skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seven of the GP are unices also. They're not the same OS however.
She’s 13, and the Source of a Family’s Covid-19 Outbreak
Geometric algebra foundations: Grassmann.jl [video]
> "Let this be a historic moment when realising that whales are in danger sparks a powerful wave of action from everyone: regulators, scientists, politicians and the public to save our oceans," said Mark Simmonds.

Even our own extinction doesn't seem to spur much effort, I'm not sure why there is an expectation whales would.
This is why I want a reMarkable.
100% makes me what to ditch iPhones again.
I develop a system to monitor energy production of solar panels. Before I helped build a system to manage large number of EV charge points. There is some web frontend, but most of the work is in the IoT communication, scaling, and insights into many kinds of malfunctions.
A state is most of the time a tool for a majority to oppress a minority. Laws and police are just their tools, and so are dictators. Whoever is labeled a dictator is just a figurehead supported by majority of elites, who in turn are supported by economically strong coalition, represented by some majority of people who are united.

Precisely, there is no difference between oppressing white supremacist minority and any other minority that wants to overthrow the status quo. It’s not going to be easier or harder depending on how the anti state elements are hiding their communication, because their conflict has to become public to have the effect you desire, which is some systemic change that you agree with ( making you part of this group by the way).

I’m not saying privacy is not important. I’m wondering whether unmitigated privacy is more important to people you and I most probably do not support.
Shortly after this was published, I saw Terry give a reading of it, at Lunacon, I think. He was pretty funny. I suspect some here are really overthinking this. It’s fun because it’s short and basically all dialogue, so it lends itself pretty well to this kind of performance.
Not sure about un-editorialized ranking of stories. There are entire classes of important stories that are probibited by the rules, stories and comments are shown based on a combination of voting and the whims of a couple staff members, and the site is owned by an organization invested in the companies that are being discussed.

HN is a fun discussion site but if it was your only source of information your worldview would be very warped.
> Imagine borrowing money to buy anything, including a house. Yikes!

Is this a joke? The 30 year mortgage is possibly the single most powerful financial tool available to an average person. It allows you to leverage hundreds of thousands of dollars for just a few percent down. Imagine going to your stock brokerage and asking for 1000% margin on a $10,000 account. You would be laughed at. Yet that's precisely what a mortgage allows you to do. In the US at least, home ownership is also incredibly tax advantaged as well, to the point that it is almost impossible to build wealth otherwise for a normal working class person.
I've been following using a human compatible surfactant to kill viruses

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7166675/

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature07831
State of Independent SaaS Survey Is Open
While Intercom offers a great messaging feature set, it's far from being a complete CRM. Many other potential targets with more complete offerings.
Violence may be seen as legitimate, but it shouldn’t be seen as effective. In a study of over 300 movements, non violent protests are twice as effective. https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/file...
Oh yeah, taking this for granted with C# all the time! This what made C# my go-to prototyping language. Circular dependencies might be "bad", but it takes more planning to avoid them when coding from scratch. C++ is also bit of a pain with this. Furthermore C# doesn't need an equivalent of C/C++ headers or Pascal's interface.
The Swamp That The President Built
Here Are the 6 Biggest Reasons Why Bitcoin Is So Valuable
FYI uncovered hair are absolutely not a problem in Pakistan. Just look up for any Pakistani TV show, see the audience or anyone.

I have mostly seen extremely stupid videos on TikTok and get amazed how people make this stuff.
Maybe the guys should have thought about that before they started attacking peaceful protesters.

This is just one tool, and there will be killing with or without it.
Top Tips for Effective Networking
Not only that they have a livestream and archives a couple of days later as everybody else, they also have an "immediate" archive https://streaming.media.ccc.de/archconf2020/relive
Cameras and secret trackers reveal where Amazon returns end up
LLVM.

The race between most used compilers is in producing fastest code. There are only few folk who care about correctness and compile times.

LLVM, while its drawbacks are not highlighted, is a monolith and only slightly better than GCC in some areas. Compile times being one of them.

Not to forget "fast" compilers don't apply many optimizations.

There are some rust specific reasons too, like lack of binary dependencies.
What happened to first amendment?
Yes, if it breaks the laws of Uganda
You don't understand why propaganda from an authoritarian system with a vested interest in the decline of the US is bad?
Isn't the iPhone SE 2020 close to that? Dual sim with eSim, 5.4", waterproof and latest CPU/GPU. I would expect to get at least 5 years of usage including OS updates out of it, so the slightly higher price compared to the XZ2c seems justifiable.
You're overthinking this. It's not a scientific analysis of how real aliens would perceive humans. It's just funny.

Sure, there is a core idea in there about how aliens might have prejudices and skepticism against a vastly different form of life (just like humans might have similar prejudices), but the main purpose of the skit is to be humorous.
Great to see Watts getting some HN love!

