skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook is an abomination which ate up the entire Web in some 3rd-world countries. For many no access to Facebook means loosing connection to everything including services essential for their offline life. Even in a very developed EU country I already happen to face cases when something is only available via Facebook because some companies don't bother having their own websites/emails/phones (often on purpose - to improve their Facebook rank).

This is a very serious problem - hyper-centalization in hands of one corporation which can fail you intentionally or not. Facebook is becoming sort of the Chinese system (AFAIK standard WWW is almost nonexistent in China, they mostly use apps within social networks which are easier for the government to control) for the whole world.

Looking more broadly it's another layer of the malicious trend to wrap the things in more and more layers.

First we had native desktop apps (which always could communicate data to network servers). Then we have wrapped the apps in the browser (which essentially is an OS on an OS) but we had our pages on independent servers. Then we invented "social networks" and are putting everything in there.

We could just improve desktop apps tech (including discoverability, delivery, interoperability, portability and UI design flexibility) but we chose the browsers. We could stop here, use the standard WWW and improve experience of using RSS/Atom/RDF/XMPP/etc but we gave up our pages/subscriptions/contacts to Facebook.
Replace Microsoft with any for profit entity and you got this right.

If such entity can do something that will earn it's profit, it will do it. moral or not.
Why did you quote my sentence without including the first part? It completely changes my statement.

Apple and Google do not automatically install or run 3rd party apps from the store. If they did, then yes, obviously it would be their fault, but they don't.
With Texas' new laws on womens' rights to bodily autonomy, I'm genuinely surprised by this.

No forward thinking company should be setting up there right now.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211008082514/https://www.mmoba...
+1 for Eric Rosen, his calm attitude and lack of memes make it enjoyable to watch. GothamChess and Chessbrah are obnoxious to my ears and eyes.

On the same note I really appreciate Dan Naroditsky and Ben Finegold.
That wasn't a new problem, the Roman Empire was stripped of gold to pay for Chinese silks, to the point that several emperors made wearing silk illegal.
"It's such a shame that kids nowadays don't know how to read punch cards anymore"

- HN reader in 1985 (colorized)
Nintendo engineers suggest Switch Joy-Con drift will never be fixed
That is seriously outdated in 2021. A modern .NET developer use Postgre, SPAs like everyone else, vscode notebooks, VS Code, etc.

Visual Studio or JetBrains rider is the only thing a professional developer needs. Which is tiny investment for a professional. The rest of the products I have not seen in new projects use for years.
https://archive.ph/TU9xO

Of course that message actually means our European visitors aren't that important to us.
Was coming here to say exactly this - you're not really being paid for the work itself, but to have access to you for a certain amount of time. Sometimes there's as much value to the company in your 2 minute Slack response to a query at 17:58 on a Friday evening as there is for a 6 hour coding block.

Not saying it's valuable in a world sense, but for the objectives of the machine you're working in, it often is.
I guess that they could use the batteries there.
Show HN: Swagger UI for gRPC and gRPC Web
> Eventually you'll come across a particular use case where opening a full blown IDE doesn't feel worth the effort, so you'll open vim.

I'm not sure that's still relevant, given the popularity of VSCode

> You'll learn a few shortcuts, because it would be nice to delete an entire line, or just look at the end of the file. What do you know `dd`, and `G` respectively do that for you.

That might be just me, but 99% of my navigation is a ctrl+f (a search) or a ctrl+click (go to definition). Most of my "complex" editing needs are served well by the multi cursor and ctrl+left/right arrow (go over a "whole" word). I know that vim is a generalisation of that, and instead of having a specific thing like this you have a whole language to compose things, but I just don't see the point.

I wonder if it's one of those thing that appear universal, but is in fact very personal, and "vim people" are different from "emacs people" and from "VSCode people" and from other people in a fundamental way that can't really change, and that is visible mostly through the editor choice.
They can’t act as individuals. This is a falsehood perpetuated by people who want to make witty hot takes.
There are many possible explanations for this outcome, and probably all of them played some role in this, though it's hard for me to tell which one is the most important.

One factor is that people wanted to know how this whole outage evolves (your example). It's similar to a "disaster", so people want to know the latest updates. It's not a surprise, but it might not explain the whole picture.

Another factor is that Facebook (when it's up) has a negative effect on most news site's traffic. People might find your news article on Facebook, but most of the time, they just skim the title, and read the comments on Facebook, and they don't bother visiting your website (or they don't stay there and browse the rest of the articles).

