skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
-- 8) Wait for a call from Aunt Susan after she installs some malware that told her it would boost her cell signal. :)

* https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/infected-apkpure/39273/
Norway even has a special term for someone who has failed in entrepeneurship multiple times -- "bankruptcy jockey".

You won't be banned from starting a business from a single bankruptcy, but if it happens multiple times and/or creditors end up losing significant money over it, you can be barred from starting a business for two years.

I don't think these rules often directly prohibit a promising entrepeneur from starting a business, but it's pretty obvious that the whole culture provides a strong chilling effect.
You can't paint all of Europe with the same brush, and whilst most of Europe may be in the single market, they're not the "same" market. In my experience, there is a high variance amongst European countries (Eurozone or not) in risk-aversion vs risk-tolerance, which seems to be echoed in some studies/observations[1]. I've never really been able to see what the main factors that determine this may be -- I used to think it was correlated to how much each country participates in the global economy, but that would explain UK and Spain, but not Germany.

I also find it a bit narrow-minded to think of Europe as risk-averse simply by judging their attitudes towards tech investments. Spain (where I'm from) definitely appears to be one of the most risk-tolerant EU countries when you look at certain sectors and our foreign investments in infrastructure and other types of construction, but one of the most risk-averse when it comes to tech. If I were to speculate (and I stress, speculate), it seems to be influenced by the type of markets with capital that we have access to: the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. This is also the case when you think of partially publicly funded projects that are quite risky -- especially in countries that are politically unstable like ours. A perfect example would be renewable energies, which would have been the great success story in Spain until new legislation practically killed any hopes of it being eventually profitable.

Germany, on the other hand, seems risk-averse _even_ within their own main domains (industrial engineering, automotive, etc). They also have a big global presence and prestige/reputation, but I have never lived or worked in Germany so I wouldn't even dare speculate why this is the case. I've often seen the finger pointed at bureaucracy, but other countries with similar levels of bureaucracy and hurdles don't seem to be as risk-averse. Different cultures, I reckon.

The UK (where I now live) on the other hand was one of the most risk-tolerant countries in the EU (until their departure) when you think of tech investments. The fact that they speak in English and have a strong services economy helps in that respect, I would guess. I'm definitely not an expert.

1. https://voxeu.org/article/cross-country-differences-risk-att...
This article is really weird. The title is "Using Emacs in an IDE World", but it's just a short note about how the author switched from Emacs to IDE for development, but then switched from iTerm to Emacs for terminal work. Nothing connects into a whole here.
I think you're a little confused about the role of a peasant in a dictatorship.
Do you mean printed, or handwritten? Because Sütterlin looks like gibberish to most Europeans. And it is just the standard Latin alphabet, give or take. It looks like some kind of letters, but they could be from the Voynich manuscript and they would still be as understandable.

In print, it’s partly because several letters are deceptive and don’t sound anything like the closest-looking ones in the Latin alphabet. Some others are just plain weird-looking if you are not familiar with the alphabet already.
God damn, nice.
It would've been fine if it was handled like the other permissions, but the author is taking issue with the fact that this one requires a manual review, you can't simply add it to your app's entitlements.
While this is somewhat true, most of the European founders I know work around this by hiring freelance senior contractors and employing heavily subsidized juniors.
People are not "choosing" this sort of rehab -- judges are choosing for them. Even if given the choice at a sentencing hearing ("would you prefer prison, or a rehabilitation center?"), I suspect many of those convicted have no idea that these rehab centers are really corporate labor camps.
Ask HN: Best (not crippled) laptop configuration for AI/ML/RL?
We are seeing gaming laptops with RTX 3080 graphic cards these days being sold for just $2k, only for those being crippled and performing like RTX 3060s under stress. We are also seeing 11th gen, octa-core Intel CPUs trying to compete with AMD Ryzen processors, again being crippled from working into pretty thin laptops. It is very difficult to get unbiased reviews by top magazines and reputed influencers, though. Any reliable comparison chart out there? I suspect the best compromise for office & AI/ML/RL in mid 2021, in terms of efficiency and value for money, is a 10th gen Intel hexa core laptop with 32 GB RAM and an RTX 3060 6 GB graphic card? This would cost $1.5k and make the most of its inner limitations. Any help with actual benchmarks? Thanks!
Just because you buy something for some of the features, it doesn't mean you want all the features it has.
> It's client side, that's why we're having this discussion.

> This is all a secret process.

Those are in contradiction a client side process is inspectable.
Essential reading: https://www.jbmackinnon.com/the-once-and-future-world
Anytime I hear sundials, I now think of my trip to Jantar Munter in Jaipur, India. Home to world's largest sundial, accurate to two seconds.

https://www.jantarmantar.org/learn/observatories/instruments...

