skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Authored two blog posts on this recently:

"Did you know there are less than 2100 people in the inner GitHub open-source maintainer community? I often wonder what the future would look like if these high achievers that our digital society is built upon were empowered to become independent artists."

https://www.gitpod.io/blog/devxconf-wrap and https://www.gitpod.io/blog/gitpod-open-source-sustainability...
Other reasons I might speculate about are just as uncharitable. Such as, they have no understanding of microeconomics as applied to a good with inelastic demand. Or they just read the first sentence and down voted and moved on.

At best I think one could argue I phrased things such that it rubbed people the wrong way. Possibly the last comment about politicians.
I've been using this product for a month now, in production for my startup. It's been helpful with my secrets but my favorite use case is using it instead for endpoint storage for service discovery across my dev, staging, and prod phases. I really like the flag-based approach to jump easily between dev, staging, and prod without any code changes. Also works nicely with my PaaS (Zeet), and the Garnet team has been impressively responsive with integration guides and feature requests. It's worth checking out.
The UK left, sure. But Ireland still exists
It's hard to say but somehow it feels to me that English is the language of "the competition" (the US). It might feel anecdotal to many people, but language is a powerful tool. It's how so many French people consume so many US series and music (and btw we are probably one of the country which are the most protective on this). And https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/opinion/france-cnews-amer...

It's not by chance that many invaders tend to force their language to country they invade (the French being no exception, they did both in former colonies and in our own current territory during the French revolution - that's actually a very hot topic currently in France, as some "immersive teaching" of regional languages were found unconstitutional a few days ago)

And well, I'd rather be more German than more American. But I'm one of those who feel more EUropean than french, so maybe that's why :)
And the pronunciation. All those inconsistencies are a minefield. Now I'm off eating some Ghoti.
This from the link you shared:

> Someone using a Gmail account sends an email to a ProtonMail account. When it arrives at ProtonMail, our servers can read that email because Gmail does not support end-to-end encryption. However, after receiving the email, we encrypt it immediately using the ProtonMail account owner’s public encryption key. Afterwards, we are no longer able to decrypt the message.

It's noted that they can potentially read it but they encrypt it right away. I'm not saying that they have the functionality to read it in that step, I'm saying they could add it if they chose to. It's their code, after all.

> I guess if you're not going to trust anyone (and personally I'd trust ProtonMail based on their honest blog posts, security responses and response to security blog posts criticising their work) then you'd want to self-host. But I'd argue at that point email isn't the solution you're looking for.

I think you're reading too much into my post. I'm saying that the potential exists for the provider to read the messages, simply because email is a plaintext protocol (outside of things like GPG and S/MIME which I insinuated but didn't actually mention). I do, however, agree with you that if you don't want to trust anyone than other solutions would be more beneficial.
Apple just announced this as a feature for FaceTime at WWDC (though not out until the fall, which seems poorly timed). I’ve wondered for the past year why no major conferencing software has implemented that.
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That one looks familiar. Though apparently the same thing has been tried in several different ways going by the replies I got.
It’s telling me I should short SPY and go long GameStop and AMC… Sounds suicidal to me.
> you are smart enough to know that you don't borrow to purchase a depreciating asset. If you don't have the cash to buy a new car, buy used.

This is nonsense. If you can borrow money for less than you can earn, you should borrow. I know people who, buying a new car, had saved cash to do so. But they got 0% financing. So even sticking that money in a CD made them more cash.

What you mean to say is "if you do not realize that you are paying a lot of money for the use of a new car, not for an asset"
The US is the largest oil producer in the world.
The battleship vs carrier debate, as we understand it today, is incomplete.

Carriers won over battleships in the 1930s, because of strike distance.

Carriers won in the 1950s+ because they were the more upgradeable platform.

If you built a battleship in 1945, and then developed a better cannon or missile in 1955, what were your options?

If you built a carrier in 1945, and then developed better aircraft and armaments for them in 1955, you retooled your carrier air groups. The 4 Ohio class SSBN -> SSGN conversions are the same lesson.

It's expensive to build a new boat. It's cheaper to put new things on a boat (of the right size / shape).

Following that logic, the conclusion is to invest in robust, large drone delivery vehicles (aircraft or missiles), that allow for simpler, iterable micro-drone development.
The irony here is that English is widely spoken mainly because it is the dominant language in America, a superpower where people resolutely refuse to learn any other languages.

Even if France's motivations are purely nationalistic, it's really no different or worse than how we arrived at the status quo.
What are some of the fields where this is changing?
In my personal opinion the international community could do something like modify the Berne Convention/TRIPS (international copyright agreements signed by almost every country/WTO members respectively) to exclude copyright of academic papers.

The property rights in question are not natural rights, nor material rights. Sufficient political will seems like it could do it.

