skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make a good point. There is a lot of evidence that it's not as easy as I make it seem.

I might be wrong about this, too, but I think a lot of smaller companies have the really bad practices. Google shines as one of the major "suppliers" of C++ tooling, and their code quality is undeniably very high (considering the complexity of some of their codebases), but a lot of popular libraries are written by small teams, often not even under contract, and you end up with a lot of PR'ed stuff, which is great, but it needs to be thoroughly reviewed.

A good example of "unqualified" PR's was that recent one with the malicious PR into the linux kernel by some university. It was caught, but it does make you wonder how many vulnerabilities make it through because of simply trusting "random unqualified people" too much.
The guy selling food on the street has liability in proportion to his profits; fifteen customers, fifteen potential food-poisoning cases. He can set his prices accordingly. Simon Tatham doesn't have any profits, but his PuTTY is installed on every developer's Windows machine. OpenSSL is installed on even more machines. How long do you think it would take your proposed regulatory regime to find that Kurt Roeckx owed several million dollars to every company that generated private keys with Debian's copy of OpenSSL? He did, after all, introduce the subtle security hole that left them wide open for years.

Maybe you could make the case that he was following best industry practices in doing so; after all, using Valgrind is a best practice, right? But you could also pretty plausibly convince a jury that he was negligent. Especially if you're IBM's senior counsel. Or, say, RSA's.

Now, is Kurt Roeckx or RSA going to be advising the US legislators who draft this candidate legislation, establishing the standards that they both must uphold?
Knowing this truism, we need to be reorganizing our economic system in line with it. “Degrowth” has been a fun internet wormhole to investigate.
Quite right. Although conversely, if Substack is taking VC cash and throwing it away on advances to unsucessful authors nobody is reading...

...then that also can't explain their success, because that's content nobody is reading?
But I would guess that a significant number of your users are doing illegal web scraping (Otherwise, why use proxy rotation). So you advise them how to get around website protections?
Musk: Supercharger network will charge extra for slow-charging non-Tesla EVs
I used https://getmemex.com/ for a while but it was too buggy to be relied on.
A/B testing and the historic lift paradox
I get it, but I am wary of this brewing corporate FETISHISATION of 'neurodivergence'. The UK government held a similar recruitment scheme a year ago[1] - headed by Dominic Cummings - which is no surprise since he is very much in touch with this culture. Of course, he uses SFW synonyms of mental ailments: weirdos, oddballs, wild-cards, etc. It's almost as if these people recently watched Rain Man (1988).

[1] https://dominiccummings.com/2020/01/02/two-hands-are-a-lot-w...
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So, all the safeguarding positions are predominantly filled with Element employees (according to another commenter)? [1]

Consider me not impressed.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27970233
Differently in what way?
I highly recommend trying it with a group of people, preferably in person. There are so many types of groups Zen, Trad Buddhist, Transcendental etc. It's a nice way to meet people as a lot of people really open up afterwards and it's very much an environment of kindness. Or you can do what I did and throw yourself into a 1 week retreat with strangers on a deserted island.
Ironically, by your own admission, you simply highlighted Israel's infrastructure control on Gaza. So it's not merely a military occupier but controls food, water and electricity supplies to the imprisoned population. But hey, thanks for your generosity to allow a trickle of aid supplies through.

"Transfers of fuel for the power plant were stopped by Israel during the Gaza War in May 2021 and resumed by the end of June."
Element is strange, Ive tried to connect a buddy and he told me that he cannot read my msgs depsite I can read his ones. So, we decided to switch to xmpp and it works great for us.
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They sabotage the desktop site as well. I don't understand how anybody can see the current atrocity as an improvement. It's borderline unusable.
> by having signed the contract first

Vaccines aren't distributed to countries one after another until each order is completed. Instead, the production is divided up and goes towards different orders. What the UK did was to force AZ contractually to only supply the UK from Oxford/Keele for the first xx million doses (while happily importing the vast majority of vaccines from other countries who did not do such thing).

> (The US never had an export ban, either. The US did the same thing as the UK; insist that they (which the US signed ahead of everyone else) would be fulfilled in the order they were signed.)

That's not true. The US government used the Defense Production Act to stop the exports of finished vaccines until some time ago.
If they can run arbitrary JS on the site, can't they just change the target of the login form to their own server and exfiltrate credentials whether you used a password manager to fill them in or not? I'd be much more interested if you could exfiltrate without arbitrary JS, maybe in an img embed with the password injected into the URL or something?
Is that on a self hosted, or on app.element.io?
I have a self hosted, and I just opened it and it logged me straight in - I can't remember the last time I logged in as I use the desktop client.

