skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I consider anyone above 500k a celebrity
There were existing rules against covering your face in some situations but you are perfectly right that the law in 2010 was triggered by the rise of radical islam and the (perceived or real) problem that full head coverage place on Republican values[1].

>And he said that somehow it's not a religious symbol.
The full sentence: "It's not a religious symbol, but a sign of subservience and debasement."

Basically, "some think it's a religious sign, but we don't agree". And most Muslims in France don't either as the wearing of burqas and niqabs was quite uncommon in the first place (some estimates placed the number of women wearing them at around 2000).

We can argue on the merit of forbidding full-covering or whether there was really a need for all that noise but there is a reasoning and much public debate on the matter.

From your original comment, you seem to disagree, but in France people are free to practice any religion they wish, as long as it is done within the boundaries of the country's values and laws. So your statement of "Religion is already banned in places such as France" -without further characterisation- is clearly inflamatory and false.

[1]: Deepl makes a decent translation of this: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/dossierlegislatif/JORFDOLE000...
> So you need to operate a business that also deals largely in cash, slip your illicit cash into the businesses’ revenue, cook the books and make it look like the money came from your legitimate business and not your illegitimate one, and Bob’s your uncle, at least in theory. In practice, legitimate cash businesses are more and more rare as time goes on, and investigators are really good at noticing when some random nail salon or bar has a lot more revenue than they should.

I actually worked for 8 months as an intern at Fintrac, Canada's financial intel agency. This was 14 years ago now, but back then they were actually pretty good at what they did, for a group with ~300 people. They just had analysts going through vast amounts of data manually, but with plans to improve the tooling, automate more. I can only guess at how far along they've come now.

The reality is, if you're moving more money than you should you'll get it caught eventually. And the more you're moving, the more likely you are to be noticed.
No right is absolute, and free speech is no exception. To quote Popper: "In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
How about the communist flag of the Soviet Union? The flag that represented enslavement and murder of millions?
Is the Lisbon political situation allowing new construction? It's the political situation in the Bay Area (California) that's keeping prices high by not allowing new construction.

It's the same reason developer salaries are high. Demand is high and supply is (currently) low. My company is struggling to find people to hire right now and are offering cash incentives.
What counts as "spending time"? I'm sure they define it somewhere in the article, but I wonder what percentage of the effects do I get to experience by commenting here.

Are we "spending time" together right now?

I ask because I've bugged a few healthcare professionals I randomly meet about how millennials (and younger) will age, and if their comfort with the connective nature of the Internet will help reduce mental decline due to inactivity through aging, and I've gotten positive responses (e.g. "for people who can use the Internet to stay cognitively active, aging will be a more pleasant experience generally").
I usually refer to my headphones as neighbor cancelling headphones. I live in an apartment and while my neighbors are nice people, inevitably you get some noise from televisions, people moving around, etc. Noise cancellation gets rid of most of that. Also, I like being able to walk around in my place without having to worry about wires.
Brexit?

I certainly can't prove it, but I'd be willing to bet that it wouldn't have happened without Facebook.

The thing is that it's the first time were you can really microtarget bigots, racists and xenophobes. And that's what makes it frightening. Especially when everybody nowadays has his own brand of reality.

Note: Despite the fact that I think Brexit is a devastatingly bad idea I don't mean to imply that leave voters are bigots or racists. Brexit is just a great example about undue influence on a referendum.

E: Removed redundancy
Go to a mall in Bangkok and you will lose count of the number of people walking around with iphones. I don't know what you consider a "tier 2 and tier 3" country, since I think you just made that up, but maybe you should travel more.
I have a better one for you. Don’t start an open source project if you intend to make people pay for it. Go ahead and sell your support but don’t pull a bait and switch on people who develop their business models around the open source community. Plus, it makes the rest of the open source community look bad when someone pulls shit like this.
For woodwork, Grandpa Amu has a bit of the same appeal (with a little of the flavor of Primitive Technology):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYkgEf3eWqA
And it's already banning specific content. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler#Content_and_moderation
Segmented Ultralight Morphing Rotors 50-megawatt wind turbines
If you're fluent in all those languages then I doubt COBOL will be your breakthrough. Those high earning COBOL jobs don't pay so well because the programmers are hyper intelligent, they pay well because there's not that many people left that have experience running mainframes. If you've only just mastered COBOL, you'll probably be last in line for any good COBOL job out there.

With a portfolio like that, you might want to look at why you can't get a job. You sound capable enough on the technical front, so there must be something else that's preventing you from advancing your career.
Spatial audio comes from 5.1 surround sound and I am guessing that the sound source aware orientation comes from Ultra Wideband.

I don’t know if Bluetooth has a profile that supports surround sound. Maybe the spatial audio only works on devices with the U1 chip.
No, don't learn COBOL unless your dream job requires it.

