skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a really inspiring federation of 40-ish tech worker co-ops in Argentina called FACTTIC[1], who have been developing a neat process called FIT[2] by which they share work amongst themselves via regular check-in calls. It's almost like they're part of a big meta-company together that shared opportunities based on their needs (e.g., who needs the money the most, etc.)

Here's a video of a presentation they gave on the format:
https://agaric.coop/blog/show-and-tell-agaric-sharing-work-o...

The most exciting part is that they're now trying to share the model with tech worker co-ops abroad, and maybe even figure out how to build similar trust between international co-ops.

Disclaimer: I'm a member of a new tech worker co-op in Toronto, Canada (Hypha[3]), and have a big crush on FACTTIC.

[1]: https://facttic.org.ar/
[2]: https://facttic.org.ar/fit/
[3]: https://hypha.coop
It's not anti-Firefox. It's anti-the-other-browser-that-you-use. It doesn't bother me at all. There are other, more serious things big corporations can do that make me worry.
Monitor setup is already a problem, I regularly switch between laptop screen, 1 monitor, 2 monitors or a TV.
Not really. It uses a completely different paradigm. 3 screens next to each other. One is notifications, one is a list of installed programs, and the third is a scrollable list of open apps (somewhat similar to tabs in FF for Android). It was later used (and greatly refined) on the failed Blackberry QNX-based devices.

SwipeUI winds up very usable on a phone, but basically unusable everywhere else. This is in stark contrast to the webOS paradigm which is much closer to a macOS desktop (dock at the bottom, menu always at the top left, settings always at top right, and modified/improved deck of cards "expose"). Because of this, scaling webOS to tablets or even desktops isn't difficult.

If Steve Jobs had seen the webOS UI, the iPhone would definitely be using it today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaQM8vVjuE4
If W10 is on 800,000,000 computers[1], and it costs each user 1 second of productivity, then every time that ad shows, Microsoft is stealing 222,222 hours of productivity from people and businesses around the world to advertise its subpar browser in an operating system they've already been compensated for.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-says-windows-10-is-n...
> Why are they so heavy handed on the windows side of things, I don't get.

It smells of desperation on the product management side of things. They can't show growth anymore.

I'm not saying they should just give up, but folks, be a bit more dignified over there. Your company's doing great and Windows still does a pretty decent job in many places, cut the crap... At some point you have to accept that Windows is the mature partner, not the hot 20-year old :-D
I wonder i you could exploit this 'bug'. Offer some cheap bought products for way to much money via Amazon. Boxed in wholesale boxes with clearly visible original barcode.

No one ever will buy your product, but it will be sent out in error, customers can keep it and Amazon reimburses you for it.

Repeat for profit.
Look at the comment I'm replying to.
Ciara storm: this is how the 80km/h wind looks like
But billionaires can also decide to spend their money on projects that work against the public good. Including those that subvert the value of government spending.

Philanthropy is - at best - one side of the coin.

The other side is the anti-democratic identity between >$1bn net worth and political leverage. (Actually that leverage probably starts at around $100m - although the more you can put on the table the harder you can push to tilt it.)
"Gel" pens are a good compromise, involving a ball but requiring less pressure. As are "technical" pens, although a bit pricey.
The prominence of the ad tells you how important browsers are both to revenue streams and computing experience.

So many apps are now delivered over the web the OS is becoming increasingly irrelevant.

The rise of the web has done more for the viability of desktop linux than anything else.
Presumably an AppleTV is only as good as the apps you choose to run on it. I'd love to see some analysis of YouTubeTV. I recently saw a stat which claimed YouTubeTV only had 2M subscribers, which seemed critically low to me.
Isn't that more a problem with a specific product (NetApp) ?
Wall of Shame | Capture User-credentials by dynamic traffic analysis
Wall of Shame is a framework used for capturing user credentials and sensitive device information by dynamic traffic analysis and evilportals.

