skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point of avoiding acronyms and abbreviations isn't strong enough, because it doesn't explain how much they can creep into most conversation. As an example, here's how something can become gradually less specific, and gradually shortened. (I have an American Midwest accent, so not all of these shortenings will be applicable to all accents.)

> I'm hungry. Would you like to get lunch and continue discussing this as we eat?

Good clear statement, motivation, question, and proposed action. But there's some repetition. If I'm the one suggesting lunch, it can be assumed that I am hungry, so that doesn't need to be mentioned.

> Would you like to get lunch and continue discussing this as we eat?

Now we add in some cultural context, that people generally eat lunch around noon, and that it is generally a social affair. Asking if somebody wants to get lunch implicitly includes the question of having lunch as a group.

> Would you like to get lunch?

In the same manner, rather than asking about the intended action of "having lunch", one can instead ask about previous actions, with the assumption that somebody will join in on a social activity.

> Have you eaten yet?

Depending on the level of formality, both the choice of words and the level of diction can be chosen to progressively shorten the phrase.

> Did you eat yet?

> Didja eat yet?

> Djeet yet?

The last one, when spoken and in the context of a co-worker asking shortly before noon, is understandable as a social request by a native speaker with a similar accent, even though it's missing over half of the syllables needed to even be grammatically correct.
Fastmail is the creator of the JMAP protocol (now an IETF standard), [1] which is a much better successor to IMAP. IIRC, it also supports it on its servers.

[1]: https://jmap.io/
>>Agree on this point, FWIW, though PoW aims to fix it (which sadly is moving pretty slowly)

I think you mean PoS (proof of stake), and yes it will be several months before eth2 w/ PoS is a thing. It actually introduces other issues around centralization, but uses a lot less energy.
Fully agree. I want better sandboxing. I want sandboxing by default, just like my browser. By default you can do nothing, except some networking.

I don't want to give access to complete folders. Want to open a file? Show me an open dialog, or a drop target.

Want to read something from my home directory? Tough luck
Apple has made the argument in court that a given app can be essential for work or education, so customers have no choice but to acquire that app any way they can.

On that basis and others, while I think it is appropriate for a company to make a profit, there has to be a thing as "too much".

Apple (according to evidence in this case) currently earns like 20 billion USD per year off the 30% cut. To me, this is absolutely more than necessary, and while it's not exactly the same as how the cost of insulin has gone from $0.05/unit in 1991 to ~$0.30/unit presently, apparently apps are essential, so it's worth asking just how much it's reasonable for Apple to skim off the top. In the end, the cost of that 30% fee will get passed on to the customer one way or another, and Apple allows that to happen as well.
Oh no! These are all brand new arguments! I guess it's time to sell, huh?
Then you have been very lucky or have been working in a different environment to me.
As someone with family members who immensely enjoy hiking for non-status related reasons, I can confirm you are entirely incorrect. They started in a pre-Internet era and as far as I know, haven't changed their motivations since.
> Seeing reporting from Nordic political issues in US-based media; they often get it wrong. Sometimes a little bit wrong. Often a very skewed incomplete image.

That’s true of US political issues, too. A “well educated American” is both aware of this and is educated on issues beyond transitory immediate events by sources beyond just the news media.
No, it's not a cyanoacrylate. You have to activate it with water and it takes about 24 hours to set.
I agree, if a user could check a box saying they are OK leaving Apple's walled garden they should be able to install anything they want on their device. This provides a path around the 30% cut as well.

