skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The MP who said this, Nicky Morgan, has a less than stellar reputation. Sounds like the comment was purely a case of throwing out a buzzword as a terrible answer to a good question.

The minute any implementation of this hit the real world it'd fail. Teenagers are very good at working around technology, whilst anyone other than the average caucasian is likely to get an incorrect age assessment.
Regarding room service, I wonder if room service wouldn't be better served by some kind of dumbwaiter system powered by a Willy Wonka-style elevator. A kitchen prepares food, puts it in the dumbwaiter-sized standardized container (like a shipping container), puts the container into a delivery system (with the destination room button-pressed in) where it is magnetically propelled within the walls to it's destination, where it is retrieved by opening a shutter in the wall. It doesn't have to just be room service, I could see it as part of a modern apartment building as well for deliveries.

I imagine that the main barriers are maintenance - opening up the walls in case of blockages etc. But maybe the correct design could account for that somehow.
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MS Teams has decent video but everything else about is hugely inferior to Slack in my experience. Very frustrating.
And oddly enough, a cryptocurrency wallet now.
There won't be much of an overlap on the Venn diagram of Fedora users and Disney+ subscribers.

Raise a hand if you're shocked that Disney would use the highest level of DRM possible, given their history of guarding their intellectual property...
Gamers are scrutinizing League of Legends for signs of China’s censorship
Zulip's topic system looks fantastic for keeping things organised over time. I wish we could use it instead of Slack.
Maybe I'm missing the point here but I couldn't see where this article mentions what they were trying to do in a web client.

Surely that should be the first variable to consider?
See, that's another thing that a lot of people don't understand about
static analysis. It's not just there to find bugs in existing code,
it's there to find bugs as you write or edit the code! Of course it
won't find a lot in a tested code base. It's tested after all. But it
immensely shortens debug time as you develop, and thus reduces testing
time as well.
It originally started as a Joke as far as I remember, it's now being used as short hand for certain aspects of SV life that are negative or are perceived as negative.

I would bet that 90% of developers are not the classic "jock" member of a frat (which is specific to America Univerities) - we are the ones that got bullied by those types at high school.

Lets be honest CS students are going to get invited to join the skull and bones (Harvard) or the Bullingdon club (Oxford)
on a more serious note, TheLounge is pretty great as a self-hosted web-based irc client
I suggest reading about multi-stage builds. They basically squash layers at the end so it's a "have cake and eat it too" scenario.

This pattern of concatenating commands to have a minimal image is a workaround from times when multi-stage builds were not available.
Ask HN: Working for a German Company, Living in France
Hi all,
I work for a German company and currently live in Frankfurt.
Last week, my employer told me I can have full remote if I want it either as a fulltime employee or a freelancer.

Before I investigate the Freelance option I want to see if the fte status is even an option.

Can I be a fte for a German company (the company doesn't have any affiliates in France) without having a TAX ID / Residency in Germany?

(I obviously have a german tax id NOW but I will probably lose it upon leaving the country, I reckon)

Thank you all.
Chrome actually makes this easy. It has a literal option "--use-file-for-fake-video-capture" which does what it says. https://webrtc.org/testing/
This isn't a serious proposal it's just incoherent ramblings of somebody who doesn't know what they are talking about.
The anthropic principle goes both ways.

I've read this thought experiment somewhere -- imagine, you're locked in a cell and are given a set of lockpics, and you are told you have to pick the lock of the door and get out, or in 1 minute a neurotoxin is released that will kill you.

You have no idea how to pick locks, but you try anyway and you manage to open the lock in 10 seconds.

You are asked how tough do you think the lock was?

You reply "it was really easy, I have no idea how to do it, yet I did it in 10 seconds, easy!".

What you don't know is there were also another 1 trillion cells and you're the lone survivor -- the lock was incredibly hard to pick, with a 1 in a trillion chance of success, but to you, the survivor, without external information it seemed really easy, you were just incredibly lucky.
> Myself, I don't know either languages [topology and physics]. Nevertheless, I am almost sure that...

So, he doesn't know topology and then proceeds to call topology (or some of it?) "soon to be trivialised".

> The king (abstract math) is dead. Long live the King (Concrete Mathematics).

