skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As a side note, I find it strange that you are for stronger data protection and at the same time think it is "silly" to avoid data collection companies such as WhatsApp.

For example, I would advocate to allow anonymous phones again. Since a few years you can only get a SIM card with identity verification in Germany.

I would also disallow third parties to create profiles of anybody, and I would ban the sale of such data. Currently as a company you can even make queries to the local "Einwohnermeldeamt" (registration office) and for a fee get address and other data of residents. I'm opposed to that, as well as the data collection going on at credit score agencies.

Personally I think what German officials are doing is often data protection theatre, akin to security theatre.

But I think WhatsApp is somewhat unavoidable, and after weighing the pros and cons I don't think it is reasonable to ban it (I know it is banned e.g. by many municipalities, schools, and trade unions for communication with citizens). It's better to allow it so you can reach people for whom this is the medium of choice, as long as you always provide a safer alternative of course.

If I could decide, I would also require every messenger and social network above say one million users to provide federation. Being able to access your own data the way you want is just as important an aspect of "data protection" as locking it down! And it would force competition and prevent one entitiy from being too big to avoid.
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Discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22914197
In the Netherlands it was the platform that was easy to install and didn't cost money per message. SMS was pretty expensive back then. Whatsapp quickly became the defacto messaging app. The word "whatsapping" even replaced "sms'ing". At this point in time you need Whatsapp (Or Messenger when you don't have their number yet)

The only time I get an SMS now is for specific multi-factor authentications or automated updates from companies. A lot of businesses even do their live support through Whatsapp now.
Everyone (in Joel Spolsky meaning of everyone) already had an gmail account. Not giving out phone number was a feature.

When Whatsapp started out, it was free only for the first year; after that, they wanted a payment. What this experiment has shown, that people did very short term decision without regards for long term.
I recently launched a belgian beer shop.

The way i thought it was best:

- Give users the option to change

- If the main user browser language is different than the current one, suggest it more on top:

https://www.belgianbrewed.com/nl - will suggest english for the majority here.

[Screenshot]
https://gyazo.com/0372490df1b033ac42c8cb7aa3a4198b

My entry page is google. So if they find something in English, i suppose they want the english site.

If they don't, i give them the option to change it to the most obvious "supported" option.

I do redirect them to the main page, so they see an overview of the shop. Showing them the translated (current) page is not a priority (right now)

PS. Google has the option for /ncr . They obviously forgot the use-case where my proxy of work redirects to Paris.

PS2. /ncr changed to https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=cr&safe=active&ssui=on => No Country Redirect.
Glastonbury 5G report 'hijacked by conspiracy theorists'
Are they? They were in Munich but then pulled out. Looks like only Lieferando still exists here, as far as I can tell.
No one in Japan has it. (well, of course not no one but effectively no one). Here it's Line.
> Legislating a price floor does not magically change the underlying economics of a business. It just makes the jobs below that floor go away.

It may make some of those jobs go away. The price of the product/service will go up a bit, which will reduce a demand a bit, so the market will get oversaturated supply-side until some of the companies in it scale down or close up. Those who lose jobs will be worse off, those who will keep jobs will be better off. Yes, it sucks for those who lost jobs, but we can cater to them elsewhere in the system (e.g. different industry).

Competition will happily push the salary floor to as low as legally possible, so it's up to the legal system to ensure that floor doesn't go too low; in fact, I'd argue laws should be always set up in a way so that doing unsustainable business off unlivable wages should not be possible. The market is good at figuring out solutions to multifaceted problems, so let it deal with that constraint.
Link for convenience: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/cont...

The package name is 'com.google.android.apps.podcasts'
Is that true? Or is it just the case that people trying to make a profit have learned how to promote themselves to an extent that drowns out the hobbyists?

I had some hobby pages in the 1990s that got a lot of views and came high up in search results. None of them were ever deliberately publicised. I doubt that any of my material would show in the top 1000 of any web search today.
I also struggle with phone calls (or even ordering in house). Apart from the empathy side that you mention my reasoning is also that confronting the anxiety and getting used to it is the only way to manage it.

I rather face the discomfort from time to time and learn to handle it than being paralised in situations when there's no other way and you can't avoid it.
Not old versions of Visual Studio.
I recommend reading Joy in the Merely Real by Eliezer Yudkowsky (and its follow-ups). It might help you with that. https://www.lesswrong.com/s/6BFkmEgre7uwhDxDR/p/x4dG4GhpZH2h...

Alternatively, there's the obligatory xkcd (https://xkcd.com/877/), but I feel it kind of misses the point a little.
> There's loads who work on the kernel as part of their job, but that's no different to any other dev job.

