skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would make waay more sence for the entire state / country to buy software for their water systems all at once and set up a department of a few dozen people that travel the country and make sure its setup properly. Why would you not have all water treatment in the country on the same software platform?
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Did they draw the government's attention because they were connecting to banned websites or because they were running a high-profile news outlet?

It's seems unlikely to me that the Iranian government would be able to prosecute even a small fraction of instances of the former, whereas there's only a small number of high-profile news outlets at any given time.
They don't help anyone, including themselves
If they cared they'd try something like what OpenSolaris did (file-based GPL alternative so they could have copyleft on code but still ship binaries). I'm not advocating for another viral license but there are definitely ways around that problem.
MS itself already did it in part once (WRK) so they clearly have looked into it at least once before.
These are just symptoms - the fundamental underlying factor is the 30% commission taken by Valve, Microsoft, Sony, Apple, Google.

Take these values down to 10-15%, and the game development business becomes a lot higher-margin, encouraging new entrants and supporting better salaries and conditions for staff.

The other problem is that games are unique that they are entirely B2C, retail products. As a result, the full taxation burden falls on them. Its not uncommon for developers to actually receive only 50% of spent revenue, after global sales taxes, platform commissions, refunds, chargebacks are taken into account.

By contrast general IT companies - if providing B2B services (including advertising) - have a much lower commission and taxation burden.
keycloak is great, it's very flexible and fairly lightweight (all things considered).

it can get a bit complex, but to be fair the whole oauth/oauth2.0/openid/openid-connect/saml is quite messy in general.
Conveniently ignoring nuclear power.
Looking at Epic Games, I don't think a lot of pushing is required when you see people make enormous amounts of money like they did with Fortnite. My understanding is that they are now using all that money to finance their steam-alternative games store (with exclusives), where they can still afford to offer 1-2 games for free every single week (with a lot more around the holidays).
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Josef Ganz, True Father of the Volkswagen Beetle concept (2011)
Paul Schilperoord published a book about the inventor of the design principles and names for the Volkswagen Beetle in 2012. The Jewish engineer and technology journalist who had to flee Germany before the creation of today's Volkswagen Enterprise remains rarely mentioned along the lines of the Beetle.
Even native speakers run into this a lot. There are words that are quite rare in spoken English but more common when writing. And then you hear someone else pronounce it and it’s completely different than how you say it, and you’re both not sure who’s right. And sometimes you’re both wrong :)

Here’s random article I found about it: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2017/01/31/words-readers-cant-say

I got 3/7 on the quiz, but I didn’t know half the words...
> If the ranking system is accurate (that's a huge "if"), then it doesn't really matter what the bottom x% look like on paper.

Unless every employee does the exact same work your ranking system will never be accurate. The difference in the difficulty of jobs will dominate the difference in competence.
Maybe, but I think that the way these researchers reacted when their criticism wasn't heard doesn't benefit anybody. By ratcheting up the tension and participating in an internet catfight against the Signal team, a net loss occurs for the anti-censorship community.

If the Signal team does indeed have a real problem with taking feedback and criticism, a better approach might've been to gather support and enter into long-term negotiation over Signal's future relationship with the community. This would make its development a lot smoother and prevent anger and bruised egos from building in the future.
It's a different kind of addiction. Factorio is the ultimate nerd-snipe[0] for a large class of people who enjoy flexing their brains. The addictiveness is a side effect the developers maximizing having fun (for the aforementioned subset of the population).

When people talk about "making games as addictive as possible" in the general and pejorative sense, they usually mean something else: they mean that the optimization goal is not "fun", but "making money off players". That very often involves making games less fun on purpose, to exploit player's psychology against them. You keep frustrating them on purpose - but not hard enough for them to abandon the game entirely - in hopes that over time, enough of them will break and buy the paid content or unfrustration features, to relieve their psychological pain. Explicitly additive aspects get included to maximize the time the player is exposed to these monetization opportunities.

Addictiveness is ultimately a red herring in these discussions. Factorio is designed as a win-win game, the devs wants to give their players the best experience in the game's category. Modern, pay-to-win, addictive games are designed by malicious people with no moral compass, who want to extract as much money as possible from people, as cheaply as possible.

(Like with many of the big problems in our industry, focusing on tech or immediate "sciency-sounding" consequences is missing the forest for the trees. These problems all stem from people being allowed to exploit others for money. Solutions to mitigate immediate consequences will be worked around very quickly. Real solutions need to involve restrictions on the types of business that can be done.)

