skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note though, that this rule is unique to (last I heard) USA and Eritrea. Eritrea of course has no infrastructure to enforce such a rule, but via FATCA the USA does. So it actually is basically unique in the world.
boy-oh; that list reminds me of the one scene in full-metal alchemist where they list the ingredients that make up a human
I'm surprised to see that UK steel production actually peaked in the late 1960s.
No doubt there is still room for a power-hungry out-of-order speed demon of an implementation, but you need to leave the door open for something with approximately the TDP of a very-low-power in-order-processor with performance closer to an out-of-order machine.
I feel that on a personal level. You can stop flying, reduce your consumption, sort your trash like your life depends on it etc, only for your next door neighbour to undo all of your work.

That's just in Central Europe, where people can afford to care. Go a little further out and you'll see really discouraging scenes. There are many countries where people drive the cars that failed the emissions test in Germany, with the German decals still on them. Recycling does not exist there. You can find towns by the plumes of smoke coming from their burning trash.

With more and more people gaining access to a certain living standard, I feel like it's a lost battle. There will be more cars, more consumption. Combine that with the other economical ills of this world, and I really doubt any vanguard efforts will see a reward.
Also it is far easier to produce counterfeit packaging than electronics in the US. If I was going to smuggle something in, I'd put it in other packages and then repack it here.

The best way to hide something is to mislabel it.
Ion thrusters already do this though. Even with conventional rockets once you're in space finding new fuel shouldn't be a big deal. It's just a matter of building the infrastructure. Right now leaving earth is still the biggest problem.
It takes different forms. In the US, the it was slavery, segregation and today police brutality and ideological oppression.

Yet the US, isn't alone in this. It never has been. For example, although the famous poem Whiteman Burden was about the American-Phillipine war, it was written by a British poet based on his view of British Imperialism. That legacy of colonialism lives on today throughout everywhere in the English speaking world.

As for the French, the less said about how they exploit the CFA zone countries, the better.

The Russians? Currently the leaders of European racism.

This isn't simply a topic isolated to a parochial country, far far away from the ideologically pure Old World. What occurs in the US was merely a Flashpoint.
I wouldn't, you misread :-)
Maybe it's evidence that AirPods are counterfeit OnePlus Buds.

If you want your customers to be assured of getting the genuine article you should put an actual trademark on your product. Apple shouldn't get to claim that anything with a minimalist design is a counterfeit Apple product.
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There is a massive difference between controlled burning at high temperatures in a power station and a little wood burner someone might have in their home.
There are also many products manufactured in the UK and exported to China, which are not counted as chinese CO2 emissions. And I don't mean just expensive cars like Bentley, Land Rover or Jaguar. British industry is quite huge.

E.g. all airplanes used in China were manufactured in Europe or the US, so you could say "China is outsourcing their industry to Europe and the US to keep their CO2 emissions low".
There's a lot of hack pseudo-scholarship going on in universities, almost all on the political left. Just yesterday there was this article on HN:

https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/09/11/whats-wrong-with...

And that doesn't include the various grievance studies, nor, epidemiology, which turns out to be absolutely full of hack papers that cherry pick their sources, abuse citations, make absurd assumptions and then bury them in appendices, etc etc. If Dr Fauci has been replaced (didn't know that) then that's certainly just fine given the overall level of intellectual rigour and integrity in the field. You could use a bunch of laymen and get more trustworthy output.

The problem you're decrying is the proliferation of pseudo-science in general, it's not a political problem.
Who Gave Time to India
> Software won’t be available and it will get in the way of anything productive I need to do.

This is Hacker News, where many of us are weirdos who prefer to do almost everything in Emacs. In that case, the software for these phones is definitely already available. What is still missing is the hardware keyboard like the Nokia N900 had.
Is she any good at lottery numbers?
A Paper Typesetting Editor Compiled with XeLaTeX
Yes, really, anecdote of one.