This could be interesting for you if you've been following the love-hate relationship that news websites and Facebook have been having for almost a decade now.
Like declaring yourself independent of the english crown. Basically the usa wouldn't exist if they had tech like this in the past.
The American mentality on punishments, prisons etc. One wrong step in life, and you should suffer for it for eternity.
Cool. A biased, agenda having, bullshit website.
Hello hacker,
Last week we have created an update for our platform. We implemented most of Swagger UI's features for gRPC. How do you like it? ;)
I agree with you, the correct way to look at any medical intervention is to assess the risk/benefits ratio. And it is therefore a personalized decision that needs to be taken by your doctor and with your consent.
Blanket rules are often missing out the complexity that doctors can assess. And this ratio is indeed questionable for young people:

"As a general rule, the ICU cardiac injury described in COVID-19 illness is subclinical and largely reflected by a minor elevation of cardiac troponin, whereas CIRM is characterized by a clinical syndrome often warranting hospitalization, dramatic ECG changes, and very large elevations of cardiac troponin that are sustained over time. "
"Again, children are not a high-risk group for COVID-19 respiratory illness, and yet they are the high-risk group for CIRM."
Source : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014628062...
> We just drink water with everything

People who grow up on soda invariably think water "tastes bad", which has been the reason folks around me keep drinking it. I find it as mystifying as you.
Why it took 50 years for scientists to name this mysterious tropical plant
Had a discussion with that colleagues I spoke. He pointed me to some interesting discussion in FNA Discord.

Basically bunch of stuff listed in that blog are Rust specific uint vs int.

Others are kinda standards problem of undefined behavior being well - undefined. Gamedevs are used to this, but not Rust devs.

I'm reminded of xkcd
https://xkcd.com/927/

So rather than relying on previous work, they wrote their own somehow ugliest standard.
I've not bothered to read the code but I see no mention of a distinction between a country's intrinsic ping times and that limited by physical distance.

c in vacuo is an unbeatable constant and it slows in a dielectric. That's to say that not only do the distances from NY to the pinged sites have to be taken into account but also so do the velocity factor(s) of the cables not to mention delays in switching and regeneration equipment on the way. All these unavoidable, physically inviolable, times have to be factored out before we can get an accurate picture of a country's or region's actual performance.

I'd reckon to get an accurate picture of ping timings would be rather complex, as one cannot simply draw great circle lines on a world globe to get distances to destinations as one would also have to take into account the actual paths taken by submarine cables etc.
Hackers are starting to take over Battlefield 2042 already
The way I understood it, correctly setting up an offshore company for tax avoidance is expensive -- there's no benefit unless you are already a multi-million $ company. This is because you actually need a presence (including employees) in the haven country. So if that presence costs more than the tax you're hoping to avoid, then it's a net loss.
I do not think that this will work. Unless people actively force them not to, they will shut down this door and they will build a new one for the elites to continue their business as usual.
I think what’s most surprising about both the Panama papers and the Pandora papers, is the total lack of Americans in both.

If you were to believe popular media narratives, rich Americans would be the number 1 clients of most of these firms.

But they aren’t, and if you adjust by percentage of rich people, the US is dramatically underrepresented.

I think there’s two contributing factors to this:

1) The US has relatively low capital gains and inheritance taxes as compared to most countries in Europe and elsewhere, and since most rich people only care about capital gains and inheritance, it makes tax evasion less profitable when done successfully

2) The power of the US treasury to enforce draconian global reporting laws like FATCA and FBAR and global tax. This cannot be overstated. The US can cut off your banks ability to trade in dollars—-which is effectively a death sentence for a bank. Therefore pretty much every bank on earth is willing to comply.

In the US, the problem isn’t offshore tax evasion, it’s the actual domestic tax code itself which allows for all the loopholes!

Meanwhile, if you’re an average joe American expat living abroad, your financial life will be a nightmare since the US automatically assumes you’re some rich tax evader. Good luck opening even a basic bank account while abroad.

It’s easier for a non-American to create an anonymous shell company inside the US than it is for an American exchange student to open a bank account while abroad.
I'd read a short story about it.
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One curious thing, is that compared to the prizes for science, the one for peace should be awarded based on the previous year. So science ones have old and proven stuff, peace has recent stuff (which also explains why it often gets controversial with time).

But this award text mainly speaks about stuff they did in the nineties. That struck me as a bit odd compared to the peace prize earlier years.
I have been using LN quite a lot for casual payments in the last years. There have been a lot of small hiccups but recently it have been working very fluently for me.
> A home-cooked meal for me takes at MINIMUM an hour

Cut some onions and garlic, some cabbage and perhaps some dried sausage, fry it while your rice is cooking. Dinner done in 20 minutes. Cleanup is done with a dishwasher, because I don't live in a swamp. Forgoing rice, it can be done far faster.
Why Angular is the right choice for enterprise level applications over React
> From a user's perspective it is sad though since pretty much every other supposed alternative does not provide a lick of SourceForge's features and the fact that there isn't any after all these years shows -IMO- how much most FLOSS developers care about their users.

