skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, marginal cost of free time gets very expensive for most people.

While I'd be willing to do my current job for X, if you wanted to double my hours, you'd need to pay me than 2X.
Access to public repositories was not blocked, so those who wanted to work with open source projects were unaffected. For a while after the GitHub block, many used GitLab. In fact many people who needed private repositories were already using GitLab because of the limitations of GitHub private repositories and its pricing. Also many companies in Iran are using a self-hosted GitLab. After recent blocking of Iranian accounts on GitHub and GitLab, even more companies started using self-hosted GitLab.

The blocking of GitHub accounts was unexpected and presumably took into account the usage history, so many accounts were blocked and had no further access to their private repositories and gists even if they used VPN after that.

GitLab was blocked in Iran after they migrated to GCP, but was accessible with VPN. A few month ago GitLab also started blocking some Iranian accounts, so our company moved all of its repositories to a self-hosted instance just to be safe.
Michael Nielsen re-discovers incremental reading with Anki
> this is one of the few places in US consumer markets

Did you mean geographically? Or temporally? because if the second, I'm pretty sure that is a direct legal consequence of the 2008 housing meltdown that boned both sides of the lending equation.
> They had this discussion in Iceland recently and I think they found this point inconclusive.

Iceland is significantly farther north than the northernmost point in the continental US, so what is best on-balance for Iceland on a matter that has to do with the relation between social schedules and the sun is not necessarily a guide to what is appropriate in the US, even if we assume the correctness of the judgement in Iceland.

Which is not to say that you are wrong to question the evidence, only that “Iceland found…” is itself of not much value in a discussion of US policy on the issue.
> As usual, the executives in charge walk away.

As usual, the DoJ has little appetite to prosecute non-weak people.

It is the most maddeningly predictable outcome of every DoJ action against a corporation (w/ well funded lobbyists). We can thank every administration ever for this.
This goes to show you that even though you might have "technical" solutions to control, e.g. decentralization, eventually policy control will win if your government is motivated enough.

Take cryptocurrency for example. Yes it's decentralized and the government can't seize from the blockchain. Instead, all they have to do is ask "Do you have crypto?" and you answer truthfully or perjure yourself or risk worse consequences.

Your government doesn't need control over your technology. They have control over you. Technical and policy changes must go hand in hand. You can't use one to solve the other.
> Why doesn't the EU first ask for the citizenship proof before harming its own citizen?

Did you check that they didn't? Do you know that? Because they did ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25648952

You drop accusations left and right despite being few clicks away from actually checking these notifications: https://eurid.eu/en/home/

From the first notice posted on Oct 1st 2020: https://eurid.eu/en/news/first-brexit-notice/

"Registration data may be updated by indicating a legally established entity in one of the eligible Union Member States, or by updating their residence to a Union Member State, or proving their citizenship of a Union Member State irrespective of their residence."

So, again, you just come off salty, ignorant and prejudiced towards EU without merit, and there isn't room on Hackernews for such attitude. So yeah, you do deserve to get downvoted into oblivion.
Yes... but also no.

In a world where, say, 3 large companies can decide to change the dominant narrative that 70% of the country reads, what those three companies decide is in fact a significant social issue. It may not be "censorship", exactly, but it's still a relevant issue.
Now that you've done that, are you going to work on not supporting the child rapists at ICE next?
I often think of this SMBC comic [1]. If Superman wanted to maximise good, he could just turn a crank really fast.

However, maximizing utility is not the only goal. People want to feel good about their actions, and dumping money in a black hole just isn't that satisfying.

[1] https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-07-13
I bet you the engineer who designed this (1) knows it's silly and (2) reads HN. I wonder if we'll get the story!
Peer review is the whole point of a journal and yet they do not get paid for their invaluable work. They should just form their own group so they can review academic works independently and publish online. There is no reason to have "journals" anymore.
“desktop search that works”

Problem is that it often doesn’t work. I can type in “calc” and get a list of web links instead of the calculator app. The search box in explorer also sometimes finds things and sometimes doesn’t without any rhyme or reason (at least none that I can figure out).
Markus Winand [0].

He is the creator behind "Use the index, Luke!" [1] and "Modern SQL" [2].

[0]: https://twitter.com/MarkusWinand

[1]: https://use-the-index-luke.com/

[2]: https://modern-sql.com/
Model X: 198” L x 79” W
No, it wasn't. It's under occupation.
Yes, that my statement tells about some "boss" (CEO or VP of some company) who doesn't want to be instructed by IT to slide the "stupid" (in their own opinion) cover and wants it to be automated, in the same way that they complain about the "stupid" (again in their own opinion) LED indicator light and wants it to turn off. It's not totally about spying (surpringly some don't have that concern at all) and more about that some people don't see the point about the cover the same way that they don't also see the point about the LED indicator and wants to have a "fix" (even though the fix is disingenuous to those who understands the reasoning behind it). Of course, Dell will lose their business with that company with that boss because the boss wants to have that fancy shutter and will switch if this condition was not met.

