skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like the thought process was along the lines of:

“LL(1) makes it too hard to add complex new features to the language, we must change to something else; PEG is something else; therefore we must change to PEG”.
Antitrust suits were brought against Microsoft under the Clinton administration, and FTC investigations under the Obama administration resulted in changes to AdSense.

What makes you think Democrats are more like to scrap an investigation?
Yeah it is fine. dev.to is another nice option. Has more vibrant community.
So? He's not statistically significant.
Oceans are nice, for sure. But if you're reliant on China and others for all of your manufactured goods including semi-conductors, you're in for a world of pain, oceans or not.

Likewise, oil and gas aren't all that helpful if you can't get them out of the ground because your equipment is broken and all the replacement parts are made in China.

I say this as a patriotic American. Comparisons to WWII are fairly off-base because in the 1930's and 40's we were much less reliant on foreign countries for manufactured goods.
> I have never thought of having more women in the workforce as "anti-family"

In lieu of their mothers, children need to be looked after by professional caretakers. This weakens their bond with the mother. And even in the evenings, when mother is back from the job, she's beat and can't give the same level of attention to their children.
Very good rundown of why encryption backdoors are fundamentally flawed (and why governments should stop pushing for them).

I'll be interested to see how the proposed reputation system rolls out. It sounds like a complex system to get right.
U.S. to Accuse Google of Protecting Illegal Monopoly
From the Bloomberg Green newsletter -

Consider an example. LCCA value for rooftop solar varies hugely across the U.S. If the installation helps displace a low-efficiency gas turbine in California, then LCCA is only $60 per metric ton of CO2 avoided. If it replaces a high-efficiency gas plant in New Jersey, then LCCA is $320 per metric ton instead. Following this logic, each dollar provided in federal tax credits to incentivize rooftop solar—which is currently given out uniformly across the U.S.—goes much further in cutting carbon in California than in New Jersey. In effect, if LCCA were the only metric and cutting greenhouse gases the main goal, then perhaps California should get more federal support for rooftop solar than New Jersey.

...

Still, LCCA provides insight into what can bring the greatest amount of carbon reduction for the same price. It gives us a framework to make a more apples-to-apples comparison of policy or portfolio options to decide which will be the most effective in cutting greenhouses gases, and thus which will have the biggest impact in addressing climate change.
Creating Your Own JAMStack Blog in No Time with Next.js and Bison
And you wave them off politely and keep browsing. What's so hard about that?

What a strange and petty complaint.
The timing is suspicious though. Could political motivation be at play here?

A reasonable thought on the surface, but this has been pushed by many people on both sides of the aisle, including Elizabeth Warren.
Change Management in Software Development Projects
I wasn't making a comment about censorship just that, as far as I know, no one is writing anything half this interesting in publications like the nyrb
PriceBlocs – no code pricing pages
Meanwhile at Luxottica... absolutely nothing.
Angels Singing - Writing for Programmers https://app.pitch.com/app/presentation/1407d073-f457-4867-a0...

from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7-2DW-KDV4
When you tell Chrome to wipe private data it spares Google.com and YouTube
It is free but it is closed source as far as I can understand (or am I wrong?)

I think the article is a little biased, also the price table is not explained very well.

I think Discord guys are great, but I'd like to not underestimate Slack and MS-Teams on this area
Whenever I see an unsolicited (they’re always unsolicited) popup that I haven’t yet blocked for chat, I repeatedly tell it “Stupid bot” and “Useless bot” a few times. Hopefully some human sees those messages and it lifts their spirits.

Till date I haven’t seen one chatbot that has been really helpful. It’s like the Internet version of a phone tree where you struggle to get to a human who may be able to help.
That’s not a monopoly. It’s something to scrutinize but it’s not a monopoly.
>John Gruber shills for Apple...

