skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Hey $BOSS, I need tomorrow afternoon off as I need to go to the airport

+ Sure, picking up someone?

- No, flying.

+ Ah! Where are you going?

- Home.

+ Home? Where are you?

- I've been in $REMOTE_COUNTRY for the last 3 months, I told you...

+ Right, I thought you stayed for a week or two only

(laughs on both sides of the call)

It helps when your boss is 10000KM from you :)
I refuse to take seriously a person who complains of lacking Adobe Flash support in 2018.
Ask HN: Routers for Remote Work in 2019?
My wife and I both work from home (on a Verizon DSL circuit, supposed to be 3 down but we barely get 1.5 most days). Fiber is being installed in March/April so we are told.

I am using a Linksys WRT1900AC and recently the WIFI is failing. None of our Wifi devices connect reliably. Linksys dropped this model for software updates. We have had this router since April 2015.

There are so many routers out there. It makes my head spin!

I need a stable, well supported router in 2019!
I do not see the point of such a device to exist. Not a phone, not a tablet, do we really need something in between the two? Tablets have had SIM capability for a while now. I anticipate in less than years time these will no longer be talked about.
This loss concept is just a myth: the new tax rate only applies to the amount above X.

If you're at the edge of the 45% rate, the extra 100€ will be taxed at 50%, but the amount you earned previously will not be impacted and still be taxed as before.
It’s an expression that has nothing to do with quantity.
It is on steam but it's quite limited.
Sorry, but chances are the $399 Walmart special uses an Intel chip with integrated GPU and, because of that, will work out of the box. Perfectly.

Lack of hardware support happens mostly on the other end of the spectrum, with very high-end graphics cards no kernel developer has ever seen from up close and multi-card setups that are essentially unique. I feel sorry for the people who need that but unless hardware manufacturers start to properly document their stuff, make it available to Linux kernel developers and START PAYING MONEY to have drivers developed (like vendors do with Windows) it'll not improve.
This is one of the few situations where cryptocurrencies come in handy.
Thanks for that :) We appreciate you!
There's no silver bullet. It all depends on why you need VPN.

Personally I use it for privacy (I don't trust any ISP in the country and especially local government). I host my own VPN on a virtual node outside country (even outside continent). It makes the connection a bit slower, than without any tunnels, but I got used to it. Also I have to pay extra efforts to maintain it, but that's the privacy cost.

Moreover, with own server it's possible to achieve things which are usually unavailable with paid VPN services. E.g. run openvpn through ssl/ssh tunnel or something similar. Or use just ssh tunnel or anything like that. It helps to mask the traffic and ease your life in case of question from some people.

Depending on your country popular services might be simply unavailable and you'd need at least couple of them at the same time to ensure connection redundancy. Also (depending on what you're doing and local laws) you might have a hard time explaining your country secret agency why you're paying vpn proxy company, while explanation for hosting service might save a lot of time for you (and avoid additional questions). But that's (hopefully) extreme cases.

Also you receive static IP in case with hosting. But you might rotate it as often as you want by just recreating the machine.

But also keep in mind, that some services ban popular hosting (and VPN) providers IP ranges.
I've been using Linux since about the same time, and while I find the five-broken-implementations thing rather exhausting at times, I am more than thankful for it. It's one of the reasons why Linux (and FOSS software) is so damn useful.

Just look at Windows land, where they do have one implementation to rule them all, more or less (Windows 10). Everyone who dislikes its telemetry or almost touch-only interface is either stuck with Windows 7, which won't be an option for much longer, or is stuck venting against Microsoft and grumpily installing hacks like ClassicShell to make things a little more bearable.

When Gnome 3 came up, everyone who liked the new direction kept using it, everyone else moved to Cinnamon or Mate (or XFCE, KDE...)

It's not just about competition, it's about being able to pursue different visions and different objectives.

Users only see this in terms of choice, but there's a great deal of value about it for developers as well.
I doubt they cost $3 per month though.
how is git faster on linux?
I was wondering, with these new laws, did FastMail consider to operate (partly) in other countries?

