skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GoFundMe should be political neutral, but it openly turns left. I recommend a long post explaining this phenomenon: https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/why-is-everything-libe...
Ironically, Barbra Streisand pulled her content from Spotify.
It's so true. I'm using affinity for image editing these days but it's just a shadow of photoshops ease of use and power. Fuck paying for ps though.
Fonts or Food?
The same people who take responsibility now? The topic on hand isn't whether we should encourage untrained 12 year olds to secure our technology. It's whether trained STEM educated professionals should. Some here don't want more STEM professionals because it would increase supply and reduce the equilibrium price (wages).
I think many RBLs started out with good intentions. But it does feel like like many of them have shifted to pure grift. Pay for "priority" review definitely has negatively impacted this. UCEPROTECTL3 especially feels like an extortion attempt similar to the threatening domain renewal scams. But I've never notice any outgoing email from my services being blocked by it. So it just goes in the crank file.

Really we probably need some sort of anti-RBL system. To keep good actors honest and force bad actors out of business.
I use Arq with Backblaze B2, which costs about 1/4 as much as S3.

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html
Then we get no encryption, or breakable encryption so that you can still be tapped in case you commit a crime - far better situation, yea?

Apple resisted building a backdoored iOS for the FBI once.. will that work next time?
The workaround to running the python interpreter from git bash is to preface python with the command winpty like so
`winpty python`

Reference: http://willi.am/blog/2016/08/08/docker-for-windows-interacti...
We’re talking about Canada. I don’t care what SCOTUS says because it has less than zero jurisdiction over Canada, where all of the lockdowns, restrictions, and vaccine mandates have _already_ passed multiple levels of constitutional review.

Strictly speaking, SCOTUS erred in its decision (other vaccine mandates in the past _have_ passed constitutional muster), but that’s unsurprising given that there are no thoughtful conservatives on the bench. Even Scalia, one of the most ignoble Justices to ever serve on SCOTUS was smarter than any other conservative on the bench now and would _likely_ have disagreed with this decision. Most of the recent justices have no business being on the court either as wholly unqualified or because of unconstitutional abrogation of duty by the legislative branch under Mitch McConnell.
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Google One VPN is now available on iOS
> soft-real-time systems

No they aren’t soft real time systems either, most applications in general a don’t satisfy soft real time requirements.

Most people hack it but hacking it with Haskell requires rewriting your pure functional code into a form that strongly resembles procedural languages like C. This defeats the purpose of a lazy pure functional programming language.
Also, the OP says he backs up his stuff to AWS Glacier. Which is more likely than not CSAM-scanned.

So the OP is fleeing an Apple implementation on just iCloud Photos which never actually rolled out, to an AWS implementation which is scanning everything and not just iCloud Photos.

That’s ignorance at best and idiotic at worst.
Why attribute Sekiro to Playstation? Sony don't own FromSoftware and it was also released on xbox+pc.
Has there ever been a good explanation for why they killed Reader? It seemed immensely popular at the time and easy to inject ads into.
Nothing to stop 100 million people going to their site.
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Just like Bruce Banner said in one of the movies that he's always angry, the secret to this one is to be always tired. If you aren't naturally tired all the time, it helps to have a newborn and participate in night feedings[1] while also having plenty to do during the day (perhaps caring for the child or other children during the day or just a job out of the home).

[1] I hear these can be easyish if things work out, but if not, there's a lot of steps and you have to be awake enough to do them and you may need both parents involved. As the child develops, the intervals between night feedings tend to increase, it got nice when there was time for a whole sleep cycle for the adults, but way worse when there was only time for 1.5 cycles so you'd be guaranteed a bad interruption. Once it was 2+ it seemed better, 3rd and more sleep cycles seem more ok to interrupt.
Any recommendations for doing generative art with shaders on the web?

I've been doing some 2D stuff in Processing, but it's very slow, as the CPU doesn't have the same parallelism as the GPU.
There are literally dozens of PE firms and VC funds investing in Healthcare IT... and not necessarily for nefarious ulterior motives
same "secret" list every other provider you've uploaded a file to uses.
> That's one of the things that's great about Apple's iAP and Apple being the handler of transactions. There's no tricks, it's standart on every app

And that is exactly what user-hostile companies and devs want to undermine.

Just look up Match.com (parent of Tinder and part of the “coalition” against Apple) and the shit they pull against people, as an example (like charging certain demographics differently for the same service and using artificial matches to bait new subscribers)

If you get screwed by such a scummy actor via Apple’s IAP, Apple will give you a refund without asking any questions, almost immediately. That’s what they want to sidestep, it was never about the users.
Ask HN: Has anyone sold their employee stock on the secondary market?
Wanted to hear about experiences from employees who have RSUs/options in a private company and whether they were able to sell their shares on the secondary market?

