skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
google killed my first app on which i worked for a year for copyright claims by rockstar games take two! it was in fair use with no commercial usage. free. it was an interactive map. all i used were the map and added my own icons and locations. since it was completely free it was under the fair usage right. i referred to the dozen other apps that had ads in them and all they said was just that one app is allowed doesn't mean another is too.

i was buffed at that statement. its a disgrace. my app had 120 k downloads in a year and people were loving it because no ads and useful. this is the state of app development. how long will we tolerate this!
Yes, great point, absolutely. On that level, things can be done. Suppose I'm talking on a bigger / higher level. (My mind tends to go 'straight there'.) Thanks for giving some hope.
I'm the main contributor of an app that emulates Windows's alt-tab feature on macOS (https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos). I researched this topic extensively, and eventually decided that I would bite the bullet and pay from my own pocket, so that users get a good UX when launching the app.

It is displeasing to see Apple not having an open-source program in-which they give free certificates for popular open-source projects after a review. They are a large beneficiary of OSS after all.

Furthermore, smaller companies do it frequently these days: Jetbrains gave me free IDE licenses, poeditor gave me a free account, github hosts the project code, ticketing system, and is the distribution channel for first downloads and updates, appcenter hosts crash reports for free, travis does the CI for free, etc.
I think the whole idea of 'contact tracing' isn't really that valuable in the long term anyway. New Zealand recently broke their 100-day free streak, and Australia has implemented strict lockdown measures, as well as South Korea.

Most important is understanding the virus in the community - getting people tested (which they don't have to do), and spotting trends (positive person lives in "X" community, we get data on how many people also test positive in the same place) is more important than knowing whether you were in close contact with your friend Betty or where you were at 13:37 5 days ago.

It's hilarious Google/Apple thought "hmm yes, Bluetooth! The perfect protocol to help prevent the spread of a pandemic", and it has spectacularly, and utterly failed. Their APIs are an embarrassment and should've been removed a long time ago. Their arrogance in thinking that crappy protocol can have any part to play in human health/wellbeing is just mind mindbogglingly idiotic.

Apps will not help a pandemic, apart from in the US where they masturbate over your data and want to know your location every second, who your contacts are, who you talk to, what messages you send them, how they can profile/target you better for ads, and how they can feed "big data" machines to later fuck you/others over with more measured/accurate data or AI systems (like clearview) for law enforcement. Hence the whole no US-wide "GDPR" thing because they really want your data.

If your testing capability is low, and if people are not being tested, then everything else is a waste of time. Then you add in societal failures like not getting sick pay, or paid time off if you've got the virus, or incentives to work regardless and you realize 'contact tracing' is just another data gathering excuse.

Because we don't 'contact trace' the flu, or other sicknesses, we accept them as they happen and are a part of life. As the Coronavirus dies down, it'll be in the same bucket, where people just have it, get over it, and that's all there is to it.

Contact tracing has failed in any substantial form, as the recent outbreaks across the world have demonstrated.
what BS is this @dang talking about on the pinned comment?
> If only. CON laws and their analogues form monopolies in the true sense - businesses who are protected from competition by law. But hey, what's wrong with that?

CONs are a tool - and they can be used for good, or used for bad. Obviously cases where they're misused will attract media attention and no-one thinks about why CONs exist in the first place:

I understand that CONs exist to prevent over-supply of medical services in one area to the detriment of another, or to prevent the inefficient - or inhumane - distribution of medical resources given the US' healthcare system and hospital builder's and operators motives.

In an economic sense: in poorer and rural areas you'll find higher rates of people being uninsured, which means the hospital will have to deal with more indigent patients which can be very expensive - without having enough wealthy patients effectively subsidizing the poorer patients. In the case of emergency care, federal law requires ER departments to treat everyone regardless of ability to pay or insurance which will be hugely expensive - and in non-emergency care you'll simply have fewer paying patients overall - meaning less revenue for a hospital - this means that even the most altruistically run non-profit hospital would rather set-up shop in a wealthier area than a poorer area. This then leads to poorer areas being under-served, which then leads to greater disparities in socioeconomic and quality-of-life outcomes. This is not good for a well-functioning society.

The other reason concerns the negative consequences of having hospitals competing with each other. I assume we all know that (and why) having two hospitals in the area will not result in lower sticker-prices for services or will necessarily improve the quality of the patient-experience (besides bigger marketing budgets...) - competing for patients is one thing, but when they start competing for staff, doctors, specialists - and competing for limited resources (e.g. Covid-19 test kits, medical supplies, etc) that pushes expenses up sharply. This is also not good.

