skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Random feedbackless downvoting is more and more being clearly abused to censor seemingly random and perfectly acceptable comments. The fact that talking about it is against the site guidelines only makes the problem worse. HN needs to deal with this.

PG seems to understand that a community censorship mechanism needs safeguards. From http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html :

> I think it's important that a site that kills submissions provide a way for users to see what got killed if they want to. That keeps editors honest, and just as importantly, makes users confident they'd know if the editors stopped being honest. HN users can do this by flipping a switch called showdead in their profile.

How can editors be "kept honest" if a bunch of their minions can just downvote users for no reason and any complaining is forbidden?
This is classic israeli tech. If you're not aware, some people like to say that the israeli tech industry is divided into two - There's a lot of good talent working for the big multinational companies/startups that are targeting US/EU/Asia, and the local market gets the scraps that remain.
This is how we end up with really shitty local apps and services, but export really good product to everyone else.
It sucks - the local market is too small to have real competition, so shitty apps gain a monopoly easily and never budge from their spot.
This is just another example of the talent working for local stuff being bad, it's not new and it's not surprising, although this time it's much bigger obviously.
A few years back, a Ha'aretz journalist had to flee the country for a few years to avoid being targeted by the Israeli Security Service (Shabak or Shin-Bet) for having received leaked documents from a whistle-blower in the military. This was the Anat Qam - Uri Blau case. It's actually a bit more complex than that, you can look up the details.
Sorry if it came across as this way, this has nothing to do with her gender. I would have said the exact same thing even if it was a male author and I mean it.
In 5 - 10 years cloud might be much more important. Besides, Google has to get away from relying on advertising as fast as possible, because of looming regulation.
I want so badly to agree with you, but it's become rather clear that puri.sm is a bit of a sleazy company, or at least its leadership is.

I've spoken with multiple ex-purism employees who were laid off before the librem5 shipped. Their comments largely echoed what's in Zlatan's Phoronix interview. [0]

At the moment I'm inclined to support Pine64 over Purism. We're not so desperate for a linux phone that we should throw our resources behind poorly run, misleading companies.

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Zlatan-T...
Does it matter if it's large? I was just talking to a friend who started a small company, merged with a bigger company and thought he had done everything right. After a few years, he regretted selling the company. Small is beautiful. We learned this as children. Challenge the mantra of size and growth.
So if they get rid of eroski and just privatise it, you think they can go back to 70%? I think lagun aro still not up there in terms of people with vote rights, no?

But you work there so you probably know better
Every definition of "localness" is also a "made up geographical boundary" so I fail to see the distinction. It is precisely "it's from here" that my argument applied to.

I.e. a supermarket advertising "it's from here" produce is not xenophobic. From my experience, Spain is actually one of the countries in Europe where it is extremely hard to find local produce. Almost everywhere else I can find specific aisle for "it's from here stuff" and again I fail to see why that would be xenophobic. At least I always prefer to buy from there since it's usually more reasonable ecologically-wise.
The Size of Mondragon? No. But https://www.coops.tech/ lists some small ones.
The John Lewis Partnership in the UK employs about 83,000 so perhaps a bit bigger. Not strictly a co-op, but very close.
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hello everyone, hope you are having a good day, my background is CS in university after that worked on some agencies did many things, from back end JAVA EE to android apps, and recently (3 years ago) moved to do React and frontend mainly, I live in Copenhagen and have a decent job and a good pay
my question: is it worth it switching to IOS development and do that mainly for the next few years, my motivation is mainly investing more in the exclusive apple ecosystem, looking to expand my area and work in completely different constraints and runtimes

Also if you have a better career idea please suggest it

thank you
For comparison, another mobile handheld zombie, Siemens ceased production in 2005

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_Mobile

They operated with losses the whole time.
One of their last products (SX1) was actually running Symbian, it also was Linux compatible btw
Actually, Netanyahu is _continuing_ to push the use of the "Elector" application to the Likud party activists - even after the publication of how it is effectively a leak of all voters' personal data. So the "inadvertently" part is now in question.

Having said that - we need to differentiate between the intended use of the "Elector" app, which is individual record search, and the ability to obtain all records. The latter is due to a bug, and that's the leak. As for the former, I'm not sure exactly about its legality in the first place; perhaps others can comment on this.
Yes. And then to find out why a DEFCON-1 level revert was necessary at all: that's a deploy that you want to be prepared for, but you never want to use.
And as xorcist said https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22287837 it seems likely that Nokia really had finally figured it out with Meego (though I've never touched the thing myself). It was fairly inevitable that a decent #2 smartphone OS would be along sooner or later as soon as iOS had provided the competitive impetus and the blindingly obvious model to crib from.

