skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My 10 year old can start a fire, create a shelter, gather/sterilize water, hunt, trap, clean game and cook it. Humans are scary smart compared to other life and can easily pickup survival skills, manipulate their environments to suit them, even as a child.
> "During his trial in May 2019, prosecutors said Mr. Rahim, 42, used a messaging app called Zello to try to recruit the fighters and tell others to kill enemies of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS."

How'd they get the info from Zello?
If you mean "if you at all can" you should probably specify instead of sounding ignorant to the fact that few people can actually just up and move closer to work on a whim.
Is the back pain? Do these 5 exercises without looking back and heal quickly
This “guide” is just an advertisement for their product.
A Brief Introduction to Neural Networks
The "walking simulator" meme is just wrong and is a description levied by people who haven't actually played the game beyond the first few hours. Vehicles become available pretty early on and are a core component of the gameplay. Players even have a garage where they can store, manage, repair, charge, colorize and share various vehicles with other players online. A very significant part of the game involves the collective construction of roads in order to maximize travel efficiency using said vehicles. The game is certainly not without its issues, but "walking simulator" is just a thing people on the internet say to annoy fans of the game.
https://www.vim.org/vim-8.2-released.php
It is treated as time when you are salaried.
There's some awesome stuff there (Monkey Island! Doom! Dune 2! Catacomb 3D!), but I do wonder how legal this is - a lot of these games are still sold on all kinds of platforms.
Keep US research open amid threat from China, says elite JASON group
The argument that corruption is very high on Greece and hence people prefer to not pay taxes makes intuitively sense but it's probably also (at least partly) confirmation bias. Note that per https://www.u4.no/publications/exploring-the-relationships-b... there is currently no literature concretely correlating the two. The link suggests more research to be done in this area.

Per
https://www.transparency.org/cpi2018 Greece is ranked 67 out of 180 countries in the corruption index with the admittedly not high score of 45/100. 100 is not the top at the score, Denmark is at first place with 88/100. So, relatively speaking, corruption exists all over the place, and Greece ranks mildly ok compared to the world. It also ranks better than all of it's neighbouring countries. Compared to the US or the EU, there's a lot of room for improvement of course.

So there's probably more facets to the problem that just corruption.
Could you submit that video to the jury as reasoning for having called the lawyer?
It's true the format is best for software right now. I actually hadn't thought of writing! Maybe the equivalent would be 20% of the piece or smth?
There absolutely is. Your misspelling of thing completely distracted me while reading, checking whether you were making some more complex joke, actually meant think, etc.
Medical, too. And again, Houston for that as well.
Ask HN: What are the best books you've read this year?
Doesn't have to be published this year, just that you've read it this year.

I'm a little late to the game but I read: Lean Startup by Eric Ries and it really changed my understanding of how a startup should work. Also read the Expanse Series by James S.A. Corey and really enjoyed the cosmic horror aspects of the series.
well it's free for freelancers and clients who already know each other, and i take a fee to match together those who don't!
https://www.quaxio.com/qrquine/
I might be an arsehole, but I'm not a rapist. If the other people aren't into it, then I'm out of there.
http://www.helathlktip.club/2019/12/how-to-weight-loss.html?...
Google Assistant’s interpreter mode is coming to phones today
> ..., and somehow me not doing it wasn't even noticed.

This strikes me as a big ole red flag that hints at the true nature of those rules.
I don’t see a problem here. It isn’t free for Honda to staff the call center and maintain the tech that allows them to do this.
Is everyone working at BP complicit with the Gulf oil spill?

Anyone with an option to work elsewhere, yes, though keep in mind, there's a difference between "Working at Facebook" and "Working on Surveillance Dragnet at Facebook."

Workers have power, and workers at Facebook have a lot of power. It's not like they can't get a job elsewhere. That they haven't quit, or unionized and forced Facebook to stop the, frankly, evil things they're doing, is a mark against their moral character.

Working on ad systems actively makes the world worse, and hating a person for working on something that actively makes the world worse will always be reasonable (and justifiable).
>the employee reportedly told them to "get a warrant," leaving Ablhd with no choice but to drop approximately $112 on the service in order to get his vehicle's location.

So why didn't he just get a warrant? The surveillance video provided clear evidence of a crime.
> It got me thinking into how much of the hiring process is based on luck or other external factors that the candidate has no control over.

Cue the old saw about how a hiring manager takes a stack of resumes, divides it in half, and then tosses them into the garbage: "we don't hire unlucky people".
To Speak Up, or Not to Speak Up, on BART
How about this - I can't focus with office noise but I can focus while listening to podcasts. Makes no sense!
DCGs unsugar into lists, but the very fact that there's a non-list-based syntax (although lists are used for terminals, that could easily be avoided) shows that lists aren't actually essential. One has to pick some basic data structure, and lists are good for it, but they're not essential. (For example, one could use a lambda-calculus-based formalism, and then, if desired, encode lists in it in the usual way; or, as Prolog actually does it, encode lists as terms, as tempguy9999 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21772069) points out.
If the point about small businesses was true, we'd see a worldwide surge in their numbers. I don't think we do.

