skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the judges and authorities and experts in Venezuela supported Maduro

If those were generally thought to be independent (as judged by other institutions e.g. internationally... there is no final arbiter here! It's turtles all the way down) then that would make a big difference. But they aren't.

This is a pretty easy thing to see subjectively. I think the mistake here is believing that

a) There could be a rigid objective framework for how this should work. A simple "manual" for how companies should act in these situations instead of having to rely on subjective or biased decisions.

or

b) In the absence of such a framework, companies must instead never take any action because it risks being arbitrary/subjective/...

That's clearly not going to happen. a) isn't possible yet b) is absolutely not desireable.
At least Mumble is already open source.

By the way, Teamspeak is only changing the messenger (text chat) part to Matrix.
That is a name I have not seen in a long time. I remember when I use to game with Ventrilo/Teamspeak/Mumble about a decade ago.

For anyone who still uses Teamspeak today, what do you use it for?
Thank you !

Funny (but I guess expected) to see the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method that we very recently learned in that book's table of contents ! (Unless it's another MCMC ?)
Hardware for Deep Learning. Part 4: ASIC
Actually, bicycle tunnels - with a limited slope of course, like all other bicycle infrastructure - are recommended over bicycle bridges. These are more comfortable for cyclists. Gravity helps one cycle down, and the kinetic energy gained helps cyclists on the way up in the second half of the tunnel.
Yes, there is a SM5 extension to reduce the impact when you're on a high-end Windows PC. But for most games, relying on that is not really practical, or else you lose Linux, Mac, most consoles and mobile.

I agree that impostors are great for far-distance background. But I would never use them for anything too close to the camera. So in a sense, impostors are the new skybox.
Yes it should be separate. Support helps with the how, customer success helps with higher level strategic support, uncovering needs, upselling, etc. At a certain level, probably between 1-2m ARR, customer success becomes accretive.
People don't use Facebook because it won't share their data. I'm pretty sure most Facebook user suspect Facebook does it more than it actualy does.

People use Facebook because it is efficient at connecting people. The "won't share your data" part is very secondary to that.
Yes and what again happened to that phone company?
Thanks for creating this! Over time BTC will become a better measuring tool for stocks than the inflated dollar
Its a bit ironic, China didn't want to be beholden to anyone and buggered off and built their own...

meanwhile, the rest of the world whines - but doesn't seem to be interested in building anything similar for national infrastructure.

If you consider social media to so critical, shouldn't you have internal infrastructure? These services are hardly rocket science now - we have over a decade experience building and scaling them. If you're really so concerned about it, it would seem prudent to build something under public perview?

ps - this stuff really annoys me, as I generally don't 'like' megacorps, and really dislike feeling I'm 'supporting' them :-/
Sure would love to chat. Let me know your email/Twitter.
The point is that the legislature/sovereign should be the sole arbiter not a private company especially not under their jurisdiction.
Yes too many open-source projects sponsor Discord too by using it :( Like Home Assistant. It's a shame when there's so many good open systems available.
While I love all these open source, privacy centered efforts, the fragmentation across all these alternatives isn't helping with the already horrible network effects amongst friends.

Barely any of my friends use these other apps making all of them pretty useless. Seems like a lot of apps will enjoy really high initial install numbers, but gravity may just pull everyone straight back to WhatsApp.
A smart market maker will take the illiquid trade and charge astronomical amounts of bid/offer to compensate for his added risk. There's money to be made in large, chunky, dangerous positions. That's one of the advantages of a major investment bank; they can weather a few storms, profit handsomely on the positions that go in their favor, and net it all out as one profitable business unit.
Ask HN: Best way to write Native apps for Mac, Windows and Linux?
I'm interested in building an desktop app for all platforms. I would like to move away from building apps in the browser but I'm only familiar with JavaScript and web-technologies.

Since Electron is frowned upon, what language or platform would be suitable?

Requirements:
- Mature language
- Mature ecosystem
- Performance better than Electron or a fast website

A major plus:
- Big community of quality tutorials
- Big community of packages
- It's not too hard to learn for someone who knows JavaScript

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I've looked at the Rust eco-system, but most GUI libraries are not there yet. Swift UI looks great to work with, but would only target 1 platform. React Native or Flutter for desktop is in alfa/beta state.
I don't think that is the reasoning. IMO this comment by gostsamo is spot on:

>We are behind in the game and we don't have anyone capable in this sphere. Nokia, Erikson, Huawey, and Samsung have all the market now and we need american presence there. We can't create a state company, so we will try to break the leaders either by sanctions or by diminishing the value of their IP through open standards until the moment when the standards are open enough to favorite our proprietary IP using them.
Yes and no. The pixel shader still has to be run for every pixel covered by the impostor, because you don't know in advance if the custom depth will be in front of or behind the z-prepass.

