skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice piece, great for someone with no knowledge in this domain. It's a shame even Melbourne University has been overtaken by SJW's [0].

[0] https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/senior-melbourne...
This is not a proper comparison, as the relevant property is not of something being the only member of a category, but of being the already mentioned one.

For the sun we suppose the person speaking knows of THE Sun. For the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy we don't.

This can be easily shown as "The Black Hole Threw a Star Out of the Milky Way Galaxy" is clearly misusing the definite article.
I have uBlock Origin installed and just received the popover :(
Ask HN: Best Noise Canceling Headphones
Hi all, I have Bose Quiet Comfort nc headphones from 2004. I loved them. Electronically, they still work great, but mechanically they are on their last legs.

I’ve had a hard time finding what seem like good reviews online.

My use case is primarily for airline flights.

Can anyone make any suggestions? Any thoughts about in ear vs over ear?
Both the user agent and navigator platform strings are mirrored from the client.
Sorry don't have any at hand, but I'm from Bavaria and my wife is from Brandenburg so our German gender usage sometimes differs.
Microsoft to restrict its digital assistant to the Windows platform
Die Nutella.
Did Ohio pass a law for students to answer wrongly according to their religion?
UTC is a local clock on which other local clocks are synchronized.
Elastic Releases New Security Suite Integrating SIEM with Endpoint Protection
I aspire to one day reach your level of cynicism but for now I will have to disagree with you that that is insubstantial, even on a world basis. Especially so because it is concentrated in only a very few countries where children have a very high chance of being exploited in this way.

Have a read.

https://www.rappler.com/nation/191219-philippines-top-global...
Except that in tunnel boring the circumference is not that relevant, it's the surface area of the cross section of your tunnel. In the first instance that's 113.1 square feet, in the second it's 452.4. Every time the radius doubles, the surface area quadruples.

The perfect tunnel transports people horizontally in a very narrow tube.
If only someone was working on new ways to rapidly build tunnels at dramatically reduced costs.
If you're after a very good set of budget noise canceling headphones, I would recommend Plantronics BackBeat PRO 2.
D also has serialization libraries based on introspection capabilities. Orange is an example of such library https://code.dlang.org/packages/orange . Here's a blog series (in progress) showing how to write a serializer/deserializer from scratch in D: https://bradley.chatha.dev/Home/Blog?post=JsonSerialiser1
How to improve your coding standards and quality: Don't code in Python.
Evenflo has a car seat that is designed to last 10 years. This seems pretty reasonable, after this point I assume you'd want access to the latest technology and safety standards, and plastics do age some over time.

https://www.evenflo.com/gold/
> It is possible to identify with the argument that everyone should have access to such an impenetrable lock. However, it’d be really hard to argue that widespread access to it wouldn’t create a radically new situation.

With regards to communication, we already have that impenetrable lock built in. I can say something incriminating to someone else in private, and the only way law enforcement will ever know what is if either party involved in the private conversation agrees to divulge it. Traditionally, the means for law enforcement to address this is to be part of the conversation.
Maybe go outside, make some friends, join a community of individuals who are interested in claiming their place in the history of the world. Stop waiting for a champion to come and save you, and just be a champion.

We're trying to form a voting bloc in my community to turn the local government upside down. If similar movements happened in other communities around the U.S. the legislature would be very different.
I almost wonder if archive.org could get involved here, as these sorts of things (specifically including graphics drivers) will be a prerequisite for some forms of digital preservation and retrocomputing.
There was a popular post [1] saying that in fact Ohio did pass such a law. However the reality is not that interesting

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21544489
Thank you, Germany.

I love the EU and it's countries more and more for every news article like this.
> This is nothing new. What we as citizens think of that is completely irrelevant. Unless the majority of the population would really care about encryption and it would influence the 4-yearly vote-thing (elections).

You are contradicting yourself. Effectively you're saying unless a majority of people agree with you then it is non-democratic. As parent poster said we have the responsibility: it is to communicate this argument to people and also to be part of our own government.
Another victim from the English language.

Yes lot of corporations get free software for free. And that should be celebrated: free (as in freedom to tinker) software is getting everywhere. People can read it, adapt it to their needs and release it again.
Sounds like it is time to call on r/DataHoarders
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Does this article actually serve any purpose aside from being a bad spammy promotion for the poster's shitty app? I really tried to see something of value here, but it's just fluff.

Pro-tip on rejecting a meeting: Tell the person(s) you won't attend.

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Of course the monopolist is warning against having to allow competition to their market. Nothing to see there.