It makes sense, too — the overall pile of disposable income didn't meaningfully increase thanks to Facebook, so it's a zero sum game between small businesses and Coca-Cola. We know who wins that in the long term. Although now with local papers out of business, gutted by facebook.
This page is remarkably more informative than the commit diff, let's consider updating the url to this instead.
I develop a parsing library for fun and I don't think
that would be an easy or useful interview question.

Maybe it makes sense if you assume the input has already been tokenized so you are not expected to deal with the minutiae of string literal escape sequences and such and can focus on the high level design/flow...
There's definitely truth in that. After learning to drive, I found that the sense of vague-but-uninformative flow in the sight of traffic, that ant-like busyness, is gone. Now it all has meanings. Worse, I'm now hypnotized by scenes of cars trying to pass each other in the one-lane driveways below my apartment. A trainwreck of five cars going one way, three the other, and two coming in from the side, might keep me at the window for half an hour.
Amazon launches Audible Suno free app featuring short-stories in India
I'm sorry but I find it very hard to believe that someone with "11 years in industry" would have any trouble finding a job in this market unless there is something extremely wrong with that person. You don’t create a network of personal relationships with other professionals in 11 years? That’s crazy!
> subsidize internet access in the developing world

Are you talking about Facebook's abuse of power to strengthen its monopoly position in developing nations?

If so, 83% of voters in the USA thinks what you are describing as "subsidy" should be illegal here[1], and it would better be described as neo-colonialism than a subsidy.

Is there some other way in which facebook is "subsidizing internet access"?

[1] https://thehill.com/policy/technology/364528-poll-83-percent...
I don't think they are saying "Most people shouldn't drive cars" so much as "We need to make irresponsible driving much more of a big deal."

It seems like people don't take their responsibilities as drivers very seriously while pedestrians, motorcyclists, and cyclists are being killed and maimed as a result. All without much consequence to the drivers who create such an unsafe condition. Then when you ask motorists to drive responsibly they rage out at you trying to shift blame to someone else.
100% of all gov customers.

Basic accessibility tool support is not a feature, it just becomes a part of the frontend workflow when you get into it.

My flow is basically:

- Develop some frontend stuff

- Check that I can use it with only keyboard

- Check that it looks OK at 200% zoom

- Run Devtools + axe audit

- Fix any issues found

Of course there are odd cases such as complex custom components that are really hard to get right, but mostly it's quite easy and goes fast.
Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old
scaling your application is not of your current problems, put your priority to building a functional application which solves a problem first.
> "We go into the same style of total war now and it will make WW1 look like recess."

Seems improbable. The lead time for the gargantuan supply chain necessary to put together modern high-tech military hardware is so lengthy that the war would probably be over one way or another by the time ramp up is complete and that's without accounting for any efforts by the opponent to interfere with production or embargo raw material supplies.

What happens when both sides run out of their blisteringly expensive and hard to produce cruise missiles, smart air-to-ground missiles, and so forth?
Writing was one of my goals for 2019. Couldn't write a single piece. A mix of impostor syndrome and lack of discipline I guess. Sometimes I get nice ideas about something to write and then when I start typing I think, 'this is just bad' or 'no one is going to like this'.

To the people who write: how do you decide what to write about? Do you play and research with tools and thoughts, and write about that? Or mostly about things you actually do at work?
Related: The Crow and the Pitcher, one of Aesop's fables. Apparently it has been known for some time crows were resourceful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crow_and_the_Pitcher
It's like a cult, isn't it? In no world can what Facebook's ad system teams are doing be summarized by that level of autofellatio but Facebook. Hacker News is for intellectually stimulating discussions, not marketing-speak to mask false claims. For the record, your claims are primarily false. They pulled out of most of those countries a long while ago, after they realized "colonizer killing net neutrality" is a bad look.

https://theoutline.com/post/4383/facebook-quietly-ended-free...

And the "small businesses" you describe are mostly MLM and anti-vaccine snake oil sellers, so I'm not sure why you feel good about it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/02...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/11/15/majority-an...

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/anti-vaccination-group...

With all the respect due, you've got blood on your hands. We have a word for that in civilized society; I think it's "murderer," but maybe they call it something different at Facebook.
Apples can be orange in certain breeds or lighting conditions, but that doesn’t make them oranges.

