skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got the impression Chinese people didn't really have as much of an issue with LGBTQ people as other cultures, because they don't have as much religious hangups as people from a christian background. Is that inaccurate? I know the Chinese government suppresses speech it doesn't like, but is it actively doing things against LGBTQ people? Honest question.
The Chinese have rebelled against their government waaaaay more times than Americans over basically any timeframe.

Mao managed to do it twice, including launching a revolution while actually in the government but sidelined.

Another fun fact, the US army has more recent experience helping put down a Chinese rebellion (boxer rebellion, 1900) than an American one.
> Google has been REALLY dropping the ball in the last 2-5 years.

Nope, they're in the advertising biz now. They aren't so much "dropping the ball" as playing a ballgame (extremely well) that you dislike (because it's harmful and exploitative and destroys the tools you love).

They're just a new microsoft. Or since they're in a particular phase of that development, let's say a new M$. Embrace, extend, exploit.
Another way to look at it is that a productivity increase increases the marginal value of time spent working...
Dune 1 is one my favourite games. I still pull it up once every few years and play it out. Beautifully made.

The Space Opera soundtrack by Exxos is also epic!
Performance, increased development velocity, and ease of hiring: Pick 3.
Then who else? It can hardly be built and promoted efficiently without somebody big behind it. Which corporation would sound better than Facebook? Banks certainly are not better than Facebook - they have been tracking and limiting us for much longer than Facebook exists and they seemingly lack modern tech expertise as well as progressive attitude.
Show HN: Crowd sourced security breach data
My GF and I both have ThinkPad X1 Yogas. I rarely use the touchscreen, but I do like the digitizer pen for sketching out design ideas and such.

OTOH, she uses the touchscreen all the time. Even when something would be easier with the keyboard, like filling in a form field and just hitting Enter, she finishes typing and reaches up to touch the button on the screen. If anything can be done by touching the screen, that's how she does it.

It seems a bit strange to me, but she loves the touchscreen!
What people seem to forget is that this is nothing personal, only business. A company has the right to compete with your product, and you are not entitled to any sort of market share. That’s just the way capitalism works, and the consumers are better off because of it.
profiles is close. better in some ways (absolutely arbitrarily grouping), worse in others (not automatic, so user-error prone)
Obviously some people didn't understand that this policy would be included in "don't be a dick", otherwise we wouldn't be seeing all this pushback.
I've been using it for a few years and it has been rock solid for me.
I guess you could run the program in one of your private servers then do a reverse proxy to that from a public server. Voila: Easy terminal access to your private servers from everywhere!

Not a good idea from a security standpoint though...
It’s better than nothing and also works on mobile devices with poor ad-blocking support, like the iPad and iPhone.
Shouldn't this be automatic when a company creates a job?
This wasn’t posted by Facebook. The author used his experience working there to further question news pieces.
That must just be for purchases through the app? Yesterday, I went to amazon.com and the website reminded me that I wasn't using the Smile (charity) portal and had a button to redirect me to smile.amazon.com. I smiled at that non-dark-pattern. I don't have the app...
I loved Curse as much as the others. There I said it.
Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, cuddle meeeee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDl1c0nR5SI
Nobody denies that this is a tremendous achievement, but there are rules to world records which have to apply to everyone, if they apply at all.

I'm sure even people at IAAF who decided not to accept this as an official record are happy for Eliud. But the rules are the rules.

In my mind, it's not detracting from what Eliud has achieved in the slightest.
Alibris (http://alibris.com) continues to be a wonderful place to buy (mostly used) books. Not affiliated with them, just like 'em a whole lot.
I work for Google so I am biased.

However, I think most of that debate surrounds Manifest v3 is misleading. I’m not a huge fan of Manifest v3s limitations, but it’s basically the same limitations as Safari as far as I understand, and the justification does make some sense. So I am hoping that things will work out. I don’t know about any other things that would impact adblocking on Chrome.

Personally, I am happy with Firefox on desktop, and Safari on iPhone, and I don’t think there are any threats, perceived or actual, towards adblocking on those platforms.
If you go into Gmail's General Settings screen, you can uncheck "Open web links in Gmail". All the links I open in Gmail open directly in Firefox for me after doing that.

If I leave that box checked, it does use a web view that is "Powered by Firefox", but I always prefer to have it just open a new tab in my regular Firefox app.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_China
Not Toptal
> Reasonable people consider trade-offs

Let's do that:

1. Easy to use and effective encryption for all people, even pedophiles and terrorists.

2. Backdoored untrustworthy encryption governments will almost certainly abuse in order to surveil entire populations.

Number 1 sounds like a very reasonable principle to have. Governments and police forces have more than enough tools at their disposal to fight crimes. WhatsApp uses end-to-end encryption and my country's police forces routinely catch child molesters that use it. They do not need and should not have a "show me everything there is to know about this guy" button that they don't even need a warrant to press.

