skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calling Iran the biggest sponsor of terrorism is gaslighting at best. The proof is in the pudding with Kingdom of Saudi Barbaria funding 90% of mosques around the world with their hardline Wahhabism, Salafism, and Deobandism[1][2].

15 of the 19 hijackers who blew up a city block were citizens of our ally, Saudi Barbaria. When the King was confronted over the attacks, he blamed the Israeli Mossad. Iran has never touched American soil, ever. So calling Iran the biggest sponsor of terrorism is gaslighting at best.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism#Funding_factor

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deobandi#Presence

>Estimates of Saudi spending on religious causes abroad include "upward of $100 billion";[318] between $2 and 3 billion per year since 1975 (compared to the annual Soviet propaganda budget of $1 billion/year);[319] and "at least $87 billion" from 1987–2007.[320]
Here's a nice summary of NY issues with this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
in the USA

There are many countries in the world that are able to service their populations healthcare needs without involving private insurance brokers.
Part of the ACA was the consolidation of electronic medical records such that situations like this won't happen.
> I don't hate it as much as Computer Modern or Times.

What (latex compatible) fonts do you like/recommend then?

In my opinion, it's kind of sad to see how strongly Computer Modern dominates the font choices in latex (and more generally the latex monoculture).
Men At Lunch [1] is an interesting documentary about the skyscraper photo, and an attempt to identify the men in it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZEvNYKEnVw
Doesnt that allow them to sell it for purposes _other than research purposes_?

Could they still sell it as marketing data?
They're hiring the software equivalent of Subway sandwich artists, not chefs at two-Michelin-star restaurants. Sure, both jobs involve placing cheese on top of bread. But in one of them the goal is to do it repeatedly and reliably, not creatively or innovatively.
I am worried for my mom, sister and female friends who find learing offensive. I hope, people remove those photos from pizza parlors to not truamatize more women.
reddit's mobile site makes me actively want to not use reddit. it's enraging
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I also took the time to read the linked article and it isn't substantiating your claim. A few thousand people from an oppressive nation were surveyed about their support (or lack thereof) for a nation sponsored system. Why would anyone be surprised by the outcome of that study.

Furthermore, polls suggested Hillary Clinton was going to win the last election for US and who is the 45th president?
Experience is the best evidence. Give me a better reasonable explanation then? Why do you think it's a conspiracy theory? There are lawsuits[1] and news articles on this.

Someone really screwed up at facebook? Have you read the news recently? They lie through their teeth to their owm shareholders and customers!

If I had to guess they merely transcribe audio on the device and send keywords for ad targeting and other nefarious uses. They can claim there is no "recording" since audio isn't stored anywhere. Honestly,I think this is fairly harmless if you compare it to some of the other more serious conspiracy theories.

Remember how NSA's surveillance was also a conspiracy theory?

IMO,it's a double edged sword for them,they do this sort of crooked business for law enforcent and intelligence community but they also profit by exploiting this for revenue generation.

[1] http://digg.com/2017/facebook-phone-microphone-ads
>Iran is controlled by monsters, and Egypt/Saudi Arabia are the primary force opposed to them at this time.

Did you visit Iran and Saudi Arabia? I'd much rather be an ordinary citizen of the former than of the latter.

Also, one of these two countries have a far richer history and culture, and one of the two is definitely more democratic than the other (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index).
Still, as a woman myself, I feel vividly uncomfortable looking at the image. Her expression does not help, and even if she was smiling or looking happy - this is what you'd do to protect yourself. (A smile under pressure means nothing. You'd even say it was fine during situation itself for the same reason.)

I'm glad she says it was fine, and I notice my perception is coloured by my own experiences. Still, for me, it's a powerful image, and one I wouldn't put up for background decoration.
Well I guess there's Foundationdb [1] and cups [2] but those were acquisitions.

[1] https://github.com/apple/foundationdb
[2] https://github.com/apple/cups
It’s probably not aimed so much at actual productivity, which you can measure in other ways, as it’s a measure for behavioral control- in other words, making sure everyone is always a little bit anxious, feeling a little bit guilty, so that they don’t try to unionize or complain too much.
> it presents me with an obviously fake "processing request" screen

You may argue about the (efficiency of the) implementation, but that processing screen isn't a fake; it sends out a large amount of HTTP requests to URLs like "cookie-policy?optout=1" and "optout" for various tracking parties. Those requests take exactly the amount of time the progress bar is indicating.

Don't lightheartedly call somebody or some party a liar before being sure of your case.
That is largely the perspective I have witnessed on here over 2 years. I might need to start logging all the instances that occur for a year so that it can be published in an obvious manner, as at this point it's just [citation needed].

