skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, many conservative christians would say that gay people already had the same legal rights as straight people - that being the right to marry (+have sex with, etc) another person of the opposite sex. To them, conflating "the right to marry other men" with that would be like conflating it with "the right to marry children".

Is "should pedophiles be legally allowed to have sex with and marry the people they are attracted to" a moral issue to you? I mean, the kid consented!

Yes, most of us would say that's different. But why it's different is a moral position - and so to some people, it's really not different.

(Also, "the correct answer isn't a moral position, while the incorrect answer is an immoral position" is a bit of a contradiction. If "gay people shouldn't be allowed to marry" is an immoral thing to believe or act on, then you're acknowledging the choice of positions as being a moral one. "I should be able to kill all the people I see" is also a moral position, of course)
nope, not your place to do so.
But can a person acquire copyright on a melody they wrote that was also previously algorithmically generated?
I've worked at a company that as seen a HUGE amount of turnover.

The things I have learnt are:

- companies don't learn, people do

- having an internal wiki/kb helps a lot IF it's structured/indexed well enough that you can actually find information

- in an ideal world, no project should be considered done if documentation is not written

It's all about people. People learn and can recall lessons learned.

Otherwise you rely on the good faith and will of the next person to actually go through all the documentation that has been left from the people before. This person might not have all the will, or it might not have the time.
I might be wrong, but isn't Convox only operational in the AWS cloud. If I want to run Convox on Azure, GCP or bluemix, will this be possible?

The empire alternative pointed out also appears to be another option only operational in the AWS cloud.
Personal data of all 6.5M Israeli voters exposed by security flaw in app
Opportunity cost is another obvious reason to leave money on the table. If the company is small enough then they might rather focus on the EU first, esp. if they thought their specialty was “doorway to EU banking”.
Firefox switched to CoreAnimation in v70, which made a big difference.

https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/dramatically-red...
Your cellular phone modem is both remotely programmable and has full root memory access 24/7.

Let that sink in a bit.
Random question, but I'm moving to London in a few months, do you have any suggestions on banks or "challenger" banks I should go with?
(couldn't figure out how to DM you, not sure if it's possible on Hacker News)
> I was somewhat disgusted with the people - why would nearly everyone prefer their windows closed?

as a person who usually gets a window seat, and often closes it, hopefully my response will help you be less disgusted with people: the window seat gives me a wall to lean up against, which stops me from trying to take the arm rest from the center seat, and gives me something to fall asleep against without bothering others. sometimes it's nice to be able to relax without having to get up for others or inconvenience other people.
I switched that day. Ublock origin was the only thing holding me back. I like it. I do want my I don't care about cookies add on.
No. Don't be a narc. The team member might have personal reasons as to why he or she is leaving the company.
It's not that fantasy anymore: Emirates' new first-class suites in the 777 [1] have fake windows that display a live feed from the outside.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/1/16723152/emirates-first-c...
> (literal and electrical) ground

:)
With KJV at least, the a goal was to create a work that was dignified and resonated with the public. Doggerel rhymes don't really fit that scheme. Please don't take that as an insult - I actually like your version, but it lacks dignity.
Those aren't interesting questions tbh. Obviously most of the time the page cache grows to use all memory, that's the whole point of having it (using all memory that is not committed to applications as a disk cache). Overcommit obviously doesn't create memory pressure because it only exhausts address space, not memory (physical memory + swap). The relevant question is how the system behaves if it needs to allocate pages but can't find any clean (just throw'em out) or unused pages. Linux, and to a lesser degree, Windows start to thrash heavily in these scenarios. I've never seen e.g. Firefox unload a tab when this happens, regardless of OS.
I don't think it's possible on mobile. Yesterday I found myself needing to adjust the font size on rateyourmusic.com's responsive site, and it wasn't possible. On a desktop it's as simple as "CTRL +" but that doesn't exist on mobile browsers.
Ruby Ridge and Waco siege happened only in the 90s as well. Currently we have killer drones assassinating people without trial, CBP ignoring policies (https://vc.gg/blog/so-its-been-a-while.html), sending agents to scare activists (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6946909), and police blowing up houses of innocents and refusing to compensate them (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21399770).
I've made mistakes, though thankfully no huge outage-causing ones. The only "I'm going to get fired" mistake was a political one, where I accidentally emailed a report to someone, and was informed after the fact that it was a very bad thing.
It's also a fallacy to believe that making mistakes in the past and learning from them precludes making many novel mistakes in the future. Kind of like the disclaimer that's always given about investing. Both the individual and the organization must simply bake in as many failsafes in their processes as possible. And even then, sometimes Murphy's Law manages to slip through all the holes at once.
Likewise, I have yet to see one of these things that can recognize potholes and swerve to avoid them lest a wheel be ripped off.

