skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Valve, the least anti-competitive monopoly[0] I can think of. You can sell keys that work on their platform on other stores without giving them a cut.

[0] If one accepts that label
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I don't know if I'd say they're losing. They're mostly testing to see what the push-backs are. Most of those "losses" in terms of troops or trade deals are fairly trivial compared to the size of the Chinese military, industrial base, and population. Like, it wouldn't be crazy-hard to replace those loses or cut newer deals; losing a couple dozen troops in a border dispute is nothing to the PLA (or the Indians, for that matter).

The Nazis didn't just start by invading Poland. There was the Remilitarization of the Rhineland, Anschluss, then the First Vienna Award, the Second Vienna Award, the full-on occupation of Czechoslovakia, then the German Ultimatum to Lithuania, then "Danzig or War!", etc. There were lots of aggressive movements and testing-of-the-waters and escalations.

Right now the rest of the world is locked up with Corona, possibly facing economic ruin because of it, and the US is tearing itself apart with internal issues and damaging its international relationships.

Now is perfect time for China to make moves and push on things -- and see who pushes back and how hard.
Hi, I started using this as a training tool for people I'm trying to help in meetups and my community (people who have never used AWS, GCP, etc) but a huge problem I found out after writing a lot of annotations (and clearly having the wrong expectation) was that you can't edit or have any control over the URLs that the annotations are based on.

If the devs are interested in my use case (understood if not) which is basically a poor mans onboarding tool, I'd love and happily spend some money (not onboarding tool money, those seem to be $1k+/month) on the ability to edit urls, share these, etc.

What I envisioned this as letting me do was creating versioned annotations that let me share them to anyone and they can superimpose those annotations on top of any URL that has the same basic structure behind it amazon.com/$myuser/$mycluster$/$myportal etc. I thought it'd be a really killer tool to use for helping new devs learn AWS more easily than digging constantly digging through AWS documentation, ie: "What is lamba? click button 10 quick bullet points on Lambda" sort of thing.

A lot of these users will be using localhost, their IP, digitalocean IPs, etc instead of a concrete domain name. It'd be great if we could regex the url strings or something like that.

Thanks for your work!
I use a SaaS product [0] on my Chromebook which lets me stream various cameras to via RTMP. It was free (not sure how they make money, maybe they didn't have a monetization plan when I used it). It worked pretty well, I produced 3x streams (totaling around 19 hours) with it [1] on a Samsung Chromebook Pro, with some additional stream feeds coming into it from my Razer Phone.

[0] https://golightstream.com/studio/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVGEH-HLZ76olPRIBvbjH...

Edit: Seems like they have a monetization plan now, and it seems reasonably priced compared to other services I looked at like livestream.com
Yeah definitely. It's good to have an oil filter.

But what if you also change the oil?
Really? I've had pretty much no issues playing video games on Linux for the past 2 years. At least not any more than I did when I used Windows.

Steam has been providing support for the Linux community for years, through native ports of their games, explicitly selling Linux ports on their store, and just making sure their client works on Linux as well. This isn't to mention their actual innovations such as the Steam Controller, Steam In-home Streaming, Steam Remote Play, and even Proton.

In contrast, we have Epic Games who, besides adding nothing to the market besides a bunch of free games (which is likely going to end when/if they feel like they have a good enough share), actively killed the Linux version of Rocket League when they purchased the game.

I appreciate Epic Games for the Unreal engine, but if this is how they want to get a share of the PC game store market, they're not getting a dime from me.
Really excited to see this. My first “database” was MS ACCESS so it’s good to see the ability to use a spreadsheet as a DB
Oh, I wasn't really thinking about my impact on others until I was considering whether to go to MODEX early in March. But early estimates of SARS-2 lethality from February have stood up pretty well even if we didn't understand many of the mechanisms at the time. For instance at the time I was very worried about Covid-19's effect on the brain and had no idea that clotting could be an issue.
I stand by my statement when an article starts out with a blatant lie, there's not much point in reading past that. If you think the opposite is true, I guess that's an entertaining thought. It's probably applicable to satire (which actually raises a question about your post, but nevermind).

> The claim you're objecting to is about the lockdown policy, not claims about the lockdown policy.

Right. It's saying something blatantly false about the lockdown policy. You seem to have been confused by my second sentence, so allow me to elaborate. A person would literally need to be living on a Pacific island alongside the old Japanese guy who nobody told the war was over and would need to have had no direct contact with the lockdown policy, human beings living under the lockdown policy, or indirect contact with the policy via reading about it or watching news about it in the media, in order to believe the claim made in the first sentence that the policy was about "containing the spread of the disease at all costs."
Cross-Platform Password Manager
If you fail to respond to voicemails and emails from your employer which request a response than I expect you will be fired as is happening here.
Vast majority of non-state actors are financed by state when you dig deep enough
The Science of Loneliness
I love the name Imbox because it reminds me of Cheems, my favorite character from Doge lore.
Yeah, seems like it. My dog lives a really easy life.

