skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Presumably the US is genuinely asking

This is probably the first honest argument I've seen in this thread about whether this is legal or not.

Personally I believe this is not the case. I believe there is a lot more coercion behind these asks then we're seeing, but that aside I also agree that.

> That runs counter to free speech ideals

and

> Twitter can legally, unilaterally censor the de facto public square

but, shouldn't we be wary of even a non-coercive relationship like this where government and corporations enter into mutually beneficial monopoly supporting relationships?

All that said, I will be firing up a Mastadon server shortly. (It's been on my bucket list for a bit now.)
Any pricing details?
Should the second set of numbers be different, or is can $1M -> $5M be a 10x return in some way that I'm not aware of?
Yeah. I too totally realize that this is simply how competition works and prolly even leads to a more competitive and better market. Our mobile market is a expensive mess because of the regulation.

I understand all of that. I guess it's just wishful thinking that this could be one thing where the world gets their shit together.
I wonder if this is an argument in favor of the five-day workweek - at least from management's point of view.
Freedom Phone – free speech and privacy first focused phone
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Did Theranos (and Elizabeth Holmes) looked like efficient and practical startup?

You bet!!!
Afaik, Myanmar is not a hostile country. Neither the elected government nor the military dictatorship has animosity at the state level.
Thought experiment: a US government-hosted social network.

Because the government is the host, they can't censor anything on the platform, unlike private social networks. The moderation policy would effectively be the content of the first amendment, barring actual illegal content.

Call it publicsquare.gov
Pi-the-number is usually lowercase (and frequently italic) pi, "𝜋" , almost never uppercase "Π", which is used for other things.
I absolutely love your perspective. I feel the same way. s/Ruby+Rails/node for my situation. I believe there needs to be more respect paid to "bad" technologies. The measuring stick should include things outside pure benchmarks. Low barrier to entry technologies provide broad access and real life changes to folks that are able to pick them up and get hacking.
It might sound great to you, but I hope you understand that for many others, it might not seem very appealing to make drastic and painful changes, with great effort and sacrifice, in order to obtain barely observable result.
2014 called. It wants its article back
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I doubt it would be an option for MasterCard that countries get to decide how they encrypt the related data. But I get your point :)
> The current winners in these social network markets have basically aligned with one political side. This isn’t even a question any more.

In terms of funding of political parties, this is pretty far from the truth.
Spot-on. The "problem statement" the author makes is woefully out of touch. I don't think it's too negative to take issue with the tone and inaccuracy of OP's article.

I'd love to be interested in a new type of terminal, but not if the author has to trash existing terminals with demonstrably false statements.
Some of the 10,000 species have this property, but by no means is it the defining characteristic.

The massive scale of growing bamboo plants that would be needed would best take place in large empty deserts. Finding the right species and water supply should be the main challenge with this concept.
I think your vastly overstating how locked down most companies workstations are. Sure if you work for a fortune 500 they might be but there are 10,000 other companies where that probably isn't the case.
I'm a big fan of Orbit and regularly check out their docs just to see what's new! They're so well done.
Sure, which increases the cycle life even more.
I've also competed in CASP. His posts are really misleading.
To get that kind of native feel in an electron app is either impossible or going to take a lot more work than just using native SDK's. There's a reason people hate on electron, because it's a bloated alternative that merely comes close to having a native feel.
You're conflating the role of TSA (or Japan's equivalent) with customs. The security risk of taking an uninspected box on a private jet is pretty low, and private jets routinely have fewer security checks. On the customs side, they're usually less concerned with someone smuggling something out of the country than smuggling something in. About the only thing they would have cared about leaving the country like that on a private jet is Carlos Ghosn.
Most employers couldn't care less whether you cease exist once you leave the company, let alone track what you're up to.

As long as you're not competing directly with them just leave your day job just as your side project ramps up commercially, and it'll likely never be an issue.

Most are only worried you'll leverage their IP, insider knowledge, steal employers, or somehow cause reputational damage to them - they don't actually want your IP.
Thank you so much for the kind words, and for taking the time to read my long-winded article. I had to cut so much of it for length, but I think you can fill in the blanks given our similar upbringing.

I can’t say I’ve totally forgiven my parents, honestly I’m not even sure how one forgives a parent. But I’ve tried to accept them like I said in the story; not as malevolent demi-gods but just ordinary people who did their best.

It sounds like you’re living your best life and making the most of the path your parents started you on. If there’s anything I’ve learned, it’s that some wounds are easier to pick at then move past to finally let heal. I still think about them occasionally, but it’s lesser each day.
... did this switch to what it's pointing?

