skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Archaeologists find Bronze Age tombs lined with gold
It's cool that he's writing his own shell but I think that Ubuntu Touch as maintained by Ubports is worth a mention as it's going to be one of the available options for the Pine Phone.

The UI is slick and well developed. The app ecosystem isn't amazing but you get a browser, choice of Telegram clients, Signal client etc. You can get an idea of the range of apps here https://open-store.io/?sort=-updated_date&type=app

HN readers might like to note that there is also an established developer community and resources like documentation.

Well worth a look if you're thinking of getting a Pinephone, and / or developing a anything for it.
I won't disagree with this, I'm sure that what your grandma struggled through was difficult. I wouldn't argue for us going back to pre-industrial society. Technology can be a massive unadulterated good when it is applied correctly to our problems.

That doesn't mean, however, that the way we live doesn't desperately need to be improved upon. We may have lost hunger but we gained depression. Maybe we should be lucky to die of suicide rather than to starve, but I think we can and should try to build a world where we don't have to do either.

EDIT:
I also want to add that debt is an entirely different but very real and horrible kind of crushing poverty. People in debt have their basic needs met, but they are slaves to a number they carry over their heads, often for the rest of their lives. I can't honestly say that is always a better life than to be free to do what you want even if you must constantly contend with hunger.
You could frame this a some kind of regulatory capture by the current monopolists.
One might speculate that libertarian principles are only held by a small number of people, but why would such principles not play just as important role in decision-making as other principles, like e.g. judgmental moralism? Do freedom lovers feel less deeply than freedom haters?
a lot of it is also linked to fear-mongering on insufficient data.
>He never imagined, 30 years ago, that the internet would become a medium for dark forces: disinformation, espionage, and war. “I look for the best in people. I want to live in a world where computing and technology are used for the good of humanity,” Stoll says. “And it breaks my heart.”

30 years ago the US phone network was losing about $6 billion / year to toll fraud, operator fraud, and cellphone fraud. Captain Crunch had been arrested in '72. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper
Win32s applications can be executed on a limited subset of hardware supported by Windows 3.x.
Most liquidations (attempts) are indeed other criminals, so far, but also that number is rising. A somewhat dated (2016) timeline from Amsterdam newspaper Het Parool [1].

The scary thing is that the Netherlands basically doesnt have major crimes units. There a good forensics bureau, which is also under heavy strain [2], and a small department at the National Police. That makes is trivial for hardened criminals to stay under the radar: there is (almost) no radar.

[1] https://www.parool.nl/nieuws/tijdlijn-de-vete-in-de-marokkaa...
[2] https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2018/07/13/nfi-onderzocht-wegens-v...
can anyone tell where eller's algorithm is used in some real world applications?
And the one who closed the ticket is Erich Gamma from the Gand of Four fame.
Unlike most HVAC professionals, academic researchers, pilots, and programmers all need to frequently cooperate across cultural boundaries.

Computers could be in Latin, Esperanto, or Mandarin (which ironically in this case names itself 普通话 “pu tong hua”, the common tongue) for all I care, as long as it’s consistent. Right now it’s English.
@dang Can you restore the original title? "Using WaveNet technology to reunite speech-impaired users with their original voices"
I'm all for cutting all pollution but is this just not a long shot to try link the two and get more results faster. linking it to more health issues and deaths
It's worth mentioning the interesting failure of pysandbox:

> I now think that putting a sandbox directly in Python cannot be secure. To build a secure sandbox, the whole Python process must be put in an external sandbox.

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-November/1...
even when you toggle everything off on an iphone, it still checks your location

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/the-iphone-11-pros-locat...
You don't have to feel guilty, just make informed choices.

Just giving up and taking deaths for granted is cynical.

For example I went vegan and I feel much better now.

I'm saving the planet while at it without "making sacrifices".

Also handing over responsibility to politicians does not work.

