skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything is possible. But there is a world of difference between an employee getting a lot of compensation and an employee who won't work on something the company thinks is important.

This could be an existential challenge to the company's owners being in control. The reason employees don't get % share of the profits is literally because they don't control what the company does.

If employees seriously can control what the company does, like turning down military projects for moral reasons or circumstances around making hiring/firing decisions, they become something like shareholders and the question becomes why aren't they exposed to the financial implications of their decisions in the same way shareholders are. Ie, why are they being paid a wage if not to have their decisions subsumed by a management structure?
lol.. I really like having a Node server for the app to talk to... for the most part it removes a lot of barriers to basic data transformations for requests and merging results closer to other data sources.

Not having to think in a different language helps a lot too.
I haven't finished the book and I am not sure I will. I was quite disappointed because from the title and description I was expecting something deep, that presented more questions than answers, navigated constraints, attempted to discuss the nuances of defining the problem of designing itself. On the contrary, it is a collection of superfluous recommendations for Object Oriented programmers presented without much justification.

The writer uses a very narrow perspective and just "assumes" all this can be generalized. One of the most recurring topics in the book is "complexity", but it is just introduced with a narrow one sentence tautological definition without offering any interesting discussion. All kinds of assumptions are taken for granted and not discussed.

So overall, the book reads so far like a bland collection of "do this, don't do that blog-posts". Papers like "Out of the tarpit", speakers like Rich Hickey, etc. offer much more interesting discussions on the topic of design and complexity, and are definitely more argumentative and "philosophical".

I even feel bad for writing something in such a negative vibe about a book. But really its pretentious title lead to such disappointment...
Yeah, most of my German colleagues say "zooza" -- but saying it this way makes it difficult for English speakers to infer what you're talking about. So I say it as "sooza" even if it's _slightly_ incorrect.
Do you believe a baker should have the right to refuse to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, if the baker has a deeply-held religious belief that same-sex relationships are sinful? If the baker turns out to have that legal right, would you argue that baker should nonetheless not exercise that right?

Asking because people in these kinds of threads often seem to get suspiciously selective about when and why they decide to argue for stripping the right of free association -- and disassociation -- from others.
10x this.

Likes and Retweets are very different behaviors, so I can't understand how they came to the conclusion that Likes should show up in other people's timelines. I imagine it was done to increase discoverability (particularly for users following few folks), but still a pretty bad UX decision.

For users who carefully curated the folks they follow (and who went through the trouble to disable retweets), having Likes showing up every now and then screws up the experience. Thankfully this seems mostly limited to mobile.

I'd rather still have the Like button as a subtle head nod between the reader and the author, but seems Jack want to kill it altogether. So be it; I'd rather see it gone than continue to be a pseudo-RT.
All the more impressive.
Concourse has a really weird resources philosophy that makes it almost impossible to easily work with.
No, I use ubuntu

sed: can't read s/^127.0.0.1 facebook.com/#127.0.0.1 facebook.com/: No such file or directory
I feel like reddit is one of the most underestimated internet properties in existence. It gets almost no attention except when specific incidents that explicitly involve it occur. But by and large it is completely ignored by the mainstream media, celebrities, politicians, just about everybody. I think it's role has been drastically underestimated in the 2016 election interference, for example. Facebook and even Google have taken flak over that, but hardly anybody really seriously interrogated how powerful TheDonald was both directly and indirectly (through how it created a nexus and community to energize real Trump supporters).

Reddit just exists, sitting there in the background, steadily growing over time, but never seemingly even trying to raise its own profile. Yet (or perhaps because of that) I certainly spend far more time there and get far more value from it than any other social media site.
Kind of talking out of my ass, but Darwin can act as a mirokernel, so APFS could be implemented as a user mode service (no idea if it's the case, though).
Their product is kind of sloppy with uncomfortable UX. In general the direction of their product seems lacking. For example, they have a mostly-broken chat feature that I doubt most people use. Why have it at all? It just makes the product look lower quality. Also, I find it's not intuitive or easy to organize/search notes in Evernote. To me, there's little benefit of using Evernote personally when I can just use the Notes app builtin to macOS, or iA Writer which now supports tags and has a BEAUTIFUL interface.

For teams, why would I use Evernote when I can use some kind of internal Wiki or Google Docs for easy collaborative editing? Otherwise some project management software like Trello or Asana for anything team related would fill any other potential needs. I certainly won't be using Evernote for their builtin team chat feature.
Agreed!

If you asked a Vision Correction clinic or cost metic surgery clinic the same question, I’m sure they could give you an exact answer.

Simpler business model albeit.
Same thing as HN btw. Ive known a few European citizens asking for their posts and account deleted, and was refused point blank.