But it wouldn’t be a good life for a human or even a wild animal. My dog has no freedom or agency and is 100% reliant on me for food, exercise, entertainment, etc.

He can do what he wants within the limits of what I’ve trained him as acceptable (can go in the bed, but not the couch for example) but he isn’t free to leave. He is 100% subject to what I feel is best for him.

Now of course this relationship is mutually beneficial (I assume he’s happy - he gets healthy food, lots of exercise, and treats and toys as well as affection when he asks for it) but even if we had a true post scarcity world I would not want to live his life within the context that I’m a human.
I was homeless to for a while (emotional and social problems, I'm feeling much better.) I get what you're saying. But that's you. I relied on all kinds of people, including several churches who gave free meals. God bless them.

Eventually, one of my relatives died and left my mom some money and she paid for some therapy and some of it worked and I went on to be a more-or-less functioning adult, with a job and home and all that.

YMMV

> Giving people money will keep them dependent.

There's a danger of that for some people, I agree, but I still think that dependent well-fed housed people are a step up from dependent hungry homeless people.

> People in that situation don't need handouts. They need the ability and opportunity to improve their situation themselves.

I say they need both: give them food and a place to live and education or training or therapy or whatever they need to develop the ability and find or create the opportunities. USA is a ridiculously wealthy nation, we could afford take care of our own if we just prioritized it.

> being homeless is a great incentive to build

I believe that people like to build. Look at kids, eh? LEGO bricks?

Frankly I think it's severely messed up that our society uses homelessness as a stick to keep people in line. I.e. "Don't lose your job! You'll wind up on the street!"
> That said, it sucks that I cannot tell people they can also download Krita from krita.org.

As in, you've signed an NDA literally forbidding you from mentioning as such? Or you're simply not allowed to put the URL anywhere in the Windows Store description?
Why can DC not get fouriertransformed? Usually the f(p=0) is the DC component.
Just shows how gullible and hubristic HN really is. "I don't like it so I am going to complain about it." Good one. I guess every community needs to have it's own Slashdot moment, at least once.
Figure 2. Representatives of different families and orders show the most specific morphological markers of domestication, white spotting on the head (top row) and floppy ears (bottom row):

Horse, cow, pig, sheep, dog, and rabbit.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2763232/
Thanks for your response! This technology is very exciting. Since you're targeting WASM there's a whole host of possibilities. Python is already supported through Iodide [1], but I imagine other languages could also be ported, and even DSLs specifically tailored for agent based modelling. That's not the mention all the other things happening in the WASM space like webgpu [2] and WASI [3].

The potential for ABMs are huge now that we have access to cheap and massively parallel compute. Imagine arbitrarily complex models of each individual in an economy interacting with each other over a distributed network of thousands of machines -- that's possible now. Instead of trying to predict the future, we can compute it.

[1] https://github.com/iodide-project/pyodide

[2] https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/wiki/Implementation-Status

[3] https://wasi.dev/
Just my opinion, as someone who loves the ecosystem and tolerates the language.
Sorry, which separation? The desk worker from their desk for a day?
Show HN: A new blog dedicated to connecting the dots
Fair enough. But also not a problem if the intended recipient is well-versed in that shorthand.

An important difference is that a novel doesn't typically require a specialized skillset, but a mathematical development does.
There has been controversy around them paying third party developers to release their game exclusively through Epic Games Store. From what I recall these are timed exclusives so the games do eventually end up on other store fronts but people seem to be really up in arms about it.
> Users may be traced or identified by surveillance systems of third parties while using SwissCovid.

How does that work? Do they mean the Bluetooth MAC or can the users also be traced/identified by third parties through the Apple/Google API?
Wirecard is issuer of most crypto debit cards

https://cointelegraph-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/cointelegra...
Why Bountysource? Why?
>I would bet that 99% of these privacy people still use email.

The question is, what is email being used for? Communicating with people who we don't have private interaction with? Having academic discussion on mailing lists? That stuff doesn't really require confidentiality.
As I understand it, people were mad at Epic when many game projects on Kickstarter, formerly announced and crowd-sponsored as multi-platform, were suddenly funded by Epic and changed to be exclusives on Epic. Many people viewed this as a breach of trust by the projects, and as even worse done by Epic, by prompting and encouraging this.
Ok, I guess there was some temporary issue, it's working now.
Joining a conversation with throwaway account to list shill points that encourage people to use a dangerous unencrypted communication tool for everything is anything but acceptable.
I hate the units which you cannot easily add: 10 micromorts + 10 micromorts = 19,999999 micromorts

500 milimorts + 500 milimorts = 750 milimorts

Playing russian roulette using a sixshooter loaded with 3 rounds is 50% chance of death. It's 75% if you do another try. "Adding" another try does not translate to "adding" the metric. It just adds confusion.
Adding a new qualification of "not major enough" is a no true scotsman argument, which is not compelling. They are religions by any measure but your arbitrary goalposting.