A shill is a person who pretends to give a neutral endorsement but has an interest in the deal.
It's the Clipper chip all over again. They never learn.
Short term, yes, but what guarantee does any political group have that the tech companies won't turn on them at some point? Facebook in particular has an ever graying userbase, which means they're naturally going to continue to lean more and more conservative.
Most people retire with an income stream that is enough to live one. Now I'll grant that enough to live on is low standard of living, but it will pay for food, health care (most get some form of medicare), your apartment, and you can afford a basic car. Of course if you live in a high cost of living area like San Francisco it isn't enough, but for most of the US you will live an nice enough life. You can always want more, but your needs are met.

Third world conditions are much worse than that. I've seen families sleeping on sidewalks. No car, no health care.

Sure everybody wants more. There are a lot of retired people who would like a job, but that is as much about the social connection as money. There are also those who lost their money (scams target retired people) and need a job, but that isn't most of them.
s/an Apple device/Chrome/
Thanks, HN is a US-centric website.
The Next Generation of Artificial Intelligence
IBM's chips seem pretty innovative to me. A large amount of IBM's software is stagnant though.

OpenCAPI, SMT4... and POWER10 has those GDDR modules coming for ~1000GBps memory bandwidths.
It's amazing that pretty much every economist, journalist, business school professor and overpaid McKinsey consultant miss this critical point about how innovation works.
Muphry's law in action. On the second-to-last, they moved a comma (wrongly), and completely missed the major typo (possibly just autocorrected back to the wrong thing). It should be: "over, say, 50 yo" ("yo" being short for "years old"), and the other half should always have a comma after "30" (the one after "say" is optional depending on where they put pauses when they speak).
I live in Metro Atlanta (midtown) without a car, and I don't find it too bad. I'm walking distance from work and various amenities. Grocery delivery and Lyft makes it a whole lot easier, and the ~150$ a month saved not owning a car gets you a lot of Lyft, or a rental car if needed.

Camping and visiting family is definitely a bit tricky though.
If, on a whim, google blocks your name or business, what do you do? I found out by accident, and I think they have too much control.

Earlier this year, Google suspended my ad words account. I don't know why but think it was their mistake. The sites and ads were ethical and well within their terms. Still, I’ve sent emails and letters without progress.

It's frustrating not having an avenue to resolve the issue. Even more so because I'm in tech and though I understood these things. More so because I worked at google for a long time.

In the suspension dialog they warn all accounts under my name or the domain names linked to the ad words account will be blocked.

I don't depend on ad words. If I did, I would be completely out of luck. I'm not aware of an alternative ads network or search engine.
Key Points

Microsoft is partnering with SpaceX to connect the Azure cloud computing network to the growing Starlink satellite internet service offered by Elon Musk’s company.

The partnership comes as Microsoft expands into the space industry, with the company a few weeks ago unveiling a new service called Azure Orbital to connect satellites directly to the cloud.

Azure Space and the new partnership sets up Microsoft and SpaceX to compete further with Jeff Bezos’ businesses Amazon and Blue Origin, which have announced plans for similar satellite services and more.
What Amazon is typically accused of, having store brands, is what every retailer does. That's hard to win. Maybe there are other things, but I haven't heard of them.
Doesn't the first part of your comment contradict the second? If it does require a lot of long-term planning and competence, maybe the last thing you want to do is to distribute it to indivudal employees.
It’s somewhat useful in a broader context of income and wealth inequality discussions.
Congrats on the launch. As someone who has used this and denied it the product has a ton of potential
even if offline MS Encarta existed in 2020 it would be the same Global LEFT authorian corruption that wiki has

I doubt any books has the uncensored truth anymore
the entire mainstream is anti white, anti truth, and corrupt
Is it really necessary to make users scroll ten ticks before they get to see the article text?
People vastly and I mean vastly under estimate how poor of living conditions many will accept if they don't have to lift a finger to provide for themselves.