I could swear that when I visited/commented an hour ago, it was pointing to an article:

https://uxdesign.cc/intro-to-ux-the-norman-door-61f8120b6086
Anything beyond straight CLI commands which I can get from a man page is "power user" territory. You're working with a limited market by going after these people.

As I get older, I want less, not more. If I do decide for more, then it's going to be furthering my usage on what has already been available for decades, not the newest shiny thing. Further, I'm going to trust old tools which are still regularly updated over something I would place a significant chance on not being around in 5 years.

Developers make good or bad software regardless of the approach they have taken for the interface. There are CLI's which spark joy and GUI's which I won't waste time on. Will building a better terminal make a CLI better? I suppose it could, but terminal choice has usually been an after-thought for me (usually go straight to Tmux, which fancy terminal programs often screw up.)

Similar to the last point, building the sort of tools which are going to be central to my work is hard. I'm going to use whatever that happens to be regardless of what I feel is my ideal working environment.
This is one of the reasons why investing in learning a terminal "IDE" / editor like vim / emacs can pay off. You can ssh from anywhere and have your development environment waiting for you.
Microsoft is murdering Firefox on desktop with the new Edge. And rightfully so, it's a damn good browser apart from some privacy issues like hardware ID and sync not being zero knowledge. Overall user experience wise it's probably straight up the best browser atm.
Or go the Jim Jarmusch route--take the scholarship/loans and use them to create a film, later getting an honorary degree from the university:

"The degree along with $1.75 can buy you a cup of coffee.”
How much of their weight is batteries?
just a reminder jitsi still has an unlimited free tier
The limiting factor for plant growth isn't carbon, it's nitrogen.
Using product analytics to find operations efficiencies at startups
Seems like nuclear power is always the elephant in the room. Wish people that like to post emotional comments about climate change spent similar time pushing for nuclear power. Some change in public sentiment around nuclear power would be much more impactful than “Because of my political opponents, we’re all gonna burn alive!” I tend to think we will need some sort of geoengineering solution, but I think nuclear power has to be part of any effort to reduce emissions. No easy answers.
Hi HN,

I’m Zach, from Warp. Excited to get feedback on what we’ve been working on. Happy to answer any questions!
I wonder if native apps will regain some of their lost popularity if the whole OS and app itself can just be streamed to any device.
Do they have control of the lands you mentioned at present? That's the only reality that counts to make it within the country.

Also, Ladakh is hardly a troubled area from within.
> Epidemiologists are not experts in political science, economics, mental health, education, public health, business, finance, behavioral health, law or anything else.

OK, but the parent was complaining about recommendations that people get vaccinated, which is what I was responding to.
I sometimes tell people this idea as a the good news and bad news of learning.

The good news is that you don't need to "try" to learn. Just do something, pretty much anything, for a while and the learning/remembering/synthesising happens automatically. The bad news is that there's no shortcut, it will take time no matter what you actually do.

Even quicker. Bad news, it takes time. Good news, it only takes time.
Thanks! Does that mean that you're only able to work in a very specific environment?

I'm considering ordering a new laptop, and am very sad to think that i won't be able to use its laptop/portable functionality, since more than 30 mins without a special keyboard results in pain.
It's a little different. Discord launched amidst a power vacuum, at least with respect to a chat/community platform for video games. Xfire was the only real one, but it had been on the decline for years. A better analogy would be a decentralized Discord competitor trying to start right now and with the odds it has going up against Discord.
ShapeShift to Decentralize Entire Company
It must surely have had an effect. Hard to really say what though. However, in the Republic the troubles were almost always a thing that happened "up north" and didn't really have any bearing on day to day life in the south for the vast majority of the people. To illustrate how little people of the Republic cared about religion; I was raised Catholic and my best friend in high school was an Irish protestant and I didn't even know that about him for 3 years! And not because it was taboo, but because it was uninteresting to us. In my experience by the early 90s, religion or nationality was just not high up the list of things that defined people. E.g. lots of English people moved to Ireland in the 90s as it became a more desirable place to live and found themselves welcomed. (I'm speaking generally, I'm sure some people had negative experiences and don't wish to diminish that).

The Irish struggled a bit more with immigration from more different cultures and racism is a challenge everywhere but compared to many other European countries Ireland is on a better path I would say.

I'm rambling a little, but to your question about how the troubles shaped Irish attitudes it's worth noting as a result of the Belfast (good Friday) Agreement our constitution does acknowledge every citizens right to define their own identity.

Also, here's an interesting story about how Irish view the "other" today

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jul/14/pitching-up-anc...
> we should also recognize that large social media platforms have become the de facto public square and while it is lawful for them to moderate content, it's detrimental to our society.

I don't think you appreciate how controversial this assertion is.

