skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the same way a grocery store isn't required by law to carry your home goods/food product, a law that requires Google and Apple to host ANY app would be incredibly short-sighted.
I use the Affinity suite for everything. It's worth the full price, but it's 50% off with a 90 day trial (even for people who went through one already).
a) I think BBC produces good content, but not good enough to warrant the current cost of a TV license.

b) Even if it did, I still would not pay for a license, as a reaction to its overreaching approach, obligatory character and dishonest reasoning. They are claiming that you need a license to watch any type of content made available in public in real time, with Youtube LIVE mentioned explicitly as an example -no particular reason this wouldn't include even things like gaming video streams a school kid would share for fun.

I don't think BBC should profit from the consumption of content it has contributed nothing towards. I'm not sure if that's more absurd when that content itself is provided for free by its authors, or when it's content you have already paid for.
I have almost the opposite problem - without a bus to keep me scheduled, it's very easy for me to accidentally overcommit and do too much work one day and end up mentally exhausted for the evening. I have tried things like timers but the need to constantly set them just means I forget and stop after 1 or 2 rounds.
Because they both support sedition against the USA. Anything that furthers turmoil in the US is to Russia's advantage. The Government did not shut down Parler, the free market did. Parler is free to set up their own infrastructure.

Perhaps Rebekah Mercer, the big money behind them, can buy a data center to house their servers, she has the money to do so. Or she can purchase a cloud/ISP company to house her other properties like Brietbart.
NUS engineers create ‘smart’ aerogel that turns air into drinking water
While it may have any number of undesirable effects, it would at least have a few extremely desirable ones:

- We could stop wasting massive amounts of time and resources on militaries.

- We could end the threat of global nuclear war.

- We could more effectively deal with planet-scale catastrophes like climate change and pandemics.

- We could get rid of all the inefficiencies caused by borders and trade barriers.
It ain’t WFH causing it given that I’ve been remote 100% for a few years and noticed a significant productivity dip in the pandemic. It’s that the little things that made life interesting are missing (occasional dinner at a restaurant, concerts, sports, going to my gym). So life has turned super monotonous and dull, so work and everything else suffers. It also doesn’t help that there’s just a level of constant ambient misery and sadness if you interact with anyone since everyone’s in a similar place.

Honestly, it’s annoying but I don’t worry too much. Everyone is in the weird place now, and it’s not forever, so I don’t beat myself up if my productivity is slightly down or if I don’t feel super perky.
> national identity (language, ethnicity, food, architecture, history

You are making a lot of confusion between different things. Culture, ethnicity and nationality are not the same thing.

For example, you can go live in a different country and you will not magically forget your customs, language, favorite food when you cross the border.

You can learn a second and third language and it will not affect your taste for architecture.

It's shocking that we still have to explain such basic things.

Next step: realize that any sharp distinction between culture, ethnicity and so on is based on a completely artificial "line in sand".
> they are Amazon’s proprietary chips no one else has access to.

Any ARM licensee (IP or architecture) has access to them. They're just NeoVerse N1 cores and can be synthesized on Samsung or TSMC processes.
Whichever one of the two is the biggest bully doesn't matter, in reality they can both act like Big Brother. I think CS Lewis' N.I.C.E from That Hideous Strength is more true to life than 1984.
Private industry is clearly operating in the interests of "public" power.
It's been really great for me. Meetings are 1000% better.
> In other words, current investigations do not support evidence of harm.

You missed the exception he mentions. "IARC is the outlier in this respect, having determined in 2011 that EMFs are ‘possibly carcinogenic to humans’." (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK304630/)

They concluded that "With 'limited evidence' for carcinogenicity in humans based on an increased risk of glioma – a malignant brain tumour – among heavy users of mobile telephones, radiofrequency electromagnetic fields were classified as 'possibly carcinogenic to humans'"

This suggests more studies are required from a biological perspective in order to form an conclusions either way, which is his point in the opinion piece.

> Non-physicist discovers QAM, is confused. Again, no explanation given of why this might make a difference.

The full quote is;

"Furthermore, a comprehensive Canadian review of the same evidence states that some of the new RF-EMF technologies—such as innovations in radio frequency ‘pulsing,’ ‘polarisation’ and ‘modulation’—are so new that biological scientists have not been able to keep up—that is, no studies yet exist of these new technologies’ biological effects." (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03784...)

The point he's making here, once again, is that this is a multi-disciplinary problem and we need further study from a biological perspective as there is not enough evidence to conclude either way.

You seem to think that, because he's not a physicist, that he has no idea what he's talking about.
Have you heard of Manuskript[0]? It's an open source editor with a lot of features similar to Scrivener, runs on Linux/Windows/Mac, and has a few features that Scrivener doesn't have that have helped me plan things more fully in the past. It's not perfect, but it's a solid tool. Also, it's backed by Markdown text files.