You absolutely shouldn't learn COBOL before knowing which job you're aiming for. COBOL isn't an interesting or particularly useful language to learn.
Is it a huge move in the same way the Paris agreement was?

Because it turns out that not one single country managed to hit the targets that were set.
Maybe, but that's sounds like a legal question depending on the contract terms between you.
Ah. Would have loved to participate in a nuanced discussion on this topic.
Hilarious to see how many people on HN are furious about not being allowed to use an anti-black hate symbol on a private commercial streaming service. Not that they actually hate black people, of course, they’re just very committed to the noble principle of being able to display anti-black hate symbols anywhere, at any time, with zero consequences. To not allow them to do that is basically communism!!
Nice, I call dibs on the low hanging fruits!
Oh Canada. Where the natural way is illegal, but the synthetic way with designer psilocybin analogues is totally legal!
> You can't change the x86 ISA to the point where it makes a huge difference because it would no longer run x86 code.

Couldn't they remove obsolete instructions from the ISA & then emulate removed instructions? Sure, it would be slower than having them still in the ISA, but given software using them was written for older machines, it might wash out in the end.
How about the Chinese flag, just in case it could stand for the mistreatment of the Uyghurs
So the premises to support the title are that Facebook 'steals' revenue from traditional news publishers and allows user generated content to proliferate, which can contain conspiracies.

I don't know that breaking up Facebook will actually fix these issues or 'save' democracy. Conspiracies will still spread on other sites (Reddit: The Frontpage of the Internet, anyone?). Ad revenue will continue to go to electronic platforms and use tracking (Google is huge in this space too).

I can see that Facebook has engaged in anticompetitive behavior, such as buying some competitive companies. I don't see them as a full monopoly. There are plenty of other sites (some of them large) that allow you to connect with others, share content, and create an online identity. Just look at LinkedIn, Reddit, TikTok, etc. There are other large ad services too, like Google.

A strong democracy requires an educated and diligent citizenry. We can break up Facebook, but that won't fix the root problems in our society. We could start by teaching basic logic in schools. And I'm sure this will be controversial, but I do think we should make a citizenship test part of school curriculums so that the citizens know their rights, the structure and function of our government, etc. Then we still need to hope that voters do their homework.
Security vulnerabilities in Point-of-sale (PoS) terminals produced by two of the biggest manufacturers of these devices in the world could have allowed cyber criminals to steal credit card details, clone terminals and commit other forms of financial fraud at the cost of both buyers and retailers.
Shouldn't you then be intolerant to the intolerance of the new twitch policy?
The tricky bit is proving BB(n) doesn’t solve the halting problem. Otherwise feed program of n size and run it for BB(n) + 1 steps and it’s stuck in a loop.
You had me until the high-speed train. I remember my time in SF fondly but it's got some real warts.
If you're having trouble landing a job even though you know all those languages, COBOL won't be the magical solution. It's likely your problem lies elsewhere...
All the young people I know (OK about a dozen nieces, nephews and neighbor kids) got PC laptops. Maybe I live in a bubble where kids playing video games is more common, but it seems like getting $300-500 laptops that can play thousands of PC games (and be used for homework) is still a pretty popular option. (Some of the older youth are getting $600-1000 PC gaming laptops instead.)

> Now the hardware is also gonna completely fall behind.

This may happen. For efficiency/battery life, it already has. But a handful of synthetic benchmarks where the M1 outperforms high-end AMD desktop chips in single core seems to have overshadowed the cases where those same desktop chips (and even some comparable 15W mobile APUs) outperform the M1 in other tasks.

Or the huge segment of PC gaming.
Maybe as an Android user, this is a thing I take for granted that just isn't really in the Apple ecosystem, but I'm used to a Chromecast and seamlessly streaming all my phone content to my TV.

So when I was reading the section about the content having to be played on an iPhone or iPad, and how he can't use it with his Apple TV... I got really confused. Can you really not just stream your mobile content to the Apple TV? Then you'd have the big screen, but you could use your phone or iPad for keeping track of your head's orientation. Or can you stream it, but not, like, configure the location of your TV or something, for the purposes of the spatial audio?
The reason those questions are asked is so there can be accountability when (for example) white supremacists try to hire only white people. That portion of the application is typically visible to HR but not the hiring manager.

So, counterintuitively, the orgs with the forms asking all the probing questions about your skin color are more likely to be making an effort to not be a boring homogeneous mass of people. Maybe just for bragging rights about being a "diverse workplace," but, it's better than nothing.

This country has a history of treating people with darker skin worse, and there were several propaganda campaigns during slavery times which painted black people in particular as inferior. So now we've gotta fight against that social momentum from the past with countermeasures in the present.
So that one private entity can tell another that they are talking out of their hat, and show them the door.

