skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On signup page, you need to stick valid payment method in.
(customer must link a valid credit card or Paypal method to be eligible for the $100 credit)
> McConnell is at the top of your leaderboard because he's driven by a naked lust for power, not because he's ever done anything right by his constituents.

I feel like that's the joke...
Why should you need a support plan for a product you're paying for?

"Ok, you can pay us $X/mo for the service, but if something goes wrong, we won't help you unless you also pay an additional $Y/mo."

It's absolute garbage that this is where the industry is.
Isn't Microsoft's implementation of Wunderlists the To Do app (https://todo.microsoft.com/tasks/)? This seems similar, but the article points out it's a distinct product. Do you know if any of the Wunderlist developers worked on this app?
Very cool. I'm curious — why didn't you photoshop out the Weasleys locations from the background of your clock face?
Sure it is. There are perfectly humane ways to kill an animal quickly with respect. My grandparents and uncles used to do it all the time. What's inhumane is the mass factory farming way of slaughtering. Killing animals is as old as humanity. Torturing animals is new to factory farming. Anyway, it's just a matter of opinion. Most of humanity doesn't care, never will, and no amount of moral grandstanding, vegetarianism, veganism, protest, or anything will change that. That's why I gave up being a vegetarian after fifteen years. That and the negative health effects of constantly eating mostly carbs, but that's besides the point.
Prototyping at Slack
https://xkcd.com/1338/ It's got it's own XKCD.

> Earth's LAND MAMMALS By Weight

> A graph in which one square equals 1,000,000 tons. Dark grey squares represent humans, light gray represent our pets and livestock, and green squares represent wild animals. The squares are arranged in a roughly round shape, with clusters for each type of animal. Animals represented: Humans, cattle, pigs, goats (39 squares), sheep, horses (29 squares), elephants (1 square). There are other small, unlabeled clusters also. It is clear that humans and our pets & livestock outweigh wild animals by at least a factor of 10.
Yeah it's not addressing the use cases for micro payments. Streaming music and video could similarly pay out micro payments to creators who could cash out when it's profitable to do so, bearing in mind tx fees.
That's kind of tricky, because wouldn't that expose business data to competitors?

I'm not sure we're entitled to that right as a user. The NYT is providing us content in exchange for analytics on how we use their site or respond to their advertising. As a user we're free to not buy what they're selling.
Much more critical (imo) software such as Backblaze offers full encryption, it’s the user choice and responsibility. That’s what privacy is also about.
I'm not an expert with AWS or Google Cloud, so I'm interested in knowing:

What "level" of customer or SLA do you have to be to get a certain quantity or guarantee of support and troubleshooting? Or is it that if even a free-tier customer points out something that is fundamentally a problem, it will receive attention by certain solutions engineers?

Are there $ spending, 20 x (c3.4x.large), or I-pay-you-for-certain-uptime/troubleshooting levels that get you certain response levels? Do certain problems get resolved with "well, you just have to live with that behavior, we're not fixing that".

Do you get to call them or chat live? Or is it all via tickets?
Encrypted DNS is great, so long as the end user retains control over which DNS servers provide the answers.

This does appear to be the case here, and so it is still possible to disable it (use a local stubby instance to do encrypted DNS) or to use a custom setting (your nextdns.io config for example).
These books should help!

Computer Networks and Internet

Internet working with TCP/IP Volume III

The Linux Programming interface
Yahoo email – can you believe this
I wanted to access my Yahoo email, but it said 'We noticed some unusual activity' and sent 4-digit code to my another yahoo email. When I accessed this accout it said same thing!

