skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a mobile number is needed

They're laying the groundwork to change this. Part of the purpose of the PINs rolled out last month is to enable centralizing some data to allow for other addressing schemes.
Yes, and I'm tired of hearing "burner sim" thrown around as a solution whenever some company stupidly demands a phone number. Getting a burner sim is WAY more effort than I'm prepared to expend to sign up to some service.

Stop asking for phone numbers!

My mother has my phone number. A few of my closest friends and family have it. That's it. I have like 10 actual people on my phonebook. My phone provides immediate 24/7 access to me, and there are very few people who are close enough to me that I want to be able to reach me at any time.

Some Silicon Valley company with an inflated sense of importance is never on that list...
>> and are also semantically very close

>Sorry I super disagree with this. They look similar. Dig into it just below the surface? Start to model it formally? Not at all.

I think you're missing the point. If 90% of Ruby code works in Crystal unmodified (even if it's because the standard library had to be rewritten from scratch), then the programmer experience may well be quite similar, regardless of how fundamentally different they are if you model them formally.

Are Newtonian mechanics and Einstein's theory of general relativity "similar"? If you model them formally, they look nothing alike. But in 99% of practical situations in every day life, and even in the most precise experiments we could conduct for hundreds of years, they're so similar we can't tell the difference.
That wasn't what I was intending to say so I apologize that my poor phrasing might have given that impression. I used "most people" as a modifier of the group who are advocating for divesting, defunding, or abolishing the police. While that movement is growing, it is still a minority opinion and I wasn't trying to argue otherwise. I included the "most people" phrase mainly as a disclaimer to acknowledge that there are likely some people who want to see police abolished and not replaced, however that is not a common goal.
Thanks - the concern makes sense to me given that context.
I don't know about other people but I would have no problem with the web stagnating. We don't need yet more complex HTML features.
Unless you're on a corporate machine where they have some Group Policy to force updates, you absolutely can control when updates are performed. You might have to actually learn how to do that, but it's not like M$ makes it impossible.
> Do they always need to have them on their person? Probably not but there is a certain symbolic value in having armed police spread around society.

I’d argue the opposite. There’s negative symbolic value.
It was litteraly developped by the BS division.

>From 1992 to 1994, a division called Maxis Business Simulations was responsible for making serious professional simulations that looked and played like Maxis games.

https://obscuritory.com/sim/when-simcity-got-serious/
Right - it's a control/monetization strategy.
Magma at its initiation extended a hard fork of OAI. The projects have since diverged quite a bit, but some of the core bits are still shared. NextEPC was renamed to open5gs a while back, and a lot of the open source telecom work seems to be happening there https://github.com/open5gs/open5gs . The project was recently reorganized by its founder though, and currently requires a CLA to contribute upstream.
Also, catj - Displays JSON files in a flat, concise format.

https://github.com/soheilpro/catj
Ironically, LXD is a snap package in Ubuntu[0]

[0] https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/lxd
I love Signal and use it as much as I can, but I'm thinking of switching to Matrix solely because the desktop client is pretty bad. It won't show me messages until it syncs everything (so I can't even see old messages while things sync), and, what's worse, it skips messages, and multi-device just doesn't work. My laptop just shows "Message could not be decrypted" until I delete everything and reset.

I'm not sure why it works so poorly after years of existence, but unfortunately I'm losing hope that it'll be fixed. I sometimes feel like the Signal team doesn't use their product, or they would have noticed this. Meanwhile, yes, Matrix took years to add encryption, but it works much better than Signal, even with quite a few small bugs.
Actually, I would argue that mapping Ruby's syntax and method name choices to Crystal has been a major goal in Crystal's development. It's practically in the tag line for the language, "Fast as C, Slick as Ruby"
Not saying it would happen, but as you stated: breaking the treaty is a possibility... Maybe made more likely if the choices are assured destruction in case of total war between China/Russia and USA or possible avoidance of total war due to breakdown in NATO
Right. What I was trying to express was that there have been 2 Clojures on the CLR:

1) The original one, developed by Rich Hickey in 2005-2007, which he deleted before releasing Clojure

2) The second one, known as ClojureCLR, which David Miller developed in 2008 from the ClojureJVM.

https://soundcloud.com/defn-771544745/48-david-miller-and-cl...
Lenovo cited NetMarketShare for the stats on the desktop Linux, https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/lenovo-brin...

