skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So... a file system on top of a virtualized file system hosted on someone else's computer across the land, with "Outstanding Performance: The latency can be as low as a few milliseconds" ... Milliseconds disk access is outstanding?

I mean, amazing, and, maybe you know, use a file system.
You tried to correct me then completely reiterated everything I said... Read again friend.
Trade sanctions are a different thing to sanctions imposed for speech.

I'm not american either but if I'm going to comment on the USA, I'm going to respect their own definitions and culture. Meanwhile you're trying to make a point you don't fully grasp yourself. Sorry.
I know, right? In Java 1.4 you cast to Object, in Go you cast to interface{}. Totally different.
While app store is more or less required for a phone to sell, those devices still do that quite nice margins. There’s no third party game store you coukd use on a console (apart from steam big picture).
I'm aware.

The documentation is depressingly more detailed that what Apple bless you with. I always get the feeling that Apple create for the same reason a pretentious chef cooks, you're merely proof of my greatness.
You maybe can if you really wish. I live on a very vaccination friendly place in Sweden and I soon have a guest house that I am going to rent out ;)
I don't agree with the generalisation to private possessions.

Apart from gifts, as mentioned by another commenter, I often seem to value things higher and be more careful with them when I know they're valuable and I got them without having to pay.
I wrote a couple of small bash scripts for common entries to keep the typing to a minimum.

./purchase 10 AAPL 128.80
Ask HN: Best Graph Databases? RDF and Tinkerpop? Thoughts?
I wanted to ask what the community thinks about graph databases today. I've worked with Blaze Graph and Janus and a few others but thought it might be worthwhile to ask what everyone else is using now that AMZN swallowed Blaze and created Neptune. I'd like to build an application that would leverage a user's local graph in combination with a graph in the cloud and was hoping to use the same graphdb, but the more I think about this problem I suspect that there isn't a one size fits all approach and I might be better off using something more industrial in the Cloud and something more lightweight for the local functionality--which led me to look at neosemantics... and so, here I am... what do you nerds think?
It looks fine. They all do it. Source: I watch what too much YouTube
He means from the perspective of an app developer - it is hard to educate users when Apple's deliberate UI scares the user. Asking some some of them to disable Gatekeeper can also backfire with ignorant users, because it is a security measure against malware spread and execution (once malware is identified).
Unless you need the NetworkExtension API to be a vpn; Apple only notarizes those in the App Store.

This is why you can't download WireGuard from the WireGuard website - only from the App Store after providing ID (email and phone are the minimum required to get an Apple ID, required even for free apps).

It's not as easy as simply notarizing via the dev program and then self-publishing; some APIs are totally off-limits outside of the App Store.
Thanks, I didn't even make that connection. Beresheet (pronounced like "buh-ray-SHEET" if memory serves) is also the original Hebrew name for the first book of the bible (titled "Genesis" in English)
I wonder how far the bifurcation of the Internet will go. Gab, Parler, Voat, etc. are all just the beginning in my mind.
I’m sorry, that just sounds like an excuse. The policy we chose was bad for almost a year. To me that’s inexcusable.
Parler agreed to abide by Amazon’s moderation policy and it agreed that it was responsible for the content of its end users.

My landlord has a ‘no parties’ clause in my lease because my apartment is in a factory and someone could be easily hurt if one of the machines turned on. I agreed to this contract. If I break it my landlord is within their right to terminate my lease.
I've created 4 accounts over four years.

wolco - which had 5000 karma over three years
wolco2 - which had 500 karma over three months
wolco3 - negative - one day
wolco5 - active

The first one got hacked. The second one I created a super difficult password and couldn't remember when I cleared my stored passwords. The third I started off poorly by replying to a Trump thread and wanted to start fresh.

