skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even though a narrow body isn't as conformable, I'd much rather fly direct as generally the alternative is two flights - a narrow body to a hub and then a heavy across the pond.
To add to the options (for Android phones):

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.primftpd/
The West has started paying attention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps#In...

https://www.youtube.com/user/NTDChinaUncensored/search?query...
Researchers find trapdoor in SwissVote election system
I agree with most of what TBL says here (even though I think that a few of the positions he's taken over the past few years have not helped).

From my point of view, the web is clearly degenerating and the rate of degeneration is increasing. From my point of view, this is because of privacy and security issues, not so much what people are using the web to say. For years now, the web has been growing smaller and smaller for me as more and more websites (particularly newer ones) become effectively unusable.

I realized last year that it's entirely possible that I may stop using the web entirely at some point in my lifetime.
> Moreover, Apple, not without merit, argues that restricting rendering engines to the one that ships with the OS (all browsers on iOS have no choice but to use the built-in rendering engine) has significant security benefits; this is debatable, but ultimately, most don’t care, simply because browsers are means to information, not ends.

I care about being able to install an alternative browser engine on my devices.

I think the reason we're today debating the risks of large social networks and the tech titans in general is that there were finally enough voices of concern that we could no longer be ignored. That had to start somewhere, and it did. It started with a smaller group who have been raising concerns about these companies centralizing user data and surveilling on their users for years. So dismissing a potential future battlefield (browser consolidation versus browser engine choice) seems an echo of those who dismissed concerns about social network overreach five years ago.

That said, I personally favor promoting alternatives and educating people about those alternatives. I don't use Facebook and yet I am able to easily communicate with friends and family. Do I want to destroy or break-up Facebook? Meh, not really. I'm fine with Facebook simply not being a part of my life. That includes blocking its domains via DNS. Improving the ability for laypeople to fully block the various surveillance tools of these firms is where I'd like to see more effort spent, not in application of government power.

Looping back to the point above, the tough one right now is mobile: You either choose the surveillance apparatus called Android or the walled garden called iOS. There are some fringe options, among which Purism 5 looks particularly promising.
> I'm not really sure who the target audience of debian is.

A part of their core users are admins that don't get paid by the hour.

And since we're being controversial, any good admin should run debian (or maybe ubuntu) if they had the choice, if only because you can run the same system on your laptop and on the servers. Watching someone manage their Redhat/centos servers from OSX (or even Windows) is just painful to watch, especially if something is wrong or down (which is usually when you need an admin the most).

> what debians end goal is.

There is no end goal, it's simply a group of people making a distribution of software they use themselves. It's partly a matter of convenience.
That's a naive half truth. You've taken two different ideas, smashed them together to make it sound silly. I'm not here to be a spokesperson for IW but it is kind of funny how many people just spew information they picked up from reading headlines, similar to the clickbait ZH posts daily.
Is there a good open source alternative that meets the HDFS use-case (i.e. file or blob storage, rather than a KV store designed for point lookups)? Or is tuning the HDFS defaults the best you can do without migrating onto someone's cloud platform?
Well, God knows I am opposed to the current anti-russia madness but I stopped reading zh a few years ago when they were systematically taking Russia' side including when Russia was so obviously red handed. I think the drop for me was their defense of Russia in the MH17 crash.
>ZH is a primarily contrarian financial news site.

*was
I'll take another shot at it.

But on the ORB thing, wires got crossed there. There's no way I'd mention the ORB in the read me. That's very important but small piece of the overall thing. He was referring to some of the videos on my personal Youtube channel where I talk about some of the technologies I've created as part of this project. Some of them are related to the ORB.

Obviously, if you have never heard of an ORB before it might take a bit of effort to understand. But I can't really explain in-depth the foundations of technology concepts in a video. I can only give the basics and demonstrate how I've implemented that technology.

Beyond that, it would require a bit of study on the reader's part, as it does for pretty much all libraries of this type. Qt's 3D graphics docs probably don't include a fundamental tutorial on modern graphics architectures, right?
> That would make him easy to track down if someone learned the name of the L.L.C. Nevada, Wyoming and New Mexico, however, don’t require corporations to record their owner. Mr. Lopp took advantage of that.
I think if you don't have the secret sauce that YC are after then you don't get in so it can seem like they only want people with complete businesses to apply.

Thinking about it the secret sauce is probably something like:

1) Apply every time

2) Never give up with the application (like I've done on Paypip)

3) Make your application super awesome and include every detail of your vision to get people excited about it.

Probably of those number three is the most important. More important than revenue/users.

I'm still amazed and upset when I see businesses do YC have ZERO users and then raise $4.7m with just a few pretty pictures on their website... What is it they are peddling to be able to get away with ignoring the most central tennent of YC?
Same, its a working class active lifestyle thing.