All the government projects I worked on, used SCM systems managed by government IT departments.

Also zero contributions were made back from the FOSS stuff that were used in the project, they were kept in their IT SCM repositories.
The US has never been more forested in the last 150 years.
Who you know, not what you know...
Ask HN: How do you prefer to study?
Online cources or offline? Self Study? And please write a few words why.
A typical FOSS has already a lot of customizability.

Yes, they want to have a lot of specific stuff, but it isn't that dramatic.
Did you publish your fixes so this could help others too? it seems like this repo is unmaintained atm.
Read this before committing on macOS:
https://steipete.com/posts/state-of-swiftui/
Neither Microsoft nor Oracle gets to buy TikTok US: Chinese state media
I haven't found Jetbrains IDEs to be slow in my personal experience. Assuming a beefy CPU and enough memory, I've found Intellij to be really zippy - instantly switching between files in large projects, no lag during text editing etc.

I can understand why you have this idea though - most other IDEs I have used have been noticeably sluggish compared to more lightweight editors even on high end hardware.
Copyright and patents don't make sense, obviously the CBP doesn't reverse-engineer on imported products. The CBP will only seize them if the case has been already litigated, which is not what's going on here. CBP claims they're counterfeits, so the remaining option is a trademark/trade dress infringement, or a design patent infringement. Now the questions boils down to: Does Apple own any trademark or design patent on the physical appearance of AirPods that justifies the confiscation? I'm waiting for someone to check it.
Skuudo, an agile platform for ethical hackers
Disclaimer: I am a part of Skuudo’s team.

Just wanted to share with the crowd that Skuudo has launched a beta testing program for its community solution for ethical hacking.

This project was born as the result of a hackathon conducted in Malaga (Spain) about 2 months ago, in July 2020. Thanks to Demium incubator for organising the event and being material in shaping up the team.

At Skuudo (in Spanish it spells “Escudo” - a shield), we strongly believe that ethical hacking tools should be not only functional but also easy and pleasant to use. We admit we are perfectionist a bit, hence we launched a limited beta testing program to shape up functionality and appearance of the solution first. Once the beta testing program is completed the community version will be available for everyone as well as its source code which will be licenced under GPLv3.

Few words about the tool, it is a cross-platform application (html5) that leverages agile methodology and automation to assist in various aspects of the security testing process:

Save your time and effort with the Agile Project Management that includes a rich visual Dashboard, Calendar and Kanban Boards for managing your daily tasks.

Forget forever about the nuisance of manually writing reports with Automated Reports and Smart Report Templates.

Never search Google again for cheatsheet-s or howto-s - discover and capture new knowledge with Patterns and Library.

Create and experiment with your unique hacking scenarios with Automation Playbooks. Include Automation Playbooks in your Patterns or Kanban Boards to automate every aspect of your projects.

Challenge yourself, learn and build your hacking skills with Skuudo’s Challenges.

So if you like to contribute with the project , you can join to the Beta Tester Team on skuudo.com.
That would make sense. Maybe they try to help their government prosecuting facebook comments, excuse me, serious hate crimes.
> I believe that all your complaints would be solved if you set the env var

And then you have two problems...and program that, by default, doesn't respect the terminal defaults and an env var you now need to replicate across every environment you use that tool on.

> Can you see my confusion though

No, I can't. I've been really clear right from the outset.

> You appear to be not asking for accessibility but saying that bat shouldn't support color themes that make use of 256 colors.

Exactly. Using terminal defaults is better for accessibility. I mean I have no issues with tools optionally supporting 256 or true colours, but don't make that the detault.

> It's not up to you how other people use their terminal

Exactly. Hence why developers should write tools that respect other peoples terminal defaults. If they use 256 or true colours then they're dictating how other people should use their terminals.

> If they like using more than 16 colors then that is perfectly alright and none of your business.