I'm not a spammer creating accounts for some purpose other than losing accounts and I would love to get back my wolco account if possible.
> Checking your browser before accessing Gab.com

That's a CloudFlare banner. Gab needs to pay attention to what's happening now or they will be dropped as well.
Exactly this. They want both control, and ability to wash their hands, while running their operations at scale. There is the famous saying, "time, quality and cost, choose two". There is a similar "social media law" I believe, that is yet to be stated, but where scale is one parameter.
I like whatever you're smoking. I suggest we secure some grant money and lab space to find out.
Route 53, Amazon’s Premier Database
Did parler the company call out for murder and violent insurrection?

Do twitter call our for #killallmen when that hashtag is trending?

Your double standards are so very obvious.
I try to follow the 3-2-1 method: 3 copies, on 2 different media (HD and BD-R), 1 offsite (2nd BD-R set at parents' home).
Completely agree, especially because a signing key is $100 a year. Feels like the church selling indulgences.

That said, it's not quite as bad as your link. The secret is to right click or control click on the app, and choose Open. The warning dialog will have an Open button to bypass the Security pref pane. (Though maybe that doesn't work for you since you're making a CLI tool?)
I agree. I leave it up to the professionals in the respective fields to figure out what all happened and which laws were broken.
I'm now imagining a stream of hysterical entitled feature request demands from users of leftpad.js...

"This dumb library doesn't left pad correctly when I'm standing on my head. FIX THIS IMMEDIATELY or I'll change to an alternative library and leave a 1 star Yelp review! What kind of clueless amateurs are you? You call yourself 'developers'???"
They could store the hashes of all the prefixes of the password and send them to the client. It's almost as bad as sending the password, because it's easy to brute force the cleartext.
We weren't after unlock. We wanted to erase and reuse the device.
AFAIK Apple genius can do that in-store if you show the proof of ownership.

There are online services which claim to do this if you can prove the ownership.
Raycast (YC W20) Is Hiring to Make Developers More Productive (Remote, UTC ± 3h)
> A company doesn't enjoy free speech rights.

Actually, it does according to Citizens United v. FEC.
Interestingly, a good chunk of claims (ufo sightings, seeing aliens, crop circles, claims of abductions, probings, inter-dimensional communication, astral projection etc) seem to originate from America. Why is that? Why is the the rest of the world so quiet about this stuff?
Those kind of issues, while useful for well-behaved people, are often magnets for the kinds of people who yell "look! People have been asking for this for 201X, why are you ignoring your users!"
I wrote that in a joking way. But not totally. Because I remember having read a long time ago about these things, dived in deeper as I sometimes do, and came across this "theory".

For one, most cases of especially strange cattle mutilation (I remember) were in helo range of Kirtland AFB.

For another, the mutilations were described as chirugically precice. Sometimes just a large part (and including it) around the rectum. Which of course would concentrate all the "input", because it has to go "through there".

And the blood, of course.

And the areas were in the downwind parts of nuclear testing.

So... not absolutely unreasonable, given the secrecy and ruthlessness of certain parts of government.

But not proven or provable in any way at the moment.

edit: you can look into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downwinders if you haven't heard of this before.

edit: and of course https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtland_Air_Force_Base to get a feel why this one, out of all the bases
> "Why do people think their desire to act any way they want supersedes the desire of others to not have to put up with trolls and jerks?"

There are two answers to this question, a "not nice" answer and a "nice" answer.

Answer 1: Because it does. Freedom of speech is more important than "your desire of not putting up with things you dislike"; so yes, the rights of trolls do actually supersede the comfort of the trolled.

Answer 2: It doesn't really matter. Just ignore the stupid trolls and go on with your life.
We see no other life, we have spaceships, and it’s not guaranteed that we will have spaceships indefinitely.

Our priority, our responsibility to the non-space-faring life forms of Earth is to spread them, as much as possible, to as many places as possible. Drop them into Venus, Mars, Europa, onto every passing comet, and as soon as it becomes feasible, into a one way trip to the nearest exoplanets.

