skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's interesting that Mr. Harai's analysis is almost exactly like what you might typically find from a typical right-wing person except for the proposed solutions. Among people who support various nationalist causes around the world, fear of the centralization of power through technology is a primary motivator for devolution of power from centralized authorities to more local governments.

You say it like it's a bad thing, when it's just a different political opinion (centralized vs decentralized government etc).

In many case these "nationalist" causes are not nationalist in the sense of "let's invade Poland" or "our nation is some superior race", but in what used to be called "national independence", "isolationism", "anti-colonialism", "anti-neocolonialism" and so on.

And you don't have to be "right wing" to be for it, although indeed as of late "left wing" has been increasingly getting synonymous with "left wing lite", which is just global corporatist business as usual + identity politics.
Ask HN: As founders, how did you go about getting users post launch?
Launching is relatively easy, compared to sustainably growing your startup thereafter. You post on Product Hunt, here, Reddit, or on all three places and more, then watch the first few waves of users sign up.

After the the frenzy of a launch has died off, what did you do to get users - what worked for you?
Travelling to other planets will have to suffice for a while.
Exactly. What's worse is that society presumes that memory is faultless. If you honestly said in court that you couldn't remember very well, but that you believe your statement to be accurate (the truth), a judge and jury would both agree that you were less truthful, or trying to cover up the truth.

And even if we agree that memory is faulty, no one agrees that their memory could be faulty. Just everyone else's.

My favourite example of this is my father. He tells a story about some funny event that happened to him up at his parent's cottage when he was in his 20s. Right after it happened, he told his family, including his brother. Within a few years, his brother started telling the story like it had happened to him- and in fact seemed to believe it did happen to him. My father tells me that and scoffs, saying "See how faulty memory is? Your uncle remembers an event that never happened to him!". I asked him "How do you know it's his memory that's wrong and not yours, since memory is so faulty?" "Oh now, I know that my memory is right".
Signal is open-source and can be forked if they ever add ads, it's the final answer.
> Monarchies, oligarchies, and other forms of authoritarian rule have been far more common modes of human governance.

Maybe the statement would read better as:

> Monarchies, oligarchies, and other forms of authoritarian rule have been far more effective modes of human governance.

You can't deny the monarchies/democracies of Europe and the oligarchies of Russia/USA have kept a relative peace for developed countries in the last 70 years.
> mozilla and google still wont invest in a browser engine port

Gecko runs just fine on iOS.
I just did that today, for a podcast I follow. I usually say "no" to popup surveys on web sites but if it's anybody I have any kind of business or consumer relationship with I'm usually more than happy to spend 10-15 minutes on a survey.

Why?

* Help products/companies I like to improve

* Help products/companies I dislike to get less bad

* Increase the chances that the product/company will skew towards my preferences

* Hope someone might answer my questions some day (reciprocal altruism)

* Basic decency, helpfulness

* In rare cases, curiosity as to what the questions will be
Looks like not even organic food is free of glyphosate. Is there any way to buy (vegan) food without any glyphosate?
Or just use a third party device and skip using their software entirely. Smart TVs basically universally suck.
The potential uses I see are:
1) Given a finished 3D render and a first pass at recreating the scene, nudge your scene closer to the render
2) Given a photograph and a first pass at recreating the photograph, make your render more photorealistic.
This is obviously and painfully false.

There is a fundamental difference between journalism and advertising.

When you see people advancing this point of view it's always worth pausing to notice and reflect on who benefits from efforts to erode this distinction.
>Apple, Amazon, Microsoft (should be part of FAANG), Google are not trying to eat Facebook's extraordinarily profitable social monopoly. Google tried, kinda sorta, briefly.

Google offered to buy WhatsApp for $10bn before Fb, and they went all-in with Google+ (in the worst way, but that was a serious effort).

> Apple, Amazon, Facebook, are not trying to eat the Windows-Office monopoly.

With iPads and Chromebooks, Apple and Google have made major inroads against Windows/Office - at least in the educational market. EC2 (and market changes) has a complex relationship with Windows server, but my guess is that it results in a net loss for MS licensing due to lowered barriers to competing non-MS products.

> Amazon, Apple, Facebook are not trying to eat Google's long duration, extraordinarily profitable search monopoly

Amazon is doing very well with product search - people looking for something to buy may skip searching Google altogether. Also, Alexa (and Siri) are overt, and ongoing attempts to eat Google's search lunch. Microsoft sunk a lot of money on Bing for years, and it has paid off. Fb ads are in direct competition with Adwords for marketing dollars. There's also Apple Maps, which is not a token effort.

> Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, aren't interested in entering retail to compete with Amazon, essentially at all.

