skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the banning of an app in the interest of "national security" is largely unprecedented

Given “apps” have been around in a significant way since only 2008 [1], this is equivalent to saying Obama didn’t ban any apps in the name of national security.

Banning foreign companies in the name of national security is well precedented and Congressionally authorised.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(iOS)
That was a patent issue.
Contributing to OpenBSD, not committing. He is not a committer.. yet.
No .co.uk? No .gov.uk? No .ac.uk? No .uk?

Wtf?
> It’s really propaganda that boils things down to allies and enemies.

Yes and no, there are some ways of seeing things that are not really compatible. For example, the USSR wanted to export communism internationally which meant incidentally fomenting violent coups around the world to create socialist powers they could control. If you are a target of such strategies you can't seriously be "friendly" with such powers - it's not just propaganda.
I love the idea of couchdb, but the ecosystem centers too much on pouch, which doesn't have consistent maintenance. If Ibm was smart they'd sponsor it in a big way.
I think you’re underestimating the number and quality of restaurants that are easily accessible in say a mixed used NYC neighborhood vs what’s within a 30 minute drive of a Houston suburb. Especially if you aren’t a fan of the midrange chains that seem to proliferate in sprawling areas for whatever reason.
I can't even tell what's sarcasm and what isn't, anymore.
After the hell years of Bush II I thought that a government that supported science would be by definition a better one. Instead we got a government under Obama that _said_ it supported science and ignored anything it didn't like. It took me years to realize that, no, there wasn't a long term master plan. His science posturing was a veneer of legitimacy on the same old policies, just as terrible but in different ways. Fracking being the one that finally woke me up.

After the nightmare of those two administrations we finally got to a science policy that has bipartisan support: pick whatever owns the other side the most and pretend it's science. Doesn't matter what it is.
I’ve never used it, but something like https://www.memberstack.io/ does what you’re looking for.
"There's no good solution that will satisfy everyone. "

That is allmost never the case. It is important to keep this in mind. I for once want a historical game to be trul historical. As close to the facts as possible.
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I'm sure you mean well but by assuming this combative stance (it's not just you, I think this ideological stance fairly represents most of the FOSS space) you're ensuring people who might have gotten on board will absolutely never get on board. There's having principles and there's having enough people skills to recognise you don't need to be rude about them, they can go together and FOSS deserves that they do.
It's necessary for internal Windows functions to work.
>But at the same time, I find it really weird to go, "I morally can't stand for a single thing you're doing and I think you're a generally ill hearted company. Here, take more of my money to help you fund your ill-doings."

I can get behind boycotting companies we know do bad things, however I wouldn't delude myself into thinking that this is a means to ending the abuse of their workers, or a means of making the world a better place. This is a political problem, not a consumer problem.

Being an ethical consumer seems to be Sisyphean task, as to do so responsibly we'd need to ensure the alternatives we purchase from aren't treating their workers even worse to hold some market share. When we factor in the complexity of supply chains, environmental considerations, and labor practices across the globe (and the relations between core and peripheral nations,) a consumer simply cannot reasonably fit their purchasing decisions within a consistent ethical framework. This is probably the reason behind the phrase "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism."
Larger and with more features, but ultimately lacking the simplicity and elegance of the much older version?
>>It shouldn’t be, there should be a way to properly decouple employment and healthcare.

>It's really simple, remove the tax benefit from employers purchasing health insurance... and employer plans and whatnot would be outlawed.

How do you get from here to there without it turning into a boon for certain employers at the expense of their employees? That is, how do you ensure that the money currently paid in benefits is passed along to employees to purchase their own plans and not pocketed (partially or in total) by companies.
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(guessing) Because pelliphant is European, that is their perspective.
Thanks for proofing your Mindset.
The long term solution is of course a strong labor movement that can fight this shit every step of the way. There is no quick fix that solves everything.
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Getting New York’s road data into an iOS app
France and Germany are not 65% of the EU population, not even after Brexit.

More like 33%.
Summaries aren't copyright violations, unless a significant part of the original is copied verbatim.

You can publish a book summary and even quote the book a few times without being accused of copyright violation. Same goes for online courses, as it is the case here.
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I'm confused, when did Apple "approve" anything? The notarisation software isn't a review process.
Python has to implement all the same mistakes Java did. All they have to do is release a new major version twice a year and then they're done.

Sorry, just joking (I hope). Also, we didn't have to suffer UTF-16.
This should be a top-level post. It saddens me the sheer number of people who accept the TikTok banning blindly because "national security" (not here so much but people I've talked to at work/other forums). This vague terminology could be adapted to encompass any communication that might be a threat to "national security" including encryption.

