skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you just look at the Coronavirus as an example.

The world would be quite happy pinning the blame on China.

Instead, that would put them on the side of Donald Trump who is doing it in the most ham handed and transparently political way, and is, worse, messing with countries’ abilities to protect their citizens with a vaccine, by trying to buy away their companies, acquire exclusive rights, and refusing to sign any Coronavirus patent sharing agreements.

So as much as pretty much every leader in the world would like to blame China, thanks to Trump it’s hard for them to do so.

So in a way Trump is definitely helping China.

And that’s before we take into account the shattering of the image of American effectiveness and competence that Trump’s disastrous response has caused.
Hackers Publish First ‘Dirty Laundry’Emails After Being Branded Cyber-Terrorists
This view is so insane, that I can hardly wrap my head around how anybody can still believe it.
I know it's probably unintentional considering the false news reports at the time, but the 2016 DNC hack was actually never conclusively pinned on Russia.

In fact, according to a recent release the entire basis for the US intelligence appartus' opinion was totally unproven.

CrowdStrike never conclusively proved Russia was behind the hack, and in fact didn't even conclusively prove a hack even occurred.

https://www.itwire.com/security/crowdstrike-chief-admits-no-...
Socat is also useful to hide services that otherwise force themselves on a network interface.

My torrent daemon has no business permanently exposing the Web controls on any network interface - not even localhost, because localhost is potentially accessible by untrusted stuff running in the browser.

I solve this by placing it inside a dedicated, firewalled container, and using socat to forward from a local socket (browser can't access) to the network one.
When I need to connect to it via the browser, I do the opposite forwarding (SSH can also forward to local sockets).
This comment is getting downvoted for its rhetorical nature, but I think that each point is worth addressing.

- The first point is missing the point, because it is ignoring the Simpson's paradox critique that a few users have already pointed out. It's possible for global wealth inequality to decrease, while at exactly the same time, wealth inequality within nations is increasing. Wealth inequality in the US is growing, and has been, for some time now. Nobody in this thread is disputing that.

- I am on board with the second point. The user that JSavageOne is responding to is pulling a bait-and-switch. They wrote that "Lack of property or wealth also doesn't imply 'serfdom'", and then followed it up with a paragraph explaining why real estate is a bad investment. They never said anything about wealth. But lack of wealth is basically serfdom by definition. Before you start strawmaning me, I'm not suggesting that everyone needs to be Warren Buffet to qualify as a non-serf. I mean something like this: if you A) Don't own anything and B) Don't make enough money to save in eg a 401k (this is a form of wealth) you are in a precarious situation. Whether or not we want to call it "serfdom" is just a matter of semantics. Moreover, I think that society should be trying to minimize the number of people in the situation. (Aside: I recently relocated to Sweden and I find the pension system here impressive. Making it easy (and in fact, mandatory) for people to start locking up money in index funds feels like a realistic, if imperfect, way to level the playing field in a world where wealth, and not income, is how you make money.)
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haha that's hilarious. I hadn't caught that it was that bad.

I always figure I must be a tiny minority market for Amazon to not have optimised my experience.
A deeper dive into software license types
My first wife's Scottish ancestors came from Ireland.
What happens when you type google.com into the browser and press enter
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My open source project is SocketCluster. A real-time WebSocket library focused on scalability: https://socketcluster.io/

It has 2 steady income streams:

1. Monthly sponsorship donations.

2. Forging rewards from the Lisk blockchain. Those rewards are shared with the community.

SocketCluster powers Lisk's P2P network and protocol so on that basis I was voted into a forging position on the Lisk blockchain.

These two sources of income have been just enough to support myself and a couple of casual contributors. Took 7 years to get to this point.

Also, I occasionally did consulting in the past but that has not been reliable.

My experience makes me optimistic about blockchain tech's ability to help monetize open source projects. I'm particularly optimistic about the DPoS (Delegated Proof of Stake) mechanism because it allows big token holders to vote for open source project maintainers to be delegates on their blockchain and allows those open source maintainers to earn block rewards.

Forging on DPoS is like like Bitcoin mining, but a lot less hassle and requires no capital if you can get the votes.
I'm working on the Lisk ecosystem now.

Helping others to monetize their open source projects in such a way that they can retain independence from corporate or government influence is my life's mission. My project is just a proof of concept.

BTW feel free to look for my email address on GitHub and get in touch with me if you want to participate somehow. I can't guarantee anything but I feel that the technology and incentives are improving - I'm working on a DEX ecosystem right now which should facilitate this.
I am extremely impressed that you’ve managed to pay for a team of 25. Congrats!
My feeling is they pushing the extra crazy ones though.
Watching a clearly not well Person argue crazy theories isn't very convincing to healthy people anyway.

