skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is Wire developed and funded? This was my biggest problem with Matrix (unsustainable funding model for the protocol and no proper standards body).

Why not just use XMPP? Yes, everyone hates XML, but the protocol is well designed, has sustainable funding (via the IETF and XSF), and there's lots of experience out there, and it's flexible enough to develop services like Slack on top of.
I wish people would work on the systemic issues of access, rather than acting like Elsevier is somehow uniquely responsible. If Elsevier disappeared overnight, there would still be the other 84% of the market.

Efforts like the above just lead to the open access movement getting co-opted by anti-capitalists, which hurts progress.
My phone is my alarm. But it’s also clear across the room. I also do not autofetch email so when I turn off the alarm I swipe to check for email as I get dressed. I’m always excited to see if I got some interesting email that will take me away from this routine.

I should also note I easily spend 5 days in the wilderness with no phone connection at all.
You find it cognitively burdensome to remember that italic fonts aren’t necessarily made in Italy?
Not the 2nd alarm?
If you ever used Facebook or Google Ads system you would know that this is factually incorrect!

Neither platform sales access to a specific person! Instead what they sell is access to “35 year old males who like football”!
lol wut. In what world does your adult offspring need a call from home to show up for an obligation? Do you plan on early morning wake up calls every day of their career as well (because you should probably automate that).
Cars are an established industry too...
More stupidly, the UK has effectively hard national ID requirements (have to show ID and proof of residence/employment visa status in order to work, rent privately; ID checks on having a bank account and house purchases etc), but no national ID.

Often utility bills get used instead.

(I was actually part of the NO2ID campaign because we anticipated that it would be used for essentially discriminatory purposes like this, as well as the giant highly vulnerable database. It never occcured to us that they could impose ID requirements without issuing the cards!)
Can you share?
Heh was about to post something similar, I'm not even on-call most of the time, I still check Slack when I wake up to see what happened to the person who was on call-if anything, since there's a 99.9% chance I'm getting roped in the second I get to my office. Best be prepared for it.

Not that I'm complaining about this, it just is what it is.

(Also because there's a sports radio show that isn't broadcast nationally from my hometown and I like to listen in as I'm waking up/getting ready for the day)
The richest man of his time. And maybe well earned ,by literally saving people's houses from burning down.
I could not agree more. Iteration is a wonderful thing while development is taking place in-house. Frequent iteration is a terrible thing if it's being done in products that actual people are actively using.
Also relevant, a PDF SHA-1 collider: https://github.com/nneonneo/sha1collider
He's the original author (not just maintainer).
It's not about visiting a country, it's about where your Slack account was created. If you created your Slack account from an embargoed country, regardless of your citizenship or ethnicity, they will probably disable it.
That's just some code that @ephtracy is using.

"ephtracy/stb forked from nothings/stb"

Sean T. Barrett is @nothings on twitter per the twitter link on https://nothings.org/
What about mtproto (which is what Telegram is using)?
Not sure why the downvotes? It's pretty obvious there's a lot of jumping to conclusions in the first 10 comments (that's all I read) on that Twitter thread, basically implying that Slack is using ethnicity to close the account and not something more technical like an IP address that was tied to Iran at one point in time.

It seems from reading other comments that this Slack team was created when he was in Iran from an Iranian IP. And they used originating IP when the team was created and not access to determine. We can debate the proper technical solution to base the rule when you apply it across your SaaS-based application at world-scale, but implying that Slack did this on race is pretty absurd at this point.
Simplify your life by moving your microwave to your bedroom, setting it to cook on the lowest setting for 6 hours when you go to bed ;)
>I generally agree with the author's statements, but the analogies to cars and doorknobs to me were just inaccurate. There are a number of reasons why you want round doorknobs instead of levers, one of which is security, as levered doorknobs are trivial to turn from the outside of the door.

Wait, what? I can't find anything about door levers having this kind of security risk. This kind of sounds like voodoo security where "worse UI = better security, because fewer thieves know how to use it".

>Secondly, just because everyone has access to every website on the internet does not mean you need to build your website for everyone. If someone says their website is targeted at a specific group, they build it for that specific group. You wouldn't tell a formula 1 engineer to raise the suspension on the car he's building so it can clear speedbumps in the parking lot.

Sure, but most sites aren't narrowly targeting people who can see and who have the latest hardware as part of their core reason-for-existence. News sites certainly aren't, and yet their mobile and screenreader experience is cancer.
> On the other hand, giving the Amtrak fleet a bath, or altogether destroying it sounds pretty good to me.

Why?
>the FB account is mostly used as a way to passively receive content...

And HN user "jsgo" wrote...

>If it is more difficult than Facebook, it can't hope for being anything more than a niche...

