skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's ancient history!

They're approaching two trillion dollar market cap. That's like filling the Great Lakes with Grade A honey and not expecting any bees to come sting yoh azz. Once the economy and political scenario stabilities, the hammer will fall. As for what that means, one only needs look at what happened to Bill and Steve when they chose to fight rather than capitulate and then realize how much opportunity Tim Apple has already had to avoid what's now inevitable.

IMNSHO: If Apple doesn't license alternate app-stores to be operated by qualified third-parties (on a per-consumer opt-in basis) and support the iPhone development tools on non-Apple systems, there will be a similar outcome. I'm just hoping if they go foreign, it's someone from Italy or Norway that takes over --I may have 40 years experience, but in my family, I'm considered mid-career and will be stuck with Apple for decades to come.
On the .NET team, we're working on a polyglot Jupyter kernel that includes C#, F#, and PowerShell support. We're collaborating with the Azure Data and PowerShell teams. It's in preview now. https://github.com/dotnet/interactive
GitHub's Super Linter has an unusual history. See below for example:

https://imgur.com/KZ008vu

https://imgur.com/yJSHIWS

admiralawkbar accounts for 80% of the commits in the repository and over 98% of the code churn. I'm guessing this was a side project of his (Lucas Gravley aka admiralawkbar) and the docker image was just something that was overlooked when it became an officially advertised GitHub repo.
As siblings mentioned they do, I think part of the impression is a bit of a selection bias. Because Google puts itself into so many domains they have many many possible competitors. PZ tries to look at everything so they're bound to also look at google's competitors and find things. So even if they report on both themselves and on competitors, the numbers immediately look like they're reporting more on competitors because the number of companies involved is larger.
I still want a smartphone.
From Texts to Kitties: OpenAI’s GPT Language Model Tackles Image Generation
>I don't see why this shouldn't be paid by the consumer.

unless something has changed recently, the retailer's agreements with Visa and Mastercard prohibits them from charging extra for credit card payments.
I was an electronics technician in the Navy and concur with their excellent training. The NEETS series is great, I have the entire set in hard copy and still refer to them from time to time.
The problem is that it is at least 10x easier to fix Earth than to terraform Mars, and all the problems we have on Earth are going to be there as well.
That article probably doesn't match the topic of this thread closely enough, so changing to it would probably just add confusion.
> Then, in 541, bubonic plague struck the Roman port of Pelusium, in Egypt. What came to be called the Plague of Justinian spread rapidly, wiping out one-third to one-half of the population of the eastern Roman Empire and hastening its collapse, McCormick says.

I dunno, sounds like 541 was the worst year to be alive. That year also had a second volcano eruption according to the article.
Depends on your definition of readily. IBM sells brand new POWER machines, but they are… not cheap.
> Why the hell would anyone trust mozilla.org while they work tirelessly to make money?

In what fantasy world do you live where hosting services and building products costs zero dollars? Not sure how Mozilla could operate at all without making money.
Show HN: Check if a Domain is common or sketchy
PS C:\> Invoke-Sqlcmd -Query "sp_select_from_domains_where_domain_starts_with 'amIevil';" -ServerInstance " infosecrockstars.eastus2.cloudapp.azure.com ,443" -username "readonlyuser" -password "twitter"

rank, domain

---- ------

28193044, amievil-graphicnovel.com

2611848, amievil.com

37416981, amievil.myblog.de

143664338, amievillegas716.joomla.com

160676189, amievilmovie.com

196148720, amievilt.com

PS C:\> Invoke-Sqlcmd -Query "sp_select_from_domains_where_domain_equals 'cnn.com';" -ServerInstance "infosecrockstars.eastus2.cloud
app.azure.com,443" -username "readonlyuser" -password "twitter"

rank, domain

---- ------

66, cnn.com

These 2 stored procedures query a table with a Billion domains in it.
WSL2 and all these features don't have anything to do with open source either. It's basically a shim for communication of two proprietary bits of software on both sides. Fortunately all these graphics and compute shims will never get merged into upstream kernel so they'll be second-class citizens like forever.