My Grampa used to have half a loaf of bread with his tea every night
For the ten-thousandth time: getting banned on Facebook is not censorship. When it gets brought up in other countries, it is the governments of those countries doing it.

Facebook can do what it wants here. If you don't like it, divest.
Thanks for the link, but it was a Socratic question (or at least an attempt at one).
>Who drinks milk anymore?

Millions and millions of people

>If you drink milk, people look at you like some sort of weirdo.

Maybe where you live. Most places this is absurd.
You obviously have never had to clean malware from people’s computers because they installed what they thought was a legitimate app or printer driver.
Another excellent example is buzzfeed, though they've recently separated out their "news" section, supposedly.
Thank you for sharing, it touches on a lot of topics that most programmers dont hear about. It's the kind of article that doesn't gain much traction around here. I enjoyed it.
What’s the Difference Between the Rolex Explorer and the Explorer II?
Fiverr sends money via PayPal, bank transfer or a Fiverr Revenue Card which looks to be powered by Payoneer.
How about you just post proof of your claims instead of throwing out “just google it!”, so the discussion isn’t lowered even further from when HN used to expect citations?

Also aggregate statistics aren’t the same as this database. What the CN government is doing is far creepier. Individual personal entries.
The article explicitly states that non-locality could explain it:

>But Proietti and co’s result suggests that objective reality does not exist. In other words, the experiment suggests that one or more of the assumptions — the idea that there is a reality we can agree on, the idea that we have freedom of choice, or the idea of locality — must be wrong.
Arrow Functions in Class Properties Might Not Be as Great as We Think
Shameless plug: I visualized your budget

https://www.sankey.app/?data=N4IgbgpgTiBcIGYQBoQAcCWEDOcDaoA...
I'd define them as an infowar for people with a college degree!
Judging by the size of the milk department at the super market, it seems a lot of people drink milk.

Personally, I drink a lot less than I did growing up. The main difference is I switched to having water with meals instead of milk. But we still manage to go through about 2 gallons a week.
It's not like it's impossible to eat without meat. TFA states that they tried it in 15 schools in Brooklyn and they didn't find any hangups. I assume the new meals will have an appropriate amount of protein to replace what's found in the meat.
Then the university should advertise the cost of admission and make it fair for everyone.
a bit off topic but here it goes...

This is how i think Mozilla can capture more users back to Firefox. By providing "extra" services attached to the Mozilla and Firefox brand will make them a superior product to the end user.
Sure it's hard to compete with Chrome but if you offer useful features and services integrated in your Browser i see that Mozilla actually has a chance to compete with Google for the browser space.

This is one of the "advantages", if you are a heavy Google user, of Chrome over the competition is that everything is attached to your Google account. Passwords, history, spellers, dictionaries, shortcuts, etc...

If Mozilla comes with Send, Notes, Password Manager all integrated in Firefox i see a good way to bring back some of the previous users that switched to Chrome.
HODL!

> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodl
To find out what parts are technically challenging.
The actual term in the database is "BreedReady". The article translated "北京市" into Beijing because readers probably speak English and not Chinese.
Other than the census, tax returns, birth certificates, drivers licences? Or are you looking for ways the governments in the U.S. are specifically using this data such as : https://siliconvalleyindicators.org/special-reports/populati... or https://www.census.gov/newsroom/cspan/childbearing/20120817_...
Revisit a scene from the great Halt and Catch Fire tv show, where a meeting is had that touches on a lot of points capturing the vibe and new world ahead back then. (minus some actual show drama) So good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy3C3LBSPlk
I live in downtown Toronto, 3rd largest city in NA. Am a developer and business owner. I drink milk pretty much every day.
I think another key issue that encourages consolidation in the dairy and other agricultural industries is the encroachment of automation, a lot of tractors are self-driving and many equipment increasingly don't require human hands. Mostly large corporations are the kind that can buy and invest in this technology and also are the ones who can benefit the most from it, which creates a loop where only large corporations start thriving and out-competing any smaller companies.

The only direction I can see for smaller farms is to probably go the "organic" or "natural farm" route, but even that would be hard to achieve because larger corporations can probably just sub-contract and own smaller organic farms too.

Agricultural industries is going the way manufacturing did a while back.
Agreed. I still occasionally read through it, but it's 49% political propaganda, 45% conspiracy theory and 5% blatant racism now (the comments over there are 100% ick).

If you want contrarian market opinion, just stick a post-it that says "the market is going to crash" to your screen and eventually it'll be right - just like ZeroHedge.
Though it's in the same vein as "Asking for the weather" I find a lot of use for finding out when my next bus is coming, how the traffic is, and other things related to my commute. And calling for Ubers.

