skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember the internet before social media. I don’t think we would be worse of if Facebook prevented people from commenting on posts, I think we would be better of.

What you are describing is the dream scenario for me.

It’s not free speech when it has no consequences, because the consequence of total free speech has proven to make every reasonable voice leave. This is exactly why the comments on political social media posts are so terrible that neither you or I bother to read them.
> he would be instantly cancelled if youtube and facebook and twitter (and spotify) all decided to ban his content. but short of that he’s fine

His metrics would take a tumble but he’d end up being the big draw to another platform as soon as he published to it. Word would get around and he’d have a big audience again. I would be surprised if he didn’t have something up his sleeve already.
This is ProPublica, specialized on emotion-driven hit pieces, what do you expect?
That is the part that upsets me the most - there are no viable alternatives. Linux I can get by with, but it's a huge compromise on all fronts except the terminal experience. Windows is obviously out of the question completely.
Somewhat related: I would really like some sort of OS-wide flag informing all apps and websites that, yes, I understand what a hyperlink is, it is not necessary to warn me when I click one that it will take me to a website.
Well, of course. This is the way it is in much of the world already.
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Consider etesync, which offers client side encrypted Card/CalDAV.

You can still use Purelymail for mail, and have your mail client provide a cohesive mail/contacts/calendar UI.
I don't get how that's relevant? I can consider legalising X good and also consider it bad when more people in the society become addicted to X. That's not an inconsistent view.
Same thing happened to me too. I prepared myself for a year or so by replacing everything with an equivalent open-source project. Taught myself Vim so I could use those bindings in editors instead of the standard Apple ones. Then I made the switch, and it was pretty seamless.
Good luck with CalDAV - it's pretty hairy! I do recommend joining CalConnect if you have the budget for it - you get access to a lot of experts there. Or at least show up to the calsify mailing list at IETF, we're pretty friendly there too. The edge cases in Calendaring are a right pain.
Throwing Rust under the bus...?

I don't think that anyone really could do that. I am chuckling as I am writing this.
Location: Sydney, Australia

Remote: Australia only

Willing to relocate, Australia only; otherwise contact me when my country decides it's serious about the vaccine

Technologies: predominantly python/DevOps pipelines,cloud-infrastructure with experience in the opensource GIS/spatial stack, excited to learn new technologies
Resume: slightly outdated but available on request, >5 years experience out of tertiary CompSci degree

Email: Alex@s@Vincent.gmail@com (replace @s with "." and vice-versa)

Red flags; mental health (depression), if you're still reading you might be a good fit. I'd thrive on a solid team foundation (which I understand is really blood difficult to do whilst adhering to all the demands of a business). I have good days and bad days, an inner perfectionist streak which means I'll drive for a great solution but will need a bit of autopilot drudge during the off days.

Again to be blunt, I need to get better at setting fair work boundaries, in multiple contexts I've let myself get taken advantage of leading to burn out and leaving past companies. If you have a humane outlook on the workplace and are happy to see compounding returns in workplace co-investment I really would appreciate the contact.

I also understand that there will be others here selling themselves much better, so all the best.
Postal Address Verification for Optimized Logistics and Retail Delivery
Yeah app stores generally don’t allow for downloading code like that.
Show HN: July 4th QR Code Generator
well there are checks to see if your ip address is blocked as spam. even then you can just ask your vps provider for giving you a fresh one.
Reminds me of WAP phones.
Not OP, but also building a similar user system. I can totally understand the motivation to not use the internal SSO. With most companies I know, as soon as you actually connect to their private datasources, you have to do some extra steps to prove how you're securing your platform. This makes sense from the companies perspective, but also introduces a huge technical and organizational overhead for the startup which might be better spend elsewhere if your product does not absolutely rely on SSO
I’m not saying the platforms shouldn’t ban people for breaking their rules, I’m saying that they should be consistent and not just apply their rules when it is convenient for them to do so.

I use Trump as an example because it’s the example everyone knows. I personally think that he should have been banned when he first broke the rules, but since he wasn’t, then he shouldn’t have been banned at all.

I’m calling for more moderation, but for it to be removed from the hands of a few tech billionaires and put into the hand of the public. Is the social media platforms cannot do this, then I fully support the EU route or making them illegal.

I don’t see that as a free speech issue, as long as we democratically agree on it within the EU because the internet is still there and politicians have, as you point out, campaigned without Facebook. What I do see as a free speech issue is when a very select few non-EU billionaires can dictate who says what and when they do it on their platforms. That’s the most anti-democratic threat we face in the EU right now.
I can only quote https://morrick.me/archives/9368

=== start quote ===

The utter user-interface butchery happening to Safari on the Mac is once again the work of people who put iOS first. People who by now think in iOS terms. People who view the venerable Mac OS user interface as an older person whose traits must be experimented upon, plastic surgery after plastic surgery, until this person looks younger. Unfortunately the effect is more like this person ends up looking… weird.

