skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure how you’re measuring the differences between cell phones and “personal radio communication” here. Cell phones are personal devices built around 3-5 different kinds of radios.

If you’re contrasting it with the HAM/Shortwave community, there’s an obvious difference in transmission power. The Electromagnetic Spectrum is a public resource we have to share intelligently. All the core tech in a cell phone is about how to use spectrum efficiently, delivering high speeds with minimal interference. Shortwave is much less sophisticated and operates at much higher power. There are real costs to amateur radio enthusiasts blasting transmissions with incorrectly configured equipment.
Yeah literally every single "conservative" social media platform has been less "free speech" than liberal ones. Except maybe 4chan
First, I've never meet a FLOSS developer that wants a "leader". A spokeperson would be ok.

Second, organizations like Conservancy, EFF, FSFE, and many others don't seem to have any difficulty finding good public speakers.

The idea that we have to choose between RMS and some corporate drone is a false dichotomy plain an simple.
> The problem was that £50 notes were most likely forged, I think, although I don’t know how true that was. So the solution surely isn’t to get rid of the notes as that just shifts the forgery to the next note down. Surely instead the solution would be higher valued notes being created

The £50 notes were perceived as "most likely forged" because - in addition to being temptingly large denominations - they're so rare the average person has never used one and doesn't really know what they look like. There's a vicious circle of course: ATMs don't dispense them and banks are unlikely to unless requested because they're not widely accepted. The £20 note doesn't have that problem.
You will own nothing. You will be happy.
Probably plenty of places in the world where its still the norm.
Yep, my experience as well. I worked in a busy club all through university, and we never had an issue accepting £50 notes, but at the quiet bar I sometimes worked at we were sometimes hesitant to accept them as it tended to wipe out the float.

Minor, and probably specific to busy bars, but it did come up: there's also the practical issue of where you put a £50 note as there's no space for it in a register. So you kinda shove them at the bottom of another stack, but there's the danger that when you're very busy and handing change back you'd grab it without looking. So always had to tell another staff member there was a £50 in the register, and ideally that register got emptied asap.
I rarely shampoo, once every few weeks maybe. I do use conditioner once a week maybe. My hair tends to smell noticeably worse the day or two after shampooing and is more oily, but eventually it subsides - both the smell and the oil. I doubt it is olfactory fatigue as I’m usually pretty observant of my own body odour.
Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman – Inside Clojure (2009) [video]
To be honest, this is in your head, and heads vary. I for one don't experience this feeling whatsoever:

>You can say "so what, it still works!" but I think there are weird psychological effects at play when you can make a direct comparison like "Android 37 was released 8 weeks ago but LineageOS is still on 36!" It makes Lineage feel like a second class citizen.

Eight weeks, really? That's a blink of an eye. I didn't even know we're on Android 37, thought it was 9 or something.
I realize that the fatwah against RMS has been written.

And maybe death-by-accusation is a reaction of societal chemistry that must run to its conclusion.

Hopefully the pending dark age at which this sort of action hints is a brief one.
Are there any negative implications of using baking soda in you arm pits instead of a deodorant? I think it has exactly same effect pH wise as you have described about soap. It seems to be quite effective and more natural way of neutralising under pits odor than regular deodorants though and I haven't personally noticed any side effects.
Making Change for a £50 really isn't hard - it's 2 20's and a 10. Those notes that the cash register is probably already full of...
Magpie Trades Bottlecaps for Food
Video: Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun punished the computers of the day
RedHat OpenShift on AWS (Rosa) Now GA
21, wow...
I would argue that Javascript is a hybrid of pass by reference because of the case below though.

function someFunc(v) {
v.myvar = 456;
v = someOtherObject;
}

var foo = someObject;
foo.myvar = 123;
someFunc(foo);
// foo still refers to someObject
// foo.myvar is 456

Banning our team from passing objects around except in specific, discussed, cases got rid of lots of difficult to track down bugs.
Agree. As the fundamental law of a country, what makes sense to have there is:

- Basic freedoms/rights

- The government limits/boundaries (legislative and in regards to citizens)

- How the government should work (on a very high level)

The rest is better to have as laws/treaties. (Though to be fair sometimes it would be helpful to be more specific, still laws always move much slower than the times and technological changes might be difficult to consider using a past lens)

The US constitution is to be fair one of the most concise ones. As you correctly point out, prohibition is something that shouldn't have been even there
A ghost kitchen is a kitchen associated with a restaurant that doesn’t serve walk-in customers or have the capacity to allow customers to sit-in.

Often times these kitchens are anonymous looking from the outside, often located outside of the town centre

In the UK they should be beholden to the same hygiene standards as any other food preparation business

Some of these kitchens have their own branding and are not associated with a restaurant, but if you know your local area and see some restaurants which you don’t recognise on deliveroo or the other food delivery services, it’s possible that they are a ghost kitchen.
You are an exception then. Most people are compelled by an app that lets them see what restaurants deliver near them, and makes the ordering process really easy - no need for awkward phone calls or the hassle of uncertainty about when will your food actually arrive. The consumer segment who see value in this service is enough large that restaurants will sign up for Deliveroo/whatever to not miss out on the segment, even if that comes with a small premium to the platform.

Still, if you want to support your local restaurant you should always order directly with them to cut out the middle man.
>A good example is that if the LCD screen breaks, I can just buy a replacement, ssh into the old phone, and scp from it to the new phone (this actually happened). That's a Linux phone.

Exactly. When I read the headline, I immediately thought of my N900, and having pretty much a full computer in my pocket at all times. Yes, I really, really want a Linux phone.

It's hard to imagine what you're missing, given the present absolute dominance of user-friendly locked-down devices, but a proper Linux phone really is worth it.
These platforms aim to solve two problems:

1) restaurants' own tech is usually terrible. Beyond major chains with their own website & order management system, the next best thing is the phone. There's no standard way to obtain a menu, opening times, etc. When you're hungry, simply opening an app and seeing all the options presented to you in a standard way with one-click ordering is valuable.

Maybe Google with its phone call AI (don't remember how it's called) and large-scale scraping could be a solution to this. You "order" off the (scraped) menu and Google actually places the phone call on your behalf. The problem is that there's no reason Google will be any better or less evil than the current delivery platforms, so sadly it's not a good solution either.

2) delivery services. Restaurants no longer have to employ delivery staff, and because of the platforms' scale and tech advantage they should be more efficient, ending up paying the delivery person more and the restaurant pays less.

This problem seems solvable with a non-profit or a company owned by delivery drivers themselves that would run similar tech and expose the entire fleet via an API for third-parties (including these same delivery platforms) to connect to.
Apple Music 'saylists' to help with speech issues
As someone who is fat and socially awkward, I am generally greeted with scorn if I smile at an attractive woman. But that does not mean I want to harass or assault them. It does not also mean I don’t have the right to smile - if you are uncomfortable with my smile, the problem is with you, not me.
I was in no soap mode for a year, had to quit because other people would notice my light odor and, those close to me, would call it out. It was simply out of the social norm.

Still, I loved it. I liked my odor, and I like or dislike others body odors, they are signals and part of what we perceive of someone. What I can't handle are perfumes and cosmetic smells. When the elevator was used by the oldspice, shaving cream, half bottle perfume neighbor I can't go afterwards. The 30 secs trip is too much for my nose and palate. I would rather have the sweaty after gym smell. Perfumes are like masks.

I would really like to go around smelling like me. I also have a big nose.
Same for us we had at the peak 5 mill players aged around 13-17 years. The vetting process was intense for GMs and support staff.
Without notoriety, it is unlikely the puzzle would be solved. Many cases are solved with tips following news reports. So reduced coverage could lead to reduced apprehension rates.