Twitter is not equal to an email list. They share certain aspects but they are significantly dissimilar in UI, approach, social perception (by participants and by others), and publication.
M Twitter has not replaced mailing lists, and mailing lists continue to operate effectively.

Twitter is an electronic billboard that anyone with an app can post content to, and everyone can easily see it and do the same. Mailing lists are a town hall meeting inside a building: you can see them if you like, but participation from bystanders is quite rare and is often frowned upon or openly prohibited by the meeting’s coordinators.
I can't listen to music at all when I'm designing the code, and I find it very distracting. Designing interfaces/APIs/etc is a higher bandwidth activity for me, and requires more focus, so music is a distraction.

But when I'm implementing the design, I find music very helpful. Just turning the code from design to actual code takes less focus from me, so I can end up getting distracted by other things in my environment if I don't have something else that can "fill up" the remaining amount of mental attention bandwidth. Also podcasts work even better than music for this.
Related idea that was on HN a few days ago: https://gist.github.com/nileshtrivedi/6024434121b073789e6d58...
I find I need energetic music, ambient styles tend to make me sleepy and drift.

Currently Insomnium is on rotation - ironic name given the above statement.
They specified that they work on ad systems.
It is appalling to me that the parent comment is being downvoted. Religious fervor indeed. The point being made is simply that saving every scrap of history including personal tracking and details that are normally LOST to history, is a sea-change in human history and shouldn't be looked at lightly.

There is value in forgetting. What we forget, then is a very relevant question. "NEVER FORGET ANYTHING RAWR!" is not a useful point of view because it denies the very right to have a conversation on the subject.

If you can't agree that I should have some say in what is remembered (or at least archived) about me or generated by me, there's not much we can talk about.
What I Learned from Reverse Engineering Windows Containers
This couldn't be more true.
The Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google Maps
Those 2-3 tons are the "warming equivalent", based on some multiplier that they don't specific (see the correction at the end of the article). The actual CO2 emitted by the flight is much lower, less than 200kg/passenger (EDIT: per leg).

The other estimates I've seen put flights as worse than cars, but not that bad.
> A corporate trust managed by financial services firm Brown Brothers Harriman will in turn oversee the board’s budget and administration

Any details on how board members will be appointed, vetted and selected?

This looks like Facebook creating a red herring it can blame for the consequences of policing its platform.
> Some have suggested that this may be chalked up to cultural differences and Japanese contract law that no one at Nintendo felt obligated to inform Sony of their decision to renege.

HOLY. How this didn't end with a massive lawsuit on either side completely astounds me. Imagine if these were US companies with our time-honored culture of litigiousness.
wow, I would have thought those dudes would have moved to a more friendly country years ago given the fame and profits from creating nginx.
I understand what you’re saying, and I would venture to guess that Twitter has put a lot of time and money into determining whether this would be a good outcome for them before they would go through with it.

It is curious in a way, since Twitter does seem to hold a monopoly on a certain kind of online discourse. It’s not like FB -> Instagram -> Snapchat -> TicTok where there there seems to be a generational sunrise and sunset. In that case it seems like there would be more to gain going open with the hopes of having the opportunity to exert more control over the next up-and-comer
Laser Orbital Derbis Removal Using Ground Based Lasers
Only takes a couple of hours to chop a car down to enough parts to make it hard to find.

Thieves aren't dumb -- I mean, plenty of them are, but plenty of them are smart enough to also know there are tracking devices in common consumer vehicles. Give them enough time and they can find and remove or disable such trackers.

OTOH, turning on the tracker ASAP gets you a location now, and that's something the police can move on.
> When I've compared notes with folks who attended schools like Utah and Boise State, their education is basically the same as mine.

I work at one of the well-known tech companies, and what I’ve noticed among most software engineers and data scientists is that they don’t really care about your background as long as you can do the work. Which is really nice; whenever I interview candidates, I don’t notice much correlation between the school they attended and their interview performance.

However, the pure research division at this company is totally different. There appears to be a very heavy emphasis placed on the school attended. I was a bit miffed one day because I overheard one of the AI researchers saying “everyone knows there is a huge difference in caliber between the students that attended Stanford and Berkeley for CS and those that attended Georgia Tech”. As someone who attended GT and has a research background, this rubbed me the wrong way. There were also a few disparaging comments about the South in general. Even if there is a difference between the schools (at the graduate level), I would imagine the Bell curves can’t be that far apart from each other. It’s not like 90% of the students that attended Stanford are brighter than 90% that attended CMU.
Taxes aren’t coercive (unless you’re a Galt’s Gulch Randian, I suppose), and I’m sorry, but would you rather deal with driving a more efficient car or millions of immigrants trying desperately to escape drought, war, and famine after it’s too late? If climate change really is the looming disaster it seems to be (and I personally think we’re fucked), then yeah, sorry, governments might have to do some things you find unpleasant. That’s the price we pay for unfettered consumption for generations. It might be time to pay the piper.