So thanks to yahoo staff geniality now I am in a 'catch 22' position, no access to both mail account. No wonder they go down.
How the Current Crisis Could Impact the Future of Fashion Forever
Sharepoint does billions in revenue per year for Microsoft. Besides competing directly with Airtable, Lists combined with Sharepoint will also likely help to head off Notion, which has docs, sheets, and boards bundled together.
From what I have seen Firefox has already been taking a similar approach for the past year. In enterprise environments, there's the ability to disable DoH. And for general audiences, the ability to fall back to normal DNS if necessary.
Show HN: Online directory for finding best resources through curated collections
Unlikely, the kernel module is just a shim to redirect the DirectX calls to the host DirectX driver.
You will always need WSL for this to work.
Which is why nowadays Linux suffers more from .so hell and ABI breakages than Windows does.
Shopify launched support for 3D models and videos in March: https://www.shopify.ca/blog/3d-models-video
NABU Leaks – recordings of conversations between Joe Biden and Poroshenko
audio recordings of conversations between Joe Biden and Petro Poroshenko
I'm someone who's highly interested in this and am not a linux developer either. He's been trying to evangelize this effort for years.

Not everyone has to be a developer - some of us may see better roles as funders, testers, project managers, etc.
Wow thanks this is gold and somehow I didn't knew about it yet!
Insofar we haven't outed ourselves as doing reviews, so we mainly used our own accounts or some burner accounts (we've got a few email addresses that will remain private). This allows us to get the actual customer experience.
Hey Everyone,

We’re Firat and Tolga, building this online directory. We are frustrated by the time wasting content out there and most of the search engines are optimized for that. So, normally we would open thousands of tabs and spend hours to find great content. But we think maybe with a good community who curates best resources and a mechanism of ranking can solve this.

What can you do with Jooseph?

- Follow high-quality human curated collections to learn topics.

- Curate and share collections for others, or simply curate private collections for your read later list.

- Search content that is curated and ranked by community. Filter by their types (video/ text / audio)

- Like/Dislike content for ranking it.

- Save content to your library.

We’re building extension, so you can easily like/dislike or save contents from your browsers and create collections for organizing your researches. But we need some early users to help us, would you be interested in our beta group to build Jooseph together.
Accredited college or university only (e.g. no elementary or high schools). Also currently no discount for team plans.
This article has a bit more detail, particularly on her email to users. It reads a bit like "I am virtuous, my bosses are scoundrels, and you should expect my successors to be liars".

It's possible that there really is fire here, but that's a textbook example of how not to blow the whistle and be seen as credible.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/05/19/florida-heal...
This data is kind of interesting, but holdup:

>"We are rapidly moving into a world in which the bulk of equity capital of large companies with dispersed ownership will be owned by a small number of institutions... It is not an exaggeration to say that even if this mega-trend begins to taper off, the majority of the 1,000 largest U.S. companies will be controlled by a dozen or fewer people over the next ten to twenty years."
>- John C. Coates, IV, Harvard Law, "The Problem of Twelve"

The data on the page counteracts this point, nearly all the examples presented are of wealth management funds or holding companies, representing millions and millions of people. The #1 investor is literally Vanguard, the investor cooperative.
It's a funny joke because everyone from Microsoft, IBM, and Apple to Canonical and the GNOME Project has been guilty of this in the past.
Cost Analysis of the Proposed TSMC US Fab
The upside of the "same provider" approach in Chromium is that it defuses a bunch of the complaints you get with Mozilla's approach about how they're picking winners (with the inevitable side dish of conspiracy theories).

The downside is that it's opportunistic encryption which means it fails open. If you're actively targeted this won't protect you. You'll need to explicitly configure a DoH server to be protected.
But if you don't tap "yes" there is no way to dismiss it. Not a fan of this behaviour, and won't be looking any further.
You can have multiple versions of Java on your machine. Packages in other OSs usually have lists of packages they depend upon, packages they conflict with, and "virtual" packages they provide. Therefore, an app that prefers OpenJDK 14 can require it directly while one that doesn't care can require a virtual package called 'java' that's provided by both 8 and 14.
When I worked there significant percentage of registered users were Accountants in Afghanistan earning more than 200K a year.

This was due to the default values of the registration form and the tendency for people to be fatigued by the amount of non-essential information being asked at the time.

I'm sure thats still there but not so much an issue given the time thats passed.
Steady on my friend. OP just doesn't know who Joel Salatin is.
You are not getting my point correctly.