Facebook has marketplace - it's not retail, but it is competition with Amazon. MS is partnering with Walmart (guess the common competitor?). Apple went to great (and illegal) lengths to target Amazon's publishing empire when they were ring-leaders in colluding with traditional publishers against Amazon.

There is a lot of vigorous competition between the big companies. Unfortunately, the playing ground is so uneven that only big companies can dare step on another big co.'s turf
You may disagree with their decision, but there's nothing surprising about it; it's pretty clearly a business model that the EU disapproves of, as the Microsoft case had shown, before Android was even a thing. Applying the same penalty for the same action is being trustworthy (which is not the same as "fair" or whatever you think of the decision).
> iOS users don't use iMessage since SMS are expensive

But iMessage is free. It just uses your phone's internet connection, just like Whatsapp
> I guess you're not the target market for mid-high end skin care products?

Agreed, but the rest of my point still stands. I feel there’s a lot of potential for abuse here.
You woudln't pay $100 a year for whatsapp, would you? Because that's how much advertising can earn.
Nazism or fascism were a new thing in Europe, after WWI.

Not anymore. As said the parent post, those that said "never again" from their own experience are just a little few today.
My experience using Skype on all types of connections (Cable,Fibre) and broad range of devices (High-End PCs) was always very bad (pre and post MS).

We've used it both personally and in business environment, and it was always very difficult to get sound and/or image, connecting properly was always a crap shoot and included 5-10 connect disconnect before finally getting audio and video on both sides.

Very painful to use.

Glad some of you had better experiences.
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The problem, though, is that the density outside of cities doesn't exist to support the talent pool required for a large office of a major multinational corporation. By the time you've added enough people to have a sustainable population for the highest tier of a given industry -- which includes multiple alternative employers plus the whole attendant service industry -- you end up with a city.

Of course I accept that not everyone wants to live in a city. The point is, though, that you have to make serious sacrifices if that's your first priority -- you need to either accept a long miserable commute, or acknowledge that you're limiting your ability to grow into the top tier of your chosen profession. Cities have very real beneficial network effects for businesses.
After seeing some of these comments, I sometimes feel I should get myself checked for a mental illness.

But the symptoms seem so widespread across people, that it seems to be within range of normal human behavior.

I have not been crippled by any of these things (though it is immensely distracting). It's almost like I am looking for an easy explanation for genuine personality defects (which includes being easily distracted and procrastination). Which then again, makes me feel miserable for using mental illness as an excuse for ignoring my imperfections.

Yes, I do have to step on whole tiles (no cracks or breaks) when walking. But, I don't notice it when I am with people.

I have felt an intense itch in my back when then door handle was left at a non-90 degree angle. But, it only happened a few times in 2015.

I do need to tap my feet to high tempo jazz/prog music or talk out loud to focus on work,...but, even without them I have scored above 95 percentile on standardized tests. So, maybe what I am seeking is simply out of reach because I've reached my personal intelligence ceiling.

I do have the kind of distracting thoughts (what ifs and hypotheticals) that the top comment was talking about...but they are never so distracting enough to make me act on them. ( I do avoid going too close to ledges though...I've only so much trust in myself)

Problem is, I know people who call themselves OCD for less. But, I seeing people with genuine OCD makes my problems seem trivial.

I think the bitter pill to swallow, is that I am simply an easily distracted procrastinator with little self-discipline.
But, It would be so wonderful if I could sometimes send these thoughts away, for the few hours everyday that I really do want to work and make real progress.
Qualtrics is pretty popular among their initial target audience mentioned in the article: academics. Among academic survey shops this product is the definite go-to.

I imagine, based on my own experience, the average tech worker thinks of surveys as small sets of questions used to easily and quickly collect a few data points. SurveyMonkey is fine for that. But for the types of real surveys that provide the data for serious research, Qualtrics is what you need. I've used it for government surveys, sociological, health/medical, etc., web and in-person, with lots of flow control, randomization, and all the other features needed to produce robust and accurate data.
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That's excellent.

I think it was also Crowley who commented that of course magic can produce light and fire and all kinds of verifiable signs, but that's all beside the point and so the best magicians are indistinguishable from fakers.

I'm sometimes surprised how many people have hit on some variant of this. It's everywhere from the Black Bible saying that its spells work but have no mechanism of action, to the hacker koan about Tom Knight, to the various "haha only serious" faiths like Discordianism and SubGenius. And it seems like quite a lot of very similarly-minded people arrive at it from different direction - I get the sense that there's a certain mindset that's particularly good for maintaining faith and disbelief simultaneously.
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I'm slightly freaked out that it went to within 100 meters of my house while I'm all the way across the country, but it seems like it goes there for my colleagues as well, so I guess that's just a coincidence :)
Are you also surprised to learn that not everybody on HN is a native english speaker (and could make the mistake easily since the people are also called "Scottish" with double ts)?

