skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's probably because you lived in a tech bubble already 10 years ago.

I reluctantly installed WhatsApp only after everybody around me started using it, or (the more tech savvy among them who already knew how to "open the internet"), switched away from Facebook to WhatsApp.

Everybody who had a phone also naturally had a phone number, and the phone numbers of their friends were already stored on the phone. Nobody outside the "nerd sphere" had a Gmail account 10 years ago, especially not outside the US.

PS: I don't remember ever paying money to WhatsApp, I think that was a short-lived experiment that didn't work out right before the Facebook acquisition.
I cannot really asses the situation in US, but observing things like the Evergreen situation makes me believe that it's similar to what happened in Europe (at least to what I've seen). Most probles stem from standarization and degradation of dorm experience. It was pretty obvious when I was doing my Masters that in the lower years if you do not run with the crowd, then you will be ostracized. It was always like that in some degree, but I could not imagine few years before that there would be people protesting against leting in some conservative speakers on the campus. I was traveling a bit later and it seems that this is prevalent in most modern western universiteis. If you are not part of the rainbow crowd, then you have to be very careful where and to whom you voice your opinions. Maybe some people enjoy the Stasi experience, but I actually prefered the camraderie feeling of old - I will listen to you no matter what your opinions are.
phone number pairing is not just about familiarity - a person's phone number is still a natural contact handle to put on a signature, business card etc. Being able to then WhatsApp this person is very powerful.
There have been too many cases of a popular app being bought by scammers and repurposed. They can't exempt an app from being suspended just because it's popular.
Yep, I also have never seen Denver, which could well be an exception.

Being European and having lived, besides in my home city in a few other European cities, the article reflects my experience and what I observed, as said this not only applies to tourists, but also to market values of properties, i.e. to locals.
Can some plz hack Emacs support for this. Lisp without paredit-mode or lispy-mode is really not my cup of tea anymore.
Sadly, there no any Qt-based editor for AsciiDoctor, such as Ghostwriter or ReText for Markdown.
That is a wildly irresponsible statement to make. I myself am Phase 3 and fretting about paying my bills.

It is kind of interesting that this conflict could be seen as mostly between city and county officials, but people love character and so Elon Musk becomes the only relevant player even though his only contribution has been to dare officials to have him arrested.

So, once again we see that most of public policy is about fantasy and narrative. Some businesses can open but not others which means basically everyone. City and county officials worked things out which means Musk has super powers and zero legal constraints.
I am not sure military supremacy goes hand in hand with economic advantage, eg german and japan are great examples till very recently.

That aside, fundamentally those weapons come in play against whom ? Obviously not most of nato Europe Whom are ideological allies or dependents. can’t be against Russian or China because they have nuclear weapons or even North Korea, India Pakistan. So that leaves South America and the Middle East parts of asia. I guess (and it’s off the top of my head) the value of achieving conventional military supremacy maybe an over kill (no pun) against moderate military powers and not so advantageous against nuclear powers. But at the end I’m not a renowned military strategist, i just observe that German and japan’s influence on the world stage is not backed by a massive conventional military supremacy
Back when most people who worked there were adults

Are you aware of the fact that Google was literally founded by two college kids?
If you like WhatsApp but don’t like Facebook having your meta-data, and don’t like the fact that your Google Drive back-ups are not E2E encrypted, then use Signal. WhatsApp’s encryption algorithm is based on the protocol that Signal invented, so you get the same and E2E security — but without the potential for Facebook snooping on you.
Expert advice incoming to alleviate the suffering. How to determine the locale correctly in a Web application: try the following steps, in order.

1. locale preference stored in session of the Web application

2. locale preference stored in user settings of the Web application

3. locale preference advertised in browser

3. a) Accept-Language header

3. b) language/territory in User-Agent header

3. c) IP address lookup/geoip

3. d) Geolocation API

4. default locale of the Web application

You will notice that Google tries to be "smarter", to the detraction of the user, as shown in many comments in this thread.

Implementation notes: 1. and 2. require a locale selection somewhere as part of the Web application, 3. is browser settings, 4. is hard coded in the Web application.

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From the article:

> Don't set the language of your website based on user location

This is an extreme/absolute prohibition and therefore almost certainly false/useless. Done correctly, user location is one clue in a chain.

> why would I have my machine in that language? And if it's not, I will change it myself.

Sometimes, it is not possible or feasible. Be aware of these situations. Examples:

* You are in an internet cafe or corporate environment and the browser settings are locked down by admin policy.