If Apple Pay is so much better than what the banks offer (which it probably is), then there's no issue, people will continue demanding and using it. It will force Apple to improve their product over what the banks can do constantly and that's how we customers win.
Idea: News Diversity
A mobile and well-resourced population is a cornerstone of US disaster planning. When a hurricane is comming and an evacuation order given, the assumption is that most americans can drive themselves.

Mass transit is cool, but evacuating an entire modern city on busses isnt viable. (Inter-city rail connections cannot be scaled up in such times.)
Migrating from Mac to PC as a Software Developer
This would be unnecessarily pedantic but not wrong* if not that the heart rotates on itself, so you are pointing at a 8 minutes old direction.

*All these discussion make no sense at all, as neither synchronous remote events nor the concept of what rotates around what are meaningful. This is not to say that we should not have this conversation, but to say that you are being pedantic without bringing anything to the table.
> It seems Intel wants to wipe out their entire desktop board support section from their website.

If this is true, it's the perfect opportunity to create dodgy "DOWLOAD DRIVURZ NOW!!1" websites which host modified executables.
> Now, if we have governments that punish people for being dissidents or engaging in victimless crimes, the answer is to fix the government and the laws, and not to sneak around.

You might as well be saying that instead of having democracy and elections, the answer is to fix the government and the laws.

You are putting the cart before the horse here: Sufficiently powerful individuals are the precondition for fixing the government and the laws. And that doesn't change once all the governments and laws are fixed: Criminals will continue to try and corrupt the government and the law. If you have too much power concentrated in one spot, be it a dictator or surveillance agencies, that is the spot that criminals will try to manipulate/use to their advantage, and only sufficient independent real power of individuals (that is: power that can not be made to disappear by a simple decision of someone trying to subvert the system) can possibly keep that in check.

The dream of the benevolent dictator, in some form or an other, seems to be irresistible--but if we want human rights to stay, we have to overcome that urge. Benevolent dictators are not a thing, and every attempt to build one so far has led to disaster.
Interesting, what might the reason be? Please refrain from commenting if you are an AMD fanboy.
GPS provides the correct time anywhere on the planet, it's a universal (as far as earth goes) clock, accurate to 10 nanoseconds (3m). The different reference planes that opposite sides of the planet (at the equator) gives you a precision of femtoseconds (micrometers at light speed) so makes no difference there.

The quality of GPS receiver of course is important, it may reduce your precision to to 100ns or even 1000ns, but it will give you the right time. Someone equidistant to two GPS synced clocks will see them both at the same time (within a microsecond)
I'm not against a law like this in principle, at least I don't have an instinctive aversion, but it seems a mistake to ram it through without any consultation or a proper review by technical and financial experts. And by that I don't just mean industry insiders, but security researchers, etc.
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Even in the Northeast corridor, Amtrak is often no faster than driving. Acela between NY and Boston is about 3.5 hours, which is barely faster than driving.
The point is to reach the singularity, so by making computers smarter and people not think, you advance this project two steps for the price of one! ;)
> just ban cars from major cities

Trouble is people in major cities quite like having cars to get around, especially if they are not in the central bit and you need them to vote in such changes.

We're fairly close to being able to have a 24 7 driverless transport system though with trains a bit like London's DLR and driverless taxis like the present Waymo one's going around Phoenix, though maybe electric and limited to 15 mph and short journeys. Something like that I could go for.
At the same level of performance though?
One thing that has helped me: Breaking up steps into smaller ones explicitly. Even if only "trivial" preparation work can be factored out, it will help getting started on bigger tasks and will provide the satisfaction of "checking off" something. And once started, further breakdown may become obvious.
> Especially so because it is concentrated in only a very few countries

The meaningful question to ask is what's going on in those countries, that makes abuse so much more likely to occur there? It can't just be weak government, the Philippines aren't generally known for having weak or ineffective government.
In the fur trade, that means the animal's carcass. The buyer would have to skin it.

Also, I've never heard this phrase in any other context.
Having taken the pads out of my helmet to clean them on occasion and seeing the colour of the water afterwards. The crash worthiness of a used motorcycle helmet would be the least of my concerns.

I'd sooner wear someone else's dirty underwear.
We always called them ghettoblasters in the UK too, though the small ones, and mono speaker+radio+tape like the photos of mono sets in the article, were always just "the radio" or "the tape". Ghetto blaster was for the big stereo ones. Always stereo.