These are the sorts of common sense observations missing from so many "let's replace Facebook/Twitter/Whatever" debates. If we're serious about replacing FB/Snapchat/Twitter/Whatever then we need to consider realistic alternatives. Using the Mastodon-like distributed media and personal website ideas to get rid of Facebook/Twitter is like using the People's Front of Judea and the Judean People's Front to get rid of the Romans. You just have to ignore a lot of reality to assume it would ever work.
I feel that most people are stuck with Facebook because of messenger and events. Core FB functionality is still its social network and ease of interconnecting everyone's personal social graphs.
They must be checking stackdriver or cloudwatch alarms. Nothing wrong with that.
You can't build a copyright system covering tens or hundreds of thousands of authors based principally on the situation of the most successful two or three of them in a generation.

Society has an interest in appropriately rewarding and incentivising creators of content. It's fair that creators should have ownership rights over their creations, within socially acceptable limits. Society has little interest in enabling freeloaders to profit off the creativity of others, whether those freeloaders are distant descendants and relatives, or contemporaries eager to appropriate other people's work.
I know this is a cheap answer, and it tends to get a bit philosophical for me, but you have to ask the question "would that site exist without those frameworks?"

If using that framework means that the developer can churn out something much faster, and therefore has time for more features, even if they aren't perfect or fast, is the user really worse off for it?

Continuing the carpenter analogy, it's the difference between using a nailgun and a dovetail joint.

Sure, the nailgun'd version probaly won't last as long, but if that means that the one carpenter was able to make 5 different shelving units that all looked exactly how the customer wanted them to look and was able to do it for cheap enough that they all happily bought it, is that really worse than only being able to get one expensive "better" version out and not being able to customize it per-customer because of time constraints?

And I know first-hand that those kinds of trade offs happen all the time. There are tons of times where "can we afford to add feature X" is a "yes" because we are using React in the app and spinning up a new component becomes extremely easy, but in applications which aren't using a framework that is often a "no" because we need to do so much more work to get it fully integrated and working.
The "one thing" apparently being the Chinese government.
WRT XMPP clients: Dino.im is getting there (although it's still too early and buggy to say it's there yet, I think). I'm still not aware of any decent web clients though, unfortunately. The ones that do exist tend to be developed by individuals and full of security issues, even if they are nice looking and easy to use.

I tend to think that we don't need more small community projects, we need one or two entire services like Slack to build themselves on the base protocols and federate. Even if they only allowed their own clients so that they controlled the entire experience, if they just federated with other servers it would give users a choice and largely solve the Slack problem.
Design Challenges with Data Analytics
I dunno.

It seems like we don't need a "revolution" in tunneling costs, even a 30% reduction would be material. The incumbents here have grown fat (like ULA in rockets) on cost plus contracts, it is not like going up against General Motors, Toyota, etc. where is really competitive.

Even if the technology only works in favorable ground (can't choose exactly where it goes), ultra-low-cost tunnels could be good for other uses such as storing parked cars. Los Angeles gets around a cubic kilometer of rainfall a year and if they just had a place to store it, they would not need to import water at all.
My anecdotal experience: it's much more work-intensive on mobile sites than desktop. I seem to have to do multiple rounds of "storefront", "crosswalk", "bridge" detection before it finally goes away.

makes me long for the days of Rapidshare Cats.
Maybe someone should create an RSS feed that curates other RSS feeds and forwards them to their recipients.

I'm not sure how to monetize this, but it would add some discovery to rss.
Or increasing taxes on the wealthy and using that to provide a better safety net.
Obviously Elon likes publicity stunts like this, and the current prototype is very far off from something that can compete with traditional subways, but it's not obvious to me the idea of many "dumb" tunnels with many small to medium-sized autonomous vehicles is a bad idea.

Subways are kind of like circuit switched networks (more raw capacity), this is more like a packet switched network (more flexibility/overall efficiency). And with cheap enough tunneling it becomes horizontally scalable.
"Well, as a user I find Javascript heavy websites to be a toxic wasteland full of dissapointment and failure."

And copious security issues. This is why I block all Javascript by default.
I never found the idea compelling because all the distances spoken of were so short that getting to and getting out would eat much of the time saved.

that and this example is a paltry little tunnel in no way useful without the required safety of a parallel tunnel and such.

the real game changer going forward is still autonomous vehicles. combined with EV technology they will disrupt both the automotive industry on a scale many do not fully imagine as well as public transport and providing freedom for people to live further apart. it will give even more people the freedom of travel
Maybe I'm wrong but your link tells me stock price took a hit today:

> -8.82%% As of 11:56AM EST. Market open.

