skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hilarious to me that an app that exists to let you read email is not covered under a "reader" exception.
A lot of comments saying this is a small town, and small towns in Australia are just as bad, googling shows the US town has a population of 191,000! That's bigger than Townsville.

I live in rural Australia, in a town with a population less than 20% of the town referenced in the post, and I regularly drive the the nearest town which has a population of 0.2% of the US town, and the road in the post look absolutely dilapidated to me.

Even the fixed up road, if I drove through that in my town, I would think "the council need to do something about that"

Your comment reminded me of playing GeoGuessr when it was first released, I remember being absolutely shocked at some of the random locations in the US, the streetview looked about like I would expect a town here with a population of 100 people to look, and the map would show it as being part of an urban sprawl, 50km from a city center.
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The President of the USA should be held to the same terms of service that are enforced against all other users.
When you pay for Gsuite, yes you can.

The single case where I used it was a good experience (though obviously you'll find a lot of people who had issues the support couldn't resolve).

You cannot if you just have your personal @gmail.com email.
Given the recent discussion of Mozilla VPN, what are your thoughts on VPN Gate?
I think it depends how you understand the president.

One view is authoritarian, a person with lots of power who can do whatever he wants.

The other view is democratic, a person employed by citizens to be a representative and have some managerial role.

In the second view, he should have (unless it's required by his job) exactly the same permissions as any other citizen.
tl;dr: I'm from Turkey and "orange man bad"

So boring and unoriginal, missing one side completely and spinning it as unbiased, when it's borderline propaganda. C'mon.
It was already a Greek speaking Empire by the time of Justinian. The lingua franca of the Empire doesn't, imho, determine continuity. Hellenism and speaking Greek was popular from the time of Hadrian (and before). Marcus Aurelius wrote his meditations in Greek and Emperors before Justinian were more comfortable in Common Greek than Latin. Calling it a Greek empire is falling for a thousand years of Papal and Frankish propaganda. They want it to seem 'other' as they never wanted the (Eastern) Roman Empire to appear legitimate. It is the church in Rome that is other. It broke from the one true Orthodox faith, not the other way around.
In much the same way that even laws do not apply to anything said in Congress, because the power to control political debate is the power to control government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_or_Debate_Clause
Excellent presentation of the material.

Not really my, well, domain (sorry), so my only contribution is that there's a spelling error in the dropdown: it refers to the Heaviside step function as the 'Heavyside' function.
Thanks for this less biased view on Tibet society.
I find the client quite responsive, yes. On login it opens instantly, and interactions feel almost instant to me. But I haven't tried Superhuman to compare, I highly suspect Hey isn't as fast.
Any solution to safety problems that relies on people just never making a mistake ever isn't realistically a solution at all. What you need is some process to ensure that when work like this is carried out, the area is appropriately marked as unsafe, and processes add cost. In this case, safety would probably have dictated not carrying out the work on top of the roof whilst the work underneath was in progress due to the risk of them misjudging where the weak area started and falling through, potentially blowing up the schedule or even meaning workers were paid to stand around doing nothing, which adds more cost.
It would be great the the overview discussed more how it works with anything formats. My immediate questions which I couldn't find answers to were

* Can I import existing files, e.g. code and markdown into this tool? How?

* Can I export my data from this tool into standard formats?
In what bizarro world is an email reader not allowed to use rules that apply to "reader apps"? Especially when things like video and music services, that involve no reading, can.
It's an opinion piece. It's not required to show both sides.
Hi! Thanks for the feedback. That’s great to hear.

Audits are good and definitely have a place. There’s much more that can be done. I agree open source is also an important one.

We’ve tried to identify strong signals of trustworthiness together with a few other services here: https://mullvad.net/blog/2018/10/17/signals-trustworthy-vpns...

A technical solution Mullvad is working on is something we call System Transparency. You can read more about that here: https://mullvad.net/blog/2019/6/3/system-transparency-future...
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It won't be much of a democracy if a few SV oligarchs decide what politicians are allowed to say.
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> It's also possible that it is being applied evenly, it's just that the big guys negotiated private exemptions.

... which means it's not being applied evenly.
I think you can but you still have to link to Google play services, which is not possible for open source apps in f-droid since they need to be able to run on de-googled android which lacks Google services.
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Depends on how you define "allowed". EA was "allowed" to charge extra money for unlocking key Star Wars characters even after you paid in full for Battlefront II. So, the idea is less about what is "allowed", but rather where the line is drawn between justified commercial profit and monopolistic/bad behavior*

> Grocery stores also have slotting fees.

