skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As some that lives in a part of the country that voted for Brexit and actually knows a lot of people who voted Brexit: I can guarantee that nobody who voted for it did so because they wanted more privacy violations.

Your link is inserted in such a way that it looks like it should support the assertion that the security services supported Brexit, but it does not. Do you have a source for that?
There is much concern about what’s happening with extensions, and I share it, but I want to say this much: Fenix really is way faster than Fennec. On my low-end phone, I used Fennec so that I can use it as a minimal browser, with fonts disabled, NoScript installed, uBlock Origin installed; also for ideological reasons. I always knew that on pages where I needed to enable scripting it was mostly still a lot slower than Chrome, but I use it anyway.

I’ve just tried Fenix out now, and yeah, it’s going through stress tests like loading Reddit’s web interface much, much faster (like, at least twice as fast and five times as interactive).

I’ll wait for the extensions story to be polished off. There’s clear progress and intent. I have confidence they’ll pull it off.
But you can still use the current (that will be old in the future) Firefox. yeah, no security updates but your OS is not getting them either. It sucks, and it shouldn't be that way, I'm with you, but it's the harsh reality. So, blaming only Mozilla for this situation looks a bit unfair from my point of view.
No, I love Old Man's War but Collapsing Empire was a totally different book. It didn't help that Will Wheaton read it too.
Using Standard HTML (1997)
How do you know for sure if you don't do an impact assessment?
Great work! I once was a fan of custom well tailored DSL's for each tool. However, nowadays I really like the current direction of providing a lot of tooling with only SQL necessary to use them, even with the dialects differing a bit.

I've made my own contribution here too, with a tool to join and analyse data in various databases and file formats (JSON, CSV, Excel) using plain SQL, OctoSQL: https://github.com/cube2222/octosql
no ublock, firefox is dead
It's no secret many parts of LotR are influenced by Tolkien's experiences in WW1, but in these lines it seems especially evident.
> The average global temperature across land and ocean surface areas for 2016 was 0.94°C (1.69°F) above the 20th century average of 13.9°C (57.0°F)
Doing it using libraries installed by homebrew is borderline impossible unless you write your own brew formula. I have up on trying to use deps from homebrew and went with macports, and voilà: worked flawlessly.

It is not unique to guile either. Compiling things on Mac os brings back memories from Redhat 8. I have had so much more luck with WSL or even cygwin than Mac os for at least a dozen open source apps.
> One of the big reason I like computers and software is that it seemed to be borne out of genuine interest than out of dick waving necessity.

Couple of observations:

1. Large amounts of open source projects which seem to ego-driven (i.e. done not to provide genuine improvement, but done for amusement and promotion of the author).

2. Same for conference appearances (speaking at a conference to be able to say one spoke at a conference).

3. Commercial software in sorry state in order to maximize company profits, i.e. increase dick size of the owners.

It's impossible to escape our nature, no matter what field.
How All Our Tech Heroes Turned into Tech Villains
Fall behind with what? Fall behind with stripping away privacy from our citizens?
Show HN: Snap Pass
This is great, and firefox as a product is also great, but I couldn't decipher this information from their wall-of-marketroid-speak.

This is a really big problem for a company such as Mozilla, because marketroid speak makes me distrust them, and they're riding on a reputation of trustworthiness.
... and at least dozens of EU startups who have drank from the Cool-Aid of Peter Thiel cry out in anguish ...

On the one hand, it's tough to do innovative things in EU with its many rules and regulations. OTOH, sometimes they actually protect the citizens.
Ask HN: Weird definitions that you came across in a dictionary?
I've just stumbled upon "around the world" at https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/around%20the%20world which the dictionary defines as "the action of orally stimulating many parts of the body for sexual gratification"

Isn't that definition weird?
Different battery chemistries have different C-rates, which is the rate at which a battery can be charged and discharged:

https://web.mit.edu/evt/summary_battery_specifications.pdf

https://batteryuniversity.com/index.php/learn/article/what_i...

