skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A look from behind the southern border of Belarus: in 2014, Ukraine had had peaceful protests for more than two months before street violence started and ended. Then Crimea was annexed. Then the separatist war started, where most of weapons on the separatist side were supplied by Russia. Ukraine is a country with the same post-Soviet culture of "whoever owns weapons is suspicious", just like Belarus.

My point is that you don't "end up like Ukraine or Syria" by your own choice, and Belarus's only choice may well be between a "civil" war (i.e. proxy war with Russians) or being bent by Lukashenko to submit. I still hope that Belorusians will make it peacefully (Belarus is smaller and more unified than Ukraine), but I am afraid that it's not up to Belarusians to decide as long as Russia has the influence it has there.
I think if this arrangement were to continue for multiple years, the likely new deal would be for parents to shift to part-time work where possible, with accompanying cultural changes such that their new situation won't turn that into a complete career dead-end. It will mean lower pay, fewer raises, and longer stretches between promotions, but it won't mean being treated less seriously from a professional development perspective. Parents who would usually pay for child care will have extra money to help offset the wage cut. Parents who would usually rely on public services for child care will require additional effort to accommodate.

Meanwhile, non-parents will just work normal full-time jobs and get raises and promotions at their usual cadence, and it'll be more or less status quo.

The issue now is that we're not expecting this to go on for multiple years, and are hoping that things will go back to some semblance of normal sometime early- to mid-next year (whether that comes to pass or not is irrelevant; the expectation is what matters). With that thinking, you can expect solutions to problems to be blunt and short-term, not well-thought-out policy changes and cultural shifts that in the best of times can take years to work out and transition to. And because they're blunt and short-term, they are going to have rough edges, as we're seeing here.
I locked myself in and committed to it. The best time to invest in AMZN was 10 years ago, the next best time is now.
Then complain about those cases, not this one where the argument does not hold.
Those ratios are pretty high indeed. Eight babies for one adult! In the Netherlands:

under 1: max 3 per adult
1–2: 5 per adult
2–4: 8 per adult
Almost perfect. I would add a bit of Kubernetes to the mix

PS: I think it would be great to have a clickbait title builder based on top HN article
Yeah but who honestly is going to try to exploit Eudora 7 in 2020 unless they are deliberately targeting you?
>It is entirely possible that warranty on the cheaper model is longer than on the higher end model and by installing the upgrade Tesla can no longer guarantee that longer warranty or any warranty at all.

Is it only possible or is it a fact? If it is only possible and not a fact then it is a fact that warranties are the same.
This all sounds true, but it breaks down about the fact that bare html and css are too low-level and quirk-rich for a high-level programming under reasonable budgets.

Also, not programmers are guilty of such bloat, but the tools that they use, html css included. There is no compiler that takes an idea / a representation of it and turns into highly compressed, DCE'd, -O3 LTO'ed bundle. There is some progress in this direction, but it is not that great and requires an effort to use.

because Bootstrap told them to do so, they nest as much DOM as possible

Bootstrap also does that for reasons. For reasons that are unclear to bootstrap itself, because these all lie in the inconsistencies, legacy-ness and incompatibilities of the allegedly most compatible platform ever. And when we try to discuss how to extend it (not even replace!), someone brings idealistic arguments about how it should stay as is, because otherwise (again allegedly) they couldn't print a webapp or screenread an html5 platformer game.
Perhaps the better chart is on page 21 (Figure 16), where as compared to all the other countries surveyed the U.S. is at the far low end of housing price inflation. In fact, unless I'm missing something it comes in dead last among all 14 countries at the end of the sample period, 2012.
Reminds me of 1984’s telescreens; the word seemingly selected to hide the fact that they are also recording devices.
It's worth adding that the Apple II was really the first home computer, soon followed by others from Commodore and Radio Shack. There were other microcomputers, but they weren't aimed at a casual home market. The Apple II was the first personal computer that came "ready to use"... you just needed to connect a screen (which could be a regular Television of the time), plug it in, turn it on, and start programming it in Basic! There was no storage device included, but the Basic interpreter was in ROM, and gave you a prompt (kind of like a REPL) when you turned on the computer.
I'm allergic to it too. There used to be a fantastic add-on which replaced every instance of the word 'cloud' with 'butt'. Very handy a few years ago. Could do with updating for the era of guilt-deflecting advice-meme pollutors.
Surprised anyone would waste their time defending Assange.
It depends on the museum. The curators decide what they want.

I've been to museums full of nothing but plain black swabs across a canvas. I've also been to ones with nothing but realistic scenery paintings made within the past 20 years.

Eventually, there'll be another revolutionary trend in art and people will yearn for the minimalist abstract stuff that fills museums today.
F/OSS isn't dead. Capitalism does consume almost everything it touches, and you should have seen it coming.

