skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don’t want a remote-controlled smart (actually: dumb) home. You want a fully local solution, then you can add remote, internet-dependent functionality like alexa to it. That way your primary mode of control will always work.
> ASPI is ... founded by the Australian government and partly funded by the Australian Department of Defence. In addition to domestic funding, it is also funded by foreign governments such as the United States State Department as well as military contractors.

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

You think ASPI can be considered as independent reporters?
One thing I’ve surprised myself by discovering more than once: you have a very bad idea of what you will consider fun. Something can seem right up your alley on paper, and end up being extremely underwhelming in reality, or vice versa. Don’t talk yourself out of trying something because you think you’ll dislike it!
I made something similar in Excel:

- an email like template with input fields (to, cc, bcc, from, body, etc).

- a table where the user can specify the column headers and add a list of values. The headers are considered keys. The keys can then be referenced in mustache quotes anywhere in the template.

I also added attachment functionality since it was for a very specific use-case.

The tool would then create 1 email per entry in the user table, filling in all wildcards. As you can imagine, it doesn't use SES or Sendgrid .. it uses Outlook for the sending :) Good times! the business loved it, but coding in VBA is a bit of a PITA.
You should check out https://www.dolthub.com/ then. They are working on something very similar.
Hi HN:

I worked at GitLab as an early product manager when they were just starting to get big. I worked on many of the discussion-related features like issues and merge requests. (You might've seen me answering many questions here!)

Anyways, I wanted to create something for small teams that could take advantage of async conversations, similar to GitLab issues, but without needing to commit to the entirety of GitLab. Ensembl Talk focuses on async conversations, and allows people to collaborate on a single source of truth in "talks", which are essentially mini collaboration spaces. Check it out and let me know how we can improve. Thanks!

(If you want to skip the marketing and jump into the tool, go here: http://app.ensembl.so/)
I know more people that have changed religions than I do those that have changed their overall political affiliations…
Magit is really one of the best git interface there is. I'm often coming back to it.
Well said. I don't use a bell but I have developed a deep, unalarming: "on your left" that travels well ahead of me. I also try to slow to just about pedestrian speed and create maximum distance when passing.

A lot of my fellow cyclists (all of them kitted to the nines) thread the needle at 20mph. It's bullshit.
Let's make a language that compiles to CMake! :D
Try to change the title to something more descriptive. The usual recommendation is to use the name and tag line of the site, something like "Muragz: Join the community". But it's too generic. I think that "Muragz: My imgur clone" but perhaps it's not a good description and you prefer "Muragz: A community to share images and videos".

In this case it's nice that you add a comment explaining that you made the site and any interesting comment about it.

When the post are not wide enough, the counters are outside the white part https://imgur.com/a/v4VaojJ

What does "expired" mean in the "hot" ordered version?
Texas to allow unlicensed carrying of handguns
I don’t think they’re a huge amount of people, at least currently. It looks like about 30% of Americans between 25 and 50 have never been married. That means at least 70% of that group has been married, more will marry in their lifetimes, and likely a large amount of people fornicate out of wedlock.

That indicates that the vast majority of people has at least one sexual partner, with many having a lot more thanks to sexual liberation.

For the record, I’m not saying that this is a bad thing at all. I was just alluding to the fact that we can’t compare life and expectations of safety to what it was even 100 years ago, let alone over “millions of years”
And the rewrite process might include beheading, hanging or shooting some of the old API endpoints.
McAfee to change terms of auto-renewing consumer plans
Maybe they also expected something other than a guide on how to write "eutopian" stories, perhaps an essay on inner workings of humor or entertainment. I certainly did.
Show HN: Quiet helps you block distractions on the internet (macOS/iOS)
The average person uses android OS.
Not giving a shit _is_ the problem: Poco doesn't have to pay for all those 349 euro phones going to the recycler after just 2,5 years (while probably the components could last years longer).
Check out this analysis of American action movies. It may change the way you see Batman and other characters that may have influenced your thinking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOMiAeRwpPA
I completely agree. So much of political ideologies are focused on the should, rather than how to change our state machines input. I usually try to think how can we change our environment to make ourselves more fulfilled, but it seems like no one else does.
While I've never had issues with turning on and off lights via Alexa -> Smart Plugs, I have had my Echo Dot unable to play my wakeup alarm due to internet blips. Really? That particular function couldn't store some data in some sort of local storage? Like, I don't want the thing to be able to tell me Rick Springfield's biggest hits in order of Billboard chart performance while offline... I simply want my alarm sound to play at 6am.
Depends on your view on cycling through resources. Who cares if someone who no longer works here is burnt out? Ergo, you have to tie that into the understanding that good employees are hard to find, and rotating them comes at a cost that's greater than not burning them out.