Counterpoint: the readme (or GitHub.io site) in combination with lightweight features like the star count is a good enough replacement for all of the bespoke knobs on SF. OS app stores have also become a thing since SF’s decline and they’re a better route for most non-technical users.

I have never once been lured into clicking a sleazy download button on GitHub and I recall that happening on the semi regular when I visited SF back in the day.
Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to a Russian whose name is not Navalny is a blow to the democracy.

Muratov is a great man, I really like his thinking and he curtailed Russian politics with extreme agility, but he did not sacrifice his freedom for democracy the same way Nelson Mandela did.
C stack-oriented ABI calling conventions also started with PDP-11, for which the first portable C compiler was written, and the convention then tagged along to nearly every other architecture as the pcc was progressively ported to other platforms.

If a function return value could fit into %r0 on the PDP-11 (%ax/%eax/%rax on x86), it would be returned in there. %r1-%r4 would be used to pass function parameters in, if they could fit, and/or spill over into the stack.

Heck, even UNIX system call conventions on x86 can be traced back to PDP-11, i.e. the syscall number is passed in %r0 (%eax) followed by a TRAP (INT on x86) instruction (can't remember which TRAP number, though).
I guess that says something about the difficulty of discoverability on the internet.

Most people are probably aware of the names of several major news organisations in their country or city, but it's less obvious what the domain name should be - what is written in full? what is abbreviated?

If you prohibit the use of a lookup system (that's what you did, effectively), some people will be able remember the domain name (it's easier than a telephone number), but it's not hard to guess people will find the system much less useful.

It's a little like saying "if everyone had to use a CLI to start the programs they want to use on their phone, more people would watch TV".
Any info as to why? Simply because it is redundant or is there a technical problem with it?
Your core problem is the rich mostly owns both parties and most of the media that can blast propaganda to the effect of:

* It's simply Not Possible to fix the problem of widespread tax avoidance because There Will Always be Loopholes.

* In any case if you tax the wealthy too much they'll run away with their money which will be worse in the long run and the government can't stop them and Then You'll Be Really Sorry.

The public can't really be trained to believe that tax havens are ok but maybe 70% can be led to believe the lie that theres nothing that can really be done about them so they dont demand politicians fix it while a good 40% are susceptible to persistent character assassination on politicians who do try to fix it (e.g. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-ethics-complaint-met-ga...)

Trying to convince Bahamanian lawyers to charge less than a million dollars for setting up elaborate tax structures that Congress winks at because their donors like them isn't really a viable fix. A) they won't B) if they did that particular method would be shut down and theyd shify to others because the core problem of "Congress doesnt work for you" hasnt changed.
> Kissinger helped establish a ceasefire in Vietnam (although it didn't stick).

Nixon was elected in 1968 with Kissinger as his National Security advisor, and they assumed their posts in early 1969. That means he held off an immediate US withdrawal from Vietnam for 6 years - and that was the only legitimate course of action.

While it's true that he did spend time negotiating a potential cease fire / armistice, he and Nixon continued an illegitimate war of aggression in a foreign country, trying to prop up a puppet regime.

But that's not all: Kissinger initiated the US campaign in Cambodia, in which, over several years, hundreds of thousands were killed. See:

https://www2.irrawaddy.com/article.php?art_id=2412
You don't have resources long if you directly distribute the wealth. I tried, am now in debt. Lol
I think this topic is not about physical VS virtual, but discrete VS continuous involvement of the manufacturer/provider.

A car is manufactured and sold once to a customer, which then goes on a road rampage. (physical, discrete)

A website is continuously served and maintained by a provider to a customer, which then uses it for shopping scams. (virtual, continuous)

A spreadsheet serial key for an offline app is sold by the developer to a customer, which then uses it for embezzlement. (virtual, discrete)

Some legal questions:
Is the manufacturer/provider liable? Did they know the product/service was purchased with the intent to harm? At what point can the manufacturer/provider be considered an accomplice? The product was sold already, what can they do about it? The service is still being provided, should they stop it?

I'm wondering how long until we see the physical, continuous scenario, exactly like the road rampage, but with a connected car. Should the manufacturer disconnect that car? Should they remotely disable it?

Very complex legal and ethical questions ahead in our times.
> I think we are using language differently. My sense is that Apple is using a legal fiction

That's still lying. its a legal way of avoiding paying tax. We are talking about morals here. Corporations are here to look after themselves. There are no real entities that can bring them to heel, barring public image. Apple are a ruthless company with an excellent and well coordinated legal team. I know because I've been locked out of my own server room because of them.

in the op way up the chain, two of the examples given aren't lying, in the definition that you've written.

https://oversightboard.com/news/3056753157930994-to-treat-us... Thats a clear call to action, but its not "oversight board being lied to"

> google lying to french regulators

"negotiated in bad faith" (read ripped off a bunch of people to avoid having to pay money to digitize people's work)

https://apnews.com/article/technology-europe-business-copyri...

