skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt that is true. In Iraq and Afghanistan there was wide variation in the number of civilians killed by different units. Some of that may be context-effects, but I doubt all of it.

Also, having people in the loop reminds at least someone that this is 'real' and that we need to carry on thinking about it. If you can obliterate enemies' bodies and the only duty on people is to restock the ammo I think that reduces the moral burden of conflict in an unacceptable way.
Did anyone actually read the article? Most of the comments here are treating the article as if the UK will depart from GDPR (as the title says) - but the article says nothing of the kind. It will be a slight change, probably reformatted to allow for less red tape and more clarity for small businesses and early-life enterprise. And the UK still needs to keep regulatory alignment to the EU to be able to have low-tarrif access to the markets.

If I was a betting man, I wouldn't bet on this being a significant change, given the world is moving more towards privacy (yes, including US).
I've been using a Fairphone 3 with /e/OS for about 6 months now, and I've generally been quite happy about it Hardware-wise it's great; sowftware-wise it's not quite there yet (I've seen a few audio bugs, also the app store is very buggy and relies on a questionable third-party source for APKs for which /e/ offers no support (when reporting a bug with an app search causing an error message I've been advised to use Aurora instead, which isn't a great thing to hear) and which can have several weeks of lag on app versions, and also (bis) the tech support isn't there yet in terms of being accessible to non-tech people), but it's definitely going in the right direction!
And Hacker News within just the past 5 days. (-:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26438656

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26399177
"I vastly prefer more light in the evenings"

Strong agreement - the clocks going forward in the spring pretty much marks the time here in Scotland where you can start doing things outdoors in the evenings during the week - also helps that the weather usually starts being less miserable about this time as well.
> it remains to be seen if Tim Cook is another Jobs/Gates or if he is instead a Ballmer

No that doesn't remain to be seen. Tim Cook is clearly one of the most successful CEOs of all time. Compare Apple now to Apple when Jobs died.
Also iteration.
I get that. Ask your non-coder mate to read the article over.. thinking it’s a tricky double logic point..

You’re teaching us about # but # has two meanings inside ur short example.

My suggestion, let them learn about headings elsewhere and simplify your example. It’s not for real word use anyway.

2 cents.

Nice article
They're mecha- only biological in origin. There is precedence also, in the Tager faction from the RPG Cthulutech:

Factions include the "Tagers," a group of warriors who work for the mysterious Eldritch Society and bond with alien symbionts that produce alien-like suits of flesh over their bodies, giving them enhanced strength and other abilities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CthulhuTech

These are basically flesh mecha, though it's been a while since I read the rulebook and I don't remember if they're large or small. Anycase I wonder if they could have been an inspiration for the titans.

[SPOILER SPOILER] There is a hint of alien provenance of the titans on the AoT world. That thing that looks like a slug?

Edit: Oops. It's really been a while since I read the Cthulutech manual. The bio-mecha are the New Earth Government's Engels, which are Evangelion-big, with pilots always on the cusp of insanity:

Engels are giant monstrous creatures fused with human and Nazzadi DNA, encased in locking mecha armour, and controlled by a pilot sitting inside a uterine-like control chamber within the Engel. They are essentially organic mecha. The pilot controls the Engel via the Engel Synthesis Interface, or ESI, and often bonds emotionally with it during their service lifetime. Engels have been known to go on rampages provoked by bloodlust or strong emotions, and consequently are considered very dangerous battlefield weapons.

http://cthulhutech.wikidot.com/engels
The theory that anonymity is the cause of bad comments has been resoundly disproven by the existence of Facebook (and Google+, and Twitter) where people post whatever they like using their own real names.

Furthermore, many people need anonymity: https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Who_is_harmed_by_a_%22Re...

If you don’t personally need to be anonymous, you are privileged; don’t assume everyone else is as lucky.
Php is "old world" tech in that it's great for web pages, but not
so much for web apps.

Ruby was the first "webapp" language before node.
Custom or ready-made Charge Point Operator's Platform? How and when to decide?
Nobody can be "trusted" with a backdoor, because it isn't really a valid concept.

A backdoor is a vulnerability that doesn't care who you are or what your purpose is or who pays you. If you found the backdoor it is open to you.

However hard the backdoor's security is, an insider recruited by Swedish intelligence (or Russia whatever the bogeyman du jour is) will leak the key at some point. Now all your "secure" shit can be accessed invisibly by Swedish hackers. By its very nature, the backdoor cannot easily be changed and its use cannot be detected.

A mundane example is the TSA keys. In addition to being leaked by greedy insiders making a quick buck, they've been leaked by accident several times. E.g. https://hackaday.com/2015/09/18/dear-tsa-this-is-why-you-sho... They are now public knowledge, and a backdoor into your luggage from anyone who cares enough to file up a key.
I’m yet another spaniard abroad for close to a decade and couldn’t agree more, it’s like night and day.