Alternatively, what benefit does reduced coverage offer? Do we know that less notoriety means fewer or less prolific serial killers? Maybe they would be even more prolific trying to get attention.

So if reduced coverage leads to reduced crime, then great. But if not, then denying them notoriety just hurts their feelings.

That’s great, but as it might lead to reduced apprehensions, I don’t think hurting their feelings is worth it.

Note: I don’t mean to belittle your point. I don’t like that society is so fascinated by crime either. But I think that is a separate issue.
Basically what Storj does. I am kind of wondering if they are backed by it based on descriptions
Also, I’d add that a feeling of having contributed something meaningful to the world is something like a basic human need. You won’t die if you’re fed, sheltered, and have access to clean water. But if that’s literally all you do in a day you will soon be fiddling for something to do.

So instead of rushing to exclude people from society, society needs to provide people enough room to be themselves to keep from dangerous fiddling.

Further, forgiveness is a more critical tool to the forgiver than the forgiven. To forgive a grievance isn’t to forget it. It’s to put an end to the part of your resources devoted to punishing your opponent or thinking ill. That frees up those resources for more positive uses. The forgiven never needed to expend resources to earn your forgiveness and thus doesn’t have the same resource commitments - hence forgiveness offers less to the forgiven than the forgiver.
How come I rarely see mention of Aurelia when discussing JS frameworks? Aurelia 2 will be out soon, and I find things well thought out even in v1. You basically write just html and pretty much plain javascript. It is batteries included with DI/router/Event listener/validation etc.
Microsoft implemented and then removed a crucial Teams feature on Linux
No first-hand experience is enough any more, RMS has become the figurehead for that sector of tech that actually believes "cancel culture" exists because they're worried it's coming for their own abhorrent views next.
Docker used them all up...
I worked with a great perl backend. Some of the best written perl I've seen, but I hate perl. If I never have to touch it again I'll be happy. I'm now working in .net and I love the tooling and how easy it is to use.
As i was browsing the page i looked at the listing section and I was confused where the audio clips where. After opening inspect element it looks like the page requires Flash to play the clips. This shows how old this project and is a example of a piece of the web no longer available with the deprecation of Adobe Flash.

On the bright side Flash is just being used as a player for static mp3's referenced in the HTML, so you can just open the files by yourself.
I'm far from an expert in Baroque music, but I think if both of these pieces are boring to you you're definitely not into Bach! And they couldn't be more different.

Bach: Harpsichord Concerto No.1 in D Minor BWV 1052 (Jean Rondeau)* I'm sure some people will hate on this unorthodox interpretation, but to me this is sublime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcsfDxojdV8

Johann Sebastian Bach - Chaconne, Partita No. 2 BWV 1004 | Hilary Hahn * The solo violin bible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngjEVKxQCWs
Maybe try part-time at a co-working space. You get some company a few days a week, but if it turns out you hate the group, moving is easier than at your employer's office.

I've worked in shared offices for 20+ years and have made a lot of long-term friends through them.
Yes but if you can't find it online, then it's also not on Spotify.

So you still have to do that. It's not an option so we don't get the point you're making.
I stopped using shampoo over the last year and have been told by other people my hair doesn't smell of anything.
also check out https://tardigrade.io/
From the news, this sounds like the general economic model in the richer parts of the middle east.
Just a note about Starlink: they use what they call “cells”, so you can’t move around with your Starlink, which is a shame. Maybe they’ll create a plan for that at some point.
I feel like they really could have found a better photo... or at least touched that one up to remove the graininess, blur, and rough edges...
This is interesting and slightly off-topic but relevant.

I see Deliveroo, Uber Eats etc in a very similar situation to Amazon Prime.

In the UK nobody really offered same day delivery for goods other than Amazon. Not many restaurants had websites or a unified payment processor (this is key for me).

Now a lot of stores and especially Argos do same day deliver and have great product and quality control. I see Prime loosing out.

