skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What is the dignity of a human being?" and "Who is a human being?" are the two questions that fundamentally undermine a racist. It's quite possible that many racists hold their opinions out of ignorance rather than malice so an open debate is an opportunity for meeting someone in dialogue and remedying their ignorance. Those who are exposed to the truth and reject it pass over into malice and those people are their own worst enemy: leaving them in their self-inflicted echo chamber of rage is the worst possible fate that could befall them. It's not what I hope for racists, but I do pity those who end up in such a state.
You have an ADHD brain. Learn how to use it
The reason the app didn't work when you downloaded it is because of Apple's own policies.

Also: https://youdownloadtheappanditdoesntwork.com
> If you need someone online to justify for you learning new things in your field you have probably already lost.

This is really unhelpful gate keeping. You're respond to someone who literally just said they spend excessive time studying the field already.
Apple approves Hey email app, but the fight’s not over
Huh, wouldn't have guessed it to be that much, but it makes sense. De-orbiting gets cheaper the higher your orbit is and a geo stationary orbit is high, but not that high.
Almost every question I search these days follows this template.

It may the nature of experience.

The type of questions that cause me a problem are deeper edge cases that had later fixes for early workarounds.
I know how you feel. The story of Utah's Nutty Putty cave, the failed rescue attempt and later the movie they made about the failed rescue did this to me as well.
How to Build an Art Museum in Animal Crossing
The postponed dentist visits will have their fallout (!) eventually. Delayed annual visits to check for skin cancer, colon cancer etc will statistically hurt us. Mammograms put off, should have a definite downside in terms of early detection.

Heck, even delaying car maintenance will cost folks hard cash later. The bill will definitely come due, for the slowdown.
It seems odd (in a funny manner) that you'd need 1500mg of something to counter the micrograms of the thing you previously took.
No, it isn't. The difference is pretty clear.
TFA says, "A win for Apple, a win for us, and a win for our customers."

Basecamp appears be saying that the new implementation offers a better user experience.
Can you share some legitimate resources for those who are looking to improve their skills? Perhaps for the different stages, first 10 customers, first 100, etc.

It seems like the work would be different for each stage (finding product/market fit, finding a niche, scaling that niche, finding another niche, etc etc).
Linux Touchpad Project update: progress on multitouch
My answer is actually “No”. Terror, both from right wing and religious extremists is extremely rare.
"And Phil, we set aside an amazing @hey.com address for you. Free for life, our gift to you. Lemme know."

hmmm. Anyone guess what that could be?
Why don't we see attacks on undersea cable landing stations?
Hello,

we've been looking into undersea cable landing stations (landing points/landing sites) and found that many authors call them "critical infrastructures" and yet heavily lacking in security [1][2][3].

Most of them are privately owned and outside the jurisdiction of the country they're based in. As such, the owners are responsible for their maintenance, safety, and security. While damage to the undersea cables themselves are highly present and well documented, attacks (or accidents) on and in the landing stations seem to not be present at all. These attacks could be anything from bombing, to sabotage, or wiretapping.

Undersea cables that are not immediately located on the shore are extremely hard to reach (on the ocean floor) and mostly damaged by ship anchors. There has been intentional cutting of the cables with the intent to sell them, but single cable failures often do not cause any damage to the global internet traffic. By attacking a landing station, you could take out all the cables which are bundled there. This has been identified as a highly attractive target to terrorists and state-actors [1][4].

So we're stumped, if taking out these landing stations is "so easy", and would cause a great amount of damage, why are no attacks on them reported?

Thank you!

[1]: Michael Sechrist; New Threats, Old Technology: Vulnerabilities in Undersea Communications Cable Network Management Systems
[2]: Detecon Asia-Pacific Ltd; Economic Impact of Submarine Cable Disruptions
[3]: Aisha Suliman Alazri; The Threat and Vulnerabilities of Submarine Cables in Information Security and Telecommunication
[4]: Office of the Director of National Intelligence; Threats to Undersea Cable Communications
Ah! So that's what it is. :( I did the same thing in as you did and I'm now getting much fast times.

I feel a bit silly now for not having looked into it further before posting those obviously suspicious times.

Edit: and thank you for taking care of the bug report!
I agree it's a chess move. But it's also a way for both sides claim victory.

Apple doesn't want to change its rules; Hey doesn't want to change how users sign up.

I guess I'm saying I'm more optimistic this will settle the dispute. But I agree, the feature is more aimed at Apple than users.
I think the fundamentally tricky part is that sometimes you want your concurrent code to have this sort of nondeterministic behavior. I think the Rayon FAQ does a good job of summarizing the problem: https://github.com/rayon-rs/rayon/blob/master/FAQ.md#but-wai...

