skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not wrong. Browsers don't have a walled garden. They just try to be secure period. Apple's fictions is their walled garden saves you from bad apps. It doesn't. There have been and will be plenty of bad apps. A secure platform saves you from bad apps, period.
Want to build web apps from reusable blocks? Reason at a higher level about chatrooms, roles and permissions, credits? That was the thinking behind our open source project:

https://qbix.com/platform

Reusability on the web. Here is where we are going:

https://qbix.com/QBUX/whitepaper.html#Distributed-Operating-...
> If they current pcs cant run electron, they likely can't run latest office either

I honestly doubt that. Office is surprisingly much lighter when compared with any electron application.

Anyway, chances are that they are running more than one program at once. Plus they do not really need to use office.

> It's probably still the age of win7 there, might be 32bit as well

funfact: win10 also has a 32bit version, and it works just fine on computers with limited ram

> With ancient Acrobat reader as well

Should have used Zathura instead.
I guess then python can have either and maybe? That would be real nice. working with exceptions sucks...
This is unacceptable.
No, you don't have to wait for everything else in your life to be perfectly arranged in order to take charge of your own feeling of self worth. In fact doing so makes it far less likely that it will ever happen.

This trend of telling people that they are helpless victims of their circumstances comes from a place of compassion, but it is ultimately causing more harm than good. Yes, some things that happen to you, beyond your control, may put you at a disadvantage compared to others. This is not usually insurmountable, and it does not mean that you aren't capable of overcoming it.
Yes, there's a whole market for Android devices which are both opened and very secure.
I mean to imply the principle transcends law, that the law does not provide the justification for the moral
principle. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Typical Marxism.
Ah. When I first started using PB it didn't block Google Analytics, apparently that changed about a year ago according to

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/sharpening-our-claws-t...
Keeping your private information private (Google)
Impossible. Congress has given amazon a get-out-of-jail-free-card in rye form of an arbitration clause with no stare decisis and no public access to the harm or outcome.
Thankfully older accounts are set to auto delete being “off”.
The main page says there's a housing crisis caused by COVID but then every single city, with one exception, shows a relatively sizeable decrease in number of filings. Maybe there's a lag in the data, but I don't understand why they would show the data like this if it didn't remotely correspond with their thesis.
Can you name examples?
I've always cared about the privacy issues regarding Google's applications way less than I should, probably, but he definitely makes a good point regarding how increasingly outdated they're feeling.

I'm most likely gonna start switching out too.
This is amazing, because it means less competition and my business will get better marketing ROI. I fully support other businesses reducing advertising.
The world, in general, is abandoning the past two centuries in which freedom has risen, to become illiberal, and enforce intellectual orthodoxies. It is more obvious and markedly so in in places like Turkey, but even here in the US we see those who would blacklist all political enemies and dissenters. These efforts will ultimately fail here, but not before grave harm is inflicted; history will judge us as harshly as we judge the McCarthy era.

There were Communists in the government in the McCarthy era. There were quite a few Communists, much as there is still racism at large in the USA today. And yet you will note that successfully rooting out spies is not why McCarthy is remembered, but rather, for his self-aggrandizing campaign of paranoid repression.
WhatsApp is a popular communication interface. Giving up WhatsApp is like giving up email or texting or phone calls. In some countries, it's a more dominate form of communication than any of those.

If you want to give up communicating remotely with humans, OK I guess. Have fun. But giving up one specific interface? That's meaningless. It's like giving up Sauvignon Blanc but drinking Pinot Grigio everyday.
>And also realise that what you're saying is that you advocate for a modeled 2 million deaths.

So far as I know, there's no evidence that now that quarantine is over the same number of people aren't going to get it anyways and the deaths will be equal.
F´ a Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework
The entire point is that it's separated, that you have two separate inboxes. The underlying mechanism is the same, but the user experience is quite different. In my opinion it's similar to Roam in that the framing leads to a different workflow, even though neither has any truly revolutionary "technical feature".

If you think this is just "marketing spin", I think you're simply not part of the target demographic, which is people that have currently have issues with e-mail.
Which economies exactly are you referring to that have dealt with mass death and came out unscathed?
Apple also makes money by selling their users to Google to do all that nasty stuff.
“I trust you guys. I love you guys. We'll keep this space open. This is the last stronghold for civil discourse. After this shit it's just rat-a-tat tattity tat-tat ta tat tat TAT.”

- Dave Chappelle
The message passing protocol in pure data is white space delimited with semicolons ending commands. FUDI is underappreciated, and enabled 'dynamic' programming of PD despite the available code having been built almost entirely with a mind towards instantiating all memory use ahead of time.