In certain circles, progress is seen as unattainable without a collectivist commitment to defining and suppressing harmful speech, and a de facto public square controlled by private entities as a welcome opportunity to do an end run around an onerous, entrenched legal obstacle in the first amendment.
“It's super obvious that this is structured as a compromise with business interests. Infuriating.”

I'm not sure why "business" is always the big bad wolf, I guess it’s an easy target. Businesses are a vehicle for people, like a commune with unified set of goals. YC itself is designed to start businesses. Business create jobs, wealth, improve our lifestyles, and grow our economy.

I think any plans moving forward to address global warming have to include business and economic interests. I think what you need more of is incentives to drive innovation in the areas where government wants to push businesses and taxes and/or more regulation in areas government is trying to avoid. Businesses will always follow the money.
> I'm most hopeful about the carbon border tariff

Me too, but I've seen multiple businesses go to the wall after spending seven figures on mandated protections - worthwhile protections - that competitors in you-already-know-where didn't. The second best time is now I suppose, but that has had consequences.

Also, reminder that this is proposed to *not* apply to the single most polluting form of transport: https://gript.ie/eu-plans-carbon-tax-for-most-flights-except...
Ask HN: Kubernetes API?
Hello, Belatedly getting into Kubernetes at a large corp ... for which there is support for K8s. However, it's often sprinkled with Ansible, Terraform too. Now according to the books I've been reading, K8 does not need help from other deployment/orchestration to tools to move in container images. This brings me to my question:

I want to stay lean and mean. To that end,

(1) True/false: kubeadmn is sufficient to deploy new images and otherwise bring containers through their life cycle.

(2) If false --- I see the K8 REST/HTTP API is very large --- is there a GO library that helps me make calls into K8 to take containers through their life-cycle.

I believe, in our case, Ansible and Terraform were sprinkled in to a certain task/library set for reasons pre-dating K8. K8 was added later as an alternative, now preferred way to deal with CDCI. By answering those questions above I will be able able to assess whether I should or should not be distracted by this other noise.
Bonuses are not that high at Goldman and their comp still does not compare to FAANG, it never will.
Egyptian scribes, the Oracles of Delphi, the Medieval Catholic Church and journalists and of today all seem to be treated kindly enough. The "intelligentsia" exists to serve the prevailing regime (they cannot exist without patrons). Sometimes those regimes last centuries. I would tend to agree, however, that hysteria among the intelligentsia is an indicator of the feelings of insecurity among their patrons. Hysteria probably sums up the last 5 years to my recollection.
I learned about Monodraw from Thorsten Ball’s interpreter / compiler books. The book has really beautiful illustrations and ASCII drawings, when I asked the author they directed me to Monodraw

Here is a sample chapter from the book (in PDF) - https://compilerbook.com/sample.pdf
The massive environmental harm bitcoin causes is not voluntary. We don't get to choose whether bitcoin miners should pump massive amounts of CO2 into our atmosphere, they just do it.

The massive societal and economic harm of ransomware is not voluntary. This is entirely powered by bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and we do not get to choose whether giant criminal gangs should be given a way to extort businesses all over the world, businesses that provide crucial services to people.

Nothing about this is voluntary. The harm is forced on everybody.
Michael Knowle's book: Speechless, controlling words, controlling minds, covers this topic extremely well. Unbridled free speech has never existed and never will. There will always be standards of speech. The question is always: what are those standards and who is in control of them?

For this particular comment thread, the issue people are discussing is a relatively recent and very dramatic shift in power over speech. Today, a handful of high-tech oligarchs are controlling and enforcing standards of speech with far more efficacy than governments. It gets even scarier when you realize that governments know this and are now pressuring these tech companies to do their bidding.
Much of what you describe are pedestrian problems that could be addressed by straightforward, low-risk engineering. The issues with wifi reception around buildings were solved by AT&T when they developed the tech for mobile phones long ago. All the balloon control stuff- people have navigated balloons around the world for a while now. Using the altitude changes to navigate is standard.

That you need a team of NAVY SEALs to clean up your messes is a sign you're doing it wrong.

After working at Google for 12 years, I am always amazed at how people talk up their projects as risky when really, there's little or no risk involved, and the majority of the problems are political or social opposition to your plans, as well as the lack of a business model.
And because Apple pretends your iPhone or iPad aren't real computers, backing things up off them is a huge pain in the ass.
> Tighter emission limits for cars, which are expected to effectively end new petrol and diesel vehicle sales by 2035

I hope this doesn't spell the end for the ICE. That would be heartbreaking.
“I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.” — W. Somerset Maugham
It's also a smaller distance to close to find common ground in meatspace than online. In physical spaces, you gain a ton of information about social connections and interests just by who's where. If I'm at an academic conference (the regular in-person kind), odds are very high that the other attendees have similar esoteric research interests to mine. And if I see a friend talking to someone who's a stranger to me, it's likely that "stranger" is only two degrees of separation from me.