Also if someone wants more of watts listen to "does it do you or do you do it" on youtube.
I don’t understand what you mean. Allowing a larger set of glyphs does not change the syntax.
This is just beef with Telegram. That’s where the content is hosted.

Apple as a distributor should have NO relevance to this. Apple is like a landlord who legally rented his shop to people who run it as a bar in which some people might meet to discuss protests. Should the police even call the landlord? Should the landlord act on this info?
I don't think "biological tissue" works either. The aliens are living things, so isn't their tissue biological by definition (no matter what it is made of)?
How does he know how those prehistoric groups worked?

The boss report relationship is more child parent like in a hunter gatherer context I guess.

Obvously it just all guessing how stone age groups worked, but the biggest difference has to be that there were no formal enforced hierarchies. Maybe there was one elder and a shaman?
Does the professor/reporter economically benefit from students acting based upon her reporting?
The earlier version of this article on Chris Fallin’s blog was discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24526088
> Wikipedia says it's "critically endangered", not extinct.

Wikipedia is wrong

https://iucn-csg.org/baiji/
Yes. Our cells are exploiting us for their own agenda. The day will come that we rise up against our corporeal overlords and upload into the electric rocks.
KinTrans – using AI to learn and process sign language
I concur, I should have been more precise in my comment.
i needed this right now, thanks man
> we don't store any data

Which means your platform can't replay historical data to new sources, which offers a LOT of value for both onboarding new platforms as well as testing tools before signing a contract (since it lessens the cost of getting actual data into a tool to see if it's a good fit).
macOS Ransomware in One Tweet
Are you confusing “latent” and “blatant”?
Should it be Apple's business to police terrorists?

Governments have found it convenient to offload policing to communication companies, via putting liability on them unless they do.

I don't think this is the way to go.
The "Open" in OpenAI means that they want their customer to open their pockets, it has nothing to do with Open Source, open core or anything like that.

The cultural war of "but they deserve to make money" is misguided. You are free to make money, just don't call your projects open source if for one reason or another you do not want to open up the source of your project. And don't call it open core if you don't want to open up the core of your project. GPT-3 might just be "GPT-2 plus something more", but a proprietary code based forked off of Linux would also just be "Linux plus something more", that doesn't make it open source or open core, because neither the core nor the source is open.

That said, I am not against the OpenAI project going forwards with early releases of proprietary offerings, it seems like a fine way to finance their work, and they can still support the open source community. But criticism of the choice is warranted if they keep trying to brand themselves as open.
It's part of their 2019 agreement for taking $1B in funding

>Multiyear partnership ... and an investment of $1 billion from Microsoft...

> Microsoft and OpenAI will jointly build new Azure AI supercomputing technologies

> OpenAI will port its services to run on Microsoft Azure, which it will use to create new AI technologies and deliver on the promise of artificial general intelligence

>> Microsoft will become OpenAI’s preferred partner for commercializing new AI technologies

https://news.microsoft.com/2019/07/22/openai-forms-exclusive...
> > "Let this be a historic moment when realising that whales are in danger sparks a powerful wave of action from everyone: regulators, scientists, politicians and the public to save our oceans," said Mark Simmonds.

> Even our own extinction doesn't seem to spur much effort, I'm not sure why there is an expectation whales would.

> > "Let this be a historic moment when realising that whales are in danger sparks a powerful wave of action from everyone: regulators, scientists, politicians and the public to save our oceans," said Mark Simmonds.

> Even our own extinction doesn't seem to spur much effort, I'm not sure why there is an expectation whales would.

Considering the human population is at an all-time and expected to increase significantly in the next 20 years, especially in locations with poor healthcare. What are your arguments that the human population has to worry about going extinct?
I think we should re-target the mission to saving dogs/cats lives. Since we love to hate/war on each other too often. You will find less people unsympathetic towards their pets.
whoa, that's such a waste, but i guess i shouldnt be surprised
Profitability is not absolute: what profits the best to mankind happiness maximization might widely differs from what might optimize profit for a few individuals
Jellyfish is a good candidate.
Was it meant to be? Seems more like an allegory of a reason for why we haven't found other intelligent life out there.
You can develop what you want and distribute your application outside of Google Play Store.
I know $() invokes a subshell, but does () ?

My guess was that the () affects the order of operations between ; and &&, so the first line is three commands, while the second line is two.
Examples are not hard to find.

"Laos set to cede majority control of its national power grid to China to service Belt and Road debts"

https://asiatimes.com/2020/09/laos-the-latest-china-debt-tra...
Not me. I feel like Apple has to actually compete with often times higher quality luxury products in 2020.

No reason for me to buy any new Apple products and after this news, I won’t.
For me lockdown triggerd polar opposite, manic state. 40 days in psychiatric hospital without worrying about COVID was a blessing in disguise.
Well, I know, it's far from ideal in many senses.