Once the precedent is set it will be damn near impossible to go back; just look at the Patriot Act.
Obviously it would be of great historic interest, but as a living software, just no. Go read this: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/04/19/modernizing-d...

IE implemented DOM without using tree. No, really. Up to 2017. After reading the article, all my questions why IE was so buggy evaporated and replaced by how could IE work at all.

MSVC up to 2015 also didn't create AST. Unbelievable, I know. The question is not why MSVC's C++ support was so buggy; the real question is how could MSVC implement C++ at all. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/rejuvenating-the-micr...

After learning about IE and MSVC, I gained respect for Microsoft developers and disdain for Microsoft. Tightrope walking is amazing display of skill. Letting your employees to commute by tightrope walking for years is amazing display of stupidity.
Numbers stations are really cool. Its kinda sad to see them slowly fade away.
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Yeah... my bad. Should now be working as expected...
When you stage a home, you move out first.
I don't think browsers have a good API it could store to, though. As far as I know there isn't really anything for storing efficiently in-place updateable/readable large binary blobs.
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Alright, there are some options:

a) keep everything as is. Leave up to 80% of public space to cars (as in L.A. for example), destroy all social interactions which could otherwise happen in those places, increase commute time due to cities designed around long distances and destroy our environment.

b) buy a new bicycle and a good rain coat, use our feet, expand public transport, improve our wellbeing by doing some exercise, reduce obesity and diabetes, socialize in public space again and save tons of tax payer's money. Whilst saving the life of 1.2m people.

Which one sounds better to you?
There are so many more email providers being used worldwide. Who are the 4 or 5 big providers everyone is using? gmail, yahoo, hotmail, fastmail and protonmail? Don't forget outlook and zoho

Many people still use aol or their email given by ips or work email domain.

Worldwide yandex.mail is popular.

Colleges still give email addresses.

People like myself run their own

Vanity domains are popular.

Mail is still decentralized and news of its death have been greatly exaggerated
If you're a mobster, probably :-))
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that's really not unusual, see the very very common trope in movies where murdering a ton of people is perfectly fine, torturing them is ok, but the moment the evil person tries to _rape_ someone then it becomes unbearable[0].

Things are not compared rationally and emotionally on the same level.

[0] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RapeIsASpecialKi...
I misconfigured stuff. It should now work as supposed to.
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The Plague is Camus' most novel-ish book and least philosophical. There is philosophy there (should a doctor resist an inevitable plague?) but there is also a lot of metaphor (many read it as an allegory for nazi-sympathizing france) and even just classic character development. This is very different from The Stranger, which spends like 1/3 of its words on a philosophical conversation, or something like Myth of Sisyphus, which doesn't even attempt to be a story.
I live in a fairly quiet part of the world, but if I had to move someplace else, I think I’d rather be in an earthquake zone rather than a hurricane (or tornado) zone given the choice.

Hurricanes are more frequent, and there’s a lot of drama and dread before their arrival. Earthquakes on the other hand are infrequent, and while they may strike unexpectedly, it’s usually “one-and-done” (plus aftershocks).

In both cases it is prudent to be ready (“prepped” as the kids are wont to say):

* https://www.ready.gov

* https://www.getprepared.gc.ca

Does anyone have any experience with both? Are there "pros and cons"?
Sounds like a law school exam question about when it stops being parody and starts being deliberately confusing to consumers. Like if I sell Jock Doniels whiskey that’s only 10% alcohol, is that really a parody? Or the South Butt clothing brand.
It's an interesting thought and definitely a good domain for the use case. Tweet.photo as a domain isn't worth very much free standing though. Sub $1,000. You might get a few thousand dollars from a motivated buyer.

Domains are typically either worth a surprising amount, or very little (always surprising to inexperienced sellers). The gap inbetween tends to be very large. That's the common result I've seen most often over multiple decades of buying and selling domains. It's very common for people to think they have a valuable domain, and then inevitably it'll end up being worth a small fraction of what they think it is. Valuable domains are almost always super obvious (eg tweet.com would be), or otherwise you get lucky with someone that'll pay a few times over fair value because they've got a specific use case and really want it (eg tweet.photo is worth $750 if dropped on the market, someone pays you $2k-$3k because they have an idea for an app and that's in their mess around price range).

There may be nothing more annoying in this world (joking here) than the domain squatter sitting on a $300 domain that is fully convinced their domain is worth $100,000 or more. It's their chance, their lottery ticket, and they're not selling cheap. Back in reality, exceptionally few domains are worth more than a few thousand dollars.
> If the original parent company disappeared would the fork be able to sustain its development and maintenance alone?

The counterexample is the Linux kernel. No single company can actually sustain its development, so in practice many companies work on it together with an agreed governance to direct where things go.
I see your point...