But as I said, they all fall under the category of "mildly useful" and not "ground breaking"
FAA is just putting itself in a very weird situation. They shouldn't be one of the last aviation to follow.

If they give up now just because of pressure, everyone will panic.
If they don't give up, but something happens, everyone will blame them.
If they don't give up and nothing happens, they still blame them because unlike others they've accepted the risk.

It would be no harm for Boeing considering their safety records and reputation to accept and admit there might be a very low chance of a technical issue. I don't get why don't want to play safe.
It's tremendously sad. Large-scale high-intensity farming is raping the land, causing untold pollution both locally and globally, and small sustainable homesteads are falling by the wayside, while these large agro-factories receive billions in subsidies to produce "food" at a loss.

It's disgusting.
If you're cooking, the timer on your oven should literally be right in front of your face.

Every use case I hear parroted to justify the installation of audio surveillance devices in our homes sounds like a solution desperately in search of a problem. What do you plan to do with the milliseconds of time you may have saved?
These circulate and you find them in your change.

Some people collect them by getting bulk change from their banks and searching through. Here's a youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrLpq9u90Ls

You get to see from this video that there are a load of these coins in the UK.
Ask HN: What Is Paul Graham Doing?
His last essay dates to 2017. Anyone know what Paul has been up to?
Uh... Ok, and how do you think countries and the WHO are able to provide data on population structure such as age pyramids, exactly?

This is just the non-anonymized version of the same thing. Never attribute to misdimeanor what can be attributed to negligence or stupidity in the first place.
Just to be clear, the "JavaScript Standard Library" and the "Web Standard Library" are completely separate. (they are worked on by a lot of the same people though)
It's not that they also criticise the West, more they so rarely or never criticise Russia.

Which is fair enough I suppose, but at least be honest about it.
thanks for heads up

i wont be using the service now
Facebook is not your government? They don't control a military or police force? Of course, censorship is censorship, and those kinds of details are irrelevant. What is important is that we develop powerful skills in equivocation and conflation.
And there it is. The ubiquitous defense, that as long as it's done by the left, it's not censorship because it's not done by a country. That never made any sense
Is that really a privacy issue?
All I had to hear was 'libertarian' to put them in the 'wee woo magical market fix' camp.
Encrypting it with a random key that doesn't get sent to the server, but is in the URI that the user sends to the receiver means that only the sender and receiver know what the file actually contains. Means neither you nor law enforcement can know what you are storing unless the URI is captured.
Why write emotionally charged letter instead of one backed with facts? Amazon is claiming [1][2] that Elastic has been intentionally unclear about what part of Elastic stack is open source vs proprietary. It would best serve Elastic if they respond to that with facts.

If the claims are true, and done intentionally, it's a really bad move on part of Elastic. The ambiguity around licensing hurts all their users and not just Amazon.

[1] "Unfortunately, since June 2018, we have witnessed significant intermingling of proprietary code into the code base. While an Apache 2.0 licensed download is still available, there is an extreme lack of clarity as to what customers who care about open source are getting and what they can depend on. For example, neither release notes nor documentation make it clear what is open source and what is proprietary."

[2] "Individual code commits also increasingly contain both open source and proprietary code, making it very difficult for developers who want to only work on open source to contribute and participate"
It isn't that revolutionary. When they can do all that processing locally, without cloud assistance, then maybe...
I saw a different explanation which is that it's a bad translation of "has had children".
He's trying to draw a meaningless boundary between competitors being unable to access the market, and competitors being blocked by collusion.
^this plus literally 1999 was my first Debian install. Three floppy disks, what could be the problem? It installed on the first machine I threw at it (thank you 3Com and Intel). And it solved enough problems that I knew I could throw it at the next system I installed. & etc.
I think that it is interesting to consider this in relation to the renegotiations of NAFTA where Canada's dairy supply management [1] was put in the spotlight.

For those that don't know some details about Canada dairy supply management [2]:

> The model, which matches domestic demand with domestic supply through a quota system, is particularly well-suited to a commodity like milk, where 40 percent is consumed locally. Supply management is designed to even out the peaks and valleys of producer income, and in this endeavour, it has been successful. It also allows farmers to plan for the longer term, which is particularly important when producing a commodity subject to the whims of the cow’s natural production.

Despite supply management going against free trade ideals most of the farmers I know do like it. It lets them keep the lights on and maintain family farms that have been running for generations, but on the other hand it costs consumers both in their pocketbooks and variety of choice.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-supply-management-ex...

[2] https://www.cigionline.org/sites/default/files/cigi_paper_30...
This caught my eye as well.

"...a new computer without a browser would be practically useless (for one, how do you install a browser?)."

