skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial election
Utter claptrap.

1. I cannot imagine why anyone would think that the Free Software Foundation would ever sign anything to assist in the production of proprietary software. Signing an affidavit always exposes one to risk; why would they assume risk to assist a software hoarder?

2. The GNU/Linux thing has been argued and argued and while I once fell in the author's camp I now realise that the FSF had it right all along. It was when I heard someone refer to Cygwin or macOS as 'Linux' that I understood that people really do confuse the GNU operating system with the Linux kernel. Since then, I have tried to be careful to refer to it as GNU/Linux.

3. The GPL does a better job of achieving the FSF's goals than the LGPL; it is appropriate for the FSF to recommend it.

Who is this JOTTINGE guy?
You can certainly get a view into the mind of the artists. A saying I learned 30 years ago when I first got into photography is "the lens looks both ways" meaning the viewer sees into the mind of the photographer, what they find interesting, as much as the photographer is looking out onto the world. As painting and photography are both forms of visual art an apt adaptation could be "the canvas looks both ways." Aside from that, truth in art is always highly subjective.
They didn't land on the planet, they formed it.
Firebase free tier is only 125k invocation per month. How are covering +1M invocations per month on free tier?
There was a project called "Dick ML" though, which I believe was used by some idiots to spam Zed Shaw with invitations.
I did Uber eats for a few months after I got injured.

Between that and renting out a room on airbnb, It kept us from going homeless while I recovered enough to work again.

Turns out Disability insurance is nearly worthless for any complicated injuries.
Arm rival SiFive raises $60M from SK Hynix, Aramco
It's a common functional thing. I know F# has both `|>` and `<|` to go both directions. It also has `||>` and `|||>` variants which take two- or three-value tuples and spread them to arguments.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-refe...
Agree. Building elastic query AST is a PITA. Check out https://www.elastic.co/what-is/elasticsearch-sql
Cameras in the Classroom: Facial Recognition Technology in Schools (2020)
> Then they have merely the chance to accept/decline it.

But isn't the definition of contractor vs employee.

Can they still reject if they are converted to an employee, because then it would be weird.
> man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well

I wonder whether this will still hold true when the costs of building and maintaining

1. a bike
2. a flat road to ride the bike on

is not ignored.
Neutron star merger is a rather energetic event, ejecting copious amounts of matter. Dying low-mass stars (like the sun) eject their outer envelope, forming an expanding nebula.
It's a mistake if your goal is to have the language implemented and become popular. Otherwise I like the notation.

Computer languages would be different if Ascii had provided code points for ∧ ∨ ∩ ∪ ≡ ↑ etc. It's too bad so much real estate is wasted in the control chars.
When I tried LSP for C++, speed wasn't the issue, though you do have to jump through some hoops to make sure emacs uses native JSON parsing. The problem was just stability as LSP for C++ was stupid buggy as recently as a couple of months ago.
Oh, I know very well it's complicated. But that is the 500ft explanation I give to the beancounters, "why are we using these expensive UPSes when we can get them for $100 from Office Depot."

I'm most familiar with the APC line because that is what I use.
google removes a shit loads of search results for anything related to torrents or porn, forcing me to go to other search engines that won't either censor or remove content for legal reasons.

Even that list of search engines are reducing now.
"[We] spent months deliberating to determine our capital allocation strategy. Our decision to invest in Bitcoin at this time was driven in part by a confluence of macro factors affecting the economic and business landscape that we believe is creating long-term risks for our corporate treasury program ― risks that should be addressed proactively. Those macro factors include, among other things, the economic and public health crisis precipitated by COVID-19, unprecedented government financial stimulus measures including quantitative easing adopted around the world, and global political and economic uncertainty. We believe that, together, these and other factors may well have a significant depreciating effect on the long-term real value of fiat currencies and many other conventional asset types, including many of the assets traditionally held as part of corporate treasury operations."

Wow.
While I like the idea in theory, and I think it's pretty cool, I'm a little concerned about non-stop motion sensor analytics of my phone.

Especially since things like keylogging using motion sensors have been demonstrated.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/08/smartphone_ke...

I hope the feature also has an 'opt out' option available.
TSA officers detecting more guns at checkpoints despite passenger throughput
>if you ensure that the money that circulates in it doesn't leak out of it, fueling further investment and purchases. I think it's worth actually re-examining our view of globalization and global trade with this in mind.

Where do you draw the boundaries? Is money leaking outside the globe?
I second this. I have a 13 year old laptop. Windows 10 was very slow on it. I upgraded to an SSD and now it works great. No problems on my SSD desktop that is 8 years old too. You can even keep your files on the HDD if you want, but a small SSD for the OS and key applications can be a big improvement.

