skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you're saying that we shouldn't feel sorry for these 20th/21st century companies because of what happened in the 18th and 19th centuries? The whataboutisms are nauseating.

> Pretending this is somehow how China specifically operates is disingenuous.

No one is pretending this is how China specifically operates. This IS how certain entities from China operate. Especially certain SOE that have the backing of the CCP.
Thank you for your kind sentiments! I do what I can. I think most decent people who aren’t blinded by ideology are sympathetic when they find out what is going on. Two Syrian documentaries made it to the Oscars this Sunday, although disappointingly a film with an Obama association was given the prize.

I think it’s important to distinguish between regular people on the one hand and politicians and bureaucrats on the other. I still have faith in a large section of humanity, which sees these atrocities and is outraged by them, but often feels powerless to stop them.
My problem is these are my escapes. If I don’t use them then I do not know what else to do with my time.
Ask HN: Chrome Remote Desktop Service Down?
Approximately 2.5 hours ago Chrome Remote Desktop stopped working. There have been reports on twitter, but no acknowledgement from Google. Does anyone know if Google has a status page for the service? Anyone else seeing an issue?
It's functions similar to other mobile ad-blockers in that it can route all your phones traffic over a VPN tunnel it establishes.

But the ad-blocking vpn server is 127.0.0.1, so perhaps, like it says all the blocking happens right on your phone.

This is what I've been waiting for if this works.

Still getting ads on instagram though.
The corporate death penalty (i.e. judicial dissolution) is a thing in the US, but is very rarely used.

https://www.nytimes.com/1889/11/08/archives/against-the-suga...
There is more capital than there are good startups. Supply and demand.
Lately I've simply been keeping the slow activity visible on screen, it's been enough that the flicker of motion when it finishes can pull me away from the distractions.
While I agree that having Discord should be innocuous, a parent who has no idea what Discord is should know that it could be used to talk to (potentially dangerous) strangers online.

A simple "Hey (son/daughter), the police told me that if anybody on Discord tells you to download LOIC, then you're probably in with the wrong crowd" is what I would hope would come of this (along with the typical internet stranger danger shpiel).

I also am scared of the worst case scenario you present, but this brochure doesn't seem like that to me.
I'm so on the opposite side of this opinion.

To my view, the better tech aligned with the problem domain, the better off are developers and end users. Using typesetting format for rich UI apps is so far from what UI toolkits need and has created enormous amount of pain, losses and security vulnerabilities. Making it the only available option on the dominant software platform (web) made it the worst cataclysm in the UI software industry.

Like, in a slightly different turn of events, it could be Lotus or Excel spreadsheets format as a GUI framework. You can easily imagine how XLS becomes the dominant monopoly in UI toolkits and evolve chaotically to accommodate web demand for UI features. After decades of evolution and billions of lines of XLS and VB scripts, one could easily find "some things that work very well" with spreadsheets as a GUI toolkit approach. It doesn't make it a good fit, though.

Why would anyone think that using text markup language for UI apps can be a good idea?
I always referred to this practice as “tarpitting”, I was surprised to see nobody else here does!
The problem is that the law involved is flawed and doesn't actually allow you to sue and ask for damages.

The best you can do is report them to the country's privacy regulator (ICO in the UK), and well, Facebook, Google and thousands of websites with intentionally non-compliant consent prompts and dark patterns are still around, so clearly they couldn't give a shit.

My personal experience is that they're quick to tell you when your complaint isn't valid or should be referred to another agency, but when it is and they actually have to do their job, it's just radio silence even a year later.
That's precisely it. There will be plenty of books available before November, and their authors will have had a few months to digest what happened and its aftermath.

And November is the only time it really matters. Until then, you can shake your tiny fist, but in November you get to make a choice that counts, literally.

You could follow it in real-time for the entertainment value, if you want. But if you actually want to make an informed choice when it matters, you'll have no trouble finding a book that summarizes it, and it will take far, far less time than trying to keep up with it (and remember it all come November).
Oh, be mindful of VMS for sure. Eh, VMs, is it?
One example of Slack's decision making process is discussed in Jake Knapp's Sprint book. Essentially, create rapid disposable prototypes and test on real people to address specific problems.
That changed with updated bulb firmware. Initially bulbs would reset to their default state on power on, but they're now able to save state. The way I read it this behavior is not dependent upon the hub or app.

The Phillips app is so junky I just use the hard power switches somewhat frequently.

https://huehomelighting.com/new-power-feature-to-retain-colo...
Where is the lock picking lawyer when you need him? A little click on 3, some counter-rotation, and there you have it!
It seems like most of the people I know who spend hours a week watching political news end up having no clue who to vote for when it comes to local elections where they have the most impact. I've worked the polls multiple times and have seen this over and over.