Again, the whole point I'm trying to make here is that comparison to grocery stores just doesn't work (because of reasons mentioned in the first comment)

* English is not my first language so I'm having trouble finding the perfect word.
It's interesting in Raoult's results that they treated 3320 patients with 18 deaths or about 0.5% and you can say ok thats quite low but maybe they were young and healthy. However if you look at the age of the deaths there zero deaths under age 60 and one under 70. It seems unlikely for that to happen if the treatment did nothing. Apparently without treatment deaths under 60 are something like 20% of the total usually. (him talking about it in French https://youtu.be/Sc1-JBX2y70?t=268)

I can't help but feel when historians look back on this that they will figure there were unnecessary deaths due to political biases.
Reminds me of what happened in Burma/Myanmar.

This guy is a Buddhist Goebbels: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashin_Wirathu
This is a really important point - I am reminded of a story of the 'Greek' occupation of 'Rome' in 1912:

On 8 October 1912, the island of Lemnos became part of Greece after being captured from the Ottoman Empire. Peter Charanis, born on the island in 1908 and later a professor of Byzantine history at Rutgers University, recounts when the island was occupied and Greek soldiers stationed themselves in the public squares.

Some of the children ran to see what Greek soldiers looked like. ‘‘What are you looking at?’’ one of them asked.

‘‘At Hellenes,’’ the children replied.

‘‘Are you not Hellenes yourselves?’’ a soldier retorted.

‘‘No, we are Romans."

An identity that had at that point endured for more than 2,600 years. There is nothing that compares to Rome.
I just stumbled upon this repo and it is blowing my mind. I bet there are a lot of other really cool things that you can do with this tech :)

Nice little video on Twitter here[0] to see it action.

[0] https://twitter.com/_pion/status/1273910045244133376
I have adopted node (over .Net C#) several years ago and the main reason was NPM and the 1 million packages available. About performances ... With Workers it's pretty good, I'm doing 700k RPS with node on 1 server.

Refs:
https://vms2.terasp.net/
https://github.com/elestio/cloudgate
Build multi-agent simulations in minutes... the marketing got me here. But in fact, it's just a huge JS/phython mess.

NetLogo is still far more easier than this. For sure there is a space to make easier simulations, but this is not the right way.
> because it is pretty challenging to point to an instance of a rare event not happening due to your actions.

How is it hard? "Based on our data collection we found that these people were planning X and arrested them" doesn't sound hard... Unless it never happened.
Totally speculative and 100% opinion: could it be that Thoughtworks is a bit scared of JS taking over the world? My feeling is it totally does not fit their model: enterprise heavy, high $$$ consultancy, Java all the things. I'm exaggerating of course to make my point.
Yes, the +/- denotes another, not correlated property. I'll leave finding out details as an exercise to the reader.
Control systems, signal filters (noise attenuation), modeling epidemics, modeling queues, modeling reliability of repairable systems, modeling recurrent events(such as failures), renewal processes, modeling inventory plans, probability in general (because of the connection with moment generating function) ...
>monetized blogs

I believe that we have the 'web' today because big decisions were made about how little control the end-user (i.e., consumer) should have over the content made by producers, and that the #1 priority for all technology involved in the web has been to separate producer from consumer as stringently as possible.

If we had the ability to safely and easily share a file that we create on our own local computer, using our own local computer, to any other computer in the world - we would have a nice balancing act of user-create content and world-wide consumption.

Instead, we have walled gardens, and the very first part of the wall is the operating system running on the users computer - it is being twisted and contorted in such ways as to make it absolutely impossible for the average user (i.e. the computer owner/user) to easily share information.

Instead, we have web clients and servers, and endless, endless 'services' that are all solving the same thing for their customers: organising documents in a way people can read them. And all the other things.

And its all so commercial, because there is a huge gate in the way, and it is the OS Vendors. They are intentionally stratifying the market by making the barrier to entry - i.e. ones own computing device - untenable to serve the purpose.

Imagine a universe where OS vendors didn't just give up to the web hackers, in the early days, and instead of making advertising platforms, pushed their OS to allow anyone, anywhere, to serve their documents to other people, easily, directly from their own system. I.e. we didn't have a client-/server age, but rather leaped immediately to peer-to-peer, because in this alternative universe, there were managers at places like Microsoft that could keep the old guard and the new young punks from battling with each other .. which is how we get this mess, incidentally.

There really isn't any reason why we all have to meet at a single website and give our content away. We could each be sharing our own data directly from our own devices, if the OS were being designed in a way to allow it. We have the ability to make this happen - it has been intentionally thwarted in order to create crops.