What's the problem with that? It's win-win that this arrangement is relatively common.

> I think the question "how do I get paid to work on open source?" is subtly but very importantly different to "how do I get a job that includes working on open source?". The former implies the person asking wants to get paid directly to work on an open project in their own right rather than being part of a company's team of contributors.

You're right to point out the distinction, but I don't think how do I get paid to work on open source should necessarily be taken to have that meaning.
>I'm an iPhone user. (not a die-hard, but I haven't found a decent android I can get along with permanently

Try Google Pixel. Always have been an Android user and the Pixel has the Android experience imo.
> I don't believe anybody's surveillance is good

So America shouldn’t have tried to crack the Enigma? Or keep an eye on Soviet missiles?

All surveillance is bad is a fairly-extreme stance.
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On the other end of the scale, if minicom doesn't have enough features, there's Kermit. Especially handy if you need to script "expect" style functionality over serial. http://www.kermitproject.org/
Win32 sandbox!

The only way to run Win32 on Windows 10X and possibly in future Windows 10 versions as well, even if it takes a couple of years more, just like it is happening with Apple and Google's platforms.
They get the rating because overall it's a pretty good place and they won't tell you the real reason behind your rating - they always have a cover story. I have friends who are managers. They've told me things they shouldn't tell an employee. For example, if a manager picks someone for the highest rating, some departments require the manager to give someone a below average rating to "balance it out", even if they don't deserve it.
Well, if the restaurant reimburses the customer after, it probably would become a problem.

Way around this: private owner places his own orders as customer, pockets profits as owner. That might be legitimate - but remember: if you take legal advice from the Internet, you get what you paid for.
Sorry, but that is not even close to the truth. The state covered only 32% of the UC system budget in 1974 when 18% of the state budget went to higher education, and it covers 16% of the UC budget now but the state spends 12% of its total budget on higher education. What changed? Proposition 98, which mandated that community colleges get a bigger piece of the allocated higher education funds -- they now receive 58% of the total (22% UC and 20% CSU).
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I'm using one (a Nokia flipphone). It's quite impressive considering its limited hardware. It has thetering, google maps, a browser, etc (the first 2 were hard requirements).

My demands were:

1. Long battery life
2. Small attack surface (security)
3. A phone that is so uncomfortable to use that I would use it only for calling, and some sms.
4. 4G network
5. Thetering
6. Google maps (the only thing that is really, really needed)
7. Flip phone (strong, no worryes about scratches, etc, and easy to put in a pocket).

It turns out to be the best decision I made in years .. no more distractions.
We do have several consciousnesses in our head, which end up acting as a collective and then the left brain interpreter post-rationalizes the behavior as if a single mind is at work. That’s why we act against our own decisions so often.

You can see this demonstrated with people with split brain syndrome, where the brain halves are unable to directly communicate and you can trick them out by confronting the speaking left brain with conflicting actions by the right brain. The left brain will invent an explanation on the spot.

https://physics.weber.edu/carroll/honors/split_brain.htm
We came to the same conclusion a couple weeks ago. As a bonus, you're eliminating a person/environment from the loop (the delivery driver & their car), thereby reducing your Covid-19 attack surface.

Edit: I have also both read about & seen firsthand food delivery drivers with someone else in the car. It's almost certainly someone from the same household, but still, that's potentially yet another unknown, potentially untraceable person in the loop.
Yup. It's just what do these recommendations do to the society? If you are suspectible to believe certain content for whatever reasons you are basically doomed as you get caged into an echo chamber that only validates the bullshit that is fed to you.
Zoom and YouTube weren't as big, mate.
Doing Wireless Firmware Updates the right way on PineTime Smart Watch... With the open source MCUBoot Bootloader from Apache Mynewt and Zephyr.

https://lupyuen.github.io/pinetime-rust-mynewt/articles/mcub...
Yes, that whole "go big or go home" model only ever made sense for highly-scalable, user facing services. Open source development and support is in many ways the polar opposite of that. Even many B2B services don't really make sense as something where "take lots of outside investment" is the focus. And if you do need some sort of one-time big push to develop something, that's what Kickstarter and other crowdfunding models can support most directly.
> great desktop app

Beg to differ. The Windows WhatsApp App has full permissions to use your entire machine, change your register, use your camera and mic without notification, read and or modify all your files, scan your network, watch all network traffic, catalog all the apps you have and see what they are doing, and use/access any all peripherals

No, that is not a "great app". Especially coming from Facebook.
Milligram is not class-less, it's more like a light Bootstrap.
Bertrand Russell and the Socialism That Wasn’t (2017)
Assuming $10/pizza...500 pizzas in my life are reasonable
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> In some countries
This is very vague. I question the validity of this argument.
This is a common canard of those who wish to regulate or manipulate with their speech. But consider alternatives such as these for your next use of speech: to convey information, to inform, to persuade, to enlighten.
I wish I had more than one upvote, this capitulates perfectly my feelings on the situation.