> Consider for example when you are conducting a search in parallel, say to find the shortest route. To avoid fruitless search, you might want to keep a cell with the shortest route you've found thus far. This way, when you are searching down some path that's already longer than this shortest route, you can just stop and avoid wasted effort...Now in this case, we really WANT to see results from other threads interjected into our execution!
Honestly, the CS degree is weird.

Some classes are super basic and some classes are nintendo hard. The classes that are in the middle of the road are very few but those are the ones that are most useful.

Operating Systems, Data Structures, Parallel Computing and Software Engineering II (Basic Project Management) were notable for being interesting, difficult enough to make not slack and endlessly applicable for programmers.

The CS degree isn't for programmers as my old professor once pointed out in a high level class: "Computer Science is about Programming like Biology is about pretty girls and microscopes". Those looking to go into research can take the CS coursework and probably get more use out of it.
> Your claim also included a question about why these countries are still poor. Brazil is not competing with the France of the 1970s.

I made no such claim. I said that education was a consequence of economic growth, not vice versa. That is all. If you do a regression of changes in education over time versus changes in economic growth there is no trend. Changes in education do not cause changes in economic growth.

That Brazil is not competing with 1970s France is irrelevant to my claim. Education is a consequence rather than a cause of growth.
I agree with this. Supervision is an essential part of the erlang model.
I think having a free trial is a good idea regardless of in app versus out of app purchases. That it had to be done so hastily is unfortunate, though.
I wouldn't call them protestors. All the profiles I saw on there had an associated arrest/charge for violence or inciting a riot.
Obviously I don't have the time to go through all 1000+ profiles.

All the information is public knowledge. You name, age, photo, and what you did in public is not a doxx. If their social security numbers, addresses, phonenumbers, or family members were listed it would be totally different.

If it was against people that weren't violent and didn't have convictions, I would feel different.
> People are pretty susceptible to passionate speech by charismatic figures; much more susceptible, in fact, than they are to facts. This just seems like an opportunity for racists to win hearts and minds.

The unstated assumption of this premise is that some people (never us, always others) cannot be trusted to make good decisions, and thus need to have their decisions made for them, for their own good. It advocates for human subjugation.
I re-watch this course every bunch of years, and every time I get something different from it. But mostly it just makes me happy - it's infectious and weird. Especially the "revelation" (spoiler!) https://youtu.be/aAlR3cezPJg?t=2088
> In a recent survey, only one in 10 respondents said their or a family member’s health had worsened as a result of delayed care during the pandemic.

That's 30 million people. And in a fantasy world where going to the doctor in America was cheap and easy, I imagine most people would be happy to go regularly if they knew there was a 10% chance it would make them healthier.

Also, how are people answering this survey? One of the main points of going to a doctor is to detect problems or risky behavior that you don't know about. You cannot replace going to the doctor with answering the single question self-assessment "Has my health worsened?"
Show HN: Platform for open source project – SaaS that funds its contributors
TLDR; https://staroid.com is a platform for open-source projects that funds contributors.

# Open-source and SaaS

Source code and the binary package has been two primary delivery mechanism for Open-source projects. They were probably okay for users 10 years ago, but cloud-based SaaS became the more preferable way nowadays.

However, open-source communities don't have the capability of doing SaaS. Instead, 3rd party companies are providing doing it.

Especially, cloud platforms, such as AWS, are in an extremely favorable position. They can just plug-in one more open-source project to their platform when it becomes popular. (e.g. ElasticSearch, MongoDB)

# Capturing value

The value created by a software project is usually captured when it is getting delivered. Not when it is being written. (especially the financial value)

Open-source communities don't deliver SaaS, thus they don't capture the majority of the value (maybe get some donations), 3rd party companies who do captures the majority of the value (like subscription, usage charge).

# Problem

Captured value from those 3rd party companies goes to their shareholders and employees, not the actual contributors.

Contributors can start a company to become a shareholder, but still,

- still, not all contributors become shareholders or employees of a company who captures the value
- you have to spend time on SaaS delivery mechanism instead of focusing on the open-source itself.

# staroid.com

https://staroid.com is a cloud platform for open-source projects.

Here's how it works

- Release project by commit 'staroid.yaml' that tells how to build and capture value.
- Users launch the project and pay.
- Contributors are funded based on value captured from the project.

Therefore open-source communities can provide SaaS without 3rd party company and contributors directly capture the majority value when users use the project.

What do you think?
There are more than 2 million ios developers worldwide.

There is literally no evidence at all that developers are spinning the wheel of fortune or that Apple is capricious or unjust.

Given that number of developers, hundreds of mistakes every year would be an amazing track record for Apple.
I may be cynical to this whole thing, but to me this conclusion reads as Hey acquiescing to Apple’s policies, and now the whole thing feels like a PR stunt, particularly shaded by DHH’s documented “pick a fight” stance [1]. It feels like we got played. It’s remarked as a compromise, but it doesn’t feel that way to me.

