skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because once it gets sufficiently well known, it may back-fire in the long run in their "home market" (which is still their most lucrative, even if the potential for growth is not that big).

This is why it's important for the public in stronger democracies to know about these deals and terms.

Compare the NBA reaction to Daryl Morey tweet about HK protests, and the WTA reaction to Peng Shui situation. Tides are shifting.

But, the appeal of such a large consumerist market (funny, since it's supposedly "communist") like China is not going to become any easier to ignore going forward.
Rhinoplasty / the cosmetic surgery industry depends on cartilage from cadavers in some countries. In other countries cadaver cartilage is avoided due to the potential for reabsorbing and degrading in the patient's body, and therefore cartilage can be taken from the patient's own ribs.
I'm not sure if this specific breakthrough in the article would be suitable for shaping the nose permanently. But last time I checked (10 years ago), there was a specific need for synthetic cartilage to improve patient outcomes.
Foundation DNS – Cloudflare’s new premium DNS offering
I thought the War on Drugs had failed, but if it's NZ that does it, because they've done plenty good things recently, it's ok and everybody celebrates?

I can't wait for this to backfire spectacularly, perhaps this time politicos will learn that prohibition doesn't bloody work.

But it's so easy and buys you more voters to put a "no!" into law than trying to deal with the problem at a deeper and more compassionate level.
Totally wasn't expecting that reference to Silicon Heaven, that made my morning :D
My impression is that this is a US only problem. Is this correct? If so why?
> teams doesn't have any special permissions

Is that really true though?

Scrolling through the permission list on teams, there's a whole bunch I don't usually expect on most apps, ie. "Route calls through the system" (id imagine this is the one needed to implement voip service on top of android).

And it gets even worse for apps that can create corporate profiles so they can be administratively controlled remotely by the corp. That's next level of permission bs one has to give up to.
They're particularly not capable of fixing the problems on the enormous mass of Android phones that are no longer receiving any updates and in many cases, due to manufacturer/carrier disinterest, never were.
Ask HN: What is in your letter to Santa?
My wife and I do Mr & Mrs Claus for local kids.
Obviously I ask the kids what they want, and some of the answers are very interesting.

Because of COVID last year we had to do it virtually, as we did not want kids to miss out on their opportunity to talk with the Claus's. It was tough, but the joy in the kids eyes made it all worth while.

Again this year we are going to be going virtual. I do not like it, but it is the only practical solution given the new variant.

I realize there is a whole community out there that has not had this opportunity, so I ask you: What would you like or need this year?
Google wants you to blame Microsoft Teams for this, and judging from some other comments that’s nearly working. But, the blame is entirely on Android. It doesn’t matter how badly Teams screwed up - it should not have the ability to mess up a core system function like this.

Let’s not forget - someone very nearly could have died thanks to this glitch. Thankfully, a landline was available.
This is a huge leap forward, excited to see this
180%
This is bad, this is very bad. That Google needs a random reddit user to debug an issue that's this severe, how many issues are there that random reddit users haven't figured out yet?

I don't think Microsoft Teams is clear of blame as well. Apps trying to do more then what they are made for is a huge problem.
Fake Twitter Account Drums Up Neo-Nazi Support
In some cases people play politics: some people are looking for places to find fault or point fingers to if they get stuck, so just limiting the amount of drama in my life.

The code I built is like 500 lines of code, not that complex and any developer with half a brain can build it... so if they want, they can build it themselves. Why should I deprive them from learning how to empower themselves? Its a great learning experience to build tools around your current journey.

And the tools are disposable btw. I've done this at every place I've worked. I have a small graveyard of tools of everything I've built in the past. And sometimes I go and copy code from it for a new tool and so forth. Every developer have a folder somewhere with some cool tools just for in case. If they don't... maybe they just don't care about programming as much as they think.

