skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek, as I think the parent was as well.

Americans do tend to run around quoting their first amendment rights like the whole world has them. As you say, it's strictly a US government thing.

While Australia for the most part enjoys free speech, it is not enshrined in the (AU) constitution. The government will occasionally order censorship[1], usually around whistle-blowing, investigations and court cases.

There was a protest in the major Australian papers last year about the erosion of press freedoms[2].

[1]:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/world/australia/australia...
[2]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-50119559
Offer it for free and see how many people say they WOULD pay.
Anyone who wants to, including the gab maintainers, can create an Fdroid repository containing any apps they want it to, including gab, with or without the permission of the app maintainers. I run a few Fdroid repositories myself for apps that aren't on the play store or in the main Fdroid repository. The Fdroid server tool is open source. You can host your repository on GitHub or gitlab, and update it using their ci/actions/etc. It doesn't require much technical knowledge.

pip3 install --user fdroidserver # or install with package manager.
fdroid init # first run only. Now edit URLs and descriptions in config.py
cd fdroid/repo
wget gab-latest.apk
cd ..
fdroid update # on first run, add --create-metadata and then edit the files in the metadata folder and run update again.
git add repo archive
git commit -m update
React Internals (Part 2) – Reconciliation algorithm until React 15
Unusual Maps
It's dark up here all the time in winter so it doesn't matter. In the summer it's nicer when the sun rises at 3 instead of 2.
How to Handle a Jerk
lol I don't get it? Are you anti-transgender?
Not OP, but I think they refer to Putnam's work on the negative effects of diversity on social cohesion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Putnam#Diversity_and...
That scam relies on the purchaser sending the full payment almost as soon as the bank transfer details have been sent to them, otherwise they’ll see the legit details too.

When I’ve bought residential property in the past, there have always been various fees to pay in advance, using the same bank details. So when it comes to the final big payment, I’ll have already had the bank details for weeks, and have already used them to send previous payments. Double checking the payment instructions by phone just before making the payment helps too, as that allows confirming the account and the final amount.
I never picked up lol early, but I do vividly recall all the screeching wars between Hon (heroes of newerth) , Dota and lol people

The agreement was that lol won because it was free, tho it looked and played worse than either Dota or Hon, but the free aspect won riot the entire emerging markets sector

Me as a SC2 player through and through I just looked down on them overall, so feel free to correct me if I am wrong
Ask HN: Has anyone built a SaaS for local municipalities?
I'm building an aggregator for building permits and planning meeting notes. My business model is to sell alerts based on coordinates and/or search terms. Would love to hear from anyone bootstrapped selling a platform/SaaS to municipalities because we're considering also selling solutions to the public sector. I assume the sales process is long?
There's an anecdote about Jim Gray: he was once asked by a company to help troubleshoot a performance issue in their database (this was in the 80s or 90s I guess). Surprisingly, he did not start by looking at any code, but went directly to the server room and listened carefully for a while. Then, he said what the problem was. (IIRC it was an issue with wrong/missing indexes.) They went to look at the code, and it turned out he was right. Everyone was astonished, how he did this. He was "merely" listening to the sound of the spinning disks while the problematic queries were running.
React vs. Respond
The article ends with:

"Most of the current cutting-edge research in brain-machine interface is conducted on animals, scientists note, with safety challenges and lengthy regulatory approval procedures preventing larger human trials.

Notably, Musk, who has been a frequent source of misinformation about coronavirus in recent months and fought to keep his factories open during the pandemic, did not wear a face mask during his presentation, despite being in a room with dozens of employees, a camera crew and veterinary staff. He eventually put on a mask during a question and answer session."
Imagine your brain got so used to the neuralink interactions and benefits that turning it off causes an insurmontable pain (like drugs)
Chadwick Boseman: Black Panther star dies of cancer aged 43
Conspiracy theories about Covid-19 vaccines may prevent herd immunity
I'm so excited by this and I'm glad that someone like Elon is finally concentrating on agri-tech.