Dave Airlie who is maintainer of Linux graphics subsystem will never allow to merge it since it's can only be used for proprietary software.
> There's no way for anyone to make money by being responsible

Not just that, but there's no way to sustain the level of human development (and population) we currently have without continuing to feed the energy beast. Our daily burn rate on oil/gas/coal is so profoundly high, and growing, that a) nothing can fill the gap; and b) it can't be shut down without condemning further development (esp. in Africa, India and China). Two disconnected factoids to illustrate the level of dependency and consumption we have today: without ammonia synthesis from fossil fuel, worldwide organic fertilizer stock could sustain only about 4bln people - globally; China in-serviced more cement (which requires fossil fuels) in like five years than the US did in the last 100 years.

To reduce carbon output, you need to switch coal use to natural gas where possible. That's the best near term solution right now - isolate coal and oil consumption to the industries that really need them - e.g. transportation, manufacturing - and work on alternative sources of electric generation, i.e. hydro where available, nuclear where not, unless some miracle net-positive and reliable electric generation method becomes available in the meantime.
I feel like attacks on 'the media' and so forth we'll see this just grow into a larger ball of cynicism about everything and everyone just clings to their given biases, ignorance, and ideology.
>>If the president was able to keep his mouth shut these HQ studies could have continued uninterrupted and the conversation around HQ wouldn't be such a political mess.
Reddit Seeks Scaling Solution for Ethereum-Based ‘Community Points’
As the original poster, I only wish I had a cabal to upvote my posts. I saw the link on Google news and I was hoping to get some clarity on the concept from folks here.
> It does mean that some people who place a high value on standards and listing and visual style are placated.

This times a million. It doesn't help that the advocates of linting are so dogmatic about the whole idea (as demonstrated so colorfully in this thread and this sub-thread in particular). I mean, I understand why. Linting is an all or nothing type of thing. But I'm still going to remember the lint-advocate as a developer too concerned with the wrong things.
We have and continue to distribute apps around the globe without Apple acting as a necessary middle man. It should not be a required service.
When you use a standard formatter, people adapt. It’s as if formatting becomes a part of the language. Yes, there’s some initial pain, and, yes, some constructions become awkward occasionally, but, if you really need to, you can generally tell the formatter not to mess with a specific section.
If you have fun parsing raw bytes, decrypting encryption, bit-twiddling, etc. you owe it to yourself to try it out. There was something quite satisfying about it.
This is a great idea, but waste is in the eye of the beholder. A $6M environmental impact study might be considered waste by me, considered politically nice by the politician who agreed to it, considered legally necessary by the government's lawyer, and considered vital by the contractor paid to perform the study. Who's right?
The Great Reddit Scaling Bake-Off
Don't need a SPA for that. Local HTML based documentation was a thing long before SPA was even a term.
Ethernet Briefings in April 1978 by Bob Metcalfe [video]
I think you hit the nail on the head.

Elected officials unfortunately don't have that much incentive to hire the "cheapest" company as the debt will be incurred over the next 100 years while they will be long gone.

They probably hire the company that they feel will give them the least amount of trouble, which is the easiest to navigate or that will do something for them in exchange. It's the "not my money" issue at play.
There is something about how the military used to be a huge repository of technical talent as we entered WW2 and the incentives were still there for people to build their careers in the military as experts.

Think about all the stories of experts who developed technology for the military, solved interesting problems for the military, public defense, all the aircraft and vehicle/vessel designs, systems that came out of that domain.
And spun off useful companies that created whole industries of their own.

