skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decently common to have a cloud AD instance for your internal “users table” even if all the use cases are web/Mac/Linux.
Efficient, effective systems models are emulated across many industries.
I knew other commenters would bash you for proving their point, but this is quite the best comeback I have seen in long time.
Show HN: I learned Android development during quarantine
I started learning Android development just so I don't go crazy, and honestly this app became my baby and has single handedly help me get through a tough time!

divvie is an app that helps you split dinner bill with a group of friends at a restaurant. It's really beginner level but these are some features that I'm really proud of:

- it splits tax and tip based on how much each person ordered

- you can split each food item between multiple people

- if a dollar amount doesn't get divided evenly, it assigns the extra cent between all people really fairly!

I also learned a lot about graphic design using Adobe Illustrator and learned to make promo pics and icons.

Feel free to check it out and let me know what I can work on to get better!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.felili.divvie
> if that means lower prices for things like nuts,

aren't nuts in the US stupid cheap as it is? American almonds are everywhere in Europe, and cost less than locally grown ones.

(And they taste of nothing, I am not sure if it's because they get harvested earlier, because of preservation or because of the cultivar)
I hope they realize covering the camera is meant to prevent the camera from being able to make a image in the first place.
Even if the light indicates and I am aware of the fact that I have been photographed. It would not have been possible if it was covered.
Reminds me of this classic political cartoon: https://i.cbc.ca/1.5192931.1562703009!/fileImage/httpImage/j...

The problem with any revamp is that powerful incumbents wield the most power. They are capable of controlling the rate of change. In the early 2000s, Exxon and other oil companies were the most powerful, influential businesses on the planet, and they weren't about to let their politicians endorse a shift to renewables.
> If farmers increased silvopasture acreage from approximately 550 million hectares today to about 770 million hectares by 2050... carbon dioxide emissions could be reduced over those 30 years by up to 42 gigatons — more than enough to offset all of the carbon dioxide emitted by humans globally in 2015

This is both exciting and depressing. A massive effort and it still only offsets 1/30th of global emissions.

Fixing climate is not going to be based in “profitability”, at least in any near term sense. It is about dramatically reducing our CO2-based economic activity to preserve the planet for future generations. Capitalism is not geared for that kind of calculation.
What a ridiculously hyperbolic reply.

But no, this analogy does not follow, because your microwave will still work after you put your dog in there -- and I have not seen guidance from Siemens telling me that microwaving my dog voids my microwaves warranty.
Bisect: Bisection algorithms library for Elixir.
A software fridge light!
Can you be confident that the light stays on long enough when taking a quick snapshot?
Please don't do this. The idea of HN is curious conversation, not flamewar. Yes, that's hard in the current climate. But the site guidelines cover this—see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, and in particular:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

"Eschew flamebait."
Just so people aren't confused, BLM == Bureau of Land Management
I'm sure there's more to it than this, but I think that a bit of unfortunate timing may have contributed to Quibi's demise. This may have had a chance in the pre-lockdown world when everyone was rushing around, and had a few short moments of boredom in between.

With most people no longer commuting and most forms of entertainment and recreation closed, a lot of people have fewer things competing for their time. I think many people are now spending their time on things that use up longer chunks of time: watching TV or movies, going outside, and hobbies.
You can go work for Jane street.
The book that got me into this was Mark Shepard's 'Restoration Agriculture". [1] His "New Forest Farm" in WI has been making use of these ideas for some time now. [2]

Shepard got his inspiration from Permaculture [3] and the books, "Tree Crops", [4] and "The One Straw Revolution". [5]

1: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16441733-restoration-agr...

2: https://newforestfarm.us

3: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381988.Permaculture

4: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/714112.Tree_Crops

5: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/976905.The_One_Straw_Rev...
> You'll need to define what an "evil thing" is.

If someone says something false with the intent of harming someone (getting them fired, ostracized in their community, harming their personal relationships, etc) I would say that's a reasonable definition of evil.

A good example is when some people try to call Joe Rogan, a liberal comedian who liked Bernie for president, a Nazi or alt-right. It's clearly untrue and it's intended to de-platform him because they don't like the politics or message of some of his guests.

> You'll also need to define "cause."

I look at this from a rather extreme perspective. If I put a gun to someone's head and tell them to do something, it's coerced. I didn't 'make them' do the thing. They did it willingly to avoid harm.

The same is true when a horde of people call someone's boss and say 'X is a Nazi so either fire him or we'll organize a boycott and you'll go out of business'

> Where there's some threshold of belief whether something is true or not

This is the hardest part to sort out. Hitting like or retweet on something isn't the same as publishing an article yourself. That said, intentionally signal boosting 'X is a nazi' or similar does cause harm. I think this requires a case-by-case review.

