skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fixed the comment, but then again, either Molly users will only ever be able to chat with other Molly users, or Moxie is going to threaten them.
Selling something in french too isn't the problem, it's how the language of the startup needs to be in french that limits the market significantly. This law is why the center of business moved from montreal to toronto in Canada.
I did read that link. People without mental issues don't tend to post suicide notes, regardless of whatever physical pain or employment issues they might be facing.

It's fairly clear that Swartz had a history of suicidal ideation, this wasn't of the DoJs making no matter how unfairly they may have treated him.

>To me the proximate cause 100% was the legal case against him - it inflamed any underlying issues and they just kept pressing. I could be wrong of course but I don’t think anyone will ever truly know what was happening in his head.

Obviously the cause was his preexisting mental issues, a healthy individual would not kill themselves in his situation.
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Ask HN: Is there any SysAdmin Linux GUIs?
I was wondering, is there's any SysAdmin administration tools that let run/configure/administer a linux server(possibly Ubuntu) with a GUI?

It can be anything from a webserver serving the admin web dashboard or a more traditional desktop GUI.

In terms of features I would expect being able to:

- manage systemd services

- manage mounted disks

- managing the filesystem(and all the users/permissions/groups concerns), especially with ACL in mind

- update/upgrade/package-management(install/remove)

- SSH console in case it's not running on the server locally

- (optional) handling encrypted partitions(boot/root/external)

I'm even willing to pay for it, given a price for a solo SysAdmin and it's middle/low tier servers.

ps: I know that many would suggest to learn the terminal way and be content with it and I already do like this so far, but I just want to ease my life from this point of view.
Signal accepts pull requests theoretically, they just usually reject everything.
What's with Wickr? I never heard of it until yesterday, when a message out of the blue on Reddit asked me why am I not using it (with the excuse that I said I didn't like it, which is false), and now this poster with no comment history.

Probably confirmation bias so I'll bite. It's not open source, collects some data, it's a for-profit company. Why would I use it?
Probably APL/K/J/Q/Kona.
There are a few types of inflation:

1) Monetary inflation: growth of broad money supply;
2) Asset price inflation: stocks, bonds, real estate;
3) Consumer price inflation: everyday goods

Sure, while consumer price inflation is hovering around 2%, asset price inflation is running closer to 10-20%.

I account for inflation as it relates to the basket of goods and services most important in my life. Some of those items are everyday goods inflating at 2% annually. But the biggest things that matter to me: higher education, a home/real estate, medical care ... these are all inflating at a much, much higher pace. In this way, "2% annual inflation" completely misses the mark.
And then we end up with unfederated networks which matrix is supposed to be all about.
The sudden uptick should create some sense of urgency, else they will loose out to other apps. I can imagine how pumped-up the folks at signal will be (atleast I hope so)

There are lot of low-hanging fruits which are quality of life improvement e.g #1 ask from my non-technical family members: Background wallpaper :)

Another feature: WhatsApp migration

+ Its open source, if they are willing to accept PRs things could accelerate
I think a distinction needs to be made between electric typewriters (basically electrified mechanical typewriters to not tire out the fingers) and electronic typewriters (more advanced devices, usually with a buffer to correct typos before they are committed to paper, might have spell check or other intelligence, sometimes feature a full-blown built-in display). The latter are basically computers, but they are self-contained with regards to the peripherals and printing.

On the other hand, a DOS operating environment, while slightly more complex, is far easier to integrate into a modern workflow. The environment can be emulated (= easier to lug around a 4MB DOS disk image than a 20kg chunky suitcase, easy to use modern peripherals like 4K screens, KVM switches/Alt+Tab, and WiFi printers), data backup is very straightforward (vs a machine-specific process or paper photocopy), and the data is far easier to convert to modern formats for incorporation into modern workflows (US ASCII + Markdown can be turned to PDF, HTML, ODT, or kept as is).

If I had to incur the complexity cost of a more advanced platform, a DOS editor would be preferable over an electronic typewriter.
I think saying its common in denmark is properly overstating it a bit.

For wired connections I think its only the small newish ISPs + stofa that does CGN, the rest like tdc and telenor provides IPv4 to the CPE equipment.

I have hiper, they do CGN by default but if customers ask for it they can get a dynamic IPv4 for free or a fixed one for a small fee.
Messages are like email. I never delete them. Situations arrive where I have to go look into past messages to see what conversations I had around several dates.
While this (Threema) is Open Source, I feel it does not align with the spirit of FOSS.