So yes - just like the New York Taxi Cab Medallion system, the Certificate-of-Need system can also be used to artificially restrict supply for the worst reasons - but it has its place, and provided it's well-administered it will be essential to ensure certain efficiencies until the US gets its act together on healthcare like most of the developed world already has.

(If my understanding of the nature of CONs is incorrect, please let me know in a reply - I understand there's an increasing general consensus in academia and public-policy against CONs lately, but I'm also suspicious that people may conflate CON systems in some states that so-far appear to be working well with CON systems in states with a history of regulatory-capture and legislative abuse. Obviously I'd prefer non-CON to a poorly-run CON system, but from what I can tell a well-run CON system is better than non-CON).
SMS is the backup if all of the data using messengers fail. They generally don't.

In Romania everyone is on Whatsapp. It has basically replaced text messages.

Actually, any widespread messaging app is better than the original text messages. And don't even get me started on MMS.
It also depends on the phone itself. Different regions (and countries within those regions) use different LTE bands. Phones will generally support all bands within one region, but may not do so across regions.
Remembering what you Read: Zettelkasten vs. P.A.R.A
Sure.

Looking at it in the most generous fashion possible, it's an example
of what happens when the low-hanging fruit lasts so long that people forget what ladders are for.

Looking at it with the experience of two decades spent in and around this industry, it's the latest in a long and depressing series of reasons why unicorn factory farming needs to die.
Why can’t you put AP in the corner of the L?
When Voyager 2 Calls Home, Earth Soon Won't Be Able to Answer
Yes, Champerty in particular. I agree that the English rule would help, but it's not enough because you have to pay for your expenses during the lawsuit, even if you are confident of ultimate success that can be impossible.

Litigation finance (enabled by getting rid of rules against Champerty) fixes that.
“Abortion is never medically necessary” - https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=508941603187665

Fact Check - https://sciencefeedback.co/claimreview/lila-rose-claim-that-...

If you actually watch the video, her point seems to be removing a baby which will die and possible hurt the mother is not an abortion.

The fact checkers state it's "No True Scotsman". Ok, but they never would use that against "Defund the police"

And that is the problem.
There is a limitation for that.

"A surcharge may be applied if:
* you use roaming services more than domestic services and spend more time travelling than in Finland"

https://www.traficom.fi/en/communications/broadband-and-tele...
> In fact many singles continue to date and have sex.

Sounds like the sort of people that those who are worried about their lifelong lack of intimacy should be meeting!
I think most Americans do implicitly treat it as one continent because if you talk about Central America you kind of have to, otherwise Central America would be part of North America and that's just weird.
What Is Resilience Engineering?
If weaknesses can be known in advance, then they can "just" be incorporated into the training environment. Unless you can feed the sensors "false" data, there aren't necessarily that many possible exploits.
U.S. Covid-19 and World War 2 mortality rates, interim comparison
There is a difference between information asymmetry existing and deliberately creating one.

I don't think anyone should be allowed to use their market position to do that.

With regards to typical retail, I think that's a bit of a wonky analogy as it's not a competitor in this case, it's the company themselves. That being said, things like that have been done. Not exactly the same but in the same spirit is printing the "retail price" on the box to prevent 3rd party sellers from just charging whatever they want.
Second link just goes to the CT home page for me.
Automate third-party tools without API or writing a single line of code
The pithier article (linked to from the above) is at

https://blog.thewalr.us/2017/09/26/raspberry-pi-zero-w-simul...
Beautiful. To clarify for others yet to read the article, this is about an artificially designed human language, along the lines of Esperanto and Toki Pona ("a micro-language of 120–125 words created by Canadian linguist Sonja Lang").

My favorite section:

> Speaking Mini means speaking like a caveman. Precise terminology is replaced with crude physical description. Words like bird, tower, or salsa in English are Minified as animo selo (sky animal), loke baton (cylinder place), or vasa veji fogo (fiery vegetable liquid). People are not beautiful or intelligent; they merely ave e mira bon (have a good appearance) or pensa bon (think well). One cannot run or cook; one can only kamino velo (walk fast) or fogo e manja (fire the food).

> Despite these limitations, Mini still functions as a speakable language and has been battle-tested in a way that most constructed languages have not: by being continuously spoken by myself and my (unfortunate) family members and acquaintances. The vocabulary and range of discussable topics may be quite limited, but the language works: people can successfully communicate in Mini.

I see some similarities with programming languages, in that the ones most likely to "succeed" in terms of usage, are the ones that were dog-fooded by the creator and associates, used in production over time to make it practical.
In his case, he will find an interested historian who will do it for free or get grant money.
Sounds a bit like Free in late-90s french internet which just set the entire market on fire (to the significant benefit of consumers).

Hopefully unlike free they don't become entrenched players resting on their laurels.
You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

— Matthew 6:24
API Testing Can Save You Thousands
Can someone explain how these tracks were preserved on a sand dune?