It's like asking why a mechanic won't share a tool he built by himself for himself, to help him replace a certain part in a car, when he needed 4 arms but only had 2 at the time. He is not obligated to share his tool with the world and keeping it isolated might save lives (lets say there is some risk that someone might die in the case of a malfunction). In the tech world, php comes to mind when I think about releasing things into the wild. I try not to inflict onto others with what is in my head, because how I view the world and how I like to work is not necessarily how other people think.

I work in the Healthcare domain, specifically with medicine and formularies. It is utterly important that we do things correctly. If I share my tools with the others and they misuse it or something goes wrong, and there are real world consequences (a patient gets the wrong medicine/dosage/box or data gets corrupted), then I can guarantee you they will point their finger at me and throw me under 50 different busses. I'm not going to risk that for no good reason.

So it's not as simple and clear cut as just being shitty. I promise you it is not because of selfishness but rather about self preservation (not getting burnt) in conjunction easing my own suffering (cause most healthcare software is an utter shit show, thus my own tooling is just a band aid).
You can't guarantee privacy in a federated system and it's important to understand. I'm working on my own ActivityPub project and I don't even support any kind of non-public content for now. I'll be exploring the options for e2e encrypted instant messaging later tho.
> In its 2019 10-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last week, Amazon listed its global real estate footprint at the end of 2018 at an astounding 288 million square feet of offices, warehouses, retail stores and data centers.

That's 10.3 sq. miles. SF has a density of 17,246 people per square mile. Manhattan has a density of 75,000 people per square mile. Granted, most of Amazon's real estate are warehouses in sparsely-populated areas.

Main point is that not all homes are houses. Many are high-rise condominiums/apartments.
A bookmarklet like this one could also be used as a quick fix - but I know it's not very practical in the long run because it has be called on every page reload:

javascript:(()=>document.querySelectorAll('.comhead').forEach(e=>{e.style.fontSize='12pt';e.style.lineHeight='20pt'}))()
A non-drone player was necessary, as Azad would never have acknowledged defeat by a drone. But, defeat by a human accomplished the Culture's goal and Gurgeh was the best bet
(or at least the best available one) on the desired outcome.

I see their selection as mostly being about Gurgeh having enough pride to accept the small cheat, coupled with enough skill to not actually need the AI assistance. It's been a while since I read TPoG last, but my recollection is that there were a handful of players at essentially the same level as Gurgeh and from a pure skill and intuition level, I suspect any of them would have worked, but only Gurgeh fell for the entrapment.
You are right that many younger people (and not only younger people) primarly think of those little black rectangles as computers with several apps. As you say, in their minds, making voice calls in the classical way just happens to be one of those apps rather than the device's primary function.

But you are dead wrong about the word "phone". It still means those little black rectangles. If you primarily think of those little black rectangles as computers (or social media machines) then the word "phone" has shifted meaning to match that. If you punish a child by banning them from "using the phone" you will absolutely get the horrified reaction you'd expect.

Of course words vary in meaning throughout the world and maybe "phone" really does mean the classical phone app in your area, or in your daughter's social group. But that's exceptional, regardless of age.
I don't understand it either. Other distributions offer ISO files too, and that's very handy as it's still one of the source formats for virtualization platforms. I created my Ubuntu and Windows VMs from ISO images. I don't care how old that format is. Why change something that works?
Blaming WWI entirely on Germany is myopic, and is in part what set the social unrest in the Weimar Republic in the first place. The huge debt was put on Germany, and they were heavily dependent on loans. When the US economy crashed in 1929, they were done for. If Germany did not take the full blame for WWI, WWII arguably never happened. Because someone like Hitler wouldn't have been able to rise to power via a massive social unrest.
Do you have any idea how little risk "too risky" actually is?
This is fairly spectacular and a great deal of fun. Puts your daily problems in perspective.....

:-)
You're right, it's Vim + a bunch of other editors, but when you scan the page that's not what you read - it scans as "Dark theme for vim", not "Dark theme for vim and a bunch of other editors"
"I don't want to have anything personal on a device someone else has full control over."