See the commits here for example:
https://github.com/threema-ch/threema-android/commits/main

It's one commit per version. Contributions go to a private email instead of a public mailing list. All development happens in private and pushed to the public in a version bump with no changelog.

So yeah it has an AGPL License (which is good) and meets the minimum of FOSS requirements, but it gives of the feeling that they're following the letter, but not the spirit of FOSS.

I would definitely not use it or push any friend to use it.
I am familiar with this Trump person and I dont really care about him or what goes on in America. Ghana has some interesting things going on these days. Should we bring them up too?
"Best" is relative. Two "classical" ones are c++ (qt) and java (swing, swt, or fx).
"Inflating" is not the same as "going up." You're conflating two things that are unrelated under the guise of the same name and it muddies the water on this already challenging conversation.

Asset price inflation is not inflation, its ROI, and until there's a study, we won't really know why assets are going up. It may be due to increased liquidity, it might be stimulus checks, it might be all sorts of stuff. You're speculating, and if you're going to make a claim like that we're gonna need a citation.

I'm not saying these things don't matter, I'm saying [citation needed] that it's got anything to do with the Fed.

If I'm the only doctor in town and I charge $1000 one day for a surgery and $2000 the next because I feel like it, that's not inflation.

> I account for inflation as it relates to the basket of goods and services most important in my life.

Feel free but the rest of us are talking about a specific meaning of inflation which is not the same as yours, and so should be addressed in a different thread to avoid confusing people.

1. Yes, medicine is getting more expensive.

2. It's going up faster than inflation.

3. This is not inflation.
>Service runs its own server

They mean it as "the service provider operates and runs all servers, and there are no cloud or hosting services (such as Amazon AWS or Google Cloud) involved"

I'm not sure if it's really an advantage or a weakness.

Telegram runs both own and hosted servers, and also allows volunteers to host relaying proxies to circumvent censorship.
The thing with network effects is that we the users benefit if all the other users (or a majority of them anyway) are on the same system. The answer isn't to force diversity because that just imposes costs and inconvenience on users just as much as it hurts providers.

In a sense in a situation like this you can consider the customer to be essentially all of us as a group. Therefore as a group it makes sense for us to negotiate terms with the service provider, hence I think there's a reasonable role for government to regulate. After all our elected representatives are there to do exactly that - represent us and our interests.

Honestly I would prefer minimal or no regulatory intervention. I don't think the degree of any harm being done currently is sufficient to make imposing regulation worth the risks of getting those regulations wrong and making things worse for users. I think the degree of any current abuses are relatively trivial from a user perspective, however I do accept the basic principle that regulation may be necessary and appropriate, and companies like google need to know that and act accordingly.

In reality I'm a Brit and these are mainly US companies, so it's mainly up to you guys, but I'm sure the EU and other governments, should look at this.
Interesting, after a quick search it seems you are right.
Facebook tried to extend data sharing in Europe in 2017 and got fined on the grounds that it was contrary to the E.U. merger rules [0]. So they seem to have learned their lesson, for now at least.

[0] : https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/technology/facebook-europ...
I'm not sure. Maybe they did both and the real article is somethere in peer review pipeline. (Do you imply that no posts on replicationindex should be trusted since they're not properly peer reviewed?)

One possible reason is that blog posts are more widely shared on social media, and I agree that this is kind of a hit piece, mostly as a reaction to Ioannidis' contrarian stance on COVID-19, so publicity was probably an objective here.
This project grew into an insanely powerful tool. It's called DynamoRIO and is still under active development and use today. It's one of the coolest technologies I've ever worked with.

It's used by the winafl fuzzer to provide basic block coverage for black box binaries.

https://dynamorio.org
I think its because they want to enable hot-swapping elements of the kernel, so you could have replaced every part of the kernel without ever having to have rebooted.
You're leading into paranoia. There's been no evidence of mass voter fraud - there are systems in place, poll watchers that people from both main parties are party to overseeing the counting.

All these actions from platforms is to prevent, limit, curb violence. That's it. There's no grand conspiracy. You're either for non-violence and a civil, reasoning-reasonable society - or you are living in ignorance is bliss and you don't care if there's chaos and the world burns.

Also, no one's freedom of speech has been taken away. These are private platforms, they're not the public space - the internet itself is the neutral platform, likewise these people have other means to communicate. They don't get the automatic right to using the most convenient technology provided by private companies though.

The military industrial complex is a whole different beast than this one currently playing out; yes, it's still a problem along with the duopoly, Andrew Yang's core policy proposals will break apart the duopoly and counter regulatory capture.
It's some opt-in firewall: you ask and they filter those sites.