I think Apple's point is they think users are too dumb to handle that and they don't want to take any chance of user ignorance reflecting poorly on them or their product experience.
EU agrees to allow entry to vaccinated travelers
If you run things on the JVM or some other VM, then you're relying on that having good support for the architecture.
There are people who only see fb. For them, Internet == Facebook is true.
Drawings of bicycles from memory, rendered in 3D:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/35437979/Velocipedia
Is this why Salesforce is so successful? It gives you a million enterprisey features (ad hoc reporting, role based access control, single sign on, user management, field level compliance) out of the box even if you’re managing a glorified spreadsheet?
Ha ha, I am learning to say mate with every sentence. Thanks Mate.
If you want you can use the Google free offering as well. But you do get what you pay for.
Unfortunately you can't recover information that was never captured, which is the main issue with cheaper lenses. They tend to have more abberations [1], which prevents capturing high quality information.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_aberration
Freenode was registered under Freenode Limited out of Britain, the head of staff was effectively the president. There was definitely legal structure, voting, etc... People knew Christel's name, the rest of the staffers knew each other's names, it's just not circulated outside of that circle.
No ssl to date, not even self-signed
- Braun BC02BW alarm clock - I started to sleep more regularly since I use it (there is no snooze option).

- Trek FX 2 + lights + Thule pannier - Not so fast as I expected, but perfect for city commuting.
probably because that's a very niche usecase and most people just want some video captions :)

(don't get me wrong, what you describe would be cool and useful! but i can't imagine a lot of people would use it)
Don't you mean all?
This program does not 'reduce apple's cut to 15%'. Under some circumstances, Apple will reduce your cut to 15% for a given year. But if those circumstances cease to apply your cut jumps back up to 30% for that year AND the next year. For products that you buy once and use forever, this can mean that a small business has a great "launch", earning over the threshold for that one year, then stops earning much the following year but still has to pay 30% for both of those years. This might look like '$1 million per year' in income, but what it actually means amortized across two years is '$500k/year before apple's 30% cut', which once you consider taxes and the cost of employee benefits (insurance, etc) is about enough to pay 3-5 salaries.

Note that Apple could have designed it not to work this way - they didn't, they chose this more complex system because they're greedy and want 30%. This program really only benefits lifestyle businesses and businesses with like 1-6 employees. A more "honest" program would be "15% on your first million dollars per year" which would achieve the goal of helping small businesses and be simple.

Also note if your income is largely being passed on to third parties (processing transactions for charities or individual small businesses), this eats into both your margins and the profits of the companies you're passing the revenue on to. The only solution for that is for every customer to create their own developer account and upload bespoke apps for themselves - something Apple prohibits under current policies.
Servo is not yet ready for everyday use. Moreover, Mozilla fired most of its team working on it, so notable progress is not to be expected in the short term :(
Fastmail is quite expensive for more-than-one-person use cases. You can look at Posteo, Mailbox.org, Runbox, Mailfence, etc. They offer cheaper plans and have been around for sometime.
On paper, you already have the right to repair things that you own. However, it's hard to materially ensure the right to repair without regulating the market to ensure availability of replacement parts and schematics, ban certain classes of security mechanism, mandate a certain level of openness for manufacturing/diagnostic/recovery software, and so on. A lot of people see any initiative shaped like this (cf. net neutrality, product safety regulations) as little more than an excuse for government overreach, and even supporters can have various concerns about the laws/regulations being worded or implemented in a way that inadvertently ends up doing more harm than good.
Perhaps one of the following, seeing as the naming scheme is pretty arbitrary at this point?

1nm, 500um, 350um, 250um, 180um, 130um, 100um, 90um ...

1nm, 0.7nm, 0.5nm, 0.3nm, 0.2nm, 0.1nm, 0.07nm, 0.05nm ...

1nm, 1/2nm, 1/3nm, 1/5nm, 1/7nm, 1/10nm, 1/14nm ...

1nm, 0nm, -1nm, -3nm, -5nm, -7nm, -10nm, -14nm ...

1nm, 1b nm, 1a nm, 1g nm, 1n nm, 1ac nm, 1ax nm ...

1nm, 360nm, one nm, one x nm, series x nm ...
Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

Counter-example: Jenkins. It does what you ask of it, its base install is "naked" and only contains the minimum functionality in the core.