On the other Hand people like Dr. Erickson get censored, because they simply dare to question the lock down and argue that there is no evidence supporting it's effectiveness in saving lives.
So please do.
Axioms are only useful if they are widely accepted and they create an useful system. The modern axiomatic system of mathematics was created to support an already useful system, and they are (mostly) based on actual indisputable realities of our world.

The main axiom of panpsychism, if I understand correctly, is that all or most objects of reality have a mind. Now, as an axiom in itself it is pretty imprecise and not self-evident at all, as it depends on the definition of "mind". Also, it doesn't seem to create testable or useful theories out of that axiom.
Building an XDP based BGP peering router
You’re assuming that all rewards must be legal tender.
You’re missing the fact that WhatsApp was actually available for essentially all phones (even in 3rd world markets) and that nothing else is needed. AIM and MSN required an email address which means you need one, as well as an email client on your phone, not something that all people want or have. The signup process wasn’t even always available within the device, you might need access to a desktop to complete signup. They both require you to remember and accurately share an extra piece of info you have to memorize (email or username). They were both extremely slow, clunky and unreliable compared to WhatsApp.

Essentially, 95% of the reasons WhatsApp was successful were things you glossed over here.
The problem with your argument is that for the vast majority of the world the US, and American companies, have spied far more on their communications, and manipulated far more do their politics than anything China has done.

So if those are the calculations the US starts forcing countries to make, the most likely impact will be on American companies before anyone touches the Chinese (largely also because it’s American companies that dominate the internet around the world, and not the Chinese, and restricting internet services will be far easier than physical products for most countries).
In that case I apologize. I wrongly figured you were referring to Podcast Addict, which is still not available on the Play Store :-\
All the 'case' numbers have no basis in reality.

For starters, every country has their own definitions and testing strategies. Then an overwhelming majority of cases are asymptomatic and almost never show up in official numbers.
Which isn't unreaaonable: the Apple Qualcomm case is going in a similar direction in the US.
If there was a red button that kills the Internet, Google would press it.
What by the Spanish "colonisers :-)

The Falklanders certainly considered themselves part of the UK
Totally agree. But the DRM monster rears its head. Everyone is afraid you'll steal their choons if you're allowed to play them on whatever player you like sigh
Building a web app with a user scriptable front end
Collaboration with external partners. Centralize your assets and maximize value
I wonder : do you have the same engineer turn over than "regular" companies, that is developers leaving after two or three years max?

Everywhere around me, I see companies who expected to go big and profit on IPO failing. Nothing new, but I get the feeling it's getting harder to attract investors in that model (this was already a feeling I had before lockdown).

This kind of company you're building, who focus on profitability from contract work while working on the big picture between two contracts, may just be the most stable kind of company one may build, especially if you happen to have a low turn over.
Maybe this is the effect of continuously putting liability on them? You should account the timeline into your thinking, it's not happening at the same time.
I've always been annoyed at this too, especially when I was using a VPN with an exit node in Finland even though I don't speak Finnish myself.

I've asked localisation experts about this and the answer I've gotten is that `Accept-Langauge` and other signals that are available to provide a hint as to the user's preferred language are teribble. For most people they are incorrectly set to some form of English(en-US, en-GB) even though this is not what the user wants. For this reason the IP/geolocation method is preferred, it also generates false negatives but per the people I've spoken too they are fewer than if you just respect `Accept-Language`.
For what it's worth, the invasion of Taiwan is considered by military planners to be an important flash point for World War 3. It would be bloody, and very likely nuclear, and pull in nearby nations like Japan, and will likely end with hundreds of millions (possibly billions) dead.
Great effort. But here’s why I will not be buying it:

1. Source code is EVERYTHING. Especially when it comes to my clients’.

2. $2.99/mo? Really? I understand that you have a server running where my code is stored (scary), but $2.99/month is insane.

The app could have been a wrapper or a render which allows my own code-server IP to be entered and your customizations kick in. That, would have made it much more valuable than me paying for a open source project as well as to have my proprietary information stored in your server.
I don't see why it's hard.

Probably because Grubhub and Doordash are approaching this with the "holistic mindset" of a "visionary" mind like the WeWorks founders. Hence we get behaviour like this which is probably illegal in multiple ways.

Provide your work at a fixed price per order. Or you might take a (transparent, explicit, of those who actually signed up for the service) commission, fair enough.

