skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All those hundreds of billions of dollars and they apparently haven’t used any of it to update their IT infrastructure. As a taxpayer, my first thought is: well where did all that money go? The pockets of unaccountable defense industry executives with nothing to show for it?
There is no official YTS. YIFY-TORRENTS was shut down, the most popular and semi-professional site is YTS.(some domain), but there is no official one.
The author points to three reasons they can’t hire civilians: bureaucratic hiring process, preference for those with security clearance, and no dedicated recruiting pipeline. They also mention the issue of salaries.

To me, this does not even scratch the surface. I’m a manager and I regularly wear a t-shirt to work. At no point has anyone called me or have I called anyone “sir”. In fact, everyone just refers to everyone else by their first name, including interns addressing the CEO. Levels are hidden, and good ideas can come from anywhere. There’s no way the Pentagon is making that kind of cultural shift in my lifetime.
Another solo founder...

There are benefits to working alone (insert Mr. Incredible Meme here)

No need to worry about salary or splitting the company. You can pivot really easily and you have 100% control of decisions.
I think the OP is referring to "real" wars as wars officially declared by Congress.
I would expect GDPR not to apply anymore after the UK withdrew from the EU, is that not the case for some reason?
Pastor and church members exchange blows with landlord for asking them to vacate
There's gotta be like a github repo somewhere that lays out the actual technical aspects of SEO, without any of the bullshit. Anyone know of a project like that?
> The removed labels are among more than half a dozen instances in which Facebook managers have interfered with fact-checks in ways that appear at odds with the program’s spirit of independence and nonpartisanship. At times, its employees have used a broad exemption for opinion content and previously undisclosed powers to make editorial decisions in ways that favored certain publishers. Content that has been deemed false by its fact-checkers has not always been labeled false on Facebook. In some cases, Facebook has reevaluated fact-check labels or penalties after fact-checkers had acted, often in the wake of political, financial, and PR pressures.

> In one previously unreported label change, for example, Facebook pressured fact-checkers to downgrade a label on a video shared by influential conservative publisher PragerU from “false” to “partly false.”

So standard question when terrible stories like this are posted: there are many HN members who work at FB. How do you deal with stories like this and continuing to work there?
Ordering a paramedic is as criminal as doing it themselves. "Suggesting" it might be fine if the paramedics are free to say "no", but ordering using medication by non-doctors is criminal behaviour over here...
can't effectively run the military is a cheap summary of the arguments in the article:

If you believe diversity of experience and perspective improves decisionmaking, this should worry you.

The secretary of defense needs to revolutionize recruiting, mentoring, and promotion

Those are about improving effectiveness (which is optimization, not a binary effective/not effective argument) and management practices.
The present wars are very lopsided from a military strength perspective. They aren’t fighting wars with comparable armies and navies but, primarily, against much smaller forces with much lower levels of technology (or less powerful technology). But they still value high cost, near worthless for the current wars, aircraft and ships over working towards a set of tools and capabilities appropriate to the present, multiple, wars they’re involved in.
Looks good, but I don't understand how you can compete with Google & Apple with a photo organizer app.

You may want to use Flutter or similar tool so you don't have to write it twice.
I read the whole doc first. Normal scrolling works. Then I use the auto scroll to speed up signing and to ensure I didn’t miss a signature.
Massive individualized use of apple-like logos for tech blogs, memes, personal pages, toy projects, cooking recipes, discussion groups, social media channels etc. ...

... so many that even if apple has their lawyers send cease & desist letters to each offender (who can then safely just comply) ... it's an unwinnable game of whack-a-mole ... and when they finally lose ... there goes their brand.

...

And if anyone feels bad about this ... remember the goal is to take down a 2 trillion dollar bully.
I like your approach more than duct.rs :)
Didn't you read the headline? This is a battle to the death.
You think all the other non-“notable” people executed in one of those things got the appropriate legal protections too?

Anyway I’m just trying to say that if you want to apply the most unfriendly interpretation to some happening in America, in order to compare it to “non-American Marxist regimes”, at least be consistent.
By that standard "total war" doesn't exist any more, the only exceptions I can think of being civil wars in developing nations with negligible GDP.
Show HN: Built this cool app for mixing podcasts and music into your workouts
A couple of years back, I had an idea for an app that would mix podcasts and music nicely into my workouts. There's so much idle time during a workout, so for podcast lovers like me, it's the perfect opportunity to get loads more podcasting time in during the week.
The idea was to listen to podcasts during the relaxing part (think rest between sets, chill during intervals, etc), and have music during the intense parts (lifting, running fast, etc).
In order for it to work without ever having to open the phone, I implementing a workout timer that shifts between podcasts and music. And in addition, being able to shift back and forth through my headphones (tap pause to shift).
I've been iterating (now together with mates) on the concept for two years, and I gotta say this has become a super nice workout experience.

