skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A salon.com piece isn't exactly a credible source.
Salon.com is an extremely biased leftist online medium.

There is also no organic 'Boogaloo movement'. The general consensus inside right wing circles (chans & discord) is that the MSM here attempts to create a bogeyman out of thin air to explain away the intrinsic violence of the racial BLM movement and these revolutionary 'Antifa' types. exercising the cognitive dissonance of "violence is the language of the unheard" and "all violence is a right-wing militia 'false-flag' attack".

The overwhelming opinion (inside those right wing circles) is that it isn't necessary to do anything at all, for the Marxist Left is shooting their own knee by showing their true face through wanton violence, riots and the excesses of 'cancel-culture' witch-hunts, for which deplatforming is the 'dog-whistle'

The credo is:

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." — Napoleon Bonaparte
Once there was great scrum master, no managers, felt like a team, no missed sprints.

Once there were no managers, team crumbled in internal politics but was bearable.

Once there was micromanagement, all fails to developers, all prizes for management, each sprint failed, that was hell.
I've been beating this drum for a while. Spring has lots of legacy as it is 17 years old and has been through a series of technology waves over the years. That has both benefits and drawbacks.

With Spring Boot and Kotlin support it is now a modern framework that has straightforward solutions for most current problems. Built on a solid battle tested foundation (JVM + Core Spring)

Spring Boot (+ Kotlin) has been my goto stack for most problems for years now. There is a learning curve like most non-trivial software but once it clicks it's hard to go back to something else.
Unified Communications as a Service Industry to grow $24.8B by 2024
[137 Pages Report] Unified communications as a service market categorizes by telephony, unified messaging, conferencing, and collaboration platforms and applications, organization size, vertical, and region.
Thank you for posting this article, looks really interesting and I wasn't aware of this site.
Using EEG data as a biomarker unrelated to sleep sounds interesting. From the paper [1]:

> At the baseline and week 8 clinic visits, the severity of the participant’s depressive symptoms was rated on the 21-symptom HRSD...

> In addition, electrophysiological measures were also acquired; resting-state EEG was recorded for 2 minutes while participants were relaxed with eyes closed and eyes open.

> Electroencephalograms were continuously recorded from 26 sites in 5 regions (frontal, temporal, central, parietal, and occipital) with a NuAmps system (Compumedics) and QuickCap (Compumedics). For each site, we computed absolute and relative band powers for the delta, theta, alpha, beta, and gamma bands.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
When I see Americans talking about confucianism, I want to laught.

You got it all wrong.

What you say makes no sense to a Chinese not in its literal, or proverbial sense, and talk like these usually get grannies pointing finger to foreigners on the bus, quietly giggling "oh, those foreigners thinking something on China again..."
Braille, and the Evolution of Software Development
Ok, that's enough. Given that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23670678 was just a couple days ago, we've banned this account.
Not only brick the attached device, but also potentially fully compromise either the attached device or the device you are on. It doesn't seem responsible to put that kind of tis behind a permission dialog. Users are not in a position to make the judgment. The web should have a higher standard of security and privacy.
I read through the tribunal report expecting some sort of evidence, instead it uses guestimates to arrive at numbers for transplant volume then says there's no possible way the organs could've come from volunteers due to that volume. China has 4 times the population of the US, and right about 4 times the amount of transplants claimed in the report.
My invited review was rejected (2019)
Perkeep is super interesting. I have been looking at it as a media database (photos, movies and such, powerful tag-based search, all downloaded on demand), but some things regarding that really hurt:

- The data store messes with my files (yes, there's a FUSE mount, but eh, having to adopt a special data store always makes me feel weird since it usually comes with performance and compatiiblity implications, there are also many other block-chopping data stores, for example in IPFS).

- The last time I checked there was no way to delete something. This is okay for Tweets I guess, but if I commit a 3h video I later realize to just be too large or a photo I end up not really wanting around - well, oops.

I have huge respect for Brad Fitzpatrick in general, of course, and especially for creating this. Recent velocity has seemilgly been relatively low, however: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22161812
linkbreak in GitLab is a headcahe for our users
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/markdown.html#line-breaks

free GitLab account has no edit history. I think it's a important feature for private development
Creatures: The game that used machine learning AI in 1996
Show HN: ElasticSearch Comrade – ES admin panel built for large clusters and Ops
With US Mortage Data Standards, Providers Can Now Leverage Cloud-Native Tech
An EU Carbon Border Tax Could Be the Next Disruptive Force in Global Trade
One thing I dislike about SQL databases is the synchronous protocol. It really feels like I should be able to send a batch of queries all at once and then process the response in bulk instead of waiting for each individual query to respond incurring a round trip every single time. You can obviously rewrite your queries so that they fetch everything upfront in one single huge query but that is a lot of work and the end result isn't straight forward code that everyone will understand.

