skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm on all of them. IRC is by far my favorite.

Kind of like HN. When someone is commenting on HN I automatically have more interest than eg Facebook vs. Twitter as the primitive experience of HN (Which I personally love) filters out a lot of "noise".

There's great communities out there on IRC.

Just head to #postgres on freenode and see how helpful they are over there.
Because communication should not be expensive.
If you see an equivalence between asking you to respect someone else's identity, and asking someone else to respect your opinion about their identity - I don't know what to tell you. It's not the same, and it's dishonest to claim it is.
It's a little more complicated than that.

Say a company is worth $1000, and has 100 shares outstanding, for a share price of $10.

They can pay a dividend of $100, reducing their value to $900 (share price of $9) and paying out $1 per share to shareholders. In the end, the shareholders still have $10 of value per share, but some was forcibly liquidated!

Alternatively, the company can do a stock buyback of 10% of their shares. They spend $100 destroying 10 shares. The company is now worth $900 and there are 90 shares outstanding - investors still have $10 worth of value, whether they sold their shares or not.

In the end, no value is created in either scenario - capital is just returned to shareholders.

This is still a simplification because:
1. Stock prices often rise on the announcement of new dividends/share repurchases for similar reasons. It's a positive signal to investors that either of these things will happen, and affects their valuation of the firm.
2. Investors like capital-efficient businesses, and either of these methods of returning capital can actually create value for investors.
Pulled Kludge Sandwich
I'm not sure - given their recent location-privacy related coverage - that Google should be held up as "gold standard" here...
It's like they're all wearing the happy helmets from Ren and Stimpy's "Happy Happy Joy Joy".

Are there similar PR initiatives within Amazon engineering aimed at us?
California Proposition 10, Local Rent Control Initiative (2018) – Ballotpedia
Maybe they get a whole 5 minutepee break if they tweet when they clock in?
ftp is fringe because it's unencrypted and deals very poorly with NAT, and has performance/scaling issues for huge file transfers and transfers with huge numbers of discrete files.

telnet is fringe because it's totally plaintext and has obviously been replaced by ssh2 everywhere.

whereas irc daemons can easily be linked together by TLS1.2 and irc clients can also talk to servers over TLS.
Does anyone know the best way to disable hyperthreading on Linux?
That's a fair point and I agree in general. However, in this specific case I disagree.

To show that I agree, allow me to point out how in my earlier comment I used the word "radical" in a technically incorrect but more useful (in my opinion) way. Technically each kanji has only a single radical and the rest are pseudo-radicals, but for most purposes it's simply more useful to just refer to them all as "radicals". Additionally, I don't know of a more proper term than pseudo-radicals and the distinction isn't very important anymore because radical order dictionaries have essentially become obsolete by technology.

I fully acknowledge that excess pedantry can be a roadblock to clear communication.

Now I'll explain why I disagree in this specific case:

The issue is that "alphabet" is a very specific term like "x86 CPU". While it's not too wrong to go around calling the things inside GPUs and most phones "x86 CPU"s, it's technically incorrect and to those with in-depth knowledge, it's needlessly confusing when there's a perfectly good word that we can use to describe them, "CPU" or in the case of writing systems, "writing system".

Although, I do agree that syllabries and alphabets are not too dissimilar, logographic systems and alphabets are quite dissimilar.

Perhaps it's simply a matter of who I've talked to, but I've never heard anyone who knew how to use these writing systems refer to them as "alphabet"s, so I felt the need to correct it. I'd be willing to believe that my friends are much more pedantic than the average person.

Thus, it is somewhat pedantic but I feel that it's a useful distinction and that an adequate alternative word exists. Additionally due to this being on HN as opposed to a casual conversation, I think using the more correct, more precise, and more useful word when possible is a fair goal to strive towards.
I wonder when we'll reach the point that devices actively defend themselves. In this case, the device might emit a stronger signal on the frequency that it anticipates might be sampled, masking its true operation.
If you can repeatably find the kinds of bugs Zerodium claims to buy, you probably already know what your best financial options are.
If it's got USB-C, does it need NFC given most phones have USB-C? Or is the phone USB port incompatible?
Unlikely? It's fashion: it's cyclical.
If you're taking anything on twitter seriously, then there is a problem.

There is no signal in that noise.
At the same time, there is a large contingent of apps in the app store that have 0 interest in discovery through the app store.

There are lots of b2b apps that are fully sold on the Enterprise level and the app is simply an add on. It is very frustrating to have to work within the walked garden when this is the case.
One word: stress test tool.
The Best API Is No API – Introducing React Remote Redux
That's negative energy fifth dimensional aliens are sucking out of humans.
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And the world would be slightly dumber, and even more willing to accept shoddy design.