The only way to have a decent job in Spain is by working for a foreign company (as a remote worker or FTE if they have a spanish office) from which you can get a decent salary and work conditions or creating your own company if you’re successful. Otherwise, working for spanish companies in Spain is most of the times a death sentence and may as well make you hate your job forever.
Spain is a country where most of the people work in the service sector, I see this reduction complicated for this sector. And with the loss of competitiveness and industry in recent years, I think this measure would only be applicable to civil servants (For those who do not know, Spain is a special case, there are a lot of civil servants, well paid, and besides, it is almost impossible for them to lose their job unless... they assassinate their boss for example). And coming from where the proposal comes from, I would not be surprised if this were the case. They seem intent on destroying any private initiative...
I've discovered Fission the past week. I've added it to the list of technologies for unhosted/0apps, like SOLID or remotestorage, that I keep track.

Does anyone that has dug that rabbit hole deeper, than I have, has any insight on why doesn't this architecture seems to catch on? I feel like it's a monetization issue, but have nothing to back that up.
The Theory of Dark Matter Itself, Questioned
"Does anyone find this methodology lazy, if not disingenuous?"

Yes.

The original HN title was something like "Software engineers make the best CEOS, if measured by market cap".
Primarily because the companies listed succeeded in capitalizing on Software Eating the World (Thiel).

Software companies grew the way they did because, for a while, there was little regulatory capture, with tech doing what tech wanted, at least with the unicorns. Thiel, PG have commented on this.

There was a recent article on HN from O'Reilly - the new wave of breakthroughs anticipated, in biotech, might not have room for engineer CEOs, nor the unicorn growth of software-based start-ups.
That's only part of the story. Current house prices are so high that only the absolute top of the income class can afford to pay off a mortgage.

Just an example: In Berlin you will pay around 850.000EUR for a newly-built single family home of around 160qm on a 600qm plot. With realistic interest rates of around 1.5 to 1.8% it will take you around 4.8% per year to pay this off in the (roughly) 25 to 30 years you have left of working years if you are a mid-thirties professional. This (conveniently) gives you a factor of 0.004 per month to pay for this house. That's a whopping 3400EUR per month.

Now normally you should not pay more than 33% of your net income for living. That means, such a house is affordable, even with the relatively low interest rates, for families with a net income of 10kEUR per month. How many mid-thirty families have that kind of income?

So what drives these prices is actually inherited wealth. Inherit real estate and you can cut that price easily in half. 1700EUR a month is much more reasonable and that does not even account for the even better interest rates you will see. Notably you just transfer your inherited wealth, you do not lose it.
Sorry are you agreeing or disagreeing with me?

That Wikipedia article doesn't seem to cite very many studies. At least from my own perspective I can tell you that even after two hours of eating many kinds of meals your blood sugar can rise and you will need insulin to counteract that, either produced by the body itself or injected.

As an aside I would really like to know where the two hour postbrandial measuring for blood glucose levels etc. comes from as it feels completely arbitrary.
If taking a pill to protect your own life every day is too much hard work we are doomed. But we aren’t, as PReP both protects people from infecting others as well as getting infected themselves.

So no, an infection does not require one person to slip up. For an infection to occur requires both persons to slip up.

Getting PReP requires regular HIV tests so it is in fact obvious that you are infected, if you get infected.

Of course this indeed only solves the issue in the developed world that can pay for (and wants to use) this medication but there really is no way around that. People that don’t want or can’t pay for this medication won’t want and be able to pay for a vaccine either.
> “we don’t store the keys and just rely on the hash to be really good”

I think that's fine if you actually use a really good hash (e.g. a 128-bit cryptographic PRF). But I wouldn't be comfortable with hashes shorter than that or which aren't crypto quality.

People already make such assumptions when assuming uniqueness v4 UUIDs.
It is what Aldi-branded stores still do to some extent in at least Germany/CH and the US. They still have many consistent store-brand products, however.

Trader Joe's is really a different animal. It has a interesting rotating selection of specialty items, usually more global or seasonal in nature with biweekly or monthly "themes," along with a fairly consistent store brand selection of reasonable quality that doesn't just optimize for a low price. Most stores around the nation will have similar items around the same time, and they will be seasonally relevant, so they're not just stocking what was left over in that geographic region.
An expensive lawsuit, probably.

Push comes to shove, I guess Facebook could launch their own mobile platform too? They already have their own Android phone - it's buried inside the Quest headset. But they probably don't need to, unless Apple/Google disallows the use of Facebook SDK by all the other apps in their app stores. Until then, the sweet sweet surveillance data will keep flowing.
Thanks man :). There are no refunds, because messaging is not a standardised service - meaning senders cannot be assured of a solid deliverable(hence PWYW).