It’s bad enough that the universe appears to have no other life in it, we are the only known agents with any chance of changing that, it’s way more important for the next 14 billion years that we try, than that we protect our ability to identify some hypothetical Martian protein chains or amoebae.
This is a planet where the dominant species still burns each other alive for "witchcraft": https://www.iol.co.za/news/mob-locks-woman-80-inside-house-a...

No wonder no alien race wants to establish contact with us.
That's some original thought there. Did you think of tortoise? Or snail? Or was it just a random thought?
How do you measure the value, though?
For all of the discussion about maintaining eye contact, when using non-phone devices, such as in TFA:

>Also, a face displayed on a smartphone directly above the laptop camera is closer to the camera than a face displayed on the laptop

my approach doesn't work with multi-way video where you likely need the entire window and cannot priviledge just some section of it. but it does work with 1:1 video calls - just move the entire window with the video call so that the other person's eyes are very close to the camera (i.e. near the top edge of the screen, typically)

Whether you look either at the other person's face, or at the camera, to them you're maintaining eye contact.

For XFWM and related window-manager users: Alt-F7 to just drag the entire window, possibly leaving some of it off-screen.
From Wikipedia: The case arose after Citizens United, a conservative non-profit organization, sought to air and advertise a film critical of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton shortly before the 2008 Democratic primary elections.

They wanted to broadcast a film. Not an advertisement. Not a campaign ad. A film. This is what gets lost in most common discourse about the Citizens United case. Had the court ruled otherwise in the Citizens United case, it would have given the Federal Government precedent to ban films for political reasons. The other reply by Dharmab is also very useful. The effects of ruling another way on the Citizens United would have impacted not only the medium of film, but also the publication of books, and all other media. Imagine not being able to publish a book critical of a candidate before an election. Yet that would have been the result of ruling otherwise. It's probably worth actually watching the oral arguments of the case: https://www.c-span.org/video/?288797-1/citizens-united-v-fed...
What other projects are competitors in this space?
Filma
It's kinda sad that being against hate is considered left wing but yes, you're right. I do tend to favor ideals of the left (the right doesn't seem to be welcoming of Black men like myself).

I think we've already seen how terrible things can go when veering too far right and I'm HOPING the ones in/come into power will be mindful enough to compensate.

While I strike a positive tone with the implosion of Parler, I am not blind to what could feasible happen to other communities. I am sympathetic to the trials of the sex industry, what with Patreon and payment providers effectively cutting off their livelihoods.

A truly balanced view of the news is not happening, even with A.I. assisted processes (human bias is embedded in A.I.) but I think that's your best bet.
I hope they kill it. The australian news over at news.google.com.au is so terrible that clicking any other link apart from ABC news, SBS and Guardian just brings the nasty paywall which defeats the purpose of news aggregation.
For the context right here minisign would be perfectly capable. The post on this thread is not encrypted, there's no "decentralized" relevancy. Minisign has smaller keys and forces modern technology with a far simpler format.
> Whenever an actual event occurs (meteor, explosion, and so on) we have video footage from multiple angles uploaded almost immediately.

There are a few problematic assumptions in this line of thinking: you assume the event is as dramatic as a meteor or explosion, occurs in a highly populated area, and involves no discretion on the part of the object. This is typically not the case, although you could argue that people recalling the same specific details in smaller witness groups, but across many different incidents, could constitute the same idea. Even with this in mind, I can think of a few truly mass sightings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Lights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_UFO_wave
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrozavodsk_phenomenon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over...
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29342407

And you should read these if you are interested in an account where either the Navy fabricated this weird hoax, fake data and got a squadron of pilots to lie about it very convincingly, or the whole event is real. Multiple radar, multiple pilot visuals, multiple angles.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/us/politics/ufo-sightings...
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33371/here-are-the-det...
Current US population numbers are around 328 million, while active coronavirus cases in the US are at 9.1 million. Divide the two and you get 2.7%.
This comment meme is a cancer, in the Dawkinsian sense.