Author: https://twitter.com/theevilsyn

Link: https://github.com/teambi0s/wall-of-shame/
"Buy local" is not xenophobic.

Everyone knows that "buying local" is about supporting local jobs/industry. There's nothing xenophobic about caring more about your neighbors than some people you'll never meet thousands of miles away.

If it is to be a meaningful term, xenophobia has to be about fear or hatred. It can't mean "favoring local over non-local".
"I taught my six-year-old lock picking, and now I have two problems"
A Tale of Two Software Teams
Rocket Starship may launch this spring, rideshare wars heat up
Once bought spark plugs for my car from Amazon. I got three new ones and three from the Amazon Warehouse since those were about 30% cheaper and I figured what could be wrong with spark plugs? Got the right box, wrong spark plugs. Returned them. Re-ordered. Got the same spark plugs. This time I marked the boxes with and plugs with a permanent marker. Returned them and reordered. Got the exact same ones. Finally returned and ordered new ones. I am sure those same plugs are still in the mail going back and forth between Amazon and frustrated customers years later.
My comment is unrelated to what you can do, it's about what you should do. If you can afford weekday humans in the other parts of the process, you can afford a weekday release.
> Maybe it's only every 25th box that has a barcode sticker

In that case the OP should consider themselves the (un)lucky one since they several times happened upon box no25!
It also has to be viable for the users paying for it, or they'll go back to taping it off the radio.
There has to be a common namespace, even if it's controlled by a different entity that's transparent, fair and non-profit. Fragmentation of the namespace breaks the internet. Starting a parallel namespace doesn't address the core problem: the privitization/commercialization of names, registrars and the meta-registrar were all extremely bad ideas because publicly-traded companies are selfish, omnicidal and suicidal. All non-country TLDs should be run at actual cost by one entity that is a nonprofit. No more commercial registrars or meta-registrars; per-country registrars can do whatever they want. If people want to auction-off, buy or sell domains in a marketplace, that's their business. Let's not not solve the problem by avoiding it with phony solutions that cause more problems. Petitions won't work either.
Because we never did it in the first place.
I have to wonder who is responsible for this bs. I admire several aspects of Microsoft, but then things like this appear. It would be ok (barely) to promote the browser in the OS, but to mention a competitor explicitly is just bad.
Perfect thanks.

That all seems fair. I wonder how many people are put off by the 15k buy in? That's about 500 euros a month for 2.5 years. That's a lot for many workers imho. I wonder if its tax deductable...
Nokia had a problem long before that. They were trying to play on too many playgrounds. They had S60 and Symbian as their workhorse OSs and then were dabbling in various custom Linux stacks (I had an N800 back than, GTK+ based - could skin it like a tricorder - fun times). Then they acquired Qt (Trolltech) and instead of building a UI on the Widgets tech stack they wanted to re-invent the wheel with QML - which is how the Qt framework became this weird two GUI frameworks in one that don't really mesh to this day.

Granted, Google was also just throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what stuck, but at least they are a tech company with multiple revenue streams - while Nokia wasn't either of those - so without a laser focus they were doomed from the get go. And they did not have it.
I think there is potential to reduce costs of operating a business with a blockchain by removing a class of middlemen through better automation and standardization. Here's some examples that might work:

- If we run all transactions a business makes through a blockchain with the right tooling the accounting & taxation could be massively automated, submitting P&L reports and other extremely expensive accounting processes could be completely replaced with code

- If all IPOs were run as ICOs, it would take out an entire class of banker, who are currently extracting value that could be captured elsewhere

- Any service that provides one-sided transactions. E.g. donating to charity - you could build a cheaper and more transparent service that allows people to donate to a charity, directly into their accounts (and potentially onward). Imagine going onto justgiving.com and donating directly to a recpient without any middle-men (aside from the blockchain itself)

