skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For context, ZeroHedge [1] has an estimated 36 million monthly visits. The Federalist has 7 million.

They could probably run off donations with that sort of traffic. They have a blogpost on this event and they end it with a donation link so it'd be interesting to see if this pushes them to be self-sufficient.

[1]https://www.similarweb.com/website/zerohedge.com
That's true, but adopting that stance seems to be a case of "the perfect being the enemy of the good"
Reinventing the wheel is awesome! More people, myself included, need to build from scratch and learn ourselves every now and then. Definitely interested in more tooling around helping folks getting started, too. Spent a lot of time on the customizing side for this release.
Yea. Choosing to not do business with another business is fair game, IMO
It strikes me as awfully hypocritical for the owners of YouTube to condemn someone for their comments section.
The market is ripe for a new player. You're not the norm, youre the exception.
Nope! We're a small distributed team that works on Bootstrap when we can. Jacob and I created it at Twitter, but we took it with us in 2012 when we both left :).
Crazy time to be in e-commerce!!
Windows had a feature that had snapshot-based transactions across the entire file system (NTFS-only, though). Unfortunately, it has been deprecated... it's such a shame that we can't seem to move on from the notion of filesystem from 40 years ago, apparently.
Yes, but a different noise.
According to much of HN, any moderation is censorship.
The lib it’s based on is called Scintilla. It is a gem.
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Reminds me of "That Alien Message" on LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKNAwB6X4mp9og/that-alien...
Diluting blood plasma rejuvenates tissue, reverses aging in mice – Berkeley News
Linking the notion of men and women to biology is a risky proposition nowadays.
You are treating App store as a product while in reality it's a platform like Amazon. There are two sides to it - merchants (or developers) and users. Both sides should be treated fairly and right now Apple is leaning more on consumer side while screwing the developers.
I agree with the author and ran into the same problem when learning (and later teaching) D–H.

A good explanation is given in the following crypto.stackexhcange answer; the last two paragraphs in particular are the short version: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/829.
Mozilla will not let you publish an extension that they disagree with politically.
Your skepticism is well warranted. Unfalsifiable theory, dogma you can't question, purity tests, good vs evil, original sin, heresy, excommunication, self-flagellation and so on... It's a religion and Kafkatrap, but not yet widely recognized as such.

Further explanation:

https://newdiscourses.com/2020/06/intellectual-fraud-robin-d...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/why-third-...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/jonathan-haidt-on-the-cultural-...

https://unherd.com/2020/01/modern-politics-is-christianity-w...

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
Software is 100% margins. How is it despicable that the party that originates the sale gets a share of the proceeds? Apple doesn’t get anything if Microsoft originates the sale on their own properties and the user simply enters their username and password. Getting paid for enabling the sale of goods and services is a completely normal thing in all aspects of business.
>(Throwaway because, I hope people can appreciate my comments are an attempt to approach these issues thoughtfully, but in today's climate one has to be very careful what one says.)

This is a very state of affairs
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Firefox is free, it's technically possible to build a version with different rules about extensions.
With how the web has evolved over the years, we've been caught on the side of being too far behind and being too far ahead. We want to move faster and find the right balance. v4 was a bit of a nightmare scenario, and upgrading from v3 was nuts. v4 to v5 _should_ be much simpler by comparison. Still some breaking changes, but nothing like before.

And yes! Definitely something that you can theoretically run forever without issue. Browsers basically have to keep supporting the historical properties, quirks, etc, so once you've built it, you're largely good to go :).
Google has been fined for the same thing on Android[1].

The reason Apple gets a pass is more or less a loophole in the law. They have no manufacturing partners, no oems, nothing. They maintain 100% control over their hardware and software.

If Apple did have third party phone vendors, the way they manage iOS would absolutely earn them some fines. But they can't be 'anticompetitive' if they create such a walled garden that they don't even compete with anyone.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/07/18/630030673/eu-hits-google-with...
This is most likely the pressure Apple is facing on services revenue as their hardware sales decline. The UX on the services side of Apple is extremely poor right now. It's incredibly difficult to see and manage your ongoing subscriptions, hard to cancel, and notoriously easy to accidentally subscribe to things (back when fingerprint authorization first came out—slightly better nowadays).
No, it doesn't work to pull a Facts Don't Care About Your Feelings™ on this. It's not just that they murder, it's that they get away with murder. Once that happens the entire police dept is enabling terrible behavior.

I don't get how people don't understand the distinction. If one airplane crashes that doesn't mean there is an institutional airline safety problem. But if you don't even bother to do an honest investigation about what happened, then we absolutely have an institutional problem.
Perhaps nobody said it explicitly, but when you see a difference in outcome, computer scientists are mostly men for example, and draw the conclusion that there must be discrimination and stereotyping then you indirectly say that it can’t be due to difference in preferences.

