skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently it's a bit better now, but things looked rather dire a year ago, when I've last checked.

In their quest to avoid binary blobs, Purism have chosen modem more fit for IoT devices. At one point in 2019, when they still didn't have a device able to make calls reliably, Purism announced that devices are being shipped to backers (they weren't) and started another round of sales.

Here is a writeup that exemplifies attitudes in community around that time https://telegra.ph/Why-Librem-5-will-never-succeed-in-my-opi...
Wow, surprised to see Hualian! I lived there for a year learning Mandarin and loved the nature and cost of living. But what about community? I found that part tough.
Good suggestion, although I would propose to use FireMonkey instead of Tempermonkey/Violentmonkey as the former is more lightweight and privacy friendly than the latter.

If you are interested, here's an article: https://www.ghacks.net/2019/09/10/firemonkey-uses-firefoxs-o...
> I think too many distributions is part of the problem.

I think that's the wrong way to look at it.
We should not look at the distributions as a choice people have to make once they have decided to use Linux.
It's a choice people always have to make when deciding which operating system to use.
Windows is one option. Debian is one option, and so on.
They are all different operating systems.
The only difference is that the Linux distros are compatible with each other and that's a good thing.
If the attacker also have access to the anonymized data set which is stored for 25hrs they should be able to deanonymize quite a bit of the data by just comparing time stamps and finding patterns.

It is much better than just having normal logs laying around, and since the data is split in two data set, there is a possibility that having access to one does not automatic result in having access to the other. The dilution is also helpful, through I am uncertain to the extent given the amount of traffic generated.
I'm not sure that's true. Here's the UI hall of shame, highlighting the worst of the 90s: http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/shame.htm

Most of the stuff there would be just... normal now. It's quite unusual for SPAs to have a decent consistent UX. And the slowness would never have been tolerated back in the day.
Regardless of the home situation of the worker, the worker needs to reserve space from the home they paid for or are paying for. Many who don't pay rent still pay mortgages. And even if the house is paid off, the company is still basically claiming a working space that they can skimp out on.

The idea is that when a company lays claim to a space in your house, you should get something in return. It doesn't matter if there's four other people paying you rent while you from from home, your home is your space and not the employer's.

Note that this is just an addition to the wage, not a direct bank transfer to the letting agency. A lot of subletting is also done this exact same way (e.g. paying money to the original renter who passes it on to pay the rent).
Every few months I revisit the idea of Teams and ask around whether the notifications have been fixed. The answer is always no.

Until MS figures out notifications, I won’t be switching. It is hard to understate how annoying it is to not be able to trust accurate notifications and notification settings.
if he makes 60-240MM/year, then taking 100MM for a multi-year spotify contract makes absolutely no sense.
Our company pays everyone €75 after taxes extra if they make less than €50k annually. It's for general expenses such as more coffee, electricity etc at home.
> Obviously we won't decide who is "right" here in a forum.

Is there any debate to be had about that anyway? From what you've written here, you are right and everyone who thinks otherwise clearly hasn't thought things through well enough.
That aspect I care much less about. Believing the worst about politicians you don't like isn't political correctness, just... politics.
Certainly in relative terms Bernie Sanders would represent some aspects of progressive politics. However it's very important to know how regressive American politics are.

While the loss of life is extremely unfortunate, the timely object lesson of America's ridiculously inferior health care infrastructure is on full display globally right now. Despite being one of the wealthiest nations in the world we also can't deal with aglobal pandemic because we simply lack the infrastructure for Public Health and we've spent 20 years arguing about whether we should have it.

Bernie Sanders's policies are slightly right of Macron, and he's pretty much the poster child for neoliberal centrism globally. He wants the same thing many other similar capitalist Nations have, which is essentially using tax dollars to ensure business prosperity by offsetting high-risk costs like healthcare.
The business model is assuredly not to break even, so I contest "balance this out."

There is risk involved and while some films flop the outcome has historically been significant profit.
> Like music however I suspect the REAL value is in the 'back catalog'.

Really?

As a semi frequent JRE listener, if I missed an interesting guest I'll still go back and listen, but I'm not particularly motivated to go and listen to an interview from 1 year ago, or any historical one for that matter.

It needs to be current for me, I'm not convinced it has the replayability of music, or a tv show like friends say.
Nvidia's Data Center Business Is Now Almost as Big as Gaming
I'd disagree. Claiming "Rogan has been quite savvy in tailoring content" for a specific audience is clearly implying intent.

The distinction is between deliberate tailoring for some ulterior motive we could speculate about, or that Rogan's content is genuine expression of his interests to whatever degree that's possible.
A few simple observations:

- the venn diagram of people using emacs and using org-mode seems to largely overlap. That makes it impractical in non emacs heavy environments (aka. the wider industry).

- tooling outside of emacs is mostly not there.