Could be a PiHole-as-a-Service for ISPs?
Its not a conspiracy when you can find research papers published by Wuhan scientists describing exactly what they were doing.
Threema has no forward secrecy outside of TLS, which is objectively worse than the others provided the comparison is with telegram's secret chats.
Maybe I read too much leftist theory but it is my opinion that:

You can't build a successful platform and then decentralize it.

The means must fit the ends.

Why do you want decentralized infrastructure? Why would users want it? Why should they care about the problems you see with centralized systems? How do you monetize your platform?

Let's put this on it's head and pretend we are GAFAM:

Q: Why is our successful platform centrally governed?

A: So we can more easily extract data from the accumulated userbase.

Remember, our product isn't the service, but the data extracted from the users.
And the users aren't our customers either, they are livestock.
And our actual customers are the advertisers that pay us.

This means, for a successful new platform: you need a product.
You need something that is valueable for the user from the getgo.

After you found something useful, you can think about how to connect the insular instances of your application to make the product even better without compromising the users' control over their content.
What information do you mean?
like Microsoft browser we can use that to launch others always. Just use it to install chrome.
So I picked the very first mems microphone datasheet my ddg gave me: https://www.st.com/resource/en/datasheet/mp34dt06j.pdf

..and it says 10 ms max turn on time, so 100 Hz.

Of course, a typical or minimum turn on time could be better, but I imagine it it were better, it would be advertised as well.
If you don't trust the mute button, don't buy an Echo.
Not OP, but isn't the whole point of investing in stocks to have returns which beat inflation + tax by a few % each year (on average)? In other words, investors are rewarded for the risk they took and the more time passes, the greater rewards are.
> RHEL 7 (and thus CentOS 7) systems are still stuck with GCC 4.8 [..] other known users of GCC 4.9 were Android and Debian 8

Is this really a practical problem? I don't have the impression that compiling the latest kernel is a common use case on CentOS, as CentOS users want very boring very old software, which is kind of the point of the entire system. But maybe people are doing it regardless?
>> When people aren't spending, more is created.

There is a point when people have gotten wealthy to the point that they have bought everything that they could possibly want but the money keeps coming anyway.

Wealthy people will question whether or not they're actually 'earning' their passive income. The most objective ones will realize that passive income can never be risk-free; it it appears that way, then it means that the risk is systemic. For these people, it actually makes a lot of sense to hedge against systemic risk.
I built up my companies network infrastructure on unifi gear the past two years. I did so because we don't have budget for a professional network engineer, but we do have some important network requirements that I needed to be able to set up with minimal learning curve. For the most part this turned out great, there's a powerful UI that lets you configure all of the basics. And lets you inspect everything without having to relearn a bunch of tools and concepts everytime. I'd say perfect for a situation where the CTO has to 'solve' the network.

What disappointed me is that some aspects are really unfinished, and it looks like there's no intention of it to be fixed.

For example we bought their pro firewall (which has been out for years), it's got 2 WAN ports for automatic fail over. To use the 2nd WAN port I had to switch over the UI back to legacy mode. Ok weird but I guess the new UI is still sort of new. But then it turned out that to configure automatic fail over in the most common way, I needed to ssh in and edit configuration files manually.

It didn't turn out to be very hard, but it was just jarring. One of their flagship products, and of the 4 ports it has, 1 port is not supported in their main UI and it's most common use is not possible even in their legacy UI.

Unifi Protect has similar incompleteness issues.

I don't think there's a company that does it better than Ubiquity right now, just disappointed that it stops there.
I'll skip the usual list of personal anecdotes about PA failing in surprising ways I've never seen in 15+ years of using Alsa, but I will say that since a few applications have started depending on it, "apt-get purge pulseaudio" seems to always be in my shell history.
I'd rather not have streaming and ecommerce if it meant to not have PR1S M
Also, "Bowie" was just a fake name, so Duncan didn't inherit it.

AFAIK Bowie himself was still David Robert Jones and never change it legally like most other stars.
Hey Nice writeup. I usually use this technique sometimes and try to incorporate for few days.

I also wrote a blog for same:

https://www.boxpiper.com/posts/the-pomodoro-technique-why-wh...

Intent was to write and start using it. And it actually works for me.
If they perform well, it's brilliant. If badly, it's cronyism.
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The case I had in mind was “lead software dev”. Quite a lot of local job ads — even in software — very definitely require better German than I have.
Run a DNS server linked to your DHCP. I have a Pi-Hole set up which maps every device on the network to <hostname>.mydomain.uk.

