skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> just hack away until it works, and fix it if it ever crashes.

This also makes collaboration really hard. Types are a form of documentation. But unlike comments, types are enforced by the compiler. Invariably, lots of comments in a codebase are wrong. Many of those probably started out correct but the code changed and the comment didn't.
Radioactive photography lenses and everything about them
>Florida and Texas registered lower deaths per 100,000 than states with stringent, long-term restrictions like New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts

This often-touted talking point makes little actual sense. The tri-state area (NY,NJ,CT) was the first outbreak in the US. We didn’t yet know how to treat Covid properly, and had zero therapeutics, so naturally deaths were higher than in states who experienced much later outbreaks.
Nothing about that says product-market fit beyond the speculative use case - which I would agree does show spectacular product-market fit since it is proven there are tons of people willing to speculate and crypto provides an asset class with attributes that people are really craving (poor regulation, high risk and volatility, etc.)
But how good's the cricket?!
They can do the tracking you've described. We all have a brain and will process at a personal level.

But they aren't allowed to make it systematic by, for example, writing a file of paper notes describing each person's recognizable characteristics to share among the staff, or doing the same with photos. Those records would be covered by the GDPR, which corrects an omission in previous laws that only covered electronic records.
>Since leaving Australia (and started living in Europe) I have come to the conclusion that Australia is not a "real" country - it is just a continent owned by corporate interests that happens to also have people living on it.

I haven't thought of it exactly like that, but I appreciate (whilst shuddering) your take on things.

I basically see it in a similar way, that its a sinking stepping stone the UK was using to get further ahead, but lost its hold/interest because of US dominance (which the UK kind of gave birth to in a strange way due to its self-important superiority complex).

It still seems to me like they're trying to squeeze all the value out of it onto other continents (or tiny tax havens) and multinational corporations so that nothing of value is left [1]. Whilst doing it with just enough plausible deniability (e.g. the stolen generation) and fake sincerity to try to pass as genuine.

Unfortunately I still live here.

I'm not a beach person, it's not my SOMA. Instead of Brave New World or 1984, I think it'll end up more like V for Vendetta. Unfortunately they seemed to be astute enough to put our Federal parliament house in the middle of a roundabout in an arbitrary out of the way place called Canberra.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW_65A-nLoo
Actually reporting on what Russia does or not does is to distract from what NATO is doing.
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Off topic: I'm reminded of a very small unit of time that was devised to be a least common multiple of various division of time like 24fps, 30fps, 44.1kHz, and a ton of others in video and audio. Does anyone remember what this unit was?
That's just one more argument to the fire: the intent here is not to protect children. The intent is to scan everybody for things "to be determined", and not subject to public scrutiny.

Europe is not immune to this. Jose Manuel Barrosso, the ex-EU-commission-president used to be a member of a communist revolutionary student group ... that has murdered people. He was present at at least three such killings, and it is not clear if "present" is where it stops, but obviously he was never convicted of murder (he was, of other things). When he came to office, there was a witch hunt for material and articles telling this story. And obviously plenty of lower ranking officials wanted to take care of some of their own dirty laundry. This is the real source of the "right to forget" privacy legislation. Makes you all warm and fuzzy inside, doesn't it.

EVEN when it comes to child abuse, the top politicians in Europe just brazenly ignore the rules. Emmanuel Macron's wife ... has publicly confessed to being a pedophile, and having sexually abused at least one child (yes, mr. Macron: she was his French teacher. She blames him, incidentally, as if that matters). Macron has publicly confirmed this (and taken "the blame", which of course doesn't matter: he was a minor). For anyone in France, it is clear: this is a despicable crime, and she would be harshly punished ... but any action against him might bring Le Pen to power, or even tip the balance in the EU parliament to anti-EU parties if we are really unlucky. I bet he has said as much to the public prosecutor.

A child defending a pedophile happens often, by the way, especially to stay out of the hands of child services, and is of course never accepted as an excuse ... except ... when it applies to even pretty low-level government officials.
Default arguments to anonymous functions are x, y, and z. You can also name arguments like this.
{[foo; bar] foo+bar} is the same as {x+y}

I'm not denying it is probably more possible to gain a superficial understanding of what code written in other languages does than code written in k to someone who's never seen k before. This just doesn't seem like that important of a language feature. The 'confusion and extra complexity' you mention wouldn't really confuse anyone who'd tried k for more than a couple of hours (at most).
Played this sometime in the past and had a lot of fun. I did not want to, given the 30 minute play time estimate, but I ended up playing the anxiety demo [0] on the same site, and spending about an hour total.... it was incredibly informative and eye-opening.

[0]: https://ncase.me/anxiety-demo/
Yeah... but I've specifically said

> is not enforceable if both are minors

15 and 18 are __not__ both minors
Sorry for the dumb question, what is ZH?

