skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, somewhat.

XMPP was primarily about person-to-person communication, with group channels being a separate add-on.

Part of iMessage's popularity is the ability to have group conversations the same way as those person to person communications - to the point where SMS users may get excluded from conversations.

IRC is just a terrible architecture which is exposed in its protocol, but it will survive a long time because you fire it up to participate in a community, not just to talk to an individual person.

IMHO paid tools like Slack got adoption when we had pre-existing protocols and clients for decades prior because it works as a package community-as-a-service (imho, to the point of being a detriment to usability). We had the technology to solve the problem, but the packaging and focus made it a legitimate product.
If having to click on the logo to go to the home page sends you into such an apoplectic rage then I don't know what to tell you. If you look at, for instance, the .NET Core 3.0 release notes[1] there is no mention in the first few paragraphs of what it is. You have to click away to see it.

"I am repeatedly astonished that such elementary reasoning seems beyond so many."
Perhaps you're just wrong? If everywhere you go smells like shit you should check your shoes.

[1]https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-core-3-...
Serbian ‘cable war’ gets political
Well, I was always wondering if the Facebook-and-Russia-stole-the-election theme wasn't at least in part an excuse for not changing anything about policy or choice of candidates.

I don't doubt Russia would be interested in using social media to influence opinion, since radio, TV, newsprint, pamphlets, and basically every other medium ever invented has been used to influence opinion. But some of the concerns seem, not so much overblown, as an excuse. But, I would be interested to hear if any other HN readers know of other research on this topic?
Last time I checked, Pidgin couldn't do cross *nix/Windows videoconferencing. So I picked Jitsi instead.
Covariant Comes Out from Stealth
WireGuard on OpenWRT isn't too different or difficult.

The luci-app-wireguard package is a bit quirky at times though.

You'll run into cpu bottlenecks with some of the lower end hardware though.
All LEO internet providers have said they expect to use phased array antennae, which are not yet available at a consumer-friendly price.
The same video is uncropped on nso.edu and shows a timestamp. Looks like it's sped up about 100x.
That last part hasn't been true in quite some time. Since 2003, alcohol sales have been allowed on Sunday in Massachusetts.
FB has enough money, tech, lawyers, and infra to dominate whatever business they decide to aim their cannons at. It's not really about facebook dot com anymore. If they wanted to, they could destroy Uber tomorrow. You have to look at it more like a country than a business.
100% agree. A highly overcollateraled position (not drawn capital so it doesn't show up) can be used to magnify returns. If you're playing in marketable assets you can even have the lender hold the assets themselves while you trade.
I don't think I've ever seen anywhere like that. I live in the suburbs near Baltimore, and even the lower income and Section 8 neighborhoods at least have a playground for kids, most have basketball/tennis courts as well, or some big open field that anyone can use. Everywhere I've visited while traveling has been like that as well. The outdoors is especially accessible if you have a car, there are federal and state owned parks all over the place.
I completely agree with this. For decades, operating systems have been designed to make it as easy as possible for us to create our own ad hoc solutions to problems by combining subsets of tools in customized ways. A folder holds a project, which contains a completely file/app-neutral hierarchy of data files. A command line allows a constellation of tools to be combined via file/app-neutral means. Various types of scripting let you create tools that call tools. The GUI offered additional ways to use apps in combination. Copy and paste, drag-and-drop, save as... from one and open from any other that can read the file format.... Plug in or mount any kind of drive or mount via wire or wireless, and all is present before you simultaneously on your workbench/desktop/project directory, ready to be worked on with your favorite tools.

The OSes were removing friction and making it easier and easier to craft our own solutions from tools in an expanding and interoperating toolbox.