For example if FastMail has servers in Amsterdam (NL). Would it be possible to let customers decide on which servers they want to host their mail, so that it falls under the local (or EU) laws?

Thank you in advance for taking the time to reply here.
>Encryption is useless when you store the keys on the same infrastucture. U.S may ask for keys as well.

Are you claiming HSM are unsafe?

>Even if you would store the keys on a local service at some point your data will lie/transition decrypted on the remote hardware.

Well no. You have TPM and HMS which should solve this problem sufficiently. Even hardware tokens for crypto e.g Nitrokey and/or yubikey should be sufficiently safe for most use cases.

>It's not a good idea at all to use hardware controlled by a hostile government regardless of what kind of encryption you plan to use.

It depends. You shouldn't host anything at any "hostile government", but who is the hostile government? Is this a hostile nation based on a threat model for your company? Or is this your personal opinion?
I have a brand new model 15-inch MBP. I have been a long time Apple fan (Since the early 90's). It isn't doing much right now :-(

For my day to day work I am actually using a Lenovo Thinkpad L460. Ubuntu 18, 2tb SSD, 32gb RAM. Everything works, even the dock.
Interesting. Very nice to see live-updating of results like Excel.

Python fails on this transform function:

def f(a):
v = a if a >= 4 else 2
return v

Message in red: "Error: (Brython compile error)"

Update: I recommend you try https://pypyjs.org/ for python in the browser.
I do the same for static IP for firewall whitelisting purposes. VNC is very stable but technically it doesn't make your current connection encrypted. I only use it for emergencies while I am traveling and don't want to deal with firewall whitelisting.
> Iterative development: the secret to great product launches

I'd argue that often far from being helpful. Some of the best tech bosses I worked under would've shove a person out of the window simply for uttering a word "iteration."

One told about that approach as - "trying to construct an airplane by making changes utill it stops crashing on takeoff"

It a good to have a distinction in between software being iterated, and your business activities - a lot of people there mistake the two.
Sunlight through glass does not provide Vitamin D
Interview with Fritz Handel from BushBuddy (2009)
The power of scarcity: we want what we can’t have
"...in this case for my wife’s photo blog". Stunning bird photographs, really exceptional. And nice work on that responsive static album generator. Now time to continue reading about CPython byte code...
I would love to have a such device. An iPhone X which transforms itself into an iPad mini? Yes, please! Definitely a better feature than some new colors(i.e rose gold), new emoji or glass back.
No, it was definitely Pascal. There's certainly quite a lot of stylistic crossover between the two languages but they are distinct.
I live in a different but still expensive Germany city and rent a apartment from a city-owned public housing company. The rent of the landlord's apartments is 20-30% lower than what you would pay in the free market, and in my neighbourhood I can get a pretty good idea of what people do to get one of those highly desired apartments. It's just crazy. I have heard everything short of bribing the person responsible for selecting renters. Calling her daily, flowers, pity stories.. another way to get into a highly coveted apartment is to get a recommendation from a renter who's leaving, basically taking over their contract. Often that involves paying absurdly high sums to the previous renter for floors and furniture left behind, or doing renovations for them.

By the way, getting into the best kindergartens and schools appears to work like that as well. Many German cities are so overcrowded that you need to network like in socialism to get what you want, as there are things that money can't buy (or at least only a lot more money can buy). Those who are not well connected have a hard time to get the city's services, or at least will end up with worse facilities.

The demand is just higher than the supply, and if the demand can not be controlled by increasing the price, people will find other ways to fight for what they want...
I figure its the same reason Harley Davidson [1] is entering the market. To get their name out into an area not normally associated with the brand. It gets them positive spin an area where they are either ignored and ridiculed for their other offerings.

Plus it also comes down to throwing as many options at the wall to see what sticks. Harley has a large accessory and clothing setup already and dealers will need more than just sales of motorcycles. Rumor has it the corporate level is forcing dealers who want to carry the EV motorcycle; separate from the EV bicycles whose availability isn't quite known yet; nearly a hundred thousand for specific charging stations and layout.

