skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Small islands of appropriate flora where insects can recharge can provide valuable bridges between fractured habitats and can help stabilize populations.
Calling Interdependence peer pressure is diluting the nuance of people's relationships. It has a lot to do with culture and societal norms, for example in my culture (Arab) there is a strong emphasis on family and community values, i'm expected to take care of my parents, even going so far as to ensure their financial stability during retirement (absolutely NO care homes!). It's an interesting insight into conformity, but it's clear to researchers that western countries have less conformity, and therefore more selfishness by default; it's a symptom of the capitalist mindset.
Regarding charity, yes western countries are more charitable but isn't this just more conformity? Charity is always given the most when others are watching, when it's made into a game or a challenge (remember ALS ice bucket?). Using charity as a metric for interdependence is also an illusion. More charity does not necessarily mean more interdependence; we should be measuring (as best as we can) happiness and satisfaction in daily life, which coincidentally the US and the UK fall short compared to other nations.

Maybe what we can learn from this is that there isn't a be all end all singular mindset, and we can adapt our thinking to fit our cultural norms, whilst avoiding the pitfall of self indulgence.
I wasn't arguing editorial merit. This was about them having a large market share, which they do.
Is anyone working on better LFS integration with core Git? Somebody mentioned on here a while ago how much of a hack it is and how you could make it way better if it was a core part of Git.
I'm tired of hearing "living in fear" equated with taking basic precautions to prevent the spread of disease, on HN of all places. It's just a dog whistle.
Buddhist societies are not exceptionally just, despite thousands of years of attempting to achieve balance, and not least because there's a hierarchy that naturally develops among practitioners, and many injustices in daily life are written off as a result of dharma. Buddhism just abstracts reality into something slightly more palatable that doesn't require as much action on your part. Tip that into westernized self-help 'mindfulness' and you have a perfect antidote to the nagging guilt of self-reflection and responsibility for the state of affairs in the world.
If one use internal ip 128. 10. Etc, why can’t one use another protocol for internal transfer. That means the internal traffic is cut off not just by ip but also by other internet protocol.

The ospf vs Bgp and within organisation why not …
Hahaha I'm sure somewhere out there, someone's opened a packaging and turned the apple around to find it all brown and disgusting on the other concealed side!
Essays on ‘Galileo’s Error’
when planning on injecting a new type of product to 100% of a (healthy) population you better be sure about what you're doing...

Biology "certitude" is far from being as strong as a mathematical proof. Humans are different, and the complexity of interaction inside a single body are horribly complex.

I'm very surprised decades of science fiction litterature isn't enough to make people think twice.
Hmmmmmmnnn that's super interesting. So unfortunately that flirts with a ToS violation-ish (of course youtube-dl is allowed to exist but maybe questionable to build on, public information is allowed scrapable via the linkedin decision, etc), but this implies that:

- Youtube is a must-have platform for you (one of the big offenders for sure, I had them in my notes on this idea)

- Being able to download the content is ideal.

I've been thinking that maybe if the content creator has the option to manage their page and upload their own content that would be a nice way to handle it. Not that I want to play the video hosting game but having access to the original content would make it much easier to distribute.

The question of who pays is interesting though.

If you don't mind, email (see bio) me a way to contact you (something ephemeral if you'd like, twitter, whatever is most comfortable) and I'll see if I can whip something together for you to beta test.
I guess much that did the first client light weight was because it was developed by Ludvig Strigeus. He devloped the very light and popular uTorrent client. Very early for Spotify they bought uTorrent AB, not for the uTorrent client, but because they wanted his skills and he was the person that developed the first Spotify client. A few month later Spotify sold the uTorrent client to Torrent Inc.

Ludvig Strigeus is a skilled developer and have got many awards, like the Polhem Prize which is a Swedish award for a high-level technological innovation or an ingenious solution to a technical problem. If I recall correctly, he is very good at writing very small and optimized c++ programs, but the code is very hard for others to understand and maintain. So I guess when Spotify become bigger and more developer needed to work with the code they needed a more "main stream" solution and had to abandon the first client.
I think something like acquisition is a really fair concern.

Someone here has recommended tying our values down into some form of legal agreement which prevents the company from straying from them. That would also work for acquisition (though I'm not sure how to go about something like that)

Someone else has suggested not talking about privacy at all, since those who care about it will want open-source browsers.

We're still figuring out how to talk about this. All we want to say is we want to build an awesome product, we try to handle as little user data as possible but handle it appropriately, and we will be doing more to resolve privacy issues in browsers.