I don't want to explain my sarcasm but I understand that some people may not get it and I apologise again for the inherent non-clarity of my first statement.
I don't think that's what the person you are replying to meant by not easy, I think they meant blood from a stone not easy.

The stone might've committed a crime for which it should bleed, but that doesn't mean you can make it do that. Get it?
I don't really care which way we go permanently, be we should stop flipping the clocks twice a year.
But what boxed is saying is that that leap is incorrect and shouldn’t happen and that “it mutes the mic” is incorrect.
Yeah I don't think the API is unreasonable but many will use this without a purpose other than for compliance or something they saw somewhere that said it makes their apps more secure.

> I think if you're a professional Android developer, it's reasonable to have a second rooted device for development if you really feel you need root.

Safety net API will also fire on unblocked bootloaders, not just root. Android smartphone market is filled with crappy skin from chinese manufacturers and others. I don't want to be spied on by them so I use a custom rom on my phone. That wouldn't work in future.
Ladies and gentlemen, a proposal.

Permanent standard time, seven hour work day.
> If we had widespread Ebola, people would stay home on their own, without the state forcing them to.

Sadly, I'm not so sure of this, anymore. 350K+ deaths in the USA alone has called into question the public's ability to assess risk and do the right thing. I don't see why it would be any different for something like Ebola. You'd still have the same viral Facebook videos calling it a hoax and a conspiracy. You'd have the same toothless, unenforced "orders" from the government to quarantine. You'd have the same people refusing to cooperate Because Freedom. I don't see why anything would be different except for the number of deaths.
Thanks for some sanity. This looks like a standard job form. I worked on the Windows Core UX team for a very long time (technically, it was renamed from Core UX to Core Experiences Evolved to Desktop Experience to..... I might have forgotten one, but it was renamed to Core UX shortly before I left), and this could have been the job posting for my team at any point.
Github situation aside, as an Iranian (living in the US) I would like to use the opportunity to raise some awareness regarding Iranian sanctions by the US government.

The US sanctions are part of a "maximum pressure" campaign on the Iranian government. The US government has banned the rest of the world from dealing with Iran. Therefore, Iran has no exports anymore.

As a result, Iran's currency lost it's value ~10 times in the past decade (When the original sanctions where started by the Obama administration).

The goal of the sanctions are to make people of Iran so miserable that they would go in streets and start a revolution. Now, Iranian people hate the Islamic Republic and would get rid of them if they could. But the Islamic Republic has no limits. They would shoot and kill and many as it takes.

Another challenge for Iranian people and a revolution, except for Islamic regime's cruelty is an unknown future. Iran shares a lot of border with Afghanistan and Pakistan. Iran also has many terrorist groups activated inside it already. That means there are real fears of Isis/Taliban/Other groups rushing to Iran if the central government is weakened.

So people are scared of Islamic Republic, and also scare of what can come next.

Therefore, basically, Maximum Pressure campaign's goal is to make people so miserable, they'd rather face bullets/wars.

This has lead to some really devastating results. Middle class doesn't exist anymore. Some rural cities are reporting that people cannot pay for bread anymore. Most people cannot pay for chicken/meat anymore. Add Covid 19 to this, and a very incompetent and cruel government which has been rendered completely useless by the sanctions, and you get a complete disaster on your hand.

The government is also quite scared, and to make sure there wont be uprisings, is spreading fear. They execute people and hand cruel sentences to everyone. Last weeks they gave a 10 years sentence to an 18 years makeup artist who had a famous Instagram account. Journalists are executed, etc. People's morale are completely shattered.

So the bottom line is, the maximum pressure campaign has rendered Iranian people completely miserable. Even if it were to succeed wit topping Islamic Republic, there is no guarantee that it wont make Iran another Syria situation. Please, as a U.S. voter, I urge you to consider your support for stopping the sanctions.
https://hover.com offers telephone support though it's not 24 hours, always been helpful though.
This is a good point, but a hardwired LED does the same thing without creating a point of failure, no?
Does Iran not have it's own version of online git service after such a long time? I imagine it's not too difficult to set a barebone git hosting service up (without the hub functions, obviously).
Exactly. I was emailed back in 2018 about it. Multiple times. (by GoDaddy fwiw)
Just want to say that this is a wild idea and I really like it. I don't know how viable it is but it's definitely interesting.
I think the next stage of stimulus money should be tied to getting the shot. Say $500 for each person, (any age or citizenship status), who gets the first shot, and $1500 for the second shot. This would get money circulating in the economy, and encourage behavior that should get the pandemic under control. It seems this would work much better than pleading or scolding.
“finish migrating the UI; it does not require yet another UI overhaul.”

