skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This seems like a very hand-wavy comparison.

That's a pretty ungenerous response when I was asking in good faith to understand, even expressing my own ignorance. I only know people that hold dual citizenship, and their experience of Japan certainly isn't some big step down from the US.
Ofcom to probe cloud, messenger and smart-device markets
Interesting, given that SMS originated in Europe.
Socioeconomic Roots of Academic Faculty
I see where your are coming from, but I'm not convinced the alternatives are any better.

The moment Meta fails to follow any local law, policimakers all over the world will scratch their heads and think about how that could happen in their own juridictions. There will be consequences.

Moreover, most countries in the world regulate speech in many ways. I don't see why Meta should bear the responsibility of being the global free speech police when local citizens themselves were not keen at fighting this battle.
This is awesome. Please create more of this!
- sends you a notification about a meeting starting, with a join button. when you hover your mouse over the join button, the notification disappears. the meeting is nowhere to be found. you have to got to outlook calendar and join the meeting from there

- sometimes the same meeting ends up existing twice with the same name, with half the participants in here, the other half back there

- when your internet is bad, you can no longer hear the speaker talking, but the video feeds of 5 other participants all run fine

- when I join a call with a built-in microphone and a webcam microphone attached, teams pre-selects the webcam microphone, but sends the sound of no microphone at all. I have to go the hidden away settings, change to the built-in microphone and back to the webcam microphone to make it work.

- a few versions ago, teams would hammer microsoft servers with multiple authentication requests per second, eating a lot of CPU and bandwidth, but there's no indication of anything going on in the UI - you are still logged in and everything works normally.

- powerpoint presentations sometimes work, sometimes all you get to see is a black rectangle

- uploading files is extremely buggy, and it's not always clear if it did work or not.
>Google got hacked by inside actors planted in their physical offices by the Chinese government.

This just isn't true? It was an IE 0-day.
> That's unnecessarily dramatic rhetoric.

Perhaps. But unnecessarily dramatic is also the account of security providers in all their forms. Since the start of the millennium we live in safer society and yet have increased surveillance by certain magnitudes. We need to change direction here because we already have negative repercussion in trust and other metrics that ironically make societies far less safe places to be.

There is just no rational argument for facial recognition for security purposes. So few in fact that emotional safety was often seen as reason enough. There are rational arguments against its usage though.
I think the OP meant Cyclic Universe theory by Penrose: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K_FUlo8BF9Y
That's a great idea actually. Thanks, I think that should be pretty easy to do!
Yep. They even have "Harvest Information Standards": https://hisregistries.org/

Documentation on how to collect demographic data: https://hisregistries.org/wp-content/uploads/filebase/rop/RO...

Even an FAQ: https://hisregistries.org/wp-content/uploads/filebase/rop/RO...

And a standards process: https://hisregistries.org/wp-content/uploads/filebase/standa...

The entire mechanism is slick, polished and well co-ordinated. Everyone is involved in the process: politicians, police, pastors, NGOs and it probably goes all the way to the Vatican (this is probably a conspiracy theory but can't be ruled out). Most of the donations come from foreign contributions. The modus operandi is typically to create flyers that talk about famine/hunger/floods/earthquakes/AIDS or some infectious disease ravaging third-world countries (think Africa, Asian countries) and solicit donations from gullible citizens of First World countries who naturally do not suspect it to be used for anything nefarious. These donations rake in millions of dollars.

Then these donations are routed through NGOs in India (which thankfully the Government of India cracked down on in 2015-16). They are then routed through various pastors/missionaries who "Preach the Gospel" (code for bribe the economically downtrodden). The more "souls harvested" the higher the share of donation that these pastors/missionaries get. So it is high incentive, high stakes game for them. Every soul they harvest they get anywhere from $3000-$8000. The biggest slice of the pie is for those who can convert upper-caste Brahmins. However, they mostly target villages/tribal areas. The last information (dollar amounts) I cannot substantiate with proof (as most of it happens under the table) but I have seen it with my own eyes (worked with someone who I witnessed engaging in this — he had forgotten that I was in the same room). So take the last piece of information as purely anecdotal as I do not know how wide spread this is and if the rates are the same all across India.

If the conversions were happening because of philosophical/ideological acceptance it wouldn't be an issue at all. This is different. This can be classified as a form of corruption.

If you are interested, you can check "Confessions of an Ex-Christian: Esther Dhanraj" which details the modus operandi of this conversion racket.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNdgGttyvyA
Ford literally released a crossover SUV and called it the "Mustang Mach-E" despite having nothing whatsoever to do with previous Mustangs.
If you're an adult you already have an ID card...I'm talking about renewing one, not applying for the first time. One applies for one in person when one turns 18 (with a birth certificate, a passport if a citizen of another country, or a piece of paper from the border guards if a refugee etc).

