skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Screw carbon credits. Countries should be given credits based on the number of (non-human) apex predators in the wild within their borders and any carbon-intensive/polluting economic activity should have to be offset against these very expensive credits.
It is supported in virtually all current gen phones/laptops.

Giving up WebAuthn and thus trading security for privacy by dumping Chrome for Firefox is a raw deal. If privacy is a concern run a de-googled ROM like CalyxOS which ships defanged Chromium so you get to have vital security features like WebAuthn without giving up privacy.
True†. This is a great insight. So...why wipe them out? Don't you think we can learn from them? I know people are not advocating for wiping out every mosquito, only the killer ones. But still, from a purely predator dynamic, we should at least make sure we know all there is to know about this 'apex predator' (possibly a stretch, but), before we wipe them from the face of the Earth, no? :p ;) xx

†I actually think we are symbionts. But people commonly just don't understand enough about how everything works to clearly see the benefits we get yet.
I want the black sky back, instead of space litter put by billionaires without any accountability
I used to connect from both my local machine and from within citrix, use local machine for voice and citrix to share the screen.
So that's a no on presenting any sort of evidence?
This article is really eye-opening. We can't go backwards. That said the masses have more control than we think.

I had a personal eureka moment last year when I visited one of the last old growth flood plain forests. Humans decimated over 90% of this type of forest in just the last 200-300 year. This happened in the United States.

These flood plains are vital for the earth's homeostasis, flood plains have huge trees and hold incredible amounts of water.

In my honest opinion Permaculture management practices to rehydrate landscapes will be the first step toward reversing the climate crisis. Water in the ground acts like a battery to protect against flood and drought.

If you are also optimistic about what we collectively can do in the future, and want to hear more check out my YouTube channel here:

https://youtube.com/c/RussellBallestrini

For more about the last of the great flood plains forests of America, checkout this video in particular:

https://youtu.be/_4szw1gzBKc

Permaculture is a Philosophy and Systems Designed approach to working with nature to produce multiple yeilds, using little nudges and allowing nature to take the wheel to create surplus.

permaculture designers are people who think in terms of systems: inputs, process, outputs.

The goal is to stack functions, and regenerate ecosystems using site specific knowledge to guide the evolution of land and biosphere toward one of multi yield, for both people and nature.
This sounds really odd to me (UK-based, previously was contracting) — if someone is hired as a contractor, normally your company would be engaging their limited company as some type of consultancy arrangement.

So you wouldn't have any maternity leave or paid time off at all. In fact, from the contractor's point-of-view, you'd want to run a mile from these things as if the revenue believed you were a de facto employee (since you're getting company benefits) your tax liability would balloon.

But see no reason that a European founder couldn't hire freelancers/contractors in the same way that your company does.
My acorn disagrees with you.
The article doesn't mention if they did any research in this case but it is also quite common for judges to receive kickbacks from for-profits to get them inmates.

A judge assigning a non-user to a rehab could be the result of that kind of conflict of interest.
Uber rival Didi Chuxing suspends plans for UK and Europe launch
It's irrelevant. We don't get to tell people what they are and are not willing to pay for.
I don't think so. 99.9% of people don't need or want to do anything beyond what iPhone/Android currently offers, I would put money on the fact that a majority of iphone buyers are completely happy with things as they are.
FILO is certainly one of the more frustrating consumer experiences. I wonder if they've changed inventory/ ordering systems in the time between your order and your friend's?
Nothing biblical about this either
The very first bit of advice is a cover letter? I've never seen one when interviewing, and last time I sent one was applying for an internship 18 years ago.
Unfortunately I have to register to even get a feeling of what this will do.

Also a bit ironic to see curl commands in the first 10 pages I clicked in the documentation whilst the whole product is claiming no code is required.
Siren head kidnaps people in the woods 2021
They won't, if those products aren't available on the market. Which they won't be, because currently the "managed" approach yields more revenue.

"Voting with your wallet" doesn't work on most technology markets, where products and services are not commodities, and where the barriers to entry are insanely high. Yes - insanely high. Sure, you can get a $100 computer and a $10/month Internet connection and start writing software for millions, except it won't do you much good - software is the easy part. To compete with Facebook, you need to bootstrap a whole social network. To compete with Apple and Google on the phone market, you'll need to bootstrap your own hardware manufacturing, because all the smartphone vendors are into the same user-hostile crap these days.

Projects like PinePhone are probably as far as you can reasonably get on the "smartphone, except not user hostile" front. It's worth looking into why they don't succeed. It's not as simple as "people must not truly want it because they aren't paying the premium to get it".
Are you in the same area?
I think the worst mangled address I ever saw was on a package ordered from Italy. The second worst was USA.