[0]: https://www.theologeek.ch/manuskript/
>You do realize a laptop was stolen to give to Russian intelligence

No, but I do realize that the same tired "RussiaGate" trite zero-content faux-panic (with 0 actual results and proof, based on a dossier of random accusations made by a guy on behalf of the Dems [1]), was reheated when some "Burn After Reading (the Coen movie)" IQ-level person that was into the Capitol tried to sell a laptop they stole to the russians.

[1] https://taibbi.substack.com/p/russiagate-is-wmd-times-a-mill...

>Coup? Meh, agreed, it wasn't organized by the military. Violent protest? Absolutely.

I'll meet you halfway, and admit it was a protest. As protests go, it was hardly that violent - especially for a protest that got into a government building.

Then again, globally such protests are a dime a dozen. We had a couple in mine here parts...
If IBM v. SCO taught us anything, it should have taught us that "easily... prove" and "in court" do not belong in the same sentence. The case SHOULD have been thrown out in 5 minutes due to lack of merit, which ANY programmer could see. Instead, it took FOURTEEN YEARS to decide, and is STILL working through appeals. Microsoft funded the litigation, and the scumbag executives of SCO continued to get paid through most of this charade. It all still makes my blood boil.
I think for the devops person or someone doing server administration (sysadmins etc) powershell everywhere must make things easier even with the trade offs (as some have mentioned, it does have a bigger memory foot print, which may or may not matter depending on a host of factors)

As a developer? I haven't found PowerShell more useful than zsh/bash or fish (if you haven't, try fish, it has a lot of benefits of PowerShell (fish has its own scripting language that is more "language like", like some of the more simple constructs of Python, syntax wise) but via a simple plugin[0] you get bash compatibility too, and its made for Unix like environments). I do like that it has a rich object data model, I just don't do that kind of thing in my shell. I mostly use aliases, shortcuts, and maybe some grepping. I don't do heavy duty tasks from the command line where I'm not writing the logic in the first place, and I just find it easier to use the standard that my team does (currently, this is JavaScript, with the shebang it executes just like a binary. We can reliably say everyone has the same version of node)

Maybe in the future this will change, but I don't see the win to divide my attention economy to it deeply, personally.

[0]: https://github.com/edc/bass
LEGO bricks are an easy thing to train using CNNs because there are no outliers. Unless of course the machine can recognize "non-LEGO" bits and put them in a separate bin.
Yes, almost publishers accept Word documents only, and that's why I've built DocxManager (https://docxmanager.com/) on top of Microsoft Word. ;)

Basically, it's an outliner/corkboard/project manager for all kinds writers who uses Word.
What about private industry acting as a government, with similar power.
I have seen no convincing evidence that Facebook and Twitter make good faith efforts to remove comments that incite violence, according to the letter of the law.

To me, it looks like they selectively moderate the views that give them bad press (ISIS) and enjoy the massive engagement that comes from the conflict.
Ok, we're going down the hole of analogies a little too far but VS Code and the world of language services is a pretty decent replacement for a lot of use cases outside of IntelliJ's core Java strength.

Every top dog eventually gets cut down by _someone_ over time.
Show HN: Bojagi – Drag designers to code reviews
You can have a lot of fun with network namespaces in Linux, like running some programs in their own network/VPN.
Anyone with enough money can enter the market. Parler is funded by a billionaire. She just has to spend more of her money to compete or acquire what she needs.
> But it's a necessary evil for a _distributed_ currency.

Bitcoin is an equity based currency. If you have some Bitcoin you "own" it much like you would own a physical thing, like a lump of gold. And indeed, you are right, to implement a permissionless equity based currency, you probably need something like proof of work to ensure that there is an objective ordering of transactions.

However....! You can also build a credit based currency, whereby anyone can issue IOUs which are agreements between a debtor and a creditor. In this regard you don't "own" an IOU but you are a participant in an agreement which is an IOU. That might be pedantic but it's a difference from an equity based money system. For a credit based system you don't need proof of work or an objective ordering of transactions as any transaction is just a bilateral agreement between two parties. You could make the IOUs bearer instruments by introducing some blockchain elements (unilateral ledger updates) but ultimately there isn't much point in this because you have to trust the issuer. The difficulty with this type of system is that it's tough to bootstrap it - how do you measure reputation in such a system? How do you determine who's credit is good and who's credit is bad?

I think it would be exciting to see more research into distributed credit based monetary systems. Interestingly, our current monetary system is basically a pure credit system and that in this system we can view different types of credit as having a position in a money hierarchy. At the top you have central bank credit, next bank credit, next company credit, next credit issued by individuals. When an issuer's credit can be trusted enough such that people can use it as a medium of exchange (it can be endorsed from one party to another) then it _becomes_ money. That's quite cool. You can build a whole distributed monetary system from an endogenous money supply!
There are plenty of people on Purism forums: https://forums.puri.sm/search?q=%5BMyL5%5D.
> ... they don't taste better than good American apple pie, warm, with good vanilla ice cream!

