skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s one of the points of “The Goal”. As in you need slack to be more productive over time. https://www.ebay.com/p/117280427

I leave the eBay link because last I checked used copies on amazon were very pricey.
Ill chime in and say that Egan is my favorite author alive right now. He is absolutely producing the best hard sci-fi there is and I have consumed everything he has written that I can get my hands on.

I would also suggest reading Permutation City and the Clockwork Rocket trilogy by him.
As an addition to this, it's also worth noting that Laravel has enough development going on to support at least 4 full time employees that I'm aware of, in addition to Ottwell himself working full time on it.
The blockade resulted from Hamas sniping at Israel with mortars and missiles and rockets for nearly 15 years - which also caused 2-3 major wars.

The moment they stop their shenanigans is the day the blockade ends.

I agree that creating a democracy needs more than just an election. However, perhaps letting them vote in some new people might result in governance that is willing to play ball and come up with some kind of agreement.
Computers are bad and we should feel bad.
Mozilla has replaced the existing Android app, Fennec, with Fenix. It has not rolled out to all users and regions yet. So some users have yet to get or even see the update.

Fenix uses a whitelist-only model for extensions, and had only around 9, last I checked. Based on some github issue comments, it seems like they'd prefer to stay with a whitelist approach for the foreseeable future.

If your extensions are important to you, you'll need to disable auto-updates for Firefox in the Play store, and avoid using 'update all' and similar - that is, if your extensions aren't on the list.

A version of the old app is available through F-Droid, but it purports to de-mozilla-fy the browser, so I presume sync and other things may not work the same.
Make Writing a Daily Habit
I've worked remotely or semi-remotely for years now. There's a definite hierarchy o communications where clearly articulating things becomes easier:

In-person > video > voice > IRC >> email >> I feel sorry if you're here.

Slack (and its competitors) provides an amazing way to escalate the level of communication from IRC all the way to video without flipping through different apps. When in-office, I'd still much rather get a slack notification I can ignore for a couple minutes to finish up. A tap on the shoulder is an immediate and unavoidable interruption.

Keeping records is also nice. I can easily search for where a question was answered a couple months ago instead of getting in someone's way yet again. Along the same lines, I find the drama complaint in the article to be rather strange. People who like conflict are going to fight with other people no matter what the medium. At least with Slack, you have a permanent record of what was said so the individual can be dealt with. If someone is that toxic, let them be another company's problem.
The talks themselves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESXMg9OzWrQ
So many choices... Anyone have any favorites?
I do contract development work, haven't touched Wordpress in 10 years, never touched Drupal. I mostly work with the Symfony and Laravel frameworks.
I skimmed through the talks and the content seems to be more focused at PMs evaluating using Rust than at Rust programmers themselves.

I don't think I learned anything.
> I think just a mere existence of flu or cold was a mistake. We should have eradicated those years ago.

Genius! If only we'd thought of that earlier slaps forehead. While we're at it, why don't we get rid of this whole 'cancer' thing too. It's such a bother.
Yea, I don't know what's going on besides what I read.

I would much rather see the screenshot for myself then have someone else explain to me what they think the most important aspects of it are.
But funny enough you can't do both. Your iDevice can automatically back up over the network or it can automatically back up to iCloud but using one of those means the other is manual-only.
You might be surprised to find that there are lots of McMansions in the desert that cost this much to keep cool in the summer.
Czech republic?

Actually it's a counterpoint cause they renamed to Czechia right about when their government got less democratic :-)
Yoric wasn't referring to actual money that traded hands; the 2 billion USD figure included the estimated value of being featured on google.com.