These people look at the Mac’s UI and (that’s the impression, at least) don’t really understand it. Its foundations come from a past that almost seems inscrutable to them. Usability cues and features are all wrinkles to them. iOS and iPadOS don’t have these strange wrinkles, they muse. We must hide them. We’ll make this spectacular facelift and we’ll hide them, one by one. Mac OS will look as young (and foolish, cough) as iOS!

=== end quote ===

Screw the unification
>This is virtually every retail store out there... Retail never has enough staff and never has enough time or payroll to clean.

Definitely true to some extent everywhere, and a serious problem for retail in general, but

>Go into a non-supercenter Walmart in the average town.

Picking Walmart specifically seems disingenuous. They are notorious for their staffing problems, and were the go-to example of a bad retail job before Amazon started hogging the bad press.

Dollar General in particular is also one of the store that I kept seeing on social media during the pandemic with signs whining that "no one wants to work" while nearby business owners would chime in and say, "I've had no issues getting staff, I'm just willing to pay a competitive wage and not treat my employees like dirt". Anecdotally, it seems like Dollar General is specifically worse to work for than your average retail chain.
I think it’s genius, but evil. Like you say, real email addresses have all been pwned so this is a way to test for bogus or typo’d email addresses.

What a way to ruin a wonderful thing! Abusing the haveibeenpawned service in this way has worried me enough that I’ve now gone and removed my data from the publicly searchable database. I’ll use the notification service instead.
A.k.a. 3270?
True, but app stores also don’t generally allow for what is described here either, as it would allow airBnB to change their app retrospectively to something that breaks the rules.

(I appreciate that they did actually allow it this time, but it does seem against their own rules)
I have so many questions … main one being in a world where “free” is synonymous with privacy violation, is there something I should be concerned about here?

Are they making money some how?

Who?

I’m just so blown away by this, but such a jaded old cynic I’m not sure if there isn’t a way this will be used to hack my email or eavesdrop on my noises or something …
>he would be instantly cancelled if youtube and facebook and twitter (and spotify) all decided to ban his content.

You saying he would be cancelled if he got cancelled?
New windows is more like Windows + Linux in one device so dunno if it'll be out of question for most folks who see how apple is killing macos :)
I just want to thanks for the service, I just need email for my personal stuffs and after hassles with self-hosted solution I gave up. The pricing is on point, I'm relying on the free Protonmail and their asking price is too high to me so I signed up for purelymail.
Course Translation: Buy low when no-one is looking, sell high when everyone is screaming for the moon. Repeat and grow your crypto holdings.

That's basically the course material.
"The word Alexa has become synonymous with servant or slave."

That's going to be a problem for Amazon.
Hey Scott - tell me how you got the word out about Purelymail?

Obviously you reached the right audience and they liked what they saw to post it here and generate so much interest. Consider me another subscriber!
You can use x3 domains with catch-all. Just add each one as "@domain.tld" and setup mx/spf/dkim/dmarc as usual. Then the domain will receive with catch-all. However, prepare to be spammed, as many spammers figure that "mail@domain.tld" are always available, so that one will frequently receive spams.

If you need more than three domains, try Migadu(not affiliated, just happy customer), they have no formal limits to their "micro" plan and is cheaper than FastMail. Migadu also allows adding alias domains(something I haven't seen anywhere), basically if you have a mailbox like "merlinscholz@domain.tld" you can attach some more domains as alias, like "@domain2.tld" "@domainx.tld" and those will all receive/send/operate as the same "merlinscholz@domain.tld". Neat feature I haven't found yet on other services.
I'm not a fan of this type of architecture for many reasons. One of the reasons is the difficuly of organizational coordination, which is funny because a few years ago Airbnb had a blog post about how they gave up on React Native and one of the reasons they gave was the difficulty of organizing changes across teams, but with SDUI that problem is worse, you need tight coordination across many teams to push features. One way to think about it as engineers is how we prefer decoupled systems with clear interfaces and boundaries. SDUI is the opposite of that, it's tight coupling between all the clients and the backend, changes to your UI are split across a bunch of teams and systems.

There are also a bunch of other problems, off the top of my head:

- difficulty caching resulting in bad performance

- bad performance because you end up unnecesarily reloading entire screens just in case one small piece of UI changed

- difficulty taking advantage of unique platform features

- difficulty handling animations or smooth transitions

- client engineers lose understanding of the business data model, and motivation since all the action is in the backend.