They have been working on this now for 8 years without much progress. For any serious work you still to know if the setting is in the old control panel or the new. I don’t think they are even trying to clean up.
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This really wasn't supposed to come across as harsh, and I'm really not down on myself, though thank you for the concern! I think the context of the word "incompetent" is what's doing it here. Maybe "effective" and "ineffective" would be better.
I would assume that’s a measure of how many apartments rely on shared or street parking, because anyone with a private garage would prefer to plug in.
The Control Panel in "small icons" or "large icons" viewing mode defaults to organizing the contents into columns. That's OK, that's pretty easy to read through.

The contents are also in alphabetical order. That's good, too, it's something the user is likely to expect.

Within the columns, the contents are not organized alphabetically! Instead the alphabetical ordering completely ignores the very clear column structure. Who does this?!
Hah, I had the exact same thought based on the title
I am not sure how math is unlike chess. Chess has three outcomes: win, loss, draw. That seems exactly like math, having true, false, undecidable.
> Am I naive to still hope for more peace in the world?

Worth noting that this is entirely the U.S. not wanting peace, not Iran, hence the EU disagrees with the sanctions regime.
Guidance for mitigating obsolete Transport Layer Security configurations
Please elaborate on why keyboards should be engineered to be completely silent. I don't think it a bad trait, and it may be beneficial in certain applications but I don't understand why this should be a universal property of keyboards (like suspension is a universal property of cars).
> The topic is somewhat a chicken-and-egg one. You'll know how to design a large system after you designed one before.

Yes, but doing a stressful interview is a different beast altogether. "Design YouTube in 45 mins" is something that you have to really practice, regardless of your experience. Glad that this book exists.
> Add to this the historical genocides that the nation of Israel completed and rejoice in within their scriptures

You do realize that the bulk of "other religions" in the Middle East (namely Islam) - and, for that matter, the US (namely Christianity) - are derived from those same scriptures and rejoice in those same genocides (and have happily added to them over the past couple millennia, of course), right? There's no moral high ground on either side of this mess.
The former. Manufacturing cars is not arcane knowledge, Tesla is hiring former Daimler employees in Germany as we speak.

Also, Tesla's quality problems are wildly exaggerated to distract from their lead in battery and software technology. Look at VW's ineptitude at fixing ID.3 software...
And people wonder why the price of Bitcoin is rising...
There's lots of nitwits like this one https://github.com/fabacab
I was surprised that they found mircoplastics in mined rock salt - makes you wonder how the contamination occured
Most people out of the reach of the CCP will concede no accolades to the Chinese government. Especially in regard to information transparency and availability.

Sure, maybe the population size requires different ways of governing, but let’s not make the mistake of looking towards such a horrible government for source of inspiration.

As you said, a startup has to operate differently from a large corporation, but let’s pick a “successful” corporation.
Same (different line)

I thought it was a great design detail when I got the laptop too
Not Iranian but a very famous repo is the 996 repo https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU (>250k stars) which advocates for Chinese Developers working a 996 schedule. Depending on where you look you can find a lot of political content on Github from all over the world.
It's an interesting take. We definitely don't have the capacity & skills to be in the first company, although it would be awesome.

I think most places I worked we had no choice but to be in the second company, although I think the rate is a bit below .1%. I'm grateful for all the people hunting down these bugs and making the world better for the rest of us.

I remember around 2006, we still found PHP segfaults that were critical enough I reported at least a dozen. Everything feels so much more stable today (at least on that layer).
Yes, it's disgusting. Intellectual property in general makes little sense but copyright in particular is just so bad. It's gotten to the point copyright infringement is civil disobedience. People should just do it, consequences be damned, until governments get rid of these outdated laws.
> Donating cash instead of physically participating in charity can be alienating, sure... but certainly more effective.

Do you have proof? Because whether it “feels good” (or rather, feels like you are actually doing something, rather than trying to motivate yourself by convincing yourself that the numbers are correct and you are (indirectly) doing something) will influence how much good you can do.

Some things—like only eating Soylent or maximizing your goodiness-output by working on Wall Street (or wherever else)—might only work well on paper.

In any case my point all along was the alienation factor. That’s the point, to me. Raise whatever other point you would like. (Of course an EA-enthusiast would only care about the supposed numbers.)
> If a sufficient enforcement/punishment was laid on a company you can bet the employee responsible will feel it.

The employees most responsible are the executives who signed off on, were aware of and/or managed the criminal activity.

What they felt was a gentle caress across their wrist, which some may pretend was a slap.
Are the property taxes high?
> It's almost like saying you have to work at least 2.5 more hours a day but you won't be paid for it.