... but...
Trump has said that the goal is to punish China for the coronavirus: [1]

> It's a big business. Look, what happened with China with this virus, what they've done to this country and to the entire world is disgraceful.

The trade war is obviously a major factor as well, but Trump thinks that bashing China helps his reelection chances and helps deflect away from his administration's incompetent response to the virus.

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-07/tiktok-to....
"zero-knowledge dumpster fire"
Damn, I haven't seen Sun Ultras in a long time (I used to admin them).
Oh, it's ((FabHome)Pages), not (Fab(HomePages)). Hmm.
The problem here seems to be that UCR prices are not correctly calculated, as the net prices that are actually paid, not label price. If UCR would be defined as the median of net prices charged in the last 24 months, inflation would halt. As for the correct way to infer net prices, it's a problem related to transfer pricing, for which good accounting practices exist, that would take into consideration exotic arrangements for paying back the discount, in stock, other contracts etc.
The Idiot-Trump effect.
It is concerning that the last main stream sanctuary of free speech might have been compromised.

However, as of right now we dont know if Spotify censored these episodes, if Rogan censored them himself, or if they just didnt upload them yet. It's only 9 hours in to the first day, no need to jump to conclusions yet.
About a couple years ago I used sql.js [1] in an internal tool to provide the user the ability to execute SQL queries against the data they had loaded. It worked just fine.

[1] https://github.com/sql-js/sql.js
I disagree.

That might become a problem, or be a problem in places... but it's not the problem.

The primary problems (IMO) are:

(1) Influence of multinational interest. Regulation could literally half FB's EU revenue without being very radical, for example.

(2) Lack of polity. The EU parliament is a clown house and becoming worse. There is no political public discourse around it. It doesn't have power. Voters use it for experimental/protest voting. Political parties use it as a proving ground for nationally oriented politicians, and for jobs. The whole thing is dysfunctional.

(3) EU politics plays almost no role in national politics.. parliaments or governments. There's no public discourse here either.

(4) The "executive" is totally closed doors. Legislation is a part of governance, but not all of it.

(5) They don't really know what to do, and they're timid.

Blaming insufficient power, in politics, is a copout most of the time. It absolves everyone. This should be a political faux pax. Use the powers you have more effectively. Maybe then you can have more power.
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Closest one to where I live:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrance_Barrens#Dark-sky_pres...

Current at-risk:

* https://www.blogto.com/travel/2020/08/torrance-barrens-dark-...
Sure. Immutable doesn't mean you can't delete things:

> True. And what makes it easy is it's immutability. When you change history in Git, you rewrite it (rebase). But re-writing is only possible if you know every bit of the journey up to now. When you have actual updates, history is lost.

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=24340659&goto=threads%...
The device stimulates cochlear nerve it's not brain surgery.

Just like with any other implant, the risk must justify the benefit. Cochlear implants have 3% rate for major complications, like life threatening meningitis or facial paralysis (caused by nerve damage). Potential benefit justifies the risk.
A lot of things can be said about CL, but elegant is not one of them. Battle tested and practical, but also full of warts when you look under the shining armour.
Roundup https://roundup.sourceforge.io/ is free and you could self-host.
If you work in the city, don't you have to pay city taxes? That's how it works with states.
Thanks for the catch. I clipped off the amp before posting but didn't check it was valid.

I tried reposting but it's now a duplicate :)

Resubmitted alternative story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24341216
Yes pouchdb does not get the love it deserves. But it is still actively maintained, the last bug I had was timely fixed by the community and merged.
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Well articulated points - pushign back slightly regarding your breakthroughs on implants, there's good data to suggest that the size scale that Neuralink is now operating at does not elicit the same gliosis (reactive tissue growth) that electrodes larger than 15-20 µm do. The infection risk is heavily mitigated by the device being fully implantable, but you're absolutely right that there is some risk there.
It happened to me a long time ago. He was not only spamming and using SQL injections to destroy my community, but also advertising his own concurrent website.

When I also started to build scripts and destroyed his own website, he basically realized the harm he was doing, apologized and stopped.

Reminds me of the old good times when you could trap script-kiddies on msn.

"I think you are lying and not capable of hacking my computer. I'm waiting for you, my IP is 127.42.196.8"
> Every single proprietary mobile graphics driver uses LLVM for its shader compiler and the lack of copyleft has severely curtailed progress on open-source drivers.

And you think if they didn't have the option of using LLVM they would have released an open source driver instead? That makes no sense to me.
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This goes so against what I previously believed that there must be some critical underlying fact I am missing. Are the facts below correct?

1) This is stating that Amazon requires its warehouse workers to go through a security screening before they can leave at the end of every shift.