[1] https://electrek.co/2019/01/07/harley-davidson-livewire-e-mo...
Thanks for the suggestions! I'll look at the privacy policy again and see how I can make it more clear that we're not abusing users' trust.

I did look at mailbox.org. It's about double for their lowest monthly plan, which is reasonable.

Where I hope Purelymail will shine is that it scales a lot more naturally (once you hit mailbox.org's 2 GB cap, you upgrade to a plan that's 2.5x more expensive), it enables use cases that'd get you frowny faces from other providers (because we charge appropriately), and there's no surcharge for things that don't actually cost more.

Want a dozen usernames? Sure, whatever. Need a hundred users? Sure. Store 2 TB of mail for some reason? We've got you covered.

The downside, as you point out, is that the pricing gets a bit scary and I need to work on making it feel safer.
Knowing Apple, they would just go for the 'even lighter' approach, and insert a battery half the size of the current-ones...

A battery lifetime of 8 or 12 hours is plenty, and going beyond that isn't that much of a marketable strategy, unless it has to become 24h+ or something. A lower weight approach however would also mean a lower BOM for Apple, and more profit, while being able to shout "1/3rd lighter!" - and that's an easy sell :)
Please explain what you mean. The microcode is the “firmware” of sorts of the CPU. What instructions we tell the CPU to execute and what the CPU decides to actually do to achieve the same result you are asking for can be different. What do you mean by the instructions not being microcoded?
Enough credible people have publicly considered the idea credible for me to open my mind.

But... I have to keep my mind open with a brace. otherwise, it'll call occam's razor & snap shut.

At the heart of consciousness particles ideas (I think) is the idea that conciousness can't emerge from nonconscious stuff. This is counterintuitive to me. We now know of all sorts of emergent phenomenon.

Species emerge (from other, sometimes simpler species) and that emergence dynamic turned slime into ND Tyson. Substances like coffee and coffee tables emerge from basic particle characteristics like charge (to borrow their example). Chemistry emerges from particle physics. Biology emerges from chemistry.

Can someone point me to the starting point? I must be missing something. Why can't non-conscious matter, arranged precisely, think?
Is there a HN Goodreads collection, or similar? Lots of lists like this (inc. my own: https://www.productgems.io/library/) but would love to see something centralised when in search of a new book to read (that's not a generic top 10).
It could potentially be done as a daughterboard.

It's not on the immediate priority list, but especially if businesses start buying these and using them on corporate networks it might become important. I feel like most hobbyists aren't that interested in DECT. Too old. LoRa is apparently the hot thing if you are a hobbyist. :)
This would be a good speech for everyone a few years after graduating college.
Yep, I have used Cocoa(Touch) runloops in this way. Very straightforward, particularly if you use a bit of Higher Order Messaging syntactic support:

[[someObject async] doStuff];

This will schedule the doStuff message to run on the runloop of the actor (=object + runloop) in question.
Gee, is almost like the political grubs had absolutely no idea about encryption and how it works and how it will be virtually impossible to implement these stupid laws. Who would have thought that's the case? So very disappointed in all politicians at the moment, in my opinion, they're all scum bags
If I eat a snickers bar and afterwards I'm still hungry, I'm not necessarily going to eat another snickers bar. If I eat a very flavorful salad but perhaps am not feeling quite satiated, next time I'm not necessarily going to order the competitor's product that is drenched in olive oil.

I'm sure there is some truth to these sorts of "survival of the fittest" arguments, but you can only simplify how people reason about food or how they consciously or subconsciously decide what to eat so much before it becomes a parody of itself.
PIA's offer and their policy on retention might be good, but they're still a US company and they still tried to smear several other VPN companies (including ProtonVPN).

Their clients are also messy memoryleaky electron apps with outdated chromium embedded.
I think there is a mutually intertwine relationship between Time and Consciousness.

