skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, Google said they pulled out of China for principled reasons but they did it practically for self-preservation.

Google got hacked by inside actors planted in their physical offices by the Chinese government. It's one of the very few times that Gmail's security was compromised. At the time, Google did not have the security countermeasures in place to protect against such an attack so they responded by severing the physical ties so such an attack could not be repeated. Once the BeyondCorp initiative had completed and they had the technology necessary to firewall pieces of their infrastructure where users had admin rights from other pieces of their infrastructure where users had admin rights, they reopened business in China because the risk model had changed.
The problem is: if you want to ban Nazi propaganda you have to develop tools to do it. Once you have tools in place you can use it to ban anything you do not like, not just Nazi propaganda.
Or you just write sensible commit messages. Commits together with the messages should require as little out of band information as possible.
If Meta were to comply with western sanctions, shouldn't they prohibit all access to all the people in Iran ?
(As much as I dislike Meta —) applying foreign laws to foreign users isn't "dealing" with the Iranian government. "Dealing" in the legal sense generally requires a two-way exchange. If Iran unidirectionally imposes a regulation, that's not a deal; Meta has made no decision to enter into it.

(Reference/entry point for legal aspects about this: contracts are also invalid if they're purely unidirectional. If I remember correctly there's a LegalEagle YT video about this, but you can probably dig this up elsewhere too.)
We've since changed the title - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32937709.
For me it was tenet
> Why would any business have any principles besides following local laws?

Local laws change. Facebook’s sociopathic culture has put it at a material disadvantage when it comes to public opinion and merger/regulatory approvals. If that spills into judgement of its employees, it could turn into a recruiting problem.
in Canada they just recommend assisted suicide so a+ for brussels.

https://globalnews.ca/news/9061709/veteran-medical-assisted-...
The Dictator's Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith

It shows how politics works, and how there's no difference between democrats and dictators.
Very interesting.
Lol, "was" versus "were" usage is a pet peeve of mine. Looks like some time im 2016 they got an English major to fix the headline.
Those are two very bold claims: that Google pulled out of China for purely ideological reasons, and that the Chinese tech industry would have otherwise failed if they had stayed. We are dealing with hypotheticals here, so it's not like we can back up our propositions with actual evidence. But both ideas just seem deeply unlikely based on what we know of both Google and Chinese tech.
> I just don't know why the Linux client is so far behind the web client despite being an electron app

My friend, this Linux user since the 1990s would like a word.
That sounds a lot like Sharepoint’s story as well.
Are you really suggesting to break up a company simply based solely on your dissatisfaction with the product?
If you watch an NFL game on Sky there are a load of breaks where they cut to a UK analysis crew. Every single one of those is an ad break that they have in the US but not in the UK. Sky does still has ads, but clearly far far fewer than the US is willing to tolerate.

NFL is an extreme example but I always found the comparison interesting.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
The "news" is not so much news anymore as it is a bunch of people's opinions, like "What will happen if ..."? Guess what - I don't care what some "news" person or "expert" thinks is going to happen, because their crystal ball doesn't work either.

The worst thing that happened to TV news is running it 24-hours.
why on earth would you use Discord in a company setting?

I would rather just go back to IRC.
... and it is opengl-ish, namely seriously castrated (shaders). Borrowing maths from Mr. Bellard's tinygl.
This provides a neat datapoint when looking for a new job. If they chose Exchange365 as their office toolset, I can immediately ignore them.
Hydrogen is still cheaper to get from methane. And synthetic hydrocarbons are still expensive.

But we are moving towards economic viability.

The desired point to get to is to have fossil fuel extraction unprofitable, economically nonviable. At that point even the most ardent deniers of climate change will have to give up fossil fuels or face bankruptcy.
> This is great! I have no idea why but I'd always imagined that moons were a maximum of about 1 planet width away, maybe two. I guess the reason this isn't that case is that any planets would have had to have been that close would fall into the surface of their parent planet.

What a weird comment to make about HP saturn line of CPUs.

Are you a bot?
I'm convinced Redmond is using Slack on macbooks internally.

We're Microsoft hardware (surface line), Microsoft OS, and Microsoft software.

You'd think things would work with that combo? Sleep is utterly broken, Excel crashes, snip works sometimes, audio levels are all over the place with teams doing its own thing separate from system, BT connections are unstable, teams is dog slow, Onenote search gives up with even smallish amounts of data saved

I'm just not buying that MS is dogfooding this
Without sudo privileges the worst they can do is nuke their own home directory, nothing else because that's the only path where they have write access.
Sanctions are joke nowadays. Every country tweak it to its needs.
How did Teams do that that slack or discord couldn't do? 90% of the features are overlapping. And Teams performs by far the worst at that 90%.
No one was ever fired for buying <strike>IBM</strike> <strike>Sun</strike> Microsoft
Making sound sound nice on every device is so difficult, that is why Mastering is so important. But in this case, you'll probably be ok just reducing the volume of the sounds you are playing, and let the user turn the volume up if they want to hear it. I had my volume about 35% and it was still very loud, so that makes me think about maybe you need to reduce the gain a little bit. But great work nevertheless!
I suggest to change the title to something like "Taku: a better way to communicate with users" or "Taku: a widget to communicate with yours users".