And then over time, we as a country lost the desire to pay for that expertise (and lost an urgent need for it), and just like other areas of government, the expertise that was no longer being rewarded migrated to contractors to the point that the government agencies themselves do not know how to measure what they want to happen -- and have to ask the contractor to do that assessment for them... Just think of the FAA and Boeing lately...
A common argument is that Apple is effectively a monopoly, in which case "the market" can't decide. I'm not sure I necessarily agree with this viewpoint, but Android and iOS are two separate markets because the cost of switching between them is so high, users are subjected to so much lock-in that switching is almost not an option, and users can only use one market at a time. The difference is that while Apple has a monopoly on iOS with its app store, Google does not have a monopoly on Android with the Play Store because of the existence of competing stores (Galaxy Store, F-Droid, sideloading APKs etc.).

There are analogies to be drawn with game consoles, but there are some key differences: game consoles are not general purpose computing devices necessary for everyday life; users can own multiple consoles at once; there are more than two competitors; and the cost of switching is relatively low.
If you were negotiating pricing with a single party, anchoring would work, but I think that's not what's going on here.
>Big tech gave up moral right for that protection as soon as they decided to interfere with what is posted.

Do I do the same if I remove something from my own site that someone else posts?

Do you?
An example might be making baseball card style images for each candidate which also contain some sort of supporting data. Anyone can trivially fire up an image editor and put checkmarks or crosses next to someone's name. The value is in the persuasive capability of the analysis. I just wanted to echo other commenters suggestions to present as much of the data as possible. The content you make should provide people with information that they can use to persuade others. If someone juat tells me that x organization supports y candidate, i generally couldn't care less. That has to be immediately followed by "because"
I guess you've never worked in a .NET shop before? Or the days when everyone just developed on Visual Studio on Windows, before Macbooks for developers was a thing?
And if I'm driving on a street like that and encounter a guy in a wheelchair I'd yield to them until they could yield to me. It's so small that we can easily create ADA compliance by cooperating as individuals, no need to blow a bunch of money to add a sidewalk. Hell they could add speed bumps and stuff to really slow traffic down.
Plague and second volcano hitting in 541 is also a good candidate.
It’s not GPU pass-through, it’s paravirtualization.
An obvious and common problem is just corruption. In many instances, the construction company will have personal ties with lawmakers, but let's pretend that corruption is a non-issue.

Another large issue is government bureaucracy. The process for proposing projects, winning bids, and being able to start work is a very long process which incurs increased staffing costs due to the time it takes to navigate red tape. This is one reason that government projects cost so much.
Ask HN: Advice on (Harvard) Grad School?
Hi all,

Strange asking this question. I wanted to reach out to ask for advice around going to US Grad School as an international student, particularly with the aim of moving to the Bay Area to contribute to the startup ecosystem - perhaps with my own startup or perhaps to help others!

So at this time, the situation is a very fortunate one. I have a full-ride scholarship to Harvard this fall to continue my Architectural Studies (my gentleman's hobby...) Fortunately, I also get to skip the first year which means the course is 2.5 years with the last 1.5 years of those allowing me to take whatever option courses throughout Harvard and MIT - I'm curious about too much so that possibility is awesome.

On the other hand, I have now developed a lot of doubts about whether the overall situation will be worth it, both short and long term.

- I am British/Irish based in London. Thus have short term immigration problems despite having all visa paperwork.

- First semester+ will be remote (the embassies are closed and they will be bound to have a ton of backlog to work through, providing COVID doesn't again provoke the government to shut down immigration in winter). Working alone without really meeting anyone properly/having the campus experience really drops the value of going back to university.

- Unfortunately for all, it seems quite likely that international working visas will be attacked and reduced (H1-B, OPT etc). Another drop in value.

- My self-propelled study (learning now to pull together software the past year), would be slowed down significantly. At least on my own, I would be able to learn much more outside of a university. Especially a remote university.

- I have some fantastic opportunities in London where I would actually be paid to go to university, with all the uncertainty, this option is getting more attractive.

Thus it's a bit more of a nuanced than that I'm used to!
Currently Russia complies with most (all?) ECHR decisions and orders. I think it can be interpreted as being influenced.
+1 for your growth mindset. We can always achieve new levels of awfulness.
How may were banned?

