skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you saying that these platforms are publishers? Then they should be held to the same standard and have the same responsibility for content that a publisher would have. They should be held liable for willingly publishing any and all content that breaks copyright law, or contains illegal content. Why are they being treated like platforms for user content when it’s legally convenient, but acting like publishers of content when they want to restrict certain forms of speech the disagree with?
I believe it's about potential. They could've been the second or third big mobile OS provider. They did incredibly well in enterprise (and now cloud computing) but they still left the field of mobile to Google and Apple. And there's no reason they couldn't do it, they had both the money and expertise to create something like Android.
> write a complete unit testing framework
Why? Aren't there already frameworks for unit testing? Didn't they have over a decade to write one?

> Do you tell them that another 30K people may have to die based on wrong policy choices
"How many more people should die before...." - where have we heard this, ooh just a couple thousand times before?

Here's a simple fact, if you want to go this route: every extra 1% of unemployment rate (for US) leads to extra ~40,000 death a year due to a whole stew of reasons.

So, which one is better: have a team of professional developers use best practices and existing tools (like yes - testing framework) and minimize what seems to be a result of amateur programming done over the span of 15 years, or release an unreliable yet sensationalist report and cause tens of millions of people loose their jobs and livelihood?

@matthewdgreen , with all due respect you're avoiding answering to concrete questions and keep defending lousy programming on the ground of urgency and appeal to emotions. This is a mere demagoguery.
Wow this is cool. I actually spent a lot of time developing a solution for this for the last company I worked for. I copied the Angular repos way of doing it. https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/aio/aio-build...

It's really well documented and made the whole process a lot less work. It works great for angular apps.

There doesn't seem to be a ton of services in this space and for larger teams working on the same product I see this solving an actual problem.

Congrats on launching, excited to see where this goes.
This is the wrong argument I would say. If its economically the correct policy then all parties should be saying it and convincing the non-believers about the efficacy of the solution. Unfortunately there is no integrity in politics to do the right thing these days and so this will never happen. One party just opposes the other party's positions irrespective of whether they are good or not. Democrats are at least a bit better in that regard, they would not oppose the proposal outright, instead they try to criticize the implementation. Republicans on the other hand would argue (in unison) that killing babies is alright if the democrats say it's wrong.
> But the $2 cash handout will be perennially opposed by some voters. The program eligibility will be slashed, the program will be a political football at election times, etc... while the bread program will be mostly noncontroversial and allowed to operate in peace.

It's completely the opposite. You have to call the cash a tax credit and give it to everyone. Then no one can get rid of it because nobody wants a tax hike.

As soon as you start having eligibility restrictions or purchasing restrictions or effort-based gatekeeping, it reduces the number of people who benefit from the program, which is how it gets ruined or dismantled once the number of beneficiaries are no longer enough people that politicians have to care about them.

Make it so that everybody below the 51st percentile income is a net beneficiary and the program is locked in.
Operating systems are going to do DoH (Microsoft already is), and that's going to be the end of it --- browsers, the most important application, are already bought in. DoT is a footnote.
Every time that the fragment was sold their were at least concerns that it was stolen, which likely drove down the price.
The Program 2020
That might imply incompetence on their financial staff's part and his inability to handle it properly. That or maybe dumb local tax codes like based on job titles.
It's in the first paragraph of this article: https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/05/19/florida-heal...
They don't have to reference it in order to react to it or otherwise be affected.

I appreciate your reply though.
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Shouldn’t government accounts be banned too then? Every government has spread major misinformation & harassed innocent people.

How about CNN? They do it too.
Looks great, hope you'll succeed with this! Having an affordable on-prem alternative with native database support are killer features for me.
Something that's skimmed over in the article but not addressed is: if the key pair isn't used for encryption, then how are session keys protected?

The answer is: using the server's public key which is transmitted to client when establishing the connection.

But then it's trivial to perform a person-in-the-middle attack and both observe and manipulate the plain text data by sending the client the attacker's public key.

That's why it's crucial to retrieve host keys via secure channels and explicitly whitelist them on clients.
It's been out for at least 4 years.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
This has come up several times before. The original submission (in 2018) had the most comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18463553
That's lovely, but once you've remembered it?

I'm never going to forget my mobile number, I don't need to keep calling myself to remember it.
I am not qualified to attempt to explain why knots are a hot topic..