Even then you'll still get "just this once" people who understrand the problem but can't help themselves.
Are unlockable bootloaders bootloaders that cannot be locked, or bootloaders that can be unlocked? Not a native speaker.

Hm. I think it is about bootloaders that can be unlocked.
Google is releasing Fuschia OS
The problem is that the what actually has to be made portable is not well defined in GDPR. It basically says that it means any data by which the user can be identified by. When I requested a data export from some companies their legal team argued, that they cannot send me my projects in a structured format nor they won't allow import of project files from another service, because this is not a personal data (or rather not a PII).
So this is actually another area where GDPR is all bark but no bite.
I could only request my personal data, that is my name, address, email and IP addresses...
While the platform may be open source, the product may not be. We have products which are completely open source, but the one being used for the Nest Hub is not. This is similar to the idea where you may use Linux for the bottom half of an OS, but the top half may be something else entirety. Different products may make different decisions, but a common core is used amongst all products.
Oracle launches Arm-based cloud computing service using Ampere chips
Not only in Italy. I remember studying law for one semester at the University and our professor mentioned that this was still applicable in Romania, circa 2005.
As a Christian, it would be very sad/disheartening if this author's description of "Christian Heaven" were actually supported by scripture. Aside from that, many of these ideas assume people to be completely self-centered and un-altruistic, which is often true, but I'd expect the ultimate fun to be more about shaking those bonds than attempting to accommodate them. From my view that requires changes both in the environment and in the individual.
Climbing is something that basically anyone can do, it improves your fitness and reduces the load on the healthcare system. Super yachts are something that almost no one can have, probably causes some pollution and otherwise doesn't really do anything useful? How can you compare the two?

The author looks like she has to pass through doors sideways, so I can see how she might feel alienated by an activity that requires one to pull their own weight. I am quite sure that making people that are unhealthy by choice feel alienated is a good thing, all in all.
There's also no-one now alive who voted for women's suffrage, or the banning of the international slave trade, or the right to bear arms.
That's a gene drive[0], and it violates the normal pattern of inheritance by ensuring that even if an organism only inherits the variant allele from one parent, it is guaranteed to pass it on to all of its offspring.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_drive
You can use C# from F#, of course, but then you can run into issues with nulls and things like that. There's a reason every programming language has their own implementation of JSON/XML parsing, HTTP and things like that: offering an idiomatic API is important.

Last time I use the VSCode F# plugin (around a year ago), the experience was strictly worse than rust-analyzer. The compiler errors are also not as good. I've never used Rider so I can't comment on that.

You're right about the 20 years of production code for C#. NuGet lists 241418 packages compared to crates.io 61579 crates, and there's a good chance most of them are more mature than the Rust alternatives. However that's C#, not F#, and I doubt F# represents more than 10% of the packages. That's still better than doing it yourself if there's no package or writing bindings to C though.

I still think F# and Scala are solid choices if you want a functional language today, but it's not the "garbage collected Rust" ideal I wish we had.
"I DECLARE....BANKRUPTCY!!!!"
- Michael Scott

Seems you should be able to take the land back with a declaration just like they took the land before. Someone took it originally.
yep, that's what they do. "whatabout Morales plane" all over Russian internet.
> The problem is that the what actually has to be made portable is not well defined in GDPR

Wait, is there anything well defined in GDPR?

EDIT: k, so for the downvoters: I mean it. GDPR is muddy at best. Think IP addresses: in most cases, they are _not_ PII, especially when it's a dynamic IP from an ISP, yet nearly everything insists on hiding IPs or converting them into geo information.
The missing component is the openness more than anything. That and having a central space to go for research. I agree that the crypto attached to this is really weird, and the fact that it seems to be a for-profit is less than ideal.

But the idea of a Github or Stackoverflow for research that uses technology to crowdsource and mediate the review process (both pre and post publish) and then makes that process (at least the post publish part) open and available for the public to see has a ton of merit and potential value.

I grew up in academia. My parents are both academics, as are my god parents. But for any number of reasons I chose not to go into academia. I used to scoff at the whole idea of an ivory tower when I was on the inside, but having spent a decade and a half on the outside I now understand.

