skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately WordPress is a pain in the butt to maintain, every plugin and even the core is a security liability if you don't auto update everything (which is likely to randomly wreck your blog someday) and Wordpress's default configuration (with its XMLRPC API) is far from perfect.
Lattice Semiconductor Launches Community Sourced Open Hardware Portal
There are a few areas of regulated speech even in government-involved First Amendment scenarios [1].

It is true that private entities can kick out individuals for utterances found disagreeable. But what if those private entities are practically extensions of those in government positions, working closely with them? During the Framers' time, the proto-US did not have the equivalent of the Dutch East India Company, considered the most valuable company of all time [2].

At what point does a private entity grow so powerful that its private views applied in its selection of who to engage with turn into persecution of the kind that informed the separation of church and state principle [3]? I'd like to get a specialist historian's (specializing in the Framers' discussions) take on this, because I find it interesting that they were all very likely well aware of the Dutch East India Company, yet they did not find it a compelling enough entity to elevate to the level of the separation principle. So I have to wonder: what did they believe was the countervailing force against such a behemoth private entity's selection pressure turning into outright persecution?

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-1/g...

[2] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/most-valuable-companies-all...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state...
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No, they do not:

* Dangling references from lambda captures are no different than dangling references or pointers passed without lambdas, and not more likely to be used.
* spans are no worse, and usually better, than using a raw pointer and a size; they don't make memory errors more likely.
* string_view - indeed, it potentially introduces a dangling pointer. But - that only happens if you store it. Which is why I qualified my claim to "using recommended idioms". If you replace your `const char*` or `const std::string&` with `std::string_view` you have not introduced a potential memory error.

More generally - new language/library construct which do not manage their own memory can introduce memory errors. But, luckily, C++ now has a better "harness" of protecting you from many of these without costing you and performance nor introducing now memory issues.

So I stand by my claim. Having said that - C++ is not a safety-guaranteed language, and if that's what you need then it is indeed not the language to use.
I'll worry about the ethics of taxing $30millionaires after reparations have been paid for slavery, Jim Crow, and housing covenants.
Exactly. I bought and sold in July. We were in a rush to sell as we had made a firm offer and were facing an unknown market with lockdown just beginning to ease. My realtor staged the condo, built a slick site under their domain with a 3d (Cardboard-compatible) virtual tour and detailed floorplan, put it out on social media, bought ads, printed glossy brochures to leave in the front hallway, and of course put it out on the MLS central listing service. We sold for more than identical pre-Covid listings, enough above what we'd have taken to cover both Agents' fees. FSBO would have been a false economy for us.

When I've browsed FSBO property listings they are usually overpriced and/or in disrepair, where the seller has taken a similar level of care with their property maintenance as they are taking with the act of listing it.

I think use of Realtors is an example of a Nash equilibrium. Other buyers and sellers use them, so you have too, even though it would be optimal for buyers and sellers for none of us to use them. When I look back at the five properties transactions I've done, it feels like I've paid a lot to Realtors, but in each transaction using a Realtor was the optimal choice.
Based on the useless scrollbar next to the presentation and next to the demo iframe on the website, I'm guessing this was developed and tested on macOS where scrollbars are invisible. Web designers, please enable scrollbars!
Not a great look for someone trying to sell a type of webhosting in my opinion.

I'm not sure about the demo case to be honest. If you're trying to sell a villa that's worth a 1.5m euros, you should probably spend some money and invest in something more professional than the Wix of home sales.
Is 80% really unusual though? I thought most health insurances pay out > 90%.
Ray Bradbury Got It Right – Cal Newport
This seems all too common in the software industry. A company creates a product, but after a while, ignores the changing needs of the market until it’s too late.
An important reminder to all "content creators" on someone else's platform:

What any monetisation platform can also give to them, they are more than able to take it away.

Since it's their platform, they can do what they like. Best to just build your following there and move out and run your own show while you can.
I can still see these old episodes on my podcast app. I just tried downloading one of them and I was able to.
Asian airlines are selling in-flight meals directly to the public
> The developer resources Apple provides are not free.

So then why is the charge for signing and not for developer tools? That way if I wanted to I could use somebody else's tools instead of paying Apple.

> I think at this point in the tech boom we can all understand that when a company gives you stuff of value at no cost there are significant tradeoffs and paybacks.

Which is why I paid so much for my copy of gcc. Wait, hold on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj-Iwv5NJKg

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/17/tech/jetman-dubai-trnd/index....