I can recommend a book on topology though. Robert Ghrist’s book:

https://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/notes.html

Do you like physics? If so maybe try John Baez’s book for more knot-centric inspiration:

https://www.amazon.com/GAUGE-FIELDS-KNOTS-GRAVITY-Everything...
And sync is the one big advantage of Office products. It's a pain to properly sync email, chat, file storage, calendars etc. MSFT has a very compelling way that works for end users and IT alike. Setting this up with products from different vendors is a pain.
Shouldn't firefighters compete to see who can spend the least amount of money putting out fires? Shouldn't health insurance agencies compete to see who can spend the least on healing people? Until we get these things straight why would he want to have the government spend money or making infrastructure stronger? After all, government spending is bad, right?
I think that you are at least 20 years late for building a real domain business. I have been into in that game for more than 15 years and yes, it is fun, but it's not a (profitable) business. And if you want to make it profitable, it's not even close to a sidebusiness.
Managing Business Risk with AI
Other software (distributed alongside, "mere aggregation") != Software based on a work (derivative).

GPL obligations apply in the latter case, OSI definition talks about the first case.
I think they are saying Alex Jones is responsible because his followers ended up stalking and harassing the victims parents. One could argue he never directly said to do that so it isn't his responsibility, but he also has a big platform.
It doesn't feel right for me to comment about an account in response to someone else's post. Maybe I'll say a general thing instead:

We rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments too quickly and/or get involved in flamewars—and we're happy to remove the rate limit when people commit to following the site guidelines in the future. hn@ycombinator.com is the best place to contact about this.
Most of the responses here do a really great job at pointing out the flaws of this project. My biggest gripe is it currently has no plans to be integrated by default. So just like all the other package management tools for windows the tool itself is a prereq requiring another hoop. If I have to deal with more configuration management to install this from the app store I’d rather use chocolaty at least that can be installed reliably.
And wouldn't be faster simple use native Linux installed on the computer ? Instead of running on a VM, and a glue/translation layer from OpenGL/OpenCL/Vulkan/CUDA to DirectX. And don't forgot all the blotware and slowness that have Windows 10.
Would you mind elaborating on what you don't follow on? I generally agree with everything you've said, so normally it'd be A-OK, but I think there's a question here somewhere (though I'm not exactly sure what) and I want to make sure I can address it.
Technically Social Security doesn't go to all Americans. You have to work a minimum amount (and therefore pay a minimum amount in) to qualify. It's also possible to opt-out of social security, although it's not trivial to do so (IIRC you do this by claiming a conscientious objector status or something like that).
Ask HN: Web development with just a laptop? (no external monitors)
I've seen a number of web developers out there mention they write entire web apps (front end and back end) using just their laptop and no external monitors.

The ability to do that is attractive to me, as it means you can quickly change your setting and still be productive.

Are there specific features (even 3rd party tools) that have helped you become really proficient at doing laptop-only development?

I feel like there should be some Mavis Beacon style training to help you get better at using just your laptop screen for development!
Oh boy. It was like a thriller. Enjoyed it :)
I don’t think it’s a nit. It’s polite and proper feedback on the misuse of a term. The TL;DR here didn’t really convey anything useful from the rest of the post. So it ought to be rightly called “Introduction”, as you said.
I'm not too sure about that, what about the support for DX12 in WSL? Can't deploy that to production outside WSL right now as far as I'm aware, unless they add DX12 support to azure Linux vms...
What's the deal with the fork?
> The only thing lacking with UPI is proper integration with merchants; large retailers rely on weird locked in services like PhonePe etc. for integration with their billing systems

My local grocery store (a small mom and pop operation) uses a QR code system with a speaker the recites out loud any new transaction so that both the merchant and the customer can verify it easily.

And besides, integration with merchants is not the job of UPI. It's the job of the application implementing UPI.
"Repeat yourself for max 3-5 times" is a much better principle.

Copy & paste is a fundamental principle for reason. Just when it becomes a burden you need to abstract.
I find this extremely politically biased. It states right from the start "The bulk of transfers are spent on food anyway", like that is a good thing. UN's policies are antiquated. The world's poor mostly have malnutrition (not undernourishment) and it's getting out of control. They want to apply cookie cutter policies for both sub-Saharan Africa and poor people in the rest of the world.

I'd support a system like this if the money was spent mostly on healthy food and durable goods. But I fear a blunt money giveaway will exacerbate the existing problems.

Do you ever wonder why so many evil corporations support democrats/labour/etc? Handouts get votes, and as long as handouts get spent mostly in things these corporations sell it's all good. Think junk food, rent (landowners), non-durable goods (mobile, shoes, clothing), gasoline, alcohol, and tobacco. It's a feedback loop of well meaning but lazy left wing politics and the worst of Capitalism.