Remember that. We're being used here just as much as on the FAANG platforms.
>This isn't a sarcastic question nor an attempt at snark: have you ever moderated a message board, forum, subreddit, facebook group, etc. with decent post traffic?

I actually have! I definitely don't think there's currently a good solution to this problem. But removing likes is ridiculous, too!
Terrorist Attacks Against Religious Targets in the United States, 1970 – 2017 [pdf]
Things are so weird now. We should feel good that everyone is engaged in dialogue about our grand civic project, right? But when you actually stare out onto the landscape of discussion, there isn't a valuable exchange of ideas to observe.

While political opinions are more numerous, they're divorced from evidence and calcified. As useful as no opinion, and possibly worse. (Then again, that's my opinion, right?)
It would be surprising to me if a middle manager approved investing in a former highly visible executive's company without talking to folks involved with the separation agreement, precisely because there might be unknown legal details. The appropriate part of Google could have said "We cannot invest in this company because we have confidentially found reason to suspect future reputational risk, and you can't even tell him that's why you're not investing" or something.
> Breaking that would have been the same, in terms of kind of litigation risk, as not paying the $90 million.

Then maybe that's what they should have done. Not everything about running a company is about not taking risks that you can afford. Sometimes you just make a stand because you feel something is important enough to warrant the risk, even when you feel that calculus of the risk works out against you.
Humans are about to touch the deepest corners of the ocean for the first time
> That's awful for people who can't, or don't want to, shop online

The obvious counterargument is that a 2% increase in cost on almost everybody amounts to a pretty awful amount of disutility when you aggregate across the whole population, and it's regressive as it hits low-income people the hardest. But because of the boiling frog effect, nobody notices that sort of hurt enough to complain about it.

I'm not taking a pro-Amazon position here; just pointing out that a gross-receipts tax is a pretty blunt instrument.
Absolutely, the company acted entirely disingenuously too, "you should have coverage for this kind of thing", and then "no insurance will cover gear rental".

And then he still uses the service. As too does the thief, apparently (who still has an active profile with them).
> the usual disclaimer

When you say "usual disclaimer" what are you referring to? The unsubscribe and physical address part? I would venture to say that only 10% of the spam emails I get include both of these.
Mathematical + Purposefully Vague ...

Infinity
Do you have a source for that extraordinary claim that Facebook was designed from the outset to make people unhappy, and that people use Facebook more when they are made unhappy?
> The risk/reward of posting humor on the internet nowadays is terrible.

Doing so under your own name, yes. That's why I think places like Reddit are better suited to these kinds of silly things, assuming you don't get doxxed, which can happen.
Yes, you can do something.

1. Basic principles: Do a bit of philosophy. Figure out some things that would be more sustainable, more accessable, more energy efficient. Software has a sizable impact on many processes, though public discussion tends to discount it. Consider how to align your career against those goals. Test your goals for coherence: You want to get them all aligned together so that you're constantly propelled in a good direction.

2. Plan a specific design: You might not be able to make the system you envision, but you can probably find some kind of leverage on the problem, whether it's collecting information, creating a prototype, contributing to an existing project, or marketing a better solution.

3. Create a feedback loop: Your first attempt is not likely to solve climate change. So your purpose in trying something is not to immediately solve it, but to find feedback that will guide you or others towards that goal. For example, if you think you have a technical solution that will reduce energy usage, you need to find a benchmark that you can use to measure and improve that solution. Ideally you develop a feedback mechanism like a workout log, where you can easily see your progression in training volume and intensity.

Historically, many breakthroughs result from this kind of effort distributed across many people, attacking different angles of a problem. A lot of the individual aspects like "recycle your waste" are effective when there's broad enforcement measures that make it the optimal or only option - it was less than a hundred years ago that taking your trash to the backyard incinerator was a common practice in all industrialized cities, and less than two hundred that dumping it out the window and onto the street was acceptable. We have plenty of things to improve still!
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Two observations:

1. You should look into what other messengers do with sender/receiver pairs information. One very popular competing messenger logs pairs permanently, serverside, in order to make UI features work.

2. One of the least popular attributes of Signal (on Hacker News, at least) is its lack of federation and ability to interoperate with third-party clients. This feature is a pretty crystalline example of the kind of protocol change you can make when you control all the mainstream clients, and that would be an absolute nightmare for a protocol where you didn't.
"and the v.reddit videos either autoplay or never play when you click on them"

So it's not just me? I quit using Reddit because this happened on my phone all the time. Don't they test this sort of thing, or pay attention to abandonment stats?
What happened to concerns on Spectre/Meltdown being exploitable through high-resolution timers implemented through shared buffers/multithreading in Chrome?
google.com/scholar

I also really like casemine.com.

