skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not technical. I started using markdown to write my university papers, and it really helped with quickly formatting my text (as well as not worrying about Microsoft Word crashing). I really think more people should be aware of it as it would speed up so many workflows. Thanks for this tutorial!
This is about official state offices like the arbeitsamt (department for unemployment) contacting citizens vie WhatsApp. Which does not comply with data privacy laws. There are other means of communication in place for these kind of correspondence. This is no letter to the general public. Funny enough it got released because of our version of your freedom of information act.
My problem with Uber is not the absolute amount that drivers get paid, but the percentage of my money that ends up in their pocket. While I think Uber provides a valuable service, it does not provide a service that is 25% or more of the ride. Uber also locks a lot of potential income in the form of bonuses (do X rides in 1 week), to force a lot of drivers to work ungodly hours in order to meet those targets.
A bit of context for non-Norwegians: The government owned media NRK bought location data from Tamoco worth approximately 3,400 USD.

The NRK subsidiary NRKbeta has "connected the dots" from that data set. In this article they present how they could track down military personnel visiting restricted military sites in Norway, including the disputed radar installation in Vardø, close to the Russian border.
> German officials relationship to WhatsApp is a bit silly,

I find HN hivemind relationship to these apps quite silly. A government should never entrust any information to a third party it has zero control over. An individual consumer and a government employee working with classified information have vastly different responsibilities.

> I always wonder what their conrete worry or attack scenario is

The security of these public apps are akin to a glass cannon. Strong in one scenario, hilariously weak in another. State actors can easily circumvent and extract full text messages and not just metadata.
In related news, https://www.warmshowers.org/ (a couchsurfing, but only for cyclists) also changed "business model" this month. However, they will not charge existing active users and only ask new sign-ups for 30 USD once for lifetime access.

https://www.warmshowers.org/sites/default/files/files/inline...
You can build a computer that responds to stimulus - we do it all the time - but that doesn't mean that it necessarily is conscious (that is, has subjective experience). If I build a computer that responds to stimulus, that doesn't necessarily mean (to paraphrase Thomas Nagel) that there is something that it is like to be that computer.
I very rarely, if ever, encounter markdown inputs where markdown is a superset of HTML. Almost always script tags and various other sorts of active content are stripped at the very least.
God I hope not.
Web apps have come a long way. Some SPAs I've used feel native and provide just as good as an experience as any desktop app.
Having said that, I feel that (IMO) a well designed desktop app is just more pleasant to use than any web site. I've written software for both scenarios and I enjoy developing native desktop apps over websites so I am probably biased in that respect.
I would pick writing JS over C++ any day. Of course, that's just my opinion. I am sure yours differs.
I think the GP is talking about Dune instead of Star Wars.

We all know what 'the spice' is.
The point is, if they do shit like this they have outed themselves as hostile. I'll do what I can to either avoid them, or if I get tricked into experiencing their wasteful bytes, attempt to prevent them from doing so on my client end. They've done me, and the rest of the world, wrong. Therefore it's no longer productive to have a conversation with them about it and instead I'll apply technological and behavioural changes on my end to mitigate the damage rather than attempt to convince them to change their ways.
This is something with your configuration. OOB VSCode will immediately show you the file but disable tokenization and certain other features. I regularly open JSON files upto 10 MB in size without any problem. You probably have plugins which impede this process.
Link to the actual source:

Maximator: European signals intelligence cooperation, from a Dutch perspective

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684527.2020.1...
I wasn't aware that the German government had a "Data Chief" position. This article refers to the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information. Because of the federal structure, his authority is complicated with many important decisions based on the regional level (Bundesland). While some people do use Signal, most people, don't care. Many doctors communicate via WhatsApp, as it's just faster / easier.
What was the software name, if I may ask? I remember speech recognition pre-CNN to be quite terrible.
...and do not forget about Pasporta Servo, which is a clear predecessor. The "pitch" for Couchsurfing may as well be "like Pasporta Servo, but without Esperanto".
It really is as simple as the article suggests.

> For example, your browser's language is set to English. Cool. But, are you in America or somewhere else? Oh you're in Canada, no problem neighbour. Spanish? Are you in Mexico or Spain? Don't worry, I'll give you the appropriate version of our Spanish translations then. French? You in Canada or France? Portuguese, Brazil or Portugal?