Also one needs an ID card plus 2FA authentication(usually connected to a bank account, a physical smart card, or mobile phone) to login to the government services portal in the first place. This portal is seen as a huge accomplishment (in comparison to the inconvenience of having to do every little thing in person, queue for hours etc). It is not just taxes, it is health service, local councils, national(and health) insurance, building permits, basically almost everything one can do in person can be done via this portal - except renew an ID card since the stupid EU rule came in force...
Ask HN: What small software do you wish existed?
I'm talking things that are relatively small projects, projects that are maybe outside of your area of expertise but could realistically be done by one developer. Not things like open source CAD software.
1. Master and Margarita by Bulgakov.

2. The Satanic Verses by Rushdie.

(It felt like these two books have something in common.)
OMG moment, moment. Let me get my popcorn and I'm with you guys right away.
(This was originally a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32934936, which originally had a title implying that.)
Microsoft Won’t Label Fake News as False in Attempt to Avoid ‘Censorship’ Cries
Guix is basically an open source focused variant of Nix, with a few different design decisions.

It's also considerably less popular than Nix, which is already niche.
it doesn't have to be good. it just has to be better than hipchat and webex
https://archive.ph/0uRCX
Starlink iPhones can’t come soon enough.
It's a pretty standard rating system. (I-VI--with the latter not being generally runnable) However, once you get to the highest levels there are unique features that can determine difficulty/danger. For example, if you do dump, is there a quiet section at the end of the rapid or is it miles of the same thing?
Used to be linux zerod allocated pages only upon first use. But the time to take the page fault was larger than the time to zero the page so they changed to zero-immediately.

Modern processors zero things very, very fast. This seems like a defensible approach.
> I think caches are an excellent use case for LiteFS early on.

I mean, folks can do stuff like this on Fly with Redis backed by disk, too: https://fly.io/blog/last-mile-redis/
This book is a bit like Guns, Germs and Steel or Sapiens. Very popular, very quotable, but tends to give the false impression that the theory contained within is uncontroversially correct.
"For most crops the saturation point will be reached at about 1,000–1,300 ppm under ideal circumstances"

- http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/00-077.htm

"They found that if the outdoor CO2 concentrations do rise to 930 ppm, that would nudge the indoor concentrations to a harmful 1,400 ppm.

…

In fact, at 1,400 ppm, CO2 concentrations may decrease basic decision-making ability by 25%, and complex strategic thinking by around 50%, the authors found."

- https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/continued-CO2-emissions-wil...
> > I doubt any amount of benefits and socialism can solve this problem.

This

> Most EU countries are higher up the list

How do you know you can trust that list?

When you look at both the average and the median income, even adjusting for PPP, IIRC the poorest US state is richer than the richest EU country, which says a whole lot about "the degree of poverty in EU".

Of course, Europeans don't like that so they try to tweak the rankings by doing various adjustments for happiness, or insisting on healthcare stuff (etc.) and how they have many transfer payments.

The europoors doth protest too much, methinks :)
In the Stack Overflow survey it looks like the top 8 frameworks are all JS, C#,and Java. Flask, Django, Laravel and RoR start coming in after all these frameworks. So it looks like most server side apps are either JS or something faster like C# or Java.

Also this is if you check professionals. It's pretty similar for all respondents, but Flask and Django rise above spring and ASP.NET, although ASP.NET Core is still above those.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-most-...
> That doesn't excuse downplaying the security issues so common when using languages that do not offer memory safety.

Sure thing but can Rust live up to its memory-safety promise? Or even data-race freedom promise?

I must say that, coming from systems programming background, I was always skeptical about those promises because IMO these problems fundamentally cannot be solved in bare-metal programming language. They're implied by the complexity of HW not loop-holes in programming languages.

That said I see nothing wrong with Rust but I think that people are vastly overselling its core features while at the same time a quick glance over https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=rust will give you exactly a list of bugs which Rust seems to promise not to run into.

Another very recent example, and a very good blog post about memory corruption taking place in Rust: https://www.graplsecurity.com/post/attacking-firecracker
I'm sharing my own idea.
Dvořák In Iowa (2020)
Yeah, wow, laws aren’t code that runs on people instead of silicon.
I started my path as BE 5 years ago and now I run a blockchain company.

My strategy was:
1 - learn just the basics on each vertical (bitcoin, EVM, smart contracts, consensus protocols, game theory) - it wasn't difficult having a background as engineer
2 - get a job as PM/PO to be in touch with as many projects as I can
3 - get a deep understanding of the market needs
4 - start working as low level developer on a particular (selected) project, to understand the core and become an expert
5 - manage my own team to sell services (outsourcing) to other entrepreneurs
6 - scale num.5

I share with you a doc I wrote a time ago, describing the roadmap I propose to learn the basics: https://medium.com/rather-labs/the-roadmap-to-become-a-block...

