skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, w3w has localized their system for multiple languages. You can select a different language on their website. They have customers in several of the countries speaking those languages.

You can trivially do distance calculation by using their algorithm (which works offline if you use their sdk) to get the coordinates. The DB space is completely irrelevant: this algorithm is intended for humans being able to memorize three words. So, not sure what you are going on about here. Again, they have paying customers that are getting value out of this. Hard to argue with that, which you seem to be attempting here.

I'm not aware of a better solution that is usable by normal people. Good luck communicating a geohash to the emergency services. It's not going to be a thing as much as I like using them. Placekey seems one of their competitors but they don't produce human readable codes and they are US only. In any case, most people don't even know their latitude or longitude to any kind of precision. Coordinates are hard for people.

Regarding the IP, they use a combination of patents (the algorithm) and copyright (the word list) to protect their IP. They built a customer base around this stuff and they are well within their rights to protect their own work, which is what they are doing. IP law is what it is and w3w is simply using that as it was intended (protecting IP). That's just normal behavior for VC funded startups. Try to get some IP through some honest work, protect it, build a business around it. They are not being patent trolls here.

The way I see it, w3w has built their business without edge cases like in this article being a major obstacle to them. You could argue emergency services are important enough that they might want to improve their word list a bit. But still, it's not a basis for dismissing their business model, solution and general right to exist.

IMHO they are a bit over valued at this point and a likely acquisition target for someone so the investors get their bail out. Their current strategy is a long term dead end from the point of view of people adopting this. The proprietary nature of their solution is an obstacle for that. Once patents expire, similar solutions might emerge with different word lists, numbers of words, etc. that are more successful. Alternatively, post acquihire, a visionary company might just use some more liberal licensing to make this a bit more attractive.
Libraries and schools/universities are not the same thing, you should know that.

Allowing access to information is essential part of the education but is not the education itself!

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. Chek out its home page, top left corner! ; ))

If they have big ambitions, want to be more than 'mere' sharers of information that is fine, having huge organizations with high paid managers and PR campaigns for the education of the world and the future or whatever big words they pick, it is fine. But then please communicate that when begging for money to keep "Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia" running.

They should not misinform us....
4th power of magnetic field strength, not temperature. Increasing magnetic field strength increases your density and your temperature, and that compounding is what gets you 4th power scaling.
I think it needs to be clarified that this (and the financial statement on application mentioned in a grandparent comment) are only correct for postgraduate study.

There's no financial statement required for undergraduates because government loans are available to all UK students. This covers tuition and living costs (albeit scaled by parental income). No family needs to "cover tuition" for undergraduates.

People don't work during term time because they are very short (8 weeks) and intense. Plenty of people had work at home during the holidays.

I guess there are some people who have on paper wealthy parents who don't contribute as much as the government thinks they should, but in general lack of familial wealth is really not a barrier to undergraduate study at Oxbridge.
Desktop use is also very uneven, leading to a lot of large changes in temperature (35 -> 80 and back), which causes more material stress, than when everything is loaded evenly all the time. The same is true for electrical transients.
Hi, We have another open source solution for you - Photonix (https://photonix.org/). We've been working on it for a few years now but it's getting more feature-rich every month.

Key features: web-based, ML auto-detection of objects, colors and styles, map view, Android and iOS apps, ARM/Raspberry Pi support, works with your existing photo folder structure.

Face recognition/matching is almost done and we're also planning a cloud-hosted service for those that don't want to/can't self-host.

For those interested in the tech - the backend is Python, frontend is React-based, ML is done with Tensorflow/Keras, building is done via Docker, APIs use GraphQL.

Hopefully see some of you over at https://github.com/photonixapp/photonix
Same for Austria: It is called "Bürgerkarte" and is a requirement for some government services, e.g. accessing health records and medication online, electronic signing of petitions,...)
Currently there is a mobile app and the possibity to use the smart card with a reader. [1]

According to [2] the Austria eID is already valid EU-wide.

[1] https://www.buergerkarte.at/en/

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_electronic_signatu...
I recently moved to the UK from Denmark which has a national SSO solution. It feels like going back 10 years in time. The amount of times I've had to provide copies of my passport, drivers licences, council tax bills, credit card history, or other things to prove my identity/address is ridiculous.
Yeah but the semantic difference between "hide" and "quit" is a very technical one that doesn't need to exist. On mobile it doesn't happen, and we can thank Android for that, as they insisted from day one that multi-tasking APIs should not require the user to manually manage memory on the device. When Apple added multi-tasking to iOS later they copied the Android design more or less exactly. Browsers do something similar for browser tabs now.

However this was never brought to the desktop, largely because native desktop APIs are dead and none of the companies that fund them are interested in improving them. We get the web and if it sucks, well too bad.
It’s a mild calming stimulant, it does slightly pleasant things in both directions at the same time.

