skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's from a not-for-profit entity. It makes it easier to trust them with so much of my most personal data.

Why? Non-profit status has nothing to do with privacy policy. It just means that money goes to employees and vendors instead of owners (who could be the same people for all practical purposes).
Yes, I've been writing it alone, but my "alone" work is at a different level, from what many folks do. Approaching every bit of work I do as "ship," is one of my oddities. I have as much fun, shipping, as I do writing.

I consider everything I do, "engineering." Been doing that, all my adult life.

Feel free to look at the stuff I do (I link to it in my HN profile). The app I'm working on isn't there (yet), but a number of its components are. It's still "under wraps."
Any Android One phone is clean (aside from Google ofc). Sadly the program will probably be cancelled because many manufacturers want their own spyware installed on phones. I think Android will at some point fail.

There is librem and pinephones and they don't look bad, but don't expect many apps and interoperability. Some people regard that as a plus.
Restoring Holcombe Moor
All I want is control of the televisions from my phone. No Samsung, I don't want them all on the same Wifi--it's not reliable.

And by control I mean including turning them on / waking.
There's two way, three way, and four way, and four way can support arbitrary numbers of "ways" - because a path is always found on one flip of the switch and not on the other.
Corporation have learned that playing nice with the government will keep them in business. In Western Germany a lot of Nazi managers found work under the new American rulers.
I'm not sure, honestly. I don't have any references but there definitely is research about anxiety and depression caused by climate collapse. I know at least one psychotherapy professor (Netherlands) who specializes in this. There's a lot of literature. One of the terms often used is eco-anxiety.

The single best advice is to put limitations on your consumption of climate news. But it's highly personal, some people turn to activism to cope, facing the problem head-on. I did that, but it's very depressing honestly.

A powerful image my wife likes to use is sitting at a loved one's deathbed. You don't have hope, you know he or she is going to die, but that makes the remaining time extra special. We are all sitting at the deathbed of the world as we know it. That makes the time we have left extra precious. And we're running out of time.
Okay, but in a n OS market the companies behind them would still be pressured to implement CSAM detection. There's still a monopoly on government.
Where do you anticipate that happening? And in 10 years no less. Is the study suggesting such crazy timelines?
Same here. Despite the atrocious UI of iOS, I've been slowly and reluctantly considering iPhone for my next phone because of the good privacy news. This news kills any consideration of an iPhone for me. I'd rather go back to a dumb phone than let a company scan my phone at will.
I don't like this definition of Software Engineering that necessitates a team of Other People. Perhaps I'm outright wrong that such a definition just shouldn't be. Even in that case, I just don't like it. :)
Indeed. After all, the application is supposed to be only a conduit for a private conversation between two people.

Two adults can negotiate their own communications protocol. Just because you met someone in a Catholic church, doesn't mean they aren't interested in Hindu gods or in sexuality. People are not defined by the culture they live in.

A dating app that tells you what you can or cannot say in a 1:1 conversation isn't a conduit for private communication - it's acting like a chaperone on the date. Except normally, chaperones are there to prevent sex, not police thoughts.
Would they be programmers? Shouldn't we call them no-programmers?
Fascinating that this has been downvoted.

Society does not owe Facebook anything. Let them operate only via actions that are ethical and privacy-preserving, and if they cannot do so, then let Facebook die, and good riddance.
Very helpful. Thanks! Will give this a read.
OK I didn't read the article, that's my fault and thanks for the clarification. But the original point stands: I don't want Apple run more scans on my phone. They can scan on Cloud, but not on my phone before it's loaded into Cloud.
Manually call every customer, explain, and beg for details to re-enter?

20 years ago our shop was running a conference, and had offered folks a "pre-payment plan" for the signup fee; where they could pay the $495 or whatever in 3 installments. We ran this for a year, and then a month before the conference was to happen the AMEX processor we were using decided they didn't like our politics, refunded all the outstanding charges we had, etc.

Sorting out who had paid what, if someone had paid with another card, or wanted a refund; was an absolute nightmare. Only about ~500 people iirc, but the fixups kept consuming time for months after.
I seriously doubt governments emerging from ecological collapse will be as pleasant as one of the 20th century eastern-euro communist governments you're probably thinking of.

Surveillance today is already more all-encompassing in democracies than it was in Eastern Germany. Just wait for an emergency that scares people enough, and that becomes weaponized.

Individual rights don't last in emergencies.
Working with other great developers.

Learning to keep it simple & methods for avoiding code duplication. I tend to find when learning a new language that avoiding duplication teaches me how to use the language properly.

And the book, The Pragmatic Programmer helped me to communicate better.
A protest outside of Apple's main offices or Tim Cook's house would draw a good amount of attention to this issue.
That isn't what they're doing at all. You have significantly misunderstood or conflated different sections.