So you likely pay the full rendering price for an impostor, even if it completely invisible.
When this thread first dropped, that's what I thought too. But here's a question. Ron Paul is one of the most well known libertarian and free-speech politicians. He is being limited during a free-speech controversy. If this is indeed "just a mistake", how long time is reasonable for Facebook to find and fix this?

If it takes more than 24h - and we are approaching that - but the US is sleeping so let's allow for that, their inaction starts to look malicious.
Interesting read. But if I owned one, I would destroy the trace going to the mic, specifically the one giving power, and install my own physical switch as a physical power switch.
You could argue that is a useful safety valve (although I think it was a mistake on our part).
This is a good example of feature bloat that hampers Google’s search product, making them less competitive.

Of course, Google’s dominance allows them to do this without much damage ... for now.
I completely support your right to deem people fascist at a whim and ban them from your web properties.
So much discussion about a lawsuit that is nothing but a conspiracy theory formatted as a legal case.

I encourage everyone to read the first few pages of filing.

Parler alleges 2 things:

1. Anti-trust: Amazon kicked off Parler because it colluded with Twitter because Parler is a competitor to Twitter hence they violated The Sherman Act.

The reason this will fail is because Parler presented 0 evidence to support their allegations.

Evidence is the thing that differentiates a wrongdoing that can be litigated from a crackpot conspiracy theory.

This is a crackpot conspiracy theory and I can't wait to read the rebuttal from Amazon's lawyers. It's going to be a hoot.

2. Breach of contract: "it says we get 30 days notice and we didn't get 30 days".

Apparently Parler conveniently left out other parts of the contract.

One, the part that says you don't always get the 30 days.

Two, the part that says contract disputes are resolved via arbitration, not litigation.

So it's not going to fly either and is pointless to begin with.

The only remedy Parler could ask for is money and I'm sure Amazon will happily refund them 3 months of fees if for some unimaginable reason the court finds they did indeed breach the contract.
Usually your ISP delegates a /56 or more to you.

From what I've seen, it looks like /64 are thought of as a vlan, within which clients can perform SLAAC.

For static IPs, I usually concatenate /56 + :id: + :suffix:.

Like: home computers on /56 + ::1 + SLAAC. Most OSes will dynamically change their IPs for privacy reasons.

My servers are on /56 + ::0 + :100,101,102, etc. I generally pick these suffixes to match with the IPv4 addresses, but you can allocate one per service, and get rid of reverse proxies (easier migration, you can just move the service to a new machine).

So, to take a specific example, 2a01:cb14:d6e:2000/56 is my ISP prefix, which can be thought of as the external IP, and 2a01:cb14:d6e:2000::11 is my server. 2a01:cb14:d6e:2001::/64 could be computers. I don't always follow the above scheme, IPv6 is big enough to get away with a lot of things, but it helps having something to default to.

My point is: you don't have to remember the prefix anyway, since every computer in the network will share it. Now, if you need static, easy to remember IPs instead of SLAAC, use static IPs or DHCPv6, or even better, mDNS to resolve .local addresses to IPs.

Looking at the above, this assumes a certain level of trust on the local network, which is fine at home or within a network dedicated to servers, but might not be at a company? mDNS can lie, someone else might advertise the same IP. These problems are not exclusive to IPv6, but they are a product of the era. Nowadays, I wish we just used crypto key routing (like yggdrasil does, and maybe TOR) on a planetwide mesh network, but we'll need IPv6 in the meantime :)
Messenger Comparison (From Threema)
It’s going to be great as Facebook and Twitter try to silence heads of state of other countries.
Microsoft revenue increased a lot when Steve Ballmer was in charge. I don't think anyone would claim MS was a great organisation during that period though, given how many major industry trends they just totally missed. Ballmer didn't trash the business but the action moved elsewhere.

As for Apple, putting the questionable meaning of the stock market to one side for a moment, when was the last time they did anything truly exciting, that cut their competitors legs out from under them? The M1 chip? That's the only thing I can think of for a long time, and it's a bit unclear how much consumers will care vs geeks.
Corporations adhering to 'woke' politics / ethics is a result of this overprotectedness that the most recent generation was subjected to. Jonathan Haidt has a lot of great work in this area. He mentions how things started to shift in earnest around 2015, and I gotta tell you, having left college at 2013, I definitely agree. I started seeing rumblings of it around that time. Eventually those people leave university and go get jobs at these corporations.