The two complement each other. I don't think there ever has been a sensible fight other than the fight against ignorance and arrogance and the fight that is specific in it's subject matter. Category Theory and other abstract fields I would think get resistance at the time of introduction; concrete mathematics get resistance much after the fact for its specificity. In both cases one should be careful to either put on a pedestal or throw down the drain.
Buy a dumbphone with wifi hotspot. Remove sim card from smartphone and use it only over wifi. Consider which apps you actually can use on web browser on your computer instead of your smartphone. Leave smartphone at the office/home/car unless you really need smartphone with you.
Mattermost is really nice, and is self-hosted. If you run a self-hosted version of GitLab as well, the GitLab omnibus may be interesting, because it contains Mattermost as well.

https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/
Yeah, use an old GSM phone that can act as a modem and go nuts -- at 9600 baud. :)

I suspect it won't be a very user-friendly experience, but as a POC? Sure!
It doesn't look like you've been participating actively in the community, so why would you, would anyone care about how much karma you have?
The society you are thinking of is UBI of some sort
Google also use their near-monopoly in web browsing, obtained by leveraging their search monopoly, to hide and downplay direct URLs to sites so that people don't know any other way to get there than via their search.
At Mobile Jazz (fully remote company) we've a weekly 1-hour video-conference call dedicated to sharing knowledge and experiences with each other. For that we share a Google Doc where everyone has a section to write down a few bullets, add links or images. Then in the call everyone gets 2-3 minutes to talk. Usually it takes less than a minute and we have the other 2 minutes to discuss.

For the actual organization of knowledge we use Slack (#team room for work related stuff, #coffee room for everything else) and then for the serious information and processes we use a Wiki (Google Sites) and Asana.

We've also written an extensive Company Handbook [PDF] which can be downloaded here for free: https://mobilejazz.com/company-handbook-pdf
God forbid there's a piece of infrastructure that can't show ads.
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I am reminded of the amazing story of surviving a 100ft wave.

"We free-fell for about 50 feet before we landed on the back slope of the wave," Alladio said. "And those machines weigh about 900 pounds, so I went deep, down into the water almost up to my elbows. And that was the moment when I felt a little shot of panic."

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/DESPERATE-RACE-FOR-SU...
Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan
Maybe they know that statistically, based on their historical traffic, there are between 28 and 45 people visiting the page. Calling 28 + rand(45 - 28) is certainly much more efficient than fetching the data on the fly.

That would be the most charitable interpretation.
For 27 years I saw the same doctor. He was a GP by the time I met him, but as an infectious diseases specialist had been on the front lines of AIDS in the 80s. I can still find old quotes from him now and again, calming people scared about touching doorknobs.

I trusted him thoroughly, with everything. He was about 10 years older than me and I worried what it meant when he retired and I no longer had access to this person who so deeply understood me--exactly when I started needing him most. This post is encouraging, to say the least.
It works fine on Android.
I think it just points out that hardest part is not dropping the cube. The hard problem they solved completely is orienting and manipulating the cube in an intended way, provided they managed not to drop it.

Determining how to manipulate cube to get it solved state wasn't part of the problem as it is trivially easy for a machine or any human that learned how to solve rubiks cube.
A total different approach: Twist.com
I suggest reading about their approach to async communication and the blogs.
Not free, but a lot of big corps seem to use Symphony: https://symphony.com/
Define safe.
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We use zulip and most of the time the topic thing is used by accident. We also tried slack but it was too bloated. Honestly hip chat was the best platform we ever used. Maybe we will try rocket chat.
Check at the bottom

> ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)

> Joel M. Moskowitz
Well, I share your love and agree on most of what you put here.

My only real point is a software blitter library would permit quite a bit, and be portable.

A secondary one was software objects got done quite a lot. C64 is actually one of the worst case scenarios. It had a considerable amount of DMA interrupting the CPU.

Apple 2 is a second worst case. No DMA, but addressing from hell.

The others, including the VIC 20, run faster and make a few more objects possible.

By all means, write for the CPU directly to get what those machines can do. I never implied otherwise.

But, if someone wants to explore a little, and wants to use C or Pascal, etc... more can be done than expected.

Re: Tearing

Yeah, the Apple port of Robotron does all those things, but is also one of the better ports. The action is there solid. So many ports did not actually deliver.

Atari 8 bit is pretty terrible. C64 looks nice, but just does not deliver the motion...

Sometimes it is about more than looking pretty.
What's the point here?
Opt-in analytics generally don't work.
Well I am wondering what's the best resource for Home automation and industry 4.0
He's been spreading arguably misleading information about this topic for ages.
XS4all giving out free dial-up access for those in an internet-blackout
I hope the downvoters have awesome iteration cycles with Ansible/Terraform ;-)
Genuine question: what is the point of this comment?
Apart from possible health effects, is anyone else concerned about 5G eventually being used for real-time CCTV surveillance networks with centralized facial recognition?

The higher bandwidth (up to 10 Gbps) and higher cell density should support quite a few simultaneous video feeds to a central government location.
Twist from doist ? (I've not used it)
Innovation is easy if you can do it for yourself, by yourself, using stuff you have.

That's a paraphrase of something in somebody's book. but it is really true. If costs and benefits don't accrue to the same organization or individual, if cooperation of multiple players is needed, and if some unobtainable component or technical breakthrough is needed, then innovation is really hard.
> arguably misleading

Argue it then. Many readers will have never heard this name.
What is your business model then?
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After Amazon fires (which is still happening) Brazil now faces oil spill crisis
Hi all! Check out Openland. We are YC W18 company and are building a next-generation general-purpose messenger. It completely replaced Slack for us internally (remote team of 12). Totally free now.

