skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's not move twitter here with these kinds of trash articles: full of strawmans, disingenious,etc.

It just doesn't help at all.The discussion about conspiracies is useless itself unless you're willing to talk about limiting free speech/freedom of thought.

Instead of shaming people and further pushing them into corners you can't pull them out of, just promote the idea that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs.
> Elon Musk claimed that thanks to Starlink, anybody "will be able to watch high-def movies, play video games and do all the things they want to do without noticing speed". Thus, Musk explicitly underlines his wish to reinforce already massively energy-guzzling digital activities, such as video streaming and online video games.

WTF? Is this a real problem that climate change activists talk about?
> Roblox also takes a cut of 24.5%, compared to an App store portion of 25%

I find the graphic even misleading. Roblox takes double that: 50,5%.

If you calculate a share out for hosting and user acquisition you also have to do that for the App Store. And everything Apple does (OS development, new hardware, advertising) could count as “user aquisition”.
So, does the fact that eating too much fat gives a person less chance of surviving a coronavirus infection, or the fact that receiving radiation therapy does the same, require a different rethinking of that ‘knowledge’?
I dunno I still firmly sit in the 9/11 was an inside job camp. I've looked to be debunked and disproven many times over the years wondering if I was just young and naive.

Everytime I look I still arrive at the same outcome.

I don't think this is some faith I hold. I just can't see how the "truth" actually matches with the reality I saw with my own eyes and the reality I determine byaking a judgement call about the government's actions at the time.

I could actually let the twin towers go. Pentagon crash was just simply too unlikely. Doesn't help the evidence we needed was taken away and hidden never released.
Nice one, thank you. Love the 2021 models colours.
That is a very weird way to think.

Most people find notifications very useful - enough people in fact that Growl being a third party app you have to install in order to get notifications was extremely popular and lasted for 17 years.

Some applications do seem to think they are more valuable to you than they actually are, but that's usually going to be product managers with an inflated sense of their own importance rather than trying to attack you.

You say you have ADHD. I also have ADHD and I can tell you that NTs generally aren't malicious or sociopaths or intentionally trying to destroy our focus - they're just ignorant and building for what they know in the same way sighted developers tend to produce websites blind users can't access.
It’s supposed to be coming. Dev said as much in the last beat/first official release doc
I had some trouble figuring out what it is - it appears to be a Slack-style UI implemented in Google Sheets.
Does this get around the issue of the BEAM taking a while to spin up?

One nice thing about Python and Bash is for the most part when you run a script you can see the output almost instantly.

With Elixir, typically you end up having to wait half a second or longer while the VM boots up. It makes a very noticeable difference in practice.
The claims would not be unsubstantiated. Science allows you to make predictions about the world. Here we can "predict" that 5G does not cause Covid with near-certainty. We have a vast amount of evidence that it is true. Reducing this confidence to "there is no evidence to the contrary" is an appalling failure of communication, as it lumps this conspiracy theory into the same category of many other more-plausible-but-uninvestigated theories.
> Even my mother does this in spite of my persistent requests for her not to because she feels an obligation to do so in spite of my pleas.

Oh dear, this is a really dangerous conflation of 2 different practices. You really ought to distinguish for everyone here instead of trashing the whole culture. You're not talking about the same thing others are talking about. Taarof'ing (pretty literally: "offering") can mean multiple things, and it's critical to distinguish them:

1. Offering things expecting you to refuse them. You know, like you go to pay for a purchase and a shop owner pretends to refuse the payment. In such cases, they would be offended if you accept their offer.

2. Offering things in general (generally food...) because they've just been trained to by the culture. In this case, they're "worried" something negative might happen on your end if they you don't take their offer. (You might be offended, go hungry, not have a place to sleep, etc.)

Foreigners talk about #1, but you're talking about #2.

And these are VERY different things.