And then we got iOS and iPad and each app has its private data, no more command line, no more generic project folders, no file system access, not even copy and paste, and years of "well, I guess you could email it to yourself" or "just pay us every month for iCloud instead of plugging in a thumb drive" nonsense. Those restrictions are being partly and awkwardly eased somewhat, but we're being assured that having self-contained, pre-designed apps for everything is the new way. Apple (which seldom makes claims about the future) is telling us explicitly that the iPad is what the future of computing is going to be. That is not appealing to me, nor is it intended to be.

While it is true of course that you can do "real work" if "there is an app for that", you can't even write your own app for that without paying Apple a yearly fee and getting their approval to put it in the app store. I hope this won't be the only future of computing.
Rethinking Payment Request for iOS Chrome
Makes me feel pretty lucky that I spend an hour a day rain or shine taking the kids to school on my cargo ebike. We all get outside time and I think there are fewer fits from the when riding in the bike’s front box. I have a dual-battery Packster 80 with a 28mph motor on it. Gets across town faster than driving at rush hour and carries two adult passengers as long as they are fit enough to climb in and out.

If I didn’t have so much to carry I’d ride a Load, they have full suspension, mine only has front.
Suburbs frequently have parks, fields, courts or trails embedded throughout them.
>The outdoors isn't as accessible

should be noted that this foundation (which seems to have quite a big interest in promoting the 'outdoors industry') seems to define the term as "uninhabited nature" going by their listed activities.

Plenty of people are still socially active outside. I'm not sure why running in the city park, taking long walks or playing basketball on the court is supposed to be less valuable than hiking.
> In late 1980s Melbourne, Australia my dad and his best friend were accountants and bought their houses for ~$40,000AUD, ~3 times their annual income. According to the best friend, this was considered a lot to pay for a home

Something has to have changed since then.

What was the interest rate like back then and what kind of terms did he get for his loan?

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With so many people living in big cities, this doesn't surprise me. If you live in a big metro area, getting out of the city limits might take an hour or more and requires having a car. Outdoor recreation areas inside city limits or near city limits are already over-crowded.

That alone makes proper outdoor activities like mountain biking, rock climbing, or hiking difficult to do. The article shows pictures from Grand Junction and other parts of Colorado where outdoor recreation is generally easy and accessible, but a lot of cities make it far more difficult to venture out and in big parts of the country outdoor recreation just sucks unless you travel. I lived in Central California for years and moved away because hot summers, dry, boring terrain, and distance to decent trails made riding my bike or hiking extremely time consuming (or just lame).

If cities want people outdoors (and they should), they need big walkable greenbelts, and big parks with recreation options in or very near city limits. Many cities have really terrible options for getting out.
Keeping ‘Friends’ for itself at HBO Max dings AT&T profit
Fields where you have to start very young. For instance, it's very unlikely that you'll become world class in gymnastics, chess, or piano unless your parents were at least knowledgeable enough to get you very good teachers by the time you were ten. Sometimes, a nation that cares enough can substitute.
You still have to worry about Swiss intelligence. That being said, ProtonMail is a fine product and I'm happy to be a customer.
How to support new/learning devs in developing countries?
I recently came across a neat github repo, but the end of the readme broke my heart. He is an obviously passionate young person, but was largely unable to afford food. He had a PayPal link and said even 1 or 2 dollars would help a lot.

Naturally, I tried to donate a few dollars. I'm pretty poor by developed country standards, but not compared to this person.

Unfortunately, PayPal refused to send the money. They let him setup a PayPal.me address, but any donations are refused. Likely because he is in a developing country. I'm sure he doesn't even know.

This really stuck with me. This talented young human can't improve his situation effectively for want of ~$1/day for food. Obviously there are more factors, but adequate nutrition is certainly a limiting factor.

According to the Global Innovation Index 2014, lack knowledge and skilled labour are two big factors that hold back development of a country.

HN, how can we help people in this situation?

We have a large pool of folks with tech skills and often money to spare here on HN. Let's put our heads together and see what we can come up with.

I like to bootstrap things. I see a platform where potential sponsees create a profile and link their github. Sponsors can support promising new/learning devs with small regular payments and mentorship. I think it's important it's not just money, but also knowledge transfer.

