skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many valid solutions, but you are looking for a specific one.
The bulk of the funds should have been allocated to retailers and restaurants that were literally forced to close by local and state orders.

Funds that went to large non-retail businesses, like airlines, should have had far more strings attached. As the CARES Act was written, it placed a 12 month moratorium on stock buybacks, dividends, and executive pay increases but allowed those restrictions to be waived by the Fed and/or Treasury on a case by case basis, and they often were waived. Those restrictions should have had a time horizon closer to 5 years, and no waivers should have been permitted.

In many ways, this mirrored the bank bailouts of 2008-9. If the government is going to save your corporation from extinction, then it needs to receive something in return - at a minimum, shareholders need to take a haircut as they would in a bankruptcy proceeding. The policy objective should have been to protect the overall economy from the demise of critical industries, not the preservation of existing shareholder wealth.
I'd claim that no other company is criticized as harshly as Mozilla around here. The amount of blame that is assigned to the Firefox team is staggering.

To me, this is a perfectly valid write-up with a good lessons learned. They have written it in a very diplomatic way, but to me, it is absolutely clear that Google screwed up here. How can you make such a change to a default behavior of critical infrastructure unannounced? That's just reckless towards your customers, and solidifies my belief to stay away from GCP.

If they had properly announced the change, even if the Firefox team hadn't then tested beforehand, at least the DevOps team would have put one and one together and just changed back to HTTP/2 and the outage would have lasted maybe 10 minutes. Instead, they frantically went through their git log to see what in the code base might have triggered this bug. Everyone who has been in such a position knows how incredibly stressful this is. I'd be absolutely livid at Google in their position. That it took two hours to fix this is clearly their fault.
Osmand is the best. You can use offline maps, I highly recommend it.

Have been using it for six years now.

Search is good enough.

I don't know if there is an alternative.
Not sure what it will look like, it's what leaders are for.

I would say 1 thing: Singapore is probably the only country in the world which actively tries to reduce population of millionaires, and rich 6 digit salary making expats on the populist notion that this tiny population which pays for itself n-fold in taxes is "stealing Singaporean jobs."
> I disagree profoundly. You say that it wasn't a war because Israel didn't lose too many people? Perhaps the aggressor should have thought about that before starting a war.

Its not a war, there is no state involved, just a terror group in Gaza, conveniently left in charge there, while curiously Tsahal is perfectly capable of shutting down any uprising in the territory they want to annex (the West bank), intriguing isn't it? Gaza isn't any harder to occupy than the West bank, but having Hamas as an enemy is just too convenient. (So convenient it would be too bad if Hamas collapsed [1]).

> Frame it as colonial as you wish, the fact is a systematic prosecution of Jews in almost all surrounding countries.

There's two different things:

- The currently Israeli government is currently pushing a colonization project in the west bank (and it's not even hidden).

- Jews living in the Arab world for centuries have been persecuted by Arabs in (in “retaliation to Israel's activity” as if those people had anything to do with any of it…). Sadly enough since those Mizrahi Jews fled to Israel, they have been discriminated against and are still somewhat treated as second-class citizens[2].

[1]: https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-netanyahu-...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Israel#Sephardim_and...
No, they're not. The linked post even mentions Softbank being a shareholder. It would be good to know what % of Cruise is owned by GM, but as far as I know it hasn't been made public knowledge. Hope someone can correct me on that.
>sneakily re-enable a previous off setting set by users

How is sending everyone an email about it being "sneaky"?
Latest macOS OneDrive Enforces Files On-Demand, Deleting Local Files Silently
Then explain the reasoning and ask for the permission.

Opting in what was previously explicitly opted out without asking for an affirmative should be illegal.

I plan on complaining to the FTC.
https://www.gmx.com/mail/create-email-address/

Or

Protonmail.com
The end result is unsafe Rust that uses raw pointers. This kind of tool can be used e.g. as a starting point for rewriting codebase piece by piece, retaining the original functionality as a baseline.
Probably because it was third to market?
Honestly if you have limited resources wouldn't a web app/PWA be a better option to give you faster turnaround on bug fixes and features, and a wider platform reach?

Personally I'm quite conservative about installing apps due to concerns about security, battery usage etc - the only social media apps I have on my phone are WhatsApp for family stuff and Twitter for casual scrolling. I'm happy to just jump into a web app and try it out though.
Human Rights Watch have a very good write up on Singapore here:

https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/12/12/kill-chicken-scare-mon...
That's social security and healthcare/housing costs
As I am not a decent English speaker, please help me to determine if I figured up correctly or wrong:
If you a teen and smoke cannabis every day = not cool
If you a teen and smoke cannabis once a week = not determined
If you an adult and smoke cannabis every day = not determined
If you an adult and smoke cannabis once a week = cool
DDG leaks data like a sieve. When you type a query it's present in the URL. Use an engine like onesearch.com which obfuscate this. (or get DDG to add this basic feature!)
Even locked bootloaders only help a little. Afaik all iOS devices have locked bootloaders but that doesn't stop jailbreaking. I imagine Android, with spotty vendor support track record, would be even easier
>"Government posters can say "if you go outside, you have an x% change of having coronavirus, [...]" //

Couple of problems with this. People suck at maths. They also such at comparative risk analysis.