I don't understand how it can be a widget in the webpage and in the app. Are you shipping two versions? Which framework do they use?

Email has the advantage that it can be send to people that didn't visit your site and perhaps forgot about it, in spite they may mark it as spam.

It's usually better to wait to post it here until it's available, and it looks like you are only building a waiting list. But IIUC the thing of the right is a live demo, so it's not yout vaporware or an idea without any implementation.

What happens if I press the button "Subscribe to Launch"?
It’s also viable to fight for neither capital or state dominance. You have a lot of confidence in the rule of law applying to power and liberal society
As someone who uses python in their day job, "IO bound" is a lie that is perpetuated to cover for the failing of the language. IO is very fast these days and python has the capacity of choking the cpu even on genuinely io bound problems .

For example, do you think that python is an appropriate language to write pylint?
Precisely. This is what it means for a company to get 'comfortable' with something. It means that given enough demand they have developed the tools necessary to do that aforementioned thing and those tools now can become accessible to any jurisdiction, even those who didn't ask for it.
Lock-in is when you can't (or it's too difficult/expensive to) change to another platform. Requiring a Google login to access a Chromebook ain't that. You don't need to like or agree with it (it would be nice to have the option of a local-only login), but it's different to lock-in (just like privacy is different to security)
This is a ridiculous idea; if anything goes on to show how random hiring processes are imho. Check the contributions obviously but why flat out say "you joined a hackathon we don't like your kind here"?
Fire can basically do the first step (object -> CLI):

https://github.com/google/python-fire

Gooey can do (CLI -> GUI):

https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey
Multiple providers who federate would still not be enough. With some effort one could block every XMPP server, Jami (or Tor) node out there. You would need something like Briar which does mesh networking via Bluetooth.
I would love such a soultion.

I use my old iPhones as webcams. The Picture quality amazing! But I use a selfie-tripod as a mount, and it has exactly this problem.
>> If you see a million heads, you might start to worry that you're in one of those very strange worlds (where your survival depends upon those flips)

I'm already in a world where even a slight wobble in my planet's orbit, or any asteroid changing course by a few inches per hour over the past million years, would have prevented my existence.

Then in the last 100 years we've been to the brink of nuclear annihilation at least three times... and shouldn't have survived.

And it's still getting weirder.

My fear once I realized this about 20 years ago was that I'd end up alone as the last living being on earth. And no matter how many cigarettes I smoke, it seems everyone else dies around me...
The origin of the strong form of superconductivity
It looks like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32934936 is a recent submission of a more neutral source, which is based on the Netblocks report, so I think we'll move the comments thither and re-up that one.
https://twitter.com/roozbehp/status/1572841090910388225?s=46...

| As a former WhatsApp engineer, I don't think WhatsApp even has any mechanism to do such a thing. It's probably an unintended artifact of its infrastructure that the Iranian government has exploited, and knowing the WhatsApp team, they are probably already working on a fix.
I wish CPUs for a while got 10x slower to allow some room for software products optimisation.
I think your reply is a little too strident. It’s not a “fake idea”. It’s just someone’s idea. I hadn’t heard of it but I googled it upon reading this thread and it seems to be the idea that people tend to collectively remember things inaccurately in the exact same way. That phenomenon alone seems pretty plausible and not that dumb or fake, right?

But what isn’t plausible is the part you left out that’s talked about in the video? That some people explain the Mandela effect through pseudoscientific bullshit like alternative timelines merging. You also seem to conflate the ridiculousness of what some people collectively remember with the Mandela effect concept as a whole. It’s a bit like saying hypnosis as an idea is dumb because people do dumb things when hypnotised? I also don’t understand what is deeply offensive about people misremembering that Mandela died in prison? They’re not saying (or even remembering) that he was a bad person, probably the opposite, they’re just ignorant of history.

But having said all that I am perplexed by the OP comment: “I can’t help but think the Mandela effect is an example”. An example of what? Cracks in spacetime? Because yeah that’s dumb, though probably a joke.
> I can't wait until someone forks guix without the whole ideology thing.