There would be many challenges to face, both technical and social. Getting small payments to developing countries reliably and efficiently would be be one.

I'd love to know about any prior art, anything like this that has been tried or exists today.

Thoughts?
I love the Tcl language (it's fun). I love the Tcl community as well.
My foreign wife gained 30 pounds after moving to the USA. She attributes it to reduced walking and an increase in food consumption.

:(
Part of the choice to go car-less would include budgeting to rent a car for the occasional trip.
I play basketball, soccer and ultimate outdoors probably 15 days/month. Apparently that means I don't go outside for recreation.
Really? How would even a 3 degree change make going outside unsafe or difficult?
For those confused or angered by the definition of "outdoor activities" the article is about the "outdoor recreation" industry. Think REI, Patagonia, or Cabela's. So yeah, hiking will count but a stroll through your neighborhood won't. Climbing would, but soccer is out.

I would be very interested to see the numbers for a more inclusive definition myself, though still saddened people aren't hiking, camping, and generally spending time in nature a bit more.
Rebol's View DSL has similar power to TCL/Tk. You can write all sorts of apps in only a few lines of code.
You might be surprised by how many places have no yard anymore -- a huge number of subdivision houses don't have a yard big enough to throw a ball across. It's not like it was 20, 30, or 40 years ago. Where there was one house, now there are 8 or more.

Let's not even get started with the HOA rules, good luck playing in the dirt, digging holes, playing with toys and building forts and stuff. HOA lawn codes and such.
Not sure I've seen this mentioned anywhere before, but what we tend to do is build all of our dependencies in CI by setting `_PYTHON_HOST_PLATFORM=alpine-x86_64` and uploading them to an internal index.

This way when we go to build our final app images, there is no need to compile any python packages or install a toolchain. Our builds are generally under a minute or two as its just downloading and installing packages via Poetry/Pip.
Ironically if you look at a place like Hong Kong you'll see highrise right next to wild mountains. In North America, everyone wanting to be close to nature has blocked off the next person from being close to nature.
Except the data is nowhere close to the hyperbole.
I'd like to say the cost of a lot of outdoor recreation is really, really, high. People wanna say just "go outside, it's free." But... it's really not unless you live in a very rural area where you have your own land to wander or extremely close to a publicly owned land.

A lot of outdoor activities require investment to participate in. It's easy to laugh at the bicyclists wearing spandex until you try to ride a hundred miles and chafe your balls into a pair of blisters. Let alone a bicycle comfortable/safe enough to ride long distances without injuring you. Even just walking can be really damaging without proper shoes, or with bad ones because they're all you have.

For a lot of people, simply trying out an activity might cost a hundred or two hundred dollars once everything is done, and that's waaaaaay too high for most people. I think if there were public gear closets like the one referenced in the article or a bigger push towards communal access/usage of gear, the number would go up somewhat.
Commie syndicate sabotaging the majority union headquarter because they refused to call a strike.

Disagree with me and I will sabotage your office, typical alt-left.
I'll bite, since you could be in a really nihilistic or even self-hating space asking an earnest question.

_Being_ a person is inherently valuable, _making more people_ is not necessarily an inherent value. This inherent value is from the internalized perspective of the person doing the existing. The external recognition of this value is in - at minimum - recognition of inalienable human rights, as conveyed by documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Perhaps I am unfairly reading your questions above, but notice they seem to carry an implicit (to me) or (to you) at the end of each one. The idea of inalienable rights and corresponding inherent human value is that people do not have justify their worth (to me) or (to you).

This doesn't people can't or shouldn't strive to provide interpersonal, tangible or social goods beyond their inherent human value. It means that the encouraged interpretation of "existential original sin" is "As I develop as a person, I perceive more I could have done or could do better." BUT NOT "I started out worthless and must continually prove my value to person or group X until I earn value."
It emulates the UI, so the fake is noticeable, and it will be hard for them to maintain perfect 1:1.