Or just wanted to add another ad-hominem to the non-responses?
It's an escape room: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_room
NYT published a nice article on Rain and his role in HAL’s voice earlier this year:

“The Story of a Voice: HAL in ‘2001’ Wasn’t Always So Eerily Calm”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/movies/hal-2001-a-space-o...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16734859
Not sure about the original LED used there, but with the popular LED tapes built on the WS2812, you should be able to drive at least 200 of them within 20 milliseconds.
That gives you the idea, then yes if you want to run more LEDs then use more outputs and drive them in parallel.
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I got a used Surface Pro earlier this year for exactly this purpose.

It was the previous gen at the time - Surface Pro 4, instead of the newer 2017 Surface Pro. It looks the same as the 2017 model and the new SP6, though.

Since I mostly wanted it for PDF reading, I got the low end one with a core m3, 4GB of RAM, and a 128GB SSD. It cost about $400 (Canadian) on eBay, and came with a Surface Pen.

If you don't mind buying something pre-owned, it might be worth a look. There seem to be lots of them on eBay that were leased by companies and then used very gently. The one I got looked like new and even came in the original box.
High-tech farmers use LED lights in ways that seem to border on science fiction
I was surprised - and dismayed - that the polygraph was still being used and given credence with something as high profile as the Ford/Kavanaugh hearing.

I've long been under the impression that it was commonly understood that the polygraph was fallible. Has this changed?
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I would like to dissent.

If your application is long lived you will get more benefit using the pooling functionality provided by the postgresql client libraries for your platform/language.

pgbouncer is an intimidatory, and thus another thing to break- it has it's own constraints (mainly things like prepared statements will block a connection/cannot be reused) and its application should be well understood.

For instance; I use it on a local socket on my zabbix master so that it can connect using a TLS encrypted pgsql socket. (something zabbix doesn't support). But for my main applications written in C++, I use connection pooling with nothing but the C++ client libraries.

If you're bringing up and tearing down connections very often, then you will get a lot of benefit from pgbouncer, but in my experience these cases are limited.
Imagine if the true performance of your chips, instead of being something you can validate through simulation or measure in a lab, could only be measured in the brains of tens or hundreds of thousands of people.

For every chip you make, you have some expectation of how it will perform, which is its "value proposition."

You want to see if your chips are performing as you predict (fulfilling the value proposition) so you need to interact with a large number of the people whose brains are measuring the true performance of your chips. Since you're dealing with thousands of measurements, you summarize them using math. That's where "stats" come into play. A "metric" is any quantity that is supposed to reflect a measurement, but it usually refers to one specifically designed to be useful. For example, for your chips, the 99th percentile power draw experienced by your users might be a metric you use to guide your design process.

Imagine further that your chips perform differently for different groups of people. Figuring out the best way to divide people into groups to understand how your chips perform is "market segmentation." You probably care about some groups more than others, and depending on how well your chips perform for different groups, you may need to strategically change those priorities over time. That's "targeting."

Meanwhile, different versions of your chips are continually becoming available to people, and you want to detect as soon as possible if a new chip has an unexpected performance regression (or an unexpected improvement!) So you make the latest metrics available in a way that's quickly visually digestible, usually at the expense of all subtlety, but hey, your brain's executive function finds it gratifying. That's a "dashboard."
I can continue an encrypted chat in Signal from my desktop. I don't think I can do that in Telegram.
Wait, this is news to me. I was under the (probably erroneous) assumption that Firefox on iOS was running under webkit. Am I wrong?
The forum can be quite dead at times, if you check it once a week, there will always be something interesting to read/discussion posts to participate in. Just that itself, I would not say is worth the $150 a year (he does not do monthly). I have not attended any of the events or meetups, found a mentor, or participated in the book club, so I can't comment on that stuff.

The thing that makes it most valuable to me, and I'm probably in the minority, is the "curated list of knowledge" (various books, thought papers, academic pieces) and the additional exclusive emails. I constantly find interesting and thought provoking articles, speeches, interviews, etc. I think that part itself is worth the $150 a year.
If the Nuremberg Laws Were Applied…
Ok send me a link. I’ve googled this before but I definitely didn’t find it conclusive enough.
Redshift is not a direct competitor with BigQuery. It's a relational data warehouse. BigQuery more directly competes with Athena, which is a managed version of Apache Presto, and my personal opinion is that Athena is way better than BigQuery because I can query data that is in S3 (object storage) without having to import it into BigQuery first.