This is probably half the reason why GraphQL exists. Your request can execute multiple queries asynchronously and it's the default mode of operation, not something you have to explicitly work on. Extreme example. Round trip latency is 100ms. Your GraphQL server is on the same node as the database and sends four SQL queries at the same time. The entire response arrives after 100ms.
> with the “Hide My Email” option, your spouse or friends obviously won’t know your privaterelay.appleid.com email address, so when they enter your email address, our systems will believe that you don’t have an account

Just create an invitation or "share list" link and let the user send it in any way they prefer, be it AirDrop, email or SMS.

The recipient clicks the link, and the service can connect the two accounts as needed (allowing the potentially new user to create an account as needed).
> extremely rare

Is it? From all lab confirmed cases in USA until end of May, almost every 200th in age group 20-29 was admitted to ICU. Almost every 100th in age group 30-39. (1)

Admitted to ICU means "probably considered intubation (or received it immediately)" Which is very, very unpleasant thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracheal_intubation

Is that "extremely rare" to you?

(In the USA there are 7.2% inhabitants aged 20-29, 6.7% aged 30-39. Even if the number of "unconfirmed but infected" is 10 times higher, that still gives around 24000 people in the USA aged 20-39 needing ICU, or 8 times more than died on 9/11. And those are just provably "non-elderly". All those 40 and older would need even much more ICU beds. I hope it's obvious that if there are not enough ICU beds much more people would die.)

1) It can be calculated from https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6924e2.htm For 20-29 182469 confirmed, 864 ICU, for 30-39 214849 confirmed, 1879 ICU. (Additionally, males were admitted to ICU almost twice as much as females)
I think it used to be that way, but it's slightly better now. I live in London. I have a friend who has an Amex and a normal card, and will always try to pay with the Amex first to rack up reward points. The only time i see him pay is when we're in a bar or restaurant together, usually independent places rather than chains, and i would say Amex is accepted over 70% of the time.
China passes sweeping Hong Kong national security law: report
If you have no idea what the task list is before the planning meeting I'd say you definitely need to get your process changed. That's astonishing.
Still do not have a copy and hence still do not know the law that has been passed. Take care if you have any asset, friends etc. in Hong Kong. Good luck and see you on the side of this end.
bottomless joy by one of the modern mystics and his kriya yoga practices

please share detail
Hey, at least Linux has now added eBPF and io_uring, both of which are ways of feeding the kernel an increasingly wide range of instructions without needing a syscall for each one!
> aren't supportive of globalism either.

You understand that when you speak of "globalism" this way, you place yourself as a member of a tiny, if vocal, minority.

Hacker News has a lot of sophisticated, intelligent people from all over the world and that's why fringe political beliefs aren't common. I would add that the collegial atmosphere here means people are unsupportive of naked aggression and anger, which also seems to be a common component of fringe political beliefs.

If it's important for you to criticize the EU and have people listen to you, there are plenty of places to go for that.

My personal belief about the EU is that it like all political systems is flawed and could certainly do with constructive criticism, but has managed to deliver a high standard of living, personal rights, some degree of income equality and even happiness to its citizens for decades now and do it better than any other.

This is why I personally left the United States after thirty years to move to Europe.
Don't worry, apparently India has "snapped the necks of at least 18 PLA"

https://swarajyamag.com/news-brief/indian-soldiers-merciless...
Look at societal rates of depression across different cultures. We’ve built this individualistic society and shown everyone the “great things” individuals can do. I think there are plenty of reasons american culture specifically allows for depression. I’m happy to hear other hypotheses - I realize my lived experience is not objective truth.
I raised a similar idea with my team a while back and we stopped doing sprints as an experiment.

We haven't restarted. It has been mentioned a small number of times, but the consensus is always that we don't think it will help. For our team, for what we do, how our work arrives and the nature of the systems we're maintaining and developing, sprints were just artificial lines in the sand.
Where I'm from it's more like:

20 - Nah

25 - WTF are you serious?

30 - Hey, look at this loser over here!
Implementing atomic actions on decentralized data (1983)
Sure, but it could pressure countries to actually engage in free trade.
r/CTH wasn’t run by the hosts, if anything the CTH community exists on twitter
It does not matter much if Chinese mass surveillance system works on Linux or Windows, or if a racist US cop fills his report after killing a black guy in MS Office or in Libre, or if a Russian weapon system uses Linux embedded kernel instead of a proprietary one developed domestically. It's just a tool.

At least with open source widely used in a government sector we would get more investments in OSS (direct and indirect, e.g. by training people), thus in the long run resulting in a better software for everyone. And we would not get pathetic vendor lock-ins, which hurt everyone except the vendor company.
That should apply to Hong Kong from 1.7.2020 onwards.
Up until this year, for example, the keyboard used to _overlap_ the main tile -- but only if you have one tile only, hiding whatever textbox you actually wanted to write in if it was in the bottom half. If you had two, then the keyboard worked correctly as in windows8.