> Also thanks for talking in good faith, it's refreshing to talk to someone who genuinely engages in discussion as opposed to trying to win.

Likewise! Although it does seem that public opinion doesn't like my point of view much, I'm glad there's still folks willing try working through a topic together rather than jumping into a jousting match.
"It exists, therefore we can make it." I don't find that line of thought compelling.

Although you can argue that we already do it because we, as a species, reproduce.

It could be quite possible that our level of intelligence is not reproducible by the means we have chosen. It could be that there is something inherent in our entire composition that allows for our particular expression of intelligence and consciousness.

I'm not saying it's impossible. I am saying that first, we don't even know what we're looking for. And when pressed as to what that is, the answer comes down to basically, "You know..." while gesturing broadly.
> It might not have been a very fair fight given the disparity in technology but it was a fight nonetheless.

Contrary to popular misconception, most of the Indian Wars actually involved both sides having pretty equal access to then-modern technology, and sometimes the natives brought the better weapons to the fight.

They lost largely because we spent 300 years waging a war of extermination against them, and their smaller base was far less able to manage the attrition they suffered.
> "an incredibly fair system"

I almost fell out of my chair laughing.
My hp laptop (I guess it's an elitebook) also has this small integrated shutter. Very practical.
Whoa? JS? Really? The Chrome Dev Tools are probably the best REPL programming environment I've ever used.
I had a laptop with a physical switch for WiFi/Bluetooth in 2006 or so (with a matching orange/blue light that would turn up when you toggled it). The problem was that this was actually all done by a software driver - when I booted into Linux with the laptop I was surprised to find that the bluetooth/wifi modules were on regardless of the switch's position.

At the end of the day, unless you have a really nice microscope, solid understanding of electrical engineering, and a few tens of thousands of hours ahead of you, you have to trust whoever you're buying the hardware from that it will do what they say it will. No amount of hardware efforts can solve the fundamental human trust problem.
Is there anyway to do visual basic, Access-type apps in the cloud? I mean a full cloud-based IDE?
You would need to declare that the function returned a sum type (string | int).
I don't think I'm the only one. I was thinking as I wrote the response that such a system might have to include a whole lot more math than it looks at the surface, which is probably why it doesn't exist as a general solution.

But maybe there could be some heuristics that get it right 99% of the time (with a don't use this library for serious number crunching disclaimer).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_testing#Example_applicat...
Ask HN: SAFEs and Non-Cash Compensation
To give a discount on consulting work to a founder I'm working for, is a SAFE or similar contract a good way to take non-cash compensation when the business is too early-stage to have a valuation? Alternatives?
Software is hard to use and randomly changes every time a stupid designer decides to shuffle the UI for no reason. So yes it happens.
tor AND avoiding posting on home network? thats a lot of FUD
I'm still convinced that what was the true killer of G+ was the slow rollout.

It's like Google forgot that a social network needs to be social. Limiting how many people could get on G+ created hype for sure, but whenever someone got a invite, they realized none (or very few) of their friends were on it, and quickly forgot about it.

The slow rollout approach worked for GMail because your friends didn't need GMail for it to work for you.
DPRK is named as democratic too, is it? Is it shocking to me how many people take what people name themselves at face value. If I put F1 driver on my badge does that make me one?

Obama even admitted to basically being a moderate Republican from the 80s[1], is just that the Republicans have moved so far to the right that what they used to be in the 80s is now seen as on the left.

I know there's this perception of left being everywhere, but in reality it's just a bunch of college students being boosted by Jordan Peterson for his own benefit. The actual politics of the U.S. have been moving further and further to the right for decades now.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677elaGIsKU
I believe it was the NeXT logo, not the Apple logo.
Contributed to dev.to and you can too
It's even harder to imagine how someone could rewrite the code to Super Mario World on an unmodified SNES to play Flappy Bird just using regular controllers, yet it's possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB6eY73sLV0
An attacker gaining access is one problem.

An attacker disabling and then promptly re-enabling 2FA (thus locking me out of my own account) is a different problem altogether.
How option trading works and some self named guru do it.
You already have authenticated your computer as the second factor. The article headline implies you can just use a password to remove 2FA. False.

You can use your password AND that authenticated and still valid session or device to do the reset.

Google gives you options with your free account.

1) No 2FA

2) 2FA with insecure methods

3) 2FA with security keys and authenticators.

4) Advanced Protection Program

5) Paid account options with additional options / controls.
Coming up with ideas for biotech startups [video]
If you think zsh to cmd is a regression you should try out bash. It's vastly superior to zsh in literally every regard. If you still aren't stratified use fish.