Ahem... :) "Apple pie was brought to the colonies by the English, the Dutch, and the Swedes during the 17th and 18th centuries." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie
Some projects do not offer alternate/dual licensing.
I have read across the spectrum for years in the UK, the BBC is not especially biased, maybe a little liberal and it ignores poorer people, but almost all media does that in the UK. But the histrionics frim the Tories and Momentum about the BBC is wildly misplaced.

In comparison I never really watched the US "news" until the recent US election, occasionally watching a bit of CNN/ABC/Fox News. But I've been watching it these last few months, a mix of CNN, Fox and CNBC.

I was shocked at how CNN and Fox both present their often extremely partisan and biased opinions as news. They "report" on a story, but just constantly throwing in their own slant, not reporting the facts, but spinning it. CNN is not quite as bad as Fox, but it's still really, really bad.

That's not news to me.

The BBC does not do that. They don't have reporters sit their and rant about stuff, or label huge swathes of the population as X, Y or Z.

While there is bias by omission, or by the order in which they present the news, it's nothing like the 'news' I see coming from America.
This is normal, I think. I know many people who feel this way. I have been focusing on other things like exercise, stock trading, and side projects.
The SSPL is a sham of an open source license. Its written (and named!) in a way to convince shallow readers that its just a service-oriented version of the GPL, but its practically impossible to fulfill the terms of this license in a way which enables third parties to legally host the so-called "open source software". That's the point of the SSPL; to make sure the company who created the so-called open source software is the only company that can monetize it. Does that sound like the state Linux is in to you?

The core legal requirement the GPL puts on distributors is that modifications must also be made open source. That's powerful, and attainable. The core legal requirement the SSPL puts on "third-party distributors" is the requirement that all the source code for that distributor's service must be made open source. First: It doesn't even apply to Elastic. Second: Binaries are discrete; services are networked, often involving many pieces, and there's no strong legal definition for what "service" means in the SSPL.

MongoDB invented it, submitted it to OSI for approval in 2018, then withdrew the application in 2019. Its still not an OSI approved license. Every major linux distro ceased distributing MongoDB upon the relicense, under concerns that its not actually an open source license.

Elastic wants to keep the conversation focused on AWS. Look, I like AWS, but they can be pretty icky, I get that. However, this is not a dichotomy. Elastic betrayed the open source community. They started with open source as a major selling point of elasticsearch, used that selling point to gain traction and users; many of whom did not pay elastic for the service, to be sure. When they had secured a moat of success, they flipped the license to one that is not open source, and now those users are forced to come to elastic for support.

Elastic should be able to make money. In the spirit of that, we just need to be clear: They're effectively no better than, say, Algolia. Yeah, I can read the source code. I can't really change it in a meaningful way. I can self-host (which I can do with many closed-source products). I can't sub-contract a specialist like AWS to manage it for me. Them switching to the SSPL is "fine". They're just not an open source company anymore. This is not an "AWS is evil, Elastic is great" situation; this is a "they're both companies who do some good things and some evil things, but above all else they care about money" situation. There are true open source projects which aren't like this; elasticsearch was one of these, it isn't anymore, and we should focus on supporting products which support their users back, not ones which are built to support The Company.
What is the practical implication? I guess they are saying: "don't involve radios in your crime, or else the feds will be after you, too".
When radio was king, many outlets chose to stop broadcasting Father Coughlin
Who said we are going to geo-divide app stores? The failure was the follow up effort of the DOJ for not blocking mergers thereafter, not the initial break-up.
tl;dr : How to turn a local or state crime into a federal one.

It isn't particularly shocking that this is a statute. I wonder if ham radio was used in the capitol riot.
Which people and what scenario?

At a base level comparing a government telling you which fictional truths to believe to a private company providing a technology service is difficult.
Hello HN!

Bojagi is a communication between designers and developers. Designers visually review web components[0] alongside a code review in a GitHub pull request.

We have more detail in our recent blog post[1].

Appreciate any feedback as we are open beta!

[0] Currently we support React.

[1] https://medium.com/bojagi/bojagi-is-now-in-open-beta-2abcb2a...
Springer journal hacked by an organized rogue network
In focusing on Brexit (and possible secession of Northern Ireland and Scotland from the UK), the author seems to equate "society" with a political entity. The author never defines what he means by society, but it seems like perfectly good definitions ("the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community" is the definition Google gives) mean that society is something not just political. Other definitions ("a community, nation, or broad grouping of people having common traditions, institutions, and collective activities and interests" is the definition given by https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/society) make the concept of a "Universal Society" an oxymoron - we cannot have a universal society until we have, among other things, universal traditions.

