skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible to create a way out of this by taking finance structures and adapting them to service public goods. A climate project bank might issue loan/grant type funding for projects, in a model much like how the U.S. mortgage market and fannie mae works right now. Loans are assessed for risk and financial return, and we can use the same type of transactional examination for a hybrid of risk, financial, and carbon-reducing-sinking effect. Personally, I think issuance of loans at a discount relative to current commercial loan rates (maybe by offering a discount rate based off of a base of Fed rates), would offer strong leverage with elements of responsiveness to market fluctuations.
Other software used similar techniques for starting calls, but I believe that Zoom is unique in that calls can turn the camera on without any user interaction.

Zoom also didn't reverse their decision until there was a huge amount of public backlash.
Public transit handles long distances rather neatly, but there's a chicken-and-egg issue where (support for) its development is in part stymied by the last-mile problem: covering 20 miles rapidly isn't useful if you have no good options for the last 2. Biking fills a very important slot in a healthy transit infrastructure.

Unfortunately, we're pretty horrible as a society at reasoning about issues that involve more than one step, exacerbated by the fact that the pro-car bloc is probably the single most selfish-or-irrational voting bloc that I can think of, in terms of scale, intransigence, and magnitude of damage done.
Lot of effort for something you can buy pre-cut, off the shelf at many places. you can get matching color, or any number of background designs.

his only covers the top. i have top, bottom, keyboard surround, and trackpad covered.

i'm most ambivalent about the trackpad. the silky smooth texture of a naked pad is amazing. but i really hate how it picks up rub marks after a relatively short period.
On the other hand they are easier than ever to stream.

Legal streaming has more movies than a good video shop had 20 years ago. Less legal distribution has even more.
I agree. Not to mention that functional programming has been around for decades. The reason why it's not popular is simple: because most people hate it and it's even more complex than OOP.

One doesn't need to look for conspiracy theories about functional programming when there is none.
That's pretty epic. Apple continues to make big, brave moral gestures (like when they yanked Facebook and Google's enterprise certs earlier this year, or killed long-term tracking cookies in Safari overnight).

Makes me happy to be a customer. Hope they keep enforcing their own rules and protecting their users' privacy and security in this fearless manner.
This doesn't just affect Trump, or the president, or republicans. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just got sued, using the Trump court ruling as precedent:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-to-face-lawsuit-over-bl...

I wonder if the people who sued Trump will be happy with this outcome.
I agree that there are many other fine languages that people should be considering.
Very few crypto currencies are censoring transactions.

If we define "decentralized" as "the ability to send transactions that are unlikely to be censored", then pretty much all cryptos fulfill this requirement.

Transaction censorship just isn't something that is happening on most cryptos. You can send whatever transactions that you want, and it almost certainly isn't going to be stopped by any centralized parties.
You can disable it in Preferences -> Software Update -> Advanced -> Install system data files and security updates

From there you can manage the updates manually from the command line with the `softwareupdate` command. e.g. `softwareupdate --list --include-config-data` will show available updates, `softwareupdate -ia --include-config-data` will install them, etc.
I was rooting for you the whole time
"Only"? These seems like a very believable result.
Your car, lets say a towing rig, is a private property. This business model was in place 10, maybe even 20 years ago.
Oh you don't have to participate if you don't like to puzzle. I know I don't most of the time.
Rewriting stable software is a bad idea, but not because we have too few maintainers. Indeed, the way of dealing with the "too few maintainers" problem is to bite the bullet and start aggressively paying down technical debt so that the ecosystem can (1) become more sustainable going forward, given the same amount of maintainers, and (2) attract more people to the job of being a maintainer, by easing some of the hardest parts of that job. Rewriting stuff in Rust is one way - though a highly risky, perhaps even extreme way - of paying down technical debt.
Try https://goaccess.io/ works very well for us with haproxy cluster and rsyslog for central logging for all web and api requests. We run goaccess in real-time mode processing 100000 requests per day with local ip to city database.
Posted this in an older Libra hatefest but I'll post it again:

Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology have opened up permissionless innovation in an industry that has been so choked by regulation that previously only the largest, most well-connected players could get in the door: finance.
You can, right this second, create a smart contract that allows extremely sophisticated financial instruments and attract real users. The initial shoots of innovation are already happening, such as MakerDao's Collatorized Debt Positions (CDPs)[0] and Compound Finance for money market crypto instruments.[1]

Regulators and governments can stick their fingers in their ears, outlaw the technology, and drive everything offshore or underground. The point is that these technologies are permissionless and unstoppable. As long as the internet exists, you can't eliminate such technology and behavior.