Genuinely never got how people use zsh. It's the slowest and clunkiest shell I've ever witnessed it's fucking slower than most electron gui software.
You don't have a work laptop?
One More Thing: the iNote. This magical pad of sticky notes will elegantly cover the camera and preserve the structural integrity of your display.
In order to disable 2FA, Google requires an authentication cookie (something you possess) as well as the password (something you know). This is 2FA.
> In Comments

> Be kind. Don't be snarky...Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
One thing people don't realize about the BLM and the Department of the Interior in general is that they maintain the world's largest airforce. This Airforce exists mainly as a mountain rescue and forest firefighting unit(s).

Also, because we're now in the 2020s, they are the worlds largest purchaser of drones, even beyond the military.

A lot of fascinating, cutting edge stuff is going on at BLM and DoI.
The Chief Justice doesn't agree with you there. He wrote the decision "will undermine numerous convictions obtained by the State, as well as the State's abil­ity to prosecute serious crimes committed in the future ... [and] may destabilize the governance of vast swathes of Oklahoma."
As for almonds, probably a combination of cultivar and picking time.

Some nuts are still very expensive, though, and pound for pound beef can be cheaper than many.
I see, so, just like how around the world peers recognize the ability of a self-proclaimed nation of define their own nationality so in this case the US is the peer that recognizes tribal government sovereign authority to define who is has membership in it (among other things).

Does tribal governments not have legal jurisdictions? Judicial institutions?
So are you suggesting we should just keep lowering corporate taxes so that corporations don't stash it overseas. Isn't that being held for ransom by the same corporations?
Perhaps more achievable: iOS dev with Swift. Not technically HM I don't think, but it functions more or less the same.
I really wish they worked on the UI more. Better yet, it'd be great to offer an online version. You can make it so you can work right away on a new file all client side and save the files to your desktop, Drive, Dropbox, etc, or continue working on a file from one of those locations.
I had another laptop with a hardware switch and a corresponding LED, and it worked exactly as it should - the hardware was completely inaccessible under Linux. So yes, it can be done and it's not rocket science.
I've added that last bit to the title above. Thanks!
Maybe stop learning about Native American history from Wikipedia and a "cursory search". You can always find something on the web to "support" your argument. The harder path is to actually do the research to understand the nuances and most importantly, in this case, to learn how much of history is highly innacurate and written by the conquerors.
I went through a recent experiment like this as well. Instead I installed Office 2003(The last of the old toolbar offices) on a clean Windows 10 system. I was looking to validate my theory about the speed and bloat of the new versions of Office. I just had this nagging feeling that the software wasn't as fast as old versions. It was confirmed. Using the old Office just felt so pleasant with how fast it loaded and simple it is in terms of cognitive load.
I was not suggesting that I agree with the linked article's argument (I don't). Just that the poster above me misstated the article's main point.
Interesting that you say that. I come from a very different background but have always that thought type inference hurts the readability of code and should be used sparingly.

I wrote up the thoughts in a post [1] that seemed to get extreme reactions from both camps [2].

[1] Type inference has usability problems. http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/typeinference.html

[2] HN discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20296123
It's already been done no? That's how Wuhan tested 11 million residents in May.
It would be pretty impressive for someone to get the camera to work through a physical cover.
BS. It can, and often times is, more profitable than traditional farming. I encourage you to learn about Joel Salatin and the amazing Polyface Farms in Virginia.
http://www.polyfacefarms.com/
By layering different farming enterprises like beef, hay production, pastured pigs, chickens, rabbits, and more, they have a higher profit per acre than many larger farms, and are doing so in a way that benefits that land, rather than degrades it.
That assumes no supply-side restrictions. With housing in big cities it's often supply-side restrictions that cause the rise, like zoning.

For instance: affordable housing. If there were fewer zoning restrictions on micro-studios, housing developers might be able to pack more units in to get the same amount of profit per sq-ft. Instead zoning means that you get the most $ per sq-ft building luxury apartments.

One thing UBI has over housing vouchers is if it's not tied to location people can live where it's cheaper.
Besides recommendations that actually work like everyone else is saying, the "sound sharing" / "original sound" feature (don't know what it's officially called) is pretty unique, and it both encourages creation of new videos and leads to virality. If you want to make tiktoks and don't know what else to do, you can just do a dance that someone else started or re-act an existing tiktok with the same audio, perhaps putting your own spin or personality onto it. And from the other direction, if you see a funny or interesting tiktok, it's one button to see all videos made with the same audio. Also, it works -- everything in the UI is snappy, videos load even faster than YouTube, particularly on bad connections.
As much as I’d love free software to be popular for being free, that’s never been the case and is increasingly unlikely to ever become the case.

Free software needs to learn to compete on features if it’s going to have the mainstream adoption necessary to survive.