I just tried app.element.io and it asks if I want to "store data in persistent storage" - maybe you clicked no a while back, and it is still blocked?
How would you determine that it's a necessary condition and not just a sufficient condition?
It’s not a self-driving car unless you can sleep in it
Reading thru that C&D You have a win(win?). It says that You "Have stopped and will not in the future access the Facebook and Instagram websites and/or use Facebook’s and Instagram’s services for any reason whatsoever;". As soon as You get on any page where there is the famous Facebook pixel, (like cloudflare.com) You have accessed a Facebook Ad services without Your knowledge. So essentially they wanna ban You from the internet (which they cannot IMHO) or they will have to delete Your data from their database in compliance with their C&D. I'm pretty sure this can be elevated as something pretty ridiculous and maybe there will be a lawyer keen enough to protect You and kick FB in the ass for this.
Money or your data: inside ransomware
May I suggest drawing? I am really bad at it, but - it encourages good posture, trains a different side of brain than coding, and you stare at paper more than the screen.

My practice is trying to draw portraits based off Unsplash stock photos.

Also - sports, no brainer. The more stressed you are, the more exercise you should try to get.

I handle work week really badly, when I code I noticed my brain just turns into kind of compiler and shuts other areas off.
Just updated my personal portfolio.
https://designerwhocodes.de/
> it will be the end of open source

Not if the rules are carefully targeted at SaaS and not at codebases. If the rules are targeted at SaaS, the liability is actually lower for open source because of the inherent transparency of everything open source code does.
Author here. No, wasm is not something I'm considering.
Mice, of course, differ from humans in their ability to quickly navigate their environment soon after birth. However, human babies are also able to immediately detect objects and identify motion, such as a finger moving across their field of vision, suggesting that their visual system was also primed before birth.
I do agree it is quite ok, it has all the basic features, but it feels "slow" and "beta" at some points.

In addition to some decryption issues that made some of my friends hate Element (they could view messages on one device but not another one, and there was no clear action to fix this), one of the issues I think could be easily worked on is the settings: the current layout is way too complicated, too much scrolling, too many options, it doesn't feel clear at all. Also the stickers are really crappy: they are not useful for any serious chat (ie. work), and not useful for any fun chat (ie. friends).
A more suitable title is perhaps "Collision Detection In Videogames Is Hard: The Story of Alf"

There are many more areas that the HN crowd would be interested in where "collisions" are a thing. Self-driving cars, hash functions, lock-free data structures, etc.

"The Story of Alf" does not make this more specific either. "Alf" could easily be the nickname of some self-driving project or the acronym for some lock-free data structure or so.
Okay, sure. But can I please have input type="number" and have the css gap property work with flex like it does in every other browser?
> Right now the US economy is entirely dependent upon Taiwanese semiconductor fabrication.

Strong disagree. What kind of application would not be able to run at all on Intel's latest processors? I can't think of anything aside from maybe some future development of VR.

Most HNers deal with software engineering, but the rest of the world simply does not have to have the latest and greatest. Assuming Intel stays in the back and the West has to use only Intel, applications will be a bit slower, processors will use a bit more power, there will be more focus on software efficiency and parallelism, and more cloud streaming. Hardly "entirely dependent".
We wouldn't need authentication then...
Personally I’m always confused about the accounts I which one I’m currently using (they have the same names). Also I can never understand when I verified someone.
But everything is based on a hunch with a negative worldview as a lens to view the information with, that just how it feels when giving out these speculations. Politely understand, I'm not saying you are wrong, but I am saying it is wrong to assume malintent due to lack of information.

And given their goal of being a general underlying protocol, to be used in different specific professional industries, it would be very damaging to close down feedback or the protocol in general, from outside influence. A hospital might need a specialized client to handle the needs of the profession, while a ministry might have a third, one does not fit all.

But I see the skepticism, because if the protocol can be used by one party, which ends up hosting most of the servers, to gather metadata, then having widespread use would allow insight into a rather large dataset of people and countries. But the onsite premise of this software, is the whole reason that etc. the French government started to back the protocol and mistrust for foreign communication services.
If you have secrets, why would you not just host this yourself? And there's the big difference between google and matrix, you can control all your data yourself, if you want. Totally block outside communication, setup private tunneling, separate a virtual network etc. I don't think twitter/whatsapp/whatever allows you to host their server infrastructure and block off access :-)
> The almost universal contempt for Internet Exploder amongst web developers had nothing to do with lack of support for cutting edgw APIs. It was because Internet Exploder refused to follow basic web standards and was stuffed it full of proprietary and non-standard rendering quirks.

Nope. IE6 was the most standards-compliant browser out there in 2001. The problem was that it did not move from its 2001 state for many years (development was dropped).
No, that's the problem.

If I want to listen to Lady Gaga, I can do that from any of the music services. The artist gets a cut from my monthly payment to whichever service I use.