Here's our current problem. We've been featured on the App Store several times, and the acquisition rate has been good. So has retention, really. But the activation rate is the big bottleneck. I think it's because, this is really a new style of workout "entertainment", and kind of hard to explain to people. You really have to try it to realize how great it is (humble/brag opinion). Those users who do get to try it out that first time almost always stick around, but loads of our users don't get there.

I'd really, really love some feedback on the product, and hear some opinions especially on the onboarding, which presumably might be where we struggle. We're building this mostly for our own pleasure, but I really think most people would love this product for their workouts.

Here's the app: https://www.shiftfm.app/
I suggest you watch the movie Big.
That works great if you have solid mechanic skills and you get the type of car that can be easily worked on. Otherwise, it's kind of a sketchy dice-roll, which is why certified pre-owned cars are a thing.
> While not all of them genuinely care, some do, and these conversations force me to reflect on how well I’m doing what I’m doing.

The act of describing what you're doing clearly enough that a 3rd party can make sense of it already helps, no matter who your conversation target is and how much they care.
> what responsibility does government have if that drastic effect stops the business from being profitable?

If the business relies on anti-competitive behavior to stay profitable, then any regulation that improves the situation will necessarily affect that business' bottom line.

I wouldn't be surprised if FAANG and their dominant positions in the market are considered important to "national security", in an economic sense of the term. (And perhaps from surveillance/intelligence perspective, and control of information access.)

In that case, it would be in the national interest to support - or at least let continue without disruption by pesky regulations - their anti-competitive behavior that ensures that dominant global position.
The thing about accessibility is it's only hard if you wait until the end to do it. There's an ongoing conversation in the web development world about this now. if you build your UI out of accessible elements, or better yet semantic HTML elements then your site will be accessible by default. All it takes is keeping this in mind to begin with, because it's no harder to do it accessible than not.

You might miss or be unaware of accessibility concerns when developing, but it's easier to go back and fix what you missed than it is to build an entire ui and go back and add accessibility to begin with.

As to electron, if you want to leverage web skills to build a mobile app, it's a cromulent solution. I don't think big companies with resources should use it (slack), but for JS devs who want to build things, it's a great tool. Most people I work with don't realize slack and vscode are both electron apps.
I’d like to know this too please :)
+1. It took a while for me to get on board with this at my company but I'm now a huge fan. We name our APIs "FooCreate", "FooUpdate", "FooDelete", "BarCreate", ... for nicer sorting and grouping, even though it's the opposite of how you'd say it in common English.
I always assumed this was intentional to push users to the app so telemetry and tracking work more reliably, and to bypass adblockers. The reddit mobile site is a classic example. No new functionality in years, but it's borderline unusable on a phone these days, and the constant nag screens to install the app betray their intentions.
One might object to the specific idiom "real war", but GP is right to differentiate between security situations that scare Congress enough to actually pass a declaration of war (which last happened during WWII) and more excuses to funnel more money to armaments manufacturers (everything since WWII, and quite a bit before). Just because we're murdering hundreds of thousands of innocent people, don't assume USA is actually under any sort of threat.
GDPR is the EU regulation. It's been put into UK law in the form of the Data Protection Act 2018. https://www.gov.uk/data-protection

They'd have to change the law if they want to remove GDPR.
So in short a poor range extender or a way to do MitM.
To interject with something that's hopefully an insight: I think the reason most people punish other people for social awkwardness is because - in their eyes, it falls on the foul side of Hanlon's Razor. I.e. they think that someone is being socially awkward to deliberately make people feel unpleasant, rather than being awkward because it's something they just can't help.

It seems to span the full spread of social awkwardness - all the way from just being weird, down to being a jerk. I've seen people who are jerks not because they want to be, but because they can't help but run their mouth when they're in the wrong emotional state. I've also had at least one friend who'd frequently do really rude things like suddenly walking away mid-conversation, and it wasn't because he wanted to insult us, but it was because his ADHD was redlining so badly that he had to seek any other available stimulation, even if there wasn't any available.

At this point, I'm honestly convinced most human malfeasance is just manifestations of various mental illnesses, and I really wish we'd approach it with a therapeutic, rather than punitive, approach. We might actually fix things, if we did.
They try to upgrade the infrastructure but it’s not a cohesive effort. And the bureaucracy involved delays things so that now an office may be getting a 2010-state-of-the-art network. They also hijack civilian industry terms and abuse them to the point they can claim to be working like industry without changing a thing.
Quite cool although:

1.) I find if you put the video conference window top and center of a monitor--preferably a larger one--it works pretty well so long as you make at effort to keep your eyes towards the top of the screen. This is especially important (and takes some discipline) if you're presenting from slides.

