skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So why mention that it is expensive for global south countries ('developing countries'), as if the burden is on them?

Wait, that's totally not what I wanted to say.

I mention it is expensive for companies there - companies operating there (including multinational), and companies shipping there. So they just don't do it, period. That they can get away with it is the very reason waste goes there, instead of staying in the West.

Of course I'm not blaming the developing countries: I'm blaming the companies of "global north capitalism" for exploiting the communities that can't afford to reject a deal that's ultimately bad from them. The problem is that the waste can be exported like this in the first place.
The original Brainfuck compiler was 240 bytes, and created executables directly rather than relying on an external toolchain.
Changing Your Mind, Non-Sleep Deep Rest, No Rules Rules, Alan Watts
Google boss Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom
I had sort of a similar reaction to this but then I thought that the artist here seems to have done this only to show people they are being surveyed or that hidden surveillance is easy.

> Probably because they got off the first time.

Imagine all the companies and governments doing exactly what this artist did, without any remorse or intention to show it back to the public. And they do not get caught, forget getting off "first time". What emotions should we express for them?

This artist put a face to the story, a photo that did the job of a thousand words. I think it is easy to see his ways are unjust but I do not think there is an easy way to motivate more people to ask tough questions about our own data.
> This doesn't pass the smell test.

We saw something similar happen during the pandemic. There has to be infrastructure and people with the skill and knowledge to support an industry available, and even if you had those people available you can't just ramp up production in any old place. That's why there were supply chain problems and will continue to be, the UK won't be making its own drugs (designing, yes, making, no) just because it did in the past, the US won't be making computer chips just because it did in the past. There being a profit to be made isn't enough.

> You are giving far too much credit to what is on the face of it a broken system.

The system may be broken but fixing it takes more than a wave of the hand.
You raise an interesting point. What is the real effect of black market transactions? Is there any positive economic effect? Is fungibility actually necessary, or is it just a quick fix to the problem of value discovery?
That is just wave debugging with extra steps. Really, I wait when software industry "reinvents" event tracing used in HW simulations (RTL or mixed signal) :) At least then GTKWave would get proper support :)
Now it'll be Bezos with the asterisk next to his name as the *second person to reach sub-orbital altitude in a passenger spacecraft. Imagine having $200bn and still coming second. Well-deserved to Branson and his team.
Well HN users are powerful scions of business. They're gonna change the world with their web-apps. No time for distracting fun or unorthodox thoughts.
Sinofsky and co. are also to blame for Longhorn sabotage of using .NET, and most likely trying to bring Midori stuff into Windows.

Now Project Reunion, sorry Windows 11, is trying to fix the path started with Windows 8.
Behold, the superiority of the German language, having Emojis build in before they were invented:

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You don't fear their control because you have nothing to hide. Then one day you want to speak up against them, but you don't because they control your money. So you never cross them. But one day, they seek you out and order you to do something. You have to comply because they own you.

If you control your money, it's your money. If they control the money, it's their money -- you only have it as long as they let you.
It's kind of odd that you mention Apple as a company that has "ditched standards", considering it's got very public, detailed design standards and has had them for a very long time.

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

The web is where you really get that kind of grab-bag of mismatching (or absent) UX affordances. Remember when clickable links were all blue underline text? I do. Those days are gone, and for way too many pages the only way to tell if something is clickable or not is to move the mouse over it and see if it gives you the finger.
This was meant as a friendly nod to the fact that FAANG outages usually lead to a lot of people checking HN and generating insane amounts of load, like the time a few weeks ago when YouTube/Google Auth was down and took HN right with it :)

But overall this site is extremely well run, so please don't take this as more than a joke.
> 60-80% of sales

Is what? Pirated? How can you have concrete data of something that didn't happen? A copy that didn't sell can not count towards sales.

If it is based on sales estimation, then it could simply mean that the game didn't sell well because it was bad. Not every unsold copy of an estimation is automatically a pirated copy.
Well, maybe the site sends all the passwords when you close the tab.
The point is not to get used to entering passwords to third party websites.
Imagine an article saying "I stopped using 'thanks' and 'sorry'". Same results.

Emojis are part of the language now.
I feel "my" photo makes it real, personal. I see it, I visualize and comprehend it as me. A curtain of sorts is raised on me. My data is all bits and bytes. Unless some ugly* stuff I said can be picked up and mirrored at me, I do not think there is enough emotional punch as a photo.