Also, if you want to check my company, you can do it at ratherlabs.com

I wish you the best on this exciting path!
Reputation. Ignore it at your peril.
Hu? During Arab Spring internet got cut off in Egypt, Libya, Syria...
Jira doesn't really work well out of the box. It needs a lot of work to configure. I love Jira now, but it's been hell in the other startups. It's probably why stuff like Trello and Asana took off.
We can all try consuming less. I'm hoping the market will have to correct us all out of sheer shortage. E.g gas for the car, meat and flight will get too expensive for many people. At some point it will probably happen I'm just hoping we'll get there while we can still correct our future.

Is meat, a car and cheap holidays worth destroying the planet and ravaging through the precious resources we have left? Very doubtful. We can use trains, eat more beans/soy and go to nearest beach/mountain where we live.
Bitmap Indexes in Go: Search Speed (2019)
> Interestingly teams usage seems to be still rising post-pandemic

We don't use Teams, but IME, every meeting I setup in Outlook defaults to including a Teams link. I have to actively turn it off. This type of thing will eventually get people stumbling into using Teams.
Call it then Berenstain Effect then
It's written like a computer game from the 1990s. For unfathomable reasons, it takes "full control" of your audio stack. I want to say.. ha-ha... for performance reasons, but we all know that can't possibly be true.

The trick here for everyone being driven mad by Teams randomly overriding system settings is that for each audio device there's a setting miles deep in the legacy control panel called:

"Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device"

Untick that, and then Teams won't have the permission to change system-wide settings. In practice, nothing else needs this permission anyway, unless you're doing some sort of low-latency audio capture with professional tools or whatever.
The UK is basically in the same economic position as the US. Plus we have a currency that's starting to collapse, and spiking energy costs. And serious political issues that will likely become economic issues very soon (starting a trade war because nationalism for instance). And we are much less competitive.

The BoE has very few other options at this point.
I wish that I could access my PIM data through a filesystem, and ideally synchronize using regular file sync features. I'm talking things like contacts, calendar events, bookmarks, etc. Give me semi-structured (probably yaml, I know it has issues but I like it) data and let me add arbitrary notes and fields.
There is a difference between fake news and false news: one is objective, the other is not.

False news: The Detroit Lions won the Super Bowl last year.

Fake news: The Detroit Lions have the best team in the NFC this year.

A separate issue is that most of what passes for news these days is opinion presented for ratings so calling any of it "news" might be a misnomer.
High Natural-Gas Prices Push European Manufacturers to Shift to the U.S.
Right now a lot of things are still not clear even for me.

I'm planning to have different ways how people can integrate it into their products: iframe, js framework components, react native and maybe even library for apps.

Yeah I know that emails are great for some ways but I want to build smth that help to talk with existing users.

The thing on the right is live demo that's right.

Do you have your own product?
Drought losses in China might double between the 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming
Ask HN: Indexing a Set of Personal Sites
I am sure all of us have bookmarked/collected many URLs over time due to various reasons. As this collection grows it becomes difficult to maintain a record of what each URL was interesting for (why I saved it), which makes some sort of a search into the contents of those URLs useful.

My question is are there any existing tools or suggestions to build some scripts to achieve this whereby I can do a search only on my private URL collection? I wouldn't like to store the contents on my local machine, but maybe some sort of an indexing can be used?

Couldn't get much in a simple DDG search so asking here.
Oracle Releases Java 19
I think you are begging the question that he was wrongly banned. It's long enough that I forgot the details (or never knew them) but I doubt he was banned for simply being argumentative. If his presence is bad for the site, then no, we shouldn't welcome him back. If having him here is good for the site, then he shouldn't have been banned in the first place.

Separately, could you explain why you created a new account for this question? It's not obvious to me. I think the implication is that you fear repercussion for asking the question. Personally, I think this is an unnecessary fear. In any case, I think it undercuts your argument and makes me wonder about your motivations.
I would argue that by definition 'your dream vacation' would include the company that would take part in your ideal vacation.
It's illegal to transfer PII to microsoft under GDPR though, so wouldn't it be like setting up a minefield for your employees to consciously choose ms teams for daily communications?
I think it was an Amazing Architecture. As far as I know Complex Instruction Set CPUs (CISC) was slow and then outperformed by RISC one but Saturn was very smart:

- The basic Calculator arithmetic is handled by the CPU, the CPU precision is the SAME of the calculator, and the digits can be printed on screen with little effort.

- The tiny hardware stack make the CPU quick: you needn't to make a major memory access to POP or PUSH return address the stack.

- The original tiny data bus (4 or 8 bit) reduced the production costs for low-end calculator.

