Some of the people he did business with became the oligarchs of modern day Russia, leveraging the power and influence they gained from the forest industry to move in on the energy industry.

I'm a bit conflicted about what my grandfather did. As a child and teenager, I always heard the stories as bringing propserity to a poor country, one sawmill could supply tens of thousands of jobs. However, the people he did business with was some of the most dishonest and bad people ever, and my grandfather went into great lengths to make sure that they were never too dependent on the Soviet market and always travelled to Moscow with a lawyer. He never trusted them, and in the 90s and 00s when it surfaced that some of his old clients had become wealthy off the breakup of the Soviet Union, and was now using that wealth to suppress and gouge working people, my grandfather just reacted with "yeah, that sounds like something a shifty guy like him would do".

I still don't know how I should view my grandfather's role in this. The deals he made supplied the USSR with jobs which helped the people, but it also empowered really bad people. I think the same way about business in China, on the one hand the billions of Chinese deserve global abundance just like the rest of us, on the other hand fuck the CCP.
It's funny how when discussing freedom with an American they'll always insist the only measure that's really important is the one they excel in.
There is a list of alternatives in the performance benchmark you could check out:

https://github.com/leeoniya/uPlot#performance

Personally I use highcharts a lot, it has many chart types out of the box and allows for enough customization to fit my needs.
It's not every employee, but rather something like any. As in: any employee with access to user data can check that their actions are logged correctly.

This doesn't protect against government action, and not at Google leadership specifically targetting you. But it does prevent the (rather common) abuse of such access by regular employees.
It depends on the depth of discharge and heat management.

Laptops, phones, etc have a poor lifespan because they are frequently discharged from 100% to almost 0%. It is better to discharge them from 100% to 50% and then recharge.

Batteries generate heat during charging and smart phones can get hot during heavy use. Without good enough cooling the lifespan of the battery drops.
This reminds me of something I recently saw on Netflix. In the documentary about physicist Abdus Salam, he sent Wolfgang Pauli a paper on parity violations. Pauli replied saying something like "find something better to do".

Later, two Chinese physicist went on to get the Nobel Prize for that same theory. Pauli later apologised.

https://www.sps.ch/en/articles/milestones-in-physics/the-fal...

https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81191195
El just get a “unable to load” in the twitter page (or similar message). It goes away if I just reload the page... ?
Punishing Blizzard by flooding it with GDPR requests
For those downvoting, there is truth in this e.g.:

* Ireland voting (twice) on the Nice Treaty - 2001 then 2002

* Denmark voting (twice) Maastricht Treaty - first 1992 then 1993

* Ireland (again) this time on the Lisbon Treaty - 2008 then 2009

There was also a case where the Labour government (in the UK) promised a referendum on a couple of EU treaty changes, before changing their mind after other countries' referendums voted them down, and just ratified it in parliament instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_European_Consti...
when the fear of guns stifles your movement, then yes, a lack of guns means more freedom.
i'm writing this after having lived in the murder capital of the US and now moved to the UK. personal safety (and thus freedom) in Europe is at another level compared to the US. which makes sense. the US is at Zambia and Sudan levels of murders per capita. truly shameful.
if you look at the bechmarks table at the bottom of the readme, there are definitely charting libs that can do this (more-or-less). i think the major ones are commercial.
Yes, me, I always have to tap my way out of some nagging dialogs that ask me to log in, or download the app. Then I'm rate limited. I then have to go back and click the link again before I can view it. 100% of the time.