skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the "lock" in this case doesn't exist.
I dunno, reading the article I get some mixed feelings about this.
On one hand, it doesn't seem that bad that regulators can rein in even the biggest players and at least judging from the description the move may not be that bad for consumers. What if Ant is indeed taking too much risks and now is on its way to grow to too big to fail?
On the other hand, the timing and turn of events look very capricious to say the very least.
How does this prove CCP has anything to do with ant? If that were the case wouldn't they want ant to ipo and reap in the capital?
Anyone have production experience with Crystal? I know it's not 1.0 yet, but there are some fairly mature web frameworks available that make the language look pretty attractive.
Yep. As the article simply puts it, he was an English teacher.
Minus several relevant tools from Visual Studio.

I guess it is fine if one only cares about ASP.NET Core, and enjoys a little Java to power their .NET development stack.
You got the point provided that you are concerned about code quality. This might be an area where a CTO lacks skills over time compared to his developers.

Becoming a CTO myself within an 80 developers area, I found it invaluable to code infrequently still. It is quite simple: better decisions, better products.

To me, non-coding CTOs or most CEOs that do not understand Computer Science, it seems that they try to learn a foreign language by sending in their assistant to attend classes.

I mean this quite literally. My team can communicate to me in other terms and a different language than they would have in a simplified ELI5/KPI driven manner. And vice versa, I challenge them to think beyond day to day business.

It is not a lack of trust. It is about better understanding and better helping your team focus on the essential parts. And vice versa.
I lived in Sydney for a while. The heat is usually worse in Singapore, but at least the ozone layer is thicker.

Expats can still rent HDB. Just can't buy subsidized HDB.

If you have kids here and want to use the local schools, I would suggest getting PR or citizenship perhaps.

I've paid out of pocket for medical expenses recently. Wasn't that bad overall, and all fairly transparent up front. But am back on company provided insurance now. With gold plated insurance, my raw medical costs are sure to go up, since I don't care about keeping them low anymore.
Consider hCaptcha - it's basically a superset of reCAPTCHA's functionality, but much more privacy-friendly and more affordable at scale. Also, it lets anyone label their data on it, not just Google. Full disclosure, I work with their excellent team.
It doesn't mean much more than that some American CEO is a member of the (R) or (D) party. The CCP has 90 million members, it's not some hugely exclusionary club, though relatively speaking a bit more exclusionary than the (R) and (D) party in the US with respectively 33M and 45M members.

As mentioned in the article, the CEOs of the other tech giants Tencent and Baidu are not members. It's simply not a huge deal one way or the other.
This can be used as a low pass filter against shot noise, but so can be a purely electronic device, which will do it without an extra laser, and do it better.

As for amplification role, 2 nanoseconds would too be too bad in comparison to existing optical amplifier, for which bandwidth is practically unlimited (many terrahertz.)

As for its utility as a more compact alternative to optical amplifiers for use cases where you don't need much bandwidth, you still have that second laser input, instead of which you could've put a still much smaller electronic amplifier, which would still be needed for the final optical->electrical conversion.
Oh tsk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=accEKtBebaU

Good movie. A bit nuts. Product of a much more innocent time; set in an even more innocent time than that. Also no-one’s innocent. Free to watch with ads on Amazon Prime, or you can rent or pick it up on DVD for a few bucks.

https://www.amazon.com/Donnie-Darko-Jake-Gyllenhaal/dp/B002M...
Crystal has compile-time metaprogramming, which is it's own thing and has many sensible uses... but yes it's not the metaprogramming people are used to in Ruby and that the entire Ruby ecosystem is pretty fundamentally built on.
Check this podcast out[1]. Guest speaks about their personal website (and HTML energy).

EDIT: hey, your tours are absolutely awesome!

[1] https://html.energy/
Are you sure about that?