If I want to read an article about traveling to Iceland during Covid times and it's in Washington Post while I subscribe to the New York Times, I can't, unless I subscribe to the Washington Post.

Maybe a writer writing to NYT does get money according to the amount of clicks to their article. Some articles can even be free and the money comes from ad revenue. But it's still a small walled garden. People just don't get to see many well written articles because they are locked behind this small garden paywall and most people don't want to pay the entrance fee.

How about a "Writer Money Distribution service". People could subscribe to it. You could build a curated edited newspaper out of such articles, if you wanted. But a user could also read any article, and they would know that their monthly money would be distributed to the writers according to the what they did read. There could be even multiple services and the same writer could publish to multiple with no exclusivity clause.

Edit: Hell, Hacker News is one excellent article curation service that has supplanted the place of a newspaper. But there's no revenue feedback mechanism. What does the writer benefit from being linked to from HN? Many people use some go-around-the-paywall service since they don't want to subscribe, which indeed would be irrational for only a few articles every now and then.
Or perhaps, be like Sweden and don't fight it. Apparently they and a very few other locations were right all along. Get through it and get on with life...no closures, no bans, no restrictions.

Covid is not a thing, it's a reference to a thing...Sars. Yes it might be with us forever, but so what? Even if all the hyped up, fake positives and political narratives were true...so what? Of 7.674 billion humans, 195 million cases...that's a 2.5% infection rate...total deaths equal 0.05%...yes I know that's not the stat you want to see...it's not the deadly, bubonic vision the political and media machines have spread...but it's the truth.

For info on adverse effects of the FDA unapproved jabs, visit the VAERS section of the CDC.com website.
I welcome these alternative suspicions and will be taking them with a grain of salt. We'll see what the Matrix ecosystem will do with the money. Until then, we can only sit back and wait.

> Anytime any legitimate criticisms get brought up they are quickly downvoted.. here on HN they get flagged so you can't even see them.

First time?

I have the suspicion that someone on HN setup a downvote bot on me so that for any comment I post, it is immediately downvoted even when I follow the 'HN guidelines' and submit tons of evidence to backup my claims.

This innocent comment will probably prove both of us right on our suspicions. Ultimately I want to be proven wrong here, but we'll see.
There are no necessary conditions in the physical world. If you hadn't turned on the light, perhaps someone else would have. Or perhaps a bird or a meteorite could have flown through the window and struck the switch in just such a way as to turn it on. Or perhaps a wire could have come loose inside the switch and fallen in just such a way as to close the circuit.
I'm not expressing concern about Substack's opinion makers here (though there are certainly some very strong thoughts expressed elsewhere about their particular choices), but that due to the economics involved, GP's positioning of Substack as a wholly neutral platform is not entirely correct - Substack's actions with whom they chose to give an advance to constitutes expressing an opinion, however indirectly.
This is an interesting hybrid of pnp + tweezer assembly: https://youtu.be/Kkc7uRNK-7g
You're talking about irrelevant figures. That the country receives money from the EU does not mean that everything was built by the EU. I am talking about contributions to specific projects - public infrastructure, schools, etc, which are funded by local government (local meaning towns, not states, funded by property taxes, completely disconnected from these EU funds you link to) with minor contributions from EU funds.
9K downloads and Zero Sales, Why?
My product 'Tealpod Image Compressor' is downloaded more than 9000 times but zero sales. Can someone help me understand why?

https://tealpod.com/compressor/index.html

Thanks in advance.
I agree, but I will say that if your site doesn't rely on newer CSS features, IE11 is still surprisingly easy to deal with.

A whole lot of cutting-edge JavaScript can be polyfilled/transformed to work on IE11 (automatically in most cases, with something like Babel), and the module/nomodule pattern can stop that polluting your bundles for modern browsers. It also has decent flexbox support (just a few oddities easily worked around IIRC), although its grid implementation is incomplete and uses an older version of the spec that in most cases just isn't worth the effort.
Needless to say, Matrix wouldn't exist without you: the protocol and network would have fizzled out long ago were it not for all the people supporting it (the matrix.org server can now see over 35.5M addressible users on the network!) - and meanwhile the ever-increasing energy of the community and the core team combines to keep the protocol advancing forwards faster than ever.
The Buffer Tag in PostgreSQL
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> I think browsers should download a full copy of each bookmark (so you can still see it when they are taken down) and make it fully searchable.