- hard tracing bugs across frontend to backend

- doing UI in gql schemas is awful. sdui+gql are opposite goals, sdui wants dumber clients gql wants smarter clients. When would a client ever decide not to request a gql schema field? Which is another thing, you have to request these giant schema represantation of the UI which is bad for performance, youre basically sending your entire UI layout and receiving it back filled with data.

- complexity, difficulty hiring, not being able to use the latest best practices and architectures

- consistency across platforms is bad as a fundemental goal, users don't care since they typically use one platform. Consistency across mobile and web is actually bad UX in many cases.
A bit of LambdaMOOness on HN over the years:

LambdaMOO takes a new direction (1992) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22680965 - March 2020 (29 comments)

Lambda Moo Programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20405167 - July 2019 (1 comment)

Lambda MOO Programming Resources - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16327975 - Feb 2018 (1 comment)

Exploring 3-Move – A LambdaMOO inspired environment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14075439 - April 2017 (15 comments)
In my experience this is partially true (e.g. Carriers reusing one of the DC-HSPA Carriers as a Carrier for LTE or 5G in Band 1 is pretty common around here in Germany).

I suspect the biggest reason for the speed decrease is increased usage though.

Back when 2G/EDGE was current technology I got 100-200kbps there most of the time. Today it is basically unusable as you get timeouts constantly.

IIRC an EDGE Cell could deliver the full data rate to about 8 stations within the coverage area or thereabouts at the same time.
This worked okay back then when there were only a bunch of nerds per cell tower using but it can't cope with current usage density and patterns at all.

At least around here (germany had famously high rates for data traffic at the time when 3g was recent) smartphones and data plans are a lot more widespread than a few years ago and usage patterns got more data-heavy as well.
Thats good to know. Apparently my current provider allows for those as well, but honestly the proposal "just email, nothing else" might be attractive enough to try your service anyways.
I've been quoted in the press for comments I made on reddit.

https://www.ibtimes.com/hackers-warn-about-future-threats-ho...

> “We can write good software, but it costs a fortune and business priorities often mean good enough is good enough,” Reddit user “noir_lord” wrote.
Arbitrary window tiling (think basically the same pane-dragging UI that, say, VS Code has) and the ability to mark specific apps as 'keep alive indefinitely in the background' would go a long way towards making iPads useful as all-around computers without even needing other major changes.
Yep. People aren't rational, compliant, cooperative actors 24/7. Agendas. Bad days. Illnesses. Family events. So then it's unreasonable and foolish to extend trust unconditionally, perpetually, and without auditing.

If all people were angels, no government (or whoever regulates) would be necessary.

If all people (and systems) were perfect, no backups would be needed.
>Is 3d printing a 1mm wide cube really something you need "one of the most advanced" 3d printers for?

Absolutely! fine features and sharp edges are extremely hard.

This is also a fundamental mischaratization of the scale they are working at, as object size /= feature size. the analogy would be images vs pixel. In this case, the image is 1mm, not the pixels

I dont have the paper, but the video shows features around 0.25 mm and a x-y resolution of 0.025mm
> The scale of content being posted on social media is such that this liability makes running a social media platform effectively impossible.

I won’t miss social media, will you?

And I say this as someone who uses Facebook, YouTube and Instagram quite a lot for Blood Bowl hobby purposes, so it’s not that I dislike their platforms as such, but it’s hard to deny that they aren’t healthy for society. At least not if we want to continue valuing experts and science and not popularity and populism.
Not being able to edit huge portions of the file system, even as root. Apps not having file system access at all until you grant it, and then it’s folder by folder. Those control panel plug-in things just stopped being supported at all, so good bye custom mouse drivers and such.
They can still rename Alexa as "Secondary".
That we can reinterpret our emotions by will I agree is fairly silly, and seems like more like the thing one would believe if one wants to sell self-help books.

But this doesn't rule out that emotional responses are early, learned scaffolding on raw internal cues that we couldn't reliably distinguish without context.

That all babies seem to learn e.g. fear and laughter in a similar way doesn't contradict that. We could just all be pushed by our circumstance to learn in a similar same way.

And more darkly, we may not quite all learn basic emotional resposes in the same way. Reading about people growing up in abusive relationships, and e.g. returning to an abusive spouse I've often wondered, does the person here described literally confuse fear and affection?
https://www.statista.com/chart/13907/babies-named-alexa/
Yes, most of the time people use Mac or PC or iPad rather than “Computer” - it would also be good for all devices to share the same disambiguation system that selects which device you want to answer - e.g. if your iphone is held up to your face and you say “computer tell me what LCARS is?” your Amazon Echo device doesn’t answer.
Perhaps you're not the target customer?
I worry that "unification" will be realized by dumbing down the desktop

This seems to be a commonly espoused view about what’s happening to the Mac, but I don’t really see why. The UI has changed a bit, in some ways making it visually closer to iOS. But that’s basically it - core functionality is mostly the same. It’s not “dumber” or “smarter” - it’s just “a bit different”. Took maybe a day to get used to.
Alexa lets you do that, and it's fun until you accidentally trigger it during a meeting or phone call.