I see the same sentiment echoed in our American friends w.r.t. Chinese spying. Huawei is dangerous and must be stopped, but the NSA having broken encryption a bunch of times, sending NSL's to chip makers and such is fine.

And that is not seen as hypocritical.

We as Europeans have no technological industry without the USA, and the USA has done nothing to assuage fears that they will backdoor everything they can without remit.

In fact, it's not only that we have no technical industry; it's that we actively pander to it and lock ourselves into it in perpetuity, ensuring that in a given future where we desire some level of independence that it will be as painful as possible.

"Chrome only" is the new "IE6 only" and services only accessible via Android/iPhone apps are a part of it too.
It's usually not the language itself that makes dev speed faster. Of all the time I spend building a reasonably sane Java app, the time I spend recompiling/restarting it is a small fraction.

Rather, it's the programming models put in place by the initial framework choices and architectural decisions that will make the biggest difference. Prototyping a web app in Python isn't fast because Python as a language makes it fast. It's fast when you use Django to effectively wire a database model directly to a set of CRUD endpoints in less than a dozen lines of code, complete with validation. The same can be said about Ruby + Rails.

Node could, in theory, provide a similar capability, but the platform was popularized after large sections of the developer community seemed to demonize frameworks like Django and Rails. So, whether for this reason or another, Node doesn't really have anything quite like Django or Rails, and thus would likely not match the dev speed of those frameworks, all else being equal. Python is _fast enough_, and early stage companies rightfully tend to not worry about CPU usage or hosting costs, because they don't have the scale for it to matter.

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With all that being said: pick an early tech stack that helps you optimize for iteration speed, not necessarily raw dev speed (although they often overlap). Importantly, you typically want to build a system that minimizes the cost of being wrong in a reasonable time frame. If that's Python? Awesome. If that's Node? Also awesome. If that's Java? Awesome. Pick what you/your team know best and can architect in a sane way to help you find the balance between time to market and ability to experiment.
> Now suddenly each trade would net $75 in riskless profit ⇒ $240 from Doordash minus ($160 in costs + $5 in boxes).

If you do this over and over, obviously you can use the same dough and boxes, so costs are just what you pay Doordash.
They are both great authors, of the two I wouldn't be able to say which one is my favourite, they scratch different itches.
Erm... not sure I follow.

While this is technically open source, it's not easily reusable as per your own FAQ and as such this is more of "open sourced for marketing reasons." You aren't really living off making an open source project, but rather you are open-sourcing a part of your service that pays the bills.

I'm pretty much sure that wasn't what the OP was asking about.
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Is hot desking dead in a post-COVID19 work world?
I've been moaning about it for years now. I really hate the experience that web-apps provide. Electron is not much better in that regard. I want my apps to be native, I'm willing to pay for it, please stop moving everything to the browser
If it is the intention of the uploader to create a localized title and description, shouldn't you be getting the localized one according to your language setting? I also find it is annoying, but I think it is intention of the uploader.
Like the truth?
It's a great pity all the factual comments about YouTube's COVID-19 video removal policy (or "censorship" depending on your viewpoint) are being down voted while all the anti-Google rhetoric is floating above it.

I get it's cool to hate Google these days and I'm not saying I agree with the removal of the podcast app, however the removal of that app is consistent with how Google have been maintaining some of their other platforms too. This isn't a theoretical point either, it's been well documented in the news and talked to death on here too. So regardless of my opinion of Google (and to be clear: I'm not fan either) I still can't help feeling that all the "Google are hypocrites" remarks being made are completely ignorant of the fact that Google are actually removing content on YouTube as well.

Here's a bunch of citations that proves this and the GP comments are actually correct despite the down votes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23220864
> 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.

That's sort of the definition of a salary subject to market forces, yes. But, as an alternative, I even suggested comparing administrators' salaries with education-matched employees in IT startups.

You're not offering any specific alternative, but OP's comment and yours seem to basically amount to "I know what people should earn, and 'administration' is useless anyway."

> 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.

Many countries produce many things cheaper than the US, often at the same quality. Foodstuffs are an obvious example, but there are many more: a pilot in China or South Africa earns far less than an American, even though they are trained to the same standard. Does this mean US pilots are overpaid? Taxi drivers the world over provide pretty much equal service, but does that mean US taxi drivers should earn $1.20/day (average Iraqi daily income for taxis)?