It definitely supports at least the "client" side of it, i.e. resolving host names and discovering services (Chromecast is based on this, after all), and it looks like broadcasting services is supported as well:
https://developer.android.com/training/connect-devices-wirel...
Yeah the amount of website laziness that reCAPTCHA has prompted is ridiculous.

Guess what, folks, every visit to your website involves some mix of humans and software. Nobody uses the web without a browser, and every browser was written by a human. You aren't entitled to make hair-splitting distinctions and dump the enforcement burden on the public.
I was expecting people making silly puns around the word "sound".
'rsync is a capable alternative'

except for the fact that rsync has a very weird (to me) behavior with regards to trailing slashes in copying directories.

most definitely not a drop-in replacement for scp
Jack Ma is an idiot, and he’s just surrounded himself with a bunch of yes men, who can buffer the operational, legal, financial systems that run his empire and mostly protect him ... but his true nature comes out when he’s required to engage in 1:1 discussion with anyone great.

At that point there’s no filter directly to his consciousness and it’s clear, from that video, that’s he’s a total moron.
The "technological measure" doesn't "effectively" control anything.

You can circumvent it using the inspect element feature of any modern browser.

yt-dl "cirucmvents" it by executing the javascript (the same thing your web browser does).

At this rate V8 is going to get DMCAd for the same reason.
And do it in a non native language.

In Germany my friends spoke very good English, but there were still times they'd sound like the drunken ramblings of a native speaker.

Only later on I'd realize the points they were trying to make and that they were running rings around me intellectually, just having trouble expressing it.

That experience has left me more or less giving a free pass to ESL speakers saying things that sound dumb, especially when it's off the cuff.
Except there is another. It's called Chinese Google also know as Alibaba. And with EU regulations coming up I suspect another one will rise in Europe as well in next decade. Just give it time, Splinternet will happen and then each country will have its own Google.
very different behavior when it comes to interpreting trailing slashes in directory names.
That's not a problem when you actually ask for a directory of content. If you are trying to pull a single file and it results in an another file pulled and put next to it then it is certainly surprising.
rsync used to be quite a bit slower at some point. rsync optimizes for network traffic and quite often network capacity is abundant. not sure how much of an issue this is with today's solid state drives and fast CPUs.

OTOH there where issues with scp having a fixed tcp window size of 4k (not sure if this is still the case) which would slow down copies on networks with some latency.

sftp have none of these issues. i prefer sftp for most tasks.
The problem is:

> Crystal’s syntax is almost identical to Ruby’s...

...But the semantics are very different.

So you're writing in one language but it's as if the meaning has been swapped out underneath for the meaning from another language.
Sony Walkman series are essentially iPods that can also carry Android apps so you can install something like PocketCasts on them directly and download/stream podcasts without even connecting to computer.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25005567
The other side must have rsync installed as well (?)
Majority of businesses are pro Influencer Marketing
Reverse shell botnet Gitpaste-12 spreads via GitHub and Pastebin
It exploits at least 12 known vulns, targets random IPs in a subnet, mines XMR, evades detection, and gains persistence.
Probably, but they can let it IPO in a few months, after making some adjustments to the structure. They are in no rush.
Nothing so drastic; I often find that Debian/Ubuntu VPS servers do not come with rsync preinstalled.
@natfriedman - you guys need to start allowing comments in Git commits, it will help enrich Git commits with any other tracking information available. Hopefully it's helpful.
You might want to give a try to Elm. Most of the Haskell goodies but way simpler, except no type classes and too restrictive.
> They haven't gone away, a lot moved to wordpress

Very dumbed down: the garden is the wiki, the blog is the stream. They both have different roles and many gardeners let them complement each other.

Listen to this if you are interested in understanding more: https://archive.org/details/gardens-and-streams-wikis-blogs-...

Here's very well tended garden: https://philosopher.life/
As other people are mentioning Intercom being super expensive - the software over at User.com was partially developed as an affordable alternative to Intercom, and has now evolved into a larger platform for multiple marketing tools with features that are all connected - e.g. chat users integrated into the CRM, and powerful segmentation based on visitor data that you can use on niche targeting campaigns, etc.