And I'm certain that Google determined that whatever they paid for it (in cash or opportunity cost or whatever) was worthwhile to them! (And today, it very much looks like they were right.)
Beautiful. I love how few cars there are.
Plane Flies Itself. We Went for a Ride
1500 Archers on a 28.8: Age of Empires network programming (2001)
What's the benefit of this? You have to trust the website to faithfully scan the dice and not send their state anywhere else. If you trust the website, then you could just wiggle the mouse for entropy to seed a cryptographically-secure PRNG, generate a password in the usual way, and write the password down (or memorize it, or print it, or print it as a QR code if the scanning is important, etc.). That seems equally secure, and more convenient than carrying a set of dice with me everywhere I go.

And of course a YubiKey or equivalent is the real answer. I'm trusting the developer there too, but I get a nice compact package that fits on my keyring, and a secret that never goes outside that package.
In the future, AI overlords will determine that it is inefficient to drive airplanes, and will instead put humans in what they'll call a cockpit.

This room is where they'll be raised, before ready for service.
Medical imaging startup Nanox raises $165.2M as it prepares to list on Nasdaq
Go Dox Yourself (NYT Guide)
3.5 million monthly active users of Telegram in the US. 80 million MAU of TikTok in the US. Makes a difference. They didn't crack down on TikTok until very recently.
Wups!

I assumed ransomware was always a class of attack wherein non backed up data was at risk.

This seems like a failed ransomware attack where the university just got unencrypted information stolen that they didn’t want released.
You think the company is not aware of their exploitative behavior, they get away with it because they can. And you as a consumer, can either bring it to their notice, if you have the time and effort to do so, or you vote with your wallet.
I'm not sure why you've brought up Signal, they're completely different platforms.

Signal focuses on secure communication, Telegram has a secure communication feature... But also a social network of group chats and channels that link to each other; and that's the focus of this article.
2.3M voted in a poll, 59% from Belorussian phone numbers. That's 1.36 M or 17% of the eligible voter pool. 51% of these are for the secondary candidate.

This doesn't reconcile with the official numbers regardless of how you massage them.
Made me think of Enders Game.
> Updates happen in background automatically without user knowing ... Move fast, break things!

This is exactly why power users dislike SNAP.

Give us the ability to choose if/how/when to install updates. Period.
Poker books run Linux and koreader supports them, which I have used a lot on my old Kindle touch.
So for context -- I was working on this ten years ago. I don't have much to say about this particular example other than to note that almost all ammonia today is made using natural gas as the hydrogen source.

Using ammonia is a neat idea, if made renewably, but it will continue to be a challenge to use in cars because it is pressurized, corrosive, and toxic even compared to gasoline.

Obviously the bigger market for renewable ammonia should be fertilizers because right now we're feeding our crops petrochemicals in order to get high enough yields to feed us. That seems like a bad situation to put yourself in if there's any other choice.
Not to Miss Sessions KafkaSummit
That fittingly enough sounds like a description of a NP hard problem in nature and theoretical vs practical verifiability. Individually every instance may receive validation relative to the local. In practice doing it and cross comparing across all is impossible due to scale - and that is just for simple propositions. Propositions themselves may be too massive to hard prove.

I suppose that in itself is a small but significant difference about more mathematically practicable fields. If someone comes out with a P=NP proposes algorithm we can test it for various conditions and say "No that is bullshit, just obfuscating it as - setting the state up requires (N!)." If it really isn't.

The smaller units of operability can be verified and there are no "anomalous unreproducible artifacts" to contend with.
I think the calls to std::move in those specific examples are due to optimization flags not being passed to the compiler invocations on godbolt.

That being said, I've definitely heard of std::move in the wrong places preventing optimizations (e.g., std::move on a return statement can (will?) inhibit copy elison), but I'm not familiar enough with the finer details of C++ be able to tell you why.
Hmm. As a crotchety old man (well, I'm 32, but still), I hadn't even considered mobile. I was thinking Windows/macOS/Linux native apps as the probable alternatives.