More than half our federal budget goes to aid programs, from social security, medicare and medicaid, to thousands of assistance programs. States then add to this total. People routinely complain that the government does not do enough to aid the poor but what they fail to understand just how much is already spent and that a good portion is misdirected; too much ends up as jobs programs for friends and family of politicians.
The whole point is freedom to choose if you want to use coinbase or be your own bank.
Porktrack: I turned a goofy idea into a real career
Firefox 82
Justice Dept to File Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google
Cheat Sheet: 5 HIPAA Security Standards
Hey everyone!

With what seems like a new website builder popping up every week, I'm often asked the same question. Why build another one? Here's my answer.

We're starting to invite people to our early access program and would love your feedback.
I sometimes idly wonder if one of the last favors Google and the other IT behemoths could do the open web before being broken up is just announcing a plan to just use SCTP for Important Thing, and fuck people who are sitting behind broken middleware and if they don't like it complain to the idiots who block SCTP upstream (mutatis mutandis for a zillion other things that are only there to work around broken middleware).

Of course there is zero chance of this happening (for one thing, it would probably greatly increase the chances of getting broken up earlier rather than later), but it's kind of nice to imagine someone of sufficient size throwing their weight around to stop socializing costs and shake up the useable protocol stack a bit again, and retire a lot of horrible hacks and complexity in one fell swoop.
Perhaps the logical next step is slashdot-like karma that reduces the visibility of low reputation users. Slashdot allowed users to choose their thresholds and, IIRC, whether they wanted funny comments or not.
The point the parent is making is that ‘not a single researcher has found fault’ is not actually a valid baseline for considering cryptographic protocol to be secure.

We have to assume that all protocols are insecure by default. That is standard practice.

Only protocols which have withstood serious scrutiny and incentivized adversaries can be considered to have a level of security.

So if you want to claim MTProto 2 to be secure, it isn’t enough to say ‘it uses standard primitives’. It also isn’t enough to say ‘nobody has found any bugs yet’.

You need to demonstrate that received sufficient attention from motivated attackers before you can claim it is secure. That’s just how it is with crypto.
But if they're not interested in using it for community communications, the fact that they already have an email address doesn't much matter if they won't use it for that purpose. They have a phone number too but they probably don't want to use that either.

There's no great solution. Ultimately you mostly have to meet people where they are or are willing to be. And that probably means that different groups are on siloed channels.
They don't spend money paying people to create content. Volunteers create that content for free.
And right there you just pinpointed the reason why so few companies truly innovate anymore. There's no benefit to innovation if the only thing you're ever evaluated on is how profitable you were in the prior three months.
Apple's app store policies are probably going to be forced to change, yeah. But that's an easier change than the other ones.

Apple is not in a situation where they need to be broken up to ensure a free market like Facebook, Amazon, and perhaps Google are.
This is largely my attitude right now. I may have also described the current internet as "giant steaming shithole" a time or two because it's so polluted with dubious information and algorithmically generated content.

At the same time I've been going through some old books (mid-19th century) that were in my grandfather's house. There are some that cover extremely specific subject matters. They are well indexed, so that finding good information might indeed be easier than googling for it. I'm not saying that it's superior to internet search, but sometimes we forget that there is actually information that has never been digitized.
Readium - Book tracking made easy
Book tracking made easy
thx so much for showing an example, very helpful.
btw, if I may, it might be nicer to stick to just serif or sans-serif fonts in your deck, the mix is making my eyes a little sad.
>They'll slap a huge "0% fat" sticker on the front of the package to appease the public conscience. But you need to carefully read the fine-print on the back to find out what's that you're consuming.

...as opposed to what? being "honest" by slapping a "contains scary sounding chemicals" sticker on the front of the package? how can a manufacturer possibly know what people would hate, considering that people can hate literally any ingredient?
I have zero experience at the levels of Google when it comes to market dominance. But I do have some for certain niche products in the chemical sector, where I worked for one of two suppliers in exostence. And there I, a simple low level team lead, received dedicated anti-trust training. Including what wording to use in e-mails and what words to avoid. So I would guess, Google is much more prudent and higher management levels, especially since this discussion is nothing new.
https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible#do-something-on-...
>How do you survive on the web if google, on a whim, blocks your name, or business?