2.) The general recommendation, which is my experience as well, is that the webcam should be up at eye level or maybe a bit above. So if you are using a laptop, it should be up on some books or other type of stand.
There are some good electron apps and some bad ones.
There's also a spot that was used to award medals for the Olympians and as a place for executions not long after (Malo Polje on the top right of the first photo): https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/5gmy1j/medal_p...

This month it was supposed to be used as a place for the Red Bull 400 race (400 meters uphill), but from what I can find, it appears as if the event was cancelled.

Like someone said, the history of Europe in the 20th century can be summarised as "from Sarajevo to Sarajevo", considering it's a place where an assassination triggered WW1 and a place of gruesome aggression at the end of the century.
Oh i see I have angered the cult. A rare negative submission points for me by daring to criticize the holy one.
Seems expensive compared to something like uptimerobot
It seems like a cashback card then
Solo Founder.

I have done Meditation, gratitude journals and focused transitions. It all helps.

However, for me the activity that helps the most is hard workouts early in the morning. Once I get going, I am fighting against gravity and fatigue. I am no longer thinking about my past, future or even the day. Just focused on the moment.

I am in a similar boat as you OP. I am very happy on a daily basis, building the product. I am also pretty financially stretched so that adds a level of stress. I hope your product is a giant success.
An irritating thing about Uno is that I heard about it for the first time in this thread, and I'm finding it basically impossible to figure out how well it meets the requirement of this thread: cross-platform GUI.

Their main page says that it's cross-platform, but doesn't have any screenshots of a simple application running on every platform. If you go to [1] you'll see that most of the programs they feature are Android + iOS only, not even desktop platforms. Of the few that do, most seem to be Windows only, and a few run on the Mac, but look horrific on that platform. [2] Not a single one of their showcase programs runs on Linux. What's up with this, shouldn't the whole point of a showcase for a cross-platform UI framework be to show off applications that run on every supported platform?

If you start digging into the docs [3], you immediately find pages that mention only iOS, Android, UWP, and WebAssembly as supported platforms. The "developers" dropdown on the main page has Android, iOS, Web, macOS and Windows 7?? Even their code samples [4], hilariously, only run on a few platforms and don't seem to link to any actual code?

[1] https://platform.uno/showcases/

[2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/uno-calculator/id1464736591

[3] https://platform.uno/docs/articles/getting-started/requireme...

[4] https://platform.uno/code-samples/
Maybe it uses this on Windows but on Linux it's definitely using Qt widgets/Qt Quick.
You'd be surprised how many top-downloaded apps are made with flutter. Electron and typescrypt may have some potential but they have a horrible genetic desease - javascript. That alone makes flutter a clear winner.
I'm not sure that the perfect workplace environment, the culmination of thousands of years of human and civilizational history, is ... for people to wear t-shirts and calling one another by their first name. There is a time and place for everything, and one-size-fits-all models tend to work poorly when applied indiscriminately. The military is a highly codified organization based on cultural hierarchies going back centuries. A little formality has never prevented anyone from doing their job.
A taser is basically ineffective when used on somebody high on PCP. If they're violent enough, you basically either need a tranq dart or a gun.
Video conferencing room dedicated for such tasks.
I had a similar thought. Regardless of whether it is legal gambling, the mystery box aspect seems to be a gamification which relies on taking money for each turn to play. Each turn is a random chance at getting something super valuable (a rare, new or previously unowned toy). Looks like the same mechanism as the baseball or Pokémon card packs. I wonder if there is an underground trading market, maybe just ebay.
> I suggest you try 4G somewhere near Toa Payoh, Bishan, Bedok or even some places within Paya Lebar.

I’m with Singtel and don’t have any problems in those places. I even had 4G on Pulau Ubin today. Singtel has a $25/20GB plan for locals, $10/1GB isn’t really representative of typical plans.
Checkout https://GitHub.com/qmlnet/qmlnet

It leverages the entire Qt system with the power of .NET. We use it on embedded medical devices.
> Who else can charge 30% on every sale just because?

Every physical product retailer charges > 30%. This is what I'm suggesting is the confusion point. If an app developer sells an app for $0.99, then the dev gets $0.66 per transaction. If a physical product producer sells something with an MSRP of $0.99, the retailer will be purchasing the item at a wholesale price of closer to 50% of the MSRP (if not a higher percentage) leaving at max $0.50 per item. This shows how much easier the software dev has it.
I think you maybe a bit disappointed like me with the orange company logo :)
I don't know, it seems stuff like this are outliers. My country has the same - 1GBps/5G plan and when in middle of nowhere (like in vacation with kids at their grandparents in the country side), missing a broadband connection we all use hotspot from mobile, with easily using 50GB/day at least. And for 5 euro/month subscription that gives like 5 / (30 x 50) => 0.(3) cents per GB.
Catastrophes and Calms
The UK's Data Protection legislation was fairly strong before GDPR made improvements. GDPR is applied by each member state's own laws aligning with GDPR. Hence I believe, in this specific case, nothing has (or will) change as Brexit reaches its conclusion.
> Mylio

Mylio looks really cool, thanks for sharing!

