skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion, I suspect that many people shipping electron-based apps would gladly switch to a native toolkit if there was a dead easy way to develop cross-platform GUIs.

In the 90s and early 00s, there were many easy language products like Delphi, VB, and others who were much easier to use than C++ and friends. Cross-platform could be done with REBOL, REALBasic (aka Xojo), Runtime Revolution (aka LiveCode) and many other languages. Users didn't expected fancy flat animated user interfaces made of 100% custom controls, people were fine with normal native standard stuff as long as the app worked.

Now, there is no easy way to build cross-platform apps that is easier than electron. Languages like modern C++ and Rust are extremely powerful but they require more experienced developer to be used effectively. GUI toolkits like Qt and wx, are good but a ton of UX professionals now are trained to ship UIs in tools like figma, skewing all the native controls and creating beautiful masterpieces that are easier to do with HTML/CSS than implement with a native toolkit.

Native apps got harder to do not because we don't have access to the tech we had, but because of added friction. It is like death by a thousand paper cuts. You make the professionals designing the UX/UI create interfaces that are harder to reproduce with native technology, then you select a GUI toolkit such as Qt/wx and try to reimplement that using whatever language is best. It takes longer than developing an electron app, requires more expensive developers. Don't get me wrong, it will be a better product, but it will take longer, be more expensive, and will need to be done with more care. And after the app is done, there is the need to deal with all the sandboxes and crazy stuff that Apple requires these days if you're shipping a native mac app. Many electron apps sidestep a lot of this by simply being thin clients for some SaaS company and doing the hard stuff on a server (which also opens an opportunity for mining the data for our capitalists overlords).

The barrier for entry for developing an electron app is so low. JS is an easy language to start. There are so many ready made UI kits. You can have a small app running before a new developer can understand how the new pointer stuff work on modern C++.

All that text is to say that I think we need easier languages and toolkits that target native experiences. Something like Lazarus, LiveCode, are all steps in the right direction for me.
Devil's advocate: A public trust network is great for advertisers. They would know exactly who the influencers are and how to cover the population with a minimum of influencers.
Norway: Soldiers' location history found in data sold by Tamoco
Depends on how popular your project is.

1. Evan you (creator of vuejs) makes kind of a salary via patreon [1].

2. Taylor otwell (creator of laravel) has created many useful projects like spark and forge that generate amazing revenue.

3. Creator of sidekiq (mike) has created a million dollar business by creating premium upsells [2]

4. And finally of course there are free and hosted versions of the software like WordPress that are in a league of their own (also recently noticed a site called Browserless which has done quite well with this model)

[1] https://blog.patreon.com/vue-js-creator-evan-you

[2] https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/016-mike-perham-of-side...
> asked me to remove any writing about mistakes and changes I made in the project for each chapter. I had a bug that appeared and I wanted to write about how I determined that and fixed it.

Your editor is right. Not because this information is not interesting.

But it is distracting and off-topic to go off a tangent every now and then. Especially for someone just learning the stuff, it will confuse them more than anything else.
Terrain and Mesh Blending in Unity
I'd say the evidence is mounting Elon probably has some type of undiagnosed (because lol money) mental health condition he'd benefit from treatment for. His latest episodes on twitter have looked like a bipolar's manic phase except he hasn't been able to (I presume) talk the ear off employees at one of his companies.
That's really interesting!

How does it behave with almost-sorted data?
It's more like Google self-banning Google (or Bing) for displaying non-approved content. Searchengines index external sources and display it to the user, which is the same what a Podcast-app does, isn't it?
I disagree, I was on Podcast Addict and then moved to Pocket Casts and did not look back.

Podcast Addict's UI was a bit too full for the simple use I do of podcasts.
What Satya Nadella Thinks
You wrote a lot of text, but I think you are speaking from a position of ignorance or emotion, to be honest, on the topic of high salaries.

You seem to be arguing that it's impossible for anyone to be paid too much, because of the simple existence of the free market system.

But that way of thinking completely ignores the outcomes of that tuition spent. If other countries produce graduates that are the same or better, for less tuition, then you should be looking at that as a flaw in our system. That means the free market is not working efficiently, and more competition in the sector would drive prices down without loss of quality.

As for the questions about international students, I decline to comment, as I agree it's specious.
Google's rules only apply to their competitors in the attention economy.
“Not everyone in Palantir is accounted for, we don’t know who is watching!” - Gandalf probably
No, it basically is: "can we get rid of prices and still have a great economy" was the 20th century's fight. It was resolved conclusively in favour of no - not even the Chinese try to argue for non-market economies these days.

