skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The examples of early natives torturing an executing people is a strange choice here.

Readers, don't forget that these people are the contemporaries of the perpetrators of chattel slavery, and the french revolution, to name a few popular examples.

The sordid atrocities committed all around the Americas by indigenous Europeans are very well-documented and continued beyond the 18th century, legitimized by the US society and government.

To bring such a thing up in defense of borders created during and with the help of those same atrocities is disingenuous, to put it kindly.

It appears to me that such a defense is an attempt to compare 18th century natives to modern US citizens, an obviously unfair comparison, much the same as if I were to compare modern native Americans to Columbus or 18th century slave-owners in the south.
Is TikTok officially the scapegoat now? Sure it's bad, but it seems like an awful lot of attention is being brought to it compared to many of the other companies (and governments!) that are doing... the exact same shit, and often more so.
"unable to negotiate good terms by themselves."

There's a massive power asymmetry between a mega international corporation and an individual.

It has nothing to do with 'intelligence' or 'competence'.

Surpluses go to the power. If employees had power, they'd be able to 'negotiate' better terms on their own, they never well.

At the 'low end' of the labour market, we have to have some kind of regulations or else they would get paid the 'bare minimum to survive' and an entire economy of accommodation, food, services would pop up around that system. Maybe like favelas?

So the issue is: 'where do we draw the line?' - which is really hard.
The jury is still out on whether there was even a hack to begin with. The analysis team claimed they couldn't decrypt WhatsApp messages, so they never actually analyzed any malware at all. HN called them out on that failure:

https://github.com/ddz/whatsapp-media-decrypt

They never responded with an actual malware analysis on the file they claimed might be responsible.

The only evidence left after that was a claim of higher data usage which has to be weighed against the alternate explanation for how this got out:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/martingiles/2020/01/24/report-b...
It's really surprising to me that we tend to focus on sustainability rather than simple economic benefits when pitching initiatives to combat climate change.

Case in point: The US had a great opportunity to sell alternative energy sources as way to get off Middle East oil after 9/11. Instead we continued to consume oil like there's no tomorrow while squandering trillions on fruitless wars.
Can they both be groupthink?
Maybe Zoom wasn't willing to pay the sticker price:

> Vice has reported that someone is claiming to have a zero-day exploit affecting the Zoom app for Windows, and they’re asking $500,000 for it. The remote code execution exploit allegedly requires the hacker to be in a call with the targeted user. Zoom says it has launched an investigation, but so far it has “not found any evidence substantiating these claims.”[1]

[1]: https://www.securityweek.com/zoom-teams-katie-moussouris-rev...

I couldn't find their current bug bounty payout schedule anywhere online, so I can only assume it's unimpressive.
Building profiles on people is not illegal and neither is espousing communist ideology. Hundreds of US based organizations do both.
The part about no virtual memory is kind of incorrect though. It doesn't work exactly like on the CPU, but still.
Microsoft has also heavily invested in the web ecosystem via VSCode, TypeScript, and NPM. Not to mention that Office is now chiefly a web app. My guess is that, among other things, they see it as a way to cultivate fields adjacent to Azure and attract customers to it.
To be fair, that sounds a lot more reasonable. A CEO represents their company and their actions leading to people boycotting their company is just people voting with their wallet. People have boycotted small businesses due to the opinion of the business owner's children, even after persistent apologies by the business owner. In this case I don't even think there is anything significantly wrong. This isn't much different than a company sanctioned advertisement gone wrong.
I just so happened to watch this youtube this week that answers that (at a high level):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEZvF68sytc

Part of the reason its so difficult to summarize is because its about taking a systems approach to the farming/biology and therefore it is infinitely varied in practice.
US passports are worthless now
It's not clear that you and zimablue are in agreement unless you agree that the level consequences people are currently experiencing is excessive.

For a lot of us here, the phrase "free speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences" comes across (not unreasonably) as support for firing trump supporters or people who question system racism (etc.) which is both unjust and foolish for a number of reasons.

We also need to consider whether it is just to fire someone for something offensive (but not illegal) they did offline that was surreptitiously recorded and uploaded to the Internet to feed mob outrage.
You can get access to native APIs that way, without the typical hybrid approach.
>Strange, I'm from Europe and I'm proud of this decision.

It's not strange to us that you Europeans think you know better than us poor stupid little brown people what's better for ourselves. That's your entire history since the 16th Century, assuming yourselves to be the only "civilized" people who should tell everyone else how to live. :)
I think there are a few benefits that they're (poorly) trying to articulate in the article, so I'll fill in with my own (biased) thoughts. :)

- Growing trees in rows alongside feed crops (like hay) is more profitable for farmers because they gain additional income from fruit trees + lumber sales.