Time => Consciousness => Time => Consciousness.

I don't think Time is inside Consciousness.
Sign up is in the header bar (Button named "Sign Up") and a second option is in about the middle of the start page. Pricing is mentioned both on the signup page and on the start page, starts at 1 EUR/month.
You spoke my mind better than I could do.
Good to hear! I'll be sleeping soon, but feel free to email my support address or just comment directly if you have any issues.
> The Linux community has been in denial about this for years.

That's not right. We all know support for some hardware is spotty and we all have learned to avoid that. My laptops tend to use Intel GPUs, for instance, because I want to work on them, not fix them.

I'm eyeing that new Lenovo thingie with an epaper keyboard, but I know it'll run Windows and probably never be upgraded because nobody will write the drivers to keep that thing alive past Windows 12.

> you have a choice of five different NVidia drivers for the same board, all with different bugs

Stop buying NVidia hardware. They actively sabotage Linux development. AMD is much better in that regard. Buy AMD instead (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Hiri...).

> The sheer bloat of Linux has made it unmaintainable.

Nope. It's still moving forward and it's still quite reliable. All my workloads run on it (except my pets that run on FreeBSD and OpenIndiana because I get a kick out of managing different OSs).

> Big chunks of important code are abandonware.

There is a process to move obsolete codebases out of the kernel. That's why you can't use one of those half-IDE CD-ROMs that came with "multimedia kits" of the early 90's.
Ironic then that the example in the article is Falcon 1, for which they literally kept making changes on until it stopped crashing.
Pagure 5.3 released and Packages now available
Concentration Camp Located in Southern Florida for Children from Central America
I could argue that the original iPhone didn't look worthy of $500 either. My fist iPhone was iPhone 5. Early adopters are a niche anyway and this device has a bright future. I bet all the phones will be more or less foldable.
https://www.cnaanaviv.com and http://breapo.com - unfortunately I don't have much time to update.
I would argue that wayland is still in beta. They are still designing extensions to reimplement X11 desktop features. But with wlroots things have picked up pace.
Apple invalidates their own hardware, usually about 7-8 years after production. I’m sure Microsoft will too.
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I got the impression you were saying every dependency should always be wrapped, regardless.

I was a C coder for many years, these days I seem to be doing java. There are dependencies in my recent projects that just do what I need, no particular domain translation required. Particularly things like the Apache commons libraries, which provide well formed utilities for common operations. It would be a waste of time and energy to wrap them simply for the sake of having a wrapper.

If this sort of thing isn't what you were driving at, then we've just been miscommunicating. I am 100% for encapsulation of functionality into good, discrete modules which provide sensible interfaces and minimal (but expressive APIs). I just don't like the blind application of "this isn't our code therefore we must provide an interface"
Man I don’t know what to say.
Yeah, I know - that's pretty much what we said. There's no way to distinguish between the two as an outsider. We're really strong on not doing security theatre nonsense:

https://fastmail.blog/2017/12/05/the-fastmail-security-minds...

So we're not trying to pretend anything about the legal framework - when we said "nothing will change" up front, we meant it - and when we say "nothing has changed" now, we also mean it. But we can't pretend that we couldn't be forced to say that if things had changed either, because that would be dishonest.
Thanks! I’ll look into it. The reason I chose Brython was because it transpiles in the browser, so no server side compilation needed.
Some sidebar that shows info a chat mod or the streamer can set could maybe solve this. Then anyone who is regularly watching and moderating for you can try to keep it updated, and new viewers can just look at the screen.

Alternatively if you're handling it all yourself as the streamer, something like an emacs buffer with org-mode that you try to periodically update and leave on the screen.
> Being able to open the context menu for the current folder, even if there are enough files to fill the view, without going up a level

You can, the windows context menu key/Shift-f10 work. If you have something selected, deselect it with Ctrl-Space before.

Some items in the context menu have shortcuts of their own (new folder: Ctrl+Shift+N, file/folder properties: Alt+Enter or Ctrl+I, rename: F2, etc).

