skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are pointing out that the codified law is applicable, not what you claim was the original purpose.

(I don't agree with you that the original purpose was restricted to protecting revenue. The original purpose of copyright law is to codify the moral rights associated with creative works. Moral rights are fundamentally a property right connecting the work to the person. When we hear that an artist tries to prevent their works being distorted by being associated with a certain political campaign, this is an appeal to this kind of right, not revenue.)
Simply based on the face that this article lists the cost of recycled bricks, but not the cost of traditional bricks, I feel quite confident saying this is an entertainment piece, and the bricks have no serious commercial prospects outside of being a conversation piece.

"News" sites really love stories about inventions in Africa, but if you read this crap you almost certainly come away with a worse understanding of the economy in whatever state they're talking about. I stopped reading Quartz entirely, because their emerging markets coverage was composed entirely of this stuff.

If you're really interested about innovation in the African economy, the investments China is making are what you should be reading about. That's what's actually going to change the future of Africa. FT has some good coverage of it all (although they're expensive).
Thank you, you are absolutely right and this is the good mentality to approach the issue!
I will do it as soon as I have more bandwidth available.
If these ridiculous interviews don't produce top notch performance reviews after a year on the job, then the interviews are worthless.

If I were to ever try a startup (I won't), my philosophy would be to hire easily and fire easily. Do my level best to interview fairly, and give people a chance. But if they don't work out, fire them quickly and give them a 2-3 month severance bonus.

Then I would remove most titles and pay in the top tier. I think at the beginning of hiring, it would probably have a high turnover, but as the company matures, if it survives it will be filled with a lot of happy engineers that won't want to leave.
And of top of that, burns from plastics are HORRIBLE, think napalm, but worse.
Comically, that’s why my GitHub recommended. Of course that’s a nightmare for a user to manage, violates our sso requirement, and GitHub charges per user.
About the microplastics and deterioration : would it be better if we just buried the trash in a landfill? Seems the bricks might offer a slight improvement or break even there
He and the judge are currently doing rounds of morning news tv including an interview with Sunrise in Australia so I assume he sees the humor in it.
I strongly agree with the author's experience. I recently totally redid my personal site with Hugo so I could simplify it and learn technology at the same time. It's absolutely great if you want a landing page and blog, really terrible if you're trying to actually do anything custom not related to the layout, however the layout tools are plentiful.
Yep came in here to see if this was flagged and it was. Reinforces the author's point, and of course HN is part of the problem.
I wasn't speaking about "freedom to say something stupid".
from TFA:

>... “leading edge” ...

Does Intel have some leading edge fabs? I read they have some coming in the future, but I think the point is it’s good to have more!
>I bet the original team (in particular, I'm thinking of Rob Pike)

Apparently he's nervous but can think of useful applications of generics:
https://old.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/jditu9/what_do_gene...

Robert Griesemer was a coauthor on the Featherweight Go paper so I'm assuming he supports it. I would assume Ken Thompson doesn't care for generics but I think he's retired so he wouldn't vote on it anyway.
Some more fun high level frameworks:

- HaxeFlixel (https://haxeflixel.com/) (Extremely portable)

- Phaser (https://phaser.io/) (HTML5 framework)

- Nico (https://github.com/ftsf/nico) (The PICO-8 API in Nim)

- Pixel Vision 8 (https://pixelvision8.github.io/PixelVision8Website/) (Another fantasy console)
Invoice them for your prep time, the time you'd have presented it (and recovery period), and double it for wasting your time.
That email was normal to me for small audience talks. Also, as a professor, I encourage students to ask questions during lecture (my class sizes are small enough so that it works fine).
Bricks are not nearly as strong as you intuitively think. They do great in compression, but terrible in tension. Bricks are also terrible insulation. Real structural engineers take this into account, and thus often use wood or steel (or other materials) depending on what really matters. And of course the entire structure needs to be designed as a whole.
I remember a fintech here at my country contacted me for a possition and they asked me to perform a technical assessment which I diligently executed even since I though that the technical things they were trying to test could be easily asked during an interview, and that it going to cost me some money because they were asking me to use an AWS account, anyways. After finishing the technical thing, I sent an email to notify and proceed with the process, after that they were so difficult to provide availability for the next interview, they wanted a single time which I told them I wasn't able to meet at that time because I was working on that time so they took more days and I ended up loosing 20 bucks and so frustrated because they didn't provide the actual time to proceed with the process, I told the recruiter that if they don't have enough time to get more people with their team then maybe they don't have enough time to actually spend on different things than working. Anyhow, I just wanted to rant that.
As a miner, I'm running a machine that takes electricity as input and outputs bitcoin.

