skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meanwhile on Google's own podcast search engine https://podcasts.google.com/?q=covid-19. Content management teams are too powerful, this needs to be decided by some kind of content board within the company and not by one person who is leading the content management team within Google Play.
Are you really saying that people without children shouldn’t vote?
Tubes and bubbles: confinement of YouTube recommendations
Pain points migrating from Apple to Microsoft OS based laptop/s
Just curious (clicked on your GitHub profile), why Singapore? Do you remote work/freelance? I'm thinking about moving to SE Asia and working remotely. It would be cool to hear other HN user's experiences :)
Indeed, I think they just assumed that the UK hadn't the strength nor the will to start a war on the other side of the world just to fight over a barren island.

Ironically, if they had not attacked the Falklands might be Argentinian or under joint sovereignty now because, indeed, no-one really cared about the Falklands.
But their actions ended up guaranteeing that the UK would never even discuss the issue for at least a century...
My distilled experience from open-core has also left me a bite wary of those. Not as strong to say they suck, but enough to not embrace them too quickly. I've had too many experiences where I felt that the open source version (and especially the documentation) was neglected so much that you'd have to spend a lot of time getting it to work and figuring stuff out.

It occasionally felt like "open source is a good marketing point, so here's the essential source, good luck, we're not going to help you with anything else, pay us". Fair enough, but that doesn't sound "open source" to me.
I didn’t say everything Elon has ever said on this subject is accurate, defensible or even sensical. He is a greatly flawed person who happens to be very competent at a few interesting things. Like many of us.

I was only defending the reopening of highly robotised manufacturing, not how Elon has comported himself in public.
Or not. Landesregierung BaWü for example distributes the daily COVID-19 news via Threema.
Writing fast and safe implementations of popular CLI utilities is already happening.

There's also some advocacy involved which many people obviously find distasteful. To me it's a bonus though: tell me why your tech choice makes a difference, I'll check and maybe learn it.

Anything wrong what that?
But are you stealing money for a middleman? From what I can tell, the delivery is paid from a mix of an extra fee for the customer and some cash from investors, not from the restaurants.
This makes me wonder if Quebec uses the comma as a decimal separator as in France? That could yield to some serious mishaps.
There's been rumours of the NHS being privatised and that the UK adopts a more US based healthcare model - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/11/nhs-us...

Having access to NHS data could potentially help you do things like;

- build lists of potential customers to target with insurance - combined with their medical histories you can assess who the profitable customers might be - that you could sell nicely to insurance companies

- identify how drugs and treatments are being priced and used - useful market data if you want to launch drugs on the UK market that might be competing

- identify which parts of the NHS are valuable / profitable as part of selective privatisation - what's worth buying in other words. Leave the unprofitable parts un-privatised...

I'm sure there's plenty of money to be made selling that kind of data.
Entrepreneurs and stock markets have nothing to do with democracy, its a conceit anyone ever thought they did.
>But I've worked a lot, and by a lot, I really mean a fuckton... And the rewards are not big

VLC is like a part of culture at this point.
criticism a crucial aspects of any discourse. What is wrong with talking about real problems that exist?
> From purely selfish motives, the state will reap more taxes from college educated citizens than they would otherwise, so literally investing in public colleges makes financial sense.

On the other hand, college educated citizens are less likely to enter the army out of desperation (so no more cheap replaceable cannon fodder for the endless wars) or to agree to usurious 20%+ APR payday loans or end up in private prisons or work as replaceable cogs in Amazon warehouses, "gig economy", farming, meatpacking or whatever else exploitative labor market. This costs the rich elite donating to politicians actual money in profits.

Incentives for politicians are not aligned with the targets for a better society, that is the core issue.
Developers don't need to work for a company for the company to sponsor or donate to an open source project. Yes there would be less financial security but it's better than no financial support at all, perhaps sponsors etc. would be open to making commitments about donating $x/month or whatever for 12-24 months etc., not too different to governments promising funding for specific projects for y period of time. I'd take more companies supporting up and coming open source projects as a first step though!

Everyone has costs for things like shelter, power, food, water and other necessities, there is a need for some form of income.

I certainly think they should fund projects based on quality, as your reputation for quality increases I would hope that your ability to bring in sponsorship would be higher, though it's also a shame that people need years of their own funding to break in to open source software development properly full time. In many ways, open source development is only for the privileged/rich.
Frankly, after all these years I still don't get it. Are the Saudis that gullible? How much more they need to lose to understand they're being duped?
This is called explanation by definition. You can explain anything by first creating a definition you can explain, then just saying this is it.