You have a right to free speech. You don’t have a right to force everyone to listen. What a fucking awful world that would be.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43301643

Especially Russia would have a lot to gain from Trump being re-elected. It would have been crazy if they didn't put all hands on it. And the same can be extended to friendly candidates in other countries.
He mentions increasing salary won't lead to increased productivity ... and that's true, if the same developer remains. But what if we remove that constraint? What if increased salary means a higher quality of developer takes the position? Wouldn't this mean higher productivity?

Bit of a cold scenario, but one way to game it out is hypothetically removing the current dev and then hiring someone better at double the pay.

Or, less unfair seeming, double the pay by hiring a second dev. That might not double productivity ... depending on the situation it might 1.5x it, or just as easily 4x it.
In all seriousness, if that's true you should do it and productize it. Based on the comments here it seems like many people prefer other browser scripting tools, so if you can replicate the novel features of Cypress in a better package, you could make money. Cypress raised almost $10M in their Series A.
Thank you for saying that. The deposition will definitely be illuminating. Unlike his performance in front of congress, it will not be judged by public opinion ( and technically inept congressmen ) and will have real consequences should he chose to lie.
Yes, he's unproductive. What he should have done was broke it up into dozens of tiny pieces so that he could inflate his ticket count. It is more acceptable to the spreadsheet to have "Hard problem part 1", "Hard problem part 2", "Hard problem part ...", than it is to simply have "Hard problem" and take longer to do it.
I'm my opinion - 18 months may not cut it. I would consider 3 years, You need thinking time to develop your idea, games, time for pivoting.

You will have roadblocks, but enjoy the journey. There are many creative ways to sustain, write about your progress.
It's a mistake to assume that a project is shady just because it's involved with crypto.

I use Brave Rewards (as a website owner) and never had any issues. I receive BAT, convert it to my local currency, and then transfer it to my bank account. That's money I would never receive because it comes from users that block ads.
In my experience, COBOL jobs don't pay particularly well. It's not even true that young people aren't learning it, so you'll have competition, too.
I think laws should have some flexibility, even frameworks (e.g. US Constitution). The cultural leeway given by freedom of speech is being abused at scale even by foreign entities. We can't just say well because the founding fathers wanted something one way it could never change or adapt to new problems. If you allow no censorship at all the platform becomes a cesspool.
Right, and why wouldn't financial intel agencies notice that?

Every time you move more than $10,000 into or out of a bank account in a 24 hour period (presuming Canada or the US) your bank will report it to your country's financial intel agency.

They notice when a cafe is pulling in far more money than it ought to. Then they hand what they have over to the IRS/CRA, FBI/RCMP, and let them investigate further.

If you're moving any significant sum of money, you're on their radar. And they aren't stupid.
This seems like a great candidate for a future Advent of Code! Old languages have a special place in my heart, so doing Advent of Code with them is kind of fun.

I'm doing this year's in UniVerse BASIC[0] which traces its roots back to Pick[1] which is only six years newer than COBOL, but manages to be less well-known.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25250582

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system
Well if these companies would simple put they can't be sued for anything which means anything and everything. You wouldn't have all these stupid ass EULA on every damn site.
Aluminum is not better than plastic. Neither is plastic better than Aluminum. What matters quality and usage.

Planes[1] without aluminum? Ouch.

Cars[2] without plastic? Ouch.

I prefer ThinkPads because the use high quality plastic chassis and keyboards. Polycarbonate, ABS or whatever doesn't matter to me. Inside the use also magnesium and aluminum. High quality plastics are better when used with skin contact, especially regarding the keyboard and mouse. I regret that phones made with polycarbonate are gone, removable back cover, Qi without glass at back and they don't shatter when you drop them like the 800 $/€ stuff from Apple or Samsung. What I don't want on my lap is a MacBook. When it get hot, that not comfortable.

TLDR
What looks good in first sight isn't good to use or in long term durability.

[1] Actually they use a lot composite material within modern planes like the B747-8, B787, A350 and so on :)

[2] Excepting the original Audi A2, a great piece of aluminum :)

PS: I've seen people buying keyboards and mice made of aluminium. I cannot imagine something more uncomfortable.
It sounds to me more like you already had a tool in mind (ML) and were just looking for some nails ;)

If you approach the problem instead from the language preservation perspective and ask what is necessary to make it succeed, there are essentially two tasks: documentation (recording current speakers' knowledge of the language) and community maintenance (allowing people to keep using the language and teaching it to the next generation).

Documentation basically boils down to making a lot of recordings. Since text is usually nicer to work with, transcriptions are very useful, and in theory ML would be able to help with that, but to train a speech-to-text model, you first need transcribed training data, leading to a chicken-and-egg problem. Making the data easily available and easy to contribute to is more likely to be impactful.

