skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The (early) Bond franchise played with class in a way that maybe isn't obvious to US audiences. At the time, casting Connery (a working class Scot) as Bond was roughly equivalent to casting an African American in a similar role in the US. Scottish voices were not really heard on the BBC, or any mainstream UK media. The whole premise of the early films is that he is a working-class guy who polishes up better than the toffs. This has to a greater or lesser degree been the case with the subsequent Bonds (notably Brosnan), and there have been persistent rumors that Idris Elba will be the next Bond, which would be fantastic casting and completely in keeping with the aesthetic of the franchise.
Not to mention the opposite ill-intended argument can trivially follow: "this thread is full of people disregarding the arguments against bitcoin because they are invested in it"

I agree with you. Both versions of this argument have to stop in favor of actual discussion (which, it seems, there is a good amount of in this thread)
> Unlike East Germany there's no HUMINT apparatus in the west or in China.

You are very mistaken. Just because HUMINT are more discreet does not mean it does not exist.

Also, some of the stuff they do are very blatant. Just look at cases like Assange and Jake Appelbaum. Clearly HUMINT efforts.
and you think a totalitarian government is going to let you buy crypto?

if they just shut down coinbase and robinhood and square then 99% of people will lose access.

chinas great wall blocks a lot of the internet itself. it’s delusional to think governments can’t stop crypto easily. they can even just block internet completely
Show HN: Access Lua's C-API from Lua
FWIW, Jimmy is on the board but hasn't been involved with the day-to-day for a very long time (Although I'm sure as a board member he would be involved with major decisions like budget).

I don't think its fair to call this willful hiding. I mean, they've written blog posts about this subject - https://diff.wikimedia.org/2016/01/14/wikipedia-15-foundatio... you don't write blog posts about things you're trying to hide.

Disclaimer: used to work for them, don't anymore.
I run nextcloud on my home NAS with 8TB of data. I use https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy for backups to azure blob. Strong recommendation from me, I tried so many backup solutions... including Borg, duplicity, rsync, and I don't even remember the rest anymore. Duplicacy's no database solution and support for a zillion destination options really got me.
Military stuff is garbage in general (except the heavy duty weapons) because they are provided to millions of soldiers. They have to make them as cheap as possible.
After reading the article and the comments here so far, I'm legitimately struggling to decide how I should feel about this as a long-time WMF donor. I can understand the upset and deceit people are feeling, but I am also aware of the many initiatives WMF is behind, their endowment fund usage is strictly controlled from what I understand, and as a business owner, I also deeply sympathize with the idea of having "rainy day" money but continuing to behave as if you don't.

Is there some middle ground here?
With respect, think about what you are saying. You are not going to contribute with good intentions to a public service because there are people with bad intentions contributing to it...
Interesting, am I reading it right that this ...

“ 4x Microsoft Identity Manager - 1 User CAL - Open Business (NK7-00031)”

... means to get a valid single-user LTSC license you need four Identity Manager licenses? That’s odd
Luckily Danish didn't have Huawei equipments, otherwise it wouldn't be possible. Tell me one reason Chinese is building a first world class technology company just to be found out for spying on customers and doomed to be out of business.
I love my nextcloud... but I hate its photos experience. I know there are a lot of third party photo apps that work with WebDAV, but I haven't really explored them yet. What do you use?
What wikipedia does with their banner ads is hardly worse than what NPR does or any other nonprofit for that matter. It doesn't surprise me that they are well funded. Have you ever heard of wikipedia going down?
The 1% don't WRITE, so much as things like formatting, grammar and spell correction. That is important, but it is not the writing of wikipedia.
I wouldn't spend a million dollars on a fancy-branded knife when you can get a good one for $20. Ka-bars are a dime a dozen. They're probably in every army surplus store in America.

ProTip: Odds are there are 10k bars named ka-bar or k-bar founded or operated by current or former Marines.
What? You can definitely find jobs to eat in Mexico. This is the silliest take. It's not like the villages suddenly don't have land to grow food on
The secret recipe is "polyester".
Core feature of Roblox is the ability to play together with zero friction. Everything else is just supporting infrastructure, albeit uniquely impressive.

Is Hal9 social in some way? What exactly is it that users can experience together?
Ask HN: How to help a friend going homeless with mental health problems?
Hi all,

An old friend of mine (also HN user) is having mental health issues and currently struggling with homelessness. He is a software engineer who made contributions to open source community.

When I speak to him, his reality is really different than what others see. He got no family around and friends in the same city seem to be not hosting him.

How would you help a person in this situation?
Not homebrew, but there's also the MOnSter 6502 "dis-intigrated circuit": https://monster6502.com/
First of all, the most common attack surface of most Windows PCs is Chrome. I find almost all malware in either extensions, or via misuse of Chrome features (many customers think they have malware because a spammer has been granted access to Chrome's notifications feature).