Also, it’s really hard to live in the modern world without using fossil fuel-based comforts. You can criticize air travel and still travel to a climate conference. It doesn’t make climate change any less real. You can maybe argue that people are hypocrites, but so what? The ice caps don’t give a shit. And maybe that meeting of scientists in-person is what it takes to fix a really big global problem. Flying to Asia every year for a vacation definitely won’t do that, though.
My mind instantly went to Beats products, which, ironically, was purchased by Apple...
It's in the wiki https://github.com/huginn/huginn/wiki/Agent-Types-&-Descript...
Shrinkage!
That's awesome and clicking through the links I learned that the proof for Navier-Stokes has a million dollar prize on it. I didn't even know that it's not proven, back in engineering school we basically took that as a given and starting point for so much useful stuff. I guess that's the difference between science and engineering.
Ask HN: Is stock Android more secure then a skin from Samsung, Huawei etc.?
For example, are Samsung and Huawei using the original Android technology to store the fingerprint? Or are they more likely to mess that up and leak them?

And will stock Android phones be supported with updates longer then skinned ones?
Twenty two years ago I wore a suit and tie to my first going-to-graduate-soon interview in the valley. It’s just what I was used to from DC.

It happened that my interview was on Halloween so I joked that it was that once I realized what was going on but still, extremely awkward and set the tone of each interview poorly.

Every time I go to Defcon or similar conferences, though, I think of that interview and imagine the hilarious counterculture opportunities of showing up in something other than the black t-shirt uniform.
> Seems unlikely. But that's not the baseline.

Ok, what is, and on who's authority?

And just to be sure I understand, you're judging mechanisms designed to come to factual conclusions by evaluating how many of their decisions lean one way, without reference to or concern with their factual basis?
Luckily there are many Parsing Libraries in the JavaScript eco-system, So we won't have to find out if this convoluted approach is worthwhile :)

- https://tomassetti.me/parsing-in-javascript/
that's not going to happen, too many security experts constantly monitoring nginx. That's the beauty of it being a high profile open source project.
> A "stealth" ICBM would not really get you much, would it?

Stealth may help avoid interception during the midcourse phase, though:

https://media.nti.org/pdfs/10_5.pdf:

> Midcourse Phase – “Largest Intercept Window”

> The midcourse phase allows the largest opportunity to intercept an incoming missile. At this point the missile is no longer under power, so it follows a more predictable path. Depending on the interceptor launch location, multiple interceptors could be launched, with a delay between them to see if the first ones were successful. Since the interceptor has a longer time to engage, fewer interceptor sites are needed to defend larger areas.

> Unfortunately, a longer period in space provides an attacking missile the opportunity to deploy countermeasures against a defensive system. However the defensive system also has more time to observe and discriminate countermeasures from the warhead.

But I think you're right that it a stealth ICBM wouldn't achieve as much as one would naively assume, and boost-phase detection would still invite retaliation.
One or more human moderators are paid to review every post and comment before they’re published, making an accept/reject decision using criteria.
Tagging the Code
This is why I have not upgraded yet, although it would be effectively free to me through my (rather expensive) plan. Is there anything semi-current full-featured phone?

Somebody, anybody, take my money. I am asking for the same thing as you made 10 years ago with a newer baseband chip and some more ram. Its not $@!/?@ complicated.
My favorite things about this post:

1. The comparison of the lengths of the function using the two styles (class/function)

2. The comparison of the length of the changes required in the two styles

3. The clarity achieved by maintaining the two columns consistently distinct.

If you are interested in how to demonstrate the efficiency of a new coding technique -- even if you're not interested in React Hooks -- this is worth a read.
I worked in an all-remote company for years early in my career, and while I did learn a lot, I was kind of surprised how much more quickly I learned new things when I shifted to an in-office work environment. Somehow just being able to sit next to someone at a desk helps. But I think more than that, most people have a much higher empathy and willingness to help a person they can see and touch than someone who is just a name on the chat, or an occasional video presence. It’s that intangible social factor that I think made the biggest difference.
GitHub Repos for Instant Knowledge Boost
Not really, the truth is likely much more mundane: People are fairly predictable [1] and their predilections aren't that unique [2].

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...

2: Real conversation I overheard: "I was talking to my friend about buying a switch and the very next day I got FB ads for it!" - well duh, it's the holiday season and game consoles are very popular gifts.
Oh wow, interesting. I was looking around and found another estimate that it's 1.4 tons (SFO/NYC round-trip).

I guess this is better (365% vs. 543%), but still looking much worse than driving?

[1] https://co2.myclimate.org/en/flight_calculators/new