Spy agencies are restricted by laws and should be restricted by laws.

But it should be sensible taking into account the reality of what these agencies are and do, and not based on idealism.

Their purpose and what they do has not changed and will not change because of this decision because there is a need to protect national interests and that is not achieved by being a boy scout. Therefore they will try to find a way to get around it as much as possible, be it in the drafting of the new law or in practice.
Facebook launches Shops to bring more businesses online during the pandemic
Github just did the same thing! It’s because the math works like this: They’d need 1,000 people to pay them $4 to match a single enterprise company paying them $4k/mo. So they just need one of those 1,000 people to bring Notion into their company, and they’re ahead. If they get 10, they’re way ahead. (This is slightly simplified, of course)
I've bought 2 at a higher price: someone was squatting on my employer's name and I didn't let them know who I was and I got it for $1500. Another was curecf.com: I have CF (Cystic Fibrosis) and didn't want it to get misused. (I paid $250)
Yes, deep learning can now use your local GPU. I've been waiting for this a long time, as it means that I can run this stuff reliably on a laptop with an NVidia GPU now. It's not clear when this will hit the Insiders Fast Ring builds yet though ... can't arrive fast enough for me.
I think it's because the support people even had the possibility of that access at all.

And I agree; support people shouldn't have that kind of access, with or without consent.
For a contract to be mutually profitable it has to somehow be better than off-the-shelf. I got to imagine coordinating custom chip development is expensive for both parties.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted; you are definitely correct. Companies like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are simply copying others and applying their large capital/labor pool to product categories or markets created by more-deserving smaller players.

Apart from this playbook feeling unfair and resulting in undeserved success for these companies, I think it is also a danger for innovation. It signals to would-be investors that backing a startup may result in them having thrown away capital just to have a big behemoth brute force their way into that startup's niche later on. It tells founders that they might throw away years of their life for a return that isn't what they would otherwise expect. And it undermines society by continuing massive aggregation and control of the digital world under a few big players.

To me, all of this is a sign that we need renewed antitrust laws to split up Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, and other players that have too much control.
I just read it again and it's true there's a lot of marketing speak, but it seems you've been blinded by it and ignored all of the rest.

It's great to have these questions and insightful answers. The thing is you've said your friend is nuts about it, but apparently haven't bothered to ask them the same questions you're asking here. Not only that, you do seem to be fairly interested in knowing what it's about, but you don't seem to have read anything about it at all, so maybe you could have at least followed the hacker spirit and... I don't know, scanned for the links on the top of the page... and formed a basic opinion?

https://www.notion.so/product

https://www.notion.so/wikis (I've just seen you can even try a live demo without signing up)

https://www.notion.so/projects

https://www.notion.so/notes

(There are more, but I believe you get the idea)
They are extremely secretive:

One of the funniest stories I heard was about the first copy of the Intel 14nm design rules Altera got from Intel. They were heavily redacted, which is something I had never seen in the foundry business.

https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-manufacturers/intel/7912-...

Additionally, a contract fab tries to be flexible, easier to design for. They make their libraries & design rules work well with commercial design software. A private fab on the other hand can boost yield & performance by pushing increasingly complex design rules on the design team, and the design team can use customized or internally developed software to make it all work.

So in short, they had the best fab tech in the business but they weren't used to servicing anyone other than themselves.
Over 25% of tech sector wants permanent work from home
It has happened twice now that I order something off Amazon and it arrives packaged from Walmart.com. How the turn tables!

I figure that some people have identified arbitrage opportunities in pricing differences between the two sites and are making easy money receiving orders on one site and fulfilling from the other.
Yes, it exposes DirectX bindings directly in WSL.
Podcast Addict is back on the Play Store
Still clinging onto OneNote 2016, the last version that allows you to store your data locally.

