skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not just FB. It looks like a real exodus is happening now from WatsApp to Telegram, at least in EU. Instagram is their last bastion for now.
Write Tracking for Nim
One healthy middle ground here is the situation with git. Git is fundamentally decentralized, but I can use it in a centralised way if I want to via services like github, gitlab, bitbucket, etc. Those services allow me to collaborate with other users and back up my projects. And because it’s decentralised, I can trivially move / clone my repository to other providers (or to my own servers) without losing any data. (... Well, except for github issues; which arguably should be stored in repository itself.)

I can imagine a similar situation for a small database too. Live clone to Dropbox or something similar. The user gets all the benefits of a centralised system but stays in control, and they can switch providers whenever they want.
There is also https://github.com/borkdude/babashka which uses Clojure to create scripts
Have you done something like that before? Did you spend a chunk of your $10k on solicitor/lawyer to arrange it?

Not necessarily saying you should have done, just think personally I'd be shy of anything more complicated than 'here give me cash and take this, kthxbye'.
And you'd rather people not be able to play the game or have a harder time rather than let the styles be a little different?
not affiliated with them, but I have used Authy for years for the simple reason that they allow easy sync across devices, backup, and import/export of the credential list.

It's another party to trust, but I prefer it to google authenticator.
This is sickening.
What really disappoints me is that, with all those pixels, and bits per pixel we now have, it still can't have proper bold, italic, underline, overline, Tek graphics, sixels, and smooth scrolling like any ancient terminal made by any well regarded hardware company.
Don’t you think it’s a little hyperbolic to compare the ownership of human beings to running some software on your computer?
Most Popular Internet Browsers 1994-2019 [video]
I saw this logic on HN frequently, but it's significantly flawed. It can be meaningful only if those two nations are completely independent to each other, which is a contradictory to the premise. Otherwise, there will be fairness escalations. To avoid such situation, modern global diplomacy and free trade already have developed a framework to minimize the friction and ensure a minimal level of fairness.

The problem is that China's legislation and jurisdiction are in a complete control under a single political entity, CCP and its laws are deliberately designed to be ambiguous to allow arbitrary interpretation in favor of CCP. Also, don't forget that CCP's constitution is on top of PRC's constitution.

Obviously, this situation is not acceptable in the the principle of free trading as CCP is blatantly exploiting this political system to discriminate foreign companies and effectively violate the principle of national treatment. In order to join the global free trade system, a long time ago China promised to change its political and economical practice at least minimally compatible to other states. I think the previous presidents till Hu Jintao might keep it in their minds but unfortunately Xi Jinping doesn't seem so.
> I'm saying that Oracle couldn't retract the releases already released under a free license

Nobody is suggesting they retract older version. In fact the exact opposite has been said on multiple occasions: any new license would be signified by a semver (semantic version) bump. So you're arguing against a point that was never made in the first place.

> getting rid of OpenZFS altogether

OpenZFS code would be unaffected because it's forked from a version prior to the semver re-license bump.

> From my understanding of open source projects released under a new license, they often can create a similar fork at the license change time where a version exists under the old license too.

Fork or semver bump. Which is exactly what I was talking about. Also notice that what you described there contradicts what you said would happen ("getting rid of OpenZFS") in literally the same comment.

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If Oracle own the copyright then Oracle can re-license. They'd have to bump the version number and the previous versions with the older license would forever remain CDDL. But legally they can do it and it wouldn't affect OpenZFS licensing (aside that OpenZFS might then no longer be able to incorporate ZFS code -- assuming ZFS's new license is incompatible with CDDL. But things start to get very murky down that road.)
But they could make it available on demand: it would trigger a download if necessary instead of polluting disk space worldwide for niche usages
The paper describes a protease inhibitor [1] that was previously developed for cats:

> Feline infectious peritonitis, a fatal coronavirus infection in cats, was successfully treated previously with a prodrug GC376, a dipeptide-based protease inhibitor.

GC376 and its precursor GC373 "...are potent inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 replication in cell culture." Since these drugs are safe in cats, it gives hope for safety and efficacy in human trials.

An effective treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (and other coronaviruses) complements the vaccine effort.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protease_inhibitor_(pharmacolo...
> Props to whoever drew all those illustrations, they really took the time, that's probably 99% of the effort there.

Most likely the same freelance contractors as wikihow.

https://onezero.medium.com/we-finally-figured-out-who-makes-...
I don't disagree with you. However, choosing to go elsewhere isn't meant to sink Amazon - it's meant to support alternatives, to encourage others to support alternatives or at least think about the situation, and yes, to make me feel better about my choices.
Ha! No, by scamola I meant a regular scam, just scammier.
2021 is the year of WebAssembly on the desktop!
How many public deaths is an acceptable number? What about those dead who, rather than being "early adopters", just happened to be in the way of one - is there a line in the sand where we say "OK, we've sacrificed enough humans now, let's try something else"?
> It was then modified to do it's own DNS resolution and caching, fond memories...