What's wrong with the ideology behind it?
Iranian officials acknowledge 6 killed since anti-government protests began, while Amnesty International says it has evidence of 8 killed by...
There's a big overlap here with COVID thinking. At the end of the day, people are OK with other people dying. And really, how could we not be? It happens every day. Particularly when the hardest hit people will be in other (poorer) countries, it just feels less meaningful to those who will likely fare better.
> I have way greater fear that war or similar conflicts may cause us to exterminate each other, or even that some day, AI will take over completely.

It's not like the energy/resource crunch is a totally separate problem to war. Together with climate change it is only going to increase the likelihood for war. It's kinda already happening in the the Middle East / Africa (I'm saying kinda because it's not the only reason for war...people are messed up...but it's not helping).

> If we're able to produce enough energy, we can produce most of the phosphates, nitrates

That's a big if yes? And even if, is the whole supply chain for modern agriculture sustainable? Are all fertilizers and material used renewable or are they coming out of finite earth resources? If it's finite - how long have we got? I'm not claiming to have all the answers but I just started looking at everything through this lens a few months ago ...and it's not going away.
The revolution will not be --televised-- viewable online.
That's all good and great, now please do OCR...
Yep, and the logical conclusion would be to stop paying for O365.
The author’s first and main argument for these rankings is racism. Then he references the US ranking between Bulgaria and Cuba.

I maybe would have gone with criticism of opioid epidemic, education system, debt burden (student loans), too much spending on DoD and OEF/OIF, not enough infrastructure development, etc
Let's check on this fight.

The USA is in recession: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-growth

Inflation is getting better? Relatively speaking? https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi

Probably about 1.5-2 years before inflation is controlled again.

Debt to GDP is getting worse and is beyond the limit: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-debt-t...

They did stop the unfunded deficit spending, obviously still deficit spending: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m2

Incidentally it looks like they have decided not to reduce and simply flatten. So it'll likely push closer to 4 years of inflation? Well no, an election will arrive before that.

Private debt climbing: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/private-debt-to-g...

So yes, pretty much we know what will happen for the next few years.
Dropping an HDD from a certain height was mentioned in an old Sun service manual, IIRC.
it's the best Miyazaki
How much power does it need? Could the winding mechanism provide the required power? Got to look up some specs on the maximum torque provided by the winding mechanism and the turning speed.
I'll be honest, I lack the scientific literacy to understanding much of what Scott Aaronson is saying in that essay. But I will take your word for it that he has some surprising insights.

The Catholic egg question is pretty fascinating to me. I am not religious at all but I would be curious to ask theologians for their take on it.
Sync permission rules to clients, enforce in centralized authorities and peers once synced
> It helped kickstart a domestic, government-obedient tech industry.

How long do you think US companies could operate in the US if they weren't government-obedient? Or any company in any country for that matter.
Is using existing products to leverage yourself into a new market anticompetitive, or "how any company expands into a new market?"
There actually used to be a very interesting science museum in Brussels called Scientastic [1].

The museum was aimed at children and the exhibit consisted of many practical "magic tricks" illustrating some piece of science or technology. Things such as electromagnets, refraction effects, color theory, optical illusions, simple mechanical devices, simple chemistry experiments, etc. For example I remember first learning about the brachistochrone curve at this museum, even though I was too young at the time to know or care about its name. Or that you could use red cabbage juice as a natural pH indicator.

Unfortunately the museum never got much funding or interest from the government, and at some point the museum was destroyed (possibly illegally) to make room for a shopping mall.

[1] https://www.scientastic.com/EN/IntroE.htm
When I was working in Redmond I never used IE once.
I grew up thinking he died in the late 90s, but that was just him retiring from politics.
Probably got their tabs confused with this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32936581
The commenter probably meant this coincident submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32936581

That they both involve Saturns delights and confounds!
> People come from far east and work in US. The system doesn’t seem to disadvantage them.

This is by design. Apart from refugees, we aren’t letting uneducated people immigrate. Look at South Asians, as a whole they have a higher family income, same with other Asians (Japan, Korea etc.). This is because we favor highly educated immigrants.
see: Operation PRISM
I think that's something that actively broken, the android app says in a red banner that call notifications are not delivered.
Do you have an screenshot? Does it get fixed if you refresh the page?
Sure, if you're copying multiple messages in a conversation. Otherwise you're still able to select the name and time along with the message. Hijacking my clipboard with data I have not selected can fuck off.
check out george hotz archive on youtube.
>For someone that grew up in Apartheid South Africa I can't imagine how insulting this would be.

Maybe it's just too early, but why would it be offensive? Flabbergasting, sure, but offensive?

I imagine if someone told me they thought the sky was red my jaw would drop, but I wouldn't be angry.
Strongman with a Strong Mandate? El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele
a transparent markup language
for turning any codebase
into its own manual.

thoughts and feedback appreciated.
Good. The bandwidth costs of providing it are high and the marginal benefit is small, so it makes sense for it to be a premium feature.
Oh yeah! Agree there about the full-blown IDE. I don't do desktop dev anymore but even back in the day VS was amazing.

