skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory I like the idea of decentralization but in practice I haven't seen it work out well. For example email didn't become prolific until large centralized players became the dominant force. I see federation/decentralization being better as a late feature in software. Through centralization you can move a lot faster, which in the case of Signal is extremely useful. They wouldn't be able to provide the product they have with decentralization. That's why Moxie has been against decentralization. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't see chat apps as having an unbounded number of features. As I see it once Signal moves into more of maintenance mode then we can talk about federation, by allowing outside servers being able to communicate to the main Signal server. But for now it seems better to focus on getting people to the platform and if we're talking about it from a privacy and security point of view, this is the higher priority. Decentralization doesn't provide much more security while Signal is still trustworthy. There's bigger fish to fry right now.
I'm from the midlands and live in Yorkshire. It is recognised by people in both places. Odd.
I'd be curious how long such a kernel takes to boot. There could be useful applications in container hosting.
Ethereum Hits New All-Time High
Indeed, it seems that Antichamber called itself "non-Euclidean" and people did not know what it means and called all games which did something weird to their spaces got called non-Euclidean. We have lots of cool truly non-Euclidean games in development today, so hopefully they will understand it better :)
If you look at Zillow, Jackson makes Seattle look cheap, you can get a smallish townhome for under a million, but everything else is in the multi million range.
Not a typo. 200 mm refers to wafer size.
The extremely positive side of this is that you can be a 'competitor' to Google, or other megaservices and steal enough customers to run a 10M+ user company and they woudln't even register you as a competitor. The internet market is HUGE.
I don’t think they really will lose any users, and in fact this whole saga is a big loss for privacy. FB will see that there is a lot of discussion but at the end of the day no real loss is users or traffic and so realizes it has a large moat and so don’t have to do anything to improve privacy.

I tried really hard to move people away but they always come back to it, particularly for groups across continents WhatsApp is really entrenched.
Krita 4.4.2 Released
I've written enough Clojure over the years to think that this is probably not the case. The reason this problem doesn't happen as much with Clojure is that the Clojure data structure is closer to JSON (and when using EDN instead of JSON, is identical.) If your serialization object model is close to your in-code object model, translating between the two is easy. If your serialization object model is distant from your in-code object model, then translation becomes difficult.

You can directly serialize and deserialize plain old Java objects to and from a native format and it's trivial to do so, but serializing to and from JSON is trickier because JSON is meant to represent dynamically typed data stored in maps and lists, but Java doesn't naturally store data in that manner. Java's manner is more obtuse, but if you could be certain that both the producer and the consumer of an object was going to be Java, creating a serialization format that could be transparently used would be a straightforward task. That is, so long as both the source and target of your serialization are in the same language, the problem is a lot simpler, and if your language happens to be closer Javascript (the source of JSON) it's also relatively simpler to write a JSON parser for it.
And conversely made the problems all the more troubling as we became even fatter and more sedentary.
Not for me. The link (I only tried the CPC 464) served a pdf thru docdroid.net. Although I tried on an iOS device. Sometimes this things are smart and check the user agent before pushing a payload.
While a useful utility for quickly discerning some macro-level differences between fonts there is a catch. For bitmap fonts (e.g. Cozette) the rendering will be comparatively terrible once vectorised into ttf, otf, woff for the web -- since the point of bitmap fonts is to be pixel-sharp.
One Natural Thing Fixed My Painful Joints – News Break
"If your mobile device is turned on"

Does that mean they are collecting location even if my device is on airplane mode with wifi and bluetooth off?
Most of my instant message communication is still i.r.c., followed by XMPP.

I've read many times that the former is very much dying but I'm not seeing it in the channels I frequent.
> I bet their engineering team is getting stretched right now.

Last week servers were unstable for about 24hrs. But they did grow by about 10x in approximately a week's time, so that's not entirely surprising. I think it's more surprising that they've been so stable so far.
Can't tell if you're being earnest or funny. Care to say why?
Not the same thing, but I recently wired a simple audio cable up for my TRS-80 (1980). I can then use the cassette save and load commands to store files on an SD card in my digital audio recorder.
Where is "Monaco" font?
That Patagonia vest is $100, not $500. I’m not sure where people get the idea that Patagonia gear is ludicrously expensive.
> UBI is a death sentence within direct democracies

Direct democracies are virtually nonexistent at the national level; Switzerland, which is still a mostly-representative democracy, is probably the closest thing there is.

> Introduction beforehand sows the seed for a direct transfer of wealth from the 49% haves to the 51% have-nots.

Means-tested welfare plus taxation, which most countries have, does that, too; I don't see how UBI is any more dangerous in that regard, nor do I see the runaway spiral of voting unsustainable benefits anywhere, despite the popular meme that this is the natural consequence of democratic control of the public purse. So, before I take this particular slippery slope argument seriously, I'm going to need to see some convincing argument of how UBI is different in some relevant way.
Perception matters. You can't get to two billion without getting to 25 million first.
Sure --

It manifests in both cost and capability. For the same throughput you generally need more expensive equipment to obtain the same level of reliability.