Certain things should be inviolable, even to the state, even with a warrant.
You might be thinking of an old SQL injection vulnerability that allowed updating models from unchecked request parameters, aka the mass assignment problem[0]. That type of thing can be a concern in any web application, regardless of the framework. Modern Rails does a decent job of discouraging it out of the box.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/03/hacke...
Firefox sync works great. It's e2e encrypted too.
I've talked to multiple audio / graphics studios and they are actively planning/executing their Apple exit strategy. Phasing out over several years. Started about 2-3 years go for most of them. Apple don't care about them because they can't even see them on their bottom line.
Windows and Linux. Mac is becoming less attractive.
There is a webassembly target, but it is currently considered experimental:

Demo: http://teavm.org/live-examples/jbox2d-benchmark/teavm-wasm.h...

Build flags for web assembly: http://teavm.org/docs/tooling/maven.html
> [...] Apple extended interest and kindness towards them and then copied their products. It's just kind of cruel.

No it isn't.

That is capitalism and cut-throat business. These guys were foolish for getting so close to Apple when Apple could literally destroy their entire business by adding a single feature.

Protip: If your business is defined by a single feature, your strategy sucks.
It's crowded in here: programmable socket lookup with BPF
> Ms Haga has been interested in ninjas - covert agents and assassins in medieval Japan - since watching an animated TV show as a child.

I would find it absolutely hilarious if that "animated TV show" was Naruto.
There are specific limits on the size and functionality of sunglasses at sanctioned track and field events.

Some events don't even allow the use of Garmin watches (by elite runners) because they can be used for pacing.
China goes ahead with corporate social credit rating system for 33M firms
We are working on making it default on more platforms, see https://arewewebrenderyet.com/
Even better, they want cheap advertising from charities. Plenty of charities broadcast to their network that you should go set up Amazon Smile to support that charity. And thus you get charities advertising for Amazon.
It’s crazy that he runs 1km under 2:50s, and he does it 42 times straight!
SEC blocks $1.7B token sale for Telegram crypto
Numbers are defined further down, in terms of those primitives. Search for the phrase "Now we come to the code that implements numbers."
I originally did call it flip, but then I took that name for the current flip:

(def flip (f)
(fn args (apply f (rev args))))
I agree that longer runs are better predictors than 5k's. I was limited to about 45 miles over 4 days per week to avoid injury, so you may be in a better position. The marathon is a multidimensional challenge, so there are lots of levers to play with. Good luck.
(3) is certainly debatable. If you read the actual contents of the IPCC forecasts it doesn't seem anything close to the end of the world. We're not turning the planet into Venus and we're not going to have to abandon Manhattan. Given a realistic climate change cost assessment, the >90 trillion dollar proposals like the Green New Deal can certainly come out looking like a bad deal.
> No offense but if you broke 18 minutes (6:00 mile) for the 3 mile I'd be surprised.

Curious, but why? That's an extremely achievable time for anybody who is athletic and trains.

(no disagreement that 4:30 pace is vastly more difficult than 6:00)
I don't get why this lives in an extension. It's even advertised in the options, but requires downloading a separate component. Creating an awkward experience as what looks like a core feature lives in an external module. I imagine there is a non-zero number of users who look at containers then opt not to use it because of the download requirement.
no love for safari here? everything is great about it except for lack of profiles
Cases of severe lung illness related to vaping have been identified in B.C
English can be an awful language sometimes. I take that “for the benefit” to mean “The real audience is AstroPad investors”, not that AstroPad investors somehow came out better on the deal.
To me science is never settled, and anyone who claims climate crisis is pretty much definite has an incentive that has other hidden angles than we are led to believe. This is not a denial position, but is largely characterised so. Nothing in science is black-and-white, there are infinite shades of gray in between.

Having said that, Freeman Dyson also seems to share this opinion, and I think it carries some weight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiKfWdXXfIs. Another article also says the same: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2019/09/a-clim...

The later link also highlights an important aspect from IPCC's report: "In climate research and modelling, we should recognize that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible. (Chapter 14, Section 14.2.2.2.)]"

Whatever I know about modeling and Lorenz's theories, I do think long-term climate predication is impossible given our current models. Is that denial? Certainly not, and I am open to change my mind as models become more accurate and more data is avaiable.

