skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate to say it but, at this point this kinda stuff comes across as anti-American propaganda to me.

It’s always an assertion that the U.S. is terrible on some metric that upon further digging was measured in some arbitrary way to get the desired conclusion.

Here’s the thing: living in the United States, for a significant percentage of the population, is pretty awesome.

For people not within that group, maybe it is easy to believe that the U.S. is dystopian.

But IMO the solution might really be to keep working at extending the awesome to the rest of the people. Not be disingenuous about the awesome, that makes people want to tear everything down.
I would guess. RTX Voice removes my cat's sounds.
One paper showed about 1/3rd. Source: https://www.pnas.org/content/116/1/116/tab-figures-data
>>> Spread your name servers, and use short-TTL weighted CNAMEs, defaulting to say, 99% Cloudflare, 1% your internal load balancer.

Which can't be done because it invalids the point of using CloudFlare!

CloudFlare is used to protect your site from DDoS attacks and ransoms. It has to hide the IPs of the servers otherwise attackers will DDoS the servers directly, bypassing CloudFlare.
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This should be included in Linux by default it is this good. :)

Or at least available via apt-get.
I use my https://histre.com/ for collaborating on online research (bookmarks, notes, highlights, and tree-style history). The browser extension code is open source: https://gitlab.com/histre/browser-extension
depends.

Crypto is the biggest video game ever existed.
They are no.2, this article is kinda bs. US is 1st, China 2nd, which means this article is off by at least 1 place for US.
The ITUC report itself rates South Korea below the US, placing `Korea (Republic of)` in the category of `No guarantee of rights`.

edit: https://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/ituc_globalrightsindex_2020...
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"because" is a stretch and it might be a $1 in variable cost but it's trillions in fixed costs. The FDA is correct to be cautious
PMs having meetings amongst themselves doesn’t sound that productive, one of my favorite expressions to that effect is

“This problem can’t be fixed by talking”, e.g. a developer is required.

Some non-developers are good people though ;)
The poorest states in US have higher wealth than the GDP/capita of say UK and other western EU countries.

What does that tell you?
It's horrific to read, but it's true. I hear terrifying stories about the work culture and expectations in South Korea and Japan that make me feel sorry for the people who work in those countries, but I have far worse ones about working in the US (personally, from the news, from lawsuits, and from government investigations) that I could tell people in South Korea and Japan that they could never imagine happening in their countries.

edit: they're just very different. Workers have very few rights at all in the US. I'm pretty sure all we have left is the right to annoy our employers if we feel they've treated us in a racist, sexist, or homophobic way. We'll never get a settlement out of it if we carry it through to the end, but maybe they'll give us a few bucks and admit to nothing in order to save the money they would have spent on lawyers and lobbyists to crush us. You don't have that recourse at all if the employer just decides to fire you one day because they just don't like your face.
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There needs to be a serious rethink of VPN services
I read a profile a few years ago about a poor Mexican town whose male residents almost all spent the early part of their working years in one particular rural area of Delaware. They would work hard and send back a substantial amount to their families in their hometown, then they would return home a few years later with enough money to buy a home or open a business.

I found it interesting that most expressed a sense of gratitude toward Delaware and the U.S., even though they were doing unenviable jobs and earning unenviable wages.

But it certainly seems like there was still the potential for a type of arbitrage: earn as much as you can in a place where earnings are comparatively high, while keeping your cost of living as low as possible, and then take all your savings back home, where the money goes a lot farther.
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Same here. The narrative admin has been giving parents was that they were working hand in hand with teachers on the return plan.

That was a total lie. It came out this week and parents (thankfully) called our counties admin on their narrative.

So no they have principals calling each teacher and asking them on their comfort level about returning . Unsurprisingly, most aren’t comfortable.

When they called my wife they asked for her comfort level on a 1-10 scale.

She refused to give them a number. Instead just saying this plan means she is 100% confident she will contract it and spread it to the family in the month of august. But that is not what concerns her. What concerns her is that if every other school, teacher and parent is doing the same, on the heels of the current numbers, it means we may not be able to get the medical attention we need due to overloading the medical community.
Does not surprise me. As a Norwegian I have experienced working for smaller companies getting bought up by US multinationals in many occasions.

The new American bosses tend to be surprised that employees have rights.

I remember they went through their employee handbook covering the rules we should follow.

Some of the rules they had on the books which was illegal in Norway:

1. Ban talking about politics and religion at work. Illegal in Norway as freedom of speech is a protected by government.

2. Drug tests of employees. Also illegal unless you operate heavy and dangerous equipment and have been given special permission by government to do such tests.