Were you able to sell?
What platform did you use?
Were you able to sell w/o board approval? If so, were you able to use private forward contracts to complete a deal?

Anything you can tell me about the experience would be much appreciated!
You can try Sailfish OS [0], from Jolla. It can be installed on selected devices.

[0]: https://sailfishos.org
You are technically correct but FUD these days is often used as a synonym for disinformation in general.
Healing HBase Locality at Scale
But where is elsewhere?
Russia has natural resources, which is vital to the European economy. But you're right, the mere idea that the US government would have any interest in a conflict with them is so bizarre.
Obviously I'm wrong but I'm not sure why. Light bouncing off of two mirrors can interfere constructively or destructively, depending on the phase difference. The phase difference from light bouncing off of two aligned mirrors is random (as it's non coherent light). Adding a constant in the phase difference due to misalignment would still lead to a random difference. So it seems to me the phase shift wouldn't make a difference.

What am I missing?
Your attempted explanation is wrong. Trump won the rust belt in 2016 because neoliberals sold out the working class and their unions. This behavior by the administration is a half hearted attempt to roll some of that back.
Why would you pay a company with no support and who constantly cancels features and products? Also, why would you want an ad company reading your email to weaponize against you?
I personally love being singularly focused on a passion project / labor of love, and try not to spread myself thinly across multiple projects. I have recently given up research-and-development type scenarios where I tinker with new toy languages, frameworks, tooling, etc

I mean it's important to explore and toy with new ideas, but the real quest is to stick with a project and see it out until its death. The caveat being, the project could end up being another ephemeral flash in the pan (depending on what timescale you cast as ephemeral).

I try to build & contribute to projects that will outlive me. Think of all your code commits on Github or other projects: you essentially write code that could last centuries, because you're contributing to something bigger than 'you' or your own pet project. This is why I love open source - it doesn't forget.
If you start a new mail server in 2022 (or migrate from a previous address), you have to apply to be whitelisted by outlook.com and the many domains owned by Microsoft. They no longer accept mail from servers they haven't seen before. Companies such as google, microsoft, and facebook would rather that email died, and are actively working to destroy it through neglect, so that people will shift their messaging to proprietary networks they happen to own. Email has problems - spam being one of them, but it's as potentially important as IP routing itself, and we should work to preserve it.
I work a customer support job for a tech company and on my team we handle about 2 million customers each. The key is that not every customer needs live human support, and among those who do, they don't all need it at the same time.

Of course, you could say they could hire 200 or 300 or 500, the point is that it would be a relatively inexpensive way to solve the problem and increase customer satisfaction.
Jira, for sure, and it seems hard to run away from, almost everyone use it

It seems like the only alternative is to fund my own startup, with me as a sole shareholder, just to forbid Jira forever
It's more like pulling over at the side of the road and asking a passenger to leave your car. You are indeed quite entitled to do this. I think landlords and tenants are a distinct situation that does not apply to the rest of the business world. There, services can be terminated, or goods not provided, and the the resulting disputes are fundamentally civil.

Also, evicting a tenant so you can occupy the space is pretty much the most legitimate reason there is for eviction.
Not really though. It makes sense for mobile OSes because they have proper isolation of apps, but desktop OSes don't have that. Apps can pretty much do anything.

What's the point of copy notification if apps can just read all your emails and steal all your files anyway.

Android and iOS both have this feature already. That's the best we can do for now.
Scientists develop insect sized flying robots with flapping wings
The impact that killed the dinosaurs surely ejected some rocks into space. I wonder, what are the odds there's still some space rock floating around the solar system today, holding some ancient DNA, preserved by the cold of space. Perhaps even in nearby Moon or Mars surface?
Web browsers. But I'm not sure if I hate either the web browser or Javascript.
Not a replacement, but maybe it helps.
https://rootmy.tv/
Notice how I never mentioned "science" or "scientist" in my post, because I knew exactly the type of retort I would get - "Look at what Wikipedia says about these guys!". Do I believe everything Graham Hancock peddles? Absolutely not. Some of his ideas are just plain ridiculous. But do I believe that civilization first started with Mesopotamia? Again, absolutely not. There are tons of actual solid evidence out there that we go way back.

And my God, everything isn't about science or the scientific method. Some of this stuff is just plain entertaining to me. Is it really so wrong to listen to these things and just have a great time thinking about crazy and out there stuff?
Out of interest what do you not like about the whatsapp app? The core functionality seems pretty solid to me.
Again: make some kind of argument that isn't speculating on my well-being. Your comments thus far on this topic are substance-free. You have literally zero knowledge of my health level, and you look like a troll for repeatedly bringing it up.
Translated into a human language, this means what exactly?
> I wonder what it does to people?