And generally bigger battery packs can charge at higher kilowatts. Here's an electric ferry with a 4.1 MWh battery which can charge at up 6 megawatts. 600 amps at 10,000 volts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE_M1n-ClOA

So, like the ferry, these aircraft probably have big batteries that they charge enough to get to the next destination with a buffer for emergencies. The closer you get to 100% state of charge the slower the system will charge in order to protect the battery.
esqlate-server lives at https://github.com/forbesmyester/esqlate-server

It might be the instructions for install a bit off but I've tested on MacOS and Ubuntu (both BASH)... Which method is your install? If it's Docker Compose ( https://github.com/forbesmyester/esqlate#docker-compose-meth... ) it has a BASH line there in the README that does the checkout for you.

[ ! -d "esqlate-server" ] && git clone git@github.com:forbesmyester/esqlate-server.git esqlate-server
For sure, in warmer temperature ranges
Computing weighted sums and thresholds gives you a universal function approximator, so that's nice. I'm more interested in how the buggers set those weights and thresholds. It is hard to imagine them having access to any gradient information, so how do they work?
I really like data-first approach. For example, I scaffold everything in Rails, make it work with all the features then I proceed to edit fully the views, etc.
LSD can't be "timed to your lunch break" as far as I know. Whether micro, threshold, or full-on trip, LSD usually has a duration of around 8-12 hours before you're back to baseline (and tolerance is long, usually two weeks before another similarly-dosed experience would have the same potency)
Add to settings.json:

"editor.fontLigatures": false

(Edit: sorry, just realised you were talking about the full blown Visual Studio, not VSCode)
Wouldn't it make more sense for Uber to try to achieve profitability instead of chasing pipe dreams, which will never fly?

Sure, you can employ dirty tactics to fight regulations, government agencies and cities. But I don't think you can do that when it comes to (ab-)using air space.

Even drones are about to be regulated. This will be shot down, not literally, in a jiffy.
I mean, the evidence is meant to be used to back some principles. For example, I am proponent of evidence based policy and I am also an advocate of mental health help. There is a lot of pseudo science and easy feel good stuff but there is also a lot of really good behaviour therapy out there. One works, one is muck, and I think tax dollars should be used to fund the one that works because people deserve to not be depressed
> I'm tired of seeing privacy eroded

And I'm tired of people imposing arbitrary limitations on technology in the name of "privacy". It's become another one of these ideas that you just can't question without becoming a bad person in some circles. Why? Why can't we ask whether "privacy" is so precious that we should preserve it at any cost?

Much of the supposed loss of privacy comes from technological development normalizing the exceptional. Now everyone can have an unblinking ever-watching doorbell. So what? You can't roll back progress. What you can do is embrace new technology, accept its downsides (almost always over-played), and figure out how to use new capabilities to make life better. (For example, we can lower crime.) These people beating the "privacy" drum don't acknowledge that there are real regulatory and opportunity costs coming from the measures needed to preserve this "privacy" and that ordinary people might prefer not paying these costs if they were fully aware of the trade-offs.

What specific and concrete unjustified harm has ever come to someone as a result of public facial recognition?
"there is still no good explanation for why Earth would be the only place suitable for life forms similar to us"

1. There is still no good explanation _that we know of_. We don't even know if we are the only life forms in existence or not: none of the observations made so far support the latter, but do not disprove it either. So we can't prove or disprove _any_ hypothesis about extraterrestrial life.

2. "Suitable for life similar to us" and "suitable for life to spontaneously appear" are two very different things. And we still don't know enough about either.
> You write HTML and later use CSS to give that data a nice look.

