skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was curious about the issue and found this article which has some details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_rights_in_Saudi_Arab...

In Saudi Arabia, women need permission from their male guardian to perform a variety of activities:

> The anti male-guardianship campaign is an ongoing campaign by Saudi women against the requirement to obtain permission from their male guardian for activities such as getting a job, travelling internationally or getting married.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_anti_male-guardianship...

While maybe not property (just like how children are not property of their parents in the US), it does seem that women’s rights are limited in Saudi Arabia compared to most other countries.

Can single or married Saudi women purchase Aramco stock in this sale or do they need permission from their husband/guardian? That’s what I was trying to understand originally. Reading between the lines, it seemed to be saying that only divorced women who are responsible for kids can buy shares, and other women cannot (maybe with permission of their guardian?)
Here's a very clear restriction you're faced with: You could never become a Chinese citizen. Why must be pretend that it's ok for this to be entirely one-sided? We should give what we get, imo.
Non-paywalled https://www.irishtimes.com/business/ey-entrepreneur-of-the-y...

"Bankers say there is enthusiasm among Saudis for the listing, with domestic investors expected to comprise the bulk of the offering. Local banks are expected to lend heavily to Saudis to enable them to buy shares. Wealthy merchant families, many of whom were ensnared in Prince Mohammed’s corruption crackdown in 2017, have been pressed to invest."
It can’t possibly be the first time someone tried this.
Nah, I'm waiting for the Apple TV S Max Pro
Berlin courts use Windows95, is paralyzed by virus attack
So here the 2 red 1 blue means 2 up 1 down, right? And the QCD color is different from this, and so it's misleading?
Typewriters can become insecure if you leave them alone -- someone could modify it to send all keypresses via wireless transmission, and probably even power from those presses.

A typewriter is no more or less secure than a keyboard.

A computer is far more than a typewriter, you need to compare the security of the documents and the entire system. A non-networked computer in a locked vault with encrypted files and a password is more secure from incorrect access than a pile of documents in a locked vault, although once incorrect access is gained, the scale of the damage can be far higher with a computer (it's easy to read one or two documents, but to try to smuggle 5000 documents out physically is hard. To sumggle them out from a computer is far easier.

As the common poster in the 90s went - To Err is Human, to Really Foul Things Up requires a Computer.
A Forensic Audit of Tor Browser Bundle(v7.5.2): PDF
So how would anyone ever know that the objection was 1) heard, and 2) upheld?
> Web browsers were supposed to be information viewing programs.

True if we stopped thinking at 1996. I don't know how to tell you but browsers become application platforms not document delivery vehicles in the last 20 years.
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It's not used directly in a lot of places. However, it's still used in a lot of publishing toolchains as an intermediate format, usually compiled from asciidoc via asciidoctor[1]. O'Reilly books, for example, are all written in asciidoc and then run through a publishing toolchain that goes through asciidoctor to docbook, to eventually get rendered into printable formats as well as PDFs.

[1] https://asciidoctor.org/
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With roslibpy you can communicate with ROS stuff without being a ROS Node:
https://github.com/gramaziokohler/roslibpy
"Unlike the rospy library, this does not require a local ROS environment, allowing usage from platforms other than Linux."

Please also consider, that this is related mostly to ROS1.
Applied months ago, no replied at all.
0.96 * 0.842 = 0.808
1.04 * 0.833 = 0.866

Well, that rules out the obvious possibilities.
I know meme comments are generally downvoted on HN, but this comment helped to immediately confirm for me that "Docbook" referred to what I thought it did.
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Isn't this a really odd point? Right now, you can hardly run a public resolver in the traditional sense as UDP resolvers are prone to be used for DNS amplification attacks and TCP isn't supported/configurable on all clients. On the other hand, running a DoH or DoT resolver is no more ressource intentive than, say, hosting your own website and even Android allows you to set a DoT resolver nowadays.
To avoid delay when migrating a website IP, what I usualy do is to first migrate on a HAProxy (like 2 days before switching) so all ISP DNS are update and on the D-day I switch my backend to the new website/VM.

And then I change my DNS again to the new IP.

You have to tune a bit to get the right IP in your logs but so far it works.
If all of those things are “inheritance,” I’m talking about something more specific – the legal process of reassigning the property rights of deceased people. The state is necessarily involved in this, since it defines and enforces property rights. Different states have different policies ranging from no inheritance tax, to the status quo in the US and the UK, to punitive taxes intended to radically redistribute wealth, to the total abolition of inheritances. We can have a reasonable discussion about changing the status quo at the margin without assuming the implementation of full communism.
How are those actual death camps going? How's that credit system going?