I'm not sure how much of the blockchain trust model you specifically need for this, but if you think of blockchain technology as an open data structure and global, distributed computer the use cases start to materialize, even if we're not ready for them yet, if ever.
I think this is not for private users but for companies where the same or similar software and hardware configuration is used across systems.
No, yours relies on social proof (the post being public somewhere) as the timestamp. Nothing about what you described is different from just posting a hash of the prediction beforehand.
I agree, 2% is terrifying, try an online rng and see if you survive. Then try it for close friends/family. Its russian roullete with a few more chambers.
If the squatters have to do that, then their squatting has no value to them. The point of squatters is to eventually sell the domain and if all the domains look "in use" (so no parking allowed), the amount of people sending offers will fall.
For all the good they are doing, you'd wonder there's some alterior motive. Reminded me to re-read this article: http://pedrocr.pt/text/microsofts-love-of-linux/
People on TV/radio learn General American. They generally don't act with their native voices.
I'm still expecting someone to well-actually us and point out an obscure device that did both first, but to me these were the spectacular features. Resistive touchscreen + stylus was and is awful (qv the other thread about how you hold a pen, like a ballpoint a stylus on resistive requires pressure and can be hard on the grip. It's also extremely loseable)
In the US voter registrations are already public. How did Likud get a copy if that's not the same in Israel?
I will go out on a limb and say “normal people” do not consider this an advertisement. The ad itself is a basically an icon, just like all the pre-bundled icons for Office, that are presented as an option to use, and in this case the thing doesn’t even cost money. Despite the emphasis and importance some people (and most of HN reader fall here) place on privacy, the general desktop user base does not care.
As a closing anecdote, my office just upgraded everyone to Windows 10. My boss was still using Internet Explorer as his browser of choice. He was furious that he now couldn’t use his Hotmail menu bar and auto connect to his aol.com email by default anymore. He doesn’t have a clue or care about which browser he’s using, he just wants his things the way he likes. Privacy is not even a passing concern. He’s now on Edge.
> In what universe is that possibly ok - to put ads in a paid-for OS?

People have been accepting ads in paid products/services for generations. Cable TV channels have always had them, as have newspapers/magazines. Most movie theater chains run their own ads these days (not just trailers).

It's easy to see why Microsoft is dipping their toes into this - sadly, consumers don't seem to mind so much
still using Windows?
"Ads in a paid-for OS!?!"

Did you buy it and own it, or did you license it?
Synchronous daily standups are a waste of time
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Doesn't still make it okay.
How hard do you think it would be for those people to automate setting up basic template websites for all of domains they are hoarding?

If we were to apply this, as with any poorly thought-out rule, only legitimate users will be affected. Anyone proposing an "easy" solution to a complex problem should think twice before speaking.
The rise in demand is real
Scams (ICOs) and exchanges have raised new money recently and are hiring
Related, it's such a farce that people will recite and listen to some of the best-regarded _poetry_ in history, and do it in a totally different accent from the original, ruining its auditory aesthetic, and then say that people who don't like it are boorish and low.
Hi, a second degree cooperative is owned by 50% by workers and the other 50% from other cooperatives that are usually our clients.
As we are a research center, is a way to have a "close relationship" with those companies and to focus our research into their areas of interest or develop new prototypes for them.
As others have said, you could just tweet it (or a hash of it). Or post a video on youtube, or email it to a mailing list, or whatever. There's countless ways to publish information with a timestamp that's very difficult to fake.
I love how the Escher's work "Drawing hands" shows the "correct" way to hold a pen: https://moa.byu.edu/wp-content/uploads/lw355.jpg

I think I changed my grip after seeing the painting.
Surprised that apple TV isn't included in this analysis at all. I'd be interested to see that, especially using a short list of the 'most common' apple TV apps -- eg Netflix, Youtube, Hulu, HBO.
I heard a podcast last year that sums it all perfectly. The problem is that we all think outside of the box - so thinking inside the box is difficult.
Honestly the way it reads it was probably intended for Internet Explorer users but it smartly chose to display the default browser. Would love to see if it shows different for someone with only Chrome or Chrome as a default, vs someone with IE still installed.
I would recommend to check out some previous discussions. HN users share their automated daily tasks based on their problem and context.

