skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those curious, based on the CSS on their respective websites, they aren't _exactly_ the same HEX color, just pretty similar.

(Lemonade is #ff0083, while T-Mobile is #e20074. Comparison here: https://www.colorcombos.com/combotester.html?color0=e20074&c...)
The year before, in 1920, Poland was actually invaded by 4 some million Red Army (lucikly for Poland and rest of Europe, they beat them off). So yeah, the actually had the commies on their land at that time.
I recently bought a set of collapsable climbing poles from Black Diamond.

They broke on my first really long hike. 1/3 of the way into a 72 mile route..
The obvious solution is to increase H-1B. They won't know anything about algorithms either, but they'll cost less and can be worked like slaves.
i don't want to dispute your statement as i simply don't know, but i'd be interested to see how that would look like.

sure, if the countries have treaties that cover this particular case, then those apply. but if they don't then i can't imagine what might happen.
Man this is such a great hack. This reminds me of the old TEMPEST attacks against CRT monitors from the 90s.

Cool stuff!
elasticsearch is the one thing i've worked with that i've had to learn to pretend i know nothing about. you do not want to get labeled the expert on that thing. it's nice and finicky.

er, crap, i've outed myself
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A better way is to put a big tax on CO2 making driving ICE cars less attractive.
They can then use the money from this tax to build bike paths and give tax breaks for electric vehicles. Preferably bicycles and light vehicles which use less resources to produce and operate.
As I said, I have personal experience with this - the product we were trying to register had sold with that name in the past, but the PTO rejected our application. We never got to the point where a challenge could be made. We resubmitted a new name that had many more qualifiers added, and that one was accepted.

It's just as well, because Microsoft came out with something shortly after that had the same name. Definitely not someone you want to do battle with.
I'm going to trademark the color blue. Now every silicon valley startup is infringing.
I think Doctorow is missing the elephant in the room: Monopolies can only exist without competition when there is Government power behind them that inadvertently (or not so inadvertently) defend them/prop them up by regulation.

A natural monopoly can be challenged by any market entry competitor - Unless barriers to entry are created by regulation.

Remove the regulation overhead/government enforcement and the next entrepreneur-type that sees a market opportunity will challenge that monopoly. And if that new entry is better, there goes the previous monopoly.
"Since bundling apps and runtime is the new best-practice"

When did this become the new best-practice in Java land?
We have a news company called CBC here in Canada that is supported by tax payers and is supposed to be politically neutral but everyone knows its a left-wing partisan news source.

It's just the nature of the business (ie, editors/writers/university english depts tend to be left leaning and then fill the news room with like minded people, with maybe one token conservative guy like NYT does) and even more so when its existence becomes tied to government spending and policy.

Not to mention how hysterical and FUD-filled politics has gotten recently I'm highly skeptical that anything non-partisan wing will be tolerated.
FB has enough resources to do a bit of auditing to catch these kinds of bugs. They are quite literally one of the wealthiest companies in the world. They have somewhere on the order of $40b in cash.

Instead they allocate most of their resources into figuring out how to get people to click on ads.
If the chinese car meets the european standards (crash test etc) you will get the subsidy.
Since half of the money come from automotive, they were involved in making that arrangement, too. It's quite possible that some VW managers delayed the process for a few weeks to get it all lined up.
A bizarre effect that I've noticed on LED flashlights that I own is as follows: The flashlights contain multiple LED elements, and as the battery depletes, some of the LEDs will flicker, but not all of the LEDs will flicker at the same rate! That is, LED A might flicker at half/twice/? the rate of LED B...

This is probably not related to Laplace Transforms, but I thought it was an interesting phenomena...
Gangs adopt identical uniforms to stop CCTV cameras identifying them
There was this story from a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21120956

A street vendor in canada was selling cuban coffee. They used "square canada" as a payment processor. Square canada, in turn, used the US bank JPMorgan as a back end. JPMorgan is required to enforce an embargo on money going into cuba. The seller and all the buyers were in canada, but because the money passed through a US bank, they vendor was locked out of thousands of dollars.

We live in a more globally connected world. That should not mean that everyone is (potentially) subject to every nation's laws. It also should not mean that no one is subject to any nation's laws. But enforcing the laws at boundaries seems a whole lot better than enforcing it at every checkpoint along the way. I will not, for example, get out of paying taxes because I received all my money over a blockchain. The sky won't fall.
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Interesting. I would have naively thought that there were far more trivial ways to measure water level directly (e.g. stand your sensor right over the water and point a distance sensor straight down, or use a moveable floatation device) but actually this indirect way can be done with a single GPS chip (<$5), and remain entirely enclosed.
OpenAI Releases Largest GPT-2 Text Generation Model
"I want this speech censored, not that speech". (I agree with this, I don't agree with that- so censor it).