Creators might send great responses to cheaper messages, if the message is interesting and might not respond at all for a high paid message if it is something that takes their privacy away.
I think, that is the power of word "many". If the claim was "1% of all CEOs are sw engineers", it wouldn't be that impressive, even though 1% may be actually quite lot of people (many). :)
DST wouldn't be so bad if everything didn't need to be heavily synchronized alongside a 9-to-5 mentality. Time is useful for synchronization, but just the fact many people chastise night owls while applauding early birds, as well as emphasizing the "when" instead of the "how many hours did you do N" (or better: "how much N did you achieve"), puts many people who are dependent on more light to start their day in a weird spot.

That's what DST does. It forcefully yanks those people already struggling to adapt to society's wishes, forcing a pretty radical change. We have several solutions (group people based on chronotype, respect chronotypes more, limit the need for synchronized events in early mornings / late nights), but those still aren't being applied as widely as they could be.

Just the fact people are expected to drink coffee to wake up and participate in a relatively dangerous activity while still groggy (driving) indicates how little we actually think of all this.
Large, sprawling "threads" are always going to be a nightmare to navigate. This is the way I find it easiest.

If you don't like it click on any node ... that will take you to the usual linear presentation.
OTOH, this tunnel was a bit different. It went through a hill to supply front line trenches from the relative safety of the far side of the hill. It was much bigger than the mining and explosive tunnels dug into no-man's land. Eg the report says they found large amounts of equipment stored there, railway sleepers, machine guns, ammunition dumps, etc.

It would have had a lot more traffic and have been larger than other tunnels. Losing 2 companies of men in there is a not-insignificant war grave.
I don't understand why this bothers you so much. If you think this is dumb don't invest, it's really as simple as. Sometimes it truly feels like people here are sour because they "missed the boat", and are now hoping for BTC to crash again so they can go "see? I said it was dumb". I don't want to accuse you of this, I just don't understand the problem otherwise.

Also, it's 18 million BTC, not billion. You're right though that it's close to a trillion dollars market cap, so I assume that was just a typo.
Tsukurimashou – Stroke-Based CJK Metafont Typeface
In my view the people of the developing world have their challenge - figuring out how to make their people wealthy, healthy, educated, and safe. People in the developed world have the challenge of figuring out how to scale. The answer to scaling cannot be "Maybe we'll just have fewer people or be poor."
8/10 companies on your list are software companies, of those 7/8 have software engineer CEO's. The only thing you've shown is that successful software companies are often led by software engineers. I bet you'll find similar patterns in other industries. Who better to have visionary leadership than an engineer who grasps the industry perfectly.

I'd love to believe that software engineers make better CEO's in general, but you'd have to show me a list of companies that became successful only after hiring an ex-SE CEO, and preferably in another industry than information processing.
A signed distance field approach can be good depending on what you're after.
https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/wiki/Distance-field-fonts
You could argue whether it is right or not for Apple to make the call if these "Clubhouse" are the same thing, a Social Audio Chat App.

But there is nothing similar about Crabhouse and Clubhouse. The whole point of Screenshots and description was to prevent just that.

I know, it is Apple's App Store, their store their rules. But someday this will backfire.
I'm Spanish and I've lived in Germany, the UK, and in short stints in the US, and some of what you say resonates with me. In particular:

> Here work seems to always be some tedious chore that keeps you away from social life

This is just one manifestation of what's more generally a very poor work culture, in what amounts to a giant, self-reinforcing negative feedback loop. Management often lacks professionalism, salaries are poor, and employees are demotivated and must therefore look to anything but work for fulfillment.

To be clear, I don't believe this is inherently Spanish, due to our genes, the climate, or our love for fiesta: similar phenomena could be observed locally in the US or Northern Europe. The problem in Spain is how widespread these attitudes are, in a macro context where good opportunities have been scarce for decades, probably due to the lack of a vision for a national productive model and any effective policies in this regard.

Personally I believe any permanent solution will need to come simultaneously in a top-down and bottom-up fashion, with both effective state policies and a change in attitudes from individuals. The catalyst would likely need to be a multi-partisan, national and universal social pact rallying institutions (politics, education, unions, businesses, etc.) around a well-defined vision. Anyone who follows Spanish politics knows that unfortunately at present that possibility is extremely remote.
Why will there be a backlash? Unlike some other laws where the general public typically contains both winners and losers, when it comes to the GDPR I can't see why the general public would be against it - the law doesn't restrict anything per-se, it just requires data processing to be made transparent to the user and allow them to decline.
We had to go to 0.8 FTE due to trimming costs when covid hit - along with furloughs etc (UK based). We're all back up to 1FTE pay now, but we're basically still working 0.8.

Fridays are now "flexible". This means that you should check slack/email for fires, get your house in order for the next week, and, if there's something urgent you're working on (actually urgent, we haven't just reclassified all work as urgent) then you should probably be progressing it. Otherwise, enjoy the rest of the day.

