skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> It's absolutely an ancient cabal banking network, that would be disrupted in any normal, competitive system.

The fact that banking wasn't a cabal led to the creation of Visa & MC, they provide the function of operating a deliberately independent interchange so competitive banks can work together without having to talk. The fact they havent been replaced isnt due to a lack of "normal competition", its just a system that has built in network effects (but is sticky unlike most social networks).

Dont get me wrong - banks love cabals! Thats why domestic switches (led by central banks) are replacing the scheme networks in most countries for domestic transactions with the domestic switches being linked for international transactions, pushing Visa & MC out.

>> 2.5% of a transaction considerably too much, were there efficiency, it would be less than 0.5%.

I think your wrath is misdirected - that 2.5% may be stated in a Visa/MC press release, but it doesn't actually come from Visa or MC! The banks set interchange through the schemes. You add in 5000 different schemes thats not gonna change the fact that your bank is going to try to get the best bang for their buck if they "acquire" merchants or "issue" cards.

The porn thing is linked too, banking is a heavily regulated space, easy to put pressure on. Acquiring banks get in trouble easily, they rely on schemes to blacklist anything which could land them in hot water. Even if there was no MC/VISA banks would still be paying random service providers to operate blacklists. The only difference would be that it would be cheaper. And typically thats not a good thing.
Update: tested it with openssl and webpki. both claim to have support but it only works with openssl. For webpki I had to file two bugs:

https://github.com/briansmith/webpki/issues/134

https://github.com/briansmith/webpki/issues/135
They can get the actual count. Passport numbers are unique and foreigners have their assigned alien number in their I-94 record.

They probably just don't know how to do it.
I was not referring to this source. It's a well known general observation with support from multiple researchers.

Your second point goes beyond the bounds of civility here.
This is the kind of side project I should have seen 100 times on HN, but I don't remember ever seeing one. Why aren't there alternatives to LaTeX out there? [0] It's OK to have respect for Donald Knuth but still accept that language design has come a long way since 1984.

[0] Of course there are plenty of alternatives to LaTeX. Microsoft Word is just one. But I mean a language that compiles to TeX.
> The problem is that US politics are very skewed to the right, so many there think clear right wing positions are on the left.

Or maybe the problem is that EU politics are very skewed to the left, so many there think clear left wing positions are on the right.
Reddit's definition seems more contextual, it weighs the dynamics of current economic, cultural, institutional, etc... racism

Here is the Oxford dictionary definition:

"The inability or refusal to recognize the rights, needs, dignity, or value of people of particular races or geographical origins. More widely, the devaluation of various traits of character or intelligence as ‘typical’ of particular peoples. The category of race may itself be challenged, as implying an inference from trivial superficial differences of appearance to allegedly significant underlying differences of nature; increasingly evolutionary evidence suggests that the dispersal of one original people into different geographical locations is a relatively recent and genetically insignificant matter."
Interesting - similar meaning they measured the contact patch of the tires? Or something else?
> The scariest part of all of this is that much of the logging they're doing is remotely configurable

How is this scary at all - much less the "scariest part"? The vast majority of the bullet points also seem standard and not worth paying attention to. I also read the Penetrum paper he linked which was similarly unconvincing.
I was kind of scratching my head here too. It didn't say what platform it was on previously, what limits/ benefits they were looking for that made GitLab appealing. Just "It was the next logical choice"... why did they name the article "Why the KDE community is #MovingToGitlab" when they barely breached the topic?
> Reddit is a private organization

It's not okay to allow "the front page of the internet" to exist in stark opposition to the free speech values (a) that it started with and (b) of the country it is incorporated in.

This bullshit, corporate-toady argument of "oh mwaaah it's a private corporation they can do whatever they want" is worse than any "bootlicker" attitude I can think of. Go ahead and give up the freedoms my ancestors fought for so that you can feel just a little bit more comfortable in your echo chamber. Never mind that it runs on infrastructure that is often paid for with public funds, on a network designed by a government that ostensibly believes in free speech.

> Sure, if you host a bunch of white nationalist toxic garbage your registrar may revoke your domains.

So you're totally fine with giving private, unregulated companies carte blanche to control people's ability to even register their own site?

You'll reap what you sow. At some point whatever you think will also become unacceptable, and there will be nobody to stand for you.
I dunno. There are simple solutions to the issues raised in the blog post, many good ones here in the comments. Seems likely they wanted to get rid of third party logins and oddly chose to throw it on Apple. And I’m not sure anyone, including Apple, cares if they adopt Sign In with Apple. In the end, I think everyone just wants to end creepy sign-in practices. Facebook login deleted from Anylist... that’s a win for everyone.
Back to the Web of the 90s
Absolutely not. Compare the native ios documentation[1] with their "other platforms" documentation[2]. Their native documentation has code snippets, helpful links, and explains in depth what is happening.