Regarding your observation; I might be wrong, but I think it depends on the time when political topcis are dominant and when hardcore tech stuff is being posted. It seems to me that in the (German) morning hours political stories dominate, in the evening tech stuff is dominant.
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That sounds exactly like the US.
His home is worth 650k today. Fence may add another 20k and security cameras are about $100 a pop

https://www.velvetropes.com/backstage/warren-buffett-house
To improve the performance of their distributed systems by imposing stronger assumptions than full asynchronicity on their environment, I expect. (See also Google’s Spanner.)
If I read correctly:

GNSS PPS is more jittery but does not drift. The MAC has 1000x less jitter but drifts. You can cleverly combine them with statistics and magic to get the best of both worlds.
That seems rather ambiguous and doesn't really explain why having more time precision results in faster performance or 'advanced infrastructure management'.

I can understand why a stock broker or trading firm requires PTP to enable precise date-stamps for auditing/validating trades.

I don't see how having a time granularity on the order of picoseconds is needed for a data center.
I've used one for a year now, it's a UMPC running Linux that can make phone calls. What do you want to know?
And this is also the release where they drop the support for disabling "Proton" UI and therefore Firefox will no longer respect my system color scheme, and I will lose even more vertical space. Thanks...
It’s not just about adaption, many animals in hot climates burrow which provides a cooler place to rest than above ground housing.
I have a feeling there’s a world of software outside of your lazy reduction to “apps” vs “computers” which is a pretty nonsensical reduction in the first place.

It’s funny how much hate the Rust community gets when C programmers are just as bad at coming out of the word work to try and insult people when someone takes even the most minor shot at the language they’re so attached to (which was frankly, more or less a shot aimed at myself)
> See: Middle East

That's always tricky because the most successful examples of a guerilla army winning like that are all a foreign army coming into a local rebelling population. They mostly work by just wearing down the invaders until the cost and time requirements wear heavy enough that the foreign army decides to just go home, that same dynamic doesn't map as well when it's the state fighting for it's own survival to me.
We’re All Living in Potemkin Village
We generalize pretty well. One could say: "it took you 20 years to learn python!", but actually I learned python, Java, c#... Software engineering, machine learning... How to play guitar, how to cook.. .How to speak Portuguese, how to speak English... And thousands and thousands of different things which build on each other.

You can give a programmer a few kb of code in a new language and that will give him a small grasp of how it works.
I dont use Google. Never heard of any of the companies you posted, but I took a look at the website of the first one (Intercom): "The company was founded in 2011 in San Francisco"...

I'm sure they have some Irish connection, but it's obviusly not a Dublin company.
I'm certain it was on one of such previous posts that I found it (and played it)

And, as chance would have it, this is where I first heard Komiku's "It's time for Adventure!" (the song that plays in the intro). It has since been what I listen to when programming when silence is not an option
Not that I consider you to be entirely wrong - but I suppose it depends on the definition of the spiritual tradition.

I am a non-expert on the topic, but I think for example Native-American spiritual tradition has always considered industrial scale modification of the natural environment as a bad thing.
this is 'Manufacturing Consent' phase 2: the internet.
you wont see the other 1M articles about FUKUS/NATO on this shithole site called HN, which is now part of the MSM. do not point the elephant, it is called whataboutism.
I mean... you can get cancelled now, when someone disagrees with you here, and starts going through all your old posts/messages/tweets, and finds something that was perfectly OK back then, but now the PC culture deems a cancellable-offence.

So yeah, I agree... having things disappear after a reasonable amount of time is a great feature. Sadly, most networks (eg. twitter, facebook,...) don't have this.
Sure, but if there is going to be intellectually honest talk about problems in Libya then we should ... well. I suppose we might speculate that, possibly, hypothetically, the reason the Russians are committing war crimes in Libya is because the Libyan army was annihilated around 2011 by a helpful excursion by US/UK/etc troops onto Libyan soil.

The BBC article manages to go through 10 years of history here and appears to have missed the NATO invasion.
Relevant recent HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28108586
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it is crazy. but true. what is even harder to wrap your head around right now is that people who bought a new vehicle last year have been able to sell this year above the original MSRP... but as a used vehicle.
I think you might be referring to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flick_(time)
What you're describing I wouldn't call a huge amount different from an everyday shell. Maybe a few tweaks here and there, but I'm almost willing to bet you could get there with Bash customizations...
Cmon warmongers, a little more and you're there. Green bombs! tax the f out of the people profitting from selling munitions? Something along those lines? That would tank our economy, sad sad sad
I find my mirrorless Sony 6700 to be pretty rapid, it's pretty much ready in the time it takes me to flip the switch and move my head to the viewfinder.
Fatalism is how bad things survive. Don't accept bad behavior, and sure as hell don't criticize those that are standing up to it.
Given NCMEC's continuing attacks against consenting adult sex workers, that they never seem to regard adult sexual identities as valid under any circumstances, that they repeatedly retweet abolitionist groups for adult sexual expression, their actions during Backpage, them lying to Congress about the level of abuse that occurs and the recent statements by their staff, I find it kind of baffling that anyone would defend their leadership at this point.