- I/O and power saving was tight integrated: for instance there was a "deep sleep" mode to save battery.

Also the HP15C has a very efficient poweer saving design: https://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/archive/index.php?thread-1776...
(search for "SOS (Silicon on Sapphire)")

Italian article with English links:
https://gioorgi.com/2020/arte-dimenticata-rpn/
John Ousterhout – It's Not You, It's the Codebase [audio]
Well, good. Because they would inevitably be wrong and we saw much of that in the pandemic. I don't care if that is due to censorship cries or not, it is appreciated.

Btw. if you look at the Edge starting page and what is published there, you certainly have not a lot of legs to stand on to disqualify ... err... unauthentic content.
They talked about this on All-In Podcast this week [0]. Essentially Microsoft teams doesn't need to be "good" to compete with Slack or others. It just needs to exist and part of the Microsoft bundle to be a viable option to the decision makers in a company.

[0]: https://youtu.be/_UpczzfeAFA?t=1099
That title is unusually difficult to parse, especially since you only realize halfway through that it's about aircraft.
Just a reminder that Signal supports both censorship circumvention and independently hosted proxies (e.g. Search Twitter, etc. for proxy links using the #IRanASignalProxy hashtag.)

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360056052052-Pr...
Illegal Operation
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Proton Drive, Secure cloud storage and file sharing
Proton Drive is now GA, from the same company as Proton Mail. End to end encrypted file storage.
Disclaimer: part of the team that built it.
I suggest reading the Chronoliths as well.
I use Linux on every single personal computer and server, and I have been for over 10 years. I love Linux and can't use anything else, but I'm not doing it any favors by pretending it isn't easy to break. Full /boot partition, broadcom WiFi drivers, and anything Nvidia are some of the examples that can cause your computer to just stop working at any time. That doesn't include any of the thousand ways you can mess up configuration too. /etc/sudoers, grub.cfg, Xorg.conf
>Sure, containerizing an application is /easier/ than working out the dependency trees and solving dependency conflicts between them. It is by no means fundamentally better approach. [...] The [distro] packaging system is transparent to contents: nothing forbids you to package versions 1.0 and 2.0 and have them happily coexist as long as they do not share common paths.

I think your comment is analyzing the problem from a different abstraction level than the author's examples.

In other words, your alternative approach of "solving dependency conflicts" is abstract advice unless you try to make it concrete by focusing who solves those dependency conflicts.

Using the author's example of a VSCode conflict (collision of "/usr/bin/code") with Actor in italics:

- Microsoft owns commercial the build of /packages/visual-studio-code-bin

- Filipe Laíns & Massimiliano Torromeo owns the open-source-license build of /packages/community/x86_64/code/

- Levente Polyak, et al owns the Arch Linux distribution

- end user owns the computer that needs to run conflicting software

Generalize the above matrix to every software package and consider which of those 4 actors can practically solve the conflicts in a scalable way?

Filipe Laíns & Massimiliano Torromeo can't control what Microsoft does and vice-versa. (Ironically, the freedom to not be controlled by the other actor is one reason there's a package conflict!)

And Levente Polyak could "solve" it by blessing Filipe Laíns's package and rejecting Microsoft's but this creates a new "problem" for users who specifically want Microsoft's commercial build.

The fundamental issue is that you have independent actors that can't control what others do. Result is that sometimes software packages clash (namespace collisions, dependent libraries not in sync, incompatible licenses, etc).

The approach of using containers -- however flawed it is -- gets past the stalemate of independent actors in the software landscape being incompatible with each other.
Absolutely. There is no expense (I take it as of any kind, or are we just talking 'it's paid for'?)

I would assume that at least during my dream vacation, my dream vacation would make me really happy. So 'really happy' beats 'average self' for any amount of time, even if I don't have memories afterwards.
https://sunrise-sunset.org/api

I used this myself for my father's chicken coop, it's quite easy to use.
I dunno about "modern" - I can recall distro packaging making a total disaster of Ruby gems over a decade ago.
They are "working hypothesis" to be studied, and thus implicitly they are being considered skeptically. I agree they should consider power, I would imagine that would come under cultural aspects. As to Academia, they explicitly criticize Academic silos; the whole network is a way to address problems with reductionism.

I'm not sure what makes you think they are anti-capitalist. I suspect you didn't read the whole thing because they say "To be clear, the authors are not making blanket statements about the pros and cons of markets, capitalism, socialism, or communism. (These are tasks for the scholarly network whose creation we urge.)"

Edit: on a side note, I'm genuinely interested in how you would envision a 'world without power'?
Let's hope the prosters are successful this time.
I'm planning on borrowing a $100,000.00 next year.

You know after consideration I'll only borrow $50,000.00.

Off to tell the wife I've saved us $50,000.00.
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