skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is currently designing jetpack compose which is their latest UI framework and is in Kotlin, I don't see them dropping such a wonderful language.
Flutter on the other hands might just disappear
Where does one host sites like YouTube-dl.org?

How do you host a thing so Uncle Sam’s (US)powerful hands can’t touch it?
More men should do this too.
>Life is seldom made of binary choices like you imply. And what you think is "morally by far the best thing to do" really does not have to match others morals.

If there is another choice, then none of what I said applies. That being said, history has been such that there often has been no such other choice.

>My morals are, I do not judge absolute morals, like you. I judge only concrete situations.

If your morals are such that you would prefer fascism to any kind of socialism, then I do judge, and I think most do. If they aren't such, then the rest of my comment applies.

>And since so far a egalitarian society is only a theory that failed multiple times in reality, I do not believe in supporting such a theory with all my energy and posession. Which would be "accept the socialization of your property, and live the life of an ordinary person, which is morally by far the best thing to do".

No one, not even Karl Marx believed in an egalitarian society. What socialists do believe is that private property is an issue that will inevitably lead to the fall of liberalism, and that it must be heavily reformed, along with the removal of the class system. All socialist societies had some inequality in them, and no one complained about it, because everyone can agree that those more capable or who work harder should receive more.

>In other words, if I would have to take the choice between fascism and socialism I would rather try to gather what I have and go away.

That is an understandable choice, and I don't think anyone would object. Of course, getting your capital and other kinds of private property would be much harder as the fascists would certainly not let you do so.
The reason reveal codes isn't available in Word isn't some kind of petty spite. Word just doesn't intersperse formatting codes in the stream like WordPerfect did (or html does, to some extent). It puts all formatting information in a binary block at the end of each paragraph. That's both more flexible, and more fragile.

As an aside, me and my wife, we translated WordPerfect 6 for DOS into Latin for the Vatican, as freelance translators.
Or you know different people like different things and there are 7 billion people in the world to maintain and upkeep all of them.
One of the best books i've ever read.
Super cool people maintain and expand things like KDE 3 and Gnome 2 (Trinity, Mate)!

However personally I don't feel the need anymore. Gnome 3 and KDE 4 are both quite usable. Which is a stark contrast from when Gnome 3 and KDE 4 came out. They were both nothing more then glorified beta's. The first release of Gnome 3 was basically like the first Windows 10 release with the Metro UI; Totally unusable. Not that surprising since both Gnome 3 and Win 10 were created on a "tablet first" (or at least "tablet prominent") mindset.
Heh he eh, totally with you. The following kind of snippets appear a lot in my command line history (for music):

youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 <mediaurl>
Of course “when applicable”. You can’t copy a physical object physically, and technically can’t even copy a physical object by recreating it without violating some trademark or the maker’s copyright.
What is the expected value of a decisive vote?
Do you have source for that? I think you're confusing the IFR and the CFR.
> It's entirely possible (if not plausible: FB doesn't exactly have a good track record) for FB to just self-MitM the E2EE and see everything that passes through their servers.

Why would they even need to MitM in transit when they control the endpoints? They can just analyze the raw text locally (in the app) and extract valuable information.
Same experience here. If you exclusively follow smart, interesting people, it's pretty great.
Yeah, and I also wish there was a way to filter out content from select people who I follow for their subject matter expertise, and I'm not interested in reading about their takes on politics. I don't mind that they're wanting to share those views, but I wish I could follow just their subject matter content. And by the same token, it would also encourage people to be able to post those non-subject matter tweets, if they knew that people wouldn't have to unfollow them if they preferred to avoid politics. Allowing people to choose to bifurcate what they follow a person for enhances the network, I think.

And I should say, it's not even necessarily about politics. I'm not a huge sports fan, and in the same way, I would like to be able to unfollow posts about sports, etc of friends on Facebook.
Happy Halloween. Enter Sandman (Metallica)
"He was a socialist though, til the day he died so he'd be voting Biden were he here in Wisconsin right now : P"

Not sure if that was sarcasm referring to labeling of Biden as socialist by Trump and co?

Because I doubt any real socialist would consider Biden a socialist.
Still lots of happy users, but no new ones are available anymore:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena/updates/no...
I agree that it wouldn't work.

Even if the entire EU would agree to do it, we're still surrounded by other countries who might not do the same. And who's people will come into the EU whether we close the border or not.

(the guy who beheaded someone in France came to the EU illegally over the Mediterranean 2 or 3 days prior.)

Thinking an eridication strategy would've worked would've been a worse plan than lowering the curve I think.