Unfortunately, my address has a lot of accentuated characters (Ř, Á, Č, Ž).
> Sütterlin

I figured that the way to keep one's personal communications private is to handwrite them in Sütterlin.
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And to me, it reminds of the Codex Seraphinianus
>Given Europe’s[0] GDP is slightly higher than that of China, I don’t think it really needs much explanation as to why.

Because it includes 20+ countries with centuries of headstart, 4-5 of which milked half the globe as their colonies (including China)?
At its peak point of customer experience value (which Amazon has definitely past), Amazon was great because it was generally easy to find a good set of options for whatever you were looking to buy, in one place/one search.

Now, it’s full of fake/cheap crap with manipulated reviews and “sponsored” search results. Before it was good about exposing useful data (e.g.: “others who searched for x eventually bought y” and other similar features. That’s all but gone now. You only see what is useful to Amazon for you to see.

So, my question is, where do I go to find that same general search function for shopping? It’s not google. I’m not sure it exists but it’s needed. (Or anyone have a link?)
All you need is call/cc (2013)
It‘s purely anecdotal but in our Kindergarten in Germany there was a huge outbreak of an respiratory infection in the last week of February and unlike those „normal“ Kindergarten viruses, it affected the parents worse than the children. My wife and I both had pretty high fever (which never happened before in six years with small children in places like that). It was confirmed NOT to be the flu (which usually affects adults less anyhow). So my guess is, the dominant narrative of when and how Corona spread throughout the world is incorrect.
All this companies (Starling, Saltpay, etc. ) are UK based. Europe will be never able to compete with UK on the startup arena.
Maybe the cat is 3D printed too...

Just joking, but actually, 3D printing works with living cells, though not yet up to the level of printing an entire animal :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_bioprinting
Unicode is supposed to be about the visual representation, not the aural.
This is tangential, but I still use vim with UltiSnips, cscope, and ctags for coding (C/C++, python, julia), and it works very well. I've just not been able to move to an IDE, although I briefly played with some - I think I'm just too used to the vim keybindings.
My iOS developer story ended shortly after I attempted to start back in 2008. To run apps I’d written on a device I had to sign up and pay for an account, which I was ok with. Then my account was suspended until I proved who I was with a scan of a government issued document. As a non US citizen my ID had little protection so I said no. After a few months apple agreed and refund my $99. So I’ve never written for iOS. The upside was I made a small profit thanks to a swing in the exchange rate :)
As contractors, your employees are liable to pay those taxes themselves. Hopefully you’re paying them at least 50% above market rate, so there’s no problem.
Maybe someone can mount a legal challenge and establish case law. Document the whole buying process, copious advertising where Apple says you can purchase the device, then request the unlock code from Apple to run custom software.

If they refuse to provide it for purely commercial reasons despite having full technical ability to do so, you might have a case that you were misled into purchasing a subscription service. Ideally, you would find some advertised capability that is only enabled for apps sold though the App Store, a hidden subscription fee especially considering its onerous value.
We ordered within a month of each other in one case.
Yes. As the crow flies about 20-30 miles apart.
The growing demand for electric vehicle (EV) charge points
order fulfillment is based on your geo location - depending on if you have sats accessing your region, and how many people there already have it.
how many of the unicorns out of SV are actually viable businesses that will gain genuine traction 10 years from now? I suspect not a whole lot
On the contrary, slavery is quite biblical.
> Isn’t it rather reductionist to say that the closed nature of iOS is why people buy it?

No, we've heard plenty of people here on HN specifically say that's why they prefer it.
You're right about Shaka imposing celibacy, but my understanding is that it was only Shaka that did this and subsequent ruleres let their men free to breed as they saw fit. At Isandlwana Shaka was long gone and there was no celibacy rule, as far as I know - but I may be wrong of course.
and to me the voynich manuscript, perhaps this AI plant generation could provide an additional clue to the meaning of the fantasy plants in the manuscript!
Show HN: I built a crypto whale alert bot to improve my trading
Have you tried JetBrains vim more? It has the same bindings as vim from what I hear.
> Of course, it would advisable if those symbols were
> also standardized like traffic signs.

The warning lights and symbols necessary for operation of the vehicle are standardized. The only two icons that have different variants across vehicle manufacturers, that I am aware of, are the Parking Brake Engaged icon (which could have an exclamation point or a P) and the Airbag Disabled icon (which has varying levels of body thickness for the depicted human).
I think he meant exactly that in contrast of all the anti-China rhetoric, every country is doing the same crap.

The implied superiority is the propaganda.
It's also strange to compare two economies that have vastly different economic strategies, especially by measuring one of the areas where they diverge most strongly.
I'm pretty sure UK is part of Europe.. not the EU though.
> I don't really assume malicious intent here - this is presumably "caching"

This doesn't seem like thinking critically. Do you not imagine that Apple, the size they are, with all their lawyers take a decision like this seriously? It's not like a developer unilaterally decided that they were going to make this as a feature without levels of management and execs deciding that this was okay.