Shudder

(Yes, modern PHP is okay, but there are still a thousand and one bits of legacy baggage from a darker time that yet remain to be fixed - things like sane process control (PHP can't reliably access subprocess return values!), standard I/O support (can't read from stdin one char at a time, so sane CLI tools are broken), DB sanity (the SQLite3 extension will run all queries twice unless you code around bugs that have been known about for 10 years), etc), socket I/O (you physically cannot write rock-solid sockets code; the builtin streams functionality _and_ the socket extension do not provide enough surface area to handle all plausible error conditions, and it's entirely possible your script will hard-crash in certain obscure scenarios because the runtime doesn't give you the ability to trap all errors), and because of these longstanding issues PHP _does still have_ a sad culture of "it's okay, we'll just do this crazy horrible workaround", and nobody's fixing it.

I wanted to give a practical example, but unfortunately I can't find it. I was debugging some incredibly confusing socket behavior one day, and found where a major library/framework had hit exactly the same problem, and what they did - it was a remarkably well-engineered solution - was to setup a custom error handler, preg_match() the PHP error string (!) inside the error handler, then use some magic "if this is set to this and that var equals that value" derived from reading the PHP source code to detect a socket error condition. This code is still in place since PHP 7 hasn't fixed any of this, I just can't remember the library name or where to look for the code unfortunately.

</rant>
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You’re right. That is what Spotify is doing too. I really thought they prohibited that, but can’t find evidence of that. Perhaps that was around their bookstore.
I did find my Birkenstocks to be some of the most comfortable sandals I had owned, after breaking them in of course. What was interesting was that if you didn't wear them pretty much non-stop for a couple of months in warm weather, the soles wouldn't do the whole re-mold themselves to the shape of your foot thing.

These days I've replaced them with a pair of Chacos which are just as comfortable and I can throw them in the washing machine if they get too dirty.
Do they engage in conversations that would make it possible to tell a human from a chatbot?
Sonder's sales channel was and is primarily airbnb itself which could easily turn it off if they determined them to be a threat. So it's a business highly dependent on future competitive partners (see Airbnb plus). Their company was called Flatbook but the service and reviews were so terrible and so full or irate customers who had been scammed that they had to try and erase it from the internet and reimagine themselves as Sonder. You can still find a few places with flatbook review if you search ex. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sonder/@45.5198842,-73.587... . Anyhow miles of bad service, scams, and very serious negative reviews. Since they used Airbnb as the primary sales channel on a grand scale they would just wipe property listings once the reviews were negative and replace with new fresh listings. I do believe they have professionalized their service recently however I am surprised they were trusted with a large investment and shows you the poor judgement of VC. Their product message was cloned rather than originated, they have a history of scam level of service, their revenue channel is largely dependent on competition, not to mention their business is neither innovative nor defensible, the product is not great for cities and community. Really SV at its worst.
I actually compiled this project to Emscripten a few years back:

http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ingame-data/emcraft/game.h...

Here's the code: https://github.com/louisstow/EmCraft
Only because Microsoft was in a monopoly position in it's market. Apple isn't, and thus is not subject to the same oversight.

Not that the current administration is going to be performing any anti-trust litigation anyway.
What? The value is going up because there's less stock. That's not a bubble. Scarcity is driving a price increase.
Russian is the same way.

You can translate "I love you" linguistically, but it doesn't really make sense to say - people express it through actions rather than words. It's definitely an interesting (and rather significant) difference in Western culture that grants the 3 words such importance.
I'm curious what you mean by that. It sounds like an odd way to frame it.
>Their most frequent topics of conversation are how they get bathroom breaks, the pleasant temperature of the warehouses, the excellent benefits and suitable wages, friendly management and how the job isn’t monotonous or tiring at all.

In other words, they took a list of everything everyone complains about, and just decided to refute them point by point in the most condescendingly Orwellian way possible, rather than fixing them, because "disagree and commit" and I guess "frugality uber alles."

Sounds about like Amazon, yep.
Technologically, the answers are out there, waiting for someone with cajones to lay down the law. The longer it takes, the fewer the options and the more unpleasant the unavoidable responses become.
It says "13 percent of the 1.1 million offered in 2014".

In 2014 there was 1.1m.

In a 2017 memo there was only 13 percent of the 1.1m.

So while there was probably testing to be done, MS probably decided that there was no point in testing stuff as it was winding down the windows mobile stuff anyway.
Jobs famously used his wealth to jump in line for a kidney transplant.
His penchant for parking in handicapped spaces is well documented.

I don't think the book is making him out to be a jerk....
LaTeX – a document preparation system
If this device is reprogrammable so I can experiment with the 2-device solution proposed a week ago then I’ll order quite a few of these when the Kickstarter goes live.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17765979
Netflix has been doing this for a while. For the longest time you simply couldn't sign up unless you went to the website.
Names are different. They're given to us by a person's choice. Gender is an intrinsic part of us from the moment of conception, which no one has a choice in at that moment, and it's a permanent attribute.
The users. If a person wants something, they buy it; if they don't, they don't; and if they didn't, they didn't.