Finding politicians in power who will support human progress before profits might be hard! [/understatement]
The Keystone XL permit was originally denied, then (illegally) approved by Executive Order. The nature of Executive Orders is that they can be, and frequently are, tossed out by the next guy in office. This isn't a big secret, so I don't have a ton of sympathy for anyone who "spent billions laying pipes" under a permit granted by EO. If they wanted a lower risk of losing everything, they should've waited for the standard permit process, instead of gambling on the EO and that Trump would win another term.
Fair point, though there are some benefits:

- The "hit" comes from the resolver rather than your own IP. So long as there's no referrer pass-through of personal information, your location is minimised.

- Such links often come through other social media, in my case, rather than email. In the specific case of email this practice is of little use in protecting privacy. However if you're sanitising links pulled off social media shares or the like, you're at least preventing downstream contamination.

- Another practice is to randomly scramble any visible identifiers. This presumes longer URLs, rather than shortened ones.

- In practice, I scrub any "utm-medium" or similar URI attributes as a matter of course. URLEX is helpful for expanding shortened links ... which I've not encountered so much in email, though truth be told, I've largely abandoned email for numerous reasons, the present topic included.
Take your audience into account, and consider multiple options to cover most of it with least effort, eg. have rss feed and also a twitter/mastodon bot for people who don't use rss. Having rss/atom feed would also work as a primary data source, which other toos/feed can use (eg. a twitter bot).
Postfix has a similar note:

> NOTE: By turning on TLS support in Postfix, you not only get the ability to encrypt mail and to authenticate remote SMTP clients or servers. You also turn on hundreds of thousands of lines of OpenSSL library code. Assuming that OpenSSL is written as carefully as Wietse's own code, every 1000 lines introduce one additional bug into Postfix.

http://www.postfix.org/TLS_README.html
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That used to make sense in the early days of Smartphone era. Precisely because Digital have zero variable cost for each additional goods. And Apple wasn't very straight with those rules. They only enforce it on Software and Games, not services.

Now everything goes through your Smartphone. And the idea, to quote what Apple has been saying in court, they need to recoup those API cost. As they are using their API, they want a cut. Since the Apps for both Physical and Digital goods uses those API, and Digital Goods doesn't necessary use those API for creation. ( e.g I use Windows to create ), why are they only charging Digital Goods and not Physicals?

The only reason why Apple charges 30% of Digital Goods is because they know Digital Goods have zero replication cost. The cost of an additional Digital Goods is essentially zero, they want 30% of it. And Physical goods have basic unit cost. So they are charging base on the product margin. And this was clear in the Wordpess case, once they look at domain name registration where the whole industry is basically operating with 0% margin. Apple decide to put an exemption on it.

Then became a question, how did we arrive at 30% in the first place? If you look at Amazon Web Store, they have different percentage rate for different product? Why? Because they is how the market have worked over the years. They are basing the commission on current market rate / margin. Just like your Super Market has different margin for different product.

Ever since Apple decided on their Doubling Services Revenue by 2020, they have chased down every single 30% services. It is sad how much good faith they have burned.
This horse seems to have left the barn. A significant portion of politically engaged people in the US and other countries will never believe electronic voting is legtimate again. Interesting that Bruce Schneier is a co-author, and the paper seems timed to be positioned for a reckoning about the integrity of those systems, and perhaps a justification of them because an election with physical integrity could have had problematic results.
The pipeline wasn't for public use, so I don't think talking about public infrastructure applies here.
Is there really a shortage of tech jobs caused by open source projects?
The foreign sector does not invest in China. Chinese invest in China as they have no other place to invest. Now it should become clear why the whole world wants to park their money in the U.S. Things like rule of law and respect for property rights are more precious than gold, and just as rare.
> Since widely-publicized OSS work can be a prerequisite for top jobs, it often isn't really a "free choice."

Which top jobs require you to be a widely-publicized OSS author?

I've only ever heard this to be a plus (which I believe is fair), not a requirement.
So we have massive economic problems, some states on the verge of bankruptcy, a lost generation in Southern Europe, a currency under constant attack, autocratic tendencies and overall differences on social issues in the East, an immigration crisis from Africa and the Near East, threats to the sovereignity of neighbouring countries, literal slums in Rumania and Bulgaria. We are losing the economic battle against the US and China, the militiary one against Russia. We cannot convince either of those to do anything meaningful against climate change.

