skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring two different ascii bytes is not "1.0+ usability". The idea that it is a matter of work is an insane rationalization. Someone else said it is to prevent 'bike shedding'.

None of the backwards rationalizations people give actually makes sense, especially since it literally breaks any "hello world" program on windows. It's insane that people would try so hard to make excuses for such a basic disregard for new people.

Think about the reverse. Let's say tabs are treated as spaces and carriage return bytes are ignored. Who would ever argue that something should be changed to break these things?
Shameless plug: I teach people how to do exactly this at bizworklife.com. It's tool agnostic: just how to get control of your goals (geared mainly for startup entrepreneurs).

It started as an online course (that is still there) but has branched out a bit into personal consulting.
No it is not. This is core principle of RSS https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/seeing-the-invisib...
My college uses these to control entrance to the dining halls. The technology has been around for years and it works consistently and effectively. They want you to think this is something highly innovative but I’m pretty sure they’re just licensing already existing palm scanners.
Jet suit paramedic tested in the Lake District 'could save lives'
The snowflake logo reminds one of Disney's Frozen, but - may also be confused with, well, Snowflake (the distributed database).
Same dragging issue here.

Firefox Developer Edition 82.0b4 (64-bit) on Pop_OS.
It probably is (and e.g. you can't do AFP shares of APFS drives), but Apple's SMB implementation is fairly bad, and sometimes the only workaround is to connect via AFP instead (sometimes I've also had much better performance over AFP)
What is it supposed to be? Blurb on the front page doesn't really say anything. It tells you to press "Start" to take back the net. There is no "Start" button or link...
The lie-by-omission is leaving out the security aspect of having a walled garden. It’s not well expressed if you read this as an essay, but it is natural for on-the-fly spoken language.
That was interesting and at least sort of intellectually honest for the first three quarters, been then ended as a culture war piece with a pathetic conclusion.
A friend of mine wrote a simple program to try to evaluate the Collatz Conjecture on my electromechanical computer! http://www.chrisfenton.com/the-numbotron/
Although I agree with your sentiment of embracing contrarian views, this is very clearly a paid for Petro-chemical PR piece.

Now, digging into the points you make:

> 2. Focusing on recycling takes finite attention away from bigger issues, like meat consumption, flying, and coal power.

I have two issues with this:

1. The focus on recycling is itself a deflection maneuver from the Packaging and Petro-Chemical groups. Recycling and the shifting of responsability and 'guilt' from industry to consumers is an incredibly succesful cost externalization for the petro-chemical and packaging industries.

2. All the examples of 'bigger issues' you refer are areas where there is more Carbon/Methane emissions. However, the issue everybody has against plastic was never the issues of emissions but the calamity of microplastics.

Microplastics have created a defacto man made plastic geological epoch. They have by now contaminated our food sources, our water supplies, and have contaminated the whole water cycle to the point that they can be found in alpine glaciar ice. More worryingly there is now strong evidence on the hormonal and fertility disruption in both humans and animals due to microplastic absorption/ingestion.

So Plastic is indeed a _huge_ issue not due to emissions but due to it's disruption in our ecosystems and our health.
A beginner’s guide to web and mobile typography
A non-designer typography guide
I like how you skip that the upper-castes who are in power were voted to power by a population which is majority lower-caste.

Total upper/forward caste - ~ 29 %
OBC + SC + ST - ~71 %

BJP(NDA) vote share - 37 %

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Backward_Class
Why does Google use an auction to determine the search providers that appear in the choice screen?

An auction is a fair and objective method to determine which search providers are included in the choice screen. It allows search providers to decide what value they place on appearing in the choice screen and to bid accordingly.
The auction revenues help us to continue to invest in developing and maintaining the Android platform.

Source: https://www.android.com/choicescreen/
Well sure, it doesn’t do this, or this, nor this either, and it’s hacky and not accessible, but at least it doesn’t use JS!!!

Good grief.
That was fun. I watched it with my kids, who don't know anything about math nor English, they enjoyed it but had no clue what was going on.
I think the relevant market here is phones. Anything that can substitute for a phone and reduce sales of phones. Within this market, devices have long been able to run whatever apps were compiled using relevant free SDKs and downloaded from any website. iPhone/iOS was the first phone to not allow side loading.
Hey, serious question related to this since you have a search/rescue background. How would you find the survivor in a mountainous area? Don't you have to use a helicopter anyways or if it's a ground party... wouldn't the whole jetpack thing be redundant 90% of the time since someone is already there?