RN on the other hand bridges the native UI w/ your code via a JS bridge. The downside is the bridge can be a bottleneck so you have to be careful how much you congest it. The result is being able to expose every native functionality and abstract it anyway you want using React extensions.

Flutter plans to target desktop and web, but RN is ready for this today.

Flutter requires you to learn Dart, a Google only language. RN you can use JS or TypeScript.

Are you really going to trust that Flutter & Dart are around tomorrow w/ Google's record? Why oh why would you build your project with something that risky.
An issue was filed about what platforms the project supports[1] and it appears to work on Windows.

[1]: https://github.com/jaemk/self_update/issues/21
I feel the author doesn't like the iPad even if his conclusions are absurd.
Thank you - I think you've managed to point directly to the heart of the hypocrisy I am seeing.

America put the lady who ran a torture center and deleted evidence meant for Congress in charge of the mass surveillance revealed by Assange and Snowden.

If that's off topic, then Assange and Snowden ought have been too. As you say, who could we trust to moderate or set rules for discussions like that. At the moment, we are supposedly trusting dang, and I don't. And I can't say that here because it's "off-topic / meta"... Because dang said so.

The logic is circular.

And while solutions could exist (you mention blockchain logs), and HN is supposedly the community for those very people who would be able to create / understand those solutions (techy hacker entrepeneurs), talking about those solutions :here: is off topic. Is that not a glaring double standard?
> Great design isn’t superficial, in the least. A great user experience is a great user experience... it doesn’t mean compromising because something was hard, and it doesn’t throw away how the product is used or has evolved.

I don't think anyone disagrees with that. The complaint I am making, is that a lot of UX design is superficial, and done for the wrong reasons. Most of what Mozilla has done is terrible.

They've essentially gutted their browser because they want to be cool like Google.
Classic google move. Remove the ability to pay with a normal card, in favour of their own payment platform.

Antitrust can't come soon enough.
There is still no hint as to what the cryptographic system is, although the new plaintext eliminates some more possibilities.

In 2005, the creator Jim Sanborn said [he'd] be "modifying systems and developing my own which would make it virtually impossible for [Ed Scheidt, CIA cryptographer] to decipher all of it". The question after that was always: if he expects a CIA cryptography expert would not be able to solve it, why should anyone else be able to?
Hot-code reload like in erlang isn't really a requirement in modern world in most cases. It also goes directly against immutable infrastructure we all going towards to.

In case of rust batteries aren't included so each network stack will require different strategies, but in general it will be more like nginx (or unicorn if you come from ruby world) style of reload.

In other words - it's possible, but why?
Venezuela as well? Basing that on suspected sigint flights near there lately:

https://twitter.com/Simon85205764/status/1221842394745884673...
It's not a blip. It's part of a pattern including GDPR fines that has a certain weight. At the end of the day any fine hurts shareholders at least a little but even if fines get so high that profit is decimated and stock plunges, as long as incurring fines is more profitable than other business tactics, and there is enough free cash flow to make liquidation unprofitable to private equity / corporate raiders Facebook will continue operating as it does.

Same as for any business.
I like to put upper bounds on the worst case, so I checked out the Wikipedia page on the 1918 flu, and it appears that this virus is only about 1/5th as lethal, and lacking a world war, shouldn't spread as easily.
Well, perhaps. But if you're right, then HN makes them more dimes by not turning into a sewer.

The point is, HN has different incentives from FB. That matters in the culture of the resulting community.
Indoor climbing is an outdoor sport?!
Interesting, I always thought it would be harder to hire iOS devs since the initial cost is higher - you need to buy a more expensive Apple computer and pay an yearly $99 subscription just to get started.

For that reason I thought that there would be way more Android devs. After all, a teenager with a regular computer can start developing Android apps and download the APK in a cheap Android device without paying anything.