This was broken for 5 frigging years. The general consensus was that tablet mode was more problems than it was worth. They fixed in some recent release but is still buggy as hell (windows will not return to full height and instead be partially moved off screen for some reason).
I am at least asked permission for camera use, as far as I know. Not so for the visibility API.

If gaze tracking or camera access is to be allowed without permission, I would consider that a gross violation of privacy.
They should have told you that they were charging less for cash.
Take what we know about AI bias, apply it to this, get shivers down your spine.
The two groups are were Vote Leave and Leave EU.

I don't want to derails a discussion about China effectively ending One Country Two Systems further but you can easily search for a description of their tactics if you want.

You can also search for news on when the UK government report in to Russian interference in the vote will be released but I wouldn't hold your breath...

Now back to what China is doing to the people of Hong Kong and why our companies are still outsourcing manufacturing to China without restriction.
Phracy – AI-generated short .com domain names for your side-projects
The key is still we do NOT have a copy of the law on us. That is how dead our system is. This is the end. See you on the other side.
If you even the slighest bit of understanding of Indian history and Indian economics calling it 'liberal' is complete nonsense.

After WW2 India adopted a diliberatly socialst agenda, often called Indian Socialism the was all about top down managment of all markets with heavy government guidence and intervention. This concept was popular in pre-WW2 British Socialism and India served as a huge experiment. While some of this has been removed you can still see it all over Indias economic policies today. India is still a far, far away from any sort of free market economy or liberal political order.

> (Also relevant, in the 20s and 30s, USSR came from a shithole agricultural country with no industry, to the second biggest industrial economy of the world).

Its is another bunch of nonsense socialist myth making. The trope of Imperial Russia being a backwards shithole then as soon as Soviets take over its some paradise is nothing but Communist propaganda.

In fact before WW1 Russia was one of the fasted growing nations, that itself was one of the reasons for WW1 as the Germans realized that within a generation Russia would probebly match or be more powerful then them.

If you look at Russia WW1 economy, you will see that in terms of manufacturing it actually performed incredibly well. They had a problem with food distriubtion and political authority, more then with production. The Imperial Russian economy was already one of the biggest industrial countries by a lot of different measures. This is clearly confirmed when you look at the weapons output during WW1.

In the 20s Soviet economy first of all starved millions of people and only by the end of the 20s did they reach pre-war levels of output.

From 1928 they started collectivisation and even more agressive industrialisation, but it should be noted that it required millions of people dead, many more millions put into forced labor and massive starvation of the whole population to export grain and thus import pretty much everything from the West.

To make a point of this, the Soviets literally copied US and German factories and payed tons of money for them and then used lots of forced labor to build them. Putting that as some great success of centralised planning is dubious to me.

And this great plan also didn't lead to much improvment for the actual people, it was primarly about the production of military equipment.
Absolutely! In summer I get up as early as I can handle, usually 5am in the height of it. The gentleness of the morning always holds such great expectations - no one is waiting for a response to emails or calls. Traffic is quiet, or birds or neighbours.. And you have the promise of the entire day to get something done, so something usually does..

As for the article, it does try its best to uncover reasons, which ultimately seems to conclude 'because'. Maybe it's just because it's very taxing, to write or be creative, and the body is best suited in short bursts earlier in the day. Skip to Additional anecdotes of writers’ preferred time if you want the good stuff.
I really would like to understand what is the thought process behind downvoting this quiet, personal and respectful comment.
Sometimes this community really baffles me.
Psychiatric depression is not that - https://www.psycom.net/depression-definition-dsm-5-diagnosti...

Having been thru it, clinically, it’s not a shutdown of mental functions. It is more like a lens by which many of your thoughts have to pass through. Many of those neuronal pathways still function just as well as normal.
Why do you think cmd line tools are popular ? Because they are easier to do than a GUI, not because all geeks think the terminal is the only xp that matters.
Do you know why Apple or Google doesn't provide this kind of unique id ? Applications would be far less invasive so it's in their interest
Specifically, responding to the comment about local start ups in India: I agree with these notes,

- A company that wants to cater to Indian public must understand the local system, rules, culture, laws, taboos, and norms.

- Local and domestic entrepreneurs in India have that edge by the virtue of being immersed in the locality.

- Foreign companies will always need to adapt and evolve according to the needs of the Indian public.

This is the best kind of “head start” or “subsidization” one can have in a free and open market. There is nothing wrong with this.