Where with the previous calculations it may cost X dollars for equipment, using the new calculations you may need to use a larger antenna or a more power transmitter, costing sometimes 2-3x, if it's even possible at all. Many times the link is just no longer viable at the required reliability.

Rain rates are typically measured in mm/hr but it's an instantaneous rate, but what I've observed in 2020 is instantaneous peak rates easily 50% higher (indicated by signal attenuation levels) than 2019/2018. I'm not aware of any standard meteorological way to measure this as it seems most measurements are done as cumulative over minutes/hours/days, when the effects on microwave signals are in the seconds and minute scales.

Certainly can't establish as causal relationship with climate change, especially since my observations are on the scale of just a few years, but it shows the danger in simply relying on low resolution historical 10/50/100yr data for infrastructure design.
Pidgin still exists and there are plugins for lots of the modern messaging systems. Please note that OTR is no longer considered safe crypto-wise, there is an unfinished OTRv4 that fixes that.

http://bugs.otr.im/otrv4/otrv4
I instructed my family how to do it today, both deleting account, and deleting the app.

They'll go and tell the people in their groups, which in turn they'll tell theirs.

By this point they all have signal and/or telegram, and they've set it up themselves, parents included. Again, they are spreaders.

It's not like whatsapp is disappearing. But you can bet they're losing millions of accounts.
The Rise of Substack–and What’s Behind It
First I would move all of them to golang (unless you need ML/data science which is python).

Next, I would create microservices using GRPC and define an interface between them, this way they can continue working on each stack (and you can replace it in future date).

I assume that if you choose a unified stack there will be a rewrite which is risky.
Crowley, CO is also a popular skiing destination, which your population count doesn’t account for.
I'm not sure of this is what you mean, but they do have floppy shaped "drives" that let you use a USB stick for storage on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087BRYRVY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc...
If you give away your secret sauce recipe, no one will pay for your recipe (though some will donate), but people will still buy your fried chicken.

I think open source works best when it isn't your product, but your capability.
An e-commerce site open sources it's product inventory management software. If I spin up a docker container with your software, I will be closer to building an e-commerce business, but I won't have one without a lot more work.

More examples:
A blogger makes her own open source blogging software.
A 3D games developer - open sources their AI engine or 3D engine.

You get community adoption, goodwill & hopefully contribution, ability to hire employees that already know your software. Possibly it identifies new markets to pursue.
Though in name it's not a new OS, Windows 8, 10 are new experiences for anyone who uses them since Windows 7.

I think you're right about momentum, MS isn't able to come out of it's momentum of the old into the new.

For example, Apple transitions to a new OS with confidence and takes the ecosystem with it in a blink of an eye because they are trying control their momentum instead of being driven by it.

Edit: Windows can maintain backward compatibility with its ecosystem if they did it well, like Apple has done.
OS made on Scheme, including drivers
How to Trace Linux System Calls in Production Without Breaking Performance
That is totally ridiculuos:

1) That wasn't UBI (they had to work in order to get it). It was a pay raise.

2) Experiment did not succeed because of (1), they just attempted to test if a higher minimum wage was well received. Of course even that they failed to do properly, because they have no clue how customers would react to that great idea to increase the cost of all products.

3) I didn't notice that "well-being" of people who paid for that largesse was evaluated, but let me guess: it wouldn't increase (if it did, they'd give money away today).

4) Everyone knows - you don't need to be an academic - that UBI is a complete nonsense and doesn't work at any scale (and also cannot scale). But of course "what difference does it make", all UBI crap gets upvoted anyway.
You might like this post, which is roughly on that topic: https://ideolalia.com/essays/composition-is-interpretation.h...

(I thought of it when I first saw your comment but couldn't remember where, then I found it closing some few-day-old tabs :) )
if i could use my own domain i'd have kept using them. instead I built my own in v.
Discussing social class is so incendiary in America specifically because Americans have convinced themselves for a long time that they only have economic classes and no social classes. Discussing social class therefore became a taboo, as it breaches the polite fiction that America is a classless society. I call it a polite fiction because if you pay attention there are tons of ways that Americans find a way to separate social class from economic class (e.g. “money can’t buy taste” as a way to dismiss someone as being low class and rich).

Of course, like any way to divide up people there is ample opportunity for harmful and mean stereotypes. But I don’t think that alone is why discussing class is so explosive in America.
It seems like if Racket-Chez continues to track Cisco-Chez that it won't really matter and we can continue to live under one roof.