- org mode is a basically similar to other wiki dialects with similar syntax, limitations, tooling, etc. Other than the (emacs) tooling, I don't see a strong reason for preferring it.

The above makes it a non-starter for me personally (not an emacs user) or for teams that have non emacs users (i.e. all teams I've been on, ever). That does not invalidate it as a personal note taking tool of course. But lets indeed not overstate its utility. Some people like post-its, scribbling in a notebook, simply remembering to do stuff, or their super duper emacs setups. Whatever works for you.
Slack positioning itself as a remote working tool makes it fair to discuss if it really is a remote working tool or a remote working company, which is exactly what the person I am replying to commented about.
Title is one of those obviously farfetched and barely supported assertions that the editor must have forcefully decided upon late in the game.

Just proves nothing has replaced old mainstream media exactly, it has merely dwindled the more slack it gets for willfully risking a misunderstanding to take place.

The definition of Mainstream Media is still the same, as a setter and destroyer of definitions, since it has vast retrospective powers for editing out context to control the degree of controversy seen by the masses. Helped along by a collective of adversarial journalists able to limit discussion with a barrage of assertions and hold sway over mass sentiment through an implied consensus.

A one man interviewer does not give any semblance of consensus, it is at best a battle of convictions, but at least you can argue a conviction head on, no arguing with a consensus -- no learning from one either.
Breakout: A dotnet implementation of Michael Nygard's Circuit Breaker pattern
You can also download YouTube videos on iOS 13 with Shortcuts.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/140d11e0f94d4b65a422b253757...

via

https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/9ha09t/comment/e...
The consumer frequently says they want one service, but not I'm not sure that's accurate. At the very least they want a single platform through which to organize and view content (much like cable tv was, rather than swapping between Netflix, Prime, etc), but don't necessarily want monopolistic content producers. The future is effectively cable with everything on demand.

And frankly, just having an easy accessible way to rent any motion picture if it's not on a streaming platform. There's no reason for digital copies to be so inaccessible. Some things are literally only available on dvd/blue-ray or pirated.
What cost? If anything the employee now saves time and money from the commute alone.
I originally had this need when we were deploying test servers and needed the ability to view the logs by the QA team.
Given it's hosted by a comedian and has a diverse range of guests from entertainers to scientists to wackos, I've always thought of it as a show meant to entertain (which occasionally informs). I don't think it has ever pretended to be somewhere for robust intellectual discussion.
This is the right take. Same thing with 2D games to VR/AR. Infotainment systems to Self Driving, Real Player buffering to Netflix. And the list goes on. You can't get this progress simply by making better abstractions. You can only paper over the complexities of "solved" problems.
He’s definitely smarter than he lets on, but there are lots of funny moments where he clearly has no idea what the guest is talking about.

Elon Musk: We need some kind of like, mind-viral immunity. So that’s, that’s a bit concerning.

Joe Rogan: Mind-viral immunity. Meaning that once something like Neuralink gets established, the real concern is that it’s something, that, I mean you said it’s Bluetooth, right?
Employers get a lot of benefits from a well-functioning society: Roads, Healthy employees, Peace and Law.

As long as we make sure they pay sufficient taxes for those benefits, it seems like the best deal for everyone.
France has multiple kinds of presidents?
> C++ survives because people are rewarded for being seen to put a lot of effort into performance, and are not rewarded for avoiding bugs.

That's pure bullshit.

C++ survives because, even in 2020, it does the job.

Most people criticizing C++ are still stuck in there mind with C++98 and its quirks.

C++ evolved and modern C++ is at least as productive as Java or C# when used correctly.

That's why he is still actively uses and continue to grow.

This message just translate at best, your feelings (as a Java/scala developers ?). And you allow yourself to insult both the HPC Industry and the game industry without even providing metrics based on your "feelings".
The data is provided as a downloadable dump, so it's really just a basic read only CMS.
Show HN: Run react-native in a macOS menu bar application
Hi! I discovered how to run react-native inside of the macOS menu bar, here is a link to a running template project:

https://github.com/ospfranco/rn-macos-menubar-template

And here are the steps if you want to do it yourself:

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Money is useful. To me, it is also one of the least interesting things to spend my time making. It requires thinking about the world in a rather dull way and doing rather dull things. YMMV, but that's how I think about my relationship to an analogous barrier.
As a non-remote employee, I had to find housing near my office. Now, as a remote employee, my only real requirements are a power source and internet connection. Sure, I have to live somewhere, but that need isn’t a result of my employment. It seems that non-remote employees have more specific and expensive housing requirements and costs.
C# Basics – Introduction to C#
Speaking of Shortcuts, here’s a bunch to get started.

https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/9ha09t/comment/e...
Hey,
We have created Publibee, where you can search PubMed the same way you did on PubMed legacy but benefit from cool interface improvements.
Feel free to test it on www.publibee.com.