Science is completely walled off from the public. It's happening in institutions that charge more than a house for access, and published in a massive constellation of journals which charge $15 to $30 per paper, or hundreds to thousands of dollars per year for full access.

When you take the cost of a single paper, the fact that papers on any particular topic are often spread across a myriad of journals, and consider the fact that science works in the aggregate then add in the media's dismal scientific reporting track record and is it any wonder we have a crisis of scientific understanding and trust? Once you leave academia, your access to the truths it produces is completely cut off.

We need to find a way to break the journal system. The things they provide to the scientific community - editorial assistance, review, and reputation - really ought to be easily replaced by crowdsourcing and software. We just need to build that software and then convince the scientific community to use it.

The benefits to science and society could be massive, because a public that understands and trusts science means a public more willing to fund science, and a society that has a way to agree upon what is and isn't true.
To make a real life analogy,

In mastodon, people all live in big collectivist housings centered around a project, If you get kicked out you become homeless, or you need to start your own collective, where you will be initially alone

In urbit, people all live in individual houses, where they can invite friends over. People can ban you from their house, but you can't get kicked out of your own house
Did I say urgent care?

The existence of NHS waiting lists is a well telegraphed problem. Typically these are for medically necessary procedures which are not critical (in the sense that catching cancer fast is critical) but which when delayed cause long periods of deterioration and reduced quality of life.
Expanding the usability of the road is very feasible, simply ban vehicles that are larger than say 2 square metres per user from using the road. Suddenly there's more space on the road for more people.
Using GitHub's stale bot you can set it to ignore labelled issues, and so it's up to maintainer to label things correctly. Once the maintainer does so, stale bot won't touch it.
> Our societies should find a way to put an end to these agencies peacefully, not unlike nuclear test bans and disarmament.

The scientific community needs to wrest control from the spooks, IMO. Until we do democracy is make-believe.
Five years ago, I would have thought you were trolling, but now you are right. With this scorched earth mentality exercised by the big companies, this is a very real possibility.

What scared me quite a bit was Apple blocking all services when an Apple Card wasn't paid. That leads me to believe that Google could via an algorithm's decision disable a Nest thermostat during winter. I don't see IoT as anything but a risk.
This does look like a very good first chair if you’re just starting out.

After getting something like this, the next one we should all try is a stool or drafting chair. It puts your legs at a better angle for blood to flow right or something like that. IKEA Trollberget looks about right.

After that, a low-back chair can be weirdly comfortable in the right mood. Because we can’t lay back in it, the chair kind of forces us to sit up straight. Something like IKEA Alefjall might work.

Lastly, something to really lean back and relax in for reading or less-focused laptop work to give our backs a break from sitting upright is really helpful too. IKEA Pello is the classic one of these.
They should have kept it as a frontend and backend like llvm so people could use any language to interface with it
Holy Mother, the US put men in the moon but couldn't build some public toilets and now their streets are minefields? Now a small step for man can be just a big mess to clean later.
Yeah, that default ruleset is quite sparse. It would be nice to see Go's Code Review Comments (https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments) added as a basic ruleset.
It does feel like that internet is gone, or at least in the rear view mirror. If there’s anything incredible about the modern web, it’s high definition video. Being able to watch shows with a group of friends over zoom still feels like magic.
In my 20s I would shake internally when I was eating at the table with someone chewing with open mouth. Sometimes I would just walk away from the table to stop hearing them.

Actually now that I am reflecting on that I am hearing this sound in my head and I am getting a bit annoyed.

But through reflection on the nature of it, and focusing on anything but that sound, I learnt to cope with it. I am sure going to hear it and it will be annoying but i am not bother more then that.
I don’t know, I don’t buy the “let’s make people suffer so that they’ll revolt” logic. I don’t think that EU should make Belarus citizens suffer.

And ideally there should be better internationally-sanctioned ways to replace disfunctional governments and (what’s more important) institutions.
The Myth of the ‘Asymptomatic Spreader’ Dealt Another Blow This Week
> As others have said these sanctions will likely do more to harm the repressed citizens of the regime than Lukashenko

That's true of all sanctions anywhere. It's not fundamentally possible to target "the government" of a nation without targeting the people it governs.
Your solution wouldn't handle the case of row deletion.