Edit: it does not have to be ugly, just something to draw immediate emotional reaction.
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My experience with GNOME configuration repository, or files scattered around /etc, /opt/etc and /share kind of tells otherwise
"Tape it to the fridge" Please don't do this, at least keep it hidden from general viewing.
The system of sovereign nation-states is a racket which is used as an excuse to permit local oppression and worldwide exploitation of the people. This is controversial because everyone is born into this system and it is presented as normal and legitimate. It is difficult to think outside this box.
> CPUs are guaranteed to run as if the given instructions were executed one after another

That’s just not true. Intel models will reorder reads and other processors will even reorder writes - and I’m talking about observably.
> I guess that's also why AAA games are hyped so much before release, so that many people preorder it.

Never thought about it this way, but it does make perfect sense. Thanks!
Have the second chance pool[0] sort by number of comments, ascending, to keep posts with the fewest comments on top. Automatically remove items from the pool with greater than some arbitrary number of comments, since they've already gotten traction.

Don't display comments on the newcomments page beyond a certain comment depth (which inevitably stray from the context of the original article) or which have been downvoted. In other words, curate it a bit so it doesn't provide as much low-hanging fruit for snipers.

I really wish the API would get an update. It would be nice to be able to do queries by range or to get entire threads at a time.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
I remember some HN threads about impossible burger and other imitation meat. There were comments about how food engineering can produce food that tastes even better than regular meat. That was shocking to me. We already have hyper palatable processed food and they want it to be even worse?
I think one area where cryptocurrency can have a significant positive impact is news media. If a browser extension based cryptocurrency wallet, like MetaMask, ever integrates a highly scalable payment system that makes micro-transactions economical, using some combination of the available scalability constructs, whether that's a zk-Rollup, zk-Porter, Optimistic Rollup, a sidechain like Polygon or xDai Chain, or state-channels, and this browser extension becomes ubiquitous, it would allow content providers to charge users on a per page basis, with almost zero friction for the user to make the payment.

This would allow content providers to be compensated from a far larger subsection of the population, and correspondingly, allow a far larger subsection of the population to consume paywalled content.
According to the AlphaFold Wikipedia article:

> As of 18 June 2021, according to DeepMind's CEO Demis Hassabis a full methods paper to describe AlphaFold 2 had been written up and was undergoing peer review prior to publication, which would be accompanied by open source code and "broad free access to AlphaFold for the scientific community"
I once had a computer where if I attached my headphones to the output of the sound chip on the main board, I would get all sorts of weird squelchy noises that somehow were linked to what the machine was doing. The machine being idle sound a certain way, starting program A had a certain signature, starting program B had a different one... it reminded my of the olden times, of knowing certain things just from the sounds from the disk drive.
You might like Foam then, which is like Obsidian implemented in VSCode
> Now it'll be Bezos with the asterisk next to his name as the *second person to reach sub-orbital altitude in a passenger spacecraft.

Counting the occupied passenger seats in the Virgin Galactic Unity 22 flight, I’m pretty sure Bezos’ best available position is “fifth person...”. Still has a shot at second billionaire, though.
While not as feature rich, I found GitJournal[1] to be a good app that supports markdown + git sync.

[1]: https://gitjournal.io/
Or SyncThing (but download SyncTrayzor to make using SyncThing easy)
> Third, a lot of Pichai's big bets have failed: Google Glass, Google Plus, Google Wave, Project Loon

> He's been responsible for a lot of Google products.

He might have been responsible but i wouldn't call those projects as Pichai's big bets.
It's because people still confuse std::atomic with volatile. Actually, there is a way to get both behaviors: 'volatile std::atomic'. Personally, I never had a situation where I would've needed that, and I use atomics on a regular basis.
XMPP fans really lack of any honour these days
I have seen most fakes in Apple store, especially targeting apps that weren't available in App Store by itself - so if you were searching, you wouldn't get any good result out.
I use SyncThing for this. Works perfectly. (But download SyncTrayzor to make using SyncThing easy)
If only bought to flip, it must be valuable just as Bernie Madoff’s fine product.
I've been adopting this mindset myself. I've used almost every prominent DE and WM there is, and they're all fine. Varying levels of ugly or beautiful perhaps, but I just want to get past them and onto my actual work.
reddit moment
saying drm doesn't work is a bit naive, as it only has to prevent emulation long enough for the hype driven sales to be completed, not forever.

that and always-on gameplay generally do the job I think, atleast for games.
It's popular because it's thermodynamics but it completely ignores that our body doesn't know how to count calories. It only knows how to count macro nutrients and how full your stomach is and palatable food is engineered to avoid the feeling of satiation.
If you’re a restaurant owner managing your restaurant’s inventory by hand, you know how time-consuming and painless it is. We’re here to talk about custom restaurant inventory management software, what features to include, and when it’s better to go with off-the-shelf restaurant management apps. But first let’s answer the question: Why are spreadsheets bad for inventory management and why probably need to build your own restaurant management software?
https://steelkiwi.com/blog/restaurant-inventory-management-s...
Unless you go out out of your way to disable code signing using the terminal & a root account, macOS will only run code signed by an Apple issued certificate [1]. It will also phone home [2] every time a binary is ran for the first time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatekeeper_(macOS)