Since I have to pay for the electricity in dollars, and since I sell the bitcoin for dollars, I'm actually operating a machine that takes dollars as input and outputs dollars.

As long as I get more than a dollar out for every dollar I put in, I basically want to put as much money through the machine as it can handle, and I want to build as many more machines as I can afford. That will only change if the $ input:output ratio drops below 1.

If the cost of electricity goes up, my ratio suffers. I have to pay more to get the same amount of bitcoin out.

If the price of bitcoin goes down, my ratio suffers. I get less dollars out for the same input.

If you want me to burn less electricity, you need at least one of those two things to happen: Increase my electricity cost or decrease the price of bitcoin.

You may be rolling your eyes at the obviousness of this. That's because all industrial capitalism operates this way. You put money in to pay for power (to extract resources and fabricate), and you get money out the other end when you sell your product. The "use value" of the product never comes into it for the capitalist. All that matters is what it costs to produce vs what someone will pay at the end.

You may say "but industrial capitalism produces actually useful things like food and clothes" but when it does, that's just coincidental! The situation with bitcoin isn't unique, it just illustrates the phenomenon especially elegantly: the economy does not care whether it's producing useful things or destroying humanity. It only cares if the math works.
> So if after an election there are two different coalitions who both claim to be the best chance at a stable government, who makes the choice to go with one of them, or to call fresh elections?

In a parliamentary system, the legislative body selects a head of government using a negative process, i.e. they choose the first best alternative that won't lose a vote of no confidence. You don't need 51% approval from parliament, you need to not get 51% disproval.

And depending on country, there are rules for in which order the various players are asked and how much time is allowed to pass for horse-trading and coalition-making, but generally the order is that you first ask the incumbent if they want to continue governing, and thereafter each party leader in order of size in parliament if they have an alternative that they think can pass a vote.

Also, in countries where coalitions are the norm, the various parties have aligned into blocks during the election campaign so that you can be reasonably certain that a vote for party A implicitly is a vote for their block.
Show HN: Idea for unit testing with PostgreSQL in Go
Doesn't bitcoin compute time go up with computational advances also? If so, any answer greater than a few years can be transposed to infinite time to cover costs.
“I had to figure out how to display hidden files in finder.”

Displaying hidden files is not generally an end user feature.
The entertainment industry loves stories about inventions in Africa. Occasionally, people make the honest mistake of thinking it's newsworthy. I am quite confident you will never hear or see of these bricks, that they are numerous different ways they are not commercially viable, and that they are probably as bad or worse for the environment than just throwing the garbage in a landfill.

(although I'd certainly be glad to be wrong)
Maybe play predator sound with loud speaker?
Ask HN: Any technology tools to use to promote justice in the “justice” system?
I have had some issues with police and court practices over the past six months, due to people in power being incompetent or corrupt. I am hoping there are some technologies or sites that can help prevent or minimize future issues (for lack of a better term).

For example, I filed a complaint against a trooper that found him in violation of some policies/regulations. The complaint findings said he was counseled on the correct actions to take. It also stated that the lie he told the court was just "a misunderstanding" without any explanation or justification for that determination. Makes me think the investigator (another trooper) was covering for him.

The trooper never took the corrective actions he was counseled on in the first complaint. So I filed a second complaint (it included other things he did after the first complaint too, like mishandling evidence). I found out that complaint was closed without any investigation or reasoning. They didn't even notify me of the result like they are required to. This reeks of corruption to me.

I already know about TheRobbingRoom.com for reviews of judges (yes, we had a terrible magistrate too). Is there anything like this for police?

Are there any sites to connect people to lawyers willing to take pro bono civil rights cases? I had contacted one lawyer who said some of the infractions were civil rights violations, but that the courts basically don't care unless you suffered significant financial harm. This doesn't sound right to me.