In either case though, I think this is just one more reason to hate Web Extensions. I don't want browsers to win over native applications. (Of course "applications" that are little more than a bundled browser are even worse, whether on mobile or desktop.)
2 inch: ~5cm
20 foot: ~6m
Well telegram is what they're using, do you suggest that the name of the app be left out of the article? The statements are coming from excited & anxious activists. Of course they're going to be overstated. I hope they are successful in their peaceful coupe and get honest elections. Can't you just have hope for them as well?
> First the interviewer went off on a tangent claiming that they’re not evil (unsolicited)

They're a big data company that works mostly with governments and militaries, and they're named after evil (and unreliable!) magical spying technology from The Lord of the Rings. It's clear why they feel the need to try to convince you that they're not evil.
But there is an open source client. So it should be trivial to not actually delete, but instead log every attempt to delete.
A programmer isn't exactly a freeloader. He spends a lot of expensive effort to improve the OS vendor's worth. Microsoft figured this out correctly.
I am very interested in investing in Palantir stock. There is political risk with Biden reducing contractor and military spend, but ultimately they provide critical software / infrastructure for the government and that won't be going anywhere.
It is infamous for the 1950 publicity stunt in which they put an elephant on board. The elephant got scared and jumped out.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuffi
Ed: yes, 3.10, not 3.1. The issue reported was in 3.17, IIRC.
It certainly would be stable. A very moderate increase in speed would allow you to make good on a substantial delay for any kind of reason.
Great article. I wish Stephen Hawking could give his insight. Would love to hear what he thought about this
Drfpasswordless: Passwordless Auth for Django Rest Framework
If you want to be able to recover _that_ key at some point.
I have plenty of savings, but about $300 in my savings account, the rest spread across checking and other accounts. I'd be counted amongst the "poor" in this poll due to that. Is there more data somewhere? The poll is often touted, but I wonder if it shows what you think, or just shows that savings accounts now days are mostly useless?
And in a number of different domains in life at that
Gotta love a legislation which makes it much harder for startups while favoring the fully lawyered-up big tech.

Never forget what the GDPR fan boys claimed about this legislation being some kind of Big Tech "killer", and now go and look at Big Tech stock prices.
That is wild. I didn't know SCO was ever losing money in quite that way.

I worked tech support for an early PC point of sale credit card payment processing company and Linux was actually one of the last *nixes we supported. I don't believe they had even rolled it out in 1998 when I quit. We supported DOS, Windows, SCO, and maybe one other commercial Unix with just a few users. It was excruciatingly obvious to the more knowledgeable rank and file where things were going, and I even wrote an internal document once explaining how to run the SCO version of our software on Linux using its iBCS support.

The internal discussion I remember about which operating system we would support next as online payment processing took off was mostly about BSDI vs Linux (but with our upper management focused very strongly on NT). Perhaps oddly, both options were treated seriously.
It crashes my whole linux system. Is about:memory preserved on restart? Is it safe to send my employer's data?

I've largely switched to just running FF inside a VM. It seems to use all the available memory in a given system so I just give it less memory and it performs about the same...
I think you are mistaken. Before your text is sent to Signal your sender information is encrypted with the receiver's public key. So while Signal's servers can see who to deliver the message to they cannot see who sent it. Only the receiving client can decrypt and authenticate the message. This feature was rolled out in late 2018 and is called "sealed sender". It was developed to prevent leakage of any social network information via the message metadata.

But as far as I know Telegram has no equivalent feature.
When I think about personal finance, I often think about efficiency. The obvious examples include buying in bulk, avoiding finance charges to optimize what you get for your money, paying insurance up front when the payment options charge extra, and just plain having fewer subscriptions to keep monthly expenses lower and easier to track.

All of this efficiency increases financial stability. I suppose if we argue that I'm only referring to optimization and not efficiency, then perhaps it's not a great argument.
>"to start a massive nation wide riot"

- Keyboard warrior? This is a crime in any country including the the US. Can you imagine what it will do to you in a country like China?

>"Or these folks can coordinate with protesters in other parts of the world, to raise awareness and stop consumers from buying from a dictatorship."

