skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This seems like a lot of jumping to conclusions to fit your pre-determined opinion of them.

Unfortunately, that's the opposite. I was very interested in suckless some years ago, and was very disappointed to learn their tolerance (if not sympathy) towards nazism.

> They have said they're not, so we should take them at face value.

Denying affiliation is a classic strategy in psyops. The alt-right and manosphere have established entire PR strategies based on that.

I'd be more inclined to trust a person/collective declaring they anti-nazi (or antifascist if you will), than a person/collective declaring they're "not a nazi" then leaving traces of nazi symbolism everywhere.
If this tool could actually create beautiful bash scripts, that would be quite an accomplishment!
If an account is banned (not shadow-banned) and reddit finds out the person uses other accounts to evade it, they suspend (but not ban) both temporarily.
> Why do people think that the universality of decay can be stopped?

I'd rather say that the "universality of decay" is a U-shaped curve. Just have a look at old arcade and console games... they went out of fashion, the hardware (sometimes literally) rotted, but emulator technology is getting better and better all the time - the result is you can use any modern computer or many smartphones (!) to run all that stuff that is sometimes many decades old.

All that any kind of technology needs to survive into modern ages is one (single or group of) person that engineers an appropriate abstraction layer. Polyfills, virtual machines and other emulators, FPGA-based hybrids... the list is endless.
My digging indicates that Apple has 1.65B active devices as of Q1 2021. The vast majority (1B) are iPhone users, and I suspect the vast majority of iOS users use Safari.

Sounds like Google is getting a pretty good deal.
True, but they are the ones with all the power. I think you’re fighting not just an uphill but an impossible battle. With very little upside to you if you win.
We don't even know if the country level subs are moderated by their respective actual citizens.
Agreed on all points.

Interesting to see this:

> You can argue that all of this has existed for a very long time, back from the days of all kinds of toolbars and extensions that created multiple levels of address bar nesting in your web browser and taskbar.

What I find ironic about the whole situation is, back then it was universally known that those toolbars and extensions are distributed by assholes. The whole software category was called by various pejorative names - "adware", "spyware", "malware". There was a whole ecosystem of tools and tricks to get rid of them, as well as preventing them from being installed in the first place.

Something weird happened over the past decade. We find ourselves in times where most mainstream software from renowned companies should be, by the standards of the toolbar era, classified as malware.
> unsure of what to report up the management chain

I would tell the manager of the manager that things are really good right now, dont fuck it up by making a happy team write nonsense career progression plans.

But because you need a piece of paper, would slap together a team plan and timeline for each of the team on their current glidepath - promotion / salary / retirement and candidates for replacement / managers if team grows / potential head of projects etc.
PragmatIC Semiconductor designed and manufactured a flexible 6502 in two weeks
It's "borderline unusable" because the vast majority of people who use computers probably wouldn't know how to select more than one item. There are no affordances and virtually nothing uses it any more.

Even in the early desktop era when it was popular, many non-enthusiasts probably just didn't know how to use a UI control like that. It just didn't cause a problem because most people didn't use computers much.

I would bet that most internet users today have never even used a UI where that control is popular.
Australia is no longer a free country.
Ask HN: What's the Status of Electron in 2021?
I'm evaluating the pros and cons of building an electron app, and although for the kind of app, it makes sense to use electron, I'm still not 100% sure.

I know in most cases, the answer is always: it depends™, but I'd be very curious to hear some unbiased stories from more experienced people on the topic, because I believe there is a "stigma" around electron nowadays, and I'm not sure if it's still true.
All my HTML still works. Just don't go overboard with frameworks and Javascript.
Singapore has allowed ~240,000 people to enter since Covid hit last March and that's with a few months where entries were a couple hundred.

They are a pretty strict process from the time you step off the plane to when you leave the hotel quarantine. It's certainly possible.
> It's been simple and predictable and easily learned for decades, calling it "borderline unusable" is just hyperbole.

And it's also completely not discoverable. I only know how it works when I read from HTML book back in the day.

Just because it was the standard doesn't mean it's easily learned.
Internet points are a form of validation, also the notifications and responses play on our dopamine circuits, namely, on our desire for novelty.
I'm not convinced - in my friend group Discord would never have got a chance if Skype had left well enough alone and not tried to fix what wasn't broken. Instead they added more and more bloat, which created the opportunity that Discord then stepped into.
Presumably this compensation by Google is pure profit for Apple. If so, that might explain why Apple hasn't developed its own search engine.
I actually thought that sounds kind of cheap. On average each German person emits roughly 10 tons of carbon per year. So for a $1000 dollars per year, I can be carbon neutral without any additional changes? Sounds pretty good to me.
Re 1, the problem is that "beautiful" doesn’t tell you anything useful, other than (being uncharitable) the author having succumbed to tech marketing hype speech.
I’d rather block content with ads
Makes me wonder why they have to pay 15b in the first place. If it’s indeed a no-brainer for apple, the deal could be made with far less money?
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> I just want a low-effort way to pass the time with my wife until it's socially acceptable to go to bed.