1. Ask HN: What tasks do you automate? (337 comments) [0]

2. Ask HN: Do you automate most of your routine tasks? (27 comments) [1]

3. Ask HN: What day to day tasks do you automate? (7 comments) [2]

4. Ask HN: How do you automate your life? (8 comments) [3]

5. Ask HN: What are the small things that you’d automate in a software dev team? (9 comments) [4]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14782332

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390845

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18783598

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1521673

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19437560
You can specify the behavior. There is no unique user for each login, by default you are dropped to generic ssm-user. It's possible to set up a log-in into specific user based on the IAM username.

> The later would make any logging outside of SSM difficult
There is a way to tie IAM user to SSM. You have to request SSM permissions and AWS logs that. AWS logs pretty much every single API call so it's just matter of storing and auditing correctly.
> I’m wondering why the ICANN wouldn’t simply go to another company

Do also consider the cost of change. I don't know if it's worth it, and it might be worth it just for keeping the 'market' competitive, but this is another factor.
I was replying to this: "I just copied the data from WHO sitreps and the total-cases diff of diffs has been increasingly negative for three of the last four days."

In any case I disagree that the data from Wuhan contains any information. Even if you can magically model away all the problems in the data, the Chinese government is still a disreputable source. Chinese state media is notorious for only showing the CCP in a good light. When you see the words 'Xinhua News', what comes to mind? Propaganda right?

I don't understand why people think that China is publishing the truth now, when China is in crisis and freedom of speech is trending on Weibo. Surely this is the time to turn propaganda up to 11.

These numbers are the most powerful tool that the Chinese government has for propaganda right now. And given their penchant for it, the baseline assumption should be that they are being massaged into the narrative that Beijing wants to tell.
The term "domain squatting" is a dishonest pejorative; they're not squatting if they're paying for it, like everyone else. In most countries, people are free to buy houses and then not occupy them. Telling other people what they can or can't do with their property isn't democratic, it's fascist. If you can offer someone enough money to sell you an underutilized domain, that's fine too; if they ignore you, that's their prerogative also. People are free to buy as many properties as they can afford; it's called freedom. Try it sometime. :)
This is a producer coop and its not a worker coop
Thanks CCP

I'm sure the communist government had nothing to do with any of this
Because of scales of industry. They have to keep investing into their own data centers to keep their services (Google, YouTube etc.) competitive. Because Amazon has the largest cloud business they can afford to spend the most on theirs. Half the reason Google search is so hard to compete with is because of their investment into those data centers. YouTube has also long been the fastest most reliable video hosting site which makes it attractive to viewers and publishers thanks largely to Google investments in CDNs. Also, right now much of the features of things like Google Assistant, Lens and Translate rely on powerful server infrastructure.

If anyone has an edge on them in the cloud they can possibly come out with competitive offerings to theirs similar to how companies using TSMC has done to Intel.
I would argue that you did get more across the country, but the question is why is Mondragon more successful.

The other benfit they had was the isolation of the Basque region in Spain during the 1950s. They weren't served by railroads and the region itself is quite mountainous, so for regular people they tended to be the only game in town. In fact, their slogan at the time was "savings or suitcases". In other places credit unions would compete with each other so you couldn't establish a dominant position in the way that Caja Laboral did. Liberalization of the banking industry in Spain during the 1970s tended to level the playing field further. So you have the right mixture for a single dominant cooperative in Mondragon.
And Emacs uses a nice, simple, sane, universal configuration file format (S-expressions) while systemd uses .ini files (on Unix!), JSON, binary and no doubt something else somewhere else.