Lumps of rock are not “more healthy” than “lumps of rock with life on”, nor are they “more happy”. And if you want to claim they are capable of experience and that you understand what they are thinking, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
How is Theranos still functioning in any capacity whatsoever? it feels like they are the closest thing to a real life Umbrella Corporation that I can't imagine anyone would want to work for - unless they were getting paid to wrap up things and send them for depositions as a contractor.
> The psychological bias works both ways though, if you operate on a fixed monthly budget you might be tempted to spend more on stuff you wouldn't otherwise spend on if you notice you're under budget for the month.

Which is significantly better than the other way around, because you’ve met your saving target(s). Really, that money constitutes legitimate excess cash. You can shove it into risky investments, or spend it freely; it doesn’t matter — you’ve met your needs.

> Also a mental bias against spending is not necessarily a good thing. Spending is like eating, unless you have a problem where you're doing it too much of it, doing less of it is not inherently desirable

If you’re spending over your saving targets, you are spending too much. If you’re spending under your targets, you’re free to spend more, guilt-free (you’ve covered your necessities, you’re playing with excess).

The only problem is if you set your savings budget so high that you can’t spend to your actual comfort (given your lifestyle). Then it becomes a question of accepting you simply don’t have so much money, and either reduce your lifestyle or extend your saving targets accordingly.

TLDR; meet your targets. Beyond that, do as you wish.
> consider something for future roadmap if other customers would also value it

Personally I wouldn't want a custom feature just for me. Because I know it'd likely be poorly supported and sometimes break. Because that's how it's been when I've been on the other side of that.
What’s concerning is that with the reduced gravity on the moon, these bears will be able to grow well beyond their terrestrial limits.

If the physical weakness of an exoskeleton scales with the fourth power of gravity then a 16% decrease in gravity would mean a growth factor of 1.5e3.

Moon tardigrades would grow to be three feet long.

I look forward to publishing my research in full at, ahem, the start of April.
github has moderation

- https://github.com/settings/interaction_limits

- https://github.com/<user>/<repo>/settings/interaction_limits

and users can block other users

- https://github.com/settings/blocked_users
Soft deletes have been popular since the internet became accessible to the average person. When I was younger I was a huge advocate for soft deleting pretty much everything. It felt like the obvious, easy choice - why not retain the data incase you need to use it for something else down the road? It took years to understand the ramifications of storing that data in a secure way really means, and that often times the reason it gets used later isn't something you intended it to be used for when you designed the data structure.

I don't think that way anymore and I truly believe hard deletes should be the default unless you have a very compelling reason to soft delete (and you should usually only soft delete with some guarantee of future deletion via a publicly accessible data retention/erasure policy)
Well... I would probably say most of the time it's a combination of stress, bullshit, and someone(s) in denial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_hysteria_cases

If I had to guess most of these went down because the child or relative of someone powerful, authoritative, and very disconnected from reality (gullible), did some bullshit the powerful person couldn't reason about. Literally, leaving their brain unable to compute reality instead choosing (and very likely believing) "bat shit" as the reason... Depending on how powerful the person who just skipped-a-beat of reality; the narrative might never be questioned. cough trump cough

I mean; like with UFOs, most of the imagery people use to describe are _known_ to them before the event. They're related to what the person knows and is capable of imagining.

With all that said, I'm not trying to explain them all as bullshit or nonsense; but, the list without the bullshit is a lot smaller. I do think it's a bit unfortunate though as I'd love to speculate and wonder about something besides the trite psuedo-hallucinations all these stories contain.
If Parler was serious, the owners would have hand-moderated the specific complaints Amazon made. Their response is like a streaming service that responds to a DMCA takedown by saying they plan on making it possible to comply sooner or later rather than immediately yanking the content.

I'm inclined to think the Parler mgt preferred this outcome, where they get to play victim, to actually moderating content and making their users angry.
>> you're trying to make a point
I here this is the root of the divergence.