China is a techno authoritarian dystopia, regardless of what the compass tells you.
That is not true. There is no such law in Germany, and the public backlash against it would be enormous. In the east we had a government that would pressure citizens to spy on each other -- any hint of that would be political suicide on all levels...
I think it would probably be costly to bribe someone in the "allowed" countries. I'm not going to risk going to prison for some small sum of money, and a large sum of money is logistically difficult to give me. People will ask questions, the scheme will probably be found out.

Meanwhile, if the government can just arrest you and say "change this repository and you go free", it's essentially free.
> requires significantly more resources to run a public recursive resolver.

Do you know of any studies or released cost breakdowns that show this? Depending on your view, DNSSEC might be considered to be operationally more costly. But also modern equipment is pretty good at this task.
I think the reason that solely skills-based institutions never flourished is due to the kind of cronyism and old boy networks that the article strangely seems to see as one aspect of the current system that is worth preserving.

The difficulty is in persuading those people who are hiring, who went to university, to value qualifications from skills-based courses, rather than assuming that the people who obtain them are lower class and too thick to go to university.
Since when does continental geography come into this? By that definition most of Europe is in Russia.
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The catch is, we simply don't know. We do not know if Solaris is a "superior" intelligence. We may guess it is an intelligence of sorts. There is also very little to suggest that it understands us in turn. My interpretation is that the phantoms were its effort to understand humans, and probably not a very successful one either.

Another fantastic book on the subject His Master's Voice, where a whole massive team of scientists tries to decode an interstellar signal. In the end, they didn't even prove it was a signal, and not a natural phenomenon.

Also - The Invincible. Probably the most western sci-fi styled book among his works, dealing with an interesting concept of mechanical evolution.
Curious as the way I see it it's very often China who is the 'initiator', eg internment of Muslims, stealing of territory in South China sea, debt-trap diplomacy, and so forth. Presuming that you are aware of these occurrences, do you agree with your government's positions and actions, and - if not - what actions, if any, do you take to make it clear your opposition?

The Chinese government is, IMO, massively over sensitive to any outside commentary or criticism, eg:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-31/china-warns-australia...
We used DITA extensively for many years. DITA was largely awesome in terms of authoring, we could and did produce HTML and PDF with one click, but the tools were awful and expensive. Maybe that’s changed now.

My company is now moving to putting their docs in confluence, which I hate.
The truth is more complicated.

Who put pop vending machines everywhere and pushed out healthier alternatives, for example? Who did it in schools to try to hook kids in to junk food habits?
This is just ridiculous. It is truly unfair to discriminate people based on the country of their birth. It's not like they had a choice.

Am I the only one who thinks that both China and Russia have spies who are not native Chinese or Russians? And are people really naive to believe that a stupid decision like this would prevent China or Russia from trying to obtain the information they need (if they really want it)
Oh, is that what the color represents? I thought it must have been color charge…
Clang Solves the Collatz Conjecture?
Being a mother and wanting to work remotely. Is that a lot to ask?
Do you find those difficult to read? I've not read them, so I'm actually asking. Or, is this a sentiment about older literature not being interesting, because of different tempo, cultural context, etc?

I think difficulty in reading something is a personal thing. For example, I find reading Pynchon very difficult, because I can't seem to track what's happening and because there's a sense of being inside someone's personal joke that you don't quite get. I find reading George R. R. Martin very easy, because it doesn't require analysis; but then, a friend of mine couldn't get through the first book of Song of Ice and Fire, because he found the vocabulary tedious.
Control of resources factors into the equation, because dollars are intrinsically worthless. If money have intrinsic value, why not to print 1 000 000 000$ on a bill and give one to everyone? Suddenly everyone would become a billionaire.

Your example is less extreme, but it is still about redistributing control. Redistributing dollars redistributes control of what people do, and how other resources are allocated.

This is related to the article, because moving control of people does not create more people. As population will be getting older, there will be more old people that less young people will need to take care of. This is a fact.

You could argue that redistributing wealth will lead to more efficient control of resources, and so it will make it easier to provide care. But it is still fundamentally about control of diminishing resources and increasing needs.

BTW - I'm Polish and my government tries to literally pay people for having children. Around 30 000$ spread across childhood (take into account that Poles earn a lot less than Americans), and while it put a small dent in fertility rate, the number of children born in Poland is currently lower than before introducing that program.
> The truck drivers who lose their jobs will get new ones. Same story has been told for generations and it is never true.