Everything then becomes a plugin. Git. GitHub. Branch for multi-branch pipelines. Credentials management. And on and on and on.

Now you have stay on top of maintaining the plugins in addition to the core. Also, many plugins require other plugins so just to do some basic stuff like set up a multi-branch pipeline from a GitHub repo you're suddenly staring down the barrel of dozens and dozens of bespoke plugins with varying levels of quality and support.

A monolithic application like curl is a dream to me by comparison. Everything is tested in every release. Sub-components are kept up to date by the maintainer. No plugins fighting each other's plugins.

From afar it's easy to see the praise simplicity and modularization but honestly monoliths can be undervalued too.
Wasn't specifically referring to Firefox, didn't intend to imply that - I have not even used the flatpak version.

It was a general comment that is not specific to Flatpak - it will a problem for any cross-distro packaging. (Heck, plenty of developers mess up native packaging for distros they're not familiar with.)
Hey its not my attitude that matters. Its the attitude of the corp being told they are not much different than ex-cons.

I'd think HN folk would think one step past ad hominem responses before posting.
If people get malware on Android I doubt it's from side-loading apps or using third party stores. More likely it's from the malicious apps available on the google store, same for Apple.
Totally agree with everything you said, but I really appreciate that you can access ALL of the settings from the android app. It drove me up the wall that you can't manage filters and labels and stuff from the gmail app.
Agreed. The article is a fluff piece, using the most generic and sanitized anecdotes. What WORD was not understood? What was the culture of the sender vs receiver? Did I miss where there was any statistical information presented in the article? What other languages/native speakers were reviewed before determining English speakers won the title of world's worst communicators?
And users are significantly less likely to be doing Engineering/finance/etc... And more likely to be on Facebook during a college lecture.
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Technically I think it's possible to install whatever you want: as part of the developer program, you can pay the dev fees (which you might not care about, if you also don't care about the cut) and run whatever you want to build, and my understanding is that you can install binaries off-app-store with enterprise certificates. It's just a lot more tightly controlled.
Median pay for lawyers is $120k. For doctors $210k. For senior software engineer it’s $130k.

In VHCOL areas those numbers are much higher of course.
“Dark Caracal is part of a trend we’ve seen mounting over the past year whereby traditional APT actors are moving toward using mobile as a primary target platform,” said Mike Murray, Vice President of Security Intelligence at Lookout.

Phones more reliably have info that attackers are looking for and can exploit or sell, so they are becoming/have become a more coveted target than the desktop. Payment methods, personal info, etc. It's worth pointing out Federighi is comparing Mac users (desktop) to iOS users (mobile). Plus, there are probably more iOS users out there than macOS users.

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-and-lookout-uncover-n...
Two thoughts come to mind.

1. At one time in human history, not long ago, it was mandatory to have some facility in at least a 2nd language to claim you had a higher education. Partial mastery of a 2nd language would help native English speakers "get" what it's like for the non-native people and might help them adjust there speaking style. IMHO we have allowed "higher" education in English speaking countries to devolve in this regard.

2. We might be entering an era where English begins to morph into new dialects as did Latin when it was the "Lingua Franca" of the time. The 2nd language population will overwhelm the native English speakers and so control the language.

( "Lingua Franca" is probably one of those terms that one should not use internationally, unless you are in Italy, Spain, France, Portugal or Romania) :)
>Today's average smartphone is a more general computing device than the PC 20 years ago when Microsoft had it's anti-trust case.

Can I write programs for my smartphone using my smartphone?
Super cheap battery powered hot glue gun. It just charges with a micro usb.

The kids use it for all kinds of crafts and hot glue seems to be a fairly strong but generally removable bond. And no cord seems to remove a mental block on using it.
Or are we in a tech bubble and dev jobs will be paid more reasonably when the market assigns the true value to the companies doing the hiring?
Sub micron processes were just called 0.x um. Why not do that for nm? Another fine option would be to change the unit to Angstroms. That would likely be the last unit change though.
You can deploy databases as statefulsets with helm.