The only people who still argue about whether prices and earning potential is a good proxy for usefulness are people who are ideologically blinded to the lessons of history. Warren Buffet is in fact a lot more useful than a handful of nurses: not in the same context obviously. If you need a nurse you need a nurse. But measured coldly and rationally, in terms of number of lives affected and amount of value created for sheer number of people, it's hard to beat the Sage. If a random nurse quits their job tomorrow nobody will notice. If Buffet dies, the world will notice.
how would a buggy implementation of payment dispersal relate in any way to any perceived need for UBI?
Extended characters in identifiers may now be specified directly in the input encoding (UTF-8, by default), in addition to the UCN syntax (\uNNNN or \UNNNNNNNN) that is already supported:

static const int π = 3;
int get_naïve_pi() {
return π;
}

I see large potential for the IOCCC
Terrorism became a US obsession because a little over 3,000 died on our soil. Covid-19 will kill 100,000 or more.

The fear is justified and the extreme prejudice against Covid-19 misinformation (most of which has an agenda behind it) is warranted.

This particular case may go too far, but that has no bearing on whether the other efforts against misinformation are too extreme.
It said 'phishing' yes.

Parent could have posted something along the lines of 'ah yes, phishing is something else', but ah well.
I'm one of the Trustroots contributors, you're right about the governance topic, we have a do-ocracy approach right now (described a bit at the bottom of https://www.trustroots.org/faq/foundation). I'm actually keen to evolve this, with a more specific approach to community-governance, but this thinking and these talks take time.
> forcing you to create PIN nobody asked for

You do realize that user profiles is one of the most requested features, right?
> I always wonder what their conrete worry or attack scenario is

There are laws in place who require German institutions to keep data privacy to a certain standard. This standard cannot be guarantueed when using e.g. Whatsapp.

Of course one could argue the Germans are too paranoid when it comes to privacy – but keep in mind where this comes from: Germany knows first hand what impact state lead data collection can have from it's own history on not one but two occasions (the Nazi-apparatus and the Eastern German STASI surveillance).

This historic backdrop lead to a widespread mindset that one should collect as little data as necessary (search for privacy by design or Datensparsamkeit). This mindset is also enshrined in law.

If you work in an government entity IT-department who is responsible for complying to these laws recommending a messenger which does "something" to your users data (where this "something" can change at any point), is something you could do, but on the other hand you could also just tell them not to use it at all (or to use Signal etc).
WhatsApp is a proprietary app and Facebook did plan to implement client-side agents that would extract info from content, or blacklist it. This means Facebook has the capability of backdooring WhatsApp and by extension the US government has this capability.

This isn't just about the metadata, you would be naive to think so. Proprietary apps, especially those that get automatically updated, will always have this loophole.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/facebook_plan...

> "Criminal and state actors have access to most of that information anyway."

You don't have evidence for this and regardless, metadata access can be prevented and it's in a country's best interest to protect its affairs from governments of other countries or from organized crime.
What's your definition of 'in the EU' and 'fact'?

If a nation state doesn't recognise itself being in the EU, and the EU doesn't recognise the nation state being in the EU, It's not in the EU.

https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/countries_en#28mem...
Google's own stuff doesn't filter content from non-govt sources, guess it's time to suspend?
Hm, but profit is not a meaningful goal to begin with.
> the only viable endgame is a promise of monopoly concentration and increased prices

This is it! I've been involved with Foodpanda and Delivery Hero. The name of the game is, indeed, becoming the #1 player in the market. The tool of the game was M&A. That's what you see everywhere with Delivery Hero, Takeaway Group, Just Eat trading positions across the world. They are effectively cutting and slicing the world into countries and regions where each of them is #1 and the others don't compete. Such "collusion" creates incredibly profitable markets, as the #1 doesn't need to share 30% of top-line with Facebook and Google, can charge a 15% take rate to restaurants AND additionally, a delivery fee to consumers.
Did it? Looking at the Google cache of the Play Store page, the only references I can find to covid, virus or similar terms are reviews saying they downloaded it because of the lockdown and are happy with it.

Edit: Here's how the page looked the day before takedown, no hints here at least of them doing anything like that: http://web.archive.org/web/20200515172150/https://play.googl...

And even if they were, couldn't a general app say something along "listen to your favorite sports podcasts, ted talks or get the latest news about X"?
I've never socialized neither networked here, but I've learned a ton thanks to the quality of the discussion. It taught me a lot about the importance of moderation, and rules in general.
I had some really good experiences on couchsurfing (hosting and surfing) about 10 years ago, then I moved to a very touristic part of the world, and started getting 90% of requests from couples who were basically looking to get free accommodation for their holidays. I accepted the first 3 times, and each time they would arrive in the evening, unpack, drive to a restaurant they had already booked, come back to sleep and then leave first thing in the morning.
HTML5 is not all that verbose. You can omit closing tags for many elements (for example, </p>, </li> and </td>). Many other tags are also implicitly opened, like <body> and the like. I actually prefer it to markdown for most cases.
Without wanting to cause too much controversy, this depends how broad your experience of consciousness is.