That's how I did it a few days ago, after a stint with DokuWiki: https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/

It is kind of "ugly" and I still need to tinker with some things, but it also feels liberating.
Hey,
I really like your contribution with such a great collective approach, I loved reading them, l would really appreciate it if you add me in your collection to lend me a thumbs up also and keep up the good work though.
besides, I'll be reading them whether it would be yes or no :)
https://milanforlife.com/

Thank you
i was stunned the first time i saw web frameworks like django and symfony automatically build a full featured admin panel based on model's definition.

I wonder if there aren't projects aimed a building just an administration GUI based on SQL introspection mixed with simple configuration files. Just point at a db, and there you go.

Side note : what is the current state of codegen based on api and model specifications ? I feel like 90% of most projects could be automatically generated just based on that.
There are multiple inspection trains, not all of them need to be high speed. The well known "flying banana" is used to cover high speed lines, but for lines with lower top speeds there's also a fleet of loco hauled measurement and inspection trains that cover low speed and branch lines.
Hey,
I really like your contribution with such a great collective approach, I loved reading them, l would really appreciate it if you add me in your collection to lend me a thumbs up also and keep up the good work though.
besides, I'll be reading them whether it would be yes or no :)
http://studioelitechicago.com//

Thank you
TBH, isnt this just how compiling things on Mac os is? Every single time it is voodoo-fighting ./configure and sed-ing makefiles.
>> But yea, dont want 1.45 an hour then find another job.

>> Dont want to be broke AF then dont have 3 kids.

Life is pretty uncertain and dynamic, it's entirely possible to be a parent w/well paying job, until you don't have it anymore. Victim blaming is BS.
Not sure how you’re going to hang up a Ring doorbell then. And the police surely doesn’t mind if you ‘accidentally’ capture ‘part of’ public space, as long as you share your images with them.
Ask HN: What would a sort of Facebook+Google+Quora+instagram looks like
It's a great exercise to do, also for designers
AI Startup ExaWizards Launches “Qontextual,” FAQ Search Engine
As a space exploration enthusiast, Elon's tunnel boring activities are especially interesting to me. He is the only tunnel boring CEO who has openly expressed interest in developing the technology for Mars.
I just really don’t care at all. People abuse the hell out of the NEPA just to shut down or slow down things they don’t like. Rarely is it ever actually about the environment.
Not sure what's the full story because it's behind a paywall. But I want to address the part that I got to see

> Mr Moore received a prescription for opioids to help him cope with the pain; but the pain persisted, and he found himself becoming loopy.

Opioids/pain killers is not a poor treatment, it's not even treatment. I think of using painkillers like seeing some dog poo in your living room and instead of cleaning it up and making sure the dog gets to poo outside, you just cover it with a napkin and call it a day.

In the culture of "fixing" our body's problems with painkillers, we're making it worse for ourselves in the long term. The mild pain indicates something is not good. Instead of finding the cause and fixing it before it gets worse, we just patch it until it cripples us and forces us to solve it with drastic measures (i.e. surgery).
What's wrong with that? Glory is a powerful motivator and encourages people to do genuinely impressive things. Instead of decrying the desire to excel, you should channel it in productive directions. There's no shame in doing something wonderful for the recognition. There's only a problem when society is dysfunctional enough that people can't get recognition by doing productive things.
I think that is what makes me most sad about Linux distros. So much time spent just to create a pleasant desktop experience or find yet another way to organize config files.

It's tough, because the variety and freedom is the whole point. But it feels wasteful.
What's costly in California isn't the EIR, but the subsequent lawsuits. Boring Company got an exemption in Hawthorne because they were tunneling under a relatively poor neighborhood and nobody showed up at the public hearings to challenge the exemption. Poor people have neither the expertise, resources, nor inclination to game the system, at least not unless there's a local community activist.

