skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is a sad day when providing facts is described as "anti-western".

> We? Inflammatory? The facts speak for themselves. If the truth hurts, then perhaps the problem is the reader's attachment to invalid notions.

These are the sorts of things people post when they've left the path of curious conversation and are just lashing back against what someone else said.

Also, you Godwinized the thread (invariably a flamewar marker) by taking some horrific quotes from Churchill and escalating that into full Hitlerhood. Again, that's not the path of curious conversation—that's fighting a demon. You can't do both at the same time; none of us can.

If you post in this way, you end up producing the opposite of what you presumably want. Instead of getting people to expand their view of Churchill to include more of his shadow, you push them into locking their current picture down even more, because that is how people react to battle moves. All you'll get in that case is equally inflamed reactive posts back. No one's mind will be changed, only intensified. That is the flamewar style.

Also, you've created accounts to do this sort of flamewar on HN before, and we've asked you not to before, and now you've done it again. That's a seriously bad pattern. Please don't do that. I understand that you have good reason to feel the way you do, and that it's based on valid information that ought not to be so quickly rejected by Western readers. But coming at them with a flaming sword only recreates the problem—and meanwhile it contributes to destroying HN, which helps no one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Back to the Land: Wendell Berry in the Path of Modernity
I have yet to find out about a Python 3 change that couldn't have been handled in a backward compatible way.

I know this because every change I've heard about is reminiscent of a Perl5 change where backwards compatibility was not broken.

The transition to Python 3 was not handled anywhere as well as it could have been.

There is a reason Go2 isn't copying Python3.
(Strangely they seem to be copying the Perl5 update model even though they don't realize it.)

The thing is that because Python has an unhealthy fixation on “There should only be one way to do things” they rejected things that would have made the transition easier. (Or even less necessary.)

I think it is kind-of telling that someone thought it necessary to create Tauthon.
Tauthon is sort-of applying the Perl5 update model to Python 2.7.
Notice the first search result URL is different from the ad URL. That probably explains why they display both.
The Times, by publishing classified information, were themselves potentially violating the Espionage Act (according to the government's assertion) - so the principle applies in more ways than by proxy. Which is why it was vital that the courts ruling affirmed the importance of a free press, despite laws that might be used to gag it.
Agreed. I joined the military out of HS and got hurt in a car accident. Nothing serious but enough to keep my from PT-ing for a little. They had me do something like C25K as part of rehab -- lots of run a lap, walk a lap, repeat x 10, with increasing amounts of running as I progressed. Worked okay, got back to reasonably fit in a couple of months.

Few years later I'm a softbody IT guy looking to shape up, and decided to follow the reddit C25K sub -- it killed my shins. Bad splints, had to cut out running for a while. I got there eventually but I think 60 minutes of biking or eliptical + leg workouts did more for me than the C25K (as written) did.
So, you can buy good quality springs from China and Russia. Yet German suppliers are preferred, because they have better quality guarantees/control, I guess.

You realize that it's insanely easy for "knowledge work" to be replicated? Much more so than any manufacturing. China already does it.

What does that leave European and American companies with? Quality. It can apply to tangible and intangible goods equally well.
I wonder if they are using this in Android Messenger or Gmail for the suggested responses.
Gab is not "Neo-Nazi Twitter", lmao.

Gab was offering a solution to get around censorship of comments on various websites, so that people could comment freely.

Some people got mad that they couldn't effectively silence other people anymore for daring to have non-mainstream opinions, so they smeared Gab as a site that supposedly hosted "Neo-Nazis".

Gab does not host "Neo-Nazis", but Gab nevertheless has other issues... in that it's starting to desire to become more and more like Twitter, unlike its original goals.
> the pitch for Roam imo is that the #1 challenge of modern business is scaling communications

I completely agree with this, but I think it's naive to think this is fixable by some tool.

Scaling communication is just innately hard problem - the most efficient you can get with communication is if you can keep everything inside one brain, next best thing if you have one colleague with whom you talk all day, then it's still quite OK in a small team, then you get multiple small teams, then multiple departments, located in multiple locations, continents etc.

There can be tools and processes to make this a bit more efficient but you won't remove this problem short of doing some sort of telepathic brain interconnect.