Good interfaces enable unexpected things.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUDI
> Python, Javascript, or C#

Those are all pretty basic Algol-family languages (at least if we're talking vaguely modern Javascript). If you were thrown in to J or Forth or Erlang you might have a different experience.
Same thing happened to me with a FBA product which I was not happy with. It didn't ship for two weeks until I left a bad review and reported the seller, and it arrived in not-great condition. Originally got offered $20 ($100 product) to take down a one star review, then they got it taken down anyway.
Microsoft was, is and will always be a company doing shady shit to catch up with their competitors.

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses...
The point of the video was that when using the device as the authenticator, attestation reveals details of the phone (such as the unique private key used to prove the phone is valid to a manufacturer). The anonymous attestation authority here allows Apple to be assert to the qualities of the device without the device having to reveal identifiers externally.

This is akin to a batch of identifiers the size of all Apple products, while still allowing the device owner (or Apple) to disavow a particular device if it is lost or stolen.

The implementation also ensures that the same device creating multiple identities for the same website will have no signing characteristics linking one account to the other.
Damaging the economy to the tune of 2 trillion in bailouts, the cost of the war in Iraq, just to have the exact same number of deaths delayed by 4 months is inexcusable.

And you should be ashamed of your self-righteous and dishonest argument style.
Most people aren't hyper-partisan ideologues that boycott companies based on their political censorship policies, that's why.

Also, by boycotting FB as a developer you're reducing your earning potential considering FB is the top of the compensation pile.
So to clarify, if I wrote an article with it, I'd be required to make a highly visible jarring font change in each sentence I was criticizing them? :D
Thank you for this thoughtful answer. The part about developer advocacy seems especially important.
Mars Helicopter Presentation (2019)
It depends what I need. If it's just basic REST, I reach for Express.js.

If I'm working on a more advanced prototype, Django.
I lived in a foreign country recently and Facebook groups were far and away the most important tool I had for meeting people and establishing myself. WhatsApp was the dominate form of communicating with people who lived there. And Instagram was the primary way I kept in touch with my closest friends on other continents.

These things are useful, and just because they can be misused does not make them any less useful.
This is true for nearly all apps, but it is important to consider special cases. I use a keyboard app (SwiftKey) that shows contents of clipboard, if recently added, as a shortcut button. It's pretty nice. I can probably turn it off but I don't intend to.

Accessibility apps likely have a lot of examples like this too
I think you just answered your own question. Emulators work fine for most use cases. In the other cases, a physical phone is best.
This is why my "gamer" headphones can use both profiles simultaneously! The game/music/media audio comes through the headphone profile, and chat audio comes through the headset profile. There's even the ability to change the volume-per-logical-device (chatmix).

Agree with you that I never got it working consistently in Linux. Just getting normal BT headphones to use A2DP rather than HSP was always a bit tricky. I've not dared try my gamer headphones...
I believe Android was the first to have fine grained app permissions where you could actually choose what an app has access to. iOS added that later.
>You can't use this unless you have a legal copy of diablo2 and an expansion.

Or an iso acquired from a random torrent site. I've owned a few copies of D2 in my life and given blizzard years of my time, who knows where the booklets with the CD keys are. At least my copies of lod have it printed on the cover. I feel no qualms whatsoever about not giving blizzard more money for another 'legit' copy.
Motorola's pretty on top of the game.

$200 G7 got Android 10 about 3 weeks ago.
It is far fetched, but Google and Netflix cannot match FB. FB beats Google at every level, on average.
Getting a layer that would advise beyond pleading guilty for a reduced sentence is not a default option.
I agree with this.

Just this week I had a lengthy 2 day discussion involving 4 other employees, 8+ long emails, and hundreds of words in chat ... all to figure out that we need to add an if/else statement and two simple lines of code.

The code took 2 minutes. The discovery took 2 days.

The "curse of knowledge" works both ways.
A high speed collision happens on a freeway, killing both drivers. This is a car manufacturer bug, not a human bug. You can't expect millions of drivers to get driving right. A car should not be allowed to drive fast.

How about: stop apologizing for billion dollar corporations. Fault can be placed on both the OS and applications. I expect better, from everyone.
Deliveries on my iPhone does this. Though I’m pretty sure if apple opened up a API that would allow you to provide a hard coded Regex it would solve a number of privacy issues.
That doesn’t work for everyone, even if it works for you.
Promising low-maintenance roof-top wind power generation
The company behind this also claims it to be cheaper than solar. Looks like a great alternative for areas with less sun light or excessive shading.
However they did call it OSX in the keynote: https://youtu.be/vN4U5FqrOdQ?t=548
You shouldn't have to do that. And it disables the normal close button.

What if you reboot without engaging with this weird unclosable window? What if you lose power? That's not agreement to the terms!