I see two main options. One you could upgrade to an SSD (or better HDD or RAID). Second is that you can install a lightweight OS like some Linux distros.
We already allow Apple (50% of the market) to censor any App they want and ban third party app stores. So no we are not better than that.
Orbital refueling absolutely changes the rocket equation in a huge way. The standard NASA human Mars plan involves a mega rocket large enough to lift the humans and their supplies in one shot from earth, along with the fuel to get to Mars and the fuel to get back.

Starship enters LEO with empty fuel tanks, meaning it can lift much more payload per pound of fuel. Being refueled in orbit is cheap, because fully reusable flights are cheap. And for Mars, Starship only needs enough fuel to get there, it can make fuel on Mars. That means it doesn’t have to carry even more fuel to fly the return fuel to Mars.
Nitpicking, I know, but to call it "Planet Ceres" in the title is more than a bit wrong. This is a dwarf planet at best and is also often classified as a really big asteroid (the only one in the asteroid belt that's rounded by its own gravity). If even the much larger Pluto can't get the "Planet" title, Ceres hardly deserves to be called that in a headline from a major newspaper.
Well, there are a lots of porn related projects. One of them being Deepfake
Special Lebanon’s Power Struggle
Fuck. This is really terrifying. The internet has connected all of us, which has been mostly for the better, and these idiots want to ruin it. I really hope none of this shit sees the light of day.
Pikachurin
That would be massively inefficient for travel to Mars, because you can Aerobrake to land and make fuel on Mars for your return.
Probably this: http://habitatchronicles.com/2007/03/the-untold-history-of-t...

On HN last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20624074

A very good read!
Original press release submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120060
My employer would only complain if the side-project would reasonably make me less efficient within my contracted hours. So if I were doing 40h (5 full workdays here) every week and I'd be putting in 40h/w as well.

The other gotcha is that side-projects shouldn't be in any way competing directly with my employer. If you work in product-development that is pretty easy to isolate. Agencies on the other hand could basically make anything for a client. So that's a bit tricker.

No idea what of my contractual limitations are actually enforceable, though. And they've never complained about side-projects because my own projects aren't anywhere near something they would accept as a client.
Should people have the ability to choose to be contractors?

For example, “Accept wage X as an employee, work these set hours, and you have to bring in some multiple of X to justify your employment. Or stay a contractor, work when you want, get the benefit of surge pricing and keep a fixed % of your revenue”

As a consumer of Uber and Lyft, what differentiates them from Taxis is the ability for them to react to changes in demand. (Try finding a taxi in the rain) I can’t see them pulling this off without some portion of the workforce being contingent.
Instead of the Great Firewall of China we get the half-assed Trump Firewall that doesn't really get built and doesn't require anything more complicated than a SOCKS proxy.
Are you aware of the fact there are thousands of cryptocurrencies?
>Come up with a currency anyone can create and there you have a real disruption.

Indeed. One of the most bizarre arguments coming from the crypto-world is "there's a finite amount!". Why would you want your currency to be limited?
> All gig workers are slaves

This is repulsive. You denigrate all people who have suffered in actual slavery. Follow your "bloody duty as a decent human being" and learn what slavery is actually like.
It seems to be a common sentiment but the general business people can't completely back it with macro data so everyone just brace for impact... I assume these folks have actual intel to take this big decision.
I'm facing the same issue with a URL analysis service I operate which lets you take a snapshot and screenshot of a website. I get countless submissions to other sites which allow user-generated content (Reddit, Medium, random support sites, everything that's "open") and all of these sites themselves host images and links to "Watch XX Soccer Game Live 2020 HD" etc., so all link-spam. I found my ways to battle these submissions and users, but obviously don't want to reveal them here.

The other thing is signup-spam. I'd say a full 50% of my signups are spam, and I do my best to remove those user accounts. What surprised me was that the spammers seem to be human, i.e. using a Gmail address (which requires verification), solving Captcha, entering form fields, clicking the email-verify link, etc. Just crazy. Again, the countermeasures are not something I would want to publicize...
FWIW I made a website for our yearly project conference that allowed anybody to create an account and post material. But 1) all postings had to be moderated until the account was verified (either manually by me or by a code sent only to conference attendees) 2) I was pretty active in monitoring new posts and deleting posts and accounts that were clearly spam.

And of course the normal stuff, links all prefixed with "nofollow", only whitelisted markdown content / HTML, &c.