As long as people keep on trashing the planet politicians don't care.

Political parties are only catering to mainstream choices.

Thus you need to start a trend that one day will force politicians to act.
Right. If only we could have somehow predicted this.
It's usually better to make a bad decision than no decision at all.

Really the internet makes it too easy to have too much choice by making it easy to consume so much shallow information, and the real value comes from cutting through the noise.

Consider exploring interests serially rather than in parallel and going deep for a few months on 1 topic whether that seems the best or not.
GP was probably thinking about practical solutions, not idealized solution.
I got one shipped to Ireland and it arrived in one beautiful piece. Cliff also sent on a email documenting the process and I replied with an unboxing photo. It was worth ordering just for the lovely interaction.
Policing without investment in education is just oppression
It would definitely be very impractical and expensive to achieve. Also the fact that you add back those particles still feels at least a bit unethical. Definitely not a simple issue.

But using a filter that selectively removes just that pollutant and changes nothing[0] else would probably be the cleanest way to do it.

[0] another thing that's very hard to achieve.
I personally dislike Typescript as it is most often a hindrance for me, but:

About 2 years ago I had a pull request from a junior Dev - I can't remember all of it but basically he had an event (passed from some slider component) if something in that event was undefined he set a variable to be null otherwise it was an array, then he did an if check against something else in the event, and inside the if he checked the length of the variable.

So of course I pointed out that getting the length of null would be a problem. I actually had to argue with him a bit because he thought it was necessary for reasons. I got him to go through his code again and stuff was refactored to be better.

Typescript would have solved that problem.

I am in a big react SPA right now, that also uses TypeScript, often TypeScript causes problems of the sort - I am in a place where X could possibly be one or the other type (null or an object) so you need to write a check for it, in reality it would never have gotten to that particular point if it was null but poor TypeScript cannot figure that out.

Often things are wrong because some library thinks something is an Element instead of an HtmlElement or similar type of problem etc. etc. you have to go fix types, which can take more time than it should.

Finally it can be that TypeScript gives you very cryptic messages about what is wrong and it can take a while to decode what is wrong with otherwise fine code.

I can also say that in the 8 months I have been on the project I think TypeScript has caught two bugs I would have been putting in.

This is based on 18 years JavaScript experience 1 year TS experience. So I don't think it offers no benefit, I think it offers some benefit and irritates me more than it benefits me - but that is not the same thing. I must say that if you've been using it for 2 years and never had that oh yeah, I didn't think of that experience - well that's pretty impressive as regards your attention to detail.

on edit: although I have 18 years JS experience I would say only 7 years major usage, full time doing major stuff with it.
Why 2019 wasn't all bad: the feelgood stories that warmed our hearts
Have the same question. Seems like most web mobile frameworks break when you need anything advanced.

I've been hiring Java and Swift devs for my shop after a really poor experience with React Native. Hoping that changes soon, but it seems unlikely given how infantile Electron is still.
Or just get rid of it. Facebook is faux content.
It's not a surprise. There have been rumours for a long time that one of the large UK banks get the Prime Minister's speeches 30 minutes before they are made.
As one Dota2 caster has said, those are the people who love the game but hate to play it, and there are a lot of them.
Mine produces segfault with

$ python3.7 -VV
Python 3.7.5 (default, Nov 7 2019, 10:50:52)
[GCC 8.3.0]

Some more golfing with yours:

(i for i in[]).throw(type('',(IOError,),{'__new__':lambda a,*b:a}))
If you're talking about those running their own charity https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/ech9sj/googles_... has a good explanation of the money flow.
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Think of the modern Truman Burbank. The next step is to assume everything is live at all times and behave as such. Stop trying to prevent everyone being aware of each other.