I now see that all the stores I buy food from off Deliveroo giving me a voucher code for 20% off id I go direct.

I feel that Deliveroo and Prime had an edge whilst the supplier caught up.
It could be argued that Chinese has a lot more characters to learn if you're including the Nanori (Readings used in Names) for 生.

If you take a language like English, it's still arguable that you'd need 12 years worth of schooling to do an advanced test.

Kanji Kentei seems to ask esoteric things at level 2. So it's a test of fluency of not only the Kanji but the language.

How would an English learner fare with Shakespeare or reading a book like Finnegans Wake?

I don't know if there's any data about this. But I think what would be a good study is the level of native proficiency in languages around the world.

Does languages considered simpler result in a greater mastery by the general population?
There's a birdcoin joke in here somewhere. https://youtu.be/7oclPZx520k amazing how they reason about different ways the cap could go in. And I wonder how hard it was to train and how scalable.
>Google hands over data of criminals to law enforcement

What is the story here?
The Pursuit of Appiness (2020)
From April situation of workers will be legitimised as government voted in no rights employment in the form of IR35 changes.
This means Deliveroo or other company can issue an in-scope contracts for workers and basically treat them the same as if they were employees, but they won't have any employment rights - no holiday pay, no notice, no right to unionise and so on. Even if a driver gets pregnant, they can be terminated on the spot without consequences.
On top of that, the "employees" will have to pay the same tax as if they were actually employed and won't be able realistically to claim any business costs.
UberEats App thinks that 10% of 179.88 is 21.34
I think you'll find those £50 notes will last decades or more in someones safe...
This, and the other stories, have been captured on https://rejected.substack.com/ - a newsletter / repository of stories that were prevented to reach the front page or silently pushed off.
The Mobile Performance Inequality Gap (Updated for 2021)
My father runs a restaurant, so I guess I could give perspectives from both sides.

For a customer, it's inconvenient and sometimes daunting to call a restaurant and ask for the menu, then choose the items, then recheck the order with the call desk, then order the food and pay it in cash. With an app, you just need to do a few taps and then order directly from the restaurant, and even pay for it with your card.

For restaurants, you get the marketing reach through being on a platform while also getting delivery costs that are on par with what would have been if you hired your own drivers (if you're a low end restaurant). It's obviously much less beneficial for a high end restaurant that relies on dine-ins for higher priced menu items.

I've been trying to coax him into moving to Whatsapp based ordering systems (since Whatsapp is big in the old world), but it's hard to do that without Whatsapp chatbots and access to the Whatsapp businesses API.
What legislative agenda items would you like to see the FSF have? They base most of their work on the existing framework of copyright law.

As a secondary activity, they support some related freedom-increasing topics (Right to Repair).

If I look at outcomes, as measured by the adoption of open-source software, it’s hard for me to judge FSF as ineffective. If you want to argue that all of that adoption was incidental or accidental, entirely unrelated to the FSF, you’re welcome to advance that argument, but it will require more evidence than “I thought it was pretty clear”
Does anyone know where to find death statistics for the US for years prior to 2020? Apparently, 3,436,576 persons died in 2020, but what was the totals for 2010 to 2019?
The plugin license didn't allow hooking/injecting into the program to modify the behavior outside of the provided APIs.

The reasons are pretty simple: those kind of plugins would break and cause crashes when the internals of the player were changed.
Short article. They have a soft paywall. Article text:

You’re scrolling through your Gmail inbox and see an email with a strange subject line: A string of numbers followed by “Notification from Google.”

It may seem like a phishing scam or an update to Gmail’s terms of service. But it could be the only chance you’ll have to stop Google from sharing your personal information with authorities.

Tech companies, which have treasure troves of personal information, have become natural targets for law enforcement and government requests. The industry’s biggest names, such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, receive data requests — from subpoenas to National Security Letters — to assist in, among other efforts, criminal and non-criminal investigations as well as lawsuits.

An email like this one is a rare chance for users to discover when government agencies are seeking their data.