The idea that new jobs will always arise is not a law of nature, it's only an empirical observation that keeps on being true, until one day it doesn't.
I presented it in woo woo terms to make my point. Popular Mechanics put it in woo woo terms to sell copies.

The point here is: holy crap, radio waves can provide electrodeless water splitting and physicists don't care because it sounds like woo.

Of course the public and the press will see salt water burning and freak out -- but that excitement shouldn't be a reason for physicists to ignore the phenomena.
The issue is not necessarily the background checks but the fact that you can be compelled by the state you reside in after the fact. For example the state could target known employees of GitHub after they are employed and checks passed.

I'm not suggesting any national correlation here. I suspect the same is true for Chinese and Russian companies too!

As for the defence sector it is not enjoying it, at least in Europe as the incoming staff into the sector are shrivelling up pretty rapidly.
Doesn't matter. I'm Hungarian and we (education system, media, govt etc) are also big on this Central Europe thing (we are in "the heart of Europe" is a common phrase). This is okay if we're talking about culture and history or geography.

But economically speaking there is East and there is West. Grouping Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland etc. into a Central Europe surely makes us feel good, but economically it's ridiculous.
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4% less than the official figure of 0.8751 fm.
Governments race to beat Facebook's cryptocurrency, libra, at its own game
Roman numerals would be an extremely inconvenient way of expressing prices.
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The USA Cloud Act of 2018.

Every US company must hand over any customer data held anywhere, by any subsidiary or joint venture, on earth at the request of the US government.
I think Turks have the right to defend their borders
thanks, and in fact the wikipedia entry for electrolysis also has lots of interesting info.

It seems efficiency is between 70-85% depending on method.

Interestingly it seems there is potential to be >100% electrical efficiency if the water is also heated.

I can envisage concentrated heat-and-PV electrolysis plants.
That's a fair point for sure.
I thought that too - it just takes ages to load on iOS for some reason
I think the VPN vs DoH argument is a fallacy. You could argue the same way for things like telnet vs ssh and it would make just as little sense. In addition a VPN is much more complex than simply using DoH or DoT. DoH is also not meant to "hide" what you're doing as much as it is about enabling you to protect your DNS queries from manipulation. The only difference to the more direct approach (DoT) here is that DoH acknowledges the reality we live in where networks where DoT makes the most sense block anything but http/https traffic.
Discords design is horrible, there's huge gaps everywhere, it won't obey any themes and it limits options severely compared to other clients while disallowing third party client developement. It also eliminated the possibility to host your own server while for malicious marketing reasons using the same term for their hosted channels. It's one of the best examples how companies exploit the technological illiterate and it's a shame some of literate people don't care.

Also external monitors work ootb, like basically everything nowadays.
Armies? From where?
Hands down, the most useful non-technical book I’ve read is The True Believer by Eric Hoffer. Written in 1951, but utterly timeless, it unlocks a new way to view your fellow man by revealing the impulses that lead someone toward fanatical mass movements. In a funny way, it frees you from participating in the pointless debates about ideologies and allows you to be more empathetic to those who have fallen into the trap of mass movements. Beautifully written, too, without even a hint of academic pretensions.
0.842 is also an experimental result, not the official figure.
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> Harassing

Harassing : the action of subjecting someone to aggressive pressure or intimidation.

Where do you see any harassment ?

Gitlab has no Chinese or Russian employee so far -> so nobody got pressure or intimidate, ffs.

China is harassing the rest of the world. China is systematically spying with state wide support. China is bullying with military, economic or soft power. China is a threat.

* Recently, in France, concerns were raised by the intelligence community about the outsized number of young Chinese students flirting / marrying with military & defence engineers. You don't even need to spy, really, just marrying people to stop any aggressive ideas toward China spreading. I mean, you would not push to war against your wife's birth place where you are now visiting every year, right ?

* Apple spotted 2 cases, how many are missed ? https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18203718/apple-self-drivi...

* Lol, there is a whole wikipedia page on the topic, just for the USA : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_espionage_in_the_Unite...

* In the European Union, they buy big companies from small countries to get leverage on EU decision making process. https://www.ft.com/content/d7145792-4743-11e9-b168-96a37d002...

Gitlab is simply pragmatic and clear-minded, their teams works in transparency and trust, they can't handle potential threats without a deep rework. I think it's much more than just having permissions baked in their systems, it's the whole defence industries layering that they would need to acquire.

Western players are now actively reducing their Chinese exposure (buying less critical stuff from their factories, cf. Huawei's affairs, moving factories to others countries). I am afraid it's too little too late.

