skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing is keeping Uber and Lyft from determining their own terms. However, the terms they choose affect the taxes they pay and the benefits they provide. If they want certain terms, then they need to accept the regulations that come with them.

So I guess I'm not really sure what your point is. Is your point that companies shouldn't be required to follow labor/tax law? What's the difference between this and saying that you don't want to pay payroll taxes on employees? Or that you want to pay a lower rate? Or that you don't want to pay import taxes or that you don't want to follow required laws in what you may put in the products you sell? What exactly makes Uber and Lyft so special that they should get to choose what rules they are to follow?
To play devils advocate, part of the purpose of prison is to shield society from people who are particularly damaging to society. Repeat offenders have shown that even after being given repeated negative reenforcement, they will still carry out activities damaging to society.

I'm not sure life in prison is the answer, but it does make sense that repeated aggressions would be met with stronger negative feedback.
Nitpick: Fair-use is a defense for claims of copyright infringement, not trademark use violations; but trademark law does have built-in exemptions for parody though ( https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2019/10/08/parody-unde... ) so your point still stands.

However I would argue those stickers were parody.
The CDU is business friendly in the same way the Republicans are business friendly - it sure appears that way at first, with tax breaks or lowering regulations, but in the end it bites everyone in the ass, even businesses, when that means this allowed everyone to not progress and be left behind while around you other countries improved and got their shit together. Internet is one of these things, photovoltaics another (we used to be good in Germany, then the CDU (and to an extent the SPD) needed to protect the 20k workers in coal and created laws and regulations for that, in the same way killing off the PV industry with around 70k workers).
I take your point but according to the release details on the repo it was not 8Gb on one card but a server with 8 cards, each a Quadro RTX 6000 with 24Gb, and they're around £4k each currently, so the cost of the GPUs alone is £32k

https://github.com/mozilla/STT/releases/tag/v0.8.2
Agreed. The article describes it as "defense in depth" but then goes on to say that one person held all the keys. That's negligence on the part of the library and their reputation should rightly suffer for it.
I’ve seen videos of teenagers being careless with angle grinders but you don’t see homedepot freaking out.

Label things and write decent manuals don’t write broken software with safety as an excuse.
They take a cut from the banks (which may or may not be passed onto the retailer, I'm not sure).

Individual retailers do not form an agreement with Apple. Hell, retailers often don't even explicitly and individually support Apple Pay, it just comes through accepting standard contactless payments.
A list of websites that pay you to write technical articles
Getting paid to write technical articles is a great way to supplement your income.
Universal Bypass
if privacy matter for use use this https://privacytoolslist.com/#feed-reader open source rss readers and tools to manage your feeds
Old English had a letter called thorn that would eventually be replaced with the modern th or a y (ye olde is just said the old).

The y^e form was apparently used for the King James Bible in 1611 so it's plausible it might still have been a normal way of writing "the" as late as 1650, rather than as an affectation or abbreviation.

Edit: He also uses y^t for that which I hadn't noticed at first glance.
1 GB may show some statistics but it doesn't reflect the reality. Most of the time I find many other things matter like latancy, throughput,qos. I am currently on 45 mbps but still when i download it starts from 1 mbps and takes like 2 minute to reach 45 mbps meaning do matter especially browsing. However I must say during my intership at India the internet was very good. Its like 10$ and you are done for 1 month with free calls .
At $35 per gigabyte, visiting a badly written website could cost $0.5 just for opening a home page.

And it's not like people don't have FOSS tools to optimize images, or read for free on how to make browser load smaller or different format (like webp) of images on smaller screen devices.

Often times developers just don't care because it doesn't cost them anything.

So disabling all images in the browser is a must if one doesn't want to pay for grabage stock photos, and experience suffers on all websites as a result. I don't really consider sending all browsing data to Google by using their image optimization proxy as an alternative.
Are there any credible and peer-reviewed facts about it being a “plandemic”?
It’s back!

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/06/22/facetime-eye-cont...
The decorative aspect is actually a major piece of it's function here. It's intended to be highly visible, and maintaining a highly visible military presence is part of counterinsurgency tactics.

It's also a very French thing to do.
Desktop: native to web

- finally possible to have big apps in the browser

- for easy cross-platform

- can actually be used in hybrid apps, so cross platform includes mobile browses and apps (more on that see below)

- good for SaaS pricing

- bonus: sync across devices

Mobile: web to native

- notifications

- icon on home screen

- sensors

- performance (a really snappy UI is hard in any browser)

- easy payment and subscriptions

- discovery through the app-store

- integration (share button, storage)

- Actually you might see hybrids without knowing: menu and extra functionality natively, actual main-view is just a browser. Feasible since maybe 5 years, before apps where big because they had to bundle the browser. (twitter, insta, uber etc: https://www.excellentwebworld.com/hybrid-app-examples/ )

- and more meta: Apple doesn't want web-apps to become powerful because they can't get their 30% cut from them. (google is a bit more progressive: https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/your-first-p... )
And how do we move our spaceship?