So support it as an optional extra. Just don't make it the default -- instead respect the other peoples terminal preferences by using the terminal defaults.

> accessibility concerns have unfortunately led to terrible vandalism: the removal of thousands of hours of video lectures from the internet by UC Berkeley.

That's a ridiculous edge case and has nothing what-so-ever to do with my polite request. I'm not asking people to remove content, just to respect peoples terminal defaults.
Also very similar to Zoom which also partnered with Oracle and immediately the zoom-is-in-bed-with-the-chinese-communist campaign ended.
AutoML as Easy as MLJar
Wow, you are right - we have a very stupid usability problem/bug! We validate the URI by the "http" part, and not the "www" etc. Thank you very much for writing!

I'm a bit shocked that we didn't notice this until now!

P.S. It's now fixed, we will deploy it with the next release in a few days.
The state of SwiftUI on iOS/macOS (is it ready for production?)
Except the Cadbury-Kraft debacle led to major reforms in how the UK regulates foreign takeovers.

In the case of Arm, the guarantees provided back in 2016 were legally binding, which is why we’re here, four years and another acquisition later, with Nvidia now eager to demonstrate it is standing by those commitments.

Maybe in this particular instance they did learn something?
That last statement is a bit weird. What do you mean by "universal healthcare"? Quite a few have what is basically Obamacare, i.e. mandatory health insurance purchases with subsidies for the poor.
I do jam out ideas on the ipad sometimes. Using iMS-20 or iMPC. I then record it into the DAW as is and replace the sounds on new tracks on the grid bit by bit.

FWIW your attempt to get the latency really low could be misplaced. If you play in a band for example and you are standing 5 metres away from the drummer the sound is already taking ~15ms to reach you. We're really good at adjusting to these timing differences and can handle much more latency seamlessly than you are designing for.

Micro-timing (otherwise known as groove) is much more important imo and you can train yourself to groove to your setup even if you have huge latency (though this is of course undesirable).
Yet if the whole environmental factor of shipping/transportation and production emission standards are factored in - those cheap imports would become less cheap and negate the need to allow some local production to almost die before noticing that it's unfairly suffering due to it having to comply with a higher level of environmental and worker standards compared to some import.

Hence you get workarounds happening like the example you mention about chicken tax - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax workaround that can play both ways, yet if there was a base-level standard and measure to balance things out, then such loopholes become less harder to happen, or needed. Alas the only common standards are weights/measures and currency, everything else does vary.

As an aside, I dare say that the history of importing chickens into Europe is more fascinating than most imagined, and one that still plays on even to this day.
The fuel is the reactor fuel. Literally the fission products of the uranium/plutonium in your reactor, from where the power you want to use for the EmDrive comes from, would beat this.

If the EmDrive actually worked, the correct use is to violate conservation of energy and momentum, not as a straightforward substitute for the engines we have now.
How does it fare, adjusting for inflation and other similar factors ?
I agree so much with this. I bet that 2 decades down the line, kids will look at pics of people roaming around with alien-probe like dangling earrings and thinking they look "cool" and judge them the same way my generation judged people in the 80s for their fashion sense (or the wall street types in the 90s/early 2000s for their douchey bluetooth headsets: https://www.blueshoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Bluetoo... )
No! It's so damn convenient. I wish I'd never got one.

I'm not walking the walk. I've seriously considered the idea for a long time, and it seems bound to happen. The issue for me is the convenience of having a podcast player + camera.

But, sigh, I'm not there yet.

I'll tell you what, I'll try to extract myself again over the next week.
I’ve never been satisfied with the definition of stress. My dad always said “If things are going good, that means you’re not trying.”

How do you reconcile normal challenges and hardships in life with what is defined as “stress”? In some ways, life without stress is boring and uneventful. At the same time stress is a negative thing that affects your health. It’s not clear to me what is defined as stress - I’ve read number of medical definitions and they all sound vague and unsatisfactory.
Why don't you learn some business skills yourself? The materials are available on internet. Sure it takes time.