Till then I would not want my wallet to be lighter in the name of carbon taxes, please.
Large parts of the track were re-paved specially for this event with fine-grained asphalt to avoid holes and unevenness. The re-pavement was paid by a project sponsor.
doesn't matter if all your checkouts are emailed in the clear via hold notices and renewal reminders.
Mapbox and Hangouts as well - both products I use on a daily basis. I'd say Mapbox is about 20% performant in comparison to Chrome, and Hangouts w/video chews up 50%+ CPU utilization.
Absolutely. But you can not rely on Microsoft or Apple or Google or whatever is your favorite evil corp be filled with 'mindless corporate drones' or 'bogged down with process that will snuff out everything that is good'.

Assume their next iteration will be better. Then what? By all means, believe in your team to be competitive head-to-head. But also assume Microsoft/Apple/google/... will be present and eventually if not already will/might be pretty decent.

Or they might just be part of the package. For many of our product champions in corporate environments, SharePoint was not something they chose, but it still was part of their daily reality and not something they could ignore or stop using.

I hope I'm not downplaying just how hard it can be when your core revenue generating product is just being completely commoditized by a 'ham sandwich'[1]. I'm just trying to relate an experience where we could absorb and even grow through the impact in the hope it might keep others from being discouraged in difficult times

[1] Steve Ballmer, famously said the company could bundle a ham sandwich into Windows if it wanted to
How did I not know that? Thanks for the tip
its not so clear because while your argument is true - people are only gonna spent disposable money on this - it can nonetheless be directly linked to actual transactions which happen at an incredibly frequent rate.

there is an actual cashflow happening - and not just for speculation like with cryptocurrencies - as people are actually spending the ingame currencies on their respective markets, which often removes the money from the market entirely. (not everything you buy ingame is sold by players)
If you're at the limits of "scaling up" in PostGIS you could look into "scaling out" by migrating to a NoSQL solution like Cassandra or HBase + GeoMesa[1]. However, this would be a pretty significant change and introduces a lot of new operational burden, so I wouldn't do it unless you think you can't meet your goals with PostGIS.

I think a good first step would be bringing in a PostGIS consultant who can give you some expert advice on tuning for your current workload.

[1] https://github.com/locationtech/geomesa
Success is a path littered with many many failures on the way to constructing and finding success.

A naive conception of success as a lucky singular event allows your statement.

Some organizations, and nations after their thousands of failures, leading to success, forget their origins, and are by their wealth shielded from understanding the sources of their success and wealth, via turnover in personnel and leadership, and forget what they learned.

Xerox (Haloid Corporation), for example transformed itself from a vulnerable photographic chemicals company under the thumb of Kodak, and risked the company in order to create a successful xerographic business. Its subsequent leadership failed to do the same in developing and furthering a wide variety of computer technologies that we rely on today, the ethernet, graphic computer interfaces and more via the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company)
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It was 121 seconds faster than his own world record.
I'm curious about something. I tend to be quite skeptical, so what is your view on corruption? For instance if I pay you $10 will you say the opposite thing and start supporting an even greater integration of these businesses and perhaps even bringing more Google entities into government funded institutions? Probably not. $100? $1,000? $1,000,000? You're going to change your tune quite rapidly. I think that everybody, for the most part, has a price. And it's generally quite low.

Last year Google's net income was $30,740,000,000. Put another way, 30,740 millions. Obvious of course but all these zeroes often let us lose intuition of just how stupidly much money this is. There are a total of 535 voting members in the US congress. And of course to ensure a company is safe it needn't get all 535 members, just a handful of key players sprinkled about would be more than enough. I'm also certainly not suggesting this is some shady cloak and dagger nonsense as I initially proposed to you; instead, simply a result of completely legal lobbying. I come to you with a presumably poignant pretty pleasant palatable power-point presentation - the undertone of our exchange needs not even be spoken. I, as a mega corporation, am simply looking for politicians that are 'doing the right thing.' You could get a transcript of our conversation and it'd be perfectly kosher. Leave office and, even though we already regularly chat, if you've been a good boy you stand to get paid $400,000 for 30 minute chats, over and over. Got a loser son? You know I think he just has a lot of untapped potential. We're always looking for executive advisors that can offer unique perspectives - pay's about half a million per year.