A very simple and straightforward model of action. Yet it has fueled almost every major non-military-funded technological advancement since at least the Industrial Revolution, inclusive.

(And if you consider the military a very special customer who has been graciously granted the disposal of the entire nation's profits ... then they are no exception after all.)
Frankly I don't even feel like I work that hard. Maybe "hard" is the wrong word. A lot of people are constantly busy and have no free time. Yet they don't seem so productive? I'm the opposite of that, somehow.

You're literally an example of a "10x". I have a similar experience --- it doesn't feel like you're doing a lot, but the vast difference becomes noticeable if you compare. You can get more things done in a day than others can in a week. That's just your natural ability. Enjoy it.
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
Hmm, do you have a source for more info? I think I stayed in a boutique hotel like that in NYC. I mean sure, it's probably a complete remodel. But it's still taking an entire apartment building off the market.

What it comes down to: everyone needs a place to live. Everyone takes up space. All housing space is valuable. But somehow many people think they can live somewhere without being a cause of the housing shortage.

The only way to not be part of the problem is to move away.
Ask HN: How do you backup personal data?
Currently, I have a very organized method of backing up personal data (photos, documents etc) with data on a couple separate hard drives. I'm trying to figure out the best way to backup data to minimize data loss.
They suggest using a frequency that minimises absorption by the atmosphere, and run the numbers. It's pretty interesting.
It was interesting to read about industry in Gorlitz. It's a quaint town that was divided between Poland (Zgorzelec) and Germany following World War II along the river which became the border. I once visited there in the early 2000s. From what I recall, the bridge between them was destroyed in the middle, with both ends left standing. After the fall of Communism, it was converted to an art installation.
you may want to check out glowstone as well, it is written in Java and is being actively worked on

https://github.com/GlowstoneMC/Glowstone
It's asking me to assent to someone else's belief about the concept identity, all the while completely dismissing my belief about the concept of identity. It's inherently saying their belief is more important than my belief.
Many people talk about burning man as if it is an experiment for a new kind of alternative society and your comment was reminiscent of that kind of talk - "we’ve become divorced from the act of creation and civic participation... it’s worth trying to address that". This rhetoric always sounds to me like burners believe they have found the cure and if only everyone would see the world as they do we would live in harmony.

I've never been to a burn but I do agree with these diagnoses about the shortcomings of our society. I also make efforts in my community to confront these problems and it is a whole lot harder to change things than just going out and partying in the desert. I have no problem with people going out and partying but I don't think people should be claiming that it is much more than just that - a party.
As a matter of fact yes, if I were an OSS creator and people made millions from my work, some basic appreciation would be quite nice actually. If companies X, Y and Z make $10 million a month and this is partially enabled by my software, giving systemic donations in the orders of $10k - $20k a month would only be common sense in my mind.

(And I know I would have a "donation budget" if I was a businessman because I am not stupid and I know the work of which people outside my company facilitates my business further.)

But appreciation is not what businessmen do. 99% are cut-throats in all areas of their lives.
The cheap end of the spectrum often has the owner renting out a room. After one bad experience I now only rent entire apartments.
One year in @PR. Prostituting my soul, perfecting narcissism, ethics isn't a word in my dictionary.
They’re not chatbots - the replies are too specific and organic in some of the tweets I read. I’m guessing Amazon told these workers that someone would convey their general sentiments on their behalf. That or this is satire, I hope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_bntABNrPw
Enjoyed the article very much, especially the part about music not being a language and the dive into syntax and semantics, but this...

> The only way to recognise which pop song (from one popular training set) this score comes from is the lyrics. The melodic line has little similarity to the original recording.

...strikes me as plain nonsense. I can play that line on my guitar or keyboard and know immediately which tune it is even without the lyrics.

Am I misunderstanding something?
There's no loophole. Dividend payments flow through the US financial system so foreign investors can be forced to pay taxes on that income.
Dgraph has been bragging about being used by big companies. Jepsen test clearly shows that there were critical bugs and no sane company can use it in production as primary database, unless they don't care about their data.
Thank you so much for that detailed account! Seriously gave me more insight than any article or vlog I’ve seen. Really enjoyed that, and I’m sure your account will help others too. And props for being so unbiased and truthful. Happy for you and your wife and wish you all the best!
This is standard social media PR - fail to see what the issue is. Brand ambassadors that promote the business have been common for a very long time.

Nothing to see here.
I've never interpreted or heard of anyone interpreting the Viable V of in MVP to be strictly about technical aspects of a product's viability, generally quite the opposite - thus the P being there and standing for Product (and not Project or Program).