Does that matter?
- Extension Comment -

Going back to the idea of the Bay Area (which is somewhere I believe I will end up somehow), will it help me a lot to be in the country? Could anyone manage to get anything done bombing it to the valley on a tourist visa? What would you do if you were in my situation?

Apologies for the long post, it's a situation that I'm really questioning and struggling to answer. The tuned-in wisdom of you guys on HN would help a lot!
It's a generic tangent because it changes the subject to VCs in general. It's flamebait because it's snarky, inflammatory, and arguably also a personal attack. Everything I said in the other comment applies to your post as well, which is why I linked to it.

Posts like that aren't acceptable on HN, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on, we'd be grateful.
I could be completely wrong here, but it seems to me that everyone with some idea thinks that companies are just waiting for a great idea to appear so they can steal it when in fact companies can’t even move forward with stuff they want to do, let alone stuff that nobody has ever seen.

Adding to that, even truly great products don’t sell themselves nowadays and that’s the reason people and companies spend millions of dollars in advertising and marketing.

You can invent a time machine but unless you can spread the word out there nobody is going to buy it or care.

I guess what I’m trying to say is: work on your product and pray that someone picks it up.

If it’s complex and super hard to reproduce chances are that people will try to get you on their side as opposed to stealing it from you.

If it’s simple then you should not worry about it because companies will copy it anyway and even if you have a patent it’s useless if you can’t defend it, in the US or overseas.

Focus on your product and trying to sell it.
What's the performance like on this? Does it feel native or does it feel more like a VM?
Webflow is touted as "the new Dreamweaver". Of course, it's "software as a service", about 3x as expensive as basic web hosting.
I am well aware of that. But those phrases also make up a small portion of most contracts. So I stand by my, "the vast majority".

Furthermore I believe we are one well-argued case away from concluding that consumer contracts are not enforceable if the language is too complex. Consider. You only have an enforceable contract if there is a meeting of minds. Automated complexity tests show that most consumer contracts require college level reading level to understand. Per https://www.wyliecomm.com/2019/03/us-literacy-rate/ it turns out that only 2% of US adults read at that level. Therefore no contract can exist with anyone in the remaining 98% of the public.

For comparison, 13% of Americans speak Spanish. Which means that if you the average consumer contract would be understood by more Americans if it was rewritten into plain Spanish!

We all know that this is true and the current state of affairs is beyond absurd. I do not believe that this absurdity will survive indefinitely.

We already have automated tests of language complexity. There already are courts that have said that materials have to be available to consumers in a form that they can understand. For example see http://www.illinoiscourts.gov/Media/enews/2018/032118_plain_... for such a ruling in Illinois. To end the absurdity just takes one clear precedent saying that a contract is not enforceable if not understood, and cannot assume to have been understood by the average consumer if it requires a reading level of over X on test Y.
I don't like auto-formatters as they take away the personality, and sometimes even change the meaning of the code. I prefer intelligently formatted code over automatically formatted code.
I disagree. Contract language ends up in court because it is unclear enough that the parties can plausibly argue it means different things. Arcane word strings are, in my experience, usually just due to lazy copy and pasting from forms or false belief in the notion of “tested” language.

There are certainly terms of art that have well established meanings in certain fields but those should be used sparingly and don’t explain the massive amount of cruft in most contracts.

No one is well served by using deliberately arcane language.

Check out Ken Adams’ books and blogs[1] if you’d like to read more about this.

[1]: https://www.adamsdrafting.com/a-proponent-of-tested-contract...
Many many many apps on Linux still have massive issues with DPI, especially with mixed-DPI environments (which are no longer an edge case, they're the Common Case with a laptop attached to a monitor).