Scheming is irrelevant now and if you are reversing the progress of the tribe then you should spend your days on your computer trying to come up with a new Tor and then you'll approach the end of your life knowing that all you did was try to avoid everyone's gaze so you could "get ahead."
Maybe it’s like this: Given that I have no experience with Go, I’d still rate myself at least 3 when someone asks me how well I’d be able to work with it because the job they’re asking it for is ‘back-end development’.

Of course this falls apart the moment they ask me any Go question during the interview, but not when I’m actually asked to build a web application in it after being hired.

(the one time this happened people thought I’d been working with the new language for years, but no, it’s just a whole lot of transferrable skills)
Audi's latest headlights are essentially projectors and fast enough to run animations:

https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/19/audi-e-tron-headlight-te...
Do you remember where did you go for fixing your headphones?
I’m not a heavy twitter user so perhaps my experience is limited, but the actions I perform with the mouse are:

Scrolling, click to view replies, click to reply, click to retweet, click to like, click to view hashtag feed, click to view persons profile.

All of these things could be done efficiently with the keyboard (theres also no real reason to not still support mouse for the people who prefer it). I use the online checklist tool Checkvist.com and checklists are surprisingly similar to a linear feed like twitter. I use it almost exclusively with the keyboard, including editing, reordering, creating new items, tagging, colouring... Its super efficient and comfortable. There is no reason why you couldn’t have similar navigation and interactions on twitter. Personally, I find your outright dismissiveness of a keyboard-centric UI for twitter to be laughable shrug
Operation Wocao: Shining a light on one of China’s hidden hacking groups [pdf]
There’s a German movie, titled “23”, which tells the story from the point of view of the opposite side.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_(film)
Are you talking about risk of fraud, risk of credit default or anything else? Either way there are already quite a few companies doing this at very large scale, which shouldn't discourage you - just means that you can find some good resources if you dig deep enough.
I ask candidates to rate themselves so I know where to go with the first few questions.

I ask for a 0 (never heard of it) to 10 (you made the thing or wrote a book on it) ranking and most people that have worked a couple years answer no higher than 5 or 6 but recent grads will say 8-9.

Pure anecdata but supports other comments about not knowing what you don’t know until you’ve been around different subjects for a bit.

Example: frontend design is self rated to a 6 but the person can not articulate the difference between raster and vector graphics (or doesn’t know what an SVG is or when to use one or not use one and vice versa).
WSL now works wonderfully for W10. Additionally you can get VSCode to run inside WSL rather than in windows so accessing the file system / debugging works a lot better and you're not relying on complex toolchains and dependencies in windows land.

https://code.visualstudio.com/remote-tutorials/wsl/run-in-ws...
It chooses to do that because it’s constitutionally engineered to favor rural communities over cities.
What problem does BERT hope to solve for search relevance?
At least with Google you can be sure your location data won't go to someone else. Unlike most app developers striving to monetize.
KNX is a standard not a brand, hence you can just say KNX costs 10 euro or 1000 euro. KNX via an adapter can control regular lights, at least on/off not sure about dimming. But KNX is best used with compatible lights, which means you need special lights and different cables. I think in my appartment there are two cables, I assume one is for control and the second is the regular power source. For example some companies that in my opinion have good products are BAP Tech (https://www.bab-tec.de/), Gira (https://www.gira.com/en/gebaeudetechnik/systeme/knx-eib_syst...), Jung (https://www.jung.de/en/820/products/technology/knx-system/) ... to find companies near you I would recommend using the official KNX website: https://www.knx.org/knx-en/for-professionals/community/manuf.... the system for the lights is called DALI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Addressable_Lighting_I...), for example OSRAM has a Dali/KNX website here with more information: https://www.osram.com/ds/highlights/knx/index.jsp ... to find prices I would recommend using a website like https://www.eibmarkt.com/ (set the country to United States and the currency to US Dollar)
Sounds like BayesDB. (That was an academic project and I’m not sure if it’s still being worked on).
HF diluted to <1% is used to wash cars, and only idiots don't wear skin protection while doing that.