Google is worse here, you can't change the google wake word at all and I _hate_ having to say "hey google" whenever I wanna use it.
With all respect I have experience in QA and I am not talking about individual anecdotes. I am talking about well known problems that are easy to reproduce if you wish to look for them. It took me 10 minutes to discover few of them. Then I've googled and found that many people found them. If I did find it during 10 minutes what makes it impossible for Apple to find it? It wasn't that hard at all for me ... I wasn't even trying hard ... So it's not about individual misleading anecdotes, it's about tendency of poor quality in my opinion.

May be we have different standards for quality?
What about ongoing quality and quality regressions of existing functionality?

What happens when the dev mgr asks QA to rush testing? Been There, Done That, Bought The T-Shirt, Said "No," and Tendered a Resignation
I saw this all the time in Nashville after my family moved there, a person couldn't even admit to being gay and keep their job.

I got fired once for admitting I had gotten a divorce in the past. I shit you not.

Definitely saw people get fired for being pro-choice.

Maybe I've been in the workforce too long but I don't think this is entirely a new thing.
Can only second migadu, only think I really miss is a Calendar support.
So far unification just seems to be about additive capabilities coming to both platforms. Auto-recognising text in images, tab groups in Safari, shortcuts. Would you rather these came to iOS only like so much has before?

I am concerned they might at some point start taking things away. For now we still have Automator, but maybe not for ever.

I’ll start complaining when valuable MacOS features actually start to be pulled, not before. People freaked out when Microsoft brought out the Metro style UI in Windows 8, saying Apple was going to do the same thing on the Mac, well 9 years later nope, still no sign of anything even close to that drastic. The Mac is still very clearly optimised for mouse and keyboard, and the convergence is just about shared technology.
They do seem riskier than most vaccines. The situation warranted emergency approval, but in a way, I hope the FDA doesn't grant them full approval because of either strong immune reactions or other side effects. It sends a signal that they're needed, but acknowledges risks. Giving them full approval is more likely to feed into the anti-vax narrative.
India’s central bank concerned about expansion of Big Tech in financial services
This is just “trigger warning” by another name.
Not getting flagged as spam isn't actually that hard, though. Besides, if you're using SES or some other hosted SMTP service, you still have to set up SPF for your domain, so you haven't even really gained much comfort. The only really useful thing is to gain an ip address with a high reputation, but you can generally get those at any reputable hosting provider as well. Just don't try sending emails from your residential internet connection.
"chris" has passed on through generations users, he's still being discussed about ~9 hours later.
Anecdotal.

Embedded QA doesn't scale for projects where the teams are larger, or the concerns and complexity are significant.

https://qualitysystemsanalyst.com/2017/10/06/independence-th...
been thinking that for years now.
> Also, for some reason other fields seem to love these visual tools like TouchDesigner and Grasshopper.

It's very simple - if you work with artists and you make them a presentation of your software, and at any moment there is some amount of code displayed on the screen, some of them will get up and leave the presentation.

I worked on my software with someone who would literally refuse to use the keyboard - everything had to be done by mouse, and I know a fair amount of like-minded people in th e same field.
He’s also like a great interviewer, man. The one he has with John Carmack is great. He doesn’t know shit about Carmack’s stuff but he interviews him so well. Carmack is a great guest but also Rogan is a great interviewer.

Anytime I see American interviewers they’re always trying to gotcha the guy. Joe Rogan just lets the guy say his piece. Then I can judge afterwards.

Masterwork compared to all these hacks like Anderson Cooper and Tucker Carlson.

“Oh, he didn’t challenge him on the X”. Yeah, bro, he’s not your personal attack dog. If the dude is a Nazi, JR lets him say Nazi shit. Then I know the dude is a Nazi. All these other interviewers are like it doesn’t matter who they’re interviewing. You’re watching the host.

With Rogan, I get the other guy.
And of course it would be even more crazy for them to refuse a request e.g. by the FBI or NSA. I'm sure they respect SLAs as much as OnePlus, Huawei & co don't share data with Chinese government.
Agreed, though I'd interpret it slightly different. Like if I said 100 cars per hour and each car needs 30 seconds of spacing per car the units don't cancel out because they are physically taking up space for the "30 seconds of spacing per car."

I'd say the same applies in this case. It'd be more "calls/sec" times "active phone * sec/calls". Though I guess for "call" in your case or "active phone" the industry has chosen 'Erlang' a bit recursively.
State various Building blocks or key components of Power BI?