This is so utterly wrong and user unfriendly. Let's say that I'm an Australian traveling in Trinidad and Tobago. Somehow your web server has decided that my language is simply "English" (although it certainly is more specific than that) and makes a wild guess that because I'm in Trinidad, I want to read your website in Trinidad English creole...it's a wholly invalid assumption based on the flawed notion that my location somehow reflects my language preference.

Luckily, HTTP 1.1 has Accept-Language standardized, and unlike the solution you present it was designed with the existence of travel in mind. The locale identifiers may already specify a regional variation. My browser sends "en-AU" and your server will have all the information it needs to respond in kind without resorting to a guessing game. It's not only better for me; it's also easier for you, so why over-complicate things and break user expectations?

> Not to mention, when you're operating in a lot of languages,

... an entirely orthogonal issue may occur. Understood, but has nothing to do with location based content delivery and thus does not justify it. Again, though, Accept-Language may prioritize several language and you can use that information to decide which translation to use as a fallback.
Let's assume for a moment that people are not helpless imbeciles who need us to tell them what to do and that they choose the best option available to them, within the constraints of their life. Let's further assume that they are more familiar and better equipped to balance the constraints of their lives than we are.

Then we can deduce that if we remove the option they have chosen by making it illegal they will necessarily be left with a worse option. Since if there had been a better one, they would have taken it.

If we feel that the best option they have is not good enough because it makes us feel bad or whatever, then the question we should ask is "How can we make better options available?", not "How can we take away the best of the available options?"

Legislating a price floor does
not magically change the underlying economics of a business. It just makes the jobs below that floor go away.
Ignition! A history of liquid rocket propellants.

Little Lisper, Little Scheme is a conversation style that discusses a lot of false starts.

{Coders|Founders} at Work has a lot of frank talk about early mistakes people make and their pivots.
HN and fun don't mix well :)
The appeal of WhatsApp is simply that everyone already has it. It's the only messaging platform that can be used to message all your contacts. Network effect, that's it.
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Ever heard of amnesia? Works the same way.
Man this happens all the time, especially for products (which I kind of understand).

I was doing some research on camping equipment. Google leads me to a US page. But since I'm in NL, it redirects me to an NL domain, which is a totally different site. That site, of course, doesn't have that page, so I get dumped on their main homepage.
I'm saying: imagine a being that is identical to a conscious being in every single physical way, but only in physical ways. Why would such a being necessarily be conscious?
>that all matter has some associated mind or consciousness, and vice versa. Where there is mind there is matter and where there is matter there is mind.

That doesn't make sense. We know that humans (and probably most if not all conscious animals, in fact sleep may be a prerequisite for consciousness) spend about a third of their lives unconscious. This assertion doesn't hold, unless you want to tell me that all these rocks are just asleep.
The Dutch have an absolutely amazing intelligence apparatus.

In 2014 AIVD hacked the office network of Russia's APT29, and maintained access at least through the 2016 DNC hack. The best part was they also had access to the security cameras and were able to watch the attacks in real time.
With the Advent of the omnibar, they are necessarily search engines
That sounds like a great system. 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. America chose to invest in education debt (and modern day indentured servitude) instead.
I have some websites assuming I'm Russian still, after a year in Latvia, and even when upgrading my iPhone, everything would default to Spanish.

I distinctly remember updating my address and location each time, but it never made a difference.

Now I just find it a little amusing. Keeps my Russian and Spanish fresh.
>You may be able to imagine a body physically identical to yourself not having a consciousness, but you cannot deduce from that, that this is something that can actually happen in our Universe.

Agreed, but doesn't that just further throw us back to the mystery of consciousness as something that transcends the physical? Why would a given arrangement of physical stuff necessarily give rise to subjective experience?

>It may just as well be true that any exact physical copy of a body containing a consciousness is also conscious. In fact, the latter seems like a simpler assumption than the former.

Maybe, but that assumption brings us no closer to understanding consciousness, since consciousness is so radically qualitatively different from physical stuff.