Providing a good service is hard on itself, but it won't distract you from all the other crap and won't alienate the people that actually make your service work.
"On average app publishers make $10,000 a month with Tamoco data monetization."

https://www.tamoco.com/blog/best-app-revenue-calculator/
Is it only my, or the color scheme for some plots (e.g. Python version) is atrocious from the UX perspective? (Small differences in shades, making it hard to read.)

good UX != pretty colors
I have plenty of friends at FAANGs, and I've visited plenty of times. I am not sure why you'd presume I have a weird impression.

I'm also not sure why you're presume autonomy brings fulfillment. All job offers I had gave plenty of autonomy. I'd take genuine community over autonomy in most cases. People are social creatures.

I'm also not sure why you'd presume I work at a startup. I work at a large and ancient not-for-profit many times older than FAANG. I work on an internal startup-like project. What they historically did was super-labor-intensive, and you can do it better integrate digital technology and big data. People can do more, better. I'm trying to do that.

To be clear: (1) I don't have an NDA, and I can openly talk about what I do. I don't need to keep secrets. (2) My work will help people in significant and visible ways. (3) It's technically fascinating (and I can publish research papers on anything I do).

That's not an abstract Google/startup/tech transform the world: ("At BILLINGLY DOT COM, we are changing lives by TRANSFORMING HOW PEOPLE DO BILLING"), but having direct, positive impact, potentially on millions of lives. Right now, I'm doing pilots, so it's impacting a few individuals, but if those are successful, the organization can take this to scale.

There are surely such projects at FAANG too, occasionally, but they're rare, often highly political, often incompetently done, and it's not the offer I had.
What’s the alternative? That parents don’t invest their time, money, and attention on their children, instead hedonistically consuming every last bit of whatever they have for their own adult pursuits?

I see every increment of improvement a parent (or other guiding figure) helps a child to achieve as being like a small hammer tap improving the future for that child and the society in which they will go on to live.

The fact that, regardless of anything anyone does, many will lead an average life is just straightforward application of the Intermediate Value Theorem. To be clear, I said “average” not “unenjoyable”; in fact, I tried to quite explicitly/literally say the opposite, but perhaps my words were chosen poorly or otherwise misled the reader.

A large number of these small hammer taps though can improve that average greatly over time, as we’ve experienced over the generations since humans have lived in societies. In about 14 generations we went from first proving the Earth revolved around the sun to landing humans on the moon. Fourteen! Four generations from the patent of the telephone to the release of NCSA Mosaic. Four! One more generation and most of us are carrying around Star Trek communicators that we can use to argue with each other about how to best shape educational processes for societal benefit.

The pace and inexorability of academic and technical progress blows my mind. I think we should be very cautious about disrupting that in the pursuit of perfect equality of outcome.
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> I sometimes wonder whether the idea of the "American Dream" was ever more than a Cold War propaganda

The concept, in some approximation of it's modern form, was written about quite a bit in the 19th Century, and particularly heavily (both positively and negatively) in the 1920s-1940s.

I mean, once identified it was certainly seized on as capitalist propaganda, but directed at the US working class more than any outside target, and long before there was a Cold War.
Or "public health organizations". Given how much the WHO lied to everyone to protect PRC, continues to do it and bullied the country that handle the crisis the best (Taiwan) this is particularly ridiculous, in addition to being indeed distopic. Or maybe Google want us to drink bleach, as this a solution approved by POTUS? Not wearing masks like the French government said? If anything governmental sources should be as heavily fact checked as any others.
The null hypothesis is that it does not work, not the other way around. There is no need to prove inefficacy.
I think it is because nobody who has responded so far is making money from Tidelift.

Tidelift is a neat idea.

But it's far from the first attempt at finding ways to collectively fund OSS development and maintenance. I think by now we're a bit burned out and skeptical, after seeing various attempts tried every few years, and the financial figures that show up look pitifully small. To be fair, most of the others are bounty sites, with most bounties in the <$100 range for features that may take days or weeks to implement, and Tidelift is something else that is more corporate-friendly, and realistic to live on for someone.

It deserves mention for being a neat idea, and it deserves to succeed.

But it would need to be paying out to significant numbers of OSS devs to show up as an answer to this Ask HN question.
Here you go:

https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

and

https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
Alternatively if you’re never logged in and reject all cookies, then you never have this issue at all.

You also get to see just how low the lowest common denominator of society is for the default recommendations.
"a) revolution to uncover and dissolve the control networks that have been covertly put in place, or
b) sedition - leaving the state, and not contributing (taxes) to its continued economic development."

Many have enough power to leverage a) or b), but very few choose to do so. Why?

Because if you somehow manage to disolve the current status quo, you'd need to rebuild a similar status quo, probably with your group deeply plugged into the newest surveillance / society control system.

> ultimatelly you would probably have accomplished very few changes, though you could obtain more power / money, but

If you're capable / resourceful enough to make happen a) or b), you probably already have lots of power / money.