OTOH it's also quite clear why Google would not have wanted to gamble on waiting around for somone else to get their act together, especially since it already happened to own the guts of an okay smartphone platform. Not only would a viable #2 have taken an uncertain amount of time to emerge, it could have turned out to be someone quite unfriendly to Google: it would very likely have been MS, after all. And after all (viz. __ka https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22287118 ) what other platform owner was ever going to be friendlier to Google search than Google itself?

And let's be frank, by the mid-2000s it wasn't really that bloody hard, from a purely technical point of view, to ship a decent mobile OS running on an adequate hardware platform. It seems pretty clear that in almost all cases, what was most sorely missing was someone with both the power and the taste to make an overall assessment of UX and say "no, this is shit, come back with something acceptable"; maybe to even make a few hirings or acquisitions if necessary to get someone competent on the problem. But this is one facet of one of the most remarkable and slightly strange things in the history of tech. Even by not too long into the '90s it was easy, for anyone with eyes to see, to look at a Macintosh on one side and a VCR blinking 00:00 on the other and see what the future of device UI was. But companies with massive resources and their very future at stake, including firms of impressive competence like Sony and Nokia, couldn't get there. Up to the early iPhone age it seems that the list of companies which could do good work in software-heavy/"smart" UI was roughly:

1) Apple

2) Microsoft, but only when Apple first provided them a detailed model to crib from. Not something to sneer at too much, because others couldn't do it even then

3) Some Mac/PC ISVs who could do good work, but purely in software and only inside the lines of the existing Windows/Mac platforms. (OFC by this time MS itself was effectively a Mac ISV with notions.)

4) Some device or HW startups who flailed around commercially (Danger, NeXT, Be, the set-top-box group at Sun which begat Java http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/javaorigin.html ...)

See also the iPod, Apple's Digital Hub strategy (Jobs' hope that consumers would buy Macs in order to make their consumer-electronics devices usable), Sony's catastrophic missed opportunity to turn PlayStation into an app and Web-browser platform https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22288538 , and the fear other companies felt towards MS even after Apple had been first to a hit smartphone.
You are right but it's comparing apples to oranges. If you compared missions of comparable weight you would find that capability of robotic missions increased many times over current missions, reason is that any human mission would be much more massive than current unmanned missions. This is especially true for long range manned missions where crew needs food, water, shielding and space to survive long term in space, for a robotic mission distance is just time.

What robots cannot do well is be flexible in their mission. This is something that humans excel.
Metrics matter – even for tiny projects
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Do you think restrictions on the marque 'Champagne' are xenophobic?
I used to get a really painful "cave" in the side of my middle finger, from the pressure that I applied to the pen, after writing a page or so. These days I'm barely handwriting, so I'm good.
I think his point is for the on-going operations of the company. Employees there at the IPO make a lot of money but those afterwards probably make way less. At many companies employees don't even get any kind of RSU/ESPP/stock option grants, etc.

Just as a though experiment, Apple Inc. has about 140k employees and had a net profit of $55bn last year. If they'd keep half the profit, you know, for a rainy day, they could give a yearly bonus of ~$20k$ to each employee. With 0 risk for the company, financially.

Now, I'm not sure how this would work out since generally cash based bonuses are considered bad for long term motivation, but it is something worth pondering, at least.
Debugging C++ Coroutines [pdf]
VPN services such as Mullvad (and I believe Nord as well) accept cash and crypto in exchange for their service. And both allow WireGuard, which is coming to the 5.6 Linux Kernel. Additionally, Mullvad has no referral model in place to attempt to track individuals via social graphs.
I try build something niche-y and cool and then automate it as much as possible. And: Price point is not usually the main selling point.

Because then: It's usually not big enough to be interesting for copycats, and with the higher price I avoid the "bargain-hunters" (in my experience these are the ones who will be the most time-suck with their communication and feature requests, etc) and have a decent enough margin to re-invest.

With a small target group, it's easier to talk to potential clients, they most likely have similar problems. E.g. if I build something like Trello, I will get wildly different answers when I talk to a CTO and when when I talk to junior devs.

I can always expand the target group, but I'll think about that later.
Which probably all helps to explain why SJ was so stung by Android and willing to start lobbing patent suits around.
Climb down a cliff using rope system.
It's time for a browser extension that filters out random Wikipedia articles on HN..
Thanks for the tip. I've changed the title.
> Had Nokia adopted Android and had Google allowed them to maintain MeeGo

IIRC that wasn't a possible option, thanks to Google's monopolistic practices that prevented other companies from shipping phones with Google's proprietary apps and at the same time shipping phones with alternative mobile OSs.