Of course it's completely hypocritical. The exact specifics of the situation w.r.t China are irrelevant.
From Apple's press release:

$1billion - affordable housing investment fund
(So they're becoming slumlords. Good plan!)

$1billion - first-time homebuyer mortgage assistance fund
(So they're becoming a bank. Good plan!)

$300 million - Apple-owned and available land for affordable housing
(The slumlord thing again.)
> There are lots of other players in this space

Yup, I buy my snowsports gear pretty much exclusively from evo. I love going to the B&M store here in Denver, even though it gets disgustingly crowded sometimes I have never had a bad experience there. Plus their prices are competitive, or at least competitive enough that I don't bother shopping around at this point because I like the service so much.
Criss-crossing streets? You mean, a grid system? What's so bad about that?
A Twizy is not a car legally. It's a L7e Leichtkraftfahrzeug which means it doesn't have to meet safety standards.

It is possible to make a safe lightweight car. DLR is proving it with their research.
Your ethical system is impractical and toxic. Your ethical system works by way of forcing your views on others. Perhaps if you were denied access to services,businesses,jobs,etc... Because of your ethical system you can appreciate the problem?

"I can treat you this way but you can't treat me the same way" sounds hypocritical does it not? You're right so you get to discriminate be intoletant and harm others,is that what you're saying? If you're so right let us use established systems of society to codify your beliefs,don't use your influence amd wallet to twist arms like a coward against those who lack your power and influence.

A system where people don't arm-twist and harm each other but use civilized discussion and peaceful discourse to patiently bring about desired change is what I support.

I do not support using your power as an employer, business owner,boss, monopoly(google) and other positions of power and influence to force others to practice your beliefs! I bet you would lose your mind if a religious person enforcef their religious beliefs the same way or if the people you disagree with did the same thing.

With your way,it is not the voice of who is right or of the majority that prevails but the strongest and most powerful win. And with your way phsyical violence and war are inevitable. Like ghandi said,be the change you wish to see. And tell others with your lowdest most peaceful voice,that's peaceful change. If that don't work for you then use violence and arm-twisting like this and let history repeat once more.
Worth a mention...Colorado Sun is a great example of what local journalists can do after local legacy organizations are snapped up by national/global organizations.

After the Denver Post was acquired by Alden Global Capital, the paper's hedge fund owner,they laid of 1/3 of newsroom staff to maintain a profit margin on the property in the 20 percent range.

Several of those laid off (and some volunteered to migrate), they formed the Colorado Sun, which is online-only and does actual deep investigations locally. It's probably still hard and the money isn't easy, but its better than what we had!
They made a simplified video explanation here: http://youtu.be/ORji7Tz5GiI
Lyft also has a similar color as T-Mobile. Did T-Mobile make the same ask of Lyft?
You often can't even find the best gear at the big box retail stores. Small companies like Gossamer Gear, Tarptent, etc. make some seriously fantastic outdoor gear. You can't find them without some looking, but it's totally worth it.
>then it becomes quite obvious that colors are treated the same.

Does it? Because that seems like nonsense.
I don't understand the mindset that believes that a poor regulatory environment helped cause the financial crisis and sees that as an indication that we should have less regulation. That is like seeing your deadbolt was broken when someone robbed your house and instead of investing in a better lock, an alarm system, or a security camera, you just decide to leave your front door open 24-7.

Yes, bad regulations exists. However the recipe to fix bad regulations is not no regulations, it is good regulations.
Thank you for being a reasonable person. I thought I was taking crazy pills when I saw that on top, dominating the discussion.
Yeah, same George Bush. George Bush's effort to privatize social security: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_debate_in_the_...

RE: Medicare Part D, that's a pretty controversial topic. In the political air of the time, passing something like that was an absolute necessity. Bush/Republicans got it passed in a way that (a) involved big benefits for big pharma (e.g., no ability of government to negotiate drug prices) and (b) failing to pay for it in budget, thus hugely increasing deficits and national debt.
Break them up. It's the only self-executing solution to the problem of a consolidated, concentrated industry.
You don't necessarily need to avoid ordering online to avoid giving money to the giant retail companies. A lot of the best small gear manufacturers sell their gear directly on their websites.
Did modules make it?
> Too many folks out there with pickup trucks who don't need them is my point.

Too many folks out there with opinions about what others should do with their money is my point.
> The US may not be a good place to be in the bottom 10%, possibly even the bottom 20% but by standards of living for normal people nowhere else compares.

Arguably, not even the bottom 50%. Even a minor medical issue can tank middle-class families.