- More trees that get to grow pulls CO2 from the atmosphere and is good for the environment.

- There is a symbiotic relationship with the soil and trees that is beneficial for the health of other plants. This also helps with soil blowing away due to wind barriers + roots holding it down. Less erosion.

- Pests can't travel as easily between "segmented" fields of crops because they are obstructed by trees. This helps mitigate risk for farmers.

- Higher income per acre when you intermix trees in the fields where livestock graze. You can go harvest the fruit trees while the grass grows for the cows to graze on.

The problem is that these changes require time to make. Trees don't sprout up overnight and that's a problem for farmers, but there is a big environmental incentive for it. Maybe the government should step in to incubate these kinds of projects? They may be the only institution with the long-term economic incentive to do so.
How did you disambiguate these claimed CoQ10 effects from the results of taping your mouth shut at night?

"Not only did it fix my apnoea [sic] and huge lack of energy during the day"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23432440
> You can't claim to support free expression while saying that certain forms of speech are unacceptable.

I'm not making this claim; I'm claiming that it's inconsistent with free speech ideals. I'm not working to prevent anyone from expressing speech which isn't consistent with free speech ideals, and I'm certainly not trying to get anyone fired for their anti-free-speech ideals.
SCOTUS can't close the door on congress changing the law, though. That's the purpose of congress.
Often first name (linus), initials (rms, esr, jwz), first + last initial (marca, billg, dang), initial(s) + last (dmarti, cdibona), first @ last (bruce@perens.org), etc.
Some light reading:

https://rufposten.de/blog/2019/12/05/privacy-analysis-of-tik...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QEyWqAiTE_5xzCs_X3tjDCQx...

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/tiktoks-owner-is-helpin...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/video-app-linked-to-china...

https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-is-the-latest-window-into...

https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/478015-exer...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/06/26/warning-a...
I remember when the microsoft app store on windows 8 were a bunch of websites wrapped into an app. It really lowered the quality of apps and the overall appeal of the windows app store.

That being said, how will PWAs get around the apple and google requirements that apps downloadable from their stores where they mention apps can't just be a website wrapped into an app?
Looks like gross profit margins decreased in aggregate by almost 4% in both "growth" categories of their Core Revenue (page 79). Doesn't look good for future margin expansion opportunities.
I think human intelligence can't be recreated but this is not neccessary. It's good enough if artificial intelligence is general enough to solve problems autonomously. I imagine AI as a different sentient species. A species which doesn't have instincts about food, excretion, reproduction and avoiding being eaten by predators. AI will be always different from humans because it is not useful to recreate all human instincts.
There was this thread a while ago with HSBC switching to MongoDB... so, yeah, distinct possibility :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23507197

(The article was very light on details though, and it was probably just one team that consolidated to MongoDB, not the accounts itself... one hopes.)
This is where the whole discussion spirals out of control usually.

Uber maintains its business isn't transportation - it's facilitating a market place for transportation. Nonsense, say its detractors, you're running a car service.

It's clear that Uber has gotten into some activities that undermine its own story, like loans for drivers to buy cars and insurance.

It's also clear that Uber drivers don't look like regular employees in many ways - like: they decide their own hours; they can refuse trips; they can contract with other, competing ride-share companies simultaneously.

I don't know how people generate certainty in their opinions on this topic.
It’s awesome that the woke thing to say 6 weeks ago or so was, read this book! And now it’s, do not read this book!

Just an endless series of causes and points of personal moral hygiene, never going anywhere or adding up to anything. Abolish ice -> bernie -> abolish the police, and on from there. Silence is violence! Saying the thing now that we were saying 6 weeks ago is no good either. Keep up! Love it
The only one legitimately and accidentally created by Google was: Google Reader

Orkut: stagnated and killed

G+: design by committee as you said

YT: acquired but the social aspects are down the drain

We can complain about FB and Zuckerberg as much as we want but they knew how to evolve the network and keep the users
That is very dangerous.

People are, in the large, morons. That goes double when it comes to money and health.
To us other europeans, those years were kind of formative to us about viewing France as a relic to be laughed about.

What great french internet startups have ended up expanding outside their country in a meaningful way?
Facts generally need context. Are these deaths actually linked to protesters? Are they motivated in some way by the protests or is the connection coincidental? How do these number of deaths compare to other protests? How do they compare to times when there are no protest? Questions like that need to be answered for the facts to have value. Most of us don't trust whatever context is given by a source like the one you linked. That is why people attack the source. Because the story here is the context of the facts and not the facts themselves.
Regardless (I both agree partially yet think you’re omitting major differences here), you still live somewhere. When states are adversaries, that means there are consequences to being involved with the other state.
Seems like you saw the word "Bible" and immediately typed your response...