Also, you fight pandemics at the country/region level. Like some people will vote for whoever reduces their tax bill regardless of the actual outcome, some people will go out and mix with others in a pandemic if their own personal risk is low (or appears to them to be low).

Then you have the problem of trusting government. For example, here in the UK evidence suggests ministers in the Tory party used mask buying to funnel > £8Billion extra to friends and associates by having them pretend to be PPE suppliers and then sending them money for orders that were either simply not fulfilled or were fulfilled with unusable product (did they send it back, no, because it achieved the goal!). Now, you want us to trust those same people bit to lie on posters that modify human behaviour at a country-level?

Epidemiological responders only hope is to simplify and be cautious, try to prevent the government perverting the message to their own ends too much.
This looks really good. I don't have a use for it since I don't work remote, but it could be a cool alternative to Discord for small groups.
WARNING misleading title. The article itself tries to whip up “harm” but is careful not to stray too far from “potential harm” i.e. the effects are unknown. [https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/melatonin-what-you-need-to-...] lists mild effects from high dose, and [https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2788539?gu...] appears to discuss the statistics of usage not of effects of usage.

Not that high-dose or long-term are good or bad for you, just that the linked actual articles by scientists say “we don’t know” not “harmful”. CNN and OP headline clickbait.
Every time I read something like this I'd really love to know some objective data of the person. Amount of drinks per day, per week. How drunk after X?

On the chance I am so involved in not seeing my own problem... but I had a beer last night, the first in probably 2 weeks. I've been staring at one bottle in the middle drawer of my fridge for a few months. Since covid started I think I've not had 10 beers at home. (so one every 2 months?). I have a medium-sized collection of single malts and I always dread the amount of space they take up. I like them, but I don't seem to be in the mood for drinking them very often.

That sounds like I'm more pushing myself to drink more... but alcohol for me 90% is a social thing, going to a bar (or even better beergarden) with friends, or for dinner. I've no problem drinking a little every day for a week, because I don't remember when that ever happened a second week. My last hangover might have been the company christmas party in 2019, and maybe I'm averaging 3-4 hangovers a year?

TLDR: Really confused about how much you really need to drink to have these deep insights of how unhealthy and bad it is, because I'm certainly not feeling it. I 100% respect people who say they don't drink at all, but I am very weirded out by people who are telling me that drinking (anything) is bad per se. (Not necessarily the author of this post, it's phrased neutral enough).
> code that can end up blocking forever should have a timeout and recover from that timeout happening.

There was no way for the calling code to do this. This was literally an infinite loop inside the network stack. Imagine the network stack itself going `while(1) {}` on you, without checking if the request was canceled.

Even if you detect that this happens, there is nothing you can do as the caller. You can't even properly stop the thread, as it is not cooperating. So recovering from this type of failure is hard.
Unless they have made the system unfunctional wihout it… which is an another topic of discussion.
Same for me. I think it would be wise to think about monetization of these sort of apps before even writing code, and be up front about it towards potential customers (not users).
You also maybe navigate a larger web with different needs.

What knowledge cant be found with appending "wiki" to any keyword, what person cant you find with linkedin, what movie cant you find on a private bt tracker, what news cant you have from reddit ?

I think people over estimate what the web was before Google and under estimate how much easier it s been to find anything.

Name me one thing you struggled to find on google and Ill probably be able to describe you the nightmare it would have been 20 years ago
Couldn't agree more. I'm particularly upset that it's turned our journalists into click-farmers who experience no consequences for the damage and division they're causing. That has been a huge, huge blow to our society in my opinion.

At least it brought us the likes of Lex Fridman.
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Hi, it seems that your email is not listed in your profile.
Is it working again under Windows 10? I had to pin LO to 7.1.5 because of Skia.
It's very interesting to see how rapidly FF fell out of favor for some reason.
Went from poster child to pariah in what seemed like no time.
> Well if you don't trust them then probably don't use them [...]

Sure, easy to say…

GAFA is everywhere, and most people can't escape them.
For example: there are a lot of websites that allow register only by FB / Google account.
No, sorry, corporations don't get Hanlon's Razor. One should expect malice from them until incompetence is proven.
Honestly just join the various worst discords and search for “rug”, “scam”, every so often.
And Singepore wasn't invited to Biden's summit for democracies ...
Read your thread, but I don't think you have quite the right idea.