This worked in engineering tools, Nginx and Apache are the most popular web servers in their category, Postgres and MySQL have enormous support, and so on.

I wonder why these are really so different? Most devs don’t care that much about the freedom I don’t think. Maybe there’s something the free software movement could learn from what engineering products are doing and apply it to consumer products?
Sorry, in what sense didn't the NYT propose to "doxx" Alexander? As far as I can tell, everyone involved agrees that the NYT intended to publish his real name. Do you have evidence to the contrary? Or are you trying to draw a distinction between publishing his real name and publishing other identifying details like his address or phone number? But the word "doxxing" is widely used for both, and in this case it's clearly the former that would cause most of the harm.

Or are you doubting that the doxxing would have harmed him? A lot of his phrasing is creepy even to me--the word "like" goes poorly with "eugenics", regardless of one's views on anything. I haven't read his blog extensively, but from the full context of what I've seen I'd attribute that to autistic-style disregard for social conventions rather than any intent to cause harm; but I do believe an article quoting selectively from his writing and including his real name had a decent chance of making it impossible for him to continue in his present career. A Mexican-American utility worker just lost his job for resting his hand out the window of his van in a shape that the Twitter mob thought implied white supremacy. Would the sins they perceive in Alexander not be much, much worse?

Or are you just pointing out that thanks to Alexander's stunt, the NYT seems to have held off (for now)? But unless you're saying that the NYT was never actually going to publish his real name (which I see no reason to believe) or that threats of harm are fine until you act (which would make life easier for extortionists, but which I don't believe is a serious argument), I'm not sure how that's relevant.

Or is it just that you want to see him harmed for the views he expressed, but you consider yourself too nice a person to actually say that? "Alexander wrote stuff under a pseudonym that's so bad he should be forced to abandon his career as a psychiatrist, and if the NYT can make it happen then I'll be glad" is at least a consistent and honest position; so if that's what you think, why not say it?
How about making Whatsapp not permitted on Amazon employee’s phones?
This analogy falls apart some since there was never a concept of land ownership (to my knowledge) amongst the various North American tribes, so there wouldn't have been "fenced-land" semi-permanent dwellings to take over to begin with. Also, not all of them were welcoming in the romanticized way you present and many of them were very brutal to rival indigenous groups.

In short, it's a little more complicated than that. Certainly there was much evil committed towards indigenous peoples in many places, though. However, the Aztecs weren't very nice to their neighbors and the fact that they were betrayed by the Spanish seemed like an apt comeuppance for a group led by bloodthirsty warmongering maniacs.
The commenter you're replying to is definitely talking about the US
Guild Wars has just about always had a microtransaction shop. It's less emphasized than the boxed products, but it's tough to consider Guild Wars' model that different from an F2P model. Especially as both Guild Wars have "free to start" options today, the line is blurry if non-existent.

It's also not a model that has disappeared or anything. Not just in the MMO space where there are plenty that may or may not be free-to-start but claim their primary financial driver is expansion packs. Overwatch is sort of based on that model, but always had loot boxes. Destiny was based on that model, but always had micro-transactions. Destiny 2 is now free-to-start, and again that line is really blurry between F2P micro-transactions and "expansion pack business model".
Just an anecdote: LibreOffice has had 0 impact on my life in the past decade.

In that decade, my expectations for text editing software has changed dramatically. I expect online, cloud-based, collaborative, document editing. Anything less is a no go, and I expect modern interfaces for software I use often.

Unfortunately the LibreOffice pitch is just un-compelling to me. I won't really be losing any sleep over this.
That's really not helpful. They reiterate what the paper says.
Tiktok isn't imploding, its broadly a bunch of old men (senators, CEOs) afraid of china. The userbase of tiktok is tweens and teens.

The best thing those old men could do is legislate system level privacy protections onto IOS and Android so an app can never get the level of info they're worried about.
Apple includes this on the latest iPads and Macs with the T2 chip.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/03/apple-hardware-microphone-...
How about making Jeff Bezos not permitted on phones with access to Amazon email?
Point taken, but I'm not sure what quitting a democracy looks like. I guess legislators in Oklahoma are free not to run for government positions? And citizens are free to either stop voting, or possibly move to a different state?

But my instinct is that if someone says to me, "I don't want to deal with fixing inherited broken systems", at the very least my response to that is going to be something along the lines of, "that's fine, but then don't get in the way of other people who are fixing them."
It doesn't bother me one bit that the BLM manages land. It's a major public benefit that we have so much information about our natural resources. I think the USDA soil survey, for example, a one of the great wonders of the information age.

The thing that bothers me is how they lease out public lands essentially for free to stockmen who proceed to destroy the landscape.