Assuming incompetence rather than malice only applies when there's no previous behaviour suggesting the contrary. The only explanation I can think of for this attitude, is that if we like using Apple products, we somehow have to 'make it ok' to ourselves. I'm at least able to separate the experience with using a product with the aspect of how that product is used by its manufacturer.
This was one of the things that got me hooked on the idea of an encyclopedia for an imagined world! Such a fascinating and fun work.
That is not what they advertise(d).

Full text:

Starlink will begin offering service in your area beginning mid to late 2021. Orders will be fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis. You will be notified via email prior to shipment, and you will be charged the remainder of your balance once your kit ships.

Your Starlink Kit will arrive with your Starlink, wifi router, power supply, cables and mounting tripod. For more information or to cancel your order, sign in to your account.
Looks interesting but mainly about history.

BTW, One lie the Americans are told in High Scholl is that the US won the 2nd World war
https://youtu.be/DwKPFT-RioU?t=245

(one icon represents 1000 people)
Karl Marx is a false idol, NYT
My testimony is evidence, but on it's own no proof.
Surely others will testify supporting my claim.
This seems like a good thing. Especially the ping system....Apex's Ping system is miles ahead of any game. It increases the playability for all players by a tremendous amount.
Well, no. Legally you do own the device with all it's molecules. It is just a limited, damaged device.

This is one of thoses cases where I agree with the free market people that competition is good. If there were more companies that made Apple devices, then you would be able to buy a non-defective Apple device, too.

And: In a rational society, I could just download the source code and make the change myself. Actually, in a rational society the people that make the computers would not be incentivized to artifically restrict them!
Could you imagine having your assets seized, then 4 years later getting a bill from a Judge because those assets *depreciated*? In either case the seizure should have been denominated in BTC if BTC is what was taken.
Ask HN: Resources on writing a parser in TypeScript's type system
Hi HN, a niche Typescript+parsers question.

I'm looking for resources that will allow me to write a parser inside of Typescript's type system by leveraging template literal types.

Reasoning:
I'm writing a Typescript library that allows compile-time checks for raw SQL queries. The goal is to allow compile time safety for queries without reliance on an ORM query builder or manually maintained type hints. It would look roughly like so:

// some type of DB structure definition. This will definitely change
const dbSchema = { person: {name: 'varchar', born_at: 'timestamptz' }};
// Throws compile time error since "address" does not exist in "person" table
query<typeof dbSchema>('SELECT address FROM person');

I have a (more complicated) POC of this here:
https://github.com/Yuval-Peled/Tequel

Thanks in advance

EDIT: Punctuation
Because too many fraud/virus ads and spyware/whatever apps. But that's on Google. I don't really know how the things are on Apple.
IMF working paper suggests using browsing history in credit score calculations
I look forward to learning more about your anti-icing plans as you’re able to share them. Best.
Ah yes, spacejunk to be replaced every 5 years. What a sustainable way to provide connection.
I am happy to use emacs, and I deeply appreciate the fact that, for example, bash understands some of its keybindings. My biggest problem by far is that few applications I use daily do that, and so every time I switch to a web browser or when I am presented with a dialog, etc. I must remain acutely aware that I am not in emacs any more and I cannot use any of its keybindings. This does not come easy.
As I understand this, if malware is on the machine it can do unlimited WebAuthn validations in the background without user interaction.

Anchoring to physical human interaction with a button or biometric sensor is a huge security property I don't think current gen TPMs can solve for.

In a typical implementation someone must be present at the machine expecting a tap, and tapping.

That said, overall this is a clever best effort for when a TPM is all a user has and you at least want to prove a given machine is involved in with.
Ask HN: Anyone else seeing “yarn install” failing?
Vercel builds, Heroku builds, and yarn install on Github actions seem to be failing for me. But locally it runs fine.

info There appears to be trouble with your network connection. Retrying...
info There appears to be trouble with your network connection. Retrying...
info There appears to be trouble with your network connection. Retrying...
info There appears to be trouble with your network connection. Retrying...

Edit: Heroku builds seem to finally finished after ~10 minutes of the error above.
Get a desktop. You’d have to kidnap the president of intel and give him the patty hearst treatment if you want the industry to quit with the thin-n-lite cancer.
Ask HN: What are the different ways your company interview software engineers?
These are the following methods my company is using.
. leet code (or online coding round)
. open ended design problems
. behaviorial open ended questions

These are the following methods i saw other companies are using
. take home assignment (4-6 hours task)
. technology specific questions
. open source contribution

I believe all these approaches are commoditized, and becoming increasingly difficult to measure the engineer's true potential.

