skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A keyboard oriented app for productivity
Good day,

I felt that I was doing something wrong, I was losing a lot of time by organizing a project, work breakdown, tasks creation and estimates.

For me is like this: once I decide to start a project, I want to do the work breakdown quite fast and in a structured way, I want to be able to estimate each work task and start working right away without losing precious time or ideas.

I had to scratch my itch! ️

Approximately 6 Months ago I've decided to start a project that fulfilled my need. A keyboard first oriented app, simple and powerful structured, tasks, notes, with possibility to estimate and report (daily) the work time vs. estimate for each task.

I've just released the version 1.1 of the FastestNotes app: https://fastestnotes.com

Give it a try, thanks!
Geopolitics is a little more complicated than phrases we tell children.

At the core of it, the kind of protectionism China has engaged in is defecting in a prisoner's dilemma. If you play always cooperate against a defectbot, you're going to lose eventually, even if you start very far ahead.
The Trump administration is stirring up China hate as a means of getting reelected. Anything goes. The national security concerns may or may not be factual, but Trump doesn't care about that one bit.

It baffles me that people cannot see this very obvious fact. Just proof that his strategy is working.
Probably they should try django-north instead of their patch_db.py
Eviction Moratorium Poses Nightmare Scenario for Small Landlord
A Comparison between WebAssembly and RISC-V
Vaccinating away a single cause of common cold out of many causes would seem almost pointless. I'd take it as a given that lack of seriously trying has been playing a major role in that lack of success.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure the material conditions aren’t great for starting a family right now. Just look at the 2008 housing crisis, when a large portion of the population can’t afford housing, there’s certainly no family development.
Neither of which are banned in China. It isn't allowed to offer cab services with a privately owned car in China, but this is also true in most of the EU.
May I ask what frameworks or libraries were used to create this?
Detection in the Dark
novel approach for detecting malware. Our approach uses offensive and defensive techniques for detecting active malware attacks by exploiting the vulnerabilities of their command and control panels and manipulating significant values in the operating systems of endpoints – in order to attack these panels and utilize trusted communications between them and the infected machine.
It’s less like an AppStore inside an AppStore and more like a movie inside Netflix or a purchased TV show inside the Amazon app.
Path that is harmful and injurious to conscience and business is worse than daylight robbery.
Why not `anonova-logger` instead of `logger`. You can namespace by naming if you want.
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg joins centibillionaire club
It will be interesting how this works. I'm noticing that some people are thriving at WFH, while others are suffering from lack of routine and work/home separation. I also think some roles are better in workplaces

Personally I prefer WFH
They declared the touch controls for the windshield wipers a distraction, so that they can fine Tesla owners for using it. In my opinion, creating liability for the buyer will be much more effective than trying to battle Tesla directly. So they are taking action to protect their local car industry.

It's just that as long as the power dynamic is that Trump looks like a stubborn toddler while Merkel is the responsible parent, the US won't be able to do much about Tesla taking a hit. Plus, I'm not sure how much Trump likes Musk... so maybe he's willingly accepting it.
Microsoft complies with those laws just fine. Bing, Windows, Office are all available there.
For a self-contained example, see https://github.com/jmillikin/haskell-ncurses/blob/master/lib...

My Haskell binding to CPython is larger but of about the same shape.
Trip idea can be broken in a few days with a proper GPU. The original q-anon trip was cracked within a month. It’s a giant larp
> This is, by all account, a shortsighted move

Politicians tend to be shortsighted (reelection, next term). That's partly why not enough has happened (or will happen, under this political paradigm) when it comes to the environmental issues our habitat is facing.
South Africa (1994) is one exception.
Oh finally. That's good news especially for people who'd like to tinker with advanced stuff requiring PCI-E chipsets who don't really have the nerve to risk wrecking a hundreds of dollars worth of x86 mainboard/CPU...
I am someone who is not very familiar with the case, why are you saying that Damore was a "huge piece of shit" and that he was a "was a horrible human beings and got everything he deserved"? I thought that he just made a statistical argument regarding preferences.
Is he trying to get Microsoft a better deal? Like, right out in the open?
Interesting that you and another commenter interpreted "9 year old bug" to mean "bug discovered 9 years ago". I'd have thought it was unambiguous that the bug was introduced 9 years ago, but apparently it isn't!

From the article, "this attack was due to a 9 year old bug in the Go standard library. During the "post-mortem" @protolambda, @prestonvanloon, @raulk and I uncovered this bug," so at least they are quite clear that it is a recently discovered bug.
I assume so;

I would not replace my proper well working phone with a makeshift device like this at all.