* You borrow someone else's mobile phone or tablet for a few minutes.
This tool looks like it employs the Munsell color space, invented by Albert Munsell, one of the Demi-gods of color science. Munsell was a painter, and a pretty good one. He was frustrated by the arbitrary naming of artists paints, so he set out to develop a perception-based system of his own. It was based on two principles: ‘smallest perceivable difference’ and ‘pair-wise comparison’. Using this, and hundreds of test subjects, he mapped perceptual color space. Until then, it had been assumed it was spherical. He showed it for what it really was: lumpy and uneven. Also, fundamentally non-Euclidean. A true pioneer.
Plenty of European countries are complicit in similar acts of their own, and many more tacitly assist. I don't think many deserve being painted as a victim of this situation. There's an article right now on the FP about the Netherlands helping GCHQ break Argentinean encryption.

In any case, I think the hypocrisy makes sense if you consider that the people saying this are from places (the US + close allies) that probably, all things considered, benefit [EDIT:] more than others by government privacy invasions. The goal of these governments is presumably to further their own interests at the cost of everyone else's. Why else do several of these allies willingly sign up to trade information with the NSA?

EDIT: "more than they are harmed" => "more than others"
Oracle does this too. The best part is that this is all set during installation, there's no way to change it afterwards.

It's really great trying to figure out an error that's written in Norwegian, when you're not the least bit familiar in that language.

Most of the errors do have codes though, and just Googling that will get you started at least.
> I agree with the abstract idea of fairness, having rules, etc. But the devil lies in the implementation.

Particularly around IP law, which is what China is most flagrant about ignoring. Nothing in IP law comes from any sense natural principle. It is all arbitrary judgements.

It makes sense for America to claim IP is important since they own most of it, but it is wise for China to ignore their arguments as far as they can get away with it.
I don't understand the claims re: font loading.

> Vercel's impossibly fast CDN delivers new.css and the font Inter using xz/fonts, so there's virtually no bloat added to your pages.

It's 300kb of font downloads, hardly light. And the xz/fonts page says:

>Break your users from unethical tracking networks

I'm still making a request to a 3rd party CDN with an origin header that says what page I'm looking at, so I'm not sure what privacy I'm gaining here.
> According to the U.S.’s own policy, Taiwan and what we call China are the same country.

That's a mistaken interpretation and it has been clarified on numerous occasions.

There are two critical words to the context: recognize and acknowledge. And two separate entities to be considered as far as the US is concerned: China and Taiwan. The US has intentionally left the situation in limbo, to neither give in to China nor prompt a military confrontation between China and Taiwan.

The US does not officially recognize China and Taiwan as one. The US "acknowledges" China's position; specifically China's belief that they are one country.

Here is a good explanation:

> The United States did not, however, give in to Chinese demands that it recognize Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan (which is the name preferred by the United States since it opted to de-recognize the ROC). Instead, Washington acknowledged the Chinese position that Taiwan was part of China. For geopolitical reasons, both the United States and the PRC were willing to go forward with diplomatic recognition despite their differences on this matter. When China attempted to change the Chinese text from the original acknowledge to recognize, Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher told a Senate hearing questioner, “[W]e regard the English text as being the binding text. We regard the word ‘acknowledge’ as being the word that is determinative for the U.S.” In the August 17, 1982, U.S.-China Communique, the United States went one step further, stating that it had no intention of pursuing a policy of “two Chinas” or “one China, one Taiwan.”

> To this day, the U.S. “one China” position stands: the United States recognizes the PRC as the sole legal government of China but only acknowledges the Chinese position that Taiwan is part of China.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/what-us-one-china-policy-and-w...
But they're not asking the podcast hosts to remove the content. They're penalizing a podcast player app, which has no ability to remove bad content.
Dependency Hell in Machine Learning Projects
reStructuredText is another one,

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReStructuredText

- https://docutils.readthedocs.io/en/sphinx-docs/user/rst/quic...
Uhm.. No garbage collector? Do we have to manage our own pointers then?
Having watched the 1 minute long video i still don't know what these guys do. Also the "JavaScript God Mode" tagline is completely meaningless, better change it to something that's actually descriptive of what they do. What the heck is a "JavaScript God Mode" anyway?

At first sight it sounds like they compete with pkg https://github.com/zeit/pkg but i've never heard of them before, so I'm guessing maybe I'm misunderstanding what they do.

Can anyone provide some interpretations on what this actually does, and what makes it unique?
First proper look at James Dyson's failed electric car
If the island were heavily populated prior to colonization, or even filled with Argentinians, it would make sense. But it was uninhabited before colonization, and they voted 96% in favor remaining a colony in 1986. The UK actually attempted to transfer the island to Argentina twice in the 20th century, but stopped because the Falkland islanders themselves hated the idea.

I think it’s pretty hard to argue that Argentina did anything but invade here, not liberate, given the disposition of the actual people who live there.
If America goes home China's rise is quickly OVER, without anyone providing global trade security on the open oceans. This would drive unrest internally, and over the last 1500 years when China's central control has been threatened, they have turned inward and become shut ins.