Boombox was a name that came from US TV and film, and only started to be the name retrospectively looking back. I don't remember anyone here actually using boombox back then.
Having sat in on some PSD2 fintech 'opportunity' presentations, I'm without doubt that, while well intentioned, the brave new world of 'open banking' regulation will be hell for consumers and a windfall for the least scrupulous in the fintech sector.
One of the ways it's better is by being extremely secure, and anonymising customer data to ensure privacy. Their argument is that forcing them to allow other companies to implement parts of the system could compromise those advantages for consumers. I don't know if they're right, but then I don't know exactly what this law requires them to do, or what the implications of that would be.
> GPLv2 and v3 gave hobbyists, students, and anti-corporate hackers a means to feel as though their work resists the evil empire of the software industry, while in fact serving it up with unpaid work product.

I got linux and the GNU userland for free. I used it to learn and it got me a job.
Of course I contribute to GPL projects.
It's not unpaid work, it's paid in code.

It's funny that he chose mongodb as an example. They require a contributor to sign the CLA and give all ownership of the code to mongodb. This is effectively unpaid work, more than the GPL.

These new unfree licenses are the most restrictive the VC friendly lawyers can think of to maintain an usurped "open source" moniker while trying to push clients to buy commercial licenses.
Another possibility is using aerostatic forces to support a giant platform in the sky, anchored to the tops of buildings. Would need to support an additional 200kg of weight climbing up the anchor line, to heights as high as 20km. From there, could rocket launch, fly, etc.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_satellite#High-a....

In addition to nanotube cables, we'd also need to develop ways to mitigate the acoustic and electrical vibrations in the cable. Might be a way to generate electricity and dampen at the same time.
> It will force Apple to improve their product over what the banks can do constantly and that's how we customers win.

Currently, I add my bank card to the Apple Wallet, tap my phone/watch on a terminal and payment goes through.

It's not entirely clear to me how this ruling will force Apple to 'improve their product' from a consumer point of view. I'm not even sure what it will achieve, other than perhaps forcing Apple to engineer interoperability with institutions that don't want to accept ApplePay restrictions on privacy or simple UI.
Do you know teh technical specs ?

- horiz/vert max angle (to be able to walk around): the widest=the best

- horiz/vert max angular resolution (to avoid the step effect while walking around): the finest=the best

- of course, the usual suspects: refresh rate/resolution/number of colors/color accuracy/luminosity
Due to an anti-money laundering law? This sounds exactly like PSD2...
> for working with XMPP on another platform

out of curiosity: what platform?

I think I've never seen a platform where XMPP is not supported, even AtheOS, BeOS, GNU/Hurd, PalmOS and QNX have libraries for it.

> IMO we need something simpler, websocket and JSON based

nothing is stopping you to build a layer of compatibility
For every subscriber I think not
In terms of reliability and support I would say whatever Bose's latest NC headphone is in the QC line.
What do you like about this regulation? What do you see being implemented in practice and how will it change the customer experience? I seriously don't see the advantage.
I'm not sure I understand this law. My Apple Pay already hooks up to my finance company's Mastercard and my bank's Visa. Who is getting access to compete for service under this law? The banks? Some other payment processors? Would it just be somebody else hooking up my credit card instead of Apple?
There are serious problems with the Linear B decipherment from a cryptographical standpoint and a Greek standpoint. Ventris' matrix method was impossible, first of all. It didn't come close to reaching the actual search space. And the character mapping is so incredibly loose that you can translate Greek from any random collocation of linear B characters. Some of the words that Chadwick and Ventris pulled out seem to be unexpected forms for early Greek, compared to linguistic predictions. And the meaning of the texts is often fantastic compared to similar Mesopotamian tablets.

My own opinion is that Ventris and Chadwick were mistaken about the decipherment, and that all of the current work on it is so much garbage.

Saul Levin's 1964 "The Linear B Decipherment Controversy Re-Examined" remains the best critical examination of the matter, which should tell you something about the speed of this field. It is well past time to replicate Ventris' work with a computer approach and see if there is really any signal there.
See https://www.archiveteam.org - they've done such things before, and they do post their work to the IA. And yes, this is something where they should be involved.
I'm definitely all for "others" and "alternatives" .. so good job and good luck. Hope it is as successful as IndieHackers ;)
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The law demands that they allow non-Apple apps to use NFC to process payments.

> Their argument is that forcing them to allow other companies to implement parts of the system could compromise those advantages for consumers.

Why would that ever be the case? The demand is for Apple to extend that secure payment processing to other companies on their locked down platform, not to compromise their payment product.
Thanks for the kind words ;)

There's a bit more to the article, which I've summarized below:

1. Determine if the meeting is process-oriented or mission-oriented. If the meeting is process-oriented, you probably shouldn't reject the request.