Nonetheless, the bible has been used to promote many ideas through the ages. Regardless of what Obama said years ago ("we are not a Christian nation, but a nation of citizens"), America was/is a Christian nation. The Bible and Christian faith were used in many areas to form the constitution, laws, and even our republic (based on the original notion of "judges" set before Israel in the old testament). Of course none of this is taught in schools anymore (at least I had never heard of it until researching in my adulthood), which is the problem I make a point of.
We've tried a bit of homeschooling over the years, and there is an important difference between what looks good to parents and covers the required standards, etc.... vs. what actually engages our children and makes them satisfied with their educational experience.

We never tried K12, but I recommend that the kids be involved in selecting what tools to use, as they are the ones who have to use it every day.
> You shouldn't be fired for things you do and say outside of work, period.

Why not? And are you claiming that this is simply a moral standpoint, or do you want to legally prevent employers from firing employees for off-work behavior?
Fortunate for us that there is a similar race to apologize for erotic photographs in tech demos, as if it's not an obvious anachronism.

Really, defending something so clearly out-of-place is deeply suspicious. Maybe everyone can handle it but why are we being asked to?
Right, but on Android at least, you can either have the whole device be under MDM (#2) or just a work profile (#3). In the latter, if your sysadmin decides to wipe your device, it only wipes your Work profile and not your entire phone, from my understanding. Is that not correct?

My assumption was that any apps installed on the personal partition were off limit for the MDM.
I'd rather be able to blame myself for my stupid mistakes - not be beholden to Amazon's (or whoever's) MDM profile. Especially when companies don't make it clear that "if you log into your email on your phone using this app, we install MDM, root certificates, have the ability to remote wipe, etc. etc. etc."
We've all heard this, but did he actually go out and shoot someone and do it? He was talking out of his *ss about how confident he was about his supporters. English isn't even my first language and I could tell that's what he meant.
Okay, I did took it personally but I shouldn't have.
Local artists generally.

We have a lot of street fairs with artists showing off their work, most are receptive to commissions and you can get an idea of capabilities by looking their work. Anymore, my favorite place is this antique store next to an art studio, the artist that owns the studio makes a lot of replicas (and original) to sell in the antique store.
I'm on Android not iOS. But I use the Pinboard app. When I want to save a webpage, I use the "share link" menu [under the browser hamburger menu] to send it to the Pinboard app.
That's what I meant with regards to "speech" becoming very vague and stretching over long periods of time, making the individual expression rather insignificant and the concept very fuzzy and hard to tell apart from culture, tradition and history. Like a rain drop in a storm where all those drops combined are causing the flood, but to pin it on an individual rain drop and say "this one is responsible" is hard.

> Are all societies susceptible?

Given that we've seen some level of exterminatory warfare all over the place in history (I'm sure there's huge amounts that we don't know about because the victims have been annihilated), and it's not unheard of among other mammals as well, my money is on yes.

That some small nations did not wage war against their much larger and much stronger neighbors is not a counter example: the fact that chickens don't hunt wolves doesn't mean they're not predators, they'll happily eat worms, and will eat a mouse if they can catch it.
They already had this with Edge and Windows Store.

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/pwa/

The best part was that this way WinRT APIs are directly exposed as browser APIs, no need for hybrid solutions.

This is just the next step using the Chrome based engine instead.
NYC itself is great. Parks are open and less crowded, subway is super clean, and some street parking space has been reclaimed for outdoor dining. Almost everyone is wearing a mask, and things are slowly opening up. It feels like the recovery will be slow, but the city will come out of it stronger.
Fish have no concept of water in very much the same way as you not seeing the problem here.
This is a cool website, and if people go past the landing page they'll find a trove of information and good descriptions of the initiative, as well as rebuttal of the criticisms I've read here so far.

For example, the website is a collaborative effort between multiple entities, and re: map details, they state clearly that "These maps are fluid and ever changing and should be used as an education tool to create dialogue around reconciliation."[0]

They also don't claim to show every single thing on the landing page. For example, living in Quebec, clicking on "Where Am I?" lands me on a list of nations which I'm sure is limited but is at least a starting point for discussion. They specifically mention "There are 634 First Nations in Canada. Learn more about those closest to your location", which might not be directly reflected on the landing page but is acknowledged on the website itself.