EDIT: That said, maybe it's just a vocal minority, or maybe it's just a lack of thinking through more than one layer of consequences to actually see where any particular path leads.
I've read lots of articles about mismanagement and unions pushing up costs for work but I wonder how much problem the 24/7 mentality creates? Even in London, the Tube is mostly shutdown for around 6 hours per night, not a lot of time but enough to make some fairly big inroads into the maintenance.

I found the NYC subway to be fairly decent but I found the feeling of darkness in many stations to be more of a big deal. I wouldn't mind waiting in stations that were much lit much better.
Their vastly smaller population. Also, unlike Iran, they have not been talking about doing things like wiping out Isreal, etc.

Once Iran consolidates power in the areas they're operating in (Yemen, Iraq, Syria), the next obvious target is Saudi Arabia.
No, sick people should not be charged more for their health insurance.
Hahahaha, "pbuh". I love you Rob, I want to bear your child.
The trick is not look for work in a startup/dev environment, but in the institutional and corporate environment. Their are jobs and the payscale you desire, just not in the quantities you desire.

For instance, I was at my last position for 6 years. The last 3 of which, I was actively looking for work. It took a while, but I'm making equiv to Toronto wages in a new position.

But yes, the majority of postings are in the low rent payscale neighbourhood. Which is weird, because you'd think to attract skilled talent away from T.O., the scale would in fact be higher.
This argument doesn't hold water. Why is there no decent regional train system in the US then? Your point explains why there is no coast to coast NYC-SF bullet train, fair enough. Each US megaregion [0] could have a decent train system like France, Germany or Japan.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaregions_of_the_United_Stat...
Trilogy also created a great deal of crap. They came to my engineering school in the late 1990s and handed our student society $500 just to give us a free lunch.

Many of my friends went to work in Texas for them, only to escape a while later after toiling away on projects for fortune 500 companies which were massively overbilled. Their formula was: hire new grads, pay them well and take them to parties, and soak big corps with dot com projects they neither needed nor understood.

The article is correct in pointing out that many Trilogy grads went on to do great things. But this was not Trilogy’s doing. It was because these people are smart and would have succeeded anyhow.

As for the new strategy of paying $15/hr for sweatshop C++ coders... I can only imagine the quality of that code. You get what you pay for.
Well, of course. It's the same as with reading any official communication from the Russian government ;)

I'm talking about the premise that may appeal to 50% of the citizens. We (as in being able-bodied men, we should take into considerations people with disabilities, weaker, older, frailer) might get outvoted.
A different Difference Engine
Short sellers are struggling. Their massive bet against Elon Musk isn’t helping
But writers actually do get paid by the word. Charles Dickens was famously paid by the page, and his novels ended up profound enough. I'd wager most professional writers are in the business to make a living, not to be profound.
Sounds like a great way to generate domestic terrorists. IIRC there was some Secret Service report after Columbine that basically found that being goth, listening to metal etc weren't pre-cursors to school shootings... BUT that heavy handed suspensions/expulsions could contribute to someone being violent.
> Liemandt and Trilogy’s other founders developed their software as undergraduates at Stanford. The young Liemandt seemed destined for business success. His father, Gregory, worked directly under legendary GE executive Jack Welch, and the Liemandts vacationed with the Welches. After his father left GE to be CEO of a mainframe software company in Dallas in 1983, Liemandt began programming but also took a strong interest in entrepreneurship, frequently reading the business plans his father brought home. As a Stanford economics major, he was determined to create the kind of business that either Jack Welch or his father would want to buy

Color me surprised.
Yeah, i only mean "i'm gonna try something else".

The world in fact, may still suck elsewhere, but MacOS is no longer so good that i'll avoid trying. It used to be.
Do you have any pointers (videos, articles etc) for beginners?
I tried my friends to switch to Signal and it failed miserably. Their friends and family are on WhatsApp, so why would they switch? It's very annoying for people to deal with multiple chat apps for multiple groups, especially if some members of those groups are overlapping. I've personally settled with chatting with my SO on Signal and everyone else deleted Signal and moved back to WhatsApp
“but in terms of cities in the US I'd want to live in it probably comes out to #6”

Ah so you’ve never lived in Chicago then
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You can turn on resolution scaling so that doesn't happen. There are some tweaks even on 1080p to make tiny text readable.
Climate change is turning dehydration into a deadly epidemic
There's a couple of other species which have more recently contributed to the modern varieties by genetic introgressive hybridization. See for instance M. Sylvestris, the European wild apples:
* https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/jo...
* https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016895251...
One of these days when I've got nothing better to I'm going to put together a little photo essay of the bike racks I know of in my city that don't even work. Using a conventional U-lock you can't even lock your bike to them.

Some are too fat for a U-lock to fit around. Some are placed so close to a wall that you can't fit your bike in. Others have these vertical slats that you can stick your front tire in between, but you can't lock your frame to anything secure.