The "other platforms" documentation is "make this request, store some data, follow redirects". No code, no helpful links on how you might accomplish these things, nothing. You get the bare minimum.

I'm not saying its impossible, and neither is the article. I'm saying that Apple clearly doesn't care about supporting a platform as huge as Android, and that clearly signals to multi-platform developers that they are on their own.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/authenticationserv...

[2] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sign_in_with_apple...
> Jews wanted to have their own country because of thousands of years of persecution by basically everyone, everywhere

which would never have happened if they had been separatists in the first place. it took thousands of years to figure it out.

But you're saying that after persecution its no longer "toxic, exclusionary, and racist bullshit"? That illogical and steeped in slave morality. persecution is not a currency.
Yes, that was what I was suspicious about.

They flooded their target market (which I'm obviously outside of) with hundreds of low effort ads which probably turned people off it.

And it seems like they did next to nothing to build their brand outside of that targeted advertising.
We can’t know for certain. The only thing I think we could say is whether the culture of white supremacy symbols is endemic to the community he lives in California. Whether you can be casually exposed to these signifiers or if you have to, in some way, seek them out.
They do have a button as well.
That's actually pretty much what they were saying.
A related method is used commercially for self-weighing trucks. Typically it's done by measuring change in the pressure in the suspension airbags and needs to be calibrated for the specific suspension and airbags being used. One major vendor lists the accuracy as +/- 300 lbs which is pretty good for use in the 30-40 ton range but not so good for a passenger vehicle.

As a bit of cool technology trickery, the Air-Weigh system encodes the weight data onto the existing tractor-trailer electrical connection so that the weight can be displayed in-cab without any extra wiring to connect. They don't say much about how but I'd guess RF modulation on the electrical for the lights or something.
partly because we mostly agree about the rest of it so then there's no need to remind people about free speech.
Show HN: Simple JSON database of unit conversion factors
You could base a new package on this. \usepackage{blackout}
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/indi...

“The whole breeding arena of the species needs to be cleaned the fuck up!”
—Podcast FDR2740, “Conformity and the Cult of ‘Friendship’,” Wednesday call-in show July 2, 2014

“You cannot run a high IQ [white] society with low IQ [non-white] people…these [non-white] immigrants are going to fail...and they're not just going to fail a little, they are going to fail hard…they're not staying on welfare because they’re lazy...they’re doing what is economically the best option for them...you are importing a gene set that is incompatible with success in a free-market economy.”
—YouTube video, The Death of Europe | European Migrant Crisis, October 4, 2015

“...the Germans were in danger of being taken over by what they perceived as Jewish-led Communism. And Jewish-led Communism had wiped out tens of millions of white Christians in Russia and they were afraid of the same thing. And there was this wild overreaction and all this kind of stuff.”
—Stefan Molyneux describes the Holocaust in YouTube video, Migratory Patterns of Predatory Immigrants, March 20, 2016
Since when did conservatives use Tumblr?

Same reason as Facebook: advertisers don't want their ads shown next to controversial content. As a matter of fact, the LGBTQIA+ communities aren't all about sex, and it's homophobic to say they are.
But there's Same Day ACH, right? Also the new RTP Network (https://www.theclearinghouse.org/payment-systems/rtp) seems to get traction.
Sure, but I'm not just talking about spyware. China bans lots of 'Western' apps and services that aren't spyware; Wikipedia is an obvious example.
Curious, how does that work?
Do you still work there?
if you can justify one argument, then you can justify any argument, so all arguments are wrong

This is total slippery slope. Zooming out to the point that you ignore all the specifics isn't useful.
There are. I used Eudora up to 2005. Incidentally, I can't look at my email history before 2005, because, you know... formats become obsolete, hard drives die, etc.

Do those clients work on my mac, my chromebook, my windows box, and my android phone?

Call me crazy, but I prefer web apps for that kind of stuff. I'm also glad I don't have to download an app to use Hacker News.

As an independent developer, I am quite pleased that I can target one platform, the web, without having to deal with all the mess of multiple native apps, and worry that people won't run my simple app because they don't trust me not to delete their hard drive, and so on.
The Chinese State is based on Marxism-Leninism and wants to dominate the world. There is a difference in that and any other country that acknowledges natural rights. If you believe rights are innate, then you can’t openly tolerate a state that denies them.

I often think what would California look like if it had the laws of Texas. Or what would China look like if it had the structure and motivations of Nevada? Both have Elon Musk and gambling.
You can travel in time, but only forward, never backwards. And but just the regular aging process we experience, the twins paradox states that if you travel at speeds comparable to the shed of light, time will go slower for you, in other words: everyone will age faster than you. In other words: you're traveling forward in time.
>Do a sequel to (or remake of) a well known movie, hire a star, use the standard playbook (never skip the „all is lost“ moment for dramatic effect) and add a love scene

That's been going on since the first wagons rolled into Hollywood.