The first year we had a handful of spammers try to post stuff, but it didn't take much time at all to filter it out. This year we didn't have any spam accounts at all.

So my suspicion is that getting ahead of the "spam problem" by doing heavy manual moderation early on is an investment. If he'd just spent 5 minutes a day looking at the accounts and deleting rubbish, he would never have been swarmed by spammers, and the moderation load would have remained relatively low, until he got popular enough that he could afford to actually spend some real effort automating / crowdsourcing the spam-fighting capabilities.
If I pasted the wrong link, you can use the small drop-down menu to switch from one metric to another. You'll see essentially the same trends.
> It should be possible for an amateur to quickly write an SQL validator as a starting project

I think the point he is trying to make here is the same as the post was making concerning orthogonality. Having a smaller set of special syntax, and therefore an easier validator to write, means easier queries to write for the user. I don’t think he was implying that everyone who makes use of the language should know how to write a lexer for it.

> The syntax is just not the interesting part. Any syntax that meets those criteria would do.

I have to disagree with this. If this was the case we would still be programming everything in BASIC or C because they’re just another imperative programming language and it gets the job done. Having sugar syntax, a consistent language, etc.. all makes it easier for a programmer (or data analyst) to get the job he needs quicker (and therefore reduces cost), makes a program easier to maintain, and so on.
Kiel is the German town i am living in.
This company apparently was/is quite cash rich. It bought back $250m of its own shares and then bought 250m of BTC... wow.

Does anyone have the wallet address? or pinpoint it?
Two neutron stars merging is an extremely energetic event which emits vast amounts of degenerate neutron star material at speeds above escape velocity. Pretty much instantly after this material is liberated from the pressure and gravity of the neutron star, it starts decaying into normal matter, producing a vast menagerie of (generally very neutron-rich) elements, which then follow their decay chains until they end up as mostly stable elements.

Low-mass stars, like the Sun, will generally expand into many times their original size after hydrogen starts running out in their core. Much of these tenuous outer layers will be emitted during the final stages of the star, before the core collapses into a white dwarf.
Disabiling apps you don't use and replacing the ones you need with lighter options is good. I would not reccomend deleting or disabling antivirus except for very briefly to troubleshoot if that was the cause of the slowness. I think that could open you up to bigger problems in the future.
Remain-voting Briton here.

The Euro has nothing to do with border control or free movement, free trade, standardisation or fishing quotas. It has nothing to do with immigration policy, the Dublin treaty, or even the Maastricht treaty.

There is no doubt that central European monetary policy has harmed Italy and Greece. It likely contributed to the Catalonian vote for independence, too and is also squeezing Portugal in ways that are making the citizenship sit up and take notice.

Britain was successfully showing it was possible to have free movement & trade and significant collaboration inside the EU's organisations and projects without a single currency or monetary policy.

Sadly, the Dublin treaty was not being enforced that led - and still leads to this very day - to hysterical media coverage that turned public opinion against the whole project. The EU's inability to flex on that was one of many contributory factors to the Brexit vote, but so was the drive for tighter political and economic unification.

That is now causing other countries to have their own exit movements gain attention. If the EU does not pull back there is a real risk those movements will gain more momentum and the project will end.

People aren't interested in competing with the US on the global stage. They want a home, a family and fulfilling work and social lives. The technocrats trying to wave their genitals don't care about the damage they do, as long as the EU rises in league tables with ever bigger numbers.

I believe a reformed EU is the only future where we get any of the benefits of the original ideals. It's not clear to me you need to have a common currency to do that. It's not even clear to me you need a Parliament to do that, never mind one that moves between two cities regularly.
I wonder how much of the capabilities outlined in this work, like Texas Towers [0,1] have contemporary analalogies, like SBX [2].

0. http://coldwar-c4i.net/TexasTowers/EE0755-629.html

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Towers

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea-based_X-band_Radar
The $16B plan to beam Australia’s Outback sun onto Asia’s power grids
It's just linked to an email. If it's anonymous enough for forum users, it's anonymous enough for people to use it.
End of an era, truly. We're ready to help PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build devs migrate to the Ionic platform and avoid any disruption!