Also a shoutout to the other live chat creators in here, you guys also have great products too! @areichert and @bcx

Check out: https://user.com | Live chat: https://user.com/en/live-chat/
They might be talking about the protocol used by scp which is rcp and is indeed that old.
Helsinki could also have badly paid migrant workers, if they wanted to. Instead they don't let migrant construction workers nor gardeners nor cleaners etc into the country, which is worse for global inequality. But, out of sight, out of mind.

(There's more to say about income distribution in Singapore, but having migrant workers, even if badly paid, is a plus in my book.

If Singaporean immigration was more open, they would have even more low paid foreigners. Making the situation look worse, but be better purely in terms of global equality.)

With kids: I think it's mostly expensive if you are an expat and go the expat route with everything. If you go more local and earn a decent amount of money, the amount you save in taxes should more than make up for some extra costs.

(There's also a breakeven point for expats with kids at private international school, but it's obviously much higher.)
argh trailing slashes can be a pain! I've had to delete/move many times due to differences in trailing slashes.
As an example of the UX issue: just making command line switches consistent (e.g. delete always being the same switch) would be a very easy fix and a UX win, and it's only compatibility holding that back.
And rsync can be curiously slow under some circumstances.
The Difference Between UX and UI Design
I was able to transfer a CH domain into AWS
Some of the registrars are pretty picky about their rules.

I have a .es (Spanish) domain, and it wasn't until quite recently that they stopped asking you to include your passport number or SSN in the WHOIS entry.

A number of registrars wouldn't let you buy the domain without residence in Spain either... Ended up going with a horrible registrar, and I transferred to Namecheap the moment they supported .es domains.
From someone who knows nothing about the semantics of what and why, how is this deprecated without a replacement?

rsync is not a replacement, sftp is not a replacement. If I can't use cp like syntax, it's not a replacement.

I use scp almost daily to copy things to/from/between remote machines, the syntax is quick and easy.

If the issue is with the protocol, why is the protocol not being fixed or updated while continuing to support the syntax?
While costs are always an issue, according to [1], the parties involved spend over 6 billion $ on their campaigns. I fail to see how money can be a issue here.

If we are talking about the allocation of money, then this is a political problem, not a monetary one, as money is clearly available.

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/cost-of-elect...
Cannibalism and cultural revolution in modern China (1967-76))
...In the massacre, methods of slaughter included "beheading, beating, live burial, stoning, drowning, boiling, group slaughters, disemboweling, digging out hearts, livers, genitals, slicing off flesh, blowing up with dynamite, and more".[1][6]
epub 2 and epub 3 are both much better formats than PDF if you really want to publish ebooks.

PDF is not reflowable and results in a crappy reading experience unless the device screen size is just right.
Even if they did, I was massively depressed with two broken arms and a head injury. I wasn’t thinking clearly about my options. Trying to navigate the healthcare system when you can't wipe your own ass is not a fun situation to be in.
My company has been using Papercups since it launched. It works pleasingly well for such a new product, and we've found the team very responsive when we've asked for support.
To build some real world web applications check out IHP: https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/

It's a truly batteries-included way to get started with building real world haskell web apps in minutes.
As a Finn that site does not convey typical finnish person at all. Finns don't brag, finns certainly aren't "happy". Then again Helsinki doesn't feel like Finland at all either.
Look at FiiO, they have dedicated hardware. Back then they produced headphone amplifiers for iPods, after those got canned, they start to produce their own iPod replacements.
Polymorphism at Linux/Kernel C Code
Being a party member was a pre-requisite for becoming a schoolteacher back then, and it seems China is well set to returns to this madness yet again.
I've tried delays too, but it ends up being almost the same, because I just associate opening reddit/hn/youtube on my computer with the delay and discomfort - so I open it on my phone or another computer.