This is great news for pig farmers. Imagine being able to control the amount of exercise they take, to bring them inside automatically and send them back out on a schedule. If they get rustled or lost somehow they could be ordered to walk back to the farm.

I'm sure this will revolutionize farming.
Despite the shortcomings medium continues to be one of the top domains posted on hn https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=medium.com
Tyfyc2!
Protecting yourself is fine for you and me. Not the rest of 99.999%.
It would be like that if McDonald's started to put surveillance systems into their bags to learn about how you consume their burgers and fries once you've walked out of the restaurant.

Knowing your customer is important. Knowing everything about your customer is intrusive.
It's probably because of the good SEO the articles written there get: I published a project on GitHub, then an article on my personal blog about it (with a back link from the repo itself), then an intro article on medium with a link to repo and a "read more" toward my blog post. Then I submitted the GH repo and/or my blog post to some reddit threads.

Now, guess what: when googling for _the knests stack_ in the first few weeks, the top result was the preview article from medium. Even now, it's the second result, showing up above reddit or my blog post.
Are you familiar with Epicureanism at all? It's not as popular these days as, say, Stoicism, but I found it's general tenets somewhat helpful for very similar thoughts. I'm also a bit of an Existentialist, so I agree that it's up to us to create our own meaning. But maybe that meaning can be just as simple as limiting our own suffering as much as possible, and finding the sustainable things that bring is happiness or enjoyment. The meaning we bring to our life doesn't necessarily need to be grand or far reaching.

Anyway, that's sort of where I'm at right now. My personal philosophy is a super messy mix of Stoicism, Epicureanism, Existentialism, and Buddhism. Not particularly well thought out, but it's been useful lately for helping me carve out a little bit of happiness from this bizarre existence.
The "opposite" of Existentialism, if there is such a thing, might be the Japanese idea of shokunin or pure mastery of one's profession. In the West we'd probably call this craftsmanship: taking pride in the fundamentals of one's chosen profession and aiming to master it, not simply earn a living. It's an ideal that I've always found inspiring.

Once you decide on your profession, you must immerse yourself in your work.

- Jiro Ono

https://medium.com/@alyjuma/shokunin-and-sushi-what-jiro-can...

Phrased another way, the craftsmanship model narrows the boundaries of meaning, whereas the Existentialist one expands them to the infinite, or destroys them entirely.

I have always been fascinated by all types of monomania, by persons wrapped up in a single idea; for the stricter the limits a man sets for himself, the more clearly he approaches the eternal.

- Stefan Zweig
I will laugh if Apple will end up creating a game engine for their platforms...
This isn't physics and it isn't an exact equilibrium, but within the range of highway sizes we actually have (not your 1000 lane hypothetical) it seems to hold. Not only do people drive more, but more origins and destinations get built to take advantage of new transport links.
Adding to this social inertia concept, there are countries where work ends at 6pm, lunch is at 1pm or later and dinner at 8pm or later. I live in one of them. If somebody occasionally have dinner at 7pm s/he's laughed at. If it's a regular thing, well, that's so weird. I don't expect that those habits passed on by generations can be changed in one day.
Sure! The desire for fancier notation is from more complicated examples, the kind where you write elaborate comments to explain why you're permuting 3rd & 4th dim of B to line up with C and part of D.
Use scrcpy - https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy

The Windows thing is only for Samsung's latest phones.
Is it possible that such a system would be more tenable now with cheaper and more ubiquitous devices that can measure or calculate local solar time?
I would argue that the anti-feature is the existence of local storage. Medium is just a symptom of the underlying issue, which is that browsers do not care about privacy.
Network effects are a symptom of the internet. They yield incredibly strong market control. Very few economic actors run extreme profit margins at giant scale [0][1]. They extract a disproportional profit share from the market economy. Apple is just one of them.

Is this sustainable? Will these players stay happy just extracting profits and eating small innovative players for breakfast? Is the market economy strong enough not to succumb to their lobbying power?