It's a little harder than you might think to make a database with tamper resistance.
Procrastination has nothing to do with being lazy. What a terrible professor.
No. It needs to be accessible to everyone, not just to programmers with lots of free time.
OK, so making it free rather than 50 cents raises the barrier to people with 50 cents?
The Economist's excess deaths model
Weather Reporting Station Model (2008)
For example Jay Leno. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25ZuKkbHdqM
That’s what I always assumed this was. You’d be nuts to show this to a beginner.
FYI US common law permits asylum claims by economic refugees.
What are the areas of research that need CS people and how would a grumpy CS/engineering MS/PhD make the switch? Um, asking for a friend!

As an undergraduate I actually first got into computing through a biology-computational project! My current work pays the bills, but my armchair dream switch to research - in biology or another science.
They haven't worked on the base stuff of Android and ChromeOS. Both use Linux software abandoned by upstream, e.g. ChromeOS uses upstart and have their patched non-mainline kernels.
This requires lots of extra work, then even doubled since they have 2 platforms. Wanting to have one mature platform for both makes sense to me.
I have sent such emails for a previous account, the emails were ignored.
Get into Zynthian:

http://zynthian.org/

Tons of great code to read and projects to understand ..

Also, the Basic Synth book is a dream:

http://basicsynth.com/
I think this was wrongly flagged, so I'm resubmitting it. If you flag it, please say why. If you want to block discussion on important topics, you should at least give some explanation.
Hi Hacker News,

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TL;DR
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sounds like data communism, who's going to support that?
I meant 1). Drawing by example from TypeScript and Java nullness checkers, certain programming idioms are fine in practice and programmers can reason about them, but they're difficult to express in a provable way. Sometimes it's limitations in the tools; other times it's actually unsafe but safe in practice due to an invariant maintained elsewhere but not actually expressed in the code under consideration.
It should at the very least tell you how aggressively google has been burning its goodwill as of late.

Google offers things with the left hand while slapping you with the right and you seem surprised that people only want to talk about the slapping.
I heard lots of praise to Magit. Is there a way to use it like a standalone git client? Like tig, lazygit, etc.
Companies think that the data that is portable is your email address, profile picture, address, IP addresses - but other things like posts, comments are not. It is actually not well defined in GDPR and if portability means transferring your profile (e.g. username, email and some details about you only), then GDPR is pretty much useless in that regard.
I think the discussion cannot be really detached, since Google has strong ambitions that will undeniably influence features and capabilities of their OS.

But as for the microkernel approach, I think the advantages are on the table, but they are theoretical. Until now, no OS with a micro architecture was successful at getting significant market share.

What would your requirements at an OS like this be? For me, it would be extensibility and the minimalist approach.

Don't know the implementation details, but it sounds a lot like a time when people loved OOP too much, or later disliked it just as much.
The best use of GDPR for data portability that I’ve ever seen was right here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24764371

Long story short, Confiks takes Spotify to task for removing the API that SongKick used to retrieve playlist data; a short time and several factual emails later they restore API access.
Cyber Insurance Industry Grapples with Evolving Security Risks
Without something like the GDPR, incentives are very different for exporting vs importing: Import functionality makes it easier for someone to switch to your service, while export functionality makes it easier for someone to switch away.

Additionally, if a service is missing import functionality, you can choose to not use it. While you'd often only realize you need export functionality while you've already used a service for years.

Maybe the case of porting data between social media services doesn't make much practical sense, but there are many other services where it does. Fitness tracking apps as an example - you'd likely want to take your history with if you switch services.

And usually these services would not be using the exact same data format for import vs export. But that's not as big an issue in practice - you'd often find third-party scripts or services that can do the conversion for you.
You could try to look on in from another perspective.

The library is free and worked on by maintainers in a spare time from main duties (not talking here about lodash specifically).

Maintainers don't own you any support nor obliged to work the way you may think they should.

I would say that it's great that we have many tools and should give more respect to maintainers which basically save you a ton of resources and maximum they ask for is to follow the established processes.
Clinical trials are quite often global. I'd imagine any vaccine effort would be too.
Irrelevant to the legal argument. Religion is specifically called out in the first amendment as something that the government cannot mess with. The courts have consistently held that attempting to favor one religion or determine whether or not someone’s religious beliefs are sincere (and therefore worthy of protection) are a bright red line that must never be crossed.

The fact that people do convert religions is irrelevant to the reasons why the religion is specifically protected.
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