1. https://m.signalvnoise.com/pick-a-fight-on-twitter/
If someone sends me a PowerPoint slide in an email and then I go to the App Store to download PowerPoint to view it, it would be a horrible user experience if I couldn’t do anything with the app before paying for it.

On the other hand, I can still view the slides without paying MS, but I have to have a subscription to edit it. I can’t pay for the subscription within the app. I think that’s a decent compromise.
I agree on the free publicity part. Don’t think I would’ve given this product this much of my attention if it weren’t for this whole debacle. The free publicity in this case is likely to turn out to be a net positive for Basecamp.
Continuing from the same Wikipedia page, it mentions three levels of thread safety. Rust support all of them, and can guarantee them at compile time:

> _Thread safe_: Implementation is guaranteed to be free of race conditions when accessed by multiple threads simultaneously.

> _Conditionally safe_: Different threads can access different objects simultaneously, and access to shared data is protected from race conditions.

> _Not thread safe_: Data structures should not be accessed simultaneously by different threads.
I wasn't necessarily referring to CS, but the parent comment was, so I get where you are coming from. It does reveal how our biases in this area impact our views, however. I suspect most industries that are hiring doctors, engineers and scientists will not take anything less than a college degree, preferably an advanced one. I think we find this discussion acceptable in CS because it's a field where the stakes for failure are relatively low, rigorous testing is possible and -- most importantly -- self training is possible due to the accessibility of tools. This isn't the case if you are building a bridge or performing a medical procedure. In those cases you likely want every advantage you can muster to weed out candidates, whether that's fair or not.
Yeah, I suppose what I mean by that is if you took the ideologies of both (and abstracted out the language for the specific "god"), you would have a hard time distinguishing between them.
He can be not responsible for it if he didn't have power over it, or if didn't have the power to find out about it. If he had the power to find out but failed in his duty to survey his domain of responsibility, then he would not be absolved, but instead guilty of the additional error of failing to keep track of his subordinates.

It's a secondary point, but I should add that this isn't a catch-22 any moreso than, "a robber is guilty if they ate cereal that morning, and if they didn't." The point isn't that CEOs are always guilty 100% of the time, it's that knowing what's happening is their responsibility, and their guilt hinges on whether or not the bad thing happened.
> Name one retailer that lets you hock your product in their store without paying anything?

I realize that Apple brands it as a store, but analogies to other "stores" don't really make sense. 90% of apps are free[1], so you could similarly ask "name one retailer who gives away 90% of their products for free".

To me, the App "Store" is part of the product you get when you buy an iPhone. When free apps are distributed through it, they aren't getting "free" placement, you (the iPhone customer) are getting the service you paid for when you bought the phone.

[1] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/app-statistics/
Im not sure if they planned it, but I feel like they definitely played their hand around using it as a marketing / publicity stunt
This is like a cruel joke...its like saying if you are not diagnosed with a disease you don't have it.

All anyone need to look at is the incidences of people getting a chronic condition as soon become medicare eligible. Its like magic people are healthy, then they receive Medicare and they get chronic conditions...no they had the chronic condition they just weren't diagnosed and treated until Medicare eligible.

Medicare Patient Chronic Condition Statistics:

Over one half of beneficiaries less than 65 years had two or more chronic conditions compared to: Sixty-three percent of those 65-74 years, • Seventy-eight percent of those 75-84 years and, • Eighty-three percent of beneficiaries 85 years and older.

If people were covered and had access to care then the incidences would dramatically go down, instead we all but ensure by the time they hit Medicare and the taxpayers pick up the bills they have multiple expensive chronic conditions that have gone undiagnosed and untreated for years.
Fair point. Call it 60w or even 1w if that feels better. It's still many orders of magnitude over what you would be receiving across space from another solar system.

Also, for mild amusement, your comment reminded me of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9UO9tn4MpI
I like the original statement!
The projects that SDOs decide to work on are those which people there are willing to spend their time on.

An SDO could say "we're doing project X", but if nobody shows up…
Smaller guys aren’t forced to take it or leave it. Even the no name companies like ACloudGuru that have “view only” functionality force you to subscribe outside of the App Store.
>is that it just results in said people cutting their budget to afford the tax, making their life worse overall.

This is a general problem with regressive taxes (eg. sales taxes). The way to mitigate this is to give some fixed amount back to everyone. It can even be made fully revenue neutral (ie. all collected revenues are returned as a tax credit). That way, people are still incentivized to stop consuming sugary products, people aren't left with a hole in their wallets if they don't change their habits.