He's confusing network access with a browser, which seems an atrocious mistake. You don't need a browser to support http:// links in the OS.
pot, kettle
Blocking content like zh on the socials is really the same as Tim Allen/Roseanne/James Gunn being fired for things they've said. The company cares sooo much about what their audiences think that they won't let said audiences decide for themselves what to think. It's not supply produced to meet an existing demand but versa vice. Legally these companies may have the right to censor like so, but ethically they do not, and they belittle their customers in the doing.
Of course it is. Governments collect vast databases of statistics about all manner of attributes of their population as a matter of course. They even keep track of things like which sexually transmitted diseases people have, and how much money they earned.
There's a lot of common sentiment around politicians that goes something like "It doesn't matter if they got the details wrong, what matters is that they're essentially correct because they see the Big Picture"

We see this here, with fans of Warren saying getting things wrong is irrelevant, because we all know FANG is too powerful and she says it. Thus, quibbling over details is nitpicky pedantry. This tactic is also used by Trump fans, who keep telling us we must "take him seriously, but not literally", where any random nonsense he says is re-interpreted to hint at a larger truth.

In this world, Birtherism for example, has absolutely nothing to do with racism and we shouldn't be so nitpicky, because it hints at the larger truth that Obama's life-arch is very different from that of the average American, and they are thus correct to feel that he is more "foreign".

Whoever you support, you should not let your guy/gal off the hook like this. Once you start, there's no feedback mechanism to hold you back, you can justify any nonsense using only bits of clever rhethric.
If this were judged on scientific merit alone, and not the fact of being known to the public, Hawking would have never have made this. Does he compare to a James Clerk Maxwell? To a Francis Bacon?
When Ubuntu came along, it was VASTLY more friendly for laptop and desktop use than the other flavors of its day. Hardware that required me to tweak config files in RedHat "just worked" with Ubuntu. It was much simpler to install Java for development. Etc.

So I read all of the holy wars about APT vs. RPM, Unity vs. whatever, etc. I can imagine that LTS support is important to a lot of people.

But honestly, for me I just spent 10 years learning Ubuntu on my local machine. So in a situation where a developer like me gets to influence which OS will be used on the servers (a situation that happens surprisingly often!), I'll generally go with what I know. I suspect that this is the origin story for most of Ubuntu's base.
The difference is who is using them. In this case it's a trillion-dollar company that's also going to resell the fork as a service to their already locked-in customers. You betcha it's a threat to Elastic.
> Email doesn't really work anymore.

It doesn't?? Weird, because email is still the communications service that I use the most.
Ask HN: When did people start paying for your SaaS and why?
How do you determine the parent's motives? I can't deny that parents use donations as a pay-to-play mechanic at colleges, but how do you guard against it? Do you ban kids from enrolling in or applying to colleges in which their parent's (or close relative) has donated to?

My local college was a blessing to me. It provided me an education, a safe atmosphere, and most of all, confidence. It changed me for the better. I'd like to donate to the college if I were in the position to do so, and because I had such a great experience, I'd encourage my child (don't have one, yet) to go.

It this wrong of me?
Watching someone try and plug their linux laptop into a projector is more painful.
Sure, but I can ask Alexa what the weather is like while actively doing something else, like say before brushing my teeth or while in the shower. Or while in my kids closet, picking out clothes for the next day.

And while I can set a single timer on my microwave/oven, or set them on my phone, being able to set a timer, hands free, while cooking is pretty damn convenient. I can set a timer while my hands are dirty from mixing meat for meatloaf or handling chicken.

There's something to be said about the convenience factor, and that's what most technological innovations are about, making life easier or more convenient.
How many GMM can MapReduce do? What about lattice quantum chronodynamics performance? MPI and Lustre exist for a reason: map reduce isn't great for all problems.
"Try writing java without an IDE."

But why would I ever want to?
I think the other user is commenting on the scale of absurdity.

Perhaps one site isn't into a lizard conspiracy, but they push a "gay bomb" theory.

Nobody is debating either topic, just noting how absurd the information they push is.
>If they would provide a universal way to share identity, or even a fricionless cryptographic sign-in

Can you elaborate?
Is there “import x as y” syntax?
And nothing of value was lost. ZH went into propaganda and fake news mode a long time ago.
What's reasonable? Some people refuse to fly altogether due to the risks. Are they reasonable? I don't think so, personally, but it's not a black and white issue like you're implying. Every accident is preventable if you just demand less from the underlying technology.
"ApproveAPI uses HTTP Basic Authentication where the username is your API key and the password is blank."

I'm not too fond of the lack of API password tbh.
Cool idea otherwise.
We can start by not naming things after donors. I don't understand how that's not immediate quid pro quo right there, you get advertising for your personal brand.