Sooner or later it'd be nice to be able to drive one of these things in a place that isn't southern California.
I've found them to be instant for small amounts, such as what would be valid under tap-to-pay, but it takes a good 20 minutes up to 2 hours for larger amounts to be transferred and sometimes the bank calls you to validate the transaction. Not my definition of "instant" at that point. Also, due to technology reasons, not all Interac E-Transfer banks and credit unions support "autodeposit" which means if not supported, you have to click a link and then sign in to your online banking or banking app. Then pick an account to deposit to and enter the password or phrase the sender set. Not to mention having to add a contact first, which might require signing in to your bank again to validate the addition of the contact.

So ... if this is instant, it leaves a lot to be desired still. It's not as fast as sending someone cash over a messaging app, say. And it doesn't work well with international networks, and there are expensive fees for cancelling a transaction, and banks can waive the fees, but if you're on a free plan chances are you either don't have auto deposit, or you'll have to pay for the Interac E-Transfer fee. They commonly set it at $1-1.50 per send, when internally, transferring money between banks (such as with Canadian EFT) is barely a penny. Of course, an EFT transfer generally takes 2 days, but I can't imagine it has to take that long, you'd just have to do inter-bank settlement more frequently.
+1. The projects in this class are extremely well defined and build upon each other. And they have a framework and test cases for validating your work, so you know if you have the right answer before moving on.
I'm surprised people ever post to HN with an account that can be in any way linked to their real identity. You either create an ongoing chore of self-censorship or expose yourself to real world consequences.
Office365 Pro Plus won’t hijack your search engine after all
Red Hat is probably the most popular distro for paying for corporate support, though I believe Canonical (Ubuntu) also offers corporate support contracts.

You'll likely be better served by getting in touch with a local Linux User's Group if you're interested in paying an individual to solve problems for you.
I appreciate your generosity, but my previous experience in humanities don't come even close to being "accolades.

You're entirely right in thinking I have no real academic credentials in philosophy. I just wanted to point out where I was coming from since most people on Hacker News have a STEM background and you might have been making that assumption about me.

So I thought this information might be relevant for your argument. It turns out it is not, which is totally fine.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10121

It took us a long time (too long!) to construct that manuscript. Like SciPy itself, it was written primarily in the spare time of contributors with full time jobs. Glad to see it out there, though!
Which is why you'll want to use some open source onion-routed app like Briar, Ricochet, Cwtch, TFC, or Session.
Does anyone remember what is their definition of "drive failure"? Is it SMART "failure imminent" report, single uncorrectable read error or complete data loss for a whole disk? I recall reading about it in one of their previous report, but can't find it again.

EDIT: nevermind, found it.

"Backblaze counts a drive as failed when it is removed from a Storage Pod and replaced because it has 1) totally stopped working, or 2) because it has shown evidence of failing soon.

A drive is considered to have stopped working when the drive appears physically dead (e.g. won’t power up), doesn’t respond to console commands or the RAID system tells us that the drive can’t be read or written."

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-smart-stats/
Looks very nice! It almost made me want to learn Swift.

The only thing is that it's used only on iOS systems. If I'm going to spend the time to learn a new programming language, I'd like to use it everywhere like I do with JS.
Do cynical people applaud? This is more of a woke economist perspective.
Ask HN: How to create portable AMP installer for Mac
I am referring to this package by moodle
https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Installation_Package_for_OS_X

They have packaged their PHP + mysql application as portable installer.

I can manually install a php app on MAMP but not sure if there are any tutorials to create DMG installer with everything in it.

If you can point me to the steps or list them here I will be really grateful.

Thank you in advance.
They ran tons of advertisement on the tube, impossible to miss unless you're walking while looking at the floor. Just google N26 tube ads.
Which is not a hidden charge because they tell you in their app and via email, also when registering an account.

N26 wants you to use their cards (or Apple Pay), and to be honest I have not been withdrawing any money from an ATM for 5+ months. I’m from Hannover, Germany.
>That's why that is a problem. If there is no IP at all, you've limited the set of creators to people who are essentially independently wealthy and simultaneously want to actually invest time to master that domain. That's a small set.

This is a really fruitless way to take the discussion in and it misses the point entirely. I could argue that the way things are now, you've limited the set of artists to people who happen to get chosen by "the algorithm" for whatever reason, which is a similarly small set. We could then go and compare sizes of these small sets just to try and rationalize things. But that doesn't really advance the discussion does it? Groups who want to do bigger things still need to do fundraising to fix the "livelihood problem" and then they need to spend big on marketing in order to recoup the costs. What that means is the same as always: applying for grants, going to investors, running a crowdfunding campaign, etc. It really has nothing to do with copying at that point.
1. that link returns a 404.