On the other hand you mentioned _experienced_ native Android devs, while my thought applies more to junior Android devs, and maybe the two things don't correlate as well as expected.
Wait so...

>Readers don't get a "refund" for dropping a KU book 5% of the way through,

But...

Authors get paid by the page?

So Amazon basically gets to stiff authors on the refund that customers aren't getting but Amazon is applying internally to products customers use through their services by way of just not paying authors for content? Seems pretty fucked up to me and the only one that benefits is Amazon. Customers are left with something they don't want and authors aren't paid for their work while Amazon keeps the change...
FOSS implies restrictions on the developer in the service of end-user freedom, eg. copyleft and anti-tivoization.

Open source implies nearly unlimited rights for the developer, like BSD, MIT, or Apache.

With these idiosyncratic restrictions (noncommercial, research only, do no evil, etc) we typically say “disclosed source.”
Teslas mostly drive around in urban areas with too high of a density to be served by Starlink.
Fair to a point, it was merely a random click on a recently sold property, but it was a $20,000 kitchen remodel (permit 201608084481), a $7,000 bathroom remodel (permit 201408113562) and a new roof for $7,500. So not sure if it's really a bad example when 5 years + $35,000 in investment adds over $700k in value to a home.

You can review the permits here: https://dbiweb.sfgov.org/dbipts/default.aspx?page=PermitType...
Shorthand for "people who support civil rights."
Do they have an API or does someone have an archive with all the pictures?

One of the other frontpage things pointed at this: https://robottini.altervista.org/cartesio-low-cost-cartesian...

and now I want to build it and find some nice maps to have it draw and then see if I can build boardgames on them!
No mention of Psi? It was the most feature-rich XMPP client I had used. Though the UI felt quirky and less polished than Pidgin.
"growth rate matters vastly more"

Only in the case where you deny the existence of uncertainty in that number. Also, it's generally considered that infectious and lethal diseases rapidly evolve to become less virulent, since the people that are sickest tend to be more isolated.
I would assume this is because these are the recreation events that often bring Colorado tourism revenue.
Having tried the oculus quest, I'm quite terrified that FB will rise back as the central VR provider. They've got the best user experience as far as that goes right now, and Zuckerberg has made it clear thats going to be a future focus of the company
Same thing here. I gained weight moving back as well, due to lack of time and motivation for exercise since I am working without a real break, no walking for anything, and ubiquitous availability of comfort food coupled with high stress due to high cost of living and that work schedule noted above.
That's absolute bullshit then. Even a walk in the park should classify as outdoor recreation.
And to put that into perspective, their total spending is over 1,000k a year per employee.
I think I agree.

I have a list of "outdoor" places I want to visit for various reasons, ranging from a specific highway rest stop mentioned in a fictional podcast episode to national parks. All of these require a vehicle.

If I were to start visiting tomorrow, I would need to rent a vehicle.

Do I live in an urban setting? Yes. Do I still go outside for recreation? Yes. I am fortunate enough to walk, I am fortunate to have parks and bike trails within walking distance to my living place and I do those things, and like this.

Does any of this count as the posted article's "outdoor recreation"? Good question.

For me, yes. I get outside. I want to avoid cabin fever. I want fresh air more than two open windows giving a cross-breeze [which is also great].
"You issued more than $X requests per $Y seconds. We don't care whether you're scraping or not; try again later." for any values of X and Y.
This is actually a good use case for transferring USDT (tether token that represents US dollars) to him, but without a 3rd party doing the verification, you run the risk of getting scammed.

If he is gaining traction, other can clone the repo and create the same story.
But if we’re talking about ideals, then why wouldn’t you advocate for change towards great design versus stagnation? Now if you don’t trust Mozilla to pull it off, then that’s a different argument than so far has been made.

While I don’t personally know the designers at Mozilla, I’m doubtful that they simply “wanted to be cool like Google” and instead did their own research. I could be wrong but usually work isn’t so arbitrarily done for large products and teams.