As an aside, though, why do you hate VSCode? I use IntelliJ myself but most of my colleagues use VSCode and love it... yours is the first bad review I've heard in a while. What's terrible about it?
one sign for me that this may be true is that I invented the concept on my own decades ago and have watched it take over the public consciousness. I might just be living with other survivors who are also starting to catch on.

On the other hand it's about as solipsistic as you can get...
Majority of charities are inefficiently managed. Don't believe me go look up 10 charities you know of and check their finance. Sometime for every 1 dollar you donate, 70-90cts are used to pay for their admin. Humble bundle offers values that hard to get by elsewhere. I have now always donate 50% to Humble Bundle and 50% to publisher. If I wish to donate to charities, I donate directly knowing exactly which charities I donated and how those money being used. Giving money to legit business are way better than charities in vast cases. Business is sustainable. Majority are audited and offer things/services we need/want. Charities....well they offer ONLY sympathy as their product trailed by lots of questionable administration costs.
Which list (there are many of them, made by different groups with different political positions)? How do you measure “sustainability development goal,” or living standards of a person? Who defines these terms, provides data, publishes these lists, why is it relevant amid countless other indices, Etc. You can always define an index that would put a given country or region at any position, or to advance a point.

You do better, living and experiencing life in different countries, or ask people who have done so. Not dismissing data, but there are a lot of stuff not captured by a number (not to mention the issue with data and the method used).

For example, there are other articles that claim poor people in US are richer than the middle class in much of the Europe (like a lower class or poor family in US might only have one car, rather than several, comparable to the middle or upper class in EU):

https://mises.org/wire/poor-us-are-richer-middle-class-much-...

Regardless, the point in my comment remains.
There is one video, and even in that, a person with a kayak, a life vest, and assistance from others, still almost drowns.
Another piece of cultural baggage is hiding the organisation of people in meetings. Large enterprises do this because they have subcontractors that they like to pretend aren't subcontractors.

I'm a consultant invited to meetings in a customer's tenant with people from various subcontractors and vendors present.

John: "So, what is your honest opinion about Andrew's statement?"

Me: "I have no idea who you are or which org Andrew works for... so no opinion that I'd be willing to state."
(I've moved your comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32937709 to the merged thread because it's a good comment and I don't want it to get stuck where no one will see it.)
Chainalysis: A startup that helps governments trace crypto
Dead simple is something like Meet. Click a link and you're on a video call with nothing to install. On iOS, FaceTime is also great.

Zoom is a dumpster fire.
Yeah that’s just not true. We run fleets, 10000s of users in virtual machines. From standard, optimized base images.

I can tell you from experience that issues stay well in known boundaries. I can tell which users will have issues and with what, by just looking at their installed applications.

Where things begin to fall off, users that want to be admins, developers that deploy random stuff. Power users in general are the cause of their own problems.

Developers sharp or not don’t always know how to run their own laptop. More often than not they are the cause of their problems.

There are some terrible applications out in the world. Creative cloud I’m looking at you.

Or I found this great application called Figma let me paste raw 500mb pictures & pdfs into it and watch it eat my machine alive.

Laptop & desktop hardware, Apple included, still has a huge randomness factor.
> That said, fossil fuels are nowhere near to depletion and may well last for centuries.

They ARE getting more expensive (see U.S shale oil in the last decade) because the best spots are always mined first. Once gone you have to dig deeper and harder and use increasingly more complex and expensive methods to extract it. At some point you will get negative return on energy - so even if it is there it will be wasteful to extract.
https://archive.ph/fxWwT
I'm an Iranian living in Italy and have an Italian phone/WhatsApp number. Couldn't call anyone or receive WhatsApp calls to/from Iranian and non-Iranian numbers yesterday afternoon when the internet blocking started in Iran. It was like all numbers somehow in touch with Iranian contacts were blocked from completing calls. As soon as either side of the call would answer, the call would end with a message like you are connected via a network that has blocked WhatsApp or something similar.
That's set to off. I still get them though...
Do you mean with "dynamically schedule and unschedule" that you sort of manually (or using another task) stop running a task in its specified interval (or condition)? It does support this, there is an argument "disabled" in the tasks that can be set True and then the task won't be run unless explicitly forced to run (calling run method of a task). The task can be enabled by setting it back to False. This can be done in runtime in another task using main, thread or async execution.

It could be the docs don't mention this. I'll need to check and add it there in case it's missing.

Or did I misunderstand?
Israel Police chief calls for ‘shutting down’ social media during civil unrest
Based on the response of PC gamers on reddit to the 40 series cards, that's probably a good thing. People with 1440p@60Hz monitors complaining about cards meant to run 4k@144Hz being too expensive.