But you adjust to it, so if you try to feel that way all the time really you’re just smoking to get back to baseline, mostly.
“What's a good hex editor for annotating – I'd normally use Audacity”
That was not my experience. I smoked for 13 years, started in 2004, when I was 16. I have had periods when I smoked a pack a day. But in 2017, without even trying to do it, I just realized at some point that I have been forgetting to smoke for a couple of weeks. And I just never bought a new pack after that. Didn't even have to had any disciple of willpower; I'm just that bad at developing any habits.
Well, obviously. Because non renewables are not renewable, that is they run out.

Whatever our far-future energy use is going to be, it'll be from renewables alone because that is all there will be.
It's because there is a slideshow with images of uneven height at the top of the page.
> The RTX card uses way more power, is much largerx and has hardware acceleration for ray tracing.

Isn't RTX card using less power per ray according to this benchmark? This also applies to ray/size unit I think.
It's interesting to watch Google's quality of service going downhill pretty much across the board. I used to be surprised at even smallest bugs; now I cannot sign in to Google Play console without going through Incognito Tab, and it's just par for the course.
"I don't think most EU citizens use services from other EU countries than their own."

yes, but it's so common to expatriate nowadays, also for short periods. so it would be nice to have a digital ID thing to deal with different administrative stuff, in different countries...
We're far from that. The gap between countries is big. Just to mention Belgium's example despite having an eID, you can't even change your address online in most communes and you need to physically present yourself and demand the address to be changed. About half of the EU countries don't have eIDs. Also we're talking of less than 5% of EU population (some figures I've seen are close to 3%) working in a different EU country than their own. do we really need to implement such a system that comes with major risks? given that it benefits such a small percentage of people?
Because it will work for everybody everywhere the same way, which is part of creating a common market, instead of common mess.
Ask HN: How do you backup images from iCloud
I have a few years worth of photos in my iCloud account. No problems, works fine, don't have an issue paying for it.

However, I'd like to have a local copy as well and for the life of me I can't figure out a good way of doing incremental backups to a NAS/other cloud storage.

Anyone solved this?
Requiem for a Bright Idea (1999)
40 Marlborough reds a day, playing PS3, fag in hand constantly.

Read "The Book" and six months later, quit cold turkey.

I've been out with smokers since who have felt guilty about having one and I've proven a point by lighting their fags for them.

No way do I want or need to smoke.

I'm a non-smoker and have been for over a decade.

If you smoke, read "The Book". Twice.
Stop when you're ready.
A declartive API testing tool
Reasonable as in highly unlikely.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4594046/

More than 95% of successful animal studies fail to progress further from human trials.

There's obviously a great need for doing these tests in a different fashion.
When I rent a car I hate that some random person takes my id and xero copy it, then puts that copy on a pile of papers.

I would prefer if it worked the way "my id" works in Poland. When someone wants to confirm my identity, I am getting redirected to a "my id" provider (typically a bank I have account in), I log in, I see what data are required (for instance my age) by the data requestor and I am done.

Everything is recorder who was checking which data, when and why. If there is some leak, it is easy to find who should be blamed.

I am not a big fan of EU in its present shape, but if EU would make all countries to agree for some sane standard of identification in a secure, privacy preserving way, it would be definitely beneficial.
> Apple already said that Big Sur would be the last release for that model.

They have? Damn.

> I guess it will soon be time to look for an upgrade.

But what to upgrade to? With no Boot Camp, the M1 Macs aren’t an option for me...
Thanks for responding.

I've been struggling with this too. I'm confident in my ability to deliver on feature #1. If features #2, #3, and #4 make the beta launch 2-3X more effective (in terms of adoption rate and total users) -- isn't it worth giving up a piece of the company?

I wonder about instead giving 100% of the revenue from the beta capped at some freelance rate and compensating him for his time that way instead. Over the course of working together, I'd pretty quickly figure out if he's a good partner to have for the company.
Just tried it, it works for me.
only 17/448 (~4%) million EU citizens work in other country than their birth one. expatriating is not as common as you'd think living in a major EU city.
> Under freedom

You're confusing freedom with capitalism. Understandable, since we need to spend 40+ hours a week to earn our "right" to shelter, survival and general health. In other words: the right to exist and participate. That doesn't make us free - it makes us beholden to an employer if on the payroll, the market if self employed and the greater economic system in both cases.