That "internal model of reality" is capable of some very interesting things if you're prepared to read past the first few chapter or two of the manual.
I would argue that it is, because Electron doesn't allow you to share a js context across windows. So while it is not impossible, it is much more involved than it would be in most other frameworks. In fact, this is my only gripe with Electron where I think the normal HN objections about performance, bloat and lack of native UI elements are overstated and not something that bothers me.
I agree.

It’s badly affected air travel and who knows what changes will result (or what contracts for pointless bio-security theatre have been made)

In the UK, a 300+ page law was basically pre-written and enacted very quickly, reminiscent of the early anti terrorism law.

We have set up a bio security unit, currently headed by the security services.

UK has a “threat level” system for coronavirus similar to the terror threat level.

The government talk about it in threatening terms such as it being everywhere and it not going away.

If you are against measures you can easily be accused of wanting old people to die.

The UK was absolutely petrified of it at the beginning shown by the very successful self policed lockdown.

Definitely some similarities
I’ve never understood the appeal of WhatsApp: it requires a phone number (so it’s useless or hard to setup abroad, and it’s tied to a very personal data), handle very poorly wifi connection (somehow it seems to only update when connected over 4G) and force me to download pictures and videos to see them, trashing my photo folder in the process. It also has no killer features in comparison to any existing messaging app, nor the defunct MSN. And finally it’s now owned by Facebook, so using it to avoid Messenger is moot. Yes, this app success is truly a mystery for me. I have it for speaking with two family members, otherwise I would not bother.
Use f-droid and install antennapod.
Robert Zubrin has what I consider a great, comprehensive answer to why we should go to Mars. But ultimately it generally applies to all space exploration.

https://youtu.be/j2Mu8qfVb5I
You may be able to imagine a body physically identical to yourself not having a consciousness, but you cannot deduce from that, that this is something that can actually happen in our Universe. It may just as well be true that any exact physical copy of a body containing a consciousness is also conscious. In fact, the latter seems like a simpler assumption than the former.

My own take is that we, as biased humans, put too much value on consciousness. I have not seen any evidence that consciousness is nothing more than a convenient way to organize a complex pattern of elementary particles for self preservation. In that sense the discussion of consciousness is an interesting exercise in analogies, and while it may very well put us on a track to better understand everything from quantum mechanics to the mind, it still, to me, has a very anthropic vibe to it.
That lag matters to me, but in my experience it's no worse than, say, VIM with the number of plugins that I normally run. Fully bare-bones I imagine vscode is performant as well.
> subset in Sanskrit using which can be much better than a formally defined language

Did you get in what ways would it be "much better", I didn't quite get that part.
For further reading (in German), there's been a nice and well-researched article on Golem a while ago:
https://www.golem.de/news/datenschutz-duerfen-aerzte-lehrer-...

Also, Microsoft sending Cease and Desist letter to the German city-state of Berlin as it wrote a policy advising against Skype (German too): https://www.t-online.de/digital/internet/id_87890600/skype-u...
I'm perfectly happy with the current style of governance. It seems like it works, while BeWelcome is still struggling with endless babbling.
“Ordinary people can choose to be extraordinary”
Are you sure? I thought they were just demonetizing them (which is still bad, but less bad)
The Go GC isn't that great, it's true. It sacrifices huge amounts of throughput to get low latency: basically a marketing optimised collector.

The new JVM GCs (ZGC and Shenandoah) are more sensibly designed. They sacrifice a bit of throughput, but not much, and you get pauseless GC. It still makes sense to select a throughput oriented collector if your job is a batch job as it'll go faster but something like ZGC isn't a bad default.

GC is sufficiently powerful these days that it doesn't make sense to force developers to think about memory management for the vast bulk of apps. And definitely not Rust! That's one reason web apps beat desktop apps to begin with - web apps were from the start mostly written in [pseudo] GCd languages like Perl, Python, Java, etc.
If their exams can't be trusted they shouldn't be trying to instill trust in their exams. What you are suggesting is literally that they should commit fraud to hide their incompetence. The fact is the system they've created can't be trusted. So no, it's not an imperative for them to make people trust the system, it's the opposite.