A lot of the news is mental junk food, and the idea that they are doing it for a better society is usually just an excuse for a bad habit. Even on the topics the news covers, people are usually left with a cartoonish narrative that's often worse than being completely ignorant on the issues.
Gates 2020 Annual Letter
This also works incredibly well for cheaters in videogames.

Give them their own queue with their own games with other cheaters to play against, and as long as nobody is cheating in a way that breaks the servers, they can play their own version of the game if they want without ruining the game for those who don't cheat.
'jedberg hasn't worked at reddit for years, it's pretty ridiculous to use "you" and "your" there. Further, he was never in marketing, he was basically just a sysadmin. There's really no charitable interpretation of your comment that isn't just "Hey, let's yell at a guy who isn't currently and has literally never been in a position to where he might have been responsible for Annoyance!"
I think this is yet another post that falls into the trap of mistaking HN/Reddit -- fashion publications, really -- for something else. They're GQ or Vogue, not the New York Times. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22106559

The vast majority of developers do and always will choose well-established languages. If Go or Rust or Zig or Kotlin or Clojure or Elixir ever become truly popular, by that time they will have become established and "safe" (unless they were Microsoft technologies, but they're not).
A very good point. And we can't really say for sure if _you_ would have a better experience, should you decide to give it up.

I like the idea of providing people with more contextual and appropriate psychological support than just "hey look, some evidence that it can be a good idea to quit."
What Propelled the Cloud Revolution: A Developer's Perspective
There's kind of a big bump in using HTML/CSS/JS. It's easy to slap together some simple stuff, or fiddle with a web page, but you'll hit a certain point where you want your app to do something useful. Suddenly you'll be stuck reading about webservers, databases, Electron, and whatever else.

In some ways it's still easier to make a basic Java Swing application. You can just install Java and start working through tutorials.
The issue isn't that there isn't a lot of space up there (as the name would imply, there's a lot of room). The issue is that nothing up there stays still: everything is orbiting the earth, moving at velocities in excess of 7 km/sec (sometimes well in excess at very high altitudes).

Different space missions have different orbit requirements, so there is a wide range of inclinations, altitudes, eccentricities, and ascending nodes. Take a look: http://stuffin.space/. It's a very dynamic system with a dizzying amount of pieces in it.

The issue isn't so much mega-constellations in and of themselves, since presumably with good operations automation and standardized communications between operators we can thrust and avoid potential collisions as they arise, even with very large constellations. The issue is reliability: applying a small burn to nudge out of the way isn't an issue when one or both of the two spacecraft in a potential collision is operating and has propellant (although accidents still happen [1]), but if they're both dead, that's a recipe for a hypervelocity trainwreck.

That's why it's important to ensure reliable fail-safe de-orbiting of end-of-life spacecraft. The FCC is moving in this direction, but unfortunately the rulemaking is still pending.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision
US political and militarized forces protecting corporate interest for the sake of...what again? Upholding ridiculous IP law?

Is it naive to think that IP law should be disintegrated? How would the world, and more specifically the digital landscape, look if there was no concept of IP.
Boom

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How is this relevant to his comment? It seems like a non-sequitur.
SpaceX's satellites will be in relatively low orbits, which means that atmospheric drag will pull them out of orbit, like in a decade or two.

Even better, SpaceX's new Starship super rocket will make it vastly cheaper to put mass into orbit. That means it will become possible to put up a bunch of satellites that will collect dead satellites and other space debris and return them to the ground.
A parent who has no idea what discord is but sees this poster is going to get the wrong idea, be suspicious of their kid and their kid's computer use, get scared and react badly.

"Hey kid stop doing that, turn off the computer we're taking it away, I saw that on a police poster" is more likely.

You don't tell people to contact the police over innocuous stuff like this. It's ridiculous.

The police in the UK are institutionally ignorant of computers and computer use, and this poster is harmful.

(edit: Can you not see this for what it is? Fear and ignorance in poster form?)

(edit2: The NCA have said they were not involved in this poster. Looks like an ignorant local police/council screwup)
JetBrains Turns 20
“Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another.”

—— Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games.
I do FB for hobbies... The groups can be pretty amazing, from tabletop RPG resources to ham radio hardware support to just watching a favorite musician like Haywyre uploading "musical sketches." There's a lot of good stuff.
The impeachment is already forgotten.
Something I still can't figure out is: If I want to explicitly provide a mirror for videos of a specific account (or maybe just a specific list of videos), is there an app that can do it? Or is the website the only P2P implementation right now?
Terry was permanently shadow-banned, the subject came up quite often. He suffered from schizophrenia and would make racist and paranoid comments about 80% of the time, but his remaining posts were often pretty technical / insightful. As the victim of an illness it seemed unkind that he was banned, but at the same time a lot of his output was obviously very offensive.
hello Howon! Hope you're doing well. :-)

️ from Vinay (an old friend)
OK yeah then your case doesn't apply to my general question. I imagine that for something that is as visual as your topic, animation would be extra useful though :) (like showing with a slider how reflowing works in certain edge cases or something) Not to egg you on of course :)

And I see what you're saying on how it's hard to build on someone else's work, and how what is relevant to illustrate heavily depends on the viewpoint of the author. Still I can't shake the feeling that there is so much duplication. Maybe I should just look at differently. Anyway, thanks for weighing in.
> but all these always on devices have to be costing something right?