2. Do you have a TOC or expected date for this to be out? Extremely interested!
"When we contemplate an invasion of privacy–-such as
having our personal information gathered by companies in databases–-we instinctively recoil. Many discussions of privacy appeal to people’s fears and anxieties.9 What commentators often fail to do, however, is translate those instincts into a reasoned, well-articulated account of why privacy problems are harmful."

I came across a practical discussion of this on reddit -> https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/ez1tyo/how_do_i_co.... it's helpful but also befuddling.
and how much would he have to pay to said college student to have access to his email account for 4 years?
Policy and investment recommendations for trustworthy AI
I highly recommend Monzo.
You Want a Y2K Crash? Fine!
I don't know but I started using Monzo as a more convenient alternative to Barclays and as Monzo added features (and Barclays didn't) I switched my pay to go into Monzo. It's nor particularly hard to email your employer and let them know some new bank details, and the Barclays experience (particularly their slow balance updates) makes it easy to want to use something different.
I just previewed a few pages from "How Cars Work", and it listed this 'money saving tip' that I found pretty funny: "Don't ... make eye contact with police officers while driving"
This is a bit of an oversimplification though. The duration of moving people by ship means that people need to be given food and water. People also aren't going to be spending the entirety of a weeks long voyage in a seat - they'll need beds and recreation facilities to stay sane. You're also less likely to find large numbers of people who all want to depart and arrive at the same time, so filling a large ship to capacity is more difficult and the ship will be running partially empty much of the time. All these things lead to lower net efficiency.

The reality is, people aren't going to give up air travel. The best bet to make air travel more sustainable is to develop hydrogen powered planes. The Soviets demonstrated this concept [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-155
This is pretty standard in the UK these days, most debit cards are Visa/Mastercard - 10 years ago most debit cards were Maestro or Visa Electron, although I still didn't have much difficulty getting a Visa debit card for travelling.

I found it very odd when I was in Germany that this wasn't the case, Visa/Mastercard were entirely considered credit cards, and debit cards used some entirely different system. I couldn't use my debit card to pay for a Berlin subway ticket, as the machines only took German bank cards.
N26 is amazing. I use it daily in Germany as an expat
"strictly better" and "carry many of the pitfalls of traditional private student loans" aren't contradictory.

ISAs can be, and are, better than student loans. But they're not a universal good, as demonstrated in this article: if you are on the receiving end of a crap course that doesn't help you get a job is it really good that you'll have to pay for it (when you get a well paying job from entirely unconnected means)?
We can't push and both say "You folks should do this fun stuff for free" while concurrently cutting the social safety nets and, tbh, you get what you pay for. If all the artists are forced to either peddle for money or have a main gig for food and shelter then they have less time to devote to art. In our modern (i.e. not subsistence agrarian) society, we have the excess needed to fund these things and to allow people to specialize into artistic professions.

Currently there is a lot of comedy out there for free(ish) if it became more heavily capitalized, and there were constant steep costs to consume comedy, what would we lose out of society? Nothing super important, the trains would run, factories wouldn't shut down, but we'd lose a source of expression and joy that helped up think differently and approach hard questions in life... Art adds value to all of us and it's so insanely cheap to fund.
I have to think of: "there are two types of people in the world - those who divide the world up into two types of people, and those that don't"
> it's a short time frame, investing in individual stocks can be OK.

And then your gains are cut by transaction costs, opportunity costs and short term gains.
Basically the original version of Pied Piper
> It baffles me that an established company like Atlassian can’t get something as fundamental as search right. I can’t even find the content I myself created at times.

i agree, indexing and searching could be improved a lot. their editing experience extremely good though.
Yeah, I guess I don't disagree that there's a lot going on there, but it's all in service of bringing in tourists, all sponsored by the casinos. Sure, locals are welcome to partake in any of that, but it's not "for" them in a large sense. It doesn't seem to have the same degree of cultural institutions that other similarly sized cities have.
My math says they're already over 1000 PB/1 EB:

1,089,318 = 4 * 2852 + 4 * 12746 + 8 * 1000 + 12 * 1560 + 12 * 10859 + 4 * 19211 + 6 * 886 + 8 * 9809 + 8 * 14447 + 10 * 1200 + 12 * 37004 + 12 * 7215 + 4 * 99 + 14 * 3619

Don't think I made a typo there, but please check my work. Even counting as 1024 TB = 1 PB and 1024 PB = 1 EB, that leaves 1,048,576 TB = 1 EB and they're over that threshold.

The February 5, 2018 "500 Petabytes and Counting" blog post should soon be eclipsed by a 1 EB post - though it appears they're counting actual data stored, not capacity. Nonetheless, with some redundancy, extra capacity, and overhead, we'll likely see that number soon.
Has there been a post-2000 company that has succeeded with no one complaining about tech debt?
right they are "not alive", but do have a "life cycle".