What does "a convenient way to organize a complex pattern of elementary particles for self preservation" have to do with subjective experience, qualia, etc.?
Wow, rather Orwellian. The referenced authorities aren't even in agreement on a lot of basics about covid, and had given false information on key aspects earlier. We can also rightfully draw some conclusions about covid, e.g. looking at data, without needing to be an official authority. Google has smart people, so this makes it all the more distressing.
TBF, Max Mosley isn't really involved in this, it is his nephew who is the focus of the story.

The Telegraph just likes to pitch the idea that who your parents are is important, if the story was in the Daily Mail it would tell you how much the houses of anyone mentioned were worth.
The appeal of WhatsApp was free text messages, which is still not a thing in many countries.

Plus free international text messages.

That’s is how they grew to a billion users without being a success in either the USA or China.
I have some websites assuming I'm Russian still, after a year in Latvia (why not Latvian? Who knows.), and even when upgrading my iPhone, everything would default to Spanish.

I distinctly remember updating my address and location each time, but it never made a difference.

Now I just find it a little amusing. Keeps my Russian and Spanish fresh.
these are not user profiles, this is cloud backup of your contacts and settings

if it was trade off that together with PIN I can start using Signal without phone number on devices without SIM I would be much more understanding
To your first point: it’s not true in US healthcare.

To your second point: US has very low interest rates, money are cheap, nobody wants to work, thus services are expensive.

To your third point: system is not corrupt, but over-regulated garbage.

To your general sentiment: my point is not related to the actual cost of services.
Location shouldn't be used at all, unless there is no language set in the browser.
My guess is that your app of choice can show you estimated delivery times for different restaurants based on distance and avg preparation, adding yet another reason for using
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Tech recruiter from Zurich here.

Great idea.

Do you consider to add geographic information? The same job can be quite different in different locations; work conditions and laws differ a lot.

I understand that in the beginning that might segment the website too much.
Meta:

Why are you posting an Apple News link that is a redirection to the original source, instead of the original source?
I believe desktop apps are relevant when they are for apps that are frequently used and need high performance that the browser can not necessarily provide. Also I am more focused on the task when using desktop apps.
In most of these stories featuring Google abusing their power to remove apps, it's usually a matter of some automated tool gone wrong and the problem is solved a couple of days later. But this time it's different, they are actually asking developers to censor themselves if they are not affiliated with a gov.
Podcast Addict is a great app. I came across it back when I was playing around with Tasker, and it was such a fun app to create tasks around simply because the developer has exposed so much through Intents. A really positive platform, such a shame to see Google quashing this sort of thing.
Do you happen to have any ideas why Alameda county is performing worse?
A key technique to avoid those situations was the "poisoned pill": buried in your profile there is some keyword they must include in their request.

With that (which I copied once I was reading a full descriptive profile) you get a great filter. I have done a good share of CS, both as host and guest, over the last ~10 years, having either good or amazing experiences.
As far as I know, this is the biggest study of this kind so far, with a total of 2,618,862 participants.
The physical is all there is.
"Open-core sucks" is a blanket statement as the incentives of the business do not align with the users of the project. And as a result, in my book it's a red flag for an open-source project, and I can't think of a single project I like which does this.

The incentive of an "Open-core" business is to convert people to the premium version of the product.

This has the effect of hindering/restricting development on the community/free-version, as it's vital that the community version needs to be worse than the premium version.

Almost any monetisation strategy has this effect on open-source though. Say for example consulting; if you're paid to help users setup/configure your project, then your incentive is to have people struggle with your project so they need to pay you for help...

As you can tell I'm a little pessimistic, but in my opinion almost any project that is open-source and trying to make money off it's users, has incentives that will negatively impact the project and it's users...

Hope this helps, I'm still open to projects which have any of these monetisation strategies, but they have to be of much, much higher quality for me to seriously consider.
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I work full time building open source products. My company is kind enough to sponsor me and my team. We work on a lot of other projects (many of them using our open source work) so the revenue comes from elsewhere. If you just want to focus on building open source software and not worry too much about the business side of things. I recommend working for companies where who embrace this culture.
There is a company in Germany that will do remote flu diagnostics via WhatsApp. They even send you the sick note for your employer via WhatsApp.

Schools use it to communicate with parents.
I'm one of the Trustroots contributors, we have an old work-in-progress pull request to import couchsurfing data (https://github.com/Trustroots/trustroots/pull/1086), but it needs some love.

As mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23219760 references is coming.