There's certainly a long history of static 3D imaging with photography and then movies. But that's not all that related to the modern tech started by the Oculus Rift. Yeah, 3D doesn't make photography or movies fundamentally different for the most part, because with some rare exceptions we already can fill in the blanks.

Consumer VR itself is a pretty new development and does introduce new things to the table that weren't there during the civil war and whatnot. Eg, things like Robo Recall and Beatsaber have gameplay that just doesn't work without VR. You could sort of try with something like the Kinect or the Wii I guess, but it'd be much more awkward and clunkier.

And some tech indeed takes a while to develop. Mobile telephony is a tech more than a a century old, if you could the very oldest prototypes. Analog, consumer mobile phones first appeared in the 80s, 42 years ago. The first smartphone is from 1993, and the first iPhone was released in 2007. I'd say at this point a smartphone morphed into something completely different, to the point that it's really a very portable computer that sometimes happens to make calls.

The Rift CV1 is from 2015, so that's pretty recent. And it takes an amazing amount of high end tech to make a headset work, so I do expect there's still lots and lots of room for development.

Now on the Magic Leap, I don't know if that's going to go anywhere or not. The company itself, probably not. But unless there's no way whatsoever to make it usable, I think somebody will eventually come up with an affordable and useful version.
Is it possible to be instant on/off? Yes. Is there a market large enough at support building such a machine currently? I would think no, people generally want more than a typewriter with a screen.

Early computers did turn on almost instantly but program load times from tape or disk was slow. Although in some instances I could say from direct experience that a c64 power on to text editor can be faster than a modern computer.

I believe back in the 80's the was some single purpose computers built with word processing, spreadsheet and other very basic office programs built in. These would be very fast but might not meet your idea of an OS.

Old systems that had cartridges, if you could find a text editor, also should be very fast. Again the idea of what you mean by OS may not be met.
Thanks, we're not dealing with very large data sizes: maybe up to 100K documents, maybe using large binary attachments up to 100s MB per attachment. We use another DB product (ArangoDB) as our main application DB, so would be using something like CouchDB only for the offline-first and peer-to-peer replication capability - then referencing items in CouchDB from our main application DB, where we're more than happy about query language and other features. I had a somewhat wild idea that someone (maybe us...) could implement the couch DB replication protocol for ArangoDB using the ArangoDB FOXX framework. Not sure how feasible that might turn out to be though, wonder if anyone else thought of it...
Ah this reminds COBOLUnit[1]. I'm still not sure if it's a joke or not.

[1]: https://sites.google.com/site/cobolunit/home
> Golden rule is that the user is in control.

You've just identified that the Google Search operator is not Google's primary user, it is the advertisers that Google's entire existence is geared of appease, the search function is just how they collect our desires to feed back to their real users, the advertising industry.
Yeah that's true.

TBF, having the address bar to dynamically reflect whatever the user currently is seeing on screen is really a relatively "new" idea, so I typically don't expect that. It would be great if they have it, of course.
Actually, I agree with the author. While writing a book, I needed all the productive time I could have so I stopped drinking too. I only drank once a week, but I could definitely notice that my brain was much sharper without having had alcohol the day before. Say that you drink once a week, then not drinking provides 2 to 4 hours of extra focus hours per week (if not more) which is a lot. Also, being the first to be running around and doing things on the day after a big party feels like a superpower too
With HTTPS this shouldn’t be a problem, no?
Isn't this hilarious, reminds me of the old joke:

You say: "We added AI to our product"
I hear: "We added a bunch more IF statements to our codebase"
I find Windy Maps feels more polished, and quicker at routing. It's cycling routing seems to work better for me than Google maps too. I just wish it could load in GPX files like OsmAnd can.
Feels relevant https://youtu.be/IT2UH74ksJ4
Are happy developers more productive?
Could someone please point me to the spot in Google’s ads product to purchase these ads-in-navigation-directions? If these are really ads, there will be a place to buy them. Google doesn’t run ads for free.
As an off-topic aside, I sought what else the author wrote, and came across her remarkable story about an armless college acquaintance. https://medium.com/@journalismstudent/i-seemed-to-have-mispl...
>When you type a query it's present in the URL

Why does that matter? Doesn't anything after the domain stay between your browser and the server you're communicating with, assuming https?
Ask HN: Pre-CS, Any Ideas?
I'm a conscript. I was conscripted after finishing high school, before college.

I've got three months left in the army. I want to do something that will be useful towards a computer science degree.

In the army base, I can't access a laptop. Only a smartphone with an internet connection and a Kindle.