If I can assuage any concerns (not the major one of it being closed-source though. I can only say trust us for that :p), no session data is captured when you use the app. We don't know what tabs are open. Now if you choose to sync your data across devices, your session data will then be uploaded to our server, stored encrypted. The only user data we have otherwise is from the sign up form.
I do not understand the purpose of Venmo. It seems like an unnecessary middleman.
Not here. Diabetes and heart disease are both associated with worse outcomes for COVID. That said I don't think it's realistic to expect more than a few people try to become more fit to stave off COVID.
> I said that one CAN produce snappy Electron apps.

You're still asserting they CAN without being able to cite any that does. You've only highlighted everyone's favorite VS Code example whose performance and resource usage is definitely not comparable to native text editors.

Everyone already knows the obvious benefits of Electron and why it's popular, that's irrelevant to your baseless snappiness claims on a thread about the impressive UX and responsiveness of Spotify's original Desktop App which even they themselves was not able to recreate when they moved to their new Desktop's CEF/Web UI architecture.
use neovim above 0.5 that has native LSP support and use treesitter
make sure you use versions above 0.5
I think you would be surprised how much fraud still happens with strong identity protections.

Here in the UK strong customer authentication and strong proof of identity is a requirement in law, breaching it lands you in significant amounts of hot water. So at the bank I used to work at, identity theft was pretty rare and only made up a tiny fraction of the fraud we saw.

A much bigger share of the pie, and the area that we really struggled with, is customer authorised payments. The customer gets socially engineered into parting with their cash, and as a bank we're expected to reimburse them if we can't prove that we didn't take steps to detect the scam in progress and prevent the customer making the transaction.
Yeah, less than a few seconds with spot consistently would be nice, but i've never seen it. When I was handling autoscaling via the ec2 api + python + ngnix, the daemon I wrote pretty much had to have a while loop to continuously check connectivity via ssh after a t3a.medium (with ubuntu) was kicked off from `ec2.request_spot_instances`

Perhaps I should have been using "Clear Linux 34640"
I often wonder about a fantasy world where magic works like technology in the real world (like there is long arduous research to create new spells, not simply "being born with magical talent"). Would it become a popular fantasy setting?
http://zero-k.info/Maps/Detail/8297 and http://zero-k.info/Maps/Detail/19651 are fairly large and popular.

ZK tries to cut down on busywork and pure contests of APM. If you don't want to micro then you can do things like tell your units to fight somewhat intelligently (eg long ranged units run from approaching enemies) and set them to retreat when their health is low. It doesn't replace quick tactical decision making for more intense 1v1s, but not everyone wants to play that way anyway.
I never really got into Spotify because I found the UI so confusing, clearly designed for "engagement" instead of usability.

But this is perfect:

- search for the name of an album, press enter and voilà it plays the album in order like I expect

- Playback takes 1% CPU and 0.1% of RAM

- vim-ish bindings

- It even works with physical play/pause/next... keys on my keyboard

Thank you!
Home Depot, Lowe’s, and Walmart do not support tap to pay yet. They are the only major retailers I have been to recently that still do not.
Hong Kong and Taiwan aren't countries. Both are historically Chinese territory and both are, as far as international law, the UN, and international recognition are concerned, Chinese land.

Hong Kong was supposed to be a separate administrative region according to the treaty with the UK, which has been violated by China, but it was never a country.

Chinese land -> colony -> autonomous Chinese region -> China

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China, is the party that lost the Chinese Civil war and ran away to an island which is considered a part of China ( Taiwan, Formosa before that) even if it was occupied by the Japanese after the first Sino-Japanese war. To this day, both PRC and ROC claim they are the sole China. Everyone agrees the PRC is the sole China.

Recently there has been a shift in Taiwan, with a new party in power, and generally people there seem to be more in favour of abandoning the ROC and China claims, and just being an independent country called Taiwan. Sadly that won't be accepted by the PRC, since, you know, they claim Taiwan is theirs ( and it legally still is considered to be).

For Americans, an analogy for Taiwan - the Confederacy lost the Civil war, but ran away to Hawai, assimilated the locals, calls itself the CSA and claims the whole of the US in its constitution.
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The DRM decrypting stuff is breaking the ToS.
There is a certain overlap between anti-vax'ers and 5G-alarmists ( the vaccines contain a chip to track you with 5G! ).
No, just a summary of the message of the article. Obviously I also "don't agree".

I find it a fascinating lesson how "scientists" can facilitate their "research" to prove exactly what they want to be proven.
Professor has just rediscovered that by becoming settlers, with fields, and villages, and wheat, and stocks of grains to protect, rather than nomads not belonging to a land and following hereds, communities had to start creating structured societies, "stratified", as he said. Great.
Thank you! I took some time off after finishing my last full-time commitment, and wanted to cut my teeth on Rust a little bit -- exploring how feasible building cross-platform native apps is right now. So I've started building something that I'm missing and would like to use. Combine this with the pandemic, and here we are.
While you're gathering data for that counterfactual, you may want to look into how Japanese fascists used mindfulness to transform its army into perfect soldiers.
Anything that qualitatively changes what survival means to us, will change someone. For good, bad, indifferent. For most people a combination.