Apparently we can now add an infantility problem to the list.
You're talking about webm right?
I hope there are not a lot of folks running the kinds of configurations that are vulnerable here.
The book Brain Rules by John Medina is worth checking out for some suggestions on possible answers. I don't think science has definitive answers yet but if I remember correctly it's thought that the circuits involved in what the brain learned during the day are active during certain sleep stages which helps with consolidation of memory due to strengthening of connections involved. It's 10 years since I've read into this but I think the biology involved was that oligodendrocytes lay down thicker myelin on axons that are active, resulting in faster/stronger connections in the circuits involved. There's also inhibitory actions of established networks which have to be overcome by new circuits which takes sustained 'attack' over time. If the inhibition didn't happen the previously learned activities would turn noisy very quickly so there's a tradeoff between learning speed and maintenance of high fidelity signal for existing pathways in the brain. I guess the brain has evolved to accept new networks from actions that are repeated and thought about repeatedly because these generally are important whereas stuff that is thought about only once probably isn't.
> The difference between corporate debt and government debt is corporate debt is backed by assets, which is not inflationary.

If this were true corporations would never become insolvent. The role of CDOs and CDSs in the 2008 crisis made it abundantly clear how corporate debt can be inflationary. But we knew that beforehand from previous crises in the 19th and early 20th century when unwinding corporate debt and restoring liquidity was handled (if at all) almost entirely in the smokey parlors of the private sector by titans like J. P. Morgan. See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907 More generally, see Lords of Finance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lords_of_Finance), an historical account of early 20th century international banking which swept up numerous history and economics awards. (It was coincidence that it was published amidst the 2008 crisis. IIRC nothing in the book mentions it except possibly a foreword.)
What's interesting about this person's meta opinion?
Entertaining read. I enjoyed the dialogue-like banter. Nice write up!
Granted, my experience with French is rather limited and the language could be pretty consistent internally. But there's lots of utter madness such as "beacoup" which is literally "buku".

Sorry for being blunt but pronouncing 50% of the letters is extremely non phonetical. There's just no other way of putting it
The more fossil fuel infrastructure we build out, the harder it will be to make the transition to clean energy. Adding costs to fossil fuels is not a bad thing.
I think permissive licenses lack any pushback against proprietary network effects, and therefore are subsumed by them. One of the goals of the GPL is to cultivate a network effect of its own, to counter that of proprietary software. It's not that permissive licenses are better suited to become popular, but that they represent support of the proprietary status quo.
That's an awesome idea & project, but mightn't it feel jarringly like being surrounded by people talking at you?

I think I'd at least want them all in the, say, central 160deg in front of me. At which point I wonder how good the 'spatialisation' is, how many people could be meaningfully supported.

Because you can't just have alternate speakers spaced out for maximal distinction - the same speaker suddenly coming from somewhere else would be even more jarring.

Really cool though.
A seller accepts $x because they are betting they cannot sell at $x+1 at whatever scale they want to sell at.

A buyer gives $x because they are betting they cannot buy at $x-1 at whatever scale they want to buy at.
My giant switch leverages the bit patterns :)

My emulator passes the Klaus2m functional suite and my Apple ][ emulator is able to run quite a few protected games.
this gives me energy
Would you mind expanding on this? How do wireguard and zerotier compare to each other?
You are helping how?
If you are big enough the chance of getting hit by this diminishes and if you do get hit you can make a deal (like Amazon does) to pay less. Rules are for plebs and apps Apple think it might copy some day.
Do you trust the Kenney government to diversify properly? All we've seen so far is them waste a bunch of money on Hydrogen.
Alternative: phase out oil. Also solves those problems.
Yeah, I note that these kinds of spammy comments used to always mention Texas.

Now I note they don't mention Texas quite so much, anymore.
You contradict yourself arguing that the government should be able to revoke any permit, and then saying, don't invest in projects with permits which can be revoked.

Any project can be 'controversial' depending on who is in power. The real pragmatic answer is that the government should be liable for investments lost by revoking a permit.
'Swishing' in their lungs? I've never heard of that, how does someone even do that?
Sadly, archive.is is blocked in some countries

For a smaller, simpler, Javascript-free, ad-free page

curl https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/if-you-sell-a-house-these-days-the-buyer-might-be-a-pension-fund-11617544801 \
|grep -Eo "(<p.*<\/p>)|(<h[12].*</h[12]>)|(<a href=.[^{].*</a>)" \
|tr -cd '[ -~]' > 1.htm
firefox ./1.htm
Correct. Yet, it 'would be nice' if there were some toolchain that ran on all of those. Arduino environment is the closest thing today, I think. For what it is, it's not bad.
This was posted only 14 days ago, with 521 upvotes, 319 comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27287912
> No need to waste money on a lease. Just buy a used Toyota at effectively 30-50% the cost of that lease you're getting.

The poster made it clear that he knows there are cars out there in the 50% range of the cost of his lease, but still thinks it's worth leasing. He said he believed the reliability (and presumably warranty) and improved style were worth it.