I'll read the Racket on Chez papers. Are there plans for more backends? RISC-V, Wasm or Scheme (not Chez specific)? Wasm would be interesting as that would also enable a path to integrate with Graal. I understand that Wasm doesn't yet support native tail calls, so that would have to have to be addressed.

> A Racket-implemented layer of Racket CS must be translated to Scheme to run on top of Chez Scheme.

That contract between Racket and Chez for how Racket runs on Chez, I think that is fairly interesting from a language engineering perspective. It seems like it could be a nice RRRS (Revised Report on Racket on Scheme).

What are your thoughts on Shen?
Oh, yeah it's probably not going to handle that too well. It's not really designed for full motion video. I tried running a game over it and only got a couple of FPS (although that's over an ancient USB WiFi dongle so modern performance might be better).

Still great for general productivity type stuff though!
Facebook bought WhatsApp for their user connection graph data and logs. They had no intention to grow or continue running the service.
For an article that takes a more serious look at a very similar (analogous, IMO) three-slice breakdown of socioeconomic class in America, I’d recommend this article “the birth of a new American aristocracy”, as the tiers of the pyramid in this article seem to map one to one onto the three slices in the Atlantic article, and even though I read it years ago it’s still one of my favorites.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-bir...
Ask HN: Are patents still worth it?
I remember 5-10 years ago it was seen as a big item on the startup checklist to have a few patents under your belt. Is that still the case now that open source is eating the world? Are patents even defensible?
I would say Martin Heidegger touched on that (trusting technology over intuition) before Harari in Being and Time (1927). Harari may have brought concepts into the mainstream but these concepts were being discussed in philosophy for over 100 years.
But I was told this is a only a problem with right wing views... who will fight for the real socialists?
This is true -- most vendors supply a calculator tool that attempts to take this into consideration. Over the past 10yrs or so I've found them to be generally accurate, but have noticed a significant deviation in late 2019-2020 from expected vs observed effects.

I don't know what method is used but would expect it to be some sort of extrapolation from the average to predict peak rates
For me, it’s a podcast—-but one I’ve already listened to.

It can’t be a new one or else I’ll get too interested in it.
Yes, Linux. Also, I know how to use a shebang, which command, install to user, and/or pythonX.Y -m ... to avoid problems. Perhaps newbies don’t get enough of that advice?

I try my stuff on macos without issue, but perhaps not there enough to have big problems.
The Pragmatic Programmer. It feels like a textbook introduction to the software engineering field. Not the code part, but more the engineering parts.
You’re aware that json stands for “JavaScript object notation”, right? ;)
I guess you haven’t spent a lot of time time with XML? JSON is not perfect but I wouldn’t say it sucks.
Ok you’ve convinced me - thank you for taking the time to explain in detail! At least on Show HN posts, I now see that this is rude. Apologies to the original author and thank you for the helpful tone.
To answer your question: The dense outer boroughs of New York.

New building or old, all it takes is one noisy neighbor to keep up half of the residents within a block.

Loud noise is a notoriously difficult problem, and especially difficult to manage in a true mixing pot like NYC.

Many years back: I was very annoyed to wake up at midnight on Christmas; some religious immigrants were going around door to door singing with their instruments (apartment building). They meant well, but that sound carries.

Yes, I told them to quiet down.
They have to say 75K at first, to get these pilot programs going.

First ask for 75K, and do it for 1-2,000 people. Then get the recepients to vote into office those who will vote to raise that to 175K and expand the succesful program to 200,000 recipients.

Do not assume this has to make sense initially, or at all.
I love Firefox on android, but it's good to hear there's some other competition for Google Chrome - even if it's still using the same rendering tech under the hood. Personally, I value the mobile browser extension support over the UI enhancements offered by Samsung. Hopefully Mozilla takes notes for future releases.
I understand why FB needs to do this, but the execution was so out of touch it's bizarre. My elderly parents called me and were alarmed that WhatsApp is threatening with removing their account unless they agree to share their data. They wondered if FB will be able to track their transactions or perhaps even get into their bank accounts. After years in the tech industry, I've learned that my parents' feedback is a good predictor for how well my messaging will be perceived by the wider world. I would have assumed that at FB they would do something similar (or rather, that their testing is 100x more sophisticated), so it's bizarre that they would miss the mark with messaging and with their prediction of overall success when it came to something so strategically important and sensitive.
Many (but not all) Duolingo languages, eg Chinese, actually have basic grammar covered in the Tips section boxes before each lesson:

https://www.duolingo.com/skill/zs/Existence/tips

However, this feature is not really discoverable and often the main content that follows is only loosely if at all related.
I like UBI from an efficiency perspective in that you would assume we could eliminate much of the overhead associated with social offices.

However there is something about being put on an allowance that bothers me. It’s rather infantilizing and I wonder about the politics of it. I could see a party using it to buy votes - “elect us and you’ll get more money each month.”.