"The achievement occurred last Friday, when Jetman pilot Vince Reffett took off from a standing start on the runway at Skydive Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and then flew up to nearly 6,000 feet in altitude. He demonstrated the ability to hover, stop, turn and maneuver."
yes. people here are definitely on the spectrum. the spectrum of awesomeness that is.

i did find the idea of god being a senior dev/architect grumpy type being funnier then your overused tired meme
Similarly to anything you use that is FLOSS, which could have few devs and languish, teams with bizarro changes of direction, and so on.

You just get the assurance that in the off chance somebody (including you) cares enough to maintain it, has the time, and is competent, they have have the license to do so.

But that's not that big a deal, except if its a project with many diverse backers and large diverse community (e.g. something like MySQL or SQLite or even Webkit will survive and be forked if needed - something like the average 1-3 main dev project not so much).
Organizing by effort/value has been magical for us. Whether it's working thorugh a punchlist for a product nearing launch, or whether it's proioritizing initiatives for the upcoming quarter -- looking through the lens of what is easy/valuable, hard/valuable, etc, really puts things in perspective.

The easy/valuable stuff is obvious, just do it! The hard/useless stuff is obvious too, just let it be. And then the more important decisions come around which hard/valuable stuff to do.

Either way, all that is much clearer when laid out visually...
>She says her OnlyFans work is the only way she can support her family due to the pandemic, and fears many other content creators will struggle to make ends meet going forward.

Really? There's always working at Walmart, Target or even collecting an income from Patreon?
Did you read the article? It's an automated process. Unless you're referring to our robot overlords there was no malicious employee involved.
> But if your government is infringing your rights, it's very difficult for most people to pick a different government.

I am not sure if I am attacking a straw man here, but it sure sounds like you claim that buying one way flight ticket is very difficult compared to getting rid of FAAMG in your life?

I understand there are other complications involved in moving abroad that just the flight ticket, but I still think that the big global corps are much more difficult to get rid of than my government. Including the fact that they very much keep communication with my friends at least as much hostage as my government if I decide to move away.
Sure you do. Those may be the easiest ones, but they are not the only options. There is probably a discoverability problem though. It's not great if the best way to learn about the other options is through HN comments...
I suppose you don't need income so much as a credit line.
This isn't a particularly noteworthy project -- I know a few people who made the same thing to try out the IE webview.

I'd be more impressed if the webview was introduced by not using a OS component.
Yes, that's almost exactly how it works. First option can be chosen to beat at least 511 others, second option to beat 255 others of the remaining, and so on. Just add up total number of group preferences among each subset and divide by number of options to show that.

The number of people is irrelevant. This works with a million people just as well. Ignore people, only look at group pairwise preferences.
>Freedom has a price.

Sure, and like everything else that has a price has to go through an cost benefit and an opportunity cost analysis.

Just because it "has a price" doesn't mean it's always worth it...
By that argument, you might as well have files with the same name, if you can "just see them".

And let's not even start with non-English auditory where you have to render filenames as "С as a dollar, У, another С as a dollar, English T, E, M" (that's "system" btw).
The typography on the main site is pretty bad too. Very cluttered with huge text everywhere. Odd changes of fonts in places.
Houston's population was 1.7 million in 1970[0], it's 6.4 million now. I'm making the guess that their highway system was approximately done in 1970, but it's basically the same story if you put that number at 1980 (2.4 million) and so on.

FWIIW underutilized modern highways are amazingly efficient and pleasant to drive on. As far as I can tell they're limited to recent construction in Europe (Spain for example; it appears to have a 2005 era German highway system designed for 2-3x their population).

[0] https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/23014/houston/population
I vastly prefer Bruce Schneier’s take (from 2006):

The Eternal Value of Privacy

https://www.wired.com/2006/05/the-eternal-value-of-privacy/
Somehow a neighborhood gets the label "High Crime".

If the label is created due to the sum of reports from community and reports from officers, we could remove the officer generated reports to create a less biased label.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de_YJzKeGKU

Go to about 3 minutes in to see the take off from standing and continuing to hover.
Perhaps you're confusing Mt. Palomar with Mt. Wilson! Mt. Wilson is actually near LA. It had its own fire close call a few years ago.
This sort of cowboying is how cool technologies end up getting banned and set back years.
Having many files with same name, differing in case only (a cultural 'thing') is just a mess - there's no extra value here. Do you use case in spoken word ?
Arguments of performance or ease of implementation are technical details nobody cares (except devs of course :) )
We just end up living with this decission and there's no easy way out.
Is there a reason why people would want to pay for this OnlyFans content? Genuinely interested.
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> Freedom is when I pay somebody to do it for me and move it elsewhere if I don't like it.