I'm pretty sure even Shakespeare was doing a 16th Century, theatrical equivalent.
But, you see, there are very narrow technical explanations for all of those things. We're actually the good guys.

We would never drone-strike a general who we're not at war with, while on his way to a peace conference to help fix countries that we broke in the first place. That's not in our national character.
My "run-of-the-mill" setup for local toy apps is Postgres + [some API service] in Docker Compose, and for non-trivial apps (IE more than 3-4 services) usually Postgres in k8s.

I've never had a problem with Postgres either in Docker or in k8s. Docker Compose local volumes, and k8s persistent volume claims work really well. But I'm no veteran at this so I can only speak for what little time I've used them.

The whole reason I do this is because it lets you put your entire stack in one config, and then spin up local dev environment or deploy to remote with zero changes. And that's really magical.

In production I don't use an in-cluster Postgres, and it's a bit of a pain in the ass to do so. I would rather use an in-cluster service, but the arguments you hear about being responsible in the event of a failure, and the vendor assuming the work for HA and such seems hard to refute.

Probably you could run Postgres in production k8s and be fine though. If I knew what I was doing I likely wouldn't be against it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company
> a chemical is a chemical

Is it actually the chemical though? 'Blackmarket pet drug' is the perfect storm of poor accountability. Who the fuck knows what it actually is?
You mean other TeX formats, like ConTeXt? Or something else?
I'm working on trying to get my company to switch to this approach for our python monorepo.

It frustrates me that I've never seen a good code-gen story for python
- Some do runtime code-gen which is hard to learn from, debug, and verify
- Some do install-time code-gen, slowing down install and and making it hard to inspect and verify
- Some check codegen in but without any story to ensure it does not drift from the generator
Fake Glassdoor Posts?
Hi hackernews. I'm cofounder of a moderately successful startup and I'm posting anonymously to ask for advice on something. I believe my company has been targeted by a competitor who has played dirty before (different story) and they're posting fake negative glassdoor reviews on our glassdoor profile.

Why do I believe they're fake? Over the last 7 years of the company we had a total of 20 reviews with an average of 4.5. We're not a huge company - 250 people at our peak. In the last 9 months we've seen a spike of negative glassdoor activity (about a post every week and a half). The posts are generic (bad comp, bad management etc.). One post says it was from a senior software engineer who had been with the company for 5+ years who was fired. We haven't ever employed anyone who met that description let alone fired them. Our new glassdoor rating average is about 2.5 now and I'm afraid it's going to hurt our ability to recruit.

Our internal employee feedback surveys score high. From what I can tell people like working for us which also makes this feel strange.

I've reached out to glassdoor a number of times and they refuse to do anything about it. We've sent them a legal nastygram which they just ignored. I know they do nothing to verify the authenticity of these posts/posters.

What can we do to turn it around? has anyone dealt with anything like this before?
That doesn't solve all the problems listed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23648497 and likely makes the buggy DNS resolver issue worse.
I'm European, not Europe.

I wouldn't say other countries are fascist if my country was responsible for the death of 4 million civilians in middle east and every year 20 thousands people are murdered, six every 100 thousands, when in every other western country the rate is around 0.6 (or ten times less)

Easy as that, China is bad, US is equally bad, in other regards.

> a huge helping of corporate espionage, manipulation, and double standards.

Oh come on!

I'm not a huge fan of Snowden, but he revealed the lengths US would go to spy even on his allies.

So please, don't try to lecture me on CCCP (3 C, please) when US right now employs all the methods they learned from studying STASI and use private corporations to do the dirty work for them

China simply replicated them, on a larger scale, because they are a larger country.

p.s. technically Stalin defeated Nazis, by entering to Berlin first.

Was he good? No

Were Lenin and Stalin the same?
You must be kidding!

Was US good when transferred hundreds of Nazi high officers to America? Of course not

Was America thinking of joining Hitler to defeat Stalin?

Yeah, they did

I'm old enough to tell you things I've witnessed, first hand.
Time to create a new service to unify all your SSO accounts! One single SSO!
Is Stef still claiming to be an atheist? It seemed like he was making up with Christianity in recent years. Just the same, while he used to be an outright anarchist, he went all-in for Trump.
I'm in LA and just heard about the service in this thread. :D
The "Java is bad for games" mindset is in part just historical bias. Performance and GC are thrown around as shallow excuses for comparing idiomatic Java with game design C++. Actually applying methods to reduce memory pressure like using arenas, and accepting vectors to mutate instead of creating new ones solve most of the GC penalty you paid for not having to think about it while prototyping. Large servers in java minecraft patch the server to do just that, and they operate well. I think the biggest barrier for Java in Games is the stigma and lack of resources relative to C++.
That's great to know. Thank you. The stuff in your 3rd paragraph is something I have always tried to do, but it largely depended on the largely reliable single node instances. I tend to (currently) handle single disk failures with master-slave configs locally, and it has worked at my volumes to date, but I am trying to learn how to grow without getting increasingly (too) complicated or even more brittle.
Where does dexamethasone fit in? Does it target part of the viral lifecycle or simply treat the effects?
So you're invoking popularity, but I don't understand what that has to do with it.

