skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here. We're a small company (6-7 employees plus a handful of freelancers) and we previously heavily relied on regular Skype. We mostly chat one-on-one and use team chats mostly for general status updates.

I'm working as a contractor so I also use Slack a lot but Slack was a terrible fit for our company and its GDPR compliance is extremely sketchy at best. Also the calling features are practically useless -- I haven't once managed to get anywhere near acceptable quality from that. And don't get me started on using Slack on dodgy wifi (which Slack seems to be either incapable or uninterested in fixing, if my conversations with Slack devs are anything to go by).

If you're already on Office 365 and mostly Windows, Teams is a no-brainer.

Slack is a replacement for IRC. Teams is a replacement for Skype for Business. There is a lot of overlap, especially in how Teams is covered in the press, but ultimately I feel there are more differences than commonalities, especially if you account for software like Mattermost and RocketChat.
A climate change denial party in the NETHERLANDS OF ALL PLACES?!

Wow, I hope they like being under water.
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Thanks, coleifer for your interest, yes I must hire a copy-writer
I use audiobooks, a fan, and a bed.
That's a very biased take on what happened in France.

The protesters were burning cars and destroying public and private property to vast extents, besides throwing Molotov cocktails at the police.

The yellow vests went way, way beyond their right to protest.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/-yellow-vest-protests-grow-v...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/yellow-ve...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47666245
There's no tax involved, other than VAT, which applies to both prices.
As far as I'm aware they were mostly spreadsheets just sitting on the file-system. Given that all of the exploits were still available, including gaining local superuser accounts I would assume not.

Who knows, maybe they were just running a honey-pot pretending and pretending to be outraged.
What happens to the deer population when everyone in the US starts road-killing them for food?
> wouldn't you want the US government to step in with tanks and so fourth to stop anything radical from happening?

No. I'd want a referendum.

Scotland had a referendum on becoming independent. They chose to stay in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Scottish_independence_ref...

Britain had a referendum on leaving the EU. They chose to leave the EU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit

So why not simplify everything and allow Hong Kong to hold a Chexit referendum? Let the people of Hong Kong decide what they want for themselves.
Other than YouTube, all the other apps have a vested interest in seeing a new competitor to Google controlled Android.

If Harmony OS is a decent and open OS, I suspect they will all jump onto it.

The only concern may be Google apps, but then, it’s possible that Google may also create Harmony OS supported apps so they can access the Chinese market.
I wonder how many open source projects the author uses and donates to? If the answer is zero, then I wonder why he thought people would donate to him? Open source software is not a good way to make money. It never has been.
> what does it mean to be an unusual person?

Scrolling down on the front page, it mentions people with mental illness. What I understand from this copy is that the site is for people with presumable diagnosed mental illnesses to talk to others with mental illness, and boards organized according to what mental illness you have.

Interesting and obviously no ad tracking or any third party access could be allowed, restrictions on disclosing identity should be in place. This could be a legal minefield.

Now if the board isn't meant for only this then they should maybe update their front page to explain in greater detail what the site is about.
@photomatt can we have our (blocked) tumblr blogs back please?
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It isn't an argument on the topic and it isn't supposed to be. It is a reminder for you to stay rational and avoid ad hominems.
Yep, the comment is wrong, this line won't wait for anything but rather check that both calls resolved to a truthy value.

There are also some other incorrect things in that post that makes the code overly complicated, like:

> Every async function needs a new Promise, and needs to resolve()

That's definitely not needed unless you call something that runs asynchronously without being `async` or returning a standard `Promise` (in which case you could probably use a generic wrapper to convert them to `Promise` objects and avoid having to do that everytime).
Haha, I'm delighted to see this argument as I often provocatively bring this up in lunchtime conversation. It seems to be a rare point of view but one with which I'm sure alien Earth scientists would undeniably concur.
I'd suggest you to moderate the creation of the groups. There are some uh... dubious groups[1].

[1] https://holynetr.com/groups/penis/
Presumably this could be abused by the sort of people you’re trying to ban—most people wouldn’t do this sort of thing but bad faith reports are a problem on lots of social media sites.
Same here. I'm using Chrome on Windows 10.
Well, at least it fails fast and clear.
It's quite ironic you say that, because all across the formerly "democratic" world, a kind of facade or sham self-governance is washing over societies and governments everywhere, which constantly and consistently infringes upon and chips away at actual self-governance and actual democracy as leftist authoritarians impose their will and trying to corral and suppress and contain freedom and liberty and self-governance.