If we were truly free, we would only spend time doing things we thought were actually inherently valuable. For some of us, that would mean accumulating wealth. For a great many others, that would be the Star Trek kind of life about exploring, arts and discovery. Then again, that kind of freedom will perhaps be relegated to utopian dreams for a long time yet.
True, I tried to do some research on how invasive they were before buying. The community looked great and our agenda usually just focuses on improving park/street lighting, clean up from storms, and street crack and seal.
Japan to subsidize TSMC R&D center for geopolitics
Surveillance Capitalism
Almost all tech giants such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Uber seems to collect user data that we can't even comprehend to what extent.

But why?
That's not a given. It's also possible that fusion becomes a reality and in practice a working react is roughly the same size as a current fission reactor. Or smaller, or bit bigger. We don't know.
> There is no technology that can solve those problems.

Sure there is. It's just not implemented in most software - including, in particular, web browsers.

I currently have 192 buffers opened in the Emacs session on my desktop. 143 on my work machine. That's quite low - both sessions have less than a month of uptime, and I was on ~10 days of leave during that period. I can easily run to 300+ buffers in a few days of work. I've never complained about too many buffers being opened.

The trick that makes it works is the tooling around management of open buffers.

I only ever see one or two, maybe four, at any given time. There's no tab bar. Switching is done with incremental search - I start typing a substring of a buffer's name, and in 3-5 keystrokes narrow the list to the one buffer I want. The list of candidates starts in most-recent-first order. I could enable fuzzy matching, or matching by both name and type, but I personally don't need it, I have a good memory for buffer/tab/file names.

If and when I need to manage buffers in bulk, I fire up the ibuffer interface (which I do by holding CTRL a bit longer, to turn `C-x b` to `C-x C-b`). There I get a table of all buffers, with columns showing the buffer name, size, modification status, mode (i.e. "buffer type" - associated application for handling it), and filename or process bound to the buffer. With a few keypresses, I can sort and filter the list by any of these properties (and a bunch of others). Filters can be incrementally combined. I can mark entries on the list (whether manually, or by a filter), and perform bulk operations on them.

And in case you think this is hardcore techie interface - it isn't. It's essentially a streamlined, keyboard-oriented version of what Windows Explorer in "Details" view gives you for your files. I think even casual, non-tech-savvy users are pretty familiar with this view.

I'm pretty sure the entire problem of "too many tabs" would go away if the browser did these three things: get rid of the tab bar, provide a decent switcher UI that, beyond the mouse, supports incremental search from keyboard, and provide a table view for managing the tabs.
> mid-2015 MacBook Pro is unlikely to be compatible?

Disappointing if true - they were still sold until mid-2018.
Another Chinese database seems to be doing a better job at this front: https://github.com/pingcap/tidb
Blockchain or not, copying to something non-blockchain is always a thing.
> The US has seen the most spectacular rise from poverty to wealth ever seen in history.

China has arguably beaten (or is close to beating) that in very recent history.
I'm very curious. This is HN (and StackOverflow) in Chinese? Is it machine translated? Translations seem fine, fine.

Surprised at the level of participation after only registering the domain a month+ ago.

Also no ICP licence. You might want to get one of these.
I think they did binning with 7 vs 8 core GPU, but my guess is the more intricate the binning the more complex the whole assembly logistics become, so they probably wanted to avoid that for the initial launch.
In the past, a lot of (non-slave) people immigrated to the USA precisely because they were impoverished -- for example, Irish fleeing the Great Famine, among many others.

> "Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore."

Whether those words are as appropriate today may be another matter, of course.
I agree, but you have to start somewhere though. As much as fixing the issue you mentioned would make eIDs more useful, having eIDs in the first place would give us more reasons to tackle this and similar problems.
Using the PKCS11 certificates on a Belgian eID is cumbersome because the whole 'client certificate' workflow has always been a pain in the butt UX-wise. Many workarounds have been implemented to improve on this, making it less platform-independent than theoretically possible.

The itsme app works totally fine for me, and my less tech-literate family members. It strikes a good balance in UX and security.

All in all, I think that the Belgian government is doing a good job in this. It needs to work well for the average user, which it does! I don't expect my government to spend time and money to support all fringe cases like smartphones that don't run iOS or Android.
A result of them moving to Flutter?
Yes, it's do-able. As others have pointed out, nvm also works.

1. There isn't nvm for things that aren't node. Some things have an equivalent (e.g., pyenv). Many external dependencies do not.

2. I've inherited a spiderweb of like two dozen different major projects that are all interconnected. Doing an upgrade across everything at once means a stop-work for months while all the developers update tooling, then fix all their issues so everything works, then we try and coordinate testing and deploys of everything without breaking anything.

Or, alternatively:

1. We don't need extra tooling that doesn't exist.

2. We can update projects one at a time instead of mass-migrating several million lines of code across half a dozen different frameworks.
How did you do that? I'm interested...
This is most evident in the smartphone market. I want a 4" phone with a decent camera and a headphone jack. Because I still primarily use my phone as a limited communication device. I don't watch videos on my phone at all. I do take pictures with it and I do sometimes listen to music on it. My primary device is still my computer and that isn't going to change. The large screen brings me exactly zero benefits for my use cases, and it makes it very awkward to use with one hand.