What, as an individual?
Reddit is a top 20 site, according to Alexa. So they're not doing poorly. And any social website has a moat: the network effects from social connections.
IBM has a full hardware/software stack, cloud computing and consulting services. What is your basis the claim?
Regional broadband ISP monopolies should have been dealt with first. Change my view.
They don't pay people to create content directly but in their most recent annual report they state that 32% of their expenses are supporting the community.

> The Wikimedia projects exist thanks to volunteer communities around the world that create and maintain them. We strengthen these communities through grants, programs, events, trainings, partnerships, tools to augment contributor capacity, and support for the legal defense of editors.

https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/annualreport/2019-annu...
Quite honestly, I think Facebooks play to overlay chat ontop of something more addictive was its big win. Then having a mobile app to talk to the same people.

None of that matters anymore, because Messenger/IG/WA are all mobile apps that most people probably dont chat as much through on a desktop/laptop. But at the time, it gave people a compelling reason to have the messenger product open on screen. Google Talk was similar, being overlayed over Gmail, but google squandered having a Talk bar over the bottom of every google property. Yahoo as well. Yahoo News should have had messenger across the bottom of the screen.

On the mobile front, FB Messenger sort of won out because people started to like iMessage, but there was still a need for a cross platform alternative. I believe Apple could have prevented FB Messenger from being a thing, had they released an Android client along with a browser extension. Apple's best move was releasing iTunes for Windows, something they are scared to repeat, and shouldnt be.
The Trump administration has been laying the groundwork for this action for a while, yes. That doesn't mean it's any less suspicious that they actually file suit right before the election.
Nokia selected by NASA to build cellular network on the moon
Hi,

I use https://opentype.js.org/ to convert a font to path.

As you can see in https://caniuse.com/link-icon-svg all modern browsers support SVG favicon right now (88% of users globally). You can also download the PNG version to support wider audience. In the next version, I'll include support to download PNG version for all required sizes, with a sample html page and manifest.json file.

Also, support for dark mode is in my todo list.

There's a good article on this here https://medium.com/swlh/are-you-using-svg-favicons-yet-a-gui...
I still have code that relies on 2.7.... yes, i'm ashamed of myself :(
I don't see Alibaba or eBay as competitors to Amazon--the former because it doesn't really operate in the US (almost nobody in the US would know what Alibaba is) and the latter because it just serves a completely different market with different mechanisms and so on. Shopify might be, but it's so tiny in comparison it's hardly unreasonable to suggest it isn't a legitimate competitor.

Wal-Mart, on the other hand, might be nearing that status as far as eCommerce is concerned.
So, the differentiating value consists in simply not being made by Google?
>Google’s a monster. If they don’t want you on the net, there’s nothing you can do.

That's hyperbole. I'm on the net and Google can't stop me by any white-hat means. I have a website hosted on non-Google infrastructure on a domain name registered with a non-Google registrar, and I don't rely on advertising to pay the bills.

Have you considered a more ethical revenue stream that doesn't involve advertising and surveillance? There is life after AdWords.
Can you please provide an example of Zig "working out the dependency"? I'm struggling to make sense of your comment.
Does it use Goodreads API? I kind of want a better experience built on top of Goodreads.
My thoughts exactly. I have notifications disabled for everything aside from personal communication from my contacts. I bet a lot of HN users are the same. Don't listen to HN users preferences unless we are your target audience.

Most people seem to be tolerant of notifications. I also suspect most people do not know how to prevent receiving notifications. In public (for example, on the train) I see people receiving many notifications, checking most of them, and manually dismissing the rest.

To build engagement you will want to notify people. However, there is a fine line between a tolerable amount of notifications and an annoying amount of notifications. I would suggest:

1. Make your users feel like the notifications are always a result of their own choice. For example, a notification for something they chose to follow is likely to be tolerated. A notification for something they did not choose to follow will be more likely to be seen as annoying notification spam.

