skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether or not your company pays for Zoom, you still get the same severely limited web version and a strong push to use apps.
Why does it suggest that?
> Anyway, my point had nothing to do with the political grouping of the EU. It was a geographical & marketing one. The UK is still part of Europe [even if not for much longer part of the EU]. So, given Fairphone DO sell their phones in UK [and Ireland] but DO NOT sell them in the USA, why have they adopted the US version of English, rather than the version used by people in the market they actually sell into?

Probably because as you say it is more commonly used. Why cater to small minority of UK(or Irish) users?

> Is Fairphone's Spanish documentation & software written in Latin American Spanish? Is their Portuguese documentation & software written in Brasilian Portuguese? Is their French documentation & software written in Québécois?

This a false equivalence. The target is the entire EU not just UK. If they where only selling in the UK then you would have a point.

> ...or is it only the European variants of English that are habitually eschewed in favour of their transatlantic counterparts?

To be completely honest US English is more of a European variant of English then British English. The US English spelling is just way more common in Europe then in the British Spelling.

Anyway for me this discussion has gone on long enough. It doesn't matter to me, I just was completely flabbergasted by someone getting so mad about it.
https://freifunk.net/en/

It's actually a cool project, but never got really big.
> Any trade agreement should have basic human rights mentioned in the first paragraph.

And which regional or global power could sign those, if that had any binding power?
> Updates are really important in terms of security.

We're talking about phone apps. 99% of the time this just isn't the case and the remaining 1% is for issues so widely broadcast you would absolutely know.
Sadly, the narrator of this set of audio readings has moved on from the project, to my knowledge.

That may be for the best, though. Some of the charm (in my own opinion) is that this little project was a gem to discover, a bit ephemeral, and special in its scarcity.
Google Play Store warns Mastodon app – content “incites discrimination”
An Account of the Russian Revolution
The channel is also Oversimplified - it's actually incredibly detailed.
Progressive taxation is a really interesting idea, but it must take into account ownership structures and concentration of control of those corporations. It's not an easy thing to do.
It's interesting that the author uses a forum as a personal blog
A simple way to implement Auto-save functionality
Don't forget the usually horrible wrapping job. I've received a bunch of damaged books because they couldn't be bothered to wrap the book up. In one case, it was the only copy left I could find anywhere and I was stuck with it.

These days (unless there's absolutely no other option), the only books I buy from Amazon are audio books.
I agree with you to the most part.

> which should not be a forum for international politics (outside tech topic) in the first place

Which is why I'm highlighting the account for pushing a 100% political agenda.
This was discussed here just yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24292962
My most cynical viewpoint is that it’s virtue signaling by Americans. We’re ashamed of our atrocities and it’s easy to point to this atrocity.

Maybe it’s inadvertently selective?
I kind of love the absurdity of this
I'm just about ready for my ten year renewal and almost 50. Same for me. I got it for the ability to use APRS and other higher power options for high altitude balloon tracking (project never got off the ground hurr).
I must admit that I have not read Greta Thunberg's book, but if it has a solution to capitalism's demand that we make sacrifices to our personal morals or starve in the specific instance of the tooling we need to perform our work, I'd love to hear it. You don't get to say "I am not using computers any more as they contain components made in China" and keep your job as a software developer, and you'd be very unlikely to receive unemployment benefits.

The only way we're getting there is actual organisation and uprising to overthrow the capitalism which requires that we make those sacrifices, and frankly... it's not going to happen any time soon. People broadly agreed to the National Guard being sent in to handle some people who were mostly demanding that the police stop killing them, can you imagine what would happen if those people were actually calling to overthrow the state?
MS made a bad situation worse there - they took over version 2 from the original devs, outsourced maintenance, and pushed back on change requests assuming Ford would let them build V3 from scratch instead of (painfully) improving V2. That, as you know, is not what happened!
Could a truck actually legally drive 168h per week in the US?

I heard that trucks in Germany need exceptional reasons (like transporting medicine) to drive on Sundays, and in Switzerland, vehicles above 3.5t aren't allowed to drive between 2200 and 0500 hours at all.
It has been supported for at least a month, probably two. I didn't (have to) use Zoom before that, thankfully.
This poster gave some examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24304367
> For example, the recent standardisation of DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) pitted advocates for dissidents and protestors against network operators who use DNS for centralised network management, and child safety advocates who promote DNS-based filtering solutions. If the IETF were to only decide upon technical merit, how would it balance these interests?

I neither like DoH nor in general arguments of the form "X is not political, we only decide on merits".

However, in this case, I really wonder if the IETF's contribution is political: DoH on it's own is highly so, but to my understanding, the politics are in the decision to design an encrypted, centralized and block-proof alternative to DNS with preselected servers and automatically deploy it to millions of users. But those points belong the initial requirements and the deployment process - not so much the technical details of implementation.