Think about it.
I use a tiling window manager all the time, my X1 Carbon has a 2k screen so it's totally doable
NASA Scientists Might Have Found a Parallel Universe 'Next to Ours'
Anyone on here who has actually done this? Is Tulsa a competitive option for remote workers?
Be prepared for a lot more of these kinds of bids in the coming years. We are all Walking talking tax banks concentrated around certain parts of United States. States that have fewer of these tax banks want more and nothing wrong with that. Clusters cause echo chambers. The more evenly distributed the populous the lesser and/or smaller the echo chamber specially when the populous works “nationally” (by virtue of being remote). Hopefully this will result in the populous being more tolerant and accepting which in turn will demand and drive more centrist policies.

(Personally I think that is one of the reason why US is one of the very few countries that has citizenship by birth. It’s a sure fire way to increase the number of tax banks in the country)
Which is the best ERP software development company in India?
It is knowable, by IP address.
The Sense of Shame
>One results in the loss forever of the treasure; the other at least preserves them.

you paint an unfair picture.

you fail to mention that, in the case of this argument at least, preserving the artifact by means of foreign intervention may very well result in the starvation of the would-be local thieves.

many would argue that the loss of any human life is greater than the loss of all the world's artifacts.

It isn't really that unfounded a concept.

A well studied and documented artifact has only a specific amount of practical importance, aside from some sort of cultural significance. A human life has an unknown future, be it good or evil -- and unlimited (human) possibility if given the opportunities.

It's a fairly simple value proposition when simplified unreasonably this way : "Do you let another human die for the sake of storing an already studied artifact in a location where the object is safer?"
Who builds the cloudformation support? I could understand not baking it in on an initial feature release but it should be there ’soon’.

Same with Config.
There’s also the possibility that although other regimes were counterfeiting the greenback through the Cold War, Americans weren’t affected (due to the high demand for the greenback) and couldn’t do much about state actors like DPRK anyway. Modern USD notes are far more difficult to copy. Without bulk-counterfeiting or debasement by the Fed, Americans would have the same problems as the Swiss did when the Swiss Franc briefly became a safe haven reserve in the 2010 era.

And as sandworm alludes to down thread, Americans (USG) extended full faith and credit to all notes, whether old new or counterfeit, so that faith in the dollar would never come into doubt.
Lawrence vs Texas is another interesting one. It's likely that the defendants were not actually having sex at the time of their arrest. The defendants deny it, the four responding officers reported three different stories. Lambda legal persuaded them to plead no contest and fought the charges on equal protection grounds instead.
Hang on is social security tied to the draft?
A negative income tax would only discourage earning money in the same way that a progressive income tax does anyway, right? Or do you mean more from a psychological perspective?
Java 8 is six years old. It's not remotely current. Java 14 is the current release. Java 11 is the current LTS release. Depending upon your priorities, either of them would make sense to pick as a default.

Most package managers provide multiple JDK versions, but default to the newest stable version for the default metapackage.
There must be at least 99% of the users that have phone number contacts only, because dealing with usernames is a hassle to begin with. And why not store username-only contacts in the phones normal address book to begin with?

Why force this "feature" on everyone? There is ZERO reason for Signal to do this.
I might as well use WhatsApp if you're going to start doing this shit, but I guess that's the point.
People on "the dole" here in the UK make up about 5% of benefits claims[1], and the proportion who are on it voluntarily is smaller still. It's a tiny number. Even if they are proud of it, there are significantly bigger problems that are easier and cheaper to solve than worrying about people who are voluntarily unemployed.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47623277
I don't think you understand the point I'm trying to make. I don't care about Alex Jones. I care about collateral damage: Deleting "communist bandits" comments.[1] Banning the Podcast Addict app.[2] Banning other apps.[3][4] I didn't have to look very hard to find these examples. There are certainly dozens more if one cares to delve into the issue.

There are people who we don't know about who are currently having their views suppressed. A few of them probably hold views that future societies will endorse. But because they don't have a voice, it will take longer to make moral progress. Compared to that, Alex Jones is a rounding error.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223219

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23219427

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23221447

4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229073
Task based parallelism for a web server or background job server is really easy and that's 99% of the cases covered. Problems which _need_ full multi-threading with shared mutable state are actually pretty rare.
The Paradox of Source Code Secrecy
There is software provided by TPP (third party provider) that acts as a middle man between user and bank. User just "connect" all banks, and then TPP can retrieve the data using differen sources
I do not believe "some voters" will motivate the politicians. Instead it is the bread manufacturers, farms, importers, and every other large business with enough weight to convince politicians that a bread coupon is better for Americans than cash. Unsurprisingly they do this with cash not coupons.
Nobody wants to be in the position of defending Alex Jones. He's totally indefensible. But that is always how these things start. Once you start regulating content on the basis of factual accuracy, you put these companies in the position of making decisions about political truth, and that is an extremely dangerous thing.