OTOH, you're in the top 30% of the bell curve there is nowhere else better than the US.
Actually they do.
I currently use a number that was transferred to Fongo 3 years ago and have not had any issue with UBER since then.
Consider this scenario:

Company A has a trademark. Company B creates its own product (perhaps trademarked as well) which is somewhat similar to Company A's trademark but in a sufficiently different product space that a lawsuit by Company A would seem potentially frivolous. Company B then grows its business over several years, starts moving into adjacent product categories, and ends up with a product that now could get mixed up with Company A's. Company A sues Company B, but Company B argues that it has invested a lot into its own brand, and Company A should have been policing its brand years ago to make sure Company B doesn't end up investing in a brand that Company A would end up considering infringing down the road.
Balkans and Baltic...

>A bulk of the unlicensed firearms in circulation in Sweden come from the Balkans and now the government wants to clamp down on smuggling from the region.

https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&ar...

The Baltics specifically are the smuggling route the biggest Baltic source however it's Belarus.
Yeah. But you are commenting on what people do with the product, without any basis whatsoever for it.

And just curious when was the last time you used a non-MS OS as your daily computer? Am I close with a guess of “not in the last 10 years”?
Yes, the "CSV road to hell":

- comma separated, nothing escaped (crash when 1 column contains a comma)

- comma separated, quotes around all elements, quotes not escaped

- comma separated, double-quotes around all elements, double-quotes not escaped

- comma separated, quotes around some elements, quotes not escaped

- comma separated, double-quotes around some elements, double-quotes not escaped

- comma separated, quotes around all elements, quotes escaped (using '')

- comma separated, double-quotes around all elements, double-quotes escaped (using "")

- comma separated, quotes around some elements, quotes escaped (using '')

- comma separated, double-quotes around some elements, double-quotes escaped (using "")

- comma separated, quotes around all elements, quotes escaped (using \')

- comma separated, double-quotes around all elements, double-quotes escaped (using \")

- comma separated, quotes around some elements, quotes escaped (using \')

- comma separated, double-quotes around some elements, double-quotes escaped (using \")

And the Microsoft format (where comma == semi-colon):

- semi-colon separated, nothing escaped (crash when 1 column contains a comma)

- semi-colon separated, quotes around all elements, quotes not escaped

- semi-colon separated, double-quotes around all elements, double-quotes not escaped

- semi-colon separated, quotes around some elements, quotes not escaped

- semi-colon separated, double-quotes around some elements, double-quotes not escaped

- semi-colon separated, quotes around all elements, quotes escaped (using '')

- semi-colon separated, double-quotes around all elements, double-quotes escaped (using "")

- semi-colon separated, quotes around some elements, quotes escaped (using '')

- semi-colon separated, double-quotes around some elements, double-quotes escaped (using "")

- semi-colon separated, quotes around all elements, quotes escaped (using \')

- semi-colon separated, double-quotes around all elements, double-quotes escaped (using \")

- semi-colon separated, quotes around some elements, quotes escaped (using \')

- semi-colon separated, double-quotes around some elements, double-quotes escaped (using \")

And I'm not talking about some weird custom CSV variants to support multi-lines for example or any other "I want to fit a circle in a square" mentality.

I don't know why people doesn't simply create TSV file (Tab-separated). No characters espacing mess. MUCHHH easier to parse.

EDIT: Formatting
I expect the waste of Bitcoin will not carry forward into its successors. Nobody has yet proven that high value proof of stake currencies can scale, but I bet they will.

Also, what kind of consumer protections would you want to see in a currency? It seems to me that ensuring that you actually got what you paid for pretty much sums it up but I'm probably overlooking something.
I think that there will be a shift in the provided capabilities of places like apartments in the near-ish future that will address this problem. More people will own electric cars, and either charge them at parking garages at work, and their homes/apartments will be retro-fitted. Probably won't be free, but the removed gas cost should well offset it on an individual level.
Right now my biggest things I like from C++20 are:

- Concepts (Now I can use static polymorphism without all those SFINAE template hacks)

- Designated Initializers (Finally!!! Using POD structs became way more convenient now)

- Coroutines (Would be pretty nice for writing games / interactive applications)

The things I don't have any interest in (but don't care if it's in or not)

- Ranges (Too much complexity for something you could do with plain old for/if loops...)

The things I'm worried about:

- Modules (Theoretically really good, but in practice the whole thing is starting to become a mess, especially when it's interacting with the preprocessor and external libraries, and when trying to preserve backward compatibility.)
Also see: Kei cars in Japan
I like faster and smaller, but it sounds like we are striving to make the most efficient use of resources, including developer time. "professional engineers" don't have to worry so much about this because the costs of their projects aren't dominated by their own salaries as ours are.
Do you really not understand or are you just not accepting the same answers everyone gives every time this question comes up?

They're terribly useful for listening to music, setting timers, alarms, reminders, checking weather, traffic, unit conversions, and just general web lookups.

I suspect what you meant was, "why do people trade their privacy for convenience?" Which of course is ALWAYS the trade-off one makes when it comes to security.