You don't want a smartphone then. From the ground up these things are closed source with smatterings of OSS in highly visible places which can be negated utterly by lower level software.

At some point we all have to realise that anything we posess electronically is only a copy of the version the three letter guys have in our files.
I have astigmatism and otherwise almost perfect eyesight. No issues with dark themes. If anything, I feel the letters washing a bit out is better than the background washing everything out.

I have a harder time reading the text I'm typing here on the white background when taking off my glasses, than in my dark IDE.
When is the right time to start coding?
One of the reasons that Contact (and Special Circumstances) have (some) humans[] around is for intuitive leaps. I can't say I recall which Culture book this is mentioned in, but it is, in one of them.

[] let's go with "human" as a general term for Culture biological citizens, it is probably a bit incorrect, but gets the point across.
is this p2p?
The aspects that improve survival are pretty big and their perception is accurate and that's how we study nature - by augmenting our perception with tools.
Yes, Cascadia is a bit quirky but pretty nice. Currently I’m on JetBrains Mono which I find works great for me in terms of legibility. I love the slightly increased letter height and use it at 11 pt on a 27” display in Visual Studio. It reminds me a bit of IBM Plex Mono but I like it more. https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/
Thanks for standing up for your neighbors and community. We need more people like you who can sound the alarm for us who are unaware of the hazards all around us.
Bookmarklets.

At least the work on mobile chrome. You open a site, then tap the url bar and type the name of the bookmarklet and tap that.

I have one that removes all iframes, getting rid of 90% of ads
It's a bit trite to say this, but if you can afford it, you should strike out on your own. Programming in large orgs is what you say it is - extremely process driven - but in your own space, you call the shots. It's not inconceivable that you'll rediscover the need for process yourself!
My project[1] will have discussion boards in groups at some point. But not exactly "broadcast", it's more like Facebook groups that you join and do things in.

[1] https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen
Patrick Breyer MEP: What questions to ask of Apple's privacy chief Jane Horvath?
So they should do an ICO exit
Seems like overengineering indeed. Additionally, it’s under-engineered also since Normed doesn’t store the transfer function (gamma) so you cannot use it pretending it’s just a fixed-point float!
I wouldn't say it hurts my eyes, but as soon as I open the IDE and a big black box shows up I feel depressed already. I usually just use what is default anyway. For example, Visual Studio looks weird to me in dark mode, but Visual Studio Code looks weird to me in light mode.
I didn't assert Bjarne doesn't have a clue how to design a language (and I can list features of C++ that are brilliant). I didn't provide examples of "design perfection", I provided examples of design principles I think better manage complexity.

I asserted CFront was a mess of ad-hoc features implemented in a rush prioritized by personal hubris. I asserted Bjarne didn't consider how much complexity was piling up and didn't listen to critics. I've provided you with quotes from his own book supporting this.

Your every reply was condescending whataboutism, my friend. Can you provide counter arguments why CFront was a beautifully thoughtfully designed language where features and complexity was considered and debated before being implemented? Because all your other arguments are just strawmen.

And I would really appreciate it if you could use a language that at least tries to use a constructive tone that adds value to the debate, instead of the snarky sarcasm one-liners. I don't care much for this white horse, Bjarne defending attitude.
> I would have many memory cards that could be set to Read-Only by physically flipping a tab just like on an old 3 1/2 floppy.

SD cards (not the micro ones) have a slider on the side to make them read-only.
Just like it takes time for probabilites to flow from one atomic orbital to another, I would assume this could form basis for the analogy for why it takes time for groups to change their mind.

Atomic Orbitals, Visualized Dynamically -
https://youtu.be/BPkcDWLBsrI?t=412
Encourages in the sense that leaving land empty while it gains value is easy and free. Once you are paying for that land you have to do something with it otherwise it costs more than the inflation of the value.
European VC investments outperform U.S. ones – and have over the last 2 decades
Skip over verifying everything and only verify a subset of all things you care about. Use alternative root nodes you trust instead of verifying. Stuff like that. They have a spec: https://eth.wiki/concepts/light-client-protocol
Much as I don't want to promote them (it was a toxic hell working there), Kalido were trying to do this kind of "match interest<X> in area<Y> and generate introductions".

https://www.kalido.me
Our development life cycle is quite slow/cumbersome with crappy in-house compilers that are on life support... yeah it makes a big difference not having to deploy between each iteration and get local feedback while I'm coding.