Rather than knee-jerk outlaw progress in the industry by projects such as Libra, governments need to let the industry mature and eventually pass laws that protect consumers without stifling innovation. HN users especially need to embrace their so-called "hacker" roots and stop lobbying for the state to crush such innovative technology in its infancy.

Seriously - the outrage to blockchain and crypto on HN is entirely absurd. This is cool, interesting technology and entrepreneurs should be analyzing it for its disruptive potential rather than whining that there aren't enough licenses and bureaucrats involved.

[0] https://makerdao.com/en/

[1] https://compound.finance/
> the policy of providing free overnight car storage on both sides of every residential/commercial street

You make it sound like there is some sort of federal policy covering every road in the US. Not only is there not, but your statement is far from the truth. There are many, many streets in the US where parking is restricted or paid
Yeah, I'm quite curious now if Zoom's reversal and decision to remove the server was because Apple informed them they were going to forcibly remove it like this.

It looked like they decided to remove the server themselves (or at least, as a response to pressure), but maybe they didn't actually have a choice at all.
So you're wondering why people use something that just works over something that took you (assumedly someone technical) 3 months to get all the kinks out?

How long do you think it would take a non technical team or company to get it up and running?
Read that article again. 93% of the plastic sent into the ocean by rivers comes from just 10 rivers. The article says between 4 and 25% of the ocean's waste comes from rivers.

So, yes, there are some big items there. The Yangtze could be 2% - 12% (based on the article's comment that it was roughly half of river trash.) But other rivers are smaller, and we're back into the realm of talking about single integer improvements.
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Nice, how do you keep the Apple logo clear? You just cut the stickers carefully before applying? The shape is still quite well defined.
Probably nothing, and mutual lamentation from product and marketing people about the loss of their easiest customer retention strategy.
In the news segment of this week's episode of Risky Business[0], one of the hosts mentions (starting around 3:40) he has some information that there was an RCE disclosed to Zoom back "some months ago". He further says that @Jlleitschuh (the person reporting the web server issue earlier this week) got 90% of the way to finding it. So...yeah, speculation only, but maybe Apple became aware of this and dropped the hammer.

[0]: https://www.risky.biz/RB547/
I dealt with one that seemed actively hostile. They would change their API without any advance warning at all. Data fields that we depended on would mysteriously vanish in the middle of the day, causing our entire system to grind to a halt until we put in a hotfix. Happened several times in the two years I worked on that project.
I am patiently waiting (in fear?) for the day when we have "educational ad exchanges". The Gates Foundation and CZI put up a $500M slush fund for "rockstar" teachers to bid on impressions, while publishers lobby to abolish CIPA, COPPA and FERPA in the name of a "quality" education for all.
Accreditation does not change what a discipline is; it is merely a governance mechanism to determine who is capable of it.

Physicians practiced medicine long before there were formal licenses (and long after for that matter...see 3rd world discount medical/dental).

> Such a licensing and accountability doesn't exist in software "engineering".

That's not 100% true. There's Cisco certification, PCI certification. There's no HIPAA certification, but violations can and do cost millions.

Nor is it true that other engineering disciplines always require certifications. You can be a happily employed mechanical engineer without sitting for the PE exam.

I digress...the whole thing is a red herring. The definition of a discipline exists independent of the whatever accreditation procedures happen to exist.
>Before I go further: do you own a smartphone?

Someone really needs to make a decent modular smartphone with a detachable radio.
It sounds like silent updates from Apple without automatic updates turned on is also an undisclosed RCE - or an Apple backdoor, depending on how fine a point you wish to put on it.

Being my OS or hardware vendor does not entitle you to permanent RCE on the machine that now belongs to me.

Unless of course this is just a XProtect rules update or a Gatekeeper CRL update, then ignore what I said.
Well going on the tone in the rest of their comment I read that as a firmly tongue in cheek rhetorical question. As in: From the department of the blatantly obvious comes the question "Could it be the case...

By analogy to feudalism that we need a transformative change to something, an unknown something, that is different but a little better at seeing a big picture rather than endless blinkered dogma.
> it’s a strawman to compare the target demographic of free tech swag to up-and-coming models getting free designer clothing

Au contraire! I was actually specifically referring to some jokingly overpriced Balenciaga or Supreme shirt, almost certainly purchased by someone who is somehow shocked (shocked!) that they can't afford rent.

EDIT: Ah I see the confusion. When I said "free t-shirt," I meant, "t-shirt given to the influencer to promote for free," not "free tech t-shirt usually worn to a gym."
This means there might have been another side to this story: Zoom's change of heart might have been forced by Apple, not the public backlash.