The easy fix is to start using the F in F/OSS more (AGPL, etc), and force anyone who wants to use and extend your software for commercial use to pay up. Take that money, and invest it back in F/OSS software if you want -- use it to buy treats for your dog if you want. If you want wider reach and use for your software (which in a sense is even more "free" for some meaning of the word), then use the GPLv2/MIT license or other such permissive licenses.

The hard fix is trying to win over hearts and minds when it comes to OSS-washing and the marketing pushes/strategies companies employ these days to get people to write/maintain their software for them. The problem here is that some people are absolutely fine with the current situation -- many get absurdly cheap (essentially free) meaningfully complex software even if it's basically shareware from corporations, and are fine with that. Many also are fine creating software that is permissively licensed because people write software for all sorts of reasons, fame and recognition being one.

It does make me glad to see this narrative coming up on HN though -- the corporatization of OSS has been happening for a long time now and needs more attention drawn to it. Every company has a right to try to make money with software, but some are more well-intentioned than others (and they usually suffer from a harder route to market viability).
In many non English languages it's common to say "the God" for the Abrahamic god.
So.... Is it a stupid time to get a mortgage and buy a house, or a fantastic time?
Is it with or without an existing hole?
Just about every thing limited by domestic labor has been inflating for decades.
> You could have responded to my post but instead you did this. Why?

I responded to the part of your post that was the most important to me: that discussions like this head towards more scientific rigor the longer they go on.

> There are more than two skin tone phenotypes. It's a gradient that gets lighter as you move away from areas of higher UV radiation to areas of lower UV radiation.

Sure. And I'm not much interested in what "seems likely" in terms of what caused that. Lots of things that seem likely turn out to be wrong when it comes to causation.
The "CSS pixel" is just a pixel, unscaled for high-dpi displays. The point is to avoid revealing the hardware while allowing a bigger starting amount for a bigger window. If you prefer, just pretend I wrote "32 MiB".

Human time is valuable. That is the whole point of this. My time is wasted when my computer gets so slow that it takes 10 seconds for the Caps Lock light to respond. My time is wasted when the mouse lag is so awful that it takes me half an hour to kill a few tasks. My time is wasted when I have to walk away from an unusable computer, checking back every few hours to see if the OS might have killed the biggest task.

Web browser resource consumption is why I have a fresh new HN account. I had to power cycle the computer today, and it seems that Chromium won't save passwords over a restart unless I upload them all to Google.
Sure, but the people who do buy things via Alexa buy way more stuff from Amazon. Just owning an echo suggests you’re one of Amazon’s most lucrative customers:

https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/01/13/look-how-much-amaz...
That's not the same thing. Yes, you have distribution over the internet. For that grandpa needs to:

1. Find the site: not always easy. Still, same level of difficulty for webapps.

2. Find the HUGE download button: not easy, it's incredible how many people don't figure it out. Still, same difficulty as creating an account or logging in.

3. Download the file: might be blocked by security policies or corrupted by overzealous antiviruses.

4. Find the downloaded file: quite challenging for a good chunk of people, so challenging that mobile apps try to do everything possible to hide files to not scare users (ergo the app-centric OS models).

5.Launch the installer: see security policies, installer bugs, corrupted or out of date local OSes, plain old user error, memory or disk space issues.

6. Find the installed app afterwards: not an easy challenge for many people.

The desktop funnel was so long and fraught with peril that the vast majority of desktop users would get help from family or people they'd know. There were/are thriving PC help businesses around. Also, despite me being a PC fan, PCs could never reach ubiquity, unlike mobile devices, despite being the only option for 30 years and the web helping them with usability.
Interestingly the article linked to states that the company in question started providing relevant insurance in response to this case. So appears what you are saying is not entirely correct.

https://blog.kitsplit.com/announcing-kitsplit-theft-protecti...
I like the idea so much!! Last weekend was the first time for me in an escape room and I simply loved it, would like to see how entertaining it is online. Only one doubt: isn't 30 min too little time to play it? And isn't 49$ too much for such a short time?
AWS is not a loss leader. It's very profitable. $16.3bn in the last 12 months for AMZN as a whole. Most (if not >100%) of the profit is from AWS.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMZN/financials
> The issue is that I, a user of an iPhone, should be able to install whatever software I want.

Could one not argue that you are able to do this by jailbreaking your iOS-device, which the courts have deemed perfectly legal?

It seems to me that one owns the phone, but not necessarily the operating system it runs.
Should employees of a corporation have more rights than a citizen? A very good question.

Are these "journalist" actually maintaining a sacred trust of "digging out the truth and publishing it"? Cursory review of American Journalism in the past few decades indicates otherwise to this consumer of their product.

If American Journalism actually worked, if American journals were actually committed to "digging out the truth and publishing it", there would no "conspiracy theories" whatsoever, starting with theories around the assissination of a sitting American president.