I was amazed to know that theoretically we can move our solar system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3y8AIEX_dU
What if students swap phones, or pick up a burner phone? They can then go off campus with impunity. Apparently phones are used as student I.D. at Albion, but that won't stop anyone. Hide your phone near the entrance to campus when you leave.

Without surgical implants or home incarceration bracelets, you can't realistically track people who don't want to be tracked.
When the Magic Happens
2K USD one time is not a business
> I'll reiterate: it is often safer to embed short snippets of bash into other languages than to invert control and call out to other languages from bash. By calling out to bash, you do the majority of your work in better languages.

"It depends" is a better way of putting it. However the advantages of embedding Bash doesn't, in my opinion, make up for the problems it creates by obfuscating those calls. Putting Bash inside separate .sh files clearly draws attention to those calls.

It's the same reason Rust has the unsafe block - to draw developer attention to unsafe code. So what I'm talking about here is more idiomatic to Rust.

Not to mention this also creates potential surprises due to being a custom parser which could trip new developers on that code base. Smarter code creates fewer surprises, even if that sometimes means uglier code.

In short, if inlining a shell script in Rust seems like a good idea, then I'd suggest one would need to reinvestigate the original problem and possible solutions. There's bound to be a more predictable and maintainable solution out there, even if it is a little less interesting / fun / trendy.

> You're making a rather particular set of assumptions there.

Inlining code is often regarded as an anti-pattern. Separate out your concerns, separate out your languages. It helps with your IDE (eg syntax highlighting, code completion, etc), your code validation tools (eg Shellcheck), with humans understanding the code (path of least surprises), etc.

> The three you originally mentioned...

They weren't the original points I mentioned nor even the only points I've discussed since. They were only a breakdown of one of the points I had raised.
It’s less about technology per-se and more about mismatched incentives and a toxic business model. Facebook and most social networks are not incentivised to give you a “true” or at least unbiased version of the world, they are incentivised to tweak it as much as they want in order to increase engagement.

This wouldn’t be so bad if people were aware of this and would check alternative sources or take steps to mitigate that, but a lot of people seem to not know, forget or ignore this fact.

As a less serious example, I always create new music streaming accounts and start fresh (as a perk I get unlimited free trials) every month simply because none of them offer a permanent “incognito” mode and I find my recommendations forever poisoned just because I happened to check out an irrelevant song/album (or let friends use my phone to play music for a party and their tastes differ from mine). This is actually what I miss about radio, where you get an unpersonalized view of the current musical landscape - unfortunately ads are a dealbreaker so I just stick to “hacks” like this instead.
I'd love to hear these "details" that paint conservative-trump supporters and their quack-anon conspiracies as anything other than monsters.
Show HN: Pingr – Uptime Monitoring
All true, but still made me chuckle.
Chromium devs want the browser to talk to devices, computers directly
They attached a description of their methodology in the "Resources" section.
Even Google is trying to offload as much of these computations to on-device chips as possible nowadays though.

Their new Pixel has voice control entirely backed by on-device models for example.

I think SaaS is a stopgap for good ML, and that eventually enough of this will be open source, that basic tasks such as vision and speech will be cheap to solve for any company with high tech competency.
> The professor who taught my course on FEM said most of the commercial tools had FEM models not much more complex than the ones you'd make in a graduate FEM course.

I haven't worked in this space for 15 years so this might have changed, but back then no one used CAD tools for serious FEM modeling. The fundamental reason is that the requirements for a good FEM mesh are different from a good geometry mesh. Just one example from my work back then is that we had to follow modeling guidelines which required the use of quads with balanced aspect ratio only. Use of triangles had to be justified. We basically remodeled everything in the FEM software (PATRAN, FEMAP and lots of in-house tools in our case).
Looks like interesting tool. I am wondering how you are dealing with re-captcha, and can it solve other types of captcha?
Am I missing something or is this article very short on photos? I can see only three of the actually fortification under discussion, none of them particularly enlightening.
I switched from Gmail to using my own domain via ProtonMail. I persisted about 6 months with its terrible UX. Tried Mailfence next, same problem, lived with piss-poor UX for a few months before giving up. (I used Mailfence mainly with Apple Mail via IMAP, which was OK, but I frequently had to log in to their web interface to tweak settings etc, and it’s awful.)

Looked at a few others, but my need for a reasonable UX pushed me back to Gmail last year, this time with my own domain on G Suite (I figured paying a fee means I’m marginally better protected from account lockouts and other Google shenanigans, and at least I can take the domain with me when I leave). It’s so nice not to be constantly battling with email these days. But... in the back of my mind I do still want to get my email off Google. For privacy, control, and because I think getting off other Google services will be easier after that.

