skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The stated rationale for the law is not copyright infringement, so fair use is not relevant. It’s an attempt by Australia’s competition (antitrust) regulator to address an alleged market failure: “The proposed bargaining code is intended to address bargaining power imbalances between Australian news media businesses and digital platforms in order to ensure that commercial arrangements between these parties do not undermine the ability and incentives for news media businesses to produce news for Australians.” https://www.accc.gov.au/system/files/ACCC%20-%20Mandatory%20...
Which innocent third party provides thousands of unique image URLs?
> It'd be a lot tougher to be successful as an electrician or commercial airline pilot if you got there from sexual favors for your boss.

That isn't true, but the reasons are different for each.

For electrician getting your foot in the door is the hard part, from there on it is about on the job training. Getting the first apprentice position is one of the harder steps to success, and sexual favors can work here. Though I doubt this happens much in practice - the field isn't one that people are so excited to get into that they will drop their morals to do so.

For airline pilot, demand comes and goes. You have to get a license first (though you can probably pay your instructor in bed, that just gets training I doubt any instructor/examiner will let you buy the license before you are qualified - if anything they will be tougher one you so you have to "buy" another lesson). Once you are qualified, you can use favors to get a job when jobs are scare and this will put you ahead in seniority later when the others finally get a job; or you can use favor to keep a job - but again: seniority means they may not even have an option to keep you. Note that the above is or - because of constant management change odds are against your ability to use this more than once at a real airline without getting caught and then their HR will ensure you are out.
USB-C is a bad beast as the connector is really poorly designed from a mechanical point of view.

If you want to check it out, we just pre-launched Solo v2 [1]. The USB-A version is a solid block of pcb. The USB-C has extra soldering between the connector and the external pcb shield. It's "metal solid", vs plastic around the connector.

[1] https://solokeys.com/v2
How does OP know that it happens, then?
Murdoch’s News Corp.
Fly.io Rust-based init for virtual machines
Malware Is Now Targeting Apple’s New M1 Processor
> "Functions in Ruby are methods"

RECORD SCRATCH. THE ROOM FALLS SILENT.

NARRATOR: A common assumption, but no. Equating object methods to functions is a furphy. The argument along the lines of:

"Ruby's object methods are Ruby's functions, but you can't pass them around, ergo they're not functions"

is using the term "function" in two different ways, but assuming they're the same; this is not an argument based on substance, but upon mislabelling. The conclusion is bogus because the premise is bogus.

It may arise from a category error, assuming that the thing depends intrinsically upon the literal representation of the thing, or (worse) the common name of the thing, but this is a) wrong anyway, and b) loses coherence entirely in a language in which function literals can be conjured and lexically rebound at runtime.

In actuality, Ruby's lambdas are functions, and first-class, by the only definition with substance: they are closures capable of higher-order expression, taking functions as parameters when invoked, and returning functions as results.

Which is why saying "it don't have them" on a forum named after a fixed-point combinator is to invite: a) ridicule, and b) lambda calculus expressions in rap battle form.

CROWD: Yeah!

MUSIC STARTS / GLITTERBALL CLOSEUP
Why do you even need SVG if you're on the web already though? Nothing in these code pictures requires more than basic CSS and HTML. You can go wild with fonts, gradients, shadows, etc. to make beautiful looking pre and code elements. Tools like prismjs will syntax highlight with spans. Everything is in plain old semantic HTML with aria properties where appropriate.
This says it better than my answer so I'll delete mine.
This is being reported as if the challenge trial is giving people already-approved vaccines (also note the first stage of the trial is not even doing that step).

As such, the benefit of deliberately infecting people over waiting for natural exposure appears to me to be zero.
Crop all the parameters from the URL. Problem solved.
Just because a medium is semi-public doesn’t mean it doesn’t need to deal with privacy.

One case, personal: my friend’s ex-gf is on Clubhouse. He has her unfollowed on Facebook, and he would prefer to see her as little as possible. And yet clubhouse keeps recommending him the rooms she is in, even though he didn’t follow her.

The opposite is true as well - there is no way to subtly hide yourself from someone on Clubhouse (as in: don’t show the other person I’m in the room unless they enter).

As for GDPR - as soon as an app has your private data (like phone number, a list of followers and so on), certain laws apply - having a right to be forgotten for example, or a right to receive what the service has on you.
I’m not sure if Clubhouse adheres to GDPR, but there definitely are things that apply.
There's a grocery chain (Superstore, Canada) which has been using the small two color displays (black white red) for pricing.
They use the tiny 2.7" e-paper screens and a TI cc2540 microcontroller to periodically update the pricing via some 2.4ghz signal (ok fine, I was curious so I stole one to take apart). Seems like a VERY expensive way to keep prices up to date. The BOM cost on one of those little guys has to be north of $10, and I would imagine that the vendor that sold them the system doesn't sell them at cost. Multiply that times thousands of products....
So yeah, people are using them, but it doesn't seem like a great system.
I laughed, but also stopped reading at

>if you're from IT — well, it would be like learning the alphabet once again. Probably you won't find anything new; if you do, that is a bad sign for your employer.