What we have:

Apps for every platform
Voice calls and conferences
Group chats and channels
Mentions, replies, forwards
Emojis, emoji reactions, and stickers
Threaded comments
Link previews
Rich text formatting
Keyboard shortcuts
File attachments and previews
Message search

Invite: https://openland.com/invite/h2BGtL
Well, here is the issue: “... to turn knowledge into actual learnings.”

As you know, the solution is not just about an electronic system to expose the data.

The problem is that it is up to your colleagues to read and absorb your “knowledge” so they become “learnings.”

Now, the solution is also not to force them to do this. There simply isn’t enough time to absorb the notes of 49 other people every day and still do a full days work including churning out notes for the others.

This is a bandwidth issue. Does it really make sense for everyone to know what everyone is doing?

I think they actual solution will be tailor made for you company. Who does what? Who needs to know what? You have to start with the details.
I swear a few weeks ago I was reading the usual media outlets talking the prospect of this IPO up at the same time. Now this. It feels to me like someone got fed a line.

Edit: wait, the head of Aramco is now a Softbank director? What on earth is going on there?
Anything about him worth mentioning? After a quick search online, at first glance, he looks like a reputable researcher.

Does he have industry ties that we should be aware of, reputation issues, conflicts of interest, something else?
Node.js – v12.13.0
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, I think Telegram is a valid choice sometimes, expecially if your organization is not that big.
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> We use confluence as the source. We have daily stand ups that go on there.

You record your stand-ups on Confluence? I think retrospectives should probably be recorded (on something - Confluence I guess if you're using it) but stand-ups? Genuinely curious if you think you get any value from this? How often are they referred back to?
I found it to be a horrible product. Automatically, you get notifications from each channel, creating a private team is pretty much impossible, the threads are a bad feature and it's not possible to give people nicknames, which is really fucking annoying when it automatically tries to detect what a person's first name is and does it wrong.
Yeah, but the cleaner would need to earn at least minimum wage, while grad student will happily do it for free if it helps them with their PhDs. Might even thow in some perks for good behavior, like exemption from didactic work next year.
I'd be interested in seeing signatures from people at institutions I recognize and trust. There are a lot of people with degrees FROM credible institutions, but very little in terms of currently being researchers in the field AT credible institutions.

It's not hard to find 250 wackos if you pull random scientists working in random fields at random institutions. Most have no better way to know safety of 5G than I do.

Now, there's obviously some frequency band where we get into health risks. 5G jumps us from single-digit GHz to double-digit -- I'd guess you'd have to go at least past visible light before you run into safety issues, at least barring extremely high levels of exposure. Intuitively, it seems to me like that ought to still be safe, but I'm no expert.

But an appeal to experts -- with no real experts behind it -- doesn't do it for me. Neither does an appeal to papers based on volume, without a clear description of what they found and how. Most science is junk science.
Pretty sure anyone setting up CCTV does so on a wired network. Why the outrage now when your scenario has been possible for years (piping CCTV footage to a central location)?
Alternatives:

1. IRC, and share files and images through web-based sharing platforms and links.

Simple, low resource consumption, excellent instrumentation and automation possibilities, logging, etc. Downside - not as convenient as pasting shared content onto a channel. There are web-based IRC clients as well, but they're the opposite of private, and few of the benefits of standalone clients.

In extremely extensive use by many groups and organizations, despite not being fashionable.

2. Telegram (using the groups feature)

Kind of in the middle between Slack and IRC, I guess. Not sure you can use it from within the browser though.

Used, for example, by the LibreOffice development community (from which I noticed this kind of Slack-like use - the LTR/RTL QA volunteers have their own group.)
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I also use KDE and to be honest, the (deliberate?) opaqueness of the settings when not viewed through the settings app is really annoying to me.
Indeed this makes upgrading the whole enchilada a breeze.

Watch out though, the MM database is not backed up by the GitLab backup scripts.

The script I wrote: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/issues/2493

The general issue tracking vendored software backup: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/issues/1927
Depends what breaks. Most of the failures the HN crowd is going to encounter can be fixed with a $30 socket and wrench set, another $30 in hand tools and an internet connection.

The overwhelming majority of those are going to be worn out wear items that only require an ability to follow instructions to rectify. Most of the rest will be plumbing failures (if your definition of plumbing is inclusive enough to include plumbing for electrons) which will require pliers and other "grabby pinchy tools" in addition to your $30 socket set.
>The MP who said this, Nicky Morgan, has a less than stellar reputation.