The Belt and Road is partially an attempt to deal with the risk of the US pulling out of providing global security, but they need a LOT more time, and somewhat ironically because of COVID-19 they may have run out. While the US is spending trillions to move away from global trade very very quickly.
WhatsApp is a no-go. Unencrypted e-mail is a no-go.

Please send a fax instead.

I wish I was joking.
Btw - It's nice to see how you made sure to pinpoint my spelling mistake. It pretty much proves that you are one of "those" people. It's not enough for you to just answer a comment on the internet, you try to belittle everyone else to feel better about yourself.

Did you remember to downvote me?

Of course you did :)

You downvote everything you disagree with. It's outrageous that has has a different opinion than you might want to speak, right?

I just hope that one day it will blow up in those smug feces (you might use sic! here).
Weren’t those the ones with weird NUMA issues?
Clickbait God Mode title.
Ahh, Microsoft.

They used to localise VBA too, all IFs and THENs and WHILEs were translated to the local language. Yes it was as bad as you think it was.

You could somehow run VBA macros written in the wrong language, you couldn't just touch them or it'd be all syntax errors everywhere.
I've had great experiences from couchsurfing. Hosting, surfing, and events. I've met several close friends through couchsurfing.

I've heard about the negative experiences people have had, but never from direct source, always someone heard about someone. I have no clue about the actual numbers.

The community died off with the mismanagement, but also shrunk from the rise of airbnb and meetup.
Consciousness could simply be an emergent phenomenon. Mathematical theorems and proofs are not physical things, yet we can create physical systems that can encode and prove theorems. Maybe we are conscious in the same way that these physical systems prove things without being made of mathematics.
This seems very unethical. The fact that you don't like Softbank or DoorDash or the gig-economy or that you're sending pizza to homeless people is irrelevant. The fact is you're exploiting a bug to personally benefit at the expense of investors.

Why wouldn't you apply the same principals of ethical hacking, where you would notify the party of the exploit?
I used to think the internet was this great place resistant to censorship and government intervention. Instead you now have to tip-toe around and every comment ist tied to your real identity forever. At least I‘m using Apple, so pissing off Google won’t mean I can’t use electronic payments.
I suspect the experience of being an electron is something like this:

"Wheeeeee!"
Dude, your tirade about fair west and unfair evil chinese, give me a break. Sounds like reading Trump's twitter if I had the stomach for it and too much free time to waste.

US does behave amorally tons of times, so does EU, so does everybody else. US slapping super massive tariffs on non-US products (airplanes for example) ain't fair to european manufacturers by any definition, and if we aren't allies anymore, then who is. US stealing trade secrets via NSA, spying on all foreign politicians, dissent, supporting dictators and so on.

The thing is, out there is mostly unrestrained capitalism - everybody for themselves, and help even between allies normally only comes if its mutually beneficial. US has very little moral ground if any in this topic.
> Complete list of AWS pricing for every product in every region stored as JSON

Is this a hypothetical file that you mention or something you actually have? Asking since I have a use-case for this data and am interested in knowing how to get it. I have read AWS has APIs for pricing info - is that where you got the data from?
Why not start by simply making prisons humane?

I don't know if you've ever visited an American prison, but they're a vestige of 19th-century social mores (ie - norms from an era where slavery, then Jim Crow, seemed reasonable to the average American). If you want to empower prisoners to study difficult topics like advanced mathematics, you're probably going to have to start treating them like people first.
Due to roughly exponential growth in the number of developers of all kind over last couple of decades it is true that at any point most developers have very little experience. I don't remember what was doubling time but I think it was more than two years but less than 5 years. It as also easy to see that the growth is already flattening out with some interesting repercussions in the near future (experienced/inexperienced developers ration finally getting better, etc.)

Doubling time shorter for python developers could be explained to be a result of python getting more popular (so even though programming gets more popular as a job, python grows even faster within developer community).
Show HN: Vrmac Graphics, a cross-platform graphics library for .NET
I highly recommend it, I have been using it for years now.
In their documentation [1]:

"NectarJS is a SAAS js cross-compiler. You can compile JS for Windows, Linux, Mac, Arduino or STM32 boards."

What does that even mean?

[1] https://doc.nectarjs.com/nectarjs/getting-started
This is also why Valhalla is taking so much engineering time, those 25 year old JARs are expected to still work on a Valhalla aware JVM.
> If I had an extra $5k/year I'd probably just spend it on meaningless consumption like a bigger TV or a better car, where as not having to give a second thought about costs for medical care or higher education for my kids gives me so much more peace of mind.