>> people have been selling an invisible product since thousands of years (religion), so it is quite possible to get billions of people to lie to themselves and to others.

The "billions" qualification comes from your specific interpretation of this statement to mean a single religion. This is not the assertion. Nor is the specific count relevant to the point, as billions can be read to mean all relgions combined. Large groups of people can deceive each other and themselves. Full stop.
I'm thinking of things like the destruction of the library of Alexander, the religious fanaticism of the late Empire, and the destructive effects of continuous wars from the mid-200s AD. It's pretty easy to wipe out scientific progress if you put your mind to it. It was not just invading Germans, though that certainly did not help.
Tether's story ends only if the owners get too greedy and exit scam OR if a large minority of people holding tether decide to cash out -- which shouldn't happen since such whales benefit from tether and other cryptocurrencies money laundering operations.

Also, given that there are days when tether issued 3bln dollars to prop bitcoin, I'm sure the owners have made a lot of money by manipulating other legitimate cryptocurrencies prices.
Where did it all go wrong for the UK’s contact tracing app?
I think the commenter went through the effort of trying to use this and faced obstacles while doing so. They have a much more valid reason to complain here than drive-by comments of the sort you're describing, which are superficial observations about how the code/package is presented.

So there are some droids like you describe; but these are not the ones you're looking for.
Yes, that's a great point. Is a strong privacy policy the solution? I do have one in place. I'm happy to put in stronger commitments.

Another thing to highlight here: Histre is a paid product. I'm bootstrapping it. I think that it is the "free" products that go the adtech route. By charging the users, I'm making it clear that it is their money that supports Histre.
We should not defund the Terminator program
Anything goes as long as we get cheap energy, right? /s
Depends on advance rate. Loaning 20% of the value of the collateral seems pretty safe on average.
Explain in technical detail why the cool features (like stickers) can't be implemented with E2EE when Signal is doing that at constant pace?

Telegram doesn't have E2E encryption for groups or Windows/Linux desktop clients, even if you try to toggle something. So your argument is false.
also, adding Nim keyword to title could be good for finding this when searching for Nim in HN:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=fals...
Sure, but you can just as easily fall into the trap of massively over-engineering your client-side rendering because you just grab packages off the shelf for every little thing instead of going "it's a little bit more work, but there is no reason to any of this when the browser already does this", like ending up with a 100kb bundle for what is effectively just a standard form that would work better, with less code, if it just used a normal form with built-in validation for almost everything, with the final acceptance/rejection determined by the api endpoint.

It really depends on which SSR approach we're comparing to which client-rendering approach, and who you're optimizing for.
Oops. Thanks for answering that for me. I'm shopping for a new provider and with that interface (and Apple controversy) Hey looked promising. If it had own domain support with infinitely many addresses (I use them for categorization) and supported a standard protocol I'd have considered it despite it's painfully high price. Like this, though, it looks like a bit of a joke.
To play devil's advocate against the panic I'm watching unfold in this thread: I don't think there's an enormous categorical difference here from weapons that already exist.

We've had long-range (longer range than most drones) guided missiles for decades. We've had drones that can launch them, for decades. Those technologies already have the ability to wipe out targets anywhere, anytime, en masse, with little to no risk. Yet we don't see people (as one commenter suggested) wiping out entire plots of land so they can start a new country. We don't see (most) countries turning such weapons on their own citizens. We don't see (very many) heads of state being assassinated in this way. What this tells me is that there are sociopolitical forces that make such things un-advantageous or infeasible, for one reason or another.

The only true differentiator I can see with suicide-drones is a potential increase in precision, though that's not really true right now because these in the article look to be basically flying hand-grenades. That's not really better than a missile; in fact it's probably a lot easier to intercept or shoot down. Now, many of us have seen that (fictional) video with the micro-explosive assassination drones. Maybe that would change the game in some way, but I still don't think it's a drone apocalypse we'd be looking at. Nation states have so many ways of killing people at this point. When they don't, it's usually because it doesn't make sense to, not because they lack some key capability.
it must be tiring viewing the world through such cynical eyes.
> not be subject to removal by the author of the content

That's why everyone is doing it themself. They don't wanna make it to easy for people to find their dirt, also make it harder for trolls and spammer to harm them. Protecting yourself from others is a legit problem with this.