Also, I would think that the person that claims discrimination would have the burden of proof.
i haven't had todo any work on syncthing yet. that thing just works.
I've been mulling over a decision to add a dedicated server for my postgres usage in my home server cluster. Ideally I'd like something rock solid stability and that doesn't require a lot of maintenance, and FreeBSD is definitely a candidate. Low resource usage, fast networking, and native ZFS are great benefits.

Does anybody here run postgres on FreeBSD? Any gotchas to look out for? Is performance comparable to linux? Anything to look out for when using NVMe flash drives?
There's no problem with it, but its 2 main use cases are gone: ensuring a consistent idiom between various browsers, and providing a nicer API. Vanilla js does both now (if you really want to support older non-IE browsers, you can add a transpiling step).

There's one use case that might remain: the jquery plugins ecosystem. You can find many replacements on npm, but they're a bit less beginner-friendly.
This is an interesting addition, but it does not contradict my statement that the original article lied right in the title.
On that note

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2020/06/07/micr...

>Microsoft has just issued a new strike to Google Chrome by handing its recently launched Edge browser to all Windows 10 users via Windows Update. In a stunning move that will bring Edge to millions of users, it will be available on Windows 10 versions 1803, 1809,1903 and 1909, according to Microsoft.
Thanks! <3

Who knows how long this will take with the pandemic (and I work full-time at GitHub, and most of the team has full-time jobs), so all that does slow us down. That said, this should be faster than v4's development, and with fewer and smaller breaking changes by comparison.

I wouldn't start getting into the weeds with it in any kind of production environment until the beta though honestly. Release date for stable v5 is hopefully months away.
> Oh, so they just pressured a news site into removing comments with the threat of demonization - that's so much better.

Just wanted to save your freudian slip.
> I don't really have any clever advice beyond that, it just sucks.

I found BJ Fogg’s behavior model [0] useful. His model let’s you plot a behavior on a graph. If you create two plots for two behaviors, the one closest to the top-right corner is the one you will do.

Procrastination then is just choosing one behavior over another. Doing nothing over doing something. And you can plot it, and then figure out how you can position the levers (there are only 3) to make “something” the chosen behavior over “staring at the wall”.

His book Tiny Habits goes into more detail about how you might run this diagnostic process. Atomic Habits is also good here for the actionable changes, but I found Fogg’s simple model to be wickedly effective for wrangling my executive dysfunction.

Once you have a habit framework in place, you need a wholistic approach, which I would listen to the 1st question of this Q&A [1] (around 2min mark) for an example of a daily routine (which starts the night before), and in some cases professional help works wonders (therapy, medication, CBT).

In terms of rescue from the acute fog-of-anxiety, I use 3 meditation tools that, if I follow them, have never failed.

One is a general observe-and-dissipate meditation, something like Sam Harris’s course, to build awareness and the ability to pause life for a brief second so you can inject habit loop triggers.

Second is meditation for calm, using modified box breathing to mitigate acute anxiety. In each of the 4 parts of the breath (in, hold, out, hold), wait for the most pleasurable part, and repeat. Something out waiting for the moment of most pleasure is (a) mildly pleasurable and (b) very focusing.

Third is the same as the second, but taking a break after each box breath cycle to pause and acknowledge to yourself that you are moving in the right direction. I added this after hearing a neuroscientist talk about hacking the brain’s reward system using this approach: pick any goal (even if it’s short-term counterproductive), take the smallest possible physical step toward that goal, pause and acknowledge your effort toward moving in the right direction, and repeat. The pause-and-acknowledge step triggers a dopamine response, which he said has the effect of buffering or titrating adrenaline, meaning this cycle is energizing and can be sustained for a very long time compared to an acute adrenaline spike and subsequent crash. Once you get forward momentum you can redirect to a better goal, so the initial goal is rather unimportant. Just building the momentum in this dopamine reward cycle overcomes all of the crushing anxiety, negative self-talk, and so forth.

[0] https://www.behaviormodel.org/

[1] https://impacttheory.libsyn.com/ama-8121-190416-pod-for-post
French Expatriate Tax Regime
It's actually rather good!
Not only nothing new, but you can't /use/ this service outside of their own walled garden. No API access (or plans), no way to use another client to access it but their own. This is entirely antithetical to the 'open web' claim.
This is the monopsony side of the app store equation.

"In the microeconomic theory of monopsony, a single entity is assumed to have market power over sellers as the only purchaser of a good or service, much in the same manner that a monopolist can influence the price for its buyers in a monopoly, in which only one seller faces many buyers."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony
Yeah, I don't doubt that it's solvable by other means (notably hashing). It's just amusing that something we started building in 2006 - and open sourced in 2015 - largely solves a problem directly (i.e. you don't specifically have to rewrite your regexes).
That should have been the link in this HN post, thanks!
The people who have faced the discrimination, know people affected by it, or have educated themselves about the discrimination will vote yes and the people who have not faced the discrimination and want to believe its mostly made up because they have never been personally effected by it will vote no.