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[0] - https://xkcd.com/356/
Huge difference IMHO. Saying the actual word is meant to inflame or diminish. Saying “n-word” is intended to do neither. Both are simply a collection of letters, but they carry a lot of baggage.
>Could you not argue that HN is the same thing, just at a smaller scale? HN is essentially just a front page.

The more niche a community is the higher the bar to entry the less internet riff raff you get. The more one's past comments stick around the less inclined people are to type bullshit. Reddit is slightly better on average than 4Chan. HN is better at the extremes and on average than Reddit. But they're all crap compared to some niche forum you've never heard of where the guys who maintain diesel electric locomotives (or some other niche) hang out.
Hugely important for me, hiring for marketing. I need to know you can write. I need to know you can tell a story. I need to know you can be creative and seek opportunity where others don't. It amazes how many applicants either don't include one (to be fair, not all job posting sites require it) or just slap empty words on the paper and move on.
cPanel? Ooof.
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I guess they took savings from security too.
That requires making a coin which is not bitcoin, i.e. a fork. They haven't historically gone well (see bitcoin cash).
Thank you! This one seems to have the features of Camscanner that I use: straightening documents and combining multiple images into a single PDF.
The whole point is that, in countries in which Signal is forbidden, the mere fact to connect to it can lead to big troubles.

However I acknowledge that the problem solved here by Signal team is orthogonal to the one of hidding the users.
Many users care much more about working software than they do secure software until suddenly they have a major live exploit on their stuff. This causes many people in the security world to get very tired of the whiplash cycle of "No we don't want to fix this issue it's probably minor" until "Oh my god, why didn't you fix this it caused us millions of dollars in losses" hits.

Especially in the security hardware world, getting customers to upgrade is like pulling teeth.
I totally identify with all this, having originally been a flash developer back around that time (even easier than html).

BUT, I have recently discovered the joy of react. I hated it at first of course (what's with this stupid jsx language that my text editor doesn't even understand how to error check?)

But now I've finally got my shit together with Visual Studio and the right plugins, it's really kinda neat.
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Thank you for your feedback! In fact, it's understandable to be scared because it uses a lot of uncommon techniques. By growing this project, I would like to be able to use advanced techniques with peace of mind.
With the exception of small indie developers, I'm too cynical to believe that the difference would end up benefiting the staff.
It seems to me that there is a more diverse spectrum of hurtful words (of which slurs are a subset) than is commonly understood, and where they lie on the spectrum can have different moral implications.

- On the one extreme, there are trigger words peculiar to particular individuals that are not widely known, which also have neutral everyday meanings. It's difficult to fault a person for uttering them.

- Then there are words that are hurtful against particular communities, but their slur status are not widely known and they also have a common neutral meaning.

- There are also words with a widely known slur status but with neutral meanings that are entrenched (e.g. retarded).

- And of course there are words like the n-word that everybody uses for the slur meaning, even when they don't mean to directly offend.

People make everyday words into slurs all the time when they decide to communicate an insult with them. And even among widespread slurs not all slurs trigger hurt to an equal degree; at one extreme when a word is intended as a slur is uttered by a weak person and there is no history of tolerated bigotry associated with the slur, it is typically less effective at hurting.

> I’m guessing you’re not the subject of any slurs. When it comes to slurs, use-mention isn’t nearly as much of a distinction as you think.

Do you suppose if among (black) people who frequently use the n-word to establish closeness, reporting on someone using it as the n-word as a slur would be just as unacceptable as using it directly intending to insult (as improbable as the latter would happen)?
You did notice that I specifically commented on the structure of the apology wrt to the contents of the article - not about it's neccessity ?

> good fight.

Good fight for what specifically ?
Yes, you are right. I might have phrased it without looking at it over a longer term.
Don't expect support if you do not pay.
It seems the point of my [now censored] comment was misunderstood.

It's not about the fact that the Rust language itself is used to do bad things. It's about what the organizations that comprise the Rust foundation represent.

Yeah, I'll grant you the others are indeed guilty of terrible things. Personally I abhore parts of virtually every company there in some way or another.

Here's the thing: not every member company is completely beholden to an authoritarian government. Only one is.
At least we don't have to worry about Internet Explorer compatibility anymore.
This has since appeared on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26061637

Coincidence?
Bond length seems to be the only thing that has been measured in the efforts described in the article. I would have skipped reading the article if it had been clear about that from the beginning.
On the contrary, I'm sad to see them moving towards "slack clone" solutions rather than sticking with simple chat, a la IRC. I don't think adding stickers and emoticons to a conversation makes it any better.
Let's not. Please.
We have margin, we even have flex and grid gap (which is my personal favorite new addition to CSS).