Entirely depends on your personality.

I'm able to be alone for months at a time without it bothering me much. Other people go crazy after a few days of that. Some of that is determined by whether you merely enjoy the company of other people or if you require other people.

I enjoy the company of other people, however it extracts energy from me, and I preferably want to be alone afterward to recharge (social gatherings every night would deplete me, I'd require a break). Other people are more the social butterfly type, and they get recharged by being around other people, socializing, and they get increasingly depressed when that is missing.

I could spend months reading/working/thinking alone on an island (so to speak), and not have a care in the world about the passing of time. I'd enjoy having hundreds of years just to spend that way, there are so many things to learn and think about.
In terms of legal obligations, sure - however, for SaaS, it's almost never worth it. If it's "we charge you at the start of the period", then you received no goods, they received no payment, there is no legal obligation. If it's "we provide the service and charge you at the end of the period", then there is a legal obligation, but the cost to them to collect is probably too large; they could always send it to a debt collector, but good luck proving that debt ("the issuer of the debt provided access to a service" "...that I was unaware of and never used? Sounds fraudulent").

In terms of merchant choosing to do business with you in the future, they may or may not have a choice; depends what they use to identify you with. Certainly, if they don't make canceling easy, it's probably not the kind of business you want to deal with.

All that said, this is why anything that auto-renews, that I don't know if I want to keep renewing (i.e., will I still be using it at the end of the trial period, end of the month, end of the year), I immediately cancel. If it's a trial and that terminates access, I will take that as a sign not to use them. If it's paid and that terminates access, I will also take that as a sign not to use them, but I'll also email them and basically say "hey; I paid for X period, wish to use it for X period, but am unable to use the service for X period. I either need you to reinstate my account, sans auto-renewal, or I expect a refund". That tends to get a response, since otherwise -they- are legally on the hook.
> What makes it bad

I mean aside from technology choices, It's just very bad at video calls.

I don't want an "artistic" layout of people that is constantly switching around, or comedy "sitting in a theatre" options. If someone doesn't have video on it'll confusingly highlight some random other participant while they are talking, and when nobody is talking it'll choose a random person with the microphone on and boost whatever background noise (or typing) it can up until it matches speaking volume.

Despite randomly boosting silence, it'll aggressively gate anyone talking, with an obvious fade-up at the start of their sentence and if you are lucky, aggressively cut off the end of their sentence. If you aren't so lucky, it'll do this in every pause between words.

Add to that, random disconnects, chat randomly not working, finding it hard to actually get a list of participants, and that it apparently wants to be slack but makes it hard for people to work out how to actually re-use a channel for the next meeting.

But of course it gets bundled in with all the other office stuff the company purchases; making it the "default" that you have to fight against using. We were only saved against moving to Teams for _all_ our telephony by the fact that it's linux support is really, really bad and that's what all our engineers use.
So this is basically a complain that one can't use something marked as an annual plan for just one month.

They do say “ Annual plan, billed monthly” don’t they?
Do we have any proof of this promise ? Because Gorbachev himself said
it was not made [1]

The interviewer asked why Gorbachev did not “insist that the promises made to you [Gorbachev]—particularly U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s promise that NATO would not expand into the East—be legally encoded?” Gorbachev replied: “The topic of ‘NATO expansion’ was not discussed at all, and it wasn’t brought up in those years. … Another issue we brought up was discussed: making sure that NATO’s military structures would not advance and that additional armed forces would not be deployed on the territory of the then-GDR after German reunification. Baker’s statement was made in that context… Everything that could have been and needed to be done to solidify that political obligation was done. And fulfilled.”

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2014/11/06/did-nato-...
Also went looking for an alternative and moved everyting to mailbox.org...
Almost by definition, most new projects in software are failures. The reasons are simple.

1. Incumbents benefit from network effects in users, and integrations.

2. Due to 1, most software markets consolidate around a top player and a list of 2-10 second-tier players. The top player will hold 90% market share and the remainder will split the ~10%.

3. It costs only slightly more for a top-player to keep staying on top as it does for a second-tier player to keep being second-tier.

This all means that if you want to become an incumbent you need to be early for any market, and that market can't be a feature of an existing incumbent. A good example of the latter was the push for "Cloud operating systems" back in the early 10s. As it turned out standard linux distros worked pretty well in the cloud.

You also never know if you are early, late, or if the problem is too big until you try. The more times you try the more likely you are to succeed!
> The consensus layer of the architecture is rock solid according to this report.