It's brilliant.
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The worst commenters have an agenda, so they will put down that fee as a "cost of doing business", like printing leaflets.

Your suggestion would address spam, but as major newspapers end up paywalled that's largely a non-issue. The others are moving to compulsory social login (e.g. FB) which also mitigates that (and basically makes you "pay" with your personal details).

Newspapers should totally have an easy feedback form, possibly even a dedicated forum, but not comments.
I don’t see the advantage over selling the Bitcoin for cash and using that cash to buy land from any real estate agent or use a buyers agent to help.

For tax reasons people might also borrow against Bitcoin for a deposit then get a mortgage to acquire the land.
This is a bizarre couple of sentences. I don't think you understand the technology _at all_.

I'm taking the "close to your eyeballs" as a metaphor, but with AR you literally are trusting Facebook to mediate between you and the world. The ads you see, or don't see, on every flat surface, potentially. And that's just the start.
While I wholeheartedly agree with you, I think we should be careful with this discourse.
Rather than increases in productivity, increases in production should be emphasized. And yes, you cannot increase labor production without an increase in productivity, everything else equal.

Iirc, increase in production is about 40%. So working Monday to Thursday, you produce the same as someone, working 5 days produces Monday to next week's Tuesday morning.

Research is not solid, but promising.
Metafont has rather fallen by the wayside as a technique for producing fonts, despite the extraordinary promise that the idea of stroke-based fonts holds. Producing CJK typefaces, where there are thousands of characters and all characters are made using clear strokes (unlike e.g. Western serif fonts), seems like a clear use case for this technology.

(I am not affiliated with the Tsukurimashou project.)
I do 4x9. I like it, but with travel times the days can be quite long. When I have kids I want to go back to 4x8 so I can be home earlier.
I believe a huge problem of sites like reddit or HN is that from my, a comment writers PoV, it is just not worth it to spend much time on a comment. Even when I feel like writing one, I still only spend a fraction of effort.

The big problem: All comments have a half-life of half a day at most, and even during that short time they are buried in a mountain of other comments. If a story is popular (many potential readers that I could reach) there will also be hundreds of comments, mostly low quality, that make finding good ones hard. If there only a few comments so a good one will stand out more there won't be many readers.

Writing a blog post has a much higher chance to be found over a larger period of time. Probably, depending on the blog. A choice between getting attention (by borrowing the fame of reddit or HN to draw in readers) for a very short period of time, or be easier to find over longer periods but then it depends on the fame of your own blog.

So it is not worth spending a lot of time and effort trying my best because I only reach a handful of people in the first place, but even if it's hundreds, they are all just story- and comment browsing randomly for their daily does of entertainment. That means whatever I write will be forgotten pretty quickly because in the end it's not all that important. Nobody reading any of these comments actually needs them, no matter how much wisdom is in there.

What I mean by that is that only when you actually end up using what you read in a practical way does it really matter and you remember. Everything else, even if it's really great wisdom, if you have no practical application for it in our own life your brain does not put any priority on retaining the content. Even apart from comments, I for example took loads of courses (edX, Coursera) outside my own field, at the time I spent a lot of effort and even became a community TA in some of those courses (chemistry, statistics, biology). However, I forgot soooo much by now, because in the end none of it has any practical implications for me. With some completely random (all kinds of topics!) comments, even when they are good, it's much worse.

Therefore I don't expect such comment sites to ever rise above what we have now. It just does not really matter for either readers or writers. The quality will always just be "good enough" (on the low side).

PS: Oh and by the way, in my long reddit and HN experience, what gives the most "Likes" rarely is the quality technical stuff - but rare personal anecdotes.
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80-90% of journalism is either fluff or capital propaganda.

It's crass but youtuber friendlyjordies shows how terrible the aussie press is on a weekly basis

In the UK the royal family is put on the front page the same day the home sec is rulled to have broken the law with corrupt contacts

In the US no one reports Cuomo's covid failure until he got me too'd
Hackintosh systems typically also require these valid serials, so they can use iMessage and whatnot.
> I've found that, to keep a balanced diet without meat, it's quite a bit more expensive, and exceptionally more time consuming.

Do you just gnaw on raw steak from the dumpster? I have been a vegetarian since 2009 mostly because it is so quick and convenient. Other than fruit and shelled nuts, I cannot think of anything faster and simpler than opening a can of beans. Frozen vegetables come pre-chopped, you just put them in a frying pan. If you are concerned about your health and lifespan, you should become vegan, like I did in 2017. It is the fastest, easiest way to lower your cholesterol and improve your cardiovascular function. I did not expect my exercise performance or subjective feeling to improve as much as it did. Anyway, here is a good source for ideas: https://nutritionfacts.org/