Therefore, the current status quo works quite well for you, and there are easier ways to change some things (not all of them though), than going right to a revolution.

That's something you can see in most empires through history: very few were intentionally brough down by internal players. Most players just wanted to get in charge (by any means), but they were not fundamentally changing anything in the current social order.

Going against the state was (and it is), almost certainly not the best path of action.
My experience is that calling for pizza is faster and easier than using an app.
I'm an Android lifer (all my smartphones) and now live in Australia. I use Whatsapp for 99% of my personal messaging and frankly, I love it.

Same messaging experience for everyone (including emojis), great desktop app, easy backup & restore as you switch phones, was early on the reply-swipe functionality, easy forwarding, voice messages, . No, none of these are "killer" features, but it's honestly one of the purest examples of 'Just Works'(TM) I can think of in my digital ecosystem.

SMS on Android is pretty crap, and it's a particularly shitty experience communicating with an iPhone user or in groups.

Every time an article about Whatsapp on HN or Reddit pops up I fearfully look to see if there are legitimate privacy concerns. Afaict, all my messages are still E2E encrypted, and all my stuff is saved to my Google Drive.

Unless you're in a sheltered circle of only iPhones (probably in America), Whatsapp is the best choice by miles IMO. (Edit: sure if Apple would democratize iMessage for x-platform I'd consider it, but given that will never ever happy, Whatsapp is the great equaliser)

No other messaging app has the reach and consistency. And yea, this is a hill I'm willing to die on.
Not an astronaut but a couple who had been working on the Antarctic (he was a driver, she was working in the kitchens/cafe/bar) during the summer season.

They had loads of really interesting stories and it sounded fascinating. They'd talked about how those who had done the winter season (24 hours of pitch blackness for 4 months) were all a little bit on edge and twitchy.
The power of MongoDB in the browser (+Charts)
Australia is quite different, but there's tax payer funded unis here paying their Deans over 1 million a year who claim they can't afford to pay people more than $40/hour casually to record video lectures for first year business statistic classes to be delivered to over 600 students/year across multiple countries. They've also spent millions upon millions moving their campus in to the city when they already own a really good campus 10 minutes drive from the city with lots of decent free parking around even for undergrads. They also announced this year that they're so poor they're going to cut 75% of either the classes or courses next year (not sure which). People who run tax payer funded institutions like that should be thrown in jail.
More importantly this will also encourage non Chinese nations to assist in any move away from US power over the semiconductor industry.

India has already started taking steps. It’s likely the Europeans will as well now.

The US government is taking these actions with blinders on. They only seem capable of modeling effects 6 months into the future and only the direct impacts on China (and barely even that, considering how poorly their entire tariff wars have gone, with the US basically having got nothing so far). The reality is that there is an entire planet’s worth of other countries also watching the US lashing out. Especially American allies who have been directly attacked by the US government over the past couple of years, that are now convinced they need to start steadily moving away from US influence.
We have just fine ways to perform electronic signatures. GPG and signify come to mind. It is really weird how companies opt in for clearly inferior technologies.
Anybody have a really bad negative feeling toward the deconstruction of science ? There was an obvious degree of existential improvement for a while, but then dissecting everything at this points .. kinda hurts my soul. I somehow wants to keep some magic unexplained phenomena to stare at without any theory, just feeling.
I would like to interject here that many companies are specifically looking or requiring software devs to work or to have worked on „open source“ projects.

What strikes me as odd is that it is usually been brought up as some sort of additional qualification (as in „open source projects promote good code“), but in reality what this boils down for you is just more potential work (your normal work + open source work), and also implies lowered expectations for salary please („you are doing coding in your free time anyways!“).

Seriously, I admire and respect open source developers, but fuck companies that make it mandatory to have worked on an open source project for hiring you.

That is seriously fucked up - companies that rake in tons of money, build on top of free software products, make it mandatory for their developers to provide proof that they can be further eploited (as that is what it comes down to - forget that „better code quality“ or „we are part of the community“ thing they usually use as the rationale).

Sorry, had to vent that.

And to OP: I was asking myself the same question (how to sustain oneself in a first world country by doing unpaid coding). I came to the conclusion that this is not possible for me, as I strive for a higher standard of living as well as some spare time.

To put it more bluntly: open source developers seem to be the monks or junkies of coding to me in that they are just fueling their desire to code but do not insist on getting renumerated for it. I am not saying you shouldn‘t be doing any pro bono work, but a high quality product like VLC for instance should be able to sustain properly paid developers.
Greatest paradox of capitalism: Embedded Growth Obligation
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I do not see why it cannot happen. Everything starts from a small number of dedicated users.