I use web apps all the time, even on mobile. And I'm sure I'm not alone.

Speaking of which Fastmail's Android and iOS apps are just the web app packaged in a native shell ;-) and they are not alone. For them clearly it was cost efective to work on that web app.

As for why they bothered to package their web app in a native shell? Maybe that's were the problem is.
While I can understand that AnyList (or any other app for that matter) would want to, on occasion, send marketing emails to users

I am not an AnyList user but do they ask when signing up if users would like to opt in to such marketing messages? It’s become such a pet peeve buying something from an online purveyor and not even having the choice to opt in or not on marketing emails and any other form of communication I did not explicitly ask for beyond completing a purchase.

seems like another reason for progressive consent and ASKING your users how they would like to be contacted and honoring those preferences
That seems to be exclusively about Reddit. How does this show coordination?
I suppose you can start your own registrar but I'm not really gonna make that argument because clearly that's a major barrier. It's arguably the weakest point in the current internet model.

On the other hand yeah, you can still use the Internet without domains. And I guess it's an opportunity for someone to invent a new technology which will make the internet even stronger.

So while I don't think the internet is perfect I definitely don't think we need to tear it down or even make any huge changes. It's already really flexible and the few weak points (like domain registrars) are fixable and would benefit everyone.
> As they point out at the very bottom, all their arguments apply to all third-party sign-ons, so they're removing Facebook as well.

That section of the post was surprising. If they're not supporting Sign in with Apple, then obviously they're going to remove support for all other third-party sign-ons, because those third-party sign-ons are what trigger the obligation to support Sign in with Apple.

Ending their post about "why we won't be supporting Sign in with Apple" with a note that they're also ending Sign in with Facebook on the merits of third-party sign-in is quite disingenuous. It doesn't matter at all what they think about the merits of Sign in with Facebook; those thoughts are completely irrelevant to their decision.
>Integration of community features improves visibility and situational awarness. Compare this to emails or IRC, or forums.

What do you see being some benefits over the older tech? Because when I think "community features" I'm picturing something like Tweetdeck for devs (which, in fairness, may be completely different from what you're picturing). Basically, this repo I'm watching had these updates. That sounds like the same thing I get in email from an issue tracker, complete with comments from others watching.
Like some kind of virtual coin.
>>> The UK won't have access to PRS service from Galileo. It isn't entitled to equivalent access to GPS

>> Do you have a cite for GPS claim? I would have assumed that UK would have access to GPS military services as a member of NATO.

> Militaries want to be independent and capable of waging wars on their own terms, not beholden to foreign powers. If the best they can do is piggyback on GPS, then it leaves them subservient to the US's military interests.

Of course that's ideal, but it's not necessarily practical for any given country. The UK and the US are extremely close military allies, and the US is also very close to NATO. I'd be pretty surprised if the US actually blocked such allies from using the GPS military services, which is the GGP's claim.
I'd argue that this makes more sense in the real world than in a diagram, after being burnt in multiple real life experiences :)

The assumption both you and AnyList are making is that an email is "THE obvious choice". From a user experience perspective perhaps this "global sharing identifier" should be defined by them.

You'll notice that different generations have different online behaviors. For some, email is their main id. For others, it's their phone number (they don't know most of their friends' e-mail, but know their phone). For others, it's either online handles or nothing at all - think about the device set up for grandma with her daily To Do list.

Of course, having this approach would add some upfront dev work to them but allow them to navigate this much easier later on. And for anyone starting to develop their new app/site/product thinking about this early on can reduce a lot of future headaches.
You're still comparing just one aspect of Org-mode with Markdown. You're trying to convince me as if I was a pro-photographer and you'd tried to convince me that .jpeg is a fine format and everyone uses it and it's more popular, even though I'd still prefer RAW. Using .markdown is not appealing for me because .org allows me to do way more. If you're not convinced, then perhaps you don't need it. But don't expect me and thousands of other users of .org to switch, we'd be like: "Sorry, but you don't know what you're talking about". No offense.
I'm sure there are fingerprint libraries that include every possible API that the browser provides. Does MIDI provide a good fingerprint alone? Probably not, but it can serve as a few more bits of information thrown into the mix when implementing fingerprinting. It's not like it would take many engineer hours to add it to an otherwise already functional fingerprinting system.