skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> US law power stops at US borders.

This also means US companies can ignore GDPR.
Sales can definitely feel like that. Without more context on your market, decision maker personas etc. the one piece of advise that I can give confidently is this:

Start with Senior Sales Leadership. Ideally someone with experience in your target market.

Reach out to a few individuals, in your network or on LinkedIn or similar. Ask them for advice, see the type of advice they provide. If you like them, ask them to recommend someone – the hope is they recommend themselves.
Replace leaves with tumbleweeds. Or whatever natural debris we have in the west.

The leaves were causing damage to the solar panels. I imagine other types of debris would do the same.

But I'd be happy to be wrong. Have you asked why this hasn't already been done yet? Or if it has (besides the example I provided), what was the outcome?
Putting the common word first also helps IDEs with search and tab-completion. Type "Animal" and you get a list of Animal-things (classes, functions, variables, or whatever) that apply to the context you're in. (Edited for clarification)
Evaluating 3rd Party Libraries
>You make it sound as though developers have some grand scheme against Android.

No, it's simply the same sort of tribalism that drives so much of American culture. The black-and-white, good-vs-evil format warring is nothing new; as always, it's driven by a kernel of legitimate difference and a whole lot of snowballing bias. What needs to happen is for developers to pull their heads out of their asses, realize just how enormous the Android market is, and supply experiences that justify paying for software (especially in a climate where most users don't see anywhere near the value they give in personal data returned in software utility).

>Tango launched on a single phone that no one bought

That doesn't matter. Tango was the cutting edge of mobile XR, which is a space that still won't be mature and profitable for years from now. The point would have been to get a jumpstart on developing port-able technologies and UX norms. Can you imagine how much more solid app development would have been if someone had showed up in 2003 and said, "In 10 years, multi-touch display smartphones will become the norm. Here's a dev kit that approximates what will be possible."? That's Tango. I don't know how you can argue that opportunities weren't missed or pushed back years because of this platform bias. Now the space is even contracting somewhat because Apple marketed ARKit (and forced Google to market ARCore) as a consumer-ready platform, and companies are realizing that it isn't (control isn't figured out, UX isn't figured out, applications aren't figured out; we're JUST getting the basic technology layer above ARKit/Core figured out). If we'd taken Tango seriously, we'd be so much farther ahead.

This goes for so much in the iOS/Android dynamic. It's dumb.
The vocabulary he chose to express this building is rather ungraceful in concrete, quite unlike his curvilinear works. The main issue is that the post-beam elements in the facade are poorly scaled. I haven't seen the plans, nor the section, so possibly the 'masterpiece' is inner beaty, but on the outside, it is a jumble of poorly scaled elements.

Also to call this, as the (know-it-all) Economist does, a "modern classic" is wrong. This is a pseudo-brutalist work, hardly high modernism. The contemporary Seagram's building (1958) is Modernism.

Another contemporary work relevant here (Paul Rudolph's Yale School of Architecture, 1963) shares some of the vocabulary of this work. And Rudolph knew how to design rectilinear concrete buildings. Saarinen clearly didn't.

[p.s. It is possible that the scale distortions in the front are (building) program driven, to address security considerations. The crit remains.]
Sure but they are more expensive. You need a rock solid controller with beefy and redundant electronics to make sure you're never going to be connected to the grid when you shouldn't be.
I’m sure overall prevalence in CA has a ways to go to catch up to NY (NY “cases” is a massive undercount compared to CA’s moderate undercount) but they’ll get there soon enough.

The takeaway to me is that unless you are willing to exert extremely strict border controls, localized quarantines and hard lockdowns of hotspots, and pervasive test & trace, indefinitely, then you wont keep Rt below 1 without the benefit of some herd immunity.

Hence lockdowns should either be as minimal as possible, encouraging low-risk populations to be out and about while high-risk populations shelter.... Or, you need an extreme and extraordinary response until widespread effective vaccination.