We couldn't keep it out even if we wanted to. And yes, on that aspect, it's a huge difference to be an island far away from other countries.
The basic premise of this article seems to be that, yes, entrepreneurship is not physics, mainly because human behavior is harder to model than things like motion and forces. So the TLDR (according to the author) is:
"The point is not to ‘not fail’, the point is to fail quickly and fail often in non-lethal ways so you have pragmatic, real-world knowledge to help you guide your decisions."

I liked the part where they also talk about "asymmetrical risk" and creating experiments where you may risk 10% of your capital, but if that thing works, it will double your business. I think this applies to all aspects of entrepreneurship, not just building the product. For example, I write about acquisition channels that consistently work for founders [1] and found the most successful ones place "small bets" that can potentially have "big results". Like mentioning their idea in a FB community where they could get 1000s of potentially interested people. Time invested: 10 minutes. Results: 1000+ potential users. Not bad.

Nassim Taleb also talks about this "asymmetrical risk" concept [2] and a lot of his "Antifragile" book was about it. I'm really curious who originally came with this concept (it seems to go by different names, the OP calls it "asymmetrical risk", Taleb calls it "convexity), and it seems the first person who came up with it was someone from the finance industry decades ago.

[1] https://firstpayingusers.com

[2] https://www.advisorperspectives.com/articles/2013/07/16/nass...
Didn't say he wouldn't drive it on public roads. Only said the selection of light color is only limited for public roads. He could set it to one color for driving and another color for shows and meets.
I still miss Reveal Codes. It was such a fast route to fixing layout problems..
Can maybe Google get flutter to compile down to semantic html hence addressing writers concerns
Great text for greater lies

`I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various 'party lines'. Yet in a way, horrible as all this was, it was unimportant. It concerned secondary issues – namely, the struggle for power between the Comintern and the Spanish left-wing parties, and the efforts of the Russian Government to prevent revolution in Spain.`

My gran grandfather died 15 years ago. And there is no week without he screams in his dreams about his sisters and mother being raped by the "bolsheviks."

Then once all his family were killed, he escaped, went to the port, and decided to work as a maritime merchant.

It wasn't a war between "left" or right as we have with partisan politics. But it was war between:

a) Foreign and revolutionary ideologies

b) Foreign and adversarial powers;

c) No rules

Several countries later fall to the communist regime and USRR influence, causing misery and death.

This was not your neighbor discussing or putting signs from your opposite candidate. It was war, with blood, rape, and destruction.

Because we live and more "prosperous" and civil we can't really understand how evil people can and derive pleasure from being able to be evil without any limits (order) or restrictions (moral).

Note: The embassy of Spain once offered him a travel to Spain because he was one of the oldest on the local community.
He declined because his Spain was "dead" and he wanted to keep the things still alive in his mind.
Beatbot: A beatbox-to-drum translator
> I hope you're not drawing a parallel between Russian revolutionaries, later soviets and CNT/FAI.

The differences are huge, but I don't think that was very relevant at the time. I do not think it was easy to understand, for example by an old catholic woman of the Spain of 1936, that the libertarian communism of Bakunin and Kropotkin those atheist were talking about had nothing to do with the communist revolution of Russia she had read about in the news some years ago. Even many people part of these movements did not have their differences clear at all, or were too pragmatic for that, and were just fighting fascism.
That's what's called an informal fallacy.
Written scripts have used to change all over time. It is not possible to read at the get go, but after some practice, yes, any one can read old Tamil. Given that about ~55% [1] of written inscription are from Tamil, it is one of the proficient.

How do you measure the language change [2]? There are several approaches, the one I remember reading about is, you fetch the most basic kernel of a language, like very simple key words (like relations, food, feelings and so on) for about 100 words and then see how many of those words have changed since say last 10 years, last 50 years and 100 years and so on. You try going back as long as you can and you loose few words from 100 words you started, that's you delta.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Indian_epigraphy
2. https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Fall_2003/ling001/languag...
>motorcycles excepted in some state

Only california, fwiw.
Great post !

It feels hard to get started on this subject, I'm always down to get more learning material.

While I'm only at the beginning and still has a lot to learn, to anyone interested in understanding zkSNARK, I heavily recommend reading Maksym Petkus's "Why and How zk-SNARK Works: Definitive Explanation". It's available for free on his website and goes through similar steps than this blog post to explain how it's all done.
I wonder if it's worth also observing how often men would interrupt other men, and see if the men are actually interrupting the women with a greater frequency.
What most people don't understand is that a targeted IP, with a stream size and a timestamp is enough to identify pretty every https page uniquely if it is accessible by a spider.