Unlike other languages, Go bypasses system's DNS cache, and goes directly to the DNS server, which is a root cause of many problems.
That's arguable enough that a lawyer would find a case here, I'd wager.
NOYB: Complaints on EU-US transfers filed
There was a big jump in signups, but not as much in monetization. My guess is that it was mostly young consumers signing up through her, but it's the professionals and businesses that pay to upgrade.
Maxthon switched dynamically from trident to webkit.
The best browser performance wise is the one that switch it's engine on demand depending of a known list of websites being faster on engine X or Y
com is the top level domain

ycombinator is the domain

news and www are both subdomains of ycombinator
Thanks for the advice. I already have a Twitter bot (https://pikaso.me/twitter-bot) that people can mention and ask for a screenshot. It helps with the virality.

That's cool :) I've been living in Bali (Mengwi area) for almost three years now. Hope you are safe as well.
What's the reasoning behind blocking, apparently, all but 5 TLDs? I could see sketchy ones like XYZ being blocked, but the default whitelist is a bit... Bare.
Oh they care. A lot. They care about anything that gives them access to western data so that's just wrong. They care quite a lot about TikTok as it provides a potential backdoor (given that the CCP defacto owns bytedance)

That's the problem.
"OpenBSD Innovations": https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html
Very much agreed. Systems thinking should be taught from kindergarten.
They do, taken from the above github page:

"As you may have heard Microsoft Edge no longer uses Chakra. Microsoft will continue to provide security updates for Chakracore 1.11 until 9th March 2021 but do not intend to support it after that."
This actually makes me re-interested in the official Masterclasses
I'm not sure those are the things holding FP back. The statement "The user experiences of functional programming languages sucks." sounds really weird and is the exact opposite of my experience. I write Elixir professionally. The developer experience is unparalleled and I definitely wouldn't trade it for a job writing Java 9 to 5.

Maybe it's trying to refer to stuffs such as existing libraries and package management etc. when you want to quickly boot up a real-world project. I once tried to write some web app in Haskell and that experience definitely was anything but smooth. Fortunately Elixir has a really vibrant community and libraries for the majority of common tasks (plus 20+ years of Erlang ecosystem). It's also really easy to roll your own solutions.

I don't think the issues of IDE support and parameter ordering mentioned in this article are problems to FP programmers at all. Powerful language servers exist nowadays for all major functional languages and they're not that different from language servers for OO languages. So yeah I tend to agree with a lot of commentators that this article doesn't seem to make much sense unfortunately.
There are optimizations and features on old edge that would benefit to be backported to chromium. E.g http live streaming
Walmart Introduces Walmart+
Is this to help with security? A rather restrictive and somewhat US centric whitelist. And then there's IO.
For anybody wondering how:

The HTTP HEAD method requests the headers that would be returned if the HEAD request's URL was instead requested with the HTTP GET method. For example, if a URL might produce a large download, a HEAD request could read its Content-Length header to check the filesize without actually downloading the file.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Methods/HE...
Science and steely nerves spared Houston from a nightmare hurricane evacuation
There's no trade-off here. There's unionization and there's exploitation. Choose wisely.
China is censoring Hollywood's imagination
That's not the point.

In the US we have rule of law, we have rights. There is no rule of law in china only rule of the party. FB and Twitter er scrutinized, this would never happen in China.

That's the very very very big difference here.
Our latest update was failed because the first screen didn’t respond to touch on iPad. We pulled our hair out trying to replicate it.

I asked what model iPad and they just replied with ‘13.6.1 on an iPad.’ We started digging further.

We ran it on Xcode 12 (beta) and reproduced the problem.

I asked if they were testing on a physical device or the simulator. They directly denied that... but said the issue had cleared up and we were passed.

No code change of course... so tell me how this magically ‘cleared up’? Frustrating
the way git changes history is a stretch on the word change, rebasing creates a parallel history and then promotes it to be the true one. the reflog still remembers the previous history.
Embox v0.4.3 Released
I don't have unlimited data, and I have found Apple maps is much lighter on data use than Google. I have also found that even if I don't have a solid connection Apple maps seems to still be capable of giving me directions quickly, whereas on the other hand with Google I may never get directions.
The sources I'm familiar with (mostly the FT) claim otherwise.

See for example: https://www.ft.com/content/0c42dc7c-b927-477a-90b7-a202bbe4b...

Or also this: https://www.ft.com/content/61988d2d-4c95-4a35-8273-d6980af04...
Very cool,
Now I just gotta think about a project to use it on.
> I suspect this has to be more to do with particular things said on these episodes that may make Spotify legally liable

Are those episodes listed on Spotify as "Censored to avoid legal liability"? Or perhaps as "Unavailable due to legal reasons"? Or were they just quietly disappeared, and it was up to a random redditor to reveal that censorship even took place?
New-ish but making noise for a while.