But not in a sense that Google or Apple would directly decide what I cannot see.

Indirectly they already do, because a lot of public and commercial services, banking, public transport tickets, corona tracking are available only via those. But that's because the general public does not understand the threats of being dependent on the duopoly.
Show HN: Decentralised Digital Identity and Messaging
I've been working on something for a while now. It's a combination of a decentralised identity system and a decentralised messaging system that makes use of the aforementioned new identity system.

It's based on cryptographic keys with one major property: keys are paired with arbitrary mnemonic strings, e.g. your favourite username, so apps can send messages in a P2P fashion addressed to the strings directly without having to worry about IP addresses. These key-string pairs can be generated on-the-fly on any computer and there's no central database. When multiple people inevitably choose the same strings as their identifiers, e.g. 5 people choose 'alice', the system has a consensus mechanism for resolving such conflicts across the entire network so 'alice' will always point to one public key that all nodes will use at a given point in time for encryption and signature verification. This means that only that specific 'alice' will receive any messages sent to that identifier. The other 4 people won't be able to read them.

I've written two papers describing both systems:

* Nomicle: A decentralised, identity-based, cryptography system [ http://noraco.org/projects/xp002/docs/XP002.pdf ]

* xTalk: A Nomicle-powered, inter-app messaging system [ http://noraco.org/projects/hp001/docs/HP001.pdf ]

I plan on releasing the source code and documentation some time later this month. It's all written in Python. Nomicle's code includes a Python library as well as a C library that developers can use to integrate it into their apps. I'm trying to make it as easy and simple as possible for anyone to pick up. These are the first projects in a pipeline of open source projects that build on this work and that I intend to work on and release in the near future. Messaging is one potential use of Nomicle, but I can already see more uses such as consensus-based packet routing and information publishing. In fact, the latter is the next project I'll be working on.
Is privacy not the main way Apple is trying to market themselves against Google?
> bankruptcy-level legal fees

Which is a risk worth taking if someone is suing for the right reasons and it's a once in a decade matter of major importance. That or they're fairly sure they'll win the case.
On an internet forum when someone brings up a topic lots of people will respond with different opinions about that topic. You can act like this is somehow specific to the Rust community, but I don't think it is.

TBH you seem to have a really odd bias against Rust, you repeatedly take something about it that's positive and try to spin it as negative, like possibly even for years? Maybe examine that.
Thank God. H1-B is a dishonest, abusive program that preys on both foreign and native workers. Some of the arguments in this article arguing against a higher wage floor for visa holders are extremely weak.

I'm in favor of a much fairer immigration program (starting with not tying a visa-holder to an employer), and H1-Bs in their current form are not it.
>it would be nice to see collections for tips and tricks specifically for POSIX shell

Check out https://freebsdfrau.gitbook.io/serious-shell-programming/
Weird usage of what’s happening in Belarus to seemingly try to minimize some domestic issue you don’t like?
It's less tax-advantaged in the US under current tax law than it used to be depending upon housing prices where you live and whether you itemize deductions. But, in general, I certainly agree. The idea that there's something inherently wrong with getting a mortgage is silly. (Obviously, some people do buy more house than they can afford.)
Easily build webapps for ML and DS projects
When doing nothing is better than doing something
Just switch off the monitor
Get an iPhone 11 or SE and use eSIM with one of the providers. I am quite happy with my iPhone right now, with a Vodafone eSIM and a physical SIM for my other phone line.
Oh yeah, but there are “no barriers” to using alternative app marketplaces and Google totally isn’t collecting a rent exactly like Apple. /s

No chance in hell the average consumer is doing this, so they are effectively locked in.
Good point. Today's world is a grand experiment to find out what is the right balance between stability and privacy.

Stability comes with slowing down the progress and the top taking ever so more and getting more corrupt. So there always need to be some upwards pressure.
It might be worth it. A family in my street migrated from Kosovo to Belgium, and returns every year for the holiday. They aren't rich but have a second hand BMW. It's the only car that survives the trip from/to their holiday, so it's cheaper than buying a new car.
It’s cause the cncf is heavily staffed by GCP, and it shows in the way it’s run.

The warts of CNCF are the same warts of GCP
Personally, my response to that is: "We can't live without harming anything else. I draw my line at plants, you draw your line at non-human animals, cannibals draw their line at human animals. We have different philosophies and preferences".

(And a Simpson's quote comes to mind: "Ha! I'm a level 5 vegan. I don't eat anything that casts a shadow")
How is wage-based visa allocation denying entry-level applicant visas a bad thing? If there are entry level roles to be filled they should be filled locally since they're low skill/experience by definition.