Which is fine. He's making a reasonable choice.
Absolutely. We should be exploring ways to financially disadvantage refineries and fueling stations as well. Have to find every weak point in fossil infra to exploit towards a failure mode. This drives the cost up, making electrified options (that don’t emit carbon) more competitive sooner.
I love French, but I think Spanish would be the best choice. After English.
Flemish is not a language, it's a dialect. The language is Dutch.
> Oil is all going to get transported by rail or truck.

... which is more expensive than transporting by pipeline, thus increasing the cost of oil, cutting the development of marginally-viable oil exploration projects, and hastening the point at which it is uncompetitive with renewables and killed. This is working exactly as intended.
"Amazon and Patreon doesn't get hit with a 30% tax. Why do we?" would be less disingenuous.
And Linux is much more sensible than Esperanto. It is also very eurocentric, which would be ok in this context. But it really is mostly just romance/germanic language based, slavic and other languages are basically ignored.
try living in one. they are great maybe from age 24-29. they typically cost more than a mortgage in my area. you don't talk to people when you are that close. I find the greater the distance between neighbors the better the relationship.
> I write most often in english because nobody reads french compared to english

The irony.
"Don't be evil.*"

*certain exceptions apply
There are alternate ways to get software on those platforms. There isn’t on Apple mobile devices.
But how do we get the prices? If I tell you the at-the-money front-month call is $1000 will you tell me the vol is 100pa?
Taking what you said at face value - this doesn't give an advantage to either system when it comes to the minority of people who have complex health problems. In practice, European private healthcare is likely to have more price transparency and cheaper costs due to the pricing of procedures and medical consumables having been negotiated/capped by a government agency or an independent body.
At the least, a log hit from a different IP, I suppose. They're right, I totally forgot to mention the unshortener services, which are what I actually mostly use my Python routine (shared upthread) on. It's largely for self-amusement, admittedly.

For the Google links, I actually use an extension to automatically restore the original URL links.
> The modern GUI, as we understand it, can be attributed almost entirely to the work of Douglas Engelbart.

Sketchpad by Ivan Sutherland was released in 1963, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad. The NORAD/SAGE display systems which had light pens as pointing devices were even older.
The lack of productivity in the conversation comes from voices like yours which compromise themselves internally before even facing the opposing side.

Obviously if all oil companies magically shutdown today human society would be cataclysmically affected. That would never going to happen short of a "Childhood's End" style alien invasion. Any change, even with extreme external pressure, would be gradual.

That's why one must always advocate for the position purely and without compromise. Shut down this pipeline, shut down the next one that comes up. Etc etc.

"Reasonable" perspectives have not helped the planet at all in the past 50 years.

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EDIT:

One more thought, let's consider how EFFECTIVE the oil industry has been. Continuous profits, continuous increase in production, great subsidies. How did they do this?

Well, for one thing, they knew about global warming was caused by burning fossil fuels decades before admitting it publicly. They argued from the strongest framing of their position: "fossil fuels don't cause global warning so nothing should change"

It's only in the past decade or so that they put on a face of caring about renewables. That's because public pressure grew enough that the strongest portrayal of their side was acting like they're already doing everything they can.

Moral of the story, if you want to be affective don't compromise. The benefit of caring about the environment is at least we don't have to lie about our side, just boldly state truths and what should happen.
> or a nearly-complete nuclear power plant.

Nah, that would never happen.

"Construction of the plant at Zwentendorf, Austria was finished but the plant never entered service. The start-up of the Zwentendorf plant, as well as the construction of the other 2 plants, was prevented by a referendum on 5 November 1978, in which a narrow majority of 50.47% voted against the start-up."

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwentendorf_Nuclear_Power_Pl...
How does the gold standard in any way prevent fractional reserve banking, since fractional reserve banking predates moving off the gold standard?
It's worth remembering that in addition to not being one of the two historic mainland European powers whose languages happen to be the other working languages of the EU (and therefore unlikely to be jostling for supremacy in a post-Brexit EU), Ireland has been famously neutral during its existence as an independent nation. So I don't see what the problem is with characterising English as a "neutral" language in this context.
> When your app has revenues of $100M a month, let's see if you think Apple is providing you $30M worth of value.

Lol they just told you they think it's reasonable!

Why bother asking for someone’s opinion if we're just going to berate them for it?

I think the Apple cut is justified because Apple provide the best platform. If someone can provide a better platform for a smaller cut people would move to it.
Largest password data breach in history has been leaked online
Please see the response on your other comment regarding the Vault comparison.
why would i give a fuck about the big players ? their paying 30M allows other to have high quality of service for close to nothing.

They can always go away from iOS it they think it is not a fair deal. No one is pointing a gun to their head.
Wider adoption results in a healthier ecosystem. Also, don't forget that most of FOSS developers are employed somewhere and surely they want to use FOSS at their jobs.