This phoneomena -- the public maintaing an ad-hoc narrative of events after rejecting offical narratives -- are known side-effects of living under "managed public discourse" political regimes. Free societies do not indoctrinate their populace.

Press is the tool of the powerful in every corner of this planet. And no, it is not "nutty" to think "all should be equal before the law".
The joke is that UEFI got so complex that we can have malware there in the first place.
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Sure, refuse that request. But don’t be surprised when your Amazon affiliate account suddenly has issues, or your books strangely don’t come up in searches.

The practice of corporations using carrots and sticks to manipulate media sources has a long history.
Apple owns the marketplace on their platform. When they undermine competing payment systems using their monopoly power then they appear to be acting anticompetitively in a manner that is against the consumers best interest.

This is only an issue when they use their monopoly power to undermine consumer interests.
Imagine: the horror of having to say "Alexa cancel order"
Credibility would help. I don’t need career guidance from a glorified Instagram model, I’d like it from someone who knows what they are talking about.
Personally I've been researching in healthcare mainly on CVD for the past five years.

Coming from outside healthcare, I was really shocked initially on how primitive the technology in clinics and hospitals as if they are still in the 1980s especially in the hospital management and operation. I've come to conclusion that healthcare is a very well-funded area and it's ripe for disruption. Consider these scenarios in where I live:

You want a digital copy of your ECG reading, nope they give you the paper based reading of several seconds recording that will lose their ink in a few months time.

You want to transfer your health data record to another hospital or clinic, nope that's impossible since the hospitals or clinics don't perform any proactive data sharing even between government's hospitals, paper based or digitally.

You want the over crowded hospital outpatient section to send you SMS or at least make an online/website call numbers, nope you have to wait physically, and if you've missed your turn when you're away then you are basically screwed.

You have a disabled family member who cannot even move to attend the hospital, nope you need to pay expensive third party doctor to make a visit to your house.

I think you get the idea by now, and since your expertise in healthcare IT and depending on where do you live just talk to the hospital management or govt appointed organization (e.g. NHS in the UK) about any of the above issues and how you can you solve the above mentioned problems or others for the benefit of hospitals/clinics and the society in general.
You mean, like the previous generation did?
If you provide them with these details, it should work.

A friend of mine works in a bank and deals with these things. If they have your full story, they should get it all sorted out.
If they were personally involved in each individual app sale that argument would hold.

Since the extra cost between selling 1 copy and 1 million copies is not the same as between selling 1 car and 1 million cars.
> However it is the purpose since our biology is removed from our sense of self or humanity in the end.

At the risk of over-using a tired phrase: that's just, like, your opinion, man.

Life has no purpose beyond what we individually ascribe to it.

> However I’d argue a star that contributes to life, as the Sun does, is far more meaningful than one that does not.

That may be true, but a human that reproduces does not necessarily contribute to life more than one that does not. And even under individual circumstances where that reproducing human contributes to life more, that does not make reproduction its purpose.

For the record, I have no issue with parents getting some more work flexibility due to COVID. It's absolutely the right thing to do. But this has nothing to do with some abstract notion of life's purpose; it's because children need child care, and not allowing parents the time to fulfill that obligation is an awful thing to do to both child and parent.
Often this is to do with making a site work across browsers. IE11 is the bane of our lives! Plus doing the transpiling allows using things like Typescript which is a godsend on a complex site.
As mentioned in response to your other comment KitSplit did appear to address this:

https://blog.kitsplit.com/announcing-kitsplit-theft-protecti...
"Recommendation system is so successful in many products and services we interact everyday" ->

"Recommendation system[S] [ARE] so successful in many products and services we interact [WITH] every[ ]day"

I'm sorry, but four errors within the first sentence is just not good enough - did the author even read this themselves just once before hitting publish? Show just a little bit more respect toward the people who give their attention to what you've written.
"Needs" may not imply "currently does not use enough". "Why the human body needs water" could be a popsci article.
> What makes you think this? How do you know they cannot do an App Store for less than 12%?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games_Store
"Epic Games had settled on a 12% revenue cut for titles published through the store"

> This isn't true, the cost of the App Store is fixed and has almost NOTHING to do with number of things sold.

OK so you say the whole % of sale model is completely wrong and people should just pay a fixed fee to be in the App Store? Explain it to Epic please.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/tony-hawks-pro...

45 euro means they cash roughly 5.40 on the sale of this item at 12%. The item is a game comparable in size so has comparable hosting fees as Fortnite in the iOS App Store. Yet charge more than twice as much to host it, not changing the fee even if they have more than 117 million people that buy it.

So what's really fair to you?

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Can't reply anymore, so I'll update here instead:

It's fairly simple. Fortnite and Tony Hawk are comparable AAA game titles, with the same amount of updates, same download size, etcetera. Yet Epic manages to milk the double out of each sale of Tony Hawk because of it's retail price. But retail price has _nothing_ to do with the cost Epic has to distribute Tony Hawk (as you argumented so well).

