skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
blame the ad companies for having peanut sized gall on pulling out on smallest things they dislike
I wish they had gone further. In the modern age the concept of data hosted or stored with a “third party” is no longer useful in its entirety.

It’s questionable to me that where the bits are stored is even a relevant component of a multi-prong test, let alone an overriding factor.

The way the bits are accessed is certainly relevant but the location of the network attached hard-drive should have absolutely zero bearing.

This would have squared up well with the issue of offshore data warrants which got punted off the docket after new legislation was enacted to provide a compromise solution to that specific issue.

In any case, a great step in the right direction.
+1 I find this to be the best way to use Slack, as a more connected, more functional SMS. The problem is not so much Slack as the default settings for Slack. Used in the right way, it's a powerful tool
If they do push back they will be held out. Freelance labor has little to no power, even at the rockstar level. Perhaps only at the celebrity and political level is there power. Certainly if you have open side channels with actual decision makers you will have some power, but it is a very soft and fickle one.

Parallel work contracts are the most nefarious tool, these days you can pretty much assume someone else is working on a something that can stand in place of what you're working on, ostensibly in case you fail, but also as a power asymmetry that makes all freelance work completely disposable.

More broadly the business can fail, and there are similar business out there to pick up the slack. Stop working and watch your company fall apart, it doesn't really matter and is perhaps the intended function of competitive capitalism.
That's not really gatekeeping. In order for words to have meaning they have to preclude the set of all things they are not. There is a cogent argument that support of collective bargaining is compatible with the philosophical school of libertarianism, and that a liberatarian subscribing to that school of thought would consequently support it. It's not necessarily self-evident, and you can argue against it if you'd like, but then it's simply a disagreement. Gatekeeping implies an unreasonable barrier being imposed on an ingroup or social identity (not typically a political or philosophical school of thought). For example, "you're not really a fan of <band> if you can't name all the songs from their <obscure album>."

People disagree about the finer points of political ideas all the time. But drawing a line in the sand doesn't immediately signify gatekeeping, it signifies normal debate. This is especially evident if you compare the example I gave to what you're calling gatekeeping: it would be unreasonable to require all fans of a band to have episodic recollection and deep opinions on every song ever recorded by the band. But it would not be unreasonable to assume a libertarian with philosophical fidelity to the school of thought supports collective bargaining. Again, it might not be correct, but it's not ridiculous.

As a meta point, I'm noticing a trend online where people will give a quick driveby dismissal using terms from the popular zeitgeist. Typical, recent examples include "gatekeeping", "whataboutism" and "gaslighting." Sometimes these are appropriate criticisms to levy at someone's argument and they draw a real insight. But they're also frequently abused or pigeonholed into discussion in contrived ways. From my perspective this seems like a more subtle equivalent of collecting logical fallacies to point out in other people's arguments online. It's symptomatic of something larger: that snark is the modern saboteur of reasoned debate.

Very, very rarely is a single sentence critique of another person's point anything more than a middle brow dismissal. It sounds intellectual but there's no deconstruction or antithesis involved. If you wanted to substantially critique the commenter's point, it would probably have been more appropriate to cite "No True Scotsman" instead of "Gatekeeping". Better still would be to skip the trite idiom altogether and explain why you consider it an error with substantive depth. A pithy comment only convinces those who already agree with you. A meaningfully persuasive one convinces the audience, if not the original commenter.
And while he was doing that, how many features could he have added that would increase revenue for the company?

There's more to building a long-term, sustainable business than optimizing revenue at any cost. And part of that "more" is exactly the work you to do insure against future risks.
It doesn't immediately have that effect. Very likely police will continue to use stingrays until courts explicitly rule against it (and probably has been appealed to the supreme court).

However this does indicate the way that the supreme court leans. Not only does this suggest they would rule against stingrays, but it also might push lower courts to also rule against them.
The US won WII not because our military was super powerful (though that helped), but because most of Germany's technical geniuses defected or deported or were deposed/killed. Chinese in large part flee China when they can. Foreigners aren't knocking down walls to join China.

The value of (relative) freedom made the US powerful. If the US becomes just like the bad parts of China or Russia, who cares of China or Russia come out on top instead of the US? They will have already won the war of ideas.
> it's one of the few regions with the right climate that is also poor enough to make laborious hand-pollination affordable

It's not like I didn't know that this is how the world works, but this specific case is even more of a slap in the face. It's kinda fucked up to think that in the local specialty store merely a couple pods of vanilla (a few grams each) go for 6-7 dollars, but these folks live in poverty. But more fucked up is the implication that to keep vanilla prices down we specifically maintain these conditions, because of cheap labor.