If I’m going to put the effort into switching again, I feel it might as well be to a somewhat privacy-focused email service (preferably not located in Australia or any jurisdiction that could force the company to break their own privacy guarantees without telling me). It doesn’t need to replicate Gmail’s feature set perfectly — I’m willing to put time into learning a whole different approach to email if necessary, but only if the UX/design is coherent and inspires confidence. Has anyone with similar requirements got any recommendations?
Show HN: Django REST Framework Boilerplate with JWT and Swagger
Apparently called an index or manicule with examples spotted from the 12th century..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_(typography)
For quick coronavirus testing, Israel turns to a clever algorithm
Maybe your plastic.

Mine is transported several miles away, where it is buried and can then leech into the river, which is used as our water supply downstream.

But, yeah, who decided to put the water treatment plant next to the landfill?
Other nations built castles in Afghanistan using the same HESCO bastion [1] techniques shown in the article, don't think they were as interesting shapes though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesco_bastion
>Efficient high-throughput SARS-CoV-2 testing to detect asymptomatic carriers

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/08/20/sci...
Google Meet Matrix Rain
Hm, yes, I've always like that term. Maybe it's time to re-popularize it. The issues it points at are more relevant than ever, and it's really, really urgent now that more than anything else we understand that we are all, after all, in the same boat.
My brother arbitrages and does none of that - just arbitrages off list price.

There are people that just don't shop around, he can literally charge a little more or around the same price, the key is getting good rankings on Amazon.

Many people searching Amazon are just looking for something, they don't care about a few dollars here or there.

So as long as his price is reasonable, and he can get ranking ... it works.
Constant Time LFU
Of course not, that's why they resort to subversive name-calling, ie. "plandemic"
A campus map including blueprints solves "b". It's pretty easy to tell whether two Bluetooth broadcasters are in the same room or have a wall between them. Beacon-based asset tracking systems do this all the time.
VW's first mass-market EV suffers delay thanks to software struggles
I think it’s just a shortcut because of lack of experience with systemd (this is not intended to be offensive btw - if cron is already installed and you save time by just using what you know, why not?). I would be very surprised if cron could do something that can’t be done with systemd timers.
I just wish DDG would make the bang options available as a button, so I wouldn't have to type them on mobile. Adding "!g" to an existing query requires 7 taps, versus just 1 for a button (!)

I guess I'm stuck with Google search.
I really don't understand the title, the only toxic thing in there could be the lead based solder. How many solder joints are in there? 4 ?

Referring to solar panels as toxic trash is grasping at straws and it makes me wonder what motivation was behind writing up this article.
It’s not the data collection that made me want to leave, it’s:

1) your account can randomly disappear so you shouldn’t depend on it. Not just for political reasons but things like password reset using a heuristic that can fail leaving you permanently locked out.

2) the abusive anticompetitive behavior was starting to affect me directly.

3) very recently google has started deleting private data containing content they don’t like

If you leave over just the data collection that’s extremely noble IMO. In most cases that’s something that affects everyone around you more than it affects you.
For instance, https://verymobile.it/ (new MVNO from WindTre) has a 6.99 / 100GB promotion (if you switch from certain operators)
In Australia, it's amazing how much we've regressed since the last pandemic.

Today, we have a virus spreading unchecked through immigrant communities. The thing is, the sex workers and heroin users of the 1980s managed to contain AIDS. Yeah, that's right: it's harder for Africans and Indians to look after themselves in today's Australia than it was for junkies and whores 40 years ago.

All the things we're getting wrong now, we got right then. There weren't any fines for unsafe sex—death was considered a sufficient penalty—but there were AIDS council reps interrupting you at the toilet block and suggesting that now would be be a good time to put on a condom. And it worked.
I think it 's part of controlling the narrative. What if the big corps were actually behind the fetishization of and obsession with privacy and data collection? What if it acts as a distraction or cover for whatever other negative initiatives they might take? If they can control the opposition to focus on "privacy and my data versus big corp" it's a win. I think controlled opposition is an essential part of narrative management and PR strategy for entities that are large or sophisticated enough.
If you define credible as being information coming from or being adjacent too the CDC/WHO/NIH opinion as many platforms are using as the defacto standard despite an extremely questionable history (understatement) of truthfulness (They praised Chinas openness to sharing information at the start of the virus...) then of course not.

Did you actually watch the video?
See GitLab’s public docs (handbook) for how they handle meetings. I haven’t seen a better process yet.
Have you read the book ‘Natural Capitalism’?

There is a point made that the current costs are not adequately addressed, and instead externalized to the public.

It was written in 1999.
It also seems the menus were designed by designers that had no "performance budget" cap - looking at performance, the menus only hit a sensible FPS when on the loading screen. The sheer amount of animation and transparency in the main menu seems to be the cause of poor performance and GPU fans resembling jet engines, and totally needlessly at that!