Helm charts are your best friend. Instead of docker compose, you would rather use helm and add mysql, message queues are dependencies.
Fooled by Metrics (Correlation)- Taleb
Conkeror (basically Nyxt on xulrunner…exactly what the upper comment is asking about) used to be my browser of choice. It was baffling to me when they deprecated xulrunner. Like, why?

There was supposed to be an alternate way to do it (running with ‘firefox -app’ or something), but it was poorly documented and constantly breaking in new versions, so I eventually gave up.
That is true, but it is also true that the WordPress and PHP running on that ARM lambda will not be as stable as the x86 lambda if the vast majority of their developers only run x86 at home.
Do I need a human firewall in my company?
> Isn’t this a description of native vs non-native speakers in many languages?

I'd venture to guess, that only with English you can find businesses that run in English but native speakers are a minority in the company.
I came to post this. The offset ears on the bulb base are used to specify either a dual-filament bulb, such as tail lamps and brake lamps combined, or high-resistance, low-wattage parking lamps that are designed to not run down the battery while the alternator is not charging.
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Migadu dropped its free plan last year in the middle of the pandemic with just one month’s notice to customers. Businesses do need to make money, but this sudden decision with a month's notice during a perilous time was customer hostile. I can’t recommend it just for this reason.
Noob here, i don't know how to mark as "Show HN"
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3d printers are getting cheap and it’s a really fun hobby and just a generally useful item for random repairs and cheap items.
The statement "native English speakers are the world's worst communicators" is true because of the large number of English speakers in an international context, even when the average "badness" of an English speaker is no worse than of a French speaker.
> In the Before Times, she would have acquired the book through interlibrary loan. With the pandemic shutting down universities, that was no longer an option. On the wilds of the open internet, Randall tracked down a first edition from a rare book seller for $500—a hefty expense for a side project with essentially no funding. But then one of the university’s librarians came through and located a digital copy in Michigan.

I believe this was the amazing HathiTrust project. https://www.hathitrust.org/digital_library

And the book is under-copyright and the HathiTrust ebook normally publicly accessible. It was provided either by their "Emergency Temporary Access Service", or some other decision to provide an emergency/fair-use copy, in ways the publishing industry doesn't like and would like to make very illegal.

This is a pretty notable part of the story, too bad the article glossed it over.
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=Defense+Clandestine+Service

or any of the other capitalized 3 letter agencies
The race between ETH2 PoS and Cardano smart contracts (which is already PoS with fully decentralized block production) is going to be very interesting! I think both platforms could have their place and be extremely successfully, but whichever delivers first will get a nice bump for sure
> But nobody is forced to use curl?

I like curl, but this isn't true. When you're SSH-ing onto a box, you often don't have permissions to install your favorite CLI tool, and even if you do have said permissions it's inconvenient to have to install it each time you SSH onto the box (not a major inconvenience, mind you). Moreover, in many cases you need to run a script or some other software that depends directly on curl.

In general the "nobody is forced to use it" arguments rarely pan out (I remember this was a canned argument from C++ folks circa 2011: "C++ is the best language because it has every feature and if you don't like some features, you aren't forced to use them!").
I wonder where you are from, I for one really recognize this. N=1 but my native speaking colleague indeed dominates meetings. Of course personality is also a factor, but she also talks at incredible speeds in fancy ways that are almost hypnotic. It has made her our fall back when talking needs to be done. But in fact I sometimes feel that I should have conveyed a message myself because she gets the point I wanted to make slightly wrong in worrying ways.

On a different note, we always jokingly use Dutch saying in English:

* Stop stabbing the dragon with me!

* Ah there comes the monkey out of the sleeve!