Oh well, the artificial stuff for me from now on.
I come from a very similar perspective. Worthless but also like... what does "worth" even mean. We are all dust.

I think people spend way too much time wondering about their self worth, or if they will fail or are good at what they do, they confuse task strength with self worth, but if you have no self worth you can avoid a lot of time wasting mental loops, instead it's a focus on task assignment/alignment where you happen to be the person involved.

For me it's basically, the fact that external indicators will tell you you failed or suck and don't worry about it so much, just keep failing but learn each time.

I try only to change myself through knowing more, being more proficient, learning skills that are hard for me to learn, understanding things more holistically.

I haven't really struggled with suicidal thoughts though, I think that there is a certain level of self worth or ego required to be suicidal... to me, all of the existential questions, questions of meaning I don't have an answer for... I just don't know, I'm keeping my eyes pealed for Truth but to say it doesn't exist to me denotes a level of certainty I can't muster either, despair seems like it comes from a place of certainty, so I'll just keep my eyes open until my body gives out or Truth becomes apparent, after all I've go nowhere else to be.
Most people who make a lot of money blow through it in about 7 years.

I know a couple who blew through $15 million. The wife ended up working as a cook in a restaurant.
Yep, that's how it works for me, working from Canada. I invoice on the 15th and the last day of the month, wire transfer comes in a week later (just because of how the company chooses to do payroll).
HEIF already does similar compression to this JPEG XL now, which is at least 2 - 3 years away.

We need something even better, compressing 150Kb Jpeg, a common image size on the internet, to 50Kb with similar or better quality.

I hope we do better with next gen video codec VVC.
I don't think they're referring to the type of device when they say the language is embeddable.

If you wanted to create an app (maybe a text editor) with support for user-defined plugins, that's a good scenario for hosting an interpreter, or embedding it.
It's a low bar for surveilling individuals, but it doesn't scale. I think that's really important. The more obstacles in the way of mass surveillance, the better.
I feel for engineers that take on positions involving military contracts. It seems like another group of people that would be marginalized in SV.
> lays out recent competitors, admits their technical merits, but concludes that they're not in widespread use.

So their argument is "this new technology that has just entered the market is not widely adopted, therefore our technology which does not even exist yet let alone is ready for usage is better"?
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So? The Soviet Union collapsed under its own weight a few years later. The (negative) dividends of US militarization are still being paid.
That is a really hard job. Understanding people is a system just like programming except there are few hard rules
>A still image file containing one frame of a video codec has been long theorized

The I-frame encoding in MPEG-1 was basically identical to baseline JPEG. The compressed frames can be losslessly converted to JPEG and vice-versa. So, in a sense, we were already there.

Reusing the I-frame compression from a video codec is the only strategy that makes sense for a lossy still image codec. Video codecs are where the major innovation is happening, with wide participation from every player in the industry, and a large part of the innovation has been around improving I-frame efficiency. They're being hardware optimized and baked into software implementations. And even when patents are involved, still image codecs are usually able to piggyback on the video codec licenses that are already on the device.
There are a number of these lightweight, embeddable programming languages - few are particularly innovative.

I have often wondered whether, rather than a new, very orthodox language, it would be more useful to have a lightweight implementation of (a subset of) an existing language?

However, my discussions about MicroPython have shown that many programmers would rather learn a new language than try to restrict themselves to a subset of one they already know. It's likely that programmers who don't know e.g. Python, would also rather learn a brand new language.

So, the number of lightweight, very orthodox languages continues to increase.
There are risks associated with driving. You could hit a deer, or slip on black ice. Unintentional behaviour by pedestrians is exactly the same. It is just unreasonable to expect pedestrians to be completely attentive to safety at all times. That would require an unpleasently authoritarean set of rules. Do you really want public spaces to be so strictly regulated?
"You're getting downvoted but if people look past your inflammatory tone there is a good argument to be made."

I really dislike this idea that it's our responsibility to ignore inflammatory tones and trolling, instead of it being the responsibility of the poster to communicate clearer.
Well, I guess every company on AWS is screwed, huh?

Screwed? Maybe, maybe not. At risk? Abso-fucking-lutely. There are plenty of stories out there of companies who had their AWS accounts shut-down for some random reason, plenty of stories of AWS outages, etc. Even if Amazon does't pull a "Smyte", there's plenty of risk associated with being on (or "solely on") AWS.

By and large, anytime you are completely dependent on someone else's platform, you are increasing risk by putting your destiny in someone else's hands.
If you're talking about national insurance, which is more or less fixed, then you are incorrect. The NHS is not funded by it. It's still payed by taxes but it's not a flat rate tax.
Back in the day, there was controversy over the idea of a standing army... the usual moral and economic issues. As war became a faster and larger affair the standing professional army made more sense.

