skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the core, fundamental concepts in Computer Science is composition.

We are all standing on the shoulders of giants, building on the work of those who came before us.

Therefore, to the greatest extent possible, our work should be available for all to build upon to the benefit of society.

Music is a more pure creative endeavor; artists generate a specific instance that is unique to them. Copyright applies in the same way that it does to a specific implementation of a program or algorithm.

Software patents fill the role you ask about for programmers. Some companies name their employees in patents, some don’t; and some “programmers” patent their ideas on their own. However, it is quite expensive to apply for a patent.

In addition, it is seemingly impossible to develop any new technology without infringing on unknown patents even for obvious ideas that you can have independent independently. Thus the balance is weighted toward large companies, who may have patent portfolios they can use defensively.

In summary, software patents are an abomination and the reason that programmers are not like musicians.
Yes it does. Science as we know it really only dates back to the enlightenment, whereas law dates back to at least 1754 BC (and likely earlier).

More specifically, computer science only dates back a few decades (being generous, call it a century), and most of the people applying incorrect frameworks to law on this site are coming in with preconceived notions from that.
Just disable javascript - solves my readability problems with 9/10 websites.
people can afford to buy a new car and pay by instalments relatively easily, especially for small city cars which are common in Europe.

You need to have income, but you can get a car on a bluecollar salary, and an incentive of 10% on the price is significant.

If you're actually wealthy you'll want to buy a bigger car, and the same incentive is both less significant and less useful.
Minutes That Can Make or Break the Trading Day
APIs aren't designed in vacuum, they are the outcome of the work of a group of people that put in the effort and endless hours of work to design them.

Whoever is paying their salaries has the right to decide how they get used.

If this is the way to fix Android Java, or fully replace it with Flutter, then so be it.
Can you expand on this? How is this charge collected? VED (Road tax) is £0 on all Teslas.
Yes, I am also not enthusiastic about the crypto part, but then if it prevents people from spoofing signals, it is probably a good decision.

The wikipedia suggests they use standard hardware components?
The Schengen Agreement allows for temporary border controls in certain circumstances. That's why (for better or worse) several EU states were permitted to set up temporary border controls in response to the migrant crisis a few years ago.
The advice is "The only way to stop the infection is to stay at home and to limit the contacts at every cost." I'm pretty sure that anybody observing the current events is qualified to give that advice.

Other than that - the guy is a celebrity and people are interested in hearing celebrities speak, which is why outlets like twitter are so popular to begin with.

Are you an expert on giving or taking advice or contemplating the thoughts of others? If not, why shouldn't we completely disregard what you're saying here?
Remdesvir too.
Ok, so I lied, I don't really know C++ because nobody really knows everything about C++. But I have written production C++ code (some of which is used by most of the people here, including you…) so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Anyways, this is veering off-topic, so if you or someone else would like to discuss your hiring woes and/or would like to test whether I really know C++ my email's in my profile; I'd be happy to talk to you there.
> I can think of one person I know who likes it, and most others hate it, with a few being closer to neutral on it.

It's the same way in the US. My father enjoys it, my wife and I tolerate it, and the rest of my family mostly just chokes down a piece out of Christmas tradition (and to clear up the plate for Swedish meatballs afterward)
Alternative confusion:

I assumed it was a weirdly worded title about the country... but then I wondered why they had a 'Sales Team'.
SEMrush offers solutions SEO,PPC,content,socialmedia and competitive research
So how much space will be wasted shipping a bunch of fonts that all include however many goddamned emojis there are?
Art is very sensitive to copyright, so unlimited sharing of graphic artwork is still quite an unusual idea.
Scammers are capable of setting up signing and getting certificates for their domains. It's an extra hurdle, but, like setting up https, it's not a big hurdle.

No cross domain links would disrupt a lot of current emails, but most senders would likely setup in-domain redirectors to carry on their current mailing patterns. Unfortunately, some of those would probably be open redirectors (because it's easy to make an open redirector and it "solves" the immediate problem), leading to some amount of security issues.
Marijuana Use in Early Adolescence
There is an ongoing body of research showing that people who start smoking marijuana before puberty have significantly worse outcomes than those who start after or do not start at all.

I am one of the ones who started early, and my life has been plagued with mental health issues. I think having a high IQ at baseline has saved me trouble, but judging by this research I am suffering some damage.

Anyone else on here who started smoking weed at age 12-13? What's your life like?
I was just in London for a week not too long ago. I saw about the same number of Teslas as I did pick up trucks, which is to say hardly any at all.
> most people don't have home offices and never will.