3. Criminal background checks. Also illegal unless you work with say children or in the military.

Of course we also kept hearing stories about how our colleagues in the US offices got treated. Not very nice. People got fired on the spot and kicked out.

In Norway you got to give a 2-3 month notice. You cannot suddenly spring on people “you are fired!”

And the reason for firing has to be legitimate. Insubordination e.g. isn’t a valid reason to be fired in Scandinavia. You have to be clearly neglectful of your job, or there has to be economic hard times.

Hence you don’t have to be worried about getting fired for say pissing off your boss as long as you are doing a decent job.
It is. The only purpose of a business is to make money. If workers are so hurt by being laid off, that’s not the fault of corporations acting rationally. That’s the fault of our system where the government doesn’t have an adequate social safety net in place. We should stop expecting corporate America to be responsible for “taking care of their employees”.

There job should be to focus on profits and pay taxes to support social programs.
If you're so happy with Azure, why aren't you using Azure CDN? https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cdn/

Obviously, AWS and GCP offer their own CDN systems as well. (CloudFront and Cloud CDN, respectively)

There are tons of third party CDNs as well.

Unless by "good alternative" you mean that you're on Cloudflare's free plan, and hoping to find someone else who will willingly soak up huge amounts of bandwidth for free?

Cloudflare is one of the only services I know of that offers this, but it's hard to complain about a short outage every once in awhile when you're paying nothing or very little. The Cloudflare customers who are paying quite a bit are surely upset.
People in the UK don't live in trailer parks
U.S. advertises itself as a place to immigrate to? I think it does very well on that front without any "marketing".

It's not perfect, but it's still the greatest country in the world with an economic system that is second to none.
> It's inconceivable that extraterrestrial life would be indistinguishable from terrestrial.

NASA conceives of it, along with all 128 national governments who have signed (and in 104 cases ratified) the Outer Space Treaty.

It may be that Earth is the only place in Sol with life (I’m a software engineer not an exobiologist, so I don’t even have a ballpark estimate for either multiple abiogenesis events or panspermia between any two bodies), but the only way to have a good shot at knowing is to be over-cautious until the actual scientists have done their work.

And right now, those scientists are saying “sterilise the probes going to these places: ...”.
We are building a VPN-like service that solves the logging problem:

- Cash-in-Envelope Payment.

- Chains multiple servers with onion encryption. If there were any logs, they are useless.

- Custom built for privacy, similarities to Tor. Open Souce.

- Multi-Identity: Exit at multiple servers simultaneously.

- No Blockchain! Ie. no distributed and immutable log ;)

- Based in the EU, Austria.

- Public availability within the next months.

Check it out at https://safing.io/spn/
There are some core truths in the paper The information theory of individuality [1] but it feels like some important ingredients have been discarded; maybe I just need to spend some more time with the ideas. From a software perspective, it is equivalent to a shift in focus on an object instance but discarding the concept of the class along the way.

I like focusing on the temporal aspects rather than snapshots in time. I like the concept of nesting since it nicely encompasses the role of mitochondria. I like the concept of continuous individuality as applied to cell colonies and eusocial insect colonies. Information theory certainly should be applied to DNA/RNA mechanisms.

It feels like the theorists are dancing around our inability to describe emergent systems properly. Perhaps an information theory centric approach should be applied to describing emergent systems. Such an approach may indirectly describe the strange edge cases in biology that are made up a multitude of emergent systems.

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12064-020-00313-7
They just need to "manage harder."
Can’t agree more. The first kind of doc is useful from time to time to check the correct argument of a function. The second one is about the big picture and the overall architecture. And sadly this is what is missing with every codebase I’ve worked on. In my project on the contrary, this is something I try to document.
Verified accounts probably require a waiting time before downloading the data. I guess the attackers ran a web scraper on the verified accounts.
It shows that the system is pretty fragile.
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That "web-apps built around collaboration" played a major role, is clearly wrong, web-apps have plenty of defensive mechanisms that prevent flexible use from within programs (i.e. bots) or reuse of the output (scraping).

The web was simply a working cross-platform and usable over the network environment despite the bad performance, additional hardware (connectivity) requirements and developers found these advantages significant enough to prefer building web-apps over desktop equivalents. Unfortunately, because major websites are still a PITA to use and [would] greatly benefit from native implementations (FB, Twitter, Youtube...).
> However, these dynamic modifications should also be safe and accessible. I'm thinking of something related to AppleScript here, which allows to automate/scripts an amazingly large number of functions on OS X. Combining this with a browser that enables a user to discover the accessible OS functionality seems to be a good idea.