2) This daily process takes 25 minutes to 1 hour

3) Employees are NOT paid for this time

4) Employees are hourly and not salary

5) The supreme court UNANIMOUSLY agreed they do not have to be paid for this work.

6) Their reasoning for this is that the security check is not a critical part of the job and could be eliminated.

Those 6 facts either cant be right or I must be missing some critical 7th fact that ties this all together. Can anyone help out?
Especially the beginning where she recounts how she enrolled in a computer science university program without owning I found super interesting. I wonder if one could still pull that off today — there surely are still people without computers and smartphones, maybe not for financial but ideological reasons?
I don't know. Facebook can spot fake profiles because of the centralisation, not sure how that'd be avoided in that system. Also, if users are really anonymous, the system will end up turning into a cesspool of disgusting and illegal stuff. At least that was the fate of all peer to peer social networks I'm aware of.
Not quite put people out of a job as much as have absolute control over their entire product. They're using the convenience and low cost business model to hoover up developers (who are taking the bait) while not realizing that they're becoming wholly dependent on Amazon.

Not just technically, but in terms of their mental model on how to build and deploy applications. Over time, "just use AWS" becomes the defacto "how do I build this?" answer until nobody really knows how to build and deploy an application without them.

It's damn clever.
Title probably ought to be "a reactive database". Though, used properly, you should be able to reduce latency it doesn't make any guarantees.
Apparently you should, you @&#$ing %£¥×%@&$£% who couldn't @&#_ a £¥@&ing £%@$.

(Also, TIL: sea urchins have tongues)
Oh, yeah...

To the "Mike" that sent me that wonderful little note:

I replied, then realized that you had used a honeypot email as the address, so I'll post what I wrote here. It would have gone to your email, otherwise. I would like to mention that I stand behind every post I make, and every email I send. I deleted my last anonymous account many moons ago.

> You still sound insecure.

:)

Probably. It's not your problem, though. It's mine. I am constantly working on that.

I will say that it was pretty devastating to get assaulted for my age. It totally rocked my world. I'm definitely still recovering from that, and I am still quite angry about it.

Thanks (really) for taking the time to look at my HN page and sending this. I regularly get attacked by some pretty savage folks (comes from the NPO work I do), so your note doesn't bother me at all.

Heck, maybe we have a lot in common. You know where to reach me. I'm a pretty decent chap.

This is my personal email.

Stay safe.
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this isn't a proposal but wishful thinking

there's a load of people, especially in big cities, that commute further than feasible with bicycle.

and no, people will not want to live within biking range from heavy industry.
> Do you have even a single example of an employer thats allowing ppl work longterm from whichever country they please due to covid?

Yes, I do, but I’m not doing your research for you. You’ve been extremely combative and flat rude and incredulous this entire thread, so I’m stopping my participation. If you genuinely are in pursuit of knowledge and not to just pick random fights on the Internet, then I implore you to use a different approach.
Are you saying that China gets to ban free speech but the US doesn't?

The US has the 1st Amendment. China doesn't (but should).

If we're just talking about investment, then things are not as asymmetric as you claim. Chinese investment in the US has historically been tiny compared to US investment in China. That only began to change a few years ago, as China began to invest abroad, but the US' protectionist policies have now essentially ended Chinese investment in the US.
I agree. PubMed is a great resource for this.
I'm sure you didn't mean to but telling people who are doing the best they can with the tools that they have that they "really need some education" comes across as incredibly condescending. It's been my experience that you will have a hard time convincing other people if you tell them things that way.
> Allow people to do whatever at the cost of lives or force them to do what is right?

You're invoking police power to massively disrupt people's lives indefinitely. That's unacceptable.

Let people exercise their inalienable freedoms and assume whatever risk they want.

We saw people preempt the government in avoiding risky behavior as the pandemic started, and we'll see people preempt the government in resuming normal life avoiding risk as they deem fit.
No not an Amazon employee, but about 20 years ago I worked in a Warehouse and the guys were absolute deadbeat drug addicts who stole and spent the whole time smoking cigarettes and goofing off.

Now of course i'm sure most warehouse workers aren't like that but I can't even imagine what managing 125,000 low-skilled employees like that would be like, and i'm sure the turnover is absolutely massive as well.

It's all unicorns and rainbows and posturing until you're the guy who has to actually manage them.
A past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18748193
ATS is also harder to understand[1] (in my experience) and has a fraction of a fraction of the adoption rust managed to get, despite being older. To me that suggests that rust is more approachable, has better documentation, and would be used by more people if supported by the kernel.

[1] and really, I'm an OCaml developer and I can write rust; yet ATS' syntax looks terrible and very complicated. Its website and tooling make it appear like a research language made by one person. I don't know if that's really the case.