Please don't.
Can't you sort of feel that it doesn't have the same psychological impact? I immediately bristle if I actually hear someone say the n-word (as opposed to 'the n-word').
It's great work anyway! The main point is the technical content; kudos for that! And of course persisting to write it to the very end instead of quitting like most of us do.
> Reddit is an intentionally designed dopamine

IDK, yes dopamine gets triggered but much less than with the typical suspects out there. I find many of reddit subs quite helpful tbh, you check them out, comment, upvote, submit and leave again.

It's just bothering that one company could monopolize the entire forum space. They did a good job but yeah, one company to rule them all isn't good.
You can still do this with Vue 3! The CodePen embeds they use in their "Getting Started" docs are all still just loading in an external library and making use of it with vanilla JS.

https://codepen.io/team/Vue/pen/KKpRVvJ
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What version of Spring Boot did you migrate to?
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The issue was not identified for months, and from what I understood, a significan fraction of the certrifuges were destroyed.

The attack worked exactly as designed - wasting time, destoying equipment while being stealthy. Had the attack tried to destoroy all equipment at once" it would have beem spotted immediately.
Some where jailed just for being Instagram "influencers". So it doesn't seem to be just high-profile news outlets.
What does the "&birth=pg" at the end of the URL stand for? I know pg is Paul Graham, but removing the "&birth=" parameter doesn't change the page
I used to moderate /r/berlin, and it's a little bit like my internet pub. I recognise some of the users, and some of them recognise me.

/r/popular is more like the random junk bins at Aldi. Most of it is trash, but somehow you're always tempted to have a look at it.
The joke subs are always better on average because they are fundamentally rooted in BS so you don't have people rabidly agreeing with whatever the common trope is to show how much they fit in.
It is similar to the difference between "you" and "sir"/"madame". It signals that the people being referred to are important enough that the speaker will modify their behaviour.
If you like functional JS then you should be using React. This is exactly why it's still the most popular JS framework. If you want a simpler build system then you should try esbuild. It's a single Go binary.
I always hear this sentiment that the far right is a reaction to "SJWs" but I don't think it makes any sort of sense. Is the idea that there wasn't a "far right" before SJWs were a thing. More to the point, there were waves of racial terror periodically throughout US history in response to efforts to guarantee basic civil rights. But I hope we can look back and see those phenomena for what they were. Why are we so sure that this time is different?
And the evidence for that diagnostics is...? Got any reference that links margin to company culture?

The few people I know from the mobile gaming industry tell me the margins are insanely high. They’d spend x on ads and get back 2~5x in microtransactions. Also development costs were even lower than marketing costs.
Auth0, Microsoft also have MFA as a non-free thing. Probably because they have to pay for an SMS/equivalent.

It would be good to offer SMS MFA in the free tier, providing the dev plugs in valid Twilio credentials.
The problem lies in what you actually want to create. For your simple html,css websites with gifs please don't use React with Typescript!

But if you are writing an application, something which is supposed to replace desktop software, and allow for storing data in a database, retrieve it quickly, manage some sort of complicated systems then I'm sorry Html + css is not good enough. Use the tools you need, don't pick react for landing pages.

Edit: typo
If the mere use of Signal is banned, traffic analysis tools an DPI can be used to identify users and bring them the unwelcome attention of the regime’s well-staffed secret police. I’m sure the Chinese are selling them surveillance tech, and if not Iranians are quite capable of developing it themselves.

It’s not a simple issue to resolve. WireGuard is better in that it only establishes a flow if authenticated, but UDP traffic is a giveaway.

The bug reporters reacted immaturely to being asked to submit the report on the Signal forum instead of GitHub, but Signal hiding before a CoC to avoid discussing substantive issues is not a good look.
> We are having a discussion about this taboo word right now and no-one is stopping us.

I'm not a native English speaker and I was not talking about any specific word; my argument was general. What word do you refer to by "the n-word", precisely? Can you write it down, please?

> The problem is the inference from "it may in some special circumstances be necessary to mention the n-word" to "anyone should be free to say the n-word at any time without anyone objecting".