Apple: Hey, your app poses a threat to macOS security. We're going to remove your server app with the built-in macOS anti-virus.

Zoom: Oh crap. Okay, give us 2 sprints to release a new version that removes it.

Apple: We're killing it in 48 hours.

...

Zoom, after an all-nighter: HEyyy users, we have a patch for youu
It still comes down to an influencer is someone who makes content, shows it to an audience, and sells access to that audience. Some content is cheaper and more engaging than other types, thus leading to some people with a large amount of influence proportional to how hard they have worked.

You might be surprised at how hard these people are working though. The field is pretty crowded, everyone successful has likely worked extremely hard to get where they are.
Well, you need your software to work now, hard to blame you :)

I thought about this problem and there are two workarounds. First workaround is to get agreement with major CA who would allow you to issue a valid certificates for users. So it's like user installs your software, generates private key and you generate signed certificate for that key on your server. I think that plex does that, but it's probably extremely hard and fragile scheme.
Second workaround would be to proxy traffic from your localhost server to your remote server. Remote server would present valid certificate for something like local.yourcompany.com and would decrypt traffic and translate it back to your localhost server. Same with response. So you're doing encryption with remote server and never leak your private key. I'm not sure if CA would be happy with that implementation, but technically I believe it's not a key compromise.
Thank you, that does sound a little more hopeful.

(It does matter to me, I have owned several mac pro towers and wouldn't touch the trash can with a 10-foot pole)
There's https://github.com/mholt/timeliner that will use the API, but realize a bunch of tags (including GPS lat/lon and captured time) will be stripped, and videos will be very low resolution.

If you want your metadata tags intact-ish, Google Takeout seems to be the only way now, but they still downsample and muck with metadata.

I'm now using syncthing (open source) and Resilio Sync (closed source) on my freeNAS and Ubuntu server to pull original photos and videos from our smartphones onto spinning rust, and then use PhotoStructure (disclaimer, I'm the author) to browse and share them.
What is your definition of "self-contained"? Does not require dotnet, or is contained within a single executable?

Building an application that doesn't require a dotnet core runtime is a one-liner:
dotnet publish -c Release -r win10-x64 --self-contained true
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/deplo...

If you mean creating a single EXE with no external dependencies whatsoever, that's something that they are discussing in .NET Core 3 but isn't straightforward right now.

It's basically the same story as Python, you have to bundle the interpreter with the application or you have to rely on the interpreter being pre-installed. With dotnet, you rely on the runtime being installed or you bundle it in as self-contained.
The Apple logo is recessed enough that I could trace it easily with an x-acto knife. The stickers I used didn't stick to it very well, interestingly, and just peeled right off.
I've always heard GoAccess recommended as the go-to solution for server side logging. Though I don't have personal experience with it, it does look amazing.
> take the bike on the bus

You make that sound so simple. There's no way I could bring a bike on the bus or train I use to get to work.
Yes, you can and you should do that.
We had this 20 years ago with Java (not native obviously) and ActiveX (Windows x86 only.)
I largely agree, so I'd like to ask: do you hire people?
Windows update does the same, no?
We do have the tools. International economic and military sanctions on regions that refuse to cooperate in cleanup and reform efforts, and international funding for those that do. Other rivers have been cleaned up before, the big 10 polluting rivers can be cleaned up too. This is not a technical problem, it's a political problem. When push comes to shove, our current political regimes seem to have little regard for the environment as a whole.

Token gestures only placate people so they don't demand meaningful reform.
Personally I think a lot of the hate is because users here knew about the technology early but didn’t invest in any meaningful way. They don’t want to think they made the wrong choice, so they call it a scam or a ponzi scheme to try to justify the decision not to invest.

The truth is that crypto is very scammy and that its value run-up in 2018 was a massive bubble, but that doesn’t mean the tech behind that bubble is worthless. Anyone who got rich off of crypto essentially got lucky, but that says nothing about how good that technology is or is not. Crypto can be good technology and a bad investment while still allowing risk takers to make millions.
The bigger question -- what other desktop apps have similar, latent daemons hanging around? I'm always wary of installing stuff like this (e.g. zoom, go2meeting, teamviewer).

Anyone know of other sneaky apps to avoid?
Apple patents a curved screen phone
If I didn't already have a Switch I'd be getting one for that and a few other things. Pokemon sells handheld consoles like no other which is why so many DS hardware releases came alongside a new Pokemon generation.

Though I ended up moving from an old 3DS to the new XL version for the bigger screen after picking up Fire Emblem.
I came to the same conclusion after reading his book. His book is pretty terrible.