Your explanation seems to assign non-physical magical properties to 'own state' observation. Why is 'own state' different?
Email with real-time push notifications is not free. Without push notifications, WhatsApp, or any other messaging platform is essentially DOA. Theoretically, we only have Apple and Google with their limited operating systems in the early years to blame for the rise of the notifications economy.

Edit: While there are free email solutions that provide free push, you are either tied to the platform or are made to download an email app, which just makes WhatsApp an easier to use alternative, even if your use case is just spamming groups with pictures or video.
Prior to my current job, OSS was just something that I did in my free time and considered an investment.

My current employer pays me for any OSS I do in my free time which is pretty cool. We collaboratively maintain OSS projects and are able to actively work on them when between client contracts.
What's the difference between the axioms of woo and the axioms of mathematics?

I'm genuinely asking. My understanding is that we also accept those axioms.
HN user bans Google Play Store from their phone for repeatedly installing unwanted parasite "Chrome"
I thought this was about the old google ctf challenge...
I removed my Chrome Extension from the store in February. It was averaging about £30 per a month in sales and the cost of keeping up-to-date with the changes in Chrome/the extension store seemed hardly worth it.

The thing which really pushed me over the edge was their new developer dashboard, it was a step in the right direction but what missing some key features which were present in the old dashboard. Googles solution? Make us use both dashboards for almost a year.
Germany already experimented with a couple of hosted open services: https://www.golem.de/news/whatsapp-matrix-oder-xmpp-bmi-such...

The Conversations.im team also leaves in Germany so I wonder why won't they just utilize their own solutions? Or maybe that's being considered...
The bare minimum is to learn some HTML tags (the main ones are <a>, <p>, <img>, <h1>...<h6>), create a plain text file in Notepad and sprinkle it with these tags, save it as index.html, test it in a browser, then put it in a zip archive (along with other pages and images if you want) and upload at https://app.netlify.com/drop
You need to calm down and stop being so hostile to someone who is having a discussion in good faith. If you have a point, just make it. Don’t ask a bunch of leading rhetorical questions.
Fooled by Randomness is a great pick up and read a random chapter kind of book, even when you've read it cover to cover - also my favourite.

One thing to his credit, he acknowledges his influences such as his huge admiration for Mandelbrot.
> 2-sided dice

A coin?
I for one am relieved that after the Bitcoin bubble the "crypto" in headings means cryptography again.
Don't forget the brainwashing of a teenager they send on a suicide mission against the authorities
first

>the 'rona

Please just don't.

Second, this is an index of all podcasts. If you are going to ban index searches google should also ban their own search engine because right now I can search for plenty of corona propaganda using it.
Every mobile messaging app has this now, but not in 2009 when WhatsApp started. I remember that mobile carriers were really pissed for a while that WhatsApp killed the SMS.
You know what bugs me, Void Linux claims to be BSD inspired but uses a sysv-style init system (runit). I don't like systemd, but sysvinit is even worse. If Void Linux used an rc init system, I would probably switch from Arch Linux. I like OpenBSD's init system: super simple and best of all, no bs runlevels!
What's worse is Facebook's automatic translations of things you post in a different language. Depending on language, the quality is terrible. And if language X is translated into language Z, bypassing English, it's usually even worse.
Texti is yours? It looks like an interesting experiment. Lots of good ideas in it, though it gets way too unfocused/wip in the second half of the document, especially in some areas like the "blocks". (Also your emojis are broken)

Having hash line comments is probably a non-starter in a text format (the latex % syntax is probably a better idea indeed if you want line comments). Also the -- strikethrough -- syntax will probably conflict too much. You want comments to use a syntax which is otherwise nearly unused.
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>"fire" in a crowded restaurant

I'm so sick of hearing this "argument" against free speech. Yelling fire is not free speech. Never has been. Inciting hatred is however, and since you're inciting hatred yourself, with wanting innocent people to die or throw them in jail, I hope you live in a country that has free speech laws, or you might be looking at jail time yourself.
We tend to like surveillance as long as it's in our favor and interest. Aren't we?
But the moment you hear some surveillance or espionage from another country, then it's time to bash them hard and feel bad about them.

But, I'm afraid we don't have a choice because we are living in a zero-sum game.
And the irony is that the more we play non-cooperative, the more reasons we give to each other to play non-cooperative.
And the press "hate hate" Max Mosley as he was very active in hacked off the campaign to get justice for the victims of press hacking.
I think open-core can work well, when done right - as long as you're not necessarily crippling your FOSS offering compared to the paid version(s). When the code is likely to be used by other businesses, for example. There's generally a trade-off between time and price: use the open core, develop your own additions to add in the extra functionality you want -- or buy a license and use the "premium" features.