You want to learn digital marketing? There are many good tutorials on Youtube or you can buy some digital marketing books.

If you took this path, you would reach the state on which you may not need a business co-founder anymore. If you met a good business co-founder, at least, you could gauge whether they are competent or not using your business skills.

Some good materials for you to start learning business skills:

Digital marketing: https://www.youtube.com/user/neilvkpatel

Corporate finance: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63B2lDhyKOs...

Supply chain: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/supply-chain-manage...

HR: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/human-resource-mana...

Of course, YC Startup Library is a top-notch resource: https://www.ycombinator.com/library

About networking in Covid-19.... Actually it's still possible. You could join some online communities. You could build your brand on social media (Linkedin, Twitter, etc). For example, if I wanted to network with some influential people on blockchain space, I would follow their Twitter and contribute to the conversation (Twitter threads), I would join an opensource blockchain project and build some connections with the core developers. You get the idea.

Good luck!
It's so amazing Apple didn't win this M&A race.
Leaked database indicates Chinese intelligence has probed senior Aus politicians
Sure thing! (and sorry for the late reply :))

Anki is a program which allow you to learn/memorize by using a Spaced repetition technique where newly introduced and more difficult "ideas/notes" are shown more frequently, while older and less difficult ones are shown less frequently in order to exploit the psychological spacing effect. More about the technique at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition

I use it for everything that I learn which I also want to know in the future, this range from CS related knowledge like a new algorithm that I learn to an English word which I don't know to even remembering the main concepts from books that I read or names of people that I meet.

The flow goes something along the lines of:
1. Learn something new till you actually understand it
2. Summarize it to a note or few notes with proper questions (in a way this stage reminds me the Feynman method)
3. Find/Create (by create and find I mainly just do screenshots or just save pre-made images... ;)) some pictures (if applicable) as adding visuals enhance memory capabilities
4. Insert it into Anki!

Admittedly this flow demands way more time and energy from "just listening/reading" some content, but after so many years of programming I found that I learned so much but forgot most of it... so I prefer to learn better and slower, and honestly after doing this for around 1-2 years now I got to say that it's absolutely amazing (I tell it to anyone who is willing to listen not only to programmers).

There is also a daily practice where you need to pass through some notes (this is the memory spaced repetition part), this usually take anywhere from 5 to 45 minutes a day (for me and based on how intense I am learning during the last period).

You can download Anki for free and with no subscription fees at https://apps.ankiweb.net/
It also support Linux/PC/Mac/Android/iOS (the iOS version cost money).
Always use PDF/A-1a (Tagged PDF) which contains the text in accessible format. For many governments this a legal requirement.

With tagged PDF it's easy to get the text out.
how do you get access to those CZDS files?
This it terrible news for the FLOSS community.

Nvidia has consistently for many years refused to properly support Linux and other open source OSs.

Heck, Wayland compositors just say "if you're using nvidia then don't even try to use our software" since they're fed up of Nvidia's lack of collaboration.

I really hope ARM doesn't go the same way. :(
Closed is a very strong word. Some have been mothballed or are installing biomass firing capacity but they are still available at short notice.
Haha, I don't have access to a CD either.

But assuming it's partially the webcam/video software that's correcting the exposure/contrast to eke out a decent image, other common household items could be used in it's place i.e silverware, annealed glass etc.
You can, we’ve been doing that for ages. What’s the rest of your question?
can we add (2009) to the title? I followed this thinking there was something new discovered
Hey, great info. Unfortunately, you assert several things with your statement, which really are not true.

Try again? Do you have a better jab?

Maybe one that doesn't rely upon a comic, as your main argument?
What differences did you see? They seem essentially similar. The exception being:

> We should shift more of the tax burden onto capital, including by raising the capital gains tax, probably to the same level as taxes on labor.
(2019)

vs

> I agree that taxation should shift away from taxing labor. It doesn’t make any sense that labor in the United States is taxed so heavily relative to capital.