Even accessing machines remotely via Xrdp has huge issues because once you create the session with a certain DPI, logging into the session from a different DPI machine means you're stuck reading either extremely tiny or extremely huge text
HTTPS explosion was great and needed but ended most of the fun for classic machines.
Unfortunately Nazis may also appear to be “normal folks“ if you have been sufficiently radicalized.
When I see the same, I assume people don't want to comment based only on the title of the post, but don't feel ashamed to upvote for a title.
I’ve used Fastmail for years now on a work account. It’s best feature is that it’s not Google.

First, no phone support. Hardly acceptable when even Google has this.

Second, no collaboration suite like Drive/Docs.

Third, no addons I’m accustomed to having in my daily driver email suite. Things I miss include schedule to send later, default reply all, and no priority inbox.

Im stuck using Google for email and maps. I hate google and want to get off them entirely but Gsuite with 1Tb of disk space for my single user personal domain is so powerful and so cheap it’s impossible for me to switch without giving up too much.

Google maps I think has some real competition at least. I’m hopeful Apple Maps gets continued improvements so it can get the job done well enough I can drop Google maps this year.
This is the original data source.

harmonic centrality / pagerank

https://commoncrawl.org/connect/blog/

12.16 GB

cc-main-2020-feb-mar-may-host-ranks.txt.gz
Thank you for the reassurance. Are you working for a startup? Or a big company? How is the general vibe around startups there?
I find it remarkable that HN readers can be simultaneously in favor of Net Neutrality and in favor of censorship. How can these two opinions coexist? The flipside is also true: I find it remarkable that conservatives are _against_ Net Neutrality and censorship at the same time.

Whereas the right answer looks pretty obvious to me: I'm for Net Neutrality and against censorship.
an alternative is also the https://librem.one/ services run by Purism. VPN, Email and more. All server and client code is at source.puri.sm and it's mostly only rebranded "standard tools".
If similar environmental impact studies cost half as much or if the study was not read by those who ordered it that is a pretty clear case. Some things are ambiguous I admit but I'm willing to bet there is enough low hanging fruit to keep a good number of people employed looking for it.

Edit: This is a HN faux pas however, please don't downvote the person above, they added to the discussion. I suspect that may be a common objection and I'm glad to be able to clarify it.
Shuting out half of a political spectrum doesnt strike me as the original intention.

The idea was "to keep internet civil" which makes a lot of sense, but that's obviously not what is happening and not what provoked this reaction.
> I think it could potentially be applicable to materials beyond glass.

It's been used for quite a few years already. Precious metal clay is basically this. You can 3d print with it, then fire it and it turns into solid metal.
I bought x410 but gave up later since I needed OpenGL3 among other things. It is nicely done, worth the 10$.
>One problem with your argument (from a political perspective) is that it undermines the entire system of mandatory disclosures (for drug warnings, investor relations, real estate, etc.).

Is this a bug or a feature?

>as they are based on the idea that consumers can and should read lengthy, confusing documents.

The resolution of such lawsuits are based around the notion that consumers should be able to read such documentations. The law suits themselves are about a deeper issue of consent. I would see this action as nullifying the resolutions but not the problem. It is unjust, but to the consumers.
I joined a project - small startup - code in production for... 4 months at this point. 0 tests of any sort. First week, I do a small feature, add a test, and it was blocked, because I used a single letter variable name in a data setup method in a test file. "Single letter variables aren't professional". Developing and pushing code with no tests for 6+ months apparently is just fine though. I was tempted to use a four-letter variable name... They then got automated-linting fever.
Some of these are fixed or there's progress being made:

- IMHO PowerShell is not that bad, but the newer PowerShell Core works better and with WSL you can use your favorite linux shell (and mix and match Windows and Linux binaries)

- WinGet is in preview

- No search results: my experience is 50/50 on that

- second class citizen: I wouldn't say most, definitely for Golang

- Docker now runs on WSL2 (which is still a sort of VM, but in my experience it's night and day with the old VM and especially compared to the default Docker experience on macOS)

- Why? You can use Python, and scripts are where Powershell really shines as a language

- That's the entire point of WSL I guess