And there are plenty of options out there already; No need to wait for this setup.
Go doesn't have assertions. Of course it is not hard to mimic them, but it's an intentional choice to increase the friction of doing that and make it feel unidiomatic.
Everywhere I slept in California, from SF to LA and a few places in between had these awful vertical blinds which can't even block moonlight: https://persianascanet.com/wp-content/uploads/Verticales-PVC...
> I also feel that tying a shell to COM objects is a poor fit.

This is not correct. Powershell allows calling into COM, .NET or straight DLLs for that matter.

It is also what I see as missing opportunity in most UNIX shells that failed to build up on Xerox PARC, Lisp Machines and ETHZ experiments.

The ability to directly plug into shared libraries, UNIX IPC, and modern mechanisms like DBUS and gRPC, alongside live debugging capabilities, thus exposing the whole OS stack to the CLI, making it a proper REPL experience.

Other than that, it looks quite cool.
Why wishing them Civil war? Do you have real information that this is in the making? Or you are against America and wish her evil?
Prepared food at restaurants doesn't scale. If you want to serve X customers it takes Y employees and Z space, or N cost. If you want to serve 2X customers it takes 2N cost, and if you want to serve KX customers it takes KN cost. This is what I mean by not scaling.

If deliveries worked better, maybe you could reduce the space you needed. If robots worked better then maybe you could reduce the number of employees. If there was some other solution, perhaps you could do better in all sorts of ways.

I don't know much about food tech, but I assume this is the kind of problem that food tech startups are trying to solve. Either way, food tech startups are trying to solve a problem and do something that Albrecht is not. Albrecht is, presumably, not trying to build food automation or work out a new way to deliveries, but is rather selling Kimchi. I'm not writing that to diminish her work, just to point out that she is in a different field than the food tech companies.

Albrecht may have problems that food tech companies would like to solve (e.g. "It's a burden to have to have so much kitchen space when I have relatively low demand") but she doesn't have solutions that are applicable to the food tech companies, because if she had those solutions then she wouldn't have the problems.
In many parts of the US the city bills the homeowners for sidewalk repairs or replacement even if they do the work.

In areas with an HOA often the HOA or homeowners are responsible for things the government is in other places, roads, street lights, sidewalks, storm drains.
Is it really the US making the first move? Facebook is blocked in China as are several other big countries. Granted, this is a ban after the company made inroads, but it seems that China has been doing this for a long time now and in many industries.
Smells a bit of sour grapes to me
> the worst that happens is some open source project gets slightly better

If anyone is reading this is working on open source projects that would benefits from what has been leaked: stay far away from such a leak. The last thing you want is your open source project to be accused of copyright or patent infringement.
Eh why wouldn't it be a game changer.
The article mentions that the difference between movies/songs and games is that the later is interactive while the former aren't.

Movies and songs don't offer (yet?) "in-movie"/"in-song" transactions, therefore they aren't a potential source of revenue.
It is definitely possible to learn a language as an adult.

The main barriers adults face are a lack of time to practice, a lack of motivation and already being fluent in a language to "run away" into.

Learning a language is tough, most native speakers have simply forgotten how much of a struggle it was in their younger years.
The correlation of free trade with civil liberties strikes me as missing the forest for the trees. I can’t imagine the average citizen thinks of “free trade vs. protectionism” in moral terms.
It's not going to work. It's just going to cut off Chinese in America from talking to their friends and family. Evil.
The Django ORM is excellent as long as you stick to the well-trodden path. But if you want to squeeze every ounce of performance or you know that the execution plan a query generates is not the best or it's not using the right indexes, it's like wearing shackles.

SQLAlchemy on the other hand makes it very easy to do exactly what you need, without even having to drop to writing raw SQL. The way the ORM and the core are structured is the perfect balance of abstraction and control.
Which Smalltalk environments and SQL databases have tackled already for a couple of decades.
I think this is an economic barrier more than a scientific one (not that the science is trivial). MERS is too sporadic. SARS burnt out to quickly to substantially test anything clinically, and if you look at the scientifc literature, interest in SARS dropped pretty quickly. I’m general neither industry or investors or government funding has that much interest in Infectious disease (vs cancer for instance). Pandemic preparedness was a horrible business plan.
That's like saying "There's nothing wrong with using setjmp/longjmp. It's part of the standard."

I firmly believe that you shouldn't need client-side JavaScript for anything fancier than things like progressively enhancing a form field into a clickable star-rating widget unless you're writing an actual "web app"... definitely not for a blog. I'm just glad the text of his articles remains readable under the influence of my default uMatrix settings, even if none of the site-navigation boilerplate is.