They probably are; that depends on how badly they're designed. But that doesn't mean they should.

Consumer devices aren't usually as efficient as they could be with some more design work, which I think makes people have a wrong reference point about how much power is needed to do things. As a counterexample and a way to reset the reference, consider e.g.:

- That there exist radio devices that are designed to run for years off a single CR2032 battery.

- That there are microcontrollers that can still execute your code while drawing nanoamps.

- My 9 m.o. kid has a plush moon with a string attached to it; when you pull it, it plays a loud melody (that part is mechanical) and flashes LEDs for ~30 seconds. Both are powered from the mechanical energy of your pull.

The way I see it, a typical device on standby and/or a typical wall wart not charging anything shouldn't pull more than some micro- or even nanowatts. So they shouldn't cost you more than a hundredth of a cent a month each. Now of course they do, there are probably some engineering constraints here (like more complicated devices wanting to keep RAM powered), and there are definitely business constraints (low-power design is more expensive). But to me, a device whose standby mode is noticeable on the power bill is simply broken.
well it is samsung... one of the largest companies in the world
Possibly the spymesat app. If you create an account and log in, apparently you can select satellites and task it to take images for anywhere between $500 to $3300.
Financial literacy includes knowing what various financial instruments are for.

Knowing how to think about your budget beyond the expenses that you have every single week or month.

Knowing how a credit card works and why that makes it dangerous. Knowing ways to avoid that danger (with or without a credit card).

Knowing what a bank account is for and how to open one.

Knowing what investing is, why it's a good thing, and where and how to get started with it.

Knowing what a credit score is, what goes into it, and why it's important.

Those are all important components of financial literacy. They involve knowledge that not everybody is exposed to. Using that knowledge does often require being able to add/subtract/multiply/divide.

But while math competency is necessary for successful budgeting and financial management, it is by no means sufficient for either.
Three of the four items you list work because the government will use force against those who break the rule which prevents rampant abuse. If you want a government run and legally protected safe space then sure. I suspect most people talking about them don't actually want that.
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It would have pretty much locked China out of the domestic markets of many Southeast Asian countries and closely coupled their economies to the US, making it harder to do business with China.

It's basically what China does today with their neighbors. Economic integration -> domestic power.
Same thing. I've never held a job longer then two years.
Not because of incapable of the work but because I get so burnt I shoot myself in a foot and end up "dismissed" "fired" "redundant".

I've been off work for three months now with little-to no money and it's the past three months I've only just started feeling myself again. I start work /again/ next week and I know the novelty of the new job will tick well, but when that wears off.. I will start to burn out again.

It's not stress, I can handle that fine. Its just so stale and no freedom.

I want to run another operating system other than "CentOS". Screw it, lets run OpenBSD for routing instead of $$$ DellForce9 where you have to pay $$$ to enable additional switch ports. But no, it's all got to be kept enterprise. I'm just bored of it as a whole.
Where do you get the boring stuff? Please, I'm drowning here.
> Participants receive $1,000 of monthly credit for up to two years of GitHub Enterprise Cloud.

They're giving select startups $1,000 monthly in free credits used to pay for GitHub Enterprise. That $1,000 isn't in addition to GH Enterprise being free.

It's unknown, but seems implied, if you can apply unused credits to their CI/CD and other offerings.
I imagine that, unless you have money that makes the question mostly irrelevant, you can't just breeze into a Nordic country around retirement age and expect to settle in and collect nice retirement benefits.
I am mostly just disappointed in the absolute lack of creativity in their suggestions. Even The Anarchist Cookbook is a better read :(
My household has too many devices to setup individually. Anyone knows a good router to do this on? My router can blacklist ips and urls, but cannot just add latency to them.
I agree that The New York Times can be pretty terrible (a lot depends on the reporters and editors of a particular piece), but I have to say that I also find The Economist to be pretty shallow and often wrong. The best part about The Economist is its breadth (a lot of stories from all over the world), but a story about a water purification project in Uganda (for example) isn't going to be useful for most Americans (and I assume Ugandans would have better sources to read). It's mostly infotainment.
Ah, guilt by association.

https://youtu.be/Y0_IME9WsHQ

Pete Seger on being black listed in America, 1965 CBC Archives
Is this a solvable problem? Can you launch a steel plate of 8000 kg and attach thrusters to it, and drive it into known objects? Occasionally refuel the thruster module. I'm guessing a 1/2" steel will absorb some pretty significant energy. Make it 1" steel in the vicinity of the guidance thruster system. Have a plan to deorbit the steel in sections. It's essentially a filtration system.
New programming languages should address this concern. C by itself doesn't, really.
Well I also don’t understand, I have not used slack and don’t intend to use one either. It’s much worse and proprietary interface, I am happy with IRC and it’s support in emacs with ERC.