We kept everything we liked about PubMed legacy and enhanced it with:

- A clear and easy to read interface
- Additional information on articles (citations counts, journal scores…)
- A pin function to avoid opening 1,000 tabs
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Tell us what you think!
Eurythenes Plasticus
The point I believe is that you can't say that "independent media" is now such a strong force when the amount of people that have achieved success within that field is incredibly small (compared to existing large media). Can agree or not, but i believe it's the point.
He just has a very natural talent for appealing to a vast range of interests/tastes/preferences in the audience.

I once heard him half-jokingly say he's at the intersect between the meat-heads and the pot-heads. I.e., those into MMA, bodybuilding, cars, hunting (a giant audience) and those into psychedelics, new-age philosophy, yoga, nature (also a giant audience). And there's a lot in between those categories (people into more mainstream science/astronomy, entertainment, business, politics, health etc).

I probably only listen to 1 out of 10 or 15 of his episodes, but that still has me listening to him for an hour or two every week or two, and so I still feel more familiar with him than most other media/public figures these days.
Valve releases alpha of censored Steam client for China
> 25 years ago that was a several month project that involves a dozen of engineers and had a costly fee attached to after launch support.

25 years ago, yes, but white-label hosted web store things were around in the early noughties. I think there were even a few in the late 90s, but those weren't very good.
Wouldn't that more accurately be grey goo? :)
If a character from a fantasy series is the best example one can come up with, I'm not sure how much one should rely on this construct as an accurate model of the real world.

Additionally, Varys is not a "loner" in any sense. The core of his power is in the powerful network of relationships he wields.
> In my opinion, org-mode eliminates the risk of hitting any sort of barrier after years of sunk costs.

Nah, it moves the barrier, but it's still there. There always are barriers. In case of org-mode it's the limitations of emacs and time you need to invest into forging them into whatever system you seek, which often is not even possible with emacs.
Demand for the things we want _today_ will be met. But progress leads to new demands, and they are more complicated.

Anthropologists estimate that the work week was at 20 hrs at the end of the Stone Age. We have been inventing new problems in the vacuum created by our successes for, literally, millennia.
WHO MyHealth App Shows Coronavirus Risk of the Environment
That depends if you use IPv4 with NAT like almost everyone on a residential Internet uplink or IPv6 with a public routed address...
Hey,
We have created Publibee, where you can search PubMed the same way you did on PubMed legacy but benefit from cool interface improvements.
Feel free to test it on www.publibee.com.

We kept everything we liked about PubMed legacy and enhanced it with:

- A clear and easy to read interface
- Additional information on articles (citations counts, journal scores…)
- A pin function to avoid opening 1,000 tabs
- The possibility to discuss articles

Tell us what you think in the chat so we can improve it!
I too have noticed the big 3 search engines serving more *eddit links than usual. And without retyping the url, (old.) the comments are hidden anyway so they are effectively a shade worse than useless.
I get what you're saying but letting the people decide what policy to follow is what a democracy is all about: if enough idiots in a sovereign nation decide to go "fuck 5g" then that's exactly what that nation should do. Do I think it's stupid and wrong? Yes. Do I think they should be allowed to choose that? Yes.
FWIW, nobody actually knows why fair hair and complexions evolved. There are various hypotheses which sound more or less plausible, but that’s all they are. This is not a settled question by any measure.
No one wins a flds medal after 40.
SWE's have been the ones pushing for remote work for years, now here come dozens of blog posts claiming that it's our undoing. Ok sure. Trading some TC for lower housing costs, lower COL, less traffic, and a better quality of life outside of Silicon Valley seems like a decent trade.
This seems very distortionary to the market. So if you're a blue-collar worker, your ability to pay for housing is "less" compared with a similarly-aged white-collar worker just because the latter has his company subsidise his rent.
Frequently, if you paste the link into "archive.is" or "outline.com", you can create (and post!) a link to such content yourself. Outline.com doesn't work for NYT articles, but archive.is currently does: http://archive.is/YamoB
A bit similar in Finland. Here every taxpayer gets a 750 euro tax deduction for "wage earning expenses". So if you want to declare expenses related to your job, you basically need to have over 750 euro of them in order to get anything.

If you work remote for less than 50% of workdays in a year, that counts as a 450 euro deduction. But if you work for more than 50% of workdays from home, you get a 900 euro deduction. So people working mostly from home will exceed the automatic 750 euro deduction and should declare their expenses properly instead of relying on the automatic deduction.

You can also deduct equipment and Internet connections (50% of the cost if you use it partly for work). Although in the IT industry, it's pretty commonplace for the employer to pay for 100% of your home Internet connection, since it's a tax-free benefit to the employee.
Has anyone investigated how this protection works? That is, deliberately create an eBay account, log into eBay using a remote tool, and trigger the fraud detection? My curiosity is piqued, but I don't have an account to offer up.