His viewpoint (while interesting) was not very grounded at all. Simply because agriculture requires more work doesn't mean it's inferior to hunting. Try hunting an antelope if you've got a sprained ankle.

Another perspective that irked me was his blind faith that modern society is built purely conceptual ideas. Citing empires, car brands, and money. In reality all these things work because they provide practical benefits. Few people or groups go out of their way to work purely on ideological bases, and those who do, do so on a rational philosophy. Let alone as soon as it becomes impracticable (See Maslow's hierarchy of needs).
Aforestation is another big opportunity to absorb carbon and can be combined to increase habitat for animals and biophillic settings and work for people, as well as produce sustainable building and manufacturing materials - and even some fuel.

The IPCCs primary goal is to reduce carbon output, not figure out a way to enable it to continue. We have renewable and sustainable power technologies ready to reduce carbon output rapidly as soon as the political will to proceed is won.

This potentially huge mining scheme involves releasing what is in simple terms very large amounts of a pollutant into the Ocean. Its anticipated that the effects of this particular pollution will be beneficial, but we have no natural history to show for its ecological effects. Forests are already a great part of our worlds natural history.

I think it is a worthwhile scheme to begin implementing and observing the effects on Ocean ecology and also on the global mining industry which it has potential to stimulate. But the 100% target is an oversell in my view.
I think that this hypocrisy also pinpoints a flaw in the main argument: this piece is a criticism of Google, not a criticism of the business ecosystem of tech companies. It singles out one actor, who is doing tings that are common practices, as a bad actor.

It is not just to say "Haha! you are an hypocrite therefore you are wrong!" That would be ad-hominem. This is to say that what they denounce is not the behavior of a single actor but the norm on the net. Failure to recognize that makes their opinion at least incomplete, probably invalid.
std::vector<std::unique_ptr<SomeThing>>

That works thanks entirely to move semantics. Do you dispute the usefulness of such a container?

> That big ugly object that would get copied on function return -- just create it before the function call and pass it in as a reference! No copy required.

Or just return it without a std::move and it still won't be copied. In fact 'return std::move(any_local_value)' is not just silly it's bordering on wrong as it defeats some RVO optimizations (and returning a T&& of a local is actually wrong as it's returning a reference to a local). That's not what the purpose or use is of move semantics at all.
Also everyone forgets that for every Amazon or Google in 1999 there were 25 pets.com flameouts. Hindsight is always 2020 and game-changers only seem obvious in retrospect.
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Traversy Media - All around amazing coding tutorials.

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Thank you for the feedback, you are right on the mark, as this is our plan once we have our first Impact Beach in operation. The plan is to sell a piece of jewelry for $XX-$XXX and then charge $25 per month, which is about the cost of 1 tonne of olivine. That 1 tonne of olivine placed in the person's name, will remove 1.25 tonnes of CO2 from the atmopshere/ocean, which is approximately equivalent to a US person's monthly CO2 footprint (1.245 t / month or 14.95 t /year)[1]

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/chart-of-the-day-thes...
They seem to have engineered this just to avoid such a prompt, because Safari brings up one when navigating to a protocol that launches an external app.
> He told us he didn't want to see it because they(Disney) were just taking a 2D movie that he'd already seen and are just doing the same thing again

Interestingly, the original Aladdin is no longer available for sale. Netflix, Amazon, Google Play, Walmart....whatever.

You either need to buy a disc from a garage sale, or pirate it.
I worked there for about two years. Afterward I described it as, "It felt like I was kidnapped by aliens and have just returned to Earth."

The short answer to your question is simply apathy (no one cares) and/or mild psychopathy (completely in a bubble to a borderline pathological degree.) They're not evil, they are just people.

Here's a dark little anecdote of corporate social psychopathy:

One day I realized I hadn't seen Chad (not his real name) in a few few days. Checking email lists, I discovered that his last email was ten days earlier. I went to my immediate boss and asked him about it and it turns out Chad had suffered a stroke and dropped at his desk one evening after most people had already left.

No one mentioned it.

He eventually came back to work after a couple of weeks with as little fanfare as he had left and went right back to work.

I was pretty freaked out that a coworker having a stroke was treated as no more of a big deal than someone dropping their coffee on the floor.
Who owns the pointer or reference and what, if anything, enforces that?
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This stuff is basically Goo Gone without the plant goodies and some aircraft paint thinner. It will remove most paint and clear coats so be careful!

edit: I misread xylene as toluene, whoops! It still isn't the most paint-friendly if you don't have a durable surface though.
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There also seems to be little mention of Norse Pagan influences despite animals (both mythical and mundane) being prevalent in Norse mythology.