But you inherently have less control over the situation when you pick this option. Sure, it's convenient to pay someone else to manage the service, but you expose yourself to the acquisition situation that this user did. Also, moving to another provider isn't usually an easy thing to do, it's not like deciding to shop at Costco instead of Wal-mart today. Beyond the most trivial of services, you usually pay a fairly hefty technical migration cost to move to another provider. Most companies can't just wake up on a Monday and decide to switch from AWS to GCP or another cloud provider.

I guess "Freedom" can mean different things to different people, but when you're at the mercy of a vendor like this, you're inherently less free than you would be if you ran your own service because you can't control what they do.
If you don't like code you don't become a developer.

If you hate wrenches you're going to have a .. difficult time being a mechanic.
I recognize those 'jetcat' engines.

https://www.jetcat.de
Scrapping HN / HNewsletter ?
As a pet project, I would be interested in scrapping some queries on HN / HNewsletter. I am starting with Python (as per Automating the boring stuff with Python).

However, I encouter some practical problems.

For HN, I am able to search a term, but I am not sure how to navigate the different pages (or if it is needed at all).

How would one get all the titles (+points +number of comments) that match a specific query ? What would be the most practical way to also get the comments in an exploitable format ?

For hacker newsletter, I found that website : https://hackernewsletter.com/issues/ that seems to make the loop over issue relatively easy. But issue before 250 seems to be missing. Any idea on where I could find them ? Or an already compiled archive ?
Can you? So China is close to black. Iran has strong internet censorship, so I guess close to black? What about Russia, where AFAIK a normal citizen is pretty free to access information and express their opinion, but bigger political figures are regularly poisoned? What about Turkey?

People here in the comments are already pointing out Spain and the USA, which most people would probably assign to the "free world".

Of course it's a spectrum, but at what difference between countries is such a boycott realistic and doesn't quickly turn into hypocrisy if not enacted against countries uniformly? Shouldn't the USA boycott Iran or Turkey in the same manner if they boycott China? Should Norway start to do the same to US companies?
Indeed I have actually tracked and posted a few bug reports on the blender forums.
I'm running an AMD 5700XT and an R5 3600 so I sure hope my configuration is supported! My only concession is that I had to download the "optional" driver for august in order to get Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 support.
Thanks! I've heard of GitHub pages, and yes I just need a static site. I'd have to look if I can allow newsletter subscription with GitHub pages.
It seems strange that anyone wood ever assume they control something held by someone else with no contract in place and ToS they surely didn't read. Anyone who thinks their free Facebook account is something like a bank safe deposit box (which even still is short on guarantees) is...
strange.
With some of the numbers shown, I'm amazed they're still using a party that takes 20% of their innings instead of hiring a web company to set up their own site. I wonder if they're trapped in exclusivity contracts (and get thrown out if they fire up their own site), or just afraid of losing followers if they migrate away from onlyfans.
Well, a company/product with steady service that wasn't created to be quickly sold, e.g. Basecamp, would make them happy...
> There’s no attempt by Apple to claim that the application is safe or does what it says on the tin.

So that isn't part of the notarization process. It still was approved by Apple and thus was notarised.

> It’s like claiming that the outcome of toasting a sandwich is approval or rejection, no the outcome of toasting a sandwich is you have a sandwich that is toasted, aka “toasted sandwich.”

That's disingenuous. If I send a Sandwich to be toasted by Apple and get it back toasted that means the Sandwich was indeed approved by Apple since it has been toasted.
ATCs have a reputation for never losing their cool and that really shines through here:

“Tower, there’s a guy in a jetpack flying outside.”

“Copy. To your left or your right?”
Reminds me of a feature on Total Expert's CRM for creating site pages. It's not open access, but there's an overview of it here: https://blog.totalexpert.com/5-features-every-single-propert...

Total Expert's offering is geared more towards real estate agents, but the interfaces are both pretty similar. The only major difference I see so far is that FabHomePages doesn't take an address and automatically load it with listing images (or at least from what I have seen so far), though that would make sense since FabHomePages seems to be for individual sellers who probably have their own photos to work with.
Hardly realistic. People go where their friends are. This prevents scattering groups over many different social media. We had them in the 2000s, then only one made it to now (FB). The others that are big now (Instagram/FB, WhatsApp/FB, TikTok) are successful because IMHO are on a different medium so don't directly compete with FB and/or are used by a different demographic (young people don't go where older people are, same as for music.)
I've done nothing wrong.
Subscribe-on-update databases are, almost by definition, problematic to use at scale as a generic storage solution. The fundamental problem is that they do not solve many real world problems efficiently enough to warrant the significantly higher running cost. Of course there are exceptions but it'll be hard to launch a MongoDB type of product that uses a subscription only model (see Firebase RTDB and its problems and lack of adoption in this space)

The reason developers gravitate towards subscription/rx based paradigms is because it results in very clean architecture and code. Unfortunately it comes at a cost which increases rather than decreases per client/user when volume increases. Some companies or projects can absorb that cost but not all, and typically less so when the project or its userbase grows.