You can "snap download" and "snap install" to bypass any updates.
Plastics Workshop [video]
I've had the same Fedora install on my laptop for years, at least 4 versions. Never any of the problems you described.

Fedora was also the only thing that worked on my new laptop, because every other distro runs a super old kernel. I'm a super happy Fedora user :)
I think it would be useful to take Udacity’s machine learning class as well to provide an additional perspective. There are some parallels such as edge detection uses the same techniques as convolutional networks, regularization is a general technique useful for both neural networks and clustering, optimization of steps in planning probably has a parallel to how Alpha Go works. Particle filters was cool.

Also, take several of the classes in the specialization. Don’t stop at the first course. Convolutional networks has been great.

I liked working on the notebooks and watching the interviews with some of the pioneers of Deep Learning.
The Guide to Unbundling Reddit
Ask HN: Why knowledge is not centralized?
The flood of articles every minute can't be a healthy way to acquire knowledge. Should we have organized knowledge bases and we consume it step by step?
Every time Canonical comes up with something to improve the state of things, there's a contingent of vocal Canonical opponents who focus on putting their weight behind an alternative. These voices will back the alternative, no matter what, because it's not Canonical.

That's not to say that the alternatives have no merit. They do, because they're driven by developers who do have valid differences of opinion from Canonical's approach and want to do things differently. That's always going to be the case because different people are always going weigh things differently and take different directions on things.

But the rhetoric usually becomes louder than the valid discourse.

Take this headline for example. This is entirely about the politics. The technical merit of the Chromium packaging being a snap doesn't apply - because the alternative would be a deb provided and maintained by a distribution, and Mint aren't doing that. Ubuntu switched to a Chromium snap because maintaining the Chromium deb is no longer practical. Many snap critics will tell you that distribution debs are better for curation and trust reasons. That's not an option here, because Mint is not even providing that as an alternative.
Ok, can someone please explain to me what the limits on executive orders are? It seems like the president is allowed to right executive orders at any time, for any reason, and completely side step the legislature?
at least on Android you can sideload it
Donors and grants.
Ask HN: Do you think the internet changed how people seek self worth?
Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That just makes this place even worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We Improved TPC-C Performance by 50% and TPC-H Performance by 100%
It's not like they pulled existing stock in consumer retail outlets off the shelf, so I don't see how lying to the public about mask efficacy had any significant effect on the supply for healthcare workers
Outside Plato's Cave #4 Special 5G edition
It seems perfectly rational, or if not rational at least intuitive, that momentum of a movement would increase participation from people who already agreed with the movement, but weren't doing anything about it.

I guess I'm not totally sure what point you're trying to make, what's your theory exactly?
I'll concede that it's not a certainty.
That makes no sense. Search is more like a map or address book or perhaps a pamphlet station. What they choose to prioritize/display is inherently editorial. Why should that powe be given to the government?
Why this? How about something that turns hand drawings into properly rendered diagrams instead?
> Only install scripts, written my distribution's maintainers, run as root (except for core applications, of course).

Install Chromium on Linux Mint and you'll have code run as root that is not written by your distribution's maintainers. Because Mint won't ship the snap, and nor are they shipping a deb that they maintain. You'll have to install a third party deb or equivalent.
Ddg for SSRI withdrawal symptoms.
So why would you argue in a thread that is about what people think in the general case?
There could be lots of reasons. Foremost among them might be when I start looking at the mathematical notation I get turned off and go do something else.
I get that these points can seem kind of subtle or even vacuous, but it's necessary to understand that they're a thousand times more obvious to the receiver.