That was a mayor reason why technical people rooted against Android open-but-not-so-much and for any other available truly-free-software platform.
If by the international edition you mean global edition, then you need to know that it has problems. See [1] and [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22287045

[2] http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/3e/errata.html
The response from the company was hilarious:

> The firm that developed the application, Feed-b, commented that the vulnerability was a “one-off incident that was immediately dealt with"

Yeah... after a screw-up of that magnitude you don't even need a second vulnerability.
I didn't mean to criticize living in a democracy in any way, just highlighting the effects of it. But you expanded quite nicely on that point, thank you!

Sadly, I think the goal of implementing policies in support of "the collective" largely got replaced with populism and catering to and never ever doing anything to anger our holy cow "the economy"[0]. IMO the politicians in my parent's time where held to a higher standard than the general populace and that's why they could implement policies that, while maybe frustrating to people in the short term (remember when seatbelts weren't a thing? I don't!), lead to a positive outcome in the long run and people instinctively knew this and trusted their elected representatives.

Today... well Donald Trump sits in the White House and populists are flooding european governments, so of course nothing can get done if nobody is willing to make principled decisions.

[0] Maybe I should make it clear that the people who speak for "the economy" are oftentimes a small minority of leaders of very big organizations not actually representing the bulk of what makes up the economy of a country.
Is http basic over ssl a realistic solution in most cases?
If your line isn't big enough, it might not make a difference due to error correction
I don't get the ecological argument. Small batch local produce has to be quite a bit less efficient than large-scale production. Transportation has to be a small fraction of the total impact?
Yes,
We have some IT positions right now. My current position is Artificial Intelligence team leader on the ICT area and we are seeking for Full Stack engineers/researchers and Data Scientists.

Moreover, we also offer always the possibility to do a PhD in different domains. (power converters, batteries, embedded electronics, safety critical systems, wireless technologies, IoT , AI, etc). In my team we have 4 PhD students right now in collaboration with different universities.
Wow. You may want to take the opportunity to look at every aspect of your life and look for where you should be questioning how things are done. NM
I’ve studied ペン字 a bit (the art of writing Japanese with a pen instead of a brush as was traditionally done). Grip is emphasized as bad grip makes it very difficult to write beautifully: certain strokes become crooked and/or shaky. Posture is also emphasized.

I don’t think it has as much to do with chopsticks as children are generally proficient with chopsticks before they can write in my experience.
Note that's only when building in debug mode, which doesn't seem to be needed by many people.

Most developers who compile from source (eg working on LLVM itself) don't need that.

Building in release mode is much smaller probably ~5GB or so (from rough memory, it's been a while).
The climate mitigation gap: on education and government recommendations
Google Chrome to block file downloads over HTTP
Also in UK Food, https://www.unicorn-grocery.coop/ in Manchester is pretty cool.
I don't really think that's true. If you have a popular podcast like ATP, based on their ad rates, they're pulling in well into the six figures, for each host. Obviously that took years and years of work and an existing reputation, but it's not impossible.
Well, in the last couple of years they seem to have shifted from shipping books in a box with padding to shipping them in tight-fitting envelopes that damage the corners. So I guess that's a victory for the grotesque packaging team, at the same time it's a big loss for people who want to buy books on Amazon. :/
According to their FAQs: “En las cooperativas del área Industria el porcentaje de socios supera el 80%.”

That excludes the other areas (Finance, Retail and Knowledge) and the non-coop companies in the Industry area.
The concept it is not in Africa is not possible. It's 1.2 billion people, many single countries of much smaller size have multiples cases.

So they must be missing the cases.

Which means to me it will spread similar to the better prepared and richer China.

But it does depend when? The longer it takes to get hold the better prepared the world is.

I'd like laboratories and mathematical modelling companies to be predicting this under defined criteria and publicly putting their predictions into a repository. We need a way to reward correct models. Currently models that exaggerate get the media attention. The media won't state the obvious, "where are the African cases?" but will headline an academic who throws together a quick paper.
> Any good hashing function would already be uniformly distributed, right? In that case, using this algorithm over traditional ones makes little sense.

I think you're misunderstanding Paperweight's post and/or the idea behind flashsort. Hashes are uniformly distributed, hence you can use flashsort (instead of mergesort, quicksort, etc.) and get a time complexity of O(n) instead of O(N*log(N)).
Both. On an individual level, of course the sane thing to do is get out of their way. Doesn't mean they shouldn't also have the book thrown at them.
top talent +/- makes far beyond what regular workers would perceive as unjust.
It's interesting to see how adding of features correlates with the quality of a software. I haven't had problems with wifi on Linux since 2012 (when I came back to it from OS X after leaving 2006 with huge problems before NetworkManager was introduced, etc.). It was until two or three months ago after a kernel update my laptop started dropping the connection with my 5 Ghz network, only at home. It seems to be a common problem with the Qualcom chip driver which worked nice on this laptop for almost two years.