That DoH is a standard makes some difference, but not very much. I think we'd have roughly the same problems (though maybe with less publicity and discussion) if this was some properietary Chrome thing that was fully developed inside Google.

Or to put it differently, assuming it was already decided that something like DoH should be built, is there still political power in the follow-up discussions about how it should be built?
Do you extend this to store brands?

Should Kroger be able to offer Kroger Private Selection alongside other brands?

-edit-

Here's another one. Should Amazon be forced to let Kroger sell Kroger Private Selection in their Whole Foods stores (and vice-versa)? Why or why not?
This is indeed on our development list for this winter to integrate more. Over in MirageOS (mirage.io), we've been working hard on getting RISC-V support in shape, so we can build unikernels for bare metal embedded devices with a simple "dune build @riscv-solo5".

As part of that work, a few things are going on:

- use "dune workspaces" (essentially a cross compilation context) to build all C bindings in OCaml packages with custom CFLAGS/LDFLAGS. Ongoing work here: https://github.com/mirage/mirage/pull/1153

- upstream in OCaml, the core developers have specced out the design for integrating cross-compilation more naturally into the compiler.

- OCaml 4.11.0 has just been released with a native code RISC-V backend (and of course has had ARM for years).

Mirage doesn't really use OpenEmbedded or Yocto, but I expect it should be straightforward to embed the workflow in there once it's stable upstream in Mirage itself. Any pointers to something I should read about how to get involved in Yocto?
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I live in Milan so the whole shopping-experience thing is still very much a part of my daily life. I realise that it’s different in the world of malls and big-box stores.
Same, approximately. I got one literal grandma to use Jitsi, and all of my literal grandparents to use BigBlueButton, and the latter actually took effort. Jitsi is significantly easier to use than Zoom et al., requiring no account or anything but a browser even to host a meeting, and having an extremely intuitive UI compared to eg. Zoom, with eg. the "Raise Hand" button being a hand icon right on the bottom bar next to mute, etc. where there’s just empty space in Zoom, instead of buried under a "Participants" button. BigBlueButton is slightly less simple (eg. you need to log in to host, at least by clicking “Login with Google” or with Twitter or Microsoft) but both have worked flawlessly over dozens of meetings and been understandable to my grandparents.
"Battery time is not like Macs. ~ 5 hours (after one year)"

There are different battery choices of 72, 48 and 24 watt hours. I believe the 72 watt hour battery "bulges" a bit and makes the laptop not sit flat.

Edit: You could also disable the MX150 GPU if you don't really use it.
"The real problem is that lebron james is a hypocrite" ok man
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_and_anthropogenic...
I only use Amazon.com to get the ISBN and then search it on LibGen, since most books are not being delivered in my country anyway.
Sure thing. Emailed.
I am also running Linux on Thinkpad (Debian unstable on T440s).

As to the battery life, this typically requires some work but I found it is generally possible to get good battery life. I am able to get my T440s to run for total 24 hours with the highest option 9-cell, the built in 3-cell and another 3-cell that came original with the laptop. This I did to be able to work on a long yacht cruise with no extra power and required to get backlight almost to minimum and to downclock CPU a little bit.

Now, to get there there are tools that can tell you what is using up the battery and some howtos on the Internet. I don't remember details so it is best if you go look it up yourself.

If you are using i3 you are generally well set up to easily get over 10h of operation.

As to touchpad these are all disappointing on all ThinkPads but probably especially on T440s where it is something called "clickpad". The entire touchpad is a button and you need to press it and try to move your finger while pressing HARD to drag things, for example. Dunno who thought this is a good idea. I always travel with a mouse and a mouse pad to be able to work comfortably:) Still, it is easier to use built in keyboard and a mouse than the reverse, luscious touchpad but keyboard to replace miserable something shipped with Macbook. I don't like typing on something that feels like a solid pane of aluminum with some markings on it.
Ask HN: Best Graphics libraries to build CAD solutions?
I am building custom CAD software for electrical and mechanical design. Which Graphics libraries or solution do you recommend? And is Java 3D API viable?
As someone who holds but doesn't use a Technician Class license, I completely agree.

As someone commented below, sending encrypted data over HAM frequencies is not allowed (IANAL), which also rules out a lot of interesting projects and use-cases.
For once I want to see "heavyweight" in the sales line... Just to see how it compares to all these "lightweight" offerings. Once you add in all the corner cases and bug fixes it seldom stays "lightweight". Good job on releasing it though.
> That's why the only thing they do is threaten any foreign official who won't submit to them.