NCMEC are willing to completely compromise their mission in order to chase other moral crusades that are unrelated to children, and seem to never care about the consequences of any of the things they call for.

I don't trust them, and they've earned that.
You mean the illegal protest where people turned up without masks, defying public health orders? I doubt that captures the majority of us concerned about mass surveillance.
Yeah I see what you’re saying, but there will always be the tech equivalent of the back room whisper - a private and authentic conversation. The platform may change, but it will exist because there’s always a need for it. Now, Signal fills that need. In the future… tor on open source hardware? Something else?
> Even if you go out and have a drink with them, they won't stop talking about it (it happened to me personally many times).

Are you an lobbyist than? I can't imagine any other reason Breyer would talk personally to someone with our opinions while having a drink together.

> > Digital privacy is demonstrably being eroded on many fronts, all over the world

> This is not the case though.

Quite a distorted view on reality given all the surveillance laws passed over the last few years…

It feels by now as there would be new attacks on peoples freedom form the government almost on a daily base. Enjoy the a look at the tip of the iceberg:

https://www.statewatch.org/observatories/
possibly, but it's against the rules, they'd be living a constant lie and there would probably be repercussions if they were found out and didn't have political cover. Might not stop some employees from trying.

Facebook will also scale salary by location; I have never and almost certainly will never work there but they said they will check VPN logs, and in the past have used IP and geo data from their app to determine locations of employees and users who were potential security risks. Regarding VPN and remote work:

https://fortune.com/2020/05/21/facebook-permanent-work-from-...

<quote>
Facebook said it would enforce the new work-at-home policy mostly by the honor code, but that it plans random checks of employee VPN addresses—the tool used to securely access the company’s network remotely—to confirm their locations. Any employee that is caught lying will face “severe ramifications” as it could affect some of the company’s tax filings, Zuckerberg said, adding, “You may be breaking the law.”
</quote>

I don't want to second guess them but random spot checks seem like more work than an automated job that looks at all vpn connections and matches to primary employee location.
Do you understand what you're actually wishing for when you cheer on the destruction of a large percentage of the economy? What comes after will not be so comfortable.
UI Guideline was born out of our need to solve a problem that causes a real pain in the ass: Ineffective communication between the design and the development team. There is no common language between both worlds: designers say “Select list”, developers say “Dropdown list”. Designers say “Label”, developers say “Badge”. etc. etc. etc. Creating constant friction between teams, and not to mention when the teams have more than 5 members, it's a mess.
The problem is that all personal data is potentially incriminating and harmful if not tightly controlled. I am not thinking about actually people/governments trying to do bad. It is a matter of chance and false positives, that plainly increase with the amount of data. There is cases when it is totally legitimate for law enforcement to seize all communication. It happened to me once and it does not feel good if all your communication is seized and searched. You give away personal information of so many individuals. Actually one should in those cases inform everyone about such information 'leak'. Alternatively having a red button that deletes/hides all your data, would also not look all to wise and it will put further stress on you in such a situation, in which you know that most probably everything will turn out well for you. Even if not giving away third party information would be the ethically thing to do , you will not likely do so even if the claims against you are not justifiable. So better delete your conversations and reduce your footprint. This is also good for email. Everyone should just do what we expect from companies...
Ok, so I had try one more time to look this up, and here is what Wikipedia says. (They also point to where it was written originally and an archive of the source.):

> WhatsApp was initially criticized for its lack of encryption, sending information as plaintext.[198] Encryption was first added in May 2012.[199][200][201] End-to-end encryption was only fully implemented in April 2016 after a two-year process.

from the "Security and Privacy" section of :https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp

Happy now?

Again: this wasn't thought to be a big deal back in 2009 and I don't want to beat them up over it.

The person I wrote to wrote:

> If message text was readable that would have been a much bigger deal.

For anyone who has read so far, keep in mind such rules only apply to Telegram ;-)
i agree the price range is wide but everyone is unique. are you thinking we should default to a low price and assume everyone is a low cost buyer? we had a porsche buyer last month request we actually increase the top end of the range because nice 911s werent always showing in the search. everyone is unique.
I might be entirely wrong, but I wonder if it’s shared culture with other SE Asian countries?

Having spend time in SE Asia, I’ve found the “collective mindset” to be inaccurate. People there are just as likely to screw over their fellow man as any other country.