Disk and network performance is extremely consistent with AWS so long as you use newer instance types and storage types. You can't reasonably compare the old EBS magnetic storage to the newer general purpose SSD and provisioned IOPS volume types, and likewise, newer instances get consistent non-blocking 25gbps network performance.

I'm not so sure I would praise our documentation; it is one of the areas that I wish we were better at. Some of the less used services and features don't have excellent documentation, and in some cases you really have to figure it out on your own.

GCP is a pretty nice system overall, but most of the time when I see comparisons, when GCP looks better its because the person making the comparison is comparing the AWS they remember from 5-6 years ago with the GCP of today, which would be like comparing GAE from 2012 with today.
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Yeah, but those people can also do other things that are more important, and pay a company like qualtrics to handle this boring stuff for them.
Executives don’t have private lives. They are corporate avatars, and their actions are inevitably cast back on the organization. Zuckerberg built a business on encouraging people to move private conversations into the public sphere, so he’s likely keenly aware of this. Associating the Oculus brand with r/The_Donald was probably not one of the PR goals for that quarter so it makes sense that this was a business problem that is relevant professionally.

What surprised me more in this piece was that he supposedly forced Luckey to sign a statement that was clearly factually wrong? That just seems like a way to extend the PR cycle. I suspect Luckey tried to have it both ways and got caught but I guess the court case will figure it out.
Possibly! If someone wants to implement the Client-to-Server side of ActivityPub I'll be happy to merge it in. But I'd personally like to build support for protocols like Micropub [0] into the backend and our first-party clients [1], as I think that's more suited for regular blogging.

[0] https://indieweb.org/Micropub
[1] https://write.as/apps
Firefox for iOS is built on WebKit.

Gecko runs just fine on iOS; it just isn't deployed.
Un-awesome shitty code database
Apple does not permit you to do such things with their devices.
All we know is that it had a model. How do you know it was sustainable?
But the next generation will then switch to state of the art encryption that isn't readily broken. Unless we end up breaking all known encryption before coming up with viable replacements. Which I think would be far worse than any gains in console hacking could possibly offset.
I'd say the UK is too centralistic. Back when my field of work included "media" it was said that every company with a foothold in the UK needed to be in London, anything else wasn't so important. I think it's a bit the same in France - be in Paris or be bust.
Take Germany as a contrast. If you exclude weird fringe stuff (not on this site, you should get my point) like startups - it's all over the place. Sure, the banks are in Frankfurt - but the media stuff is pretty much divided between Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, Cologne, Stuttgart. Also all the "big" well-known companies have their headquarters either in any big, or even a small city. That's why the rent in Munich is quite high, but nothing compared to London - and Berlin is quite cheaper.
Short story: storing identities in an integer field instead of a bigint.

Now would be a good time to check your own IDs and get the max value of each. Sure is easier to fix this ahead of time than when your app is down.
I'd argue that it still might not fit you. If I'm hearing you correctly, you are in a software engineering position. That job unfortunately requires human interaction, as the problem of correctly designing and deploying software is HARD. It sounds like that isn't lost on you, though, and I can imagine having autism would make this job exceedingly difficult. It sounds like a pure programming job would be ideal for you, but I've never seen one personally. I honestly hope you find one. I just got out of a bad job and I know how taxing it can be.

I disagree that every job is soul crushing, though. At least not intrinsically so. Different jobs are good or bad based on the situation of the one performing it. We do have a choice in that we can choose not to perform that job (although for many that isn't really a true choice).

In any case, I hope your current and future employers recognize your needs. There are too many hard-ass managers with a "business mindset" that would rather avoid working with perfectly productive individuals such as yourself.
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At the time of writing the link to actual report in the blog post does not work. Here is the correct link: https://cdn.bitwarden.com/misc/Bitwarden%20Security%20Assess...
They're all in on the hoax! Just like those pesky evolutionists and climate scientists!
Have you done any research into how likely it is that a visitor from your demographic understands what "federated" means in this context? I ask because it's part of the tagline, so if you don't understand a key word in the product description you're probably less likely to show interest in it.
From what I've seen, the fake Raybans tagging thing is almost always due to someone's account being hijacked.
What is text but a visual abstraction? The same abstractions can be made with different geometry that isn't restricted to lines and left to right reading order.
I made a mistake, it should be v0.11 in the title. Some of the notable changes in this versions:

* MilkDrop Visualizer added to Webapp

* Better gapless playback in Webapp

* Server runs on OS, Windows, Linux, and even Android (through Termux)

* Reduced install time of binary releases

* Bug cleanup. Removed as many tickets as possible from the issues list
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