Our cloud build service Appflow is a 1-1 alternative for PhoneGap Build but with some awesome additional features like live updating and app store submission. More info: https://ionicframework.com/blog/phonegap-build-no-longer-mai...
I love when cloud experts (Tim, Kelsey) look at other clouds and go "damn, is that stuff ever complicated". Makes regular devs like myself feel a little better.
A lost of Chinese hardware today doesn't send data back to China. An exception to that are mobile phones for some of which it has been proven to send data to China.
And you are unable to recognise a metaphor.
That’s not quite right. You actually do need a state license in the US to practice engineering for the public except for a few basic instances:

1) you work for the federal government

2) you work under a licensed engineer

3) you work under an industrial exemption

There’s differences depending on state. There has been a more concerted effort to remove #3 recently due to both political reasons and the technical issues in this thread. Most people performing engineering work under an industrial exemption don’t actually realize it. Again, this is different state to state. For example, in some states you can’t start a business with “engineering” in the name unless you have a certain percentage of owners/principals with an engineering license.[1]

What actually happens is conflating terms in common parlance. “Engineer” and “engineer” are not necessarily the same. For example, a computer engineer may work under an industrial exemption (due to working in a manufacturing service) while a software engineer does not. Legally, an “Engineer” claims an explicit responsibility to public safety.[2] Apropos to the headline article, there is a distinction with this difference.

[1] https://fxbinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/state-by-state...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/progr...
Did onion.com change their name?
I placed a bunch of bids on the sweatshirts when the auction opened a few weeks ago.

Clearly there’s a limit to how much I’m willing to pay but those are amazing novelty gifts.
this place is turning into r/technology with all these pipedream click bait headlines
We were running a privacy focussed Chat-App-Network dating platform in 2017 which was accelerated by Facebook[1].

i.e. A network between, Messenger<->Viber<->Telegram<->Line App.

By design no media sharing was allowed(to prevent pornography) and the user profile images were received from the platform itself. But we soon faced unique challenge of people from certain countries using their children picture as profile picture(often just the children), there were people with group photo as profile image and then there were people who using explicit images as profile pictures.

So we integrated Amazon Rekognition to identify children, group and explicit images. Those using explicit images were banned immediately and those with children/group photo image(Face detection not Facial recognition) were asked to change their profile image(Their profile was not shown to anyone until they changed their profile picture with just them). We were processing >200,000 profile images per month as people change their profile images often.

But, as we very well know Amazon Rekognition or for the fact any such ML solution is not 100% accurate, we faced issues with people with darker skin color(Amazon told me that they were working to fix the issue; exactly why this type of half baked tech shouldn't be used for things which can cause harm) and so we had to reduce the confidence levels to such an extent that anything resembling a child would be flagged by the system(False positives are better in this case than false negatives).

[1]https://hitstartup.com/about/#FindDate
Calling this a currency is generous... it’s more of a token that externalizes the normally intrinsic reward for acting charitably. It’s like the stickers that I give my 6 year-old son for doing his chores.
>For example in Linq you can chain arbitrary many select/join/where/group by in arbitrary order. In SQL you need nested subqueries to achieve the same which is a much more convoluted syntax.

WITH statements alleviate some of this issue by allowing you to write subqueries in any order.
there is no work tracking tool better than .txt and asking people for updates.

Maybe I should sell notepad as a fully extensible work prioritisation tracking platform that integrates with all email providers and now supports slack...
I don't see the point of this discussion if can't even accept that the East India situation is unique, something that's unanimously agreed upon amongst historians and economists.

Either you posses some unique knowledge that historians do not, or you are dead set on 'proving' colonialism was 'no different than what came before' regardless of any arguments brought forward.
Very good point... You’ve triggered off the famous gif of Captain Mal from Serenity having is “uh ah um” moment...

Fundamentally I’m going to answer that you’ve hot the nail on the head: enforcement of franchises, parents, or brand-names is fundamentally equivalent. In the case of geography-based names, I suppose you could say you’re buying into equity capitalised in the finite supply of land (“buy land, they’re not making any more of it”) as opposed to equity in brand recognition.

It’s all arbitrary.
The galaxy levels of architecture bloat implied here for a simple shopping cart app make me deeply uneasy. How much of this complexity is necessary?
> ByteDance has had a party committee since 2017 and is headed by CCP secretary and company editor-in-chief Zhang Fuping (張輔評), reported Human Rights Watch. Members of the committee hold regular gatherings at which they study speeches by Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping (習近平) and "pledge to follow the party in technological innovation."

> In addition, ByteDance on April 25, 2019, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Ministry of Public Security's Press and Publicity Bureau (公安部新聞宣傳局) in Beijing. The agreement was billed as "aiming to give full play to the professional technology and platform advantages of Toutiao and Tiktok in big data analysis," strengthen the creation and production of "public security new media works," boost "network influence and online discourse power," and enhance "public security propaganda, guidance, influence, and credibility," among other aspects.

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3982027