Your mom making you sandwiches (effectively forcing you to eat them) is NOT #1. She is NOT offering it to you expecting you to refuse it. (At least not due to taarof; if she might have some other beef with you that's another matter.) If it's either of these, it's #2. And in all likelihood, it would be only partially #2—a lot of it is just her being your mom and being overly enthusiastic (obviously some cultural part to this too) about making sure you're well-fed.

However, foreigners care about #1—about offending the person making the offer by accepting the offer. Your mom is emphatically NOT going to be offended if you take the sandwich. Like the native making a sandwich for the person you replied to, she is much wants you to take it and is 100% sincere in that. Heck, she'll be offended if you refuse it!!! Unless I guess, you know, she's doing this for the 500th time and she's hoping you might finally start making the sandwiches yourself, but again, that's only because you're her kid and she wants to see you improve in her eyes, not because of the taarof tradition...
Fascinating. I just started a project called the Interplanetary Publication Protocol (very incomplete site at https://interplanetary.pub) and am looking at all possibilities for content-based networking/data retrieval.

If you're knowledgeable on this, I would love to pick your brain a little - my email is s@slm.space.
Shit. You just reminded me of one of my biggest issues with this. No code blocks is very annoying for me. From the looks of the user base, it may not be a highly wanted feature. Would love to get it soon though assuming I go through with paying.
>Also, in a real word mall, the rent and maintenance fee will not increase as you makes more money.

Not exactly true, Mall will raise rent if you are making more sales, knowing you are making lots of money they want a bigger piece of it. And in many cases, they are taking a fix rent as well as percentage of sales. It kind of depends on your business segment and brand. For example Food Court and Restaurants operate on different terms, Super Market and Jewellery shops will have different arrangement.

So it is a little more complicated.
For what it’s worth, curl won’t help you connect to Bluetooth devices
Race grifters gonna race grift.
Why this over Agenda? Because of the plain text? Would you prefer Agenda for other things still?
Why go with the English version instead of the French one?

https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_%C3%A9cole#Corps_civi...

EPITA is not a "grande ecole". Doesn't mean it's not a good school.
> when you see a beautiful sunset

I don't salute a beautiful sunset, and I don't require my children to pledge allegiance to the sun; nor would I be so crass, flippant, or despotic as to suggest - as you already did with citizenship - that someone declining to offer their loyalty to the sun deserves to be denied warmth.

Tossing around false equivalences doesn't make patriotism a sunny day.

> Everywhere I go I see people treating their fellow citizens differently and more affectionately compared to foreigners

...

If I ever need to reference a monument to unconscious bias, and to the staggering lack of self-awareness that "patriots" embody, and for a prima facie example of how structural discrimination is perpetuated even in 2020, this'll be it.
This year I actually spent over half an hour searching for a
legal way to stream a certain series in my preferred language.
Which quickly turned out to be quite a task because some
streaming sites don't show non-registered visitors more than a
login screen, others don't show any language options or
information, and the remaining ones refuse service to my region
or don't have the content in their selection, at least at that
moment. Trying to find out if the search will be successful
feels like trying to solve the halting problem while illegal
sources offer DRM-free downloads with a single click on the
first link in the search results. The disparity is stunning.
Comparing (for example) Edmund Hillary, the first Westerner to climb Everest, to a present-day Instagram influencer is satisfying.

He followed the philosophy of Radiant Living and went on a hunt for the abominable snowman.
I do agree with your point, in particular with the last part about the grifters. But I think this was bound to happen, just as it happens in pretty much any domain that is no longer a niche. Companies see a way to make a quick buck and move in.

However, I see this as something of a new development that didn't actually remove what was before. You can still run Linux if you like, just as you could 10-20 years ago. You don't have access to UHD Netflix, but... you never had. They didn't take this away, it was never given in the first place.

Granted, the fact that Apple goes downhill is, I think, a net negative for the computing world. Ditto for the tracking embedded in windows 10.