> Being able to jump to files/folders in the current directory by name without opening search results

Not a solution, but a workaround: disable recursive search, and treat search as filtered down list. (I consider this one annoying too).

> Being able to add functionality to the context menu

Extensions can add menu items into context menu; for example, syncthing-gtk does exactly that.
> Then the conversation will change from meat substitutes being good and healthy to something akin to the GMO debate about meat substitutes not being natural.

While I actually haven't seen this debate online,I hear it in real life when the subject lands on those meat substitutes available where I live.

People who look at the ingredients list see a lot of E-numbers and things that sounds even scarier.
The problem with many German cities are that they are already full. Infrastructure can't keep up with the population. The building density is so high that it's very difficult to find room for more streets or rails, more schools and other public buildings. Parks are overcrowded at weekends.
I think the only solution is to get people out of the cities (or maybe build new cities).
High status for the rich food can be gross, but it can't be low quality. Ammonia or citric acid processed slime-paste is as low quality as it gets. Adding pink slime to the product changes the texture. Pink slime less meaty and juicy compared to normal beef.

Good chef can do good simple food, but they want good ingredient and that's not that pink slime is.
Got a link (or name) for that chess brain mapping study? Sounds interesting?

(sorry, tangent)
Neuron-Derived Estrogen Regulates Synaptic Plasticity and Memory
I often find myself in fear of good stuff being buried down. But I suppose an RSS setup should solve this.
Linux "sucks". True. For last two weeks I was trying to install a distro, that will work wirh my Broadcom internet adapter, but no success. Also BT did not work well. Of course I could get Wifi to work after a heavy and bloody battle, and only at 2.4 Ghz, but then BT stopped working. The point is, that all those are working fine under Windows 10. No hassle. My question is, why there is no Linux distro, that can work just fine out of the box?
I am not a system programmer specialist like 95% of PC users. Millions of people would like to install Linux, but just cant do it, due to lack of knowledge. Average person, just want to download, install and run a system, without thinking of finding lost drvers, kernels, waste time to search internet, to find a solution. I went trough dozens of distros, and could not find one, that would work with my ACEPC T11 mini PC. Windows 10 just do.
This website has a list of books talked about on HN:
https://hackernewsbooks.com
Super Star Avoiding Lok Sabha Polls 2019 in India
Ah, maybe I'm out of date then.
In case the author sees this: The indentation of the code samples is all over the place, making it quite hard to read. Even more so for a white-space sensitive language like Pony. Did you mix tabs and spaces?
Oh hey! I'm Lance, the guy making black annex, I work on it quite often! It's really just a hobby project for me, as I left my day job recently, I'm a stay-at-home dad now, and I work on an unrelated YouTube channel for a little income that keeps me busy. I update the steam page sometimes, new screenshots and whatnot. It's just very slow going haha.

I'm really happy to see this show up in my Google Alerts haha, sorry it's taking so long but I promise I work on it and I'm really, REALLY enjoying it :D
I believe 79% of smartphone users are over-protective with their phones. What's the point to pay top dollar for a beautiful screen if you cover it with a cheap cover? You will change the phone in 4 years max anyway.
Another happy customer here! Incidentally this does not worry me as I don't use email for any secure or private communications and I don't think anyone ever should. At best any warrants will get a list of crap I've bought on Amazon and Aliexpress.
All good ideas. I think it'll also help a lot if in a year or so I'm able to say "99% of our customers only spend $X a year".

I actually just checked the storage price, and I notice that at some point I added a $2/10,000 charge to the equation at some point, which is almost all of the charge price. I'm going to remove that tomorrow, since it was probably just paranoia and not actual cost plus margin.
Of course there are alternatives like this and thank you for sharing, but in my eyes, this actually requires significantly more work and mental thought. Spinning up a droplet on DO and opening the config file in wireguard is literally executing one command and doesn't require touching my browser configuration. Takes a couple more clicks to just delete the droplet. Done.