- What prevents you from not buying from a dictatorship now? Do you need to be directed by people from Tibet about it?
One of the difficulties in astronomy is determining the age of astronomical objects.

Brown dwarfs and small red dwarfs have about the same temperature in the early stages of their formation. The main difference between the two is the drop in temperature over time.

A super cool brown dwarf might just be an old brown dwarf. The (arbitrary) line between planemos and brown dwarfs can be drawn via mass (e.g. no matter the temperature, if it's too small for deuterium fusion, it's not a brown dwarf) and composition (e.g. via testing for lithium), though both criteria are not perfect.

A cool brown dwarf can basically just be very old.
However they have only gotten worse over time. It's just now that they're willing to block some far right/far left groups trying to fraudulently dump info in the form of ads and memes on Facebook.
I actually created something similar to this a while back when Reddit TV was taken down.

Would love if you guys could check it out.

It’s https://viddit.app

It’s really only meant to work on desktop though.
As a statically typed language, I feel like it doesn't even take much to explain why it's actually the worst, except for C. But at least C is necessary in some domains.

The type system is weaker than Java, which is a low bar.

It has no generics, which means no real containers, no generic functions without dropping all typing, no type-hinted arrays.

Arrays are also not objects, so they don't conform to any interfaces, which is related to the "no real containers" issue.

It took until version 7.4 to actually have covariance and contravariance! Before that it didn't even implement inheritance correctly!

You can't typehint for function-as-param beyond just writing `callable`. So if you want to use those nice lambdas and still be statically typed, you're SOL.

It's definitely fast for a scripting language! So, that's fair. But it's still way slower than many other good backend languages: Java and other JVM languages: Kotlin, Scala, maybe Clojure?, Go, Rust if you're feeling frisky.

I've never used Ruby and I'm generally biased against dynamically typed languages, so that's the background for my assessment. The dynamic languages I've used in anger are Python, JavaScript, Elixir, and Clojure.

The package manager is better than the disaster that Python was the last time I used it. Agreed. It's also better than NPM, but not enough to matter most of the time. It's not better than Hex or Lein. Also, managing packages is a) not the language, which is what I criticized, and b) not where you spend most, or even a large part, of your dev time.

Looking at PHP as a dynamic language, I'd say that the built-in array is still a huge disappointment and the API sucks compared to either of Python's dict or list. It's much cleaner in JavaScript, Clojure, Elixir, and Python to define and operate on new, untyped, objects.

Also, for a dynamic language, I'd at least want SOME benefit to it being dynamic. For JS, Clojure, Elixir, and Python, the REPLs are great. The PHP REPL is... primitive.

None of the things you mentioned in PHP are actually better than any other language I've used except for the package manager. Its lambdas are not even better than any of the languages I've listed. In 2020, decent lambda syntax is table-stakes.
he brought it up because someone was paid to write nice things about telegram, so they found a guy using that

when signal asks for an article, someone will be quoted as how signal was helpful
It's a hotel, people would immediately use that cockpit for all sorts of things that are hard to clean and could damage the equipment.
That's a nice way to think about, and it reminds me of Nassim Taleb's "antifragile" thesis [1]. Basically, the world is more random than you think, and to operate rationally under uncertainty, you need to be open-minded about opportunities and risks with huge asymmetries. Fragile systems are often very successful for a long time because they ignore hidden risks and then collapse due to the unexpected.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragility
That's the exception and far from the norm.
Perhaps more like historical anthropologist, if we're honest.
Based on what you've posted here - they're going to make a fortune.
https://www.nationalastro.org/news/cool-new-worlds-found-in-... tries to hide it, too, but says, in note 1: The closest of these new discoveries is roughly 23 light-years away from the Sun. Many more of these brown dwarfs are in the 30–60 light-year distance range.
> This type of valor stealing, is also happening when people call US border detention facilities as 'Nazi concentration camps'. For people whose family members went through a Nazi concentration camp, hearing such a comparing is painful.