I have no idea how incomplete those archives are but I doubt they’re missing much I’d be looking for.
Far in the rear-view mirror
Very cool. I remember using the pthread flag from C. But I don't ever recall provisioning a set number of thread pool workers at compile time. Assume that will change at some point.
Can you imagine a city built by Google engineers? It's kinda creepy when you think about it.
Put me firmly in camp 1. It’s a significant diversion & it seems sketchy as hell. If we had 100 of them how would we feel? I think the answer is awful.

That’s enough to justify the scale part of the appeal.
Thanks for the feedback guys! I'm going to write a part 2 of the cheat sheet of the most common features of VueJs. Hope you guys are enjoying it.
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This is the "Go y u no generics" of secure messaging.

The answer is always the same:

Phone numbers bootstrap a workable social network for ordinary users. Signal's goal is to transform all ordinary messaging into secure messaging. Not elite secure messaging. All messaging. The most popular messaging application in the world uses phone numbers for identifiers (as, obviously, does SMS). That's the goal they've set for themselves.

The simple answer for a lot of questions about Signal is that they aren't trying to solve every problem, or even many of HN's problems.

If phone numbers are super-problematic for you, use Wire. Consider carefully the privacy tradeoff you'll be making, though.
Allow me one suggestion about Kay, it seems the man knows way too much to be understood by the average us. Not pompously, it's just that when he means A we read B. That led to the drift between Smalltalk OO and cpp OO. I thought it was exagerated, but smalltalk is really entirely different from cpp/java. It has the same vocabulary, but the reality is quite surprising.

Kay had education in abstract algebra, cell biology(apparently).. he was fond of old varied computing arch (burroughs). So my point is, before reading his text, do yourself a favor, dig in the litterature deeply and broadly.
Yes. Just discovered, turning the “attention aware features” turns it off.
This so much.
Something like setting up mailchimp for a nonprofit, setting up a crm system to track volunteer data, how to read google analytics for their webpage, or even as simple as getting email signatures setup for the office workers. I've spent a lot of time proving basic IT support and basic "this is how you effiently use a email" types of deals.
The thing about recent moves is that, unlike Facebook, they still support older ways to have the non-painful experience from the user side at least. i.reddit.com is still alive and I use it regularly. Lightweight, decent UX with some flaws, but pretty much no ads. The user tracking is harder to get around, but a combination of pi-hole, ublock origin, and privacy badger helps there. So it’s not terrible yet. I think when they finally kill i.reddit.com is when I leave the platform.
They released the format spec here: https://developer.apple.com/support/apple-file-system/Apple-...
Right, but there is no stigma against Facebook, the stigma is against "old people" and wherever they happen to be.
It reminds me of those deal sites or close out sales, where they artificially increase the price and then mark it down by 10x to its original price....
> They are not safe, and cannot be (on the sidewalk)

This is a strange thing to say. It's clearly false, and the alternative (putting them on the road) is clearly less safe.

I do think that the current model where Bird etc allow new users to jump on and go is problematic. It will probably work fine in the future when everybody knows how you are expected to ride them (i.e. full speed on the foot path is not cool), but at the moment things are a bit of a free for all. There's too much excitement when you get on for the first time, and no experienced riders to cool you down.
They are very common, quite a few felony arrests start sealed to prevent the alleged criminal from fleeing. Or on foreign individuals so they will travel to somewhere they can be grabbed.
I feel like your comment would be more accurate a few years back. Browsing /r/all is a lot more tolerable since it's gotten a lot less Gamergate-y. Mocking Gamergate is a lot more common nowadays. I really don't know what you mean by "the dedicated meme parts of the site are gone", because goofy meme subreddits are very popular right now. One of the most popular ones mocks Gamergate and related views: /r/gamesriseup.

Anyway, the userbase is so huge that even "smaller" subreddits has a decent amount of activity. Sure, video games and SF movies/TV is all you'll get browsing /r/all, but there's, e.g., /r/truefilm, /r/flicks, lots of music subreddits.
Nah, they are just using different apps.
I experienced the same with Google+ and D&D over the past years... But they're closing now. :-p
That's not a court. It's a company. And just like they can decide to hand out golden parachutes to execs accused of misbehaving they could chose not to. That's not the same as punishment by a court of law after 'due process'.
No mainstream messenger has ever done a better job with metadata than Signal. It took Signal several years after launch just to get user profiles with names and stuff, purely because of privacy concerns. Read the blog post they wrote about GIF sharing to get a sense of how seriously they take this, then compare how their features work to other mainstream messengers.