... and if that fails, take citizens of countries they're at cold war with as hostages: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/19/china-charges-two-detained-c...
> I can't fathom why Apple cripples Safari this way on the desktop

Privacy. For every person installing uBlock Origin, there are going to be 10 people install SuperBlock WowBlocker which is actually just harvesting all the URLs they visit and sending them to some data farm.
I understand that religion is a part of daily life for many, many Chinese. I do admit that I don't know that much about China except the little I have learned from reading and talking with people. I've been mostly asking about the things that these Buzzfeed articles articulate. I'd like to know more, hence my questions, reading about it, etc. I'm not that much more invested than the average interested person, and I've been somewhat interested in China for quite some time, but haven't had (or made, really) the opportunity to visit.

I have a Christian Chinese friend with whom I've talked about the role of the Chinese government in curtailing the free-expression and practice of religion. The 80's are certainly not the 2020's, but as is obvious to even someone who "clearly knows very little about the place" the CCP still works against religions that it sees as threats to their power. I get that this can be framed as a difference in "cultural norms" and this is something that I'd like to understand more fully.

Short of living in China, do you have any good advice, books or whatnot to read, or whatever that would be good to do/read in order to learn more?
Well, if you call anybody Yoshifumi-san (given that Yoshifumi is their given name), he would be very upset.

They make it clear that whenever you use their given name you should NOT add "san" to it.

So that's kind of weird that they do it for foreigners.

Yes they add "-san" to pretty much anything, but their given name is the one notable exception.

I think that there are ancient roots of this, for example in the Heian era the fact to be in relationship with a girl was synonymous to know her given name, and use it to call her before the date ("yobai"). The given name in Japan is something very personal and private, and this would explain why it seems incongruous to them when it is used with "-san".
> As someone who is at the intersection of tech and arts one of the things I like about using git in projects is that it is very clear what is the latest official defintive final variant of a piece of data and you don't have to ask anybody to get it.

As git is a distributed system I think it’s not at all clear what the definitive final variant might be —- and that is a strength.

That can be handled externally to git via ad hoc convention, say by using a system like gitlab or github and letting it declare one as “primary”, or by having someone post to a mailing list (“Commit X on a repo you can reach at URI Y is the official release”) both of which are common.

But in your example various people could mail you commits and not have any consensus on which is authoritative.
Yup. There's nothing illegal about this private contract. I'm just saying it's a lose-lose license for both parties.

For authors:
AGPL is counterproductive to its stated purpose, and will only drive away users and contributors. AGPL is not "open source" or "free software". If dual-licensed then you are essentially releasing commercial software. And that's fine. But own up to that. If not dual-licensed then pretty much every user will violate your license. So what was the license good for?

For users:
There is no practical way to use AGPL software without violating the license. Everything you do with AGPL software incurs a huge legal liability. It is not open source or free software. If it's dual licensed, then pretend only the other license exists. If it's not, then pretend this software doesn't exist, and move along.

Actually, there is one way for authors to derive value from AGPL. It's not ethical, but it exists. Release your AGPL software, and wait for reports of a company using it. Then sue them. Because they are pretty much guaranteed to be in violation.
In the US Lego won't supply toy shops that don't commit to $15,000 of orders annually.
But what if it wasn't actually true? Just like most of the reporting leading up to the major wars of the past many decades.
> We need to recognize the hidden negative consequences of an economic environment in which massive conglomeration is widespread and encouraged, while small-business and cooperative ownership is disincentivized.

This doesn't seem likely. It's pretty fundamental to much of tech growth that founders and investors see the possibility of a monopoly.

Some investors like Thiel explicitly advocate for building a monopoly.
Then you are lucky. It breaks frequently (but randomly) and when it does, it's almost impossible to debug unless you have access to the broken machine (and that is unlikely given that you're probably at home and so are they).
Care to explain why you are trolling the troller who is trolling every thread?
For something like this, which does not include time-sensitive material, why does a date matter? This is as close to timeless content as you’re like to find WRT a Raspberry Pi case project.
No, it matches the "it's not true capitalism" of the extreme-right libertarian in being absolutely true according to the ideology that they follow. It's not an excuse, but something you can verify by reading the thinkers they follow. If I change my name to "Mr. Real Democracy," people who believe in democracy aren't forced to take responsibility for my crimes.

The "everything I don't like is communism" isn't even extreme right, it's the entire right. It has nothing to do with beliefs, it's a pretense to use violence to suppress political disagreement. It's akin to the "everything I don't like is fascism" of the woke liberal.
Even coloured PETG has been amazingly shatter resistant for me? I took a bad print and stuck it in a bench vice. It was long and skinny (maybe 3-4mm thick before the print failed), and it literally bent itself in half and did not snap.
I'm taking about using a license that has provisions such as "can only be used for free by entities with less than $100,000 in revenue" (this case) or "must not be used for evil" (jslint). Such a license would not be considered a free software license, because it restricts the use:

https://opensource.org/osd.html

As a result, the license would be incompatible with copyleft licenses.