What’s different is the deference to authority. When the govt cracks down, people don’t really complain or push back. They accept it much more readily. Not sure if it’s the belief that leaders need an “iron will” or what, but it’s very different than North America or Europe where protesting the govt is almost expected.
Here is the paper, for anyone interested

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...
Works in Firefox on Android for me - if I toggle "Desktop site" on.

Ed: the text at least displays - no images though?

Ed2: ah, tab to autocomplete images, I guess original link didn't use visuals? (works with hacker's keyboard on android - otherwise tab key might be tricky..)
Try this:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DUYIOFU/ref=redir_mobile_deskto...

To sit on it (and not find yourself on the floor), the lower spine must constantly make microadjustments to keep you seated, preventing sustained direct force along any one vector.

For years I used this raw version:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0875NM64Z/ref=redir_mobile_deskto...

but you may find it a bit too demanding at first.
In your book, what counts as fixing climate while preserving human rights and dignity?
Disappearing messages by default could further weaken social protections.

Police and authorities can have logs (either of everyone or high value targets) and those people won't have access to their own messages to defend themselves.

It even means chat conversations can be entirely fabricated by one side, and the other has no way to refute it.
This reminds me of Hannah Arendt's criticism of the Boers - which was sometimes taken out of context. She was just pointing out they had become a tribe of bush-wandering savages living off, but not improving the land, themselves. They had no incentive to improve the land; labor was cheap and their own lives were cheap, and they still have made nothing of the country.

When I lived in Australia I was really surprised, because I expected to find a country much more individualistic and hardy than the soft United States. All those Crocodile Dundee movies, I guess. I had the luck of moving there with a partner who was half-Filipina, and wow was there a lot of anti-Asian racism right off the bat. But that wouldn't have been such a big deal. What really struck me were the micro-restrictions on everything.

I think local councils have a lot to do with this; in the Commonwealth model they seem to have totally arbitrary and uncontrolled power. If you squeal your wheels, they'll take your car and crush it. At least that's what I heard. If you work on roofs you have to spend an hour gearing up to have harnesses. I mean. I thought this was a frontier society, but it's not. Cameras everywhere and ...well, I lived in King's Cross, Sydney for a bit, but I heard they basically shut that down by fiat from end to end.

And the NT. Just a word about that. We pulled up to a shop in the bush outside Tenant Creek and there were approximately 40 aboriginal ladies standing outside a closed window at 9am. We walked past this line, straight inside, and bought a couple cases of beer. Asked why they were all waiting there. "Waitin for the welfare window," said the store owner. Never been to the white side of a segregation window before, but that was something to see in a first world country.
Is cash money? What percentage of your transactions are settled in cash?

Money and payment settlement systems are not the same thing, although you could be forgiven for believing that. I use a credit card for 99% of my transaction volume, and credit cards are not money. The fact that the notional value of the transaction is denominated in dollars doesn't mean I am actually using dollars as the medium of exchange--the exchange is facilitated by a clearinghouse and my individual transaction may not even result in a transfer of money (actual dollars) between parties, if there is an offsetting transaction (or chain of transactions) within the same settlement period.
Do you mean the facebook/oculus flicks? Wonder why the repo is archived...

https://github.com/facebookarchive/Flicks

ninjaed :(
>you bet your welfare on a hope that in 40 years time, there will still be enough cash flowing through the system to support you.

Yeah. Finland has a system similar to Sweden in many ways, in general it has worked great. Though during last decade or so without much economic growth and upside down demographic pyramid, some young people who follow the news have started to look at it with some suspicion. Current pension payments from our salary goes to current pensioners, but our retirement age is moving up and estimated future pension payments going down. Then in last year or two the birthrate dropped dramatically, and I updated from "concerned" to "heavily worried".
yep... I've never been on that site, never even seen an article there, and the first one I want to see, they cover up with a popup, asking me to subscribe...

I have no idea whose idea this is, and how many people actually subscribe on the first visit, but there must be some pointy haired boss somewhere involved.
In distributed databases that offer transaction semantics, they need timestamps to order transactions that take place. A tighter synchronization of clocks mean they can execute transactions faster because they can reduce the amount of time they wait (based on the potential clock drift between machines in the data center)
What if we could transpile COBOL into Elixir
I think I've run into more cover on ww1 pollution than I have on the massive amounts of cancer we've dumped in iraq or Vietnam. I guess it's easier to smugly comment about how our ancestors had so little foresight instead of having to eat the fact that absolutely nothing has changed and we do the same thing even with the benefit of hindsight. I mean the highest rated comment is about trace toxins in Norway jesus.
What else is in your top 10 worst things list?

Version control? Stack Overflow? The Internet?