A close friend gave me insight on why success changes people, after I hit a milestone that mattered to me. He told me, "You are still going to have problems, they are just going to be different problems."

Each of our moral outlooks, stability, suitability for state of life, relatability, etc., is heavily dependent on our relationship with our survival environment. And success radically changes that relationship qualitatively, when it changes it much quantitatively.
Which they consider to be a rebellious province ( so an internal matter).
Yes and only C# was created because of NIH syndrome:

C# - Created by Microsoft after Sun sued them over Java. But C# (or rather .NET) did still solve several problems with Java’s JVM (eg it’s much easier for end users to work with, it supports native widgets, first class Windows support) and personally I find C#’s syntax a little more grown up too. It’s also worth noting that C# has since evolved into its own language (rather than just being a Java knock off).

J# - there isn’t any other functional language that targets .NET so there is a distinct problem J# seeks to solve.

TypeScript - That language clearly aims to solve several short comings of JavaScript, such as type safety.

Kotin - I don’t know much about this language personally but the Wikipedia article answers my point for me:

> In July 2011, JetBrains unveiled Project Kotlin, a new language for the JVM, which had been under development for a year.[17] JetBrains lead Dmitry Jemerov said that most languages did not have the features they were looking for

Go - this filled a massive hole at the time: languages that had the guarantees of a statically compiled language while being as quick to learn and develop on as a JIT compiled language and which were cross platform. I actually adopted Go in version 1.0 for a personal project specifically because it solved problems with the other mainstream languages - problems that were very relevant to the project I was creating.

I’m an old fart with 30 years of software development experience across well over a dozen different languages (you could easily treble that if you want to include machine or compiler specific dialects too). The problem many have when they see the term “general purpose” is they assume it means “best suited for all purposes” but actually it just means “can solve most problems with some degree of success”. Thus there will naturally be specific domains where even the most versatile languages are superseded by another language. And that’s fine. Good programmers can adapt to using the right tools. Whereas bad programmers will reach for the same tools regardless of the problem because they’re too lazy or too ignorant to learn anything else.
Probably legacy that 20 years ago VBscript could be used instead of JavaScript in IE.
Compound that with driving more and it's a lot more time spent filling up.
Covid.
5G.
Surveillance.

I'm sure this thread will be fine.
>Yeah, China just defines a country as "not another country" when they want to interfere. See Hong Kong, Taiwan, or pretty much every other neighboring country and their territorial waters or exclusive economic zone.

Yet those definitions of domestic issues were made by ROC, and acknowledged to some degree by most security council members post ww2, which PRC inherited, and have been largely consistent in enforcing. PRC isn't making up domestic interests for geopolitics, it's protecting domestic interests despite geopolitics, i.e. PRC maritime disputes predates UNCLOS which opponents are retroactively wielding to constrain PRC interests that predates it. It's not PRC changing definitions or rules or interests.

>China is a startup empire

And it's important to see how PRC is trying to build the new empire. Apart from brief phase where Mao was exporting revolution, in aggregate it has been predominantly peaceful. Unprecedentedly so, even more so as PRC grows, contrary to expectations. PRC military today is more powerful than it's ever been, yet PRC employment of force is near historical level of restraint, i.e. instead of thousand casualty boarder skirmishes with India when PRC was barely industrialized, recent sino-indian skirmishes ended with 10s of casualities. That's ridiculously reserved all things consider. There's quite literally not another ascending power who has reached pacing strength with the existing hegemon as fast and as peacefully as PRC in recent history. Current indictors show if PRC assumes role of global police, she would actually just focus on policing (with customary bias), versus current US trigger happy global policing that's a reflection on her domestic model. Which is probably a better example for future hegemons all things considered.
In addition to weakening the logic (or avoiding the parts that introduce incompleteness, especially the existential quantifier) you also need to weaken your arithmetic. We know that Primitive Recursion (PR) is too weak to prove its own consistency, and Peano Arithmetic (PA) is too strong. So you may have to look at a strengthening of PR and/or weakening of PA in order to achieve a theory that proves its own consistency. Whether that theory exists is still an open question.
> First is that this is fundamentally a question of tradeoffs, which means a single axis diagram like this is fundamentally misleading.

Agreed on the tradeoffs, and the diagram is a projection of complex parameter space onto a single axis.

> But if the tradeoff means the app costs more, or has fewer accessibility or language features, or doesn't run on the user's chosen OS—which is more mean?