The speed at which cyber warfare could happen and cripple a nation and the chaos that would ensue has me lean on the side of the necessity of our civilian industries working with the military-industrial complex and government.

This might be easier to do if we trusted our government institutions especially the clandestine ones, which I think we rightly question.

Of course, if they don't develop the tech, someone else will, and it might come to bite them in the end. May as well have a say.

edited: for clarity
What is your evidence to support this claim?
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> Widgets are cool, but mostly we need tables and forms.

This (though I agree with sibling comment about a few more being useful).

I reviewed 20 popular admin themes last month for our startup, and was v disappointed with them. Either due to code quality, or throwing in loads of useless widgets which are more consumer rather than business oriented.

There's a gap for a theme that's more like Stripe's dashboard, not these heavy-left-hand-menu dashboard themes. Or something like VMWare's Clarity Design System (https://vmware.github.io/clarity/)

Something corporate.
Your comment could have included a bit more of a logical segue. It came across fairly off-topic to me, too. HN generally downvotes or splits off OT discussions, which might be the reason someone thought to mention it.
black lotus flowers would be a natural substitute.
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> no one supported APNG (relative to GIF) so it never really gained traction.

I think that the creators of PNG being against it and saying we should all use MNG instead didn't really help. Not to mention the fact that it took ages for plain PNGs to be supported by browsers.
WebP is based on obsolete VP8 codec, which has already dead in the video space (replaced by VP9 & H.26[45]).

Next generation formats (HEIC/AVIC) are half size of WebP. So I'm hoping WebP won't get revived before we get AV1 going, and we'll be able to bury WebP, too.
I'd guess many people would argue that the US military is not that ethical and actively involved in a lot of campaigns they shouldn't be in.

See e.g. the discussions around the drone projects, where many argued that the drone program is used in a bad way, and thus shouldn't be supported, where a military that's less involved or work on technology that's seems harder to "misuse" might be seen differently. E.g. I'd expect a lot fewer people would argue that the US shouldn't be prepared to defend against China.
There is not often a monolithic "HN", but instead a group of people who decide to engage or not based on the subject matter.

We need more media literacy around HN and Reddit. You just need a few users to upvote something, and people often respond when they see the opposing view (this is why conservatives and liberals in the US so often take the most extreme statements on the other side, and critique/retweet them; better engagement and an easier way to caricature the opposing side).

It's interesting to think about how different posts attract wholly different tribes, meaning HN is hundreds of sub-groups not a monolith. There might be a post on a Ruby gem, and the entire commenter group are Ruby-ists who hold common views on opposing languages. You might see this as "HN believes X", but instead it's the subset of people attracted by that post that you're really interacting with.

Will add this as an example to my media literacy guide for engs:

https://github.com/nemild/hack-an-engineer
His views on data ownership seem to roughly align with Europe (it's still "your data" even if other companies hold it), which might be his one bright spot for liberals on this forum.
This comment reads a bit like a non-sequitur, given Alex was talking about natural substitutes for vanilla, and not artificial ones.
Xkcb is always a good distraction, but not.

What is interesting is not that there aren't mass murderings in the desert or the sea or that more people are shooted where the bulk of the people lives. This is obvious. The interesting part is that there are a lot of mass murderings in USA and a lot of children and young people killed also. (and those are only the first six months of the year).

Was the same trend in 1970 or 1860 after adjusting the diference of population? If not... well, maybe something has changed.
Smoke detectors use Americium-241 which has a half life of 432 years. Unless that expiration date is a few centuries in the future, it's not because of radioactive decay.
The author says:

"It’s very easy to overuse DMs and see Slack as a real-time chat."

"We encourage people to be mindful about notifications. No DM is so important that it can’t wait half an hour. In fact, I see this still underused. Slack has a Do Not Disturb feature and Atlassian’s HipChat successor, Stride, made this one of its cornerstones, which they refer to a “Focus Mode.” If something is really urgent, people will call you on your phone. Everything else can wait a bit. Uninterrupted time is important — don’t let Slack take that away from you because someone is bored and asks you how your day is."

To be clear, the author does say that you should sometimes consider sending an email. My point is that the emphasis is on using Slack as something other than chat, but that's really its main use case.
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Great job implementing material design principles to Bootstrap. I would say I haven't seen it done this well except for I haven't seen it done at all.
> At worst, well, maybe the first with their back against the wall when the corporate takeover comes.

What are you talking about?
With HEIF already being supported on Win/macOS/iOS/Android I doubt we are in for yet a change within the next 10 years.
DICOM, a medical imaging format (meta-format? The spec is a beast) supports JPEG2000 compression. There are a lot of DICOM files kicking around, though annoying not every device can write files with JPEG2000 compression, nor can every reader actually interpret them.