Here's a Business Insider piece from Jan 2020 gives some background:

https://www.businessinsider.com/mschf-company-behind-viral-j...

And also mentions two rounds of funding totally $11.5m to that date.

This July article at the Verge details more drops:

https://www.theverge.com/21320127/mschf-products-jesus-shoes...
Apologies I spoke too soon, you're absolutely right that the volume is an impressive achievement.
I think the different endings come only if you choose the last authorian option, which are also marked in a special way.

But allmost everything is authorian in the book of laws. Even if you play soft - you play a soft dictator. But this is the game mechanic, and to play as a anarchistic syndicate would be hard to implement, or rather impossible, as you are indeed the only human.
This was my takeaway as well. Which is why I was puzzled by the comments about Oracle suing Canonical.

That said, boomboomsubban (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24331590) suggested Oracle could sue on the GPL side of things since they have committed code to Linux. It would be interesting if such a position is possible and I suspect that could open the door to all sorts of frivolousness cases (eg closed binaries shipped with Android).
and of those 120, about 18-24 actually wind up being useful on average.

Also, CIs are not brain implants.

In 2016 I got the chance to do a few month’s work on some cortical recodings in mice with a 512-electrode patch, and when i left the lab was complaining about how to modernize up to 1024 while still keeping their calcium imaging working well.
Computers are very fast. We just tend to not notice because today's software is obese.
What Is Ada and Spark?
Where does a bank account or stock portfolio reside? Is it at the physical location of the banks server hall (assuming only a single server is representing the location of the account), or is it the location of the local representative bank where the customer is said to be located according to the bank? Is it maybe the central headquarter of the bank or maybe the location of the server for the bank online interface where the customer interacts with his account? Alternative, can it be the registered address of the customer, or maybe the actually location for where the customer physically resides.

It seems reasonable that a argument can be made that property exist in one of those places rather than none. Maybe the Federal government should simple dictate where that is and then let local government handle the actually taxation.
You're probably right and that is a sad world we're in.
Lawyers love to send letters. They also can fold when your attorney responds letting them know that the letter’s assertions are incorrect.
I am not taking about the data I am taking about access to the data and the devices. This is G5 controversy all over again. It's a trojan horse which can be used by the CCP.
There is no ability to take them to court for misuse, no opposition media.
I did my own deep dive on TOTP a few years ago and wrote a blog post on how to implement a Google Authenticator compatible 2fa system in java including generating QR codes[0]. Demo code is on GitHub[1].

[0] https://www.asaph.org/2016/04/google-authenticator-2fa-java....

[1] https://github.com/asaph/twofactorauth
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It's hard to tell where you are, but if you're in the bay area and know enough to post what you did, you probably should also know that the city of San Jose did specifically select street lamps based on light pollution concerns from the astronomers at Lick.

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-San-Jose-install-yellow-street...

https://mthamilton.ucolick.org/public/lighting/Pollution2.ht...

As a transplant, it took some getting used to, because the low pressure sodium street lamps are roughly the same color as yellow stop lights. For better or for worse, the city of San Jose has been replacing the LPS lamps with LEDs for the past 6 years, but at least they're down-facing and create less light pollution than many other options.
My name is Nathan K... oh mine.
In some ways it is kinda funny in a dark way, as our inability to accept people for how they are is a national security threat :).
You might already know this but you can actually swap the CTRL and FN key via the BIOS.

https://support.lenovo.com/nl/en/solutions/ht074187
I think that free world should ban every company that comply with china censorship, here we are not talking about something like explicit content, or violence censorship which belong to cultural differences, here we are talking about not being put in jail because you say publicly that tibet should be free. or because you try to report abuse and suppression of the ruling class

this type of free speech should be guaranteed to anyone and reinforced with the non-violent marginalization of those who struggle to take away fundamental human rights, the ban of a society under the control of this regime is the least I expect from a state that wants to enact these rights.
talk about what you want (here you can do it) talk about rights in the west etc ... (here you can do it) there (in china) you are just on another level, compare them if you want .. here you can do it .. but try to go there ..
This is what I’m talking about. You just give for granted that America = good, China = bad.
Should we start listing everything the US has done since the Vietnam war that has never been regarded as genocide (although it was) and nobody has ever paid for? Or all the other shenanigans American administration and agencies have been continuously involved with?

Out of the top of my head:

- guantanamo bay and waterboarding.

- toppling all sorts of South American sovereign government when the CIA would see fit.