I have been thinking a lot lately about HyperCard and Applescript. They represent a line of thinking that has more or less been abandoned by the commercial side of personal computing, which is really too bad. Applescript still exists, sure, but they've really let it die on the vine. Back in the late 90s I hoped they would make the whole front end of the OS in a HyperCard like system, so that everything could be manipulated by the user. Don't like how this part of the Finder works? No problem, just peel back a layer and see what's going on.
Exactly. The only way is to make logs useless to begin with. See my comment earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=23881148
Gday

Anyone know of some good audio/sound tools for those still using ALSA and stopped using or uninstalled PULSE ?
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The only way is to make logs useless to begin with. See my comment earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=23881148
The article said major developed economies. If you read t he article it is pretty clear what they are talking about.

Don’t just comment after reading the headline.
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While you can, this is really hard. Let us do it for you.

See my comment earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=23881148
Title slightly shortened since it didn't fit in 80 characters.
This is going to catch a lot of flak because it's a rather cynical observation. It's interesting that almost all the best countries for workers rights on the map have stagnant GDPs in the past decade outside of Uruguay and Ireland.
This is not true in most cases. Most situations rely entirely on integrating 3rd party code, and the risk to the business is zero. Most tools and services dont last long enough to justify reinventing the wheel.
Not in Haskell, it doesn't. Haskell stores everything for you, right?
Have you seen this? http://diligentgraphics.com/diligent-engine/

I have not tested on Apple, but I did on ARM Linux. Their HLSL to GLES GLSL translation worked OK for my purposes. In the documentation they say they support most of them for both graphics and compute, VK and Metal included.
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No, read the article. It clarifies in the beginning what sort of countries they are ranking. I suspect you only read the headline.
We did exactly that.

See my comment earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=23881148
>Huge US salaries sound very attractive to people from other countries, but I think that when they actually arrive on the ground and they realize how high the costs of living are (especially rents), and they realize that they have almost 0 negotiating power due to visa requirements, the salaries don't look so good anymore.

On the contrary, they realize they can make a lot of money here and then bring their friend and relatives to come here.

When you compare that salary with what they get in their home country, it really put it in perspective.

I don't know why you think its the marketing, in fact usa actively discourage and make it really difficult for people to emigrate here.
As I discussed in another post. I was just an IC at a failing company and I was able to get a retention bonus. At the next company I worked at, I found out later that the team leads were given a retention bonus because they knew everyone was looking.

If you are in the tech field, you have the “leverage” to make anywhere from twice to five or six times the average salary. Do you take advantage of it?
It's a badly written article and headline. The US was ranked worst among the G7, a very specific group of countries.
Yea, that paper is trying to prove their novel way of estimating emigration flow. I couldn't find anywhere that their numbers were proven with hard reported numbers.
Nice article. A few of those tripped me up in the past also
> Windows had proprietary standards, Apple had OpenGL.

Repeating the same nonsense over and over again still doesn't make it true.

Windows always had full support for every graphics API - be it proprietary (like Direct3D) or open (like OpenGL).

The difference between Apple and Microsoft was that Apple controlled access to the API, that's why you were stuck with outdated OGL versions on MacOS and can probably say goodbye to OGL entirely on their future Apple Silicon products.

Microsoft on the other hand simply stopped providing anything but a OpenGL 1.2 implementation, while leaving API support to the hardware vendors via drivers. This happened all the way back in Windows 95 already, which is why some vendors provided their own APIs (remember GLIDE?), while others shipped "MiniGL" drivers just for Quake.

Microsoft never prevented drivers from providing graphics APIs or applications from using them and redirected OpenGL calls to the hardware driver when available.
If someone wasn’t thought to be good enough to be a manager in good times, why would they be good enough to be a manager when the company was in crisis?
I've tried it and its nowhere near close. I used to use WinPatrol a decade ago on Windows, and that was a thousand times better.
I have a curated list of subreddits I follow on reddit without any of the large default meme-spam ones. Without that reddit is basically useless to me as I don't need even more meme-spam in my life. Same with twitter, I use it to follow some engineers and artists while avoiding the mainstream accounts that have no relevance to me. I honestly want to know what these people are up so as it's usually either beautiful or interesting or insightful.
And you will still be exposed to being blindsided by something out of your control. It's really only in your control of you can think of and plan for it ahead of time. And there will certainly be things that we don't consider. You can call that a failure but it happens all the time and it's reality.

What if a political event impacts you, for instance? A pandemic? A storm taking out a major data center? A weird Linux kernel edge case that only happens beyond a certain point in time? That only sounds ridiculous because it hasn't happened, but weird things like that happen all the time. There are so many unseen possibilities.

I understand that might sound unreasonable or facetious or like I'm expanding the scope.