The idea seems to straightforwardly be exactly to produce the smallest, quickest, cheapest table stakes to the market to roll the dice for fitness. I'm really surprised to see anyone interpret it any other way and would be surprised to see anyone disregard market fit in the process of ideating on their MVPs.
> their shouldn't be an expectation that the other person somehow owes the other money.

There btw.

Also, it would be common decency but we live in an era where if something cannot be enforced in court then you should not be surprised somebody is [not] doing it. Oh well.
The problem is that those communities chose to use Slack. And now they're locked in to a proprietary protocol controlled by a single company with perverse incentives for censorship.

In prior years those communities would've chosen IRC. But nowdays everything has to be pretty hand hold your hand for you (ie, host your images, assume you know nothing of how to participate on the 'net by yourself).

It is a zero-sum game. And Slack has done the embrace, they done the extend, and they've started the extinguish (by cutting off IRC bridges).
Remote video eavesdropping using SDR
In French, Je t'aime means both I love you and I like you.
> Like I said, I'm not saying other countries aren't racist. I'm saying that the Japanese are incredibly racist towards other Asians.

You have supplied no data to support this statement, beyond anecdotes.

The data I've seen doesn't support the notion that the Japanese are "incredibly racist" against anyone at all.
When they refused to even give metrocards to our unpaid interns who worked hard (fashion industry).

When the boss tried to sleazily get one of our clothing models to go out with him (he was married with kids).

When they always tried to not pay out on contracts if they could get away with it.

I didn't stay there long.
Is it so crazy to want more tax to be collected, especially from the wealthiest who have recently benefited from a $1.5T tax cut? The federal deficit is in the vicinity of a trillion dollars per year currently. Any tax avoidance by gigantic corporations and their wealthy shareholders rankles in this environment, regardless how easily explained.

Perhaps the capital gains rate should be raised to make buybacks equally attractive, tax-wise, to dividends. Perhaps it would spur investment over paydays.
Gaming addiction: It's not for how many hours you play
dayum dat RTX ray tracing is real
Beta test our new partnered stock discovery tool
ahhh IRC

It brought me the joys of learning how to program while trying to write some tcl scripts for eggdrop bots and goofing around in a shell setting up said bot.

Every time I think of IRC I get this nostalgic feeling of the good old times when communities were vibrant. It was so much easier to just hop on gamesurge or quakenet and find people to game with, organize pugs, find random channels where you can discuss things that interest you, and of course your favorite local's city mingle spot.

I made some good friends from my local city's IRC channel in the early 2000s that I still talk to this day.

I feel as though communities aren't as strong as they used to be as IRC has been slowly losing its population. It just had this quick and fluid way of hopping channels and finding people with similar interests. Listing all of the channels with their user count, and seeing what's popular, or even creating your own channel and community was so empowering.
I haven't actually. I feel like my previous girlfriend told me I was an extremely quiet sleeper so I don't think I have problems breathing when I'm asleep.
I didn't down vote you, but many people think that cap and trade systems are more effective than taxes at reducing pollution. I don't necessarily object to taxing pollution but that seems like a totally separate issue than whether to tax income.
i wonder how they deal with the possibility of collision - at this speed and distance you will have a significant chance of bumping into something in interstellar space. Also you will have to slow down the spacecraft somehow, how would they go about it?
> Perhaps the Japanese got this completely right.

You can't just say that and then not elaborate :)

Edit: Oops, didn't read the article.
Dgraph released 1.0.6 and replication stopped working, I gave up on dgraph. It's just not reliable and immature.
It's expected since there is only single developer making commits from months.
Remember when we used to call them shills instead of “brand ambassadors?” Good times. Now we have this Brave New World PR doublespeak that reflects the dehumanizing nature of working on the floor at Amazon a bit too well.
I can’t speak to caseta, but I would highly recommend RadioRa2 from lutron.

The signals are flawless and continue to work even if there are otherwise problems with my raspi. ClearConnect (the wireless protocol) has its own spectrum and doesn’t interfere with anything else in my house that I have found, which sets it apart from all other wireless switch ecosystems that I know of. There is a wide range of dimmers for all types of loads (even very small led loads and fan loads) and physical remote controls. The pylutron library that homeassistant uses is solid - there’s room for improvement, but that just makes it more interesting from a hobby perspective. I also like that there’s no visual difference between wireless and “normal” maestro switches, so everything will look consistent even if you don’t go all in on wireless.

It took a few hours of my life to get certified and access the configuration software for radiora2, but I think it was worth it.

Lutron doesn’t pay me :) I’ve just found it to be a great platform to hack on. It is expensive but it’s a bit cheaper second hand.
This is a great list of things you can do. Just reading thing went a good way from changing my mind from "useless contrivance maybe a bit fun to hack on" to "actually sounds useful."