The people who designed and implemented these things must have never used a bicycle for practical purposes. The stupidity is mind boggling. It's not a difficult thing to get right.
Read far enough in and you'll find out he's a patent troll. I closed the article at that point. Not interested in articles idolizing patent trolls. Mysterious tech billionaire indeed.
In my company we use a PLM system for technical drawings. Jira is an absolute dream compared to that.
> a sufficiently-large blackboard

And I guess that's where the computer and all of its automation powers enters the picture, right?
Great comment. Made me reflect on the need for different kinds of software development - each relevant, but completely different in execution.
You're forgetting user agent strings as well. On mobile,They tell google the exact device make and model and in case of in-app browsers the specific app and version.
>If Finland are really serious, why not stop all exports to SA?

Some products are primary intended to keep people alive: food, energy, medicines…

Some other aren't: tanks, missiles…

That's why.
What is the sanction if you have no physical presence in Europe?
Funny, my one and only iMac was abandoned due to the screen dying from excess heat. (After frying 3 hard drives over the years).

The external Dell ultrasharp bought at the same time is still in use daily. (but now it's not as pretty on Mojave as it was on High Sierra)
My favorite reason:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_United_States#...
You could have made the same criticism about a magazine in 1965. They tout to advertisers how many “readers” they have and how readership is growing, and your criticism is “all I do is open it and flip through the pages; I don’t _read_.”

Your value is not in reading the articles but in viewing the ads. For FB display advertising, you opened the app and viewed ads. Eyeballs captured! Value unlocked! Sure they’d rather have you spend 5 hours on the site, but even your slight attention is valuable.
I know at least some programmers who have moved to Third World countries. In Indonesia, for example, you can live like a prince for about $1000 a month. Then work remote for US based companies. Your North American resume and cultural knowledge allows you to still charge a decent rate for your skills. But your cost-of-living is minuscule. It’s a decent option for many young people to consider.
Regardless of that, I think the greater concern is what it means for the rest of the world (the non-citizens). There is no reason to expect any sort of friendly/just process from foreign entities.
In my case, it's not at all for the network effect, since these days they have too much content and anyway favor "premium" posts in terms of visibility...so for me it's more about the following:

* I don't need to create my own blog. I know, it takes a 5 minutes, have done it many many times before...just to kill it some time after because seeing it so empty was too sad. With Medium you publish whenever you want, and because it's not really "your blog", it doesn't feel as sad if you don't publish anything for months and months.

* it's super simple to paste images, code snippets and videos. I can just focus on writing and I know it will "look good" in the end. Sounds stupid, but it's true.

* I don't have to worry about spam comments, t&c, privacy policy (if I want to have analytics, which Medium has) etc...it's all on them

So yes, for a non-prolific writer, I think it works well. It's a pity they no longer allow custom domains though (which they had in the past), and at times it's toooo limited (eg: no nested bulleted/numbered lists...which I usually used a lot), but still good enough.

I'd probably switch to my own blog if were to publish stuff regularly and wanted to have my own "brand"/style/design.
Nothing yet.

I have a few Windows 10 machines around, for example, the one that controls my CNC machine, and the one i use for CAD.

So far, zero issues, which is "better than it used to be".

I'll try it for the family and see what happens.

In the past, my dad used to set up Linux server machines for my Mom, which is what was there pre-mac-mini (he's a long time software engineer).
They were just so finicky in practice (IE audio on webcam would stop working so she could never be sure a video chat she started would actually work, etc)

That did not last all that long. My mom started to avoid that desktop like the plague, so it ended up with Dad running Linux and Mom running Windows.
In my experience these cross-platform tools (Flutter/RN) have such a limited use-case that they are rarely worth it. Even basic stuff (navigation) require huge amateur libraries that barely work. Couple that with the dumpster fire that is javascript and it's a recipe for disaster.
localhost or remote does not make a difference, any manual setup required is annoying either way.

most of the tools don't need manual configuration though and so it's a single command to install all of them that you can have tucked away somewhere to use when needed.

but yeah, i use salt for automating this.
> While there are similarities, one is a financial rating and the other is a social rating.

They are one and the same. The "financial" rating affects where you can live ( try getting an apartment or a mortgage ) and where you work.

Sure it isn't as draconian as the chinese version but it's pervades much of your life.
Creating desktop apps with Flutter is possible: https://medium.com/flutter-community/flutter-from-mobile-to-...
Back to your 1939 analogy, that sounds just like reasons for allying with the Nazis.
There used to be. Americans, for the most part, prefer drive their own cars for short to moderate trips, or fly.
Thanks this is supremely helpful!
"The mounds, which are easily visible on Google Earth, are not nests."