I am not even certain though that most cases they actually realize what they are doing if their paternalistic language ... of imposing their will on others for our/my/your own good ... can be taken as an honest indication. It's very much the same kind of authoritarians/abusive mindset and action that is common among western "liberals"/leftists and the CCP. Ironically too is that as most here are left leaning, if not largely leftists (whether they realize it or not), they also don't realize that this situation with HK is only a petri dish of what is to come due to leftist/liberal/globalist delusions of world wide kumbaya and hand holding amidst global world peace and tranquility. On the contrary actually, the liberal/leftist/globalist actions and values are a black swan that struts around right before us, but none are permitted to see, and even the supposed smartest people around dismiss off hand out of idle narcissism.
"It was a storm of steel and iron", said one area resident, who later identified himself as George R. R. Martin.
"Hong Kong government was quick to withdrawn and eventually kill that bill but the protest got bigger regardless as they see the government is too pro-China"

There was public opposition since it was proposed in February but they only backed down in the presence of overwhelming public outcry and blamed the public for misunderstanding the intent of the bill. They were not "quick" nor were they easily persuaded to back down. They could easily reintroduce it after protests died down.
So if five buddies flag somebody, they are automatically banned? Consider this: any system that can be gamed will be gamed and abused.
One of my buddies did that, hid a half-dozen copies of Counter-Strike. IT took a few down, more would pop up.

Senior year they got some software that would allow a teacher to monitor all classroom computer screens thus precluding our being able to play anymore. So the same buddy of mine behind the Counter-Strike copies made a wallpaper that was a screenshot of all kinds of infosec tools, WireShark, MetaSploit, etc.

They didn't like that one either.
Who is they in this case? Tumblr leadership, Yahoo! leadership, Oath leadership, or Verizon leadership?
Interesting - so is it "a thing" in the US that the city runs a dedicated bus service for all schools/students? Quite a surprise for me considering how poor people say public transport is in general in the US?

In the UK some schools run their own bus things (in the same way that Goolge, Facebook et al do in San Francisco), but most of the other schools just get by with the public buses.

There is often some coordination to make sure buses stop at/very near schools, and they may send extra ones at certain times - e.g. there were often several buses parked up and waiting empty at my school so they could be filled at the end of the school day, but any member of the public was then able to get onboard once it was on its usual route after that, and if you were late getting out (e.g. detention/sports etc) you'd just wait at the stop outside the school for the usual bus on its usual route to come by.

What do the US school buses and their drivers do for the rest of the day and on weekends? Just sit idle?
They have been 49 cents per pound in the grocery store in NY, both where I grew and in WNY for as long as I can remember. They have got to be at a loss if you consider they don't adjust for inflation or gas prices, etc. Milk does this too if I'm not mistaken, a lot of grocery stores use that as a customer lure as well.
I have a few things that I plan to release at some point. Small stuff, commercial use probably isn't a big issue, and I have no real plans for monetisation as this is hobby/interest stuff not the day job.

My intent is to go for full-on AGPLv3 and not accept PRs initially. If someone sees a bug they can tell me "if these options are picked there is an infinite loop" or "you've missed input sanitisation here" and I'll put together a fix for it. That way all the code is mine, I have full control, and I don't have to worry about treading on someone else's toes if I relicense later. When/if I later decide upon a more permissive license, or to try monetise through commercial licensing, or if I chose another route entirely, then changing will be frictionless.

In the meantime anyone wanting to work on it themselves because I'm too slow, they don't want to work my way, or "just because", are free to fork (assuming they are happy with AGPL), or contact me to negotiate other terms, or write something themselves from scratch to deal with the itch (again: these are not Big Things, I certainly don't expect to be releasing the NextBigThing™).
What do you mean when you say "honorary Europe", because I am certain it does not mean what I expect it to mean: A fundamentally fair and well-functioning society with very few if any governmental killings and high stability within it's borders.
Yes it's kind of ridiculous DNS ignores whole existing trademark system, except when there's a direct conflict.
The placebo effect is supposed to remain effective even if the person knows its a placebo. If it is placebo, it should be possible to get an improvement by putting on a "reading necklace" or something else that obviously shouldnt help. Might be interesting to look into
How would preventing the import of melamine tainted milk be an external interaction? Should all states be required to sell poisoned milk from China?
You can do arbitrary processing of radio signals, from basic FM radio decoding to interpreting images of the earth from space sent by satellites. You can also figure out the protocol for toy RF cars / boats and control them from whatever software you like.

It's a really powerful and cool way to explore the EM spectrum around you right now.
idk about Boston, but in Florida, I walked ~1km to elementary school, 15 minute bus to middle school (11-13 yrs old), and then had a 40 km drive/bus to high school.

While if I had stayed and lived in michigan, I would have been 1km walk from elementary, middle, and high school. With a university 5km away.

It all depends on the US city and state and how that community developed/organized.
>> "Modern music has regressed into something primitive and tribal. In other words, completely mind numbing garbage. And it just gets worse every year."