Hmmm, maybe it'd be worthwhile to just make emacs PID 1.
How to ditch single-use plastic in your life
If wikipedia is correct, the google acquisition of Android was two years before Palm launched WebOS?

Palm (and RIM) has a kind of first-mover disadvantage; they'd build a fantastic niche, and people loved their devices, but that inherently prevented them from building something completely different like the iPhone which could take the mass market and be "imitated" by Android.
(sudo) pkill Xorg should likely do the trick, but check e.g. htop (hit F5 to get a tree view) for the name of the root process of the graphics session.
Intimacy Coordinator
The old Edge is one of the best Epub readers I have ever used.

The new Edge, I have no reason at all to use it over Firefox. I hope no banking website makes it necessary to use Edge, as it happened with previous Microsoft browsers.
Who would "mine" on that chain, or the equivalent? How could something like that defend against 51% attacks?
a16z podcasts are cool to understand the applications of blockchain
The team behind Apple’s ‘Mythic Quest’ says video games aren’t the punch line
NASA detects a 1KM rock that could kill millions on rapid approach
God, nation, family.
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I've been rolling SSM out at work; 10/10 would do again.
Plano firm wants to help the region get the 'respect that it deserves'
Some examples can easily be found on the Walking Dead - three or four of the actors have a natural British accent but their characters speak with a southern American accent.

Also, as someone who moved from a small town in the Deep South 20+ years ago to a metropolitan area still in the south, I spent some time working on my accent.

I thought it was better but some of my coworkers working in India that I have gotten to know asked me was English my first language (it is) because they couldn’t understand me as clearly as other native speakers.

I still have work to do - especially as I move more into consulting and leading teams who may be offshore.

Not to mention that I use phrases and references out of habit that are well understood by native speakers but not by non native or especially people in foreign countries.
Isn't windows free now?
I started using the site recently and was wondering why no one responded to my comments. Then I realized the site just doesn't tell me
I actually listened to this interview a few weeks ago and thought it was an exceptionally good rundown of the basic philosophy of functional programming. Of course, YMMV, but I found Jones’s discussion of the history of Haskell and the discussion of laziness to be great. Nothing earth shattering or enlightening, just a good introductory talk that has some depth for listeners who don’t use and study functional languages as a hobby or career.
Domains are the virtual realestate on the web and we are all just tennants and not owners. So there need to regulation for this "market" against domain hoarding and price hikes. Sadly the US government doesn't care.
From what I can tell, with cpio :-D
Yes. I switched in 2010 and haven’t regretted it once. More fun, much less framework churn than frontend, and better pay. And if it crashes for some reason, you can switch to something else.

And learn native Swift, not React Native or Flutter or some other fad hybrid approach. It’ll be worth it in the long run.
Hong Kong shows that the CCP claim they care about stability is a lie

They are happy to destroy HK for a little more power
Yep. Busy bodies and control freaks shouldn't be allowed anywhere near power because they will abuse it and subject others to their fascist views. People should be allowed to do whatever they legally please with their domains.. it's their property, so long as they continue "leasing" them.
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NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID

from:digicert:

TLS Certificate is not trusted
The certificate is not signed by a trusted authority (checking against Mozilla's root store). If you bought the certificate from a trusted authority, you probably just need to install one or more Intermediate certificates. Contact your certificate provider for assistance doing this for your server platform.

Beside of that http works and isnt room 3 only closed once and never opened or am I missing something
This may indeed be a valid use case, and Bitcoin fulfills it. You don’t need to build a separate blockchain, you just need to know how to embed a hash into a Bitcoin block and how to point to it which is technically easy.

Also it’s unclear how a separate blockchain with this sole function would work. You need the monetary incentive of bitcoin mining and proof of work to make the security model work so that the time stamp can be trusted. The security of the Bitcoin blockchain is not a computer science problem, it’s an economic one. That’s why the only application it works with is cryptocurrency, with time stamping being a nice byproduct.