The verification issue though for import is a big one, we couldn't just trust a JSON file the user has uploaded to have real references, there would be nothing stopping them writing their own glowing references.
> Insane stuff

Google is actually applying the same standard in this case (or at least attempting to). They're also fighting conspiracy theories on YouTube.
No, it's a service to public health to take down crap. People spreading "covid19 is fake" propaganda are literally getting themselves, their parents and friends killed. Freedom of speech also comes with responsibility - the responsibility of not endangering others with your speech. Similar as inciting hatred and screaming "fire" in a crowded restaurant will earn you jail time, people should be happy it's only their YT channel killed and not their sorry asses landing in jail!

I would have no problem if covid19 was taking out only those propaganda spouting idiots from the gene pool, but unlike let's say people ignoring gun safety laws and pointing a loaded shotgun at their feet which then goes off and blasts their feet away but like as with antivaxxers, anything involving infectious diseases also endangers innocent people. Mothers, fathers, children, the weakest of societies.

I am incredibly lucky to not have lost someone close to me to the 'rona, but other people I know have not been that lucky. So every time I hear someone "we gotta open up for the economy!!!" I'd like to throw these idiots in a jail cell and let the keys sink to the bottom of the Mariana Trench out of empathy for those affected by the reality.
Do you not have subjective experience? If you do, then how is it physical?
I really recommend Generatingfunctionology by Herbert Wilf https://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/gfologyLinked2.pdf
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I've never lived in China but this immediately sounds like my (naive) idea of what it must be like: you're only allowed to consume what the government has approved.

I think this is setting a dangerous precedence.
Dang, can we change the link to https://reclaimthenet.org/google-play-suspends-podcast-addic...?
You are not alone. I first read it as "E-Mail microtransactions", then "E-Mail Microinteractions". Just now I realize it's not about E-Mails. Not sure If I should be happy or sad now.
In german companies, I see an increasing use of Threema as the "official" messenger. Is that only a german trend?
This is probably not the most appropriate comparison to make. Processor generations across such a wide time period such as a decade ago(when the Opteron was commercially available) aren't comparable to todays similar core counterparts. That said, one can compare scores to see the numbers behind what you're paying for:

AMD Opteron : https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/1550
AMD EPYC: https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/2142

Support for faster memory, more PCIe lanes, advanced networking are just some of the differences that the technology family as a whole of current processors offers as a differentiator to processors available in 2011.
Ok, so the problem here is that “obligation” has two meanings, and they’re being conflated here. One is pretty close to “being courteous to others” and the other is “you must do this”. When people say “maintainers have no obligation to anyone”, the point to the license where it usually says something like “THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS-IS WITH NO WARRANTY” and you can tell that it’s the legal “must” definition because it’s in all caps and written in a way that nobody actually would write. So that means that nobody can sue the maintainer when they don’t do something or the other. All good, right? Well, now the question being posed above is “does this mean that the maintainer can also be rid of their obligations in the sense of courtesy, not legality?” And now since there is a difference in the definitions it is not contradictory to want to say “yes” to the second question. And yes, you are correct to say that these differ based on circumstances and location: that’s OK, we don’t judge them in a court of law. We do, however, judge people for their failings to meet societal obligations, based on our personal judgements.
Most media content is better in the English original then in some dubbed translates version.

You say that because you speak English. If you don't then obviously English is much worse than even a poor translation. Game developers have to take that in to account - using the user's Steam language setting means they can definitely read that language, so putting the game in that to start with should work for them.

The app has to default to something even if the game enables the user to change the setting. Using the user's Steam language is a more sensible starting point for most users than "Everyone gets English". That just completely ignores 80% of the world's population.

As for the quality of the translation, the solution for that is for developers to make better translations.
Out of all the crazy theories about electron my favorite is single electron universe. That all the electrons and positrons are actually single particle that that goes back and forth in time, and positron are exactly the same as electrons just going in the opposite direction in time.

It neatly explains what and why is antimatter and why all particles of given kind are exactly the same. Although it's a hard sell because it predicts that all of the matter-antimatter symmetry breaking is not intrinsic or even spontaneous.

Also it make hard to wrap your head around how antimatter could form any macroscopic objects while going back in time. Or how it can behave exactly like matter while going back in time.