Epic pays a bit more than 2 bucks to Apple to host their AAA title, but couldn't turn a profit on it's own store if it had to distribute Tony Hawk for the same amount of money.
The permissions system seems to be granular with respect to whatever was selected - if you select a directory you have full access to everything in it. Theoretically the permission system requires explicit approval, but if you see the security system with the user I think it presents more risk to users than before.

Previously if you wanted filesystem control you had to trick a user into downloading something. With this API, it seems like it would be easier to con unsuspecting users into granting permissions they aren't aware they're granting.
This is the "whomever shouts the loudest gets their work done first" anti pattern. It evolves naturally - it doesn't seem to be something people do deliberately.

I've noticed this in a lot of working environments. It means shrill and loud complainers get their shit done first and they get to look more effective so they get promoted and end up running the show.

It works if and only if the shrillest and loudest people have the best ideas and the most important work.

It works provided the shy less bothersome people are shy and less bothersome because their work is unimportant and pointless.

i.e. maybe it worked for napolean but IME it's a fucking disaster.
Ah yeah that makes sense. In that case, Apple does have a pretty strong case here, will be interesting to see the result
I protested against the Iraq war in Amsterdam ( it wasn't a war ).
> ”Supposedly Amazon has operated things like AWS at a loss for long periods of time”

The article is implying that devices like the Echo are loss-leaders which drive profits elsewhere at Amazon.

As stated in the article, AWS made $11.3 billion profit on $48 billion revenue in the last fiscal year. AWS has been profitable since 2015, and is now the majority of Amazon’s profits.
Thank you! Any good resources for writing good commit messages?
when people are living (and budgeting) paycheck to paycheck, with low interest rates, the prices go up a bit more than 1:1. It becomes all about what monthly payment you can afford.
Stores do hold a value. A great one. BUT there has to be a few tiers between we are really losing money by hosting this to we are raking in hundreds of millions. If should cover cost, it should cover opportunity, it should have a margin.

In essence Apple is running an Apple App incubator :) Getting 30% of anything, anybody ever makes on it, with basically no risk on it since the actual cost of reviewing the apps and hosting them is pretty fixed.
"A book is a somewhat large time investment."

I consume a lot of audiobooks - which are great because I only listen to them while doing something else (walking, driving, gardening, home repairs etc.)
Can't wordplay be poetry? Shakespeare is full of wordplay.
Deep channels link ocean to Antarctic glacier
It doesn't require severe FS corruption.
In reality "write 'foo~'" just starts an asynchronous write; it's possible for rename to happen before that async write is complete.

So in case of a system crash you might end up seeing partial data in 'foo'.

fsync() may or may not protect against that depending on what system we're talking about.
No actually. Post codes are a recent thing here, and are mostly not hierachical. Also the standard reaction would be wondering why they need any info to process an instore purchase.
This seems to describe most items in the 24/7 news cycle. If you only read a newspaper once a week, 95% of the ‘issues’ that arise would have solved themselves and/or been exposed as not actually being an issue.
There is definitely memory protection in the modem. If nothing else because the code is so horrible it crashes all the time.

Three is even a hypervisor for hexagon but I don't think it is used.
Panpsychism is a serious philosophical position.
> which is unlikely to happen among random peers.

Yes, it'd be a minor suggestion at best. The biggest benefit would be to the internet as whole, motivating middle box makers into not breaking it and so on.

The low-latency idea seems interesting, I suspect WebTorrent people would appreciate it. But live streams over P2P sound too fancy for now.

> but bittorrent-over-TLS would work equally well (not standardized, but libtorrent supports it).

Which is where the suggestion to use QUIC would have the biggest effect and getting the swarms more encrypted.

> Bulk transfers à la bittorrent benefit only marginally if you have a modern TCP stack and use it properly.

Unfortunately very little software actually goes into the effort at figuring each such detail out and the end result, defaults are often rather poor.

I guess this more of a questions of "what are the defaults" not "what's possible."
The article is really broken.

It's not about "the web" it's about various schools of web building.

This is most noticable when a property fundamentally changes their approach (reddit) or when twitter did it a while back and then (sensibly) retreated.

A better, more sensible approach then say, graphing CPU clockspeeds, would be to fragment web development into these various schools, give them names and then characterize them accordingly.

There's really only two ways to talk about this problem: one is hopelessly divisive and factional and the other is irrelevant and useless.

That sounds unpleasant? Correct! That's why it's still a problem and getting worse.

When the "make things better" axe falls on the fingers of the "mostly harmless" it's the passions of the axe wielder that get the focus and the blame. So instead we all slide into mediocrity together. It's the path of human institutions and the web isn't immune from the pattern.