Do you have any ideas?
Indeed, the same I guess is true for their DNS servers. I bet they use this as well for a metric to rank search results domains based on user popularity, including how long visitors stay at one site, before moving to a new website.
I'm vaccinated, so I'm not that worried for myself. But the part of town where I live has a large population of elderly people and people with disabilities and illnesses that put them at a higher risk of getting seriously sick or even dying of Covid, so in my situation wearing a mask, keeping my distance, etc. is - IMHO - an act of solidarity as much as anything else.

In Germany, people had to postpone surgery, including for things like cancer, because too many anesthesiologists are busy taking care of Covid patients in ICUs.

Maybe that just means "flattening the curve" has already failed beyond recovery. But if somebody you know has operable cancer and has to postpone surgery until it might no longer be operable, it's not easy to remain nonchalant about it.

Plus, I need to ride the bus, shop for groceries, and so forth, so I'll continue wearing a mask for the foreseeable future.
GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful
Google, Amazon, and the entire tracking industry relies on IAB Europe’s consent system, which has now been found to be illegal following complaints coordinated by ICCL.
EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and Microsoft’s online advertising businesses.
In general, I think it's very dangerous to assume that politicians--especially ones who can secure premier positions--are stupid. It makes it too easy give up against them, to explain away the evils they commit as "whaddayagonnado?"
I've used WP for years and still have stores and sites humming along just fine with my own theme and minimal plugins (pre-gutenberg), it had been my tool of choice throughout the start of my professional career. Those WP sites proudly filled my resume and PHP was my go to backend language until around 6 years ago.

Honestly, I was skeptical of Wagtail before developing blocks to work with their StreamField concept and diving into how clean and clear the Python models can be written as well as how all the data is clearly typed. Our team has decoupled implementations where we use Wagtail's GraphQL API and a modern Javascript frontend, along with traditional Django template driven sites. The ecosystem for Wagtail and Django is larger than you may think, but you are correct it that may take a few weeks to build out some integration that could have been plug-and-play in the WP plugin ecosystem, I usually take weeks to vet any off-the-shelf plugin and look into all of its code anyways.
So, we agree: so-called "lefty" new age types are prone to whacko conspiracy theories and are dangerously politically unstable, in the same way as the "alt right" that gets so much more attention. That was literally the point I was making.

It's a little worrying that you got so defensive because I used the word "fascism".
If what you're looking for is just a carnival of horror thing that covers Web3/crypto trainwreck and scam stories, I recommend:

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/

Very clean presentation, posts rarely.

Note that this isn't an attempt to be a "respectable and critical" news source, it's an attempt to laugh at fools and their money being soon parted, and so you should assume the tone is suitably mocking. If you are looking for a balanced take or whatever or serious discussion or engagement on the technical side of this technology, that's not the purpose of this site.
Yes my understanding is that different people's brains can be wired very differently. Roughly speaking, many areas of the brain require specific stimulus during puberty in order to develop a particular way.
I wish containers was a default feature.

I also wish the UI was better. Adding domains and containers is awkward.

Not to mention that with some sites like Google, it's difficult to make containers work, for example of you want to use Gmail and google search without being logged in to Google search. Same with YouTube. It will switch to a new container because of a different login domain.
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Gets the brain going a bit more than Wordle - fun game all round!

* turns out hacker news doesn't like green / yellow square emojis though
Hi, one of the co-founders of StoryArk (https://storyark.eu) here.

I really like your idea. We're building something similar with a focus on photo sharing.

Have you considered making the contact book upload an opt-in? We also thought about connecting our users via their phone book, but we chose a different approach as we're concerned about privacy.

If you make the contact book upload opt-in, you at least give the user the chance to try out
the app before giving away the contact details of their whole phone book (without their permission).
Thanks! Love the feedback.

Good point and something we haven't experienced before. There definitely needs to be a workaround. We had manual search and add in a previous version so

The answer here is UX. Google+ UX was clunky at best, where their circles feature was essentially just an add on to the Facebook experience (which facebook then replicated through lists). On Circles, the whole app runs through Circles and we've focused the app entirely on the benefit of adding people to Circles and creating more intimate connections with people.

Great point. I think for influencer, B2C type accounts, for now people should definitely continue to use Instagram as its not something we're entertaining for now. However, the way WeChat (I lived in China for a while) splits personal and business connection is fantastic and something I think about a lot.

In time we'd love to explore the route of a hybrid interoperable chat (beeper.com and texts.com) and social app, where B2C accounts are relegated to a more minor part of the experience (90% real life connection, 10% other). This works amazingly in WeChat because the little communication they have incentivises B2C accounts to communicate with signal and also makes WeChat monetise beyond advertisements.
But giving money to corporations will definitely result in better outcomes... Namely that the rich get richer.
Because not everyone will read or understand the email.

Because they sent the email months before users can adjust the new setting to match their old setting, placing a burden to remember on the user.

Because they didn't default the new value to the existing value.