2. Make it really easy for a user to stop notifications in a fine-grained way, or to receive them less frequently. Ideally, they could do this directly after clicking-through the notification (or on the notification itself, if possible). This gives users a way to keep your service from breaching their tolerance threshold, and may therefore prevent them from leaving your service altogether.
The Genius of Spelling Bee
I feel like it is on the reader to understand that to some extent everything about measuring is about HOW you measure.

This article is one of MANY that recognize this, and it's by a journalist, and I've seen politicians note it as well....
Yup. My bad. I saw it in a tweet and thought it released today. Sorry.
This comes off as "everybody is an idiot except me" which is always a tempting view. I believe we re-discuss things as a community so often because the world changes so quickly and we have a constant influx of personnel. Noobies will always need to rehash the lessons of the past.
> as in the case of Venture Capital that invests in hundreds of startups (selected according to their investment model) estimating that a small percentage of them will turn out successful.

This. VCs have an endless supply of disposable entrepreneurs in their portfolio.

For every 1 person that has PG's version of edgy, devil-may-care entrepreneurialism and succeeds, there's 99 that fail. VCs operate more like brokers than entrepreneurs. The only place they're not playing a numbers game is in fostering business connections and hiring.

Acting as if the SV financial Goliath is David is just, I dunno, old. That assembly line has been cranking out the same "apply software to an existing problem" model for a long time now. And they do it because it works, and actually building things takes longer, has less leverage because of up-front capital, and is much higher risk (and taxation).
I hope stuff like this is taken into account when courts decide on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24836520
If lots of people see a clear pattern forming, doesn't that make it MORE credible rather than less?
From mysqld error log on node 1:
2020-10-19T23:34:30.988023-06:00 0 [Warning] [MY-011493] [Repl] Plugin group_replication reported: 'Member with address node2:3306 has become unreachable.'

From node 2, data missing for 7 seconds:

SchedLat by Tanel Poder [https://0x.tools]

PID=1478 COMM=mysqld

TIMESTAMP %CPU %LAT %SLP
2020-10-19 23:34:22 0.0 0.0 100.0
2020-10-19 23:34:23 0.0 0.0 100.0
2020-10-19 23:34:24 0.0 0.0 100.0
2020-10-19 23:34:25 0.0 0.0 100.0
2020-10-19 23:34:32 0.0 0.0 100.0
2020-10-19 23:34:33 0.0 0.0 100.0
2020-10-19 23:34:34 0.0 0.0 100.0
2020-10-19 23:34:35 0.0 0.0 100.0
2020-10-19 23:34:36 0.0 0.0 100.0

Now what?

I wasn't able to "install" tools because policy does not allow gcc to be installed so no xCapture. I do have a perf file, but never used it before and not sure what I'm looking at.
When they started adding those "This site works better in Chrome" popups on their web properties I was fairly shocked; didn't MS get in trouble for essentially this & Windows/IE?
It's more accurate to the book. The word appears only in the trailer. In the book, it's "jihad", which fits in the many other Arabic-derived words, like Muad'dib (مؤدب, "teacher") and gom jabbar (جبار, "powerful").
I hope they don't switch. I think Lightning is a better engineered connector -- it is very durable and attaches much more positively.

I am 100% on board with USB-C on computers -- but the use cases that apply to a laptop/desktop are very different than how people use phones.
Oh wow. Didn't see that. I told you I'm bad at it lol.

But thx a lot! Will do that.
Throws the ordinary unemployment rate into the category of 'false', which I agree with. To class 'any job' as employment is unhelpful and greatly misleading.

I'd prefer a measure of total working class income perhaps, maybe a ratio with cost of living. Then we'd know what all these jobs add up to exactly. Counting heads is hardly a 'true' rate of employment.
They do? What evidence is there to suggest this?
Don't know if AI is a market that's big enough to catch the attention of regulators, no matter how important it is to the HN crowd.