Though I don't blame you at all: Read through the various hysterical posts about this and there are a lot of extraordinary misrepresentations.
So, projects fail because of (arrogant or inexperienced) developers but not because of managers. And then you wonder why engineers say “many managers do not know what they are doing”.
OneDev 4.9: the open source Git server with built-in CI/CD
The latest 4.9 release comes with service desk feature to create/discuss issues via email. This release also sees the ability to import repositories/issues from GitHub/GitLab/Gitea/BitBucket Cloud/JIRA Cloud/YouTrack.

For detail, please check:
https://github.com/theonedev/onedev/wiki/4.9
Most people were still on 386 and 486 systems by then.
Wouldn’t a better analogy be:

I run a shipping company. You want to send a package. It is illegal for me to handle and ship certain things (e.g., nuclear bombs). Further, I don’t want to handle any of those things. Furthermore, if I find those things (e.g., when a package breaks open), I am legally required to alert the authorities.

What assurance can you provide to the me (the shipping company) that there is nothing illegal in your box? Suppose I ask you to attest but then I find out later that a bunch of people have been lying on their attestation forms which means I have been unknowingly, undesirably made party to illegal activities? Every other company solves this by simply opening everyone’s package and looking. Suppose my shipping company’s clever engineers invent a detector I can give to you that doesn’t require me to look inside the package but can tell me with some certainty that there are no illegal things in the package. What statistical properties would the detector need to have to satisfy you that this was better than forcing every package open?
Maybe impact-makers-group.slack.com and climate-tech.slack.com may be what you are looking for?
If European winters turned into Canadian winters, the ecosystem would likely be devastated. Sorry if your post was just sarcasm.
It's the wrong metric. The question isn't how much stuff it lets through, but how much stuff it removes.

A filter with 99% efficacy at a flow rate of 30cfm will remove the same amount of stuff as a filter with 50% efficacy at 60cfm.

A 99% sealed HEPA system isn't cleaning the air that's not passing through it right now, which is most of the air in the room. It reduces the pollution by some nominal rate. After it's been running for a while, the air is a lot cleaner.

The major problem with box fan with filter are noise, aesthetics, and similar. Box fans aren't designed for for high loads, and just don't work great in that context. It will clean the air just fine, but a proper filter will do so much more efficiently and pleasantly.

In terms of effect:

I have allergies. I feel a lot better post-COVID, with HEPA filters, face masks, and similar precautions everywhere. I can't pin that down to any root cause, though. Particulate pollution? Allergens? HEPA filters at home? Masking outside. Dunno.
Being right doesn’t excuse you from being kind. You can critique something in a constructive way. This isn’t about safe spaces, it’s about keeping communication civil.
Thanks, original post edited.
If you love the product, why do you care how they spend the money for they value they already gave you? Do you ask for a refund from for-profit businesses after you use their product if you don't trust where the money will go?
Ironically I submitted a link to the original paper but the mods (in their infinite wisdom) changed my submission to point at a guardian article.
How do you propose HN's anti-spam filters and Mod(s) check submissions? While I take your implied point about inclusiveness how many different languages do you expect the spam filters and Mods to be fluent in? One? Two? More? That opens you up to “What-About-ism”

In my opinion there is nothing wrong with a website starting up (and keeping topics and discussions) to their lingua franca. As a neutral-ish example – What if I went to a .ru forum and posted something Swahili? Chances are high that it would be flagged/deleted because Swahili is not a language they speak (the mods) and so they have no way of checking to see if it is a Viagra spam or a meaningful contribution.
> I'm merely pointing out a problem of map-territory conflation.

Using complicated language does not make you smart... It just makes you hard to understand. Maybe if you expressed yourself in common language, you'd understand that the points you're trying to make are bogus.
>There is no magic feature that is going to make me want a smart home.

Imagine the fun when it all goes obsolete in five years, a controller board dies with no replacement available, all for very little advantage.

Maybe this is Peak Technology. Sticking a computer and communications network on things that gain little from the addition. The one exception I might make is low-cost surveillance cameras, but of course it took the industry about ten seconds to add subscriptions and spying-on-you to the business model.
Your first two citations merely suggest there would be limited benefits to previously infected getting the jab. Other research disagrees with this.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01609-4
If you think communism is bad, wait until you see long-term deflation under capitalism.
Yeah. It just doesn't cohere with human nature. Capitalism at least manages. Communism seems like something that would happen maybe post-singularity and after scarcity is solved. And we'd be like homogenous spacefarers like the aliens depicted in our stories.
I've really liked my RainMachine sprinkler controller. It only requires internet connectivity to download weather reports; all other functions are available via LAN. Being able to turn the sprinklers on via the phone is incredibly useful for verifying repairs, finding leaks/clogs and aiming spray patterns. And it reduces water usage by deferring watering if enough rainfall has occurred.
And more hand washing, and more distancing, etc.