How else would one define what a single log reduction (one tenth of virus particles surviving) means per given "UV dose" or fluence.
I used to do the exact same with Presto Opera, still my favorite browser UI of all time. MDI > tabs. Wish modern browsers would understand that.
That is going to happen regardless of the safeguard, because we have the safeguard and creators are already outmaneuvered. If the safeguard is removed then at least megacorps won't have an eternal lock on creative works.
If people are so concerned about tab performance, why not use the history pane?
Sorry, what is the direct Thunderbird donation link? Last time I saw it, it supposedly was Moz Foundation only as well.
The neobanks like Monzo or N26 are light years ahead of the domestic banks.
Why do I keep seeing these sorts of arguments.

>No. Poverty is a lack of education and, more importantly, mentorship. This is because [insert story about "neighbor"]

To put it very bluntly: I don't give two shits about your neighbour. This is the kind of thinking that justifies racism and other types of discrimination. I have a gypsy neighbour who collects welfare and does not work while he sells drugs in his neighbour |= therefore gypsies are leeches and criminals. You see the problem? For every story of yours I can tell you a story about a guy who had caring and hardworking parents, a nurturing environment, was he himself very hardworking, but simply had not enough money to make it in this world (not enough money to attend good schools, do extracurricular activities, had to care for his siblings or work after school himself, etc.). What does that tell me about this problem?

I don't care for anecdotes about your neighbour (because everybody has "a neighbour", or his cousin's wife has a friend from work who knows a guy who...), I don't care for "common sense opinions". I care for research, data, in short: meaningful facts about large-scale trends rather than individual cases, of which you can find every sort.
Just going by description and the "red book" it seems like its Auto Mechanics Fundamentals:

>>> "It is the aim of Auto Mechanics Fundamentals to provide a thorough understanding of the design, construction and operation of automotive units. Each unit is approached by starting with basic theory, then parts are added until the unit is complete. By following this procedure, the function of each unit is explained, and its relationship to the complete car is made clear. Hundreds of illustrations were drawn especially for this text. Important areas are featured in these drawings, and many are exaggerated to place emphasis on parts being discussed. Unfamiliar words are defined immediately following the words. In addition, the Dictionary of Terms in the back of the book defines more than 1,100 terms..."

https://www.amazon.com/Mechanics-Fundamentals-Construction-O...

(This one is blue but there is another version in red)
> For example, a virtue ethicist might claim that honesty is a virtue, and thus we should try to be honest. But why is honesty a virtue?

This one can be argued with Kant's categorical imperative, which says "it is unethical if making it required involves a logical contradiction", roughly phrased.

If we made it a general law that everyone must lie, then the distinction between truth and falsehood would be meaningless, and the meaning of the law would also evaporate. Therefore, lying is unethical.
Not just Angular. My Vue app as well. I can't figure out why Firefox doesn't just display the error.
Your "cellular phone" does not in fact have "full root memory access 24/7". In modern phone designs, the baseband is a USB peripheral. The notion that the closed, secret baseband is a DMA backdoor into AP memory is a message board meme, not engineering reality.
Ask HN: Tips for a minimalistic style blog? Please
Hi,

I am looking to create a blog (mostly essays, sometimes with illustrations) but I'd like a very minimalistic design, easy to read and something that looks really clean. Do you have tips in order to build that ? (i am a total beginner) Thanks very much !!!
wow, trying to wrap my head around this thing. how does this exactly work?
Liquid hydrogen actually has the best energy density by unit of mass than any other fuel (combustible fuel, nuclear is on a whole different level). If lightweight cryogenic storage is developed, then hydrogen powered plans could be a viable option.
Also ignoring poorer countries in the world. Not everyone makes high western developer salaries. Why should .com domain names suddenly be gate kept and all the profits going into a monopoly and a corrupt oversight organization?
Thank you! I can run with this.
> Among people I talk with, and whose bank cards I have seen, in and around London, Monzo is far more popular than Revolut.

This has also been my observation. Multi-currency support is something I would like to see come to Monzo, although I'm not sure what regulatory constraints this would apply; my understanding is that most conventional multi-currency accounts (e.g. CitiGold) actually involve multiple accounts in several countries with the parent international bank guaranteeing free transfers between the individual accounts at market rates.
Swift can be compiled and run on Linux. It's most prevalent on Apple platforms. It's usefulness outside of the Apple platform is a different topic though.

https://swift.org/about/#platform-support
Monzo and Starling are the big two challengers, and worth a look.
https://news.ycombinator.com/submit has a title field and a separate url field.

You don't put the URL into the title.
No, it has to do with the fact that when you have a smaller customer base and additional cost when running on razor-sharp margin, it doesn't make the cut. So yes it has to do with the Brexit as this is the reason for future additional cost, especially today when EU negotiator said that it will be very unlikely for the UK to get financial services equivalence. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/11/barnier-tel...