I don't know the economics to search/rescue problems all that well, but I've always understood that the budget is essentially never enough. With such strained budgets, does it make sense to have something so niche and expensive? It's not like these things are going to be maintenance, license and cert free if implemented to a life saving capacity.
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Sure. But one studied business (and got a decent paying job) and the other one went for a PhD in chemistry.
Now: two siblings were female and the one going for “becoming a secretary at a large automotive company” like literally did not know what to spend all the bonuses and salary on - she was living at home until getting married and saved rent as well. She can always work part-time in her job, probably has a “large house-down-payment” on her bank account and is in a really relaxed situation. Studying 5 years (paying rent, not having income,...) and the fact that university graduates “have a harder time getting into that large company and even get less paid than factory workers” was not exactly obvious at the beginning. Due to the workplace protection in place and pretty strong union representation in “blue collar jobs” it often doesn’t make much sense for women to pursue a university degree from a financial perspective. I am very frustrated about that.

Second example - well, the PhD postdoc survives 2-year contract over 2-year contract while his younger brother just loads just more cash than he can carry.

This does not hold everywhere - both “younger siblings” work at a large industrial company that pays well. It’s just 100x easier to get a job that is paying well with mediocre grades and an uncle than with an engineering, business or science “summa cum laude” university degree.

Really crazy how that turned out. Many more similar stories from my siblings and their class-mates.
Those are useless. The Thinkpad ones actually work.
As far as I can tell, Apple abandoned the local Keychain a decade ago. The sole Keychain feature to which they give any love is iCloud. Managing multiple local keychain stores, in my experience, is now fraught with features that error out, and unpredictable barrages of authentication dialogs at unpredictable times. It still beats tying myself to iCloud.
> if they're anything like other tech companies, they're doing a shit job of hiring

Facebook grew from 17K employees in 2016 to 45K in 2019. 38% annual growth, and the vast bulk of that was in engineering. "Only" 17% at Google, but it was already larger so the absolute numbers are higher. 22% at Netflix. This is hardly a "shit job of hiring" as you say. I often saw such growth numbers at startups, but never at companies with headcounts already in the thousands let alone tens of thousands. They're doing a fantastic job at hiring.

Part of the reason they're hiring so much is because they have to. Again contrary to what you say, they are not holding on tight to the good ones. The number of people who leave after two years - at all levels - is almost as stunning as the number coming in. Big Tech is notorious for this. The good ones might leave to found or join startups, but leave they still do. The high compensation actually facilitates such departures as much as it discourages them (certainly did for recently-retired me), except among the exceptionally greedy.

These companies are not pools of carefully selected and tended talent, with low rates coming in or going out. They're more like massive pipelines, with huge numbers entering and leaving all the time. The coding interviews are a very coarse filter to keep out the worst of the dreck, but they also keep out many good engineers. I've known several demonstrably excellent engineers who failed in that moment, and more who self-selected out of the process for various reasons. The people who can get in are barely distinguishable from those who got jobs elsewhere via more traditional interview processes, except for skewing very young.
My only exposure to EDN was through Goku Karabiner compiler (https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo) but it does seem like a nice configuration syntax. Quite readable.
Tor Project closely cooperates with The Open Observatory of Network Interference. OONI provides a standardized testsuit that automatically probes a wide range of websites for evaluating the censorship status in different parts of the world, and volunteers can contribute data by running an instance.

But the objective of the project is only to identify governmental and ISP-wide censorships. And its capabilities for checking protocol-level censorship techniques are rather limited [0]. Perhaps we need a similar tool or fork for probing middleboxes and censorship in private networks.

[0] https://ooni.org/nettest/
These ads starting appearing on my TV two years after I bought it. There were no ads before that. No reviews mentioned ads. There is no way to disable them in settings.

Yes I could disconnect it from the network but that would defeat one of the reasons I did buy it and which was mentioned in reviews: high-quality built in apps for Netflix and other services.
What is the "the truth"
Banning discrimination based on correlatory truths has its own costs as well. There is no simple solution to this.
Integrating User-Centered Methods into Programming Language Design – ICFP 2020
> The problem RISC-V faces is that one or more companies start to grow a significant market with non-compliant chips, basically the browser war scenario.

The CPU market today is even more closed to competition than web browsers.
RISC-V does not "face this problem", this problem already existed before RISC-V.

But RISC-V could make this market more competitive.
If there is a royalty free standard on top of which all modern CPUs are built (the RISC-V ISA), then a newcomer can easily use it and take advantage of the tools which go with it.

But companies remain free to diverge from this standard by adding their own non-standard extensions.
The intricacies of how Capitalism devolves into struggle over rent.
So basically what the judge is saying is that people should be able to install stuff from outside the App Store?

I mean, it isn't a big deal there because you can just go purchase these stuff on other stores.
Free money for everyone = more money is circulating = prices are raising.
This is the first lesson of economics.