I like progressiveness a lot and also new features, etc. and I found a workaround (switched off 5Ghz at home), so it's ok and I can always install an older kernel too which is the freedom of free software, I wasn't able to do stuff like that on OS X.
I don't think asking what environment variables are available for application developers to use on the servers is an unreasonable request. It should probably be part of the platform documentation though. Logs, again there should be a documented safe way to do this (ELK etc.). SSH to production is not the answer though.
Relaxed forefinger, not bent inward like the authors original grip. The reason is that vertical downward strokes are made by bending the index forefinger downward.

Here is more detail (in Japanese):

https://youtu.be/0RlXSbI0YAc
A Perfectly Balanced, Plant Based and Scientifically Integral Meal Planner
Someone linked an article below pointing this is an oversimplification, but yes, importing produce from another continent (e.g. California when Spain has better climate for that) tends to be bad.
Google is not a search company, it is an ad company.

An ad company needs data about you. A search company needs data about web sites.

Owning Andriod assures that they get the data about you.

The rest is irrelevant.
Google Ranking Factors
Ball-point pens actually were very painful for me to use after breaking my dominant hand thumb. Fountain pens forced me to both grip and stoke much more gently, and even fifteen years later I still use fountain pens almost exclusively.
In France, in the game industry, there is Motion Twin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Twin

"Motion Twin is run as an anarcho-syndicalist workers cooperative with equal salary and decision-making power between its members."

Also, this is where the Haxe programming language was created.
It’s boggling to me that you’d imply that in order to “wind down” Gates needs to spend $650 million dollars. He is a human being and there is no evidence to suggest people worth 100,000 a middle class westerner needs to spend multiple order of magnitude more money to treat stress.

This is making me wish for more Jack Dorsey’s who spend mere thousands on meditation retreats.

Your coffee mug example makes your reflexive defence of billionaire excess even more obvious. I’m with Peter Singer and the Effective Altruists, we absolutely should criticize the rich for buying Rolex when Timex will do, and the savings can be used to buy medicine for sick children. The yacht is like 50,000 Rolex watches.
That’s not accurate. NUL byte is a byte with an all-zeros bit pattern, where a null pointer is a special pointer value (and thus pointer-sized) that can be coerced from the integer literal 0, but not in general from an arbitrary integer with value zero, and what’s more, a null pointer value is not guaranteed to have an all-zero bit pattern!
For more detail: https://www.heathrow.com/company/local-community/noise/opera...
I’m not sure if I’ve seen that, but now that I’m grown up, those statements look defensive.

He ridicules the price first, then later on says “it may sell very well, (pause) or not,”.

What’s being said is “it’s a problem if it sells”, and the most fundamental reason he gave that it might not is the price, not, say, lack of Apple’s expertise in the field or perceived clunkiness of it.
yeah except it doesn't because people run away screaming from the hospital when they get diagnosed for fear of quarantine facilities and conditions therein. (reports from HK hospitals, don't have source at hand, sorry)
"Never gave my consent for this" - You do realize that the state does not govern by consent of the governed, right? ...

More specifically - did you ever give your consent for everybody's biometric data to start being collected as well? They went ahead with this despite the pilot having established there are security concerns and despite public outcry against it.

I should inform other readers about the icing on the cake as well: The Minister of the Interior is a convicted criminal - Arye Der'i - who served time for corruption in this exact position. He is also currently under criminal investigation for corrupt dealings involving embezzlement of charitable organization funds in favor of some real-estate purchases. He was also implicated in the "Bar'-On-Hebron" affair during his last trial, where he was trying to get a convenient attorney general appointed in exchange for agreeing on the army withdrawing from occupied Palestinian city Al-Khaleel/Hebron. He wasn't indicted on that one because he had supposedly "quit politics" and was in jail when the investigation concluded.
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I'm not sure it's right to use the title Dr for someone who only has an honorary doctorate.

We don't say Dr J K Rowling, Dr Barack Obama, Dr William Shatner, Dr Donald Trump.

Why are we calling him Dr Peyton-Jones? He famously doesn't have a PhD.
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>> withholding fruits of labor from worker

How much of the worker output actually is his personal accomplishment, and how much is synergy effect coming from the fact that the employer gave them tools, materials, support of other workers, standard operating procedures, know-how? Therefore not all "fruits of labor" actually belong to a worker.
This book looks interesting, but it's unfortunate that there's no way to get the instructor's book for the answers to the exercises. Sort of diminishes the value of the book for self-learners.
He is really good at it and does good with it, so I don't fault him. Not my cup of tea though. I tried to listen to his podcast, but for the first 8 minutes he talked about himself and his accomplishments. That's a bit much self-regard for me.