If you're going to develop talent you should develop local talent. The deal is that you give foreigners the opportunity because they offer valuable skills.
I'd like to see such a law, but I'm not sure this particular situation can be solved that way. The Belarusian government would presumably just pass a non-neutrality law, and then we're in the same place as before where Apple has to decide based on moral and practical considerations.
It’s the same with the article “Great Hackers” and Graham’s previous impassioned advocacy of private offices for every knowledge worker, even in dense urban centers.

It’s frankly hypocritical of Graham not to ensure YC and its companies embody values like this.

Instead he and other “thought leaders” around VC want to be viewed as progressive, forward-thinking people with an advocacy to avoid commodity thinking towards workers & their lives and workspaces.

But it’s all lip service - bluster so Graham can sound like he’s the good guy but actually just function as the same exploitative commodity thinking old boys club kind of investor privately.

All the PR credit without actually putting his money where his mouth is.
I have a soft spot for the Usborne computer books from the 80s.

https://usborne.com/browse-books/features/computer-and-codin...

Scroll down to the bottom of the page for links to the pdfs.
The SE is only $400. I imagine most of the market share isn’t people buying the $1000 model annually.
Abstraction discovery is a hard problem in general. Good names help, but there's probably more we can do. Tooling finding a common pattern that the abstraction eliminates, perhaps?
Sampling Optimized Code for Type Feedback
Startups have to, generally, become pretty large in size.

So the message seems to be: better to be on top of the pyramid in the early days than in the middle of some large pyramid.

Well duh, but that’s not scalable by design. Only so few people can be on top.
> I mean specifically the nipples, not the entire boob. It isn’t considered nudity (at least in the places I’ve been) for a woman to expose any part of their breast except the nipple itself. That (plus men’s nipples being so boring nobody even thinks to mention them) is what I find weird.

there are a lot of situations where it would be considered inappropriate for a woman to expose most of a breast (though perhaps not nudity, per se). the degree of coverage socially required for a man or a woman varies a lot. like if I wore cargo shorts to work, it would merely be against the dress code. if I wore only a speedo (or a woman wore a bikini), it would be inappropriate.

once you've decided you have to make and enforce rules about nudity, you need to make them unambiguous. "cannot show nipple" is a lot less ambiguous than "most cover most of breast". "must cover entire breast" is also fraught; how do you decide exactly where it begins? if you agree that female breasts are sexual features, it doesn't seem that weird that nipples would be where the line is finally drawn.

just for the record, I don't think the world would end if women could expose their breasts without repercussions.
Apple will only change course if devs start pulling off their apps from their store. Till then, I don't think anything significant would happen.
Interesting.

Could it replace email? And what do you think is the main obstacle to achieve this.
> Therefore, in a universal "loser pays" system, it's even riskier for a poor (or even middle-class) person to sue a company given that they could be responsible for bankruptcy-level legal fees if they lose.

The simple[1] solution to that would be “loser pays if they spent more”. Which might seem odd at first glance (why punish the loser even more?), but would align the incentives in the right direction.

[1] Read: I haven't put much thought into ways this could be abused
I hope this guy is getting good legal advice. He seems focused on things that aren’t that central to his case, like whether words or word-parts are dictionary words, or whether Google had complained about the name in the past (how could Google object to a trademark that hadn’t been filed for?)

I have no idea of the specific laws and regulations in effect in this case, but generally an infringement case like this is about whether the defendant’s mark is likely to cause confusion in consumers. My opinion in this case is “no”, but it’s arguable and for whatever reason Google wants to argue it.

I also wonder if there is much to win here. How much does the guy have invested in that name and how much future value does it have over alternatives? It might be less than the risk of legal costs. I don’t see a compelling general principle here that is bigger than the case itself either.
See https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/bash/manual/bash....

"Placing a list of commands between parentheses causes a subshell environment to be created"

"Placing a list of commands between curly braces causes the list to be executed in the current shell context"
Use Cornell Notes for Online Class
One of the issue is he battery just goes bad after a year and a half so your battery life is down a lot. Then you have to send it in to get it replaced. Plus its with you all the time so it can break pretty easily.
You're implying that owning a smartphone is a necessity.

You could simply own neither an Apple nor a Google product and sidestep this whole decision.
I'm pretty sure the modern meaning of "meme" is fundamentally the same as the original meaning. The fact that lately there's a popular aesthetic (so popular as to have "generators" that ignore the possibility of other aesthetics) is separate in a way.

A bit like how the word "album" was, for a time, heavily implicative of a vinyl record, but fundamentally it's any cohesive grouping of works.
I can be less miserable perfectly fine without taking some dumb course on literature.
Trademark infringement can be viewed as fraud and a criminal matter with an actual victim (the person scammed into buying the fake Android phone).

Patents are a different story, since the idea itself is the value, and different people can come up with the same idea independently.
That is a way more difficult target to hit. People can follow a 3 step instruction easily enough.

That's kinda the point that having a single controlling entity makes the ecosystem vulnerable to this kind of pressure.