We all know full well that they aren't in a position to run the exams correctly, and yet rather than accepting that and working on ways to move forward without the exams, we've decided a consensual hallucination that the exams were fine is the best option. Oh, and screw the kids who couldn't submit the exams. It's more important that the the college admissions board has an easy life. And as if that's not crazy enough, the examiners have decided to try and entrap the students. If you don't see how insane that is - that more time is being spent trying to entrap sutdents, than to be honest about the veracity of the test results, you've really fallen off the deep end.
But a search app isn't directly a web browser (Though browsing many be a secondary function). But many adult content search apps have been removed from app stores.
The answer, of course, is that there is no consciousness: if you try to precisely define what consciousness is, you’ll end up with increasingly absurd “you know when you see it” kinds of definitions. Objectively there is no any “special” consciousness, it’s just information processing systems, simple or complex.
> So what is the difference between such a being and a conscious human, if the two are physically identical?

One can imagine any number of fantastical creatures. A being identical to a conscious being is also conscious, there is no problem there.
Introduction to Adaptive Query Engine in Spark 3.0
They're not refuting that. They agreed that it's "95% of the market." Their point is that the overall desktop has shrunk, regardless of Windows's share of that.
It’s really complicated for an open source maintainers to be able to focus 100% of the time on the open source project.
Patreon, Github sponsor or Open Collective exist on the sponsoring side.
If your community gathers persons who do the same work you can as well create a job board. I’m doing https://roleup.com and it’s the perfect tool in this case. Ask me anything. I’ll reply with pleasure.
I used to be very involved with couchsurfing in the late 2000s and early 2010s I had a high number of women couchsurfers, which came about from having positive feedback from other female couchsurfers, because like you they had their own bed and I wasn't trying to have sex with them.

It started being a concern because I began to think that people looking at my profile would assume that I was just looking to host women which wasn't the case at all. But from speaking to my guests, they said they chose me to host them because of the positive feedback from other female couchsurfers.

I do miss couchsurfing, I met some great and interesting people and have been thinking about getting back into it but have concerns about the direction couchsurfing has gone. I now live on a narrowboat on the canals in the UK and I think it'd make an interesting place for couchsurfers to stay.
"Markdown is at a sweet spot that combines ease of read and write for technical and non-technical users."

Not in my purely anecdotal experience. While many (but not all) developers like markdown, I've yet to come across non-technical users who like it (tolerate it perhaps, but not like).
I always assumed there's a chosen public facing secret plane with some PR management to represent the secret program in general and there's numerous other behind the scenes secret crafts without the PR.

I also assumed many of the silly rumors of antigravity or whatever planes are intentionally manufactured as part of the PR so if some information of an actual plane leaks it'll be buried with the noise.

This way, the formal channels could say "oh nonsense, that's just silly rumours, The Official Secret Plane is this one over here".

It also puts outsiders at a true zero knowledge position since there's no indication as to what is and is not nonsense.

Then you could have say, a top scientist defecting, taking all the secret plane information with them, write detailed books and lectures exposing all of it and people would just be like "oh, look at that silly conspiracy kook over there! how goofy"

Pretend it's already happened and there's scientifically sound diagrams, correct math, etc... Nobody would be able to find it among the garbage.

At least that's how I'd structure it.
Their automated system/review process is broken with respect to apps that render user generated content.

I've had several requests from Google over the last couple of years to make changes to my app to remove user generated content that is being rendered in the app. Sigh.
You can change the setting for photos not be saved to your camera roll. And in my experience whatsapp has the best connectivity.
>The point is that you are consulting an expert, and you don't want that expert to tell you about all their mistakes, because your mind is now occupied with doubting that expert. It's not rational.

Sometimes books are written for entry level people (to the technology or topic) and they're written in an authoritative tone. But I work with people who write books. And I read their books. I don't read them like some kind of expert oracle distributing the blessed texts. I read them as a work of documentation from a friend or colleague, so I don't really feel this veneer of expertise is necessary.

Sometimes the experts try hard to scrape away the veneer of expertise by adding side fluff like in Learn you a Haskell for Great Good. Or, Alex Crichton, who is undoubtedly an expert in Rust and compiler technology giving this talk where he keeps saying things like "it does a process called quasiquoting which doesn't make any sense to me", "I don't know what hygiene means"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4SYTOc8fL0
Somewhat related to technical documentation, error messages translated in the user's locale are a bane in particular.

Sometimes when not working on my own machines at a client the locale is set to a language other than English and some Java frameworks such as Hibernate then will dutifully print out error messages in that language.

This is next to useless. At a time when you still had nothing but a printed manual in your local language to go on this might have made some sense but nowadays people research error messages on the internet. Searching for some arcane ORM framework error message in a language other than English is a futile endeavour.
No they are doing this via Section 8.3 of the Developer Distribution Agreement. Sadly the Podcast app is collateral damage.
I can't find any relevant comment by cameron accusing/condemning anyone for being a 'paedophile apologist'. Or anyone being a godfather so accused. It's difficult to evaluate such accusations without more info, but it's equally important to know this stuff if what you say is accurate. These are very serious claims indeed.