"literally worthless noise" is calling names in the sense that the HN guidelines use the term: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

"From your bio you have zero expertise in this area" is crossing into using someone's personal details as ammunition in an argument. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

"beyond, I suppose, that you follow some narratives on Twitter" is a nasty personal swipe.

Please don't do that kind of thing on HN. If you review the site guidelines you'll notice that the intended spirit is quite different.
Since late last year crystal made overflow checking the default (https://crystal-lang.org/2019/09/23/crystal-0.31.0-released....). Dunno how it changed the benchmark.
I'm so sick of all these high level people resigning as if it's some kind of effective way of protesting.

It's not effective. You were in a position of power, and a place to actually make a meaningful difference, but now you have effectively relinquished your influence and power so it just can be handed off to someone else to abuse.

Quitting instead of staying and fighting for the good cause is straight up cowardice. Claiming that you are doing it as as protest is disingenuous.
This page has a chart comparing S&P 500 to other modes. Looks like VC tracks it rather closely.

https://www.toptal.com/finance/venture-capital-consultants/s...

Sorry, couldn't find a chart giving just the bottom 80% of VCs :-)
I am on iPhone 11 Max and it’s absolutely amazing. Nothing is too small or too big - just the right size.
I think words like “geeky” and “nerdy” lost their true meaning in the last decade. It’s now more about image and fashion. Anybody who writes a simple website is now called geeky or nerdy.

It’s especially abused to describe pretty girls, since many guys figured out that calling a girl nerdy or geeky increases their chances of getting in her pants.
I learned a long time ago to block firefox from contacting mozilla related domains. It does too much unwanted stuff in the background. I update it on my schedule.
there is a difference between making it possible to use phone numbers and making it a hard, unavoidable requirement.
What about the people that don't care about critical thinking? Where an idea has come from (or the person advocating for it) often seems far more important than whether it's reasonable or true.

There is a societal change that needs to take place to fix that. Not caring about truth is a sign that a person has given up, it feels like a lot of people have given up.
That is a theory; not necessarily a decided reality.

Google is an ad company; their product is an audience and an advertising system. There is no reason that advertising should be untouchable except at scale. There are plenty of tiny players who eke out a profitable existence at small scale with ads. It is likely there is a path from there up into a mega-giant if someone really goes to look for it.

If anything, advertising might suffer diseconomies of scale for most products. Small businesses want to advertise locally.
If you're on macOS, I can't recommend this app enough:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/json-editor/id567740330?mt=12

jq and the like are great, but when you're trying to understand something... NSTableView is often times easier to fall back to, haha.
> Meanwhile, yes, Matrix took years to add encryption, but it works much better than Signal, even with quite a few small bugs.

I'm not sure which Matrix client you use, but clients like Riot don't even let you opt out of sending read receipts unless you edit `/etc/riot/config.json` to enable experiments and then go into the settings to disable read receipts. Problems like this (and issues like this [0]) give me the impression that Riot isn't designed for people who need privacy.

(Yes, there are other Matrix clients [1], but my understanding is that Riot is the flagship interface.)

[0]: https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/8961

[1]: https://www.matrix.org/clients/
Washington's Newest Landmark: Black Lives Matter Plaza
I'm pretty sure they only look like they exist from where we're looking and they'll end up being cosmic mirages and this whole thing will reinforce the hologram theory
Using the -p flag tells the vmnet to create a NAT rule, and yes only the Pro license can do that, but you can still fire up the container on the local vmnet.

So the way vctl works is that it launches a new VM for each container, so the container gets a dedicated internal IP address on a newly created VMnet. So like a 172.x.x.x or 192.168.x.x, and you just access the port directly from the host mac. The -p would make the VM's port reachable via the host's IP address.