Small island nations may find they can choose the second path (although it’s not guaranteed, Hawaii has recently failed at it) but the vast majority of the world should choose the first.

And we should stop politicizing it, because largely everyone is in the same boat and will hit all the same endpoints.
Seems that at least for cases on a per-capita basis, LA got it worse than CA during both humps:

http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...
It's probably related to the fact you were using a VPN. I.e., most people would use a vpn when looking for prostitutes and all the other unsavoury things you saw in your facebook ads.
I mean, that's the NSA. Does the border patrol share resources?

That being said, you are of course correct.
Borders are constitution-free zones, didn't you know?
I agree, Pulau Ubin coverage is pretty good, but that isn't indicative of the rest of the places. I'm a consultant and I travel quite a lot around the city.

My criteria isn't just having 4G, but able to actually use it in decent speeds.
This is where Singtel sucks for me - the 4G logo will show on your phone, but pages will never load due to poor connectivity, even with 5 bars. I had this issue across three phones - iPhone, Sony and Samsung.

Singtel ALSO seems to do lot of throttling on videos depending on
where in the city you're as well.
I think you have it backwards. He’s saying Americans don’t have to address superiors by their titles and we act like that’s a victory when our workplaces are totalitarian in every other way.
It’s an interesting service, although your pricing model makes for a very tough sell (and complex to even technically consider - ab tests? Need detailed sales data too? Forget it...)
As long as they don't do business in Europe.
He also wears brightly colored contacts and opens his eyelids extra wide to create an uncanny-valley fake-human youtube persona.

His lightbox setup is better than his mom's, but everything else about his setup was worse.
Gassée predicts doom again.
does tor’s problem with large amounts of data stem from a lack of operators or the nature of tor itself?
May you share some details on that, because, with all due respect, it sounds unrealistic. Unless you've omitted some big piece of the puzzle.
Even today a common misconception among white doctors is that black people have thicker skin than white people or even that their nerv endings are less sensitive.

https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/how-we-fail-black-patient...
Galileo had no idea that the force that made dropping objects fall was the same force that keeps planets in their orbits, that it was one universal force. That was Newton's contribution.
We're not suffering from autism spectrum disorders; we're suffering from people starting at us.
I've heard that 5 eyes can only process 20 precent of what they collect a day. I'm not sure what they do with the 80% at the end of the day considering that pipe is constantly getting more feeds.
Why did you oversimplify "unprecedented policy of expelling migrant children from the U.S. southern border without giving them an opportunity to seek humanitarian refuge" to "deporting foreign nationals living illegally?"

Because the former is clearly less partisan.
The point is that if forking a process to invoke an external C program to run in another address space is "unsafe", directly calling into the OS (like making that fork call) should be considered "mega unsafe".
Petabytes of deepfake porn featuring US Border Patrol chiefs
The latest edition of the Economist had an article about the recent coup in Mali, and about the (rather obvious) need for institution-building rather than pure military interventions by European powers: https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2020/08/19/...

Mostly unrelatedly, whenever I see these types of forts I am reminded of the forts that workers build in Civ 5, which are equally useless
True, but if you are on US soil, you fall under US jurisdiction for, e.g., contempt of court.
Flat (really, parallel to ground) doesn't matter -- you just need to adjust the angle of mirror to match.
Tony Timpa died because of this and the two cops compressing his lungs by standing on his back. And the cops suffered no consequences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X4PUwrq8tA (NSFW, maybe... but very troubling either way)
The magic is friendlier to beginners than to intermediate/advanced programmers.
One factor not asked is pricing...
This might apply to some frameworks.

There are 3 general approaches:

* Web technologies (Electron or any WebView)
* Wrappers (eg. react-native, Xamarin)
* Using a cross platform framework with some UI code (or additional UI renderer). (eg. cpp: QT, JUCE; java: swing or the newer ui toolkits).