In Google’s case, the company typically lets users know which agency is seeking their information.

In one email The Times reviewed, Google notified the recipient that the company received a request from the Department of Homeland Security to turn over information related to their Google account. (The recipient shared the email on the condition of anonymity due to concern about immigration enforcement). That account may be attached to Gmail, YouTube, Google Photos, Google Pay, Google Calendar and other services and apps.

The email, sent from Google’s Legal Investigations Support team, notified the recipient that Google may hand over personal information to DHS unless it receives within seven days a copy of a court-stamped motion to quash the request.

That’s a high bar to clear in a short amount of time, said Paromita Shah, co-founder and executive director of immigration rights law firm Just Futures.

“What Google expects you to do is to quash the subpoena and that would require you to go to federal court,” Shah said. “I’d like to know how many people are gonna have the resources and the understanding that they have only seven days to hire an attorney to quash an ICE subpoena in federal court.”
https://lwn.net/Articles/712376/

It's not a brand new construction (the link has the author of the piece using the term several years ago). I think you are right about the L though.
This is neat, but pytest allows for similar granulation using the right fixtures:

E.g. in test_authenticate_method.py:

def test_returns_200_on_valid_password(app, user_exists):
...

def test_returns_403_on_valid_password(app, user_exists):
...

def test_returns_403(app, user_not_exist):
...
Yes I want a phone that I can keep up-to-date and that allows me to swap out hardware.
Where should he socialize? Everything's closed and some have even curfews and rules against socializing anyone outside their household? What options does it leave to a lonely guy like op? Pretty much none.
Textiles seem like quite an easy fix - simply require HEPA style liquids filters on every washing machine before water is sent down the drain.

The filter could be big and designed to last the life of the machine. It's far better to dispose of a single chunk of solid plastic waste than the billions of particulates that would have gone into waterways...
In 2017-2018, friends of mine became delivery cyclists in-between jobs for UberEats and Deliveroo, I also have a friend who went to a local delivery business.
Deliveroo paid best slightly above hourly minimum wage, UberEats pulled the rug from under their drivers when changing from hourly pay to per-delivery pay. The local small business was the worst paying, paid less than minimum hourly wage.
Deliveroo and UberEats back then were fine back then as a temporary in-between job or to earn on the side when they were burning through venture capital and fearing strict local European worker rights law. In Brussels, they definitely paid better then many local delivery companies.

Now that they are well-established and some European countries have legal frameworks for "the sharing/gig economy", they are squeezing both sides. The delivery workers are pushed by lowering rates, lowering delivery time, unfair algorithmic task asssignments, etc. Restaurants are being squeezed by increased rates.

Personally, I try to order straight from the restaurant and I seek out restaurants that employ their own drivers. There are still plenty of those around here, but that number is decreasing.
This is great feedback. We are redesigning the website right now and will make sure it is more prominent.
>Almost forty years ago, in 1985, the idea of “Free Software” was born.

Seems kind of nonsense. Free software was a thing from the dawn of software. From Wikipedia:

>In the 1950s and into the 1960s almost all software was produced by academics and corporate researchers working in collaboration, often shared as public-domain software.
Indeed, I wouldn't look too much into this. The article is more a part of the media's anti-tech campaign and less an indication of the overall investor sentiment. We'll see in the IPO how it actually performs.
I never had a problem with LTS versions of Ubuntu MATE.

If you want modern-looking LTS, try KDE Neon.

https://neon.kde.org/
>Very few places accept them

I have heard this since I was a kid, in reality, it isn't true, at least not in London. I have never been refused when presenting a £50, not that I have carried them more than a dozen times. Most places that have issues taking them are small merchants who give away too many notes breaking them, so will often ask for a smaller note. When I was in New York once, I went into a CVS and bought $60 of sweets to bring home, the cashier shouted 'bill check' when i presented a $100 bill, so I guess I look more dodgey in the US.