1 month chart still looks green so this might just be a correction.
Rookie numbers. I'm checking the phone in between the cycles of sleep.
The commercial WordPress product from the company behind the open source project has this. The open source project does not.
> Tunnel boring is an established industry

No more so than cars, and rockets.
Alexa user gets access to 1,700 audio files from a stranger
> It's a prototype of a bold idea, in all likelihood it will fail (like most bold new ideas), but at least they're trying something new.

I'm fairly certain that a "tunnel [...] network that will be filled with self-driving cars that will race people in groups" has existed for quite some time in the form of subways.

If Musk really wanted to help, he could leverage this to improve and extend the current LA subway system, but he isn't. Instead he's going down the unnecessary (and probably fruitless) route of making this into a marketing campaign for the Elon Musk persona.

Compare to the trapped Thai soccer team from earlier in the year. He could have worked _with_ the existing efforts, but instead chose to do his own thing.
No, discovery of news & sources. Your friends who know about <your hobby> are a great news source/filter. Whereas with RSS there's not a good method to find new news you care about.
Wait until they are in school. Left to his own - 5 year old wakes up at 6:00 on weekends, and 7:30 on school days (the bus arrives at 7:00).
With a trillion dollar deficit, what could go wrong?
This is common, or at least, I've definitely had my parents do this for me, and I know my friends have too.

The logic is as follows: I need to be up early, my parents always get up early, and my alarm almost always works. If I have both to wake me up, there's a good chance I won't accidentally sleep in.
Everything in rails is figured out already, you don’t have to pick which ORM or library to choose, and then find out half way down the line it’s not working as expected. It just works consistently, reliably. There’s no other reason to use another server side framework if you’re creating. CRUD app or API (unless you’re specifically comfy in something else).
I'm not saying that's not admirable but shouldn't your adult child have this figured out by now?
US charges two Chinese nationals for hacking cloud providers, NASA, the US Navy
Iptables can be used to make a radio imitation.
It's also possible to turn off the alarm without waking up. Now eagerly awaiting the follow-up study: have we developed the ability to check the phone without waking up yet?
I'd also expect some tough to catch exceptions for remote, as that's something I always look at and despite the posting guidelines, posters can't stop themselves from adding things like "sorry, no remote available at this time" or "part-time remote might be an option for the right person in some roles".

I get that you're trying to be complete, but if it's not a truly remote position, it's not remote. put nothing about remote in the position or at the very most "REMOTE: NO". Working from home 10% of the time but needing to be in a SF office the rest of the time is not a remote position; it's the flexibility I'd expect from most jobs in this industry.
I use my Google Home now as an alarm clock
A) Right. We have universal single payer food insurance, also known as taxpayer funded welfare for the poor. We're in essence covered by, and paying premiums to, a mandatory State-run insurance policy such that if we ever can't afford the minimum necessary food to survive the State will (at least in theory) step in and buy it for us from the open market.

B) Let me rephrase. I'm not going to wake up one day to find that my required daily calorie intake has increased by multiple orders of magnitude. There are very few household budgets that could reasonably be expected to absorb such a shock, no matter how efficiently the market for those calories functions.
> jQuery soup

I'm not sure if you're blaming the tool or not, but at least for 3rd parties, I want to clarify: jQuery doesn't mandate "soup" - In fact, devs learned over time that the best approach development with jQuery was the same as without - have application state tracked as variable(s), have routines to translate the current state into the the DOM. That's the unidirectional flow that React likes, and both vanilla JS and jQuery can run with it.

But jQuery makes it EASY to use your DOM as state storage, which works well at first and quickly grows nastily complex. Meanwhile, React makes it EASY to update the DOM from state without performing unnecessary re-renderings.

So jQuery doesn't mandate, or even encourage "soup", but there's nothing guiding you away from it. React, OTOH, makes the path of least resistance be towards this particular best practice.

To your points as to why people use React, I don't think those are bad points, but those aren't my primary points. React best practices mimic the best practices of coding in general: Small, single-purpose components with minimal coupling. This allows me to bring in experience from outside React, and allows me to apply React experience outside of React.
There is a fatalism mentality when it comes to writing about big technology ambitions like this. Maybe people are just jaded and used to being let down so much. There is zero doubt in my mind that this endeavor will cost more than expected, take longer than expected, etc... but at the end of the day the effort alone is going to spur other tunneling companies to push for innovations as well. Who knows if any of these early prototypes prove useful, but it sure is clear that Elon sees a lot of room for improvement in the technology, and at this point I wouldn't bet against that.
Not really promissory estoppel, which can enforce a promise if you detrimentally relied on it. It's not really to your detriment to use the product for free, so it's not a perfect fit (unless maybe your company hired someone to administer the VMs, specifically based on his VirtualBox experience?).