But after seeing a few other positive comments about it I decided to go back and give it a read, and I'm so glad I did. Great article.
The alternative still has to deal with the problem of paying for news share. News are shared all the time on Hacker News, Reddit, will these sites have to pay too?
Our governments are the real em3rgency
"I have an apartment and a bank account right now."

vs

"I live in a tent encampment."

vs

"I live in a shantytown in a third-world country."

vs

"I am on death row."

vs

"I am on death row for a crime I didn't commit."

vs...

It's important to try to maintain perspective about our own good fortunes. But it's also human nature to feel our own pain as relative to our previous experience. Someone's always got it worse than you but that doesn't mean it's fair to expect everyone else to wander around farting rainbows with grins plastered to their faces.

All of the Googlers I know are well aware of the many ways in which we're fortunate and privileged. But we're also, you know, human, and occasionally whining about stuff is just part of the human experience.
It depends on the industry. I've worked at places where it was very common and others where it was rare.
I'm going to say what you're carefully tip-toeing around. It isn't strange. It's normal. When you watch people's actions and not their words, you see what they truly believe. The Trolley Problem is most definitely solved in real life.

For instance, we can see that we allow rescue divers to die so that trapped children may be saved. The trolley problem has been solved: some number of cave divers' lives are worth less than some larger number of trapped childrens' lives.

Should we risk soldiers' lives going to Afghanistan so we can stop Osama Bin Laden and discourage hypothetical future violence against us? Yes, of course. Trolley problem solved.

Try it again with COVID-19 and you learn something. The truth is that we don't really care all that much about some elderly dying (rightly so). We care so little about their lives that we wouldn't even risk a thousandth as many people to save them. That's how it goes.

Revealed Preferences tell us all we need to know. There is a dollar sum for a life. Some lives are more valuable than other lives. And there is a banal variant of utilitarianism that flows through us all.

We are not fools. No species that risks nothing gains anything.
It's Fred Wilson, you've been here long enough to see plenty of his articles. It's the point of view of a SV VC. Literally A...VC.
Show HN: ExampleOfiOSLiDAR – sample codes using the Lidar sensor on iOS device
I made a sample codes using the LiDAR sensor on iOS device. It also includes a sample that scans the real world to a 3D object. I hope this code helps someone who wants to use a LiDAR sensor.
Should we force casinos to change in order to be less addictive?
Every Financial Crisis, the Technocrats Rear Their Heads
Pricing transparency might be a sensible approach, but I imagine you'd need international agreement to do so in lock-step, to avoid unintended arbitrage between countries. Such a setup could also perhaps favour non-value-adding middlemen, who would be able to provide unit-price transparency for a product they don't manufacture, and therefore which has a meaningless SKU (reseller-001), that avoids impact on the ultimate seller.

Don't disagree about this being a wider issue, but it's hard to see how you ever force price parity, short of published price lists. But we still have "list price", and people will still negotiate discounts below that "list price". I imagine in the long run, even across industry, we'd just end up back where we're at right now, with opaque price reductions and rebates, and potentially that process ends up more corrupt, as it's less visible?

I don't know what the fix is, but I'm not sure it would be as easy as just requiring everyone to publish transparent pricing and go for pricing parity.
Not quite the same thing. In x32, processes use 32-bit pointers, and can't use 64-bit addressing. An x32 application can't allocate a 8GB memory buffer. Unlike x32, 64-bit VMS lets you mix 32-bit-compatible and 64-bit addressing in the same process. VMS has two sets of memory allocation routines – _malloc32 and _malloc64 – you call the former to get 32-bit compatible pointers, the later gives you the full power of 64-bit addressing. Your app could be a mix of legacy code (which only supports 32-bit) and 64-bit code running in the same process. You want an 8GB memory buffer, _malloc64 will give you one (assuming there is available system resources, of course).
Not that anyone in Europe can criticise... Looking at my country, Italians in Sigonella let go much worse, and the US is very proud of it.
What happened with the trial?
The claim that we have (or had) enough nuclear weapons to cause the actual extinction of humanity, much less cause it several times over, is dubious. If you google it there are numerous articles debating it. At the very least there isn’t scientific consensus.
Norway wealth fund tells firms: put more women on your boards
The web didn't change; you did
If you buy a child seat whatever into your car you are right to assume that it will work on the Chevy as well..
Similar story here my Bachelor of Engineering degree in Australia covered Partial Differential Equations, Fourier Transforms, Interpolation, Eigen Vectors etc.