Heck, if I thought it could be done without failing Lyndon Johnson's "the harm it would cause if improperly administered" test, I'd ask for laws that penalize people for pushing that sort of computating to the client where it can't be cached for more than just that one machine. They could be justified as a way to cut down on CO2 emissions.

As-is, if I can ever find the time, I want to see how much performance gain and "model has desynced from visible rendering" resilience I can get in my Firefox by ripping out Tree Style Tab and replacing it with something that uses the sidebar's DOM as the authoritative data model, built using <details>/<summary> expander/collapser nesting. (I've already prototyped the HTML for that as a simple transformation of what Markdown or ReStructuredText renderers output for nested <ul> outlines.)
Agreed.

It's the China government started the trend of banning apps from foreign countries so that their own companies can grow and spread outside China.

I see this ban as a late but fair move.
Show HN: A new coding platform that got 15000 hits in under 24 hours
Are you seriously opposed to education because you see it as regulation?

Also, I don't think it's a very minor issue if the tool you use to process your data, changes your data. It may only do that in limited cases, but the fact that it does it at all should alarm anyone who cares about data integrity.
Reminds me of elvish (elv.sh), which has a similar focus.
Bolton has many strong opinions that are not necessarily shared with the rest of the world -- not that he's wrong, but do use critical thinking. There are pros and cons here, like Trump causing short-term trade losses with China while they're dealing with political instability back home. Is economic stability worth more than relative world influence? Hard to say. Also, Xi telling Trump that he should have more terms is a classic way to play to a narcissist; it shouldn't be interpreted as anything more than flattery.

Honestly I think China has very little to gain from interfering on either side of the US election, and potentially a lot to lose. Russia, on the other hand...
You think we have all rational players in the game right now?
China is already being very patient in waiting until the reelection. The US military is flaunting its military hardware near the mainland, and all this time China is basically ignoring the threat.

But the Trump administration is very active in launching more attacks. If you follow the news on what they've been doing to Chinese companies, the past month has been absolutely insane. The attacks are only getting faster and faster, as the Trump administration gets increasingly desperate to win a reelection.

Another problem is that all these attacks leave behind permanent damage. It's not just a matter of ignoring the attacks. I fear that at some point, we get past some boiling point, and things erupt into a hot war.
How so? Google operated in China for more than a decade and never got a major market share, and they already did fairly well compared to others. Facebook was largely unheard of after being available in China for many years before finally got banned in 2010. Amazon has been operating in China forever but is basically irrelevant to most Chinese. Most American companies did terrible job in localization and I see no chance of them winning the competition with their local competitors.

If they face strong local competition in any other country, they'd fail too
> if the US creates a precedent for "national security" in this way

It can be a real threat to national security[1]:

> Thursday's order alleges that TikTok "automatically captures vast swaths of information from its users," such as location data and browsing and search histories, which "threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans' personal and proprietary information -- potentially allowing China to track the locations of Federal employees and contractors, build dossiers of personal information for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage."

It has nothing to do with other Western nations. It's about protecting your citizens from aggressive foreign states that operate based on completely different values.

I would consider going even further, and banning all Chinese researchers from the top US schools[2]:

> Seventy-one institutions, including many of the most prestigious medical schools in the United States, are now investigating 180 individual cases involving potential theft of intellectual property.

> Almost all of the incidents they uncovered and that are under investigation involve scientists of Chinese descent, including naturalized American citizens, allegedly stealing for China.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/06/politics/trump-executive-orde...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/health/china-nih-scientis...
If you like the sql-like filesystem interaction, check out:

https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect

I've integrated this into my workflow, it's a polished tool.
That was a really great piece of game design that grew out of a problem picked up in playtesting where some players didn't realize they were meant to keep the cube with them to solve multiple puzzles; they'd leave it behind and then get frustrated on the next puzzle.

So they added a heart to the texture and a few voice lines, and not only was that problem solved but they created one of the most memorable moments in the game by making people care about a cube and then having them get rid of it.

"While it has been a faithful companion, your Companion Cube cannot accompany you through the rest of the test. If it could talk - and the Enrichment Center takes this opportunity to remind you that it cannot - it would tell you to go on without it because it would rather die in a fire than become a burden to you."
No, they do not pay the tariffs.

When a marketplace transaction is taxed, it really doesn't matter which party has to hand over the money. The buyer and seller will split the cost of the tax according to elasticity. Consider a transaction that is worth $100 in a tax-free situation, using numbers relevant to the US/China tariffs:

Without tax: $100 is transferred from buyer to seller.

Buyer hands over money: The buyer pays $30 to government and $76 to the seller, for a total of $106.