There is one privacy issue people put pressure on Signal about, and that's the use of phone numbers. Apart from that, Signal has always led the field on privacy issues.
Badly written. Takes until the end of the article to get to the point. It's kind of like click-bait. They know you want the answer, so they drag you through a mile of shit to get to it.
Qualcomm did all of the groundwork to develop CDMA. No way are all of the applicable patents invalid. Seems like Apple dropped the ball on this one.
> Because the money has already been taxed?

I stipulated that it is the SAME money. In both cases, it has "already been taxed" by the person spending the money. Yet in one case, the person receiving the money pays taxes, in the other, they do not.
It could work, but it would be easier and cheaper to introduce uncertainty in other ways.
Yes, sorry. Eau Claire/Chippewa Falls/Menomonie are communities in that area.
It prevents their servers from easily tracking (and, importantly, logging) who sent which messages to whom.
I believe the solution is treating same-process code as same-security code, as probably always should have been the case.
Was in the news, an internal Google investigation found it to be credible that Rubin coerced an employee to perform oral sex on him.
Thing about askreddit is that I don’t think it’s gone downhill, it’s always been the same few recycled questions every day with some actual decent discussions popping up about once a week. I have been browsing the subreddit for about 7 years now and I can’t see a noticeable decline, more so that the same old questions have become even more tired after seeing them over and over.
According to [1]

> Note that SharedArrayBuffer was disabled by default in all major browsers on 5 January, 2018 in response to Spectre. Chrome re-enabled it in v67 on platforms where its site-isolation feature is enabled to protect against Spectre-style vulnerabilities.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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I deleted Facebook because it was downright toxic.
I don't need to know what everyone else is doing, I need to focus on my own and my own goals and passions.

After deleting Facebook, I have published a paper on Arxiv, Beat Georgia Tech at a robotics competition, and improved my GPA.

Nowadays, I spend my time on Reddit, Twitter, and HN for ML Papers/Software Updates and Launches and stuff like that.
"compelled" ?! I think that people think it regrettable.

That's all.
So you're saying if these corporations paid the same as other startups their employees wouldn't leave over this. I find that hard to believe.
Post-mortem: MRI disables every iOS device in facility
> 4. It significantly reduced time spent refactoring later. The subtleties in some of the points make a re-read valuable as well. One of the better examples of this, was "Make code just a little generic"- often, we attempt to code things as generic as possible, and end up making what is effectively code soup that doesn't help accomplish the problem. Instead, building specifically for this problem, but trying to spot places it can be made just a little bit more generic, has altogether eliminated times I know I would've had to refactor again later if I hadn't been thinking of it.

Wow, I've often felt this during my time coding. Unnecessary abstractions often just make things more convoluted and increases boilerplate when adding new things. Great to see this being addressed.
Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9mk2o7/mri_disabl...
And old.reddit.com.
Turns out we are doing a shuffle :) - We're using Apache Flink for the aggregation step (5 second window) which performs a merge on key before writing the value out. So at the end of the day, we would only read/deserialize/merge/write once every 5 seconds, that is of course assuming we received data for the HLL aggregation.

However, due to the need for HA, we might run two or three clusters in different AZs which means we might have a few servers writing a partial aggregation to the same row, thus, the awesomeness of FDB plays a role.

That being said, our P99 latency writing to FDB is typically very low (few ms). We're doing usually 4,000 - 5,000 transactions a second at any given time.
Another example: the recent situation around a certain Supreme Court justice appointment.
Of course it happens, less in USA and only because FBI will send 500 agents to find the killer.

Killing a billionaire or a politician it's hard and risky but that only increases the price. Boom or bust
So KitSplit is actively enabling a thief that has warrants out for their arrest? Sounds like a wretched company, I can't believe this isn't front and center in the article.
If only because censored only hentai is popular that someone came up with this idea. I'm not a hentai expert by any means but I'd imagine a lot of hentai is never exported and so no uncensored version is ever published.
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No, it's not. By requiring a phone number, Signal does not defend privacy. This is a binary question, there's not a grey area here. It doesn't matter that they're building a social network, or anything else. What matters is that it's not private so long as they require a phone number.
Interesting fact about this case:

At first, the police made statements that there was no signs of forced entry and they were not seeking suspects. This led numerous media outlets to report it was a murder-suicide. After the family conducted a parallel private investigation which discovered contrary evidence, the police finally ruled it a double homicide.

https://www.cp24.com/news/sherman-family-s-lawyer-offers-10m...
I checked the EFF page, it appears the list is no longer maintained.
If we had a hundred of them I'm still not clear that there would be a significant environmental impact purely from the draw.

(From the factory footprints on the lakeside, sure!)

We're agreed about the Foxconn project in general. I'm just crusading against Michigan water supply alarmism.