When you have a dialog to choose between yes and no, it is not acceptable to copy data without 'yes' being clicked. Justification about "they didn't 'just press no'" is not okay.

He did nothing in terms of giving the program any kind of input.
> it's at its very best when it's vigorously confronting the outside world

How so? The examples that spring to my mind—Imperial Japan, the Manchurians, that Genghis bloke—all end very badly for China and its culture.
> People keep saying this but I've never seen one of these app-specific paste widgets.

Here’s one:

https://twitter.com/twolivesleft/status/1275776460918157315
It's amazing to me that every CPU doesn't have specialized memory copying instructions given how common an operation this is and how it can be a bottleneck. We have hundreds of vector instructions to optimize all kinds of special cases but little for this most general thing?
Your comment underscores a few misconceptions with corporate software.

1. Writing and process flow as you describe are incredibly important. But, many developers can’t write. Writing is a fundamental skill that takes practice to develop and many developers do not independently practice that skill, despite its importance.

2. The web is a multi-faceted discipline. This is the hardest part to being a web developer. Learning to write the code is comparatively trivial. This is also the greatest cause for frustration and failure for people and automagical software alike.

3. Precision of requirements is important but not as important as many junior developers would suggest. The discrepancy largely arises because many developers find writing to that detail challenging themselves and are frustrated when feature delivery fails to match stakeholder expectations. QA and PMs seem to regularly nail this issue without challenge indicating its not the requirements that are ultimately at fault when things move out of alignment.
What is the core of the Python programming language
Excellent! You should add those to the guidelines :)
I'm gonna spam out my new favorite quote from a week ago

"When you get the data into a nice, clean, dense form, stuff just falls out of it" - Saul Pwanson

(https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-plagiarism-scandal-is...)
Courts grant a step towards hospital pricing transparency
Create your own Twitter interaction circle with Chirpty
According to that article, those vaccines are on track for next year, which I believe is a year too late.

>> Whether or not you quarantined, the economy would collapse because you would have a massive death toll and paranoia throughout the country.

Lol, what? 1/3rd of the covid deaths have been nursing-home patients. Covid basically doubles your odds of dying in a given year. So it'd be like 2 years worth of people died in 1 year (and importantly, mostly retired people), so no, not a societal collapse.
Ask HN: Better Alternatives to a PO Box in the US?
I would like to get a PO box, but I am wondering if there are better alternatives out there. Thanks for any pointer!
I can second this recommendation, and broaden it to everything James Burke has ever done for BBC. He is an amazing science scholar, and also quite witty. He makes amazing educational programming. I especially enjoy Connections[1] and its sequel series, as well as the lesser-known The Day the Universe Changed[2] series, about the impact of science and technology on society, from a philosophical point-of-view, rather than the mainly technical approach of Connections.

If anyone close to him is reading this, please thank him for me. I saw Connections many years ago, and he opened my eyes to the wonder of inventions. Anyone can make things. That’s how we got to today, just lots of interworking inventions. He changed my life.

An excerpt from his Wikipedia page[3] I think HN readers may find intriguing:

> Burke conceived a mobile app called Connections that would search Wikipedia and generate associations and connections among apparently unrelated fields of knowledge or topics. Surprises, anomalies, and unexpected perspectives on a search could emerge from using the app. According to Burke, the Connections app would be an innovative alternative to more linear internet search engines such as Google.[12] As of January 2017 the project had met only 1/3 of its Kickstarter crowdfunding goal.[13]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Universe_Changed

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burke_(science_historian...

[Original Wikipedia links, numbered as quoted]

[12] http://boingboing.net/2016/11/17/james-burkes-new-project-ai...

[13] https://www.backerkit.com/projects/504632459/james-burke-con...
Show HN: Re-Pixel – Recolor sprite art in seconds with a smart palette swapper
I'd rather people get their political news from other people on Facebook or WhatsApp groups than highly corrupt hyper-partisan news organizations that serve the interests of their billionaire founders exclusively.

Mainstream media has done more to disrupt democracy than Facebook. Whether it's:

- Lying about Iraq WMDs that eventually lead to tens of thousands of casualties (New York Times)

- Lying about Russian hacks of critical US infrastructure (Washington Post)

- Lying about the standards of immigration facilities (AP)

- Lying about innocent victims of assault during the riots (NPR)

- Threatening to ruin someones life through doxxing over political GIFs (CNN).
It’s immoral to think they owe you or anyone else any of the fruits of their labors. The average person in this world has never been this wealthy, when will it be enough?
Apple took a 9 Billion dollar payment from Google in 2018 for Google to be the default search engine [0].

[0]: https://dazeinfo.com/2018/10/01/apple-google-fee-iphone-sear...
There are knitting machines for which you enter knitting instructions. As different machines have different capabilities, you may wish to compile your high-level knitting patterns to different knitting instruction sets. Some compilers are better at optimizing than others, resulting in more efficient knitting programs.