[citation needed]

Just because your use case, and likely that of most of your friends, doesn't lend itself to having a home office, doesn't mean that other people, with different costs of living (esp in land price), will live the same way. If $3,800 got you 5 bedrooms instead of 1 and everything else stayed the same, it's possible you'd voluntarily choose to downsize, but it also seems possible you'd keep it, and have 1 bedroom, a home office each, a conference room, and a (shared) workshop. Or however else you wish you divide up the space. (Hint: children take up a lot of it.)
Or just use uBlock Origin and continue to enjoy functional websites: https://imgur.com/a/SgBJGjk
> Linux containers are processes with better sandboxing

simply not true: https://github.com/google/gvisor#why-does-gvisor-exist
Is it profitable? Revenue means nothing without profitability.
This is not correct in my experience. I think it's more apt to say that security effort has mostly been spent around sandboxing and related technologies which is really an admission that there is no way to secure the JS VMs in themselves. The best engineers in the world can't do it.
Maybe that will change if they move to safer languages, but so far nobody has done that.

Therefore when you see an exposed unsandboxed VM, you instantly know it's critical issue.
Show HN: Wotop – Web on Top of Protocol
I have never need an AED device, but I know where the one is in my office and I know how to use it. A gun for a police officer should be the same: they have it and know how to use it, but almost all retire without even once having used it. A gun is almost never needed for police duty, but when it is nothing else will substitute and seconds are counting (police only use a gun when not killing someone fast will make the overall situation worse).

You can say leave it to specialists, but that is the job of the police.
I guess so were they because they didn't put any computers in it.
> If you haven't spent substantial amounts of time (personal estimate > 10 years) working with C++ writing production code , you certainly don't know C++.

Yeah this is part of the reason why I wont even try to learn the language
> I've heard GraphQL proponents call joins "premature optimization", and I don't even know how to respond to that…

These are the same people that build something complaining about 'overengineering' and when they get stuck just end up shutting down and rewriting stuff.
More bopomofo. Several more historic scripts. The new teletext symbols and 8-segment display digits look interesting.

I need to check my combining class stuff, it seems.
Yes censorship is a major part of fighting Nazis in the largest war ever held on Earth.
Well theatres can be used instead which will allow for isolation. In reality the main HDU or ITU will become covid zone and theatres used for non Covid admissions.
Right, but JavaScript needs a runtime to work at all. And I don't think there was any requirement that the language couldn't be compiled?
"Ocean-going ships are actually legally required to have both body bags and a morgue (they mostly have space for three or four bodies, but it depends on the size of the ship)." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/cruises/galleries/secrets...
The push for paid sick leave
> I guess my question is why would you want companies to be able to use it for free? Why not release under a viral license with a commercial license also available?

The amount of hassle it takes in most companies to licence software from a third party vendor is so immense that generally they will spend far more in $$$s to write it themselves instead.

Your average small hobby project or helper library isn't going to every make you any money that way, only something which is both very large/complex, and very desirable, would.

> Why is a large company using your MIT licensed code a good thing? Do you expect to eventually get paid for that work, or get recognition, or what?

It looks good on your CV and might get you a job there.
Yes, that's correct. Again though, it's not a panacea.
might've been an option a month and a half ago. but: exponential growth. most western countries are _days_ behind italy. if you're destined to downturn, it'll take you a week or more to need the ventilator, and you'd be on it for some time.
Amazon doesn't rip the benefits alone, all of us do. Just like Apple doesn't benefit alone from having invented touch-screen smartphones.

And if these companies profit, they do so as a reward for spending the capital (dollars and manhours) in creating new technologies that improve productivity. Specifically total factor productivity in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobb%E2%80%93Douglas_product...

It's on all of us because it really isn't on anyone in particular, surely not on Amazon.

I can take your statement and flip it around just as easily: why should Amazon bear the costs of paying for many R&D ideas that may or may not pay off? We should all share that cost if we're all going to benefit from those innovations
If I remember correctly, FB was profitable within 5 or 6 years of its founding.
Is this the one that will disable extension manifest v2?

That's the only update I'm watching out for because I'll have to switch to another browser at that point.

I was going to start using Edge everywhere but now probably Brave after reading this - https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-deemed-most-private-brow...
> There is an ongoing body of research showing

Can you add links to the research?
well it's interesting since they only need to learn the rust toolchain, not something else.
The paper has Iran in the wrong zone.
>However, it does not explain why we haven't heard of flu outbreaks in cruises before this coronavirus.

Anecdotally I hear about it almost every time the topic of cruises come up on Reddit or other social media. I just don't think its particularly newsworthy so it isn't making headlines. Cruise ships and Conventions are pretty similar in the sense that people just get notoriously sick after attending is my understanding.
s/Norwegian/Cruise line "Norwegian"/ ?
Tesla still explicitly sells "Full Self-Driving Capability" which "Includes the Full Self Driving Computer" [0].