However, bear in mind, as others said, NAT isn't a security feature, it's just an annoying roadblock that helpfully makes accessing computers somewhat more difficult. However, quite a few applications on the average PC reach out and touch other services, granting malicious actors plenty of ways into a PC.

I get the hate on walled gardens, as a big antitrust supporter, but unfortunately, Windows 10's app model (universal apps) gets a bad rap because of the Microsoft Store being generally considered attached to it: UWP apps are basically the safest way to run apps, because UWP apps cannot harm other things outside of their little sandbox. And contrary to popular belief, it's entirely possible to create, distribute, and install UWP apps without the Microsoft Store. Microsoft has definitely had some missteps in both rolling out and marketing the newer app model, but it is the future.

Sandboxed applications not only provide unparalleled security, they also are incredibly stable because other apps can't tamper with them either. By being self-contained, developers can generally be confident the app will work on any machine without issue.
There are multiple ways to characterize every point you are making.

China has a long history of being the victim of foreign attacks using these routes, everything you mention is a defensive strategy to protect trade, borders, and the population from international attacks. The sabre rattling in the west doesn't help but only accelerates the push in this direction.

Han global supremacy sounds like a projection of western history rather than a reality. Reconnecting trade routes and rebuilding infrastructure in the destroyed empires of Asian history has many positive outcomes for the whole region. I don't we can wave away the feelings of billions of people pulled out of poverty by Chinese economic action.

>'something something aboriginals in USA'

I don't think we should compare the genocide/robbery of ~100 million natives in the Americas to the Uyghur/Turkic extremism/terrorism/separatism issue in Western China being solved without a military conflict. The brand of Islam (Saudi Wahabism) they now practice and the military training they received from ISIS/AlQ in US controlled parts of Syria/Iraq was/is part of a US strategy to destabilize China for the purpose of regime change. To now call it 'Xinjiang/Uyghur genocide' as many do, rather than a US intelligence led operation to disrupt trade/infrastructure expansion into western Asia is a dishonest characterization.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-mideast-crisis-syria-chin...
It was sarcasm. Just tired of addicts shooting up and hassling me as I walk down the street, as well as attempting to sexually assault my friends.
By that logic, if the run rate > earnings on endowment... fundraise?
> they can basically only use the interest of that money

That's even more of a problem if you do not support such scheme to extort money from the working classes.
They may also want to consider using a VPN. It makes for a much better Olympic viewing experience, and it can be done with a variety of devices.
They will exclude you from the "buy box", which "effectively" locks you out. (That's how I got it from thr article)
I feel like we've already seen this pan out once. Mozilla received a large payment from Google for many years for making Google Search the primary search engine in Firefox. They used that money to pay large salaries, launch a dozen side projects (none of which ever achieved anything like the success of Firefox) and aim for lofty goals much like Wikimedia is doing here. Now the money's drying up (because Firefox's market share is dwindling) and Mozilla are having to cut staff, including staff who work on Firefox development, to survive.

It's less obvious what would cause Wikipedia's money to dry up, but in light of Mozilla's example the only part of this I disagree with is the article's negative angle on the endowment. Creating an endowment like that is exactly what Mozilla should have done.
I don’t think I’ve actually met anyone in real life that doesn’t believe that it’s better to challenge yourself and not always take the most comfortable option.

That’s why people brag about waking up at five and hiking up a mountain before breakfast, and that’s why we have all those sayings, which obviously don’t apply to heart attacks.

But maybe it’s a cultural thing, it seems a lot of Americans aren’t ashamed of driving 3 blocks to the store to get milk.
So is the notion that non-profit should pay their execs millions.
since when hackernews became a platform for pharma to promote drugs?
The article mentions both the endowment ($100M) and also WMF's funds on hand ($300M?). So the main point is still valid.

Wikipedia's fundraising strongly implies that they need your $3 to keep the site online.

WMF has $400M which would be enough to keep the site online for up to 40 years with no further donations.

Thus, their fundraising is misleading and deceptive. I bet 9 in 10 donators won't donate if they knew WMF has $400 million in the bank -- isn't it morally wrong if you paint a deceptive picture of your finances?
Khashoggi was casually murdered by the Saudis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khash...
>This is relevant because $120k + bonus/benefits is basically a FAANG new grad. Fairly normal for SV tech companies.

There were a few post on HN recently about fresh grad asking for / being paid $200K and anything lower they felt they were feeling lowballed.

For those of us outside US we could never quite grasp whether something is true or not. Salary across the pond is just incomprehensible.
I always seem to get a boot prints on the books I buy on Amazon. I don’t really buy from Amazon any more but the amount of boot prints I’ve received over the years is a lot!