But besides that, aren't sites like hackernews and reddit basically like that? All you need is an extension which querys them for the active url or domain and shows the results on the side.
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Sounds like a pretty good deal :)
There's no evidence the ban was a PR stunt, but it did play into Durov's hands, and through that, into the hands of the Kremlin when every dissident flocked to a service with centralized attack point to compromise all group chats -- the Telegram server.
Your comment is a thousand characters (983).

I think your ideas are good. Standard terms, civil education, court oversight.

At that point I think arbitrary limits would do more harm than good
You are confusing market access and distribution. If I wanted alot of eyes on my app and I saw a benefit from the appstore then I would pay the 30%.

All I want is being able to give to MY customers, who I paid MY money to acquire, a native app. Apple is refusing to allow this, unless I pay protection money. Textbook rent seeking
You probably need a server to pickup your webrtc stream and multicast it out, usually in an assortment of formats depending on platforms you are targeting. The video between you and the server probably needs to be WebRTC, but downstream from the server it can be mp4/mpg-dash, etc.
I would have loved to believe that they are a fad and will pass away, but I just found myself using them in the same way that I used to use phpBB emoticons.

I think they're never going to go away, but at least we can try to eradicate them from professional discourse and education.
Most of the hand-wringing about this strikes me as pretty far-fetched. While I have no doubt that attack drones will be used extensively on the battlefield, I think their use beyond that will be isolated. There are few advantages to using drones as a weapon that aren't already available to both terrorists and states. If you want to hunt specific people down and kill them, you don't need a drone. And if you want to cause mass casualties, there are much better options today than a swarm of hundreds of fragile one-time-use drones. Why don't we have more terrorist attacks using guns or truck bombs? Why don't we have drone IEDs right now? Why aren't drones taking down airplanes and helicopters all over the world? Why don't we have SAM attacks at every airport in the world?

The nightmare scenario most people seem to be worried about is the "slaughterbots" one from that video, but it doesn't make any sense to me. In some mythical future, we'll have the ability to use a tiny explosive charge to blow a hole in a specific person's head? I guess the person who came up with this missed the memo about the 300 million devices we have in this country that can use a shaped explosive charge to put a hole in someone's head.

And who is the entity that's releasing these drones to kill half a city? If it's our government, they could clearly do this now if they wanted to. Why don't they? If it's another government, that's no different than any other act of war they could currently carry out. What advantage does this offer? If it's a terrorist organization, again, they have better and cheaper options available today. And it's not like we couldn't stop them: who was flying that giant plane? Who were those guys releasing these swarms from the van? Where did they buy these drones? Where did they get the explosives? Just like many other threats, we'd track them down.

I'm not saying there's no risk, just that I think it's completely overblown. Every new technology carries a risk that a malicious actor will use it for harm, but the same technological advancements also enable us to better defend ourselves. So maybe there is some future dystopia where huge swarms of anonymously-controlled "slaughterbots" roam the skies looking for targets to murder, but if we have the ability to do that, we also have the ability to maintain defensive swarms, personal EMPs, chaff and smoke emitters, laser sentries, broad spectrum signal jamming, automated hacker entities, or whatever else we come up with.
Cloud Penetration Testing Guide
Simulation and modelling are great tools in engineering, but it is still very difficult to create realistic models that predict behavior of the real thing well. There are always things you leave out, and sometimes they come back to bite you on the ass. Things like friction, thermal effects, small forces, delays... Stimulating organisms or institutions seems way more prone to errors of this kind. How do you verify that your agent represents realistic behavior of the thing or organism it is supposed to be representing?

(Of course, having a platform for models is a great first step, congrats on the launch)
If we don't allow the housing supply to match demand, no minimum wage will be enough.
I’m not the target audience right now, but someday I might very well be. This is one of those ventures that I’m glad exists.

Thank you for doing this.
> Would you be okay if Apple charged more for developer fees? A per app fee? A per app update fee?

Yes, I would be fine with any of those scenarios.

A $1,000 fee to add your app to the app store would be more preferable to me than a nebulous rule about taking 30% of my gross revenue and having Apple dictate to me what my overall business model needs to look like.

> Can I pay a one time fee to get a product stocked at any retailer?

To compare what is going on here with a traditional retail environment is really an apples and oranges comparison. If Apple wants to take my app, price it and sell it at markup, be my guest.

What they are doing is more like if Best Buy forced Nest to give it 30% of every Nest cloud subscription on Nest devices bought in Best Buy retail outlets. Or if Best Buy forced Apple to give it 30% of iCloud subscription fees for MacBooks sold from within Best Buy retail outlets, only after Apple implemented "Best Buy Payments" into it's MacOS software to ensure those fees were collected.
Enums should be coming in 20.2 as well :)
As HN gets more popular that’s what happens. Just occasional good nuggets in between politics and advertisements.
Yeah the communication protocol is simple enough you could easily wire up some kind of "vote to change scene" functionality.