Give me a way to turn my own computer, whether it is a laptop or a server or my phone, into a safe and easy to use communications platform, and we'll get that content, created with love, back again.

Its sort of happening, with things like IPFS, but you do have to go looking for the good stuff .. just like the good ol' days ..
Actually I'd heard that office 365 support was good and in fairness the incident I was talking about was many years ago.
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Are types a free lunch or are there trade offs, what are you getting and what are you losing by adopting types?

How do the benefits you get, relate to the difficulty of problems you’re solving when programming?

Eg if the cost of types is increased coupling of code but the trade off benefit is it makes fixing typos easy then that’s a bad trade. You’ve made a hard problem more brittle in exchange for making a trivial problem even easier.
> If they are keen to sentence people to lifetime jail for spreading the covid

What? This hasn't happened.
I think, you never tried to publish your book. Or being a publisher and trying to sell your book in a bookstore. In my country bookstores works with 43-47% cut.

About the value apple provide, try to create your own software distribution channel, and check how much is it costs.
That’s an effort to have Chromium work natively on Wayland. It works just fine on X.org and even under Wayland with XWayland if you use something like ChromeOS’s Sommelier or just set window.zoomLevel/--force-dpi-something=2 (and not have XWayland windows scaled).
You can describe a circuit by it's time domain behavior. Or you can describe the circuit by it's frequency domain behavior. Both are valid and congruent.

The thing is a lot of questions are easy to answer in the frequency domain.

For instance, you want to know if a circuit with feedback will oscillate. Hard to answer using time domain equations. But in the frequency domain there is a simple constraint. If for all frequencies where the the gain is greater than one the phase shift is less than 180 degrees, circuit won't oscillate. This is obviously rather useful.

Also a point with a lot of 'books' the authors get caught up in describing how something is done that they never explain why something is done. I've found often the answer is simple yet opaque and frustratingly never talked about.
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I think the thing that happened, is the OS vendors spent too much time addicted to the web themselves, and forgot that one of the duties of the core OS of any device is to serve data from it, safely and securely, to any other device.

Instead, most stacks are designed to enforce a walled garden, from which very little is shareable unless you go through the gateway (the web client app) to some approved destination.

Semantic web and total availability at the personal-computer level, are aspects of OS design I wish had been paid more attention.

Basically what we have now is a very, very expensive system of dumb terminals.
Is this what they brainwash Chinese youth to think what the history of Tibet is? Because its rubbish. Ask any Tibetan.
Office 365 Phishing Campaign Exploits Samsung, Adobe and Oxford Servers
Despite his somewhat annoying style, that article has many good points about the aloofness of security researchers. However, I will disagree on two points which the article contains:

1. Tor is (rightly) used by anyone who has a good reason for remaining anonymous. (See [REALNAMES] for who this can be.) Anyone trying to smear Tor as only used by drug dealers and other unsavory types are themselves suspect of having an agenda of discouraging Tor use for anyone lest they be suspected. This can only lead to an installation of Tor being viewed as a suspicious thing in itself; who would want that?

2. His threat model of Mossad or not-Mossad leaves out one important actor, which we can call the NSA. They, and others like them, unlike Mossad, are not after you personally in that they don't want to do anything to you. Not immediately. Not now. They simply want to get to know you better. They are gathering information. All the information. What you do, what you buy, how you vote, what you think. And they want to do this to everybody, all the time. This might or not bite you in the future. He seems to imply that since nothing immediately bad is happening by using slightly bad security, then it’s OK and we shouldn’t worry about it, since Mossad is not after us. I think that we should have a slightly longer view of what allowing NSA (et al.) to know everything about everybody would mean, and who NSA could some day give this information to, and what those people could do with the information. You have to think a few steps ahead to realize the danger.

[REALNAMES] Who is harmed by a "Real Names" policy? https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Who_is_harmed_by_a_%22Re...
> And then people stopped using PHP.

Evidence?

In my experience, PHP seems to be more in use now than ever.
I'm not sure I would agree with this. As with all things, it depends on the task, but "compute heavy" these days means likely working with a distributed framework that abstracts away the underlying process architecture, letting the user define lambda-esque tasks which are deployed across a stream/batch processing model.

I think a much better critique would be that the lack of fine grained primitives, and the surrounding ecosystem, are not the best choice for compute heavy tasks.
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Oddly enough though, even the enterprise product support can be very bad. I've had dealings with Microsoft over issues related to Azure while under EA, and they still took weeks to even look at the issue, which turned out to be a problem on their end.