Maybe there's a site that can make progress from the legislative side?
You can always graduate up to starting a restaurant to lose even more money, and for those trying to divest themselves of a billion or so I believe the usual recommendation is to start an airline, with the caveat that this strategy misfired for Richard Branson and Niki Lauda.
I am doing the same. I started at the SMH etf and have been working downwards. It's interesting stuff!
And if you know anything about electrical wiring, do not look up how they do it in those plywood houses in US, any European building inspector would have a heart attack :)
Ask HN: How are you preventing spam in live chat?
Live streaming with live chat has become huge over the last few years. The chats are a massive target for spam bots. How are you detecting/stopping spam? Automated/manual/mixed
I do this, but to every webpage - so there should be much less cross-site talk. Not that the advertising machine doesn't have a million other ways of getting though.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
I've not personally ever tried fuzzing - is there some nice introduction to the concept?
Which fab machines are you referencing? Atmospheric modules? Vacuum modules? Or maybe not talking about the process tools at all, and more along the lines of inter-fab equipment?
Here is a coupon to save 23€ on the book :) https://academy.kerkour.com/black-hat-rust?coupon=HACKERNEWS...
I'll respond only to the last part. My post was made in fun and I didn't mean to offend anyone, maybe accost them a bit. The initial poster I was replying too did say that they had access to bitcoin and could/should have kept some as do most of us hence the post. The subsequent replying was made to explain, poorly it seems, why it's useful.
The Origin and Early Spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Europe
Does Signal still require you to register and verify using a real cell phone number?
The problem here is you need two algorithms. Their current algorithm might be 99% sensitive to detecting fraud. But they need a 99.99999999% algorithm that’s specific to not fraud. So by running then positives through the second one, they can detect the false positives and lessen these episodes.
https://youtu.be/8oM_UTdfaPc?t=1256

This is just a UI glitch. No memory shenanigans needed.
Facebook is trying (tried?) that with the Portal, but it was only limited to Facebook Messenger IIRC
I don't believe there's a single part of the semiconductor supply chain that is exclusively available from China.

I agree with you. But the parent comment reminds me of when Apple started making computers in Austin and HN was full of people saying, "No, you can't build computers in America because America doesn't have any screws, and can't possibly figure out how to make its own!"

Time and money solve all problems. Even supply chains.
I see liability cited as a reason all the time, but I never hear about specific cases or settlements, or even a justification from an actual legal team (HR doesn't count, they are trained to never allow anything as far as I can tell).
It comes across from the inside and the outside as pure laziness.
To me, Big Sur's design is very clearly taking its aesthetics -- for better or worse (maybe better and worse) -- from iOS: minimizing "chrome" as much as possible to the point of making title bars vanish when it's deemed feasible, reducing buttons to flat single-color icons, and so on. Your screenshots of GNOME 3 look more like Catalina than Big Sur to me, honestly; the buttons still look like, well, buttons; the title/toolbar goes all the way across (unlike Big Sur but like Catalina), the buttons are grouped (unlike Big Sur but like Catalina), etc.

I don't think anyone would say design exists in a vacuum, nor that the open source community has no ideas that Apple or other companies would consider -- I mean, look at CUPS and KHTML! But open source has, well, not historically been great with its desktop UX design. The best free software interfaces that I see tend to take pretty direct cues from (hopefully well-designed!) commercial counterparts; more often than not deviations from those established norms make things worse rather than better.
Version 4 of The Internet (the popular one that blew up in the 1990s) is made up of 32 bit numeric addresses attached to physical things to which data has to be routed.

In the 80s these would be bunched up by org in nice ways just like how phone numbers that were all in the same place would share an area code. MIT would be 1.1.x.y and you’d route their data to Cambridge MA. IBM would be 2.x.y.z and you’d route to them and let them deal with it internally. Some
small outfit in France might’ve gotten 173.4.5.q: you’d send their data into the Atlantic fibre because “173.something” meant “Europe” and let the other end figure it out.

In the 90s it all got messy because 32bits wasn’t enough to keep things in a clean hierarchy that reflected how data was routed around the net. Orgs ended up accumulating fragments of IP address space from all over the place for the hosts at their physical site. The hierarchy of the address couldn’t tell you how to route traffic and the rules for routing became highly extensive and dynamic.

Enter Autonomous Systems Numbers and BGP. It’s a layer on top of IP addressing that only matters to internet core routers with many choices as to how to your traffic (“multi homed” sites). It helps map IP addresses to actual places — internet peers, aka fellow ISPs — so they can agree with each other how traffic should be routed. BGP lets peers keep these routes updated and let’s you know who owns what.

None of this matters if you have a single internet connection. Routing is easy: it’s either “local” or you send it to your ISP. But if you’re an ISP in the centre how do you know who gets what? You use The [Internet] Routing Table as maintained by the BGP system.

Some companies have so much traffic they have their own ASN. Because the internet is open, you get to see all the IP addresses which are bundled up inside that ASN, which is what I was linking to. It only works because FB is its own self-serving ISP with its own ASN.