And existing tools (like confluence etc) are already getting getting quite close to the local optimum, of course you can improve upon them, but nowhere near the claimed 10x improvement ... that's just bullshit marketing talk.
Trader joes was not a german export. It was started by a Californian, and sold to a german family.
Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s enabled by default or if they use some bullshit dark patterns to coerce users into opting in - it’s in Medium’s best interests to do so as they get a cut of any profits.
I would advise you to make sure that a factual claim is false before you start going around calling it "vile".
Abstraction or Leverage? (2013)
credit cards have higher fees than 10c per transaction. It's not the transaction fees, it's the friction in its use that prevents users from wanting to use it, and it's the tax implications in its use that prevents business adoption.
The value is that it's providing a platform to authors who want a platform where they know they'll get readers

That's providing value to the authors, not the readers.
What's to stop this from falling into the same trap as always? They grow, user donations aren't enough to sustain them anymore so they have to look into alternative ways of getting money, users hate it, they start a spinoff that promises to be better, rinse and repeat.
any plans for a mac app?
Show HN: Universal Tooltip for Mac. Programmable. Works with Every App
Hello HN!

I'm Tanin, and I've made a universal tooltip to help me eliminate clicking and typing. It has been working well for me, and I'd like to share it with the world.

Tip is a universal tooltip that shows useful info at your fingertip. You simply select a text (in any app) and hit the short keys to activate the tooltip with useful info/action.

"Useful info/action" is programmed by you using your fav programming language, and this works with every Mac app.

I have 2 examples that I use frequently:

* Convert seconds/millis to human readable time: https://media.giphy.com/media/f952ZuRG9kqCoxGt8v/giphy.gif

*Select an error stackrace line and open that file with that line in IntelliJ/Github: https://media.giphy.com/media/JSYWptFElQmDJOXzXO/giphy.gif

You can customize it fit with your workflow.

Any feedback is very very welcome, and I hope this is as useful for you as it is for me.

Interested? See how to use it here: https://github.com/tanin47/tip
Thank you--have a call w/ them tomorrow.
> Two steps backwards in every conceivable way. The giants gain more invisible power and powerusers suffer decreased productivity/privacy. Not going to happen.

I agree with the first two sentences, but disagree with the third. I believe that this state is actually the intended end goal.

Previously, for many years, I browsed the web with Javascript disabled. At the time, this had very little impact on my browsing experience; perhaps some of the layout would be broken, but not in a way that would interfere with the functionality or content of the site.

Nowadays, not only is this totally impossible, blocking even a subset of a site's JS (such as through uMatrix) is trial and error to get the site to load at all, or to do simple tasks like click on a "login" button.

With Google's plan to "phase out" cookies [0], I expect the web to become even more opaque and difficult to modify "on the fly" -- that is, on the user's local machine prior to displaying the content. In particular, this will affect ad and tracker blocking the most, as the pain from effective ad blockers starts to bite harder and harder.

So, when you say "The giants gain more invisible power", that is true and desireable from their perspective, and since they write the code that actually underpins most web browsers, why wouldn't they?

When you say, "powerusers suffer decreates productivity/privacy", yes, that's absolutely true. Why would they care? It's such a small fraction of their business. Some users will go to more and more extremes to preserve their privacy, eventually accessing only some small subset of sites from an esoteric Kali-derived distro, and others will capitulate and shift their behavior back to the herd.

In the end, the giants still win.

[0]: https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/google-says-chrome-will-end-s...
Some people are up there at nearly 3800 years so far, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir
In my experience the difficulty of picking up Rust is most pronounced for people experienced in other languages that have common design patterns that are discouraged or made impossible by Rust. It's harder to unlearn something that from your point of view works (even if it had hidden or clear drawbacks) when you're also having to learn other things simultaneously. Also, I feel the biggest hurdle Rust has for experienced developers from other languages is that Rust makes some ineficient code visible, but the way of optimizing it requires delving into more advanced parts of the language, frustrating people when they are most "vulnerable". This is where the common piece of advice for people starting with rust "just clone for now and don't think about it" comes from: get used to the language first and deal with borrowing on its own at a later time.

But all of this frustrating learning curve comes to fruition later in when writing code because the experience is closer to pair programming with the compiler rather than trying things in a vacuum on your own.
Even granting Marx wasn't particularly specific, the specific invention of Leninism, the Party as "intermediary" between the proletariat and History with a capital H, is conceived of absolutely nowhere in Marx's work, but the 'perversion' of Marxism to Leninism to Maoism is no different than the 'perversion' of Agile to Scrum to SAFE; there's no 'perversion' at all, because the idea of "lineage", while it works for and describes sequences of organic structures, is completely unfit for understanding ideas and how and why they change, to the point that its difficult to really use the word "origin" when it comes to ideas, particularly when each phase distinguishes itself from the last by what problems its trying to solve, the constraints on solutions, etc. We can only really talk about them being related insofar as there are structural identities in the concepts but that's about it.

If this is clear and understood, congratulations, you basically understand the gist of the French historian Michel Foucault's criticism of modernity (it supposes origins and progress when no such thing actually exists, so how do we talk about politics, history, ethics?), a criticism which would go on to inform all of contemporary Left politics, including contemporary progressivism and identity politics.
Most people don't even know what it is, they just know it's ugly and painful and taxes are hard.
Do you consider "exploitation" here to be negative or unethical?