But rich people do, and that's what happened with the Dodger Stadium project: NIMBYs arrived and the city immediately caved. So now Boring Company is doing the EIR. But, again, EIRs are easy. It's exceptional that something major is found, like an endangered species; usually it's simple, basic stuff; the kind of stuff originally intended to be remediated with the reports. There's a whole industry of professionals that come out, run tests, and write it up with little friction. But under California's CEQA, NIMBYs can challenge it endlessly in the courts without repercussions. It's a complete absurdity and has nothing to do with environmental impacts. But the law can't be changed because the rich and powerful know full well that its function is to permit neighborhoods and special interests to block projects, and they won't give that up.

Boring Company will never get an exemption where an exemption would truly matter.
Holy cow dude. I was working on the same thing in my limited free time but only for me and my buddies around me. You know the craziest part? I also called it Chatistics. Well, I assume it's not the furthest stretch, but somehow this is super surreal to me right now.

I got the idea when I downloaded a chat history of a 5 year old group chat of my friend group, and kinda just winged it from there.

If you're at all looking to collaborate, shoot me a message. I'll definitely keep an eye on your project.

I haven't started many personal projects (and finished even less), but again, this is a super weird experience for me haha. Good job man!
I think principles decide what you do about the evidence (and even what evidence needs to be collected) to accomplish your goals. The goals themselves derive from principles.

Evidence-based governance can give you gas chambers or head-start pre-K programs depending on what you're trying to accomplish.
Checkout this talk by Brandon Rhodes - it explains the context in which the Hobbit and LoTR were written in. I won’t spoil it, but I think it’ll answer your question.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qVlqBxpCG24

It’s also, coincidentally, the best talk I’ve ever seen on code reviews.
you can export telegram chats using official desktop client in html or json format.

https://telegram.org/blog/export-and-more
That's a fair point and others have mentioned that before. However, all the sources I have used in my original comment are from the same person - Dr James Hansen who served as the director of NASA Goddard institute for 35 years. He used the 15C claim for many years until he suddenly decided to switch to 14C. In any scientific claim, especially when such small changes could impact major things, a scientist shouldn't simply be allowed to change their data claims without any explanation, especially when it suddenly doesn't fit their claim.

Also in this source:

https://books.google.ca/books?id=VyFpAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA62&lpg=PA...

in 1997, the scientific community knew that the temperature was actually going down and not up:

> "Global Temperature Down Slightly"
I think this is the long way around to simply making a DB procedure? Those have parameters, can easily be run by external tools like phpMyAdmin or an IDE, and if the database constraints are sane will help avoid invalid input.
When it doesn't work correctly [0]. But it's easy to think of other scary scenarios, too. Having worked in the public sector (in the UK) I know how useless they are at securing data.

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/11/25/chinese-bu...
I think it's gone amiss.
I'm not really sure where I stand on this, but I'm starting to fear the "if surveillance is outlawed only outlaws will do surveillance."

The issue I see is that surveillance is because so miniaturized and easy that I'm not sure if it will be possible to enforce these laws against "the bad guys".

Ideally we should deploy technological countermeasures that prevent anyone from doing mass scale facial recognition. But failing that it may really be better to just have a free for all.
You certainly don't need weight to develop lower back strength.

I'm currently seeing a physiotherapist once a week for lower back pains, which were directly related to lack of lower back strength and flexibility. Most of the exercises I'm given to do at home (which are doable at home AND have low probability of injuring myself because of bad form) don't require any weight.

Exercises are mostly core strength ones, meaning plank and related ones.

I see a lot of advice about deadlifting and other exercises weights, and I'm wondering just how many people injure themselves. Sure, with proper form those are going to be good, but it's also easy to injure yourself because of bad form if you don't have a trainer.
You look at the old photos of the construction and these guys were walking around on steel beams 80 stories high with no hard hats, no rails, no protection from falls...it's no surprise they lost 5 workers. I wouldn't argue that safety should be sacrificed, but as others said, a lot of the hold up in construction is environmental review, inspections, permitting process, etc. It's nuts, but the architect conceived of the design in two weeks. Construction began the next year after concept drawings and it took 13 months to build. They were putting down nearly one floor a day. Amazing. And it's an iconic building that remains a landmark today.
Yes, in the Netherlands all major ISPs block most Pirate Bay proxies. Hooray for TOR.
There is a letter Tolkien wrote to a fan where he says:

"My ‘Sam Gamgee’ is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognized as so far superior to myself."

https://johngarth.wordpress.com/2014/02/13/sam-gamgee-and-to...
Would someday they mandate all USB-C cables to support 100W standard to reduce wastage? So we dont have fragmented USB-C cables?