Because, like I said, the flu is far less contagious.
Ah, so that means we gonna have snow again in the alps? Jokes aside, I have a hard time imagining such a world. And I have zero interest living in one, not that there is much choice so in that case.
Looks like you’re right about Harvard. I’ve heard that claim for years but it seems to be a confusion with another member of the (large) family and controversy about Saudi money at Harvard.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden

My point is that people with money and power are far more able to execute large scale crimes, and not just terrorism. Meanwhile surveillance is experienced more and more as you move down the socioeconomic pyramid.

Apple is catching flak for this but overall their devices respect privacy more than most cheaper devices. They also cost a lot more. Your average cheapo phone or laptop comes absolutely stuffed to the gills with spyware and runs older OSes with bad security. The poorer you are, the more spyware riddled and insecure your devices probably are.
Are the only phone options iOS or Android? I’m also considering leaving my iPhone behind because of this privacy violation but I’m definitely not moving to Google. That seems like two steps back.
A quick look at that website and you see it's not for normal or typical consumers. It's for a technical crowd who is in to technical things and tinkering.

It's like telling an average person to use GNU/Linux for their desktop OS and then watching them struggle to get printing to work well (I have been through this).
You are reading way too into the post you responded to. At no point did they agree that the OP is speaking the truth. They said to rephrase it to not just be negativity. But constructive too.

You then bring up safe spaces which is irrelevant. It appears you had an agenda from the get go and are attempting to create a narrative here.
There are three kinds of deadlines: fake deadlines, contract/revenue driven deadlines and reality driven deadlines. Most problems with deadlines I've seen come from chronically mislabeling the deadline (e.g. sales don't close, so engineers start ignoring revenue driven deadlines). Fake deadlines sometimes are necessary to get things to some finished state, but they should be used very sparingly. Deadlines should be honest, and when something changes (e.g. some other team is going to be 3 weeks late on their part of the product so being on time doesn't matter) the deadlines should be quickly adjusted. Deadlines are a work-planning and asset allocation constraint, and will cause very bad decisions if they are not understood and managed well.
And that is why people still use FORTRAN.
You should read about "cap and trade system" implemented by European Union. The idea is to cap emissions according to the Paris Climate agreement and auction resulting remaining emissions.

https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/ets_en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Emissions_Tradi...
And at that point all of that no-code turns from an accelerator into a giant pile of legacy crap outside of your control which will cause you to hit a wall of ability to evolve the software far sooner than later.
That's how it works in the U.S. It's called "strict liability."
Exactly.

I read a book, where one of the characters is a smith. It has this exchange, between him, and another character:

"Always do the very best job you can," he said on another occasion as he put a last few finishing touches with a file on the metal parts of a wagon tongue he was repairing.
"But that piece goes underneath," Garion said. "No one will ever see it."
"But I know it's there," Durnik said, still smoothing the metal. "If it isn't done as well as I can do it, I'll be ashamed every time I see this wagon go by -and I'll see the wagon every day.”
He doesn't trust $trillion corporations with his mail?
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xiaomi/aqara/yeelight gear works great most of the time, especially with Alexa integration.
Provision an Ubuntu-based EC2 instance with CDK
Doesn't the governor of a state have the power to grant pardons?
Can't edit any more but as provided in another thread by another user, they were already, as I had originally assumed, doing it server side : https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/01/09/apples-scanning-...
Polluting is not some habit that people inherit genetically from their parents.
What were you using? The filter should be MERV14 or higher. It will remove >75% of all small particles too.

You shouldn't end up with 13% leftover, if you're doing it right. Air will pass through the filter multiple times, and it removes >75% each time.

Below MERV14, you'll have that problem. Above, it should do as well as HEPA. The gap between 13% and 0% will be made up for with a 13% stronger fan.
I saw a doctor on YouTube (just a private guy with his own channel) apply this same reasoning to Florida. Right now is Florida's "winter": meaning, people tend to stay indoors with the windows closed (to avoid the oppressive heat of the July and August).
>pulling in random JavaScript libraries and changing the testing framework for no reason."

Offenders will be hoisted up by the toes with yarn and beaten into unconsciousness with an organic carrot.

Signed: Quality Assurance
Reddit is not exactly a hard to build site. Any experienced React developer could do this in less than 2 weeks.

I'm not sure how to draw comparisons between the two.
I've been stuck in the first state for over a decade. With loss of a loved one, they are gone and you can move on (either to a new partner, or 'move on' to join your lost partner).