YOU are not trying to make a point. If a point is there, your role is only to help to reveal it.

In other words, it should be in balance and objective.
> I would have a policy of not allowing feature requests, only bug reports.

There's also the "polite" feature request, that's actually helpful. For example, a user wants a feature, and they ask if the developer would be willing to accept a pull request implementing that feature. I think this is respectful and better than sending the pull request right away.
So no subset of reality can ever be neutral?
Many of post as much as before, you just don't see it because we migrated to places were we feel safe. (And the use of "feel" is very intentional, I'm fully aware that Telegram groups and ordinary chats might be backdoored or whatever )

My journey was something like

-Facebook,

- private blog with logins so my parents and siblings could read, post and comment

- Started using Hangouts(or so I think, there's been so many Google messaging apps) with my wife because it was convenient to not have to dig out the phone everytime we worked at a computer and needed to send som messages.

- Started using WhatsApp. Fell in love. "Sold it" to my family and my wife's family.

- All our close friends picked it up too at around the same time.

- Facebook announced it would buy WhatsApp. I felt uncomfortable, but waited.

- Telegram showed up and was better but I didn't want to switch as they were free and WhatsApp was still paid so WhatsApp felt safer.

- Facebook made WhatsApp free and took away all guarantees.

- I started using Telegram. Soon after everyone around me switched too.

I won't say I started the move to WhatsApp and later Telegram among my friends but I have wholeheartedly supported it.

(Say what you want about the encryption in early WhatsApp and later in Telegram, but there's more to security than encryption and most of the stuff we post would otherwise have gone on Facebook so it is a huge step forward anyways and it is so liberating to know I can talk to anyone and know that it doesn't automatically get pumped into Facebooks data lake.)

Edit, FWIW, two more observations:

- Google Hangouts could have been the place we went to instead of WhatsApp, but lacked polish especially on group chats.

- Google+ could have been an alternative but didn't feel private enough.

- After Google+ I gave up Google.[1]

- There's a number of interesting options at any time, but I haven't found what we (my family and close friends) need: hubzilla seems promising but lacks community it seems. Mastodon is public by default so more like Twitter, while we want 1-1 or group messaging. MeWe is focused on being a 1-to-many network, and they lack pseudonym accounts so they still don't come close to Google+. Ideas are welcome.

[1]: Maybe I won't work there even if I'm offered a job as it feels like a minefield for anyone with a different background like me and they also haven't managed to get a single service to improve since 10 years ago as far as I remember.

Most services are even going backwards it seems, reducing quotas, killing products, even search has been failing badly for years and ad targeting is so bad it would have been funny if it wasn't so insulting. (I always complain about this so I should probably say the last few months I've seen ads from stores I'd actually want to buy from instead of just the "hot singles near you" scam etc.)
Discussion of hanging politicians regularly occurs on Twitter and as long as it isn't one particular side of the argument the posts rarely get disciplined in any meaningful way.
Aim: Record, search and compare ML training runs
You can only measure accurately if you actually know what the details look like.
You see it here on HN all the time. An inflammatory post gets scolded/graciously questioned and the person retracts/apologizes/softens. Not every time, but a lot.

But HN might be unique in that regard? Or maybe there's just a scale beyond which it doesn't work?
Netflix is fragmenting into Disneyplus, HBO , etc.
Facebook and Twitter are fragmenting into a bunch of different 'alt' services

These companies will get completely crushed if the stock market decides that even a company with the scale of facebook can't establish a permanent moat from new entrants. A bit of a MySpace moment happening again
Trump Bans Transactions with 8 Chinese Apps Including Alipay
Panopticon is a very old idea about this issue

https://ethics.org.au/ethics-explainer-panopticon-what-is-th...
Payment Gateway for Ecommerce Websites in 2021
We’re talking about flat earth people I’m guessing. They have various pissing contests.