The point is, the more confident that you've built something that has no SPOF the more exposed your are to the risk of it, because one probably does exist.
Fadi Chehadé was CEO until March 15, 2016. Ethos Capital was founded in May of 2019, 3 years after he stopped being CEO of ICANN.
Is it just me or has HN seen a huge influx of less-than-the-current-average "computer intelligence" in the last 6 months?
Thank you :)

You're right. I have got this feedback about the audio company several times after the launch.

I wanted to know if I can keep the same domain but rebrand with a different name? Would having a domain with landr in the domain name be a problem later?
Thank you for your work, and sharing openly. Please continue to do so. Remember that most people in the world are kind and appreciative. Don't read too much into what the toxic vocal minority says. We can't prevent the vocal minority from being toxic, but we can learn to ignore them. But it is easier said, than done, I know. Wishing you all the best!
Only on the Switch, and even then they have their own API, NVN, which is what most AAA and middleware like Unity actually use.
Yep, that website is a good way to interactively solve/learn. The site also includes quiz, cheatsheets, etc.

I mention it in an interlude chapter, along with regexr[1], regulex [2], debuggex[3] and regexcrossword [4]

[1] https://regexr.com/

[2] https://jex.im/regulex/

[3] https://www.debuggex.com/

[4] https://regexcrossword.com/
> Don't you think creditors should have a say in whether a company should be allowed to delete some debt and try to become profitable again?
Creditors already do have a say don't they? At the moment of filing, director's fiduciary duties expand to residual claimants in addition to shareholders. In addition, creditors have paths to reclaim fraudulent transfers (bonuses included) in court although it is a hard case to win. Creditors can also ask the court to convert to Chapter 7, but this is almost always in no one's best interest (shareholders wiped out, junior creditors wiped out, senior creditors will probably lose a non trivial amount, everyone loses a job).
> Fadi Chehadé used his position as ICANN's CEO to try to complete a transaction that would enrich himself and make the public poorer.

The .org deal was initiated 3 years after he left the position of ICANN CEO.
Hey! Sorry to hijack the thread for the other, but just like the OP we've spent the last few years building Oh Dear and it does about 99% of what you're looking for. [1]

It has uptime, performance, SSL alerts and status pages. What's missing is the performance graphs on the status page, which is coming in a few months.

Simple Ops goes further than us by also measuring FCP though.

[1] https://ohdear.app/
It bothers me quite a lot that the present and the future of the DNS a d so much of the internet infrastructure (effectively e global public service) is in the hands of the United States of America.
Self-reflection, as I understand it, is pretty much the opposite of hypnotherapy. Self-reflection is analytical, while hypnotherapy is like having a dream. Except that you wrote and directed that dream beforehand.

I like to use the language of IFS therapy for the explanation. It assumes that we are made of a self and, in addition, different parts. The parts have different ages, different needs and different solutions, but they all want what is best for us. So in a person with e.g. fear of public speaking there might be a younger part that remembers how it got humiliated when speaking publicly, and there might be a managing part that tells them 'you're an adult, a professional, you have to get on stage, it's beneficial for your career'. The first one wants to protect them and the second one wants to let them thrive, they are both right, but there is still a conflict. With self-reflection it might happen that they just decide that the second one is right, and the first one has to shut up, but it doesn't solve the problem, it just exiles it even further.

With hypnotherapy and other techniques that use imagination, I first allow my body to relax, and ask the conflicting parts to calm down for a moment and see that calm is possible. I need >10 minutes for that, but once that is established, I can show both parts a scenario where the things that they fear will go wrong, go right. Then I aknowledge how that feels and slowly exit the session. Instead of shutting up an important part of me, I allow it to see that things can and will go right, and if they go wrong, it will be still acceptable. When you do it a dozen times, it kind of sticks.

This is of course a simplified explanation of just one kind of hypnotherapy.
Infectious bioweapons are a horrible idea in a highly connected world for the reason we can all plainly see: they don’t respect national borders.

It is an old-fashioned notion of a weapon that only made sense when there was little exchange between the citizens of states in opposition, like the U.S. and USSR.

China, for whom international trade is a crucial part of their strategy, would not work on an infectious disease weapon unless they simultaneously developed a vaccine to protect their own people. The fact they are not currently vaccinating their population, or even in the lead in developing a vaccine, is extremely strong proof that COVID-19 did not originate as a Chinese bioweapon candidate.
Like the blown out whites of a photograph. You can adjust levels, but if the input peaked, there’s just no information left in the data.
Probably a dead account he no longer access it before divorce, hence the awkward status
I want to see that regex.
Even if you log out don’t they still know who you are based on IP or other fingerprints to serve relevant content? Anecdotally I’ve been on online shopping sites that will email me my cart to ask if I want to check out even when I’m not logged in, so it seems unlikely that you’ll be any more anonymous by signing out.