To reliably etch glass, you need concentrations of 10% or preferably more, at which point you really want a PVC apron, a face shield and a heavy-duty fume hood to work with it, to avoid the sort of exposure in [1].

[1] https://www.uvm.edu/cosmolab/safety_manuals/Fatality%20due%2...
How coding makes you a better digital marketer
Modi Makes His Bigotry Even Clearer
NASA’s Gismo Instrument Maps Inner Milky Way, Sees Cosmic ‘Candy Cane’
"Why Correlation Usually ≠ Causation: Causal Nets Cause Common Confounding" https://www.gwern.net/Causality - that should be a required reading.
That's one of the reasons why I gave up smartphones.

Radiation, addiction and 24/7 workweek were some of the others.

When your phone is smarter than you something is wrong.
Established churches lead to oppression of minority viewpoints.

What do you want to do, fight over it?
What I do have is reliable data regarding the working conditions of average people in industrializing economies, and the correlation between consumer debt, depression, and suicide:

https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/hidden-costs-of-co...

> In the US alone, individuals who struggle to pay off their debts and loans are more than twice as likely to experience mental health problems, including depression and anxiety. Today’s unprecedented levels of consumer debt prompt further exploration of its effect on mental and physical well-being.

> While suicide is not a common response to unmanageable debt, it remains a leading cause of death in the US. The potential of suicide increases among financially distressed individuals as debt levels become harder to manage. Suicide rates have increased by more than 30 percent since 1999 according to a recent report by the Center for Disease Control. Like Jerome, more than half of people who die by suicide do not have a history of depression or mental illness. Almost 30 percent of suicides occur in response to a crisis within the past two weeks and 16 percent occur in response to a financial problem.
Treatment for Knee Pain and Joint Pain During Winters
The worst thing about typescript (and all of the JS ecosystem right now) is the compile times.
Does a unicode superscript character exist for the infinity symbol?
I think you need to balance the risks of addiction and negative health consequences against the cost of having gangs/cartels profiting off of the fact that the substance is controlled. With marijuana, it is neither very addictive nor are the health consequences of using marijuana very severe, at least in the short term. Legalization is a bit of a no brainer for marijuana.

Opioids are at the other end of the spectrum - they are highly addictive and aside from the possibility of accidental overdose, even just using them at the correct dosage carries a lot of negative health consequences. It is not clear that you get a net win for society by legalizing opioids.
You're telling me a public republican investing in republican political parties through a famous and legal method is now corruption? This story is just some politician deciding this kind of payment system needs to go and making it so. The salesmanship of dem vs rep is boring.
I had to do things the old-fashioned way reading books and header files [...]

O tempora o mores!

I'm getting old...
The things you mention as less efficient with a keyboard actually sound like plus points for a keyboard to me, personally. Especially messaging.

Besides, you can create a keyboard centric UI without removing mouse support if you really want. It’s just that keyboard should be treated as a first class interaction method, instead of an almost tacked on accessibility feature.
> there'll just be a spike of public interest and then it'll all die away

Panama Papers, Paradise Papers. Very little has come out of this and it's so disappointing. What this says to me is that enough of the people powerful enough to change any of it are in on it. Or, there just isn't the critical mass at the bottom, and this, where we find ourselves as a global population, is the stability between comfort and outrage.

The "Or" above, maybe should be an "And".

I wonder whether one of the reasons that seemingly illogical conservatism is as successful as it is, is because the bigger the world economy gets, and the larger the population, the harder it is to change anything meaningful without wiping out a pillar-sized part of the economy, the results of which are too unpredictable for anyone in power to want to take responsibility for.

This position only leads to further conservatism, in that any changes 'we let pass' must be war-gamed to the nth degree to ensure they don't cause societal collapse.

I'm not conservative, but the above is almost the only way I can process seemingly illogical conservatism that is actually anything other than "maintaining the status quo because I'm part of it". It's almost believing their own FUD. Hubbard-style. But it might not be entirely wrong.
Why would you approve location access to an app that doesn't require it?