Also home to many other instruments of measurement, absolutely fascinating.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jantar_Mantar,_Jaipur
dude i lold on this come on
On the one hand, Emacs is a very flexible platform powered by Lisp. Users can change and extend it to their needs, make smaller adjustments on the fly. That’s the source of its attractiveness and longevity.

On the other hand, it seems to look confusing for potential adopters, use archaic terminology and keybindings, it takes time to setup a dev environment comparable to VSC. Elisp has its problems and disliked by many users. Emacs slowly loses its appeal and audience, and, in my opinion, this will not change beyond small improvements.

What do you think, is there a potential niche for like NeoEmacs, a test editor written in a modern Lisp / Scheme (maybe, creating such a language would be the first goal), with the same flexibility, but with modern features included by default, modern keybinding and terminology?

Once I hoped Lighttable ( http://lighttable.com/ ) would become that, but it did not happen.

Edit: grammar.
There is absolutely no reason we can't have our cake and eat it too.
I’m saying it’s pointless information because 99% of studies are done in mice, we should label the studies that are in humans (i.e. the exception). It’s almost certainly safe unless it says otherwise for people to stop writing this pointless meme after every study that ever appears anywhere. If it is really in humans that will be in the title in most cases because it’s surprising information.
Did you know that eons ago, people would draw a picture of a bull to mean a bull? Then they got lazy, and would just draw the head? Then they decided to just have the bull's head represent the first sound of their word for bull. Then they simplified the bull's head to 3 straight lines (people get lazy). Then for some reason decided it was easier to write if they rotated it 180 degrees.

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Yup. A bull's head. But now that's no good anymore, and we're back to a picture of a bull, and need about a million more pictures to flesh out our new and improved alphabet. (There are a million words in the English language.)
Europe has one big problem and that is a lack of diversity and culture. The brutalist architecture is in continent is soul crushing. There's a reason why people all over the world migrate to the US. I have been all over Europe and no country comes close to living in California. No country in the world offers the same weather, great pay, culture, entertainment and food from all over the world in one location.
Damn, wow. Meanwhile, the propaganda we hear about China and Qatar.

Edit: The propaganda we hear, and how the USA is somehow, almighty better. We're exactly the same.
Isn’t it rather reductionist to say that the closed nature of iOS is why people buy it?

I chose iphone because a string of bugs left a sour taste in my mouth with android, and inertia locked me in. I definitely don’t want this level of locking it down, and I doubt a majority of iphone buyers want this.
Samsung kills the cameras on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 if you unlock the bootloader
If we regret it long term, people will start buying different products with the features they want.
If you are looking to learn web development online, there are more than enough resources out there to teach you everything you need to know, below you will find my picks for the top 5 websites to help you learn web development online.
Python with asyncio. I don't think it will be useful to anyone else but here is the source https://github.com/NicolasLM/eternal
"The Architect" is a German guy who actively sabotaged Wikileaks in the past.
> Did a bunch of apps specifically abuse multicast networking?

My first thought was: how does multicast IP traffic interact on cell networks?

IPv6 makes heavy use of multicast (e.g., NDP), and a lot of mobile network are now IPv6-only (clients do no get IPv4 addresses), and so if apps can start sending tracking to "everyone" on the network (or a particular base station), could that cause problems.
> Yes that is the business model and business is good.

Not necessarily. A "wasteland where nothing grows" is obviously bad, but... there's a reason we don't let nature to optimize crops for growth, nor do we do it ourselves. We grow crops for food. We literally care about the fruits of their labor. And so is with businesses - the social value of a business is in the prosperity it creates for the people.

The SV growth model, at the extreme, is overfitting the "growth -> acquisition" path - often creating negative value for the society, by disrupting an existing market with an offering that's too good to be true, subsidized by infinite investor money, and then leaving a gaping void after burning out or getting acquired. This would be like a crop plant that first releases poison into the soil, killing competing crop species, then sucks out all nutrients and dies without producing edible fruit. It's not something you'd like to grow on your field either.
I haven't renewed my Apple Developer subscription in a few years but I'm still developing and testing apps at home on the free tier. It hasn't been necessary to the subscription for a few years. Only if you plan to release to the App Store or want developer betas.
There is also the possibility to have a .gitattributes (https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes) file per path.
Ask HN: Suggestions for building a live streaming service?
Looking to build a live streaming service. Need some suggestions on what to use for the streaming server. I have been looking at Ant media server. Its pretty okay. Wanted to look for other options before finalising. Any suggestions?
Confirming pedigree of uranium cubes from Nazi Germany's failed nuclear program
Singularities Can Exist Outside Black Holes–In Other Universes
This is funny to me, because git config is one of the few bastions of sane configuration. The language is not turing complete, there's no real schema, it's not quite TOML, the tooling to read/write values is sublime. Your custom tools can just start using it however you want. Config is all local, nothing is inherited or executed from remote sources.