He is willingly using Google because the provide amazingly useful services completely free of monetary charge. Are you objecting to the fact that Google benefits in some way by providing this service?
They could rebrand it as the 737 Cargo since I think a lot of potential passengers feel just like you.
One of the oft-unspoken things about refactoring is that it's a way to do a rewrite without anyone noticing. Essentially it's the Ship of Theseus gambit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

Later on I realized a sort of reverse Catch-22 in this: The people who are most capable to do a rewrite are also the least likely to ask for one. They will just do it.

An official rewrite often just becomes a pressure release valve. During the early stages nobody can measure how the team is doing, so the team gets a break from scrutiny. Whether that's healthy or not comes down to a lot of factors, but the odds are in favor of it being unhealthy.
Ubuntu – Removes Ubuntu-web-launchers from desktop-recommends
>what's the deal with showing an advertisement for the same result that's number one?

They paid for the ad. They probably leave it up as first organic results because some people think clicking ads is malignant.
You choose the password. Most of Apple's encryption nowadays uses AES (since they have good hardware support for it), so it is probably that.
Check out StartUpsForTheRestOfUs.com, if you haven't already.

Rob and Mike have great info, start in the archives.

Rob will mention his stair step approach to leveling up.

You can follow him from drop shipping beach towels, an invoicing app, to a SaaS app to co-founding Drip through to his exit and now funding companies with TinySeed.

You only get so many at bats to start something, so pick a good idea and then focus your time on it when you can.

I'm going through the same thing as you, I've been dreaming about it and had many false starts the past 10 years. I finally have the right idea (I think) now I just need to execute on it.

For inspiration I'd recommend listening to this once in a while.

@DHH Startup School Talk '08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY

Good luck getting things off the ground.
What points? You make it sound as if he stood to profit from this when the outcome has been clearly the opposite, and he himself had predicted it to be as much. His family has been getting death threats as a result of his work, and these carry a lot more weight in Brasil then they would in some country like the US or somewhere in Europe.

He is a very credible journalist and his story was widely well-received, his methods of procuring the information aside. If you have disagreements you should state them instead of just stating that you 'have them'
I got addicted to del.icio.us in its heyday, so once it got acquired and subsequently sunset I wrote https://savecrate.com and haven't looked back. The ability to save anything (public/private) without having to weigh whether it's "important enough" and retrieve it quickly via search/tags (eliminating the necessity of messy folder/hierarchical structures) is indispensable to my workflow.
This used to work great and is still my preferred method of back up, however for at least the past year it has been extremely unreliable. I have to manually load iTunes on my computer and initiate a back up from there because it never happens automatically anymore. And there’s no way to manually start the Wi-Fi backup from my iPhone anymore (that was removed in iOS 13). Maybe it’s more reliable if you use a Mac instead of a PC, but at this point I get a full backup maybe once a month, and often end up plugging in via USB cable in order to even get that.

(to clarify, my desktop PC is always turned on and connected to the network, so most of the other complaints in this thread about it not working with low battery laptops or whatever don’t apply in my scenario. Even in my ideal-case scenario it still barely works)
I have been thinking a nice time to go would be at the finish of an evening of tango. If my wife is still alive we share our final dance feeling the depth of our connection. If she has gone on before me dancing with friends and a bunch of lovely ladies 60 years younger works too. Assuming I make it to 90+ yo.

Though I would like to say a final good bye to my kids. Hm. They would appreciate me making a tango exit from this life, too. So all good.
They probably have a very different idea of "paid" from the companies creating the software. Even though you "bought" a piece of software, it's more accurate to say you "licensed" that software. Buying something in a box doesn't change this in the eyes of the law and companies take advantage of this.

What can be done to change this perception? If "software is eating the world" then it's hard to see where this ends. Soon you'll have ads in your car, or on home appliances.
Show HN: TheInternetBackup – Internet crowdsourced domain database
> It is not a requirement for AMP. CDNs now let you roll your own domains on the AMP standard

All these certificates do is make it so Google's browser (and only Google's browser) will mask the fact you're on Google's domains if you sign the file a certain way.