I cannot elaborate more than that but it is a bit more hairy than I described. My own tools alleviate some of the problems (sadly not all of them). Doing the best I can with what's available to me (basically building workarounds for shortcomings of our systems where I can see holes).
Can you imagine how many millions... perhaps billions of phones will never see this update? Regulators have to take action on this.
Hosting an HackerNews mirror (with login, upvotes, comments) on Netlify for free
This... makes SO much sense! I really started preferring dark themes for my various tools after I got LASIK'ed, and never made the connection :)
How did they come to 275B over 5 years? That's 55B per year which I don't think shows up in their books
Real-time data anonymization for MongoDB databases
One-to-many messages can be encrypted with end-to-end encryption by encrypting a copy for each recipient using their public key.

Apple essentially does this with iMessage, both for sending a message to each of your devices as well as to each recipient in a group chat.
Exactly this.

Many feature request in our system takes 2 hours to implement where it would be 5 to 10 minutes in C#/Visual Studio (with a tight debug/compile loop).
Its basically rent so it doesnt matter if you calculate it by day or by year.
In our system it is incredible hard to get into flow. All of our work is basically intermittent due to the nature of the system.

You are fortunate that you haven't had to deal with it yet, but it's very real, you don't have to believe us.
Do people on the lower floors pay for lift maintenance?
> they have to list themselves as a dialer to make and receive calls

Why would they have to do that? All they need to do is show a keypad and capture the microphone and speakers just like any voice chat application does. Why does any dialer API have to be involved for that?
New Zealand to ban cigarettes for future generations
I believe https://similarweb.com is one of the best estimators right now.
This is dumber than dogecoin.
Hilariously you can’t see this full snippet on mobile safari.
SaaS Start up with no Tech co-founder
B2B SAAS startup at MVP stage. We don't have a tech co-founder/CTO. Operating on outsourcing model as of now.
V1.0 launched. V2.0 Product being built on Digital ocean, Symfony and Vue JS.

Looking to speak with engineers and CTO's who can join us and help get to market.

Any recommendations or interests ?
Our Seed Round, and Chainguard Services
Other companies do that, too - I think it's due to trademark law and how it's much harder to establish a new name than reuse an existing one. Cortana comes to mind.
I have glasses but possibly due halation as mentioned here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29494640 still find light writing on dark backgrounds to be an issue.

Contacts aren’t an option because my astigmatism is strong enough that a rotation of 2 degrees throws them off.

But separately from eyesight issues I thought there was some evidence to suggest that aesthetic preferences aside, dark lettering on lighter backgrounds was still easier to read.
Software updates have also been longer and more frequent. Wonder how many people have died because their phone was updating when they needed to call 911.
The bombing of Dresden was very late in the war. Those making decisions in 1942 would not have had the insight to see how the bombing would (fail to) break the civilian spirit. On the contrary, in fact, for the Germans Dresden was as much of a propaganda win as are dead children for Hamas today, even when Hamas kills the children themselves.
Ken's site is fantastic for education; my kids and I regularly re-visit the 'rare' chip that turned out to be a touch-tone generator, and (as an owner of classic synths) this series is better than that. I don't have a DX7, but do have the 'competition' - a Casio CZ-101, which uses phase distortion to work around Stanford patents (I think).

I'm secretly hoping one day Ken will pop the top of a classic CEM or SSM chip, which were (are?) the mainstay of many classic synths.