Some other possibilities would be the parol evidence rule (verbal exchanges between the contracting parties and their effect on contract interpretation) and possibly laches (no equitable remedy for folks who know about an infringement on their rights and do nothing about it... but money damages isn't an equity claim).

(IAAL but I don't practice in this area, so same grain of salt applies)
I've lately imposed a rule on myself: no electronics in my bedroom whatsoever. I've slept sounder and longer as a result, and I've noticed a greater propensity to get out of bed earlier and be more productive when I do wake up.

The only trouble is that I've only been able to abide by this rule 75% or so of the time --- it's easy to make an exception because I want to just finish this one testcase or something, and then I end up staying up much later than I intended and wasting time on bullshit in the morning. These brain extension devices are sticky.
I'm really curious what the other 3 people do. I wake up before my wife, so I usually grab my phone, or laptop usually, and start checking news, planning my day etc. before she is up.

Do people just sit there and stare at the ceiling or what?
Yes, but ideally it would be 2-ways, and there is still the problem with discovery, more in general i just think there shouldn't be social media sites, "social media" should be a protocol
Facebook's death and rise of niche based social networks
There are also a couple of subtle details of the OSM editing model that could make it a lot easier for a knowledgeable vandal to make changes that are rather more painful to undo than they should be.
Interesting. I once built a ga clone using appengine, cloud dataflow, and big query. I guess that would count as serverless? Benchmarked it against the official dumps to big quey too and it was pretty spot on for every metric we could lookup!
I guessed it was a just a checkbox/config option. If not this would be very dubious.
Why do developers always get blamed for the state of everything? Developers love creating efficient, optimized solutions. Developer happiness is rooted in a feeling of fulfillment that comes from creating a good product.

There are many parties involved in designing the web, and developers aren't typically viewed as the subject-matter experts on how the UI of the web should work -- just on how to implement what's already been decided.
> If Slack did this because of her trip to Cuba years ago it means they have kept records of her IP going back years

Or they did an IP to country lookup back then and kept the result of that rather than keeping the IP.
The reason personal websites are not used anymore is that there is no traffic. The big advantage of posting on FB is that everyone is going to the same site and you know the people who are subscribed to your posts. Individual websites have the problem of discoverability. Google solved part of that problem with its search engine, but FB gave the ultimate solution by giving everyone a way to publish directly on their own web site.
The real joke is people who can't recognize how early stages of development look like. That's because the details are usually hidden from view by business people who insist it is embarassing. It is not. This is how real world r&d looks like.
No, it's a major strain on the school and the school life. Schools tend to promote sports over other things. Things like "school spirit" are legit retarded.
These are great, but what's the solution for those who don't even know what HTML is? They are the vast majority of FB users.

I don't think anyone who taken web development a bit seriously have any problem to publish something online independently.
...and this is why I'm not a lawyer.

Thank you!
Wealthy isnt a clear definition. You are wealthy to a someone on this planet
Grunt work noun [ U ] uk ​ /ˈɡrʌnt ˌwɜːk/ us ​ /ˈɡrʌnt ˌwɝːk/ informal. the basic, hard work, often physical or boring work, that is necessary for something to succeed.

They're just calling it like it is.
Not that I approve or disapprove Elon Musk's idea of building tunnels but this blog post seems to dismiss the entire idea just for the sake of being dismissive.

The Boring Company seems to be trying with different thoughts and ideas for making these tunnels a reality and they have been quite open to the public with these ideas. It feels to me that the author is taking advantage of this transparency and using it as a weapon for his own agenda.

The entire "demo" was a proof-of-concept that they can use as a model in order to see if it works or not, there is nothing wrong with it. It's not like they will be deploying the current idea to the general public of LA starting tomorrow.

> Some experts questioned whether the Boring Company had even succeeded at improving the cost of tunnel boring. Right now, it’s not altogether clear that it did.

Well, they are still developing the technology, aren't they?

> But this design creates congestion at the front end while promising to relieve it on the journey. Drivers will need to line up to wait their turn on the elevator.

The idea he presented in the press conference is that the tunnels would complement the current highways and public transportation system, it wouldn't be a full replacement for those.

Adding new lanes is incredibly difficult because it would require road work, blocking the entire road to traffic, and also because you are physically limited to the number of lanes that you can possibly add to the road.

The idea of tunnels is supposed to work around these limitations.
That's definitely rising as can be seen in recent research of the topic:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/05/business/bankruptcy-older...

Medical expenses, unlike credit card debt or student loans, can still be discharged through bankruptcy. For lower income elderly folks, that coupled with low paying job opportunities usually leads to disaster.
Well the answer could be yes. There is no reason to think they won't use those services if they had access to those services. If you have no way to access a service, then obviously you won't use a service. It's like an untapped/under-served market.
The Last Secrets of Skull and Bones (1977)