(With IPv6 this should all have gone away not because of the number of addresses, but because the address space was 128-bits wide. You could hierarchically route 256 towns in 256 counties in 256 states in 256 countries and still only have used half the hierarchy. ISPs usually get a /32 of this but Facebook announce a bunch of /48s which I don’t understand.)
And people prefer them because I have known since I was like 4 that I'm on Eastern time but have exactly zero idea what my UTC offset is off the top of my head. And also because I observe daylight savings EST changes automatically for me while I have to remember whether I'm in DST to know my UTC offset.
Looks promising! I was hoping you could shed some light on "using some of the latest NLP techniques". Wish you success!
Wood lasts 150 years plus. There are environmental factors that, unmitigated, can damage wood. But the same is also the case for masonry construction. They both have their pros and cons. And now that things like vinyl siding exist, wood homes can last a long time even with minimal maintenance.
Uber’s Food Delivery Business Nearly Matches Ride-Sharing
A couple of strategic reasons: Taiwan's proximity to the PRC would knock out fab production should a war occur between the two. Also, the same proximity could lead to unwanted IP transfer, which could compromise US national security if China gets its hands on any new chip tech the US develops.

Taiwan is a great ally to the US and having it manufacture chips is good for both economies, but if the US wants to lower risk and keep control of its technological edge it is in its interests to keep manufacturing domestic.
> what do you expect?

I think a lot of users expect to be able to do minor manipulations on PDFs.
I mean majority of the knowledge is online and open sourced nowadays, even if the most cutting edge technology, especially in CS field.
tl;dr use a license that is not stupid for your business case. (in his case agpl)
Twice a year we have to deal with calendar screw-ups because a third of our employees are in a locale that doesn't observe DST and the rest are in locales that do observe it. If an employee from that first group sets up a recurring meeting, the meeting time changes for everyone else in March and November.
> This is completely useless as the 24hrs before symptoms start the patient is likely to already be highly infectious, and misses the asymptomatic carriers which have an indeterminate effect on spread as well.

Nothing is a one-shot-solve-all solution to Covid. If Apple watches can detect it and prompt people to go get a full test, that’s great. I’ve got an ongoing theory that a lot of the spread is by people who ignore their symptoms because ‘they have a cough but it’s not a covid cough’ or ‘they haven’t lost their smell so it can’t be covid’ so the more things that can prompt you to get a test and isolate the better.
I've worked at, hired at, and consulted at many companies. I've never once seen an HR department be incentivized to interview people just for the sake of interviewing. At my last two companies, recruiters are measured on the number of candidates that end up being extended an offer, and are negatively measured against the number of candidates that are rejected. If a recruiter is pulling in a large number of people that all get rejected, that's not due diligence, it's wasting everyone's time and is a signal that the recruiter is not very good at identifying suitable candidates.
> I don’t think anyone other than programmers thinks DST is much of an inconvenience.

I don't think anyone other than programmers thinks DST is not a huge pain in the ass.

Twice a year your bodyclock gets screwed up and you risk getting to work at the wrong time; once a year you even get a shorter night of sleep.

In Europe (hardly "programmer's country"), it took very simple polling to discover that DST was hugely unpopular. The population at large simply does not benefit, it was introduced for the good of industry and we're largely leaving behind that world. Good riddance.
EU Regulations and Decisions directly affect member states. Whereas EU Directives require member states to enact new laws.

As the GDPR is a regulation, it directly applied to member states.

When the UK left the EU they made a paralled law

> The GDPR has been incorporated into UK data protection law as the UK GDPR
see: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/dp-at-the-end-of-the-tr...
Ask HN: Signing away rights to trade stocks of employer. Advice needed
Hi HN,

I am a software dev at a subsidiary of a publicly traded company. I am being offered an option to sign documents if I need access to the company's data. However, by signing the documents I will be giving up my rights to own the parent company's stock. I had the following questions:

1. Am I not allowed to hold stock of any of the subsidiaries of parent company(there are many across the world)?

2. Am I not allowed to hold derivative securities like etfs as well if they contain my parent company's stock?

3. Is this a standard procedure in the industry? To be honest, I need this access maybe once in a year. I don't need it for my day to day work.

4. If I use apps that use robo advisors for investing, am I responsible for the trades made by the robo advisor?

5. Is there anything else that I should be considering?
Major problem with plastic in roads is thermal stability and abrasion from constant wear. In the end, concrete is not only cheaper, but also much safer option.
Israel identifies itself as the Nation State of the Jewish People and have carved out special rights in their constitution for Jewish citizens.

Any criticism of Israel is therefore seen by some a criticism of Judaism itself. This is a power that the Israeli government knows it has and they deploy it as needed.
Redirects me to a wikimedia .wav file of a human fart.

I have no idea what the content of the article is but that experience certainly doesn't make me want to learn Rust.

After looking at other posts on HN from this site, I found the following:

"The author added a human fart sound that plays when the visit comes from HN.

// Hacker News is bad.

if (document.referrer.startsWith("https://news.ycombinator.com"))

{ document.location = "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Human_fart.wav"}"

Well thanks for posting OP, I guess.