A headless chrome makes measurements of timings even easier these days. The order of how files are loaded, which file size e.g. jquery.123.min.js has, and where and when exactly in which order it is loaded from is very unique among all pages of a website.
How do you break out of nested loops without an extra variable set/check to break on in the outer one otherwise?

goto is nasty, but in my experience writing HPC code, it does have some uses that can't be solved as efficiently (i.e. without extra branching) otherwise in some situations.
Cloud-based hosting services personally give me too much analysis paralysis. Sometimes I just want old school shared hosting that already has an Apache config that is sensible for most small-mid scale work because it's more intuitive to deploy.
If the concept of ergodicity introduced here intrigues you, I highly recommend reading the Nature paper "The Ergodicity Problem In Economics": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-019-0732-0
I find that interruptions have nothing to do with gender but with personality and culture. People from Southern Europe constantly interrupt everybody and each other - which btw is also why I think they have to talk so quickly. If you don't get your thought out in time, somebody will interrupt you, whether you are male or female.

It gets better heading towards Central and Northern Europe where it seems like culturally, people interrupt each other less. However then personality plays a bigger role and there are people who just need to insert their opinion right then and there - a pretty annoying trait in either sex, imo.
I use Hide Feed [1] and Intention [2] that were featured on HN some time ago (both by the same developer). They are amazing to reduce the addictive mechanisms employed by YouTube and similar sites.

[1]: https://www.hidefeed.com/

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22936742
I’m sorry maybe I misunderstand the tech but how does a user have the choice when a site pushes this on them? The average user won’t know what peer to peer is or understand that they’re sharing their bandwidth with strangers.
> it is not apples job to work out if you really wanted to revoke a cert, or you just screwed up.

It is literally Apple's job. From the Certification Practice Statement: "The Subscriber may initiate a revocation request by sending an email to product-security@apple.com. The request for revocation will then be evaluated by Apple."

> Let’s put it another way, say someone requests a revocation issue to malicious actor

There's no evidence that this is what happened with HP.

There's one known case where a Developer ID cert may have been compromised: https://panic.com/blog/stolen-source-code/ Apple worked very closely with the developer, they didn't just receive an email and reflexively act without thinking. Moreover, in this case, Apple did not actually revoke the cert! Old versions of Panic apps signed with the cert still run fine. Apparently Apple has a way to use the secure timestamp of the code signature to selectively disable apps signed after a certain date.

Again, all non-accidental Developer ID cert revocations that I'm aware of were owned by malware developers, and revoked on Apple's initiation. I've never heard of a case, until HP, where the developer requested the revocation of their own Developer ID cert. And we would know if a legitimate developer's cert was revoked, because their software would stop working, just as it did with HP, and with the accidental Charlie Monroe revocation (which was entirely Apple's fault).

Perhaps there are cases where a cert was never used, and then revoked. But Apple needs to be extremely careful about these cases, because we've seen the terrible consequences when a cert is mistakenly revoked. And there's certainly no rush to revoke an unused cert.
No arrays, no real strings. Pushing UB issues on the programmer instead of forcing the compiler maintainers to deal. No closures. Threading as a first class construct. No modules. Standard Library is increasingly a bad joke.

What's happened is the direct opposite of C++ where every fad gets added to the language. With C lots of standard proven features don't make it into the language.
"No one is on twitter to have a conversation, it’s a room full of screaming people."

It's not a room, but a city. You've clearly been spending time in a bad part of town. Ruthlessly curating lists of people/accounts worth following will transform your experience.
I fucking hate deep linking on iOS. That opens the medium app and nothing useful in it.
Yeah sorry, should have said this was for testing out something quickly on my local machine!
If the money comes from the public purse, they are paying for them also... Seems fair to me.
This is pretty interesting. One problem I think the field of mechanical engineering has is that there is no high-level hardware description language to describe mechanical devices. Sure we have things like modelica which come close, but there are some pretty big disadvantages. It is very difficult to describe a work piece being moved through a factory and having operations performed on it with modelica. It is even a challenge to formally describe what mechanical devices do!

Honestly, I think Charles Babbage may have made the most progress in this area with his mechanical notation[0]. It is crazy that Babbage was able to design a the difference engine without any CAD software!

[0]http://blog.plan28.org/2014/11/babbages-language-of-thought....
I consider "no major uses beyond web" to be a strength. Whereas other languages were adapted into use for HTTP servers, PHP was a tool for HTML rendering from the ground up, and therefore a specialist. I tend to trust specialists overall when it comes to tools, wouldn't you agree?
Inspect Element doesn't even work on the Demo App they linked to. It's covered by this glass pane so you can't get past.
Rust has special syntax to name loops, and to refer to them by name when breaking.

'foo: loop {
'bar: loop {
break 'foo
}
}
ARM ecosystem disintegration and the rise of RISC-V
"The NSA" - who do you mean here? The org in its official function doing unofficial things without oversight? Or the individual working for the NSA spying on his ex-lover for blackmail material?

I mean, either you're saying "no one within the NSA has ever been a bad actor", or you're saying "the bad actions are acceptable collateral damage; no oversight needs to be applied to ensure the trade off between effectiveness and collateral damage is balanced", or you're saying "not ALL actors are bad" and leaving it at that.