The blending of hip hop into everything has been a huge boon for the evolution of western music just like the merger with jazz was in the '50s.

"Primitive"/"tribal" people had some good ideas that sometimes get lost in our panicked attempts to set ourselves ever-further above our roots.
The dyslexic folks at HN might have the special responsibility to come up with some sort of solution. Only you know what works, and have the tech smarts to figure something out.

So, for example, what if this:

> de – et – te – ct – ti - io – n

were actually displayed as

> de.tec.ti.on

Would that help? Maybe you can up with some other scheme, like coloring syllables? Or positioning of syllables spatially (across 2 lines) to help synchronize them?

Maybe you've already tried these or other things. It would be valuable to share your experiences.
Is this a religious (Christian) site? Some of the thumbnails and the name "holy..." seem to indicate it is. That's ok but if it is you have to be upfront - lots of people with mental health problems are atheist (like me), Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, etc, etc, etc. I'm always interested in attempts to get us together but this looks like there's a hidden addenda. Maybe I'm overly suspicious but, you know, that's part of the way "we" are.
Alternative Services spec bungled by browser makers
Interesting project. Who’s sponsoring this?
> It's unfortunate, but HK didn't come across democracy by its own struggle in the way most countries did. Such foundations are just inherently unstable, how can it possibly be any other way?

Democracy in HK society seems actually very stable and ingrained into HK societiy mind. So much, that a territory that is 0.5% of the population of mainland China, is willing to stand up to the biggest army in the world to defend what is left of that democracy.
I noticed a lot of my procrastination came from habit. Opening Reddit, or Hacker News was the path to a surge of dopamine. Where as getting down to work didn't have the same surge. So I tried to just block "bad sites". That helped, but I still found myself occasionally opening a new tab, than out of habbit going to one of the sites. What I needed to do was remove the root cause. So I wrote this script (https://gist.github.com/steven-p-walsh/9b7c0ffd2fe4817d67459...) it's like a shock-collar for social media.
Lots of sites have a limit of 72 characters, maybe even without the developers knowing about it. Bcrypt has a limit of 72
Well Chinese has been ruling by lifelong kings and dictators like Mao for thousands of years. Democracy doesn’t have a great foundation there and it just need years of cultivation through education or whatever. The culture also somewhat aligned with the “do greater good” and “society should be unionized” ideology which doesn’t make lifelong leaders look like a stupid idea
Dear me.

I couldn’t agree more that the needs of the child is paramount.

What I mean to say is that there needs to be significant social welfare towards the wellbeing of children.

That typically means two people chosen by the mother could be delegated a minimum set of care hours for the life of the child, paid for by the state.

I couldn’t give a hoot who or what plays those roles.

The direction this conversation took is breaking my brain.
Unfortunately, we are one of the worst performing countries on the co2 reductions within Europe. Even coal loving Poland and "poor" countries like Romania outperform us.
> “How do you think Beijing will think now?” he added. “Do you think they will want to give democracy to people when people are insulting their rule?”

What do you think Beijing thought before? What a good boy you were being?

Beijing doesn’t want to give you democracy regardless of what you are doing. Now they just have to be way more overt about it.
UK. Not so much so here, so it certainly isn't universal. Though we don't usually have the weather for it anyway!
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"It seemed that the mass shooter and the nightclub patrons could no longer recognize each other's concerns."
I don't think this is optional.

Know your customer laws are government mandated.

I bet companies would love to give you a userID and password only.
Uh, if the EU wanted to, it could absolutely go in. The UK has the most valid reason for intervening since it's their treaty that's being violated by a Chinese invasion. EU countries have 2+ million military personnel combined, hundreds of naval assets, thousands of aircraft, strong mutual defense military alliances, etc.
A few comments:

* The front-page copy "you can easily ask someone for a walk with you knowing that your partner having the same social anxiety disorder just as you" might be difficult to realize in practice with no particular geographic focus. There's not even any way to specify a location in your profile. If this is supposed to have a dating/hookup site kind of side to it, then location should be surfaced everywhere including to the left of every forum post.

* Having a field in your profile for LinkedIn seems a bit much given the target subject matter of the site.

* The homepage should be your profile page or the groups page if you're already signed in
TL;DR: random is hard because computers are deterministic; we use Pseudo-Random, and each function that generates pseudo-random must be tested to see how random the results are.
Just the typical Italian overstatement. We exaggerate a million times a day.
I thought A380 was doomed because of lack of configurability for a freight option, and the fact that some narrow bodies were starting to eat it's lunch as direct flights started to become more common instead of hub and spoke.