A subscription based model will do work whenever data changes for each subscriber whereas more traditional pull based architectures only do work when a client specifically needs the data. This can be mitigated to some extent by being micromanaging subscriptions but that kills most of the value of the model.

There are also plenty of issues with this model if multiple clients are allowed to write to the same data which every single example project seems to try and do. There's a reason master-master updates, consensus algorithms and CRDTs all come at significant cost. It's usually hard. And when it's easy you probably don't need it subscribe-on-update in the first place.
Now in 2020, they actually already offer all keyboard layouts on any laptop in their US store, all at no extra cost -- which is really nice -- you can get a British, Japanese or Russian keyboard directly on any laptop when purchased directly at Apple.com for US delivery on a US credit card -- at no extra charge -- and it's advertised to still come with a correct US-based plug, so, there's nothing to worry about.

I wish Lenovo would follow suit. Currently, Lenovo doesn't even sell separate SKUs for non-en-US keyboard layout even on external keyboards, not to mention keyboards already integrated into the laptops. But in any case, I'd rather have the physical keys than the TouchBar strip, even if accompanied by a laser-etched keyboard layout of my choice.
"But unless the game is on rails, the historical facts will always be just one of the possible choices"

Sure. Thats why I am talking about the general setting. I start at a time, which I like to be somewhat historical correct. And from there it is free playing. Otherwise those strategygames would not be possible.

So in the example of collonization, there definitely should be the option of slaves, as it was done. But there should also be the option of avoiding it. Basically, playing nice, without the game mechanics pushing you to be a slaver.
(I do not remember how it was actually implemented)

But I would not mind the game to be harder playing it nice. Which is probably more to historical truth.
I don't think there's any question the pilots would describe it as "a guy in a jetpack" if they weren't sure that's what they were looking at. Spotting traffic around the plane is part of pilot training.

With that being said, if it zipped by the plane very quickly, there's the possibility it was maybe a very large RC plane shaped like a guy in a jetpack, which I think could be a bit more plausible.
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> 1. one can't seriously believe that easy money will always be this easy and abundant 2. competition drives the prices down and fighting the stigma on sex workers drives the competition up.

Yes, but that totally misses the point. The problem is that the pictures (presumably) weren't as advertised and so OnlyFans lowered the price ceiling for everyone to reduce future losses. The complaint isn't that people don't pay, but that the plattform stopped allowing high paid work.

And in all honesty, it is a bad way to handle the situation. Pulling posts with a high number of complaints, holding the money for a few days or only setting a limit for new accounts would've been a superior solution by far, at least in my opinion.
Honestly, better just to skip straight to the linked report that Vice is just lifting from - (https://citizenlab.ca/2020/09/to-surveil-and-predict-a-human...)

The executive summary does a far better job at articulating the situation, its problems, its negative implications, and proposed mitigations than most of us will be able to manage in an HN comment.

Note that the report suggestions are not to ban predictive approaches. I think the report recommendations are reasonable under the assumption of competence and good faith among all parties. If you don't think that the limitations the report suggests are sufficient, I think that's a reasonable sign that you're not assuming good faith and competence - which is fair, but does totally shift the argument.

If you're just assuming that the police will abuse this regardless of safe guards (that's fair), you can just make that argument up front, and cut through all the shit, and then you can get down to arguing over real conflict points.
I don’t imagine it was these guys but another “Ironman” type flight suit I’ve been following is the tech from https://gravity.co/ - it looks like so much fun although I’m sure it’s much harder to use that the videos suggest.
That's in absolute numbers.

Better to look at rate, because it shows your risk of being shot and killed, depending on ethnicity - https://www.statista.com/statistics/1123070/police-shootings...

Black: 32 per million

Hispanic: 24 per million

White: 13 per million

That is, if you're Black, your chances of being shot and killed by the police is 2.5 times higher than if you were white.
As departments get fewer funds and simultaneously try to keep a lid on crime, they will resort to more of these “more bang for the buck” strategies.
China is far worse in that regard, pressure flipping against the US is a common Chinese troll argument.
If I recall correctly, the road to the top is relatively tame because it was built to deliver construction materials to the observatory, and that was before motor vehicles.
Apple gets its money back on the hardware alone.
How can you do that without lying? "My client is not guilty..." is already a lie.
Really? How well do they pay?
Thank you! I've bookmarked it, I'll look at it with my SO, he's the more technical one :D
Actually, you would be one of first people to have an immunity to SARS-Cov-2 that hasn't already been infected by it.