I can't see anything else bottlenecking the system elsewhere on performance - it really does seem like the overall game missed out on any real performance optimisation.
I hate to rain on a good rant, but do you have any actual data to back up all these strong assertions?

Contact tracing (the old fashioned kind) works quite well when it's done aggressively and case counts are low. However, for most of the Western world neither is true, and throwing Bluetooth at the problem isn't going to help. Neither can it magically prevent infections from people who don't know they're contagious, which we've come to realize is a significant feature of how COVID spreads.
This bit me when I was building a custom keyboard. I really love OpenSCAD but these mesh-based tools can produce files usable by CNC machines.

I eventually found CadQuery (https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery) which can create non-mesh STEP files. It’s a lot rougher then OpenSCAD but usable.
YouTube recommendations are really annoying. I don’t want to see 50 million variations of the same video. Impossible to discover new concepts etc
Paragon submits 27k-line NTFS driver to Linux kernel
The things about the cheap mobile data plans in Israel is, that you sell you a 50 GB/month or 200 GB/month even if you absolutely don't need it. You can't (?) get a 2 GB/month plan.

So it's the price that stays fixed and the amount of data that goes up.

I'm usually quite critical of the state where I live (Israel) - oppression, social inequality, racism corruption in government... but at least we have decent mobile plans for 10 USD/month. That's something I guess.
Apple is being what Microsoft was a decade back. It's only a matter of time when people start hating them so much, it'd cost them the next decade.
Stripe Atlas vs. Startomatic
AFAIK South and North America belong to two independent tectonic plates that happened to merge a few millions of years ago; North America was part of Laurasia, while South America was part of Gondwana and it was originally attached with Africa.

So I guess you can indeed argue that North and South America are two different continents...
Apple Enters $ 2T Club, GitHub’s Chinese Counterpart and More in This
"On iOS I guarantee that if the App Store had even one alternative, many apps would do the same and bail on Apple, and you’d see a similar ghost store."

This earned a serious out loud laugh. Are you actually being sincere?

An app store that is widely trusted, and that has been the most successful, most profitable venue for independent developers in history (by a magnitude) is going to be abandoned because you, the developer, find it a hassle? Epic Games, as one example, has made far more from the App Store than any other platform...yet it's their target? LOL.

Uproarious stuff. Reading through these various absurd, fully detached from reality comments (I most like the highly upvoted fan fiction nonsense - "I have a super successful app on the App Store and I'm abandoning it because the Android Play Store is such a greener pasture" -- everyone pretends that the Play Store doesn't have virtually the same policies)

Some developers of fringe stuff might abandon it, and every other developer would welcome your departure. The rest of us will enjoy a trusted, lubricated, very successful platform.

Sidenote - everyone always goes on about the 30% cut. Right now my Costco has iTunes cards for 85 cents on the dollar (e.g. $85 for $100 gift cards, and clearly Costco is getting a cut of that amount). This deal is fairly regular, and gives buyers a sense of "value", and fills up lots of grandparents storage until birthdays and Christmas roll around. And then another few billion appear in developer accounts. What a crime.
I'm developing a cross-platform widget toolkit for Electron and Chromium-based browser called Xel [1]. The next major version of the toolkit (to be released later this year) is going to support dark mode and several new themes [2].

[1] https://xel-toolkit.org/

[2] https://boxy-svg.com/ideas/90/preferences-theme-setting
Caring, however, does have a cost. Not every website owner knows how to create lean, efficient websites.
While technically that works the resulting STEP files aren’t anymore useful than an STL. You can’t send them to a CNC machine.
"They" was just WHO. And you can't discuss this without mentioning the manipulation of coronavirus data here in the states.
I guess the .xcsg format is part of xcsg rather than AngelCAD, and the xcsg README.md doesn't mention being able to write out .xcgs files. Most CAD systems allow you to make multiple changes to a design, I don't see that with this system.

STEP is not an entirely different domain.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/86487

Also:

> Willis: Is it safe to say that anything that cannot be patented has been shut down intentionally because there's no way to profit from it, all these natural remedies that we have had forever?

> Mikovits: Absolutely, that's fair to say.

While obviously there are abuses from time to time (if you want a good example, check out the history of leaded gasoline :-| ), what she's saying is absolutely crazy. You're not going to cure cancer with "natural remedies". You're not going to cure Alzheimers with "natural remedies". That alone is enough to discredit the source.

You don't even need to go too deep into character assassination, it's blatant that she's an untrustworthy source if you actually do some research, instead of going on gut feelings.

I can't believe I'm having this discussion on HN...
No idea! I spent some time debugging it, but it just does't make sense it works with cron and not with systemd. Let me know if you have any idea where to look!
I saw the apt install cron, and wondered what the solution w/out cron entailed.