Regarding Linux, there's the UEFI / SecureBoot situation, but even on "enterprise" HP hardware this can not only be disabled but I can actually load my own keys, so I don't perceive this as a threat for the moment.

The deeper problem, to me, is that all this works because there are enough people who, for some reason, don't care. Maybe they're not educated enough / don't know better, maybe they actually want it, maybe they're not aware. But the fact remains that there are many, many people who buy the iPhone, who use windows 10, who use facebook, who buy echos, etc. So, aside from "doing the right thing", what incentives do these companies have to stop doing what they do?

[] I actually do own an iPhone but I treat it like an appliance. I install next to no apps, so I really don't care about who can install what on it. I do care that my 4 yo phone got the latest major upgrade and it works as well as the day I brought it home.

However, I am pissed that LittleSnitch is unable to filter all traffic on my Big Sur Mac. But I basically no longer use the Mac, so I'm doing something about it.
India built a high-tech surveillance ministate to manage 250M festivalgoers
Gallery-dl – download images from several image hosting sites
Great work! I've tested it with French.

I just wish the voice wasn't so robotic.
The big difference there is someone can create a Roblox competitor if they want. No one can create an iOS App Store competitor.
The gallery-dl program will let you do that:

https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl
> marketing should be easy

I’m sorry, what?!

Do you realize the “sell something to people” industry has been at least as big as the tech industry for many decades and is the one growing faster and faster?

Also marketing has historically been a problem for people who make stuff.

Also, better have the Balkans of software than the USSR of mega corps.
No. That sounds entirely in agreement with the research that obesity or radiation therapy weakens the immune system.
https://archive.vn/XZxiy
The startup I work at got such a policy instituted such a policy (mainly because the CEO got hypervigilent about IT and IP theft), and I managed to get that changed back so now effectively everyone has admin access (though through a seperate password prompt, which is reasonable increase over window's default). I think it really helped though that the IT which had admin access was outsourced and each (pretty frequent) ticket came with a bill for $XXX.
Anyone using Windows or macOS should be ok with using Synology from an ethical perspective.
SVG is much better at vector art use cases. Flash was horrible from user pov (constant os and browser compatibility problems, unending stream of weekly "ads can pwn your computer" level security holes, proprietary black box nature, ate your battery, hard to procedurally generate, didn't integrate with the web and dom, etc etc).
> NHS contract tracing (max 16,384 columns)

I see what you did there.
When penguin employees are having a cry about a guy that published a book with all the life advice a good father would give, I'm really not surprised there's people out there shoving their hands out looking for or concessions not granted to anyone else.

It's a uniquely American thing that the academic grifters with nothing better to do are desperately trying to import here as well.
The more I read it, the more this strikes a chord. For one thing, they were saving every penny of the business’ money, washing disposable stirrers until the franchise reprimanded them. It mentions very little about money at home, and the “gambling cam to take my life” is so manipulative. He started gambling, gambling didn’t hunt him down in a quiet moment of prayer. He had a shit load of money and got a high on taking big risks.

He’s an addict, and he had the gall to say “I didn’t have time for the business” when he was soaking himself in high-roller games in Vegas.

He starved and worked his family in essence minimising his contributions to the economy around him so that he could fund other child labour abusers.

Fuck this guy.
Fixing Unix/Linux/Posix Filenames: Control Characters, Leading Dashes, etc.
This reminds how deceitful are American intelligence agencies with their industrial impersonation. Other example being Soviet Union providing raw materials for the production of SR-71.
Ask HN: Should governments contribute to Open Source?
Open source software is in many ways an accelerator of innovation and has, in my opinion, improved the lives of nearly every person on earth (directly or indirectly, for example: pretty much all software services I can think of rely heavily on OSS).

However, OSS relies on the good will of people and this can often lead to conflict with companies who are trying to turn a profit.