Ah, well, the more cultures, the merrier!
Well yes I kind of eluded to that. It's basically gambling either way but looking at the political situation in Europe I fear any response to changing environments will be reactionary and too little too late.
Then in a few days we will see the following headline on HN: "No, You Couldn't Rewrite Curl".
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npm init harold-app my app

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Blogs, landing pages, portfolios, documentation sites - start with ready-to-use templates.
Speaking as an IRC lifer, every article I read about this fails to actually make any kind of cohesive point about what's going on and why it is bad. Explain like I'm 5 please?

Who controlled nickserv/chanserv before this Andrew fellow? It seems there is some leap to "omfg he's taking control of services!" without mention of who is /losing/ control. It seems perhaps a large chunk of story is missing here.

Meanwhile I'll probably continue using Freenode until it starts serving Viagra ads during connection or something similarly tangibly evil. Right now I just see a bunch of dumb IRC drama. It's a chat network, come on.
Maven raises $20M to scale cohort-based courses
It just looks like human nature to me.

It's fun (and good for a career) to set up 'cybercommands' and looking-through-keyhole departments with a large logistical tail. Secrety organizations are easier to fund and harder to shutdown.

I'd say that you are simply seeing the natural result of a top-heavy military with less to do than meets the eye. Feature creep is a thing, especially in a growth industry.

Ideally, the various factions that run an increasingly imperial government each have their own intelligence services or even multiple ones that are controlled via competition.
No, because although individually each use case above could be described as niche (maybe) - there’s so many different ones, in so many different industries, there’s clearly a general use case.

I’ve been a developer with 18 years commercial experience now and I’ve seen graph databases in all size businesses as I’ve travelled the world, from 1-2 person startups to huge online casinos, heck, I’m a single person startup and I have two myself, one with 200,000,000 nodes and there’s no way a traditional database could do what that system is doing (I tried with Postgres, HBase on Hadoop, and Cassandra)

Sure they are not as common as traditional DBs, but they are far from niche, that’s why (as you said in your original post) there’s so many products in this space competing - they are actually a thing, they are actually useful, and for some projects, critical.
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Exactly! Most people using CURL don't realize how good it actually is or how complicated HTTP can get.
> Also funny enough many Viners lived together in the same building so they could collaborate.

Yep, 1600 Vine St. It’s a nice apartment building with lots of YouTube (and now TikTok) stars.
The FAQ entry talks of their being a basic interface: the point is that these two engines have code that realises this interface. Other engines could also provide implementations of this interface.

I'd be pleased if a Servo hacker stepped up and did this.
As an older person who probably needs a hearing aid, I have the most problem with native English speakers not enunciating words. They go fast and run words together or mumble like Noam Chomsky. I have sympathy for ESL people trying to parse it. I always turn on subtitles if available. Also, a Brazilian friend says the don't use much sarcasm, so it gets difficult understand when English speakers use it so much to mean the opposite of what they say.
> And I admit I have no idea where the line is between a dialect, and that.

It's usually based around a combination of factor - mutual intelligibility, orthographic conventions, etc. Also, of course, "a language is a dialect with an army and navy."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a...
I like this game! Just enough thinking to make it interesting but not as brutal as most roguelikes. The ads are a bit jarring but I get it. The aesthetics are pleasing and I love the soundtrack.

I bet there are a lot of ways you can go with this including non-linear dungeons. There might be that but I haven't had a chance to play too far. This reminds me of the 3D dungeons in Phantasy Star I but with a much better twist.

One thing I noticed is that the text can be difficult to read easily sometime.

I look forward to seeing what you do with this!
I like it because it just has stupid memes and jokes, and some cool recipes and stuff - it's easy to browse for 10 minutes on a break and it feels organic.

Instagram and YouTube etc. have all become incredibly corporate with professional production studios etc. dominating the platforms - I imagine the same might happen to TikTok eventually, but at the moment you can just see a funny video someone made of their cat, and the cat isn't sponsored by SquareSpace.