When it comes to big-brand software and services, it can really pay off to buy via a good reseller or consultancy, who often offer much better support than the company that actually makes the product. Of course, that's not actionable advice when we're discussing which mail provider is best for personal use. (Although I suggest the answer is still "not O365".)
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I always recommend http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ to learn the basics. The two first parts cover most of what you need as a developer.
Except wasn't that clause to stop the Executive Branch (and anyone else) from using the machinery of the state to interfere with Congress? Not really about freedom of speech, rather keeping Congress independent from outside control.

A lot of former British colonies have the same principle, dating from 1688/1689: https://www.parliament.nz/en/visit-and-learn/how-parliament-...
Any examples? Given that WASM can't manipulate the DOM, I'm suspicious of this claim.
Yea sure, I love pick and shovel plays. I think they're the ones you make the easy money from like ThermoFisher, Becton Dickinson, EMD/Milipore, Sigma-Aldrich, etc. I was thinking more like FAANG companies that are huge, pay awesome, and make the final product, though I guess you could say advertising is a bit of a pass-through income generator.

Maybe you and I have different definitions of 'platform' company? I define as a way to iterate to get new products, like Regeneron uses their humanized mice to crank-out mAbs, or Genetech/Amgen use recombinant molecular biology to make mAbs, or Vertex uses their in vitro ion channel conductance screening method to make new structure correctors for CFTR...
Help HN: I am trapped and it's making me ill
I don't have anybody to ask for help and guidance, so I just hope the HN hivemind might help me. I am stressed, depressed and I literally have nothing to look forward to, and feeling cornered might be the cause of my constant illness.

My boss passed away from cancer last month. I am a director and have a big minority share. The company is doing great, it's remote, small (4 FT employees) and worth a few millions. The boss before dying delegated his work, the idea was selling after his death, but whoever inherited his majority share don't want to sell now, "probably next year". They don't know anything about the business, so I have to do all the tech work I was doing before + all the business decision now, until _they_ decide it's the right time to sell. I signed up to write code, not to wear both the CTO and CEO hats.

I live alone. I don't have any friends nor family in this country. Every single one left and went abroad for one reason or the other. I talk to family and old friends who all live abroad via the Internet, but no-one has told me "hello" in person in 6 months. My mother hasn't worked in a decade and I've been giving her some money every month to help her get by.

I'm anxious, now it's a panic attack every few days, depression, I can't watch a movie for more than 10 minutes, I used to love gaming, I don't have the energy to even boot one up. I keep the business afloat, do what needs to be done, but I haven't implemented a new feature in months.

I am out of shape because now eating is an emotional outlet. I feel nauseous when waking up or after eating. I leave the house twice a month for a quick walk, and I'm too self-conscious about my appearance to do it more often.

My health and sanity have declined quickly, and I don't know what to do.

I can't quit, it would kill the company and I don't want to lose my share of it. Making friends is hard. Getting fit is a long journey. I'm here breathless and panicky and I don't know what to do.
If there’s an option to opt out of the walled garden, people will be fooled into taking it. There is no way to differentiate between you, who wants to install what they wish, and those people that believe it is really Apple cold calling them.

Apple is not a monopoly, so I feel their attitude here is fair.
If you felt comfortable with C# you should try .NET Core. It's amazing.
>a Chinese president gets first dibs on naming Zuckerberg’s kids.

That's pretty bizarre even by Zuck's standards
Can you share your website?
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But nothing compared to anti-competitive measures and dishonest marketing of apple.

Apple puts severe restrictions on developers, that they should develop on macs, that they should use Apple's IAP features, that they should provide 'sign in with apple' (although last one may be reasonable). They even tried to prevent cross platform application frameworks some years ago, by mandating that apps should be written in C/C++/ObjC.

And the dishonest marketing is well known.

Apple promoted swift, fine. But, since they couldn't implement GC in swift because Cocoa interop, some apple people (or maybe fanboys, apple's negative cost marketing strategy is its cult) attempted to make it look like ARC is competitive advantage against Android.

Apple is a patent troll. They sued samsung for some trivial things. They trademarked the word 'app store'. They patent trivial programming language features like optional chaining.

Apple is much more harmful than Google. HN defends web technologies and apple apparently because many here are invested in it (although often they are at odds). But please don't support a patent troll like apple.
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I think however that history has shown that it's generally more tolerable to be oppressed by your own kind than by occupiers and colonists.
Another good one: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS4FAVeYW_IaZqAbqhlvxlA

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