I find it difficult to find any other explanation for the state of business today. The behaviors of companies today are vastly more anticompetitive than those of companies in times past, an increasingly distant past, when the government actually did anything. The difference seems to be that modern companies have just become vastly larger, and they're increasingly interweaving with government. I wonder if this is analogous to how people felt in the days before the separation of church and state.
Having a computer named “pro” is marketing, that doesn’t mean they cater to actual pro users. Go ahead and Google “has apple abandoned pro market” and see for yourself whether anyone else thinks so, and why. The hardware isn’t the main problem, the software is, as @mondoshawan pointed out up-thread. Apple’s made lots of moves that frustrate pro users in recent years. Canceling Shake was a big one in the pro film industry. Apple preventing use of nvidia GPUs is an ongoing issue a lot of people I know care about. Personally, as a programmer who moved to macOS for it’s unix environment and needs some ability to maintain cross-platform compatibility, I am not able to continue because Apple has moved strongly toward Apple-only development, and the unix environment is frozen with decade-old licenses that will never resolve.
Thank you for helping clarifying this thing, coredog64! (You're indeed correct.) I'll try to express myself more clearly going forward.
Naruto is an epic story.
By itself, a 6 foot increase in sea-level would affect hundreds of millions of people. I believe that is on the high-end of predictions for 2100 if we continue to fail to take serious action, so yes, it may not be that bad. But it's just one example.

We can also look at the more modest predictions of a 2 to 3 foot sea-level increase. That would still throw the lives of dozens of millions of people into complete chaos. Not to mention the disruption to the economic systems in these coastal areas, and those that flow through those areas.

And this isn't even discussing the actual temperature increases, agricultural issues, floods / droughts, and so on.
Arguing and downvoting is just how people and internet work. This has nothing to do with Mozilla culture. Rest assured the engineers of Mozilla are doing their best to make the product superior, independent of the principles difference.
Apple only kept Java around because coming from Pascal and C++ background they were unsure how the Apple developer community would welcome Objective-C.

When they saw the community had no issue embracing Objective-C that is when they dropped the Java bridge, QT for Java and eventually their own JVM.

Chris Lattner never speaks about MacRuby on his interviews, rather how, like clang before it, Swift started as a side project before being shown to upper management.

According to his interviews, many of the Objective-C 2.0 and later improvements were already a kind of slow roadmap into Swift.
I’ve done it semi-recently, but I compiled all the dependencies myself instead of using that library pack since I figured it was probably out of date. It’s tedious but not too bad if you are familiar with cross-compilation. It’s not really something the ScummVM team seems too concerned with since they can’t put the app up on the App Store.

I’m gonna have to compile it again to get all these neat new changes, maybe this time I’ll try to make a Docker container that does all the work.
Apache Kafka Leaves the Zoo – Łukasz Antoniak – Medium
It is very simple: When you run it it will create a web server (listening on port 5000) by default; when you visit that server with your browser you'll get a terminal to your system (the same terminal / user that was used to originally run the server).
It's possible yes, but why jeopardize the gold mine you already have in one of the most valuable tech startups?

Stripe ended Bitcoin support almost 2 years ago https://stripe.com/en-ee/blog/ending-bitcoin-support
Here's what I think:

1. ET life formed and vanished so quickly that they didn't even get to the stage where they generate electromagnetic signals.

2. ET life formed and got to generate EM waves, but:

- they're either too far from us that we haven't detected those waves yet;

- they only recently got to this stage and the signals they produce have not reached us yet;

- or both.

3. ET life formed way sooner than we did; figured out how to generate EM waves, and then vanished entirely. So, any signals of their civilization they must have sent out there have already reached earth, but before we began listening for such signals.

4. Then again, since there are practically infinite number of planets with habitable conditions for ET life, statistically speaking, we must have already received a signal from at least one of them.

Which leads me to this:

5. ET life doesn't exist, because the universe as we know it is most probably a simulation inside a computer and the computational resources can only render so many different objects at a time. (This is serious stuff, researchers have already proposed methods for verifying this:
https://www.washington.edu/news/2012/12/10/do-we-live-in-a-c...).
Most of the Apple TV+ shows announced so far have TV-MA ratings [1]. They're also making the follow-up miniseries to Band of Brothers and The Pacific which will undoubtedly be violent [2].

[1] https://tv.apple.com/

[2] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/apple-launches-h...
Reminds me of the rescue of the Thai football team too, where the divers were dropping oxygen tanks further and further in to reach the boys.
a couple issues with firefox is password support and it just doesn’t work well with many Google services like GCP
BriGuel Releases Empowering Single the Difference
Letsrun is unfortunately a very toxic forum, but also has loads of knowledgeable folks. It's like reading a wikipedia article with commentary from 4chan on the side.
Lol absolutely based.