So my question is: Is it in the interest of governments to actively pay people to maintain OSS projects and remove this potential friction so that companies can rely on OSS as infrastructure?

This is a bit of a stab in the dark, so I'm interested in what HN has to say.
There was/is? a danish company building those, seems they switched to belts though.
My favourite is how it blocks me from doing anything because I use various cookie blockers. I hate recaptcha so much, because all I want is some goddamn privacy.
Well I think for some people it can last forever, if the trip was meaningful enough. The biggest thing for me was ego dissolution, and I think I'll keep that in mind for the rest of my life.
How do you know the cpu isn't 30% of the cost?
Honestly forums are your best bet. Discourse-based ones are especially popular.
The OS and APIs are part of the device users paid for. DRM for piracy protection can be had by any developer on any platform now a days, just look at Netflix.

A person in charge of the Apple App Store told the US Congress it takes ~$100 million to run the App Store[1]. That's about $5/developer/year instead of $99/developer/year that Apple charges.

[1] Page 345: https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/competition_in_dig...
What was so good about Enterprise Objects Framework? I don’t know much about Rails either, by the way.
Freemasons Say They're Needed Now More Than Ever. Why Are Their Ranks Dwindling?
That's my point. Don't just use one of the unprotected services that get unencrypted data. They will use your data for their gains. The goals they use them for will just be different, depending on which country it is.
Hello fellow Basecamp user Automatic check-ins are the killer feature for me. Nothing like getting the pulse of your team at regular intervals

As for your question, my first thought was Discourse. It's a modern day forum. Posts, threads, the whole shebang. Has badges and leaderboards too.

https://www.discourse.org/

I've heard good things about Twist as well. Though I haven't used it yet.

https://twist.com/
Hopefully charitable and educational organisations aren't just waiting for someone else to do the work for them for free. If they don't like this approach they can pay people to work on improving open source flash implementations.
Possibly qualifying - a game called Everything: https://store.steampowered.com/app/582270/Everything/
Well the ones that didn’t do this got eaten by bats, it’s very easy to see how survival of the fittest works CB in this case. Designing an eye with evolution seems somewhat harder...
Something like that. Evolution = natural variation + natural selection.

In any given population there is natural variation: fastest moth, hairiest moth, whitest moth, etc. After evolutionary pressure is applied, the other moths are preferentially devoured, and the hairiest moth becomes the dominant variation with the most offspring.

For a similar historic account, read about the black form of the peppered moth which rapidly took over the moth population, caused by evolutionary pressure + single mutation in the year 1819.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36424768
Ask HN: Authors similar to Hunter S. Thompson
By now I have read almost everything by Thompson and my current favourite being Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 a book that I have been re-reading for the past 5 years and am now ready to move on, but to what?

Do we have anyone writing like him today? I’m not looking for ‘Gonzo’ in the sense of someone that must be part of the story, what I like about Thompson’s writing style is the depth of information presented, condensed in as few words possible, elegantly articulated and delivered with humour.

A visionary, no bullshit approach, straightforward and I guess, humanistic view with deep insights.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2004/06/innocent-murderer-200406

As per this NORML In Memoriam:

“Hunter was an inspiration to all of us who challenge the status quo in our work and lives. The ultimate outside-the-box visionary, his example reminds each of us to keep asking questions wherever we find ourselves, and whatever we do. A friend and early supporter of NORML, a panelist at NORML conferences and a continuing member of NORML’s Advisory Board, Dr. Thompson worked to improve all our lives with compassion and generosity. His singular genius in showing us the splendor, the blunders and the humor in contemporary society will be remembered for a very long time and will be severely missed.”

https://norml.org/hunter-s-thompson
There is even a custom skin in skins directory when you open Explorer.
No it doesn't go out, but the APN itself does go out on the network and can be used to apply different billing to tethered vs mobile browser data usage. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25244052 for more info.
That sounds great, I'll check it out!