I'm wondering if eBay displays a fraud warning, or pretends to allow the transaction to occur (shadow bidding?), or just hellbans the account being used.

For shill-bidding farms, the obvious counter is to move remote screen access to non-standard ports, or move to headless browser operation via other scripting methods.
Depending on the situation, commuting expense could be small or quite large (ie, commuting to nyc from suburbs). More difficult to quantify may be the increased energy use by home employee (so much for programmable thermostats), perhaps loss of space that must now be decicated to 'office work', extra wear and tear and cleaning needs, etc.
I spent less time figuring out my org mode system than anything else I've tried.

I just stick it all in a single file. Well, two: one for work, one for personal. It's still fast. It's still easy to pull information up when I need it.
Japan lifts Tokyo's state of emergency
Reactionary conservatism is not limited to religious communities in America.

As an extreme example Richard Spencer said he was an atheist in many of the violent Nazi communities don't refer to a literal or specific God but rather a racial will. It's difficult not to call those people reactionary.

I do think people are misunderstanding my comparison. I think Joe Rogan is a reactionary, but I don't know if he's a conservative. I know that he profits and Norma sleep from the same machine that creates other conservative media. In that sense I don't think he's very different from Limbaugh, Hannity or Crowder or Shapiro.
The reason we haven't seen the intermittency issue too much is almost entirely because we are building cheap but very high carbon (~400 gCO2-eq/kWh) fracked natural gas plants. This is not a good or scalable low-carbon pathway.
Ask HN: Where to report about software taking pictures without permission?
I'm a minor and I stumbled upon the following site due to my friend's brother taking their course. Now the thing is, they make you download encrypted video and give their own player, which is shady with its conditions (Like only laptops are allowed, yada yada) and I decided to have a go at it.

Main URL: https://www.swapnilpatni.com/index.php

Simple disassembly with dnSpy, am left me with their FTP server details where I find that their code is taking pictures from webcam and uploading it without any permissions. There are over 50 thousand pictures on that server (Search the directories recursively for .png).

FTP Address: ftp://13.234.148.151/
FTP Username: awsftpuser
FTP Password: a_&$2KpPG

Am not sure what to do with the information and nor can I just shrug it off. Its a pretty big association so don't wanna take the heat.

Thank you for any input, and stay safe out there!
> Downvoting because you like Joe Rogan? Fitting there's no actual RESPONSE, because what I posted is accurate.

I downvoted because of this comment:

> Unfortunately that generally consists of bringing on nut jobs like Alex Jones and pretending their fabricated claims are just as worthy of discussion as actual subject matter experts bringing facts and logic.

By what process did you arrive at this conclusion (which I assume is a personal opinion, even though it is presented in the form of a fact)? In a system as complex as global human society, where we have almost no understanding (or even knowledge of the existence) of some of the most important sub-processes contained within, how do you believe that you have individually arrived at the objectively correct ("what I posted is accurate") assessment of what "is" "worthy of discussion"?

> "Alex Jones is just misunderstood" - the guy who ran with the Sandy Hook conspiracy and was likely a major contributing factor in one of the parents committing suicide. Joe Rogan's "unbiased" approach is toxic.

Do you actually think that Alex Jones' comprehensive worldview is fully understood, both by yourself and others? What data have you used to arrive at your conclusion? The the single "fact" that he "ran with" the Sandy Hook conspiracy and "was likely" a major contributing factor in one of the parents committing suicide? Surely you wouldn't form a confident conclusion on an infinitely complex subject (the understanding of someone's comprehensive worldview) based on one individual data point, would you?

I don't pose these questions in a rhetorical manner by the way - I would genuinely like to hear an "actual RESPONSE", if you are willing to provide one.
Haven't touched the game in weeks. But today at my factory I finally had a conversation I've been waiting to have for years ("Lagrangian point 1 will be where we build the space port")
Don't buy a toy buy a general purpose computer.
I'm glad he stopped shoplifting or whatever, but that he did it himself (and just by moving...) means it wasn't even a serious problem, much less an addiction. If someone with a serious problem tried to view this as guidance, they'd get nowhere.
> Assuming the blog owner has some expertise to back their work, then just listing a relevant Ph.D. or other professional affiliations on the site about page would be more than good enough to fit these guidelines.

That is pretty exclusive, IMO.
But that's exactly what I'm saying then. The way to reason about this is that, as an employee, you leasing (or subletting) a portion of your home to the company, and hence they need to pay you rent for occupying your home. This is very much not paying your share of any rent (which may not even exist); it's paying their own share of a rental agreement they've effectively entered into. It makes so much more sense that way than trying to reason it around the employee's living agreement.
Great minimalist logo! I use a weekly process with Basecamp and see the value.
Idris 2 v0.2.0 Released