I just can’t understand many open source project force users to use it. I can understand JavaScript and web development crowd vying to get on slack given the kind of IDE and tools, they use.

I cannot bear the slow speed with which slack works compared to IRC in terminal, emacs or VI.
C is only about 50 years old. I'd say it remains to be seen (not in our lifetime).
You'd need to buy their self-hosted Enterprise version, which is certainly more expensive than Gitlab and Bitbucket offerings for self-hosted small team versions.

This offering is specifically for Enterprise Cloud, which they host.
> Do you honestly think that most people whose thoughtful comments are downvoted are engaging in bad faith, “saying unpopular things just to be difficult”?

No. Remember that I was talking about a particular subset of users: the ones who have enough karma that they don't care if they get downvoted. In order to get that much karma, such a user will have already made a lot of thoughtful comments that were made in good faith. I was just observing that, once a user has enough karma not to care if they get downvoted, the feedback mechanism that regulated their behavior up to that point--karma--no longer has much impact. When put in that kind of position, it has been known to happen that a person might change their behavior. But I would hope and expect that a change for the worse under those circumstances would be rare.
1.5W is cheap to operate, but my god, for the job done that seems like a relative power glutton. Entire x86 processors can operate, not idle, at 5W.

My favorite story on the subject of relative waste:

https://reductionrevolution.com.au/blogs/news-reviews/584256...
Hey kossmoboleat, thanks for signing up. I just found your reply. Not sure if you'll see this, but I do have some features on the horizon to accomplish this.

As you suggested, I will be allowing users to add their time zone and then a bit of UI for you to select day/hour for each of the periods supported. This is going to be pretty much next on the roadmap.

Rikki
Facebook stalks you even if you don't use the product yourself nor agree with their ToS/privacy policy.

They got websites and developers to embed their spyware like the tracking pixels, Like buttons, app SDKs everywhere so they can get IP address and device data which is enough to track you across apps and websites with very high accuracy.

They also track who knows you based on other Facebook users (often unintentionally, thanks to dark patterns) share their contacts list with your number in there. They can basically infer your entire social graph without you even being aware nor consenting to it.
But we can make individual choices to decrease overall suffering. You have that power.
I had never heard of Chakra before, so this is basically a gui for composing their components.

https://chakra-ui.com/

Would be good for them to have a page that described that.
I think you're vastly underestimating the amount of surface area covered by a satelite:

A quick check of Wikipedia[1] told me that the orbit altitude of Starlink satelites is 550km. The earth has a radius of 6371 km. Based on some trig calculation (which can be done on this[2] little php web applet I found), the visible percentage of the Earth from 550km is 4%! That's a lot. Of course, that's a significant overestimate, since it counts surface area which is just barely technically visible at a nearly 180 degree angle, and assumes a spherical Earth. Let's be generous, and say that only 5% of that area is both reasonably visible from StarLink (I apologize for this crudeness, I'm too lazy to do the math) and above trees/buildings/mountains. So that's .2% of the Earth visible from each satelite at an azimuth which is possibly visible for an average human observer on the ground. That gives an average number of 84 satelites observable, assuming a normal distribution, and likely many more for an average observer in an above-average-density area. Obviously these aren't going to be as visible and bright as the ISS or Iridium flares, but they aren't gonna be sparse.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starlink

[2]http://www.neoprogrammics.com/spheres/visible_fraction_of_su...
Rape case at a near mistrial due to jury's unauthorized research
I just wanted a jab at reddit, cuz this week I can't even browse it because "this community is available in the app" (after years of marke... mental abuse of asking me to use an app). Nothing against the guy, he used "we", I used "you", I'm sure he is a cool guy, and I hope its the charitable interpretation.
In general P2P means that if you want to run a "server" for some content then all you do have to run is another peer that happens to have that content. That said, p2p in browsers is comically crippled, so the general rule may not apply here.
Aren't most of the other 5G infrastructure manufactures European (Siemens, Nokia)? Do the US carriers really care where their equipment comes from?

Handset manufactures probably don't care since they're sourcing from others. Perhaps Samsung (Exynos) being the exception, but they're Korean. Apple bought Intel's 5G division.

The only chip company that I could imagine cares is Qualcomm.