The other part, and I don't know how dramatic it is, is that a lot of corporations are so terrified of losing a single nickel, that they'll support whatever trend of the moment they need to, to protect their profits.
It is Catalan. Alghero was and is a Catalan-speaking town.
Yes absolutely. The catch being that most company include a catch-all termination condition where they can terminate the contract whenever they want. It is then the justice who has to step in and say if those condition are valid or not.

If my memory is correct, those kind of catch-all terms where deemed non-applicable in the EU, but it doesn't prevent company from still putting them in the hope that you won't sue them afterward.
What data was shared?

Simple data of "users of the facebook app on your devices spent ~1 hour per day on the app" sounds like legitimate data to share to decide how much facebook should pay for the privilege of being preinstalled.

I can see how the companies involved need to see the data to audit it.

As long as that was the scope, that sounds fine.
Personally I think such massive changes in society should not be down to either private company tyranny nor tyranny of the majority in a "democratically approved" why, i.e 50.000009% "ruling" over 49.999991% of the people.

In the US to undue the 1st amendment it would take not only a super majority of both houses congress, but then it would take 3/4 of all state legislatures to ratify the change. This is far more stringent of a requirement than is simply majority.

Republican forms of government, ones with lots distributed power, are far far far better than democracies
Being publicly traded doesn't negate the fact they are private sector entities. None of them are state owned enterprises.
That looks interesting, yeah.
I truly believe that there is a lack of good notes app for Mac. Or maybe for other systems as well...

1. Mac native app - just don't like it.

2. Bear - good, but I don't want the markdown highlighting, I don't want to use markdown

3. ...? anything else?

Regarding your app: haven't checked it but the landing should be fixed for desktop, it's not centered, it's made for mobile but there are desktop users too! :)
I think you did tho, while not directly you did so indirectly by claiming that Parler had more costs than what they were billed.

It just doesn't make sense, unless you believe Parler is bad in some kind of way and the only way they could've been bad is political.
You’ll get buried with a low-effort comment like this, but one thing to think about: this is the exact position fascists take.

Give it a good thought: fascists wouldn’t label themselves as such. They will of course call themselves decent democratic socialists, and do it in the name of decent socialist values.

So to even try and make your point you’d need to back it up with: how would you ensure wolfs-in-sheep’s-clothing or the-well-intentioned-but-overreactive don’t use your “censor fascists” support to back door their way into the only world superpower with strong free speech laws and, well, end those?

And when a couple social networks have a vast majority of the users (social networks are literally network-effects) how is censorship on them not akin to a massive balance of power disparity that would reinforce itself? By the same logic of supporting banning voices from then you must admit they embody incredible power, even if they are private companies.
I'm saying that Amazon is neither the police nor a judge.

As a public company, their terms of service are as questionable as EULAs that no-one reads. I don't think (know) if they were ever tested in court. But it's about time they do.
> Surely as the operator as a private service, you should have absolute control over what your service is used for?

This fails to acknowledge that Twitter and Facebook are not just private services, they are de-facto global standards of communication, included for governments.

This is great for Twitter and Facebook as long as they keep a neutral stance. When they stop being neutral then governments start to reflect on their power and indeed whether they should be regulated as utilities or ditched (hence e.g. the market's reaction as seen on Twitter's stock price).
Not Just Bikes is a great YouTube channel about cycling infrastructure in (mostly) Amsterdam. Being Dutch I never realised how much attention there is for safe and smooth traffic in The Netherlands. Being abroad right now I see that its not obvious.

https://www.youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes/videos
>Contrary to this article's claim, the equation describes the behaviour of Helium atoms perfectly well;

Yes, I was disappointed to read this as well. I suspect what he meant is that we can't derive closed form solutions for the Schrödinger equation in the case of the Helium atom.

But the equation can perfectly be integrated numerically ... in these days of rather powerful computers, closed-form solutions to diffeqs aren't as important as they used to. As a matter of fact, for most problems in QM, I suspect there's just no other way.

One step further, when reading QM books, there seem to be a strong tendency to try and assign "physical meaning" to purely mathematical techniques used to find closed form solution to diffeqs (eg separation of variables). I am not convinced that it is a fruitful endeavor.

Another reason he may be saying this could also be because with the Schrödinger equation for the Helium atom, assuming it isn't separable along space variables, the solution ψ is a map from the configuration space, (i.e. ℝ6) to ℂ, something that's hard and annoying to visualize, whereas for the Hydrogen atom, you can draw pretty orbital probability density pictures in ℝ3, something everyone can "understand".
Ya, we know. It's just that the people capable of extrapolating understand that those in charge of this "fascist" label are exactly the people least interested in its usage in good faith.