For maintaining a community, ML can be useful by providing all the services that ML offers for speakers of more popular languages: text-to-speech, speech-to-text, predictive smartphone keyboards, machine translation, ... but all of those depend on the language being well-documented already. Otherwise, non-ML solutions are likely to be the only options (so formant-based speech synthesis e.g. with espeak-ng, dumb keyboards, rule-based translators, ...)

To give a specific example, I know of a community of Kabyle speakers who want to be able to use OpenStreetMap with voice navigation in Kabyle, so they've been making a lot of recordings (using https://tatoeba.org as a platform for the documentation part) and also have someone working on a speech-synthesis model (using Mozilla's DeepSpeech, I think). AFAIK, the project is coordinated by Muhend Beqasem, whom you might want to contact if you're interested in what they're doing: https://tatoeba.org/eng/user/profile/belkacem77
Look at the ambitious CO2 emission targets (and associated fines) for EU carmakers, no one's wriggling out of that.
I am aiming for any job that has coding in it, and pays well enough to support a large family.
There's this site that's been around for a while. http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/
Is there any work on creating feature-based sub-standard libraries that are aggregations of popular (and robust) crates but tying all of their versions together?

For example, I'd like to put in my Cargo.toml:

sstd = { version = "1.0", features = ["clap", "serde", "rand"] }

Where the sstd crate essentially has a whole mess of crates bundled together ensuring only one version is used for each individual dependency?

Perhaps this is a question best asked elsewhere - your comment just brought it once again to my mind.
Who cares?

Their infrastructure is private property.

Free speech does not mean others have to follow along or defer to the ideas, or be given a technologically advanced platform.

Emit whatever syntax. Others can choose to engage or ignore the semantics.

To be certain this isn’t some effort at objective philosophy. It’s a realistic description of how physical society has always worked.

Good luck with the holy war. Americans are vastly outnumbered, however, and have buried many other cultures without blinking an eye over the decades.

They might consider taking a peaceful protest of some of their history a bit graciously.
Is that latter case simply due to the availability of high performance GPU cards?

If so, as soon as someone (Apple) makes an ARM chip with sufficient PCIe lanes, then it's only a matter of drivers...
Spotlight on Tugboat Logic
A socialist or communist society kinda works a little differently at least in eastern europe. Depending on how close or connected you are to the party leadership you get an apartment you throw as many parties if anyone disagrees they get thrown in jail. If someone more important complains you get thrown in jail.

Your view sounds more republican. All of the home owners create a gated community with rules. Those who break the rules are kicked out.
It's just a weird feature of the human psyche you notice as you get older. People convince themselves that things they heard about from the news or other people actually happened to them or their friends. Maybe it starts out as a simple story told at a gathering, exaggerating for entertainment & abridging context for simplicity - "one time my friend..." - but after repetition and several years becomes a thing they believe literally happened as they told it. You often see this manifesting as tales of local criminal acts or encounters with homeless people. This sincere fabricational tendency, while humorous, does ultimately amplify a very skewed & harmful perspective in local politics.

It's the reason why boomers swear they were present at every major event during their lifetimes, as though we're surrounded by Forrest Gumps.
While were at it, let's throw in the British and United States' flags for their histories of slavery, colonialism, and the murders of millions.
I hope this is a wry joke.

Recently we've seen DNS providers, CDNs, payment gateways, and even banks shut down services for wrong-thinkers.

Accelerationists are cheering these actions. That should tell you all you need to know about the likely outcome.
Very good point. There are a ton of legitimate criticisms of Facebook, but you can’t blame FB for American anti-intellectualism, rampant gullibility, and the failings of the two party system.

Americans have for decades been gullible fools who never read below headlines and fall for tabloid trash. This “post-reality” thing that is culminating with stuff like Qanon has also been cooking for decades, nurtured by trash TV, dumbed down religion, and new age word salad.

In the past only mass media had the privilege of being able to lead this mass of morons. Now that has been democratized, allowing DIY YouTube and Facebook personalities to take advantage of America’s rampant foolishness.

The solution has to start with an broad spectrum social movement to raise the quality of discourse in the culture, a kind of big tent anti-bullshit movement. We need to replace hard line partisan intolerance with intolerance for intellectual junk food. Liberals, conservatives, and anyone else should start promoting all content of any perspective so long as it is well written, well reasoned, and credible, and rejecting BS from their own side as well as others.
> The vast majority of the issued in these affidavits were not addressed by the judge.

You're missing a fundamental point: anyone can make wild, nonsensical claims. it is not for the judge to "refute" them, it is for the plaintiff to substantiate them. Prove your claims or walk. They walked.

I don't know why you nod along with this, or why you think you know better than the judge while making such basic errors. But that is your issue.