The only thing I miss is "ask me everytime" option on android (atleast until 9), where you want to post an instagram photo with geotag now, let them do a location lookup once, and after that disable the location access (so, a "give permission for one lookup", instead of going to settings, enabling location, posting, back to settings, disabling location access).
Not so. There are considerations of tangible consequences for some unconsenting third party. That's the difference. Outlawing something "because it's wrong" is different than outlawing something because it wrongs someone.
So if you read and understood the first half of the sentence, then you must have an idea of what a secure line is then.
> Oh, and by the way, I was once complaining about this to a friend who's in IT, and he told me how the speed in which a software runs doesn't mean anything regarding its quality.

Your friend is wrong. It's an imperfect proxy, but looking at programs that do work, speed is a good proxy for quality, because speed means someone gives a damn. There are good programs that are slow, but bad programs all tend to be bloated.

Of course "speed" is something to be evaluated in context. In a group of e.g. 3D editors, a more responsive UI suggests a better editor. A more responsive UI in general suggests a better program in general.

> this (speed) is never a measure of a program's quality. Is this universally accepted?

Universally? No. It all depends on who you ask. Companies tend to say speed isn't, but the truth is, a lot of companies today don't care about quality at all - it's not what sells software. If you ask users, you'll get mixed answers, depending on whether the software they use often is slow enough to anger them regularly.
Seasonal forecasts challenged by Pacific Ocean warming
An item which almost every office worker has seen or used is definitely notable enough to get an article. Yet another data format among hundreds which has yet to reach a wider audience could be, but it is not obvious.
Backend NodeJS is Typescript? At least if you know what you are doing.
I don’t see how, in 2020, any conscientious member of this site could justify their use or advocacy of Chrome. It’s an evil product peddled by an evil company for evil means. The alternatives are as good if not better from a usability perspective.

Safari is great if you’re a regular Mac user.

Firefox is great if you’re a dev on any platform.

Chrome is toxic evil that needs to die for the good of humanity.
I'm always puzzled by all the Americans who travel to Asia for all the local markets: everything from food, to personal care, to sex markets, to even medical care. My dental care in Taiwan has been extraordinarily cheap and very good. And yet then I come back to America and see the same people ostensibly support the same authoritarian politicians, police and bureaucrats who spend taxpayer money on authoritarian policing of voluntary markets: everything from outright criminalizing markets, to creating so much red tape and regulatory laws that small business owners find it hard to compete. This is not to say there is not a place for sane and reasonable regulations. In all of Korea, Taiwan, Japan you can find street foods and sex markets and God Forbid outdoor jungle gyms and even full weight lifting sets at popular parks hiking trails. Even though those things can be technically illegal they are tolerated due to common sense, and I just can't see how our decisions to head down the path of authoritarianism in America is not just worse for all of: human dignity, prosperity, and freedom.
I wonder whether this constitutes a golden age of wealth transfer from oil states to the average persons pocket. Food delivery is notoriously difficult to make any money in with few market players able to turn anything resembling a profit in this area, however consumers get to enjoy effectively subsidised services at a great discount. This surely has to come crashing down when interest rates rise.
>how many times have i typed in a search box, seen what i wanted pop up as i was typing, go to click on it, then have it disappear

Regardless of anything else, this is 100% happening to me on a regular basis. And the ironic thing is that I think it is caused by the attempt to speed up getting some results onscreen. But it’s always 500ms behind, so it “catches up” while I’m trying to move the mouse to click on something.
People like Andrew Yang are telling us that massive layoffs are coming anyway, because robots. Maybe you disapprove of lives of video-gaming and regular custom with prostitutes, but if it's inevitable maybe we should try to deal with it rather than grinding people up in our efforts to prevent it. Human lives can have meaning that is not related to work.