Are you aware of any other approaches you have used and found to be effective in hiring ?
> US roads still have plenty of signs in English, like "Speed Limit", "Stop", "Yield", "Road Construction", "Detour", "No Turn On Red", etc. Nobody has any trouble understanding them.

I strongly suspect that "Nobody has any trouble understanding them" is not true. While I agree with you that iconitis can go overboard, I think pretending that words are universally clearer—in the sense of every place, but also for everyone, not just you—is an exaggeration.
> Also, if you write the country at the bottom (as you should), they will just send it to wherever that country’s postal services will pick it up without bothering to match whatever’s on top to a local place.

If one is able to design a postal addressing scheme (many just evolve in an ad hoc fashion over time), being able to fail gracefully is a handy feature to have.

In Canada, our postal code system was set up in the 1970s, and is reasonably rational:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Canada

If an international shipper can (a) get the package to Canada Post (by writing "Canada" on it), and (b) has the postal code on it, then it can be narrowed down to a fairly small geographic area:

* https://www.google.com/maps/place/A1A+1A1

* https://www.google.com/maps/place/M4A+1A1
To Succeed with IIOT, IT Should Treat Operations Like a Customer
Every time I’ve slapped my address in on the site (also central NC) it says they’re no serving my area yet
yeah, for some reason it is a trend to call some basic coding interview problems as something from 'competitive programming'. While in reality it is just on of the metrics of interview - make sure you can code.
While some companies sometimes go too far with complexity of problems, even they rarely make decision purely on how fast you can solve the problem.
Re clinical trials, a person would learn from their physician whether they qualify and should look for one. It's challenging even for physicians to know which other physicians run trial. Our site indicates for each physician whether or not they participate in trials, and the specific phase.
Its stranger to compare a country to an "economic and political union of 27 countries".
Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping :)

Edit: I actually used machines where we could use emacs only if there wasn't anyone else online
Because there are legitimate reasons why Facebook might need access to your network for streaming videos to a TV or similar uses cases.

Apple doesn't know what every app does, they basically know what frameworks/syscalls get made. You can wrap entitlements around those things without explicitly knowing exactly what an application is actually up to.
They aren’t happy. People engage in such self destructive behavior when they are deeply unhappy. Human beings are innately social animals. We need to be first valued by others , before we are capable of valuing ourselves.
Seems like Russia has their own "Silicon Valley":

> Zelenograd was founded in 1958 as a new town in the Soviet Union, developed as a center of electronics, microelectronics and the computer industry known as "Soviet/Russian Silicon Valley", and remains an important center of electronics in modern Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelenograd
A token could be boiled down to a secured record in a distributed ledger ("X wallet owns Y token"). Most artists & collectors in the space understand this; but the mainstream media often mischaracterizes it as "buying JPGs."

Nobody who purchases a CryptoPunk today would expect to receive a JPG or media file of a pixelated avatar in return for their purchase. Rather, they would expect to receive ownership over the token (i.e. record in a distributed ledger). In the case of CryptoPunks, there is not even any "hyperlink" in the NFT – it is just an integer from 0 to 9999, stored within the state of the CryptoPunks contract.[1]

Do they hold ownership over the media file, or pixel artwork? No. Do they hold ownership over a digital token that (according to the project's creator, and according to social consensus) represents part of the CryptoPunks art project? Yes.

[1] - https://etherscan.io/token/0xb47e3cd837ddf8e4c57f05d70ab865d...
Thanks, I've only noticed some non YT web videos won't play, but generally great.
Until the launching stops and the constellation crumbles.
Singapore: A Third World fascist state
Arbeit macht frei.
Selling your indie software online
> Because we accept the control Apple currently has, we are entitled to nothing and should accept any arbitrary change?

Nothing has changed, Apple maintained full control all the time. You have absolutely no power in this matter and no rights, you are simply a revenue source, the only thing you can do is cease supplying money to Apple.

I fully support Apple remote bricking all hardware past a certain age to drive the sales of newer models. It's just a matter of time until you will start to see phones with "3 years limited software support". Once the 3 years are done, a splashscreen appears warning you that the device is no longer supported and insecure, thus unusable.
I have encrypted backups and duplicates of all my security keys.

You simply need to choose a security key that supports BIP39 backups like a Trezor or Ledger.

As an alternative most sites support enrolling multiple keys.
Oh interesting, down votes? Why though, did I say something incorrectly? What I said is EXACTLY what SpaceX is proposing.
Oh well
I can advise you to pay attention to the new stablecoin from the Utopia of p2p https://u.is/en/currencies.html. Paired with the Crypton coin, they are the most reliable and secure project in 2021.
great point about bookmarking
> Yet, chances are you are using an open source web browser

You mean this browser run by and for a gigantic multinational advertising corporation who's de-facto monopoly on the browser market is a subject of frequent griping?
You threw away the hypothesis!