[2] https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/391399
"An estimated 19,452 iPhones were sold every day in the UK in 2019", give them a break, obviously struggling to get traction.
You make it sound like users are switching among Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS all the time so the app UI has to have the lowest common denominator. By and large they're not and as such the native UI is the consistent UI: the apps launch the same way, you know how to get to settings or the trash can and the gestures all do pretty much the same thing to get the same result.
If Monero gets completely cut off from any means of fiat conversion, then what? How do you do price discovery?
As a university lecturer in a non-STEM subject who is currently self-learning both 'hard CS' and the more practical side of development, I have often thought about what an effective CS curriculum would be, and the thing I keep coming back to is something along the lines of guided self-learning. Nothing is as effective as curiosity, but having someone with broad knowledge and experience in the field can help guide students to not get caught up in dead ends.

In my own academic studies the teachers that were the most valuable to me were ones who nudged me in the right direction, and then mostly stayed out of the way and let my hunger for knowledge and results do its thing. But now I perceive a fundamental shift in higher education, one towards spoon-feeding in order to satisfy a strict curriculum, and I worry strongly that this sort of model is very dishonest and doesn't produce good graduates.

The biggest problem that I see in present-day academia is the bureaucratic desire to quantify and measure things, which might be reasonable if you see universities as trade schools, but is in my opinion doing irreparable damage. I'm sure there are some bad teachers out there, but the bigger problem I see is institutions that prevent good teachers from doing their thing, until only the bad ones remain.
Definitely SE is kind of job where people are constantly learning

a lot of them even in their free time.
> Of course none of that justifies robbery, but in all cases it does justify every effort to prevent artificial scarcity from being established and maintained.

But why is it your problem? Suppose I just wrote a sonnet sitting here in my spare time. I don't want others to know it though so I'll only share it under extremely-controlled circumstances for a lot of money to maintain this artificial scarcity. Why is it your moral imperative for you to crush my carefully-maintained monopoly on my stupid little sonnet?
Jailer: A truly relational database client
What expertise does GameStop suddenly have? I'm aware of their recent flood of cash, but isn't their expertise in retail brick-and-mortar?

Or is the expectation that they'll somehow pivot from that to... I guess crypto? Aren't there dozens, hundreds, of companies in the crypto space already?

Did they buy one of them at least, or are they legitimately trying to build a crypto company from the ground up, with no stated innovation or insight into crypto?
Yup. It's called Outliner.
The Pandemic Led to the Biggest Drop in U.S. Life Expectancy Since WWII
Increased calorie intake and conversion to fat is the problem but why do humans increase their calorie intake and decide to convert their calories into fat? What button are they pressing that says "I want to be fat!".
I am so glad that I witness stickers as addition and not replacement. I get where you are coming from, and I have a huge collection on telegram for every possible moment (and thausands of sexual ones I barely use)

But the majority of moji I see is gladly still emoji.

Edit:// however check Bitmoji to see how far we've gone with stickers already :)
Honestly, I really couldn’t take him seriously after that paragraph.
Silly Australians, you just have to make cash socially unacceptable.

Make cashless attractive for key businesses (rent, utilities, groceries, the popular things), make cards attractive for consumers and soon enough those paying in cash are automatically assumed to be drug dealers or worse.

Then reduce the number of available banknotes, reduce the maximum denomination and implement whatever tracking you want.

Just don't do it too soon like Germany or people will cling on to their cash. Not that it helps them much.
I think the best way to provide what you want would be to provide pre-download and post-download hooks, so you could write some code to prevent some downloads and detect downloaded files are spammy. Then you could write your size heuristic as a plugin and others could use regexes or machine learning to do something similar.
I’m looking for a note taking app that does iOS<—>Linux syncing. Joplin seems to be able to do it via Dropbox.
How so? What do you mean by 'control'?
It's a reasonable one I think. Importantly, I make very few (0.1%?) transactions above that limit, so if only all my transactions above that are recorded, it doesn't let anyone paint a picture of my movement, habits and so on.

Most of my transactions above that limit in the past years were recorded in (publicly available!) ledgers anyway: e.g. buying a car or house.