Is it really social pressure that prevents you from going to bed earlier?
Just checked out the GitHub repo. Apparently the author can't even be bothered with posting an issue seeing if there may be a more appropriate name for the GH repo, although I personally see nothing wrong with the name as it is merely a package that you have to manually install.
If you're that worried "<p> hold shift to select more than one item.</p>" isn't a whole lot extra to add and is something most people can handle.
That seems like a technical loophole, like zero hour contract workers not having any rights. It doesn't mean it's OK and shouldn't be discussed.
I watched some local news and a documentary on the building.

Yes, there is/was a coverup until the "marble" demo (a couple living in the building rolled a marble around their unit, and there was a clear slope.)

Obviously the builders don't want to be on the hook for compensating the owners and tearing down the building.

And the city doesn't want to be on the hook for dewatering near it (see my post below for more details.)

It was supposed to be one of the most luxurious condos in the world. Athletes, etc. bought units, in the range of $1 million to $4 million.

I know one of the owners, and he doesn't want to talk about it. :)
Yes, you register your work account with your work number and your personal account with your private one.

Telegram clients support multiple active sessions with multiple accounts, you can switch between them easily and receive notifications from all accounts.
And highly increase the personal privacy and use cases. Let's be real this was a monetary decision and nothing else.
vim :)
But yet “Havana Syndrome” is freely used everywhere.
> Tech people generally love to under invest in accounting and legal services early in a start up

I'm not sure where to even start with that.

An early-stage startup doesn't need any accounting or legal services. In fact those are distractions.

You would need that if:

- you have employees

- you have investors who expect it

- you would owe taxes based on sales

- those are costs, not "investments"

Otherwise, you don't.

If you get VC money, they make you redo the legal work and accounting anyway.
Just as an anecdote, I used to moderate one of the more popular political subreddits. It was a difficult task and burnout on the team was common. I can say that the mod team was not just shills for a particular party (unless they were undercover even to me). The entire mod team, even to this day, is there for altruistic reasons - we felt we were doing a service to our fellow Americans by fostering healthy political discussion.

I moderated that sub through election season and then stepped down in January. At the end of the day the death threats and constant insults aren't what drove me away, but the organizational chaos. No one could figure out how to lead that team, and leaning on practiced organizational structures was apparently too hard for a group of redditors.
That will be fixed by introducing Yamly.
but it's not under her own name, it is a name that is close to her name. The account is suspected of being hers but as I understand it not proven to be hers.

So that seems a good practice to me - use a name that could be arguably yours so that you are not hiding anything if caught out but enough not yours so there is plausible deniability. Then make a bunch of deeper cover names that you run that are harder to pin on you, if anyone is looking they are looking at the one that is close to your name.

but then maybe I've just read too many books.
> A lot of times

Every time. FTFY.
The opposite can also be true - if I said I met MereInterest in real life and you were behaving badly (shouting at wait staff and so on), and you claimed you were not, who should be believed?

If I wanted to slander someone, believing me, the accuser, over you, the accused, is a good way to break societal trust since nothing can be believed any more.
Why is DNS resolution even part of the libc and not, say, the base OS, a service on the base OS, or if need be, an external library like c-ares?

In fact, I thought Node already depended on c-ares, why is it failing on this?
Weaker... According to whom? I particularly use DDG on my personal devices and only occasionally go to Google. Whenever I'm using a machine that use Google as the default, I often go back to DDG to get results unspoiled by the bias pushed by Google's agenda, SEO and paid ads.

But answering your question, it could let the user choose their search engine as part of the onboarding experience while providing a random preselected default.
Yeah, what exactly is hard about spinning up pg on AWS that this solves?
Do you have a list of good programming related subs? Most of the ones I've joined seem to be dead or nearly dead.
> European doctors will never prescribe this officially

Google "hormone replacement therapy".
Ultimately, a developer's or a company's objective is not to provide good software, but to succeed financially (or in some other metric). This is somewhat aligned with the user's needs - if a user wants a calculator app, it should do arithmetics. But beyond that, The Dev is not a benevolent entity, and users are a means to an end.

It doesn't have to be cynical and exploitative, but when push comes to shove, The Dev will act in their own interest and not that of the users.

Maybe sad, but really that's how everything works. Are energy companies interested in a world with plentiful green energy? No, they want to make money and pay dividends.
This flowchart is true for many things... even webpages:

How many users actually wanted to subrscribe to your newsletter the first time they visited your page, before they even read the first article there?

How many first-time visitors actually want to donate money?