This sentence from the article kindly submitted here ignores that Google Earth imagery includes imagery taken from airplanes as well as from satellites. Statements that such-and-such an object (a classic example is the Great Wall of China) is visible from space, or from the Moon, go back to eras long before human space flight. Most such statements are wrong.

As other comments previous to mine have noted, various specialized imaging devices in satellites (or on airplanes) can have a higher resolution than human-eye vision. But the headline "are visible from space" is surely an exaggeration. Space flight has been going on since 1960s, but there has been no report of the termite mounds till now, it appears.
Germany and California are in the same ballpark when it comes to size and economic power. The state's internal transportation network should be just as developed but it is not. It's not only the size of the country, it's also the philosophy of the people and society.
Flutter doesn't use javascript.
On a practical level you need to accept that most people trying to loose weight fail, succeeding will still take years to lose the weight, and that most of those people will suffer significant medical problems from sleep apnea in the mean time.
Flutter appears to have a lot of the momentum that other frameworks lack. I've usually sworn to Qt/QtQuick, but only because I want to be able to easily jump into native code, and/or reuse existing C/C++ libraries, even on mobile devices. Flutter can't do that yet afaik. Qt just isn't going in the right direction. IMO if they'd gotten their act together, even years ago, all these new fangled X-Platform frameworks, wouldn't even have existed.

I have to admit, that I haven't really taken RN seriously, because I fundamentally don't believe in that architecture on a mobile device. RN only seems exist to provide a means for people who like React. Not to actually provide a beneficial application framework.
The total opposite, even though big media likes to say otherwise. Iran is fairly benign, but Israel has beef with them. There is a lot of propaganda over Iran. I feel like it's probably the next one-sided big war.
I'm afraid that by the time people wake up to this, it will already be too late. Authoritarianism backed by high tech is a permanent nightmare come true. I hope I'm wrong, but it seems unstoppable - not enough people seem to really care. It's a weakness of human psychology, we are too caught up in the short-term, but in this case the long-term consequences will be terminal.
You would use a unique hash key for a user's password. You'll only have to hash each word with that unique hash key once. And ideally cache the hashing and prehash known words.
I agree - so long as financial credit comes with perks, people are going to be apologists for its flaws. Now that I work in software, keeping good credit is a non-issue. However, when I was making less than $10k/yr, it was the bane of my existence.
No. One rates your ability to take on debt by how you handled previous debts, the other involves rating your amount of freedom according to a fuzzy social score. Very different....
Ask HN: What will be the impact of Starlink on China and North Korea?
Hey there HN!

My question is, do you think the people of countries such as China and North Korea will gain access to a un-censored internet after Starlink is launched?

Or, will the countries find a way to censor it with disruptors if some kind.

If they are not able to censor it, what kind of cultural shifts might occur?

Or, perhaps those folks would not have the tech to be able to use it?

Interested to hear your thoughts!
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18485657
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Yeah,can't see sunstring matching working.
It's a good language though, and if you have experience with C#/Swift/Kotlin/Java etc...you'll be productive from day 1...there's not really much to learn, I wouldn't call it a problem.
> Every single European owes a lot

Only if you belive in reparations, that children and those who had no say are somehow bound by their country and ancestors.

And don't count eastern Europe.
In the 1930s, Germany was arguably the most cultured, best run country in the world, and yet it was run by monsters.
Second this. Tokyo was extremely easy to navigate considering I had done no planning until I arrived.
Great, I came here to type out a similar response. You forgot big things like managing finances including investments, saving for kids, home refinancing, insurance payments, etc.

The difference in my household is that I, the husband, not only do all the things that you're talking about but also provide "Boss as a service" for my wife. It puts a ridiculous amount of load on me and burns me out. The difference as you correctly pointed out is men tend to "man up" and just do it.
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OP made an appeal, not a prediction. Of course nothing political happens if it isn't asked for first.
ReasonML: React done right
CTA trains are not 24/7, fwiw
EU resident here. We're not like distinct states in the USA, we're independent countries and each country has it's own systems. Healthcare systems vary dramatically between them.

In one country, I visit any doctor and they have my full medical history, despite not living there.

In another country, every time I visit the same doctor, they somehow don't have any files for me and I have to sign up as a new patient, despite being born and resident there.

It's all shambles, but in both cases, I get healthcare for free so it could be a lot worse.
> I mention this because one of the things that's missing from your education about the OSI Model is that it originally envisioned everyone writing to application layer (7) APIs instead of transport layer (4) APIs. There was supposed to be things like application service elements that would handling things like file transfer and messaging in a standard way for different applications. I think people are increasingly moving to that model, especially driven by Google with go, QUIC, protobufs, and so on.

HTTP/3 aka QUIC driven by Go & protobufs ? ;))))