I was with you until this comment.

What the Jews went through is horrible beyond words.

What immigrant families are going through is also horrible.

They may not be systematically murdered like the Jews being sent to gas chambers, and they may not be sterilized like the Uighurs, but they are still suffering. Families are being separated forever. Lost children will never be given back to their parents. That's not okay.

Don't trivialize human suffering. Condemn it. Don't turn it into an analogy where you can praise those that suffered the most. Who are you to know how any of this feels? We're not trying to win some contest here - the result we're after is the end of suffering.
> They have their narrative and they're sticking to it.

That's exactly how reading Mozilla apologetics comes across. I'd say pre-registration could help sift out the bullshit from the well-founded predictions, but there's seemingly no way to get Firefoxers to deviate from their narrative, and the proof would come at a time that's too late to act on, anyway.

For all the retrospectives that exist about Jobs's ability to captivate, Mozilla folks have a self-perpetuating echo chamber/reality distortion field of their own—except the only thing it's good for is a thousand self-inflicted wounds and a smug sense of persecution. Terrible combo.
Those are usually custom fit to the individual and the Germans were probably happy not to take the effort of repeating all that work.
Official election results give Tikhanovskaya 500k votes, Telegram poll - 1M votes, 2x more.
Some of the features of Telegram are helping them to do this, some stuff that signal is definitely lacking. for small groups and one to one signal is great, especially security wise, but the location and room functions of Telegram here are overshadowing it, even if it has inferior security and is much more proprietary.
On SD Cards at least, I've seen the software bugs in the FTL lose track of sectors more often when I've had the tooling to tell the difference. There's some terrible code in those things.
i was able to turn the graphic emoji's permanently off in the settings: they were replaced with their labels... For me it was mostly an eye saver, i hated the constantly moving bits on my screen
How often do you see a browser icon on your desktop? Yep, it's always there in the task bar or the dock, but it's not your focus.

Now, how many times do you search for things on web? Every search page and search results page had a call to action to install Chrome. It's the only product Google advertised on their home page for years. The download was tiny (it downloaded the rest of the app in background), it did not require admin rights to install and hijacked the default browser setting.

Plus Google put aggressive ads on YouTube, in Gmail, Maps and Docs at the time. One click on a banner, you browser showed a dialog - and bam! You got Chrome.

Plus, there were bundles with Flash player, Skype, all popular antivirus freeware, etc. In 2010-2014 it was almost impossible not to have Chrome on one's computer on accident.

And many banner ads in major cities around the world. London underground was flooded with Chrome banners - something no other browser had done before or since.
Well said! Sadly, the importance of your message seems to have been overlooked in the usual HN game of one-upmanship.
free messaging apps, like free software organizations, are just better at obfuscating their fascist overlords but the fascist overlords are still there pulling the strings somewhere as this clearly demonstrates https://fsfellowship.eu/matthias-kirschner-fsfe-nazi-compari...
I really like the idea of Matrix, but in practice I don't have anyone to use it with. At least with Signal the on-boarding experience is super low friction, so I can just tell someone "message me on Signal" and they'll figure it out.

Matrix on-boarding is more complicated and would probably require hand holding through which client and server to use.
Show HN: I created a Reddit TV alternative (only good for desktop viewing)
I've been using affinity designer since 2014. I love it, however its lacking a couple really vital features still that make illustrator a must have for many professionals (not me).

One is the envelope distort mesh, allowing you to modify on a 3d grid (3d transform, things further away are smaller). Example here[0].

The other is blending between two shapes, as seen here[1]

0: https://youtu.be/cq3K27M36mI?t=214

1: https://youtu.be/GOCPUJ5xVTw?t=661
Wow, that's amazing that it can detect light from objects at 200K. That's about the temperature of dry ice.
Funny, I thought airforces generally just recruited pre-grown humans called adults.
Reacting to damage is something you learned in previous generations. You've encountered that situation billions of times (you just don't remember them).