It wound do wonders for the drug and alcohol industries, casinos, and state lotteries though. How many boys would never leave their moms basement?

If anything it’s a huge risk to the USD remaining a global reserve currency. Why would non-Americans take it seriously when it’s passed out to millions of people every month?
DeltaChat isn't limited to a fixed group of people either? [1] And supports forwarding just fine. [2]

I think the useability problem is just that webmail as a whole has generally been stripped of features. If Gmail wasn't as constrained a client, you'd be able to do everything without caring if you had a "DeltaChat" client. It isn't an email-or-DeltaChat question. Both interact fine.

But the clients people are currently using go out of their way to make it harder/impossible to do simple things.

[1] https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/blob/master...

[2] https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/blob/master...
The problem is that what makes Whatsapp sticky is the network effect. People use Whatsapp because everyone has Whatsapp.

But if you now have several millions of people who will not use Whatsapp at all, all the groups that they are in will need to migrate to the alternative (which is pretty much Signal/Telegram at this point). So those few million become few tens of millions. And once they migrate and start liking it, they may avoid Whatsapp as well, because it's far easier to just use one app, and then their groups need to migrate, and so on.

Edit 1: Added Telegram as an alternative.
I'm sure this varies from region to region, but I don't think random people like landlords and employers are just looking up whatever you're picturing a "criminal record" looks like.

When volunteering at a high school, my police record check amounted to the "NO" box being checked for, "did the police find any reason to believe this individual would be a risk to vulnerable groups (elderly, children, disabled)?"

That being said, a lot of criminal proceedings are public record, I think? With a PACER account I can look up a pretty wild amount of stuff.
The reason why habits don't work is because habits don't work. Unless you actually change your mind (what is causing these habits) in a pretty comprehensive, introspective way, habits won't get you anywhere.

Not according to my experience. I have a habit for studying, I basically did that without skipping a beat for almost a year, otherwise it's two years and longer.
Tangentially related: there are millions of abandoned oil wells emitting greenhouse gases like methane across the US. Vice had a great video about this last month, but it didn't get much attention here on HN. [1] [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25516076

[2] https://welldonefoundation.com/
> I’m just observing reality.

Well me too and... Even before this recent WhatsApp fiasco I noticed that some parents are using Telegram at the school where my kid goes. Out of 24 kids in my kid's class, there are 3 families which I know for sure have Telegram (I don't have contact with all of the parents so I don't know).

And I think Telegram is reporting more than, what, 500M users by now? If it's true, it's definitely a sizeable dent in WhatsApp's market share. It may not be 2B+, but 500M is quite something.

The thing is: users are not loyal at all. Telegram or Signal or others are a click or two away: it's neither hard to find/install nor to use.

I really wouldn't be surprised to see a bigger shift some day once more people begin to realize that "WhatsApp = FB" (many don't like FB but have no idea WhatsApp belongs to FB).
We could also say 1M and still be a valid statement. I don’t know if that tells anything though.

Perception does matter a lot, and that’s why I used the 1% figure. It means one percent of WhatsApp users are investigating a competitor (not even deleting their account in WhatsApp, but I guess few did) and here people seem to see it as a clear tipping point to which I disagree - raw numbers don’t mean much if you have nothing to compare with.
Back to the click farm mortgage slaves! Leave the politics to your betters.
Yet more pages somehow 'mistakenly' [0] shutdown and de-platformed by Facebook because they simply can and they are a private platform. In this case, they can do just that. Mistake or not. Reason or no reason. They completely own it.

> None of the individuals whose accounts were disabled had violated Facebook’s policies.

Exactly. That's the problem. They don't have to explain themselves. Even if they get their accounts back, Facebook can do it again and again whenever they like.

'Don't like it? Build your own platform' they said. Some already have.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25877000
I admire and want to learn from people who do not fear "not existing".

But I'm always turned off by the complete lack of empathy that such folks (including you) show those of us who DO fear it. Most of folks like you don't just act like you don't fear not existing, but you actively don't understand how OTHERS can fear it.

Which makes me think one of two things: 1) The type of person who can be comfortable and this pragmatic about it is the kind of cold unfeeling unempathetic person that I simply could never be, or 2) Your cold detached pragmatic attitude is ITSELF a coping strategy for dealing with mortality. I dwell in the fear of not existing. You deal with it by pretending it's not even something worth burning an ounce of energy on.

If I'm wrong, then I'm sorry. I'd love to see you explain that you understand the fear, and then explain why you personally believe it's something you can make peace with. But every explanation I've heard so far I just haven't been able to follow.

My consciousness and awareness is all I have. When that ends, so will every dream, fantasy, feeling, emotion, hope, aspiration, joy, fear, sadness, idea, invention, and creative outlet I've ever had. And I won't have any more after that. That is objectively terrifying.

Just because it's inescapable doesn't make it any less disturbing.