We do. The median house in the US is twice as big as in Germany or France. We have 50% more cars per person than Germany and almost twice as many as France. Even excluding healthcare (to exclude the effect of inflated healthcare costs in the US), per person household consumption spending is 50% higher in the US than France, based on OECD data.
Show HN: Little Ball of Fur – A Python library for graph subsampling
VLC is really awesome and i really respect your work.

I never said this file wont open in my system, thanks to VLC.
But those things don't make a language functional. It's like saying there are no lambda statements as there is no lambda syntax, but syntax != feature.

I mean I see your point, and if I really wanted to be fully functional I'd use a language _with_ those things like Haskell. But not being mutable is easy in Go too.
Suppose the actors were different: wouldn't this be like, for instance, Germany forbidding a Brazilian company from exporting a widget it manufactured to the USA, just because the Brazilian company had used a German-made lathe in its Brazilian factory to make the widget?
> In the UK tipping delivery drivers is basically unheard of

For you it might be.

I tip delivery drivers and I received tips when I worked. Tips made up >20% of my pay.

Rich people generally would not tip, poor people would.
Sailfish is pretty great and I wish them all the best, I did find myself in need of a few features while using it, one thing being their web browsers lack of usb access for devices like yubikeys: https://together.jolla.com/question/213458/usb-2fa-support-i...
Interesting, so far it has been shown that blood type plays a role in COVID-19 susceptibility: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.20031096v...

I doubt that this it the only factor at play, perhaps they will find specific variants of proteins that affect the efficacy of the immune response.
Wartime surveillance is necessary. Peacetime surveillance is bad. The problem is getting to "peacetime".
Ask HN: How long has Google been censoring YouTube comments critical of China?
I was just alerted to YouTube censoring comments critical of China. I then tested this by commenting on one of my own videos with random hotkeys that I knew would trigger anything of the sort. About 10 seconds later, my test comments were gone.

Edit: I posted the following comment to my video, and this was deleted too. This could not be a spam filtering false positive:

"The world's sanitisation problem could be helped with more recycling of chinese trash, especially in wuhan. The green waste that's turned into compost in tiananmen square is a bonus to sustainability."
Well, yes, but also that Strava takes this hands-off approach like they're not responsible for the data they collate
I guess if you replace a neuron with pen&paper calculation you have to keep the timing right. As in:
A song played on a piano is just the various strings moving back and forth. So you could replace the strings with people walking forward and backward. But for it to be a melody:
1. the people have to move really fast
2. all movements must be synchronized sufficently
3. there must exist a point in space time at which all those vibrations come together, ie. all that movement must add up to the final frequency of the song.

So if all people in the world try to create consciousness by calculating on paper their would have to carefully watch their timing in each step.

What do you get if a lot of people synchronize their actions? Like in synchronized swimming? dancing? a concert? maybe some primitive form of consciousness?

/edit:
Try combine this synchronization with a feedback loop, ie. the swimmers or piano player not following previously determined steps of a sequence but determining the next step based on the input from other systems around them and their own output.
I asked Richard Stallman this question: His answer was:
Live cheaply.

Eric S. Raymond answer was: Be independently wealthy.

I have tried to reach billionaire philanthropists (Bill Gates, Steve
Wozniak, Dean Kamen, Warren Buffet, and others) with the idea that
there are very talented people around who have brilliant ideas (say
for instance another Newton or Mozart) but are not financially
independent to afford to work on those. Among good places to look for
such talent is to identify and support important or promising open
source projects and people behind them. But none of them bothered to
respond.
I have to wonder how much of this thread is just stereotypically sheltered programmers not realizing that you can have consensual sex without any rigmarole, and that many women are actually looking for it if you're a cool guy that they like, even if they pick you as the house they want to sleep in while traveling, which in my experience often involves some beers with the host.

One clue is that it's just focused on men flirting with women that's inappropriate here.

All I can gather is that some HNers need to find a new way to low-key flirt with people that doesn't make them(self) think "oh, this must be sexual harassment, this is bad".
Ekeeda – Online Learning App
The pressure from the government is unconstitutional.
Forensic Investigation – The Shocking State of Privacy in Safety Apps
I recently shutdown my open source project (respondcms.com). I spent over 5 years building it and was able to scrape some revenue out of support contracts, installations, and theme sales (~$100-300 /month). But, I never got to the point where it was sustainable. I do think that it helped me a lot in my 9-5 job as I was constantly solving problems and developing new skills. It also gave me a unique skillset that I used to development a new product called Profit Pages (https://profitpages.io/). In terms of tips to turn it into a full-time career, I would recommend (1) open source libraries, not complete products, (2) keep it small and sell the parts that make it complicated, (3) do not sell customizations (anything that does not scale past 1 person), (4) have a revenue plan from day one.
From the video: "a web developer becomes a powerful programmer"

It's 2020, we're still pretending javascript programmers aren't real programmers?