That's a very tricky question, because relationship between performance and those other factors is not straightforward. For example, the cost of making an app in a typical startup has zero relation to what the users pay - development is funded from investor money, and user-facing price is set by whatever shenanigans the business is doing at the moment - e.g. $0 to corner the market or maximize growth, or $10 as a calculated point that maximizes money extraction from a growing user base, etc.

(One would think there's no free lunch, and eventually the price has to come close to costs - but that's not how startups economy works. If you get to the point of having to turn actual profit, you've already missed your exit.)

Related to this is a second point: in a winner-takes-all market, the most successful app will suck the oxygen out of the room, preventing others from doing better work. Success typically isn't determined by the app itself - the app is usually backed by a service, which makes it not commodizable. If you need Teams because of network effects, you won't switch to Slack even though the app is better. You won't dump Spotify for a competitor that doesn't have an equivalent musical catalog. Etc.

The point I'm trying to make is: the trade-offs are often arbitrary choices. Would it be possible for an app to successfully compete with Spotify while having fast, native clients for every platform and full accessibility? Definitely. But it's not happening because it's not possible for that app to break into that market in the first place. Our would-be app can't compete on being a better music streaming player - it has to first reproduce the entire value-offering, including the streaming service, the library, and countless of deals negotiated with labels and musicians. This isn't happening, and so Spotify isn't getting any feedback from the market about their godawful garbage apps.

> because many readers believe that building on Electron implies your app will be slow and is a basically negligent technology decision, a blight on the field of software engineering, and so on and so on...

I'm partial to this view. The way I see it, picking Electron by default lands you smack in the middle of what I labeled as "bad UX" zone. It takes hard work - the kind of work you've described as trading against accessibility or existence - to move it into the "good UX" zone. That work isn't usually done - you don't pick Electron if you want to make a snappy app, you pick it because you care about velocity, cornering your little part of the market. So Electron apps tend to move towards the "now you're being mean" zone - which is where this common view of "Electron = bloat" comes from.
Bluesky re-building the social web
Spotify removed a lot of their great social features from that time, as well as Spotify apps. Almost everything about Spotify has gotten much worse except the reccomendation algorithm.
> So when German non-profits want to hand out merch in exchange for a specific donation amount, non-profit has to pay for-profit taxes on that?

No, I think what he's saying is that it's not a tax-deductible donation for the patrons. (Which is actually more-or-less law in the US too, unless the reward is worth vastly less than the donation[0])

[0] https://www.nolo.com/legal-update/irs-changes-thank-you-gift...
It needn't even be price discrimination; for example, they can also just specifically highlight discounts for you for products that you usually combine with expensive/high-margin products that you otherwise wouldn't buy.
> unless you have unfixable memory leaks there is no reason to do this.

It's also useful to set this threshold to prevent long-lived connections to services/datastores not used by every request from accumulating and consuming resources on those services.
I'm tired of hearing that masks don't have consequences and are just basic precautions.

I for one feel it massively reduces the quality of my interactions and trust in people. I find it much harder to communicate properly. The long term consequences of this are not taken into account.

And I'm vaccinated, everyone in my country who wants to be vaccinated is. Why should I reduce the quality of my life for people who made a choice and took a risk? I actually don't mind that they made this choice, it's their risk. But don't destroy my quality of life for people who knowingly are taking a risk on their end.
Wizard's Bane (1989) is a fun take on that.
> So when German non-profits want to hand out merch in exchange for a specific donation amount, non-profit has to pay for-profit taxes on that?

I don't know about german regulations specifically, but based on my experience in other legal systems and my understanding of the announcement, i believe it means that because "patreon and our custom sponsorship platform" aim to reward individuals, they cannot be considered donations for the non-profit.

A non-profit may employ/contract people for specific tasks aligned with its goals, but rewarding people outside of such specific contract is closer to a "shareholder" model and incompatible with non-profit regulations. Of course, contributors to a non-profit may setup donation systems to pay their own bills, but that must not be advertised as donations "to the non-profit" (because that would be a lie), and they have to declare/pay taxes on that.
I was learning to drive in gas-powered car in netherlands. In the middle of the lessons, we switched electric car, hyundai iconiq to be precise. I think sales are higher not because electric cars are cleaner than gas-powered cars, but I think electric cars have way much better user experience inside and out of the car. It just feels more modern and I think people will switch to electric just because of that.

I really think gas-powered cars will become niche.
> We've not heard any recommendations from any health agency suggesting a healthier lifestyle would help - it most certainly would statistically speaking.

Would it? Do you have research on recent lifestyle changes and COVID?

Or are you just assuming that on-average stats relating to comorbities represent simple binary on-off switches?
Hi, thanks for being interested! There've been some regressions lately, sorry :| Performance is #1 priority for me, and a big focus now, after last round of refactorings.