There are some things - like personal notes - that really don't need to live in the cloud.
I'm assuming you are talking about end-to-end encryption, which in case of tools like Slack doesn't really make sense because it's the company that owns and has total control of the data, not you the end user. What happens when they need to hand over records for discovery, for example?
So many companies made unsubscribing too hard that I wouldn’t even try it with github.
Good ideas. Thank you.
Correct, it's Electron. And yes, I wish it were native, too.
> Did they ever think to just ask me?

This would assume that the goal is to show you what you want to see, rather than to show you what advertisers want you to see based on what they think you need to see and might respond positively to.
Sounds like the curse of Emacs.
Honest reviews on true wireless earphones
So am I the only one that really hate multitouch.

The really thing I want is
* left click on the left side of the touchpad
* right click on the right side of the touchpad
* right and bottom area to scroll (with ONE DAMN FINGER)
Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash
I am literally too dumb to know what you typed... and then all of the following comments.

It is like you are speaking in Martian or something.

Haskell is effectively impenetrable to me.
I just upgraded. What is this 'dt'? The mail linked here says there should be a bt(5), but https://www.openbsd.org/67.html says dt(5). In either case neither exists on my new 6.7 system. Nor does btrace(5), which dt(4) references.
You absolutely did not, because it very clearly states it's not just about hotel consumers: It's about the welfare effects on hotels, travelers (including those who otherwise wouldn't have been hotel consumers), and hosts [1]. Why do you keep mischaracterizing it?

The EPI thinktank report you linked to simply states the costs outweigh the benefits without any numbers to support that conclusion. This paper, on the other hand, does look at the numbers. I appreciate the reference, however.

[1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w24361.pdf
Cool! Know of any cheap 1 sec bar or less historical data sources?

IBS does live tick data for around $10 a month, smaller than 1sec. I hate IBS, but I hate paying $200 a month more, especially when I'm backtesting most months.
This is a thing specifically in the contemporary Christian music industry, so that churches can pick-and-choose parts from the original song to use as backing tracks for live performance. See e.g. https://www.multitracks.com/songs/Hillsong-Young-And-Free/Th...
I agree, too sluggish for me to bother.
Why has the world gone towards DNS over HTTPS as opposed to adding TLS itself to the DNS protocol?
Even on platinum plans they are terrible in my experience. Endless pinballing of tickets and trying to blame issue on the customer. We had two day outage several times in my previous gig because google support refused to acknowledge the problems
Interesting article, but it leaves out how many parishioners burst into flame when the holy water hit them. We must know!
On iPadOS it ignores pointer and external keyboard. Wish their apps were more native to the platforms.
If they ask you, you will tend to answer with what you perceive a better version of yourself should want. But they don't care about that imaginary version of yourself. They care about what gets you angry enough to click/share.
The Covid-19 pandemic cut carbon emissions down to 2006 levels
The cynical part of me expects that this case was handled so well because a) the support people found the issue fascinating and fun to work on, b) the post-mort on it would make an excellent blog post.

On the flip side, it's encouraging that they have people somewhere in the support chain who are capable enough to read Linux kernel code and submit fixes upstream.
Facebook announces Shops, making it easier for businesses to list products
My opinion is of course coloured by my experience with Prolog but the way I
understand "declarative programming" describes a style of coding rather than
any particular programming language features. Hiding the details of execution
is not necessary and the compilers and interpreters of most languages do that
anyway.

To give an example of what I mean, here's a typical C function that
concatenates two linked lists [1]:

void concatenate(struct node *a,struct node *b)
{
if (a->next == NULL)
a->next = b;
else
concatenate(a->next,b);
}

And here's the same thing in Prolog:

append([],Ys,Ys).
append([H|T],Ys,[H|Zs]):-
append(T,Ys,Zs).

append/3 is a Prolog predicate that can be used to concatenate two lists. It's
a little difficult to get your head around it the first time you see it but
basically one interpretation of it is that concatenating a list Ys and the
empty list yields the list Ys; and concatenating the non-empty list [H|T] (for
"Head" and "Tail") with a list Ys yields the concatenation of the tail, T, of
[H|T], with Ys.

append/3 and concatenate() share the same procedural interpretation: "to
concatenate two lists walk through the first list until you find the last
element in its tail ("[]" in Prolog, NULL in C) and make that element be the
first element of the second list [2]".