...
Well, besides the well-known fact that all countries with $adjective in the name aren't really $adjective...

... then yes, as a general principle, we should take people at face value on the Internet, unless there's a clear reason to do otherwise - which could be a reason to confront the person about their statements. Quite a lot of dysfunction in Internet (and increasingly, offline too) discourse comes from "they say X, but what they really mean is Y" pattern of thinking.
Chinese Threat: Taiwan’s Largest VC Plans Semiconductor Fund
The `attrs` authors address it in the documentation:

https://www.attrs.org/en/stable/overview.html#on-the-attr-s-...

At first, some people have a negative gut reaction to that; resembling the reactions to Python’s significant whitespace. And as with that, once one gets used to it, the readability and explicitness of that API prevails and delights.

For those who can’t swallow that API at all, attrs comes with serious business aliases: attr.attrs and attr.attrib.
To the untrained eye, perhaps.

Albion and Christian Fletcher are as far off from the Toledo ones as a Yugo or a Reliant Robin is from a Ferrari.
Is it the best search engine anymore? Seems like the web is an seo hellhole when I’m looking for real information.
You’re not considering the velocity of money in the economy. If a quadrillion dollar coin is printed and locked away in a vault which can only be opened by a formal proof of the Collatz conjecture, would there be any inflation?
Skylight: Trappist-1’s Earth’s-Sized Planets Compare to Our Solar System
The Windows 10 new user setup screen and also the frowny face crash screen come to mind.
He fell off a Yacht.

> It has been speculated that Maxwell was urinating into the ocean nude at the time, as he often did. He was presumed to have fallen overboard from the vessel, which was cruising off the Canary Islands, southwest Spain.

Let's not turn a perfectly reasonable night time piss into suicide. A person like that doesn't kill themselves over a few bad debts.
Why do banks and asset managers trade billions in CPI derivatives if it is a useless, engineered metric?
It's free, has much better voice/video calls, but also has a much nicer UI IMO. It feels smoother and more lightweight, and dark mode is more first-class. The multi-server experience is much better - you can actually be part of conversations on two separate servers at the same time. The servers feel a lot more inclusive because the channel lists are visible by default, instead of having to search for a channel that might be there. And allowing replies but not threads made for a much better conversation experience
> What is the better alternative? I have not heard of a society that has succeeded to incentive people on a large scale without the possibility of profit.

Have society really taken on learned helplessness on a mass scale? In a sense that everyone has a defeatist attitude of "we can't think of any system better than current capitalism so why change?"

Or is it more probable that there are some vested interest in keeping the status quo?
> It is popular to think that A/B testing leaves you in local maxima, but what about alternatives?

The alternative involves creativity to create a vision to achieve. A/B testing are pretty good tools to evaluate differing opinions on some vision, as the only deciding tool for what is worth to keep or not it's pretty short-sighted.

Is it really that much better? I lived through the rise of A/B testing, professionally I've been responsible for implementing platforms for experimentation in at least 5 different companies and over the years I saw it transition from a tool to a crutch. Everything now is "data-based" which means incessant A/B testing, it still depends on your average PM deciding the parameters of the experiment, leading to the current state of affairs: a bunch of uninspired features that are solely judged on the data produced, no soul, no vision behind most of it.

And it feels exactly like that, I can feel how tech products just became that, an incessant stream of features being tested, implemented or tossed.

I'd much rather have data-supported intuition than this statistical machine in motion.
Under the new legislation, section 27KP(2)e(ii) refers to MITM attacks on network traffic if it'd be reasonable for the ISP to implement, or section 27KP(2)i refers to a surveillance device being provided to the ISP which then must integrate with it for whatever purpose (MITM attack or something else).

Isn't this the purpose of the Assistance and Access Act where the ISP in question doesn't have a present ability to perform MITM attacks on network traffic, and would therefore have to build and engineer at a significant cost a new solution for law enforcement use? And once that is achieved, 27KP(2)e(ii) of this new legislation is then reasonable for an ISP to perform because the capability has been built and is now present?
Ask HN: What happens if a fast integer factorization method is discovered?
I am not a mathematician, but this seems like something that might have crossed the minds of math savvy people. Yes, this seems extremely unlikely, but as a thought experiment, what would come next?

Given the impact and implications this would have:

- How would anyone even go about publishing anything like this without literally breaking the world?

- Would this actually break the world?

- What if they were malicious? Could something like this sneak under the radar and escape to the dark web to be exploited by criminals?

- What if they were not malicious, but had non-scientific (cough) monetary, goals in mind, would there even be a way to somehow milk this?

- What if they were a scientist, purest of heart, how would they go about this?

- Wouldn't this have to be done anonymously for personal security reasons?

Watching the humanity over the past few years has been.. illuminating. I am not sure we are even remotely close to being set up to handle something like this.