What you've posted though seems way more plausible though I've gotta admit.
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In the UK we don't. you have to hunt pretty hard to find a banana that isn't a cavendish (or a plantain)

In fact I don't think I've ever seen a second variety since i've started looking... (probably in the wrong markets, but that's kind of my point)
EU wouldn't be rearing to go in either.
I think it really hard to say how many HKers identify themselves as 'Chinese', because 'Chinese' is such a complex term. Even in Taiwan where many pro-independence youngsters call themselves Taiwanese, many of the older generation still consider themselves as Chinese, and they refuse to call their country 'Taiwan', and use 'Republic of China' instead. People from Puerto Rico may first identify themselves as Puerto Rican, and then US citizen.
I feel exactly the same (with ~300 forks, ~3000 stars - not that it means anything). It's a creative urge, like writing music (which I also do, and I feel the passion for both is very similar).

I've received some donations, but nothing that could pay for anything significant, but I don't really see the donations as something that might eventually pay, but instead I see them as "thank you for the work", which is always appreciated.

However, I have seen some upsides, which are hard to put a dollar value on:

* Found staff for my company

* Been asked to be a technical proofer on a Manning book

* Made great connections with smart people

* A powerful sense that I'm contributing to humanity (even if it's in a relatively small way), rather than just being a consumer

There are probably other things that I've forgotten, but there's more value to OSS than just cash.
Many schools have a bus service because the general public transport is that poor. In some areas you have no other public transport. So either someone drives the kid to school or they don't go because they can't walk there.
Another Tiananmen Square massacre on the horizon...
The US doesn't have a citizen score, political re-education camps, Tiananmen Square massacre, widespread censorship (like disconnecting a phone when you say a certain word), filtering of all foreign content and blocking of sites like Wikipedia or New York Times, BBC News, massive displacements and forced re-settlements, a vast number of political prisoners, massive squelching of protests and demonstrations (right now, there are videos of large troop movements towards Hong Kong), and so on. Not to speak of Tibet...

Anyway, my point was not primarily meant political, it was more that Huawei has good chances of succeeding with this OS, because they are backed up and supported by the Chinese government. That's true even if you are 100% pro Chinese one-party government.
Assuming that a powerful nation has not deeply owned every large-scale protest is in my experience extremely naive. Either the protest has no teeth or it's penetrated all the way to the top with either government agents or extensive surveillance. This means that action outside of what the government feels like dealing with means arrests (no matter how temporary) and that any action that is taken means that the government does not care or will use it with an ulterior agenda.

It sort of bothers me how conspiracy theorist this sounds, but I know for a fact that this is the case.
OPSEC advice:

I wouldn’t disclose the heuristics of these policies.
Thanks, Ranking Member for your input! Yes unusual probably is not a right word, and maybe yes make accent on anxiety issue, legal issues is a problem too but it needs just a proper thought
not sure why you're being down voted these seem reasonable statements. I do wonder how many agent provocateur's there are on all these forums. We've lost a lot of truth lately I feel.
Cash is freedom in ways that the "bank payments society" [1] (which people refer to with the euphemism "cashless") can never be. Cash is also resilient in ways that the "bank payments society" cannot be.

"In Praise of Cash" [1] is a fantastic essay on this. HN discussion on that from 2017. [2]

[1]: https://aeon.co/essays/if-plastic-replaces-cash-much-that-is...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13782561
A few years ago Norwegians officials tried to give Finland a mountain as a gift to celebrate Finlands 100 years as a free nation. Norway’s constitution states the kingdom of Norway is "indivisible and inalienable", so they had to give it up.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/...
Show HN: Calculator that reverse engineers salary into hour and day rates
The US is already spending almost twice the amount on healthcare per person than Austria! https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...

* US: $10,224

* Germany: $5,728

* Austria: $5,440

The system in the US is just totally dysfunctional, and I know a complex issue. But in essence it's using a lot more money than comparable countries but the benefits don't even compare remotely.
It's a big business here selling for silly money eg https://www.hollandandbarrett.com/shop/product/pure-gold-pre...

Apparently it does have some antibiotic properties beyond normal honey due to containing methylglyoxal.
Thats is the essence of the false equivalency: the idea that if two people disagree with equal passion they must be equally correct. Journalists are supposed to be fact checkers and critical thinkers. Their job isnt to parrot beijings claims that the sky is green, its to stick their heads out the damn window and see for themselves.
America has cycled back and forth between retributory “justice” (punishment and “law enforcement officers”) and reformatory (penitentiaries and “peace officers”). Currently it’s in the most destructive of the first modes, and seems anchored there by being coupled to a private sector lobby and a propaganda of violence.

But history has shown it could cycle back to more practical state, as exemplified by Judge Cicconetti. It doesn’t even require mushy idealism: a practical view of achieving the cheapest outcome shows that “hammer and tongs” doesn’t work.
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