The problem is in preventing international companies from competing in India which, I believe was the case before the 90’s. That was a disastrous foreign policy as the history books tell us.
The U.S. certainly invaded more countries and occupied more area than China. While mostly with support from larger number of countries (often incl. UN Security Council)
Slightly off topic, but I love the site design here - the demos at the top illustrate it perfectly and simply, and it's one of few scroll-to-reveals I've seen that actually makes sense, and doesn't feel over the top.
Source which isn't behind a cookie wall:
https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/06/29/apple-launches-fo...
You're seeing the unintended consequences of America's shoddy foundation of slavery, genocide, and short-sighted decision making in all the protests in these past decades as historically abused minority groups rise up to demand their fair share of wealth and power.
I run a hard tech product team, our product is moving from prototype to the alpha stage in the next three months. Lots of components come in from China, because they cost twice as much in this country. WeChat is how we (or anyone) talk to Chinese vendors. No Canton Fair, no China travel, communication cut off at its knees, and issues with customs' clearances - this is going to be a brutal time for strained budgets and timelines.
> I'm one of the founders of WriteLaTeX/Overleaf -- we've been providing LaTeX compilation-as-a-service for ~8 years now!

Great work! I depend on sharelatex/overleaf since a long time to collaborate with other people writing articles. It is especially great that your software is always available under the AGPL license.

We use mostly the git interface, not the web editor. Do you know why it is so ridiculously slow to pull/push? Like, 20 or 30 seconds when it manages to work?
Getting Your Bear Notes Productivity to the Next Level Using Alfred
>Being racist, misogynist, or calling to violence is not an opinion

I agree, the anti-white racism and misandry which has become so commonplace under the disguise of 'anti-racism' and feminism has to end.
Apparently Apple makes privacy by default their PR strategy. So it's kinda relevant, at least in Apple garden.
Your comment does not appear to prove that Stephen Molyneux is not a racist. Can you explain why you think it does?
OP is here. I've built Comrade after years of managing clusters with Kopf, Cerebro, and ElasticHQ. I've always felt like those tools built for smaller clusters with low latency to the host. Comrade takes a lot of inspiration from Cerebro
Hi HN community,

My co-founder Raphaël and I are thrilled to introduce you our first app: Redesk. The product is still in beta right now but we are iterating rapidly.

Redesk is the async-first messaging app for teams with built-in goals, deadlines and upvotes.

Redesk offers modern teams a different way to communicate by leveraging asynchronous messaging with thoughtful and long-form messages instead of one liner chats and reactions.

The main problems we are trying to solve are:

- Information losses
- Too many meetings
- Noise and interruptions
- Time zone desync within remote teams
- Bad communication and poor decision making

Our ultimate goal is to create an healthy and thoughtful culture of written communication in modern enterprises while accelerating remote work adoption.

Why it matters ?

Team communication is the beating heart of every company.

But we strongly believe that modern apps like real-time group chats in always open channels are destroying your productivity, your focus and your overall efficiency at work. People get mad, stressed-out or worse just because of all the noise that pollutes their mind during the day.

In just a few months, it creates a very toxic 'fear of missing out' and ASAP culture.

It's time to reduce all that noise and bring back the signal.

There is a way to do this. It's called "asynchronous communication" and it is something many successful tech companies have in common. Just ask Loom, Gumroad, Buffer, Zapier, Doist, Gitlab and many more...

We all used to communicate more asynchronously when we were writing emails. Emails are async by design. You don't expect the recipient to respond instantly, you draft your messages, you write long-form texts... but emails was not built for work. They are unorganized, noisy, mixed with personal stuff, not collaborative, not project-driven and just old-fashion.

We want our project to be at the crossroad of emails and group chats and take the best of both worlds.

Because we all love to be connected together and the playfulness of emojis reactions and gifs inside conversations, we build the best of both worlds with an Inbox and an integrated 1 to 1 live chats as well.

Modern teams need thoughtful conversations to make great decisions, generate innovative ideas and solve problems. They don't need meetings.
This is why we are building Redesk.

It's still an early version and we need your feedback on this vision and product.
Raphaël and I really hope you will give it a try.

If you want to stay in touch, feel free to follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/redesknow or drop us a line at hello@redesk.co

We love you all.
Many thanks,

Julien
It’s time for concerted international action on China.
Framed as a move to spit in the eye of someone else (in this case China) it would be likely to gain overwhelming support.
> Are you arguing that no one needs >256G of memory?

For context, I'm working in cloud infrastructure. Due to customer demand (esp. from customers with large in-memory DBs), our newest set of ultra-large VM flavors goes up to 3 and 6 TiB RAM. I'm not directly involved with compute, but from what I gather, it's an interesting challenge esp. on the operations side. You can migrate a 4 GiB VM in a pinch if the hypervisor is looking bad. Migrating a 6 TiB VM, however, takes a substantial amount of time (22 minutes if you have a 40 Gbps link and can saturate it, which you usually can't).
Yes we're really lacking a Europe-wide system for this. People travel (and move) a lot between countries, national systems are too limited.
Earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23679425