To me, it's clear that as the general public, we don't benefit from this situation. In the best case scenario, we're overpaying for all things information. I think something should be done about this, but what? Suggestions welcome, because I don't have answers yet. In the meantime, I try to stay clear of the molochs.

[0] As a symptom, Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Facebook and Amazon's combined market cap equals 75% of the entire EU stock market. Read their annual reports to understand where thet extract their profits.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/the-us-tech... .
IIT Indore to teach course in Sanskrit
True, and I do empathize, but it's not like this risk was ever unclear.
And of course, as we all know, you'll never spend any time troubleshooting proprietary solutions.
Chadwick Boseman, star of Black Panther, is dead at 43
What is technological progress without the courage to try. To challenge what is impossible by all modern reason.
Taking very Elon's words: “This was futile. I tried for years. Nobody listened.”. If going backwards is just not an option, we must be more conspicuous of the dangers of new high tech deployments. I think everyone here share the same feeling: thrill but chilling at the same time. It's Inevitable by the way, on the Kevin Kelly's sense of the word: this is our technium taking shape and we better learn how to deal with it fast, like it or not.
Why do you suspect this experience is so rare and unrepresentative, as opposed to yours? It is a company wide problem in the cases I've seen, the scientist positions are not even expected to have junior software engineer level competence in things like programming.
Has anyone demonstrated how many people these "Russian bots" have influenced? There's enough craziness online before throwing in non-linear warfare. I'd imagine it's far less influence than, say, Charles Koch has. Why is it ok that he has an outsized influence on our "democracy" but such a terrible thought that Putin has influence? It's not like either person will act in our collective interest.
That seems naive. Very few products succeed without marketing. Only tesla, for example, in autos succeeds without much marketing. I'd never have heard about remarkable2 without current marketing around the v2.
I like to think of the cardinal virtues as providing opposite tensions, keeping one in the mean.

So fortitude gives us the courage to pursue the things we could do, but temperance gives us the decline in marginal utility to question when they are things we should do.

Similarly, prudence gives us the ability to discern actions that are to our own advantage, but justice gives us the ability to eschew using externalities to others' disadvantage.

If a D-factor exists, would ancient greeks have diagnosed it as an excess of prudence and deficit of justice?
Retailers take far less than 30%. Consoles provide first-party QA, disc/cartridge manufacturing and distribution, bandwidth, and customer service among other services. Whole apps on the mobile stores also have similar services provided by the platform - testing (nowhere near as rigorous as consoles), discovery, bandwidth, customer service, etc. In both cases, a large cut can be reasonably argued for.

IAP is nothing more than moving money around, in an app the user has already discovered and downloaded, that will affect a user's account on the developer's servers. The service to the end user is indistinguishable to what is provided by any other payment gateway for ~3% (Stripe, Square, Paypal, etc.) Your card is charged and you have something new in the app.

The only reason I can think of for why IAP takes the same cut as whole apps is that most if not all apps would be "free" but open up to a screen that makes you pay for the app via IAP to take advantage of the reduced fee.

This could be mitigated by ToS restrictions preventing this exact situation, but there would still be a ton of gray area like "pro" versions of apps.

Opening up to third-party payment processors for IAP would create a vacuum in one of their highest margin and most consistent revenue sources so they won't be doing that willingly. Opening up to third-party stores would be more tolerable but any sufficiently large developer will move to their own store and do everything themselves and pocket the ~27.5% (if they are their own payment gateway, interchange fees are ~2.5%)

It's an interesting situation because the platforms want to be paid for all the services I listed above, but in Epic's case they already have the infrastructure to handle everything on their own, and they offer a fully-featured game for free, with the only source of revenue being a conversion of actual money to V-Bucks.

There is no place where the platform can provide a service that Epic would get any value from, but they are imposing a 30% fee in the only place they can, payment processing.
> from a company that bans things like GPL apps from their App Store, which is what Apple does.