20 years ago its easy to see how the vote would have ended up, but now with tons of cell phone footage and large scale protests its interesting to see which side people will land on now.
Is the Apple's GPU core really based on PowerVR arch? I suspect that adopting PowerVR arch without grant may cause lawsuit.
SSSS is Shamir’s Secret Sharing Scheme.

Sort of. Different apps may use different finite fields. The math should be the same as long as you’re computing everything modulo the same integer. It is also possible that some apps may encode shares differently. For example, I’ve seen some apps base64-encode each share where others keep them as integers.
Ah, blub. It will never leave us.
I'm no propaganda expert but I think you're comparing apples (teaching about an ideology that a German living in Russia came up with a century ago) to oranges (receiving money from the current Russian state to push the stories they provide you)
Did you learn anything from the customers? Isn't it obvious what phone customers want when they ask for phone service? It's not a complicated custom product for the user.
> run my unsigned apps fine

You probably agreed to some terms and conditions to use xcode however.

I don't know if you can "route around this" with something like brew and add a dev toolchain without xcode.
The problem here doesn't seem to be require a specific security control, so much as "have access control". Any access control. And test that it works.
You're probably better off with BootstrapVue (or one of the React equivalents) because they're doing dom manipulation...

The libraries based on bootstrap should just be rendering components with matching classnames etc.
You are already paying your dues to Apple's platform for $100/year.
You're being dishonest.

A phone is not a dishwasher, a phone is a phone. We have examples of modern phones and computers that allow users to install their own programs. It's only Apple that refuses to treat its customer's with respect.
> The difference is hundreds of years of slavery and institutional discrimination specifically target toward blacks and all the accompanying cultural baggage. Part of that baggage is a deeply ingrained suggestion that black people are intellectually inferior but innately athletic.

How can you say this with complete certainty? How could you ever be sure?
An unresolved mental dilemma is a part of a lot of my worry and inaction.

Basically it goes: If you just keep working, will you always keep making progress towards where you want to be?

I don't necessarily mean "if you just put in the effort then you'll succeed," which I do not believe in. People talk about "practice with purpose." You have to know the parts that you need to improve on and correct them if your actual intention is to get better at something. I believe that works better than taking any arbitrary action at all, with the same goal in mind.

So it's not knowing if writing that 10K LoC program actually does help or not. I forget things I've done. I lose interest.

Then I extrapolate from this and think, then there must be some spectrum of things in between that are not practically useful, and if I keep doing them then I will not improve in the ways that I want. I will believe that maybe writing a stringly typed C++ application is just reinforcing bad habits that I will have to expend extra effort to undo later. I then believe if that's the case then I ought to not do that thing at all if I believe it's just going to hinder my progress.

The problem is that this mindset costs me a lot of my action, because I figure if what I'm doing is not beneficial for my skills then I'd better get something else. A lot of the time that "something else" is something less challenging, all the way to nothing productive at all. So I end up believing I'm just coddling myself in an attempt to avoid "wasting time" not really improving.

I think this kind of fallacy stems from a fear of banging my head into a wall expecting to get better at some point without knowing if I'm actually on the right track. At least if someone knowledgeable teaches you they could suggest so. And that fear stems from placing too much value on intellectual success as opposed to enjoying the process. If you only enjoy something on the condition you improve, then it discourages you. I've been discouraged a lot.

It could also be due to divorcing enjoyment of something from improving at it. I simply always care about improving, and if I don't see improvement then I'll lose interest. But some say that people who enjoy things just improve on the basis of doing it at all. I just can't seem to get myself to believe it, though.
What is currently causing huge divides and limiting progress is the incredibly flagrant accusations of racism where none exists.

There is nothing racist about confusing two people for each other based on them having the same skin tone. A two year old child might do it. This should be enough proof for anyone that the cause is not racism but the brain's pattern recognition system failing.

Accusing someone of racism used to be a serious charge. Now its used by many against anyone who makes any misstep where race is involved. This is diluting the charge the point of meaninglessness which provides cover for actual racism. It also repels people who see through it.

If someone mistakes two blonde people for each other, no reasonable person accuses that person of being bigoted against blondes on that basis. Their brain simply lumped those two people together using an inaccurate heuristic.

A black person without much exposure to asians might have trouble telling asians apart. A white person without much exposure to black people might make the same mistake.

In neither case is there even a hint of racism. Ignorance is not racism. It's perfectly okay not to have exposure to people of any race. Not living in a "melting pot" does not make someone a bad person.