As far as I know a sand dune moves constantly. I can't imagine tracks would last a day.

Looking at the tracks it looks more like they were made in mud and later covered by sand dunes?
The risc of losing a trade mark is close to none!!!

Only if your trade mark become a generic symbol is there any chance to lose it, and only if it is your trademark or something super similar and not something distantly similar.

I.e. this is just bulling and nothing more, Apple's only potential benefit is to try to deter other companies from ever using logos based on Apple's or peaches, which would be a cost abuse of power (even if legal). Oh, it they plan to bring it a similar app and try to hampper competition, which again would be abusive behavior.

But risc to their trade mark never did exist because that (or more or less any other) pear trade mark!
I think the idea is that if calling external C binaries is a problem, then a kernel written in C is an even larger problem. It was meant as reductio ad absurdum.
RoHS applies to solar panels since 2006, so they should not contain any lead, at least in the EU.
Hi guys, here you can see quick video how I am able to manipulate some web tool without API or writing a code. Automatio is tool I am working on with my team for last ~2 years. Would like to hear if you have some thoughts.

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Less than 1% of web have API. This means if the website or web app doesn't provide API, you will need to build a bot and automate it. If you are not programmer, it means you will need to hire someone to do it, which takes a lot of time and money. Even if you are a web developer, still it gonna take you days or weeks, depending on complexity. But!

Meet Automatio
This is how you can automate third-party tools without API or writing a single line of code. In this case, I am automating a website/tool for checking domain authority (DA) of the given URL.

Automatio will be able to deal with the complex scenario of inputting data (URL) into the input field, then solving Google re-captcha, clicking on the submit button, and then extracting the data we need.

Video URL: https://youtu.be/3KMDeQo8In8

Built with: Automatio - No Code Web Automation Tool https://automatio.co
Your example does not seem easier to me.

The point, ex comments, is that it removes all the crap about scenes and setup and output and memory and types. Nobody cares, human time has value, machine time is free, and it's 2020.

Also, it's more expressive (more meaning in less space), which is a great feature.
Extensions for FEM modelling is something I would like to see with AngelCAD. That would be cool.

I don't know Julia but you can build a front end to the AngelCAD boolean engine and by-pass AngelScript if you so prefer. Flexibility is a key idea.
CSS Interview Questions and Answer
Does anyone support Apple in this at any level? I see no reason.
The 3 strikes rule is indeed a problem, but besides that the parent still has a point. A lot of the low-value robberies involve threats or violence, where as high-value art thefts pretty much never do.
Except people have absolutely no obligation to any authority aside from the actual legislation in terms of lockdowns and what you are allowed/not allowed to do. The cummings story was basically the end of anyone actually respecting the government and their policies.

Do I need to take a test? No

Do I need to talk to a contact tracer? Nope

Do I need to share any information? Also no.

Because when the policy is against you every step of the way, you deincentivise people sharing valuable information, or encourage them to lie and perhaps maliciously/falsely claim you were near X person so they need to isolate too or just give them bad data, which is absolutely useless and meaningless.

The government haven't built a society that will respect what they want you to do, as if you do, you end up losing out in the process, such as missing weeks off work without 100% pay which is simply unacceptable.

People have absolutely no faith or trust in the government, and this pandemic has only highlighted many instances where they have gotten policy wrong, or why we shouldn't trust their "apps" (by releasing a trial app without doing a proper DPIA) or follow their policy as you end up getting fucked over.

People are already coming to the UK from abroad and not filling in their 'locator forms', nor are all of them being checked, nor are people being checked if they're isolating [1], which is probably for the best as even with a fine, it's likely better to just not bother giving them your information that will be stored for 7+ years (according to their privacy policy).

So until they fix that, nothing will change.

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/iexgg5/daily_me...
Any idea why systemd was not able to be reliably used, and had to use cron?

Is there a ‘fix’ for that ?

edit: This was not meant to be offensive. I was simply hoping somebody could offer how it could be used with systemd and remove the reliance on cron.
So how big a bomb do you need to take out the entire USA? Asking for a friend :)
No system is perfectly fair and hardly any system is fully unfair.

Unfairness can have many reasons besides the one you mention.

Fairness doesn't implement the current government is smart.

Your try to make people do unrealistic polarized decision which just do hurt everyone because the world isn't black and white it's a crazy uncontrollable mix of all imaginable colors.

Edit: and if thing are not black and white there is no need to highlight them alternating, because it doesn't alternate but is a constant fluently changing mix of all.
Payments in Japan are complicated.

Picture an iPad Pro screen full of nothing but different payment types -- all from competing vendors! -- and that's what the payment screen looks like at my local combini.