AFAIR this is not exactly the case.

Software using GPLed code cannot be distributed via the apple App Store because of the GPL clause forbidding additional restrictions. The GPL is incompatible with the App Store license, just as it is for example with the old OpenSSL license. There’s nothing in the App Store rules that forbids GPL code, the restriction comes entirely from the GPL side. It’s a choice the developers of that code have made.

However, if you hold other rights (for example the full
Copyright or you entered a special license agreement with the creators of the GPL’ed code), you can distribute such an app via the App Store.
No headlines will quell the equivalent of blind faith and religion.
What a silly question. You accept limitations on how plumbing, electrical and other matters operate because there is code. You accept limitations because sometimes the environment is a bit of a Wild West, and it’s nice to have someone making sure the software I’m running on the most important device in my life isn’t malicious.
Pre 2000s transport planning is a textbook study of optimizing for the wrong thing. Although it failed to reduce congestion you could argue the extra trips contributed to GDP... but that's subject to the same problem...

Ultimately what is the correct metric though? Well being? https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/8/3180/htm#
I've just spend good 15 minutes on it and in case of France it seems far from trivial. It doesn't look like it's a matter of sending a single e-mail.
Musk's Neuralink Puts Computer Chips in Animal Brains
I wonder if there is any api that allows you to disable them per site (similar to how umatrix/ublock origin can block cookies/js per site)
"Musk presented what he described as the "three little pigs demo." Gertrude, the pig with a Neuralink implant in the part of the brain that controls the snout, required some coaxing by Musk to appear on camera, but eventually began eating off of a stool and sniffing straw, triggering spikes on a graph tracking the animal's neural activity.

Musk said the company had three pigs with two implants each, and also revealed a pig that previously had an implant. They were "healthy, happy and indistinguishable from a normal pig," Musk said. He said the company predicted a pig's limb movement during a treadmill run at "high accuracy" using implant data.

Musk described Neuralink's chip, which is roughly 23 millimeters in diameter, as "a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires."

"I could have a Neuralink right now and you wouldn't know," Musk said. "Maybe I do.""
> Defi is insanely cool, insanely powerful, and it will dramatically change the landscape of society.

As a person who has been around this tech since 2011, can you explain what exactly it is you find so fascinating about this other than the seemingly absurd amounts of money some people have made so far?

This all just seems like a reshased version of the DAO to me and I have ignored it entirely.
Anecdotal observation but from living in a kind of squad in my early 20s, two main problems ripped ours apart: 1) wealth distribution among unequal contribution and 2) romantic relationships and the changing dynamic they introduce.

When I think about groups that survive they seem to either have strong top-down power hierarchies (as in the cult or the corporation), or otherwise de-emphasize money and sex (as in the monastery).
I wonder why his company mostly ignores Linux then.
Converting boolean-logic decision trees to finite state machines
Here openening hours have been "liberalized" a lot during the last 5-10 years. Bars are open until 4 - 5 am, supermarkets even 24/7. And an increasing amount of people are using those, otherwise businesses wouldn't offer them. Many travel over timezones more than once year just for fun. All that disrupts sleep patterns. The one hour twice a year seems minor in comparison.
Youtube offers various codecs, also including VP8 at all resolution/framerate settings H.264 is offered on (not all formats will always be available). For example, here's the youtube-dl format list for a well-known video:

[youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading webpage
[info] Available formats for dQw4w9WgXcQ:
format code extension resolution note
249 webm audio only tiny 49k , opus @ 50k (48000Hz), 1.18MiB
250 webm audio only tiny 65k , opus @ 70k (48000Hz), 1.55MiB
140 m4a audio only tiny 130k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2@128k (44100Hz), 3.27MiB
251 webm audio only tiny 136k , opus @160k (48000Hz), 3.28MiB
394 mp4 256x144 144p 73k , av01.0.00M.08, 25fps, video only, 1.72MiB
278 webm 256x144 144p 97k , webm container, vp9, 25fps, video only, 2.25MiB
160 mp4 256x144 144p 107k , avc1.4d400c, 25fps, video only, 2.05MiB
395 mp4 426x240 240p 159k , av01.0.00M.08, 25fps, video only, 3.42MiB
242 webm 426x240 240p 217k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 4.04MiB
133 mp4 426x240 240p 290k , avc1.4d4015, 25fps, video only, 4.48MiB
396 mp4 640x360 360p 340k , av01.0.01M.08, 25fps, video only, 6.68MiB
243 webm 640x360 360p 396k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 6.96MiB
134 mp4 640x360 360p 484k , avc1.4d401e, 25fps, video only, 8.27MiB
244 webm 854x480 480p 586k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 10.03MiB
397 mp4 854x480 480p 603k , av01.0.04M.08, 25fps, video only, 11.37MiB
135 mp4 854x480 480p 741k , avc1.4d401e, 25fps, video only, 11.56MiB
247 webm 1280x720 720p 1035k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 17.67MiB
136 mp4 1280x720 720p 1077k , avc1.4d401f, 25fps, video only, 16.72MiB
398 mp4 1280x720 720p 1133k , av01.0.05M.08, 25fps, video only, 22.07MiB
399 mp4 1920x1080 1080p 2106k , av01.0.08M.08, 25fps, video only, 40.74MiB
248 webm 1920x1080 1080p 2666k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 58.46MiB
137 mp4 1920x1080 1080p 4640k , avc1.640028, 25fps, video only, 78.96MiB
18 mp4 640x360 360p 601k , avc1.42001E, 25fps, mp4a.40.2@ 96k (44100Hz), 15.19MiB (best)
There doesn’t need to be an alternative App Store in iOS. There just need to be alternatives to iOS.

This whole “Apple have a monopoly inside their own product” is an absurd line of questioning when their product has anything but a monopoly. This argument is akin to saying that Disney has a monopoly on hotdog sales inside Disneyland and should be forced to allow competitors to open hotdog stands inside Disneyland.
Thanks! I generally prefer books over audiobooks, but I may listen to an audiobook for a change. I read plenty of books by Alexandre Dumas in the past, and a few by Jules Verne.

I wasn't aware of Verne's views, but I would guess they were pretty common during his time, so I would abstain to pass a judgement on him and focus on his pioneering work on scifi.
I find that medium is even moving articles behind paywall even without consent from author. It was not happening earlier. For example - Look at Netflix Medium blog https://medium.com/@NetflixTechBlog

There are few stories which are behind paywall. Do you think Netflix would have marked them explicitly behind paywall to earn money from blog?
Oh yes absolutely UX design can learn a lot from games.

VR applications are riddled with games folks both because the tech requirements are the same. And also because the interaction design really benefits from the way games use space and deal with limited control input.

I still fundamentally disagree that games don’t provide people with external utility. It’s a popular assumption because they don’t necessarily do anything obvious or provide you with something tangible to others. There are plenty of emotional journeys you can take, creativity to engage in and skills you can learn. My younger brother for example was really helped in learning to read by playing Monkey Island.

An ephemeral word processor actually sounds like something that could provide cathartic release. It might not be as useless as you think.
A word I've often heard for the "dis-intermediated or broken down" sentiment is "unbundled", by the way.
Yes, Chrome just made recent changes to their PGO:
https://blog.chromium.org/2020/08/chrome-just-got-faster-wit...
Not sure if it’s general but here in the UK our lawyer made us come in to collect the bank account number and were very explicit about never using other details because of this scam.

I saw a variation of it first hand at a company I once worked at. The scammers gained access to the lobby of the building, removed the post and replaced it with invoices with different bank account details on.
...according to some schools of belief. Truth is, there is no way to prove or disprove that, it's a debate for the ages between atheism and religion.
Here’s hoping that he’s opened the way, inspiring others to follow.
Had gotten to the same point at 35. Children turned the everyday mundane into new adventure.