But the disclaimer on the bottom is pretty noncommittal:

> "The activation and use of these features are dependent on achieving reliability far in excess of human drivers as demonstrated by billions of miles of experience".

On one hand "are dependent on" actively avoids stating that they're there but the "billions of miles of experience" is clearly aimed at suggesting to buyers that they are. Which they are not since the car cannot handle many/most situations that a human driver is expected to handle to be called "a driver".

[0] https://www.tesla.com/modely/design#autopilot
The classrooms will be empty, but colleges will keep teaching – online
Show HN: Fraidycat
Emoji: It's like Kanji, only without agreed upon semantic meaning or pronunciation. I pity historians of the future who have to try and decipher this garbage.
> This recent coronavirus outbreak has been very enlightening, cause it gaves us more information on why cruises are a bad idea, and perfect for an epidemic. The same air is recirculating among all cabins.

We already knew that about cruises.

> However, it does not explain why we haven't heard of flu outbreaks in cruises before this coronavirus

We have, actually, but we don't hear about it much, because, except with the scrutiny occurring during this COVID-19 outbreak, which led to media exposure for a cruise ship flu outbreak [0], cruise ships are only required track and report when gastrointestinal disease hits a certain threshold, not respiratory ailments. [1]

[0] https://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-royal-carribean-fl...

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/vsp/surv/gilist.htm
It's still a strange thing to do for me. Dunno. Maybe I'm tone-deaf.

Are people not allowed to work, thus not getting salaries during this month, thus needing the payment holiday?

What about those who are in a position to still earn a salary during this time, like remote workers. Are they now forced to not pay their mortgage, or can they pay like normally?

Like you said, the interest on that one payment holiday is shocking!

Below calcs are for my home country, South Africa:

R1,000,000 loan, 20 year mortgage, results in a ~R9,700/month payment. Skipping one month within the first two years of this term results in additional interest of more than R60,000 and extending the term by at least 7 months.
So I built this - and its initial purpose was just to help me keep up on public TiddlyWikis (like philosopher.life) that I had discovered. But I couldn't get myself to rip off other news readers - I've not been satisfied with RSS and I disliked Google Reader. I didn't like that it basically created a second read-only email inbox - where I'm supposed to look through every message. And I didn't like that I lost the formatting and styling of the original hypertext. I much preferred just surfing my favorite sites periodically.

As I began to add blogs, Twitter, YouTube support - it felt like I was connecting the whole Web, as if it was all one network, almost as if I viewed it like the government does. (Equipped with my own personal XKeyscore Lite.) I had felt isolated before - unable to see past whatever was being recommended to me on Twitter - but now I had a tool that forced me to rouse my dormant research skills. The task of reading, writing, publishing and hunting on the Web is a formidable one - and we're far from mastering it. It's no wonder that we abdicated to social networks that attempt to do it all for us.

So yeah - Fraidycat is a very small attempt to move toward tools that give us some power. It really only adds the ability to assign "importance" to someone you are following - allowing you to track them without needing to be aware of them every second. But hey - it's four months old - I think it's a good start and hopefully others here can be encouraged by it to work on tools for the World-Wide Web again.
Favorited your post. Most projects are small and limited in scope. So I agree most of these extra layers are overkill most of the time.
What happens when Harvard closes
I've been on a whole 2 in my life, but enjoyed both trips quite a lot - especially when people get off at various ports and I have huge areas mostly to myself :). Understanding there's some potential for this sort of thing, but may take the risk again in the future.
Ioniq is non-ugly? What are you smoking?
Software Engineer Interview Guide
Standardisation was earlier than that :-) ISO-646 is the 7-bit predecessor to the 8-bit ISO-8859. It dates back to the late 1960s. Like 8859, 646 has several variants, such as ISO-646-DE which has ß where ~ is in ascii. (The trigraphs in C are partly to work around transcoding issues between ISO-646 and EBCDIC variants.)
As a side note, maybe the single restaurant manager interviewed does normally that, but it is highly unusual that a restaurant manager hugs and/or kisses (or even shakes hands) with a customer of the restaurant.

There is this sort of folklore about Italy that everyone kisses and hugs everyone else.

This is simply not accurate.

If you are introduced to someone (a stranger), it is normal courtesy to shake hands with him/her (and that's it, no hugs, no kisses), as well, unless the other person is an old friend the normal shaking of hands is the normal means of greeting.

It is extremely rare that you are touched (again let alone hugged or kissed) as a customer when you enter any shop or similar.
Cool article. Another future method is the use of DNA (e.g. [1], [2]). Not good for speed, but with more development it could become a great solution for large-volume, low-access archival data.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/dna-storage...
[2] https://www.catalogdna.com
Thanks for the reply! There is SO much to learn in this hobby. I'll definitely be following this project.
This is basically a summary of the link posted by OP.