Yet guess what? Phones these days start at 6". And if you want to spend extra money on something of high quality, it's guaranteed to have a huge screen because you can't not want one.

So much for "voting with your wallet"...
I would say that if you change a physical address it makes sense to be there in person to prove it. This could be seen as a kind of security/verification feature.
Implementing a functionality for e.g. the danish national ID with a few million users, or Luxembourg, or Austria, isn't worth it.

So you'd have support for France, Germany, maybe Netherlands, and that's it.

With an EU-wide ID, the smaller countries profit significantly, and startups can integrate and use the functionality easier.
China is also seeing large numbers of people rising from abject poverty to a "western" more affluent lifestyle. I don't think that this is a terribly good yardstick for fairness and freedom in a society.
Some fun facts about the ingredients in tobacco..

The reason smoking causes cancer is the high amount of polonium 210, yes, that stuff they used to kill Litvenchenko. The reason for the presence of polonium 210 is flavour. Truly. It sounds far fetched, but, while the polonium is thought to contaminate the plant from the environment. Tobacco plants have lots of sticky little hairs which attract particles. It could be washed out of the product, but manufacturers found that the harsh cleaning required, ruined the flavour profile of the end product. This was thought to be a disservice to the customer. So the highly radioactive polonium 210 remains... For Flavour!

Another ingredient you may be surprised at is urea。 Pig Urine. But this one is not natural. No pigs are strolling tobacco fields and making no1 on the crops. This one is intentional, and in fact is probably the main flavour you pick up from a smoke.

This history of this particular flavour enhancer is very interesting. They no longer use real pig urine in stuff any more, but a synthesized version. This synthesis was invented in the late 19th century (you can relax now). But the paper that introduced urea synthesis to world is regarded as the beginning of the field of chemistry, and an important moment in history. That paper is now part of the western literary canon, and is often required reading for numerous academic fields.

If I get time, I will add sources, but maybe some HN people already know about this?
Just because its homepage articles have opinions that often align with actual state outlets, doesn't mean it acts as a state outlet. Many of those perspectives are shared by regular Chinese people. If you don't believe me maybe you should visit China and talk to some people to confirm.
As a Belgian having worked in Denmark, my access to Danish e-government services through NemID was revoked pretty soon after I left the country.

This was quite a frustrating experience. Some time after leaving the country I got e-mails saying that SKAT, the local tax authority, had documents/messages for me to read on the secure message platform eBoks.

However, try as I might, I was unable to convince anyone to restore access since I was no longer a resident. I agonized quite a bit over this since I dreaded inadvertently being a fraud.

It would have saved me a lot of grief if the Danish e-gov services would have federated with Belgian and other EU identity services.

Edit: Forgot to say this is something The Netherlands already does pretty well. Dutch e-gov services, or at least those from Belastingdienst federate with many European idenity service providers including Belgium. Great for cross border workers.
> Making “cancel mob” terminations illegal ends all that. Is this really the path we want to go down?

Yes? The problem with cancellation is that individuals are targeted which means that for most people it is not a problem and they have no incentive to stop it. The mob cannot go after everyone. Employers cannot filter out everyone - then they have no employees.
Alumnus or alumna, surely :-)
Well since it's a greenfield project for many countries it might make sense to build a continent-wide solution rather than let each country cobble together their own incompatible platform?

Besides, it's not only for intra-EU Digital Nomads but also for business operations beyond national borders; reducing the overhead improves accessibility from the less developed countries to richer markets.
To be fair, I think Denmark is living 10+ years in the future with respect to that stuff. It's far more the exception than the rule :)
Just fyi, going to „https://pastenow.xn--me-x2t without the „www“ just gets me to a „Hi“ page without any content.
They show ads about things you discussed yesterday
While I agree that saving open work into temporary storage automatically and restore it with next launch would be incredibly convenient, this article is still weird to me, it's like other world. I don't use a computer in that way at all. I have one browser window with 3 tabs. I'm fine with folder/files metaphor. I don't use iMessage/Slack/Twitter/Facebook/Instagram. I don't paste memes between windows (and I mute people who spam me with memes over Whatsapp). I definitely don't create fragments, I write code source which could be qualified as a document. My Desktop does not have a single file (because Gnome does not support notion of Desktop, LoL), my Downloads folder is almost empty, because I clean it periodically, it does not take much time. And so on.

And I definitely don't want to rethink my computer desktop. It's fine. What I want is to polish it. Every desktop I tried is unpolished.
LOL, best answer so far!