I can see there's a whole ecosystem built up around kubernetes, cloud management and microservice meshes, for example. You can set it all up for free using the FOSS offerings but it will sink a lot of time learning how to and maintaining the stack. Or you can pay to use someone elses "batteries included" distro which can be deployed with a few commands and save yourself a lot of time but spend $$$($..$??).

As long as projects don't actively refuse to accept contributions to the core, respond well to issues, document stuff well and keep a nice pluggable architecture allowing other people to fork it and hack in their own features, you're allowing people to choose between time or money.

Benefits of having a "pro" version also filters down to the open core - if you're wanting to market your product to businesses, you're likely going to spend more effort on making it more user-friendly and therefore documentation and howto guides become more slick and comprehensive.
Maybe the money is going to the secret space program. And one of the duties of the regular public military and security industry is to be a front.
One of the few paid apps I use extensively. Completely ridiculous given that their own damn podcast app shows everyone the same podcasts.

Not to mention that you can literally post an RSS feed into pretty much every podcast app, it's an open ecosystem. Jesus.

Can Google actually put people with some degree of sensibliity in charge of these decisions? This reminds me of Amazon deleting 1984 from people's Kindles.
I hosted a lot of people in summer of 2008. All of my housemates were into couchsurfing too (mixed gender house: two guys and three girls, that probably helped), so there was a period where we always hosted at least one person. One weekend, for a couchsurfing event in my city, we hosted 12 people at once! We eventually stopped hosting because people got busy and priorities changed, but our experience as hosts was very positive and I still attended local couchsurfing meetups for the next year or so. I made many friends and contacts through it.

We never received any negative feedback and were in high demand. Aside from that one super busy weekend, where things did get a bit cramped (but people knew in advance that it would be), nobody shared any beds or couches and couchsurfers had rooms separate from the hosts. I wouldn’t have had it any other way. Sharing beds with the host is... creepy (unless the person was given their own bed/couch and they mutually decided they wanted to share a bed, of course).

I miss couchsurfing too. I stopped being part of it around the time it got a sense for being a bit commercial. My circle of couchsurfing friends did it for the cultural exchange and at some point it drifted from that to just free accommodation and drinking parties. At least that’s the sense I got.
If you want to work full-time on open source, then you need to treat it like a job. Either find an employer who will pay you, or start a business and become your own employer.

One way to start an open source business is to use a public/private licensing model, a.k.a. dual licensing with an 'open' license and a commercial license. The key is that you can have readable, modifiable, redistributable source code, without universally giving your work away for free. Instead, charge a fee for the right to use your software to create proprietary software, or for the right to use your software in a commercial context.

License Zero is designed to support developers pursuing this kind of business model. There are two public licenses, Parity and Prosperity, and there's a payment platform to charge for private licenses. https://licensezero.com/

Parity is a copy-left license, and is best suited to developer tools and software libraries. https://paritylicense.com/

Prosperity is a non-commercial license, and is best suited to end-user applications. https://prosperitylicense.com/

The Sustain podcast has an interview with the creator of License Zero, Kyle Mitchell. https://sustain.codefund.fm/29
Why would they keep signing up to stay with a guy if not being harassed was out of the norm?
Is that objectively extraneous? I feel like it was not something I'd known prior.
The tool is clearly implementing the policy as described. It's just a policy that's stupid, arrogant and naive.
> And what are you basing this on?

Talking to working-class friends in the US about their access to healthcare. They feel concerned about the price of going to their doctor about things that our doctors urge us to talk to them about. Routine, expected medical treatment often takes years of saving up, and I've had friends die before they managed to get that treatment. When people wind up with an illness requiring ongoing treatment, any additional money they might make quickly goes down the drain.

They also feel scared about losing their job, and therefore their access to healthcare, if they ever become ill enough to have to call off sick, thus compounding the problem.

Yes, it's rational when you're well-off to want to keep your money. But I'd very much prefer to make sure the people around me have real access to healthcare than that I can maybe buy a slightly nicer house.
The open source bit allows the ultimate step of forking the whole project, and that is important to me to be able to do that, but it's not a trivial step at all, and a lot of the usefulness is in the name recognition and the userbase.