These are really hard ethical questions, and I think both views are reasonable and understandable. But ultimately I think it's more dangerous to put Google in charge of regulating truth. It feels like a win in the short term to ban Alex Jones, and it is a win in the short term. But the long term consequences of things like this are really really important, and the fact that they're obscured by distance doesn't make them any less so.
It is being used both for training and inference in order to package dependencies and scale up.
Costco is the opposite of Walmart; they're more like Trader Joe's. They sell hardly anything. The idea of Costco is "if you find it here, it's a decent product", not "if you want it, you can find it here".
Competitive or not culture change is a big part of the equation. There would be a huge difference between say Bay Area and Tulsa or Florida and Massachusetts for example. I think we will see more relocation but initially a large percentage will within A smaller geographical area say Bay Area to Sacramento for eg. Some change but it’s not entirely a new “country”
Similar as with Russians.
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Things like filename limits and command length limits seem to get hit on windows way more frequently, making all code more fragile in general, and a million other little things.

Even popular libraries like zeromq don't support namedpipes on windows because of how complicated they are and how different to everywhere else.

Just determining what visual studio version is installed seems to trip up projects all the time.
A new $12B US chip plant sounds like a win for Trump. Not quite
But then the number of lines would increase :-D
Perhaps you misread the discussion, Goofus! Youtube didn’t ban Alex Jones for being wrong about something.
Isn't this an argument that there should be no bathroom segregation whatsoever? Why should women care if men use the same bathroom as them?
Could you suggest some reading material on this please?
How to decode a data breach notice
Students are generally pretty young, but staff and faculty are not.
The big news is Docker support for GPUs on Windows. You could train on GPU on Windows but you couldn't serve the model without Docker, as a business.
This viewpoint is often touted by those on the political left but has no evidentiary basis that I've seen, certainly. At most the democratic party has a strong tendency of allowing its most fringe members an out-sized voice in the interest of inclusion, which only pushes away its much larger moderate base. Perhaps the form of "compromise" you are referring to is just the more extreme viewpoints being filtered out as actual reasonable policy proposals are formed.

EDIT: Which, by the way, also happens in the Republican party. See, for instance, the repeal vs replace movement and how those went nowhere.
Agreed. Keep it simple.

It annoys me when people talk of worrying about coffees and sandwiches when talking about earning (way) more and moving to a more sustainable area is out of the question.
private companies don’t need to have a return on investment - it’s public companies that do!
Cahokia's rise parallels onset of corn agriculture
This post is about the UX, not about the crypto:

Meanwhile on Telegram everything just works more or less as is has always done.

If I click on settings I get a "menu" called "Passcode & Face ID". There's a button saying "Turn Passcode On", and a help text saying: "Note: if you forget the passcode, you'll need to delete and reinstall the app. All secret chats will be lost."

While I personally have big questions around the encryption in Telegram I think Telegram takes a much more effective approach towards making it available: by default it is just a very good messaging application that is a good replacement for Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp and almost everything else except Signal.

On top of that it provides secret chats which are end to end encrypted (and can also be set to automatically disappear), and an option for deleting all my data if I don't log in within 1, 3, 6 or 12 months.
I did similar studies about a decode ago for perl with similar results.

But what he's missing are two much more important thing.

1. smaller datastructures.
They are way overblown, both the ops and the data. Compress, trade for smaller data and more simplier ops.
In my latest VM I use 32 bit words for each and for each data.

2. Inlining. A tellsign is when the calling convention (arg copying) is your biggest profiler contributor.

Python's bytecode and optimizer is now much better than perl's, but it's still 2x slower than perl. Python has by far the slowest VM. All the object and method hooks are insane. Still no unboxing or optimize refcounting away, which brought php ahead of the game.
> It just seems like another tiresome way to make the years-old remark of "wow look how much electricity the full system (a decentralized trustless ledger) consumes and how few transactions per second it supports!"

The only way it doesn't waste inordinate amounts of power and support a reasonable number of transactions is if you pretend.
The entrepreneur’s DNA: 8 questions to ask yourself if you have it
Also discussed (under a different URL) 2-3 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22458342