In the areas where people are poor, prices will raise. In turn, people will need more money, and those who were not poor, will start to become poor.
I've approached this problem from a different angle. I thought one could embrace the possibility of several truths. In my solution a truth lives in what I call a layer. Different layers can then be projected together in different stacks. Instead of using feature branches/toggles one can change the stack by adding/removing/reordering layers. One can also handle localized content this way, which was the original use case before the idea mutated.

I also thought one could differ between two different kinds of conflicts. I call them simultaneities and disagreements. Simultaneities happen when concurrent changes happen and could be handled by CRDTS for example. Disagreements are conflicts between layers.

The idea is then that you can choose to work in the same layer as someone else, if you are working close. You can also "shield" yourself from changes in other layers by working in a different layer. If you want to detect a disagreement between your layer and a layer someone else is working on, you project your layer on top of that layer.

Even though I believe in these ideas I don't know how to get other people interested in them. It might be that they are flawed in an obvious way not apparent to me.

What would it take to make someone of your caliber curious?
The camera is just one of many signals, some of which do change over time
Just add duckduckgo.com##.header__logo to your uBlock filters
Exceptions and Exception Handling in C#
Really? I remember half my capstone classmates that couldn't code or focus for more than five minutes on a project. All of them had good grades of course.
Not necessarily - apprenticeships in Germany run for all kinds of jobs... Can be “pure office” as well...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_freedom

If not it isn't really flying.
I don't know if it moves around with forces in 6DOF or not either.
Ask HN: Should I move to London and open an business (as a founder from EU)?
I was planning to move to London and open a ltd company in the UK but the pandemic happened. Now I don't know when I'm going to be able to do that (considering we're in the middle of the pandemic) or if it's a good idea anymore. Brexit, IR35, London being expensive and Covid in the UK.. the insecurity adds up. I'm reading that many people are moving out of (or have already left) London due to the pandemic.
I'm from a EU country that doesn't have a good ecosystem for entrepreneurship and I want to leave the country for personal reasons as well. My idea was to be in London for at least 6 months per year (for taxation reasons). After December 2020 it will also become harder to open an Ltd as a EU resident because of Brexit.

From what I've read (and I've read quite a lot) it is going to be a problem if where you reside is different from where the company is located. So I'm trying to see where to move that is helpful to the business but also somewhere I like living.

My second option was Berlin and opening a UG, but I'm reading of many hurdles one has to jump with a German company. Harder to close if things don't go well, more expensive to operate, more regulations to adhere to, more bureaucratic processes etc. I've thought of Paris as well but I've read there's a lot of bureaucracy/hurdles that makes things hard for business owners.

TLDR; It seems that UK ltd is way more straightforward and the ecosystem and taxation is easier to understand (documents in English certainly help). On the other hand many people are saying you shouldn't found a company in the UK right now because of all the aforementioned reasons.

Any advice?
Ask HN: What's the lowest carbon impact way to build a web page in 2020?
We're a Tech Hub based in Rennes, France and rebuilding our Web presence, we would like to setup a good practice for building a presence with the lowest possible carbon footprints. What are some providers or techniques you could point us to ?
Surveillance just might be the best case against the idea of ubiquitous computing, at least in any real democracy.
Yet.

> Among the complaints about the No Fly List is the use of credit reports in calculating the risk score. In response to the controversy, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials said in 2005 that they would not use credit scores to determine passengers' risk score and that they would comply with all rights guaranteed by the First and Fourth amendments to the United States Constitution.

It used to be a feature; they turned it off (reportedly). How hard would it be for them to silently re-enable it? How hard would it be to factor in facet Y which correlates with facet X (credit score)?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List#Controversy_and_...
The problem isn't that there is no standard date time format, it's that there is no standard way to represent the standard date time formats (plural) in a JSON document.
Yes! That's a great observation

However, the reason I went for probing the entire path is because the TTL itself can be spoofed
>> This way you select for the people that actually want to get out of poverty

Being poor is not a decision many people make. Iirc, the #1 cause of bankruptcy in the US remains medical costs.
Entire staff of NYU student newspaper resigns after ouster of editor in chief
What is great source! BBC.

There is 0 instances of the word "varna" or "caste" on that article.
Or send them to Europe as English teachers. They'll have a pretty decent life and have access to medical services.
Are you sure it's not the icloud lock?
Please don't do that for accessibility reasons.
An excerpt from Brian Deer’s new book about Andrew Wakefield
> To set the contract between the two applications, I had to write a JSON spec [1], which is written in... JSON. That was an abstruse and abusive use of JSON, in my opinion.

The XML equivalent is an XML schema, also written in XML. This is pretty decent as document validation goes.

> I think most people just need to use a plain-text format [4] for most of the things they want, à lá RFC 822 [5].