The focus was on the mathematics and concepts. We were not taught how to approach these problems using computer code. We were taught very little computer programming in general.

When we were taught how to solve problems using computer assistance the focus tended to be on using specific software packages and not on how to write code.

I.e. using ANSYS for Fluid Dynamics problems or using Excel's "Solver" for simultaneous linear equations.

Edit: QR Factorisation was covered in my first year Linear Alegbra course. For Matrix stuff we used software called "Maple" which was installed in computer lab at university I have never heard of it again since I left uni so I don't think it is all that common. We mostly had to solve problems by hand on paper anyway - which I hated.
And if you didn't like railway cartel back at the time you could have used a horse instead.
Wonderful thing about laws is that we can make the companies behave the way we want.
I think this is the correct interpretation. Market forces at work.
>This is a sanction mostly applied to celebrities and politicians.

I was with you up until here. This is blatantly wrong. Regular people are being cancelled all the time. Besides, people in prestigious positions deserve due process just like anyone else. Cancel culture intentionally circumvents any semblance of due process or fairness.
The licensing of journalists is coming.
According to the Australian government, the problem is that it benefits Facebook too much and doesn't benefit the news websites enough.

An analogy might be to minimum wage laws: a laissez-faire market would result in an unfair distribution of benefits, so the government steps in.
What if the 3000 don't die though. At any time covid could hit some sort of natural limit and stop spreading (as happened to SARS before it). At anytime we could discover a miracle cure that means Covid isn't a problem (as antibiotics did for infections). Since you don't know about those unknowns it is hard to say in advance if you killed 3 so 2997 could live, or killed 3 people for nothing.
This is a very good and poignant point and probably my biggest overarching fear of the fallout from this decision. My post was already thick and didn't want to get into setting context for this but you are exactly right. I am surprised more folks here don't realize that about the MS antitrust stuff. Except the carriers in this case have the ability to remain as gatekeepers of these requirements where the laptop manufacturers were much more limited in scope once the device left their buildings.
>Politicians should absolutely be held accountable for what they say in a semi-public ("pseudo-private") forum. In this context, the journalist is right.

...Only if what they are doing involves a part of their public duties. (Like that covered in the Brown Act in CA) Otherwise, the journalist is not entitled to hear and repeat arbitrary conversations held in confidence between the politician and others. For instance, they aren't entitled to hear conversations between the politican and their spouse about what they like in the bedroom, or their anonymous post on a bathroom furnishings enthusiast forum about which type of toilet can handle massive poops the best. That's simply none of your business.
Didn't Russia make a habbit of killing journalists who criticized either the old or new regimes from 1990 to present day? Pretty sure that was prevalent. Maybe they weren't tracking online much in the early days though.
There are exceptions.

The Tetanus vaccine targets the toxin, not the pathogen.

Some research may indicate that the current a-cellular whooping cough vaccine prevents symptoms, but not transmission. The older vaccine prevented transmission, but had too many side effects.

The oral polio vaccine may actually result in outbreaks of the vaccine strain.

http://www.emro.who.int/syr/syria-news/polio-outbreak-succes...

Claims about prevention of transmission needs to be demonstrated in a trial, not simply asserted.
LCD billboards absolutely destroy my night vision. An illuminated color eink display probably would not.
'I paid my friend to deliver £80M of PPI, but he delivered £20k worth instead, and none of that was useable. Oh well. Weird how we spent that money on a business made 2 weeks ago rather than one of our many established PPI suppliers. Well it was an emergency so we didn't bother with the procurement paperwork .. ho hum, I'll tousle my hair and mention some Greek mythology, and we'll just move on and pretend it never happened.'

This sort of thing doesn't seem even a tiny bit questionable to you?

I'm surprised NAO have investigated them all, could you link that report/or a compendium? They didn't have problems with consider who has never delivered PPI getting multi-million pound contracts; nor the prevalence of associations to Tory hierarchy?
Well when the same people that own media companies are lobbying and bribing politicians to receive throwbacks, seems pretty logical they'd view people speaking about this freely and privately as a problem.

The media doesn't work for us. It works for its shareholders and most media shareholders are pretty alright with corruption in government because they're part of it.
What is the cost on updating paper label prices? There must be a payback vs. manual labour for these systems.
I did not find gforth or factor to be very easy to get up and running with.

If you want to learn forth concepts, you can build one yourself easily in any language (lots of examples), but Assembly or C are the most idiomatic as they allow you to get to a much lower level.