- Nixon’s secret bombing of Cambodia from 1970 to 1975

- occupying foreign territory with the intent of making war on terror while seizing natural resources and destabilizing entire regions in the Middle East

I’m just saying: savior and champion of the free world my ass.
Which is why the US should not be reserved any benefit in comparison to China when it comes to human rights and freedoms.
We’re talking about a Western society LITERALLY built on slavery, whose entire prison system has been conceived as a continuation of forced labor.

Once this is settled, and the idea that America in inherently superior to China from an ethical standpoint is set aside, well then maybe we can properly talk about geopolitics.
Of all the questionable claims that Alex Jones has made, you picked one that's actually true.

Endocrine disruptors should be a serious environmental concern, but now that Alex Jones talked about it, I guess we can safely ignore it.
Keep reading this excellent article, and you'll get to what for me was the best part, about the power of co-design:

> Some people are pushing back. Neil R. Malhotra is a boyish, energetic, forty-three-year-old neurosurgeon who has made his mark at the University of Pennsylvania as something of a tinkerer...Soon, he and his fellow-tinkerers were removing useless functions and adding useful ones. Before long, they had built a faster, more intuitive interface...Malhotra’s innovations showed that there were ways for users to take at least some control of their technology—to become, with surprising ease, creators.
The Public Problem with Counterterrorism
I agree that voting with your wallet doesn't affect large companies. However, for me, not using Amazon is about ethics and choosing less evil companies. Honestly, and I think others would agree, Amazon has had a declining user experience for years now (product names are nonsense SEO soup and the brands are fake/knock off brands) and not using Amazon can be as much practical as ethical.

I'd certainly like to hit Amazon with trust busting regulations, but I have to settle with being "personally responsible" in the meantime.
I usually give myself a `./exec` shell script that sources `./bin/activate` then `exec $SHELL $@`. That gives me a subshell with everything set up, so when I want out it's just Ctrl-D.

Now that I'm used to the subshell idea, I use the same concept across ruby, node, and python; it's almost always a better fit than what the usual packaging tools give you. I don't need `bundle exec` in ruby, for instance.
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why from an European perspective? And not anyone else's?

The game did feature a form of slavery with indentured servants from Europe, many of those ended up being literal slaves with no end to their contract once in the new World.

Regarding the issue of slavery, Colonization would have been criticized both ways: had they included it, they would have seen as condoning it. Removing it makes it seem like they did not care or are trying to hide it from History.

There's no good solution that will satisfy everyone.
Yup. Also, while supporting the "competition", you allow them to play the long game to find and fund ways of taking ground from Amazon when there are missteps.

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."
"entree..."

With regards to only the 1st 3 paragraphs, if only there were some hundred distinguised persons somewhere seeing your slideshow for an hour and then deflating, intelligently, one of the principal worries of the vast majority of mothers and fathers... and by extension of course, their children.
I wonder if those parading their virtuosity in here could come up with a better system.

I'd love to see some of the negative commenters made staff manager of just one busy warehouse for a few months and made responsible for a 500 low skilled workers with no prior systems in place such as these and see what kind of solutions they can come up with on their own that are any better.
Trustworthy Security Components
CWE is a community-developed list of software and hardware weakness types
Which, if it becomes sizable, will be targeted by Twitter because of their trademark on the word tweet. They did this with Twitpic.

https://www.lawinc.com/twitter-vs-twitpic-trademark-dispute-...
Years ago we developed a web framework for newLISP called Dragonfly and used it for several projects. http://dragonfly.apptruck.de/
Or worse - have sex scenes.

Anybody remembers the GTA hot coffee mod? It was a mini sex game, added by a mod, or rather, unlocked by the mod. And it caused an outrage. Because, the whole game was about killing and stealing and exploiting. No problem. Just violence.

But having sexual content? No way. That goes too far.
Mobile app build and deployment automation
An attempt to backdoor the kernel (2003)
You might not be able to protect yourself from biases because that is just the way we are wired but you might be able to protect yourself from acting on the bias.

Example: You read a study and think: “Ah, this is not surprising. It is exactly what I have expected”. You can catch this thought and identify it as hindsight bias. And then think more deeply about the results without the bias.

Similar about mental models. They can guide your thinking about a specific problem. But this takes time and mental energy. So you will only apply them when it is worth the effort.
Thanks a lot, this is great!
Of course this is a MSCHF project. The instant I heard it I thought "this sounds like some sort of meme high art project."
It's interesting, I've used four or five LMS' over my time as a student (Canvas, Blackboard, some k-12 ones, touched Moodle once). Canvas has been the only one I really liked. It works amazingly well at managing coursework, isn't slow, doesn't have a weird paradigm around groups vs courses vs sections. It's not confusing to use either, and they leave a graphiql client there on the hosted version if you want to pull your data yourself (and the API is great). I don't understand why people use Blackboard anymore if they can help it (although maybe it's better now?).