The difference is that Prolog's declarative interpretation describes not only
concatenation of two lists, but also their difference. Indeed, append/3 can be
called in different instantiation modes to perform both tasks:

% Zs is the concatenation of _Xs and _Ys
?- _Xs = [a,b,c], _Ys = [d,e,f], append(_Xs,_Ys,Zs).
Zs = [a, b, c, d, e, f].

% Zs \ Xs = Ys
?- _Xs = [a,b,c], _Zs = [a,b,c,d,e,f], append(_Xs,Ys,_Zs).
Ys = [d, e, f].

% Zs \ Ys = Xs
?- _Ys = [d,e,f], _Zs = [a,b,c,d,e,f], append(Xs,_Ys,_Zs).
Xs = [a, b, c] .

% Starting a variable with an underscore, like in _Xs, _Ys, _Zs, stops the
% Swi-Prolog runtime from printing the bindings of the variable and
% cluttering the screen with values you already know ;)

In short, the definition of append/3 doesn't (just) tell the computer to
concatenate two lists to yield a third list, like the C program does. Instead,
it describes a relation between three lists that is true under certain
conditions, specified by the programmer who wrote append/3. It's this property
of describing the shape of data, rather than splitting your code into data and
operations on data, that mark code as declarative rather than procedural [3].

________________

[1] Copied from: https://www.codesdope.com/blog/article/concatenating-two-lin...

[2] "Behind the scenes" both Prolog interpreter and C compiler have the same
"view" of computer memory and the pointers from an element in a list to the
next. However, the point here is not that the Prolog interpreter "hides" this
fact. If you squint a bit- it doesn't. [H|T] is the concatenation of H and T
and you can very well read it as a pointer from H to the first element of T.

[3] And note of course there are more purely declarative languages
than Prolog, like Answer Set Programming. But, I know Prolog and You Can't
Teach an Old Dog New Tricks (old dogs know all the tricks :P).
The Sociological Imagination (1959) by C. Wright Mills
Kinda feels like they are unassumingly on a roll?
I think acquiring startups and integrating them is difficult. Microsoft hasn't had a great track record with acquisitions of late (aQuantive, Skype, Yammer) but have done better with straight up clones of products/ideas/markets created by others. You can see this in Azure (clone of AWS), Teams (clone of Slack), and now this.
>Many things can be learnt from simulating real world systems.

This reminded me of the book "Business Engineering with Object Technology" by David A Taylor. In one chapter he goes about identifying "objects" in a manufacturing business and goes down to the level of modeling employees and the machines that they'd be using on the production line. I've never found the need to model things that granular, but it's definitely an interesting concept of "reifying" _everything_.
> “Due to continued strength of the Walmart.com brand, the company will discontinue Jet.com,” the company said in a short statement. “The acquisition of Jet.com nearly four years ago was critical to accelerating our omni strategy.”

What a load of corporate bullshit. How does anyone actually write that and live with themselves?
Right, and "GoSojourn" sounds a) like it couldn't have been auto-registered by a bot going off of keywords, and b) like it carries more whimsy than a spammy developer would likely put forth.
Once samples are broken out of larger rocks to store as shown on these shelves, they're exposed to different conditions such as extra oxygen, CO2 and all combined perhaps with ambient water vapour. Could these storage conditions alter rocks over a shortish amount of time to affect tests?
> Can anyone share use cases for PyPy?

If you are concerned about performance, it really shines. It speeds up computational workloads, for sure. But it also improves performance in lots of I/O scenarios too.
I've tried to use Notion, but my experience mirrors yours:

There's just enough flexibility to slow you down, but not enough flexibility to make it down exactly what I need without jumping through a lot of hoops.

My favorite productivity tools blend into the background. I can get down to doing the work without mental overhead of managing the tool. Notion, on the other hand, feels like I'm spending half of my energy fighting with Notion, and only half of my energy doing the work I'm trying to accomplish.