What do you think?
> Has netflix ever committed to this vision? I would be hell bored if Netflix is filled with Oscar-ish films.

I think it's a bit of straw man to conflate "the art form of film" with mainstream oscar bait.
Just to clarify, I'm not going to look up drug dealers and risk a charge forbidding any future international travel, etc. Also, if I would, it wouldn't be in the 'get high' dosage -- 20 mg for amphetamines, 10 mg for meth, typical dosage in ADHD medication would be the ceiling. Basically, legalizing them would allow me actual therapeutic experimentation.

I used to smoke 10 years ago, so going back to nicotine in this case is a big nono. :)
I refuse to have it bookmarked, but I do end up there once a day.

It's a mindless escape.

I did enjoy the Wallstreetbets drama with the short.

And there's the boobies. (I still have testosterone?)
I am not surprised that even this post has been removed from Reddit. It is strange to know that even these platforms that are popular to reject the capitalistic agenda and the industrial monopolistic behaviour themselves carry this hypocrisy of controlling the communities and the content being posted on it.
> The problem is that people relied on a side effect of a function that isn't guaranteed to block execution all the time

Yes, this is a problem when people code their websites against current iterations of a browser. It's not a problem regarding Chrome removing window.alert() but rather a problem that happened at development of the site, not at the iteration of browser (which is being discussed here)

> browsers are allowed to ignore those prompts

Unless previously marked as "Block future popups", is there any browser that currently (by default) doesn't block JS execution upon window.alert()? AFAIK, all browsers currently do.

> now they have to fix their code

Yeah, good luck maintaining the web with that mindset. There are countless of websites that will basically vanish (rather, stop working) if you change the execution model of browsers too much.

But large swaths of the web currently are just online because someone set it up well 20 years ago and has never touched it since. Maybe they can't even modify it at this point.

So any change needs to consider the historical impact the change can have. Hopefully the people working on browsers and standards have a bit better mindset than "now they have to fix their code", because otherwise we're utterly screwed.
This could only happen if Reddit actually took some responsibility for the safety of their moderators. Death threats are commonplace for mods of political subs. They're mostly empty threats, but it'd be a much more significant risk if names/employers were public.
Obviously a bloated UI for chatting is more important than privacy. At least for their audience
It's not considered likely that he killed himself; he died mysteriously on his boat. The inquest ruled that it was probably an accidental drowning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell#Death
Quick look and from what I can see attrs/cattrs can't generate jsonschema => game over.
Same reason people use contractions. It's faster and conveys equivalent meaning.

A11y is probably the easiest one to remember because it looks like ally. Which is what you're being by worrying about accessibility when you yourself don't rely on the standards.
Ok. I will correct myself in future.
Everything remotely relevant is probably good. The first one I read (in the US) was Incorporate Your Business. A lot of topics are connected there and the state-specific differences helped me understand the broader mindset required to operate nationally.
https://www.amazon.com/Incorporate-Your-Business-Step-Step/d...
Developed countries would need to add import emissions taxes for countries that aren't part of the global emissions trading system. It wouldn't be perfect, but the total amount taxed should roughly correspond to their estimated emissions. We should do the same with international shipping emissions.

I'm guessing this would require a change at the WTO level however, making it relatively unlikely.
Typically, on a modern Linux system, DNS queries from libc (and everything else) will always query a local resolver (example: systemd-resolved).
Yeah, the only reason this is possible in the situation is because you already know there’s only one possible person on the other end (you have already exchanged some meta-information about the channel).

QE doesn’t stop anyone from creating a new node in the middle of a single edge and then re-establishing the QE channel in between.
> What alternatives are there?

Worker representation on boards is one example. Imagine if the board of public companies was 50% shareholders and 50% workers.

> The most profitable public companies seem to invest quite heavily in long term investments and have long term planning. This does not seem to square with your statement.

The most profitable companies yes, but not necessarily the ones making the most money for their investors. Part of this pattern is that the companies typically end up dying a slow and painful death, meaning that they never get to be as big as the largest companies. But money in investing is made on change in value/profits, not on profits themselves.

I guess I would say that the pattern I have described doesn't describe the entire economy. There is more traditional long-term investing going on too. But it's there. And it's harmful.
How do you filter out by karma?
Apps for Gnome
Agreed, Skype used to have much of the Swedish market until they fucked up their clients and pushed people to Facebook Messenger. Now it is irrelevant.
Yes, I know. That doesn’t redeem it. I want never to have to read those names in python code I'm working with; the documentation entry doesn't achieve that.

And anyway, the library is called “attrs”, so why is it imported as “attr”?
Setting boundaries when working hybrid
It is a myth that swiss-based providers are in any way safer/more anonymous than others. See here for a recent article (in German): https://steigerlegal.ch/2021/08/02/protonmail-daten-usa/