Reminds me of "Why Chicken Sandwiches Don't Cost $1500": https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_rk2hPrEnk8
Opportunities exist everywhere, but your argument is not cohesive and it’s insulting; Immigrants don’t see the value proposition of the USA as no debts and a blank slate. In fact, a lot of them lose out because their previous achievements are not recognized by the foreigners.
Why does it require Adobe's cooperation?
There are religious people and then there are those who believe the Earth is 5000 years old, and that humans lived along with dinosaurs prior to the Deluge.

Whatever mechanisms that enable that kind of belief were useful in our evolution, but now are an existential threat to our species.
> Versioning - Update broken? Write back version N-1, and you’re done.

Doesn't kubectl rollout rollback already do this for deployments?

> Pinned deployments

Service meshes like Istio let you run mutiple versions of services that you can selectively route traffic to. You can sign up for it if you need it. What value do pinned deployments add over that?

I kind of get the problem parts of k8s networking. But other than that this seems like it makes already complicated kubernetes some more complicated for not so convincing reasons.
You don't buy a Tesla for Quality. Tesla could put their logo on a Kia and it would sell to this demographic.

If there is anything to learn from Tesla it's about marketing, not automotive.
I get your point, but stores paying ~30% of their revenue in rent isn’t out of the ordinary.

Restaurants typically work on 30/30/30/10 for rent/wages/costs/profit.
If you have time and they do t seem totally all in then the reasoning approach is still the best I think (as you out here)

On illogical governments I’ve managed to calm friends down by saying “yeah, not all lock down rules seem sensible but you know what? We’ve not done this before, we’ve not been through a pandemic in about 100 years and the world is very different now. We are all making this up as we go along and so inconsistencies will arise, mistakes will be made and we will all get through this together by playing our role. Don’t rage at the system, realise the system is flawed but the end goal is the same, stop the virus spreading until we have a vaccine” it seems to have helped a number of my friends who were on the “it’s like these rules are designed to get us in trouble” train

“Never assign to malice what can be explained by incompetence” - is a happier way to live in my books
> Does this get around the issue of the BEAM taking a while to spin up?

I'd be interested in hearing the answer too.

One of the things that has held back Clojure's adoption as a general-purpose CLI scripting language has been the cost of JVM + Clojure bootstrapping. It's not long in the grand scheme of things, but 1 second matters a lot when chaining commands in the shell. There is now a CLI scripting version of Clojure that gets around this issue by running Clojure (and some bundled libraries) as native code through Graalvm native-image: https://github.com/borkdude/babashka
There is nothing above the orange for me.
The UK government already does: https://github.com/alphagov
I bought a game on GOG recently. It funnelled me hard into getting their terrible launcher and now requires me to start the launcher to play the game, exactly like steam. I'm sure there is some way of avoiding this but it wasn't obvious at all.

Edit: according to this post on the forum the feature is not maintained or supported (as of 2016).

https://www.gog.com/forum/the_witcher_3_wild_hunt/how_can_i_...
Does that make you an Evil Alien? If so the Wurzels are not your friends!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dak0rGzoyLU
I'm really confused at how you went from:
> A conspiracy theory is something that the other political side believes in, but which your side rejects fully.

to (paraphrase):
> both sides can harbor the same conspiracy

> There are overlaps, certainly, but ideas labeled as "conspiracy theories" usually boil down to the instinctive left vs right values, but that is not always apparent at first sight.

If any group of conflicting political adherents harbor the same conspiracy theory--e.g., JFK's murder was a conspiracy--then it indicates that the conspiracy theory isn't polarized, only that ideology changes how the event was perceived.

The conspiracy theory isn't what is polarized; the political implications of "resolving" the conspiracy are polarized.
"No ads, no tracking, your content, your data!"

I'm not sure that's a compelling reason to move from Twitter. A better argument would be a business/development team/research team/college class/student organization wanting a Twitter just for themselves.