Some places will accept a NFC payment from my credit card, but still can't do ApplePay. Or they accept a wide variety of local NFC payments -- Suica/Pasmo, all the rest -- but not from credit cards. There's also a host of payment apps -- PayPay, LINE Pay, probably three or four others.

Plus JCB cards.

And a bunch of flavors in-between.
Staking Claims with Scheduled Tweets
Hela cells: an immortal human cell line used in scientific research since 1950s
Found this Adam Curtis documentary [0] that talks about the history of discovery of these cancer cells in the mid 20th century.

[0] https://youtu.be/R60OUKt8OGI
I think the fight is about the black and white version shown here: https://cdn.iphoneincanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/app...

But even then I can't imagine Apple is serious about this. Completely different business, style, form and brand names.

It is almost an insult to customers that could mistakenly take the pear logo for an Apple product.
The Kubernetes Handbook
What was false about plandemic? Smears/Ad hominems towards the creators don't count.
I have seen a description of the allied fighting in Normandy that concluded that it doesn't matter if your tanks are 6 times better if your enemy has 10 times the number of tanks.
You can create a tool to Monitor and Tweet Cryptocurrency updates in 30 min
I think GP isn't talking about the passport acquisition process but really the experience of living there. The culture shock is real and you're in for a rough surprise if you think Europe is anything like the US. For starters, you're going to find your that the role of English as a lingua franca is largely overstated. Depending on your personality, you may not completely adapt and end up going back home.
It’s pretty crazy isn’t it. Things like this are fun as pet projects but the stuff of nightmares in real codebase that need supporting for years and by a department that will have the usual churn of staff.

I’ve managed enough teams and enough code bases in my time to know that sometimes the smartest code is the least clever. If someone if finding the need to write a shell script in Rust then I’d suggest they need to re-evaluate the problem they’re trying to solve.
Very interesting, thanks :)
Thanks for this.

I had built [similar repository](https://github.com/computationalprivacy/unveil-pi-data-colle...) as a part of wifi data capture and visualisation experiment ([Project UNVEIL](https://github.com/computationalprivacy/unveil-deployment)) but it used external antenna.

Any links on how does underlying hardware work to enable simultaneous connections?
It's anachronistic in the sense that it was largely made obsolete by artillery advances during the 19th century, replaced by polygonal forts (which could even adapt to high-explosive payloads, and actually proved their worth in both world wars), as well as the more modern bunkers & fortified emplacements.

It makes a lot of sense when unlikely to face artillery and bombers though, as it's pretty straightforward and cheap to build and operate.

But it is a throwback to something which has largely become decorative in the lands or originate from.
Maybe if you compared the EU to NA, and ME with other ME, and SEA with other SEA you would have less cherry picking going on. Apples to apples.
It's not that simple: Ask the person under sedation wether they're conscious or unconscious.

If they answer, what does that mean?
Yes, doesn't the latest generation of smartphones already do this for the front camera?
Why facial recognition has led to false arrests
Spinning black hole powers jet by magnetic flux
I re-clicked and still don't see any jump cuts. The video actually has pretty standard film grammar, but cuts at a very quick pace. The Youtuber aesthetic you mention is full of abrupt jumpcuts.
Agree.

When once upon the time, I decided I was going to write a novel, I spent ages finding exactly the right tool that would do the typesetting exactly right and had all the features I just KNEW I needed. Never ended up writing a damn thing.

Eventually, popped open Notepad and actually did some writing. Felt amazing to just get started.
the computer was a fish
Would you really create an open-source chat software for companies?

In any case.. if a company would adopt such a software and then fire people because the software is not accessible, then a lot is wrong but it is not that software.

Protect employees' rights properly by all means but don't come up with stupid legislation that forces open-source software to do anything. This will just result in less open-source software or worse quality.

Sometimes I wish we could disable all open-source software for a few days, so people would actually value what others do for free. It seems to me that these days a lot of people think the are entitled to all kinds of things.
I understand and respect that point of view, if you buy something it os your property and whatnot, but the counter point to that is that Tesla when not running still pack +70kWh on 400v busbars so this isn't your typical iPhone repair either.

Yesterday I saw a video of a few people in a garage from what I assume is a garage in the US, salvaging the cells in a Tesla battery pack and not one of them had decent protective gear.

Again I don't disagree with you, but I understand why it might bea serious liability for Tesla.
The data is not adjusted for purchasing power. $1 goes much longer in South East Asia (India, Pakistan, etc.) than it does in North American, for example.
> I’m not sure why they think that bad actors can’t also sign up for a Gmail account

Because it requires a phone number? Or does fastmail do too?
Chrome, Firefox extension that blocks NSFW images using TensorFlow JS