See "A Compiler for 3D Machine Knitting" and accompanying video. https://la.disneyresearch.com/publication/machine-knitting-c...
I think a big part of it is this:

> staring at a spinner spin for far too long.

You probably didn't hate it the first or second time you opened it up. Only after recognizing that many operations are extremely sluggish did you start to build an aversion.

I think the same this can be said about JIRA and many other sluggish, enterprise-y tools. The UI design is typically more-or-less OK, it's the experience of clicking on things and having no idea when it will be done, why it's taking so long, or what a faster alternative is that makes you feel trapped.
“director of global resiliency” is one heck of an interesting job title
Also with OOP and procedural programming you get lego blocks that can mutate. Lego blocks can transform themselves and other lego blocks. They form an interconnected network of entities that are constantly mutating.

That kind of sounds like a structure of living cells. They're more complex than a structure of lego blocks, but they can do a lot more too.

Don't take that as an argument in favor of OOP though. Building with legos is a lot easier to get right than building with cells would be.
And it all coincides with Larry and Sergei stepping down. Google is very much just a cash cow being milked, zero innovation - just products rusting away.
Try the UPS Store. There's at least several in every major city in the USA.
> But I would never rely on it for a business.

You sir have options. Every place I have ever worked has at least one app that someone hacked together through some combination of PDFs, Excel and Access. This is a tremendous opportunity for those folks. The ones who will never learn to code, never learn to deploy an application and never get enough visibility to have a developer assigned to their project.

For the everyteam, these types of tools are exceptional. I continue to be amazed by what dedicated people pull-off with these no-code solutions.
The main reason it can be more efficient is that they use waste heat from power plants.

In principle you can do the same thing at a smaller scale. Instead of burning natural gas or diesel/home heating oil in a furnace, burn it in a generator and heat your house with the engine coolant.
Perhaps you should do a little bit more research. Zelle allows payment between banks (almost) instantly. No fee, since it's a service owned by participating banks, practically all major banks in the US. Zelle processed $187 billion in 2019.

https://www.zellepay.com/get-started
In this case (VDI), Microsoft, Amazon and others already own the market. Guacamole is picking up refugees from big players.
You don't do sustainable farming for the money. It can certainly pay the bills and some. Plus subsidies and incentives can help.

If you want to make money you start a vertical farming AgTech, which will not be profitable, but will attract the trendy funding. Pay yourself well while it last.
Same as open source paid for by support contracts, incentive is to add chaos.
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No worries. I'd be happy to change the title to something accurate and neutral if you want to suggest better wording.
I don't think equating racist power structures in police and government to red scare communists is a good analogy. The fear of communists was mostly made up in rhetoric. The protestors on race relations are pretty clear on why they're upset.
Monitoring the copy buffer, from the background, is an overreach, and doing that and then pretending like it's the reasonable thing to do is what I describe as offensive. The point I was trying to make was that even doing less than that, but not designing with an intent to be minimally invasive from the start, sets you up to head into the "outrageous scenario" that yeah, I'll grant you I completely made up. But FWIW it is also completely in line with how I've seen people operate.

Suppose you want to offer this capability but only check the copy buffer when the user has signalled an intent to provide you with input. How is that not the least galling design decision? I'm having trouble figuring out how to express that it also serves as a personal (and team-internal) signal that "we are here to serve the user, and not to take advantage of them, even if that's inconvenient for us". Maybe that doesn't matter, or maybe lacking that is what leads to things like the Uber "Ride of Glory" blog post and worse?

Something I meant to imply in my first comment, but not the reply to you, is that furthermore limiting your exposure to user data limits the likelihood that a series of bugs puts it into your logs and then leaked out to the world. No, it's not done on purpose, but no amount of good intentions fixes it. Defaulting to being less invasive also reduces your likely level of impact.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convective_heat_transfer
The same free speech that is protecting racists today is the same one that prevented Gay people from being censored in the 90s for their "deviant" behavior.
Is there a sample project somewhere on Github? Would be helpful to see a concrete example of use to get a better idea of it.
Wow. That was an eye-opening read.
There are other local marketplace platforms, such as OfferUp, that offer the same experience as Facebook Marketplace without tracking users as severely as Facebook does.

https://offerup.com
52% is little better than a coin flip. If you have a million individuals in your city, your confidence should be in the ballpark of 99.9999% (1 individual in 1 million). That has really been my concern with this, the software will report any facial match above 75% confidence. Apart from the fact that it appalling confidence, no cop will pay attention to that percentage; immediately arresting or killing the individual.

Software can kill. This software can kill 50% of black people.