In your vctl command, just omit the -p flag + value and it should spin it up. Then run vctl ps to see the IP of the appliance vm. You would then access it from the host Mac via the vm's IP, like: 192.168.243.130:1234
Transit encryption is employed by other services as well. Whether there is de-correlation on the cloud backend I don't know. Maybe there is, but you can't really verify that and it's easy to correlate them again, especially if clients use ipv6 or non-CGNAT ipv4.
There aren’t that many beauty queens out there. So anything they do outside of being a beauty queen will seem exceptional.
>The question of "Favorite movie where a gun is shot" is much harder, I think, because my memories aren't really indexed that way. I can't query by "gun is shot" so I can't get the subset of movies I've seen with gun shots and pick my favorite.

And yet as much as yours or mine, or likely most people's memories aren't indexed that way, I bet if you asked enough people you'd find someone who organized their memories in some obscure strange way that would let them answer that question immediately.
> However, this won't happen, because at the end of the day the only thing people actually care about is money.

This won't happen, because at the end of the day Slack Technologies is a public company and their mission is to make their investors money, not cater to the activist cause du jour.
Afraid I'm not following you here.
Can you quantify that?
How big are tutoring marketplaces?
The first image, of people having a meeting, is stolen. It has a link saying "Image Attribution" (which should really say the name of the attributee) which goes to the Flickr account of some random portrait photographer who doesn't seem to specialize in anodyne stock photos at all.

Here's the BBC attributing the very same image in 2015: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-34666150

Here's what Getty charges for this image ($55 and up): https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/successful-business...

There is even a comment from three years ago on the Flickr page saying the file has Corbis copyright embedded and asking if it's original.

How do I know these things? TinEye: https://tineye.com/search/ce7668fe2986a90a93d5fda4d1c90c8ee6...

It's very frustrating for hard working stock photographers who already only get 20% of the sale price to see Flickr enabling copyright violations by displaying images as Creative Commons when an algorithmic search of the two most popular stock photo sites shows it is not original.
I do get the occasional missing messages in the desktop client but what I notice most is that it gets unstable and weird when there is a update available (which I don't get notified about). Desktop and laptop with Ubuntu btw, signal installed via snap if I recall correctly.

Have you checked if yours is up to date?
Thanks for your comment. My doctor did tell me to, and I forgot. Once I feel safer around COVID, I'll schedule my appointment.
I've had a lot of problems with Manjaro (some hard to fix) and not as much with Arch... maybe only because my main computer is using Manjaro though
New Medicines #4
I have the PPA set up and it autoupdates, but I will double-check, thank you.
Go ahead. And if you have a tech bent I can probably put you to work as well.
That's one of the reasons I decided on Colemak years ago: zxcvbqw don't move, which is most hotkeys (undo, cut, copy, paste, etc), plus hkjl, for vim, is ATLEAST on one hand, but unfortunately it's all hit with the index finger.
Interesting similarities between signals and Sumerian cuneiform.

1. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/72_Goeta...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform#/media/File:Sumero-A...
yeah, website doesn't work but looks cool
Definitely. Police unions are a major obstacle to removing bad apples from the police, and to changing police culture. And yet...

Management (either police chiefs or politicians) can push police into things that are not safe for the police officers. There needs to be somebody to push back that's bigger than the individual officers.
Does fixing sleep with medication prevent atherosclerosis? Does taking nonsteroidals have a salutary effect?

It's too bad they did not tease out the effects of taking antiinflammatories as well as sleep aids like benadryl, quill,etc.
> This is great! Though I'm not entirely sure why she's loitering around on the Google MTV campus in those pictures captioned San Francisco :/

PR? I mean San Francisco evokes the thought of people's image of Silicon Valley (perhaps more so than the vast homeless situation and the vast economic divide that actually afflicts it) way more than if you say Mountain View, or Palo Alto for most people not in tech or in California for that matter. And quite frankly that's who this story appeals to: non-tech people.