If there's a way to circumvent it, it just becomes muscle memory at some point later.
The entire history of the Wittgenstein family is a long tragic winding story. Definitely can recommend the wiki of Wittgenstein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein
I disagree with the framing suggested by the word “caught.” After they were sued, they shipped this option, I tried it, it sucks.
From the article:

> The scp command is a historical protocol (called rcp) which relies upon that style of argument passing and encounters expansion problems. It has proven very difficult to add "security" to the scp model. All attempts to "detect" and "prevent" anomalous argument transfers stand a great chance of breaking existing workflows. Yes, we recognize it the situation sucks. But we don't want to break the easy patterns people use scp for, until there is a commonplace replacement.

The problem is that in many cases those bugs are in fact the intended behavior and changing it would break backward compatibility. I think it is better to leave it as it is and move to a different tool.
Crystal does global type inference to be performant while “feeling like a dynamic language” - as claimed by the article. This leads to very high compilation times (which is non-linear so a program double the size will likely take more than double the time to compile) and last time I asked I was told it is not a solvable problem.
Wow! Thank you for showing me that, really piqued my interest as a commercial maritime nerd on the side!

I've seen other more permanent container solutions retrofitted on ships, though mostly passenger ferries with set schedules. Also only as auxiliary power allowing to eg. maneuver when docking without having to start another genset or capture excess energy from required gensets running in inefficient ranges.
>Why only the equity of money but not other things on the Maslow's hierarchy of needs?

For the same reason you'd probably rather be paid with money than with Tinder matches or beauty products. Money is the general equivalent in modern societies, so its hard to believe you really can't see why it's so special. No philosopher has argued for equality of looks, or even equality of resources. This seems like a straw man you've set up just to attack the idea of taxation.

>I work with my body using my brain. It's my body, my choice. Just like no one deserves to be raped, you cannot force people to give away gains of their work.

This argument makes several philosophical assumptions that may not be justified. See the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy on this: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-distributive/

The same moral reasoning that dictates the state should not interfere in matters of speech extends to other spheres of life to give other outcomes e.g. prosperity, rather than only freedom.
AI isn't/wasn't taboo there - the opposite, rather.

https://becominghuman.ai/china-aims-to-be-a-leader-in-ai-by-...
sweet summer child.
Arctic time capsule from 2018 washes up in Ireland as polar ice melts
> In a sane country, you can use insurance to convert variable payments into average payments

Consider tax paid healthcare to be a public insurance plan that doesn't need to skim billion dollar profits from their "customers" then.
It’s what he was saying — not how, in particular the part where he believed machines were incapable of being smarter than humans, because if you try to compete with them in an area they’re good at you’re dumb for doing that. He then contradicted himself by using the example of a human in a foot race with a car. Then he states that human intelligence comes from the soul anyways.

To be fair, Jack Ma was an English teacher, has a Bachelor of Arts in English from Hangzhou Teachers University and he was an English lecturer at Hangzhou Dianzi University. While he may have an accent his communication style is quite clear IMO.

If I thought this was at all a language or communication issue I’d never have posted it.
The article mentioned that Tencent and Baidu CEOs are not CCP party members. It's not a big deal, one way or the other. Journalist and internet pundits simply like to play it up. Most of us don't understand much of the workings of the CCP, partly due to deliberate intransparency partly due to the language barrier. So it's fertile ground for all kinds of baseless speculation.

Even without language barrier, I think most of it is just the nature of politics and holding positions of power. It's not like many of us have a very good understanding of the inner workings of the higher cadres in the (D) and (R) parties, or of the leadership teams / boardrooms of large companies either.
> You don't necessarily want to use that angle on Finland... the gas tank is pretty large and gas is highly taxed, both figuratively and literally.

While the cost of car ownership and general cost of living is high, I'd like to point out that you don't necessarily need a car if you live and work in Helsinki. Or at least you don't need two cars in the household.