Edit: not that it's a bad thing, I just mention it so people who read this know for sure they can avoid the link if they already know how to use the tips listed here. The article has code examples and more details.
Most major institutions probably don't even want to know whether their staff is sick.
Early research on existing drug compounds via supercomp could combat coronavirus
I get where that is going, and agree with the sentiment. But this assumes that companies, engineering teams and problem domains all perfectly overlap.

I'm a systems guy in a Java shop. Ignoring obvious nonstarters like trying to shove Java into early Linux boot, this still implies I should be hiring Java programmers for systems engineers. Which, no, not only don't I care, doing that would select for a very small subset of available candidates.

A nice thought experiment, but not practical.
On that note and all other faults aside you nearly described Apple News' curation process. They hired a large number of experienced editors out of their field to hand-curate their digest listings.

That said, Apple News is anything but "slow news".
Agree, I’ve been on 20+ cruises. Will continue doing so after this has passed.
I'm glad you're better off after taking that decision, which is definitely a brave one nowadays. When do you get the paper delivered? I feel like I'd prefer to read it on the weekends. I might think about doing something similar. I already use a dumbphone, as well.
Kendall has gotten super expensive .... the food trucks are also pretty much the same price as the restaurants for a meal
Perhaps because most people already have some immunity to flu and other not-new viruses? Those viruses are spread around a ship just as much but the effect is less noticeable.
Its 2-3x what most US residents would pay.

https://www.electricchoice.com/electricity-prices-by-state/

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/what-german-house...
There is a possibility of further increasing ventilator numbers by hooking multiple people up to the same machine providing they have similar lung volumes and compliance. It’s not ideal but better than leaving people to die. Of note, shouldn’t be risk of infection as piping has filters built in to prevent ventilators becoming infected.
Sadly you are probably correct.
The Nordics are the perfect cousins the rest of us Europeans keep being unfavourably compared to.
We have to keep digging!
Only for the first few people who do it and it will come at a great cost to everyone else. Classic collective action problem at work and down right dangerous thinking. If even a fraction of the population acts on this idea the rate of transmission will increase and the overall outcome of the event will be worse.

Flatten the curve. Reduce the rate of spread. Buy time to keep the strain on the health care industry as low as possible. Increase the probability that vaccinations can be produced in time to assist. And stop spreading this ridiculous idea.
uBlock Origin is awesome, but those workarounds are temporary. The web has an usability problem that is worsening every year.
What's the point of news that's not new. This is a museum for articles that support a curator's worldview without the attached communities, timely context and broad appeal of HN or Reddit. Rewatching Friends or The Office is not meant to inform me about the state of the world.

This idea as a platform might work better. Giving me (the user) the ability to sculpt my own mirror or museum for the world's news with powerful categories might be more helpful. Thinkspot has gotten closer to a better news source than a Slow News application.
Writing secure C++ is quite hard, even for the best engineers in the world. However, that absolutely does not mean that your handcrafted C++ code is more secure than JavaScript running a virtual machine that is written in C++. The sandbox exists as another layer of defense, not because the code is inherently more insecure. (Also, it's usually because JavaScript virtual machines evaluate untrusted input, which is something that has been shown to be notoriously difficult to secure against in general.)
Are you kidding? People here can actually afford Teslas and your idea to support EVs is for HN tech workers to not buy EVs but rather try to convince climate denying Trump administration to tighten regulations they already slashed and wanted to slash even more? That's just silly, the best climate solution may not be EVs but let's not pretend the current admin will listen to climate lobbying.
Good point - UK.
There's an early-stage company called hopin working in this space:

https://hopin.to

Even beyond the coronavirus, events and conferences may be increasingly looking into this option as an element in carbon footprint reduction.
I'll choose the store where I can grab what I want and walk out over the store where I have to wait in a dumb ass line while the cashier yells for a price check and the customer in front of me can't remember her PIN so slowly counts out nickels and quarters.

It's a massive competitive advantage far beyond whatever data they get by watching me roam the store.
I love that the first part of the docs is a "WTF is this?" section. Unfortunately the paragraph that follows doesn't answer the question at all. And that "Colophon" section at the bottom... What? Anyway, after reading the readme, I still have no idea what this project is.
Right, and accuracy of ~9m makes sense for this application. The smaller supported ESP32's, however, don't have onboard GPS. Does it use RSSI or need to be paired with a phone?

Not that it's really relevant here, but I'm wondering if the LORA RSSI can be used to determine distance inside 9m.