Free speech isn't a utopian ideal; most liberal ideals aren't. It is a principle that understands that the bad that comes from freedom of speech is completely outclassed by the bad that comes from opening up the capability to restrict it.
Both, depending on which side of the aisle you're asking.
This is extremely disingenuous, chooses not to talk about WhatsApp revealing its new terms as a possible factor, and paints end to end encryption as something only far-right extremists need.

Between the crowd on one side of the aisle (at least the American aisle) pretending encryption is for far-right terrorists, and that on the other pretending it is only for pedophiles, either we've already failed in our rhetoric in promoting the need for secure and private platforms, or we have a long, long way to go.
and yet its a leading death reason in US, and we are on a way to 2m dead mark.

So, yes! The trade-off in China worked out great for them.

In US and EU they did not. Since its all varying degrees of half-assed approaches. That end up delaying the virus not stop it. That is probably the worse approach, since economy suffers and people are still end up infected.

The one thing you also forget is the serious long term complications including brain damage in around 2% of infected.

2% is enough to make me take it serious, there are account of marathon runners unable to run a mile months after recovering.
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At a busy time, the average stationsfietsenstalling is overfull and has -500 places, so that's why people complain :)
Thanks, I get where you're coming from (that: privacy absolutists tend to throw the baby out with the bath water) but you misunderstand the point I was making. My gripe is with their claim that they protect privacy. If you're going to store user-data as-is for 7 days even if anonymized later and stored forever (for some definition of "anonymization", which is not a trivial thing to do), it doesn't come close to "protecting" anything.

I don't have a horse in this fight, but I do build FOSS anti-surveillance / anti-censorship apps, and take offense at such misleading messaging.

> It's very important to remember the legal and liability requirements associated with privacy policies.

Why isn't it important to not mislead with headlines and FAQs?

> Therefor, the default is to over-report.

Wouldn't have to if one really took measures to "protect privacy" but when one can't / don't / won't ... then one may at least have the courtesy to be upfront about it.

> Nor does it mean they do not take privacy very seriously.

They claim to "protect your privacy". Their words, not mine. But the fine-print doesn't inspire confidence, even if written in CMA-style (though, that's a lame excuse). Or as they say, why not put money where your mouth is.

> That's why it's highly unfair to Ecosia for OP to so strongly imply they lie (or are, at best, misleading and hypocritical) and use your data nefariously, simply by excerpting a few lines of the Privacy Policy.

Thanks but it is not I that's hypocritical. You have it the other way around, I am afraid.

> italicized "may"s,

Here's the clause: "The anonymised data is saved for as long as is necessary for the evaluation. The data is not transferred to any third party. We will not access your data located outside of the app, such as your calendar, photos, messages or such like unless you have permitted us to do so."

> Suggesting that any product that collects data to run the business...

You're extrapolating the critique to the entire world, which you can, but you then don't get to dismiss it for one entity just because "the rest of the world can't survive without data collection". Ecosia may not need personal data to be running a viable tech business (which at its core is a wrapper on top of Bing with ad revenue going to afforestation efforts).

> ...good people do to craft a viable balance in today's difficult tech ecosystem.

Like someone else suggested in this thread: Just because you plant trees, you don't suddenly have a claim to being an "angel". Ecosia may have good people behind them or not, but I do care about honesty and earnestness.

Also, I write FOSS software full-time, do I qualify for your "good people" list? :D
This is also wrong
I applaud you for speaking rationally in the face of Bitcoin hysteria, but in my experience it has turned into a religion, and no amount of rational argument will sway these people.
I've seen it several times with takeovers. There is usually a lot of talk about how the existing team is the greatest asset, that they didn't know how much they were getting. Then within six months they are all gone and replaced with the friends of the new CEO.
Sure, and I don't believe anybody got banned from expressing their opinion over DMs. But if your DMs include threat, pushing for insurrection, pushing for violent action, etc, you will still be in violation of most website TOS.
Negotiations for big, non-standard benefits (custom health plan, greater retirement match) are practically impossible.

Negotiations for a custom salary are entirely normal IME.
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Does this mean Mac users are not really root on their own machines?
These private companies rely on public infrastructure and public indemnity
Thanks, I wasn't aware of the 2nd meaning. I also interpreted the "frustrated academic" as "an annoyed academic", rather than "an unsuccesfull academic".
Worse even: the measuring stick for inflation suffers the same disease!

The most used measuring stick is the CPI, which (1) does not include e.g. assets, and (2) whose definition also changes significantly over time.

So it arguably does not even measure total inflation, and on top of that is not really the same metric every year.

So not only does your measuring stick shrink and expand, it is not even possible to measure by how much.