I also wonder if Ken prefers his MG-1 over the DX7 sound...
Number 3 is most common in my experience, esp in dev shops that uses Java. Very averse to things outside of their Java empires.
Can we apply this to Google-sized megacorps, when the original goal 'make money' has been overachieved?
There's no reason why a 911 call should not become the top priority of the operating system when triggered by user interaction. Failover through all available radios. The OS should not take no for an answer when trying to get out a 911 call.
No, we don't provide secrets management because you won't need to give secrets since tool will let you download source code and then you can change these secrets in your local system after downloading source code.
I'm not buying that this is going to have much impact.

Maybe just fly to one less conference in your life time. It'll probably have more of an impact.
The Great Microsoft C Runtime (CRT) Refactoring
No, to uninstall and reinstall.
> fee to allow people to use the hardware they already own.

IBM does that with mainframes, but, at least, it’s hardware they own that they shipped in the box for you to rent out when needed or to buy and enable.
Apple launches redesigned website with its open source projects
Hey, if they do another run the lead time is only 2 years
I'm also more in to a warm palette sadly.
We do currently have an abandoned tool in our chain that was built about 4 years ago but the guy ran away. We have yet to untangle his mess. Our operations/devops units kicks heavily against stuff like this for this very reason.

Unless I can guarantee myself (and them) that my tool will be a very tight integration with the rest of the system and not become a wart, then I rather won't introduce it. It has to fit properly with the rest of the puzzle.
Interesting. I knew you could defeat the protection with multiple copies but the number of copies needed to do it could be increased massively. Let's say they want to catch a serial leaker. They could do massive "watermark cohorts". Like several thousand units sold big. It would surely take several leaks to narrow down the suspect but combined with time information it would pose a significant risk to whoever wants to leak books.

Also,

>In Poland, there's no single E Ink reader company

lol imagining a tech sector without a monopoly or an obviously harmful duopoly is wild.
I don't like them because all I can see is a reflection of my big ugly face staring back at me. Who needs to see THAT for eight hours a day?
Both parties are to blame. Teams shouldn't have behaved the way it did, Android should have failsafes to prevent this from happening. A great example of not letting developers do what they want...
I wonder if sub-groups would be a good feature. Sort of like "tables" you could join to speak to others at the table. You would still be able to hear the speakers on stage but users at tables can only speak to each other.
Simple website using HTML and CSS
I hugely appreciate they're designed with accessibility in mind, and that they also try to cover edge-cases introduced by popular packages.

I've been using the dark one for a while and while it's not quite as aesthetically pleasing as themes like Dracula, Nord and Solarized, it more than makes up for it with legibility and clarity.
Yes and no. I'm sure they'd lose approximately some customers if were as easy to install macOS on commodity hardware as it is to install, say, Linux.
Somewhat over two decades ago, the #1 site in the web cache stats for the web cache between an ISP dialup pool and the internet at large was "icons.hotmail.com" (may have been a number on "icons", actually). With probably 2-3 x the hits than the first porn site.
To OP, glaucon makes a good point. The "fight" can be done by informing neighbors of the issues with this dumb solution, e.g. a company tracking your comings and goings, and how secure are their servers, what if an evil bigcorp buys them, etc...

One benefit would be less need to change locks when someone loses a key, but since OP says they already use keyfobs, that's not a new benefit.
Avoiding Internet Centralization
> You can't build a superpower on silly, 4-year-old level lies like that one.

You absolutely can and must. That is, in fact, one of the prerogatives of a superpower.
> I've come to assume that celebrity net worth sites are mostly just made up numbers.

That’s how I increased my net worth to 100 million USD. Now I’m using rolling out an unstable coin trading under the symbol UCCT (UCrayCrayToken) backed by my CelebrityNetWorth.com value. I’m going to burn half the tokens soon, so now is a great time to buy tokens from me before they double in value.
Inefficient code reduces battery life, consumes CPU and RAM resources and overheats hardware - all this directly affects the user, not environment. If the browser terminated the script after, say, 1000 instructions, that would help, but it's only a mitigation for a bug in the script code, not a proper solution.