But even assuming US universities are too expensive, which I would tend to agree with, I was specifically challenging the idea that high salaries are as dominant a part of the explanation as the relative number of comments here focussing on it suggests. And because "administrators" was and remains ill-defined, I offered specific reasons why that is unlikely for a number of groups that people might be referring to.

While you've devoted a paragraph to reading the emotional subtext of my comment, you neglected my rather plain request to be a bit more specific: by "administrator", are you referring to the Dean of the Law School, the Quinnipiac Polling Call Center Temp, the Executive Assistant to the Greenkeeper, the Physics Postdoc,...?

Anyway, here's four alternative explanations that make more sense, IMO:

- US universities spend more on research, and use tuition money to (partially) fund these activities.

- US undergrad programs spent far more on student life, such as luxurious dormitories or sports centres

- US tuition includes medical care, doesn't it? US medical care is famously inefficient.

- US universities, even public ones, rely far more on tuition than universities in other countries, that get comparably higher government subsidies
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> Aside from the number of people (network effects)

Network effects is it.

> if the answer is: "but network effects", why not Facebook messenger?

This is a good point, and I'm not really sure, but some guesses:

- Branding. During it's initial growth WhatsApp was a FB alternative and FB was in decline. Even after acquisition, awareness of the ownership wasn't immediately widespread.

- Contextual app differentiation. Facebook didn't separate its messenger from it's main platform quickly enough and even when they did, they're both conceptually considered a single package. People these days like separation of contexts.

- Phone numbers. WhatsApp was hard-linked to your phone contacts from the off, making it familiar to SMS users. Facebook jumping on phone numbers has followed slowly in a less focused manner.

- Less confusion for tech-illiterate. There's no posts or pages or walls. It's just like SMS.

> it has the same reach if not greater.

Anecdotal, but I don't feel this is true anymore. I certainly know a lot more people without Facebook than without WhatsApp.
You do know that at least the 'trump trying to buy company that is doing vaccine' has been just a rumour and executives of the company have said it wasn't true right? [1]

I'm no fan of Trump (not even american) but I feel that since it is easy to make him a fool on news reports, anything he does/says (or in some cases, doesn't do/say) makes big headlines so news reports tend to paint him in the worst possible light (drives revenue) and don't give a shit about what is really the truth.

During quarantine I was stuck about 2 months at my parents house and had basically 24h news cycle on TV. It is funny to see both national and international news to 'mock' Trump for something, and actually say nice things about other countries that did exactly the same. For example, when US stopped flights from china and then europe, news anchors were calling him everything from racist to idiot, when european countries did, they were smart to try and prevent the spread.

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-coronavirus-vaccine-ge...
Sure, here's me sharing a page I got to from a Google Search, hosted by Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXN0Zml...

On it you can listen to a podcast about Covid 19 from a media company that is not a government agency or health organisation.
I wish people would sponsor me for my open source SwiftUI applications: https://github.com/sponsors/Dimillian/
Because 4500 stars is nice but sponsoring is good too :D
But I have a day job so it's fine I guess.
Meh. If I left an automation roaming the streets and it ate someone’s kid I would get in trouble.

If google’s automations are broken and they harm the world then they need to be responsible and fix them or replace them with people.
Alternate theory: there are intelligent, mature adults who disagree with you
Love your answers. Agree 100%. Personally, I would emphasize that figuring out this “fairness” question is of utmost importance in an age of intertwined interests across nations.

Those in positions of dominance risk their power when they ignore these questions. Unfair practices can increase dominance in the short-term but what happens in the long-term when more and more people recognize the practice as unfair? What happens when we get to a point where most of the world consider western nations/corporations to be stewards/enablers of oppression and injustice?
Where I live (Austria), Facebook messenger does not have the same reach as Whatsapp.

Pretty much everyone with a Smartphone has Whatsapp, but there are lots of people without a Facebook Account. These are mostly older people. There are also people (like me, but I know several others) who do have a Facebook account, but don't use it on their phone.

The really nice thing about Whatsapp is the installation experience. Just download the App from Google Play/Appstore. Start it. Confirm your phone number. And you can communicate with all your friends. Facebook is much harder in this regards. Signal is similar, "but network effects".
The site shouldn't even bloody know my location. Most of the time geolocation seems to completely cock it up anyway because it thinks an IP is based somewhere when it's not.

Google like to think I'm Arabic at the moment, bouncing around various Middle Eastern countries. Google Maps sends me to the UAE right now. Y tho?