2. If the meeting is mission-oriented, ask the meeting organizer for an agenda via email, which will help you figure out if you are necessary/required. It also creates a paper trail.

3. If you decide you aren't necessary, politely decline with enough advance notice to be able to address pushback.

If you didn't like this, I'm sorry. I wrote this right after I got into a mess rejecting a meeting request at a previous job, so I wrote down everything I should have done differently.
It's easy. Someone uses encryption? Jail him regardless of the content. You can't hide the existence of the message.
I'm dense. Why isn't it appropriate for software?
I think the problem here is that Apple wants payments on the iPhone to be secure, easy and private. If they gave banks full access to the api, they would do what’s in their best interest (reusing CCs numbers accross vendors, making it harder to use more beneficial cards, less transparency). This would mean that paying on iPhone would be considered harder or more inconvenient then using a card because many consumers don’t know the difference between Apple Pay and their bank app’s payment system. It would also mean that fewer banks adopt Apple Pay, which is already not that great in many countries.

I’m honest not sure if opening up the system would be a net benefit. There are certainly advantages to keeping it closed but we also miss many great opportunities with NFC because of that. I would expect Apple to open it up eventually, when users become used to using Apple Pay and expecting the same convinces from their bank app
Interpol is a bloody joke. Recently they accepted a submission from Russia to put an international arrest warrant on an activist named Ihor Mazur right before he was going to EU to appear at some conference. The guy, is not a terrorist, nor an extremist, but he was arrested on the Polish border and it took 2 days of effort from Ukrainian and Polish embassies for Interpol to finally accept the Russian claim as bogus and withdraw the warrant. He was eventually freed, but for Interpol to even accept this from Russia on their word alone was insane.
Long-Term vs. Short-Term Information
For me it's pretty clear - it'll allow me to use my iPhone to pay for things since Apple won't work with my bank and my bank wants to support payments anyway.

On Android my bank released their own app to process contactless payments. It works well and it's secure by all legal standards required here in EU. Even though Google doesn't support my region, payments work fine. This is an option that I want Apple platform to offer as well. Not that it's an OPTION - Apple Pay is still there and can still be supported and used by whoever. Noone is interfering with that.
The EU has been making some good moves in opening up the payment services industry through regulation. The biggest example is the PSD2 regulations passed in 2015[1]. Among many other things, this law requires banks in the EU to expose APIs into their systems, that allow third parties to make transfers to and from the bank's accounts, only subject to proper customer authentication and AML compliance. This essentially lets third parties build universal payment services on top of existing banking infrastructure.

> The law highlights the growing desire in Germany for tighter regulation of U.S. technology companies.

No, this highlights that the EU is willing and able to regulate markets to keep them open to all participants.

Looking forward to laws opening up this sector even more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Services_Directive#Rev...
> law abiding people get no encryption while people who break the law will still have access to encryption, so how does it help you catch pedophiles?

If only people who break the law use encryption, then everyone who uses encryption must be breaking some law (that is, "(~lawbreaker => ~encryption) => (encryption => lawbreaker)").

That is, instead of having to do all the work to find out if the guy is really a pedophile or something else, they can simply arrest the guy for using encryption. It's a lazy approach.

> I don’t really understand how this will work in reality for things like SSL or ssh.

It wouldn't, these protocols (and many others) would have to be basically rewritten, or we'd have to go back to plain HTTP and telnet.
Can you please finally upgrade?
I read the article as carefully as I could given its style and I think the author is injecting the negative sentiment by self abasement to give himself license to anger, etc.

The GPL was written by an institutional employee that was upset by VC backed plans to co-opt internal software and turn it into a profit vehicle. In that context the compatibility of everyone's interests but VC interests make perfect sense.

The claim that copy left is failing and byzantine are haberdash. That many people don't understand GPL and that it is succeeding in its direction and not the one they assumed is an argument that could be made and should at a minimum be significant to VCs.
Apple takes quite a huge amount from each payment (~10% I heard) so if you could hook up the same credit card using e.g. Google Pay, the bank would pay only e.g. 5% (I made that number up) per transaction.

Consumers don't see it, so this competition on iOS would benefit mostly banks if you think only about costs, but there is another side to this.

If my bank doesn't support Apple Pay, but supports Google Pay, then I can't use my iPhone to do payments because Apple prohibits Google Pay to access NFC.
The idea is that if only criminals use encryption, they can go after every user of encryption and do some enhanced interrogation on them, since they are obviously up to no good.

But I also don't understand what they plan to do for online shopping and so on.