Every forth system is different, but they share a lot of design fundamentals. There are almost too many to count.

If you're okay with closed source, 8th has a very nice free version if you just want to get a hang of writing forth code in it. I usually recommend that one check out 8th as it comes with all the niceties of modern scripting languages and can cross-compile to a lot of systems, has GUI support, bluetooth, iPhone/Android, modern data structures, database support...etc.

It's also a bit confusing that most Forth systems were traditionally for embedded work. There are a few commercial offerings (SwiftForth and VxForth) for that. It used to also be extremely common to bootstrap new hardware with Forth as you got a full REPL so you could interactively interact with the hardware and test out each piece before a compiler like C could be ported to the system. I'm not sure how common that is now, but there are a lot of Forth systems that are pretty barebones compared to modern languages. You have to look around.
Poor effort spam
Oven is overkill for my level of skill, a peel seems about the right next step. It's just a favorite when we can't eat out and is nice and easy.
Sorry, I won't give you access to edit my playlists.
Consensus Building really sums up the issue. There's no clear decision maker at Google. There is no Tim Cook or Jeff Bezos. Instead it is a collection of teams in a department.

It is like a democracy, but differs in that you need every single team leader onboard to get anything done vs say 51% of the "vote".
If they can promise compliance, this is worth $200/desk/month easy.

I don’t think they can realistically promise that, though...
Hey do you work in EE/Hardware? If so, would love to send you an email about a project I’m working on
No, it's newscorp. They have a 55%ish(?) readership share for print media in Australia and are very cosy with the incumbent government. Afaik it's one of the most concentrated markets in the world. (Behind Egypt and China I believe).

I'm not sure the exact online share.
you don't need any NLP to rank webpages (in fact the entire innovation of Google was that they figured out a way to rank pages completely ignoring that fact). Pagerank works fundamentally by treating the web as a graph and prioritising results based on their connections, that is to say it ranks based on popularity and is agnostic about the content of the actual page.

This generally has worked well. On the other hand, actually attempting to manipulate search results based on automated handling of content is what has given us countless of censorship debates or simply failure where even uncontroversial content is removed or downranked because it violated some sort of strange rule because it had a 'bad word' in it. On Facebook recently clothing ads for the disabled people were banned[1], because turns out the ML system only cared about the wheelchair, not the person in it.

It's actually fairly straight-forward to build recommender systems on transparent, graph-based algorithms and it gives you the added advantage of not discriminating in strange ways.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/style/disabled-fashion-fa...
Conda is an open source package management and environment management system
I don't see the consistency here.

So the claim is that employees should be so passionate that they are willing to make personal sacrifices for the benefit of the company.

But if things aren't working out the company is in its rights to immediately cut them lose. Shouldn't the company be willing to make some sacrifices for the employee?
Looking at Canada is funny.
Steve Jobs rare footage conducting a presentation in 1980
We have a real issue with partisan politics in the US and one of the pieces of fallout is that making a statement like that doesn't end your career. Laws on the public record exist to serve the general good and skirting them is indicative of taking actions you know will be met with general criticism and can't be justified.
Damn your guest book got wrecked, I just see a thousand random <img> shenanigans
Also: "The Fourth Turning" by Strauss and Howe (1997). From the synopsis:

> Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four eras—or "turnings"—that last about twenty years and that always arrive in the same order. In The Fourth Turning, the authors illustrate these cycles using a brilliant analysis of the post-World War II period.

> First comes a High, a period of confident expansion as a new order takes root after the old has been swept away. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion against the now-established order. Then comes an Unraveling, an increasingly troubled era in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. Together, the four turnings comprise history's seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth
> This argument doesn't pass the "Would it work just as well as a defense of late-'90s Microsoft?" test.

What does this mean? Late 90’s Microsoft had more than 85% of the desktop PC market.

Early 2020’s Microsoft still has more than 85% of the Desktop PC market.

There is simply no comparison.

Apple doesn’t control the market. They don’t have anything like a monopoly.

They do have products that a lot of people think are category leading, but that isn’t the same thing as having ‘control’.

They also make a lot of profit, because people are willing to pay more for those products. But this is true of companies who focus on quality, regardless of scale.
I mean there's no real innovation that will make your device anywhere near obsolete in a few years. My Paperwhite from 2015 is pretty identical to ones sold now, and unlike with phones and tablets, software support is still there. So unless you break it, it's probably gonna outlive your phone/tablet/laptop. Mine for sure did.
I believe the UK already has one of the highest rates of animal experimentation in the world (if not the actual highest?), i.e. it's known to be relatively easy to get through ethics committees.