Exactly this.

The way it worked for me is that on the way in just the ride itself would be 70 - 80 minutes, and then on the way home it would be anything between 90 and 115 minutes.

The longer duration on the way home was firstly because the traffic was generally worse, and secondly because I'd always have to stop for fuel. My tank range was 160 - 180 miles, and I was doing around 115 for the round trip. In theory I could alternate fuel stops between morning and evening, stopping on every third trip, but I never like to run the tank that low in case - for whatever reason - something happens that means I need more fuel.

The net result was between 2h40 and 3h05m of travel time every single day. And that's with filtering through traffic. If I weren't doing that you could probably add another 30 - 45 minutes on to both trips, which would mean spending up to 4h35m commuting. That's on top of 8 hours in the office.

Riding a motorcycle is much more tiring than driving a car. Partly this is because it is more physical, and you are of course exposed to the elements so your body will be burning more energy to stay warm even wearing proper winter gear, but also because you have to concentrate a lot more and be a lot more aware of your surroundings because you're so much more vulnerable.

That amounts to an 11 hour day where you're "on" - i.e., basically working. You're probably more "on" during the commute than you are in the office because, believe me, you cannot afford for your attention to waver for a second. This in itself suggests the commute is too damn dangerous and you probably shouldn't be doing it. A couple of minor incidents, and one that was more serious where somebody drove into the side of me, brought this starkly into focus, and also contributed to me moving on.
Even if that was purely true, that doesn’t say anything about relative purchasing power to afford mortgage costs though. Home sizes increasing doesn’t mean home prices, relative to purchasing power and technology changes, have stayed consistent with real wages.

And it’s likely not purely true. Home sizes being larger is also a function of REITs and corporate ownership of more consumer real estate, as well as boomers using soaring retirement fund profits to finance remodels, etc.

It’s way more complex than to draw any conclusion that this means purchasing power of homes has stayed close to wages. It hasn’t.
But it shouldn't result in a write to disk unless a page is dirtied.
In my former life as a research engineer I learned to avoid no-name publishers, institutions, and conference proceedings because they are filled with lies. Not poor caliber material - outright fabrications.

That's not to say prestigious journals are immune from bad science, just that the consequences for fraud are a bit worse and bar to clear for publishing it much higher.
Very few jobs let people do that (assuming you'd also get up when the sun rises) and the number of hours of sleep you'd get each day would vary seasonally.
Ironically, the software we create, Android in this case, isn't oriented at us. Castration in Android is considered a feature, because it makes the average user's phone more reliable.
Yep. 23andMe states I am “less likely to consume caffeine”, which correlates with my caffeine sensitivity.

I still consume it though.
Hey Alex I just wanted to say that I read your blog with pleasure! Thanks for all the sharing

https://blog.alexellis.io/
> Please, as a U.S. voter, I urge you to consider your support for stopping the sanctions.

How can a US voter actually affect change? What options are available for us to vote for?
Yup this. I bought my device to do useful things on and store a bunch of personal private information. I'm a lot more concerned about keeping it working at 100% reliability and keeping all of that data as secure as I can than whether I can run some weird random hack on it for kicks.
Maybe we'll finally get one Settings area again so we don't have stuff like: Search 'mouse' > Click 'Mouse settings' > Don't find any option to change pointer speed > Click the tiny 'Additional mouse options' text > Click 'Pointer Options' > Change the mouse pointer speed.
Your comment breaks my heart, and I hate what my country is doing to Iran. Reactionaries started the problems in 1953, and they're perpetuating and multiplying it today. Unfortunately for those of us who wish to appeal to the better natures of the right wing in the USA that support these sanctions, the cruelty is the point: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelt...
This is true, and a major reason those sites still function as-is, and continue to use WordPress.
That's clever. Now a Microsoft employee will read this and fix that little inconvenient bug ;)

Agree with Apple except that we learned it constantly streams your activity to their servers now (things like when you open an app).

Back to Microsoft - the smack in the face for me is that OneDrive/their servers is listed as the top choice when saving files in Office. You cannot remove it/demote it in any way even when disabling OneDrive as a connected service. Its more obnoxious/a direction I dont like that they are headed towards than a crippling thing I cant work around.
“The Windows UI has been inconsistent and weird since Windows 2000”

Very true. Windows 95 and then 2000 showed some real efforts to get good and consistent usability. They threw that all away with Windows 8 and Metro.
I'm a non-academic taxpayer trying to read articles and don't have access through my employer or public library. I know other people in the same situation. Emailing the authors directly to request a copy is a known legitimate workaround, but in cases where I'm trying to read a paper on fungal propagation from 1971 (most recent example, from last week) the options are limited.

I would also imagine that if these things were more readily available people would be more likely to use them.