>Maybe a better solution is to simply forbid companies from putting addictive things in their products to sell them, but keep the addictive thing legal

I'm not sure how this would work. Maybe they will stop adding sugar directly, but they might something that's 90% sugar (eg. apple juice concentrate). We already see this play out in nitrite-containing foods. Basically what happened was that nitrites in food was found to be bad for your health, so food companies switched from adding nitrites directly to adding "celery juice extract", which is a natural source of nitrites. Nothing really changed, except now there's no "nitrites" in the label, and the company can call it "all-natural".
A Racist Attack on Children Was Taped in 1975. We Found Them
Netflix's app (among plenty of others) doesn't work unless you're already subscribed
What are you talking about? They complied with the guidelines.
I'd love to go to the doctor, but I don't have a pressing emergency; no-one is willing to schedule an appointment.

I'd love to do to the dentist; the very few I've found willing to do routine teeth cleaning have a reservation system that requires winning the scheduling lottery.

I guess that superficially, I'm fine. For now, at least. At least I have an HSA; most of my health insurance money is sitting in an account instead of being lost forever.
I suppose if you've been sitting on the sidelines since 1971 to see if this whole "e-mail thing" was a fad or not, and currently don't have an email address, a 14 day trial with some rando address might be just what you're looking for. Now if only you had some one to email...
I know this will be unpopular on HN, but I actually appreciate Apple’s stance here as a user.

I don’t want to give developers my billing info. I even have to use a special throwaway number at Home Depot. There’s no way I’d trust hundreds of developers with that info when I don’t even trust a F500 company.

I don’t want to download apps that literally do nothing except kick me out to a website for a billing transaction, especially a recurring one with no way in app to cancel that subscription. If I delete the app, I want to get promoted to cancel the subscription.

Apple has some major issues with the App Store (search, discovery, business models, % cut, just as a few), but in this case I actually agree with their principles.
This whole crisis has seen constant articles that, at least on the clickbait level which actually influences our discourse, present reasoning like "we didn't notice anything bad (yet)" -> "maybe nothing's ever bad again!"
That's not what GDP means, and also a person's net worth is not necessarily liquid.
The thermal management is done in userland. This is probably the same.

- https://twitter.com/tomcoates/status/1255170545366097922
Racism appears in many forms, identifying that is not as straightforward as it might appear to be. Debating Racism would probably include many of the ways in which racist behaviors manifest themselves, which isn’t clear from the get go. Eg we now know that certain policies such as redlining, war on drugs and harsher criminal sentences affected minority communities disproportionately. Were these policies racist?

The current President doesn’t want immigrants from African countries but is ok with immigrants from Norway. Is that racist?

And so, the debate over racism won’t be over for a while.
This seems like something that someone came up with that was so far disconnected with the actual way StackExchange should work...
Every time I see articles like this I can only assume the writer either majored in CS or in a humanities major that doesn't involve any physical work. If you study any sort of science or engineering you will find that even the simplest equipment used in lab classes cost hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars. Cost aside, you simply can not trust an undergrad to run a centrifuge without in-person training.

People also highly over-estimate the cost and speed of self teaching. Personally, I learned more in my introductory Mechanical Engineering courses freshman year than I did in all my attempts at self-teaching. This of course doesn't even include the subjects I did not even know about before. There is an overhead cost per subject to self-teaching, and I've yet to see anyone self-teach themselves the number of subjects that a typical undergrad education involves.

College is also the first time someone finds themselves in the company of enough competent people to, say, do an engineering or CS group assignment that doesn't involve major hand holding.
Maybe you’re pulling by the cable and not the connector? Some of the USB C connectors have very small connectors, making this an easy problem.

The more I think about it, I’d probably destroy lighting cables regularly if it weren’t for the fact that I only use wireless charging. You have to unplug that cable a lot, which is pretty hard on the cable and connector.
Interesting, I wasn't aware of the history.

Personally I make the distinction, but I've noticed many many people do not, hence the question.
It depends.

There's probably a survivorship bias of some sort.

You're probably not interviewing for someone to write a bleeding edge piece of software, so you're probably looking for someone who's capable of showing up, writing some code and not killing anyone.

I've found the reason people got the degree to be a bit more telling. The best performers were those who felt their knowledge was limited and wanted to gain more of it. The worst performers were those who got the degree and thought the whole programming part was behind them.
The key concession made by the appmaker: "the company will now offer iOS users a free temporary Hey email account with a randomized address, just so the app is functional when it is first opened. These burner accounts will expire after 14 days. Hey is also now able to work with enterprise customers, as Apple initially took issue with the app’s consumer focus."

An interesting workaround. And DHH's thoughts on the new app:

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1274124200509202432
The doctor can check for problems with similar symptoms. The simple act of looking up your nose and into your throat tells a lot.

Simply thinking "I hurt, like I hurt the last time I got strep" isn't a diagnosis. Its witchcraft essentially.