Opera v9.5 (released 2008) up to v12 does this.
Pushing forward on spec implementation before submitting to standards bodies is how the standards bodies want developers to make things. They want a "market of ideas", and only standardize the ideas that win out.
Even if this were the case (I can't say that I can see such intermediarity clearly), we're not using Fibonacci's numeral shapes from Liber Abaci today so that doesn't seem to matter much. And as far as "we're using North African numbers today" is concerned, pretty much all of the European shapes used today that are similar to the North African ones from Fibonacci's time with the exception of 6 and 8 are the same shapes that I would be able to recognize in Gwalior inscriptions even if had no prior exposure to the history of numerals and you only told me to read those shapes as decimal numerals, so I'm not sure that one could say that these shapes were invented in North Africa, as opposed to just transferred through North Africa from India in a recognizable shape.
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We do have self-driving cars we just don't have any we think are good enough, well-tested, and adaptable to mixed-use driving and our various regulatory and safety and cultural needs. You can't get regulatory approval for a car that learns to drive by guided trial and error in the wild -- which is the most direct way of training such a thing. Feedback on what you shouldn't drive over also isn't as immediate and unambiguous, compared to whether gravity will topple it over.
pandora used the music genome project to get so good:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Genome_Project
Foetus can have, and will have, direct experience of the world before birth. In the last months of pregnancy they definitely can hear what is happening outside. Will also react to strong noises or gentle pressure.

Seeing differences at daylight or obscurity while in the womb does not seem impossible. Anybody that has closed the fist over a strong flashlight knows that the flesh is not totally opaque.

Is this dreaming? Maybe, maybe not. Other explanations are possible.
>I was evaluating Syncthing for 1-way, append-only phone photo backup, and my Google searches warned me away from this, talking about "unsupported" and "database corruption."

Same here. What do you use instead? I haven't been able to find a good open-source multiplatform project for backups/1-way sync.
Do we have USB audio drivers yet?
For the average user the element UI is just confusing. This is the #1 complaint I got from all non-techies. They expect to just see a contact list, with each contact being a simple chat without the typing bar. Most of the other interactions are also too complex (like sending an image).

You'd think this is a small complaint, but I've listed this as first as it's the biggest barrier to conversion. Ask the _same_ user to try FluffyChat, and no objections will be raised besides the expected "why another chat app".

I'm not a fan of the Element UI myself, although I "get it" as it's targeting to something more group-oriented like slack. The problem is that Element is currently neither oriented to plain users, nor it's great to technical ones.

If everything else had to stay the same, they should optimize for plain users on mobile and offer a better, more advanced desktop client instead.
I've got a broken combine harvester
They are welcome to get it from egypt with whom they share a border as well.
Read my post again.
There is 0% Rust code in the Linux kernel at the moment, and no plans to change that.

(And no, "including experimental Rust support" isn't a plan to change that.)

You don't need Rust to compile the kernel. What's changed now is that you could theoretically write a kernel module in Rust. (But you can, e.g., write a kernel module in C++ too, I've done it before.)
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I don't think it's the same argument. Being liable for the things you actively and intentionally do to all of your customers is not the same as being liable for a risk inherent in a medical procedure that you've done your due diligence to prevent and warn about. In either case, there should be some form of accountability, but they are not at all the same thing.
I don't know... Everytime I have an OOM it's been "my fault". Either because I wrote some code that allocated memory in a busy loop, or because I tried to compile something in a memory starved VM.

I could totally see myself running out of memory trying to open /dev/sda in emacs or doing something stupid in elisp. So killing emacs makes a lot more sense than some innocent daemon.
If you look at a graph from 1 2 or 3 years for USD and Some popular cryptos it gets really obvious which one loses relative value and which one doubles or tripples value every other year.

USD is a horrible value storage in the last year's if you deal outside of USD
I think we're actually in agreement.

I'm not suggesting that the manufacturer should be creating closed platforms to "secure" things for the user; I'm saying that closed platforms can't guarantee an increase in security but will guarantee the slow erosion of openness in all other platforms.

I'm well aware of how native apps are heavily marketed over their web-app equivalents because companies want to gather more data, get access to push notifications (on iOS at least), etc.
No it is different. Years are just numbers and can be converted between different calendars. "Victorian" implies a certain political and cultural context. It's like saying "prohibition era London" or "Kentucky during the Sultanate".
I think it's because TimescaleDB has, for performance reasons, "hypertables", and these functions operate on those.
Rather importantly it's not free shipping, you're merely paying a discounted rate for shipping. You get cheaper shipping, Amazon gets increased customer retention by getting you to make an upfront financial outlay for future shipping use (which the customer then feels compelled to try to get the most out of).

If Amazon made Prime free for everyone and kept their retail prices unchanged, there'd be a good argument for saying it's free shipping.
I haven't tried it in a while but last time I tried about a year ago, the messaging was very slow - both to be sent as well as receive.

Has this changed recently? I would like to give it another shot as I want to support the tech. Can someone with use experience please comment with their experience on the speed?
No mention of the splay tree? I am a little disappointed. The locality of access and dynamic programming semantics are super compelling to me.