I personally have decided (for now) that the convenience of the devices outweighs the likely harm they will have on me. Would I have one if I were running for political office? Absolutely not.
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I want to thank HN and the HN community for the awesome free exposure. It means a tremendous amount to a niche open source project. I'm sure I can attribute 6 clones and 20 GitHub stars to this, hopefully some of those turn into users and possibly even contributors. Thanks again...
I really like the new super ultrawides (32:9 instead of 21:9). I picked up one of these earlier this year and have not been disappointed: https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-49WL95C-W-ultrawide-monito...
> make look smoother when scrolling

All motion/rendering looks smoother. When I used a 240Hz monitor for the first time, I literally dragged windows back and forth for a while because the motion looked so good. Going back to 60Hz now is like nails on chalkboard, particularly for gaming.
Which leads us back closer to the ugly reality of people owning other people. ISA used to stand for Indentured Servitude Agreement.

(Not saying Incoming Sharing Agreements's are bad, we just have to be careful...)
There are. This is certainly not to say that profits are automatically unethical or anything.

I just don't buy into the GP’s claim that they're putting ethics over profit.
"Never" seems an odd choice. Until somewhat recently the recommendation would have been the now-deprecated "utf8mb3" for which "utf8" is a synonym.

Until the next release, when "utf8" is updated to be a synonym for "utf8mb4", yes, use "utf8mb4" directly. At the next release, you can use "utf8" again.
> few of those people you see sitting around typing on their MacBooks are doing anything that will be of value 5, 10, or 20 years from now.

I mean, the people "typing on their MacBooks" combined together have resulted in a company with THE highest value ever in human history, and is copied by all the other companies that you champion.
> It will be interesting to see whether the DOJ indicts NSO Group executives in the same way that they went after the Chinese.

They most probably won’t.
You have a gross misunderstanding of how it works.

You can't trademark the entire word "apple" you can trademark the the word apple within a set of industries. You can't start a computer/isp/copy machine company called apple, but you definitely can start a woodworking shop called apple.
It's about responsibility and effectiveness: voyeur-capitalism is something for which Google and it's employees are more directly responsible for, and one which they might be in a better position to solve (though I suspect the solution may ultimately come from a competitor).

Climate change may be a bigger issue, but that doesn't mean the actions of Google's employees are going to be effective at dealing with that issue.
Jesus this is cynical. I guess there's literally nothing Apple could do that would make you happy?

This is a significant investment that they didn't really have to make
Crypto in general still have a ton of security flaws. To call out a specific currency is silly. Lets acknowledge that there is still tons of security to fix with crypto in general.
It's not necessarily connected, but often connected. GCs introduce some level of bloat, but they also give stronger guarantees of memory safety. There are a lot more programmers out there now than there were 20 years ago, and with that we're going to inherently have more bad programmers writing bad programs. If they aren't good programmers, I don't trust them to handle memory correctly.

I know languages like Rust and Swift have ways of safely dealing with memory without a GC, and I know Go has a non-blocking GC now, but remember that all of these things are relatively recent.
The industry norm has been to leave things behind. And it worked really well for Apple, they make money hand over fist, and you see Macbooks being heavily used by even software developers. The market has spoken, it doesn't care too much about it. Microsoft being the exception is good reflection on them but they rarely credit for it, but get heavily criticized for every other small flaw, real or perceived.
If you know how to turn a dial on a pid-controller, you are probably already on par with 95% of the engineering work force.

I had a really good teacher on this topic, but without a formulary for time domain -> spectral domain I wouldn't come very far. And they are all pretty hard to memorize.
A comment elsewhere here links to a color comparison. Looking at them, I doubt I could tell you which one is T-Mobile and which is Lemonade with confidence greater than chance.
Yeah I don't understand their reasoning here. If some cell service company started using the colors of verizon/sprint/T-mobile I could see that as confusing and potentially misleading.

But outside of their market, they should have no say on who uses that color.
> a regular 120v outlet and use level 1 charging, which fills up most cars in about 8 hours

A regular 120V outlet is 15A at best (usually 12A). That's barely enough to charge a PHEV in 8h, let alone a BEV. Practical example [0]:

> connected to a 240V outlet, the onboard 7.7kW charger should take the battery from 0-100% SoC in 2 hours 25 min. (A 120V charge will take a bit longer at just over 16.5 hours.)

[0] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/10/on-the-road-with-audis-...
Some day your luck, or your interests, will change; maybe you'll remember this project and come back and visit us.
That's sea shells being traded against rocks. For Tether not to be sea sells ( or rocks ) this trade needs to have a very low difference between X and Y:

Start send X from a bank account USD to trading spot.
Do USD->Tether->BTC

Immediately follow up with:

Take BTC received and do BTC->Tether->USD (Y) => fire to the bank account
How? By focusing on developer productivity and not the consumer. We can't get any more anti-consumer in the the tech industry if we tried at this point.