It seems to me that these two extremes are quite wrong. A moderate middle-ground seems to be better: "anyone should be free to say any word, as long as they are not using it as a slur to insult another person".
Isn’t that exaggerated? I mean, light pollution is a thing, but you can easily escape it if you go at reasonable distance from most towns. It doesn’t require to go into the middle of a desert nor demand an excessive cost.

I think the expression you might be looking for is "a contemplative state".
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> What if your bank charged extra for declining suspicious transactions?

They do. There is a pool of money they make that they take from gains made on your money before you get the remainder as interest. That is what pays for that.
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DeFi is a very innovative field indeed. What I find most appealing is that some popular derivative protocols are yet inefficient in some ways, which means there is a lot of room for new solutions to come along.

For instance, I'm interested in options trading, and there is a lot of competing protocols [1] each one with it's advantages and disadvantages. One of the most popular, Hegic [2], employs liquidity pools pricing options at a really expensive value due to a simplified pricing model (good for writers).

Shameless plug: I myself have been playing with smart contracts in my free time and deployed a tokenizable options trading decentralized exchange [3] (on kovan testnet nonetheless!) trying to address some os these points. Learned a lot implmementing it, and I find amazing that anyone can come up with their own DeFi solution.

[1] https://medium.com/coinmonks/an-update-of-a-comparison-of-de...

[2] https://www.hegic.co/

[3] https://github.com/TCGV/DeFiOptions
What are your troubles to find Product/Market fit?
Would love to share some of your pains. Personally, I've started a company holding the tech role (I don't like calling myself CTO, because the CTO hat is just soooo huge), Ive always tried to ensure we use 'tech to empower the business'. But how? When the numbers doesn't seem to move?

"Data driven" decisions to build a company - But how? What data is important to measure other than sales (worse when back to the first point, numbers are not moving).

What are/were your pain and thought process trying to find your own Product/Market fit?
The classic theme doesn't use DWM sadly (at least it didn't in Windows 7, I assume it still true in 10). So it doesn't just change appearance but also how it performs: DWM offloads compositing from the CPU to the GPU.
We are exposing all the information about our supplier on our product, limited to what the supplier is willing to share.

For instance, you'll always see certifications and reviews (if exist) to supplies listed on Jiga. But names might be masked due to the supplier request.
Oh... now you are thinking about healthy revenue?

I would very much prefer the web to be vendors each offering their services for an honest pay.

I feel disgusted at the state of things and at being constantly conned everywhere. I can't pay for half the things that I need to use even if I wanted and I must put up with all that crap or vanish from the job market.
Emoticons absolutely make it better, just by saving chat traffic for simple acknowledgements. Emoticons are also used as a simple way to poll, which is very useful.
When proxying, who you're talking to can be determined from large-scale network surveillance. You look for patterns of messages sent from your device and messages of the same size received by another device immediately after.
I care because it's cognitive overhead, i MUST know what the "spacer" does and how it does, instead of having a simple margin or padding which works so well when you set box-sizing: border-box.
I think we are both talking about tone. While you are saying that expressing emotions and the drama is important in a discussion over Signals' future, I believe that such conduct only drives a wedge into it. These issues are emotional and affect important freedoms, but while expressing them is important doing it in such a high-profile, damaging way can only bruise egos and create even more tension. Instead, both parties should sit down and take a long, serious look at their grievances and how they will address them.
They also use plan9 as their primary workstation!
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> Competitive gaming requires intense uninterrupted focus for 30 min to 1 h periods

This is technically true, but in most team based multiplayer games you actually get much shorter focus intervals due to breaks and pauses like dying (time to respawn or end of round, which can take up to multiple minutes) or running to the action from spawn (games like Overwatch).

Also the team aspect hides much of it so a lot of players go "on autopilot" too in these games, you have to keep in mind that the far majority of players in the super popular games plays at a lower level.

Compared to this a game like Starcraft 2 (1on1 competitive) actually requires uninterrupted focus for a full game with basically no breaks or pauses, but 1v1 competitive multiplayer games are not as popular as team based games.
I'm not sure. Trump recently talked about invisible F-35s and nobody really knew for sure what he meant.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a33658771...
One of the problems I've seen is when your manager/client/executive has heard of docker/AWS/k8s/React/SPA/thecloud/etc and the specification for the new system says it must use docker/AWS/k8s/React/SPA/thecloud/etc regardless of whether it's even vaguely appropriate.
Arrington has been discussed before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=454679
Which is a fair proxy for showing the risk people take every single day without a second thought...