And...none of those strikes me as a particular defensible position to take.
I’ve only seen it on mobile and it seems fine there. So consider narrowing your browser window? But I’m not sure what the specific issue is.
This is a myth, repeating it amplify it but doesn't make it more true.
Moreover Cordova is outdated and you should compare the current state of the art which is Ionic/Capacitor.
Contrary to flutter it doesn't feel wrong and actually doesn't have big performance issues contrary to the former.
The fastest 2D renderer (skia) is made for chromium and second class citizen such as flutter are doomed to be inferior, plus their human resources are lacking. Example of an not so old, non production-ready issue:
https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/31138
Australia will be the slowest to go back to normal since they will need to maintain national quarantine forever - until a suitable vaccine is found and administered.

$25,000 per person is a huge amount of money, far greater than for any national scheme, ever. Probably approaching Australia's expenditure for a world war or major international conflict.

Keep in mind that currently in Europe - there is very limited excess mortality. For example in Belgium right now, there are less excess deaths than from a heatwave in August:

https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/#z-scores-by-country

Sweden and other non-lockdown countries are already back to normal. The only thing preventing normality is politicians who insist on lockdowns for a virus which is currently not causing excess deaths beyond what we would expect from regular influenza.
Interruption isn't inherently bad. Lots of conversations go like:

Person A: "If the system's going to be configured with option X-"

Person B: "We just heard we're definitely going with option Y"

Person A: "Oh thanks, so.."

Nobody is served by person A going on that tangent with a false assumption, so a quick interruption is fine.

Of course needless or rude interruptions are bad. Maybe part of this should be that women should be made to feel more comfortable giving necessary interruptions like in my example.
This is what the author was addressing with "It’s worth noting that Flutter for Web is currently in beta and the problems I am about to detail could be addressed. However, I believe these issues are fundamental to Flutter’s design choices so I feel confident in my criticism."

I agree, this is a fundamental problem they are probably unable to fix.
Well the Thais are really efficient at organising themselves and have an excellent public health and medical system. However, the notion that they can keep a secret like that is laughable.

Thailand has actually reopened to Chinese tourists to some extent.
'Makes decisions' is a terrible headline for this story. A thermostat makes decisions.

'Makes a suprisingly sophisticated series of decisions' is more supportable. But whether you are surprised depends on your intuition about how complex a tiny machine with feedback from sensors and quite a lot of internal state can be. Since almost every biological system I've ever learned anything about is mind-bogglingly rich with complex dynamics, my default is to be unsurprised by rich externally-observable behavior.
AmiPro was _not_ a good wordprocessor. It had fatal flaws, like visible redrawing the entire paragraph when changing a single character or adding a single character. And the more text you wrote, the slower it would become, because it would format everything from start; even after a page or two, the delay would be noticeable.
Yeah I know about 1 e.g. also MicroPython, no idea if that's used outside DIY though.
I agree about rust but I would think that with much stronger type safety and static compilation it should be able to remove a lot more of the overflow checks and most that remain would be needed in correct C too. At least that's what I learned from my compilers prof who worked on Ada compilers for many years and that should be quite similar.
But maybe that's my biased hope as I really really hate working with dynamic languages.
I recently switched to a fountain pen - way easier to write with and way less tension. Neil Gaiman suggested it and so I gave it a shot. Never going back - my handwriting is better (but I write cursive) and it is easier to write longer without strain.

That said - super cool story.
"If your morals are such that you would prefer fascism to any kind of socialism"

Ok, so if you would have the choice between Pol Pots socialism and Franco's Fascicm. You would choose Pol Pot?

"No one, not even Karl Marx believed in an egalitarian society. "

Then you have not met many socialists. I did and many of them do in fact believe in a literal egalitarian society. And it is news to me, that Marx did not.(but I read not much of Marx) Sources?

"Of course, getting your capital and other kinds of private property would be much harder as the fascists would certainly not let you do so. "

And about that: I am pretty much aware of what fascists do. Which is why I was involved in antifascist actions of different kind.
I was just trying to get you socialists see a different point of view. That the view "for the people or against it" is not really a helpful one for most other people, who do not believe in fixed classes of people.
I was disappointed not to see Paradise Lost by John Milton. His sentences are some of the longest I have ever come across.
I suppose the AFAIK (I do not use WhatsApp), it's Google backup services on Android. WhatsApp stores the local chat history unencrypted in the device and does not mark it as "do not backup", so the cloud sync service uploads it to the backup service. And Android does not encrypt this information.

For contrast, Signal does encrypt the local history and the backups (to the point that is a bit harder to backup the chat to outside in Android, you need to copy a randomly generate password manually to restore it. But it's a safe approach).