Seller hands over money: The buyer pays that $106 to the seller, who then pays $30 to the government. The seller keeps $76.

You might wonder what would motivate the Chinese seller to reduce his price. He has unavoidable costs like loans. Keeping a factory partially idle is painful. There are fixed costs. He doesn't have the monopoly power to dictate a selling price. He can't force the buyer to buy.
Interesting that it depends so much on region.

Here in the UK, Sky offer a cheap 'over-the-top' streaming alternative to their satellite offerings, [0] so you could watch Game of Thrones for £8/month, provided you didn't mind the inferior video quality.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_TV_(Sky)
The military and government officials can avoid use of the apps, without banning them for Americans. As they have before WeChat, and before the Internet.

I think the notion that WeChat is a threat to national security is honestly ridiculous. National security is a legal excuse to do things Trump otherwise wouldn’t be able to do in his pursuit of a trade war.
The median salary in San fransico is much higher than the rest of the US so I feel like comparing the salary to the entire country might be slightly unbalanced.
You really should have included a link to the video demo you made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxQDdjxqJUk
I imagine it's horses for courses.

I detest / deleted Facebook with an ungodly passion ... but I can see how some people find some use for it.

I like twitter, apart from the political loons ... but, of course, everything is a function of what you put in and who you follow.

To answer your question: timeliness, access to "top" thinkers, a bubble created and curated without baby pictures.
I think that these 'improved shell' projects (incl. crush and nushell) that try to copy powershell somewhat miss the point of the shell in the first place. If I want a high-level language that's tightly integrated with the unix environment, I already have perl and tcl. Little more power (maybe less integration, but greater capacity to build new integration) and I can use raku or lisp. The point of shell is that it interoperates freely with all programs and all programs share a language. If now, suddenly, I can only use commands that have been explicitly rewritten to support your environment; or regular commands are second-class citizens and need support code to interact with your environment's higher-level functionality——

Then your environment is useless to me. Because I have better programming languages which, despite being able to interact with the system and its commands, don't pretend to be one with the system. As a result, the core high-level language constructs mesh better, because they're not trying to serve two goals at once. It's not possible for something that's not a 'real' shell (including fish, zsh, even csh) to integrate with the system the way a real shell does, because the system itself was designed around the shell.
The Spanish, South Koreans and Taiwanese are masters of illegal fishing also, especially for Patagonian toothfish. But then the illegal fishing in Somali waters (that contributed significantly to the issues of piracy) was a veritable united nations... https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2019.0070...
Some people/companies think that if you are behind VPN you can use simple and obvious passwords.
> So there is nothing "game changing" about this -- your threat model is mostly the same, but your attack surface is slightly reduced.

If done correctly (using attestation, as mentioned here already), this can reduce the attack surface significantly.

Right now, you need to both trust your cloud provider to not introduce backdoors for themselves or some government _and_ to keep doing so until the end of your business relationship with them.

Ideally, with trusted/confidential computing, you only need to trust the vendor to initially do as they say and not outright lie to you (e.g. by making the checkbox a no-op). In many ways, this would protect a cloud provider from themselves.

Of course, with the current implementation non-successes like Intel's SGX, one could argue that this is merely kicking the can of trust down the road to the hardware vendor, but as far as I understand it, this is not an inherent flaw of the idea of trusted computing but rather a specific implementation.
Windows and Office are neutral applications. They're not social communication or information platforms. And hardly anyone uses Bing in China.
Additionally, Google with Stadia.
An Imaginary Compiler (short story)
What about the countries that did have a lot of excess deaths in the 25-44 and 45-64 age ranges? Like the US for example?

You are just picking and choosing random data points to make very broad statements.
This is not proportional at all. That you agree or not on Chinese laws is one thing, having to abide to the country laws makes sense. Being a us company doesn't grant a bypass card. To abide to an arbitrary decision based on nothing because the company is chinese is something quite different.
The Chinese government would do this on Apple, for example, i'm quite sure it would create quite an outrage.
Ask HN: I have had no impact at a FAANG. Is this normal?
Hi everyone. I’m a little past 3 years at a FAANG; as I look back at what I’ve done I’ve realized that I’ve had little to no impact. No major features shipped. Nothing I can point to and say I designed that. Nothing I can brag about. What have I made? Dashboards no one looks at. Bug fixes, so many bug fixes. Half made features that were cut months in due to poor planning. And so much, what I like to call, dashboard clicking.

I’m not sure what to think about this. I have golden handcuffs here at FAANG. I’m not too willing to take a different job given my sweet gig. Plus I don’t have to work super hard. But in return I get an unfulfilling job.

What is your experience?
Bolton was fired.... Trump is a street man his yes may not be yes.