The latest book I ordered came unbelievably spotless. It was about $4 AUD including shipping for a book that would usually cost me $50+ shipping from USA (it was sheet music) so I was very happy. The original delivery date they gave me was delusional so I paid it no mind when it passed. Two days after it, I get an email saying they’re refunding me $3 for the inconvenience, and my spotless book arrived the next day. Three days late is a rounding error in postage delivery timelines where I live. I’m still bewildered by the whole experience to be honest, but hey, almost free expensive sheet music book. Definitely low risk for that purchase.
> Once "crime" gets bad enough, the state begins to lose its monopoly on force, and I'm not sure it is possible to recover from that.

Exactly, it's the old hobbes-ian dilemma, you need a "Leviathan" to hold said monopoly on force no matter what, otherwise you risk sinking into a civil war situation.
Just wait till the ransomware crowd migrates to these things.
> Like, sure, NFTs hypothetically make it so that ownership of Top Shots can persist regardless of whether the company that operates it survives.

They don't confer copyright or licensing or anything at all other than a URL. This means it would be illegal to build a site that displays such content, and it would get instantly DMCA'd into oblivion.

My issuing an NFT of the Mona Lisa is basically me grabbing a museum map from the Louvre, circling the Mona Lisa on it, signing my name, then selling that map to you for big money. The map doesn't given you a license to display the Mona Lisa. It's just a set of instructions re: how to find it alongside my signature. If they move the painting to a new location, it gets stolen, destroyed, or the Louvre is shut down - well, tough. And anyone can do it, with any map of the Louvre.

> Consider it to be like an event ticket that is respected in an entire ecosystem of different companies.

Event tickets have one issuer and one point of redemption. Generally, Ticketmaster is on both sides (they own the issuance via Ticketmaster and they own the redemption side - the venues - via Live Nation). It's not in their interest as a business to relinquish even the tinies bit of control.
A lot of fuss has been made about this graph: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Editor_Retention_Upd...

Roughly, English Wikipedia hit its editor peak around 2007 and has been very slowly declining since then. Various people argue about various causes. Theories I've heard include wikipedia becoming too rule heavy, to community just not scaling past that point, to the internet being a lot more interesting now then it was in 2007 so more distractions, community being mean/troll-filled now, everyone using mobile phones which are crap for writing long form content, all the easy to write articles are written, etc (Probably missed some).
> none of which ever achieved anything like the success of Firefox

Hi, let me introduce you to this weird newfangled language called Rust... /s
this is why I dont use Windows.
> Regions with an early interest in face masks had milder COVID-19 epidemics, according to a new letter-to-the-editor published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. (the source of the Science Daily article: https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1164/rccm.202004-1188...)

I don't see how this is much less scientific than the non-peer-reviewed paper you posted.
I can run tmate in my laptop and a teammate can join.
> At the very least everyone should have equal access to Wikipedia

Google & co are very clearly monetizing (either directly or indirectly) their integration, WMF might as well get something out of it.

Though, this discussion might be going the "BSD vs GPL" direction...
> Perhaps you were banned for upvoting your own content from another account? This will result in a ban for both accounts. If not, it could be a number of other reasons that have nothing to do with cancellation or governmental criticism.

To be quite honest, there used to be a time in my life where I would've cared about getting up voted and having a popular opinion, but I don't think I've cared enough to cheat the system.

Nowadays, I tried to discern what is or isn't propaganda and I sometimes commented on days-old threads.
No, that's what the CIA is for. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_coca...
Count yourself lucky then. I've tried to work with TDD cult members and it was one of the worst experiences of my professional life. A good sign that people have moved into the cult is when they start saying that people who are not using TDD are "unprofessional" or produce "shit" code.
Short term it does kind of look like they have now money than they need and it may seem a little disingenuous, but I'm not sure that they amassing a large pool of money to ensure for their survival for the long term is all bad. They provide an invaluable tool to the world that allows anyone from anywhere to easily learn about anything. I would say that they are doing a great service to the world by ensuring their existence in perpetuity and that only focusing on securing funding for the short term would be incredibly short sighted and negligent.
Holy moley, thanks for the heads up! Your comment should be the top comment, given the business of business which for us non-US citizens still requires often interacting with the said polity!

Also - US, hello? That kind of sucks. Tourism would be a great way to integrate these areas more to the "western" spheres of business (I'm not saying that is a valuable value as such, I take no sides, but I presume US would consider this still advantageous to it's positioning).

When I read this news I immediately thought I could go and visit the ruins of Babylon (yes, I can go and see pieces of it museums in non-ESTA-nulling places but it's not the same thing). Now - ancient babylon vs. ESTA privileges? Oh man, choices, choices.
“Your business runs on GCP? Bad luck.”