If anything, this shows more anti-competitive practices -- they're adding features into their browser that specifically benefit a features of their search engine.
To be clear, I agree with their comment and tried to double down on their point that it's a tough nut to crack. I improved my opening line.
We're currently investigating. Should have more info soon.
I agree python seems to have taken over in this space since then (7+ yrs ago) and is usually a better tool in bioinformatics, I was just using the tools I knew as an ops dude.
I think the GP was being sarcastic
Usually talk of astroturfing on HN gets you and admonishment from the powers that be. Let’s see what happens.
They display both because Google is selling ad space on searches like these, where people search the name of a site. If that site doesn't buy the ad, their competitor will. So sites are being forced to buy ads on their own trademark.
from the politifact article - "A fair statement would be that some scientists have predicted summer ice free Arctic Ocean as soon as 2013, but others expect it to happen a little slower — say 2040-2060," Schmidt wrote.
Windows Subsystem for Unix...
I'm so done with Apple, but more generally, with cell-phones. I was very excited to have Signal available back in 2015, but when I learned about cellular baseband processors and DMA attacks, I realized the whole smartphone stack is insecure. We can't audit anything in our phones, down to the cellular chip.

Even if our phones were 100% trustworthy, they are triangulated by cell towers thousands of times per day. Location tracking can only be avoided by:

1: Not owning a phone.

2: Powering off your device and keeping in a Faraday cage while not using.

Tempting to own a cute little purse that blocks phone signals, but do I really need a cell-phone on my body, 24/7?

If I evaluate the overall pros & cons of my cellphone, it has been overwhelmingly negative. I've had a phone since August 2014, when I went to college. Before that, I would text with my parents' phones.

Here are the top negative things that have happened due to using a phone:

1. Miscommunication, isolation, social anxiety due to social media and texting. Talking in person is so much better. And what about the hours and hours of snapchatting, so pointless and sad looking back.

2. False sense of security, thinking you can know what's going on, help people, intervene when necessary (friend sexual assault stuff at parties). What about when their phone dies? It made me wish we had landlines, or that I had been there. If I didn't have a cell phone, I don't think I would've left the party. I would've stayed and kept watch.

3. Poor posture, lack of sleep, constant exposure to blue light (who knows if the light is really bad), etc.

4. Missed connections by having my head in my phone all the time in public.

5. The US government has a total map of my life since August 2014, even though I have sent thousands of encrypted messages and hundreds of encrypted phone calls.

6. Less time available each day. I have spent typically 1-3 hours per day on my phone since I got one, about 1,980 days ago. This amounts to probably 4,000 to 6,000 hours, or about 170 to 250 days. In other words, about 1/8th of my life since 2014 has been dedicated to bullshit technology.

Here are some positives:

1. I have lots of photos that would otherwise have required a camera. But I have dozens of film cameras and a few digital ones, and there's no reason to shoot photos on such a tiny format. Good luck printing cell-photos beyond 5x7 or even 8x10.

2. I occasionally talk to family. This could be accomplished with a landline.

Maybe I've missed some things, and maybe I'm being pessimistic, but the reality is that I've lost lots of sleep and experienced more problems with interpersonal relationships as a result of having a phone. It's likely that not owning a phone would expose me to a new class of problems, but I've decided to get rid of my phone.

I'm in the process of switching accounts and removing 2FA, so I don't need cell service. Once I get there, I'm planning to write a little blog post about it. After having a baby, it's become clear that a phone is sucking my life away, and I need to be present with my family. Hope to have this all dealt with in the next week or two.
No, users should be selling used items on a different marketplace specifically for used items.
Google Introduces Flax: A Neural Network Library for JAX
Chinese academic suspended after claiming Python clone ‘independently’ developed
The "rules" that the borrow checker enforces are the rules of functional programming, except in an extended form that adds flexibility to many tasks as opposed to removing it. The main point is to not share and mutate objects at the same time, because that comes with inherently unclear semantics and a high potential for bugs. (Rust has mechanisms for shared mutability, but even those trigger runtime checks to ensure you aren't actually doing anything that would be bug-prone in that way.)
is "army" the correct term here? It isn't used in the article.
We don't need to think about it, the west has largely accepted that a journalist's role is to report the truth of what is happening, and to speak that truth to power. Charging somebody with a crime for upholding that responsibility is corruptly antidemocratic. There are no ethical quandaries to consider unless you feel obligated to play devil's advocate for power holders.
I got a bit tricked by the title here on HN. Maybe we can replace `talk` with `write`? Thought this was something that could learn how I speak and could generate sound from that, but seems to just be able written language, which is not nearly as interesting (for me).
I'm curious how this differentiates from Nim other than the builtin types for bfx stuff. Still cool either way and great to see something else joining this space.
Google is always thinking on human prosperity, for a small subset of humans, of course.
It wasn't some attack. The guy behind the Daily Stormer stated publicly that Cloudflare not shutting off his service means they agree with and support the Daily Stormer's content.

> The tipping point for us making this decision was that the team behind Daily Stormer made the claim that we were secretly supporters of their ideology. [0]

That's in a blog post which is a follow up to a leaked memo. [1]

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/

[1] https://gizmodo.com/cloudflare-ceo-on-terminating-service-to...