It's just key=value. Whether value is a URL, a number, a shell command -- totally up for interpretation.

Sure, not having a schema has it's downsides but by god, I love git config.
What galls me about this model is not that it exists, but that companies are allowed to use the words "buy" and "own" in their marketing and contracts around this. The distinction between buying and renting a house, or buying and leasing a car, is well understood. But when it comes to renting a console or a license to a piece of music, we use the same words as for ownership. Maybe we need a new word to describe the "lump sum up front but not for ownership" model.
I think you underestimate how much modern IDEs, especially in languages like Java, C#, Kotlin can help the programmer.

Check these https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/extract-superclass.html and https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/extract-into-class-refac... for some examples of what modern IDEs can do. Note it can extract bits of code into separate class, taking into account many things such as private/public methods and variables.

Similarly, if I change the name of a class or a variable, it will change the name of the class in all files that use it. And it renames the uses of this actual class, not all identifiers that have the same name, so it's much better than just using sed.
Lol, think the OP is perhaps delusional, he answered the question himself...
“well this is what Apple/proprietary software is like, what did you expect?”
> Anyway, I believe everything should be done this way, through communicating with humans. Humans should study every ad and every app before it gets published

Why? This is actually one of the biggest complaints about the App Store review process, because it tends to produce a lot of inconsistent results if your app comes anywhere near the gray areas of the App Store guidelines.

Mandating human review for everything sounds like a good idea for those who imagine perfect, highly-skilled, consistent reviewers handling every step of every process, but that’s not how things work in the real world. You don’t actually want to legally mandate real humans handling every step of everything, unless you want to force everything back to the days of bureaucracy and endless back-and-forth communications to get everything done.
Can you post some sort of evidence?
Haven't tried it but there is an addon to automatically enable reader mode:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-reader-v...
Is there a reason these couldn't offer a PS/2 option?

I don't understand a ton about hardware, so there may be an obvious answer to this question. I just remember looking for a decent PS/2 mouse with more than 2-3 buttons after reading too much about USB vulnerabilities and found the market completely lacking.

I've assumed there's a technological limitation, but seem to remember owning a such a mouse in the mid 2000's.
How could one "run" such a thing while being locked up and monitored by cia and mi5; 24/7 ? Perhaps it's time to rethink homeland security narratives.
The converse does not hold, though, that any satire must give you insight into the real world.

Just referencing a random piece of satire when discussing the real world gives absolutely no insight in and of itself.
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My old car has controls labeled "defrost", "heat", "cold". I never even had a manual for it.

US roads still have plenty of signs in English, like "Speed Limit", "Stop", "Yield", "Road Construction", "Detour", "No Turn On Red", etc. Nobody has any trouble understanding them.
They're unmanned though there could be a danger to people on the ground if there was enough damage done that it couldn't land under control.
All of windows is a 0-day vulnerability.
> There wasn’t much substance abuse treatment at CAAIR. It was mostly factory work for one of America’s top poultry companies. If McGahey got hurt or worked too slowly, his bosses threatened him with prison.
And he worked for free. CAAIR pocketed the pay.

> Men who were injured while at CAAIR rarely receive long-term help for their injuries. That’s because the program requires all men to sign a form stating that they are clients, not employees, and therefore have no right to workers’ comp. Reveal found that when men got hurt, CAAIR filed workers’ comp claims and kept the payouts. Injured men and their families never saw a dime.

It's somewhat incredible (in a bad way) how far capitalism can go in terms of monetizing everything in people's lives when left unchecked.
Years ago I also started designing an OSH mouse[1] as there was nothing on the market (in comparison to OSH keyboards). The main problem I encountered was mechanical design, as with 3d-printing it is hard to get a good mouse-wheel with vertical scrolling. The same goes with the other mouse buttons, where you also want good tactile feedback.

[1] https://hackaday.io/project/7929-ardumouse
Sounds great! But what does HR want?