But really, I want to contribute to the original project, and given I am not the original developer, it still relies on the them (and any other founders) to open up contributions. Fortunately, in this case, they have :)
This is how disinformation could work. Also, disinformation existing does not prove that UFOs/antigravity craft are just silly rumours.
Italian bank releases Bitcoin wallet
The farms we’re looking to target are vegetable farms. They use human labor to weed their crops. The few I’ve spoken to have hundreds or thousands of acres total. They seem eager to get a robot like ours.
The scale of ineptitude from this government is off the scale. Will this government ever get its rekoning over its handling over the Coranavirus? Alas no - our nasty, mostly right-wing national press will never subject the ruling Conservative party to sufficient scrutiny to expose their failings.

This comedy video of Health Secretary Matt Hancok has gone viral, but you can't laugh - it's painful to watch. These are the people in charge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osgcTSVt7eU
Freedom of speech is a bitch but a necessary one...
To those who consciously and deliberately avoid it for childish, irresponsible, misguided and selfish reasons: yes.

They've decided not to have a stake in the future of our nation. They've proven themselves incapable of long-term planning beyond their own immediate gratification. They have no skin in the game.

Why would we want them to vote? How could we possibly trust them to make responsible decisions with their track record?

If the devil offered them $10 cash on condition that the world is swallowed in flames in 100 years, what's to stop them?
Risk factors in Covid retrospective study 2756 UK electronic health record data
Ah very clever!
Utility for easy management of TensorFlow containers
But couldn't it be possible that Spanish people might use an English installation of the browser (because of some other reason), yet they obviously still want their local websites in the native Spanish, not some questionable translation of it?
My UK wireless carrier still charges extra for "MMS" (aka SMS w/photos) but I can't imagine who pays for it when WhatsApp exists.
If I could use OpenBSD as my primary OS, I would. Unfortunately, the performance isn't there and sometimes you run into compatibility issues. The OS itself is absolutely beautiful though. Great documentation and you get the feeling that someone actually designed it, unlike Linux that has man pages from like 1992.
>In the UK, a 300+ page law was basically pre-written and enacted very quickly, reminiscent of the early anti terrorism law.

I'm leery of what you may be trying to imply here. This isn't some conspiracy thing, is it?
> or really require a lot of content moderation

I'm not sure about that. HN is moderated very effectively. I couldn't comment on the workload there, not being a moderator.
So if you pay a senior developer less than 120k then the parent is right.
You're welcome to join our team chat and we can discuss further (send me an email, address in profile, then I can invite you).

(most relevant, but dated, PR is https://github.com/Trustroots/trustroots/pull/1086)

(I also saw your comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23219900)
Yes! There is a place! My machine! Please keep writing them! Offline experiences that launch in ten milliseconds and use kilobytes (not gigabytes) of RAM, are better than any website or electron "app"!
I just downloaded google podcast app. Did a search for corona, there are a bunch of results. Google is not a government entity, neither are all the podcasts I could find using it. I hope they will ban their own podcast app pretty soon.
You can. On expense of other people good will. And give them something in exchange. Good company, manual labor, songs, whatever. Of course we need to agree on definition of "travel" first ;)
For me it is even worse. I‘m Swiss-German, my name is french and have all my software set to english for consistency.

Some sites (and ads) don’t respect my settings and will default to french. My french is rudimentary at best.
Someone on HN suggested an amendment to the rule that private companies are not obliged to follow any freedom of speech principles when they grow to a size where they are closer to a carrier than a service. I think it's time to seriously consider something like that.
Definitely, for apps where you can invest the money. Desktop development is really expensive, even more so if you want to support more than one operating system.

This means either apps with general mass appeal, or niche apps in specialized markets, but not small markets either.

Taking a quick look at my computer right now, I have a bunch of specialized apps that are considered "expensive" by many, and there is NO WAY I would want to use them as web apps: Ulysses, Camtasia, 2Do, Bear, Fantastical.

The other side of that coin, however, is that people do not appreciate how expensive desktop development is. For my SaaS, I would love to offer desktop apps (as in, not Electron apps), but the cost is prohibitive and this will likely never happen.
I'm a lefty so perfectly open to believe bad things about the Tories, but this criticism is ridiculous.

> The guy running it, Mosley, is the grandson of Oswald Mosley

Sharing about a quarter of your genes with a leading fascist from two generations previously in a very different social and cultural time doesn't mean you're a fascist yourself. To say that who your grandfather was defines your views is a kind of genetic fascism itself.

A quick look at his Twitter feed shows retweets of Guardian articles and Labour MPs' posts. Hardly definitive, but he doesn't look like an extremist.

> He’s a “Tory activist”, which basically means he would like to see a fascist white ethnostate.

I'm sure there are a great many Tory activists with unpleasant views, but this doesn't follow at all.