> spend 50% of your time marketing

As a thin-skinned introvert, marketing doesn't come naturally to me. But yes, I've been trying to internalize this and in fact this blog post was a step towards putting myself out there.

> I have an embarrassing prototype of my product out right now

That's fantastic! I hope things work out the way you want them to. :)
How is it being characterized? Certainly not as a lawsuit.
I live in a country where we don't inject people with
ketamine on the street, nor do "criminals run amok".
We also don't have armed gangs imposing "their own idea
of a justice system", and we have fewer police killings
in 25 years than the US has in 25 days.

As an American, the parent poster is an unfortunate and common example of the sort of attitude that is common here. It is at least partially the result of America's geographic isolation: most Americans have never been to a place where there is low crime and low police brutality and thus literally cannot even imagine it.

I would like to point out the America, one's treatment by police varies greatly.

I'm a white man in my 40s have never witnessed police brutality firsthand. In all my interactions with police, they have acted properly and de-escalated things nicely, even when perhaps I didn't agree with them.

This is the experience shared by many (most?) Americans who, once again, have trouble imagining experiences other than their own. They imagine that nearly all police are just, and therefore victims of police brutality must have done something to deserve the violence.

Essentially, it is the "just world" fallacy writ large. People like to think that the world is just, and therefore like to think that those who experience misfortune have done something to deserve it. It is more pleasant than realizing we live in a country where the police sometimes act in shockingly violent and inappropriate ways.

I do know many people who have experienced awful treatment by police. And of course in recent years much light has been shone upon this misconduct.
Has there ever been a documented medical case of someone surviving on less than 3 hours of sleep a night indefinitely?

I've read a lot of sleep studies, and besides some non-scientifically published variations on Buckminster Fuller's 30 minute nap every six hour sleep schedule I haven't read about someone getting such low amounts of sleep.
Police should never be permitted to direct medical professionals to do anything to a person in their custody unless it is to save their life. Medical professionals should be hyper-trained on how to tell police “hell no” and to report their requests to an independent agency for investigation.

There are other types of scenarios where out of control cops bully doctors and nurses into doing illegal things, two that I have read about:

- forcing a suspect to be subject to anal cavity search by a doctor at a hospital after a traffic stop

- forcing hospital staff to run blood tests on an awake, non-consenting suspect

Everyone who has ever dealt with the medical world for a personal or family problem understands that there are few “sure things” and that something that worked miraculously for someone’s problem might not work for yours, even if they seem like the same problem. Allowing police a position to direct medical care is utterly outrageous and irresponsible.

That said, what was done to Elijah McCain is one of the sickest, most unacceptably fucked up nightmare scenarios I’ve ever heard of. The initial interaction was a result of racist police who then had their victim murdered because they never saw him as a person, just another potential criminal.
In a society with severe inflation surely the very last thing you want to be holding is cash in your literal pocket like Germans do?
I believe video game addiction is worse because it requires a higher level of attention unlike scrolling crap on facebook/instagram etc.
Building Robust Systems with ACID and Constraints (2017)
The Offline Wikipedia/Stackexchange project (Kiwix) has similar devices for kids classrooms/libraries in rural areas with no internet - https://www.kiwix.org/en/downloads/kiwix-hotspot/
True. In hindsight, Apple played a smart move by letting the legal team respond to Sweeney's emails. They perhaps saw this coming from a mile.
Even under that reading, you're making the claim that someone is somehow a cause of the harm by being a bystander. What I fail to understand is why someone would try to shift the blame from the perpetrator to a bystander. The only reason I can think of is that the bystander is an easy target.

On the more metaphysical side, how can inaction be the same as a supporting action? Are you really trying to say that being a bystander is just as bad as being the bully's sidekick? Imagine this schoolyard bully scenario where a child is threatened and extorted by a bully. During the incident, the bully is actively supported by a friend, cheering them on, and perhaps even restraining the victim. There are three bystanders just watching in shock at the situation, but do not have the courage to act. After the incident, the victim decides to take this route, and begins to lash out and claim that by doing nothing, the bystanders are just as responsible as the kid who was holding him down.

Does this accusation really make sense? Does this accusation help the victim resolve the situation? Does this accusation make the bystanders want to help the victim?
I would also expect that they can only remove it after the end of the transition period. Being able to remove market protections while still being in the single market would give them an unfair advantage.