>That isn’t possible at scale because there is no common ground at scale. And online, everything is at scale. You are definitely talking to everyone.

The term for this is context collapse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context_collapse
So when they claim to hate the abuse Muslims face in the west, really they mean they hate the west and the abuse Muslims face there is just a handy tool. They don't really care about Muslims they just care about being outraged.

Just your common or garden religious zealots then.
> Too many people treat the American constitution like the U.S.A. Law-Bible - ever correct, never flawed, never to be updated. That is absurd. The last amendment was ratified in 1992, and I'd say we are overdue for a few more.

This is reductive. The arguments I see and participate in are generally those who view the Constitution as an arbitrary document that can change meaning over time without amendment, and those that demand you respect the words on the pages and actually amend the Constitution through the proper channels instead looking for new ways to reinterpret it.

This is before getting into the quality of the proposed amendments: most laws can be passed statutorily by either the the States or Congress. Most disputes can be settled in Courts with no changes to the law.

So when whether or not something would be a Constitutional, which is to say, a legal violation is not the subject of debate, the quality of the proposals is.

Are you proposing any actual amendments you think Congress should take up? Or simply suggesting we pass amendments to pass amendments?
What results do you find you get from using Duolingo every day for 959 days? Do you find that it's working for you, in terms of gaining better language proficiency?

I ask because I personally became disillusioned with Duolingo's streaks and leaderboards. I found that I was forcing myself to use it every day but I lost the love of learning the language. Ultimately, I stopped using it because I had a lot of extrinsic motivation to hit targets in the app but little intrinsic motivation to keep learning.

It sounds like your experiences were different from mine and I'm curious to learn what made them so.
The physics of baseball’s sticky situation
The security team is not incompetent. Large companies do not permit developers to spin up their own email systems without audit and regulatory retention. The port number is sufficient to determine that the request should be rejected.

You could work around it but should you? You're exposing the company to fines and risking your job.

Better think of another way to integrate with the vendor, or find another vendor.

P.S. SMTP is easy to identify on ANY port, it's replying a distinctive line of text when TCP connection is opened.
I think people confuse individualism with narcissism. There's nothing inherently bad about individualism: Self-reliance, independence (vs. interdependence), etc. I think these are mostly seen as good traits, at worst neutral.

What we saw building in the last decade or so, and come to a head in 2020 is out-of-control narcissism: Selfishness, entitlement, lack of empathy, this belief that life is a movie and you are the main character. This is the kind of thing that not only estranges one from family, friends, and society, but prevents any sort of collective action for societal good.
Nope, still don’t get it, third time’s a charm?
> The rationale is that the employer gives you a lot of knowledge and tools which you could use to your own benefit

You also bring experience and knowledge to your employer that may benefit them while you're on holiday, or off sick, or even after you leave the company. Maybe we should send them a bill for these incidental benefits?
I think those SV unicorns are flashy because they're practical, and efficiency comes with money, generally.
They're just jealous that christians have more fun.
This sounds really hard.

I guess my question to you is, what would be a helpful reply for your mental state?

I could say “people like that shouldn’t have kids. They’re lucky you didn’t post their address or I’d go remove their ability to reproduce myself”.

Would that help you?

What if I said “what were their childhoods like?”

We’re all doing the best we can. Sounds like in your parents case that wasn’t very good, but perhaps compassion and acceptance will help you do better if you choose to make the next generation.

My mom is a raging narcissist, and until I accepted that in her, we had real problems. Now I just understand that I’ll never get an apology from her about anything, and enjoy the good parts.

I mostly feel sorry for her that she lost her father to alcoholism at a young age and is sort of stuck at age 13 in some ways. She burdened me with a lot of stuff growing up that she shouldn’t have, but it’s relatively simple to trace that back through history and see that this was inevitable.
I do believe the modern (us) conservative evangelical "back to basics" movement started in the 30s/40s as a response to rampant alcoholism from the great depression. Church of christ and similar denominations. They take a (claimed) "hyper" literal approach over a few key issues, like alcohol, sex, drugs, taxes, tithing, homosexuality.. Recent history was the 90s abstinence movement.. And in the last 7 or so years these have been the churches taking the brunt of the exodus and have been largely deflated, with churches across the nation dying due to lack of new young people.

I would wager good money that most modern conservative US Christian families have a male alcoholic relative not too far removed.

The alcoholics and Christians go together.