It's also perfectly okay to have a brain that isn't great at distinguishing between people. This is just how human brains are and is nothing to be ashamed of. It is not grounds for guilt. And it's not grounds to accuse anyone of something as serious as racism.
Discord does something like what you describe. It's kind of awful for music(e.g. if it's a channel with a music bot) as you'll hear it speed up and slow down in an oscillating pattern. The same effect also appears in games if you should have a game loop that always tries to catch up to an ideal framerate by issuing more updates to match an average - the resulting oscillation as the game suddenly slows down and then jerks forward is hugely disruptive, so it's not really done this way in practice.

Oscillations are the main issue with "catch-ups" in synchronization, and dropping frames once your buffer is too far behind is often a more pleasant artifact. It's not really a one-size-fits-all engineering problem.
It's not that hard to hire. Most roles don't need amazing candidates.
Google does not want to lose advertisement money which is almost all of Google revenue. It’s just business, I would not call that censorship.
The Flimsiness of ‘Business vs. Consumer’ as a Justification for Rejection
Isn't the implied assumption that he is being treated that way simply because he's black?
> the rationale was because Zerohedge allegedly failed to manage their comment section to Google's standards for what other companies do

Out of curiosity, is there a precedent for YouTube banning channels based on the channel comments and not the channel video? Sounds like ZH is being punished for the actions of third parties.

As someone who follows finance, I like ZH. There is a ton of noise and little signal, but when they're right, they're right. I remember ZH commenters giving away free bitcoin back in 2013 calling it the next big thing.
yeah! I need to write another follow up, but the Salesforce position is pretty unique* and closer to what I was looking for in this post. It's definitely an experiment, but I'm happy with it so far.

* It's a small startup-like team with a specific mission and visibility/management backing to achieve it, which also allows me to be more of a generalist.
> i can't just install a program _i wrote myself_ on a _device i own_ without having to get it signed

You're moving the goalposts.

But, because of the fact that you can run unsigned extensions on nightly builds, there is nothing stopping you from distributing your unsigned extension through github or bittorrent or anything else.
> I wouldn't want to spend that time one a one off script I only expect to run a few times.

You don't have to. No generics, `.clone()` and `.unwrap()` everywhere, and the Rust code goes brrrrr. :D
Nevertheless, this is how it is mostly done in Java. I haven't used eclipse in eons, but last time I did it even generated this code.

If you care with go, use errcheck.
I'm imagining the full circle looking like web frameworks "compiling" their controller methods down into lambda functions. e.g. you deploy your Django application to AWS Lambda and it automatically fires a lambda function when a view method is hit via a route. This is already happening where people are deploying static sites backed by lambda function APIs.
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Does anyone else use MongoDB but do most of their analysis in Google Sheets?

We were tired of exporting MongoDB to JSON, then converting JSON to CSV, then copy-pasting into Google Sheets and doing index-matches to consolidate collections. So we built a tool to automate it!

MongoToSheet quick exports your MongoDB collections into Google Sheets automatically. Feel free to sign up on our website (it's free).
it is definitely a reference!
Shouldn't Windows 10's updates should kill off most of the Legacy Edge within the year?
I got 'into' ZH during the great recession and when things settled down I kind of forgot about it. But I was left with the impression of, as you say, a 'punk'-ish site that generally was more direct and even correct than most of the mainstream media.

I vividly remember being obsessed with the news and reading MSM articles that would basically just quote Merkel or who the fuck else saying <x>, where ZH said <x> is stupid and wrong, and sure enough a few days later even Merkel (or who the fuck else) would backtrack on or directly contradict <x>.

A while ago I checked out ZH again out of curiosity (or maybe some nostalgia because I was once again in 'read all the news' mode), and I would definitely not consider it a good source of news. And thankfully I've found better approaches to get an idea of what's going on.

But your comment reminded me of a time in my life where I started 'properly' getting interested in current affairs and politics and whatnot, and the role ZH played in all that.
> You can install unsigned extensions on nightly and developer builds

Have you tried using one? You get daily nag popups to install today's developer build. I'm trying not to switch to Chrome entirely, but every Firefox release makes it harder.
I figured I should check who this was before leaving the thread go... Should have checked before commenting originally too. :D

I did not know about openapi-generator. Very interesting.

But what's the benefit of having PostgREST involved in this scenario?
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Well I only had one set of parents myself that is true. But do you actually think that the reason 9 out of 10 computer scientists are men is that almost all parents tell their daughters to stay away from STEM fields? How does that tally with the female representation in medicine and biology?
This might be helpful:

https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/741989main_Analytic%20Method%20for%...

It’s a straightforward enough primer that it can be done in Excel, including simulating the data if necessary.

Even if this type of model is too simple for actual estimation, it’s a useful (and sobering) tool to help managers understand why their intuitive estimates can so often be incorrect.
And the article has been removed from The Guardian.