You linked to formats which don't even support nesting.

If you roll your own markup it's going to be brittle and people are going to parse it with regexps.
I’ve been following this project over the last few years and it’s super exciting. There’s a lot going on here... the video and descriptions on the site are a good high-level overview, but if you want to really understand what’s going on you’ll want to click some of those links. Fair warning, rabbit holes abound. :)
It's a collection of features meant to sit on top of ActivityPub.

ActivityPub is a general protocol for decentralised social networking. Instead of Facebook or Twitter servers generating a feed for each user, user's servers send updates to each-other.
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I tried flywaydb, and some others. There are not a lot of migration tools that are not part of a bigger framework.

Can you link some examples that you think would gladly process data-migrations that are 1-2GiB large?
Varna system is based on Manusmriti which came long after vedas.
The other difference with a car is that, unless you're going downtown to downtown, you may need a car on the other end anyway.

One of the reasons I always take a train to Manhattan is that I not only don't need a car but I hate driving into the city and parking is expensive.
One thing that is theoretically deterministic but not in practice is the location of dungeons. These generate in spaces where there is an appropriately sized gap between the floor and the ceiling. Normally these would be determined solely by the terrain generation (and therefore the seed), but it is possible to push blocks into lazy-loaded chunks before the dungeons have generated yet and force them to generate in different spots.

Video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iaU1TvIQqM
It was a joke based on a song from Frozen.
I assume you are probably an NRI. This is well know to natives. Most of the BJP leaders are former RSS members including modi. Source https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-29593336

RSS ideology is to make india a hindu religous state. Hinduism is based on the vedic books which advocate varna system.
And because it's non-standard it's irritating. Every JSON parser doesn't have this built in, so you have to implement it at the application layer if you want it.
How were the images delivered before?
It's impossible to find a new TV these days that doesn't have an internet connection out of the box.
I believe it was a friendly joke.
Or make the X button almost the same color as the background.

TuneIn does this.
I just bought an LG. I’m so glad I dodged this bullet. I would be furious.
I said "lucky" for a reason.

If you can't source parts in this day and age it's not the car's fault. Anything made in the last 30yr you can readily get service parts for. What you can't get at the parts store are interior trim and non-wearing suspension items that are specific to a narrow range of vehicles (also true for new cars) but if you expect to keep the interior of a bottom dollar car in tip top shape you're out of your mind. The internet makes finding everything that isn't a normal wear item super quick and easy but you're gonna have to wait 24-96hr to get it.
We're already doing this, just not with individuals. Ever wonder why housing keeps getting more expensive while sitting empty? The Federal reserve keeps buying the debt the buildings are bought with to prevent the market from crashing.

You're half right, we shouldn't do that. We already are though and the question is: should we do it in a way that makes poor people homeless or not.
\ At the start of your search also works.
Indeed, we shouldn't have this huge discrepancy between training to get a job and training once one has a job. There's also a lot of advantages to having a diverse group of individuals rather than separating people out into age cohorts or by lack of professional experience.
Here is UHS statement: https://ir.uhsinc.com/news-releases/news-release-details/uni...
Reach Customers with Your Company's Story
I asked the same thing and he hasn't had an issue yet, I guess the key press rate is slow enough that it never reaches any issues.
Lights can fail. When that happens you need a human to direct traffic.
True. I wonder if there needs to be.

It worries me that game consoles, an appliance used for playing games, could be used to set a precedent for general purpose computing that could quite possibly lead in a direction non/very few of us want to go.
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IIRC, the 30% was chosen so Apple would roughly break even on credit card processing for $1 apps.

So Apple effectively only gets revenue from apps $2+, which then subsidizes the costs of reviewing and distributing the plethora of apps that are free.

In a way, it's a similar principle to progressive taxation. If your paid app is a hit on the App Store, then it's helping support the existence of all the free ones too.
Shucks... so sad I am unschooled.

> Comparing India to SA or Bowtswana

Have you been to Botswana? It is a pretty modern nation and a well run country. Lets look at some numbers and COMPARE.

GDP per capita (2017):

India: $1,980

Botswana: $7,894

China: $8,612

Botswana: has a better GDP/capita AND higher ranked democracy than India. Less corruption too (if you look it up). Always good to school yourself - with facts.
I think this is incorrect. It looks like it's intending to be a set of libraries or protocols(?) to support development in the distributed web.

> Spritely consists of a number of modular components bringing new and rich features, from distributed programming, to decentralized storage, to virtual worlds.

"Fantasary" in particular seems to match with your description. I'd guess it would be built on top of the other mentioned things.
Where is the Nano?
That's true especially in regions where there's salt on the road in the winter. But depreciation is usually a lot more mileage-based than time based.