With loss of a planet, not so much. The grieving doesn't end, because the destruction doesn't end.
> On laptops

My XPS 15 does about 6 hours (it's a maxed out i7) on Linux and 3 on Windows.
I'm glad people are sticking their necks out and opposing this. Typically people keep quiet because they don't want to be branded as "pro child-pornography" and that opens the door for this sort of surveillance.
- Writing small, standalone, often throwaway programs to play with a new language feature, concept or API, or to answer a question about how something works or performance. This helps with understanding but also got me over the fear of starting a new project from scratch.

- Learning functional programming (and applying the above to that learning) made me a better programmer in the non functional languages that I still spend most of my time using.

- Reading books and technical articles as an ongoing thing over many years, little bits of knowledge and understanding really accumulate over time.

- I actually found that practicing coding interview style problems and using them as a motivator to better understand core computer science algorithms and data structures has improved my programming, I think for similar reasons as my first point above.
Windows has followed up the idea with COM, for example, the datatypes version would be WIC.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wic/-wic-lh

However it is exactly as you put it, it is exposed at application level, so unless an application calls into WIC, it will never be made aware of new WIC components deployed into the system.
HOLD the phone. Can we confirm this? If so, this 100% furthers my idea of "Stop thinking of tech billionaires of being helpfully creative to the world and having imaginations, they are the exact opposite."

If a normal person were also a billionaire, they'd stop for half a second and call someone and say "hey, make sure Thunderbird is good for forever."

These people can't think that way, they're hampered by the mental defect of "Hmm, what's the angle, how can I make money off this? I can't right now, okay so I'll do nothing."
Timeout.

I think this shows one problem of no-code. The underlying code and data structures are probably horribly bad.

Every $5/month box should handle HN traffic easily for a reddit style application.

With the right indexes on the DB tables, an out of the box Debian LAMP stack is insanely fast for this type of use case.
This is what Nabu Casa is doing with home assistant.
At the other extreme by size Apple’s HomeKit is local-first too and they play well together.
> no maps

I don't experience any issues using mapping apps on Android with microG instead of Google Play Services. Closed source navigation apps including Google Maps, HERE WeGo, and Magic Earth work just fine. Open source navigation apps like Organic Maps and OsmAnd also work with no problems.
Thats a lot oxalate :( if you also like your milk but fruits not so much welcome to kidney stones
I am not able to reproduce your observation, but I have only limited data. Could you give some more concrete examples of submissions that shouldn't have been flagged/killed?

Many of the times that I see a non-English link, it's spam, including completely non-HN-related links.

I went through the last ~25 hours of postings (with showdead enabled) to find foreign language links. What I found was that the dead links were to off-topic pages. Of the two non-dead pages, one in Spanish is mostly off-topic, and one in French is on-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=noakmilo has a couple in Spanish. It appears to be promoting their tech news site that isn't HN-related. Eg, "how to get a GMail account (as explained by NASA)." (That one wasn't dead.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=zmzm92 links in Arabic to a jobs site. Very off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=revistacomebien posted two links in Spanish, including "Protein shakes that you should prepare for training". Off-topic.

anton96 posted the on-topic «Unix à jamais: nouvelle série en cours sur le Club iGen» at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28078209 . gus_massa advised in the sole comment: 'post in other languages are usually ignored or flagged unless there is no equivalent information in English. At least translate the title to something like "Unix Forever: New Series Underway on Club iGen [in French]".'

I stopped at slightly more than 24 hours ago with a link by https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=elizehurley which often links to a blogger entries with titles in Turkish like "Learn English Without Taking a Course".
> The man did suffer from mental health issues, which apparently is why nobody believed his protests

But they didn't know who he really was; or he wouldn't have been there. If they didn't know who he was, they couldn't have known that he previously suffered from mental health issues.
You can run it without installing. You can run almost anything on Linux without installing.
> I'm no fan of Facebook but if they didn't stop the research they could be found guilty again for the exact same reason

The people that run Facebook are vain, greedy, and utterly uninterested in the public good, but they are not stupid and are almost certainly aware of the existence of telephones and email. They undoubtedly understood that banning a public interest research group is a fundamentally different activity than banning advertising firms or other commercial actors, and had they been interested in actually following the law here this would have involved communication with FTC about what they should do in this situation. It apparently didn’t.
I have a bunch of philips hue lights, a nest thermostat and some blink cameras hooked up to both alexa and google hub and it all just works and has for years. I used to have problems when I was buying a bunch of cheap china mix and match products.
It will be far worse than europeans having to buy a winter jacket. From [0]:

> Such an event would have catastrophic consequences around the world, severely disrupting the rains that billions of people depend on for food in India, South America and West Africa; increasing storms and lowering temperatures in Europe; and pushing up the sea level off eastern North America. It would also further endanger the Amazon rainforest and Antarctic ice sheets.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/05/climate-...
Its time for us to roll up our sleeves and get to work! What a challenge we've been given to solve! I'm not backing down