Of course, you could kindly ask your "customers" to please pay for a license in case they're using the software for some purpose. Good Luck with that.
The Liberal Democratic Party (Abe's party) has received monetary, opposition intelligence, and propaganda support from the US since it's inception:

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/09/world/cia-spent-millions-...
Let me contrast that with something: opening a dialogue outside of an echo chamber.

For example, a woman of Han descent who had her purse snatched by a Uighur kid talked about feeling nervous and clutching her bag when she passed someone on the street. Instead of lecturing her about systemic problems as a first resort, I started by finding common ground: her experiences as a Chinese woman studying abroad in Japan, and the systemic racism she experienced.

The ally training skills I learned in the US were helpful. The more typical high-minded condescension, in contrast, tends to be counterproductive in my experience.
Is there room here for an official intermediary? e.g. a device with a public API that your watch could connect to, and that could interface with other open APIs?
Someone help me understand what is the exciting thing about HAM cause this article doesn't do anything for that.

My first exposure to HAM was back in ~2000 when I started working at a car stereo shop and the owner (NU5K) was huge into HAM. He was an asshole most of the time, but very knowledgeable and loved to tinker with different HAM components both benchtop and mobile.

Everytime I would try and get interested the end result promise was something like: "You can bounce a wave off a cloud and talk with someone in Ukraine!"

Ok, well I can also do that on ukraine.bbs - and being able to choose my topic instead of whomever is actually on this random band at this random time.

Even moreso now - there's a million things to tinker with on the hardware side raspberrypi, Arduino, etc... even more on software etc. I see no reason that anyone would mess with HAM.
Warp Field Mechanics 101 [pdf]
You can definitely do that for the 2 and .75 meter bands. $30 off of Amazon for a BaoFeng.

HF and the bottom half of VHF is where you start needing more (expensive) equipment and the antenna setup begins to really dominate performance.

The other problem is that you'll go through all of the expense for a turnkey radio, get on the bands and all you hear people talking about is their radio setup.
> Let me clarify: I believe it's a waste of time if we're also not complaining to our elected representatives.

I still disagree with your clarification. Even ten phone calls are better than zero.
Trivia for Google Chat: Quizzes, puzzles and games right inside Google Chat
It's a bit like a BBS, yes, and that's what drew me to the concept initially (I'm an early member of tilde.town; still reasonably active).

We do have an internal bulletin board, and an internal IRC (like the chat rooms of multi-line BBSes of the late 80s/early 90s). There are a ton of little projects by members, and the projects are pretty varied.

I find it a fun place to hang out, personally.
> Can't debug issues in Safari without borrowing a Mac

> Can't do iOS development

Not legally, no. These can be worked around with a VM, just like with the Windows issue. It sucks, but Apple is never going to support their development toolchain on any other platform.

All in all, I think this is a pretty positive review for an "I switched to Linux" blog post. Usually they're more negative about the lack of finish a lot of Linux tools use, but the author of this blog seems to be more tolerant towards the small things in order to gain the big things.
Environmental Performance Index
Cool. I'm running Linux on a Dell Vostro I purchased during their quarterly business sale as my daily driver -- I can't believe the machine I got for the price, and strongly encourage people to look at these sales..

How big of an issue is it to target iOS as a platform on a PC these days with the rise of Flutter, etc? I'm looking to get into app development, but don't have a Mac, nor would I like to buy one if I can avoid it.
Seems like a reasonable approach to allow and manage comments...and build and manage a community. It's a nice hack.
The Three Characteristics of Fast Growing Programming Languages
These are technologically simple problems.
I understand the value of notebooks, but I'd rather use them in a dedicated environment, like VScode or Rstudio.
Well there are no strings, only byte arrays. Now that's fine if you only pass bytes around in a stream, but if wan't to do any computation it you have to assume an encoding and basically anything outside of straight ASCII will be a pain.

Now you may argue that this can be handled nicely in the standard library without changing the language. This is correct, but there will be some frictions with string litterals.
Chris, thanks for this. I completely missed this comment. I will look into that as an option. Right now my trading platform is an old windows app as most stock trading applications are and the web browser version doesn't allow all the features, but this looks like something I will have to try.
Counterintuitively primaries are more democratic now compared to before when backroom dealing often had more sway.

Maybe what's happening now is that early on in primaries enthusiastic voters vote for fresh kids, then as things progress more seasoned voters vote for more established candidates but by then most good established candidates have dropped off and we’re left with the second bests and hangers on.

Kind of a paradox of choice in the political arena.
The great hedge fund manager John Maynard Keynes said "Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent."
Yes, it was inaccurate for me to question the origin. I should've said its surprising to me that otherwise educated people still fall for these narratives.
(And Jitsi Meet and BigBlueButton, and according to another comment here Discord, and in my limited experience with Cisco WebEX web at least ≤7 people can be simultaneously visible there)