For those of us old enough to remember we used to have dozens of different types of cables, We are now basically converging to CatX Ethernet Cables, HDMI, USB-C High Power and Low Power, and Lightning.

I dont understand why we need to further mandate this to "one" solution, especially when the "one" solution doesn't seems to be optimal in all situation.

We have a few, a little diversity, and it is good enough.

Edit: And if Apple were to adopt a new connector I would much rather they adopt the Smart Connector used in iPad Pro. It is magnetic, super simple and easy to use. Fully Sealed and Water Proof by design.
Got it, that's a funny way to call movers.

Relocation agents (employed or freelancing) can easily bill $1000/day over here so I was a bit confused.
Something I really want someone to build (if you're interested let me know) is a true personal relationship manager with support for all conversations on all platforms.

Email, sms, WhatsApp, discord, messenger, some obscure website chat platform whathaveyou...

The ability to cross link profiles and truly manage contact lists across all those platforms as a single object. So Emma on Discord is the same contact in the app as Emma on Messenger, and on SMS, etc.

All this can easily be stored in Google contacts as metadata and would allow the user to backup and index their chat conversations, and quickly search through previous messages across all platforms. And backup all photos and files sent through those platforms as a single stream.
How does that falsify that theory of trust? I would take an extra set of pants for a long trip with a 5 year old even if they hadn't pooped their pants for a full year. It takes a long while before I let go of that preparedness.
Also, I've got a python package that's kind of my personal API [0], so I just tried to demonstrate how would similar analysis look for me using my.fbmessenger module [1]. Not as pretty as in chatistics, but just few lines of code. The hardest bit, of course, is encapsulating all the complexity of message processing in my. package.

[0] https://github.com/karlicoss/my

[1] https://beepb00p.xyz/mypkg.html#messenger_stats
> Any composition of conscious agents is itself a conscious agent.

That's a very reductionist viewpoint and I'm not sure how correct it is. It's like saying water is wet because its hydrogen and oxygen molecules are wet. But who knows, it might turn out to be true. It will be interesting to know what the real cause of consciousness is though. Hopeful the question of consciousness will be definitively answered within our lifetimes.
Well, they'd still have to be able to pay for everything they need to go off on that voyage.
Nepal IT Bill will punish citizen for freedom speech online
Are you crazy? The persecution of Muslims in china is heavily reliant on surveillance technology. As this technology rolls out, it will make surveillance cheaper, and as a result, will make the job of authoritarian regimes easier.

Saying there aren't good, documented examples of 'concrete', 'specific' harm is akin to saying that hydrogen bombs are not dangerous because they've never been dropped on people.
Google search has become less user unfriendly, turned their back on their old business model. It seems they've deliberately blurred the lines between ads and relevance.

Bing is now easier to use.
To be fair, "civil war breaking out somewhere in Africa" is news in the same way that the tide going out is news. If you're upset about how predictable it is to hear about a rapper's opinions, you should be more upset about coverage of a war going on in Africa.
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I installed it: no add-ons, they are coming "late 2020" supposedly.

I think it's good to consolidate the branding but this is a half-finished preview replacing nightly, a step backwards.
Or less environmentally-conscious investors will step in, take advantage, fill the gap, and keep the equilibrium. Obviously, there is a line where decrease demand for equity will not be compensated but we don't know where it is and whether we'll reach it.
But state owned institutions can not be fined under the GDPR, which makes it tough to enforce it against government entities.
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