In terms of performance,
The major question is the impact of the UI.

Are you in need for video? do you need super-awesome FPS with custom GPU shaders?

If you need super-fine control on the entire UI, meaning, the app IS the UI :) (or at least it's a major part of it) - then writing close to metal (OpenGL --> Vulkan/Metal) might be the best starting point.

If your app can also run in a web-browser without compromises then starting a web-based development would be best.

TL;DR -
I feel that there's need to scope the UI needs to decide which is best.
It doesn't strain credulity for me. Most descriptions of the black victims of police brutality by law enforcement inflate them to a monstrous size, and use animal metaphors to describe their terrifying faces.

Never underestimate the degree to which racism is driven by actual, irrational terror.
You can already script OpenSCAD with Python using SolidPython https://github.com/SolidCode/SolidPython.
It would be up to the courts if you've done anything wrong though - downloading a torrent file isn't illegal, per TFA. Who's to say you followed through with a torrent client to use it?
Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform
Hmm could you not just encrypt your data and leave the key at your house and throw one away before you reach the border. They can have all of the “data” that they want.
Agreed on self-hosted search. I wrote a post in Feb. 2020 describing localhost installation of searX, which I've using since then as my interface to web searches. At times I revert to Google, e.g. for image searches, but I do that logged out of my Google accounts.

Non-Docker Local Installation of searX on Linux: https://persagen.com/2020/02/02/searx.html
If you are wearing a headset, what would your conversation partners see?
Honestly if you do try that, I think the legal system would be right to prosecute you for it. "The law is immoral" is not a legal defense against "You knowingly disrupted a law-enforcement IT system."
Well, how many people wearing masks (pre-pandemic) would be trying to avoid getting identified while committing a robbery? How many people pushing the officer away would be trying to attack them next? Does police have a way of knowing in advance, whether this exact mask-wearing arrest-resisting individual is actually a threat?

I don't think it is entirely fair to put 100% of the blame on the police. A much healthier solution would be to try de-escalating general tensions between the police and the population.
It's for video-calls, which don't need mouse and keyboard.
He doesnt. He’s criticizing how Americans pretend the hierarchy doesn't exist while allowing its worst abuses to continue, instead of acknowledging it and treating people fairly within it.
Right, but doesn’t this awkwardness come from you growing up in a culture (I assume U.S.) where depictions of nudity are taboo?

If this taboo wouldn’t have existed for you as a kid I’m not so sure the awkwardness would exist for you as an adult. As a sample size of 1, coming from a country where there is much less of a taboo I feel very differently on this topic.
calling external code from Java adds latency.
I'm in the same sitch. Right now I'm working on building my own UI toolkit, it's annoying that I have to do it, but I like the control. I'm using Rust with https://github.com/cytecbg/gpucanvas for rendering and I'm porting parts and pieces of nanogui https://github.com/wjakob/nanogui.
I would like to reiterate: delete your facebook account. Do not allow yourself to be party to a clearly corrupt system, when the upside is a messaging app and a convenient way to share baby photos. Facebook's power is it's ubiquity; you do not need to make yourself an instrument of that power.
IMHO it’s not sex that’s the real problem for teenagers, but rather extreme sexualisation. And that doesn’t require nudity.
Most of those cases have been related to the 4th, not the 5th right?
> buy for parity, build for competitive advantage.

Yes. As Joel Spolsky put it in 2001:

“If it’s a core business function — do it yourself, no matter what.”

— Joel Spolsky, In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/14/in-defense-of-not-...
For those interested in a better model than simple Left/Right:

https://www.politicalcompass.org/
Assuming "modern weapons" means light arms carried by modern infantry: These are different from a castle. If the enemy makes a mad rush for the breach, they're going to get cut down by your guns, so the walls are more to provide cover from enemy fire than to physically keep them out.