> But rather than move to a progressive tax on capital, as Piketty would like, I think we’d be best off with a progressive tax on consumption.
(2014)

He does seem to have reconsidered the utility of a yacht sales tax.
Ask HN: What's your preferred Kubernetes CI/CD stack?
I wonder if there is a flag or feature one can set in {major-vendor text editor} when exporting to PDF to make it as accessible and machine-readable as possible?
I'm so exercised about this that I'm setting up a think tank to actively discuss UK control of critical tech (and "golden geese" as per others in this thread). If you're in tech and have a problem with this, please drop me a line, I'm @bencollier on Twitter.
Which is true, for TikTok.

It's not true for ByteDance though, which appears to be where the algorithms came from.
Can’t one define ‘useful’ and ‘useless’ stress? For example, stress experienced when learning something challenging would be useful stress, while ruminating about issues we have no control over would be useless stress.
As an Indian who is around many non-tech oriented Android users, I am not sure about a large number of people using third-party stores. It will be interesting to see a survey or study about it.

Another thing is that with such bans, all major ISPs and network carriers are instructed to block the traffic to the related domains, so the app won't work anyway unless they roll out with a lot of changes.
Thank you so much for such a thoughtful reply.
I don't understand most of this comment but I suppose at least we've come to agree that you can replace PGP with anything (like a NOP) in this particular use case.
According to this article [1]:

> From what we're told the researchers have concluded that abiotic mechanisms (i.e. ones that do not involve life) that might produce phosphine cannot account for the large amount that they have detected. The phosphine has been detected in the region within the atmosphere of Venus that is considered by some to be potentially habitable. As to what spin the researchers put on this, we'll have to wait for reporters who have the press release or are allowed to participate in the Zoom press conference thing tomorrow at 15:00 GMT to let us know.

[1] http://astrobiology.com/2020/09/phosphine-detected-in-the-at...
Multicore OCaml: August 2020
1. You don't turn PRNG into "true" RNGs simply by picking seeds from environmental randomness. The seed is just the initial state, as long as the output is generated by a deterministic algorithm, by definition it's a PRNG. At the very best you can make a CSPRNG, but not a "true" RNG.

2. The dice roll example is not uniform distribution, I think this is a common pitfall when generating random integers of a range. `randomNumber % 6` results in a slight bias towards 0 and 1, since 2^31 % 6 == 2, there are more numbers in the range [0, 2^31-1] that map to 0 and 1 than those that map to 2...5. To make it uniform, for example, you should always discard if `randomNumber < 2` and regenerate another number for use.
That won't solve any environmental problems, as in most cases there are no plausible recyclable substitutes. Or are you proposing we make iPhones out of wood?

All that'd do is act as a general consumption tax, and we already have those.

In fact there are no viable solutions, assuming rolling civilisation back to the stone age isn't considered viable. That's why eco-extremists never get specific about what they want corporations or governments to do, and in the rare case where someone is actually serious enough to consider that problem they end up leaving the environment movement: see the long history of ex-Greenpeace or now ex-Extinction Rebellion leaders leaving the movements and coming out in favour of nuclear power.
Bostroms original article was about how finding intelligent life would be concerning. He even goes into detail about how a great filter could be somewhere in the evolutionary steps between simple life to complex, intelligent, civilization-building life.

My point is that the "omg great filter confirmed" is a bit premature, and is a misunderstanding of the argument.

EDIT: Re-reading your comment, maybe this isn't contradictory to your point. Finding out that there is an abundance of life does indeed eliminate at least one major candidate great filter. I'm not sure that would somehow move the odds of a real one being ahead of us though.
I came here just to write about that. I don't have mine blurred, but I thought about it, that it'd be drawing more attention if it was..
When 50% is blurred, maybe..