Luck has nothing to do with it. That’s bad planning. Really bad.
Miele makes a large, deluxe unit with 2 dials. I like it. https://www.mieleusa.com/e/built-in-microwave-oven-m-6040-sc...
Common Resume Mistakes and Misconceptions
Humans do this when they are extremely poor and must survive poverty by themselves and then, an organization (criminal, by the way) starts to take care of them.

Care is materialized by revenue here, but imho, what is important is that those organizations won by giving those people a future the government failed to provide.
Thanks for the answer! I'm not afraid to share more specific info just thought that moders would decide that it's spam :) Actually, I've built MVP in A/B testing area for landing sites. I target on USA market to aspiring entrepreneurs and small businesses. I had launch on Product Hunt and it was nice (226 upvotes) but people didn't stay long on my SaaS. I've decided to simplify subscription plan (just one tariff and 14 days of trial) and I've added site tour. After that I don't know efficient channel of new visitors to validate my improvements. Still not sure that it's ok to leave here direct link on this site to don't be look like ads. Just let me know if you wonder. Thanks for any your advices. I really believe in the potential of this market and my product really helpful.
How is this different than a missile that is programmed to hit a specific target and computer-guided to its target. We don't tell to call missiles drones, while quadcopters are, but in essence there's not much difference, and the former has existed for a long time.
25C is something you set your thermostat to at home. Well, it would be 77F, which is the same.

(note: Florida Man Sets Thermostat)
How is that different from screen -x?
Perhaps you are assuming some kind of inherent humananity in the chain of command that doesn't always exist. The further away from the conflict the easier it is to make inhumane decisions that serve your own betterment. Remember that it's not just your country and leader that gets the drones.

Human operated drones have long been criticized for dehumanizing conflict which allows for escalating harm and harming unnecessary targets without issue.

Similarly war atrocities are somewhat limited to what you can convince your army to do. Not so with drones, they won't revolt and they won't tell the news either.

Perhaps it would be nice if conflict was just drones versus drones, but that is unlikely. War doesn't happen where you all arrive to battle in a field somewhere, it will be drones flooding towns and human combatants and civilians all in the mix.
Former National Security Advisor Encourages Military Coup in USA
Are you saying HN doesn’t log IPs?

@dang, you don’t?
Why Mexico or Colombia should care about exporting drugs? As you say, it could be a net win for them.

Instead of that we see a state of war in the country, because the pressures of the "big bad USA" and their "war on drugs". I suppose it's easier to have a war when the deaths are in other countries.
But this specific article is dated in November 2020.
Putting a word in quotes achieves the same effect nowadays
Are you a Chinese agent?
Pepsi Number Fever
FYI, you can play a nice implementation of this game online for free at BoardGameArena.com:

https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=mapmaker

(Note: as with most games on BGA there's no AI/solo mode -- you'd be playing against other players).
Noyb aims to end “cookie banner terror” and issues more than 500 GDPR complaints
Thanks for confiming this.

How else can someone praise C++/WinRT versus the capabilities of C++/CX, which was finally something on the Microsoft side that could be compared with C++ Builder.

Sure it is an uplevel from WRL, however almost no one outside Redmod ever cared that WRL existed.

The only way to consider C++/WinRT on its present state as good is if the person in question never knew anything better, including MS own tooling.
Years later I still run into people not aware of the semantics and the difference between a disease being an aerosol and a disease being airborne. Which smacks of poor communication.
Toyota does the same
Maybe a Nextcloud instance would match your requirenments. It allows sharing to users or externals via an URL and it has a not too bad UI + Apps.
You can quickly provide a shared session connection to an external third party, so they can access computers that are not publicly accessable and that they normally would not have access to without having to do any credential management.

It's great for tech support.

tty-share is also good https://tty-share.com/
Africa has another unicorn as Chipper Cash raises $100M Series C led by SVB
But the arguments and the edit history are public.

Better than any other site where the pov is decided by who has the most money
I'm sure Tokyo Disneyland sounded extremely unlikely forty years before it opened.
Teaching the Iliad to Chinese teenagers (2021)
Required reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...
Ah, much clearer. Thank you for taking the time to go into detail.
You are referring to the 2007 Chinese anti-satellite missile test, during which the Chinese FY-1C weather satellite was intentionally destroyed by a "kinetic kill vehicle".

But FY-1C was at an orbit height of 865 kilometres, and the ISS orbits at less than half that altitude.

It's not impossible for debris to have reached the ISS, but it is unlikely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_mi...
Before his leak, even people in IT doubted mass government surveillance.

For about a year after the leak, people were asking for proof.

Now it's inverted, so that most people think he's credible, and require proof if somebody starts throwing the "debunked" word around.

Funnily enough, just like the corona lab leak theory. :)
Have you considered your criticism might apply at the least equally, if not more so, to others?