I've seen plenty of very attractive woman (of all races) who joined SCCA sanctioned racing events via their school's Engineering program with a bunch of nerdy t-shirts. I heard one yell 'Leeroooooooooy Jenkins' in the pits at an autocross/drifting event back in 2005!

I also used to go to the 24-hour marathon Hackathons at CU Boulder and saw the same thing. Lots of them were from out state and country teams, too.

After 2013 or so the Bitcoin 'Blockchain' Industry got inundated by finance and bank brain-drains and it wasn't uncommon to see very attractive woman from the banking Industry get in the space.

How much they actually knew of the underlying tech, rather than some tired line about 'disrupting the financial products Industry' is another matter, but to be fair that's the case with most males, too. And these weren't just booth babes handing out schwag, but were actual employees. I still remember turning down the lone programmer at her booth handing me a 21 shirt because she couldn't/wouldn't tell me what tech they were working on at the Bitcoin Job Faire in Sunnyvale in 2015. I saw her later after Blaji's 'BUIDL' talk after the hackathon and we had a laugh about it.

But this really a fluff non-story, but welcomed given the depressing amount of news this year so far, and while I'm not saying tech is a 50/50 equal ratio of male-female. I'm not really buying the narrative of this being some unicorn either. I guess the notable thing being she still spent most of her Life, and likely lots of her family's money, in that pageant circuit and can now try and make it back programming?
Reminds me of electronic club that Al had in Caddyshack
Alright yeah that was what I was referring to. Are phishing attacks the only real thing holding back full support? I'm wondering if maybe a notification that the domain is an IDN similar to how they notify about bad https for anything they don't already fully show would do the trick. Seeing as how phishing is not currently a solved problem, would it really be that much worse if all IDN's displayed properly?
WiFi host triangulation with Kismet, Python and Gimp for de-anonymization (2017)
*came together. The A380 program is nearly over. The most incredible passenger plane in the sky. Comfortable for 16+ hours. I hope they can archive the blueprints for it well enough to consider building it again in the future.
About damn time regulators start paying attention to the blatant anti-competitive practices all the tech giants have been engaging in for years.

And if you're one of those people who are worried that doing this would hurt innovation, don't be. The free market was what got us here, and regulators will ensure the market stays free so we keep moving forward.
because brave's model of allowiing direct and instant, anonymous payments and rewards from user to webmaster, threatens google's model of the web. firefox should be doing these innovations, but maybe that would irritate google
“Our analysis shows that it will be crucial for designers to prioritize safety over rider preferences if autonomous vehicles are to live up to their promise to be safer than human drivers,” Mueller says.

uh-oh. So it begins.
I recall reading something recently about how in a coming release, Android will disable sideloading. The sole permitted way to sideload will be to enable ADB and then install the app with adb install. Some techies will continue to do that, just like some people unlock the bootloader and install LineageOS on their device, but removing Signal from the Play Store would make it as good as dead for the general public. (Even Signal’s website discourages people from downloading the APK from them, and prefers that people use an app store instead!)
It's cool! I agree ;)
Crystal would benefit a lot if ported and packaged for ARM architectures. Those small embedded boards seem the best place to make use of a system language that produces tight and fast native executables. I know there's something for the Raspberry-PI+Raspbian, however I hoped there was an official port for other boards on a more generic distro such as Debian, Armbian or DietPI. Being a bootstrapped compiler (a compiler written in the same language it compiles) makes this even harder to accomplish.
From the library readme [1]

> The database is a key value store prepopulated with the english names of countries and their capital cities from the continent of Europe. Selecting the country will perform a search of the matching capital. On a 2019 Macbook Pro laptop, the example searches take under 80 seconds.

Does this have a heavy performance cost for even toy applications?

[1] https://github.com/IBM/fhe-toolkit-macos/blob/master/Getting...