A bicycle is a perfectly viable option for transport for about 8 months of the year, or at least 6 if you're afraid of the weather (or can't change clothes at work). The bike paths are excellent and safe and if your route involves going through the city center, it's by far the fastest mode of transport (you can average 20km/h easily, can't match this by car or bus in the city). Bicycling may not be quite as good as continental Europe, but it's pretty good and the city is small enough to go everywhere by bike.

The rest of the year can be covered by public transport, which is very reliable.

Unfortunately COVID has hit the public transport in many levels, but hopefully that situation will get better. On the other hand, it did bring grocery delivery everywhere so that negates another need for a car.
Diffing is about more than just efficient storage though, it's also about showing a history of human-readable changes (which obv you don't get with a binary format).
In Germany, those counting the polls are often associated with the parties, so you actually often have party members (at least of the biggest parties) involved in the counting. But because any party can contribute + there is free access for observers, this is a non-problem.

Actually I believe it's a feature, as it would (politically) be a lot harder to argue for the poll workers to be one-sided if your own party members are part of it.
AMD Zen 3 Ryzen deep dive review
It would be interesting to have a comparison of the bases of this and Darcs3 (which is still in development).
Hooray for work on patch-based systems anyway.
It all depends on what kind of "freedom" one talks about.

If it's things like free speech and a wide and colorful political spectrum, then yes, China basically has no freedom.

But if it's economic freedom, China has way more than most western countries.

Remains to be seen which kind matters for innovation.
The first comment made me laugh.

''He's not stupid. He just has a lot of Alibaba Intelligence.''

Jack Ma had said AI is Alibaba Intelligence
Ask HN: Men Who News Too Much – Collecting Feedbacks
Hello HN Community!

How do you keep up with reading tech news/trends & what tool do you wish would have existed to make it easier and more efficient?
> - public healthcare is great until you have something difficult to work with or non acute. Enjoy the months longs waiting times to see a dentist.

Months? What? Why? We have universal health care but the dentist is just days away... if you have pain, usually 1-2 day, or immediate extraction. I live in Eastern Europe.
> The scp protocol is outdated, inflexible and not readily fixed. We recommend the use of more modern protocols like sftp and rsync for file transfer instead.

https://lwn.net/Articles/786236/

4th link in the article.
Ask HN: How to Port a HyperCard Stack?
There is an ancient HyperCard stack [0] I've used long time ago, and I for several reasons I would like to have a modern - ideally open-source - software with the same functionality. I can (in theory) run the stack on various HC emulators (e.g. [1]), but a) it's a bit cumbersome and b) I would love to be able to modify it as I see fit.

The stack seems to have plenty of algorithms and other internal functionalities which can't be easily reconstructed from just using the UI, so I would love to be able to have access to the source code and extract them to another language.

Does anyone have a suggestion how to approach this problem? I've looked into LiveCode [2] but wasn't able to get it to run (and it's apparently not fully compatible with HC anyway). Any suggestions would be more than welcome.

[0] http://lopac.net/weather.html

[1] https://archive.org/details/hypercard_weather_2

[2] https://livecode.org/
A Gopher Client in Rust – 02 Core Client
Each country has its own regulatory requirements. When I tried to register a dot-ai ~15 years ago it seemed like one guy who did it once a week would take paper checks only.

If Austria demands a valid Austrian ID number, Amazon would have to build an app to request this, validate it against the Austrian database, provide data security guarantees to the Austrian government for using this information, etc. If the barriers are higher than the demand Amazon will just say fuck it.
Governments wield huge power over private companies if or when they decide to take action. That's obviously very true in China, but that's also true in the West.

Just look at what happened to Huawei and Tiktok in the US/West, look at how Facebook is careful in order to prevent action against them, etc.

That's especially true in industries that are seen as strategic (telecommunications, energy, finance, etc). Companies know that and spend a lot of efforts on building and maintaining contacts within governments.