While western people, and even more highly educated western people, have low levels of nationalism, Chinese people are brain-washed into thinking it's the best country in the world, best ever. Helping China is very important and their authorities have lots of leeway to push this.

Currently using Gitlab, I am glad they are aware of the issue and of their limited capacity to stop it from inside. Putting the fox in charge of the hen house, am I right ?

> if you really wanted to change something :

It's not West mission to bring democracy in China, it's not our country, they are grown up already and will keep finding their own way. It's typically USA ego to think the whole world must be awoken to USA values. The rest of the world is fine, thank you very much. We witness South America's fate in the XX century and Middle East's fate in the XXI. China just want western technology : buying, trading or spying it.

The most idiotic course of action has been followed already by moving the whole factories chains to China and thinking we could keep the knowledge here while it is applied there.
I think the fundamental thing is that keeping up to date involves both user interfaces & operating system versions as well as work processes and interfaces. You cannot develop just one of them without considering the other, and because the system needs to work as a common process with unified working methods and tools, it means that everyone needs to adapt to both.

Yes, there is too much fiddling with the UI in the industry, but continuing to use 1990's operating systems without updates, just because people don't want to change their ways of working... that is not sensible.
The economics of lying about GDP
They were liberals at the time and spoke for tolerance etc. (Not joking, Orbán used to be a liberal, he even was the vice president of the Liberal International up until 2000 or so). He became conservative in the mid 90s.

Orbán also fiercely condemned the style of Putin's rule while he was in opposition. He accused of the then PM (socialist) of going to Putin as the party leaders went to Moscow during communism. This was up until 2008 for sure. They also waved Tibet flags when Chinese diplomats visited etc. They turned around 180 degrees on many issues since they are in govt.
Very cool, I had no idea you could use imgui in WASM
It was not used much as food. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_oil only mentions margarine as an edible product. The rest are lubricants, lighting and soap.

From reading the article, it seems some of the whale products were waxy esters which I guess weren't digestible anyway.
Obvs. The authors server isn’t seeing longer TTL’s because there’s no need for clients to keep querying his server for them?
“The best route to artificial intelligence would be to build it with biology”
At this point I think its the only thing Australians can do about their country.

Australians will never be afforded an opportunity to overthrow their government, nor will we get the revolutions our demonstrations hope for.
Non-technical theory books I guess?
This is a neat idea, I have had the same idea and been meaning to work on this for a while. Thanks for building this.

Can you share the technical details behind this? Also, what is your business model? Freemium?
What has changed in 10yrs in Africa's startup and innovation ecosystem?
You can never be sure, that the guy didn't sell his soul to intelligence agency and some government official during his visit. Better completely terminate the account and fire the employee if (s)he happened to travel there.

/sarcasm (just in case)
Combustible oil from the ground has been known about since antiquity.
This is a good point and syncs with our approach: https://terminusdb.com/docs/woql
So you'd suggest staying and fighting against this inside the company? If they truly love the company and it deserves this, you might be right.

edit: what bothers me is that at least by some senior staff members these employees are already considered second-class citizens as otherwise this initiative wouldn't even be discussed, and I wonder how comfortable it will be to continue working with these people now.
Links to alternatives and/or advice about how to judge the quality of these types of things as an outsider would be appreciated.

For example, to me having Markus Kuhn's name attached to it is a big plus. However, just saying "oh, some well known security dude was involved" doesn't seem like the best way to evaluate a security product.
The funny thing here is that regardless of what their tools are, only an idiot would consider use of their tools to be unimportant or not a core competence.

It matters not whether their tool is a feather pen or IT infrastructure, they must master and maintain the tools they select. Imagine if a carpenter did not think sharpening their chisels was something they needed to worry about. Or perhaps more relevant, maintaining their table saw.

However, it is perfectly valid to pick a simpler tool that does the job, and mechanical typewriters are definitely simpler than a network of computers and printers.
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To spare writing -ism words about Saudi, just write barbarism.
Why do ads need to run code on our computers anyways?
This is such a great example of "less is more". The product is basically a landing page generator. It probably can do less than most landing page generators. But it is tightly focused on the Instagram bio link which helps tremendously with marketing messaging (and usability I assume).
Looks good! Personally I'd like to have some more form templates (could only find the contact form).
The western world is already a minority of world population.....
It is terrible, it regularly fails to scroll or scrolls too far.
> An ocean-shaped [...] "lifeform", while formidably uncanny, are still somewhat fathomable

It might object to you dropping a lead-line into it to do so, though.