> "But what might happen if people could forgo those traits that “mark” their identities or somehow put aside the drive to categorize each other by means of such labels—to separate us from them based on language, clothing, gestures, or religious beliefs?"

This line of questioning trivializes what religious belief means for many of us. I don't know much about the author, but there is an idea among many who are not religious that religion is an arbitrary "mark." While it certainly can be that and has often played that role in history, this oversimplifies differences in world view. I belong to a Catholic parish not out of accident but because of choice, and I seek friendship within my Catholic parish because our shared world view gives us a basis for understanding that I don't share with my non-Catholic and non-Christian coworkers.

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> "its [the EU's] members have a history of conflict dating from the Middle Ages"

Perhaps this is a nit-pick, but sentences like this seem to reinforce that the Middle Ages was when conflict began in Europe. Europe had lots of conflict before the Middle Ages. Further, what fighting happened in Europe during the Middle Ages usually happened despite a stronger sense of a universal community (membership in the Christian church) then existed for hundreds of years later, demonstrating a counterexample of the author's hypothesis about some general trend toward universalization of society.
I'm not sure that's entirely true. According to this (see "Why can’t Intel and AMD add more instruction decoders?"):

https://debugger.medium.com/why-is-apples-m1-chip-so-fast-32...

..a big part of the reason the M1 is so fast is the large reorder buffer, which is enabled by the fact that arm instructions are all the same size, which makes parallel instruction decoding far easier. Because x86 instructions are variable length, the processor has to do some amount of work to even find out where the next instruction starts, and I can see how it would be difficult to do that work in parallel, especially compared to an architecture with a fixed instruction size.
Mill is claimed to run general purpose code well, unlike Itanic and VLIW in general. Are you claiming Mill would be like Itanium?
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Working from home can be bad if the company you're at is not well set up for it. My work switched from everyone being in the office to fully remote as a result of COVID, and I've never met my coworkers. They're all pretty webcam-shy, they don't want to have social calls, it's very awkward. I think if we met in person a couple times it would break down some barriers but as it is I'm basically alone working on a one-man project with minimal communication. Most days it feels like if I just quit nobody would notice, and the work itself is not very interesting, so it's hard to stay motivated.
Next: a machine that can put together LEGO bricks according to the assembly instructions?
the point i am trying to make and this person is defending it while my comment is getting down votes. wow
Just a note that listening in - even to police scanner frequencies - counts as legal use.
There's still 24 hours left.
Sure, but a 1984 comparison is not appropriate here.
I keep seeing references to markdown editors on HN. As a non-tech person it would have never crossed my mind to use something like this to write a novel or even keep notes, but it seems to really strike a chord here. Perhaps it's simply the comfort associated with code over a long period of time?
Yeah I'm not sure how much weight this holds, especially considering one paragraph later they transition into accusing Amazon of being "inspired" by their commercial features.
This is (crudely speaking) because the Catholic church stamped out such things in the core of Europe 1000 years ago. (Or perhaps that sentence should be the other way around.) Many edges of Europe skipped this process -- Sicily (under the Sacreans?), the Balkans (Byzantine & then Ottoman), the Gaelic fringe (local kings), etc.
should be easy to implement using pandoc since the underlying code is python?
There are pros and cons to both zero and one based indexing, but in the context of Lua going with 1-based indexing was IMO a complete disaster, and one of maybe two or three significant defects that has relegated an otherwise quite elegant, small and capable language with one world class implementation to some weird niche role.

You just can't succeed in being the goto language for embedding (in C or C++) and have 1 based indexing. It's just a complete clusterfuck and you end up with all sorts of truly terrible things, like luajit or terra being sometimes zero and sometimes one based, which also interacts in hilarious ways with the length function. I think this has done even more harm than the messed up scoping (which could largely be fixed).
The Bible is also rife with passages that talk about justice for the fatherless, the widow, the orphan, and the poor. These are categories of people that by and large have no access to the same channels of justice that strong, large family units had. So the community- especially those in power and able to do something about it- were called to step up and fill in that void.
Followed by a person narrating the news with flashy graphics. I can't stand this sort of garbage, there's nothing new at all, it's just to sell an ad.
Now that governments are trying to catch up with the latest happenings, they might be able to stop Big Tech to achieve ''sovereignty''. But, as more people move towards free software, the governments in lust of power would like to restrict the freedom of the people in dealings with software. Also, oppressive goverments may use ''free'' software in oppression. How can we take away their ''freedom'' in such circumstances? (Can we? I don't think that is possible.)
Those 80 years of brainwashing is not working for majority of kids today anymore. 2020 turned out as a year of mass awakening. I have some hope for gen Z teenageers, though uncertainty is very uncertain .. how would they be able to dismantle these network monarchy.