You have to get through the gatekeepers first...
Reminds me of the work called “Herbarium” by Spanish artist Joan Fontcuberta:
https://www.juanmagonzalez.com/fontcuberta/herbarium.html
Thank you, this seems like a good option once I get my Keyboardio Model 100 in the new year.
Yes, I've gone back and forth on "all errors should be annotated" or "all errors should have a full stack trace" and frankly, I'm now in the "it's just an error" camp. Stack traces seem great but are kinda insane overhead. If you're bubbling up errors from a real deep place, having a $package.$method: %w wrap the error is nice, but beyond that, it's a headache.
That's interesting. It looks like there is a lot of conflicting information on the background rate. And even the UK rate in the quote is higher than the Germany's, yet the article I linked to from the wiki is saying Germany's is higher, and that the estimates on background level vary wildly. Although if it is multiple times the normal rate, then this would not be an example of sensitive reporting/detection anyways (not to mention that EU reporting takes place outside of the VAERS system).

"Do I understand correctly that there is no mechanism specific to how the mRNA vaccines work?"

No. Covid does not add a spike protein to an existing cell. It replicates an entire covid cell. So you have covid virus with a spike and a bunch of other covid proteins if you have covid. Or you have a human cell with a partial spike and all the normal human cell proteins. The immune system usually codes off of, or attacks, multiple proteins. It's possible the immune system will identify the spike and some of the normal cell proteins. A similar sort of mimicry is theorized to occur when the proteins in a virus are similar enough to a human protein.

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/31/science/virus-s-similarit...
That would require solving hard security problems instead of punting on them by whitelisting.

Apple’s policies are guided in part by profit motive but also by security nihilism.
I'm Samir Allioui, and personally vouch for my own words. When I was to take over the Wikileaks infrastructure during the first dutch pirate party election campaign; the architect sabotaged it leaving Julian in dire need of resources,he told me when i briefly had a chat with him in Brussels. ( And i know the architect is German due to his accent - we had two burner calls ) After this event, i talked to Rick resulting in him and some .ch friends eventually resolving the situation.
Sounds like you've never been. I think you're wrong on just about every point. Even if you like the California sunshine I'd still prefer weather in Mediterranean Europe any time.
Interesting snippet from SO[1] from January 2021 (so I assume its still valid) :

>The entitlement is needed only to be able to browse and advertise arbitrary or wildcard services. If you’ve added the one type you use to your Info.plist, as you detail, you do not need the entitlement.

i.e. the entitlement is only required if you are not willing or able to restrict your use of multicast to defined services.

[1]https://stackoverflow.com/a/65589011
Given that a steady stream of VC money could keep Uber running since 2009 I wouldn't bet on those 10 years.
I switched from ansi-term to vterm (https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm) and its performance is much better (specially when dealing with large bursts of output).
The second note at the bottom of the page says:
"That hardware was too outdated to keep producing in any case, and couldn’t complete in a free market."

So I'd say no, there aren't any large Soviet hardware manufacturers anymore.
Is not like the Google and Apple stored are not filled with garbage, it was recently revealed that Apple refused to notify the users that got infected from their "safe" store.

About Aunt Susan , you could have the device locked by default and have a more complex process to root the device, like some code/password that is in the box of the device, in that envelope Apple PR team could inform Aunt Susan that she should not do this unless she is tech competent or a communist.
It's kind of strange to compare companies strictly based on their valuation. Saudi Aramco valuation today is higher than that of Apple but these are very different companies and I wouldn't claim that one is better than the other.
If the Norwegian postal service receives an item addressed to LESUND, it's hardly their fault to take it there instead of ÅLESUND (town names are often capitalized).

A post code should have made the error obvious to the postal system.
uber has a product doing something that changed the way people commute. blockchain is a ponzi.
You're probably right. I use Goland and I just think of it as a natural extension to Go. I shouldn't.
Not really a technological limitation (PS/2 interface is a bit weird, but not too bad, and actually not sure if a mouse even needs the weirder parts), just likely almost no demand inside the already tiny niche for this product, so I'm not surprised they didn't bother.
Delta variant will acquire complete resistance to wild-type spike vaccines
>failed to create an internationally relevant social media company

Those are pros or cons?

>Tech salaries in Europe are now just 1/5th of what they are in Silicon Valley.

Are SV salaries 5 times higher than in Zurich or London? seriously? or you're talking about peak of peak of peak?
"We also need additional tiers to our licensing."

What and why?
It doesn't seem like the author is complaining about having to contact someone at Apple to have these permissions in an app you are building to distribute. If this was for distribution, that could have made sense, but apparently this request for permission is way before that: you need to contact them simply to be able to use the feature on your own device, without distributing it anywhere.

This is like being asked to get permission from IETF in order to run an HTTP server on your computer, it just doesn't make sense.
Why NFTs Make Programmers Mad
If you could change one thing about Emacs what would it be?
If I may post something off-topic

1. I like Cherry mice. Good value for the money
https://www.cherry-world.com/products/office-and-home-office...

2. Does somebody use the Apple Magic Pad under Linux? How to enable right mouse click?