Assuming "modern weapons" means bombers, tanks, cruise missiles: this is not going to stop them at all.
Respectfully, your bio says your work is “privacy-focused”, how is that compatible with an “if you have nothing to hide...” style argument?

As the article states the “border” area encompasses a population of 220M people and every traveler coming in and out of the US.

Take CBP acting as Trump’s personal force in quashing protests as another data point.

They’ve all but dropped the pretense this work is focused on preventing illegal immigration and we ignore that at our peril.
I do agree on avoiding electron if possible as users do notice. I've seen folks who perhaps don't know the intricate details of software run into performance issues.

A public example: Dwyrin is a YouTube streamer playing Go/Baduk. After most streams he reviews the game and likes an app called Sabaki. About 8:10 minutes in, he remarks on the performance of the app (https://youtu.be/vrX4qlbpQfU?t=492). Sabaki is an electron based app.

I do however disagree with removing right click / highlighting. That makes copy paste difficult or impossible for the typical user. I spent years working on Silverlight and UWP and one of the things I recall the team looking back on particularly with Silverlight and regretting was that TextBlocks by default didn't have highlightable text. Its too useful for users sharing error messages with you as the developer or data with each other to get their jobs done.
If you haven't, what's the harm? Where are the damages?
Almost everything you need to know about SPACs
this is a great idea actually. or simply manage fake social media accounts with a fake persona that you update semi frequently either by hand or through an automated script. Login to these accounts upon arrival, then switch back to your real ones when you're clear.
It shouldn’t happen at all. The amount of people ok with “a little dystopian policing” is disturbing to me.
I've been working as a solo indie developer since 2005. I think being solo has advantages as well as disadvantages. So don't beat youself up about not having a partner.

one of the keys, from my experience, is early feedback. Start showing your product to people as soon as you have something that might be useful to someone. No matter how imperfect it is. Do not wait until it is polished. I wrote about that here: https://successfulsoftware.net/2007/08/07/if-you-arent-embar...
Have you spent much time driving in the empty areas of the west? You can go 100 miles without even seeing a tumbleweed.
I went to school here. The PRT was a staple of transit and culture. Being a 70's proof of concept, maintenance and retrofitting were a way of life. The cars were also controlled by DTMF tones that would play over the vehicle loudspeaker.

I also recall one professor telling me that after they could no longer repair the mechanical parts of the PDPs that ran the system, they programmed an emulator that ran on a pentium III but the software itself never changed. The hardest part of the emulation was apparently getting the timing correct as the original system simply ran at the max speed for the original hardware.

Every few years that PRT would have a problem and in addition to getting outside consultation, they'd have a context in the engineering school to fix the problem. Generally the student body was pretty fond of it.
When June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller Tried to Redesign Harlem
As someone with presbyopia, and light myopia that first developed around the time I hit 30, who used to have excellent vision, I promise you that sooner or later you'll regret not thinking about accessibility.

For the record, the default choices for text size here on Hacker News are an example of ignoring basic accessibility.
Yes, but any setup that's capable of feeding power back to the grid requires costly safety interlocks to allow linemen to make repairs at the street without your house unexpectedly energizing the line. Some jurisdictions just outright disallow it.
This made my day hahahaha. How long do you reckon it would take for someone to catch on?
Remembering Sir Ken Robinson
Repertoire of Greek/Hebrew/Latin-based letters used in mathematics
Because the population has been more cautious since then?
The setups have to be separate (e.g. different outlets for mains and solar) to protect the grid.

Even a small home solar installation puts out enough power to easily kill unsuspecting maintenance personell working on the grid, for example.

So the utility company has to have 100% control over he mains at all time for safety reasons (i.e. your meter must never run backwards). If they cut the power (e.g. for maintenance or repairs), no one must be able to feed power into the grid.