Based on the Wikipedia article her career has been one long series of blunders.
I don't understand the reference to methane? Is that relevant to plastic recycling or is that just throwing a reference to a random pro-landfill argument that anti-recycling people often use?

If you are then anaerobic digestion of separated food waste/organic material are far better (again both economically and environmentally) than throwing it all in a landfill and trying to capture the gas later (especially as there other valuable/harmful outputs too). And that's what every well run government in the world is doing, because they've done the sums.
They only reason they encrypt the data is so they can be the first ones to resell the data. They dont want someone to play interference and get the data for free. It's not for "the customer's safety". I dont care about the encryption, I dont want them collecting the data in the first place.
Great execution. How did you conduct your surveys?
The Australian newspapers are able to do this because a) they care that their own are being targeted, and b) they have leverage via circulation.

Contrast this to the Australian IT industry that could have banded together during the initial AABill "discussion" and simultaneously covered their frontpages with info to their users, protesting the draconian legislation.

Apart from Atlassian, nobody big decided they wanted to be apart of that. And now we've made our entire industry a "systemic weakness" into our user's computers and networks.

I still wonder when foreigners will stop buying from Australian companies because we're essentially a backdoor into any computer system within our reach. Not even the CCP have the powers now granted to Australian authorities.

The Australian IT industry needs a lobby group, and it needs it now.
They give you free money for some reason. I was priding myself on never having any crypto holdings until they forced the cash on me (which, of course, cannot be complained about on a basis of principle).
The government doesn't need to do anything. Advertisers will deploy the technology and when the government wants access, all they have to do is get a warrant or maybe even just ask nicely.
Google Stadia is going to flop and I’m fine with that
> Cancer is not the only risk as there is considerable evidence that RFR causes neurological disorders and reproductive harm, likely due to oxidative stress.

I mean it can't be good all this radiation exposure. As far as I know, people living near large electrical wire high tension poles are at a higher risk of cancer already.

I think so much can already be done with the network bandwidth we already have available. Just using a better protocol on top of HTTP, like everything switching to HTTP2 should be a huge improvement.

How much bandwidth more do we really need, we have hit the limits in terms of video on what is noticeable by the human eye already.
I am also unaware of this topic, but this[0] is the second google result when you search his name.

[0] https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/02/28/uc-berkeley-psychologis...
Saudi Arabia is economic time bomb. They want to sell because they need the money.

Saudis have been running budget deficits 4 - 5 percent of the GDP year after year. Might hit 7 percent this year.

Cutting spending may not be politically possible because it's buying peace. Official unemployment rate is less than 15% but it's estimated that only less than half of working-age Saudis hold jobs or actively seek work.

Foreign exchange funds provide buffers but their net foreign assets are gradually eaten away if oil price don't recover.
Isn't Onenote only available on Onedrive (Microsoft's cloud) after Office 2016? So you won't be able to keep it on your Sharepoint in the future.
https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/02/28/uc-berkeley-psychologis...
Extinction Rebellion responds after being criticized for it’s lack of diversity
Even the most basic of cursory views of their homepage would lead you to https://worldbrain.io/pricing/.

They charge for synchronization and backups, with no doubt more to come.
I, too, am a fan of R-markdown for this purpose
In the very obvious cases where x == y, or x == not y, or x == y + 1, or many other correlations.
I wonder why posts about software design seem to have low points on HN
Interestingly, this is apparently a story that a lot of Russian troll farms are pushing hard at the moment.
Actually amazing part of this is MPLS phenomenon...

Mario Mazzola, Prem Jain, Luca Cafiero, and Soni Jiandani (long known collectively at and around Cisco as MPLS) have played key roles in Cisco’s “spin in” strategy under former CEO John Chambers.

while John Chambers was the CEO he I think bought four (!) companies that these folks had created.

https://www.businessinsider.in/enterprise/mobile/why-cisco-h...

They beat most of 'serial entrepreneurs' hands down.
If you are reading this from "international" news in English, I'm sorry to say that, but you're being brainwashed and the news rarely correlates to reality.
The author's claims are fairly loosely worded so it's hard to make much of a determination until the relevant code ships in some form.

For example, the documentation claims both no memory leaks and C/C++ translation. It's not possible to do both in general because C and C++ programs can have memory leaks. Presumably what the language will end up with is the ability to translate some subset of C and some subset of C++ automatically. That may or may not be generally useful depending on the details of the subset.

Even the claim of no memory leaks itself is a bit suspect. GC'd languages don't make that strong a claim. With a sufficiently restrictive language, it's probably possible to achieve but I'm not sure how useful that language would be. My guess is that it'll probably morph into a claim about memory safety which is more reasonable.

Finally, please don't take this as a criticism of the language. It's still too early to have a sense of that. It's perfectly possible for the language to fall some way short of its pitch and be really great. But that's obviously caveated by a variation of the old adage that all of the code I haven't written yet is bug free.