That's quite a stretch. The report states explicitly a) the usual proviso that they can only prove the presence of bugs, not their absence, but more pertinently b) that their methodology is more usually applied to lower-latency databases, with the implication that they are less confident of their conclusions in this new regime:

> Radix’s low throughput and high latency may have masked safety violations. In particular, our tests required several hours to reproduce e.g. aborted read (#13).

Note also that they didn't even attempt to test what happens in the presence of malicious nodes!
Is there any good alternative to Google Docs/Sheets and Microsoft Office 365?
ITT: people who think that this isn't government censorship even though the Whitehouse called for the censorship.
I doubt Anthony Fauci would be willing to go on the show, but I could see someone like US Surgeon General Vice Admiral Vivek Murthy willing to go on Rogan's show. I'd like to see it. However I suspect it would go a lot like it did when Sanjay Gupta made an appearance. I don't think it was a good look for Gupta.
Oh no! Costs! Won't somebody think of the innocent Capital!

Also, not 1MM customers each - only folks having issues - that's a small subset of all users.
Said like someone with an incorrect idée fixe instead of actually looking at (a) jurisdictions where they’ve worked (b) actual epidemiological and socio-psychological science. There are mistakes made by scientists during this pandemic (downplaying the efficacy of masks for months). Recommendations on vaccine mandates and vaccine passports aren’t one of them.
> Then why are repeat guests who have one removal having all episodes removed

Some are, some aren't, pay closer attention.
On related note former prime minister of Latvia is also head of Latvia's gazprom branch now
If I don’t need evidence, though, I can just say you are a cheat (and worse, since I don’t need any evidence) anyway and then if you beat me whip up a mob to run you out of town. Politicians do this sort of thing to each other all the time.

I don’t mean noop in the sense that nothing can happen as a result, so it was probably a bad choice of a word, but that it just doesn’t provide any info. Maybe you’re telling the truth, maybe you’re lying for your own reasons, I have no way to know and so what can I do with the info?

I see the point you’re making too, though, and it makes sense.
If it’s for personal use, then the Microsoft 365 personal plan is $70 per year and includes the full office suite and mail. Otherwise, $12 per month will get you mail and Office.
He's apparently surprised that tea culture is classist and elitist. I suppose he has never been to the UK?
Meanwhile I live in the UK and it's completely standard for monetary quantities.
You can google "hydrocephalus", though I should warn the images can be a bit disturbing
It's a bold claim to say that your system can handle six orders of magnitude more load than it is actually capable of because next year you might release some software that does better.
> I reject the idea that everyone should know from these words that they will be subject to an enormous early cancellation fee if they forget to cancel before the 7 day trial period is over.

Reading the twitter thread it seems to me that you can cancel within 14 days of subscribing without a cancelation fee. See also: https://twitter.com/darkpatterns/status/1489901691151519746
1Password. I hate it because Agile Bits are so user-hostile now. I can't replace it because the alternatives, if they meet our requirements, are even worse.
The sheer size of Google’s list vs Apple’s is why I’ve decided to never again use a Google service. There is no reliability there, nor is there any consistency - they kill products for no apparent reason - popular beloved products. The latest decision to turf anyone on Legacy Google Appa for your Domain accounts was the final straw. They are a truly reprehensible company.
> I think the problem is a monetization strategy is only valid if people are willing to pay for it.

There are people willing to pay for it, the question is will there be enough. A doomed monetization strategy would be one where people are willing to pay for it, but you lose money on every transaction.

> 1000 sounds like a lot more than 33 a day - particularly when if it is a search with a lens applied that drops to c16 per day, or a search that then clicks through to images.

Not sure where you got this from. Search via lens does not cost as 2 searches. It is costing 1 search and we are making changes in the future where it will count as less than 1 search.
Sweet Track: 6k-year-old Somerset walkway is preserved
Yeah, it's totally the Republicans who are pro-union.
> STEM make up the tools we use to understand the world.

So you're saying it's the only tool to understand the world?

> As a bonus, the STEM way of thinking is very useful for an honest societal debate.

What about philosophy, sociology, and liberal arts?
It may be an unpopular opinion, but I really enjoy writing wiki pages in Confluence.
Just curious, why do you find Gmeet so bad? Among the three most common used (in my experience ar least zoom teams and meet) I find it the most usable.
Teams is also horrible if you are in multiple organizations, as it simply fails to consider that you might want to easily switch between two different Teams meetings with different authentication, like it's trivial to do with e.g. Slack.
Short version: we had a conversion funnel for one of our purchase funnel which was wrong because of bad data. The mistake was a developer error.