I also had a no-name digital camera that inexplicably supported JPEG2000.

Other than that, I’m don’t think I’ve seen it much in the wild.
It is interesting how the phrase's meaning has transformed. Nowadays people generally use it to add emphasis such that the previous statement is an absolute truth with no valid argument to the contrary.
Heif is now the default camera format on iPhones, ensuring that it is the winner of the next gen format race before it even started.

Everything will have to support heif, or lose every iPhone owner as a user.
The substitute was not artificial. It's a natural alternative.
Nothing stops you from implementing material design using Bootstrap.
Which 5 plants are you referring to?
And I'd like to buy you a coffee someday for teaching me about the Ctrl+Shift+ESC shortcut.
The NY Times coverage says it's very limited. Roberts wrote:

“We hold only that a warrant is required in the rare case where the suspect has a legitimate privacy interest in records held by a third party"

IIRC the current 4th amendment interpretation, 'third party doctrine' says that is a rare situation. However, Roberts also wrote:

“While the third-party doctrine applies to telephone numbers and bank records, it is not clear whether its logic extends to the qualitatively different category of cell-site records,” he wrote. “After all, when Smith was decided in 1979, few could have imagined a society in which a phone goes wherever its owner goes, conveying to the wireless carrier not just dialed digits, but a detailed and comprehensive record of the person’s movements.”

“When the government tracks the location of a cell phone,” the chief justice wrote, “it achieves near perfect surveillance, as if it had attached an ankle monitor to the phone’s user.”

Also, this seemingly ignorant comment from Kennedy (i.e., it seems a meaningless distinction), though he's not quoted and a brief summary so it is prone to misunderstanding:

In dissent, Justice Kennedy wrote that GPS devices provide much more precise location information than do cell towers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/us/politics/supreme-court...
> Apple design, by contrast is generally very obvious and instantly understandable

That’s only true if you’re already accustomed to how Apple does things.

Consider the iPhone a perfect example: 300 different ways to single-click, double-click, triple-click(!), 3D-touch (whatever that is) and use random swiping gestures from all screen directions outside the screen, and different swiping gestures within the screen.

Absolutely madness and probably makes at least 80% of the phone’s functionality completely undiscoverable and inaccessible unless you already know it is there.

How is anyone supposed to know about all that? It breaks every design book’s rules by providing zero affordances. Nothing about this is obvious or intuitive. It’s all 100% learned behavior.

And I say that as an iPhone owner.
It's fairly irellevent who pays, everyone ends up paying in the end.

The Netherlands spends $5385 per year per person on healthcare, 80% of that is spent by the government.

The UK spends $4192 per year, again 80% is by the government. The UK has trickier cost areas to handle too (healthcare in Scottish islands is far more per person than in Rotterdam)

Measuring the objective quality of a health care system is almost impossible (it varies dramatically on your subjective priorities), let alone measuring value per dollar, but I don't think I've ever seen one that claims the Netherlands is better than Scanadavian ones.
A good question. The most powerful answer (for both examples) is because other-people-using-it makes its use by you necessary to get things done.
They've got such a large population they just need to concentrate a relatively small section where they have looser rules and it would work as an engine for them much like SF does for the US. Look at cities like Shenzhen
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Your definition of stealing is a weird one. As far as I know (insert here giant US Corp) has always followed local tax laws.

I think Europeans are just being bitches about the fact that they haven’t been able to replicate Silcon Valleys success (with noteable exceptions such as Spotify, Zendesk and others which ultimately also moved their HQs to the US though).

Yes, the US spies on Europeans and everybody else, just as Europeans and the rest of the world spy on the US. It’s what nation states do...they spy on each other. You and I might not like it but it’s whats it is...no need to single out the US.
The majority of the world is mobile-first.

Material's desktop experience definitely needs to continue improving. I'm trying to see Material's design as how desktop users of the future might work, who grew up mobile-first, unlike most of today's desktop users who grew up in a desktop first world.

Material has a number of headstarts a headstart due to it's "card" lineage coming from the designer of Palm, and WebOS.

https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/matias-duarte-google-is-...
The order under the SCA is not a warrent, and doesn't have the same standard of proof.

Specifically 18 U.S. Code § 2703 means the government can request location information [1] with a court order as described by (d). The standard for the court order is "reasonable grounds to believe that the contents ... are relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation".

reasonable grounds << probable cause

[1] under (c)(1)(D) as the cell location is not ljisted (c)(2)
At the end of it all, the threat of violence moves humans. We don't need to qualify it with good or bad. It is in our nature.
This isn’t really a leftpad issue. This was for fraud prevention.