Whether the limit should be €1k or €5k could be debated and you could reach different conclusions in different countries depending on whether that's the cost of an average bicycle or an average home.
Interprocess Communication in Microservices
Another one for electronic music making (Monome associated) is lines https://llllllll.co/
I wonder if Obsidian allows sharing of particular (folders of) notes. Joplin does not (you can only share, by syncing, your whole database, but I just want to share some notes. Can't find any reference with either tool right now to sharing.
https://www.r-bloggers.com/2018/07/about-lazy-evaluation/

tldr: basically, R passes all function arguments as bundles of `(expr_ast, env)` [called "promises"]. normally, they get evaluated upon first use, but you can also access the AST and mess around with it. AFAIK this is called an "Fexpr" in the LISP world.

(originally i had a nice summary, but my phone died mid-writing and i'm not typing all that again, sorry!)

it's very powerful (at the cost of being slow and, i imagine, impossible to optimize). it enables lots of little DSLs everywhere - e.g. lm() from stats, aes() from ggplot2, any dplyr function - which can be both a blessing and a curse.
Thanks for sharing the information..

https://www.indigocard.run/
I’m not sure what you think I was asking the previous commenter. This makes no sense as a reply.
But... that's exactly what it does though?
In 2020, the UK was still part of the EU and with that Apple could and did move much EU based sales to Ireland for tax purposes. So with that in mind, along with how companies game the tax systems, I take any figure with a pinch of salt.

That said Apple postulating this as retaliation to a legal court case pertaining to a valid patent, does seem a bit purile.

But the real question I have is - if these are core patents as they seem to be (not read the patents but mention of 3g and 4g connectivity mooted) then I would of thought FRAND would take presedense

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminat...
These mandatory pension plans exist in several countries. They are a good idea in themselves, but they often provide governments an excuse not pay decent direct benefits to the elderly.
So many people are not able participate in the workforce for the decades necessary to profit from these plans.
This is a really cool project!
Have you considered that "fun" and "communication" are two different words and neither of them is in any way dependent on the other?
related comic: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers
> Markdown and Org are not in the same league.

I don't think so. Their focus and culture is different and so each has different tools available, but syntax-wise they are pretty much the same and you can overall build the same tools for both.
That's a bit more elaborate, but with WPA enterprise, a radius server and a web-ui this should be pretty doable
My old man opinion is that there is no point discussing with people who are using emoji because they are inadequately able to express themselves using words. I have found they are also likely to take offense and act irrationally when words are the forced medium.
First, You are conflating sociopathy with narcissism. They are two different disorders that are commonly seen together. Secondary, you have a very narrow understanding of sociopathy.

Society, as it is, is not the end all be all. What is socially acceptable, and what is not, is always evolving. People who were right, are now wrong, vice versa. I think people should prioritize selfishness and educating themselves. Don't be a slave, and question your own thinking patterns and habits. 90% of the comments are people not thinking for themselves. This article brought this issue to light quite vibrantly... Cheers.
Vote for nobody.
> such a viscerally gross violation

How did you reach this conclusion? Because your entire response hinges on this being true.

I highly doubt it is a "violation" in the first place, and certainly not a "gross violation", the courts decided that it was not, as you call it "an amoral and illegal way for him to use people without their consent" (well, maybe amoral, as courts have nothing to say about that).
And what law is your friend breaking?
What if it was a webpage or applet ?

I don't think is as obvious that is illegal but IMO the people wronged here are the poor Apple shoppers that become part of the art, the article is trying to justify why this is allowed (public place , already recorded by cameras) but who knows what a judge will decide. But this s not something for NSA/FBI to waste their time on.
Isn't government spending with few exceptions public?
What do you mean, freeware?
"run as written" implies targeting an abstract machine that performs operations the way programmer imagines it does. This machine isn't specified anywhere.

The hard part is that programmers don't imagine the code to be executed in a naive unoptimized way, but still expect it to be reasonably well optimized (converted to "obviously" equivalent assembly), except where optimizations combine into a result they haven't thought of.
I can think of many examples to the contrary (gaming (particularly ttrpgs), game development, amateur filmmaking, anime, music, fan fiction) which have only benefited from "mainstream" acceptance (primarily through the web - which itself "ruined" the internet,) rather than having been ruined by it. Also the hostile dynamic between mops and geeks described in the article isn't something I've observed in the wild. As far as I can tell most of the time mops and geeks (and even the "sociopaths") turn out to be more or less the same.

One would expect all of these former subcultures turned cultures to be entirely populated by sociopaths and mops giving nothing of quality back to the community, and for the geeks to have long fled the stables, but (to use an example) the people playing D&D today are just as passionate and creative as the people playing it in the 70s and 80s were.

What the article describes is a tendency, it happens, but it's not an axiom. In my experience, gatekeepers paranoid about maintaining their status and ego do far more harm than "muggles" learning about it.
No. Security incidents related to eproctoring software that was willingly installed.
you’re just a stupid jackass if you think this. thank god you don’t make games.