Their relationship to acknowledgement being part of a process of reconciliation is not a personal attack on anyone, and it saddens me to think that some people would take it as such. Their FAQ also brings forth the kinds of questions that one might come up with when being made aware of First Nations and treaties and such.[1]

For reference, I am European and I moved to Canada. Perhaps the emotional distance allows for curiosity and a wish to understand as main drivers, rather than feeling attacked or threatened in any way. And I'm French, so technically this is history that I should know at least partially! (but was never taught in school, as the kind of history classes I experienced were very focused on our own belly buttons - Pre-history -> Egyptians -> Greeks -> Romans -> Medieval Europe -> Monarchies (so much time..) -> Industrial Revolution in Europe -> World Wars -> Cold war).

Canada is making efforts towards a better understanding and acceptance of its past without shying away from saying things that temporarily would appear "ego-damaging". In my country, a bit over a decade ago the president was going to a summit of African countries to tell them how irrelevant they are[2]. The humility shown in this website (and to a larger degree in Canada, as evidenced by Trudeau's recent acknowledgement of systemic racism) is as politically challenging as it is morally right in the long run.

The past can't be undone, but the present can acknowledge and work to build understanding and respect for the paths taken.

[0] https://www.whose.land/en/about

[1] https://www.whose.land/en/faq

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sarkozy_Dakar_address
Not at all. I mean hear as in really listen and take in what the other is saying. That's harder than it sounds. It's painful and frightening and almost no one is willing to do it, but I think it's the only way forward. Otherwise we're just going to get more violence and justification of violence, because no matter how deeply we try to suppress them, the grievances of the past will just keep reexploding.
Would you support the return of Armenians and Greeks to Turkey along with their historical land being given to them?
If you had more karma, you could "vouch" for the comment. If enough people were to do so, the [flagged] status would disappear. Failing that, you could email the mods to draw their attention to unfairly flagged comments. They do have good taste, however, so they're likely to leave the comment in question [0] flagged. Unlike IRL, the system at HN is rigged against racist dog whistles. If one is ever tempted to write the sentence "This is not flamebait.", one should think more deeply.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23794262
Looking for 2 tech company CEOs for interview on go-to-market strategy
Hi,

My name is Ian. I am a founder in the Founder Institute program.
I have recently been tasked to find CEOs of tech companies (minnimum of 2) and interview them about my go-to-market strategy for the project I'm working on called cSlate.

It involves an hour interview to discuss your go-to-market when you started your company. The goal is to evaluate based on your experience if my go-to-market strategy is solid. If it isn’t, I’m hoping to get your insights on how I might rethink the strategy.

Following the interview, I will be producing a letter that will describe the strategy we discussed. That letter will be sent to you for review. Once you agree with the contents of the letter, I have been asked to produce a signed letter to show your approval of the described plan.

Deadline: Sunday July 12th. I need to have this process done in 3 days time at the latest.

Thank you for your help or referral to someone you think could be the right person to help me.

Regards,
Ian
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Don't think he's being dishonest. Vargas was indeed a fascist, and I don't see what our being shamefully late to abolish slavery has to do with our labor laws being good or bad.
I agree it was a little bit disappointing, and there's a ton of bullshit. But I did find it mildly entertaining and there is this great upshot that "there will always be a diversity of languages because people derive their enjoyment in different ways". By contrast, Uncle Bob not too long ago proposed that everyone converge on clojure as the 'final programming language'.
My understanding is that they can only wipe the work profile. Is that not true? (Android).
I worked in a hospital and was oncall. My employer provided the phone. And the pager. To do anything else would be like asking an employee to provide a laptop, or a desk.
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> Basically, libre office won't be libre anymore

The personal version still will be, right?

Now this would be something to worry about if all new feature development were put into enterprise, and the personal version stagnated.

But from my experience in enterprise software, enterprise features are generally not even applicable to consumer users at all. They're things like single sign-on, approval workflow integration, private cloud integration and whatnot.

It's not as if a bugfix for page margins will make it to the enterprise version and not the personal one.

So this doesn't feel like something to worry about. If it provides the necessary financial resources to keep the personal edition alive, then I'm all for it.
> And less bad options will be outcompeted by worse options.

This is by definition the opposite of what "outcompeted" means.
What if I told you it actually is?

> Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit, qui inea voluptate velit esse, quam nihil molestiae consequatur, vel illum, qui dolorem eum fugiat, quo voluptas nulla pariatur?

Translation: Who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?

This text could very well be the first page of a softcore erotica (or even hardcore!). The rest of the text is not usually visible. But then again, neither is the rest of lena!
Something like this I would expect to be be part of Edge Developer Blog, given https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/pwa/