That's why even if you have a battery, said battery can either feed into the grid, or be connected to separate outlets in your house, but never both at the same time.
The problem with wifi, in a crowded environment, is the lost packets from the crowding. Which you allude to here:

> As with many city homes, there are many overlapping networks

Every single wifi network other than your own is a source of interference for yours, and interference impacts latency first, then when the interference gets bad enough, throughput is impacted.

You can paper over the issues with stronger signals, for a time, until the density of the surrounding networks grows (or others begin strengthening their signals because your stronger signals are now causing them excessive interference). But you can never escape the interference without moving somewhere very rural where you are the only wifi close enough to detect.

You can escape some of the wireless interference by switching to 5G wireless (much shorter range, so fewer other 5G wireless networks will be in range to cause interference and a much larger number of channels, so fewer collisions), but then you have to be operating within that shorter range of your own AP, which could again mean running some ethernet to bring the transmitters closer to where you need them to be to operate reliably.
Out of curiosity, what is your understanding of the rights afforded to individuals within the United States regardless of their legality? Especially with regards to applying for humanitarian refuge legally?

The perceived partisanship of this is directly related to what you consider the rights of the people versus what is written in law etc...
Edge used to be an alternative on Windows at least, but now it's also based on Chromium. :-( I'd always prefer Firefox, but if you want to avoid Google money, you're basically up to Microsoft or Apple. The latter tying you to a hardware monopoly.
Yes Google was found in violation of Antitrust regulations and corrected that behaviour. I'm not here to sing Google's praises, but that issue has been resolved.

Google only gets to decide what the default store is on Google's own phones. Samsung's phones come by default with their own store for example.

Customers only want choice if it gives them value and benefits. Choice without value is confusion and drudgery. A one stop shop that has everything at reasonable prices and vets out the rubbish is, by itself, a good thing for customers. Of course there is scope for abuse, the EU ruling is an example of that, but to me I don't see anything wrong with the basic approach. These are their products, I don't see that anyone else has much of a right to dictate how they design them.
That's an overstatement. The conceptual difference is that the U.S. system is limited to specific, known, legally prescribed situations, while the Chinese system is constant and ubiquitous. The U.S. system is far from perfect when you get down to specifics, but I'd definitely take it over the Chinese system.
> US courts and US law power stops at US borders.

No, it doesn't.

US “law power” extends as far as the enforcers of that power are able and motivated to extend their reach, which very often extends far outside of US borders.

OTOH, there's places and contexts where that reach tends to encompass more casually and with less case-specific motivation.
I'm not a US citizen, and I used to travel to the US from India occasionally before the pandemic. In reality there is no data that I have with me on my laptop or mobile device, that isn't already accessible to a nation state like the US. There is really no point trying to play games with US customs and immigration. You'll just irritate them and it won't end well.

The best strategy is to simply comply with all relevant US law and orders issued by officials at the border. And one should understand that at the border, a foreigner such as me will have very limited protections. In practice there are really no protections at all. People like me essentially rely on the goodwill of the US officials at the border.

For the most part they are polite and business-like. Its best to keep all interactions with them on a cordial basis and cooperate immediately and completely when ordered.
Yup. I use ProtonVPN on account of its Swiss jurisdiction and no-logs policy.

It’s not perfect, but puts up enough obstacles for me to feel better about it than some fly-by-night VPN
>These kinds of reactors you mention are vapourware and have been for quite some time.

Depends on a country:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREST_(reactor)

>The reactor uses nitride uranium-plutonium fuel, is a breeder reactor and can burn long-term radioactive waste.

I think existing BN reactors can also be used in the same way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-800_reactor

Yes, it's not 100% ready technology (e.g. there are problems with fuel fabrication), but I would call it last stages of development.
"A picture is worth a thousand words."

The effort that an individual devotes to their appearance does communicate to certain audiences your attention to detail, discipline, etc... in ways that a silver tongue alone won't. We can argue over the accuracy/applicability of any conclusions drawn from that, but in certain domains/problem spaces appearance is a very relevant assessment tool in building trust.
Excellent wording.