If I don't like the hostname (some IoT devices don't allow changing it) I can map a different name to that MAC address.

(I still use v4 and have no need to remember more than 2 IPs. Should make migration to v6 much easier.)
Interesting point. I fully understand the different roles they have, but they are both in contact with the customer during their Life Time and being closer can improve the customer experience. Don't you think so?
Saying that in response to a 12 year old database they've built an empire off makes you look silly, not them.
What is point then to have such app all? if you can’t control _all_ connections then it appears useless. What is the proper solution? Something on router? Is there a way? Can Openwrt do the job of protecting privacy properly?
There's no freedom when you're dead.
I enjoy the pomodoro technique and use it often. But one of my biggest pains of the pomodoro technique is if I'm just very deep in a complicated task and I'm supposed to stop for a break, how do you normally address this?
I am Brazillian.

People are not trusting anything regarding this...

1. Instituto Butantã, claims they can't publish the results of the trial because of NDA with Sinovac, and won't comment about the effectiveness.

2. Meanwhile Sinovac is being tried for corruption in China, and their defense was actually confirm they paid bribes to officials in various countries to approve their vaccines (not Coronavirus ones, the trial is about 2011 stuff), but claim that the officials (including Instituto Butantã related officials) that used extortion, and thus they are victims, not perpetrators of the crime.

In this situation, when allegedly bribery is afoot, do you really think we should blindly trust the alleged criminals numbers?
> Monetary policy operates on a lower level, it controls only the supply.

I believe what people are implying when they talk against money supply increase is redistribution of wealth using money supply increase.

> If we switched to BTC, to sea shells, to zombie killing ammunition, fiscal and social policy would apply just as it does now.

It would not be equivalent since with BTC you can't just take away value of your share without making you explicitly pay, it removes invisible tax.
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> When people spend a lot, it gets removed from circulation.

Taking a look at M2 going back to the early 80s, I see no indication of money being removed from circulation. In fact, it appears to be ever skyrocketing higher.

Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2
dang, just so we are clear, are you saying my use of a technical term of my own field which I prefer, and which I definitely didn't come up with (it's on the Wikipedia page), in a newsletter I did not submit to HN, was a provocation and bait to start a flamewar (to which I was careful not to participate until now, even if there are some pitiful arguments in this thread)?
And what is sad, they were still quoting that $70k or $80k 10 years ago too!!!!

Wage stagnation is a big issue in canada, probably is for the rest of the USA too.
Lead developer in green tech startup – fully remote
At Seacirc we want to help companies take on the green shift and become more sustainable by making smarter purchasing decisions. We do this by creating a software system which utilizes machine learning, automation and neural networks for quantifying and optimizing a company’s use of resources. In this way we can extract novel information that allows for generating real time sustainability reports – a feature that is brand new to our clients.

We are looking for a lead full-stack developer who is eager to build an efficient, secure and scalable back- and front-end architecture and database for our software.

You will: Create and expand software architecture , build high quality applications and features such as data storage and information retrieval
React, troubleshoot and solve operational events , focus on continuous learning and improvement and drive the creation and evolution of our engineering practices, work in close co-operation with the rest of the team to iterate according to user feedback.

We are looking for: An experienced self-driven software engineer who is comfortable taking on new challenges, experience in writing high-quality code and implementing applications in React, experience using AWS/GCP, as well as SQL and NoSQL databases, knowledge within metrics analysis, system health, and performance, passionate about sustainability and green tech solutions, fluency in written and spoken English, someone based in the EU/EEA

Compensation and benefits: fully remote position with a flexible work schedule, competitive salary, as well as options of equity, excellent opportunity for career advancements as we are currently building the team that will take our product to market

If you want utilize your technical skills to create a new international industry standard for measuring sustainability, that will dramatically improve the rate at which companies achieve their climate goals, we want to hear from you!
Reminds me a lot of the paint app we used to use with the KoalaPad back in the 80's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JXi1WSSfHw
Developing new metrics for tracking DNS root server traffic
Trump has even more extremely demonstrated that the US has insufficient checks on a president. Both parties are equally upset by the threat of a President from the other party.

Why would any future president not claim victory in an election he lost after this debacle? Why would any president not commit crimes to hold power and then need to keep it within his allies to prevent his prosecution?

Structurally the US is dysfunctional. But whichever party thinks it has 4-8years of control will block reform.
I will be very glad to stick to following the rules and limiting myself to technology discussions.

Could you please ban these topics then ? After all, this thread is a political discussion and imbalanced or biased statements naturally invite responses to correct them.