> “I am satisfied that Google’s conduct assessed as a whole was misleading or deceptive of, or likely to mislead or deceive, ordinary members within the class identified by the ACCC [Australian Competition and Consumer Commission], acting reasonably,” Justice Thomas Thawley said in his judgment.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/australia-google-faces...

Just like facebook, telling porkies about privacy controls.

> I am not sure I understand what you mean here - I would imagine that all of FAANG (aside from netflix probably) provide services used by abusers.

https://www.missingkids.org/content/dam/missingkids/gethelp/...

I'm talking about actively reporting abusers, and abusive content. Apple in 2019 reported 256 cases. 4chan reported 4x that number. 4chan of all places is better at reporting child abuse than apple.

I am not here to defend Facebook. I am here to make sure that all corporations have the same level of scrutiny. This silly "eww facebook stinks, ooooh Apple you're great, even though you've released airtags which are perfect stalking tools" has to stop. I get people respect Apple. but they are on the same spectrum as facebook, an abusive corporation.
This prize is more about making a political statement about society or its values more than anything and more than the other of the Nobel prizes, which are similar but less so.

They are always the most controversial, specially across a wide range of viewpoints. To me, they give an opportunity to critique your own values more than anything else.
> Editing text configuration files, wrangling with file systems, memory layouts and protection, hardware drivers, even patching binary executables with hex editors sometimes!

These are terrible things to have to spend time on. This comment section reads like someone missing having to set dip switches on sound cards so they don't conflict with your printer.
"Many people think that information should go through gatekeepers - that people shouldn't be able to share information peer-to-peer without filters.

The claims of Facebook promoting hate and extremism are part of this campaign to rollback the changes brought about by Facebook"

You think Facebook not a gatekeeper? You think it liberalized speech?

4chan is free speech, facebook just privatised hate
Circle [0] and Coinbase [1] have recently reported that they are shifting their USDC reserves fully into short-term liquid assets. Given that both Circle and Coinbase are US-regulated, and given the attention being paid to stablecoins specifically by US regulators right now, USDC is probably the safest on-chain asset that currently exists (assuming that you consider USD itself to be a safe asset to hold).

[0] https://www.circle.com/blog/evolving-usdc-reserves-to-100-ca...

[1] https://twitter.com/emiliemc/status/1429664322725158914?s=20
Using bio systems is also a way. Libella nymphs feed on mosquito larvae, so populating them to local surface waters reduces wild outbreaks
I watched a bit of Cloudflare TV, especially over the birthday week, and apart from a couple of weird decisions (like hosting a discussion between two Indians at 12:30 AM IST) I thought it was a pretty neat experiment. There's something to be said about not-on-demand real time TV. Not having to choose means that you explore things you might not have been interested in (I caught a bit of a Golang tutorial, and I don't like Go), and while I didn't get to experience this with CFTV I really miss the shared experience of everyone watching something at a fixed time and talking about it immediately after. It's made me interested in setting something like this up for a discord community I'm in, with a live TV that people can pop in and out of with ease.
> treat it like a blue collar job instead of a profession

Blue collar work isn’t a profession?
Commercial banking has been steadily declining for quite some time, it's a long term trend that this is just continuing: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USNUM
It would be an overly plain and simplistic story even for Soviet Pravda newspaper of the most intense Soviet propaganda times.
It took me a while to get this working, but once it did it is an amazing feeling.
> Cloudflare has an ethical responsibility to moderate malicious content on their platform.

You just made that up and also failed to define what you deem "malicious content" at first place. What ethics framework are you even talking about?
And yet, Afghanistan exists today as an independent Taliban state. I think the English would still have trouble projecting power across the pond indefinitely.
I think it was more because he'd replaced that murderous warmonger Bush, and came with a message of hope and peace that contrasted with his predecessor.

The fact that Obama also turned out to be a murderous warmonger just illustrates how it's better to judge people on their actions rather than their rhetoric.
As we are witnessing multiple relatively small companies entering the server CPU market, it would be a really great thing if they could standardize on a compatible socket.

This way, instead of designing a motherboard for a single CPU vendor in a small market, integrators could target all of them at once.

Intel reportedly keeps changing sockets to please OEMs who want to sell motherboards; I would be happy to see something change in that landscape.

Otherwise, I'm extremely pleased to see more options are starting to become viable (again).